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Create your own tiny tray allotment this Children’s Gardening Week
National Children’s Gardening Week (28th May – 5th June 2022) is the perfect time to engage young people in the joys of organic and sustainable gardening. The week aims to celebrate the fun that gardening holds for kids and is a great way to bring families and all generations together.
In celebration of this week, our Head of Organic Horticulture Chris Collins offers a novel way for nature-loving youngsters to take part –whether they have a garden or not.
Chris Collins’s mini allotment project (instructions below) is not only great for creating an eye-catching display and teaching children about growing in real-time, but it also generates your own supply of edible crops – perfect for sandwiches and salads.
How to create your miniature allotment
You will need;
- A large tray/container or a number of small ones – old supermarket vegetable containers are perfect.
- Peat-free compost
- Seeds of your choice! For example:
Purple sprouting broccoli
- Labels for your seeds – ice lolly sticks work brilliantly
- Tamper and sieve (optional)
- Water sprayer (an old household spray bottle, well-rinsed, does the job)
- Items to decorate. For example pebbles, pine cones, and colouring pens
See how much you can save or reuse from your household recycling for the most sustainable tiny tray allotment.
- Fill your tray three-quarters full with compost
- Sprinkle your seeds onto the soil surface
- Sieve some compost, cover your seeds lightly, and carefully firm down (with a tamper if you like)
- Add some texture to your allotment e.g., with pine cones and pebbles. You could also create a mini gravel ‘pathway'. This is your chance to get creative and make it your own
- Another option is to cover one section of your tray allotment with a thick layer of dried peas for delicious pea shoots. Cover this with a 1cm layer of compost and carefully firm down
- Label the mini allotment areas with crop names and sowing dates
- Use your water sprayer to give everything a good soak. (I don’t recommend a watering can as this can drown everything). If your tray has holes in the bottom just make sure you sit it on a watertight tray before watering!
- The most important step - have fun! Decorate your mini allotment with bright pens; add your own creative touch with eye-catching pebbles, shells, or even fairies! Why not try crafting a mini scarecrow!?
Tips for looking after your tiny-tray allotment
- Keep the tray on a bright windowsill
- Spray your seedlings daily with a water sprayer. You’re aiming for damp, not soaked
- Re-sow as required
- With some good looking after, you should be able to keep your mini allotment going from spring through to the autumn
Tips for harvesting your mini crops
You’ll know when they’re ready as your whole tray will be a carpet of greenery and leaves
- Use scissors to gently crop seedlings or leaves
- Some seeds e.g., spinach and dried peas will regrow after two or three cuts before you need to sow again
Once you’ve created your unique mini allotment you can enjoy watching your greens grow and tasting your home-grown produce. It’s amazing what you can grow on your windowsill at home.
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Rajasthan Tourist Fort & Palaces
Exciting Rajasthan Forts in addition to Palaces explain to your bygone time regarding past regal seat of the Rajputs. This Rajputs much like the Mughals were being resourceful constructors and have patronized some of the most illustrious in addition to impressive forts in addition to palaces throughout Rajasthan. Nearly every location of the breathtaking sweet area Rajasthan is lined having incredible forts in addition to palaces developed simply by several rulers in addition to architects. These forts in addition to palaces were being usually developed away from the walled location in the substantial hillsides to shield the location.
Tourist Places in Rajasthan
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Amer Fort (Jaipur):
Best Time to Visit - Amer Fort : October- March
Amber Fort is sited at the town of Amber, 11 kms from the capital city of Rajasthan, Jaipur. The former rulers of Amber used it as their fortress till they shifted the capital to Jaipur. Raja Man Singh I began construction in 1592 but it was Sawai Jai Singh who completed it. Amber Fort Palace looks rugged on the outside but once get inside visitors are enthralled by the scrupulous intricate works of murals and frescoes, paintings from scenes of everyday life, carvings, mosaic and detailed minute mirror work splattered all over the walls. The architectural wealth of the fort is no surprise considering the fact that it was designed based on both Hindu and Mughal elements. Huddling on the hilltop, the fort showcased some unique work of delicate glass mirrors on the walls and ceiling that reflect the golden rays of the sun all over the premises. The fascinating royal elephant ride up to the fort is quite seductive and a real attraction for the tourist.
The Amer fort is built in red sandstone and white marble. The entrance to the fort is through the Suraj Pol which opens into the Jaleb Chowk, the main courtyard.
The most prominent structures inside the Amer fort is the Diwan-i-Aam or the Hall of Public Audience. The Diwan-i-Khas or the Hall of Private Audience was a special place where the king met and discussed important issues with respected dignitaries from his court and outside. The grace of the hall is enhanced by the mirror work that adorn the ceiling.
Other masterpieces include in the Fort are Sheesh Mahal, Jai Mandir, The Sukh Niwas. There are two temples in the Amer fort complex too. The first one of these, a small Kali temple is the place where Maharaja Man Singh prayed before he left for any war. The second temple, Shila Mata Temple. According to beliefs, the deity that is placed in the temple was brought specially by Raja Man Singh from Jessore in East Bengal (now Bangladesh).
Dil-i-Aaram Garden and Kesar Kyari garden are the two worth seeing gardens in the Amer fort complex. The Dil-i- Aaram Garden also houses the Archaeological Museum of Amer which is divided into three section - archaeological, sculpture and epigraphy. There is also an art gallery in the fort complex.
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Jaigarh Fort (Jaipur)
Best Time to Visit Jaigarh Fort : October- March
The Jaigarh Fort, located on one of the peaks of the Aravalli range of hills is built about 400 m above the Amber Fort. It provides an excellent view of Aravalli hills and the Amber Fort down below. The fort, rugged and similar in structural design to the Amber Fort, is also known as Victory Fort. The fort features a cannon named Jaivana, which was manufactured in the fort confines and was then the world's largest cannon on wheels. The palace complex (Laxmi Vilas, Lalit Mandir, Vilas Mandir and Aram Mandir) located within the fort has a well-tended garden where the royal family resided, the Shubhat Niwas (an assembly hall of the warriors), an armory and a museum.
The fort is 15 km away from Jaipur city. It stands on a short diversion from the Jaipur-Delhi Highway, which leads to the Jaivana cannon at the Dungar Gate. It can also be approached from the Amer Fort over a short climb along a steep hill track, arriving at the Awami Gate near the fort museum. Jaigarh Fort gives some spectacular views of Jaipur and Amber Fort from the Diwa Burj watchtower. There were rumors that there was a large treasure of gold buried in the premises of the fort. Thus, it had to be sealed from the public for seven long years. Now, it has been opened to the public to display its several beautiful palaces, gardens, its granary, an armory which has a stunning collection of arms and weapons and its temples.
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Nahargarh Fort (Jaipur)
Best Time to Visit Nahargarh Fort : October- March
Nahargarh Fort has its own significant place in history. Built by Sawai Raja Jai Singh in the year 1734 and located on the Aravalli hills, the Fort was required to strengthen the protective coverage of Amber, the capital of the earlier rulers of Jaipur. Further extension and expansion work was done in the fort by later rulers and it is these additions that today hold the attention of the tourists. Nahargarh Fort has an interesting tale attached to its construction. It is said that the fort was haunted by a spirit of a prince called Nahar. He made sure that an obstruction occurred every time the construction of the fort progressed smoothly. Eventually, a saint prayed to the spirit of the prince who agreed to leave only on the condition that the fort was named after him.
The Fort, is also known as the Tiger Fort. On the top of the hill, the beautiful Man Sagar Lake spreads a welcoming glance. Right in the middle of the lake, Raja Jai Singh II built a duck blind, a shelter for screening duck hunters, for his shooting parties. The prime attraction of the Nahargarh Fort is the Madhavendra Bhavan which was the summer retreat of the royal family. The structure was built by Sawai Ram Singh II in 1880s and boasts of 12 completely alike suites for the use of queens. The suite of the king was constructed at a convenient place so that he could visit his queens without any hassles.
This pleasure palace is one of the most loved picnic spot today. It offers a perfect retreat for all those who wish to spend some quiet moments with themselves. The tranquility offered by the fort draws many tourists from far and wide.
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Ranthambore National Park & Fort (Sawai Madhopur)
Best Time to Visit Ranthambore National Park & Fort (Sawai Madhopur) : November - May
The Ranthambore Fort was built during the 8th century by the Chauhans. The Ranthambore Fort is situated in the lush greenery of the Ranthambore National Park atop a hill. The name Ranthambore draws from the name of the hills - Thanbhore is the hill on which the fort is situated and Ran is the nearby hill.
The fort was attacked by a number of big powers at different point of time in history. Finally, the fort was captured by the Mughals who earlier used it as a staying place and later as a prison fortress. In the 19th century, the fort was given back to the Maharaja of Jaipur and it remained with them till the time India gained independence in the year 1947.
For tourists visiting the Ranthambore Fort, it is advisable to keep enough time on hand. It is partly because of the reason that there is no pathway approaching the fort which means that visitors need to climb up the stairs of the hill to reach it. The fort has so much to offer in terms of attractions that time will fly out without even giving a slightest of clue of its passage. The other plus point of the fort is that its location in midst of the wildlife sanctuary ensures that there is neither any entry fee nor any over anxious guide to trouble the visitors.
The attractions of Ranthambore Fort caters to the varying interests of the tourists. For those who love history, the fort has unending stories to narrate while for people with religious bent of mind, there are numerous big and small temples. Lastly, those visitors who are interested in wildlife adventure, there is the breathtaking view of the Ranthambore National Park. Animals rambling lazily to drink water from the lake below arouse an entirely different kind of feeling in the visitors.
One of the oldest forts in India, the Ranthambore Fort spreads over an area of 7 kms in circumference and occupies a group of buildings like palaces, temples, mosques and barracks enthuse the visiting tourists.
The Hammir court is the prime attraction of the Ranthambore Fort. The Ganesh Temple is not to be missed by the religious people. An interesting aspect about the temple relates that devotees write letters to Lord Ganesha and send it to this temple. These letters are delivered daily by the local postman.
The Gupt Ganga, a stream that continues to flow throughout the year. Other attractions inside the Ranthambore Fort include Toran Dwar, Mahadeo Chhatri, Sameton Ki Haveli, 32 pillared Chhatri, and a Mosque.
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Chittaurgarh Fort (Udaipur)
Best Time to Visit Chittaurgarh Fort (Udaipur) : October- March
Chittaurgarh Fort, situated in the state of Rajasthan was built between the 5th and the 8th century by the Mori Rajput ruler, Chitrangad. It was known Chitrakot at that time. Later, Sisodia Rajput ruler, Ajai Pal Chauhan made some amendments in it.
The Fort has witnessed three bloody sieges and 'jauhars' (a Rajput tradition in which royal maidens and ladies immolate Desert Festival themselves in the fire to save their honor from the cruel hands of the enemy, when there is no chance of defeating the enemy). The walls and the atmosphere is still haunted with the gloom of despair, heroic pride of the Rajput queens and ladies and sheer enthusiasm and valor of their men who refused to cow down before the enemy.
The first battle was waged by the Sultan of Delhi, Ala-ud-din Khilji in the 14th century after he had a glimpse of the beautiful wife of Ratan Singh in a water tank.
The second time the fort was attacked in 1535 by Sultan Bahdaur Shah of Gujarat. Sikramjeet was the ruler of the Chittaurgarh during that period. The third attack came from none other than the great Mughal ruler Akbar in 1567 and Udai Singh was left with little option.
The entrance of the Chittorgarh has seven massive gates, the two towers known as the 'Kirti Stambh' (Tower of Fame) and the 'Vijay Stambh' (Tower of Victory) along with several temples, reservoirs, and palaces dating between the 9th and 17th centuries
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Jaisalmer Fort (Jaisalmer)
Best Time to Visit Jaisalmer Fort : October - March
Jaisalmer Fort is one of the largest forts in the world. It is situated in Jaisalmer city in the state of Rajasthan. It was built in 1156 AD by the Bhati Rajput ruler Rawal Jaisal, from where it derives its name. The fort stands proudly amidst the golden stretches of the great Thar Desert, on Trikuta Hill, and has been witnessed many battles. Its massive yellow sandstone walls are a tawny lion color during the day, fading to honey-gold as the sun sets, thereby concealing the fort in the yellow desert. For this reason, it is also known as the "Golden Fort". This fort, popularly known as the 'Sonar quila' by the locals, is located in the very heart the city, and is one of the most breathtaking monuments in the locality.
Major attractions in the fort are :
- 4 massive gateways. There are four massive gateways that lead to the gate including Akshaya Pole, Suraj Pole, Hawa Pole and Ganesh Pole. The Suraj and the Ganesh Pole have an image of Sun and Lord Ganesh respectively at the top.
- Raj Mahal (Royal palace), which was once the residence of the royal family but today it has been converted into a museum and heritage centre.
- The seven Jain Temples hold a powerful presence in the Jaisalmer Fort and are devoted to the revered Jain Tirthankaras like Sambhavanath, Rikhabdev, Chandrprabhu and Parasnath. The temples are interconnected by a series of courtyards and walkways.
- Merchant Havelis.
- These are large houses often built by wealthy merchants in Rajasthani towns and cities in North India, with beautiful, ornate sandstone carvings. These havelis have presently been converted into shops, with the exception of one that serves as a museum.
- Laxminath temple.
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Mehrangarh Fort (Jodhpur)
Best Time to Visit Mehrangarh Fort (Jodhpur) : October - March
Mehrangarh Fort, located in Jodhpur, Rajasthan is one of the largest forts in India. The fort is situated 400 feet above the city and is enclosed by magnificent thick walls. Inside its boundaries there are several palaces known for their elaborate carvings and expansive courtyards. A twisting road leads to and from the city below. The imprints of cannonball hits by attacking armies of Jaipur can still be seen on the second gate. To the left of the fort is the chhatri of Kirat Singh Soda, a soldier who fell on the spot defending the Mehrangarh fort.
There are seven gates, which include Jayapol (meaning 'victory'), built by Maharaja Man Singh to memorialize his victories over Jaipur and Bikaner armies. Fattehpol (also meaning 'victory') gate was built by Maharaja Ajit Singh to mark the defeat of the Mughals. The palm imprints upon these still attract much attention even today.
The museum in the Mehrangarh fort is one of the most well-stocked museums in Rajasthan. In one section of the fort museum there is a selection of old royal palanquins, including the elaborate domed gilt Mahadol palanquin which was won in a battle from the Governor of Gujarat in 1730. The museum exhibits the heritage of the Rathores in arms, costumes, paintings and decorated period rooms.
Several brilliantly crafted and decorated palaces are found within the fort,. Of these, Moti Mahal (Pearl Palace), Phool Mahal (Flower Palace), Sheesha Mahal (Mirror Palace), Sileh Khana, and Daulat Khana are notable. One also finds the fort museum comprising several palaces. This museum houses an exquisite collection of palanquins, howdahs, royal cradles, miniatures, musical instruments, costumes and furniture. The ramparts of the fort are home to not only several excellently preserved old cannon but also offer a breath-taking view of the city.
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Junagarh Fort (Bikaner)
Best Time to Visit Junagarh Fort (Bikaner) : October- March
Junagarh Fort situated in Bikaner was built by Raja Rai Singh, in 1587. The fort is surrounded by a high wall and deep trenches. There are 37 bastions guarding the fort with only two gates as the entrance pathway to the fort, the main one being the Suraj Pol or the Sun Gate. The Junagarh Fort has yet been unconquered excepting the brief victory of Kamaran, which he could not retain for more than 24 hours.
There are 37 red sandstone marvels inside the premises of the fort, which include palaces with intricately carved windows, beautiful balconies, towers , temples and pavilions. The highlights of the fort are Chandra Mahal, decorated beautifully with mirrors, paintings and carved marble panels, the Phool Mahal, the Karan Mahal and the multi-storeyed Anup Mahal, which was once used as the governance chambers for the rulers.
Ganga Niwas, Dungar Niwas, Vijai Mahal and Rang Mahal are also fine examples of the splendid architecture. The fort also houses a museum with an extensive collection of illuminated and rare manuscripts, jewellery, utensils, carpets, arms and weapons, treaties and other royal accouterments.
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City Palace, Jaipur
Best Time to Visit City Palace (Jaipur) : October - March
The palace complex lies in the heart of Jaipur city, to the northeast of the very centre. The site for the palace was located on the site of a royal hunting lodge on a plain land encircled by a rocky hill range, five miles south of Amber (city). The history of the city palace is closely linked with the history of Jaipur city and its rulers.
Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II is credited with initiating construction of the city complex by building the outer wall of the complex spreading over many acres. Initially, he ruled from his capital at Amber, which lies at a distance of 11 km from Jaipur. He shifted his capital from Amber to Jaipur in 1727 because of an increase in population and increasing water shortage. He planned Jaipur city in nine blocks separated by broad avenues, on the classical basis of principals of Vastushastra and other similar classical treatise under the architectural guidance of Vidyadar Bhattacharya.
It is a unique and arresting complex of several palaces, pavilions, gardens and temples. The most prominent and most visited structures in the complex are the Chandra Mahal, Mubarak Mahal, Mukut Mahal, Maharani's Palace, Shri Govind Dev Temple and the City Palace Museum.
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Hawa Mahal, Jaipur
Best Time to Visit Hawa Mahal (Jaipur) : October - March
Built of red and pink sandstone, the palace is situated on the main street in the heart of Jaipur’s business centre. It forms part of the City Palace, and extends to the Zenana or women's chambers, the chambers of the harem. It is particularly striking when viewed early in the morning, lit with the golden light of sunrise.
Maharaja Sawai Jai singh, the ruler of Rajasthan of the Kachwaha clan, was the original planner and builder who built the Jaipur city in 1727. However, it was his grandson Sawai Pratap Singh, who built the Hawa Mahal in 1799 as a continuation of the Royal City Palace.
The palace is a five-story pyramidal shaped monument that rises to a height of 50 feet (15 m) from its high base. The top three floors of the structure have a dimension of one room width while the first and second floors have patios in front of them, on the rear side of the structure. The front elevation, as seen from the street, is like a honeycomb web of a beehive built with small portholes. Each porthole has miniature windows and has carved sandstone grills, finials and domes.
The royal family ladies witnessed proceedings in the market centre and watch the royal processions and festivities sitting behind the stone carved screens. Hawa Mahal did just that in style, amidst its luxurious comforts and behind strict screened exclusivity, unseen by outsiders.
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Jai Mahal Palace
Best Time to Stay at Jai Mahal Palace: October- March
Jai Mahal Palace, the current residence of the royal Maratha family 'Scindia', is an Italianate structure combining the Tuscan and Corinthian architectural modes. About 35 of the rooms have been converted into the Scindia Museum. The main durbar hall is impressive.
The Jai Mahal Palace is an luxurious Italianate structure, set in carefully laid lawns. Built in 1809, this palace was designed by Lt. Col. Sir Michael Filose. In these rooms, so evocative of a regal lifestyle, the past comes alive.
The impressive Durbar Hall has two central chandeliers, weighing a couple of tones, and hung only after ten elephants had tested the strength of the roof. Ceilings picked out in gilt, heavy draperies and tapestries, fine Persian carpets, and antique furniture from France and Italy are some of its features.
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Umaid Bhavan Palace
Best Time to Stay at Umaid Bhavan Palace : October- March
Umaid Bhawan Palace, located at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, is one of the world's largest private residences. A part of the palace is managed by Taj Hotels. Named after Maharaja Umaid Singh, grandfather of the present owners of the palace, this monument has 347 rooms and serves as the principal residence of the erstwhile Jodhpur royal family.
Umaid Bhawan Palace was called Chittar Palace during its construction due to its location on Chittar Hill, the highest point in Jodhpur. Ground for the foundations of the building was broken on 18 November 1929 by Maharaja Umaid Singh and the construction work was completed in 1943.draft by Chatra Mohan Sharma chief draftsman in Indian railway.
At present the Palace is divided into three functional parts - a luxury Taj Palace Hotel (in existence since 1972), the residence of the erstwhile royal family, and a Museum focusing on the 20th century history of the Jodhpur Royal Family.
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Lal Garh Palace
Best Time to Stay at Lal Garh Palace : October- March
This palace was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singhji in respect of his father Maharaja Lal Singhji. The palace is a pretty recent construction (1902) and reflects a wonderful blend of three different style, Rajput, Mughal and European, which definitely deserves an appreciative glance. The regal red sandstone building with its overhanging balconies and refined lattice work radiates a classic beauty.
Step inside the palace to discover grand halls, lounges, cupolas and pavilions. Today, the palace boasts of a library that is regarded as the fourth largest in the world and a musuem (Shree Sardul Musuem) that showcases a wide variety of artifacts and personal possessions of Bikaner Maharaja.
Some of the interesting items on display are empty wine and sherry bottles; brass vessels known as tokna used to connect revenue in earlier days; an old film projector; personal belongings of Maharaja Karni Singh like golf tees, electric tooth brush, swimming goggles, earplugs and even his sneakers. The library too has a commendable or rather largest collection of original Sanskrit manuscripts on parchments, copper and gold or silver plaques.
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City Palace, Udaipur
Best Time to Visit Forts and Palaces of Rajasthan: October- March
The City Palace in Udaipur was built in a glitzy style and is considered the largest of its type in Rajasthan, a fusion of the Rajasthani and Mughal architectural styles, and was built on a hill top that gives a panoramic view of the city and its surrounding, including several historic monuments such as the Lake Palace in Lake Pichola, the Jag Mandir on another island in the lake, the Jagdish Temple close to the palace, the Monsoon Palace on top of an overlooking hillock nearby and the Neemach Mata temple.
The Palace was built concurrently with establishment of the Udaipur city by Maharana Udai Singh II, in 1559 and his successor Maharanas over a period of the next 300 years. It is considered the largest royal complex in Rajasthan and is replete with history.
The famous structures or palaces viewed from the Lake Palace appear like a fort. They are interlinked inside the complex through a number of chowks or quadrangles with zigzag . Erected in the complex, after entering through the main Tripolia (triple) gate, are the Suraj Gokhda (public address facade), the Mor-chowk (Peacock courtyard), the Dilkhush Mahal (heart’s delight), the Surya Chopar, the Sheesh Mahal (Palace of glass and mirrors), the Moti Mahal (Palace of Pearls), the Krishna Vilas (named after Lord Krishna), Shambu Niwas (royal residence now), the Bhim Vilas, the Amar Vilas (with a raised garden) that faces the Badi Mahal (the big palace), the Fateprakash Palace and the Shiv Niwas Palace (the latest addition to the complex); the last two have been converted into heritage hotels.
The entire complex is the property of the Mewar royal family and a number of trusts take care of the running and maintenance of the structures. The earliest royal structure built in the complex was the Royal courtyard or Rai Angan.
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This week began with schools across the country sending their students home for weeks, along with colleges and universities announcing all courses had been moved to online instruction. Many businesses followed, sending their employees to work from home. By the end of the week, state governors were instructing most businesses to either send all employees home or allow only a small number of people to work onsite.
Are you among this increasing group of employees who suddenly find themselves working from home? For adults with ADHD, working from home can be difficult because of the lack of routine, changes in communication with your colleagues, and increased distractions from family members and pets.
We hope to alleviate some of the difficulties of adjusting to this change in our daily lives. So, we gathered some “best tips and hacks” from people who regularly telecommute. This is just a start. We’d love to hear from you—especially those of you who are parents and now juggle the needs of your children and your job.
We are here for you and we promise to produce updates as we all journey into the new normal. We hope these suggestions can help you get started.
Set Up Your Work Space
• Find a quiet place, if possible, and set it aside as a specific place to work.
• Choose a designated working space. Keep it tidy!
Create a Schedule and Routines
• Work the same hours as you would at your office. It’s best to main a steady schedule.
• Schedule blocks of time for work, meetings, breaks, and meals or snacks.
• Set and keep boundaries around your time for each activity. Avoid multitasking.
• Avoid working in your pajamas. Dress like you’re ready to meet people, even if only on camera. Feeling professional will help your productivity.
• It’s best to log into virtual meetings approximately 15 minutes ahead of time. Mute the microphone and disable video until it’s go-time.
• Take a lunch break. A short walk after your meal can help you focus again.
• Prepare meals or snacks either at the beginning of the week or the night before. This will help to keep you from eating junk and being frustrated.
Make (Realistic) To-Do Lists
• Create a daily and weekly to-do lists to stay on track. Update them at the end of each work day.
• Each day, make a list of what you hope to accomplish that day.
• Divide the list into doable pieces.
• Use whatever format works for you, paper or digital. Keep it close by your computer.
Breaks Are Important!
• Schedule your breaks.
• Schedule 30 minutes for movement—yoga, walking, or another exercise—before you start your workday. (Think of it as the commute you aren’t doing.)
• Schedule at least one other short break after lunch to get outside—even if it’s only for a few minutes. Breathe!
• Remove the things that will distract you the most. This may also include keeping children and pets out of your work space.
• Turn the ring tone off on your phone, if possible. If not, place it behind you and out of sight.
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What is CollectiveAccess?¶
CollectiveAccess is collections management and presentation software maintained by the staff at Whirl-i-Gig and contributed to by the open-source community. The CollectiveAccess project began in 2003 as a response to the complete lack of non-commercial, affordable, open-source solutions for digital collections management. Almost two decades later, CollectiveAccess has projects on 5 continents, providing hundreds of institutions with configurable, up-to-date collections management software.
CollectiveAccess is a relational database that enables powerful searching and browsing options, while providing opportunities for nuanced web-based collection discovery. It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloging requirements and collections which need support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats. CollectiveAccess has two main components: Providence and Pawtucket. Providence is the core cataloguing application of CollectiveAccess where data, media and metadata is input, edited, and managed. Pawtucket is the optional, public web-access tool for digital publication and discovery. Selected features are designed to handle various aspects relating to data modeling, workflow management, web publishing, granular control and digital preservation for a variety of collections.
Whirl-i-Gig, CollectiveAccess’s primary developer, freely distributes everything it develops under the GNU General Public License as part of CollectiveAccess, and offers consulting and development services to clients to ensure they get the most out of the software. Whirl-i-Gig works directly with end-users who require assistance in realizing their projects.
CollectiveAccess is supported by providing various development services to partner institutions.
Who Uses CA?¶
Hundreds of institutions worldwide currently use CollectiveAccess to manage, catalog, and display their digital collections. These include academic institutions, art organizations, foundations, corporations, museums, archives, historical societies, local history consortia, and digital catalogues raisonnés. A partial list of organizations using CollectiveAccess is published under Projects on the CollectiveAccess website.
Why Should I Use It?¶
It’s free. CollectiveAccess is free, open-source software licensed under the GNU Public License version 3 (GPLv3); this includes the cataloguing software and software for making collections information available publicly via the web, mobile devices and kiosks. The software is freely available under the open source GNU Public License, meaning it’s not only free to download and use, but that users are encouraged to share and distribute code. Both Providence and Pawtucket may be downloaded via the CollectiveAccess website.
It’s web-based. Because it is a web-based system, CollectiveAccess is useful for projects that need to be accessed remotely by multiple users.
It’s configurable. The flexibility of CollectiveAccess makes it a great choice for institutions that wish to maintain customized and relational collections based on established metadata standards. In addition to supporting different metadata standards including DACS, Dublin Core, and VRA Core, CollectiveAccess also accommodates an array of external data sources and services such as The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Google Maps, and other descriptive and geospatial services. It can also handle a broad spectrum of digital media formats including high-resolution video, audio, and image files. The software’s optional front-end, public web access tool makes CollectiveAccess an excellent choice for organizations wishing to offer public access to collections. The robust set of customizable features available in CollectiveAccess allows the scope of projects to be expansive and dynamic, providing institutions with a plethora of options that accommodate both traditional and more idiosyncratic collections.
It’s relational. CollectiveAccess can create relationships between various items within a given collection, situating objects within a broader network of inter-related connections.
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Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Tropical rainforests of New Guinea
25 years in captivity
Extinct in the Wild
It was named in honor of Queen Victoria and its flashy blue crown of intricate lace-like patterns, as well as its poise, do give it an air of royalty.
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Reading Books That Increase Brain Activity
We have seen a lot of investigation that signifies reading books to enhance the brain work. There are particular parts of your brain that are responsible for ability to remember preservation and also other parts of understanding. That’s the main reason. In truth, when you go through a book, it will increase the circulation of our blood as part of your head which will help to improve the emotional function.
It truly is well-known that looking at publications can increase the mental well being. If the IQ is diminished when looking through training books, you must not be very impressed, nevertheless. This can be mainly because that as you are soaking up data from the e-book, you might be also taking in the details in the brain. The all around IQ improves.
When browsing ebooks, you will be susceptible to drifting off to sleep often, since your mental abilities are producing further information from your written text. This takes place since the circulate of blood as part of your brain is diminished. However, by taking a rest when studying the book, you will definately get your brain’s entire recognition. For that reason, the chance of going to sleep will automatically lessen. It boosts your language,. That is definitely also, whenever you are sleep, the human body lets out a smaller amount stress and anxiety hormones which has a good affect on your overall health.
Another beneficial outcome of regular studying. Many people who remember to go through have an understanding of a wide variety of phrases. Hence, it is much easier to help them to learn new thoughts they do not know by way of their way of life. Thus, you may be also enhancing your mental faculties and lessening your stress levels.
However, you have to note that not everyone can devote everyday to looking through textbooks, as you are enhancing your vocabulary. You must be in the position to cope with your time and efforts and discover time for you to study. For anybody who is someone, who does not have a long time to see textbooks everyday, you may continue to derive the advantages from reading through. In order to gain benefit from the effects of browsing, you will need to look for a style that likes and dislikes you and just one where you could conveniently pick up the skill sets. If you are searching for record, search for famous stories books if you like poetry, begin by browsing a handful of decent books on poetry.
In the end, looking at training books can increase your mental skills, your terminology, along with your cognitive wellness, by way of example. It is important to take the time to read through every single day. You should not let time move by un-attended to the various components in the mind that want excitement.
Furthermore, although most of the people imagine that looking through only lets you transform your language, keep in mind that looking at also plays a role in boosting your intellectual health and wellbeing. It will be easy to remember it much better and fix issues employing various types of thought operations, because you turn out to be experienced with an individual language. Additionally, become familiar with to make use of essential pondering techniques which can be absolutely essential for making judgements in your professional and private living. Finally, you may obtain know-how and knowledge that happen to be vital for enhancing your storage perform.
As mentioned earlier, studies have shown that there are many advantages from looking at. However, additionally it is essential to take into account the feasible consequences prior to starting having virtually any guide. Like i said previously, some kinds of literature may cause modifications in neurological running. Research indicates that terminology or spelling expertise can diminish as being a audience concentrates over the concept of thoughts as opposed to the look of the words, for instance. Reading understanding and storage function are yet another area of matter. In truth, on the subject of the development of language, bilingual subscribers are located to have better understanding than monolingual visitors.
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Motorcycle riders are often severely injured in accidents and suffer extensive financial losses. If another driver was responsible for your crash, you are entitled to the following types of compensation to cover these costs.
Economic damages, also known as special damages, are intended to reimburse a motorcycle accident victim for their tangible losses. Those include:
Medical Bills and Expenses
All past and future costs of medical treatment. For motorcycle accident victims, that may include a hospital stay, doctor visits, prescription medications, transportation to your doctor’s appointments, and other related medical expenses.
If you need to take time off from work while you recover. Future lost wages or what’s known as diminished earning capacity can also be included if you cannot return to work or must go into a different line of work. This typically occurs when a motorcycle accident causes permanent injuries or a disability. Lost earning capacity is a projection of future losses or the reduction in pay from your old and new jobs.
The primary type of property damage is to your motorcycle. Even a minor collision can cause hundreds or thousands of dollars of damage. A catastrophic accident could lead to a total loss, where your bike is so damaged it is not worth repairing. Either way, the driver or party that caused your accident will owe you financial compensation to make you whole again. This will include payment to repair or replace your motorcycle.
Non-economic or general damages represent the monetary value assigned to the harmful impact a motorcycle accident has upon a person’s life. The value of these damages can be challenging to calculate since they are subjective losses. For example:
Pain and Suffering
Compensation for the physical pain or discomfort and emotional distress you endured due to your motorcycle crash. Keeping a journal of your symptoms and how they interfere with your life can be helpful when it comes to determining your case’s value. Insurance companies often use the multiplier method to find an appropriate monetary amount for pain and suffering damages. This method involves multiplying your economic damages by a number between 1.5 and 5. The number chosen will depend upon the severity of your injuries.
Emotional distress or mental anguish are terms used to describe the negative emotions resulting from enduring the physical pain of a motorcycle accident. For example, sadness, anger, anxiety, depression, insomnia, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Physical Impairment or Disfigurement
If you suffered a disability or other physical impairments as a result of the crash.
Decrease in Life Enjoyment
Compensation if the accident led to a reduced quality of life or a decrease in your overall life satisfaction.
In some instances where the at-fault party acted extremely carelessly or grossly negligent, it may be possible to obtain punitive damages. Unlike the other types of compensation, these damages are designed to punish the liable party and deter others from similar behavior.
Damages Available in a Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Because motorcycle riders lack the same amount of protection that a vehicle gives its occupants, accidents commonly result in fatalities. Surviving family members of a loved one lost in a crash may be entitled to file a wrongful death lawsuit for damages. If that is the case, compensation can be recovered for:
Medical Bills – any bills or expenses incurred by the decedent to treat their injuries related to the accident.
Lost Financial Support – the lifetime of lost earnings that the family or dependents would have been provided had the deceased survived.
Loss of Consortium or Loss of Companionship – meant to compensate the victim’s spouse or immediate family members for their tremendous loss and deprivation of the deceased’s love and companionship.
Funeral Costs and Expenses – family members should not bear the burden of these expenses when another party’s negligence is responsible for losing their loved one.
Contact Us for Help
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Our platforms for communication are endless. For the past few years we have enjoyed a variety of soapboxes—Twitter, Facebook messaging, Instagram, texting, calling, and, of course, snail mail. People are communicating more than ever. Long distances that once separated loved ones are lessened with Skype. Young adults in college can text Mom “I’ll be home for Easter.” Siblings can SnapChat a picture of their lunch.
There are over 100 Bible verses pertaining to the power of words. Even in a time of shifting technology, these verses are still relevant. Proverbs 12:18 says, “The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” Similarly, Proverbs 29:20 reads, “Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.”
Words that are “reckless” or “in haste” can hurt like “swords” or make a “fool” out of us. With the evolution of smartphones, we can send out a message in only a few seconds. We can even avoid words altogether and use emojis! However, sarcasm doesn’t always translate well when read from a phone. That post about the fun you are having with your friends may be hard for someone who is feeling lonely. We should be careful not to use our wonderful technology thoughtlessly.
Many of us do take time with our messages. Not everyone has thumbs glued to their phones. However, words are slippery things. They come out of our mouths or keyboards faster than we can pull them back. So often we don’t know what we are saying until it is said and someone is hurt.
It is important to watch what we say, or to use that edit button. We might be connoisseurs of technology, but our words require extra care, no matter the medium. Our words, so very close to our thoughts, communicate who we are in Christ. Our family, friends, and those around us desire us to walk the walk. Sometimes that also means talking the talk. | <urn:uuid:b357d495-d862-498c-87f2-64804e40e998> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thebanner.org/tuned-in/2017/03/taming-the-digital-tongue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958887 | 452 | 2.046875 | 2 |
How can picking and packing errors be reduced?
If you’re looking to reduce your picking and packing errors, here are some areas to start:
- Streamline Your Pick Path.
- Redesign Your Workflow.
- Integrate New Technology.
- Improve Your Warehouse Layout.
- Use a Visual System.
- Track Your Error Rates.
How do I become a faster picker?
Order picking strategies for a warehouse
- Best order picking strategies, tips and tactics.
- Check the pick while at the slot using automation.
- Tactics to minimize selector walking.
- Ensure 100 percent product availability.
- Touch picked items only once.
- Segmentation of frequently picked items.
- Eliminate pick-and-pass line picking.
How can I improve my speed and accuracy?
Tips to increase your accuracy in the Verbal Ability section More than regular ability and perusing speed you need a procedure to pick the correct entries, read them well, answer questions accurately and above all skip questions.
Is order selector a hard job?
The hardest part of the job can be the lifting and standing for long hours. If you are physically fit then that will be a benefit because it is physically demanding.
What is pick accuracy?
KPI Details. Order Picking Accuracy is an indicator of the controls set in place in order to ensure that shipments to customers contain the correct goods or materials.
What is the job description of shipping and receiving?
Shipping and Receiving workers are responsible for keeping records of all products shipped and received in a company. They pack the goods in shipping containers, develop mailing labels and shipping documents and ensure that all orders have been filled correctly. Performing unpacking of shipment deliveries.
What skills are needed for shipping and receiving?
Shipping and Receiving Qualifications/Skills:
- Scanning and sorting incoming and outgoing stock.
- Receiving, stocking, and stacking.
- Pulling, packing, and loading.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong sense of time organization and urgency.
- Able to work independently and within a team.
What is picker packer experience?
Picker and Packers (also known as Pick Packers) usually work in retail, logistics, wholesale or manufacturing warehouses and distribution centres. ‘Pick’ refers to choosing and picking up the items on the order form or ‘picking slip’, while ‘pack’ refers to packing the order and getting it ready for transportation.
What is order picker?
An order picker or orderpicker is defined as a person or a piece of equipment used to pick and deliver material needed for filling orders from storage.
Is voice picking hard?
The voice picking technology system may be difficult for some people to learn, be comfortable with and return to higher productivity. Develop training materials and processes. How long will each person need? Be sure to provide plenty of hands-on use in the training.
What is an order selector duties?
Order selectors locate and select specific items within the warehouse to fulfill customer orders. Prepare Orders. Order selectors operate forklifts and machinery to stack items on pallets and prepare orders for shipping.
What do online pickers do?
A picker would get the products ready for the customers for online shopping adding tjem to the trolley ready to be sent off.
How do you improve warehouse performance?
Five simple ways to improve warehouse efficiency
- Maximise and optimise all available space. Rather than expand the footprint of your warehouse, consider better use of vertical space.
- Lean Inventory. Adopting lean inventory for your warehouse is just as important as it is in manufacturing.
- Adopt enabling technology.
- Organise workstations.
- Optimise labour efficiency.
How can I be a good packer?
From efficiency to attention to detail, here are some of the top skills you should seek when hiring pickers/packers this fall.
- Procedural Knowledge.
- Attention to Detail.
- The Ability to Operate Warehouse Vehicles.
- Experience with Organization.
How do you improve order picking accuracy?
How to Improve Order Picking Accuracy
- Make sure you’re tracking your order accuracy rates.
- Start by evaluating your picking and packing process.
- Post individual and/or group error rates.
- Incentivize employees to improve rates.
- Weigh everything.
- Automate document insertion.
What do you put on a resume for a warehouse job?
Warehouse worker skills that should be included on a resume include organization, planning, time management, inventory control, equipment maintenance, teamwork, documentation, and data entry, and attributes listed should include dependability.
What is a shipping job duties?
Shipping Associate Job Duties: Prepare orders by processing requests and supply orders; pulling materials; packing boxes; placing orders in delivery area for pickup. ● Coordinate with all departments to fulfill specific and ongoing inventory and shipping. needs. ●
How high do order pickers go?
between 9 feet and 35 feet
How can you improve warehouse picking speed and accuracy?
Ways to Improve Order Picking Accuracy and Productivity
- Maintain Product Slotting.
- Batch and Cluster Order Picking.
- Touch Order Items Once.
- Use Different Storage Strategies.
- Use Pick-to-Light and Put-to-Light Indicators.
- Product Kitting and Assembly.
- Choose Different Order Picking Types.
What is a packer job description?
Most packers work in a warehouse environment, preparing finished products for packaging and shipment. Typically, a packer will be assigned to a specific area, retrieve the items needed from the inventory, check that they are in good condition, wrap them securely, and pack them for shipping.
How can I improve my shipping efficiency?
Improving Your Warehouse and Shipping Efficiency
- Understand and Measure Costs and Processes. You can’t fix what you don’t know is broken.
- Employ Technology.
- Get the Basics Right by Labelling Properly.
- Reduce Options and Organize.
- Look for Cheaper Alternatives.
- Synchronize the Physical Movement of Stock.
- Understand Staff Motivators.
How are pick rates calculated?
e.g. “real” pick rate is 95, and “real” pick time (7-10:45) is 3.75 hours. 95*3.75 =356 items picked and your system will therefore show pick rate of 356/10 = 35.6.
Is shipping and receiving a hard job?
While a shipping and receiving role may or may not involve heavy lifting, it does include a lot of movement. Essentially, shipping and receiving jobs tend to keep your moving. Depending on the environment, it can also be fast-paced work, making the positions much more active than some people would expect.
How can I be a good order selector?
Warehouse order picking tips
- Organize with popular items in mind. “
- Get to know the importance and functions of picking processes. “
- Take a second look at your most basic organizational tools. “
- Focus on improving travel times. “
- Increase productivity by focusing on ergonomics.
- Choose your picking strategies wisely. “
What does pick to zero mean?
An agreed number of packets (consumer packs) are picked in the warehouse and made ready to be transported. Pick-to-zero is dividing the packets between the different, separate shops. For order picking in general, space is always needed for warehousing, order picking and handling.
What is the job title for packaging?
A Packager helps ensure that manufactured items are ready for shipment by placing them into containers, sealing and labeling the items, and preparing the item for transport. Another common name for this position is Product Packager.
Is Pick packing easy?
Pick packing work is a great option for people who want to work, but have little to no previous experience or formal training/education, as the tasks you are required to perform can be easily taught to you.
What is the best working zone for picking and packing?
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Nature Methods is a leading journal for molecular biologists interested in the latest and greatest life sciences research techniques. Each year since 2007, Nature Methods chooses a method to feature that has the potential to make a substantial impact on our understanding of biology. In 2020, the team at Nature Methods chose spatially resolved transcriptomics as the method of the year for 2021.
Spatially resolved transcriptomics or spatial biology fuses two common approaches in molecular biology, microscopy, and next-generation sequencing, to provide unparalleled insight into the spatial context of cells. We can understand the behavior of individual cells and how these cells interface in their social context within tissues. This is especially important in fields like developmental biology, neurobiology, and cancer biology, where cellular location and context are closely tied to cellular behavior and function. It’s truly an exciting time for molecular biology.
What questions do you want to ask in your own research context about cellular biology? What technologies exist to help you ask those questions? How can you bring these technologies to your laboratory?
In this Blog article, I provide nine key points about spatial biology, including what it is, how you can use technologies like GeoMx® Digital Spatial Profiler, and strategies for requesting funds for the purchase of GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler. I’ll also include some ready-to-use resources at the end, including a sample query letter, for you to personalize and use.
Why submit a spatial biology grant?
In the classic children’s story about Goldilocks and the three bears, Goldilocks enters the bear’s house and tries everyone’s porridge, chair, and bed until she finds the one that’s just right. Spatial biology feels just right when we consider how to functionally analyze gene expression.
Cells don’t exist in isolation. Cells communicate with each other and work together within tissues. Looking at gene expression in a whole tissue doesn’t provide enough granularity to really understand tissue dynamics. Although it is helpful for making generalizations and understanding broad patterns, we lose information on rare or unique cell types. It’s “too cold” if we go back to our Goldilocks analogy.
In contrast, cell-specific sequencing provides too fine of a view. Studying gene expression dynamics in rare or unique cells is helpful – but we are missing information about the context. Now we’re “too hot.”
Why is spatial biology just right? Because we’ve captured whole tissue information without losing granularity. Spatial biology provides both context and specificity, facilitating the development of a more precise and contextual understanding of biological processes.
So why include spatial biology in your next grant proposal? Smart utilization of a recent Nature method of the year that gives a detailed and novel perspective of biology will help your grant proposal stand out among the crowd. By asking your research questions of interest in a spatial context, you can generate the novel, actionable, high-impact work that many funders are looking to support. How will you answer your spatial biology questions? With the GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler.
What is the GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler? (and how does it work?)
The GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler provides spatial biology insights in a high-throughput and highly reproducible manner. Researchers can simultaneously capture both spatial and/or morphological information and gene or protein expression through a single sample. The power of the GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler lies in its ability to provide information on how individual cells function, how cells function in a specific microenvironment, and how cells can function as a unit.
Researchers can choose to work with fresh frozen samples or FFPE (Formalin-Fixed-Paraffin-Embedded) samples. Either RNA or protein can be studied using either fluorescently labeled RNA probes or antibodies, respectively. After staining, the user directs the GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler to regions of interest. These may include specific structural features within a tissue or regions where different cell types interface, such as between cancerous and non-cancerous cell types. Once the user has defined the region of interest, ultraviolet light is used to release the molecular tags on the antibody or probe. The user can then collect these tags and send them for analysis via Next Generation Sequencing or using Nanostring’s nCounter® technology.
What can I study using GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler?
One of the overarching fundamental principles of molecular biology is that structure dictates function. If proteins lose their three-dimensional structure, they also lose their function. The single-stranded nature of RNA plus the extra hydroxyl group at the two prime carbon explain why RNAs and not DNAs can have catalytic activity. Hydrogen bonding between adjacent strands of polysaccharides is why cellulose is an excellent structural macromolecule.
Molecular biology principles underlie a wide range of biology subdisciplines, including developmental and cellular biology, structural biology, cancer biology, and neurobiology. As such, there is a broad range of questions that a researcher could ask with the GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler at their fingertips. Here are some examples:
- How do transcriptional dynamics vary in different parts of a tumor?
- What proteins are expressed in healthy cells immediately adjacent to a tumor?
- How do transcriptional dynamics change as different tissue types develop after gastrulation in a developing embryo?
- How does transcription change temporally during treatment with a drug?
- How does gene expression vary between tissues in healthy individuals? Over the lifespan?
- Are there new biomarkers that scientists could identify that tell us more about an individual’s prognosis after a cancer diagnosis?
- How do disparate cell types in the brain interact with one another?
- How does this interaction change in the context of neurodegenerative diseases, many of which lack effective therapeutics?
I’ve posed some broad overarching questions here and provided some published examples in section four. What questions do you have from within your own specialty?
How have people used GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler already?
As described in section three, there are a wide range of research questions a molecular biologist (broadly defined) can address using GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler. When writing a grant to request funds for a capital equipment purchase, reviewers want to know not only what new and exciting questions could be asked,but want proof that the technology has a track record, too. In this section, I’ll highlight some previously published research using GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler in cancer biology.
As defined by the National Cancer Institute, cancer biology research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underpinning how cells grow (and escape cell-cycle controls to grow at inappropriate times), how cells become cancerous, and how cancerous cells can spread or metastasize through the body. One way the GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler can contribute to this knowledge is through gene expression analysis in various tumor parts. For example, Dr. Jonathan Chen at the Broad Institute found that IDO1 expression varied between high and low-grade core tumor regions and lymph nodes in patients with colorectal cancer. In another study published in 2019, Trieu My Van and Christian Blank examined transcriptional dynamics between tumor and immune cells in colorectal cancer. Van and Blank found that there was significant antigen presentation at the boundary between the two cell types.
How does GeoMx facilitate collaboration?
Although the stereotypical view of scientists is of an individual with crazy hair working in isolation, collaboration is at the heart of scientific endeavors. Many areas of biological research require multi- and interdisciplinary collaboration. For example, in the context of cancer research, this can require a variety of scientists working together, including biologists, doctors, pathologists, laboratory technicians, and biostatisticians. Many funding agencies specifically look for projects that facilitate inter- and multi-disciplinary collaboration and/or unify multiple institutions on a project.
Coordinating teams, especially disciplinarily diverse teams, is a challenge. However, GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler’s software facilitates collaboration through its secured remote access capabilities. Anyone across the globe can access data securely through the internet. In addition, principal investigators and/or administrators can assign roles or permissions, facilitating project management.
The GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler workflow is an asset not only to a research team but is also highly attractive on grant applications and can facilitate faster publication. Faster publication time has a wide variety of benefits. For example, investigators can focus their efforts on research rather than navigating the publication process. For university-based researchers, faster publication times can help students graduate on time and help create a robust publication record for tenure and promotion decisions. This Blog article details a successful collaboration with GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler, the GeoMx Breast Cancer Consortium.
How does GeoMx promote reproducibility and quality science?
When I was in graduate school, my biostatistics professor discussed issues with statistics and reliability of findings in biomedical research. Many stakeholders are concerned about investigator bias if experiments have appropriate power, and ‘p-hacking’ and the reliability of published results. As a result, researchers have called for increased transparency and focus on the reproducibility of scientific results.
Funders want to know they are choosing projects that will produce good data. Attention to these trends and explaining how your chosen methods promote reproducibility will help your grant be chosen for funding.
GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler was designed with this shift in mind. For example, the platform is designed to facilitate collaboration between researchers. As mentioned in section six, one such example of collaboration in action using GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler is the GeoMx Breast Cancer Consortium. In addition, analysis of serial sections in the tonsil shows the high reproducibility of the results (Figure 1). For additional examples of the reproducibility of GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler data, see this article by Gupta and colleagues or this Nature Biotechnology article by Merritt and colleagues.
How do I pursue grant funding to purchase GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler?
Securing grant funding is, unfortunately, a time-consuming and intensive endeavor shared by many scientists. In this Nanostring Blog article, Hiromi Sato outlines some general considerations when applying for grant funding. Keep in mind that several federal agencies offer awards specifically for instrumentation purposes. Depending on the agency, these awards can have different requirements, for example, being shorter than a standard 15-page proposal or having less competition. Depending on which field of biology you hail from, there are also grants specific to your field. For reference, here is a regularly updated and curated list. We’ve also included tips throughout this blog article, but for a quick reference sheet, see section nine for a one-page fact sheet with key bullet points to help guide your grant writing or share with a colleague.
What key methodological details about GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler should I include in a grant application?
The GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler not only facilitates spatial biology research but can process over ten sections in a single day, analyzing both RNA and protein. Samples do not require any specialized handling, only standard preservation techniques such as formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) or fresh-frozen samples.
With the next-generation sequencing capabilities, researchers can analyze tens of thousands of distinct targets. Minimum segment size requirements for tissue types are based on cell size and range from one to five cells for large cells like neurons for protein analysis (or 5-20 for RNA analysis) and 10-20 small cells like T cells for protein analysis or 50-200 cells for RNA analysis.
The integrated workflow facilitates project management across diverse teams, regardless of if they are housed within the same building or on the other side of the world. This increases team effectiveness and facilitates a fast process from initial conception and planning to publication.
Where can I find more information?
Selections from the Nanostring Blog:
- How do I choose the right spatial biology technology?
- Spatial Revolution: An exciting future for cancer biology research
- Spatial Transcriptomic Services: Azenta Life Sciences Paves the Way
- The importance of segmentation in spatial biology
- From the Nanostring Blog: Breast Cancer: Best Practices for Using GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler
- From the Nanostring Blog: Spatial Transcriptomics: Birth of GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler
- From the Nanostring Blog: Why Spatial Biology?
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Apparently not many in Moscow like a gigantic suitcase sitting in the middle of the Red Square. After complaints from Moscow residents and politicians, Russia’s presidential administration yesterday sent marching orders to remove the two-story temporary exhibition hall from the square.
The Red Square Trunk pavilion is built right next to Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum. A Russian Member of Parliament, Alexander Sidyakin, made the official complaint with the country’s anti-trust watchdog to get the monogrammed trunk removed. His talking point was trunk violated country’s advertising laws. They also padded the complaint with some building code violations too, just in case.
The exhibition “Soul of Travel” was set to share Louis Vuitton’s journey since 1854 and stories of its legendary adventurers and travelers. Ticket sale proceeds from the exhibition were to benefit Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova children’s charity, The Naked Heart Foundation.
“This is a sacred place for the Russian state. There are some symbols that cannot be trivialized or denigrated,” Sergei Obukhov, a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, told the Wall Street Journal.
A GUM department store spokesman said prior to forced removal order, the company had received full clearance for the installation from the government. Louis Vuitton so far made no comments about the issue.
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I recently talked with a father of a MySpace user who said that he tried to email his daughter using regular email and she never responded. He asked her why and she said, “I use MySpace for email. Send me mail there”. So he created an account and now he messages her there. Wow.
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On March 19 of the current year, Nursultan Nazarbayev announced his resignation, even though his term as president still lasted another year and a half. After this, the 66-year-old Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, speaker of the Senate of Kazakhstan, became his constitutional successor.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is one of the most competent statesmen in Kazakhstan, previously holding important positions of head of the Senate, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. On the other hand, he still remains a world-class politician.
Suffice to say, there have only been two Asian politicians among the UN leaders in the 21st century. They are Ban Ki-moon, representing Korea, and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, representing Kazakhstan. What is more, Tokayev was more than just a regular Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. He spent two and a half years working as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, holding the second most important position within the organization after New-York, also serving as the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Disarmament. There is no need to remind you just how significant this agenda is in the present-day unstable world, and how important it is to manage the situation frequently threatening to develop into a full-blown crisis.
In 2013, he was considered as one of the possible candidates for the position of the UN Secretary-General, but Tokayev preferred serving his own country to a global career.
He later reminisced: “When I notified Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of quitting my job at the United Nations, the line went silent, after which my former boss said: ‘I always thought you were not going to stay at the UN long, but never thought you would quit so soon…’.”
All of the above turns Tokayev into the most high-profile politician not only in Kazakhstan, but also in the international arena. Therefore, no wonder that it was Tokayev who got picked by the First President Nursultan Nazarbayev as his successor. After all, Kazakhstan’s development during all these years after gaining independence has not only been related to its domestic political agenda, but also to the important role Kazakhstan has been playing globally.
In actual fact, these two were closely related. A combination of assertiveness and persistence in conducting domestic reforms, and a highly active foreign policy have become a signature style for Kazakhstan when we talk about running the country after the demise of the Soviet Union.
It should also be mentioned here that Kazakhstan had to implement painful market reforms in a situation of collapsed socialist economic system and acute political crisis. Not all of the states founded instead of the dissolved Soviet Union realized the necessity of implementing such reforms. We know of examples where new states would seal off their economies against any changes and seek to preserve the state capitalism of late USSR epoch. For example, this was typical for Belarus, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Such a policy could be justified by the need to resolve tactical issues, but also meant avoidance or postponement of complicated economic challenges. Thus, these countries avoided the risks accompanying the process of building a market economy. But today, they are in fact having to tackle the same issues they faced back in the 1990s.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan placed its bet on market reforms. The logic of such reforms not only was seeking to unlock the potential of economically active part of the population, which was impossible in the Soviet-type state capitalism model, preferred by many in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It was also important to get Kazakhstan’s economy to interact with the outside world.
The thing is, Kazakhstan was faced with the task of overcoming the historic isolation of the Soviet era. After 1991, the country had ample opportunities for building its own contacts with the outside world. This was particularly relevant due to the status of Kazakhstan as a landlocked country, having no access to the sea, and therefore, located at a distance from the main global markets.
Therefore, it was strategically important for Kazakhstan, on the one hand, to ensure competitive ability of its domestic economy, securing its compliance with the best global standards. For this purpose, a favorable investment climate had to be created. On the other hand, Kazakhstan needed infrastructure for improving both, its domestic transportation and logistical infrastructure, and transport links to its main trade partners.
Tackling all these problems was the main priority for the government of Kazakhstan during the entire term in office of the first President Nazarbayev. As a result, at the end of year 2018, Kazakhstan was ranked 70th in a global rating in terms of GDP per capita ($8,840). At the same time, if we consider the purchasing power parity (PPP), Kazakhstan ranks already as high as 41st globally, with its GDP of $427 billion.
It should also be mentioned that in the last 20 years, the country has attracted $300 billion of foreign direct investment.
Kazakhstan is currently ranking 58th in the Human Development Index rating, being included in the same group as some highly developed countries, along with Norway, Germany and Sweden. In 2016, according to the Heritage Foundation, Kazakhstan’s economic freedom index rose, reaching 69 points out of 100, which promoted Kazakhstan’s economy to the 42nd position of 178 countries.
Moreover, implementation of a number of infrastructure development programs that has been intensified starting from the 2000s, helped build transport corridors between Asia and Europe. Tellingly, it was in Kazakhstan that China’s famous Belt and Road Initiative was proposed by Xi Jinping, President of the PRC, back in 2013. But it is important that even before this historical moment that gave a boost to the flow of cargo from China to Europe via Kazakhstan territory, the country had successfully implemented a number of domestic projects.
In particular, as part of the Nurly Zhol program, modern road infrastructure was developed in Kazakhstan. Subsequently, a part of this infrastructure became a key component of the global Western Europe – Western China international transport corridor. By the way, in terms of logistical efficiency, Kazakhstan is a leader among the CIS countries, ranking in 2017 77th in the Logistics Performance Index of the World Bank. On top of that, Kazakhstan ranks 63rd in the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum in terms of infrastructure quality.
Kazakhstan is one of the few countries which was not simply waiting for the implementation of the Chinese initiative; the republic was interested in enhancing its own transportation and transit capacities and made a serious investment into their development. Perhaps, it is the significant efforts made by Kazakhstan that stimulated China’s interest in building new trading routes westwards. Characteristically, Kazakhstan and China set up at their border railway and logistical infrastructure with a throughput capacity exceeding 40 million tons of cargo per annum.
The project of building a transport corridor across Kazakhstan has already yielded some impressive results. For instance, in 2018, volumes of cargo shipped through Kazakhstan’s territory via the China – Europe – China route amounted to 300,000 containers, which is a 61% increase year-on-year. On the whole, the volume of transit cargo traffic across Kazakhstan territory amounted to 18 million tons according to the results of 2018.
Such performance took a lot of effort to achieve, and yet much remains to be done, given that Kazakhstan is faced with a number of tasks in the area of the country’s economic modernization. One of the key tasks is securing the inclusion of Kazakhstan in top 30 most developed countries of the world.
In order to resolve these tasks, the new President Tokayev will doubtless need the experience he acquired while serving as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. During his term as Prime Minister, the republic achieved one of the world’s highest economic growth rates. For example, in 2001, it reached 9.6%. During his term in office, production rates grew by 14.6%, and investment into fixed assets grew by nearly 30%. His top priorities as Prime Minister included an intense economic growth with a low inflation rate, improvement of the investment climate, boosting employment and real income of the population.
On the whole, a significant feature of Kazakhstan’s modernization model consists in the fact that it is the country’s domestic development that provides a basis for resolving some of the most complicated geo-economic problems. Competitive ability of Kazakhstan’s economy, its stability amid the turbulence in the global economy was experiencing secured conditions enabling successful advocacy of the country’s interests in the international arena.
Geopolitically, Kazakhstan is located in one of the most sensitive regions, where interests of such majors as China, Russia, the US and other important regional states are merging. Under these conditions, Kazakhstan is pursuing a successful multi-vector policy, allowing it to preserve independence and freedom of maneuver.
It is also important that Kazakhstan is playing a very active role in international relations. The country has been known to successfully mediate complicated situations, for example, the Astana process, which is highly significant for further dialogue on the Syrian agenda. Earlier stories to be mentioned include providing a platform for negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, resulting in the execution of the agreement of 2015.
And even the fact that these agreements are being revised today does not undermine the role of Kazakhstan as one of the most influential mediators in many situations, in which the conflicting parties are unable to reach compromise.
In this sense, the background Kassym-Jomart Tokayev comes from will be especially relevant. In particular, in June 2012, it was Tokayev who played a key role at the United Nations in finding the seemingly impossible balance between the interests of Russia and the US, when the Americans were insisting that ‘Assad had to quit’ and Moscow was unrelentingly advocating in his favor.
Tokayev succeeded in proposing a wording in the nature of a compromise, allowing the parties to meet halfway. Hillary Clinton representing the US at the meeting was shocked by this result. “Without realizing it herself, she agreed to the text of the final draft that did not provide for mandatory resignation of Bashar al-Assad,” Tokayev recalled. “I remember, it was getting late, the Palace of Nations had gotten empty, and then I received a report that Hillary was still in the building, being interviewed by the US mass media and proving that this wording was to be agreed with under the circumstances, as otherwise the document risked not being adopted at all ‘due to pressure from Russia’.”
Obviously, the skills acquired by Tokayev during his term as a world-class politician will directly contribute to maintaining the traditional efficiency of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy.
Among the many close associates of the first President Nazarbayev, Tokayev is the one most suitable to continue his line of policy. His vast experience in economic management and international background will be instrumental in ensuring Kazakhstan’s interests are most adequately protected.
Tokayev’s important peculiarity is his rational political thinking: he is able to see the issues and understand just how complex their resolution is, which is the reason he never employs populist rhetoric. Many people in Kazakhstan and abroad notice that Tokayev does not say much, but his actions and decisions could not have been any clearer. And, most importantly, he maintains and continues the course towards tolerance, transparency, interconfessional society and interethnic consent, which is highly important for a country where representatives of over 100 ethnicities reside, belonging to almost 20 confessions. | <urn:uuid:f6c2d1dc-d609-4838-a857-711c757b3850> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bricsmagazine.com/en/articles/succession-and-modernization | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972977 | 2,383 | 2 | 2 |
The MAXON Cinema 4D R20: Modeling Essentials textbook walks you through every step of creating 3D models with Cinema 4D R20. This guide is perfect for both novices and those moving from other software to Cinema 4D. This book will help you to get started with modeling in Cinema 4D, you will learn important concepts and techniques about 3D modeling which you can utilize to create hard-surfaced objects for your projects. This book also covers Cinema 4D’s OpenVDB-based Volume Builder and Volume Mesher functions that allow you to create complex models by adding and subtracting basic shapes in boolean-type operations.
Book Code: PDX010P, ISBN: 978-1791795481
This book shares tips, tricks, notes, and cautions throughout, that will help you become a better Cinema 4D artist and you will be able to speed up your workflow. This book is aimed to be a solid teaching resource for learning modeling with Cinema 4D R20. It avoids any jargon and explains concepts and techniques in an easy-to-understand manner. The first page of every unit summarizes the topics that will be covered in the unit. Hands-on exercises in this book instruct users how things can be done in Cinema 4D R20 step-by-step
Practicing is one of the best ways to improve skills. This book contains practice activities which you are highly encouraged to complete and gain confidence for real-world projects. By completing these activities, you will be able to master the powerful capabilities of Cinema 4D. By the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to create hard-surface models in Cinema 4D.
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- Features more than 29 hands-on exercises – complete with before and after files.
- Contains 25 practice activities to test the knowledge gained.
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- The content under “What just happened?” heading explains the working of the instructions.
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- Includes an ePub file that contains the color images of the screenshots/illustrations used in the textbook. These color images will help you in the learning process. This ePub file is included with the resources.
- Tech support from the author.
- Access to each exercise’s initial and final states along with the resources used in hands-on exercises.
- Quiz to assess knowledge.
Who this book is for?
This book is designed for beginners.
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Before jumping into the units of this book, make sure you have working knowledge of your computer and its operating system. Also, make sure that your that you have installed the required software and hardware. You need to install Cinema 4D R20 Studio on your system.
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This book is divided into following units:
Unit CM1: Introduction to Cinema 4D R20, introduces you to Cinema 4D interface and primitive objects available in the Object command group. You will learn about Cinema 4D unit system, coordinate system, interface elements, and how to customize the interface. You will also create models using primitives.
Unit CM2: Tools of the Trade, walks you through some of the important tools that you will use in the modeling process. These tools are used to create guides in the editor view, interactively placing lights and adjusting their attributes in the scene, measure angles and distances, arrange/duplicate/randomize objects, correct lens distortions, and create virtual walkthroughs.
Unit CM3: Spline Modeling, introduces you to the spline modeling tools, concept, and techniques.
Unit CM4: Polygon Modeling, introduces you to the polygon modeling tools, concepts, and techniques. This unit talks about polygons components, selection tools, polygons structure tools, modeling objects, and deformers.
Unit CMB: Bonus Hands-on Exercises, contains bonus hands-on exercises.
Unit CMP: Practice Activities [Modeling], contains practice activities which you are highly encouraged to complete.
Unit CV1: Volumes – I, covers the Volume Builder and Volume Mesher functions. You will learn how to quickly create 3D models with ease using boolean operations with voxels.
Unit CV2: Volumes – II, covers volume filters, volume group, and the Volume Loader object.
Unit CVP: Practice Activities [Volumes], contains practice activities which you are highly encouraged to complete.
Unit CMA: Appendix – Quiz Answers [Modeling], contains quiz answers.
Unit CVA: Appendix – Quiz Answers [Volumes], contains quiz answers.
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Are you going to make the MAXON Cinema 4D R20: Modeling Essentials book available in any other format?
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For us, what the white people call ‘future’ is to protect the sky from the xawara epidemic fumes in order to keep it healthy. »
– Yanomami spokesman and shaman Davi Kopenawa
Please watch this 2 minute 41 second film showing instants of Yanomami life and a shamanic initiation in Amazonas, Venezuela and the art performance « TheWay of the Shaman » created to protest ongoing destruction of the rainforest and the degradation of indigenous lives:
Please also watch this 48 second film of the light installation « Yanomami shamans struggle against xawara smoke of epidemics » included here:
THE EXHIBITION IS PROLONGED – “Pas de Cartier !” – Yanomami and Trees – Gold Mining and Gold Luxury items / COVID-19 propagated by Gold Miners…now through November 12th 2021
NO to Maduro’s Orinoco Mining Arc destruction of indigenous lands in Venezuela!
NO to Bolsonaro’s removal of protections for indigenous territories in Brazil!
Gold mining and the indiscriminate use of mercury to ferret out gold are turning swaths of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems into a nightmarish moonscape!
PLEASE DO NOT BUY OR USE GOLD!
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Good morning Year 6.
We are looking forward to testing Google Meet this morning. Please make sure you mute your microphone when join the meet ! Fingers crossed everything works !
It is the middle of the week already ! Today we are continuing our work on Non Chronological reports and fractions to percentages. In addition there is some music and art to look forward to this afternoon. The feedback from today’s tasks will be linked to your Maths.
Use this website to practice this and apply it a little further.
Following on from our work on non chronological reports, we are going to plan and write a paragraph on habitat and diet today. Use the videos to help you plan and write. Don’t forget about presentation when you submit your work !
You might want to use this help sheet . . .
Year 6, I know how fantastic you all are at music so click on the link below to access this session’s music lesson on understanding timing in music. Enjoy singing, clapping rhythms and there’s even some composition work too! Copy and paste the link into your web browser
For the composition work, at the end of the session, click on the link for the manuscript paper.
Use the video below and the wonderful creativity that you have to make a masterpiece….
Logon and see how many you can get right in . . . a minute, 3 minutes, after 5 games, 10 games ? Can you improve your average time ?
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Not everybody needs to splurge on a automotive that can get them from A to B safely. Whether or not you’re on a price range otherwise you merely don’t wish to spend your cash on a commodity that can usually solely depreciate over time, then you definitely’ve come to the correct place!
There are numerous automotive sorts on the market, from the producers themselves to the assorted fashions and make them churn out the 12 months in and 12 months out.
In the event you’re available on the market to purchase a automotive and wish to lower your expenses, then this listing of the most cost effective automobiles accessible within the UK will serve you effectively. Which fashions are the most cost effective automobiles to run? Which of them are financially helpful in the long run?
This information will present you sixteen of the most cost effective automobiles which are financially inexpensive for many UK drivers.
1. Citroen C3
The Citroen C3 is one which has been a terrific performer in terms of gasoline economic system. Because of its three-cylinder engines, it’s thought of a terrific one for the pockets.
Citroen’s options aren’t stingy by any means and include a spec that can attraction to many on the lookout for performance. From 16-inch alloys, a touchscreen show with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and local weather management to remain snug while within the driver’s seat.
Security options make this good for households, with lane departure warnings, cruise management, and rear parking sensors. Low-cost and cheerful, there’s so much that you simply get for the worth tag on this car.
2. VW Golf
The VW Golf is considered one of many environment friendly automobiles, making it a worthwhile funding for these wanting to save cash on their subsequent car buy.
Volkswagen is a trusted automotive producer and gives low operating prices whether or not you’re driving with a diesel or petrol engine.
In the event you’re seeking to make a constructive impression on the surroundings by decreasing your carbon footprint, you may get loads of brownie factors with the VW Golf. The car emits solely 85 g/km of CO2, making it a great one for eco-conscious drivers.
It’s a enjoyable one to drive, too, and for youthful drivers, it’s a worthy selection as a primary automotive with its high-quality dealing with.
3. Ford Fiesta
A household automotive that’s infamous for being one of many least expensive available on the market. One of many main advantages of the Ford Fiesta is its spacious inside, making it good for individuals who have an enormous family to cram in for the varsity run.
It’s an inexpensive one to purchase, and it’s nice when on the lookout for a less expensive choice to function. Reducing down on gasoline costs has by no means been simpler when driving the standard Ford.
With its 1.0L engine, it is without doubt one of the most economical automobiles for petrol (65.7mpg), and it’s not too shabby for diesel (88.3mpg) both. You’ll additionally discover that highway taxes are pretty low compared to different automobiles, and it’s low cost to insure. It’s a must have for a price range lover!
4. Skoda Octavia
The Skoda Octavia is one mannequin that provides reliability in its efficiency. For gasoline economic system, the automotive does fairly effectively with a 1.6L diesel engine that provides 85.6mpg. Delivering security and stability in its driving, it’s actually a preferred one for a lot of drivers who wish to really feel assured on the highway.
It’s among the finest choices for individuals who like to stay in management on the roads, particularly for these with younger youngsters within the again seats. You possibly can depend upon this low cost automotive for offering every thing you’ll have to get from A to B in an inexpensive and environment friendly means.
Insurance coverage prices with the Skoda Octavia are pretty low, too, placing this rightly so in a class of inexpensive automobiles.
5. Suzuki Swift
The Suzuki Swift is made for individuals who are on a good price range. When the purse strings wanted to be pulled even tighter, this make and mannequin affords good gasoline economic system and is pretty low cost to run. The petrol engine affords 56.5mpg and is dependable for its efficiency whether or not it’s a used automotive or a model new mannequin.
While automobiles aren’t all the time the most effective for investments, the Suzuki Swift really has nice resale values. You’ll discover that the depreciation of this automotive tends to be so much slower than different automotive choices.
You’re going to get by fairly effectively in terms of servicing and upkeep for this automotive, so it’s a worthwhile choice to take a look at when purchasing for a brand new car.
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6. BMW 3-Sequence Saloon
Many right here the model BMW and instantly think about it to be costly. Nonetheless, the BMW 3 Sequence is one that provides a possibility for these extra frugal than most to have a slice of luxurious. As a German model, the BMW is understood to be a reasonably dependable model for automobiles and delivers on its energy and gasoline effectivity.
The saloon mannequin has a 2.0L diesel tank and solely places out 100g/km of CO2 emissions. That is usually the popular selection for individuals who want an organization automotive. It is probably not appropriate for everybody’s tastes, however for affordability, it’s a terrific automotive.
7. Ford Focus
Ford fashions are thought of one of many least expensive automobiles to run, particularly in terms of household automobiles. A budget operating prices that this automotive producer gives are what make it so fashionable.
The Ford Focus, a terrific hatchback, does very effectively for producing minimal emissions and offering gasoline effectivity all through its lifespan. The 1.5L diesel engine will get you loads of worth in terms of the mileage it affords. A budget value of this automotive is usually a winner for any household on a price range.
It’s a terrific selection for first-time patrons too who’re on the lookout for a straightforward automotive to deal with with spacious interiors and decrease automotive tax.
8. Honda Civic
This automotive might look pretty compact from the surface, however seems to be may be deceiving. It rivals that of an SUV in terms of cupboard space, and there are quite a lot of comforts that come from this car.
One other one for unbelievable gasoline economic system, this diesel automotive affords 78.6mpg and is pretty low on the CO2 emissions entrance too.
In order for you a dependable motor that’s going to be good because the automotive to get you to work or your youngsters to highschool, then the Honda Civic is a good choice. It’s additionally a model and mannequin that’s extremely fashionable, making it one which depreciates so much slower too.
9. Mini Cooper Hatchback
Don’t underestimate the ability and efficiency of the Mini Cooper. The Mini has been extensively often called a small automotive, however the hatchback is a surprisingly spacious and fuel-efficient automotive. On account of its compact design in comparison with different hatchbacks, they make nice metropolis automobiles for homeowners dwelling within the large metropolis.
The model is a widely known and fascinating one, that means you get a great funding in terms of resale. It’s one of many cheaper automobiles on this listing to run, and the emissions are pretty low, too, so you’ll be able to relaxation just a little simpler that you simply’re not impacting the surroundings an excessive amount of!
10. Toyota Yaris
Residing inside a metropolis panorama, the Toyota Yaris is a agency selection for individuals who want a flexible and straightforward drive. Metropolis dwelling isn’t all the time a straightforward one to navigate, and so the Yaris serves as an choice for weaving out and in of the site visitors.
One of the crucial economical automobiles, this petrol engine produces lower than 95g/km in CO2 emissions. It’s small and compact in comparison with some on this listing however is sufficiently big for the typical household to slot in.
In order for you a automotive that gives just a little extra worth to your cash in gasoline effectivity, we’d advocate you go for a hybrid choice.
11. Vauxhall Corsa
An iconic automotive mannequin is the Vauxhall Corsa. Because of its low cost value to run and tax, it’s a dependable one. That’s why many younger drivers are likely to go for this mannequin above others available on the market. With a 1.2L diesel engine, it racks up an 83.1mpg and fewer than 90g/km of CO2 emissions.
Highway tax and congestion fees are going to be low with the Corsa, and it’s appropriate for many environments, each metropolis and rural driving.
12. Ford Fiesta (SEAT Mii Electrical)
Whether or not it’s a used automotive or model new, the Ford is an affordable household automotive for individuals who want to save lots of on prices. It’s spacious and environment friendly in its gasoline economic system. Select between petrol or diesel variations relying in your desire and profit from its Euro 6 Classification that helps hold highway taxes and congestion fees low.
For affordable automobiles, the Fiesta can be pretty inexpensive in terms of its insurance coverage and upkeep too.
13. Dacia Sandero 1.0 SCe Entry
One, if not the most cost effective, in terms of economical automotive choices, is the Dacia Sandero 1.0 SCe Entry.
Its itemizing value is effectively beneath the £10,000 mark, making this one an affordable and cheerful choice for anybody on a really tight price range.
Nonetheless, it’s a kind of automobiles that you simply get what you pay for. Assume plastic painted bumpers, the absence of a radio and no air con. It’s very primary in comparison with most fashionable automobiles, however which may not essentially be required for all UK drivers.
In the event you’ve bought a bit more cash to play with, then the upgrades aren’t that rather more so as to add to the radio and air con options.
14. Volkswagen e-up
As one of many solely electrical automotive choices on this listing, the Volkswagen e-up is fairly pricy even with the plug-in hybrid automotive grant deducted.
Nonetheless, regardless of its £20k price ticket, it can save you a heck of some huge cash in terms of the electrical cost that it gives. A 32kWh battery will provide you with as much as 159 miles of cost and solely takes round 4 hours to cost out of your wall field charger at house.
There are zero emissions which implies no highway tax and intensely low upkeep and servicing prices. Gasoline will value you pennies, so that you’re more likely to make again in your funding quickly sufficient.
15. Mitsubishi Mirage Hatchback 1.2 Verve
For operating prices, the Mitsubishi Mirage Hatchback 1.2 Verve is one that’s low cost to run and affords sufficient in the best way of options for any UK driver.
It’s a primary mannequin with a radio and CD participant, AUX connection and Bluetooth. Nonetheless, you could solely want the naked minimal. It does supply a good quantity of energy, and it’s fitted to most households as a Hatchback. The low TCO is what provides this automotive its edge towards among the different opponents on the market.
For affordable automobiles to run, this Mitsubishi mannequin is price investing in.
16. Fiat Punto
If you’re paying for a automotive, you need it to supply good worth for cash, and the Fiat Punto delivers on that each time. Regardless of it being final on this listing, it’s not at all least in terms of its engine efficiency and gasoline economic system.
The Punto is a good automotive that was produced by the Italian automotive producer Fiat, spanning over three generations. It’s bought a historical past as a automotive mannequin and has change into a dependable choice for a lot of drivers after a small automotive that’s low cost to run.
The gearbox engine is quiet, too, making this a neighbourhood-friendly choice for many.
What’s the common gasoline prices on a Ford Fiesta?
For affordable gasoline, the Ford comes out on prime. In response to FleetNews, the typical gasoline value for a Fiesta tends to be round 47.92p per mile.
How a lot does it value to refill a Mini Cooper Hatchback?
This can usually depend upon the capability of the gasoline tank itself. It could value wherever between £50-£65 to refill a 5oL Mini Cooper Hatchback totally, give or take.
What’s the least expensive automotive to personal and preserve within the UK?
The most affordable automotive to personal and preserve at the moment within the UK is the Dacia Sandero 1.0 SCe Entry and has been for a few years now.
Electrical automobiles are more likely to change into extra environment friendly and cheaper to run as they change into the extra distinguished selection as soon as petrol and diesel automobiles stop manufacturing.
How a lot does an annual service value for a Suzuki Swift within the UK?
To service a Suzuki Swift, you’ll probably pay wherever between £130-£200. That is typical for many automobiles, so relying on the engine measurement and the place you’re primarily based, that determine might change.
Vehicles are an costly outgoing for a lot of households, and for some, it’s important to be budget-friendly. This information has hopefully proven you that there are many budget-friendly choices accessible, so it’s price exploring the market and performing some comparisons to search out the most effective one.
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Students discuss key global issues during VIDMUN
The second edition of the Vidyanatariksha Model United Nations (VIDMUN) was organised at Manav Rachna International School. It is structured along the lines of Model United Nations (MUN), which has, over the years, become a global academic phenomenon. The conferences organised as part of MUN have key global issues as their subject of discussion. Students are given an opportunity to brainstorm, debate and develop a deeper understanding of current world issues. Besides, it honed their skills in diplomacy, negotiation, critical thinking, public speaking, writing and research.
A total of 596 students from schools across Delhi-NCR participated in this year’s VIDMUN. Nine committees were formed for these young delegates to debate, discuss and explore feasible solutions for conflict resolution. The topics that were taken up for the discussions revolved around reforms in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the impact of Russian counter-sanctions on European countries, implications of the emergence of the private sector on outer space exploration, roadmap post the 2019 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) elections and the Berlin airlift. Through engaging in these discussions, the participants got valuable insights into the specificity of each problem and come up with novel solutions to tackle them. Furthermore, it bolstered their self-confidence and fostered a collaborative spirit in them. | <urn:uuid:ee0d40e3-6c85-4f4f-9bdd-72626d963afb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nextgurukul.in/thenextworld/students-discuss-key-global-issues-during-vidmun/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95269 | 281 | 2.390625 | 2 |
In order to open a checking account or a savings account, you will need a US tax id (EIN). Many banks require a US tax id explains Aron Govil. If you attempt to open an account without it, the bank may ask you to provide additional documents before they accept your application. For example, some banks ask for more information from those who have opened accounts from abroad. Due to sanctions, many banks want to ensure that they are not dealing with certain individuals and entities. In some cases, if you do not have a US tax id issued by the IRS, banks may simply turn down your application. You can find out how to obtain a US tax id here. We assure that the process is fast and reliable!
Once this is done, you will be able to open an account. If you are a freelancer, this number may help you avoid additional expenses that are charged by the bank for receiving international payments. Besides that, having a US tax id makes it easier for us to pay fees on your behalf using our referral program. Don’t know what is this? Visit Rewards and Referrals section!
How long does it take to get my EIN?
One of the reasons why people prefer registering companies in offshore jurisdictions like Belize is the fact how fast they can obtain their company’s registration papers without spending too much time on it. The same applies to obtaining EIN. You just need several documents which no not require any lengthy process of legalization or other bureaucratic procedures says Aron Govil.
If you are running a business, it is important to remember that each state has its own rules and regulations for taxes. When you are operating as an LLC, the IRS requires you to have your EIN number before paying any federal taxes. However, there are some states which do not recognize this yet—but most of them do! If you want an easier way to pay your taxes in multiple states, it is best to obtain an EIN for all 50 states. This article will give you more information on how to get one and what benefits can be gained from having it.
What Is It?
An EIN number stands for the Employer Identification Number and can be used by businesses in place of their social security number. If you are a sole proprietor, it is best to apply for an EIN number. Sole proprietors have the option of using their social security number or applying for an EIN. However, if you are running more than one business with several employees. This process is a recommendation as it can cause some problems during tax season. Having one number associating with each line of work will help simplify your taxes come April 15th—that’s why creating an LLC has become so popular!
How Do I Apply?
Creating your EIN account takes less than ten minutes. You can fill out the form online by visiting this link. At the beginning of the form, you will need to provide personal information about yourself and how long you have been operating as a business explains Aron Govil. Once this is complete, you will need to answer several more questions about your business and how it operates. This form usually only takes a few minutes to finish and then you can choose a payment method for the final step! You can pay by credit card or direct withdrawal from your bank—and that’s all there is to it!
Why Is It Important?
Having an EIN number helps simplify tax season because there is only one federal identification number for your company instead of one social security number per person working with you. In addition, having an EIN saves time because you don’t have to provide contact information for every member of your company when filling out forms. An EIN also has its benefits during tax filing as each EIN number is unique. This prevents any possible issues from arising when dealing with duplicate numbers from multiple companies.
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Coimbatore: It is an embarrassment that India has the highest number of malnourished children in the world, admitted union agriculture secretary, Ashish Bahuguna.
Speaking at the 6th Indian Horticulture Congress at Codissia trade fair complex in Coimbatore on Thursday, the agriculture secretary said that the hard work of farmers and research put in by scientists has ensured that India is surplus in food grain production. Yet the country is still lagging behind in terms of malnourishment, he regretted.
(According to the Unicef, one in every three malnourished children in the world is an Indian. India has more malnourished children than the African countries. And about 50 per cent of all childhood deaths are attributed to malnutrition. )
“One of the fundamental ways to overcome malnutrition issue is to improve diets of people and increase sustainable income for a better livelihood. This could be done with horticulture as a medium,” the secretary said. Technological advancements have been luring youngsters and diverting people from agriculture to horticulture, fisheries and diary farming, which help in inclusive and sustainable growth of people.
Horticulture is poised for a great leap forward, but India’s conservatism and reluctance to break the shackles of anxiety over food security hampers further growth of horticulture in the country, he added
Eminent agriculture scientist and founder chairman of MSSRF in Chennai, M.S. Swaminathan said that the country has been slowly diverting its attention from food security to nutrient security, for which horticulture plays the role of a catalyst....
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Ramshorn Campground is located off of Highway 49, in the North Yuba River area west of Downieville. Visitors enjoy a wide variety of recreational activities in the area, including hiking, mountain biking, motorcycle singletrack, hunting, fishing, and gold panning. This facility is operated and maintained by the Tahoe National Forest.
A network of trails crisscrosses the surrounding area. The 5.8-mile Halls Ranch Trail is open to hiking, mountain biking, and motorized use. The Yuba River Trail can be accessed nearby at the Rocky Rest Trailhead. The North Yuba River offers swimming, floating, and rainbow trout fishing. The river is a popular destination for seasonal rafting, kayaking and tubing.
The campground offers several single-family sites, all of which are designated for tent camping only. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets are provided.
Ramshorn Campground is located on the steep slopes of the North Yuba River Valley between the Indian Valley Recreation Area and Downieville. The campground’s two loops are situated among abundant blackberry bushes in a forest of cedar and fir trees. Shady oak trees are scattered around the upper loop.
Ramshorn Campground is located along the Yuba Donner Scenic Byway (Highway 49) near many gold rush era historical sites and old mining towns such as Camptonville, Goodyears Bar, and Downieville. Many points of interest lie along Highway 49 and are part of the 49 miles of Highway 49 driving tour; look for interpretive signs and other historical sites along this tour route. Other attractions include the North Yuba River, Indian Valley Outpost, New Bullards Bar Reservoir, Downieville, and a network of miles of multi use hiking, biking, and motorcycle singletrack.From Downieville, take Highway 49 south for about 5.5 miles. The campground is on the right side of the highway.(530)478-6253N | <urn:uuid:62e200fd-6939-409f-8ada-0879878c440b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.familykamping.com/ramshorn/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945283 | 436 | 1.5 | 2 |
February 18, 2016
Recent studies have shown that students who participate in yoga in the classroom have shown a significant improvement in focus, academic performance, overall creativity and self-esteem. Taking all of these factors and the stress-free mantra that yoga promotes into account, we’re not all that surprised!
For many years, practicing yoga has been recommended to help ease anxiety, clear the mind and maximize mental stimulation. With that in mind, it only makes sense that such a practice would be beneficial to those that are facing what are arguably some of the most difficult years of their lives, both intellectually and inter-personally — students.
The idea to being incorporating yoga in the classroom came as a direct result to the devastation and emotional distress surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Manhattan. In order to help students in the surrounding areas manage post-traumatic stress symptoms, Bent on Learning was born. This non-profit organization began by teaching yoga to students in just 10 schools in the Manhattan area, and has since expanded nationwide, cultivating a waitlist of more than 40 schools and counting.
The results of this new addition to the curriculum have been impressive, helping students to not only focus and stay on task, but to stay out of trouble and avoid suspensions as well.
Are you interested in implementing some yoga lessons in your school’s curriculum? If so, you’ll need to make sure that your athletic flooring and equipment is up to date to handle the increase in activity.
Here at Nickerson Corporation we believe that students should have athletic equipment that is not only durable and innovative, but safe as well. For years we have been providing schools in the New York and New Jersey areas with the latest in high quality,environmentally-friendly school gym flooring and equipment.
Our partnerships with leading manufacturers in the athletic equipment industry have allowed us to create sports environments that boost young athletes’ motivation and ability to train and stay physically fit.
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Performance and lifetime of EUV source collectors measured with a full size EUV collector reflectometer
The lifetime and the efficiency of EUV source collector optics will have direct impact on the cost effectiveness of the EUV lithography semiconductor production. Therefore the collector optics was identified as a critical issue in EUVL. To continually improve and optimize the source collector optics precise measurements of the optics characteristics are required as well as life time studies. Adequate measuring equipment must be designed to perform these measurements on-site, at-wavelength and under realistic conditions. Moreover, the measurement accuracy must be sufficient to allow the detection of small changes in reflectivity and homogeneity of the EUV source collector optics. This makes it possible to predict the lifetime of an EUV source collector operated with a high power EUV source after a fraction of the specified pulse number, e.g. after a couple of hours. A reflectometer for the investigation of full EUV source collectors was developed, designed and set up. As an EUV source a commercial microfocus EUV tube was used. This source is particularly suitable for application in metrology, as it is very stable in its output parameters (namely power, spectrum, spot size, spot position), and it does not emit debris. The radiation cone emitted by the EUV source is tailored with a Schwarzschild objective to the spectral and geometrical requirements of the Wolter-shell EUV source collector optics At the time of this contribution the measurement system presented here is in operation since 18 months, and a large number of collector measurements was performed. It is used for the quality control of factory-new EUV source collectors as well as for repeated measurements within the context of lifetime tests. With this device the efficiency of debris filters, which prevent the EUV source collector optics from contamination, could be determined and improved. The concept of the device and the implementation together with measurement results are described. | <urn:uuid:1ca3119a-b4ca-4874-b1c0-b071d6e9265f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/358313 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.933331 | 402 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Carex albursina E.Sheld.
Determiner: Cochrane, Theodore S. (26Oct2009)
Dobberpuhl, June M. s.n.
Verbatim Date: 1987-05-26
United States, Wisconsin, Grant, Glen Haven. Chase Creek Algific Slope #3, above tributary of Chase Creek, 1.7mi (air) NE of Glen Haven; Glen Haven N on Dugway Rd to Chase Creek; 2mi upstream on S fork. 42.5028N 91.0242W
42.83662755° N, 91.04946154° W; T04N R06W sec11 NW4NE4;
Two-acre algific talus slope, steep, forested, NE-facing; natural opening where cold air from underground has prevented normal forest development; many "relict" spp. occur, including the locally abundant Aconitum columbianum.
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NSW has become the last state to legalise voluntary assisted dying (VAD) after a landmark bill passed the lower house yesterday morning. The bill will allow people with a terminal diagnosis to access voluntary assisted dying, subject to a set of legislated safeguards.
The passage of the bill saw a slew of amendments proposed by its opponents in the upper house. The filibuster attempt included a failed amendment to allow aged care facilities to ban residents from accessing voluntary assisted dying.
The bill was introduced to parliament by independent MP Alex Greenwich and co-sponsored by 28 MPs and MLCs, including independents and representatives from all parties. Both major parties allowed a conscience vote, with both party leaders, Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns, having indicated their opposition to the legislation in 2021.
Labor MLC Adam Searle moved the second reading of the Bill in the Legislative Council, describing the bill as a “collective endeavour” that enjoyed broad, cross-party support.
Searle told the upper house that: “Whereas on earlier occasions New South Wales would have been a national leader, today every other State has already enacted voluntary assisted dying laws. In Western Australia and Victoria those laws are safely in operation today. New South Wales is a laggard in providing this compassionate choice for its residents and citizens.”
Who will the laws apply to?
The legislation contains a set of restrictions on who is eligible to access VAD.
VAD is only available to people who have been diagnosed with at least one condition that is advanced, progressive, and will cause death, either within six months, or twelve months if the condition is neurodegenerative. The condition must also be impossible to sufficiently relieve such that the patient can tolerate it.
Patients must have the requisite decision-making capacity, which means that they must be able to comprehend the implications of a voluntary assisted dying decision. As a result, patients must not be under duress and must have an ‘enduring’ request for VAD. A disability, dementia or other mental health impairment does not inherently disqualify patients from accessing VAD.
Additionally, patients must be adults who are either Australian citizens, permanent residents, or residents in Australia for at least three continuous years. They must have lived in NSW for at least a year.
What is the process for accessing VAD?
Patients can only access VAD if they have first made a ‘clear and unambiguous’ request for it, at which point they must be assessed as eligible by two medical practitioners.
If the coordinating or consulting practitioner is unsure whether the patient can consent, they must refer the patient to a psychiatrist or other qualified health practitioner.
The patient must then make a written declaration of their request which says that they are making the decision voluntarily and understand their choice. The declaration must be signed in the presence of two witnesses.
After a designated period of five days, a final request can be made by the patient, at which point a final review by the coordinating practitioner is conducted.
At no point are patients obliged to continue with the process if they change their minds.
Patients can choose between self-administering a VAD substance or having it administered by a practitioner. If the patient chooses to self-administer, a contact person is appointed to prepare and supply the VAD substance. A prescription system is used to manage the supply of VAD substances.
The bill provides for the establishment of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Board, which will be tasked with monitoring VAD in NSW, maintaining a list of health practitioners who will assist with VAD, and making decisions about applications for VAD, among other functions. The Board will consist of five members appointed by the Health Minister and Attorney General, two of whom must be medical practitioners.
Notably, the law includes provisions to allow conscientious objectors to refuse to participate in the VAD process.
Also, health care workers are not allowed to initiate discussions with a patient about voluntary assisted dying, or to suggest it, unless it is in the context of a broader discussion of a patient’s treatment and palliative care options and their likely outcomes.
Who supported the bill?
The bill’s passage through parliament, while fraught, was assisted by a broad, cross-party coalition of supporters. The parliamentary working group that investigated assisted dying was led by former Nationals MLC Trevor Khan, who has gone against the grain in his party on other progressive issues such as safe access zones for abortion clinics, with an assortment of MPs supporting and cosponsoring the bill.
The broad support for the bill reflects generally high support for euthanasia among the community, with a Sydney Morning Herald survey in late 2021 finding that almost two-thirds of NSW voters support VAD and only 11 per cent oppose it.
The right to access VAD has been endorsed by organisations like the Dying with Dignity NSW, Go Gentle Australia, the NSW Nurses & Midwives’ Association, the NSW Council on the Aging, ACON and the NSW Council for Civil Liberties.
The campaign for euthanasia has, for decades, centred around questions of bodily autonomy and the ability for terminally ill patients to exercise agency over the circumstances of their death.
Who opposed it?
Opposition to voluntary assisted dying, including within parliament, has often been tied to religious faith, with many religious individuals and organisations viewing euthanasia as undermining the dignity of human life.
Premier Dominic Perrottet and Opposition Leader Chris Minns both voted against the bill in the lower house last year; both politicians are Catholics, along with Labor’s Greg Donnelly, who has been outspoken in his opposition to VAD. Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher described the legislation as “disturbing” to the media, while the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia called for MPs to oppose euthanasia.
Several religious organisations placed heavy emphasis on the demand for religious aged care homes to receive an exemption from having to provide voluntary assisted dying to patients. Catholic Health Australia, Anglicare and HammondCare, all major religious healthcare providers, wrote an open letter arguing against compelling religious organisations to participate in VAD on ethical grounds.
Opposition to religious exemptions pointed to the risk that access to VAD could be restricted geographically if providers could opt out of offering it. However, religious organisations expressed concern that religious providers might move out of the sector altogether if they were forced to provide euthanasia against their beliefs.
Religious communities are not the only opponents to euthanasia, with many disability activists also expressing concern about the ethical implications of legalisation. In particular, many disability activists have characterised euthanasia as failing to grapple with the ongoing poor quality of healthcare and social services for disabled people.
Narratives about ‘dying with dignity’ may also contain problematic narratives about disability and quality of life. In an article in Disabled Honi last year, Robin Eames wrote: “The ‘undignified’ factors that many ‘dying with dignity’ supporters emphasise are more about disability than they are about terminal illness.”
The late disability activist Stella Young wrote of these narratives: “Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.”
How does it compare to voluntary assisted dying laws in other states?
VAD has now been legalised in all Australian states.
Eligibility for VAD is broadly similar across Australia: patients must be adults with advanced fatal medical conditions. In all states except Tasmania, legislation requires that patients are experiencing deterioration and in Tasmania, the legislation requires that the condition is irreversible.
The process of accessing VAD is also common, with all states requiring multiple stages of requests for VADs and the approval of two medical practitioners.
Differences exist in whether practitioners can raise VAD with patients: in Victoria and South Australia, practitioners can only raise it if asked by a patient, while in other states it can be discussed in the context of other care options.
Conscientious objection for providers exists in the legislation of all states, however there are varying requirements about refusing providing information about VAD to patients. In Victoria, SA and Queensland a provider can altogether refuse to provide information about VAD.
While NSW provides for a 5-day cooling off period after the approval of a VAD request, that period varies between states. Victoria adopted a 10-day period, while in SA, there must be at least nine days between the initial and final VAD requests.
Currently, VAD laws have only come into operation in Victoria and WA.
According to the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board, as of June 2021, 597 VAD permits have been issued since the commencement of legalisation in 2019, and 331 people have died through VAD. Of those, the average age was 72 and 83 per cent of patients had a malignant diagnosis.
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A few weeks ago around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, I found myself in Temple University Hospital’s emergency room with two roommates and a sick friend. While waiting to see the doctors, a middle-aged woman wandered over to us and asked my friend what she had.
“I looked just like you this morning,” the lady said, referring to my friend’s heavy breathing. She told us her stomach had been hurting for days, which had nothing to do with my friend’s symptoms.
I remained unconvinced of her emergency while watching her wander around the waiting room like she was at a church social, while my friend could barely walk or breathe. The woman’s demeanor suggested she was more in need of attention than medical help, and I found myself becoming annoyed.
“The doctors even told me that I could leave,” she went on, confirming my first impression that little was wrong with her. “And every time I think I’m doing better I get up and my stomach feels a little weird, so I don’t want to leave.”
“A little weird” certainly doesn’t translate into an emergency, but the woman wasn’t finished. She said it was ridiculous that people with emergencies weren’t getting help faster; she had been in the ER since early that morning. The only problem with her argument was that she wasn’t having an emergency, and she was probably the reason that people with real emergencies have to wait so long.
Dr. Robert McNamara, chairman of emergency medicine at Temple Hospital, said that Temple’s emergency room will see anybody who comes in, though those without real emergencies will have to wait fairly long.
“There’s a public misconception there are people who are abusing the emergency room, but from our view as emergency room physicians, that’s very few and far between,” McNamara said. “Most people that come to us think that they potentially have a serious problem … I don’t think anybody consciously wants to go to an ER.”
Some people don’t have anywhere else to go, have limited access to health care, or were told by their family doctor or a clinic to go to the emergency room, McNamara said.
Because of this, Temple’s emergency room nurses screen each walk-in patient and place them into categories – emergent, urgent, non-urgent, fast track – so that people with urgent emergencies are seen first.
The fast track system is fairly new. Patients with routine problems, like toothaches, twisted ankles or cold symptoms are treated here. This helps reduce the amount of people waiting for more extensive care.
“In the ideal system there would be more access to primary care and the ability to have walk-in medical care for less serious complaints,” McNamara said. “Ideally we’d see everybody right away.”
But for Temple that’s impossible for several reasons. Because Temple Hospital serves a large community and isn’t a large hospital, resources are limited, and, like other emergency rooms across the country, it gets backed up. Plus, smaller hospitals without specialized surgeons send their emergency room patients to Temple for certain procedures.
Without additional funding to hospitals and clinics and easier access to health care for Americans, patience and compassion are needed to deal with ER overload.
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This is the entire story of antisemitism and the Israel / Arab conflict delivered in two simple maps. One map is based on Jewish populations in the 1930s, the other Jewish populations today. The maps are not just of Europe or the Middle East, but the entire Europe, Middle East and North Africa region. People love to make everything seem complex. Sometimes the best thing to do is cut out the noise:
Map: Jewish populations Europe and MENA region 1930s
Map: Jewish populations Europe and MENA region 2010s
If anyone notices any important mistakes, let me know. The figures in the maps are a collation of official European pre-holocaust figures, scholarly estimates from the Arab ethnic cleansing of their Jewish populations and contemporary population figures. Only significant populations of 50k+ have been considered unless the population is smaller but still a sizeable % of the total population.
Put the two images side by side and everything suddenly becomes clear. The horrific scale of the destruction of Jewish communities. But also the antisemitic obsession with Israel. Some spend their time arguing that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism, but just look at the maps. Tell me that having hounded, persecuted, expelled and murdered their Jewish communities throughout the regions, that the current obsession with that one tiny concentration of Jews that is left – the Jews in Israel – isn’t driven by antisemitism.
Much of it was far-right genocide. In other places Islamist ethnic cleansing or rising Arab nationalism. Elsewhere it was soviet / marxist persecution. Each of these antisemitic forces points the finger at the other – most in total denial about the antisemitism in their own camps. But look at the maps. It does not matter if the hate is coming from an Islamic flag, the Soviet flag or the Swastika. In the end they all got rid of their Jews. Now, chillingly, they all fixate on the oasis that the Jews ran to.
Sometimes you don’t need to argue. You just need to stop and to look.
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Gabriel Nuchelmans (15 May 1922 Oud Gastel – 6 August 1996, Wassenaar) was a Dutch philosopher, focusing on the history of philosophy, especially philosophy of the Middle Ages, as well as logic and philosophy of language.
After completing high school at the Episcopal School of Roermond, Nuchelmans studied at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, where he made his PhD in 1947. During the PhD he spent a year in Freiburg / Switzerland with Olof Gigon and Joseph Maria Bocheński. In 1947/48 he attended courses by Alfred Ayer and Stuart Hampshire, at University College London. He also heard, at the London School of Economics, Karl Popper and O.J. Wisdom. After admission to the Ph.D Nuchelmans taught for fourteen years Latin and Greek in Velsen. From 1964 he taught Ancient Philosophy and Analytic Philosophy and its History at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Leiden until his retirement on 10 September 1987. In this occasion a volume of essays (Logos and Pragma) was dedicated to him to celebrate his scholarly achievements. Nuchelmans had since 1975 been a member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. His great work in three volumes on the history of the theories of proposition (1973, 1980, 1983) will remain for a long time the standard work on the subject.
- Theories of the Proposition. Ancient and Medieval Conceptions of the Bearers of Truth and Falsity, North-Holland, Amsterdan/London 1973, ISBN 0-7204-6188-X
- Late-Scholastic and Humanist Theories of the Proposition, North-Holland, Amsterdam/London 1980, ISBN 978-0-7204-8468-7
- Judgement and proposition. From Descartes to Kant, North-Holland, Amsterdam/London 1983, ISBN 0-444-85571-8
- Geulincx Containment Theory of Logic, (Mededelingen Der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences 1988, ISBN 978-0-444-85698-2
- Dilemmatic Arguments. Towards a History of Their Logic and Rhetoric, North-Holland, Amsterdam/London 1991, ISBN 0-444-85730-3
- Secundum/Tertium Adiacens Vicissitudes of a Logical Distinction, (Mededelingen Der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences 1992, ISBN 978-0-444-85762-0
- Studies in the History of Logic and Semantics, 12th – 17th Century, edited durch E.P.Bos, Variorum, Aldershot 1996 (reprint of 17 essays) (online)
- Logic in the Seventeenth Century. Preliminary Remarks and the Constituents of the Proposition, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Edited by Daniel Garber and Michael R. Ayers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 103–117
- Proposition and Judgement, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Edited by Daniel Garber and Michael R. Ayers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 118–131
- Deductive Reasoning, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Edited by Daniel Garber and Michael R. Ayers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 132–146
- L. M. de Rijk, A. G. Braakhuis (eds.): Logos and Pragma. Essays on the Philosophy of Language in Honour of Professor Gabriel Nuchelmans Nijmegen, Ingenium Publishers, 1987 (with a bibliography of his works (1950–1987)
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2 edition of brasses of England found in the catalog.
brasses of England
Herbert W. Macklin
Previous ed., Sonnenschein, 1890.
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is a collection of images and links of medieval monumental tombs. Most of the monuments listed here are either effigies or brasses. The remainder are incised slabs, half-reliefs, and other miscellaneous representations. The current collection is focused on European monuments, from the 12th to 15th centuries. About this Item: David & Charles, Great Britain, Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Impression. Paperback. Sunned spine. Slight foxing to edge. This book is about all aspects of brasses - their design and development, how they were made, what they were for, how styles changed, how to make a brass rubbing, and in which churches the brasses are to be found.
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A useful book covering horse brasses and other small collectables such as snuff boxes, tiles, pewter, loving cups etc etc.
A hardback book, pages, with many black and white plates and illustrations. Third edition, published in An ex library book, in good condition brasses of England book with.
Additional Physical Format: Online version: Macklin, Herbert Walter, Brasses of England. East Ardsley, Eng: EP Pub. ; New York: British Book Centre, COVID Resources.
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In ancient Rome, horse harnesses were sometimes embellished with horse brasses known as phalerae, normally in bronze, cut or cast in the shape of a boss, disk, or crescent, most often used in pairs on a harness. In medieval England, decorative horse brasses were in use before the 12th century, serving as talismans and status symbols, but extensive, original research by members of the National.
A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral brasses of England book which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood.
Made of hard latten or sheet brass, let into the pavement, and thus forming no obstruction in the space required for the services of the church, they speedily came into general use, and continued to be a.
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Monumental brasses are designed to inform and commemorate, they can also tell us much more about their times, such as the details of armour design, heraldry, social history, costume and the craft of brass-casting itself.
You can find more information on monumental brasses on the website of the The Monumental Brass Society. The Paperback of the Monumental Brasses Of England And The Art Of Brass Rubbing by Rev.
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View full catalog record. A large number of brasses in England are palimpsests, the back of an ancient brass having been engraved for the more recent memorial. Thus a brass commemorative of Margaret Bulstrode () at Hedgerley, on being removed from its position, was discovered to have been previously the memorial of Thomas Totyngton, abbot of St Edmunds, Bury ().
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Image, from Henry Trivick's The Picture Book of Brasses in Gilt () Anonymous civilian Lady, c, Little Walsingham, Norfolk (Tudor Dress, Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont) Image, from Henry Trivick's The Picture Book of Brasses in Gilt () Robert Attelath,King's Lynn, Norfolk (Mapping Margery Kempe, College of the Holy Cross).
Jerome joined the Society in at the age of 12 and published his first book entitled Brasses and Brass Rubbing in England () when just 21 years old. His publishing output was prolific.
Brass Rubbing in Sussex appeared in Lost Brasses () covered an innovative subject adorned with his skilful drawings. This work was in part. Monumental Brass Society, Monumental Brasses: The Portfolio Plates of the Monumental Brass Societyintroduced by M.W.
Norris (Woodbridge, ) Morley, H.T., ‘Notes on Arabic Numerals in Medieval England’, Berkshire Archaeol. J., 50 (), pp [incl. brasses]. I first readEngland, England five years ago, and decided to revisit in anticipation of hearing Julian Barnes in conversation (with Hermione Lee) this week in London () My rating increased by two stars.
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What is the Clery Act?
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (known as the Clery Act) is a federal law requiring United States colleges and universities to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses. The Act is enforced by the United States Department of Education. The Clery Act requires colleges and universities to do the following with regards to sexual assault reports: 1) Publish an Annual Security Report; 2) Disclose crime statistics for incidents that occur on campus, in unobstructed public areas immediately adjacent to or running through the campus and at certain non-campus facilities; 3) Issue timely warnings about Clery Act crimes which pose a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees; and 4) Devise an emergency response, notification, and testing policy.
What are the categories of crimes that must be reported?
- Murder & Manslaughter
- Sex Offenses: Rape, Fondling, Incest, and Statutory Rape
- Aggravated Assault
- Motor Vehicle Theft
- Domestic Violence
- Dating Violence
Hate crimes must also be reported by category, including by the following: Race, gender, gender identity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and disability.
What is the Campus Sexual Assault Victims’ Bill of Rights?
The Campus Sexual Assault Victims’ Bill of Rights was passed by Congress in 1992. It mandates that colleges/universities must provide the following:
- Accuser and accused must have the same opportunity to have others present.
- Both parties shall be informed of the outcome of any disciplinary proceeding.
- Survivors shall be informed of their options to notify law enforcement.
- Survivors shall be notified of counseling services.
- Survivors shall be notified of options for changing academic and living situations.
What is a Clery Act complaint?
A Clery complaint is a document that details the ways in which you believe your college has violated the Clery Act and/or the Campus Sexual Assault Victims’ Bill of Rights. This complaint can involve a single case or multiple cases. The length of this document varies, depending upon the number of cases included and the level of detail provided. Complaints typically include appendices with supporting documents (e.g., Annual Security Reports, copies of the daily crime log, copies of timely warnings). Clery complaints are organized by type of violation, not the complainant.
Each complainant in a Clery complaint is a student, staff, or faculty member who has experienced an incident pertaining to the school misreporting of crime statistics (e.g., discouraged from reporting a sexual assault, timely warning not issued after a sexual assault, being asked to alter crime statistics). Complainants can either be named or anonymous, and they can include as much or little detail about their case as they would like. Since Clery focuses on the college’s handling of sexual misconduct, complaints detail experiences with the college/university. Survivors do not have to recount their experience of sexual misconduct in the Clery complaint.
Do I need a lawyer to file a Clery complaint against my school?
No. Filing a Clery complaint is an administrative process, not a legal process. However, legal counsel is a personal choice and may work for some and not for others.
How do I file a Clery complaint?
You can call in, mail, or email your Clery complaint to the Department of Education:
- Call: You can call 1-800-1-FED-AID to lodge your Clery complaint.
- Mail: Clery complaints should be sent to the regional Department of Education office that has jurisdiction over your college/university. A list can be found at: http://www2.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/services/casemanagement.html
- E-mail: To file a Clery complaint by email, send a message to the regional office (see above) and to [email protected]
Most complaints are too large to send as one email attachment, so we suggest sending the complaint and appendices as separate documents.
Who is eligible to file a Clery complaint?
Anyone who believes that a college/university that receives federal funding (e.g., financial aid) has misreported crimes, or perpetuated a culture that prevents crime reporting, can file a Clery complaint against that institution. Student allies, faculty, alums, and other concerned people can file a Clery complaint on behalf of survivors.
Does filing a Clery Act complaint cost any money?
What will happen if my school is found in violation of the Clery Act?
The U.S. Department of Education has the ability to fine colleges and universities up to $59,017 per Clery violation. Clery can help schools comply with the law, and also monitor schools so that current and future students are protected.
What happens after I file a Clery Complaint?
The Department of Education (ED) should acknowledge receipt of your complaint within two weeks of filing by emailing you and/or sending you a letter in the mail.
Is there a statute of limitations for filing a Clery complaint?
No. You can file a Clery complaint about violations of the Clery Act or the Campus Sexual Assault Victims’ Bill of Rights that occurred at any point in time.
When will I hear back about my case after I file?
The Clery office is extremely busy and will probably prioritize cases that already have an ongoing investigation. One could hear back in less than three weeks or more than three months. There is no precise timeline.
How long will the Clery complaint process take?
Once an investigation is open, it could take several years to complete if numerous complainants are involved. It has been our experience that Clery investigators start their investigation promptly (e.g., request documents from the institution), and they visit campus to interview the complainants (who want to be interviewed) and college/university staff within six months of opening an investigation.
Should I be a named or anonymous complainant?
Named complainants will have their names listed in the Clery complaint, while anonymous complainants will only be identified by a number. The DOE will not publicly release any names in the complaint, but in rare instances, a complaint gets leaked to the press from someone and named complaints to become known. It is generally best to have at least one person who is willing to be a contact/point person who can be named.
Will the Department of Education tell my parents or the media about the fact that I filed?
Will the Department of Educatio tell my school that I filed?
If you use your name and the school has a file from your case, Clery will request to see those files, but they are private and will not be shown to anyone else.
I submitted my complaint, but then my college violated Clery again. Do I submit a new complaint?
You do not need to submit a new complaint. Simply email [email protected] with the subject line of your school and update the information. You can update the Department of Education about Clery violations as often as needed.
How long does it take to write a Clery complaint?
The time it takes to draft a Clery complaint varies widely, depending upon the number of alleged violations in the complaint and the number of people drafting the complaint. A complaint with just a few violations should take a few hours for one person to write up, but most Clery complaints cite multiple violations. For example, one Clery complaint with 73 alleged violations took one week for two people to complete. Filers generally find that Clery complaints take less time to complete than Title IX complaints, although both processes are time intensive at the start. | <urn:uuid:fe3675cb-c593-4507-853a-0c3fd5e9c15f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://endrapeoncampus.org/laws/clery-act/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945019 | 1,623 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Aden is the UK's AY-d@n and US's AH-den. It is located near the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden) at 170 km (110 miles) east of Bab-el-Mandeb. The city is home to approximately 800,000. Aden's natural harbour is located in the crater a dormant volcano. It now forms a peninsula that connects to the mainland via a low isthmus. Front Bay was the first harbour to be used by the ancient Kingdom, Awsan, between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. On the opposite side of the peninsula is the modern harbour. The Gulf of Aden is named after Aden.
Aden is made up of several sub-centres. Crater was the original port city. Maalla was the modern port. Tawahi, also known as Steamer Point during colonial times, and the resorts at Gold Mohur are all part of the main centre. Khormaksar is located on the isthmus connecting Aden with the mainland. It houses the city's diplomatic missions and the main offices for Aden University. Aden International Airport, which was formerly the British Royal Air Force station RAF Khormaksar (Yemens second largest airport), is also here. The sub-centres and Al-Mansura are located on the mainland. These were once an oasis area. Madinat ash-Shab, formerly Madinat al-Itihad, is now the capital of South Arabian Federation. It also houses Aden University's large power/desalinization plant and additional faculties.
Aden surrounds the eastern end of the vast, natural harbour that forms the modern port. This made it necessary to create the Cisterns at Tawila, Aden's reservoirs.
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Bangui (French pronunciation: [bɑ̃ɡi]) (or Bangî in Sango, formerly written Bangi in English) is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic. As of 2012 it had an estimated population of 734,350. It was recognized as a French outpost in 1889 and named after its location on the northern bank of the Ubangi River (French: Oubangui); the Ubangi itself was appointed from the Bobangi word for the"rapids" situated beside the settlement, which marked the end of navigable water north from Brazzaville. The majority of the population of the Central African Republic lives in the western parts of the country, in Bangui and the surrounding region.
The city creates an autonomous commune (commune autonome) of the Central African Republic that's surrounded by the Ombella-M'Poko prefecture. Having an area of 67 square kilometres (26 sq mi), the commune is the smallest high-level administrative division in the nation, but the highest in terms of population.
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Just from the above, Empress Kiara pretty much always gets both head-of-state and head-of-religion roles in /kiara/ (or whatever we call this split). Her empire is fairly militaristic and slightly prone to expanding beyond it's borders. Military service in her Empress' military is compulsory and everyone has had basic combat training for some reason.
Primary trade with other nations is the rare commodity of soundposts and a rare orange medicine that causes vivid hallucinations and uncontrollable rage in some individuals.
That's all I got.
Kaiserin Kiara is both head-of-state and head-of-religion in /kfp/.
Her empire is moderately militaristic and slightly prone to expanding beyond it's borders into /hlgg/ and the land of the blue bird.
Military service in her Empress' military is compulsory and everyone has had basic combat training for some fucking reason. Ne'er-do-wells are dealt with swiftly and harshly.
Primary trade with other nations is the rare commodity of soundposts and a rare orange medezine that causes vivid hallucinations and uncontrollable rage in some individuals.
The dominant religion of Watch Only Kiara Everyday and You Only Love Kiara dictates that all media must be for the greater good of our idol's plan.
One possible state motto: "A happy chimkin is one with blisters on his wings"
The typical dress of a Pölitid during all seasons will be a Dirndle for women and a Lederhosen for men, with thicker variants worn with woolen stockings and long coats worn during the winter (or with Drindl's being swapped out for Bunads for the especially cold winters of the highland plateaus) and thinner variants with thin, bordering on transparent, fabric worn over the summer.
Special winged robes are donned for religious events, marriages, and the like, of course. While the more extravagant robes, with silk wings, tend to be reserves for the Fönixids, the Pölitids also done winged robes, albeit with plainer designs, cheaper fabrics, and wings made of plumes of chicken, goose, or duck feathers.
While the Kaiserreich part of /Kaiserreich-FP/ is widely understood, the FP part is less known, standing for Fönixid and Pölitid, the two pseudo ethnic classes of the Kaiserreich.
The Fönixid ruling class of the /Kaiserreich-FP/ possess a rich court culture, having an On season during the Autumn, an Off season during the winter, and a "Holiday" season over the Spring and Summer
The On season over Autumn is when the majority of intrigue takes place, with marriages, court alliances, and the over whelming majority of high societal events, taking place during this time of year. The most famous, or perhaps infamous of which, are the Masquerade balls (which are often preceded, and followed by, orgies) during which members of the Fönixid elite, and even some Pölitids, arrive anonymously wearing masks. No invitations are sent, with the events traditionally being a free for all spread by word of mouth. Any one aware of its happening may simply show up as long as they are correctly dressed. These balls however are not just mere parties of anonymized hedonism accompanied by Waltzes for the participants to enjoy, but serve a vital role, as it is at these balls where almost all of the years political intrigue take place, and are one of the few occasions where the court may talk to the Kaiserin outside of the throne room.
The Off season over Winter serves as a sort of cleanse from the sin and Machiavellianism of the Autumn before it, with it being the time of year where spiritual and religious matters are attended to. Shrines are visited, and nobles done traditional winged robes (see pic related). Marriages arranged during the Autumn have their ceremonies performed, and are subsequently consummated in a more private, wholesome, setting than the animalistic orgies of the preceding season.
while called the "Holiday" season, this is when the majority of the work is actually done. The nobility more casual, loose fitting, attire, and typically deal with matters of law, business, and the military. This is also the season during which the Fönixids descend from their homes in the mountain to the lowlands to meet with the Pölitids most.
KFP Cultural influence: AKA how dirndls becomes cool
While KFP is not typically known for its cultural output, there is something to now about the spread of KFP culture to places outside its borders.
Most significantly the traditional Pölitid dress, the Dirndl
While its not wholly known what the catalyst for this spread is, be it /KFP/ communities holding Oktoberfests in foreign lands during the Orc Schizo occupation of the fatherland, or by men and women finding Pölitid women pretty and wanting to replicate their charms, the first place the dirndl spread to was /Nene/
While the women of Nene had previously donned oriental style dresses with cyan patterned shawls, a trend had began among the wealthier women of Nene to import, and buy dirndls off KFP traders, and even commission them to be custom made with more Nekko sensibilities by Pölitid tailors.
This caused a sort of "Dirndl mania" spread through out Nekko society, to such an extent that even depictions of their goddess changed to reflect the changing culture: even today the Archwife Nene Momosuzu is depicted wearing a Dirndl.
While it became nowhere near as prevalent as it had in /nene/, Dirndls traded across routes taken by /KFP/ merchants eventually reached Noel, where their warmth and comfort made them popular with women in the highland regions of the country, as well as their appeal to the men of the country: they had a percieved innocent, rural, and wholly comfortable and civilian charm to them, which drove the men of the country, largely employed in military natured work for the knights guild that runs the country, utterly wild.
While the majority of splits predominantly use traditional fire arms, the KFP military, or "Orange Berets", while still having "Marksmen Divisions" armed with powder weapons, instead opts primarily to use a more iconic, more cultural significant, weapon; the Feuerschwert
Its inner machinations a closely guarded secret of the Orange Berets, that has been replicated but never truly recreated, the Feuerschwert is an old and storied flamethrower design that has been in use, in its various forms, for what is now nearing 200 years.
Using a thick brownish cocktail containing Ethanol, various sugars, and a list of secret ingredients for fuel, colloquially referred to as "Phoenix Gravy", the Feuerschwert produces a unique turquois flame.
The secret to the Feuerschwerts enduring use however is not its fuel, but rather its pressure: its unique, chambered, firing system which exchanges sustained fire for, in its current iteration, unignited discharge pressures of up to 23 bar, allows it to belch fire balls of turquoise flames up to 46 meters when allowed to attain its maximum pressure.
This pressure allows the Feuerschwert to be relatively effective using virtually any fuel, a famous example being during the 4th Takobell Incident, in which the destruction of an ethanol stockpile forced many divisions in the Orange Berets to resort to using rurally produced Moonshine instead, to shocking efficacy.
Currently over half of the KFP military uses this weapon, with the concession of bringing. While older designs were used alongside a tower shield, the current iterations recoil creates the necessity for two handed operation.
Pictured here is an Orange Beret in protective gear. While the beaked mask is largely obsolete, it is still used for reasons of tradition, as well as its utility in scare tactics.
Since their population is low compared to global players like /morig/ or /inf/, at first kfp doesn’t seem very powerful.
A 2-year conscript service gives access to a large reserve army that can be called on in wartime.
However this isn’t feasible to secure long range trade routes for extended periods of time, let alone project hard power on a global scale.
This initial weakness resonated in their military structure, that is forced to use novel asymmetric and sharp power approaches in warfare.
For example the war ministry can rely on an unusually large logistics and supply corps that focuses on moving large amounts of troops and supplies fast around the country as well as a communications division operating a dense network of semaphore towers for rapid relaying of information from all over the
In general, this resulted in a quality over quantity approach.
Since more than 50% of the homeland is covered in rough mountainous terrain, using it to their advantage became a key cornerstone of offensive and defensive strategy.
As a result the Mountaineer Corps developed naturally from traditions of local hunters and mountaineers.
Recruited from the sons of shepherds and farmers living in the mountains, the men of the corps know their combat environment from birth, in fact, their physiology is already adapted to the low oxygen in the altitudes thousands of meters above sea level when they begin their official training.
A specialized, elite branch of the Army, the mountaineer corps is equipped for warfare in the cold and merciless environment of the snowy peaks and glaciers that cover significant parts of the country.
This potent fighting force is trained in sabotage and asymmetric assault on supplies and troops moving through the harsh terrain for example: setting up ambushes or triggering avalanches.
As a result, their gear must be equipped to deal with the difficult environment they are facing on the daily.
The weather in the mountains is cold and wet and the terrain difficult to traverse. Because of this, traditional flintlock rifles are not reliable enough, because:
a) the firing mechanism is exposed to the elements and can easily fail
b) their long barrels and high weight are impractical to carry or to climb a rock wall with.
The solution was a needle-carbine that offered a protected combustion chamber as well as being significantly lighter than a full-size model. Manufactured in a limited production run in the precision mills of the royal armory, it is equipped with a diopter peep sight and a reduced-weight stock, these guns were effective at ranges of up to 200 meters and could be easily strapped to the back of a soldier during extended climbing.
Pictured is the gun with the shoulderstrap, featuring an alpine edelweiss, a rare and sought after flower growing on exposed limestone rock between 6500 and 9800 feet above sea level.
That is a real flower btw, it is used often in Swiss, German and Austrian alpine symbols as well as their armed forces:
There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called "Life-Everlasting", a Gnaphalium like that, which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the highest mountains, where the mountain animals dare hardly venture, and which the hunter, tempted by its beauty and by his love for his fair maiden, climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at the foot, with the flower in his hand. It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweiß, which signifies Noble Purity.
A weak start on the world stage, with the nation emerging as an utterly alien culture to its neighbors, speaking a foreign nasally language no one understood or cared to learn, dressing in flamboyant orange garbs, the early years of the KFP were ones of humiliation and struggle: with few natural resources, and little arable land, there was nothing to kickstart the economy, leading to the country becoming economically dependent on her allies, with the Morigs and the Nousagis being the one who felt shafted by the arrangement most.
What's more, the KFP held a zealous, and deeply heretical religious belief: their Kaiserrin was not just a representation of their gods will, or even a mortal representative of her on the planet of Veetee, but was quite literally the Great Phoenix herself in human form.
Their heretical beliefs, foreign culture, and resentment originating from their economic dependence on others, lead to what is perhaps the worst event in /KFP/ history: The Great Orange Scare.
An Archschizo, nicknamed the "Orcess", descended from the wasteland. Deeply bitter, she believed that it was SHE who should have been a goddess on Veetees surface, and held the earnest belief that ousting the Kaiserrin from power would allow her to ascend to godhood. capitalizing on the hatred of the /KFP/, she mobilized with an army of schizos, and radicalized once normal people from other splits as she went.
Her forces spread out, and attacked the KFP wherever she could find them, with the Kaiserreich itself being put under siege. Eventually, spirits were broken, as Famine and Illness ravaged the country, and in a bid for survival, thousands of KFP picked up and left for the Hlgg heartland. KFP short on people, the Schizos broke through and occupied the split, with what remained of the KFP engaging them in a guerilla. Nearly every KFP remaining served at least part time in the Orange Berets. The country was ravaged by schizos and scorched by the KFP's own turquoise flames
In the Hlgg heartlands things were not much better. The church of the trinity had not taken kindly to their arrival, with the KFP (now estranged from their homeland) being even more zealous in their identity, and prosecuted them, with KFP and Trinitarians often breaking into fist fights on the street. This was made worse when Schizos began entering Hlgg, and under the guise of trinitarians, engaged in a small scale street to street war with the KFP
Back in the homeland, the KFP continued to struggle against the Schizos like cornered animals, striking back at foreigners in their mountains with ever mounting aggression. The Schizos had started covert ops operations and demoralization campaigns against the KFP under the guise of being aid workers from other splits and KFP with legitimate concerns.
However, things began to change. The demoralization had largely failed and had, in many ways, had the opposite effect: Those who remained with the Kaiserrin, who remained with her despite the persecution, garnered her affection, and this affection gave the KFP something to fight for. Each KFP was determined to be the last one by their Kaiserrins side. This was the birth of the #Wolk & #Yolk doctrines. The Orange Berets began engaging in a counter campaign, and eventually break throughs were made. A high general of the Schizos, Baron Kraut Von Eggman, was captured and publicly humiliated in a great mockery ritual, ending with him being shipped to HLGG, where he was publicly executed by blunt force trauma to the skull
Next was the Orcess herself. Frustrated, and driven half insane, by the diminishing gains of her Schizo army and the effects of the KFP's own demoralization efforts, demanded an audience with the Orange Berets. For the first time the Orcess had a serious discussion with the KFP, and her heart was changed. Realizing the error of her ways, she swore to undo the harm she'd done, working to discredit all the false information she had spread during the demoralization campaign she'd started.
While Schizos still remained, they were few, far between, and widely discredited thanks to their own leader having swapped sides. A similar fate met the Trinitarians, who saw increasing in fighting over the nature of the trinity.
In a strange turn of events, the war had helped the KFP economy develop. The sheer bulk of Fire Retardants, Alcohols, prehensile pipes, small mechanical parts, Ethanol and exotic sugars needed to maintain their Flamschwerts and protective gear during the war had lead to them becoming the worlds leading producers in all of them. Something the KFP would capitalize on post war, when the at the time blooming tech economy of Infinity Island saw an explosion in demand for these things. While Infinity would soon over take the KFP in terms of small parts manufacturing, the standard minute pinion used in most infinity clockwork is still the same as used in the Flamschwerts trigger mechanism.
The center of all KFP cuisine is, unsurprisingly, Chicken. This hardy jungle foul, introduced to KFP first by traders from /MEP/, this birds meat is present in nearly all KFP dishes, from Lasagna to Sausage. While chickens more similar to the ones originally from Mep are kept in the lowlands, the taste of KFP chicken instead comes from the white feathered variety raised in the Highlands, with its softer, spongier, meat and more mild taste. Using the chickens meat as a base, sauces are added.
KFP Cuisine is unique for its extensive use of foreign ingredients: Pineapple imported from /GGG/ and /Mep/, Kronii Cheese from Infinity Island, and Flare Chilies from Bakatare, Even Watamelons from the Watamelon republic, are all common occurrences.
Food is perhaps the most uniting cultural factor in KFP, second only to the Kaiserin, as while the Fönixids and Pölitids may look different, work different jobs, and wear different clothes, they are united by all eating the same unpretentious Chicken based meals. The most influential of Fönixid nobles and a simple Tyrrhön Göshtling from the lowland docks may sit down and enjoy Phoenix burger together without either feeling like they are eating above, of below, their class.
KFP are humans, however they do raise a unique breed of especially fat white feathered chicken. Perhaps having Phoenixes be a species of brightly colored bird native to the mountain forests of /KFP/ could be really cool though and I am totally stealing that yoink thanks for the idea dude.
Actually we're already sort of trading Phoenix feather to infinity, so I should probably flesh out Phoenixes a little.
Phoenixes are a species of omnivorous gamebird native to the mountain forests of KFP, comparable to a vulture in size. While capable of it they are poor fliers and spend the majority of their life on the ground, using their wings largely to assist in jumping and sparring.
Their poor flight is attributed largely to their feathers being coated in a unique wax. Phoenix wax is flammable, and burns slowly, producing a distinct turquois flame. A Phoenix is capable of igniting this wax at will using a unique set of electricity producing organs at the base of its beak that produce a small electric spark when flexed. To put itself a phoenix will simply stop producing wax and let the flames die down, however this doesn't always work and it is not uncommon for a phoenix to die from heat exhaustion simply by being on fire for too long.
Phoenixes largely use their self immolation as a display of good health towards mates, however it has also been seen to be used to scare off predators.
Despite being a bird with little flying ability they have no natural predators due to their large size, sharp beak, vicious claws, and horrifying ability to self immolate at will
Phoenixes, despite their fierce nature and relative scarcity, are in fact farmed, although very scarcely: there are few phoenix farms (12 located in across /KFP/, with one more located a little over a mile across the border in Duck)
Phoenixes are farmed mostly for their feathers and wax, which both possess unique and sought after properties. Phoenix meat is rarely consumed due to its price and it being taboo to do so: in KFP consumption of Phoenix meat without the Kaiserin's expressed consent is legally recognized as an act of treason. However it should be noted that Phoenix meat tastes incredibly good, tasting like chicken with a distinct citrusy, cinnamony, undertone
Phoenix feathers are highly in demand for their flame retardant properties and distinct orange coloration. Phoenix feather barb is often cut off, dipped in alcohol to dissolve the wax off it, then woven into a fabric to fire proof it. alternatively feathers are sold simply as expensive decorative items, however this is less common.
Phoenix wax is typically dissolved in small masses of ethanol, producing a 50% ethanol 50% wax mix. This sticky fuel, often called phoenix oil, is used across KFP for everything from lamp fuel to firework dye.
Phoenix wax can also be refined and compressed into dense orange cubes, called the Kaiserin's butter. These are, however, highly volatile and expensive, and are rarely (if ever) used outside of the military, where it is are packed into cannon balls to act as incendiary.
While many nations have their head of state as their religious leader, acting as a representative of their high deity, in /KFP/ the Kaiserin is not just as a representative of Kiara, but as Kiara herself.
While days can be spent debating and mulling over the strange, and potentially heretical nature of /KFP/ religious doctrine, what's more interesting, and perhaps less discussed, is the way the KFP's practice of having a God Queen impacts their rituals and religious practices.
As the Kaiserin is quite literally a god on earth, religious rituals are considered perhaps less important than they are in other countries, and are practiced largely as matters of culture or for reasons of self fulfillment, as performing rituals to speak to the goddess seems largely redundant when you can, and as is often the case in fact HAS, seen or even spoken to said goddess in person.
Shrine visits, typically performed over the winter, are done to typically to cleanse oneself and "Cool Down". Typically in wake of the wild and unadulterated sin that takes place of the Autumn.
Simple robes with decorative wings are worn around shrines, which the KFP will stay at for two days living a simple life with the maidens who tend to the shrine, meditating, before receiving their fortune, bathing in a nearby hot spring and returning to their normal lives.
Winged robes are also adorned during marriage, which are performed at the same shrines. While all guests are present for the marriage ritual itself, during which a chicken bones is typically crushed for good luck, the newly weds will stay the night at the shrine at the shrine, before leaving the next morning.
The newly weds stay within a special, secluded, chamber at the very back of the shrine, where they are expected to consummate their marriage. While it is typical to have a shrine maiden present to "assist" in the love making, either due to it being move newly weds first time, or simply to satisfy the perversion of either the husband or the wife, it is not abnormal for the maiden to be dismissed to give the couple privacy.
/KFP/ funerals however are done "viking style", in which a KFP will be place upon a boat with a pyre upon it onto a body of water. The pyre is then lit by flaming arrow. While a lake is preferred, this is typically reserved for the wealthy and high status due to its cost, with the majority of /KFP/ being cast out into the ocean instead.
Finally, the most looked forward to of religious practices, visiting the Kaiserin to receive her blessing
Every KFP is expected to do this once in their life, with even KFP living outside of KFP territory making pilgrimage back to their ancestral homeland to visit the Empress. This is typically done during the summer, as this is when conditions up the mountainside are safest.
A red envelope is filled with a 100 Reichsmarks, and a message for the Kaiserin. The KFP in question will then bring this envelop with them along a pilgrims path that leads from the costal lowlands all the way up to the highest point of the Kaisereich, the peak of Mount Bird, where the Kaiserins Palace, and throne room, are located. Unlike other rituals, no special garb is worn, and instead the KFP is expected to arrive in their everyday clothes.
Upon arriving, the KFP will present the envelope to the Kaiserin, who will open it and read the message enclosed. She will then discuss the contents of the message with the KFP, speaking to them personally. IF the message is blank, or is too short to be made conversation of the Kaiserin will chastise the KFP for this. Finally, when the conversation is deemed finished, the Kaiserin will kiss the KFP, and send them off to travel back down the mountain.
Climate and seasons:
/kfp/ can be roughly divided between 2~3 major climate zones.
Coastal area south of the mountain, as well as the southernmost part of the northwest valley, is mostly subtropical/temperate monsoon, with the southern slope of the mountain getting steadily colder as altitude increases. Snow will be uncommon outside the highland bordering the alpine tundra.
In the coastal area (Cwa), summer will be hot and wet, and winter cold and dry. As altitude increases (Cwb~Cwc), the temperature difference between seasons will reduce, becoming an "eternal spring" climate where seasonal difference is primarily rainfall.
Inland area north of the mountain is mostly continental monsoon. It has the classic four-season climate, with significant rainfall during the summer months. The higher area north of the mountain is consistently dry all year due to the small rain shadow effect of the mountain, and its altitude also renders it colder.
Around the summit of the mountain (altitude above 2500~3000m), the weather becomes consistently cold and most trees can no longer develop. Patches of cold-resistant and/or clonal trees might persist, but the landscape will be mostly hardy grass and moss.
Before civilisation, the majority of /kfp/ lowland temperate broadleaf forests. The southern coast might be considered temperate rainforests, while the northern area gradually transforms into mixed broadleaf and coniferous forest as temperature decreases. In continental climates, land at higher elevations and far from sources of water (primarily rivers) will be temperate grassland more suitable for animal husbandry.
Common hardwood in /kfp/ forest includes ash, beech, chestnut, elm, hickory, oak; common softwood includes cedar, fir, pine, and spruce.
Productive climate and generally favourable soil quality (lime and fertiliser might be needed) mean the majority of land in /kfp/ will be suitable for intensive agriculture. Wheat, maize and millet are generally suitable for all lowland areas, while the south is also suitable for rice growth, and the north is suitable for more cold-resistant foodstuff like barley and oat.
Examples of common non-food crops in /kfp/ include beet, groundnut, basedbean, tea (in the southern highland), peaches, pear, apple, cotton (in the south), flax, and tobacco.
In general, the environment is most similar to a somewhat warmer southern Central Europe (northern Italy, Austria, and Southern Germany), or a more hilly Midwestern United States. Subtropical highland does not exist in Central Europe or the Great Plains, but is present in the southern Himalayas or southwestern China.
The map does not show any ice caps in /kfp/, although you might get some icy summits if the main mountains above ~4000m.
/kfp/ have two main areas that would be able to support large-scale agriculture and thus a large population and government (circled in purple in the previous post), separated by mountains and different general climates. Do they have different cultures before becoming part of the same country? Do they prefer to have their own government?
The eastern river splits into two rivers, which natural rivers don't really do. I suggest that it is artificial instead, maybe with a short canal connecting the two rivers (circled in red in the previous post). Perhaps it was originally used to transport agricultural products from the east westward?
Subtropical highlands will experience intense rainfall during the wet season. Since most of the rivers originating at the south slope of the main mountain drain into the same river south of the capital, the riverbanks will be seasonally flooded, especially near the estuary where the terrain no longer constricts water. A side effect of this is that the riparian wetland will become very fertile farmland once the wetland is drained and protected by dykes. Indeed, this might be one of the practical reasons why the capital is built immediately north of it - to control the downstream breadbasket while not as subjected to the flooding. | <urn:uuid:54eff4a3-06b4-471c-9479-942fa4022674> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rentry.org/fn6au | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964682 | 6,121 | 1.5 | 2 |
Willow Trees Plant. We suggest a planting distance of 1.5 times the. Willow inhabits temperate areas that provide enough moisture and direct sunlight.
To avoid damage from roots, plant willows far away from sidewalks, houses and water pipes. Because of their graceful shape and elegance, weeping willows are popular landscape garden trees. Water immediately after planting and twice per week for the first six months, unless it rains. | <urn:uuid:f4cc3179-0fea-48bd-9e90-e8383b22e359> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lamouralafrancaise.com/tag/trees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.919822 | 86 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Getting fit does not have to mean countless hours of grueling workouts at the gym. This article features tips that will help you get fit, at the gym or at home.
Most people try to reach their fitness by lifting weights. There are six exercises that you need: bridges, and they are pull-ups, squats, leg raises, squats, handstand push-ups and bridges.
Do you find it difficult to devote valuable time for working out? Split your workout by dividing it into a pair of halves. Rather than spending 60 minutes jogging, try half before work and half later in the day.
Don’t do crunches to work out your abdominal muscles. A major research university study has shown that a quarter million crunches to burn a single pound of fat. Find other ways to exercise your abdominal muscles so you achieve the best results.
Wear clothes that are comfortable clothing when you’re working out. If you use a gym, you might feel a bit of pressure to wear the trendy clothing, but you need to put comfort first. Make sure to get workout clothes that you are wearing is easy to move around in. The right clothes will make exercising more comfortable and enjoyable.
A kickboxing class is a great exercise to get fit. You can burn calories and gain strength.
You can gain more muscle by doing the same amount of exercising in ten percent less time.This can also help your muscles working harder and gaining greater endurance. For instance, if your full body workout normally takes 30 minutes, attempt to do it three minutes faster the next time.
Make sure your workout shoes you plan on working out in are a good fit. Try to buy workout shoes during the day after your feet have had a chance to spread. Make sure you have a half an inch wiggle room between your toes and the front of your shoe. There should be enough wiggle room for your toes to wiggle.
Using those words can make you feel less motivated. Try referring to them by their activities, like running or cycling.
Running can both a blessing and damaging to your body over a prolonged amount of time. To avert the damage, lessen your running routine every six weeks, only run half as far as you usually do.
Many people are under the impression that abdominals should be worked every single day. This is not the best thing to do for these muscles. Abs need rest periodically.You should strive to give your abs a 2 to 3 day rest about 48 to 72 hours after you work them out.
Yard work is an easy way to stay active while getting a workout. You need to move and your yard needs attention. This is a great situation. Try to better your space once per week for some physical activity. You could forget about time and get a better body and yard.
Getting into shape and becoming healthy can seem like a challenge, but it can be quite enjoyable as well. Implement our tips for success and your fitness routine will soon be on track. Try to view fitness as something that requires daily effort. Do a little more each time and increase the number of times you workout to help reach your goals. | <urn:uuid:aa002d64-aba8-453e-b793-3b516780e4d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://womenshealthtips.info/great-tips-for-having-a-good-fitness-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96264 | 654 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Southeast Asian art and architecture includes works from the geographical area including the modern countries of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. The area is also known as Indochina. The art of this region draws from three major sources: indigenous traditions, China, and India.
As Hinduism and Buddhism were introduced to Southeast Asia, their traditions were altered to conform to the traditions of the indigenous peoples. Works predating outside influence were generally made of perishable materials and have not survived. Neolithic sites in the area produced stone tools, baskets, and pottery. The Bronze age in Southeast Asia dates from about 800 BC; by c.500 BC there were recognizable divisions between those cultures influenced by China and those influenced by India.
The Dongson (or Dong Son) culture, which was centered around the Tonkin gulf in present-day Vietnam, was notable among those drawing influence from China. From this culture various artifacts of great beauty have been excavated such as bronze dagger hilts, ornaments, lamps, and tomb furnishings. Typical of Dongson style are spirals and Greek key ornamentation. Massive bronze drums for burial with the dead are also part of Dongson culture. Such drums are thought to have been part of rituals to create rain. Han China conquered much of the Dongson area in 111 BC after which Chinese taste and techniques became predominant in the area.
Opportunities for trade between W Indochina and India flourished and brought with commerce an influx of Indian expertise in mechanical engineering, social hierarchies, and a pantheon of deities both Hindu and Buddhist. The ancient kingdom of Fou Nan (or Funan, a name given by Chinese historians) spreading into Indonesia was a commercially based and powerful force in the area. Stone temples after the Indian prototypes are found dating back to Fou Nan in the 6th cent. The Fou Nan kingdom eventually moved up the Mekong and united with the Chen La (or Chenla) kingdom and flourished in the middle area of the Mekong. Its early monuments which anticipate Khmer art are for the most part statues of gods and goddesses whose smooth and gracefully sinuous bodies are clothed in draperies of extreme thinness.
The late 8th cent. saw the disintegration of Chen La, and beginning in the early 9th cent. the Khmer empire of present-day Cambodia began to flourish. Indravarman (877–89), the first Khmer king, began construction of Angkor, a remarkable temple-city which utilized a grid system of canals and large reservoirs to control the river (see Angkor for descriptions of Angkor, Angkor Wat, and Angkor Thom). The temples and palace complex derived much of their architectural style from Indian sources, but much of the style of carving on the deities and supporting figures is uniquely Khmer, with voluptuous figures and serenely smiling faces. So richly decorated were most of the monuments that entire building complexes become a sculptural whole. The empire spread and its wealth increased into the 11th cent.
The most famous of Khmer monuments is Angkor Wat (or Vat), a vast temple-complex built in the early 12th cent. under Suryavarman II. It is an enclosure built of numerous shrines and courtyards the entirety of which represents the cosmic order in architectural sculpture. The Champa kingdom invaded Angkor in the 12th cent., and although it was reclaimed by Khmer kings it no longer had the same splendor. Angkor Thom and Bayon, built in the early 13th cent. under Jayavarman VII, shows the movement away from grace and lyrical carvings toward a more monumental style. From the 15th until the 18th cent. most of the art of Cambodia was wood sculpture, which due to climatic conditions has with rare exception not survived. Later works mostly follow the inspiration of Thai sculpture. | <urn:uuid:8e106fe0-26e8-4471-9aa0-2bb1e9eab07d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sffireapp.org/HouseDesign/southeast-asian-architecture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962615 | 819 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Evelyn Walkden (October 1893 - 12 September 1970) was a British politician and trade unionist.
The son of a Lancashire miners' leader, he left school at 12 and fought in the First World War. He became a trade union organiser in 1928 and worked in that role until 1941 when he was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster, having unsuccessfully contested the seat of Rossendale in 1935 and having been prospective candidate for West Toxteth in 1939. From 1944 to 1945, he was parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of National Insurance. Re-elected in the 1945 general election, he was appointed parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Food, and served in this role until 1946. In 1947, in the course of an investigation by the parliamentary Committee of Privileges into claims that Labour members had given information to journalists about confidential meetings of the Labour Party in return for payment, Walkden admitted revealing information to the Evening News. He was found guilty of breach of privilege by the Committee and reprimanded by the Speaker. Another MP, Garry Allighan, was expelled from the House, but Walkden was not as he admitted the offence and had paid tax on the money he had been paid. He resigned the party whip and sat as an independent until the 1950 general election, in which he did not stand.
Lord Robens commented after his death that Walkden was "an able Trade Union official and an able Parliamentarian and worked hard to bring about reforms in the rationing systems during the war. He was a thorn in the side of the black marketeers and his activities led to the closing of many loopholes."
- The Times, 14 September 1970.
- The Times, 17 September 1970.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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Requirements Management has for a time been a hot topic within the Agile community, and a religious war has seemed imminent between the followers of user stories on one side and use cases on the other. The rebelyell of the user story-buffs have often been “out with the old and in with the new!” – and many have seemingly been against use cases merely because they have RUP written all over them. On the other side we have seen use case devotees in white coats mocking user stories lecturing that this unscientific bumblebee cannot fly.
Lean Magazine has talked to one of the greatest experts on the matter, Alistair Cockburn, who has not only been a leading profile in Requirements Management for twenty years, but also has a moderate view on the pros and cons of the two concepts.
Alistair Cockburn’s engagement in Requirements Management started in 1991. He was working for IBM Research in Zurich and needed a way to return to the United States. IBM had just started the IBM Consulting Group, and was constructing a methodology for its consultants to use.
“At that time it was mostly based on Information Engineering, i.e. dataflow modeling and databases,” Cockburn recalls. “But they needed a track for the emerging Smalltalk and C++ projects – that was my assignment.”
Noun- or verb-based?
During those days, the object-oriented modeling, design and programming parts were relatively obvious: There was the Booch/Rumbaugh school of OO modeling, there was the Cunningham/ Beck/Wirfs-Brock school of responsibility-driven design, and there were the programming languages Smalltalk and C++.
“However, those left a large gap in the area of requirements. It was not clear to me that requirements should be object-oriented just to follow the design being object-oriented.” Cockburn discovered Ivar Jacobson’s 1987 report on use cases from the OOPSLA conference, and found they had a perfect fit for the information he was missing in the methodology:
“When I say perfect fit, what I mean is that object-oriented models are all noun based – they name the nouns in the domain. Use cases are all verb based – they name the actions being taken by the people and the nouns in the domain. Having all verbs or all nouns leaves a big gap in the model. Having use cases tells us what to accomplish; having objects tells us what will accomplish that. In some sense, it is like having the warp and weft in weaving – some threads run vertically, some run horizontally. You need both. Paying attention to that nounverb issue has been a big help to me in navigating the choppy methodology waters. I still use it to this day.”
Getting the big picture
Today, Cockburn always starts with use cases in order to get the big picture. These use cases can be written quite briefly, perhaps two paragraphs to a half-a-page or at worst a page, so this is generally useful inquiry and not onerous writing.
“Without the big picture I (and others) have no idea what we’re trying to build, its shape, size or complexity. I use the discipline surrounding use-case writing to shine a light into dark and hidden corners, and expose potential trouble spots. This shape then guides what happens next.”
Once the “coarse-grained use cases” are in place, Cockburn is “fairly indifferent” as to whether use cases or user stories are used after that.
“It’s very much a question of how much the people involved can keep in their heads and how good their conversations are. I do like to use the discipline surrounding use cases to check for extension conditions and extension handling, and would apply some version of this discipline in all cases.”
However, use cases have one major limitation with short iterations: It is impractical to implement an entire use case in a single iteration.
“Personally, this doesn’t bother me, because I’m happy to put the use case on the wall and simply color the sentence in the use case being implemented in this iteration. Coloring them like this allows me to implement individual sentences or even phrases from the use case set in any order I like, and to always see what’s done, what’s stacked to be done, what’s in progress, at any given time. In this sense I don’t need user stories at all.”
In Cockburn’s experience few other people are willing to do the above coloring. Instead, they prefer to see separate work items listed on separate cards or as separate line items. For these people, cutting the use cases into user stories is pretty much a necessity.
Use cases have limitations
According to Cockburn, there are two occasions when use cases really don’t serve a useful purpose. The first is for CAD/CAM tool-type systems. In these systems, there is no plot line for the story embedded in the use case. There are only many different tools the user can bring to bear.
“In such cases, I would quickly shift from high-level, coarse-grained use cases to features lists (and I wouldn’t even call them user stories, just ‘features’).”
”The second occasion when use cases don’t serve a real purpose is in bug lists and feature enhancement lists. Related, once the system is fairly far along in implementation, the ongoing requests from users look more and more like feature enhancement lists.”
”Again, I wouldn’t call these user stories except in deference to the implementation group if they are in the habit of saying ‘user story’ instead of ‘feature’ or ‘product backlog item.’ In the case of long bug or feature lists, I would just work from the list.”
In contrast to this, Craig Larman – chief scientist at Valtech – claims that he likes user stories because they scale up to really, really large requests (like “implement the entire system”). In a way, both use cases and user stories could be regarded as fractal. Larman makes use of this fractal nature of user stories to break really big projects into manageable pieces, each time using the “marker” characteristic of user stories to defer detail.
“I should say that this works for Craig because he can keep a lot in his head and is good with his conversations. From my perspective,
if a team can’t keep track of which sentence in a use case they’re implementing on a given iteration, they won’t be able to keep track of the fractal expansion of very large user stories.”
Three essential factors
In Cockburn’s opinion, three things are really important in any project: vision, size and context:
“It is crucial that every team member sees approximately the same end goal. This is more important on agile projects because they write down less and leave more to tacit knowledge. Therefore, every project – agile or not, using Scrum or not – should have written down and posted in plain sight a short description of what the system is supposed to do and how it is supposed to help its users and stakeholders. Anything over a page long is too long.
“Ideally, the vision or mission statement captures some emotional feeling to help the developers tell whether they’re on track or not. For my new web site design, we’re using, ‘Get pleasantly lost in all the articles and content.’ Our first user test produced the response, ‘It’s very nice and clean, but I can’t see how to get pleasantly lost in here.’ Because of the vision statement, our viewer knew immediately what to comment on, and we had a direct idea in which direction to make changes. Other ones might be like, “Slide the buyer effortlessly along the conveyor belt to finishing a purchase”, or ‘Ensure the nurse NEVER gives a patient the wrong medication.”
“Everyone has an idea of the order of the task at hand, whether this is going to be a 10 work-month project or a 250 work-month project. All too often with agile projects, I see a ceiling line that rises faster than the programmers can work. This makes the sponsors nervous and the programmers depressed.
”I’ve written that I like use cases because they reveal the size and shape of the product. If you’re not using use cases, go for some other technique that will hint at the approximate size of the final system, so the sponsors can make appropriate funding and staffing plans.”
”The programmers, UI designers and testers know how each product backlog item, sprint item or user story fits in the work or operation of the user. This context helps them make many small design decisions along the way, or even challenge feature requests.”
Use cases and user stories serve fundamentally different purposes, and so in some sense it makes no sense to compare them:
• The purpose of a use case is to describe the black-box behavior of a system as it interacts with the outside world – not just with the primary user, but also with other systems. A use case is a record of decisions made about the behavior of the system under discussion. Use cases primarily serve the user and business community. These people have long suffered from not knowing what they are going to get. Use cases help with that.Programmers sometimes don’t like use cases because they are user-centric and call for behavior that crosses programmers’ assignments.
• The purpose of a user story is to mark – for later expansion – requests for system functionality. A user story is a token or marker that gets moved, expanded, annotated as the request gets handled. It is not a requirements document, it is not a record of decisions made, and it is not a description of system behavior. It is always just a marker. User stories primarily serve the developer community. These people suffer from having to split up requirements documents into tiny pieces to spread among themselves. User stories can be split small enough to assign to single developers or development groups.
With these two purposes in mind, the pros and cons become quite clear, and are naturally opposing as shown to the right.
- Presents a clear description of system behavior.
- Records outcomes of discussions
- Provides discipline for “completeness” and look-ahead, and can be used to get a good handle on the size of the system to be developed and reduce the number of surprises along the way.
- Has a “shape” showing all behavior around a system request– this serves the user and business community well, so that people can more easily see the implications of what they are asking for.
- Short (just a sentence or a phrase).
- Can be used to mark needs outside pure functionality – data enrichment, usability improvement, even internal work items for the team.
- Easy to write on an index card; sets of them can be manipulated in 2D on the wall to indicate priority and spans of behavior across actors quite visibly.
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Who makes the diesel engine for John Deere?
The engines in John Deere Compact Utility Tractors are actually made by Yanmar. John Deere’s agreement with Yanmar dates back to the 1970s. These diesel engines are compact, efficient, and high quality. Yanmar trail blazed the small diesel engine industry, releasing the first commercial compact diesel engine in 1933.
What company makes John Deere engines?
The engines used in their machinery are mainly made by themselves but for certain machinery which requires less horsepower like 100Hp and below, John Deere uses engines from Kawasaki, Yanmar, and Briggs & Stratton.
Does John Deere make their own diesel engines?
Since 1949, Deere has designed and manufactured diesel engines.
Do John Deere tractors have Cummins engines?
With a business relationship spanning more than 30 years, Cummins supplies its X15 engines for the top two ratings in John Deere’s 9R, 9RX and 9RT Series tractors. Engines are manufactured at Cummins’ largest heavy-duty diesel production facility, Jamestown Engine Plant (JEP), New York.
What is the biggest JD tractor?
John Deere 9620RX
The epitome in power, performance, and size, the John Deere 9620RX is the biggest tractor offered to date by the US-based agricultural equipment company. Featuring a diesel Cummins QSX15, B20 diesel compatible engine, the 9620RX pushes an astounding 620hp to the wheels or track for a 25mph top speed.
What is John Deere’s biggest combine?
The X9 Combine
Capacity: The X9 Combine will be Deere’s largest combine available in terms of capacity and efficiency. One of the main features and innovations on the new X9 Combine is the dual separator design.
Are John Deere engines made in China?
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Her diet is changing, she’s grabbing everything in sight… and putting it in her mouth. The next three months can be challenging when it comes to her skin but there’s always plenty you can do to make it easier
At this point in your baby’s life, she’s going to be sitting up, eating solids and starting to move around in a clumsy roly-poly way.
It’s beyond cute to see her growing up, but you’ll need to watch everything that she touches and puts into her mouth – this is the cause of so many baby skin problems.
Coping with nappy rash
You’ll be familiar with nappy rash. But now she’s weaning it can be a lot nastier because of a more frequent bowel movements.
‘Never leave your baby in a soiled nappy,’ says midwife and neonatal skincare advisor Sharon Trotter. ‘Wash her bottom and genitalia frequently and use a thin layer of barrier cream. Choose a cream that doesn't contain any preservatives, colours, perfumes or antiseptics and is clinically proven to be effective in the treatment of nappy rash.
It’s also a good idea to keep a diary and see which foods irritate your baby’s stomach.
Extend and enjoy bath time
Your baby will be enjoying bath time a lot now as she’ll be splashing around and playing with the water. So, you can increase the length of her baths slightly and use bubbles to entertain her.
‘You can use bath products for a baby between six and nine months old,’ says Sharon. ‘But make sure that they are free from sulphates (SLS and SLES), parabens, phthalates, artificial colours and perfumes.’
All should be listed on the ingredients panel if present.
Take care to wash the genital areas thoroughly and dry your little one really well after to avoid any dry patches of skin forming.
Combating dry skin
If dry skin areas do crop up, you can treat them easily and safely with a simple homemade remedy.
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Design Inspiration & Planning
Part 2 of a 2 Part Series:
by Jodi Kines
Search, don’t browse
When using these resources, spend more time ‘searching’ than browsing. Actually type words associated with your project (like ‘kitchen table’) into the search browser verses simply scrolling through random images. If you let your master plan be your guide and you simply use these sites as resources to help you find specific products and ideas to bring your plan to life, you won’t feel nearly as overwhelmed as if you just meander through the pages admiring random projects and wondering if they could suit your personal environment. This meandering can often lead to the infamous ‘scope creep’ and be a potential waste of your time; after all, who hasn’t gotten lost in the pages of Pinterest only to look up and wonder where the time as gone?)
Move at your own pace
Eliminate unnecessary deadlines. While schedules and timelines are ideal (especially for larger projects), try to give yourself some leeway in the timeline wherever possible. Not having the pressure of a ‘must finish’ date for your project can reduce the amount of stress as well as eliminate poor, quickly-made decisions. Try to finish one space before moving on to the next so you feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. With so many wonderful ideas and inspiring images, it can begin to feel like ‘everyone else’ is cranking out one DIY project or fabulous finished space after another! As you’re searching and browsing, try not to get caught up in everyone else’s’ before and after photos! As you are flipping through page after page and screen after screen of beautiful, inspiring spaces, remember – you are looking at a screen full of many individuals’ ONE completed projects; not one person’s enormous list of accomplishments! Don’t feel like you have to tackle too much at one time to keep up; after all, we don’t all have an HGTV crew of resources willing to completely makeover a space in a matter of hours!!
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September 1972 Popular Electronics
Table of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
junction devices - diodes and transistors - first came on the electronics scene,
many people were mystified by their operation and had no idea how to work with them
in terms of designing, troubleshooting, or understanding circuit function. These
Mac's [Radio] Service Shop articles provided a great service to readers by always
addressing contemporary issues whether they be customer relations, new types of
radios and televisions, troubleshooting new kinds of circuits, shop procedures,
documentation interpretation, circuit operation, or as in this installment, test
equipment operation. As with so many things that appear in these vintage electronics
magazines, what was a big deal decades ago is commonplace now. The
Verifier (JV-1505/6) described here is a cruder version of a function built in to
most DMMs today - even the el−cheapo ones sold at
Harbor Freight. The lowest cost model of the JV cost about $31 in 1973, which
is the equivalent of about
$190 in 2019 money.
Mac's Service Shop: New Breed of Test Equipment
By John T. Frye, W9EGV, KHD4167
"Man!" Barney exclaimed, stopping short in the doorway of the service department,
"I knew we had lots of business, but I didn't think we'd have to install a traffic
light on the service bench."
Mac, the owner of the shop, looked around with a grin and then turned back to
the little (4-3/4" x 4-1/4" x 2-3/4") blue-cased instrument resting on a tilt bail
on the bench so its brushed aluminum panel looked up at him. That panel contained
only an on-off switch on the left, two binding posts at the bottom center, a red
one on the left and a green one on the right, and directly above these two large
cut-outs in the panel in the form of opposite-directed diode symbols. Both were
flashing on and off at a rate of three or four times a second. The bottom one with
the arrow pointing to the right was flashing a bright green; the top one with the
arrow pointing to the left was flashing a bright red, giving rise to Barney's comment.
"'Junction Verifier, Electronics Division, Kurz-Kasch, Inc., Dayton, Ohio.?'"
Barney read from the little panel over Mac's shoulder. "What the heck is a 'junction
verifier'?" (Kurz-Kasch, Inc., Electronics Div., 1421 S. Broadway, Dayton, OH 45401)
"Just what it says: a device to verify the operating condition of any junction
in most solid-state, semiconducting junction-type electronic devices in use today,
including silicon, germanium, or selenium diodes, zeners, bridge rectifier assemblies,
npn and pnp transistors, LED's, FETs, and tunnel diodes. With this defective diode
you see I have connected to the binding post terminals, both displays are flashing
to indicate no rectification is taking place across the shorted junction and current
is flowing in both directions. You get the same display by simply putting a piece
of wire between the binding posts. When I remove the shorted diode and replace it
with an open-circuited diode, like so, neither display flashes because current cannot
pass in either direction across the open junction."
"Does that thing only give you the bad news? How about the good news?"
"I'm coming to that. Let's connect this good
diode with the marked cathode to the green binding post and the anode to the red
post. That is the normal way to connect a junction to the instrument: anode to the
red post, cathode to the green post. Notice now only the bottom green display is
flashing, verifying that the junction is good and that the diode is properly marked
resulting in 'conventional' current flow from left to right. But now let's reverse
the diode so the cathode is connected to the red post and the anode to the green
post. See, now only the red display is flashing. This indicates the junction is
still good, but the current is flowing from right to left. That is what would happen
if we tried to test a diode with the cathode improperly marked."
"I get it," Barney said. "The verifier tells you four things about a diode: (1)
if the diode is shorted, (2) if the diode is open, (3) if the diode is rectifying,
and (4) which way current is flowing through the diode. Right?"
Checking Transistors. "Right as far as you go. The verifier actually tells you
these four things about almost any semiconductor junction, no matter if that junction
constitutes a simple diode rectifier or is one of several junctions contained in
a single solid-state device. Let me show you what I mean," he said, attaching matching
test leads to the red and green five-way binding posts of the verifier and removing
the back of an inexpensive little transistorized radio lying on the bench.
"Suppose we want to check the transistors in this Japanese receiver for which
we have no service data. The transistors, which we do not recognize, are soldered
in. I touch the green lead to the collector and the red lead to the base of a transistor.
The green display starts to flash, and I immediately know two things: the collector-base
junction of the transistor is good, and the transistor is a pnp type in which the
collector voltage is supposed to be negative with respect to the base.
"Next, I shift the green lead to the base and the red one to the emitter. Again
the flashing of the green arrow tells me the junction I am testing, the emitter-base
junction, is good and that the base is properly the cathode of this junction. If,
in our first test, the red arrow had started flashing instead of the green one,
I should have known we were dealing with an npn type transistor that requires a
positive voltage on the collector. If both displays had flashed simultaneously,
I would know the junction was shorted. Had neither arrow flashed, I could be sure
the junction was open. In either case, the transistor would be bad. So you see the
verifier serves as a transistor tester and a transistor-type identifier."
In-Circuit Tests, Too. "What impresses me," Barney observed, "is that you made
these tests with the transistor wired into the circuit. Can you always do that?"
"Almost always. A junction may be tested in-circuit as long as the parallel resistance
is 1500 ohms or more or the parallel circuit capacitance is 10 microfarads or less,
which is practically almost always the case. Lower parallel resistance or greater
parallel capacitance may cause the verifier to indicate erroneously a shorted junction."
"A couple of times you said the instrument would test 'almost' any junction.
What are the exceptions?"
"It will not test junctions having more than 2 volts forward voltage drop. About
the only place you find these is in high-voltage rectifier stacks. Neither will
it reliably test junctions having reverse voltage drops less than 4 volts. That
means it will not test low-voltage Zeners, such as the 3-volt type. Finally, some
voltage reference diodes, such as the 1N821 and the 1N937, are designed to operate
in a forward conducting mode, in contrast to zener and avalanche diodes. To insure
their correct circuit application, these devices are banded on their anode ends,
as opposed to cathode banding on true Zener and conventional forward-conducting
diodes. Such reference diodes rated in excess of 2 volts will appear as open elements
on the junction verifier because tests with an ohmmeter will show normal forward
resistance of about 10,000 ohms and infinite reverse resistance."
"Do you know how the junction verifier works?"
"Only in general terms. It is said to use a unique digital technique that sends
pulses of current, not exceeding 5 mA, in both directions through the junction,
samples both forward and reverse currents, compares the two, and displays the result
on the diode symbol screens of the front panel. I may as well admit I peeked inside
and saw two IC's and a host of discrete components mounted on a glass epoxy board.
Since the circuit is a new one for which a patent has been applied, it is naturally
"What does the thing cost?"
"This ac model, the JV-1505, costs $44.95. A battery model, using four 'C' batteries,
the JV-1506, is priced at $30.95. But actually the interesting thing to me about
the junction verifier is that it typifies a new line of service instruments coming
on the market - instruments designed to meet the problems of the modern technician
and to impress favorably his customer."
"Why do you accent the word 'modern'?"
New Types of Testers. "In the old days the work was done almost entirely in the
shop. It mattered little how bulky, heavy, and hard to understand the instruments
were. They were only seen by the technician, and he knew what they said. But today
much of the work is done in the home. Those instruments have to go out into society,
and they should have what the auto industry calls 'pizzazz,' or flair. They should
please the eye of the customer and impress him with their performance.
"Note, for example, the compactness and light weight of this little junction
verifier. Every ounce and every cubic inch of space counts when you have to take
the instruments to the receiver. Also look at the attractive, textured, chip-resistant
blue case and the brushed aluminum panel. Above all, though, notice how movement
and color are employed in the readout. Those flashing colored arrows catch the eye
of the customer just as they caught your eye when you came through the door. That
"But the showmanship is backed up with solid utility for the technician. The
instrument has versatility that insures it against obsolescence. Just as a crescent
wrench is always useful, no matter how many box sockets and end wrenches you have
on the bench, so will an instrument that speedily checks a single junction always
be in demand. And it is speedy. You can check junctions as fast as you can apply
the test probes.
"You might say the same thing about the new digital voltmeters," Barney observed.
"They are rugged, easy to read, and are bound to impress the customer with the computer-fast
speed with which their display changes."
"Right you are, and I'm glad you used that adjective 'computer-fast.' That is
the key to what I am talking about. The important thing is the association that
takes place in the mind of the customer when he sees some of the modern service
instruments working. That DVM readout reminds him of the displays he has seen during
rocket launches, and he knows that the space program incorporates the best there
is in electronics.
Other Examples. "The new. compact, solid-state scopes are another example of
the same thing. The customer is always intrigued by the moving patterns seen on
a scope screen. After all, he has seen these instruments used in science laboratories
and in the operating room, and he equates their use with precision and technical
excellence. It is most reassuring to him to see his TV set adjusted with the use
of a scope. But, again, a modern dc scope is the most versatile instrument a technician
can take into the home. It can serve as an ac or dc voltmeter, a signal tracer,
a distortion analyzer, a curve tracer, a phase-shift detector, a frequency meter,
or what have you. A modern scope gives real meaning to that common phrase: 'the
usefulness is limited only by the ingenuity of the owner.' "
"Why are we getting these new instruments now?"
"I think the major debt is to the space program and the computer industry. For
example, I am sure this junction verifier came about through the research Kurz-Kasch
did in developing their digital logic testing probes which they claim will replace
wide-band scopes and DVM's now used for this purpose. The readout of these low-cost
probes is in the form of three colored lights. And we know that IC applications
in space age instruments and computers have lead to the DVM's and the solid-state
"Well," Barney said as he got into his shop coat, "I just hope the space and
computer boys continue throwing an occasional glance toward our needs. Service instrumentation
can stand some 'pizzazz' as you call it."
Posted January 3, 2020
Mac's Radio Service Shop Episodes on RF Cafe
This series of instructive stories was the brainchild of none other than John T.
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Please note that sensor locations change with the Park District’s operational needs, primarily related to water quality. For more information on beach operations, please see https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/beaches.
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The ever-insightful artist Phil Colins once wrote and sang, “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” These words have been echoing through my ears more regularly since I began teaching Upstream Arts’ new Self-Advocacy classes.
My older brother, Joe, has a developmental disability. He lives with our mother and uncle in the suburbs of Saint Paul, and recently got a hot tub that he is very proud of. He enjoys bowling, gardening, visual arts, and several daytime soap operas.
As his little sister, like most siblings, sometimes I’m a great sister, and sometimes I’m not. Some of this is typical to sibling relationships, but, if I’m honest, some of it is me not fully engaging with my brother’s right to make his own choices. There’s a tendency I think within families to think we are always acting in each other’s best interests, and when it comes to my brother, I think we tend to assume a lot about him, his interests, and decisions he will make. The past year and a half of teaching in community with Upstream Arts self-advocates has taught me a lot about how to better support and encourage my brother’s self-advocacy.
The biggest question I ask myself is: Am I taking short cuts with my support of Joe’s right to choose in favor of my own convenience? It’s an important and often revealing question. I offer this small but regularly occurring scenario we have together:
When we go to a restaurant, I often think, “Oh they have ribs. Joe loves ribs.” I tell him, “Hey they have ribs!” Joe orders ribs.
As small as this moment is, and even though Joe does indeed enjoy eating ribs, there is no choice in this interaction between us. Joe struggles with reading, so he is often dependent on us to let him know what his options are on a menu. It takes time and patience to let him know what the restaurant has, and sometimes, if I rush through it, he gets overwhelmed by my speed. I often avoid this option, justifying MY choice by the overwhelm he may experience. So, I limit what I read to him by the food I already know he’ll like, because, on the flip side, I could take the time to read him all his options and he’ll just end up ordering ribs, the thing “I knew” he’d probably order. Generally, there is a sense of “This can’t take too much time” because… (insert justification here). We’re in a public place and there’s a line behind us, I don’t want to inconvenience the server and take up too much of their time, we have to be somewhere after this, etc, etc, etc. Essentially, the convenience of everyone is considered more than my brother’s right to choose.
As small as this moment is, it’s a true moment of opportunity to practice self-advocacy and listening. If I can’t support and listen to him in these smaller moments that offer him a chance to practice making his own choices, can I really expect him to feel supported in larger moments of greater choice, such as where to live, what job he may want, how he wants to spend his money? His self-advocacy is not just based on his ability to speak up for himself, as a member of his support system, it’s equally important that I actually listen to what he’s saying and that takes practice on my part. I often take my right to choose for granted, and don’t realize how often Joe’s right to choose had been bypassed.
Will it take time to go through the menu with him? Yes, but I’m already looking at it to make my choice and just because I can make mine “faster” than him shouldn’t deny him the opportunity to express his choice. Will he always want the same kind of food at a restaurant? I love pasta but I don’t always order it if it’s on the menu. Assuming Joe will always eat ribs is limiting and doesn’t make space for him to try something new if he wants to. Could he get overwhelmed with a lot of choices? Yes! We ALL experience overwhelm – it’s a natural feeling and not something I need to protect my brother from. Feelings of overwhelm are another opportunity to practice: taking a breath, taking a break, thinking of a more creative way to explore the menu, etc.
I offer my experience and these thoughts to the people who support self-advocates with disabilities. How often do YOU practice listening? How do you slow down to make sure you completely engage with your self-advocate’s choices? Where are you cutting corners on your self-advocate’s right to choose? None of us are going to be perfect 100% of the time, but the more intentional we are in our practice of listening and support, the more empowered our self-advocates can feel in just being themselves and taking risks to try new things. Perhaps they’ll surprise us, and more importantly, surprise themselves.
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This is the write-up of my talk at EuroIA 2013 containing my thoughts for the presentation and a set of additional resources that I found useful whilst writing my talk.
When you observe the recent rise of mobile companies such as Instagram, Twitter and SnapChat you can spot similarities in the way they approach time. They show you what happened in the last day, hour or second and they are brilliant at it. At conferences, restaurants, buses, at work or even in bed, everywhere you find people endlessly refreshing their feed, forever sucked into the eternal now.
We’re great at building tools for the now; we can design products that hypnotise people in forever refreshing. But surely we shouldn’t stop there. Digital technology can be so much more than just entertainment. What about the future? Can we build tools for the long now?
he question I want to explore is: what are the ingredients that allow us to successfully design for the organisation of time? Not just in second and nanoseconds but also years and decades. I will discuss this in three parts: first, time artefacts, such as clocks and calendars, we’ve developed to make sense of time. Second, the way our mind works with time, and finally, how we can apply this knowledge in the digital world. | <urn:uuid:726114e1-fefa-4717-a070-b921763776f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://notura.com/2013/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95062 | 268 | 1.945313 | 2 |
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Imagine you log into your Gmail account and find a suspicious email from your bank. The email informs about an unauthorized access to your account and asks you to follow a link and provide your credentials to view the account access log.
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2022 CSDMS meeting-043
Comparing multiple methods of decision-making in an agent-based model of environmental migration
Kelsea Best, (she, her),Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee, United States. firstname.lastname@example.org
Environmental migration is an example of a complex coupled human and natural system with dynamics that operate across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Agent-based modeling (ABM) has demonstrated potential for studying such complex systems, especially where individual decision-making is an important component. In this work, we use an original ABM of environmental shock, livelihood opportunities, and migration decisions to study dynamics of environmental migration in rural Bangladesh. As ABMs are sensitive to the decision-making methods used, we present results utilizing multiple plausible decision-making methods for households deciding whether or not to send an internal migrant. We present results using both a simple economic method based on utility maximization as well as a more behaviorally complex method based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. We hypothesized that a more behaviorally complex decision method which incorporates social networks and community norms would more successfully reproduce the patterns of migration. However, using a pattern-oriented approach to reproduce two key patterns of migration from the empirical literature, we demonstrate that an economic model can reproduce our patterns of interest with high levels of success. For both decision methods, the level of community inequality in distribution of land ownership, which impacts the number of agricultural jobs available within the community, is critically important for patterns of migration outcomes. In this way, our model suggests that community-level inequality is has significant implications of migration dynamics in this study area. | <urn:uuid:f589a360-f03a-4809-b1d8-3c2bf7b659f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://csdms.colorado.edu/csdms_wiki/index.php?title=2022_CSDMS_meeting-043&oldid=405550 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.919551 | 344 | 1.9375 | 2 |
65 Years of Friendship tells the heartrending story of a remarkable friendship between two remarkable men: world-renowned human-rights lawyer George Bizos, and Nelson Mandela. George and Madiba met as students at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1940s. They would later become legal colleagues, and Mandela would become George Bizos’ most famous client soon after, for it was Bizos who formed part of his legal defence during the famous Treason Trial, and again during the Rivonia Trial, when Mandela and others faced the death penalty for plotting to overthrow the state. After seeing his friend sentenced to life imprisonment instead, Bizos became Mandela’s lifeline, navigating the complicated network of the Struggle. Working tirelessly, be it by secretly meeting Oliver Tambo in exile or arguing for the abolishment of the death penalty in the Constitutional Court years later, Bizos offered his unwavering support to Mandela on his long walk towards a democratic South Africa. In this touching homage to their friendship, George Bizos tells a fascinating tale of two men whose work affected the lives of all South Africans. | <urn:uuid:f9515f85-1e43-4efb-9c7f-b3883cb4fd02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.snapplify.com/product/65-years-of-friendship | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964289 | 230 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Diksha Madhok shared this thought-provoking graph on Twitter recently:
Father's Day and all is great but Indian dudes really need to look at this chart and hang their heads in shame. Globally, Indian men–husbands and fathers–do the least amount of unpaid housework. pic.twitter.com/mxgQSAtwX7
— Diksha Madhok (@dikshamadhok) June 18, 2018
My first reaction to that was, ‘Really? Indian men do 19 minutes of unpaid housework every day? That’s too much! What do they do for 19 minutes?‘
That said, while the point being made is no doubt valid, the metric being used to illustrate it is off. The reason for that is that middle-class Indian couples probably do less combined unpaid housework than their Western counterparts because servants are so common. In our household, for example, we have employed a maid who comes every morning to wash dishes, clean the house and so on. In Western households, it is common to have to do it all yourself.
So the correct metric, to judge how lazy, misogynistic and/or entitled Indian men are would be the percentage of total unpaid household labour they contribute to. I have no doubt that the conclusion would be as dismal.
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I don't mean to be rude, but I think you need to get a better grasp of how a large computing environment works. Users do not have privileges to install their own software or manage their antivirus etc. Additionally, giving users the ability to install software patches and updates then requires us to verify that they have actually done so (and not ignored our communications). Users can customise their computing environments in ways that do not impact adversely upon that environment. So they can change their wallpaper, icons, sounds etc. However they can not install software (which may be spyware/malware/crapware, or unlicensed, or whatever). They can not install their own hardware (which requires drivers which may be faulty, or they may "zap" the machine because their not careful). Likewise, they can not opt "not" to have security patches installed (these are installed automatically for them), and they can not choose to "not" update their AV software (this happens automatically for them as well). And they can't choose to "not" store their work files on their local machines (these get stored on central servers, so that if we do need to replace their machine, or re-Ghost it, or move them to another machine, when they logon, everything is "automagically" restored the way they last had their machine configured). Cheers Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Heather Quinn" <hqevolt at windyhilldesign.com> Subject: Re: [thelist]Security hole found in Mozilla browser : Why not allow users to do their own work, via an interesting and : well-designed Intranet news page that offers, amongst other goodies, an : easy link to the Mozilla web updater, at those times when your staff : think it's wise that an update be deployed, like now (i.e., avoid crying : wolf with constant reminders to update every time an update is : available)? Gives users a sense of control in their own destiny, and : over time aids in the user community education effort. Not foolproof, : but a soft solution, and when your staff needs to pull someone out of : trouble, they can use the Intranet page themselves, to show the user : what to do -- no magical hocus-pocus from the user's POV, instead the : user gets a better understanding of his or her own responsibility as a : PC and web user. : : Ken Schaefer wrote: : : >Anyone work in a large environment that has some tips on where I can look : >for deployment solutions (something that we can use to push these, and : >other, updates to users automatically)? Despite what I might appear on this : >list (a Microsoft booster), we've always offered Mozilla to all staff in our : >area as part of our standard Ghost image, however we have a devil of a time : >keeping it "up-to-date" (probably because we're not cognizant of the best : >way of doing it). | <urn:uuid:6eaecf87-6ac9-4ae3-90e3-5dac89a60825> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/thelist/Week-of-Mon-20040705/091577.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930047 | 625 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Located at the extreme southwest of Europe, the Republic of Portugal is constituted by the continental territory and two Autonomous Regions, the archipelagos of Madeira and Azores (Açores). The Continent is divided into 18 districts. Portugal’s total area is of 92.000 Km2 and there are around 10 million inhabitants. The Portuguese Republic borders Spain North and East and has an extensive maritime coastline South and West that bathes the Atlantic Ocean. The country’s capital is Lisbon and the official language is Portuguese.
Higher Education in Portugal
The portuguese educational system comprises three levels: basic, secondary and higher education.
Pre-school education is optional and is for children between the ages of three and the age of entering basic education.
Basic Education is universal, compulsory and free and comprises three cycles, the first cycle lasts for four years, the second lasts for two years and the third lasts for three years.
Secondary education is compulsory and it comprises a three year cycle (corresponding to 10th, 11th and 12th year of schooling).
The Higher Education System
The Portuguese Higher Education system has been undergoing a profound reform, in accordance with the European-wide strategy for the modernisation of Higher Education promoting the knowledge-based economy and society. A series of measures have been introduced in the last years for the accomplishment of what is known as the Bologna Process, namely with the aim to widen access to Higher Education, particularly for new publics, guaranteeing quality evaluation, modernising and internationalising Higher Education.
Higher Education is divided into three cycles of studies. Generic qualification descriptors were also defined for each of the cycles of studies, based on acquired competences, as well as the structure for the first and second cycles of study in terms of typical ECTS intervals.
Higher Education Institutions
Higher Education in Portugal is divided into two sub-systems, university education and polytechnic education.
The network of public Higher Education Institutions comprises 14 Universities, 20 Polytechnic Institutes and 6 institutions of military and police Higher Education.
The network of private Higher Education Institutions comprises 36 Universities and 64 Polytechnic Institutes.
Entry and Admission requirements
Portugal is part of the Schengen Area, a group of 26 European Countries which have abolished all border controls between each other. Hence, most citizens of the EU, the European Economic Area (EEA – Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) as well as Switzerland need only an identity card in order to enter Portugal.
- Apply for the Visa as soon as possible! Visa issues demand some time and attention.
- Check with the relevant Embassies/Consulates regarding which documents you need to obtain a visa.
- Double check all forms and the information you fill in. Sometimes small mistakes may result in the refusal of the visa request.
- Always keep copies of the originals you submit! You may need them.
Highlights of Studying in Portugal
- Wide selection of institutions, disciplines and courses
- Experience a vibrant history and culture
- Access to Europe and the European Higher Education Area
- Portuguese language can open doors around the world
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We’re in a constant buzz, constant activity – physically and mentally. A lot of us have become obsessed with busyness, with hustling, being here and everywhere, sleeping when we’re dead and neglecting our peace and rest. There’s information overload, obsessions with knowing everything and about everyone. The hustle and keeping up with certain figures keep us up at night, leave us depressed and at war within ourselves. Stress levels are high, ailments come in at every corner and we diet-hop in a desperate search for a quick remedy.
“You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”
Spiritual teacher Osho provides in-depth remedies to many of our physical and emotional ailments. He identifies issues such as the inability to balance the different demands in our everyday lives, the way we approach dealing with stress and becoming centred.
Pharmacy for the Soul is neatly organised into different categories such as unwinding, mood management, sexuality, and many others, following with techniques – some very simple and others potentially strenuous for some people and needing practice. Osho does not, and makes it clear, that the techniques he provides are not to replace professional services of psychologists or physicians.
He offers a holistic approach to the listed ailments. You will learn how to relieve stress without having to, say, look into a bottle of wine for the solution, relieving tension, dealing with mood swings, sleeping well and a whole cornucopia of other remedies. These helpful techniques include meditations, awareness exercises, and relaxation, rechannelling sex energy, throat clearing and more.
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I look through boxes for things
I want to keep, taking out those
I need, leaving in those I don’t
Need or want. Then suddenly I see,
At the bottom of the box,
It’s a scary word, a horrible word,
A terrifying word. I don’t want that word.
I don’t see why I’d ever want that word.
I close the box, but on the floor in front
Of me, there I see
It creeps closer. I start to run. Imagine!
This disgusting word chasing me
Away from the box, out of the room,
Into the hallway. I look behind, and there,
Still chasing me is
I trip on a memory. The word catches up and
Before I can stop it, it jumps in my ear. I feel it
Slide into my nerves, settle in my brain.
I crouch on the ground as the word sends
Vivid images and pains.
That dreadful word.
Eventually the word quiets. If nobody
Says anything it just sits in my brain,
Sending me occasional sparks of electricity.
But one day, as I simply exist,
Someone dares to say
That awful word.
The word fires a jolt to my brain.
I jump up and run away. Running and
Running and running from my own thoughts.
But there’s no escape. I wonder why I ever
Went and found
That stupid word.
But the most distressing thing
Is the way other people
Can say it. Without flinching or hesitating,
Without lying down and dying,
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Some small, others large, some with intense color, and others with very subtle tones. But all these floral species share beauty and nationality. Choose from the following the one that best goes with the theme of your wedding.
There is no doubt that flowers beautify any space of the wedding reception. However, there are species that look better depending on the type of wedding celebration. The color palette used in the decoration, and even the time of year. Mexican flowers like the ones listed below have the goodness of being more resistant to the climates of the different parts of the country. Therefore, they exploit their beauty to the fullest when used in the bridal bouquet, on the roof of the place of the celebration, in the ceremonial aisle, or in the centerpieces. If you want to know what the national flowers are, don’t miss out on this article.
Diego Rivera placed gannets as an important element of Mexican art and culture thanks to his paintings, so it’s a great idea to consider this long-stemmed species to decorate your wedding venue. Those who are thinking of a wedding celebration with a regional theme, choose these wedding flowers with a pleasant aroma and durability to put them in clay or glass vases to print a more elegant air. In the same way, they are also the favorites to wear in bridal bouquets.
This flower has a very special meaning that makes it perfect to include in your wedding celebration, as it symbolizes immortality. The variety of its colors and its large size are ideal for decorating bohemian or country-style weddings, without neglecting the possibilities of combining it with other species to create charming Mexican flower arrangements.
3. Bird of Paradise
This beautiful flower with striking colors and shapes is not common in bridal decorations, which is why it is ideal for couples who want to put a very personal accent on every detail. Its resistance to heat makes it one of the most requested flowers for destination weddings on the beach, either to form wedding table arrangements or as the protagonist of an original bouquet for the bridesmaids.
Spring arrives and many places in Mexico are flooded with that beautiful purple color that the bougainvillea gives. Its intense and romantic fuchsia color hypnotizes. In addition, this flower is easy to acquire and very cheap, so you can use it in the decoration of the main dishes, as table runners accompanied by rustic foliage such as eucalyptus branches, on the altar for the ceremony… They will look beautiful!
The carnation is one of the most romantic flowers and is also very resistant to heat. Its colors are intense, its shape is fluffy and tender, but imposing. White, lilac, red, hot, and light pink is part of the range of tones that can be used for the wedding ceremony and that allow this species to be included in the decoration of the cake or in the arch of the ceremonial aisle.
Related to the Day of the Dead, this flower of powerful attraction is also used for ornamental purposes at weddings that take place especially in the penultimate months of the year and whose theme has to do with national festivities. Ideal to be combined in the bouquet with purple or pink tones if you want to accentuate the color and folklore that characterize the country. Mexican cempasúchil wedding table settings will draw all the attention of your guests.
With abundant and perfectly defined petals, the chrysanthemum is used to give a volume effect to the flower arrangements that are placed as part of the decoration of the ceremonial corridor in religious venues. Although it offers a variety of colors, white is the most common. Due to its beauty and the purity of its white that ends in a subtle green in the center.
Another of the Mexican flowers very similar to the chrysanthemum, but with softer and longer petals, is the Dahlia. One of the favorite species for bridal decoration because it provides depth. By itself, it is a bouquet when combined with other species in similar or even opposite tones. It looks perfect to be added to simple Mexican wedding centerpieces in which all the protagonism falls on this beautiful flower.
These starry-looking flowers are reminiscent of the most beautiful night skyscapes you’ve ever seen. Also called the “Acapulco flower” it is very pleasing to the eye so it can easily be made charming combinations to form the entrance arch for the bride and groom, place it in glass containers to decorate the tables that receive your guests or on your own table boyfriends.
10. Christmas Eve
A classic of Christmas decorations, this flower will give a very warm. And welcoming touch to your wedding venue if you have decided to get married in the colder months of the year and want to add an air of the holiday season. They can place them at the reception or even choose to give them to their family and friends as part of very natural and original memory.
This flower is highly valued for its shape and elegance. The variety of its colors and the arrangement of the petals make it a charming and sophisticated species. Couples who have chosen minimalist weddings look to orchids for their natural beauty, their subtlety, and delicate presence. Some species of this type of flower are edible, so do not hesitate to include them in the menu.
Most of the Mexican flowers listed are usually cheaper than the rest. Although of course if they do not find the exact tone they are looking for. They can ask their supplier to create a similar arrangement. Or advise them on how they can be combined. each other. In our guide to wedding florists, you will find the closest professionals in your state. | <urn:uuid:fd1feea1-9172-40b1-9d99-9d79ae5a51b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thefuzzdaily.com/mexican-flowers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945421 | 1,221 | 1.90625 | 2 |
I recently had the opportunity read Angela Watson’s new book Unshakeable: 20 Ways to Enjoy Teaching Every Day…No Matter What. This book could not have come at a better time in my life. With state testing and the immense pressure that comes with that, I had been feeling overwhelmed and letting this affect my joy of teaching. I chose “Chapter 10: Uncover the compelling reason for every lesson you teach” because it really spoke to some of my current stress.
The demands we place on students seem to get more and more difficult each year. This year my students (some who are reading on a 3rd grade level because English is their second language) have to read two grade level passages that are 1 1/2 to 2 pages in length each, then write a 5 paragraph essay analyzing the passages and pulling details from both to do so. Unfortunately, I have some students that can barely get through the reading of the first passage. One of my teammates and I are always discussing the fact this is not appropriate to a majority of our students. Instead of complaining about whether or not this is appropriate, I should be looking for the compelling reason that we have to teach this and share that reason with my students.
With all this weighing on me, I dove into the chapter with hopes that I would gain some insight. This quote from the book really summed up my previous thoughts on paired passage analysis as well as many other aspects of teaching.
I was literally nodding my head when I read this. It was definitely me and how I viewed the majority of the standards that I was having to teach my students.
Angela offered some thoughtful insight and realistic tips to help overcome these feelings and find compelling reasons for even the most mundane standards we are required to teach. Here are my favorite strategies that Angela recommends:
Instead of sharing ways and reasons particular lessons will be important in the far off future, think about the now that your students are currently living in. Why is this lesson important to their lives now? I have always believed that students remember skills and content that is interesting or that they feel is important. Make the skill important to them in their lives now, and that may give them the desire to master the skill.
I loved this tip. My students are always interested in current events. If I could find a way to connect some of the standards that seem so irrelevant to the real world, I know they would soar with the standards and the task. There are so many ways that students can help in the community, and integrating real world projects with mundane or seemingly irrelevant standards is definitely a win-win!
This strategy is the one that resonated with me the most. So many times, I have complained that my students don’t have perseverance, they don’t have compassion, etc. However, what was I doing to counter this? Nothing, because the demands of the curriculum were overwhelming. Angela suggests making a list of the skills that your students are lacking. When you are teaching lessons that you cannot find a compelling reason to teach, pull out your list and tie in one of the skills to the lesson. Brilliant!
I can’t say enough about this book. Angela’s real world advice and tips are just what I need to stay motivated to finish the year. To check out the book and grab yourself a copy, click on the link below.
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With many in China still unconvinced that local and national governments did all they could, based on available information, to respond to and educate the public about the novel coronavirus, some are looking for a more suitable official explanation, and others are demanding the government be held accountable. Tan Jun, a civil servant who works as an administrator for Yichang City Children’s Park Management, earlier this month attempted to file a lawsuit at his district court, which if successful would legally compel the Hubei government to publicly apologize for its mishandling of the outbreak, and also take on all relevant legal costs. Tan’s complaint uses officially published information as evidence that government inaction and concealment led to an “unprecedented loss of life and property” for Hubei citizens. The district court in Yichang–a city hard hit by the outbreak, about 200 miles west of Wuhan–claimed it didn’t have authority to try the provincial government, but Tan has pledged to continue appealing to higher courts. A WeChat article that has been deleted for “violating regulations of the Cybersecurity Law” reports on Tan’s lawsuit–the first against the government for its handling of the outbreak–and includes his complaint. The article and supplemental court filing has been translated in full:
Tan Jun: “Someone Must be Held Responsible”
On the morning of April 13, Tan Jun went to Yichang’s Xiling District court to file a complaint.
Yichang, Hubei functionary Tan Jun.
Recently a public lawsuit was brought against the Hubei provincial government for concealing the epidemic, leading to a significant loss of the people’s lives and property. This is the first time a person in China has publicly sued the government for this epidemic.
Tan Jun said: “We need someone to take responsibility for this, this is a very serious matter. I am acting as a Hubei citizen who believes it necessary to stand up and appeal, to make the Hubei government come out and take responsibility.”
Tan Jun stated on April 15 that he believed the provincial and city governments had already long known about human-to-human transmission; people had already died, but it was still not put in check. He sued the Hubei government for concealing the epidemic, leading to significant loss of life and property.
He provided the following primary evidence:
- The Hubei Health Commission on January 11, 2020 issued a notice stating no medical personnel had been confirmed to be infected, nor had human-to-human transmission.
But, according to the admissions of the March 19 National Supervisory Commission “Report on the Investigation of Dr. Li Wenliang’s Situation,” human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus had occurred in December 2019.
Administrative Statement of Charges
Plaintiff: Tan Jun, Han ethnicity, I.D. Number: XXX, Address: Xiling District, Yichang City, XX, Telephone No.: XXX, Work Unit: Yichang City Children Park Management
Defendant: Hubei Provincial People’s Government, Residence: 7 Hongshan Rd, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, Tel: XXX
Legal Representation: Wang Xiaodong, Position: Governor
- Legal order to publish an apology in the Hubei Daily for one day
- Legal fees shall be assumed by the defendant
Facts and Justification:
In December 2019, in the early stages of the novel coronavirus outbreak it was known that it could be passed by human transmission. On January 11, 2020, the defendant Hubei Provincial People’s Government held the third meeting of the 12th Hubei Provincial People’s Political Consultative Conference and the third meeting of the 13th People’s Congress of Hubei on January 12, creating a mobile source of infection. The defendant failed to stop the “10,000 Family Banquet” in the Baibuting Community, exposing 40,000 households to a risk of infection, and leading to a concentration of infections and transmission.
According to the “Report on the Investigation Into the Circumstances Involving Dr. Li Wenliang,” issued by the PRC National Supervisory Committee on March 19, 2020, it was determined that the novel coronavirus had already infected people in December (or maybe earlier). On January 11, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued the “Report on the Viral Pneumonia of Unknown Origin,” which reported “no infections of medical personnel and no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission,” deliberately downplaying the epidemic. To summarize, the defendant is suspected of downplaying and covering up the situation, leading people to neglect the harmful effect of the virus, relax their vigilance, and overlook personal protection. The suppression of expression related to the epidemic situation caused it to spread rapidly and severely, collapsing the medical system, with hospitals overcrowded and intensive units full. Many patients were not diagnosed because that would then require treatment that the hospital was unable to provide. Many medical personnel and residents died after contraction, and ultimately the entirety of Hubei province was sealed. Hubei people visiting other provinces were abused and discriminated against, resulting in unprecedented loss of property and life. This suspected malfeasance and inaction seriously violates the people’s personal and property rights, and the defendant should take legal responsibility to publicly apologize on the front page of the newspaper “Hubei Daily.” According to Article 12, Section 12 of the “PRC Administrative Procedural Law,” an administrative lawsuit is filed.
Xiling District People’s Court, Yichang City
Attach: (1) One copy of your identification card; (2) Three pieces of written evidence.
At six or seven in the evening, a group from the Xilin district sub-bureau of the Domestic Security Department summoned [Tan] to the regional police station. They made him write a declaration, and requested that he refrain from again posting lawsuit-related material online, including pictures and screenshots.
But, they said: “You can bring a lawsuit in accordance with legal process.”
Because foreign media are “unfriendly,” [the officers were] afraid [material online] could influence national security.
Tan Jun said: “I collected evidence, and it’s all officially released documents. I didn’t fabricate this, they’re just scared.
“The main reason is Fang Fang’s diary being published overseas, they’re already very heated. I am from Yichang, I am the first to sue the government as a coronavirus victim, but they say this matter is more serious.”
When Tan Jun went to the Xiling district court to file his complaint, the court staff told him they didn’t have the power to hear a case prosecuting the government. He’d have to go to Wuhan Intermediate Court.
On the afternoon of April 15, Tan Jun said he had already mailed his complaint to Wuhan Intermediate Court, and that it should arrive by the next morning.
“Someone must be held responsible.”
Tan Jun is a civil servant, he works in the Yichang Children’s Park Management department. Speaking about the reason for his lawsuit against the Hubei government, he said:
“(Authorities) didn’t stop the Baibuting community from holding the “10,000 Family Banquet,” causing many people to become infected. From January 11-12 Wuhan held the Two Sessions, at which time the outbreak was underway and was deliberately hidden. When the representatives returned from Wuhan to their various regions, this increased the spread.”
Tan Jun said that people from Hubei are being discriminated against, even being beaten, all over the country, which hurts him as a fellow Hubei person.
“Someone must be held responsible, this matter is very serious. I am here as a Hubei citizen who believes we must stand up and call for the Hubei government to be held responsible.”
According to the lawsuit, Tan Jun has two demands:
First, the Hubei Provincial Government must publish an apology in the Hubei Daily for one day. Second, the legal costs are to be incurred by the defendant.
Tan Jun said that winning or losing is no longer important.
He has already bravely taken the difficult step of becoming a “citizen who is suing officials.” “I look at winning or losing with indifference. Winning would of course be best, but if I lose I have no regrets.”
It is not known if the Wuhan Intermediate Court has received the complaint, or whether they will file the case.
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I love fruit juice. Apple juice. Orange juice. Cranberry juice. I don’t care if they’re necessarily healthy or not, so I ignore most discussion around that. But something else I tend to ignore is the term “from concentrate” on the label, because I’ve never really understood the difference between a juice that’s made from concentrate and one that is not.
Making juice concentrate itself is actually a fairly simple process that involves juicing the fruit, then filtering to remove a large portion of its water for easier transport. To make juice from this concentrate, the water is added back in and the mixture is then pasteurized, heating up the juice to kill any pathogens that might be present.
The pasteurization process is applied to both juices from concentrate and those that are not, so the main difference between the two types is the filtration and later addition of water to the fruit juice. Not-from-concentrate juice skips those steps and simply goes from juicing straight to pasteurization.
So, does that make juice from concentrate better or worse than other juice? The answer depends on what exactly you’re buying.
Any variety of juice can have ingredients like sugars or preservatives added throughout the process. If you want to know how “healthy” your juice is, those additives matter a lot more than whether concentrate was used. Which makes sense, if you think about it: if you were to take two grapefruits and juice them, remove the water from one glass, then add it back in later, both glasses of juice would still have the same nutritional value.
Major brands like Tropicana and Simply Orange love to boast that their product is not from concentrate. The term is FDA regulated, but it also has the added benefit of consumers (like myself) perceiving juice from concentrate as somehow less fresh or more processed. But the fact is, if you’re buying a mass-marketed carton of juice, there’s a decent amount of processing going on no matter what. As long as the first ingredients on the label are “juice” and “water,” there’s no reason to think less of a particular product. | <urn:uuid:84670fbe-ac74-472e-b2d5-68391abe5476> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thetakeout.com/juice-from-concentrate-vs-not-from-concentrate-meaning-1849367002 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956464 | 465 | 2.5 | 2 |
The new Pope so far has been better than the last couple of Popes. However, some priests from California deceived and pressured him into making Father Serra a saint. He was a saint for Lucifer! Millions of Native Americans died because of him. Native American groups have been upset by the callous making this monster into a saint. Father Serra was the head of the evil Spanish Inquisition here in the West. He was known for self inflicting beatings on himself and so thought nothing about the brutal beating of heathens. Native Americans in California were forced to give up their religions either by threat of death or by beatings. They were forced to build the missions and work in the mission fi
elds. They were forced to wear clothes even in the terrible heat. Califor-nia, Oregon and Washington had the largest populations of Native Americans in the U.S.A. Most of them either died of depression and disease or were hunted down and murdered. The treatment by the early priests here in Cal-ifornia of Native Americans was deplorable. The treat-ment of Indians by many early Protestants was usually also just as terrible. It was the prejudiced way that White Americans used to view Native Americans in those times. In the minds of the early California priests it was better a dead Injun than a heathen going to hell. Many Native Americans and many other people are sure that Father Serra also made it to hell.
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Is bigger worse? The idea of this paper, published in the journal Energy Policy, was to investigate the hypothesis that the probability distribution of megaprojects’ performance factors is more asymmetrical than that of small/medium projects, with a special focus on mega hydroelectric dams recently built in Brazil.
Why does it matter? If construction cost overruns and delays are brought to bear ex-ante in the decision process, the decision on how to expand the energy system changes to one where more renewable energy, and therefore fewer emissions, are the preferred cost-optimal solution.
According to the authors from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the energy infrastructure industry generally undertakes large projects, with technical and administrative complexities that can involve several subprojects from different areas, internal and external participants, and have large capital needs. For an infrastructure project to be considered a MEGA project, large amounts of investments are necessary — more than one billion dollars to be exact — and they are generally described as high-risk, complex, with a high degree of uncertainty and intense in social and environmental impacts while involving many stakeholders. In simple words, there are many who are interested in the development and many others who are not really interested in it.
There are many examples around the world about these multi-million-dollar infrastructure megaprojects, which in recent decades, have increased in magnitude and frequency. Giving names, we have the Three Gorges hydroelectric plant in China; the Kemper Project, a power generation facility that is the first of its kind to employ large-scale gasification and carbon capture technologies in Mississippi, USA; Jubail, a petrochemical industry built from sand in Saudi Arabia, and many others.
What do all these projects have in common? As more and larger infrastructure projects are being built, it is becoming clear that many of these have very low performance in economic, environmental, and social terms. Initially promoted as effective vehicles for economic growth, they have become possible obstacles to it.
What has been driving mega energy projects? The most obvious reason for companies to invest in megaprojects is the perception that large projects will produce economies of scale. In microeconomics, economies of scale refer to the costs reduction resulting from the increase in the size and use rate by an enterprise. Formally, an increase in production volumes may imply an increase in production costs to a greater or lesser extent. This conventional wisdom is applied in the energy industry aiming at efficiency gains, through the implementation of large centralized production units. Historically, the energy system’s success has become associated with this assumption. Planners believed that energy systems should be composed of a few, but large, units of supply and distribution and that these units should be composed of large monolithic devices rather than small redundant models.
However, excessive cost overruns often put project viability at risk and, in the case of mega hydropower projects, cost overruns are almost a rule as are shown by the existing literature. The Belo Monte mega hydropower project is not an exception; it is a lesson, in fact, too big to be ignored. Belo Monte is one of the world’s most controversial dams, indigenous peoples and social movements in the region have fought against its construction for more than twenty years. But in 2002 the plan was launched under a new engineering design. The powerhouse would have 11,233 MW of installed generating capacity, however, would generate an average of only 4500 MW. Belo Monte would operate at peak capacity for only a couple of months during the year. During the four-to-six month-long, low-water season in the Xingu river, Belo Monte would generate as little as 1000 MW (average) of power.
To summarize, in the past decade Belo Monte was always treated as a strategic project by the Brazilian government. But should mega hydropower projects in the Amazon region be really understood as strategic? For the authors what is strategic is to meet the demand for energy services. Energy projects should be treated as energy projects only and should be evaluated under this sole perspective. Although megaprojects demand a lot from the value chain, they do not necessarily employ more than modular designs. According to Locatelli et al. (2017), megaprojects are large unique projects where public actors play a key role and are very likely to be affected by corruption. An “elephant in the room” that needs to be acknowledged and discussed; even more under a public governance where the phenomenon of corruption seems to be endemic, as has been the recent case of Brazil.
Belo Monte also has a panoply of social impacts. Displacement of the human population that inhabits the areas chosen for flooding is one of the most immediately evident impacts; more than 20,000 riverine and urban people who depend on free-flowing rivers for their livelihoods were displaced. More than 100,000 migrants arrived in Altamira in search of work. The riverine families would compete with migrants for the jobs, most of them low-paying ones. In addition, the social impacts expected and common to large construction projects, such as prostitution, drugs, alcohol, and crime, were not discussed in the manner they merit. Environmental impacts extend to the entire river basin, including changes from altered sediment and water flows as well as loss of aquatic fauna and loss or disturbance of vast areas of forests, floodplain, and other ecosystems.
The Brazil case is emblematic, but not unique. The Three Gorges Dam, in China, was classified by the International Rivers Organization as a model for disaster. The fourth-largest hydropower constructed in the world, Belo Monte, corroborates with one more failure in energy megaprojects for the literature and for society. The project failed due to mistakes in decision-making based on the conceptual project, environmental and social costs not correct allocated, contract management, financial risks, and corruption.
In statistical terms, the essential results message obtained in this work is that larger projects involve uncontrollable risks that cannot be anticipated and adequately mitigated. Economies of scale that are embedded in large projects face exposure to risk that is disproportionate to the financial savings they can generate, which leads to cost overruns and delays in the project. Decision makers should carefully evaluate “how big is too big.” More numerous small energy solutions could be more prudent from the perspective of risk management and net present value maximization. For now, before undertaking a megaproject, decision-makers should rigorously consider other alternatives.
These findings are described in the article entitled Cost overruns and delays in energy megaprojects: How big is big enough? recently published in the journal Energy Policy. This work was conducted by C. Callegari, A. Szklo, and R. Schaeffer from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. | <urn:uuid:582fe58c-11c8-4904-8a50-9276f2ac9916> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sciencetrends.com/cost-overruns-and-delays-in-energy-megaprojects-how-big-is-big-enough/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96458 | 1,417 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The Pololu Wixel is a general-purpose programmable module featuring a 2.4 GHz radio and USB. You can write your own software or load precompiled, open-source apps onto the TI CC2511F32 microcontroller at the heart of the Wixel, turning it into a wireless serial link, data logger, or whatever you need for your current project. With 29 KB of available flash and 4 KB of RAM, the Wixel is even suitable as the main controller for a robot or other system. This version ships with 0.1" male header pins installed as shown.
The Pololu Wixel is a general-purpose programmable module featuring a 2.4 GHz radio and USB. The Wixel is based on the CC2511F32 microcontroller from Texas Instruments, which has an integrated radio transceiver, 32 KB of flash memory, 4 KB of RAM, and a full-speed USB interface. A total of 15 general-purpose I/O lines are available, including 6 analog inputs, and the 0.1" pin spacing makes the Wixel easy to use with breadboards and perfboards. These features give you three main ways to use this general-purpose module:
A single Wixel can be used as a computer-interface device, such as a USB-to-serial adapter, and it can even serve as the main controller for your system. Connecting the Wixel to a computer requires a USB A to Mini-B cable or a USB A to Mini-B adapter (not included). Two or more modules are required to take advantage of the Wixel’s wireless capabilities. To help you get started with wireless communication, we offer a combination deal that includes two Wixels and a USB A to mini-B cable.
The Wixel features a built-in USB bootloader that can be used in conjunction with our free Wixel Configuration Utility software to upload custom programs or precompiled, open-source apps to the Wixel (no external programmer is required). Our growing selection of free apps lets you turn the Wixel into whatever you need for your current project. No programming experience or compiler software is required to use these apps: simply download a different app to reuse the Wixel in your next project! We plan to release additional apps in the future for wireless AVR programming, wireless sensing, wireless motor driver interfaces, and more.
Advanced users can modify apps to suit the needs of their specific projects, and the apps serve as examples for programming the CC2511. The Pololu Wixel SDK Repository on GitHub is the central location for obtaining source code and sharing modifications with the community.
Warning about radio regulations: The Wixel has not been tested or certified for conformance with any radio regulations, and the Wixel is shipped with only a bootloader that does not use the radio. The 2.4 GHz band is relatively unrestricted in many parts of the world, but it is your responsibility to comply with your local regulations if you program your Wixel to use its wireless capabilities.
Our Wireless Serial App turns a single Wixel into a USB-to-serial adapter and a pair of Wixels into a wireless USB/TTL serial link for communication between two microcontrollers (like an XBee link) or between a PC and a microcontroller. Among many other things, you can use this versatile app to enable communication between two robots or to remotely monitor or control a robot from a computer. A special version of this app is designed for use with our Wixel shield for Arduino, which makes it easy to add wireless capabilities (including wireless programmability) to an Arduino or Arduino clone.
Using an RF bit rate of 350 kbps, the serial app is capable of transmitting or receiving up to 10 KB of data per second and can reach a range of approximately 50 feet (under typical conditions indoors), and multiple serial links can be used simultaneously on different channels.
The Wixel is available in two versions:
The fully-assembled version ships with its header pins soldered in, so it is ready to be connected to your project with no soldering required.
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Engaging in an emotionally intelligent way by communicating with mindful language and expression is fundamental to EQ leadership and can have a critical impact on the quality of relationships that we have with others. November’s quote is a contemplative reminder of emotional impact:
‘People will forget what you said and will forget what you did but will never forget how you made them feel.’MAYA ANGELOU
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Continuous vs. continual
An extract from Kathy’s book clarifying word meaning differences that are often misused:
Continuous refers to something that goes on nonstop, without interruption. Continual implies repetition with intervals or breaks in the action.
*Grammar notes are dedicated to the memory of ‘Ruthless Editor’ Kathy Watson. Kathy’s book: ‘Grammar for people who hate rules’ is a helpful reference source. Link to book: https://amzn.to/2AaV5bE
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The launch of Bitcoin about a decade ago started the trend of cryptocurrencies. These days, there are thousands of different cryptocurrencies in the market (at least 18,000), and it can get overwhelming for a newbie to decide what to invest in. Just as all of the world’s real currencies aren’t on the same footing, so aren’t the ones in the crypto-verse. The market capitalization, or the market value of all circulating coins, and the risks involved are primary factors to help an investor make a decision.
What Are Cryptocurrencies?
In the broad sense, cryptocurrency implies virtual or digital money available in the form of tokens or ‘coins’ and exists on a distributed and decentralized ledger blockchain. There is no central issuing or regulating authority for cryptocurrencies. While some of these have taken their place in the physical world through credit cards or some projects, the vast majority remain virtual.
The crypto in cryptocurrency implies cryptographic techniques used to create and process digital currencies along with transactions across decentralized systems. They’re developed with mining techniques, coding, and other controls. This is based on a peer-to-peer system enabling anyone to exchange payments anywhere.
Those modeled after Bitcoin are collectively termed altcoins, presented as the modified and improved versions of Bitcoin. None have been able to match the security levels of Bitcoin’s network, while some might have additional, impressive features.
Used in place of digital currency, for payment, the value of these is transmitted across a decentralized network of users. Crypto that is not Bitcoin or Ethereum are altcoins and may be referred to as value tokens.
Intended for purposes apart from money are blockchain-based tokens. Tokens linked to a company’s or project’s value are referred to as security tokens (implying stocks). Alternatively, tokens with a particular use case or function are called utility tokens and could be used to share files across a decentralized network or provide decentralized DNS service for Internet addresses.
Based on current market trends, here are some of the popular cryptocurrencies:
Originally, cryptocurrency meant Bitcoin, which was introduced in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Having survived for more than a decade, it continues to be the dominant one in the market. It is considered an asset to invest in for long-term benefits, with a market capitalization of $880 billion. Similar to most other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin runs on a blockchain. This decentralized cryptocurrency is considered secure and safe from fraudsters since proof of work or solving a cryptographic puzzle is required to verify any additions to the distributed ledgers.
Undoubtedly one of the most well-known names, Bitcoin’s price has been on an upward trend. While a Bitcoin cost $500 in May 2016, the price has jumped by almost 9,000% to cost over $46,300 on April 1, 2022. Interestingly, Bitcoin’s market capitalization value is greater than Walt Disney’s and Mastercard’s stock value.
This cryptocurrency cum decentralized software (blockchain) platform has potential applications. It was launched in 2015 and enabled smart contracts with automatic execution upon satisfaction of certain conditions and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The NFT is a digital asset representing real-world objects of art, music, videos, etc., that can be purchased or sold online, often with cryptocurrency. It is encoded with the same underlying software.
With a market capitalization of $415 billion, Ethereum has been experiencing tremendous growth as well. From costing $11 in April 2016, its price increased by more than 31,000% to $3,450 at the beginning of April 2022. This is right behind Bitcoin as the second-largest digital currency in market capitalization.
The purpose of Ethereum is to create a decentralized suite of financial products for free access by anyone. Ether is used to run the applications on Ethereum, which is its platform-specific cryptographic token. Ethereum serves to codify, decentralize, secure, and trade anything. It’s split into Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).
This was one of the first popular stablecoins; it is a cryptocurrency backed by fiat currencies such as U.S. Dollars and Euros. The market value of this is pegged to this currency to maintain stability, consistency, and to reduce the volatility that other cryptocurrencies undergo.
Launched in 2014, the market capitalization of Tether is over $79 billion making it the third-largest. With this cryptocurrency, individuals can utilize a blockchain network or similar technologies for transactions in traditional currencies, thus minimizing the complexity of digital currencies.
Binance Coin (BNB)
This utility cryptocurrency is used for trading and paying fees on Binance Exchange, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges based on trade volumes. Following its launch in 2017, from merely trades facilitation on its exchange platform, it’s also used for trading, payment processing, and booking travel arrangements. Those paying using the token for the exchange get a discount in trade. BNB can be used for trading or exchange for alternative cryptocurrencies like Ethereum or Bitcoin.
While it was priced at $0.10 in 2017, its gain has been tremendous – almost 445,000%, resulting in its price rise to about $445 in April 2022, with a market capitalization of over $68 billion.
U.S. Dollar Coin (USDC)
This is also a stablecoin, similar to Tether, backed by U.S. dollars. The USD to USDC ratio tends to be 1:1 for stability. Ethereum powers it, and USDC can be used to complete global transactions. The market capitalization value of this stablecoin is over $53 billion.
This cryptocurrency helps power decentralized finance (DeFi uses), decentralized apps (DApps), and smart contracts. There are about 368 DApps built on top of it. This operation uses a hybrid mechanism of proof-of-stake and proof-of-history, helping in the quick and secure processing of transactions. Solana tokens to power the platform.
With its launch in 2020 at $0.77 and a 5-figure gain – of about 17,500%, its price stands at $136 on April 1, 2022. The market capitalization of Solana is $44.5 billion.
Some of the founders of Ripple, the payment processing company, and digital technology, created XRP. This is used on the network for facilitating exchanges of multiple types of currency, even fiat currencies and some cryptocurrencies.
Costing merely $0.006 at the beginning of 2017, XRP’s price rose by more than 13,700% to reach $0.83 in April 2022, with a market capitalization of $40 billion.
This ‘Ouroboros’ proof-of-stake cryptocurrency is noteworthy for embracing the proof-of-stake validation in its early stages. This was the combined efforts of engineers, mathematicians, and cryptography experts, with a research-based approach. One of the five original founding members of Ethereum co-founded this project. The blockchain of Cardano was created through extensive experimentation and research with peer-reviews.
Unlike the transaction verification process with Bitcoin, Cardano’s proof-of-stake expedites transaction time and reduces energy usage while also decreasing the environmental impact. It is also dubbed as ‘Ethereum killer.’ It enables smart contracts and decentralized applications, powered by its native token ADA.
With the eventual establishment of DeFi products like Ethereum, Cardano aims to be the world’s financial operating system. It also intends to provide solutions for legal contact tracing, voter fraud, chain interoperability, etc.
Cardano’s ADA token growth has been at a modest rate in comparison to other major cryptocurrencies, from $0.02 in 2017 to $1.17 on April 1, 2022, after an increase of almost 5,750%. The market capitalization value stands at $39 billion.
A blockchain payment platform for stablecoins, Terra maintains a balance between two cryptocurrency types. The stablecoins backed by Terra, such as TerraUSD, are tied to physical currency values. Luna, the counterweight, is the powering factor for the platform and minting more Terra stablecoins.
Terra stablecoins and Luna work to balance each other out based on supply and demand. The rising price of a stable coin over the tied currency value has users incentivized to burn their Luna to create more Terra stable coins. On the other hand, with a decreased value compared to its base currency, users are encouraged to burn their stablecoins to earn more Luna.
The price rise of this has been tremendous, from $0.64 in January 2021 to $106 at the beginning of April 2022, a 16,400% rise. The market capitalization value stands at $37.5 billion.
Supposedly the most promising cryptocurrency to buy in 2022, Avalanche, is similar to Ethereum and Cardano. The creation and execution of smart contracts powered by its native token occur through the blockchain software provided by Avalanche. This super-fast blockchain platform utilizes three chains rather than one, hence dividing tasks and increasing transaction speeds considerably. The use of two separate consensus mechanisms boosts the speed and ensures the platform’s scalability.
The price of AVAX has increased by 2,000%, from $4.63 on July 12, 2020, to $97.58 on April 1, 2022. Its market capitalization value is over $26 billion.
In what was created as a joke mocking the wild speculations in cryptocurrencies, the Dogecoin was released at the end of 2013. It was based on the popular ‘doge’ internet meme and had a Shiba Inu logo. Software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer created this open-source digital currency, and with Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweets favoring the Dogecoin, this meme coin shot into popularity. Reddit helped boost the site’s fame, and over the next two weeks, Dogecoin had a dedicated blog and forum. Dogecoin has a comparatively simpler transaction process when compared to Bitcoin, taking just about a minute to confirm, while BTC takes about 10 minutes.
The market capitalization value is about $18 billion, and the Dogecoin price is $0.14. This was used to tip on online forums and, at times, for donations and is among the top altcoins with no limits on the number of coins that can be mined. There is an unlimited supply over time.
This cryptocurrency is also an open-source blockchain platform. It works with a proof-of-stake algorithm and uses the Blind Assignment for Blockchain Extension (BABE) derived from Ouroboros. This project by a Swiss foundation is considered an Ethereum-killer. With the technology behind Polkadot, transactions are faster and cheaper than the previous cryptocurrencies.
Since its launch in May 2020, the current value of Polkadot is $17.86, and the market capitalization stands at $17 billion.
It allows interoperability and interconnectivity between blockchains to facilitate cross-chain transfers of tokens and even any data or assets. The token – DOT serves to facilitate network governance, staking for security and operations, and bonding tokens for parachains connections.
If you’re looking to get above-average returns, it would be best to look at more affordable cryptocurrency. Since these coins usually trade at a lower price, even the slightest upward trend in the market will provide satisfactory returns for investors. Here are some of the cheaper cryptocurrencies:
Lucky Block (LBLOCK)
Designed as a crypto-lottery platform, it utilizes blockchain technology for improvement over the traditional lottery systems. The platform’s native token LBLOCK is used for purchasing lotto tickets, resulting in a fair digitized process. The winners are randomly generated in a verified manner, and the contenders can vote on where charitable donations should be directed. With no geographical boundaries, users from across the globe can participate in these draws.
An additional feature is that ten percent of each jackpot is distributed to the token holders. There is also a 12% transaction fee on native token sales on the platform, which encourages users for long-term investment rather than speculative trading. Currently, this is the best crypto costing below $1.
MakerDAO, a decentralized lending platform developed on Ethereum, has its native token Maker. By locking up ETH in the protocol, users can create DAI, a stablecoin pegged to USD. With this, users can receive crypto loans and end up generating yields.
This innovative, decentralized oracle network provides off-chain data to the blockchain, which can be used by smart contracts within DApps. The sourcing of data on Chainlink’s nodes costs a fee paid in LINK. Chainlink is a network of independent oracle node operators, ensuring increased security over previous oracle services.
This is a cryptocurrency that can be bought in the DeFi space. It is a decentralized exchange (DEX) hosted on the Ethereum network, permitting users’ easy exchange of tokens. Users need not provide any personal details for transactions as this is decentralized.
Powering an ecosystem of NFTs is this Ethereum-based cryptocurrency – Enjin, the coins of which are utilized for buying and selling items in several blockchain games. Interoperability among several developers is possible using items denoted by ENJ being used across different games.
The Enjin coin is a metaverse product to promote its token as a digital asset for items in blockchain games. There is also a distribution of software development kits (SDKs) for developers to facilitate rapid integration deployment into games.
Basic Attention Token (BAT)
This unique crypto intends to revolutionize the digital advertising industry. Users of the Brave web browser are rewarded in BAT for merely watching ads. The advertisers who can create advertisements that capture users’ attention are also rewarded.
Users looking at high yields for their crypto holdings can look into Yearn Finance, a DeFi protocol. By depositing holdings into ‘vaults.
How to Buy Cryptocurrency?
Once you’ve decided which one you’re going to invest in, the next step is buying it safely.
Step 1: Choose a Platform
Cryptocurrency can be purchased through a traditional broker or a crypto exchange.
These online brokers offer easy-to-use interfaces for interaction with exchanges, offering you different ways to buy and sell cryptocurrency or various financial assets, including stocks, bonds, etc. The trading costs are typically lower on such platforms and have fewer crypto features. Some brokers charge a higher fee when compared to exchanges.
These are platforms for the trade of cryptocurrencies between buyers and sellers. The different exchanges offer different cryptocurrencies, wallet storage, interest-bearing accounts, etc. The exchange fee is often lower; however, the interfaces are complex, especially for new investors. Several exchanges charge asset-based fees, and some offer easier user-friendly purchase options.
These convenient options that are beginner-friendly come at a higher cost than buying the same crypto through the platform’s standard trading interface. You could save the costs by familiarising yourself sufficiently to use the standard trading platforms sooner.
A note to new crypto investors: ensure the chosen exchange or broker facilitates fiat currency transfers and purchases with U.S. Dollars. You’ll need to use crypto on some exchanges to buy another crypto. You’ll have to use another exchange for purchasing tokens that the chosen exchange will accept to be able to start crypto trading on your desired platform.
For selecting a platform, ensure adequate research, and compare different options available about the cryptocurrencies on offer, the fees charged, security features, and options for storage and withdrawal.
Step 2: Create and Verify Your Account
Having chosen a crypto exchange or broker, the next step is signing up to open an account. Identity verification might be required based on the platform chosen and the amount planned for purchase. Completing this step aids in preventing fraud and meeting the federal regulatory requirements.
It might not be possible to buy or sell any cryptocurrency until the verification process has been completed. This would require submitting an ID proof such as a copy of your passport or driver’s license and, at times, uploading a selfie to cross-check that your appearance matches that on the submitted documents.
Step 3: Fund Your Account
Buying crypto requires funds in your account. The money can be deposited by linking your bank account to your crypto trading account, authorizing a wire transfer, or using your debit or credit card for the payment. At times, you may have to wait for a few days to be able to use the deposited money to buy cryptocurrency. Often, crypto exchanges permit users to use fiat currencies such as USD, the British Pound, or Euros through debit or credit cards; however, this might vary on different platforms.
Purchasing crypto using a credit card is usually risky apart from being expensive. Buying crypto with a credit card is processed as cash advances by the credit card company, thus subjecting them to higher interest rates when compared to a regular purchase. Yet another factor that comes into the picture when trading in crypto is fees, which can include trading fees combined with transaction fees for deposits and withdrawals.
Step 4: Place an Order
After the deposited money reflects in your account, you can begin placing cryptocurrency orders via the broker’s or exchange’s platform. To purchase a cryptocurrency, you must select ‘buy’ to select the order type, enter the cryptocurrency amount you’d like to purchase and confirm the order. The process of selling is also similar. Most exchanges and brokers allow the purchase of fractional shares of cryptocurrency, letting you purchase a few high-priced tokens such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
The alternative ways to invest in crypto include PayPal, Cash App, and Venmo, allowing users to buy, sell, or hold cryptocurrencies. Apart from these, there are the following investment options:
- Bitcoin trusts: Buy shares of Bitcoin trusts with a regular broker account, providing crypto exposure through the stock market.
- Bitcoin mutual funds: Pick from Bitcoin ETFs and Bitcoin mutual funds.
- Bitcoin stocks or ETFs: Make a direct investment in crypto through the medium of blockchain companies specializing in the technology that runs crypto and its transactions. You could also buy company stocks or ETFs that utilize blockchain technology.
Step 5: Select a Storage Method
Cryptocurrency exchanges contain the risks of theft or hacking, not being backed by protections such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Forgetting or losing the codes for accessing your account is another common factor that could lead to the loss of your investment. These risks make it necessary to store your purchased cryptocurrency safely. If you bought crypto via a broker, there might be little or no choice on alternative storage for your cryptocurrency. On the other hand, if the purchase is through an exchange, the following options are available:
- Keep it on the exchange: An exchange usually has a crypto wallet for you to store your purchase. Suppose you aren’t satisfied with the provider partnered with your exchange or prefer to move it to a secure location. A transfer could be done to a hot or cold wallet off the exchange. A small fee payment could be required, based on your exchange and transfer size.
- Hot wallet storage: These are convenient crypto storage or wallets that use online software, providing a secure option for your cryptocurrency. They can be run on phones, computers, tablets, or any internet-connected device. Since they’re connected to the Internet, the risk of theft exists.
- Cold wallet storage: Also known as hardware wallets, cold wallets rely on offline electronic devices, hence making this a secure option for storing your cryptocurrency. Typically, external storage devices such as a USB drive or a hard drive. The risks with such devices are if you forget or lose the keycode, or if the device fails or breaks, your cryptocurrency would be lost. A similar situation could arise with hot wallets too, but some are operated by custodians who will be able to help you access your account in case you’re locked out. There is a fee associated with cold wallets that aren’t there for hot wallets.
Cryptocurrency Frauds and Scams
With the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, there has also been an increase in crimes in the crypto world.
There are several fraudulent websites featuring fake testimonials and complicated crypto jargon guaranteeing massive returns as long as you keep up with your investments.
Virtual Ponzi Schemes
The promotion of non-existential opportunities for investment in digital currencies is commonly done by crypto criminals. This creates the illusion of big returns by using the money from new investors to pay back old investors. The BitClub Network’s scam accumulated about $700 million by December 2019, before the indictment of these perpetrators.
It is common for scammers to present themselves as billionaires or famously known names, falsely promising to multiply your virtual currency investments. They spread rumors of a famous business person backing a particular cryptocurrency through messaging apps or chat rooms. Once investors are convinced, they buy crypto, hence driving the prices up. The scammers sell their stakes, thus reducing the currency value.
Dating scams are a common trend online, with frauds persuading people they connect to on online dating apps or social media to invest in cryptocurrencies. The FBI encounters thousands of crypto-based romance scams being registered on its Internet Crime Complaint Center.
At times, fraudsters appear as legitimate virtual currency traders or, by setting up bogus exchanges, trick people into spending their money by setting up bogus exchanges. Criminal hackers break into digital wallets that store cryptocurrency to steal people’s money. There are also scams involving fraudulent sales pitches promoting retirement accounts in cryptocurrency.
Tips for safe investment in Cryptocurrency
There are risks involved in all types of investments, and cryptocurrency is considered one with higher risks. You could consider these tips to help you cut down the associated risks:
It would be best to learn about cryptocurrency exchanges before investing in the same. With over 500 exchanges to select from, consider researching, reading reviews, and communicating with experienced investors before stepping into the world of crypto trading.
Storing your digital crypto
After buying cryptocurrency, storing it is extremely important, either on the exchange or digital wallet. The different kinds of wallets have different benefits, technical requirements, and security. Similar to exchanges, consider investigating your storage choices before the actual investment.
Diversification of investments
A good investment strategy is diversification, which holds even for cryptocurrency investments. Although Bitcoin might be a known name, it wouldn’t be wise to put all your money in it. Considering the vast range of options available, it would be suitable to distribute your investment across several currencies.
Preparing yourself for volatility
Since the cryptocurrency market is quite volatile, it’s expected to experience highs and lows, with dramatic price swings. If you’re not mentally prepared or your investment portfolio can’t withstand it, cryptocurrency is probably not the wise choice for you. The fact is that cryptocurrency remains in a relative infancy phase and is speculative. Investing in new domains has its challenges; hence, it’s best to be prepared with sufficient research and conservative investments.
Investing Your Cryptocurrency
Crypto enables the purchase of a wide range of products off e-commerce websites. Following are some examples of where you can invest your cryptocurrency:
Technology and E-commerce sites
Companies selling tech products on their websites often accept crypto payments. Examples of such companies are Microsoft and AT&T. One of the first sites to accept Bitcoin was the e-commerce platform – Overstock. Shopify and Home Depot also followed suit and began accepting this crypto.
Crypto is accepted as payment by some luxury retailers. The online luxury retail – Bitdials is known to offer Rolex and some high-end watches in exchange for Bitcoin.
Payment in cryptocurrency is also accepted by some of the car dealers in the market, including high-end luxury cars to mass-market brands.
In a unique development, the Swiss insurer AXA declared on April 2021 that it would accept Bitcoin payments for the various insurance schemes, except life insurance, owing to regulatory issues. Yet another US insurance company – Premier Shield Insurance, which offers insurance policies for auto and homes, accepts Bitcoin payments. A convenient option of using a cryptocurrency debit card, like BitPay, is available in the US if you desire to spend your crypto at a retailer that doesn’t directly accept it.
The world of cryptocurrencies is constantly expanding, with the possibilities of the next great digital token being released tomorrow. Before investing in the cryptocurrency market, keep in mind that one size doesn’t fit all. Based on how much you’re willing to invest, the risk factors, and the returns, making an informed decision will be easier.
How does cryptocurrency trading differ from stock trading?
Investing in cryptocurrencies differs greatly from investing in stocks. Purchasing stocks gives you a share of a company’s ownership, entitling you to participate in activities such as voting on the company’s direction. Suppose the company goes bankrupt. You’re most likely to receive compensation when the creditors get paid from liquidated assets.
On the other hand, purchasing cryptocurrency grants you the token’s owner only and is similar to currency exchange from one form to another. If the crypto goes through a loss, you don’t gain anything as well. Apart from this, there are a few key differences:
- Trading hours: The trading of stocks happens only during the stock exchange hours, i.e., 9:30 am to 4:30 pm ET, five days a week from Monday to Friday. Then there are cryptocurrency markets that never close, enabling trade 24/7.
- Regulation: Stocks have a governing body verifying their credentials since they are regulated financial products, and the finances are matters of public record. Contrary to this, cryptocurrencies aren’t regulated investments, causing you to be unaware of the inner working of the crypto or the developers behind its functioning.
- Volatility: There are risks associated with cryptocurrencies and stocks; the invested money could lose value. Stocks are associated with the respective companies and will experience rises and falls parallel to the performance of the companies. The price of cryptocurrencies is speculative with no certainty about their values; this makes it quite volatile.
Is cryptocurrency exempt from taxes?
Buying or selling crypto coins involves cryptocurrency tax rules. Like stocks, cryptocurrency is also treated as a capital asset instead of cash. Selling cryptocurrency for a profit or using crypto for purchase will require paying capital gain taxes. Suppose you’ve gained a higher value than what you’d paid. The difference amount will be taxable.
How do I start trading in cryptocurrencies?
Selling a currency is to gain cash, and buying keeps the currency until its monetary value increases. The total cryptocurrency market value exceeded $2 trillion in mid-August 2021, 44% of it comprising only Bitcoin. Owing to the faith that cryptocurrencies are expected to do exceptionally well in the future, people buy without intending to sell anytime soon, expecting the value of Bitcoin to rise by leaps and bounds.
Alternatively, day-trading is another valuable time to trade in cryptocurrencies. Once you’ve purchased a currency, you’d want to target a profit percentage within 2% and, upon reaching the target, at times within hours, sell it off soon.
How can I make money by trading cryptocurrencies?
Crypto trading, like other types of trading, involves additional expenses that one must consider when investing. Firstly, there are fees involved in exchange transactions, from the point of infusing cash to exiting investments at a profit. Secondly, when there are unexpected price variations, the tendency is to hold on to crypto for longer than expected. Finally, the year-end taxes have the income tax brackets defining the minimum profit targets for different people.
Is Cryptocurrency Safe?
The blockchain technology used for developing cryptocurrencies has transactions recorded into ‘blocks’ and time-stamped. Being a relatively complex technical process, resulting in a digital ledger of cryptocurrency transactions that makes it difficult to hack. Additionally, there is a two-factor authentication process for completing transactions. Your username and password might be required for transaction initiation. This might be followed by requiring you to enter an authentication code sent as a text to your number.
Despite the securities in place, it doesn’t imply that cryptocurrencies aren’t hackable. There have been multiple high-dollar hacks that cost heavily for cryptocurrency start-ups. The two biggest cryptocurrency hacks that made headlines in 2018 were when hackers hit Coincheck for $534 million and BitGrail for $195 million.
Since the value of virtual currencies is determined by supply and demand, this leads to unexpected, wild swings resulting either in significant gains or heavy losses for the investors. The regulatory protection subjected to traditional financial investments like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds is of far lesser magnitude for cryptocurrencies.
How does the cryptocurrency market deal with supply and demand?
The real-world currencies don’t have any hard limit on supply, while selective cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether function with limited supply. On the increase in demand, there will be an increase in the value of supply-limited items. It is the increasing demand for crypto, supply differences, and profits from rising crypto that raise the exchange values of major cryptocurrencies. | <urn:uuid:51562349-2458-4541-8fae-b60cd8bdc715> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wifiblvd.com/what-crypto-to-invest-in-the-current-day-cryptocurrency-analysis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93646 | 6,242 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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(a) Assessment of hardness uniformity throughout bar cross-sectional area; (b) Estimation of the tensile strength (TS) of the rebar using the measured Rockwell hardness values; (c) Assessment whether it is possible for the rebar to be ASTM A36 steel as some suppliers have claimed, based on the TS determined.sp.info AH36, DH36, EH36 High Strength Shipbuilding Steel Plate ...AH36, DH36, EH36 Steel Plate for Shipbuilding. Shipbuilding steel plate refers to the carbon and alloy steel plate used in offshore and marine contructions, common grades are A, B, D, E, AH32/36/40, DH32/36/40, and EH32/36/40 which ranged from different strength. The plates usually used to manufacture ship hulls, bulkheads, upper decks and ...sp.info Steel Plate Comparisons | Precision Grinding, Inc.Sep 17, 2021 · A36: A36 plate is the highest demand hot-roll steel plate in the world, as engineers specify ASTM A36 for more structural steel fabrications than any other type of plate. Among the least expensive of the carbon steels. Very good welding properties along with 36ksi yield strength. Considered a mild steel due to hardness. A572-42 A572-50sp.info ASTM A36 Carbon Steel Sheets & Plates, ASTM A36 CS Coils ...Aspirinox Alloys Inc is a recognized manufacturer supplier and exporter of ASTM A36 Carbon Steel Sheets & Plates. The offered range of A36 Steel Sheets is known as low carbon content steel plates which exhibits very good strength paired with formable properties. It is also easy to fabricate them and can be securely welded.
"AR" Steel stands for Abrasion Resistant, and this High Strength Low Alloy steel grade is considerably harder than standard Carbon Steel, with a Brinell hardness range of 360-440 BHN (Brinell scale). Fabrication of AR400 material grade has limitations due to …sp.info Materials - Steel - Carbon, Alloy, Grades | G.L. HuyettA36 – General purpose carbon steel is suitable for welding and mechanical fastening. Max. attainable Rockwell hardness is B68. Max. attainable Rockwell hardness is B68. Melting point is 2000° F. Yield strength is 36,000 psi.sp.info What is Hardness of Low-carbon Steel - Definition ...Hardness of Low-carbon Steel - ASTM A36. Brinell hardness of low-carbon steel is approximately 120 MPa. In materials science, hardness is the ability to withstand surface indentation (localized plastic deformation) and scratching.sp.info EFFECTS OF POST WELD HEAT TREATMENT ON …The Brinell hardness testing process is the last process where the result is observed from hardness value and it can be ... The A36 plate can be used for a wide range of applications, depending on the thickness and corrosion resistance of …
Jan 01, 2021 · Then, the specimens were macro-tested and hardness test to check the soundness and changes in mechanical properties in the stud heat affected zone regions. It was found that for stud welding of ASTM A36 steel, the suitable parameter is MC time between 25 and 35 ms and PC time between 20 and 60 ms.Author: Kakana Buranapunviwat, Kittichai SojiphanPublish Year: 2021sp.info ASTM A36 Plates, Special Mild Steel Plates, Manufacturer ...The features include flexibility, hardness, high tensile strength, corrosion and oxidation resistance, durability and long service life. ASTM A36 Low Carbon Steel Plates Exporters, A36 HR Plate Stockholder, ASTM A36 Hot Rolled Steel Plates, ASME SA36 Carbon Structural Steel Plate Supplier in Mumbai, India.sp.info ASTM Structural Steel Standards | Infra-Metals Co.A36 steel can maintain its strength at temperatures ranging up to 650°F. This metal is excellent for welding and produces high quality welded joints. While A36 is a strong material, it is more easily bent than materials such as C1018 steel, as it has less yield strength. Composition. The following elements generally compose A36 grade steel: 98 ...sp.info What is tensile strength of mild steel? – Restaurantnorman.comSep 08, 2019 · 1045 is a medium tensile low hardenability carbon steel generally supplied in the black hot rolled or occasionally in the normalised condition, with a typical tensile strength range 570 – 700 Mpa and Brinell hardness range 170 – 210 in either condition.
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Need for string art without nails arises because kids can often get hurt while using nails and hammer, and this prevents kids from learning to do string art.
With string art, basic Math concepts like addition and multiplication can be learnt in an easy and fun filled way.
Let us see how to go about doing this.
The first step would be to draw the string art pattern using color pens/pencils on a paper with points marked on it .
The second step would be be to string the same string art pattern.
For the first step you need:
1. A 30 points paper with numbers marked on the outer circle . Click here to download.
2. Color pencils/pens
Learning Addition: Add 9 (for example)
0 + 9 = 9 ; join 0 and 9
1 + 9 = 10 ; join 1 and 10
2 + 9 = 11 ; join 2 and 11 and so… do for all point up to 30. A pattern emerges.
For the second step you need:
1. A circular cardboard or a circular slab or frame with notches on the rim for the points.
2. Colored strings like the embroidery threads.
Or a kit with the above two like the GreaMake String Art Kit
Make a knot at 0 and start stringing from 0 to 9 in front, followed by 9 to 1 at the back, followed by 1 to 10 at the front and so on.
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How to use Big three in a sentence
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The PS2 boasts a number of exclusive games and the most expansive library of the big three.
The big three hardware companies of today have slightly different strategies for winning the video games race.
We will continue looking at the big three hardware producers in our next article on Microsoft.
Two of the big three console makers are focusing on more complex technology with a bewildering amount of features.
The big three (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo) have lots of third party support so for Microsoft, it's not a question of if.Advertisement
The big three in the athletic shoes world will usually have something to offer you, no matter the sport in which you choose to partake.
Electronic companies such as Huntsville Electronics, Temic, and Continental are all being shared not only by the Big Three but by German automakers as well.
Since 2005, Chrysler realized a substantial decrease in profits, leaving them at the bottom of the Big Three with only a 13.5% market share.
Parts supplier and vendor relationships have faced ruin, and the Big Three are looking at global suppliers to help them manufacture their automobiles.
The big three are often the focus of many of Enterprise's storylines, but the cast includes other notable faces and characters.Advertisement
When you make a list of Star Trek characters, you will most often list the big three of any series first.
In the original Star Trek, the hierarchy of officers was a key determinant of the big three.
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By Tyler Dungannon, Conservation Coordinator
OHA actively contributes to efforts to
improve wildlife habitat connectivity and
reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions across
Oregon, and we are now working as part
of the Southern Oregon Wildlife Crossing
Coalition (SOWCC) to mitigate negative
impacts of Interstate 5 south of Ashland.
Like our involvement with the Oregon
Action Team on Ungulate Migration,
SOWCC is diverse in composition and
includes representation from ODFW,
BLM, Southern Oregon University, Trout
Unlimited, and many others.
Oregon Department of Transportation
has identified several stretches of high
wildlife-vehicle collision density between Ashland and the California border.
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Cruising - Black Obsidian Carved Crystal Skull and Car Sculpture
Item ID:W4000424 Size:9.4"x3.9"x5.1"(240x100x129 mm) Weight: Material:Black Obsidian
Cruising is a crystal skull sculpture that encourages us to explore and experience the world and its many adventures and aspects that we may not normally be exposed to when we remain within the confines of that which is familiar and comfortable. The Cruising black obsidian crystal skull invites us to consider our inner being and the desires, guidance, and wisdom we may find when we are receptive to our internal and spiritual realities.
Cruising helps us to choose to experience happiness by letting go of our need to control the situations and events in our lives which we are unable to affect. The Cruising black obsidian crystal skull and car sculpture acts to inspire in us the understanding that all is as it should be. We only need to work towards being able to maintain our focus on recognizing that a situation will provide the experiences we require for our continued growth, knowing the outcome will always be to the benefit of all.
Black obsidian has been used for scrying and facilitating intuition for thousands of years. It is an excellent stone to assist in seeing past illusion to discern truth, and to understand universal and spiritual laws, and oneself. Obsidian is considered an extremely effective stone of protection, and a very powerful energy mover, as well as an excellent filter for absorbing negativity from its surroundings. Obsidian can be programmed to transmute this negativity to a different expression of energy, or can be cleansed regularly by smudging with smoke, washing with running water, associating it with other crystals, and more methods.
Obsidian is effective for removal of blockages and bringing courage to face and overcome fears. Black obsidian is commonly considered to be quite powerful and caution is recommended when using it. It is wise to be prepared for the speed of the transfer of energy and information. Conscious programming prior to use is one way to address this quality of black obsidian. One explanation for the excessive power of obsidian could be the elemental forces at work during its formation. Volcanic lava, Earth and Fire, join with Water to cool the material so quickly there is no time for crystallization.
Black obsidian possesses an excellent grounding energy, and assists one to find and maintain a clear and focused mental acuity. It can help to temper emotional reactions and bring balance and consideration to one’s life and mental processes. It protects against negativity and assists one to release disharmony, resentment of self and others, and anger and fear caused by one’s reactions to the situations and challenges one faces as a part of life.
Physically black obsidian is used for pain relief and detoxifying the body. It speeds healing of wounds, improves circulation and brings warmth to the extremities, assists in the digestion processes, helps reduce cravings for foods, and can be helpful for reducing an enlarged prostate.
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Better known as The Invisible Man in media circles. He discusses the social concerns of his home country through his artistic practice, most prominently through his ‘camouflage’ installations. Traversing mediums such as performance, photography, Liu Bolin dissects the tense relationship between the individual and society by ‘disappearing’ into environments which are sites of contention and criticism.
His “Hiding in the City” series has been displayed in numerous museums and institutions across the globe. His artistic commitment began in the 1990s as China was recovering from the devastating effects of the Cultural Revolution, with its economic development on the upswing and the stabilization of its political situation. Liu’s photographs and sculptures have been exhibited in many museums and institutions worldwide. He has collaborated with prominent artists including Kenny Scharf, JR, Jon Bon Jovi, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Fernando Botero, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Annie Leibovitz.
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Jabir's works contain the oldest known systematic classification of chemical substances, and the oldest known instructions for deriving an inorganic compound (sal ammoniac or ammonium chloride) from organic substances (such as plants, blood, and hair) by chemical means. His works also contain one of the earliest known versions of the sulfur-mercury theory of metals, a mineralogical theory that would remain dominant until the 18th century.
A significant part of Jabir's writings were informed by a philosophical theory known as "the science of the balance" (Arabic: ʿilm al-mīzān), which was aimed at reducing all phenomena (including material substances and their elements) to a system of measures and quantitative proportions. The Jabirian works also contain some of the earliest preserved Shi'ite eschatological, soteriological and imamological doctrines, which Jabir presented as deriving from his purported master, the Shi'ite Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq.
As early as the 10th century, the identity and exact corpus of works of Jabir was in dispute in Islamic scholarly circles. The authorship of all these works by a single figure, and even the existence of a historical Jabir, are also doubted by modern scholars. Instead, Jabir ibn Hayyan is thought to have been a pseudonym used by an anonymous school of Shi'ite alchemists writing in the late 9th and early 10th centuries.
Some Arabic Jabirian works (e.g., The Great Book of Mercy, and The Book of Seventy) were translated into Latin under the Latinized name Geber, and in 13th-century Europe an anonymous writer, usually referred to as pseudo-Geber, started to produce alchemical and metallurgical writings under this name.
Artistic impression of Jabir and his master Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq.
It is not clear whether Jabir ibn Hayyan ever existed as a historical person. He is purported to have lived in the 8th century, and to have been a disciple of the Shi'ite ImamJaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (died 765). However, he is not mentioned in any historical source before c. 900, and the first known author to write about Jabir from a biographical point of view was the BaghdadibibliographerIbn al-Nadīm (c. 932–995). In his Fihrist ("The Book Catalogue", written in 987), Ibn al-Nadīm compiled a list of Jabir's works, adding a short notice on the various claims that were then circulating about Jabir. Already in Ibn al-Nadīm's time, there were some people who explicitly asserted that Jabir had never existed, although Ibn al-Nadīm himself disagreed with this claim. Jabir was often ignored by medieval Islamic biographers and historians, but especially significant is the fact that early Shi'ite biographers such as Aḥmad al-Barqī (died c. 893), Abū ʿAmr al-Kashshī (first half of the 10th century), Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Najāshī (983–1058), and Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭūsī (995–1067), who wrote long volumes on the companions of the Shi'ite Imams (including the many companions of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq), did not mention Jabir at all.
Dating of the Jabirian corpus
Apart from outright denying his existence, there were also some who, already in Ibn al-Nadīm's time, questioned whether the writings attributed to Jabir were really written by him. The authenticity of these writings was expressly denied by the Bagdhadi philosopher Abū Sulaymān al-Sijistānī (c. 912–985) and his pupil Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (c. 932–1023), though this may have been related to the hostility of both these thinkers to alchemy in general. Modern scholarly analysis has tended to confirm the inauthenticity of the writings attributed to Jabir. Much of the philosophical terminology used in the Jabirian treatises was only coined around the middle of the 9th century, and some of the Greek philosophical texts cited in the Jabirian writings are known to have been translated into Arabic towards the end of the 9th century. Moreover, an important part of the corpus deals with early Shi'ite religious philosophy that is elsewhere only attested in late 9th-century and early 10th-century sources. As a result, the dating of the Jabirian corpus to c. 850–950 has been widely accepted in modern scholarship. However, it has also been noted that many Jabirian treatises show clear signs of having been redacted multiple times, and the writings as we now have them may well have been based on an earlier 8th-century core. Despite the obscurity involved, it is not impossible that some of these writings, in their earliest form, were written by a real Jabir ibn Hayyan. In any case, it is clear that Jabir's name was used as a pseudonym by one or more anonymous Shi'ite alchemists writing in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, who also redacted the corpus as we now know it.
Biographical clues and legend
Jabir was generally known by the kunya Abū Mūsā ("Father of Mūsā"), or sometimes Abū ʿAbd Allāh ("Father of ʿAbd Allāh"), and by the nisbas (attributive names) al-Ṣūfī, al-Azdī, al-Kūfī, or al-Ṭūsī. His grandfather's name is mentioned by Ibn al-Nadim as ʿAbd Allāh. If the attribution of the name al-Azdī to Jabir is authentic, this would point to his affiliation with the Southern-Arabian (Yemenite) tribe of the Azd. However, it is not clear whether Jabir was an Arab belonging to the Azd tribe, or a non-Arab Muslim client (mawlā) of the Azd. If he was a non-Arab Muslim client of the Azd, he is most likely to have been Persian, given his ties with eastern Iran (his nisba al-Ṭūsī also points to Tus, a city in Khurasan). According to Ibn al-Nadīm, Jabir hailed from Khurasan (eastern Iran), but spent most of his life in Kufa (Iraq), both regions where the Azd tribe was well-settled. Various late reports put his date of death between 806 (190 AH) and 816 (200 AH).
Given the lack of independent biographical sources, most of the biographical information about Jabir can be traced back to the Jabirian writings themselves. There are references throughout the Jabirian corpus to the Shi'ite Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (died 765), whom Jabir generally calls "my master" (Arabic: sayyidī), and whom he represents as the original source of all his knowledge. In one work, Jabir is also represented as an associate of the Bactrianvizier family of the Barmakids, whereas Ibn al-Nadīm reports that some claimed Jabir to have been especially devoted to Jaʿfar ibn Yaḥyā al-Barmakī (767–803), the Abbasid vizier of One Thousand and One Nights fame. Jabir's links with the Abbasids were stressed even more by later tradition, which turned him into a favorite of the Abbasid caliphHārūn Ar-Rashīd (c. 763–809, also of One Thousand and One Nights fame), for whom Jabir would have composed a treatise on alchemy, and who would have commanded the translation of Greek works into Arabic on Jabir's instigation.
Given Jabir's purported ties with both the Shi'ite Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and the Barmakid family (who served the Abbasids as viziers), or with the Abbasid caliphs themselves, it has sometimes been thought plausible that Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār ("Hayyan the Druggist"), a proto-Shi'ite activist who was fighting for the Abbasid cause in the early 8th century, may have been Jabir's father (Jabir's name "Ibn Hayyan" literally means "The Son of Hayyan"). Although there is no direct evidence supporting this hypothesis, it fits very well in the historical context, and it allows us to think of Jabir, however obscure, as a historical figure. However, it has recently been shown that Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār was a client (mawlā) of the Nakhaʿ tribe, which renders it highly improbable that he should have been the father of Jabir.
The Jabirian corpus
There are about 600 Arabic works attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan that are known by name, approximately 215 of which are still extant today. Though some of these are full-length works (e.g., The Great Book on Specific Properties), most of them are relatively short treatises and belong to larger collections (The One Hundred and Twelve Books, The Five Hundred Books, etc.) in which they function rather more like chapters. When the individual chapters of some full-length works are counted as separate treatises too, the total length of the corpus may be estimated at about 3000 treatises/chapters.
The overwhelming majority of Jabirian treatises that are still extant today deal with alchemy or chemistry (though these may also contain religious speculations, and discuss a wide range of other topics ranging from cosmology to grammar). Nevertheless, there are also a few extant treatises which deal with magic, i.e., "the science of talismans" (ʿilm al-ṭilasmāt, a form of theurgy) and "the science of specific properties" (ʿilm al-khawāṣṣ, the science dealing with the hidden powers of mineral, vegetable and animal substances, and with their practical applications in medical and various other pursuits). Other writings dealing with a great variety of subjects were also attributed to Jabir (this includes such subjects as engineering, medicine, pharmacology, zoology, botany, logic, metaphysics, mathematics, astronomy and astrology), but almost all of these are lost today.
Note that Paul Kraus, who first catalogued the Jabirian writings and whose numbering will be followed here, conceived of his division of Jabir's alchemical writings (Kr. nos. 5–1149) as roughly chronological in order.
The Great Book of Mercy (Kitāb al-Raḥma al-kabīr, Kr. no. 5): This was considered by Kraus to be the oldest work in the corpus, from which it may have been relatively independent. Some 10th-century skeptics considered it to be the only authentic work written by Jabir himself. The Persian physician, alchemist and philosopherAbū Bakr al-Rāzī (c. 865–925) appears to have written a (lost) commentary on it. It was translated into Latin in the 13th century under the title Liber Misericordiae.
The One Hundred and Twelve Books (al-Kutub al-miʾa wa-l-ithnā ʿashar, Kr. nos. 6–122): This collection consists of relatively independent treatises dealing with different practical aspects of alchemy, often framed as an explanation of the symbolic allusions of the 'ancients'. An important role is played by organic alchemy. Its theoretical foundations are similar to those of The Seventy Books (i.e., the reduction of bodies to the elements fire, air, water and earth, and of the elements to the 'natures' hot, cold, moist, and dry), though their exposition is less systematic. Just like in The Seventy Books, the quantitative directions in The One Hundred and Twelve Books are still of a practical and 'experimental' rather than of a theoretical and speculative nature, such as will be the case in The Books of the Balances. The first four treatises in this collection, i.e., the three-part Book of the Element of the Foundation (Kitāb Usṭuqus al-uss, Kr. nos. 6–8, the second part of which contains an early version of the famous Emerald Tablet attributed to Hermes Trismegistus) and a commentary on it (Tafsīr kitāb al-usṭuqus, Kr. no. 9), have been translated into English.
The Seventy Books (al-Kutub al-sabʿūn, Kr. nos. 123–192) (also called The Book of Seventy, Kitāb al-Sabʿīn): This contains a systematic exposition of Jabirian alchemy, in which the several treatises form a much more unified whole as compared to The One Hundred and Twelve Books. It is organized into seven parts, containing ten treatises each: three parts dealing with the preparation of the elixir from animal, vegetable, and mineral substances, respectively; two parts dealing with the four elements from a theoretical and practical point of view, respectively; one part focusing on the alchemical use of animal substances, and one part focusing on minerals and metals. It was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114–1187) under the title Liber de Septuaginta.
Ten books added to the Seventy (ʿasharat kutub muḍāfa ilā l-sabʿīn, Kr. nos. 193–202): The sole surviving treatise from this small collection (The Book of Clarification, Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ, Kr. no. 195) briefly discusses the different methods for preparing the elixir, criticizing the philosophers who have only expounded the method of preparing the elixir starting from mineral substances, to the exclusion of vegetable and animal substances.
The Ten Books of Rectifications (al-Muṣaḥḥaḥāt al-ʿashara, Kr. nos. 203–212): Relates the successive improvements (“rectifications”, muṣaḥḥaḥāt) brought to the art by such 'alchemists' as 'Pythagoras' (Kr. no. 203), 'Socrates' (Kr. no. 204), 'Plato' (Kr. no. 205), 'Aristotle' (Kr. no. 206), 'Archigenes' (Kr. nos. 207–208), 'Homer' (Kr. no. 209), 'Democritus' (Kr. no. 210), Ḥarbī al-Ḥimyarī (Kr. no. 211), and Jabir himself (Kr. no. 212). The only surviving treatise from this small collection (The Book of the Rectifications of Plato, Kitāb Muṣaḥḥaḥāt Iflāṭūn, Kr. no. 205) is divided into 90 chapters: 20 chapters on processes using only mercury, 10 chapters on processes using mercury and one additional 'medicine' (dawāʾ), 30 chapters on processes using mercury and two additional 'medicines', and 30 chapters on processes using mercury and three additional 'medicines'. All of these are preceded by an introduction describing the laboratory equipment mentioned in the treatise.
The Twenty Books (al-Kutub al-ʿishrūn, Kr. nos. 213–232): Only one treatise (The Book of the Crystal, Kitāb al-Billawra, Kr. no. 220) and a long extract from another one (The Book of the Inner Consciousness, Kitāb al-Ḍamīr, Kr. no. 230) survive.The Book of the Inner Consciousness appears to deal with the subject of specific properties (khawāṣṣ) and with talismans (ṭilasmāt).
The Seventeen Books (Kr. nos. 233–249); three treatises added to the Seventeen Books (Kr. nos. 250–252); thirty unnamed books (Kr. nos. 253–282); The Four Treatises and some related treatises (Kr. nos. 283–286, 287–292); The Ten Books According to the Opinion of Balīnās, the Master of Talismans (Kr. nos. 293–302): Of these, only three treatises appear to be extant, i.e., the Kitāb al-Mawāzīn (Kr. no. 242), the Kitāb al-Istiqṣāʾ (Kr. no. 248), and the Kitāb al-Kāmil (Kr. no. 291).
The Books of the Balances (Kutub al-Mawāzīn, Kr. nos. 303–446): This collection appears to have consisted of 144 treatises of medium length, 79 of which are known by name and 44 of which are still extant. Though relatively independent from each other and devoted to a very wide range of topics (cosmology, grammar, music theory, medicine, logic, metaphysics, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, etc.), they all approach their subject matter from the perspective of "the science of the balance" (ʿilm al-mīzān, a theory which aims at reducing all phenomena to a system of measures and quantitative proportions).The Books of the Balances are also an important source for Jabir's speculations regarding the apparition of the "two brothers" (al-akhawān), a doctrine which was later to become of great significance to the Egyptian alchemist Ibn Umayl (c. 900–960).
The Five Hundred Books (al-Kutub al-Khamsumiʾa, Kr. nos. 447–946): Only 29 treatises in this collection are known by name, 15 of which are extant. Its contents appear to have been mainly religious in nature, with moral exhortations and alchemical allegories occupying an important place. Among the extant treatises, The Book of the Glorious (Kitāb al-Mājid, Kr. no. 706) and The Book of Explication (Kitāb al-Bayān, Kr. no. 785) are notable for containing some of the earliest preserved Shi'iteeschatological, soteriological and imamological doctrines. Intermittent extracts from The Book of Kingship (Kitāb al-Mulk, Kr. no. 454) exist in a Latin translation under the title Liber regni.
The Books on the Seven Metals (Kr. nos. 947–956): Seven treatises which are closely related to The Books of the Balances, each one dealing with one of Jabir's seven metals (respectively gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, and khārṣīnī or "chinese metal"). In one manuscript, these are followed by the related three-part Book of Concision (Kitāb al-Ījāz, Kr. nos. 954–956).
Diverse alchemical treatises (Kr. nos. 957–1149): In this category, Kraus placed a large number of named treatises which he could not with any confidence attribute to one of the alchemical collections of the corpus. According to Kraus, some of them may actually have been part of The Five Hundred Books.
Among the surviving Jabirian treatises, there are also a number of relatively independent treatises dealing with "the science of talismans" (ʿilm al-ṭilasmāt, a form of theurgy) and with "the science of specific properties" (ʿilm al-khawāṣṣ, i.e., the science dealing with the hidden powers of mineral, vegetable and animal substances, and with their practical applications in medical and various other pursuits). These are:
The Book of Fifty (Kitāb al-Khamsīn, perhaps identical to The Great Book on Talismans, Kitāb al-Ṭilasmāt al-kabīr, Kr. nos. 1825–1874): This work, only extracts of which are extant, deals with subjects such as the theoretical basis of theurgy, specific properties, astrology, and demonology.
The Great Book on Specific Properties (Kitāb al-Khawāṣṣ al-kabīr, Kr. nos. 1900–1970): This is Jabir's main work on "the science of specific properties" (ʿilm al-khawāṣṣ), i.e., the science dealing with the hidden powers of mineral, vegetable and animal substances, and with their practical applications in medical and various other pursuits. However, it also contains a number of chapters on "the science of the balance" (ʿilm al-mīzān, a theory which aims at reducing all phenomena to a system of measures and quantitative proportions).
The Book of the King (Kitāb al-Malik, kr. no. 1985): Short treatise on the effectiveness of talismans.
The Book of Black Magic (Kitāb al-Jafr al-aswad, Kr. no. 1996): This treatise is not mentioned in any other Jabirian work.
Other extant writings
Writings on a wide variety of other topics were also attributed to Jabir. Most of these are lost (see below), except for:
The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145): on pharmacology.
The Book of Comprehensiveness (Kitāb al-Ishtimāl, Kr. no. 2715): a long extract of this philosophical treatise is preserved by the poet and alchemist al-Ṭughrāʾī (1061–c. 1121).
Although a significant number of the Jabirian treatises on alchemy and magic do survive, many of them are also lost. Apart from two surviving treatises (see immediately above), Jabir's many writings on other topics are all lost:
Catalogues (Kr. nos. 1–4): There are three catalogues which Jabir is said to have written of his own works (Kr. nos. 1–3), and one Book on the Order of Reading our Books (Kitāb Tartīb qirāʾat kutubinā, Kr. no. 4). They are all lost.
The Books on Stratagems (Kutub al-Ḥiyal, Kr. nos. 1150–1449) and The Books on Military Stratagems and Tricks (Kutub al-Ḥiyal al-ḥurūbiyya wa-l-makāyid, Kr. nos. 1450–1749): Two large collections on 'mechanical tricks' (the Arabic word ḥiyal translates Greek μηχαναί, mēchanai) and military engineering, both lost.
Medical and pharmacological writings (Kr. nos. 2000–2499): Seven treatises are known by name, the only one extant being The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145). Kraus also included into this category a lost treatise on zoology (The Book of Animals, Kitāb al-Ḥayawān, Kr. no. 2458) and a lost treatise on botany (The Book of Plants or The Book of Herbs, Kitāb al-Nabāt or Kitāb al-Ḥashāʾish, Kr. no. 2459).
Philosophical writings (Kutub al-falsafa, Kr. nos. 2500–2799): Under this heading, Kraus mentioned 23 works, most of which appear to deal with Aristotelian philosophy (titles include, e.g., The Books of Logic According to the Opinion of Aristotle, Kr. no. 2580; The Book of Categories, Kr. no. 2582; The Book on Interpretation, Kr. no. 2583; The Book of Metaphysics, Kr. no. 2681; The Book of the Refutation of Aristotle in his Book On the Soul, Kr. no. 2734). Of one treatise (The Book of Comprehensiveness, Kitāb al-Ishtimāl, Kr. no. 2715) a long extract is preserved by the poet and alchemist al-Ṭughrāʾī (1061–c. 1121), but all other treatises in this group are lost.
Mathematical, astronomical and astrological writings (Kr. nos. 2800–2899): Thirteen treatises in this category are known by name, all of which are lost. Notable titles include a Book of Commentary on Euclid (Kitāb Sharḥ Uqlīdiyas, Kr. no. 2813), a Commentary on the Book of the Weight of the Crown by Archimedes (Sharḥ kitāb wazn al-tāj li-Arshamīdas, Kr. no. 2821), a Book of Commentary on the Almagest (Kitāb Sharḥ al-Majisṭī, Kr. no. 2834), a Subtle Book on Astronomical Tables (Kitāb al-Zāj al-laṭīf, Kr. no. 2839), a Compendium on the Astrolabe from a Theoretical and Practical Point of View (Kitāb al-jāmiʿ fī l-asṭurlāb ʿilman wa-ʿamalan, Kr. no. 2845), and a Book of the Explanation of the Figures of the Zodiac and Their Activities (Kitāb Sharḥ ṣuwar al-burūj wa-afʿālihā, Kr. no. 2856).
Religious writings (Kr. nos. 2900–3000): Apart from those known to belong to The Five Hundred Books (see above), there are a number of religious treatises whose exact place in the corpus is uncertain, all of which are lost. Notable titles include Books on the Shi'ite Schools of Thought (Kutub fī madhāhib al-shīʿa, Kr. no. 2914), Our Books on the Transmigration of the Soul (Kutubunā fī l-tanāsukh, Kr. no. 2947), The Book of the Imamate (Kitāb al-Imāma, Kr. no. 2958), and The Book in Which I Explained the Torah (Kitābī alladhī fassartu fīhi al-tawrāt, Kr. no. 2982).
Greco-Egyptian, Byzantine and Persian alchemy
Artistic impression of Jabir.
The Jabirian writings contain a number of references to Greco-Egyptian alchemists such as pseudo-Democritus (fl. c. 60), Mary the Jewess (fl. c. 0–300), Agathodaemon (fl. c. 300), and Zosimos of Panopolis (fl. c. 300), as well as to legendary figures such as Hermes Trismegistus and Ostanes, and to scriptural figures such as Moses and Jesus (to whom a number of alchemical writings were also ascribed). However, these references may have been meant as an appeal to ancient authority rather than as an acknowledgement of any intellectual borrowing, and in any case Jabirian alchemy was very different from what is found in the extant Greek alchemical treatises: it was much more systematic and coherent, it made much less use of allegory and symbols, and a much more important place was occupied by philosophical speculations and their application to laboratory experiments. Furthermore, whereas Greek alchemical texts had been almost exclusively focused on the use of mineral substances (i.e., on 'inorganic chemistry'), Jabirian alchemy pioneered the use of vegetable and animal substances, and so represented an innovative shift towards 'organic chemistry'.
Nevertheless, there are some important theoretical similarities between Jabirian alchemy and contemporary Byzantine alchemy, and even though the Jabirian authors do not seem to have known Byzantine works that are extant today such as the alchemical works attributed to the Neoplatonic philosophers Olympiodorus (c. 495–570) and Stephanus of Alexandria (fl. c. 580–640), it seems that they were at least partly drawing on a parallel tradition of theoretical and philosophical alchemy. In any case, the writings actually used by the Jabirian authors appear to have mainly consisted of alchemical works falsely attributed to ancient philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Apollonius of Tyana, only some of which are still extant today, and whose philosophical content still needs to be determined.
One of the innovations in Jabirian alchemy was the addition of sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) to the category of chemical substances known as 'spirits' (i.e., strongly volatile substances). This included both naturally occurring sal ammoniac and synthetic ammonium chloride as produced from organic substances, and so the addition of sal ammoniac to the list of 'spirits' is likely a product of the new focus on organic chemistry. Since the word for sal ammoniac used in the Jabirian corpus (nošāder) is Iranian in origin, it has been suggested that the direct precursors of Jabirian alchemy may have been active in the Hellenizing and Syriacizing schools of the Sassanid Empire.
Elements and natures
By Jabir's time Aristotelian physics had become Neoplatonic. Each Aristotelian element was composed of these qualities: fire was both hot and dry, earth, cold and dry, water cold and moist, and air, hot and moist. In the Jabirian corpus, these qualities came to be called "natures" (ṭabāʾiʿ), and elements are said to be composed of these 'natures', plus an underlying "substance" (jawhar). In metals two of these 'natures' were interior and two were exterior. For example, lead was cold and dry and gold was hot and moist. Thus, Jabir theorized, by rearranging the natures of one metal, a different metal would result. Like Zosimos, Jabir believed this would require a catalyst, an al-iksir, the elusive elixir that would make this transformation possible – which in European alchemy became known as the philosopher's stone.
The sulfur-mercury theory of metals
The sulfur-mercury theory of metals, though first attested in pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's The Secret of Creation (Sirr al-khalīqa, late 8th or early 9th century, but largely based on older sources), was also adopted by the Jabirian authors. According to the Jabirian version of this theory, metals form in the earth through the mixing of sulfur and mercury. Depending on the quality of the sulfur, different metals are formed, with gold being formed by the most subtle and well-balanced sulfur. This theory, which is ultimately based on ancient meteorological speculations such as those found in Aristotle's Meteorology, has formed the basis of all theories of metallic composition until the 18th century.
^Newman 1985; Newman 1991, pp. 57–103. It has been argued by Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan that the pseudo-Geber works were actually translated into Latin from the Arabic (see Al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. "The Arabic Origin of the Summa and Geber Latin Works: A Refutation of Berthelot, Ruska, and Newman Based on Arabic Sources", in: al-Hassan 2009, pp. 53–104; also available online).
^References to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq occur throughout the Jabirian corpus (see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. xxxvi–xxxvii). See also below.
^Nomanul Haq 1994, pp. 230–242 has argued that one of these translations of Greek philosophical texts cited by Jabir actually dates to the 8th century, but this was contradicted by Gannagé 1998, pp. 427–449 (cf. Delva 2017, p. 38, note 14).
^Nomanul Haq 1994, p. 33, note 1. The kunya Abū ʿAbd Allāh only occurs in Ibn al-Nadīm (see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, p. xliii, note 5). Ibn Khallikān (1211–1282) gives Jabir's nisba as al-Ṭarsūsī, or in some manuscripts as al-Tarṭūsī, but these are most likely scribal errors for al-Ṭūsī (see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, p. xli, note 3).
^Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, p. xli, note 9. Kraus adds that ʿAbd Allāh as the name of Jabir's grandfather is also mentioned in Jabir's Kitāb al-Najīb (Kr. no. 977).
^Ruska 1923b, p. 57 still thought the attribution to Jabir of the name al-Azdī to be false. Later sources assume its authenticity.
^Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, p. xli, note 1; Delva 2017, p. 36. In the 8th century, it was still necessary for non-Arabs to secure an affiliation with an Arab tribe in order to be allowed to convert to Islam.
^This even holds for most of what was written by Ibn al-Nadīm; see Delva 2017, pp. 38–39.
^Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. xxxvi-xxxvii. That the references are indeed to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq is made clear by the Shi'ite context in which they occur, and by the fact that Jaʿfar's patronymic "ibn Muḥammad" is sometimes included (see Holmyard 1927, pp. 34–35; Ruska 1927, p. 42). Ibn al-Nadīm's isolated statement that some claimed "my master" to refer to Jaʿfar ibn Yaḥyā al-Barmakī was called "arbitrary" by Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, p. xliv, note 2.
^Kraus 1931, pp. 28–29; cf. Delva 2017, p. 36, note 3. Kraus expressly compared the seemingly legendary tales about Jabir and the Barmakids with those of the One Thousand and One Nights.
^See, e.g., The Great Book on Specific Properties, whose 71 chapters are counted by Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. 148–152 as nos. 1900–1970. Note, however, that this procedure is not always followed: e.g., even though The Book of the Rectifications of Plato consists of 90 chapters, it is still counted as only one treatise (Kr. no. 205, see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. 64–67).
^This is the number arrived at by Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I. Kraus' method of counting has been criticized by Nomanul Haq 1994, pp. 11–12, who warns that "we should view with a great deal of suspicion any arguments for a plurality of authors which is based on Kraus' inflated estimate of the volume of the Jabirian corpus".
^See the section 'Alchemical writings' below. Religious speculations occur throughout the corpus (see, e.g., Lory 2016), but are especially prominent in The Five Hundred Books (see below). The Books of the Balances deal with alchemy from a philosophical and theoretical point of view, and contain treatises devoted to a wide range of topics (see below).
^See the section 'Writings on magic (talismans, specific properties)' below. Kraus refers to ʿilm al-ṭilasmāt as "théurgie" (theurgy) throughout; see, e.g., Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. 75, 143, et pass. On "the science of specific properties" (ʿilm al-khawāṣṣ), see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. II, pp. 61–95.
^Only one full work (The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects, Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145, medical/pharmacological) and a long extract of another one (The Book of Comprehensiveness, Kitāb al-Ishtimāl, Kr. no. 2715, philosophical) are still extant today; see the section 'Other writings' below, with Sezgin 1971, pp. 264–265. Sezgin 1971, pp. 268–269 also lists 30 extant works which were not known to Kraus, and whose subject matter and place in the corpus has not yet been determined.
^Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I. Kraus based this order on an extensive analysis of the many internal references to other treatises in the corpus. A slightly different chronological order is postulated by Sezgin 1971, pp. 231–258 (who places The Books of the Balances after The Five Hundred Books, see pp. 252–253).
^Zirnis 1979, pp. 64–65, 90. Jabir explicitly notes that the version of the Emerald Tablet quoted by him is taken from "Balīnās the Sage" (i.e., pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana), although it differs slightly from the (probably even earlier) version preserved in pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khalīqa (The Secret of Creation): see Weisser 1980, p. 46.
^Edited by Berthelot 1906, pp. 310–363; the Latin translation of one of the seventy treatises (The Book of the Thirty Words, Kitāb al-Thalāthīn kalima, Kr. no. 125, translated as Liber XXX verborum) was separately edited by Colinet 2000, pp. 179–187. In the ms. used by Berthelot, the name of the translator appears as a certain Renaldus Cremonensis (Berthelot 1906, p. 310, cf. Forster 2018). However, a medieval list of the works translated by Gerard of Cremona (Latin: Gerardus Cremonensis) mentions the Liber de Septuaginta as one of the three alchemical works translated by the magister (see Burnett 2001, p. 280, cf. Moureau 2020, pp. 106, 111).
^Ḥarbī al-Ḥimyarī occurs several times in the Jabirian writings as one of Jabir's teachers. He supposedly was 463 years old when Jabir met him (see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, p. xxxvii). According to Sezgin 1971, p. 127, the fact that Jabir dedicated a book to Ḥarbī's contributions to alchemy points to the existence in Jabir's time of a written work attributed to him.
^All of the preceding in Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. 64–67. On the meaning here of muṣaḥḥaḥāt, see esp. p. 64 n. 1 and the accompanying text. See also Sezgin 1971, pp. 160–162, 167–168, 246–247.
^Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, p. 69. On "the science of specific properties" (ʿilm al-khawāṣṣ, i.e., the science dealing with the hidden powers of mineral, vegetable and animal substances, and with their practical applications in medical and various other pursuits), see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. II, pp. 61–95.
^A number of non-extant treatises (Kr. nos. 1750, 1778, 1795, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1994) are also discussed by Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. 142–154. Kraus refers to ʿilm al-ṭilasmāt as "théurgie" (theurgy) throughout; see, e.g., Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. 75, 143, et pass. On "the science of specific properties" (ʿilm al-khawāṣṣ), see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. II, pp. 61–95.
^On "the science of specific properties" (ʿilm al-khawāṣṣ), see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. II, pp. 61–95.
^Kraus 1942–1943, vol. I, pp. 148–152. The theory of the balance, which is mainly expounded in The Books of the Balances (Kr. nos. 303–446, see above), is extensively discussed by Kraus 1942–1943, vol. II, pp. 187–303; see also Lory 1989, pp. 130–150.
Zirnis, Peter (1979). The Kitāb Usṭuqus al-uss of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Unpublished PhD diss.). New York University. (contains an annotated copy of the Kitāb Usṭuqus al-uss with English translation)
Latin translations of Arabic Jabirian texts
Berthelot, Marcellin (1906). "Archéologie et Histoire des sciences". Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France. 49. (pp. 310–363 contain an edition of the Latin translation of Jabir's Seventy Books under the title Liber de Septuaginta)
Colinet, Andrée (2000). "Le Travail des quatre éléments ou lorsqu'un alchimiste byzantin s'inspire de Jabir". In Draelants, Isabelle; Tihon, Anne; Van den Abeele, Baudouin (eds.). Occident et Proche-Orient: Contacts scientifiques au temps des Croisades. Actes du colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve, 24 et 25 mars 1997. Reminisciences. Vol. 5. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 165–190. doi:10.1484/M.REM-EB.6.09070802050003050101010600. ISBN978-2-503-51116-0. (pp. 179–187 contain an edition of the Latin translation of a separate treatise belonging to Jabir’s Seventy Books, i.e., The Book of the Thirty Words, Kitāb al-Thalāthīn kalima, Kr. no. 125, translated as Liber XXX verborum)
Darmstaedter, Ernst (1925). "Liber Misericordiae Geber: Eine lateinische Übersetzung des gröβeren Kitâb l-raḥma". Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin. 17 (4): 181–197. (edition of the Latin translation of Jabir’s The Great Book of Mercy, Kitāb al-Raḥma al-kabīr, Kr. no. 5, under the title Liber Misericordiae)
Note that some other Latin works attributed to Jabir/Geber (Summa perfectionis, De inventione veritatis, De investigatione perfectionis, Liber fornacum, Testamentum Geberi, and Alchemia Geberi) are widely considered to be pseudepigraphs which, though largely drawing on Arabic sources, were originally written by Latin authors in the 13th–14th centuries (see pseudo-Geber); see Moureau 2020, p. 112; cf. Forster 2018.
al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. (2009). Studies in al-Kimya': Critical Issues in Latin and Arabic Alchemy and Chemistry. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN978-3-487-14273-9. (the same content and more is also available online) (argues against the great majority of scholars that the Latin Geber works were translated from the Arabic and that ethanol and mineral acids were known in early Arabic alchemy)
Capezzone, Leonardo (2020). "The Solitude of the Orphan: Ǧābir b. Ḥayyān and the Shiite Heterodox Milieu of the Third/Ninth–Fourth/Tenth Centuries". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 83 (1): 51–73. doi:10.1017/S0041977X20000014. S2CID214044897. (recent study of Jabirian Shi'ism, arguing that it was not of a form of Isma'ilism, but an independent sectarian current related to the late 9th-century Shi'ites known as ghulāt)
Corbin, Henry (1950). "Le livre du Glorieux de Jâbir ibn Hayyân". Eranos-Jahrbuch. 18: 48–114.
Delva, Thijs (2017). "The Abbasid Activist Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār as the Father of Jābir b. Ḥayyān: An Influential Hypothesis Revisited". Journal of Abbasid Studies. 4 (1): 35–61. doi:10.1163/22142371-12340030. (rejects Holmyard 1927’s hypothesis that Jabir was the son of a proto-Shi'ite pharmacist called Ḥayyān al-ʿAṭṭār on the basis of newly available evidence; contains the most recent status quaestionis on Jabir’s biography, listing a number of primary sources on this subject that were still unknown to Kraus 1942–1943)
El-eswed, Bassam I. (2006). "Spirits: The Reactive Substances in Jābir's Alchemy". Arabic Sciences and Philosophy. 16 (1): 71–90. doi:10.1017/S0957423906000270. S2CID170880312. (the first study since the days of Berthelot, Stapleton, and Ruska to approach the Jabirian texts from a modern chemical point of view)
Gannagé, Emma (1998). Le commentaire d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise In de generatione et corruptione perdu en grec, retrouvé en arabe dans Ǧābir ibn Ḥayyān, Kitāb al-Taṣrīf (Unpublished PhD diss.). Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Holmyard, Eric J. (1923). "Jābir ibn Ḥayyān". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 16: 46–57. doi:10.1177/003591572301601606. (pioneering paper first showing that a great deal of Jabir’s non-religious alchemical treatises are still extant, that some of these treatises contain a sophisticated system of natural philosophy, and that Jabir knew the sulfur-mercury theory of metals)
Kraus, Paul (1930). "Dschābir ibn Ḥajjān und die Ismāʿīlijja". In Ruska, Julius (ed.). Dritter Jahresbericht des Forschungsinstituts für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. Mit einer Wissenschaftlichen Beilage: Der Zusammenbruch der Dschābir-Legende. Berlin: Springer. pp. 23–42. OCLC913815541. (seminal paper arguing that the Jabirian writings should be dated to ca. 850–950; the first to point out the similarities between Jabirian Shi'ism and early Isma'ilism)
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Running social media accounts can be really tough. Catching people’s interest and convincing them to listen to you isn’t easy, especially when there are so many other things competing for their interest. Some people just won’t like your content, and sometimes you’ll make silly mistakes as you are trying to learn how to use the platform. But it can be extremely rewarding too, especially as a way of promoting your art or business! Here’s our guide to starting off with Tiktok, with notes from our Tiktok Content Creator Alana Bleimann.
The first tip we have for you is just know what you want this account to be. Develop your brand into something recognizable and appealing to your audience. Know what kind of content represents your company, what content you enjoy, and what content your audience is likely to enjoy. This starts with just the look of your account and videos. Choose a profile picture or logo that will represent you and your content. Pick your brand colors, fonts, and shapes, and think about how you can incorporate them into videos. Of course, you have to stay authentic. If you are making large amounts of content, make content you enjoy. But remember that this account should help you reach your audience where they are!
Follow trends! You don’t always need to jump on the newest bandwagon, but you should be trend-savvy. Research Tiktok for successful content your viewers likely enjoy, and take note of trends. When you first start posting content, use those trending sounds! This will give your video a built-in audience. Make sure to do something new or interesting with the trend, though. You want viewers to see your video and look through the rest of your catalog for similar fun twists! Also, if you know trends, chances are, you’ll be better at predicting them!
Link your portfolio! On your bio, link to your website, your portfolio, or your other social media accounts. As a professional account, this account should sell you and your work to employers or possible clients. People will want to see more of your work.
Engage with others on Tiktok! Comment on other’s videos and reply to comments you get. Take into consideration any requests from your audience, and always check out any fellow creator who references your work! When possible, collaborate with other creators. This is a great way to network, promote yourself, and promote other creators at the same time!
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We constantly live our life by routine but also love to have time off and personal space. We don’t have to wake up every morning at 6 am to go to the gym, then to work then home, dinner and then bed but as Xmas approaches, the time for ourselves diminishes, as family and friends start to come to into our lives. This means great food, great drinks, with the cost of bad hangovers and large bellies. We wished we had time to walk it off. We wish we had our routine back.
How do we get through it? Remember the average time it takes to make a habit is 66 days. Don’t let a few days break you.
I would try and think about scheduling your exercise in every day, even if it is just a 30-minute walk. Sitting is the new smoking, so make sure you do some exercise. Put it in your diary, set an alarm and just get up and do it. You will definitely feel better for it, with or without a hangover. Don’t forget to drink water!
Keeping your habits going through the holidays, you won’t feel as bad as knowing you have to get back to it afterwards. Don’t break your habits and keep in good health. This should continue through the holidays knowing your body will keep up with the festive season and not be in agony when you get back to routine in 2019.
Have a great Xmas.
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Even native English speakers who have been taking formal grammar lessons since grade school tend to read, speak, and write by ear. If we read a phrase and understand its meaning, we accept that it’s likely correct. On the other hand, if we hear something that sounds a little off, or read a sentence that makes our eyes skip on the page, it’s hard to make sense of it. Sometimes it’s the actual sentence structure, and sometimes it’s our brains playing tricks on us. In the world of linguistics and grammar, there are names for some of these tricky constructions.
Also called comparative illusions, Escher sentences get their name from the art of M.C. Escher. This Dutch graphic artist was known for mathematically inspired optical illusions, many of which featured Penrose stairs, or “impossible staircases,” which form a continuous loop. Like the famous artworks, Escher sentences appear to be something recognizable from afar, but fail to make total sense upon inspection.
As an example: “More people have been to Berlin than I have.” At first glance it might seem like a perfectly simple sentence, but at a closer look, what exactly is this sentence trying to say? The word “than” indicates a comparison of two groups. The first group is people who have been to Berlin. The second group doesn’t exist the way this sentence is written.
For this sentence to make grammatical sense, it could say something like, “More people have been to Berlin than to Paris.” This way, it’s comparing the number of people who have been to Berlin with those who have traveled to Paris. But, as originally written, the sentence has no literal meaning.
A clause is a group of words that contain a subject and a verb. Sentences are made up of clauses, and multiple clauses can be strung together to form longer sentences.
More complex sentences can be created through a construction called center embedding. These sentences can often be challenging to read, but they aren’t technically grammatically incorrect. Here’s an example:
The child that the mother loves cried.
In this sentence, there are two clauses: “The child cried” and “The mother loves the child.” Through center embedding, the two ideas are intertwined into one sentence. It’s not the smoothest execution or easiest read, but technically it’s a grammatically correct sentence.
In theory, there’s no limit to the number of clauses one could pull together in a sentence, but it’s not usually very effective or useful. The more clauses there are embedded inside one another, the more difficult the sentence becomes to understand. Take this example:
The TV the girl the boy likes bought was stolen.
This structure works grammatically, but it’s too hard to parse out the multiple ideas being introduced. When it’s expressed as three independent clauses, it’s easier to understand:
The boy likes the girl. The girl bought the TV. The TV was stolen.
Skilled writers can use these techniques very sparingly to comedic effect. Think of the “my sister’s roommate’s cousin told us her third grade teacher with the iguana had a crush on you” kind of joke.
Garden Path Sentences
Technically, these sentences are also grammatically correct — they just seem ungrammatical. Take this example:
The young man the boat.
At first glance, our brains likely read this as a sentence fragment, or missing a few words. That’s because we assume the subject of the sentence is “the young man” and we’re missing a verb. Actually, the subject is “the young,” as in a group of youthful people, and the verb is “man” as in “operate.” This is a perfectly grammatical sentence about young people who control (or “man”) a maritime vessel. But it’s still not the most natural construction. Here are a few more examples of “garden path” sentences with the verbs bolded to help make sense of the meaning:
I convinced her children are noisy.
The man who whistles tunes pianos.
The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
These types of sentences are called “garden path” sentences because of the saying, “to be led down the garden path.” The writer may not be intentionally misleading, but that’s still what’s happening. Our brains make assumptions about meaning in a sentence as we read, and sometimes our brains guess wrong. If you're a writer, it can be helpful to read your work aloud to avoid these awkward constructions.
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It is a question that often gets asked in music production circles or among music lovers and does not have a definitive answer.
It depends on what you hope to achieve with your music. If you are just starting and are looking for a basic way to create and edit music, then any DAW will suffice. However, the DAW you choose can make a big difference if you want to produce professional-quality music. There are many different DAWs on the market, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. On the other hand, if you are serious about music production, it is worth learning about the various options and finding the DAW that best suits your needs.
The best way to choose a DAW is to try out as many as possible and see which one feels right for you. There is no one “best” DAW – it’s more important to find the one that’s best for you and your needs.
What should I consider when choosing DAW?
DAWs are software used for music production, and the one you choose will affect your workflow and the results you get. You should consider a few things when choosing a DAW, such as the type of music you want to produce, compatibility with equipment, the software’s features, and your budget.
Firstly, it should be compatible with the equipment you’re using. Regarding compatibility, most DAWs will work with standard audio interfaces and MIDI controllers. However, it’s always worth checking the specs before you buy anything.
The type of music you want to produce is essential because different DAWs have different capabilities.
For example, if you want to produce electronic dance music, you’ll need a DAW with good MIDI support and a lot of built-in instruments and effects. On the other hand, if you want to produce more acoustic-based music, you’ll need a DAW that can handle audio recordings well.
The software’s features are important because you want to make sure the DAW has everything you need to produce the music you want. For example, if you plan on using a lot of virtual instruments, you’ll want a DAW with good MIDI support. Likewise, if you want to do a lot of audio editing, you’ll want a DAW with robust audio editing features.
Your budget is also essential because you don’t want to spend more than you have to. Some DAWs are very expensive, while others are pretty affordable. Finding a DAW that fits your budget and has the features you need is essential.
What is the most commonly used DAW?
There are a variety of DAWs on the market, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The most popular DAWs include Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, and Ableton Live. Each of these programs has a large user base and is used by professional musicians and producers worldwide. While many other DAWs are available, these four are the most commonly used and have the most features and flexibility.
Which is the best universal DAW for beginners?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best DAW for beginners may vary depending on individual needs and preferences.
However, some of the most popular DAWs among beginners include Avid Pro Tools, Ableton Live, and Apple Logic Pro. These three DAWs are fairly user-friendly and offer a wide range of features, making them excellent choices for those just starting with music production.
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Table of Contents
- Understanding Baking Soda
- Health Benefits of Baking Soda
- 47 Ways to Use Baking Soda in Your Home
When it comes to the number and variety of uses, baking soda is the king of natural ingredients!
Its properties make it useful in so many situations and for some many purposes that you have to wonder why you’re not using it more.
As a cleaner and deodorizer, baking soda can be used in just about every room of your home, and the health and beauty uses are even more plentiful.
And it can treat many common ailments!
Our guide reveals all the common and not-so-common uses for this amazing natural product.
We’ll share some of our favorite natural remedies that utilize baking soda, and give you hints and tips for using this fantastic ingredient in a wide variety of ways.
Because baking soda is readily available and inexpensive, it makes the perfect addition to your home’s medicine cabinet, cleaning-supply kit, and beauty routine, and it’s safe enough to use every day.
Before we examine all the many uses for baking soda, let’s figure out what makes this natural ingredient so versatile and helpful.
Understanding Baking Soda
You probably have a box of baking soda in your house right now.
While baking soda is a familiar ingredient to most of us, you may also know it by its many other names, which include sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, bread or cooking soda, and bicarbonate of soda.
Baking soda is a molecular compound that’s made up of sodium, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen.
Baking soda is alkaline, and it has a pH level of 9.
But what is pH, and why is it important?
All substances have a pH level, which is merely a measure of how alkaline or acidic it is.
Even human beings have a pH level.
Ions that are positively charged create a more acidic pH level, and ions that are negatively charged create an alkaline pH level.
Your body naturally wants to live at a balanced pH level.
While much of the baking soda used today is human-made, sodium bicarbonate does occur naturally, as well.
It’s known as a nahcolite, which is found in mineral form in many places around the globe.
Commercial mines for sodium bicarbonate exist in Kenya, Botswana, and the United States, and there are large deposits in other counties as well.
It’s important not to confuse baking soda with baking powder.
While baking soda is pure sodium bicarbonate, it contains both sodium bicarbonate and one or more acid salts.
While both baking powder and baking soda are used as leavening agents in baking, baking powder contains additional ingredients that make it inappropriate for all of the uses for baking soda we describe below.
Health Benefits of Baking Soda
Baking soda offers many fantastic health benefits for you and your family.
As a natural remedy and treatment, baking soda has been used all over the world for centuries.
It treats a number of common illnesses and injuries.
Your body actually manufactures its own bicarbonate in the kidneys, and it uses this compound to counterbalance the acidity that naturally occurs in your body.
If you’re not making enough bicarbonate on your own to lower your level of acidity, baking soda can even be used as a natural supplement for this essential nutrient.
Boosts Kidney Health
Because the kidneys are responsible for your natural bicarbonate levels, individuals with chronic kidney disease often have low blood-bicarbonate levels.
When patients with chronic kidney disease were given baking soda as a treatment, their disease progression significantly slowed down, and more patients stayed healthier longer.
Anyone who took baking soda as a supplement was also less likely to develop an end-stage renal disease, which is fatal.
Baking soda has been shown to slow disease progression, improve the overall prognosis, and improve the overall nutritional status of those with chronic kidney disease (1).
Baking Soda Soothes Digestive Problems
As a natural alkaline, baking soda is great for neutralizing acid within your body, and the #1 place where acid can easily wreak havoc is in your digestive system.
For treating heartburn and acid reflux, baking soda is a quick, easy, effective treatment (2).
If you’ve consumed too many acidic foods or drinks, slowing sipping on a mixture of baking soda and water can bring your pH levels back into alignment and neutralize some of the acids in your system.
Helps Your Skin
If you have itchy skin due to psoriasis, an allergic rash, insect bites, sunburn, or eczema, baking soda can naturally soothe and calm irritation.
The alkaline nature of baking soda promotes the lowering of inflammation, and a paste made from baking soda and water can draw out allergens and toxins that cause itching.
Helps with UTIs
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections, especially among women.
For some women who experience chronic or prolonged symptoms from these infections, baking soda is an excellent treatment for lowering the acidic level of their urine (3).
While baking soda may not work in all women who suffer from UTIs, it can be an effective, inexpensive treatment for many.
Baking soda has antifungal and antibacterial properties that make it an excellent treatment for certain kinds of fungi and bacteria.
As a treatment for skin and nail infections, baking soda is effective at eliminating several types of yeasts, molds, and dermatophytes that cause infection (4).
In addition, baking soda is very effective at treating Streptococcus mutans, which is a bacteria that’s one of the leading causes of tooth decay (5).
Reduces Soreness and Fatigue
Strenuous exercise and athletic training produce acid in the body, especially the muscles.
Anyone who’s training regularly or looking to boost their performance can benefit from taking sodium bicarbonate before exercising.
This bicarbonate-loading activity serves to reduce acid levels within the body during exercise, which results in less muscle damage, reduced soreness, and more energy to sustain exercise (6).
Sodium bicarbonate seems to be most effective for short durations of strenuous exercise, as well as intermittent, sustained sessions that involve high-intensity training (7).
Helps during Chemotherapy
One of the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapy is that the chemicals used during treatment cause unwelcome changes to your mouth and throat.
Chemotherapy treatments destroy the good bacteria that are naturally present in your mouth and throat; this allows yeasts like candida albicans to flourish, which results in oral thrush (a type of yeast infection).
You can use baking soda to rinse the mouth and gargle, which helps control yeasts and other side effects from chemotherapy.
When your mouth and throat feel better, you’re more likely to eat and drink, which are necessary for optimal recovery from this harsh treatment.
Three times a day, rinse with a mixture of warm water, a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, and a 1/8 teaspoon of sea salt.
Then rinse with plain water.
Treats Kidney Stones
If you suffer from kidney stones, baking soda can help reduce your symptoms and decrease the formation of new stones (9).
Baking soda effectively removes the compounds that cause stones to form in your body.
There are many more important, interesting health benefits of baking soda.
We’ll cover them later, as we reveal all of the many uses for baking soda in your home.
Then we’ll even share a few of our favorite home remedies, which highlight the healthy powers of baking soda.
47 Ways to Use Baking Soda in Your Home
Beauty Uses of Baking Soda
Baking soda makes a great homemade toothpaste.
Baking soda rids your mouth of some of the bacteria that cause dental decay, and the abrasive nature of baking soda also effectively removes plaque (10).
Baking soda is a common ingredient in both traditional and natural kinds of toothpaste.
The best way to use baking soda is to either add it to your toothpaste or dip your toothbrush in baking soda and brush every few days.
Avoid doing both practices daily, as you could harm the enamel on your teeth.
Baking soda can also help whiten your teeth.
Once a week, use a paste of baking soda and water and rub it into your teeth.
Then allow it to sit for five minutes before rinsing your mouth.
The baking soda works to kill the bacteria in your mouth, which can dull and change the color of your teeth (11).
This teeth-whitening technique uses no harsh chemicals, and is very inexpensive, compared to traditional whitening products.
Use baking soda to soak your oral appliance.
Dentures, mouthpieces, and retainers can be soaked in a solution that consists of two teaspoons of baking soda dissolved in warm water.
It helps loosen particles, neutralize odors, and keeps your dental appliances fresh.
You can use baking soda to brush your appliances, the same way you use it to brush your teeth.
Baking soda makes an excellent natural deodorant.
After all, one of the baking soda’s greatest uses is its deodorizing capabilities, so why not use it on yourself?
To create a paste, mix one teaspoon of baking soda with water.
Then rub it under your arms.
Soothe your feet and fight foot infections with a baking-soda foot bath.
Add one tablespoon of baking soda to warm water, then soak your feet.
This practice will simultaneously kill bacteria, reduce foot odor, and reduce your risk for nail fungus.
Make your own clarifying shampoo by combining one teaspoon of baking soda with your regular shampoo, then washing and rinsing your hair as usual.
This clarifying technique easily and safely removes residue, oils, dirt, and other impurities from your hair.
Clean your brushes, combs, and other styling tools with baking soda.
With this easy-to-use technique, there are no harmful chemicals to damage your tools.
Coat them with a paste of water and baking soda, rub gently, and rinse thoroughly.
This process will remove unwanted grime, as well as the residual product.
You can use baking soda to exfoliate your face.
This dry-skin remover is simple and easy to use.
Combine a half-cup of water with one teaspoon of baking soda, then rub it into your skin in a circular motion.
Rinse with warm water.
This exfoliant is good for occasional use.
It removes dead skin, but be careful not to overuse it, as you can change the pH balance of your skin if you use it too frequently.
Baking soda also makes an excellent hand scrub.
If you have dirt or odors on your hands, you can scrub them away with a natural hand cleanser.
Make a paste with baking soda and water, then rub it into your hands.
After you rinse, feel how soft and smooth your hands feel.
If you have a rash, sunburn, bug bite, or other itchiness, baking soda helps calm irritated skin.
Create a paste using baking soda and warm water, then apply it to the affected areas.
Leave it in place for several minutes, and rinse with warm water.
For relief, repeat up to three times a day.
You can also use baking soda to get relief by applying a sunburn soak.
Mix 1/2 a cup of baking soda into a warm bath, and soak until the water becomes cool.
You can also mix your favorite lotion with baking soda to ease the sting of a sunburn.
Baking soda can help relieve diaper rash.
Dissolve two tablespoons of baking soda in bathwater.
This process helps soothe rashes, and it relieves the itching and redness associated with diaper rash.
Health Uses for Baking Soda
Baking soda can provide relief from indigestion and heartburn.
Many traditional medicines for heartburn already include sodium bicarbonate.
To make your own cost-effective heartburn treatment, add 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda to two cups of cool water.
To get relief from acid and the heartburn it causes, drink the entire mixture.
Because baking soda neutralizes acid in your stomach, it can help treat a gastric ulcer.
By lowering the pH levels, your ulcer may experience less pain or irritation, which will reduce your symptoms.
To see if this option may be good for treating your type of ulcer, speak with your doctor.
Baking soda can help you get more from your workouts.
Soak in a warm bath that includes 1/2 a cup of baking soda after exercise, which will help your body neutralize the lactic acid that builds up in muscles when they’re exerted.
As discussed earlier, the oral supplementation of baking soda may also enhance performance.
This multifunctional product can also improve your kidney function.
When your kidneys aren’t functioning well, they have a hard time keeping your pH balance in check.
Supplementing with oral sodium bicarbonate can reduce acids in your system, which will assist your struggling kidneys.
Plus, we already know that baking soda is good for patients with chronic kidney disease.
Baking soda can even help fight cancer!
Some types of cancerous tumors have an acidic pH, and taking oral supplements of sodium bicarbonate can help raise the pH level of these tumors.
In some types of cancer, this practice can inhibit the tumor’s ability to metastasize (12).
Unhealthy pH levels can also compromise your immune system, which allows your body to be vulnerable to damage from unhealthy organisms that can cause cancer.
Deodorizing with Baking Soda
Clean and deodorize your carpet with baking soda.
Sprinkle it over rugs or carpeting, allow to sit for 20 minutes, then vacuum well.
The baking soda will absorb odors, and pull dirt and grime from the carpet fibers.
Baking soda can help deodorize your shoes.
Sprinkle a small amount inside your shoes when they start smelling ripe, and you’ll soon notice less odor.
Baking soda can remove odors from your closet or cupboards.
Place a small box, mug, or cup filled with baking soda in our closet, and you’ll quickly notice fewer odors.
To keep odors at bay, be sure to change the baking soda every few months.
Use baking soda to deodorize your cat box.
Baking soda’s odor-absorbing powers are great for kitty litter.
Before filling it with litter, cover the bottom of the litter box with baking soda.
You can also sprinkle a small amount on top of the box each time you clean the litter, which will add additional freshening power.
Use baking soda to absorb odors in your toilet, too.
Directly add a cup of baking soda to your toilet bowl, and allow it to sit for an hour.
Flush, then wipe the bowl, if needed.
Your toilet will be clean and deodorized without much effort.
Deodorize your cutting board with baking soda.
Sprinkle baking soda directly on the board, then scrub and rinse.
Remove odors from your trashcan or recycling bin with baking soda.
To absorb odors, you can sprinkle baking soda on the bottom of the receptacle, or simply clean your bin with it occasionally.
Keep your car smelling fresh with baking soda.
Sprinkle it onto upholstered car seats and carpets, then allow to sit for 20 minutes.
Vacuum thoroughly, and odors should be eliminated.
Cleaning Uses for Baking Soda
Baking soda makes a great natural kitchen scrub.
The abrasive nature of baking soda makes it good for scrubbing counters, sinks, and other surfaces.
Sprinkle some baking soda on it, then use a wet cloth or sponge to scrub away stains or marks.
If you want to make your own fragranced cleaning product, add aromatic essential oils, such as lemon or lavender.
Use baking soda to scrub your pots and pans, too.
Soak cookware in a paste of baking soda and water for 20 minutes, then scrub and rinse.
Stuck-on food and other particles should come right off.
This natural product won’t harm your cookware, either.
Scrub your fruits and vegetables with a paste made from baking soda and water.
You’ll be able to naturally remove any bacteria or residual chemicals, and you won’t add anything unnatural to your produce.
Use baking soda to clean your silverware.
You can make a great paste to rub on your silverware by combining a mixture of three parts baking soda and one part water.
Let it sit for 20 minutes, then rinse.
You should have shiny, clean silverware when you are finished.
To boost your dishwater’s cleaning ability, add baking soda to your wash.
Baking soda will help your machine cut through grime and grease that you may not even know are there, leaving your dishes cleaner than you’ve seen them in a long time.
Use baking soda to remove burned-on food from a pan.
Start by boiling two inches of water in the pan, remove from the heat, and add 1/2 cup of baking soda.
Allow this mixture to sit overnight, and the food should come off easily in the morning.
Clean your oven with baking soda, too.
No harsh chemicals are needed to implement this natural cleaning tip.
Sprinkle the oven with baking soda, then use a wet sponge or rag to wipe away grease and food.
Mixed with vinegar, baking soda can open clogged drains and remove grease and other problems.
It’s much safer than the harsh chemicals in drain cleaners.
Pour in the baking soda, then add the vinegar, and let the combination bubble for about 20 minutes.
Rinse with hot water.
Keep sponges fresh with baking soda.
When a sponge for cleaning starts smelling stale, soak it in a solution of four tablespoons of baking soda and one quart of water.
If you want to more thoroughly disinfect the sponge, place it in the microwave for one minute after rinsing.
Baking soda is effective at cleaning batteries of all types.
Since baking soda is alkaline, it can neutralize the corrosion on batteries in your car, lawn mower, or other tools.
Always disconnect batteries before cleaning.
Using a damp cloth, apply a paste of three parts baking soda and one part water to the terminals of the batteries.
Scrub away corrosion, then wipe it clean.
Once you’ve reconnected the terminals, apply some petroleum jelly to prevent corrosion from reforming.
Use baking soda to wash baby clothes.
Baking soda is a gentle, natural cleanser, and it will even help soften fabrics, which makes it perfect for washing baby clothes.
For best results, add one cup to your laundry.
Using baking soda in your washing machine can help boost your detergent’s cleaning power.
Baking soda softens your water, which makes your clothes fresher, softer, and cleaner.
To help your detergent work harder, add 1/2 a cup of baking soda to each load.
Freshen sports gear with baking soda.
Clean and deodorize stinky equipment by combining four tablespoons of baking soda with one quart of warm water.
To keep odors at bay, you can sprinkle baking soda inside gym bags.
You can even use a paste of baking soda and water to clean golf clubs.
To remove perspiration stains from clothes, use baking soda and water to make a thick paste.
Rub it into any stains, allow it to sit for one hour, and launder as usual.
If you have clothes with gasoline or oil odors, you can remove them with baking soda, too.
Place the clothes in a plastic bag, liberally sprinkle them with baking soda, and allow them to sit for several days before washing them.
Use baking soda to remove stains from your coffee pot.
Coat your pot with a mixture of baking soda and water, allow it to sit for several hours, then rinse.
Baking soda removes coffee and tea stains, foul flavors, and other contaminants from your coffee pot with ease.
Use baking soda to rid your shower curtain of stains.
Rub a paste of baking soda and water onto spots or stains, and they should easily disappear.
Use baking soda to help clean your car.
Baking soda easily removes dirt and grease, so it’s a great item to include in your car-cleaning kit.
You can clean your tires, windows, seats, and lights by applying a paste of baking soda and water with a rag or sponge.
Be sure to thoroughly rinse after scrubbing.
You can also use a gallon of warm water to clean painted items and other exterior parts.
Make sure the baking soda is completely dissolved before using it, or it could scratch the paint.
Baking soda can even help put out a fire!
Minor grease fires should never be treated with water.
Instead, smother the flames by pouring baking soda over the grease.
If the fire is in a pan, pour baking soda on it, then cover it with a lid.
Other Uses for Baking Soda
You can keep flowers fresher for longer by adding just a teaspoon of baking soda to the water in the vase.
Cooking beans naturally produce gas, so add a teaspoon of baking soda to the water when cooking them.
This practice will improve digestion and keep gas to a minimum.
Baking soda can help you keep your septic system working well.
Add one cup of baking soda to your system each week, and it will help maintain the right pH balance.
Baking Soda as a Natural Remedy
- Cold and Flu
For hundreds of years, baking soda has been used as a natural treatment for colds and the flu.
As early as 1925, Arm and Hammer, one of the leading manufacturers of baking soda included dosage information for cold treatment on their boxes.
Their recommendations included taking six doses the first day, four the second day, and three the third day, with single doses each day until symptoms disappeared.
Each dose consisted of 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of cool water.
- Upset Stomach
If you have an upset stomach, the most common dosage is a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of cool water.
This dosage is effective for reducing the acidity of the stomach, which can cause many types of stomach problems.
If you still experience symptoms after trying this method for several days, talk with your doctor, as your problems may not be due to excess stomach acid.
If you ingest baking soda, it’s always best to sip it slowly, rather than gulping it down.
If you drink a tonic of water and baking soda, remember these guidelines:
- Always make sure the baking soda fully dissolves in the water before drinking it.
- Never drink more than 3½ teaspoons of baking soda in a single day.
- If you’re over 60, never take more than 1½ teaspoons in a single day.
- Never take the maximum dosage of baking soda for longer than two weeks.
- Always take your time drinking a baking-soda mixture. Never gulp it.
- Never drink baking-soda mixtures on a full stomach, as it can lead to a gastric rupture.
Generally, it’s non-toxic and safe to apply baking soda on your body, skin, and hair.
But when orally ingesting baking soda, pay attention to maximum doses, and stick to those guidelines.
Because baking soda is high in sodium, it’s not safe at high doses.
Each tablespoon of baking soda has nearly 1,300 milligrams of sodium.
So large doses can cause swelling and increased blood pressure.
If you regularly consume too much baking soda, you can develop heart problems and develop an imbalanced blood chemistry.
Taking too much baking soda also causes your body to excrete potassium, so you could end up with a potassium deficiency if you overuse baking soda for long periods.
This effect could disturb your natural pH balance, which could lead to abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.
If you take an extremely excessive amount of baking soda, you could have a seizure, fall into a coma, or even die.
Do not ingest baking soda if you’re pregnant, breastfeeding, or have high blood pressure, kidney disease, liver disease, or edema, or if you’re on a sodium-restricted diet.
If you have any health issue, talk with your doctor about ingesting baking soda.
Specifically, children under six shouldn’t take it without talking to a pediatrician first.
Some prescription medications can interact with baking-soda supplements, so be sure to check with your doctor before taking it if you’re on any prescribed drugs.
Avoid taking baking soda within two hours of taking other types of medicines.
If medical conditions don’t improve after two weeks of baking-soda treatment, stop taking it, and talk with your doctor.
Baking soda is one of nature’s most versatile compounds, and it’s affordable.
As a natural alkaline, baking soda is effective at reducing acid and balancing pH levels.
As a natural remedy, baking soda can help treat upset stomachs, kidney diseases and stones, and skin irritations.
It can also ease sore muscles and help with the symptoms of chemotherapy.
Baking soda can be used to clean your teeth, hair, skin, and nails.
As a cleanser, it’s effective at scrubbing, washing clothes and dishes, removing odors from all kinds of surfaces and places, and boosting the power of many of your existing detergents.
Natural remedies using baking soda include topical treatments, as well as oral supplementation.
If you ingest baking soda, be sure to follow the recommended dosages.
If you have certain medical conditions or take medications, taking too much can be harmful.
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What was the halt instruction in early CPUs such as the Z80 and 8080 used for?
Stopping the system in a known state to allow a clean restart/react to external sources.
It's a very useful feature for embedded systems that react to external sources, but also as idle state for a more conventional kind of multitasking environment.
What use is it to enter a state that can only be exited via an interrupt or reset?
- Interrupt response is guaranteed to be the shortest possible.
- Interrupt response time will be within exact (short) boundaries.
- No need for complex schedulers.
- Easy chaining of (interruptable) cleanup and management tasks.
- Enabling special power saving (or otherwise idle) states.
Beside all the benefits for system design, in embedded the first two might be the most important. A Z80 interrupt response (until the first instruction of the interrupt routine is executed) takes 11, 13 or 19 cycles depending on the interrupt mode - plus the execution time of the instruction already in process. That adds anywhere up to 23 cycles. When waiting on a
HALT it will always be a maximum of 4, thus making interrupt response faster and more predictable.
Does a NOP loop use less power?
Not really, at least not within the Z80 itself. Maybe a bit due to a reduced load on RAM and other perhipherals, but again, it's rather negligible. This may differ on other CPUs. Especially complex ones can save quite a lot using similar instructions.
But the CPU also outputs a
/HALT signal to tell when waiting (*1,2). This can be used to disable other components, ROMs for example, as it's guaranteed that no access will be done while active.
Did operating systems (CP/M, Acorn MOS) or Basic variants make use of it?
Not the common ones and not as part of some regular OS handling. Then again it was used in 'drivers' like (IIRC) within the ZX80 video handling to wait for a screen to start. Similar other home computers (MSX?) did/could use it to synchronize animation with frame rate (VBL Interrupt) and/or screen manipulation with line or timer interrupts (*3).
Many embedded environments did use
HALT as core function within the scheduler.
Did people writing assembly programs for the CPUs make use of it?
Yes, quite a lot - at least when it came to control/embedded applications.
Aside: How would an interrupt cause an exit of the halt state? After executing the interrupt service routine, would the CPU not return to its previous instruction - the NOP loop?
Nop (SCNR) - When returning from the interrupt, the CPU continues with the next instruction. Keep in mind, it's not executing NOPs, it's just like executing NOPs. HALT is a single instruction, and the PC will already have advanced to the next instruction after it has been read in
M1. Thus an accepted interrupt will push the address of the next instruction and when POPed, execution continues there.
This is very handy for a real time/multi tasking system to seperate housekeeping from handling external requests.
*1 - On a 8080 D3 is signaling a halt state during status word output in T1 of M1.
*2 - On a 8085 S0/S1=0/0 signal a halt condition. Unlike 8080 and Z80 the 8085 also tristates all data, address and bus control signals.
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Warning it was “perpetuating the pandemic,” the overall inequity in access to vaccines as “scandalous,” according to the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
Over 75 percent of all COVID-19 vaccines have gone to just 10 countries.
He said, “The number of doses administered globally so far would have been enough to cover all health workers and older people if they had been distributed equitably. There is no diplomatic way to say it: that small group of countries that make and buy the majority of the world’s vaccines control the fate of the rest of the world.”
He urged countries that have large stocks of vaccines to share them, and greater cooperation to scale up production and distribution of the jabs.
The WHO and others have created Covax, a global vaccine-sharing programme, but it remains severely underfunded and has faced significant supply shortages, delaying efforts to roll out jabs in poorer countries. | <urn:uuid:3eddcf05-5b54-4710-a573-3f34dea8cf2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qradio105.com/latest-news/12755/who-inequity-in-access-to-vaccines-scandalous/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966827 | 203 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Coronavirus loses 90% of its ability to infect us within 20 minutes of becoming airborne – with most of the loss occurring within the first five minutes, the world’s first simulations of how the virus survives in exhaled air suggest.
The findings re-emphasise the importance of short-range Covid transmission, with physical distancing and mask-wearing likely to be the most effective means of preventing infection. Ventilation, though still worthwhile, is likely to have a lesser impact.
“People have been focused on poorly ventilated spaces and thinking about airborne transmission over metres or across a room. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, but I think still the greatest risk of exposure is when you’re close to someone,” said Prof Jonathan Reid, director of the University of Bristol’s Aerosol Research Centre and the study’s lead author.
“When you move further away, not only is the aerosol diluted down, there’s also less infectious virus because the virus has lost infectivity [as a result of time].”
Until now, our assumptions about how long the virus survives in tiny airborne droplets have been based on studies that involved spraying virus into sealed vessels called Goldberg drums, which rotate to keep the droplets airborne. Using this method, US researchers found that infectious virus could still be detected after three hours. Yet such experiments do not accurately replicate what happens when we cough or breathe.
Instead, researchers from the University of Bristol developed apparatus that allowed them to generate any number of tiny, virus-containing particles and gently levitate them between two electric rings for anywhere between five seconds to 20 minutes, while tightly controlling the temperature, humidity and UV light intensity of their surroundings. “This is the first time anyone has been able to actually simulate what happens to the aerosol during the exhalation process,” Reid said.
The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, suggested that as the viral particles leave the relatively moist and carbon dioxide-rich conditions of the lungs, they rapidly lose water and dry out, while the transition to lower levels of carbon dioxide is associated with a rapid increase in pH. Both of these factors disrupt the virus’s ability to infect human cells, but the speed at which the particles dry out varies according to the relative humidity of the surrounding air.
When this was lower than 50% – similar to the relatively dry air found in many offices – the virus had lost around half of its infectivity within five seconds, after which the decline was slower and more steady, with a further 19% loss over the next five minutes. At 90% humidity – roughly equivalent to a steam or shower room – the decline in infectivity was more gradual, with 52% of particles remaining infectious after five minutes, dropping to about 10% after 20 minutes, after which these was no difference between the two conditions.
However, the temperature of the air made no difference to viral infectivity, contradicting the widely held belief that viral transmission is lower at high temperatures.
“It means that if I’m meeting friends for lunch in a pub today, the primary [risk] is likely to be me transmitting it to my friends, or my friends transmitting it to me, rather than it being transmitted from someone on the other side of the room,” said Reid. This highlights the importance of wearing a mask in situations where people cannot physically distance, he added.
The findings support what epidemiologists have been observing on the ground, said Dr Julian Tang, a clinical virologist at the University of Leicester, adding that “masks are very effective … as well as social distancing. Improved ventilation will also help – particularly if this is close to the source.”
Dr Stephen Griffin, associate professor of virology at the University of Leeds, emphasised the importance of ventilation, saying: “Aerosols will fill up indoor spaces rapidly in the absence of proper ventilation, so assuming the infected individual remains within the room, the levels of virus will be replenished.”
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Clonfert is only a couple of counties over from us: we just have to skip through a bit of Cork and Tipperary and there we are in Galway – a tiny corner of it that is shaped by the River Shannon. So, on a Thursday afternoon at the beginning of June, we found ourselves tripping along dead straight boreens – narrow for the most part – taking us through lush dairy lands – on a quest to revisit Clonfert’s medieval Cathedral, and its associations with one of Ireland’s most famous saints: Brendan the Navigator.
As we approached the little settlement of Clonfert, our empty road ahead was interrupted by a small white car, which seemed to travel erratically from one side of the lane to the other, and our arrival made little difference to its progress. As we got near, we realised that there was a wiry Jack Russell ambling along the road in front of the car: it was clear that the terrier was having its daily walk, with the owner driving along protectively behind it, regardless of where its fancy might take it. Ah, sure – we were in no hurry, so we joined the procession and waited as the dog sniffed and shuffled its way back home: eventually, dog, car and owner vanished through a gate, and we had the road to ourselves once again . . . This is life in Ireland, and it’s good!
Clonfert’s grandly styled ‘Cathedral’ is so important historically, yet it could hardly be more remotely situated. From the east (upper picture above) it looks like many another Church of Ireland building, maybe not worth a second glance – unless, like us, you can’t resist examining every unturned stone because there is invariably something unexpected to be found under it. Just turn the corner and have a look at the west entrance door:
That doorway, with its exquisite decoration dating probably from the 12th century, has been described as ‘the supreme expression of Romanesque decoration in Ireland’. The carvings, although suffering from hundreds of years of wear and tear from the Irish elements, still display an extraordinary richness and variety: we can only wonder at the inspiration, skill and knowledge of the carver, who must have been deeply immersed in both lore and craft. Tadhg O’Keeffe, current Professor of Archaeology at University College Dublin, suggests a date of c1180 for this doorway. Records state that the church was burnt during a Viking raid in 1179, the same year in which a synod was held there by St Laurence O’Toole; installation of this imposing entrance may be connected with these events. Finola’s post today also explores Romanesque carvings not too far away, at Clonmacnoise. She has also written on Clonfert’s architecture in her Irish Romanesque series.
St Brendan lived from 484 to 577. We saw his birthplace in Fenit, Co Kerry, a few years ago. He founded many monasteries in Ireland but arranged for his body to be taken secretly to Clonfert Cathedral for burial as he didn’t want his remains to be disinterred by relic hunters. His grave is a stone slab just outside the great west door. On it are said to be the marks of cats’ paws – interestingly linked, according to folklore, with the many carvings of cats’ heads on the doorway arches.
When we first visited Clonfert, many years ago, the cathedral itself was closed and we went away with the impression that we had seen all the wonders that the place had to offer by our explorations of the outside of the building and its setting. We were wrong: on this occasion the door was unlocked and there were unexpected treats hidden for us in the interior.
Further carvings decorate the church walls: they vary in date and style, but all are fascinating. Here is a selection – notice the seemingly random arrangement of heads and animal features on the great 15th century chancel arch, above.
Angels, cross-slabs, a wyvern and, astonishingly, this fine mermaid complete with comb and mirror. I have found very little information to identify why these various carvings are found here in the Cathedral, apart from general legends which suggests links with Saint Brendan.
The carved stone head was found ‘in the ceiling’ when restoration work was carried out in 1985. It is said to date from around 1500, while the ancient and beautiful font is attributed to the thirteenth century. We could linger and feast on further treasures inside the church, but we need to look at the surroundings, which reveal yet more history.
This extract from the 25″ OS map – late nineteenth century – shows the cathedral and some of the landscape features associated with it. We came here a few years ago, when we were researching Ireland’s waterways, following in the footsteps of English writer L T C Rolt. In his book ‘Green & Silver’ we read of his admiration for Saint Brendan, and his determination to find the grave at Clonfert, which he did in 1946. His book is illustrated with photographs taken by his wife Angela, and the one picture from Clonfert which is used in the book is this one of the ‘Yew Walk’ which was laid out as part of the gardens of the Bishop’s Palace, which you can see marked on the map.
Our own photo of the Yew Walk at Clonfert was taken a few days ago. You can see that it survives, although neglected today. Some of the yew trees are said to be up to 500 years old. From the map you can also see that the Yew Walk connected the Cathedral to the 16th century ‘Clonfert Palace’, and was set out as an ornamental cruciform route, suggesting the path that might have been taken by the monks a thousand years ago. When we explored previously, we discovered the ruins of the Palace at the end of the Yew Walk, and wondered why it has been left in this state (since 1954, as we subsequently learned). The answer to that is fascinating, and I urge you to read my full account from that first visit, here. Below is a photo dating from c1950, showing the Palace at that time (with thanks to Dr Christy Cunniffe). My own photos from this week’s visit follow.
Clonfert might have been a very different place today if Queen Elizabeth had been listened to:
. . . We are desirous that a college should be erected in the nature of a university in some convenient place in Irelande, for instruction and education of youth in learning. And we conceive the town of Clonfert within the province of Connaught to be aptlie seated both for helth and comodity of ryver Shenen running by it . . .Queen Elizabeth, Letter to the Bishop Of Clonfert, 1579
The Queen’s advice was not taken up, and Trinity College Dublin was established instead – in 1592 – becoming Ireland’s first University.
The site at Clonfert is so interesting – and covers so many periods in Ireland’s history – right up to the 20th century. It was well worth revisiting – and will merit further visits in the future, too. I’ll leave you with one aspect that probably impressed us most this time around. It’s the Bishop’s Throne which is hidden in the shadows of the Cathedral chancel. Carved from oak, most likely in the 19th century, it is a wonderful representation of Saint Brendan himself, surrounded by the Four Evangelists, crafted in the style of the Book of Kells. Look at him, also, on the header. Here is the Irish saint who set sail out on a voyage into the unknown – seeking Paradise – and discovered the World! | <urn:uuid:fb8b056b-9a24-4009-8559-f2de05a41b1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://roaringwaterjournal.com/tag/clonfert/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977341 | 1,671 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The top causes of death worldwide, ischemic heart diseases and stroke, together with another major source of illness, that is cancer, require proper imaging of blood vessels. A team formed by the Center for Nanoparticle Research, within the Institute for Basic Science, in collaboration with scientists at Anhui Provincial Hospital and Seoul National University Hospital, have tested a new non-toxic contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) that could be superior to the current mainstream dye, gadolinium. Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, this highly promising contrast agent was successful on dogs, rabbits, and monkeys.
Contrast agents are often used to improve the visibility of radiology of soft tissues and internal body structures, especially in cardiovascular and cerebral diseases. The choice of FDA-approved MRI and MRA contrast agents is fairly limited and they all bear some drawbacks. Gadolinium is the most commonly used MRI contrast agent, but it leaves deposits in the bones and brain and is toxic for patients with kidney problems. As an alternative, contrast agents based on iron oxide nanoparticles are practically unused because of the difficult readability of the results. Unlike gadolinium, which appears as a white signal, iron oxide is difficult to distinguished from air, hemorrhage, calcification, metal deposition, and blood clots. HYEON Taeghwan, director of the Center for Nanoparticle Research explains: "Let's take the example of a MRI analysis of a brain with Alzheimer's: iron oxide in the blood vessels would appear as black and the amyloid plaques as gray. It is very hard to recognize the plaques from the background. For it is reason, the current iron oxide nanoparticles are not used anymore and we started to look for other options." This occurs because gadolinium is a so-called T1-type contrast agent, while the current iron oxide is classified as T2.
Previously, the IBS team designed ultrasmall T1 iron oxide nanoparticles (PEG-IONCs), proved the possibility to synthesize them in large quantities, and tested them on mice. Now their research has leaped forward: "Research on mice cannot directly translate to humans, so we wanted to test if these nanoparticles work on large animals, like dogs, rabbits, and monkeys. Eventually, our goal is to be able to understand if they can become a new diagnostic tool for humans," comments Hyeon.
To test the applicability of PEG-IONCs, the research team performed MRI and MRA on rabbits, beagle dogs, and macaque monkeys.
With a small diameter and an unharmful coating, the PEG-IONCs boast several desirable features. PEG-IONCs' hydrodynamic diameter of about 12 nanometers is much smaller and more uniform than commercially available iron oxide nanoparticles. Moreover, in preparing IONCs, IBS scientists used safe components, such as oleic acid, oleyl alcohol, and polyethylene glycol (PEG), that are commonly employed in pharmaceutical formulations. Hematological and tissue compatibility studies in macaque monkeys revealed that PEG-IONCs are highly biocompatible. To give an example, most of the clinically available iron oxide-based MRI contrast agents, such as ferumoxide and ferumoxtran, have to be slowly infused to minimize the incidence of hypotension and other severe side effects. On the other hand, PEG-IONCs were administered trouble-free, like gadolinium.
Finally, after the successful use of PEG-IONCs in static MRA, the scientists conducted a more challenging dynamic imaging to see vascular flow patterns of cerebral ischemia (the cause of stroke) in dogs and monkeys. Cerebral ischemia is a disorder caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain and its early detection with MRI contrast agents is vital for survival of patients. In the experiment, images were taken at several time points, every 1.5 seconds after injection of the contrast agent to see the blood perfusion patterns in the brain. An occlusion in the middle cerebral artery was detected.
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The course provides guidance on the UN's policy and procedures on harassment with a view to fostering the creation of a harmonious working environment, free from intimidation, hostility, offence and any form of discrimination or retaliation. Learn how to identify, prevent and manage problems of harassment, sexual harassment and the abuse of authority in the workplace. Develop strategic communication skills and tactics to effectively prevent, respond to and stop harassment in order to ensure a safe and healthy work environment.
- Describe what is meant by harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority, and their consequences in the workplace;
- Recognise the behaviours that constitute harassment, sexual harassment, and the abuse of authority at your agency;
- Identify how you can play a positive role in preventing these problems and how to take action should they occur;
- Describe UN policy on the issues raised above, along with the specific policies of your agency;
This course has been declared mandatory for all staff; with the exception of Lesson 4 which is mandatory for managers and supervisors only. However, if you would like to follow it, you are welcome to do so.
It should take you about two hours to complete this self-paced course.
This course is composed of four animated modules, including different scenarios that represent real-life situations of inappropriate behaviour, so it is easier for you to identify and prevent them in the workplace.
This course is composed of four sections:
- Lesson 1: Concepts on Harassment, Sexual Harassment and Abuse of Authority
- Lesson 2: Sexual Harassment
- Lesson 3: Taking Action
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by Peter Vermilyea
Litchfield’s borough of Milton, located in the northern part of town, derives its name from the several small mills located there along the Shepaug River. One of those mills was the corn mill of brothers Benjamin and Oliver Dickinson. Oliver was a master carpenter who counted among his constructions the Trinity Episcopal Church in Milton. Around 1778, Oliver married Anna Landon, and their son Anson was born in 1779.
When Anson was 17, he became the apprentice of Isaac Thompson, a Litchfield silversmith. Of his apprenticeship, it was written:
He was frequently observed to steal away to a retired chamber and spend hours of solitude, intent upon some deep and self-imposed task. Some of the family finally discovered that he had been intently engaged in painting.
Dickinson’s work was evidently of such beauty that he was released from the terms of his apprenticeship, and he embarked on a career as a painter of miniatures, watercolor portraits painted on small pieces of ivory that could be set in jewelry, carried in a pocket, or framed and displayed.
Well-To-Do Clients from Litchfield to Quebec
In 1802, the following advertisement appeared in the Connecticut Journal:
Anson Dickinson has taken a room directly opposite the Episcopal Church, he offers his services to the Ladies and Gentlemen of New Haven, in the line of MINIATURE PAINTING.
The earliest known portrait by Dickinson is of his uncle, Abel Dickinson, which was painted on New Year’s Day, 1803, and is signed by the artist on the reverse side. Litchfield, with several well-to-do residents and the students of the Sarah Pierce Academy and Tapping Reeve Law School, provided a steady source of commissions when Dickinson’s practice was starting out.
A particular challenge for all miniaturists of the period was obtaining the necessary equipment for the craft. In addition to the pigments that would be ground and combined with gum arabic, a binding agent, and glycerin, for the right paint consistency, Dickinson required magnifying and reducing glasses. The reducing glass was used to secure the correct proportion for his subject, and the magnifying glass allowed for the fine detail work in his paintings. Both of these required stands so that the artist’s hands were free to paint.
Soon, Dickinson exhausted the potential commissions of Litchfield and embarked on a being an itinerant artist. He traveled to New York, Albany, Montreal, and even Charleston, South Carolina, between 1805 and 1812. In 1812, Dickinson married Sarah Brown of New York City. The couple settled there and in 1824 adopted two children.
Dickinson would spend the next eight years operating a New York studio and became so well established that he no longer needed to seek out commissions. During this period, he painted almost 300 portraits, including some of the most famous residents of the city.
Financial Panic of 1819 Derails Dickinson’s Career
In 1819, however, financial panic struck the city and the country; Dickinson relocated his operations to Montreal and Quebec and in 1822 moved to Boston. A few years later, he had relocated to Washington, DC. He was unable, however, to rediscover the success he enjoyed before the panic and returned to Connecticut in the early 1830s.
Dickinson died in Milton on March 9, 1852, at the age of 73. He had spent over 40 years traveling the United States and Canada to execute what many considered to be the finest American portrait miniatures. His tally of portraits exceeded 1,500, an average of about one a week over the length of his career. Celebrated in his own time, Dickinson has been largely forgotten in ours. His works, however, grace the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Carriages are an excellent addition to any wedding or special event Getting the horses to Top 10 Best Driving Horse Breeds for Pulling a Carriage.
Horse-drawn carriages are a dying breed. Some people argue that none are left in the United States but that is not entirely true. Most of the time, you will find them at weddings, funerals, and in resorts.
There are also those who continue to maintain horses not just for leisure but also for business purposes. This discusses theTop 10 Best Driving Horse Breeds for Pulling a Carriage.
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List of Top 10 Best Driving Horse Breeds for Pulling a Carriage
Over the years, people have used various breeds of horses to draw vehicles such as carriages and wagons. Today, you still see these horses pulling carriages in many parts of the world. If you are planning to get a carriage horse, then selecting the right horse breed is vital.
It’s crucial that you pick a breed that has been bred for pulling a carriage. Here, we will look at the Top 10 Best Driving Horse Breeds for Pulling a Carriage.
#1. American Standardbred
American Standardbred is also one of the best driving horse breeds for pulling a carriage. This horse is known for its athletic abilities and its sure-footedness when it comes to driving a carriage. This breed is also known for its temperament, which makes it a perfect choice for anyone looking for a horse that is easy to handle and will not cause any problems.
#2. Welsh Pony and Cob
If you’re thinking of getting a horse for your next driving project, be sure to consider the Welsh Pony and Cob. This breed is known for its gentle temperament, ability to pull heavy loads, and versatility as a driving horse. It’s also one of the most popular horses for carriage driving. So if you’re looking for a horse that can handle both riding and pulling, the Welsh Pony and Cob is the perfect breed for you.
Do you love spending time in the country, but hate the hassle of getting around? Perhaps you’re thinking of buying a horse but are unsure of the best breeds for driving. Don’t worry! In this, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of five of the most popular driving horse breeds – including Hackney.
You’ll be able to make an informed decision about which breed is right for you, and finally, be able to enjoy all the wonderful countryside that London has to offer.
#4. Cleveland Bay
The Cleveland Bay Horse is recognized as a strong and lively carriage horse, which made them the perfect choice for the Queen’s carriage horse in the coronation parade of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. These horses are a popular choice for driving and pulling carriages across the UK, with owners saying they are good-natured and intelligent, making them easy to train.
Thoroughbred driving horses are undoubtedly well-known for the racing track and the winner’s circle. But these horses are also perfect for pulling a horse-drawn carriage for a wedding party or a carriage ride for tourists. This sheds light on the different driving horse breeds and allows buyers to decide which horse breeds will work best for them.
The Friesian is a breed of middle-sized horses that originated in Friesland in the Netherlands. They are well known for their distinct appearance and are used as light draft and harness horses, as Driving Horses, and for their ability as riding horses. This will look at different driving horse breeds and find out which breed is the best for pulling a carriage.
The Morgan is a breed of horse that was developed in England in the 18th and 19th centuries. Morgan horses are now used for a variety of different jobs from show jumping to carriage driving. This will look at some of the reasons why the Morgan horse is being used more frequently in carriage driving competitions.
Holsteiners are known for their strength and stamina, which makes them perfect for pulling carriages. They are also known for being easy to train and handle. Holsteins are one of the best breeds for pulling carriages, and they are known for their calm and gentle temperament. They are extremely versatile – you can use Best Driving Horse Breeds For Pulling A Carriage.
These horses are well-known for their strength and stamina, both of which are necessary if you want to carry a heavy load. Not only are they excellent drivers, but they’re also likely to be gentle and easy to handle. This robust and muscular horse breed is perfect for driving as it has a strong constitution and can handle long distances without fatigue.
Hanoverian is one of the best choices. This horse breed is known for its strong muscular build and ability to pull heavy loads. Not only is Hanoverian perfect for pulling a carriage, but it is also versatile and easy to train. Driving a carriage is a popular pastime for many people, and there are many different horse breeds that can be used for this purpose.
Some breeds are better suited to pulling a carriage than others, and one of the best driving horse breeds is the Hanoverian. This breed is known for its strength and stamina, which makes it perfect for pulling a carriage.
Orlov Trotter is one of the best driving horse breeds for pulling a carriage. This horse is known for its ability to stay calm under pressure and its energized trot. When it comes to driving a carriage, this breed is perfect because it’s able to move at a steady pace without getting too excited or restless.
This makes Orlov Trotters ideal for long journeys – whether you’re traveling to a special event or just taking a scenic drive. This horse breed is perfect for those who want to add a bit of luxury to their driving experience. With its gentle nature and stylish appearance, the Oldenburg is a great choice for those who want to look their best while cruising in style.
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Hug Your People
Hug Your People: The Proven Way to Hire, Inspire, and Recognize Your Employees and Achieve Remarkable Results.
“Hugging” is Jack’s metaphor for bringing humanity back into the workplace, not necessarily through touch but by getting to know, pay attention to and being curious about those we do business with by taking the time to learn what matters to them. Hug Your People is a compelling blend of anecdotes from the author’s daily business life and practical guide for building the kind of great relationships that Jack says are at the heart of every transaction.
“Motivating the workforce and employee retention are huge global challenges no matter what business you’re in” writes Jack. “Business leaders are eager for a detailed yet easy to follow blueprint that shows them how to assemble a happy and effective workforce that doesn’t desert them the minute the business across the street offers $10 more a week and an extra vacation day”. As he says, “An engaged, enthusiastic workforce who work well together engages repeat customers.”
Jack’s principles are based on fifty successful years of daily use in real-life leadership. When used throughout an organization, they help attract and keep talent, lower marketing costs, maintain high gross margins, build long-term revenue and attract new business. More than that, it makes for a great workplace where people look forward to being everyday.
Hug Your People is available in hardcover from your local bookstore, or from one of the following online booksellers.
- Original version is available in the following languages
- Simplified Chinese
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A Russian lawmaker has warned that Moscow would retaliate if Finland joins NATO as Russian aggression in Ukraine spurs the Nordic country towards membership of the alliance.
Vladimir Dzhabarov from Russia’s upper house, the Federation Council, said that any move by Helsinki to join NATO would be a “strategic mistake.”
He said that Finland had developed close ties with Russia but NATO membership would mean “it would become a target.”
“I think so [would be] a terrible tragedy for the entire Finnish people, “said Dzhabarov.
However, he said it was unlikely that “the Finns themselves will sign a card for the destruction of their country,” in comments reported on Wednesday by Russian state-owned domestic news agency RIA Novosti.
Newsweek has contacted the Russian and Finnish foreign ministries for comment.
It is only the latest threat made to Finland about NATO membership, with the expansion of the alliance towards Russia’s borders one of the reasons used by President Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine.
Sergei Belyayev, head of the Russian foreign ministry’s European department, said in March there would be “serious military and political consequences,” should Finland join NATO.
On Tuesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that Finland, along with its neighbor Sweden would be “welcome” to join the alliance.
Finland shares an 830-mile long border with Russia and was once part of the Russian empire, gaining independence after World War I. The Soviet Union invaded Finland in 1939 in what is known as the Winter War. Following a peace treaty in 1940, the pair clashed again in the Continuation War that began in 1941, just after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The war lasted until 1944.
In 1948, Finland signed the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union recognizing its desire to remain neutral. A new friendship treaty was signed between Helsinki and Moscow in 1992.
However, Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine has pushed Helsinki to explore ways to strengthen national security, including possible NATO membership.
Such a move is growing in popularity among Finnish politicians. Out of 200 parliamentarians, 112 responded to a survey on potential membership. Most of the respondents, 71, said they backed NATO membership while only six MPs opposed the move, according to Finland’s national public broadcasting company YLE. There were 35 who said they did not know.
The National Coalition Party (NCP) strongly backs NATO membership. NCP representative Pihla Keto-Huovinen told Yle that she had changed her mind about Finnish non-alignment after the Russian invasion of Ukraine which “shook the entire foundational policy.”
There is increasing support for joining the alliance among the public, with a majority (60 percent) of Finns backing joining NATO in a poll last month by the Finnish Business and Policy Forum Eva think tank. | <urn:uuid:8bdfb414-d83c-4939-b341-fc49d207e1ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://awsforwp.com/2022/04/07/finland-joining-nato-means-destruction-of-their-country-russian-lawmaker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968158 | 620 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Belvedere, California…A picturesque seaside town, less than one square mile in size, just four miles north of San Francisco. Belvedere sits on the south side of the Tiburon peninsula between Richardson Bay and San Francisco Bay, with panoramic vistas of the Bay Bridge, Angel Island and the Golden Gate Bridge. The water views, homes tucked into the hillside and narrow, winding streets with names like Beach, Bay View and Bella Vista, are vaguely reminiscent of the quaint towns along the French Riviera. For those who enjoy and appreciate the outdoors, Belvedere is pure heaven.
My husband and I were fortunate enough to be staying in this idyllic place for two weeks. Exploring the neighborhood on our first day, we noticed a hand-painted wooden sign marking the entrance to a narrow upward stairway. As we meandered, we saw other painted signs and accompanying stairways. Later that day, my curiosity led me to venture up one of the stairways known as Cedar Lane. As I climbed the first few steps, my adrenaline surged… I felt as though I was heading up a secret passageway into a bygone era.
I counted 176 steps to the top of Cedar Lane. After a few minutes of climbing, my pulse had quickened and I was breathing heavily. Not only was this a terrific workout, but also, I was intrigued by the stairways… how many of them existed in Belvedere? What purpose did the stairs serve? Were they all similar or different? And, most importantly, would I be able to climb all the stairways during my stay?
A quick Internet search further piqued my interest in these secret stairways. First, I learned that the locals refer to the stairways as the “Belvedere Lanes.” There are 17 lanes in Belvedere. They comprise a network of stairs and pathways that connect the roadways on the two islands that make up the town of Belvedere: the smaller Corinthian Island and the larger Belvedere Island. The shortest lane has just 4 steps and a passageway, and the longest boasts 195 steps. One of the lanes isn’t actually a stairway at all, but a steep ramp connecting one dead end street at sea level to another road high atop a cliff.
According to historical accounts, in the early 1900’s, Belvedere was a welcome summer retreat for San Franciscans seeking a milder climate and easy water access. Residents arrived by boat from San Francisco and used the stairways to reach their summer houses. Today, the lanes provide passage to areas that are difficult to reach by car via the narrow and hilly streets of Belvedere. They also serve as a means of escape during natural disasters like earthquakes and fires. Many local residents enjoy hiking the island through the passageways of the lanes. And, since I was now a bonafide local for two weeks, I decided that this would be the perfect way to explore Belvedere.
The entrances to the lanes are marked by charming, hand-painted wooden signs. The colorful signs, created by local artists, depict the flora, fauna and beautiful landscapes found in Belvedere and Tiburon. Some of the lanes, like Cedar, Woodwardia, McLean and Woodlands, are divided into upper and lower sections, each marked with a distinctive sign. Every lane is unique. Some lanes are lush and green, others are heavily wooded, and a few are simple utilitarian connective passageways between homes.
I spent my first few days in Belvedere exploring the lanes, a few at a time. By day three, I had been up and down every lane at least once. I was now officially obsessed. A local shopkeeper advised me that residents hike the lanes for exercise, traversing the entire network in one go-around. I decided to attempt this feat the next morning. Following the local protocol, I started at the San Francisco Yacht Club at the base of Belvedere Island, then followed the lanes up and down in order, beginning with Lower McLean, then moving right to left as I tackled each new stairway.
The next hour and a half provided many, highlights, surprises and adventures. Hawthorne Lane offered two pleasant surprises. First, the painted sign depicted a boy walking his golden retriever along the water, which, as a golden retriever lover, warmed my heart. Then, midway up this stairway, I discovered two miniature parks with wood benches, statues and a memorial plaque.
The sign marking the entrance to Upper Woodland Lane depicted a powerful soaring eagle. This lane, lined with tall trees, shrubs and ferns, featured a rustic wood stairway and evoked a dense forest.
Another wonderful surprise came at the top of Pagoda Lane. At its entrance, this stairway appeared to be an unassuming ramp with just six stairs, but quickly morphed into a monster climb of 190 steps straight uphill. Waiting at the top of the stairs was a white golden retriever named Maverick (ironically, a virtual twin and namesake of my former beloved dog!) He greeted me with excited barking and then followed me on the next three stairways, until I eventually walked him back home.
My most challenging stairway was Harry B Allen Lane, but not because it had the most steps. This lane is designed as a steep metal stairway leading down from Beach Street to the harbor and rocky beach below. The stairs are open grates so as you walk you can see the ground below… a frightening proposition for someone like me who is prone to bouts of Vertigo. After meticulously counting 104 stairs and finally touching ground, I breathed a deep sigh of relief. Moments later, I was rewarded with an extraordinary selection of beach glass that had washed ashore during a recent storm, making this intense descent and return climb completely worthwhile.
The Lanes of Belvedere comprise 1,888 steps. All these stairways together, plus the roadways in between, span a total of 4.2 miles. Not a bad workout in a town that’s less than one square mile in size!
Hiking the lanes proved to be a fun and exhilarating experience as well as a perfect way to get acquainted with this magnificent area. The best part was that this exploration combined many of my favorite interests and passions—adventure, history, curiosity, artistic expression, and rigorous fitness—all in one outing! The ultimate in multi-tasking. | <urn:uuid:08ff7d8f-3ed7-4139-bbb6-385b22c7a66f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nestreimagined.com/2017/02/22/stairways-to-heaven/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958193 | 1,336 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Webcast : A Brave New World: SQL Server on Linux
With the brave new world of SQL Server on Linux, it is important for SQL Server professionals to have good understanding of the platform so they can best advise their employers. Even though it is early days for SQL Server on Linux. In this IDERA Live session you will learn about the Linux operating system, how to use it, and how to master it, and how to best deploy SQL Server on the Linux platform.
Joey D’Antoni is an Senior Consultant and SQL Server MVP with over a decade of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He is a Principal Architect for Denny Cherry and Associates and lives in Malvern, PA. He is a frequent speaker at major tech events, and blogger about all topics technology. He believes that no single platform is the answer to all technology problems. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA from North Carolina State University, and is the co-author of the Microsoft white paper “Using Power BI in a Hybrid Environment”
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What is the relationship between Kyoto and Tea?
Over eight-hundred years ago, tea was transported to Japan from China. In this course, you will learn about the history of the tea ceremony and become familiar with some of the temples that were the first to serve this Chinese drink. At the end of the day you will enjoy some Japanese tea sweets that have become popular recently.
(About 6 hours)
This temple was founded by a monk who brought many different types of tea from China. In the compound stands a stone monument with the word "Tea monument" written in kanji.
Times：10:00 - 16:00
Address：584 Komatsu-cho Higashiyama-ku
Access：7-min walk from Keihan Railway Shijo Station
<City Bus, Route #5 Higashiyama sanjo to Nanzenji Temple and Eikando: About 14 minutes>
NOMURA ART MUSEUM: 13:00-14:30
This collection was established by Tokushichi Nomura founder of the Nomura company. Tea ceremony instruments and prints are on display.
Address：Nanzen-ji Shimogawara Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
Access：6-min walk from Nanzen-ji Eikan-do michi bus stop
Close: Mon (Except for holiday)
Entrance fee: 700 yen
<Subway Tozai Line Keage Station to Keihan Sanjo Station: About 3 minutes>
This was the first shop to offer matcha (bitter green tea) sweets in Kyoto. The view from the sixth floor is spectacular.
Times：11:30 - 21:30（21:00LO）
Address：6F Takase building 105 Nakajima-cho Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
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In this brief guide, we will answer the question “What is soy milk good for?” with an in-depth analysis of its health benefits. Moreover, we are going to highlight its nutritional facts.
What is soy milk good for?
Soy milk is high in protein. The protein present in soy milk is healthy. It is a plant-based protein which can help support healthy muscles and organs. Soy milk is a plant-based non-dairy beverage. It can be consumed as an alternative to milk. It’s made from soybeans. Many brands try to fortify their soy milk by adding vitamins and minerals such as vitamin D and calcium.
Soy milk is a blessing for those people who are vegan or lactose intolerant. This dairy-free diet is known as a powerhouse of health benefits.
What are the nutrition facts of soy milk?
There are many types of soy milk available on the markets. The number of calories and the amount of added sugar will differ depending on what you buy. You should always check the nutrient facts label on your brand of choice. Given below are the nutrition facts. These nutritions are for one cup of a popular organic unsweetened soy milk:
- Calories: 80
- Fat: 4 grams (g)
- Saturated fat: 0.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 3 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Sugars: 1 g (0 g added sugars)
- Protein: 7 g
1. Weight loss:
- Soy milk is rich in fiber.
- Fiber is known as having a considerable effect on BMI and good cholesterol levels.
- Fiber present in soy milk helps us with obesity and high blood pressure.
- If you combine soy milk with a low-fat diet and some soy proteins, then it can help you to get rid of obesity. During this, it will keep your muscle mass in place.
2. Better heart health:
- Soy is a product that helps you to improve your good cholesterol levels.
- It also prevents heart diseases.
- Soy milk can improve the plasma lipid levels in people.
- Soy milk can reduce the risk of heart diseases later in life.
- It is rich in vitamins, minerals, and polyunsaturated fats which together promote better heart health.
3. Cures skin issues:
- If you are facing acne outbreaks, then you should add soy milk to your diet.
- Soy milk itself is good enough to reduce hyperpigmentation. Hyperpigmentation is a condition in which darkening of the skin occurs.
- Recent research describes that a compound found in soy milk contains anti-aging properties
4. Better hair growth:
- When you combine Soy milk with a protein-rich diet, then it can have a good impact on your hair.
- It can also help in stimulating better hair growth to improve its appearance.
- Soy milk can be beneficial for frizzy and unmanageable hair too.
5. Stronger bones:
- Soy milk is rich in calcium. It is beneficial for your bones.
- Calcium content present in soy milk promotes better bone health by keeping them stronger.
- It helps in maintaining bone structure intact, hence reducing the risk of fractures.
6. Recovery after workout:
- If you do work out, then your body loses some fats and burns some calories and recovery is a must after this.
- If you are a vegan or lactose-intolerant, soy milk can be the perfect beverage for you to ensure better recovery after workouts.
- Riboflavin present in soy milk can help you recover all your lost energy post-workouts.
- Soy milk can boost your mood.
- It contains vitamin B6 and vitamin B complexes. These vitamins are beneficial in improving your mood.
- Soy milk is also rich in magnesium. Magnesium releases the hormone serotonin in your body.
- Magnesium works as an antidepressant for your mind.
8. May improve cholesterol:
- High cholesterol becomes the major reason for heart disease
- Every food that you eat can significantly affect your cholesterol levels.
- Diets that contain soy milk may have beneficial effects.
- Triglycerides are a type of blood lipid or fat. When they are elevated, they can increase your risk of stroke and heart disease.
- Soy milk has beneficial effects on cholesterol and triglyceride levels. This is because soy milk contains the content of certain proteins and isoflavones.
- Isoflavones are known as a class of beneficial plant compounds found largely in soybeans
9. May reduce high blood pressure:
- Like high cholesterol, high blood pressure also becomes the reason for heart disease. High cholesterol increases the risk of kidney disease.
- Recent research states that drinking soy milk has blood-pressure-lowering effects.
Is there anyone who should avoid soy milk?
- If you are allergic to soy, then you should not drink soy milk. If you are not allergic then it is an excellent food for everyone else.
- If you’re pregnant, you can consume soy.
- If you are facing breast cancer, it’s okay to consume a moderate amount of soy, according to AICR.
Here, you can find potential disadvantages of soy milk.
In this brief guide, we answered the question “What is soy milk good for?” with an in-depth analysis of its health benefits. Moreover, we highlighted its nutritional facts.
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What is Vedic Math?
Vedic Math is an ancient system of Mathematics which was rediscovered by an Indian scholar, Sri.Bharati Krsna Tirthaji Maharaj.
It is a system of Mental Math which enables the student to compute faster and produce accurate results.
Vedic Math is based on the application of 16 Sutras (formulae) and 13 sub-sutras (sub-formulae) to modern mathematics and offers an interesting and faster means to perform all mathematical operations (+ , - , x ,÷)
Vedic Math can also be successfully applied to Algebra, Geometry and all advanced streams of computations.
Why should my student learn Vedic Math?
The system of Vedic Math offers remarkable benefits to the student:
The techniques are very visual in nature and are more inclined towards developing mental calculating skills.
The techniques instill a sense of awe and interest in the student.
There is improvement in focus.
The improved speed & accuracy generates confidence and love for Math.
What will my student learn in the Vedic Math program?
Vedic math Techniques and their application to regular mathematical computations.
Applying the Vedic Math techniques to solve problems mentally.
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