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The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Eu-Osha) intervened last 16 April concerning the “Health & Safety” management in workplaces to handle the emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, by publishing “Covid-19: guidance for the workplace”.
This document contains a structured series of guidelines aimed at operating in “non-healthcare” work environments that takes into account, in addition to the recommendations provided by the World Heath Organization (WHO), indications provided by another European institution that is dealing with the spread of the virus, i.e. the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc).
Even if the measures suggested by these guidelines have actually already found specific and broad responses from the Italian government through the multiple decrees adopted, they have assumed particular importance due to their partial inclusion in the “Technical Document on the possible redesign of the containment measures for contagion from SARS-CoV-2 in workplaces and prevention strategies” published by INAIL which, not by chance, works precisely as the Italian focal-point of the Agency through the central Prevention Office.
The issues covered by “Covid-19: guidance for the workplace”
Various subjects are discussed in the aforesaid guidelines and they range from reconstruction of the general framework of scientific knowledge and prevention measures to implement to fight the spread of the virus, to indications on conduct to adopt if there is a suspected or confirmed Covid-19 case in the workplace.
The innovations of primary interest contained in these guidelines are analysed below:
Employers are urged to draw up a complete document useful for preparing the organisation for the eventuality of a virus outbreak developing in the workplace.
The European agency limits itself to stating that this plan must practically establish “how” a business can continue even if a significant number of workers, contractors and suppliers are unable to reach the company due to local travel restrictions or because they are ill.
The adoption of a partially similar measure is already required by our laws by the “Joint Protocol on regulation of measures for contrasting and containing the spread of the Covid-19 virus in workplaces” of last 14 March (including in its update version of 24 April, the “Protocol”). However, in this case, the employer is asked to do more, i.e. perform a full-fledged analysis on the various situations that can have effects, serious and less so, on the company’s operations and consequently prepare this plan.
The European agency believes that the adopted prevention measures “should be included in the risk assessment of the workplace that covers all risks, including those caused by biological agents as established by national and EU legislation concerning occupational health and safety”.
Therefore in contrast with what the Labour Inspector sustained with circular no. 89 of last 13 April, it is necessary to update the “Risk assessment document” (DVR) so that it includes risks connected with the spread of Covid-19 in workplaces and also identifies the prevention and protection measures adopted against this “biological risk”.
Moreover, in the document the European Agency mentions a series of indications on how to treat suspected or confirmed Covid-19 cases in workplaces, requiring that they be immediately isolated in separate areas and, where possible, even with closed doors, keeping the same at least two meters away from the rest of the workers present. This measure was included in the Protocol in its updated 24 April version.
Indications are also provided on the correct use of masks that, according to the European agency, should remain a complementary measure and not a replacement for prevention practices.
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Recent trends show that many Canadian universities are receiving more applications yearly, which means acceptance rates are on a steady decline. As the Canadian application process becomes increasingly competitive, many students opt to study outside Canada. Have you considered being one of those students?
Canada is home to 97 universities, all of which offer unique opportunities and impressive academic programs. Enriched with diversity, it’s no surprise that Canadian universities saw a spike in applications within the last year. In 2021, Ontario universities saw 30,000 more applicants than the previous year, including secondary, non-secondary, and international students.
As Canadian universities become more competitive, consider adding US universities to your application lists. When pursuing higher education, you must weigh your options and determine the best-fit university for you. Here are the top 5 reasons Canadian students should consider attending university in the US.
The US is home to some of the best universities in the world. Whether you’re looking to study law, computer science, medicine, engineering, or journalism, the US offers highly-ranked institutions and unique programs to its students. This year, US News compiled a list of the top universities in the world based on 13 key indicators, including academic performance and worldwide reputation. University of Toronto (UofT), the top school in Canada, ranked 18th on that list and the University of British Columbia (UBC) placed 31st — whereas US universities take eight of the Top 10 spots.
While higher enrollment numbers may increase your chances of gaining acceptance to a particular university, you should consider the quality of education at these universities. UofT and UBC enroll a significantly higher number of students than universities such as Harvard or Columbia. Could the higher enrollment numbers contribute to the quality of education and overall rankings of the universities?
|Massachusetts Institute of Technology||4,361|
|University of California- Berkeley||~16,400|
|University of Washington||~23,000|
|University of British Columbia||56,789|
|University of Toronto||71,930|
On average, top universities in the US have low admissions, leading to significantly smaller program class sizes. The quality of their education, internships, and research opportunities is statistically higher. UBC’s website notes that their median class size is 115 and has gone as high as 200 students in a first-year undergraduate class. Likewise, UofT’s class sizes averaged greater than 200 hundred students across each campus. So what does this mean?
From internships to co-op opportunities, US universities offer specialized programs to students interested in diving deeper into their fields of study. Universities such as Stanford, Columbia, and Berkeley pride themselves on their employer-student connections and reputation among company recruiters, making them among the top universities for graduate employability. Within the same ranking, UofT places 19th and UBC trails behind at 41st.
Most students think long-term when they begin their academic journey, with a particular focus on their careers following graduation. Complimenting their outstanding employer connections, it’s no surprise that the same universities showed consistently high numbers of first-year graduate salaries, with many averaging at $50,000 USD. While the financial investment can be a bit daunting, the return on investment is worth it.
Whether students intend to apply for a work visa and extend their stay or return to Canada, research and internship experience obtained at university is an incredible plus to add to any resume.
Getting accepted to university means you’ll have open doors to endless possibilities, maybe even a graduate degree.
It’s common for students to earn a second degree. When it comes to getting into graduate school, where you received your undergraduate degree matters. As a Canadian student, your postgraduate opportunities are endless if you obtain an undergraduate degree in the US, especially from a top university. Even if you choose to pursue your graduate degree in Canada, presenting a letter of recommendation from well-recognized faculty members can increase your chances of standing out to admissions officers.
Melting pot versus mosaic. The US maintains significant diversity on its university campuses! Similar to Canada’s mosaic structure, US universities are home to thousands of students from around the world. As a student in the US, you will become acquainted with distinct cultures and unique individuals while maintaining your studies.
In addition to the diverse student body, US universities include highly-ranked faculty and alumni. Establishing professional relationships with them opens the door to networking opportunities and mentorships that last beyond your time in university and well into your professional career.
Studying in the US as a Canadian student has countless benefits: world-class facilities, academic opportunities, and a positive return on investment following graduation. As more Canadian students turn to the US to pursue their undergraduate degrees, you can explore your options with Crimson Education and see how we can support you in reaching new academic heights.
Crimson Education is the world’s leading university admissions support company specializing in helping students gain entry to some of the world’s most competitive universities. Our holistic approach provides support across all areas of the US and UK university application process. We assist you in finding your best-fit university through personalized support and success-driven roadmaps. Crimson has served thousands of students and helped secure over USD 70 million in scholarships and financial reimbursement. Find out more about our Admissions Support program. | <urn:uuid:b1a2e34a-5042-443b-aa1f-0cd0d557e133> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crimsoneducation.org/ca/blog/top-5-reasons-why-canadian-students-should-study-in-the-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946041 | 1,164 | 1.734375 | 2 |
One of the most common questions children ask in relation to mathematics is ‘When will I ever use this?’ Often they don’t realise that we use mathematics in almost every aspect of our lives, from the minute we wake up each morning and estimate whether we should push the snooze button, to working out how many minutes or hours there are until we get to finish school or work for the day. The perception that mathematics has little or no relevance to their lives beyond the classroom is one of the reasons children begin to disengage from mathematics during the primary years. In order to bridge the gap between children’s lives and the mathematics classroom I firmly believe that primary teachers should take every opportunity to make mathematics meaningful by using the real world, whether through the use of objects, photographs or physically taking children into the world beyond the classroom and engaging them in rich, worthwhile activities.
So how can you do this? If you are new to teaching with contextual mathematics, I would suggest that you begin by designing a mathematics trail at your school or somewhere out in the community – it could even take place at the local shopping centre. Find points of interest that have mathematical potential, photograph them and then plan a set of activities. For example, if you have a giant chessboard in the school playground, you might pose the following questions:
- Estimate the following and explain your thinking: The area of the chessboard, the perimeter of the chessboard, and the area of each tile
- Use words to describe the position of the chessboard without coordinates and in relation to its surroundings.
- Locate the chessboard on a map of the school grounds. What are the coordinates?
- Investigate the total number of squares (of any size) in the chessboard.
- Design a new maths game that can be played on the chessboard and write a set of instructions for another group to follow.
You will notice that the questions above are quite open-ended. This will allow for all students to achieve some success and provides an important opportunity for children to show what they can or cannot do. Open-ended questions are more engaging for students and often require them to think harder and more creatively about the mathematics they are engaging in.
Another idea for contextualising mathematics is to use objects or photographs of real life objects, items or events. It could be something as simple as a school lunchbox, with questions such as the following:
- Explore the ways sandwiches are cut. What different shapes can you see? Can you draw them?
- Before recess, compare the mass of your lunchbox with five other lunchboxes. Can you order the lunchboxes from lightest to heaviest?
- List the types of food in the lunch boxes today. Can you sort them into different categories? What categories do you have? Is there another way to sort them?
- Conduct a survey to find out the most popular recess or lunch food in your class. Do you think this is a healthy food?
- How many Unifix cubes do you think would fit in your empty lunchbox? Write down your estimate and then test it out. Was your estimate close? Find someone with a different size or shape lunch box and repeat the activity.
- Use a special bin to collect rubbish from your lunch boxes. How much rubbish did you collect?
- Sort out the lunch box rubbish and organise it into a graph. What information does your graph give you?
Another idea is to collect interesting photographs from around the world. I took the photograph above in Essaouiera, Morocco yesterday (I’m here to attend a conference). The photograph could be a stimulus for mathematical discussion and investigation, and there are several interesting mathematical questions you could pose:
- Can you work out the number of hats in the photograph without actually counting them one by one? How? Is there another way?
- The hats at the top of the photograph are called a ‘fez’ or ‘tarboosh’. Investigate their history and construct a timeline.
- If each fez cost 80 Moroccan Dirham, how much would each one cost in Australian currency? Would the entire contents of the shop be worth more than $200?
A great free resource (and one of my favourites) that often has fantastic mathematical potential is the website, Daily Overview (http://www.dailyoverview.nyc/). Each day Daily Overview post a different aerial photograph from somewhere in the world. The photograph is accompanied by background information that could also be explored within a mathematics lesson.
There are many ways to bridge the gap between school mathematics and children’s lives. If we can promote the relevance of mathematics to children while at primary school, then we have a much better chance of sustaining their engagement through the secondary years, when mathematics becomes more abstract. We want children to continue the study of mathematics beyond the compulsory years and this is more likely to happen when they no longer ask ‘When am I every going to use this?’. | <urn:uuid:1b4636a3-9665-426c-b168-26589bbb1a93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://engagingmaths.com/2015/06/10/when-will-i-ever-use-this-how-to-build-bridges-and-make-maths-meaningful/?like_comment=353&_wpnonce=9298b058c8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952633 | 1,028 | 4.125 | 4 |
Bangladesh’s coronavirus caseload has jumped by 1,887 in a day to 807,867.
The death toll from the COVID-19 illness rose by 34 in a 24-hour count to 12,758, according to the latest government data released on Friday.
Another 1,723 people recovered from the illness through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the tally of recoveries to 747,758.
As many as 18,151 samples were tested across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 10.4 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.
The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 92.56 per cent, while the mortality rate stands at 1.58 per cent.
Globally, over 172.17 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 2.70 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
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When applying for the Azerbaijan visa for travel purposes you need to know about the famous places in the country. Azerbaijan is one of the most popular countries in the world when it comes to tourism. This is because this country has a blend of both modern and historic cultures. Azerbaijan is a Muslim country but it is one of the first Islamic countries to have declared secularism. Before you get the Azerbaijan online visa application you should read about the five important places to visit.
Baku is one of the most important cities in the world. It is famous for its modernism and booming skyscrapers. More than a quarter of Azerbaijan’s population lives in this city. It is also a very strong hot spot for tourists from all across the globe. People specially apply for visa to visit Azerbaijan just to see Baku. You can enjoy views of flaming towers, TEZE bazaar, and dozens of modern restaurants.
Absheron National Park
A very famous place to visit is the Absheron national park. This park is spread over 780 acres and if you are a fan of flora and fauna then you need to visit this place. People from all around the world apply for the tourist visa for Azerbaijan just to visit this place. In this park you can get to see unique breeds of birds along with gazelles, birds, jackals, Caspian seals and much more. If you are lucky enough then you can also see the sea snake in late September, so apply for Azerbaijan visa during this time.
If you are fond of volcanoes then you need to apply for the Azerbaijan visa and go see the Garasu volcano. This is not a lava boiling volcano rather it is a mud volcano so you don’t have to worry about any dangers. You would be surprised to know that Azerbaijan is home to more than three hundred mud volcanoes. Some of these volcanoes are said to have erupted more than twenty million years ago. The Garasu volcano has gathered popularity because its surface looks like the surface of the moon.
The Caspian Sea is not actually a sea, rather it is the largest lake in the world. You would be shocked to know that this lake is spread over 371K kilometers. This lake sits on land which actually looks like an ocean bed. The water of this lake is also salty but not as much as that of oceans. So if you want to have a swim in Azerbaijan then you need to go to apply for Azerbaijan e visa and visit the Caspian Sea. You can swim fish and dive in the Caspian Sea.
Nabran is a village in Azerbaijan which has today become a resort for tourists. It is situated in a three hour drive from Baku. This village lies on the banks of Caspian Sea which is why the season of the surroundings is quite pleasant. An important thing to note is that you have to keep your Azerbaijan visa with you at all times during your visit to this village.
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Biden still has a chance to save Afghanistan by learning the lesson of Operation Linebacker
Seeing Taliban convoys rolling down a highway might intimidate Afghans, but US defense planners should see them as targets begging to be destroyed.
President Biden says that there is no valid comparison between the current crisis in Afghanistan and the 1975 collapse of South Vietnam following the pullout of U.S. ground forces. “None whatsoever. Zero,” he told reporters. “It is not at all comparable.”
However, the situation on the ground looks uncomfortably more familiar by the day. Taliban forces are on the march, overrunning nine provincial capitals in the last week. Refugees are crowding the streets in the capital of Kabul, and the Biden administration has expanded the number eligible for permanent resettlement in the United States.
Learning military tactics from 1972
According to a new US military assessment of the Afghan situation, “everything is moving in the wrong direction.” Comparisons to the Vietnam War’s endgame are apt, but defeat is not inevitable if US policymakers learn the right lessons. They should focus less on 1975 and more on 1972.
In the spring of 1972, with the bulk of US ground forces out of South Vietnam and peace talks ongoing, North Vietnam launched a massive surprise attack to decide the outcome of the war in one stroke. The “Easter Offensive,” as it was dubbed, was a massive conventional invasion on a scale not seen since Tet in 1968.
South Vietnamese forces at first buckled under the ferocity of the assault, but President Nixon responded by launching Operation Linebacker, an intensive, coordinated air campaign that destroyed communist forces, disrupted their supply and communications lines, and gave South Vietnamese troops the opportunity to rally and push back the invaders.
This successful defense of South Vietnam demonstrated American resolve and was instrumental in securing the 1973 Paris Peace Accords. The dark days for South Vietnam came two years after the peace deal. Nixon had resigned, Democrats in Congress defunded the military support we had promised Saigon, and in April 1975 the North replayed its Easter Offensive script. This time it worked. Saigon fell, Americans bugged out, and the war was over.
It is important to note that it was not Viet Cong guerillas smashing through the US Embassy gates, but North Vietnamese army tanks. As Mao Zedong taught generations of guerilla warriors, victory in a protracted unconventional struggle comes through shifting to conventional war for the coup de grâce.
Catching the Taliban's vulnerabilities
The Taliban are currently transitioning to this phase, massing troops, seizing ground, and preparing for the final assault. Ironically, this shift works to America’s advantage. As the Taliban sacrifice the stealth, agility, and mobility of guerilla war, they make themselves vulnerable to the type of warfare at which the United States excels. We saw it in the Easter Offensive in Vietnam. It was also the mistake ISIS made when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi attempted to consolidate his caliphate and fight a conventional war. More to the point, we saw this play out in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001. The Taliban then controlled over ninety percent of the country.
In a matter of weeks, Afghan rebels, backed by US Special Operations Forces and CIA paramilitaries, and drawing on vast Coalition airpower resources, annihilated Taliban conventional ground forces, overthrew Mullah Omar’s government and reclaimed most of the country. So today while the sight of Taliban convoys boldly rolling down a highway might inspire fear among the Afghan people, to US defense planners this should present an array of targets begging to be destroyed.
To its credit the Biden administration has been ramping up airstrikes in Afghanistan, though this effort has not yet stalled the Taliban advance. President Biden still believes that the Taliban are “not remotely comparable in terms of capability” to the 1975-era North Vietnamese army, but they hardly need to be that powerful if the Afghan army is collapsing in front of them. Renewed commitment from the United States in words and deeds could stiffen the resolve of Afghan forces who must by now realize they are fighting for their survival. Afghan ground troops combined with Coalition special forces, strike capability and intelligence support would present a formidable challenge to the Taliban. The tactics used successfully in 2001 – as well as 1972 or against ISIS – could be repeated. The alternative would be once again to abandon an American ally, allow the Taliban to seize Kabul, and put America’s longest war firmly in the “lose” column.
James S. Robbins, a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors and author of "This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive," has taught at the National Defense University and the Marine Corps University and served as a special assistant in the office of the secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration. He is a senior fellow in National Security Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council. Follow him on Twitter: @James_Robbins | <urn:uuid:870d7e5d-d281-472c-aafd-5e5dd59d0457> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.packersnews.com/story/opinion/2021/08/13/u-s-should-learn-its-own-playbook-take-down-taliban/8098860002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950971 | 1,023 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Hans Peter Kraus was born in Vienna on 12 October 1907 as the son of Emil and Hilda Kraus (née Rix). After graduating from the Handelsakademie in 1925, he trained as a librarian from 1925 to 1927 at Universitätsbuchhandlung R. Lechner in Vienna. Then he worked for Buchhandlung Wasmuth in Berlin and for some time at Buchhandlung und Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann in Leipzig. He returned to Vienna in 1932 and opened an antique bookshop at Praterstraße 16/1 in the 2nd district specializing in rare old prints, with visits by appointment only. He moved across the street two years later to Praterstraße 17/1. As he was refused permission by the Korporation der Wiener Buch-, Kunst-, und Musikalienhändler (Corporation of Viennese Book, Art and Music Sellers) and the trade authorities to operate a bookstore open to the public, he specialized in mailing antiques catalogues. From 1934 he issued these several times a year and also sent them to customers overseas, with the result that he was well known both in Austria and other countries and became one of the most successful antiques dealers in Vienna. He focused on scientific literature and old maps. During the economic crisis in the 1930s, his stocks were enlarged above all through the purchase of large private libraries (Thun-Hohensteinsche Bibliothek, "Teschner Bibliothek"), monastery libraries and public libraries. He states that his warehouse in 1938 had around 32,000 books and magazines.
After the annexation he was denounced to the Gestapo by his long-standing employee Alfred Wolf on account of his Jewish origins. He was interned at Rossauer Lände prison in Vienna and then at Dachau and Buchenwald. He was released from there in April 1939 on condition that he left the country. Shortly before the outbreak of war he fled first to Sweden and then in October 1938 with his mother, who had also managed to leave Vienna, to New York. Antiquariat Kraus was liquidated on 31 December 1938. Beforehand, the former employee Alfred Wolf had already transported all of the books and the shop inventory as a whole to Antiquariat Alfred Wolf – Reise- und Versandbuchhandlung, Antiquariat und Export at Schottenring 35 in the 1st district, which he had established in December 1938.
Through his lawer Friedrich Köhler in Vienna, Kraus brought criminal charges against Alfred Wolf in December 1945 under Sections 6 and 7 of the War Criminals Act (Unlawful Enrichment and Denunciation) and attempted to secure the books and to have Antiquariat Alfred Wolf closed. On 28 August 1946 the US military government appointed a public administrator of the 50 per cent shares in the antique bookshop held at the time respectively by Alfred Wolf and Richard Riedmann. Richard Riedmann, who had helped Wolf with the Aryanization of Kraus's stocks, was managing director of the antique bookshop from 1943. When the Third Restitution Act came into force, Kraus submitted an application to the Restitution Commission in Vienna. Thanks to Riedmann's successful concealment, frequent changes in the public administration and interventions by the political section in the Bundesministerium für Vermögenssicherung und Wirtschaftsplanung (Federal Ministry for Securing Property and Economic Planning), the restitution was delayed. Moreover, from 1944 until the early post-war years, Riedmann managed to transfer stocks from the antique bookshop to Germany (Aschaffenburg, Homburg). In 1950 a settlement was reached at the Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen (provincial court for civil matters) in Vienna between Kraus and Riedmann, who was once again sole director of Antiquariat Wolf, because Alfred Wolf had been missing since the end of the war. This enabled Kraus to take possession again at least of a small part of the original 2,000 volumes in the library as well as four framed maps from his former map collection.
In the 1960s, Kraus progressed to become one of the most reputed antiques dealers in the USA. He died on 1 November 1988 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. After his death, his wife continued to manage the antique bookshop at 16 East 46th Street in New York for another fifteen years. In 2014, it was recommended that the University Library of the Medical University return to the heirs of Hans Peter Kraus the books purchased from Antiquariat Alfred Wolf after 1938 by the former Institut für Geschichte der Medizin (Institute of the History of Medicine).
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A MEMORIAL has been unveiled in Coventry city centre to the victims of the city’s worst ‘terrorist’ attack.
A memorial stone dedicated to the five victims of the 1939 Broadgate bombing by the IRA – which shocked the nation – was unveiled on Coventry Cathedral’s Unity Lawn yesterday (Wednesday, October 14).
On 25 August 1939, just nine days before the outbreak of WWII, at around 2.30pm, a bomb went off in Broadgate, one of Coventry’s main shopping streets.
It killed five people and injuring 70. The bomb had been planted into the carrier basket of a bicycle.
The five victims were Elsie Ansell, 21, Rex Gentle, 30, James Clay, 82, Gwilym Rowlands, 50 and John Arnott, who was just 15 years old.
Families and relatives of the victims were invited to the unveiling and dedication of the memorial stone in a service organised by Coventry Cathedral and Coventry City Council – as previously reported in the Coventry Observer.
A white rose was laid on the memorial stone by a representative of each of the victims to honour their memory.
The Very Reverend John Witcombe, Dean of Coventry, and Lord Mayor Councillor Michael Hammon also laid a rose as a mark of respect.
Coun Hammon said: “As a city promoting peace and reconciliation it is most fitting that we honour the loss by unveiling and dedicating this memorial stone to remember the five people who sadly lost their lives 76 years ago.”
In January 1939 the Irish Republican Army issued an ultimatum to the British Government – withdraw the army or face counter military action, with Coventry named among its targets.
History records the city’s electricity supply was supposed to be targeted, not civilians, under the IRA’s so-called ‘S-plan’ bombing campaign in England, which ran until March 1940.
Elsie Ansell was a shop assistant at Millet’s in nearby Cross Cheaping and was due to get married.
Gwilym Rowlands was a road sweeper. John Arnott and Rex Gentle worked at W H Smiths.
James Clay had left a business meeting in a nearby cafe.
James McCormick and Peter Barnes were hanged for their role in the bombing, although they did not plant the devise.
Joby O’Sullivan, from Cork, was never caught, despite claiming he planted the bomb.
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Released back in 1986 Outburst is one of the more popular mainstream party games of all time. Normal Outburst alone has had six different versions released in the United States. There have also been eight spinoff Outburst titles. Being such a popular party game it is actually kind of surprising that I had never played the game before. Despite being a popular game I had never felt the need to pick up the game. After waiting so long though I finally decided to give the game a chance. While Outburst has some issues it is hard to deny that it is a fun party game.
How to Play Outburst
The players separate into two teams and choose a playing piece. Each team rolls the die to see who gets to play first.
Playing the Game
A player from the opposite team acts as the scorekeeper for the round. They take a card and slide it into the viewer. The player makes sure all of the answers are unchecked. The player looking at the card reads off the category and then turns over the timer.
The current team will have one minute to yell out as many answers that fit the category as they can think up. Each time a player says one of the words on the card the player checking the answers says “yes” and they use the button on the viewer to indicate that the answer was given.
When the timer runs out the players can’t give any other answers. The scorekeeper reads off the answers that the other team didn’t give. If the other team claims they said the word they get credit for it. The current team will score one point for each correct word given.
Then a player from the current team rolls the die. If the team provided the word that corresponds to the number rolled, the team scores an additional three points.
Winning the Game
The game ends when one of the teams have earned the required amount of points to win the game.
My Thoughts on Outburst
So I would like to start out this review by saying that this review is technically based on the 2004 version of Outburst Junior. Despite playing Outburst Junior this review is going to cover both Outburst and Outburst Junior. I think this is fair because the only real difference between the two games are the cards. The gameplay itself is exactly the same in both versions of the game so I didn’t really see the point in reviewing Outburst and Outburst Junior individually.
While a lot of people are probably already familiar with Outburst, for those unfamiliar with the game I would classify it as speed Family Feud. In each round a team is given a category and has one minute to try and guess 10 words/things associated with that category. I compare this to the Family Feud game show since on the show teams try to provide the most popular answers for a given question.
Being considered a pretty popular party game I have to say that it is kind of odd that I had never played Outburst until recently. I honestly don’t know why I had never played the game since it has all the makings of a good party game. The game is quick and easy to play. It offers plenty of excitement as players race to yell out as many answers as they can in under a minute. Where I think Outburst shines the most is that it usually gives you questions that are broad enough that every team should be able to get at least four or five answers but it usually takes quite a bit of skill to get all of the answers for a given round.
It is kind of hard to explain why but Outburst is simply a fun game. The excitement of trying to give as many answers as quickly as possible is infectious. The game works well with any audience as the rules are easy to pick up and the topics on most of the cards are generic enough that everyone should be able to contribute. While I only played the game with four players I can see it being a game that will be more engaging with more players. While each game is pretty short it is pretty hard not to want to play another game.
Outburst is a surprisingly fun party game but it does have some problems.
Probably the biggest problem with the Outburst series are the cards themselves. The problem with the cards is that the topics can become outdated quite quickly. The reason the cards become outdated so quickly is that too many of the cards focus on pop culture or things that are time sensitive. For example we played the 2004 version of Outburst Junior and while I wouldn’t consider it to be new it is considerably newer than quite a few of the versions of Outburst. The problem is that even with a 2004 version of the game there are a lot of outdated questions. I can’t imagine how many cards are outdated in the 1980s versions of the game.
For this reason I would probably recommend picking up the newer versions of the game over the older versions. If you do pick up one of the older versions of the game you might have to go through the cards to see which cards are still relevant. Otherwise you probably need to institute a rule that if you draw a card that the other team won’t know many of the answers to you draw a new card. This is especially true if playing with younger players. With how outdated some of the questions from the older versions are, anyone under around 40 would have a hard time getting many of the answers for some of the questions.
The second biggest problem I had with Outburst is that some questions are naturally easier than others. Some questions only have a few potential answers. Others have many potential answers and you have to hope that you guess the right answers to score points. For example a question like “Rhymes with ….” has a limited number of potential answers. Meanwhile a question like “Things you can find in a house” has many more potential answers. This disparity in question difficulty means that a team can lose because they were given more difficult questions. Outburst is not meant to be a serious game so it is not a huge problem. This could be really annoying to people that are really competitive though.
Another potential problem with Outburst comes from the fact that it is really hard for the scorekeeper to keep track of all of the answers given by the other team. With larger teams it will probably be even harder to keep track. This creates a problem when a player doesn’t catch that an answer was given so the other team doesn’t get credit for the answer. This can potentially lead to arguments as the other team claims they gave the answer. With really competitive people I can see this leading to big arguments which could really hurt the game. I wonder if this is why the junior version of the game includes the rule that if the other team claims they gave the answer you just give them credit for it. I think this is a reasonable fix to the problem as if you are so competitive that you are going to lie about providing an answer, Outburst is probably not going to be the right game for you anyway.
The final problem that I had with Outburst is that there are quite a few other games out there that are very similar to Outburst. It is kind of hard to tell if Outburst was the first board game that utilized this mechanic. Outburst took inspiration from things like Family Feud but I don’t know if there was a speed board game released before 1986 that actually used a similar mechanic. I would have to guess that Outburst was probably one of the first games to use this type of mechanic. The problem is that there are quite a few other games that have been released after Outburst that utilize a similar mechanic. While Outburst deserves credit for being released before these games, as far as gameplay it really isn’t better than any of these other games.
As far as the components I can only really comment on the version of the game that I played as the components have changed quite a bit over the past 30 years. One thing that all versions of the game will share are the outdated questions that I mentioned above. Other than the outdated questions I actually liked the components that came with my copy of Outburst Junior. I like that the game obscures the text requiring a red decoder so you can’t accidentally see the answers to a card. The thing I liked the most was that the decoder had buttons that you can press to indicate which answers had already been given. It is such a small addition and yet is a clever addition to the game.
Should You Buy Outburst?
While I have spent considerably more time talking about the negatives of Outburst/Outburst Junior, I still think it is a pretty good party game. The game does have some problems with some of the cards being outdated and some cards being considerably more difficult than others. There is also the potential for fights as people argue about whether an answer was provided or not. None of these faults overshadow the fact that Outburst is a fun game though. The game is an exciting experience as a team tries to yell out as many answers as they can before time runs out. For a party game from 1986 it is pretty impressive that it has held up as well as it has.
If you don’t really care for party games Outburst/Outburst Junior is not going to be for you. If you like party games though and the premise interests you I would recommend looking into Outburst. I would probably recommend picking up one of the newer versions of the game though in order to avoid some of the outdated cards. | <urn:uuid:714aff76-83dd-4925-ab36-4c58dd54a5b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.geekyhobbies.com/outburst-and-outburst-junior-board-game-review-and-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.984847 | 1,950 | 1.875 | 2 |
We here at GreenSportsBlog love the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
It is Zero Waste. It is the model for greening all golf tournaments. Plus they had a caddy race during the actual tournament*. And now, the Waste Management Phoenix Open is getting even greener.
How can the Waste Management Phoenix Open get any greener? It’s already Zero-Waste. In fact, the best attended tournament (500,000+ fans annually) on the PGA Tour has diverted 100 percent of its waste from landfill in 2013 and 2014, via recycling, composting and waste-to-energy programs. You read that right: 100 percent diversion from landfill!
So, we ask again: How can the greenest golf tournament in the US get greener?
By water conservation/restoration, that’s how!
According to a story in yesterday’s Environmental Leader, the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open, which takes place Jan 25-Feb 1, will sponsor Change The Course, a “first-of-its kind water sustainability campaign that supports water flow restoration projects (that include) Northern Arizona’s Verde River (which flows into canals that provide water to the tournament course) and throughout the Colorado River Basin.” Rivers like the Verde have suffered from drought and over usage and thus water supplies are threatened. Water restoration projects are managed by non-profit B-E-F, which has handled similar programs for the National Hockey League. In fact, the NHL, through NHL Green is also sponsoring Change The Course.
View of the Verde River in Arizona. Funds raised by Change The Course, an effort sponsored in part by the Waste Management Phoenix Open, help to restore water to the Verde and other challenged rivers in the US and Canada. Water restoration efforts are managed by non-profit B-E-F. (Photo Credit: Arizona Sierra Club)
The goal of the program is to help millions change their water-use behavior. The tournament will use social media and an engaging microsite to encourage attendees and followers to pledge to conserve water. One pledge will lead to the restoration of 1,000 gallons of water back into the Colorado River Basin. There will also be a Change the Course booth at the Fan Fest Expo at next month’s tournament.
Change The Course water restoration pledge page. Each pledge will lead to the restoration of 1,000 gallons of water into the Colorado River Basin. To pledge, visit: http://wmpo.changethecourse.us
Waste Management’s water conservation efforts at the event will go beyond Change The Course:
- Greywater — wastewater generated from the concessionaire’s kitchens — is recycled for use in tournament portable restrooms.
- Vendor Water Use Monitoring: W-M will work with vendors to monitor their water use, with the goal being to decrease overall consumption vs. 2014.
- Purchase of B-E-F Water Restoration Certificates to offset the freshwater use during the tournament (95,000 gallons in 2014.)
Yes, GreenSportsBlog’s love for the Waste Management Phoenix Open continues to grow, unabated. We will express that love by joining the Change The Course pledge–and we urge you to do the same!
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Get away from the tourist crowds in these rural destinations
As France’s least populated department, Lozère is somewhere you can truly escape. It’s ideal for hikers, encompassing four mountain ranges. Other natural wonders include the Gorges du Tarn canyon, a mecca for kayakers and climbers.
Must-visit attraction: The Cévennes National Park for all kinds of outdoor fun
Must-try food: La pouteille, a deliciously rich beef and pork stew
Nestled in the heart of France is this bucolic department where cows outnumber people! Visit Aubusson, famous for its tapestries, and historic Bourganeuf, once the headquarters of the Knights Templar.
Must-visit attraction: Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie, a textile wonderland
Must-try food: Le fondu creusois (yep, not fondue!) – often served with fries
The gateway to the Alps is home to many a beautiful commune, including Sisteron and Manosque, as well as lavender fields aplenty. You can also find what many call the world’s second biggest canyon (after the US’s Grand Canyon): the amazing Gorges du Verdon.
Must-visit attraction: The world-renowned lavender fields of Valensole
Must-try food: L’agneau de Sisteron, the famous local lamb boasting prestigious Label Rouge status
Paradise for skiers, Hautes-Alpes boasts ski resorts like Serre Chevalier and Montgenèvre to its name. The department also encompasses part of the Écrins National Park, an outstanding destination for outdoors enthusiasts.
Must-visit attraction: Briançon and its impressive Cité Vauban
Must-try food: Le tourton, a fritter-like parcel of savoury or sweet joy
Cantal’s capital, Aurillac, has the accolade of being the departmental capital furthest away from a motorway – a negative or a positive, depending on what you’re looking for! Laced with rivers and punctuated by extinct volanic peaks, it’s a magnificent landscape. It’s also renowned for its cheese produced by the local Aubrac and Salers cattle.
Must-visit attraction: Puy Mary, a 6.5 million-year-old extinct volcano
Must-try food: Le bourriol, a buckwheat pancake topped with anything from local blue cheese to cranberries
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The Orono Land Trust (OLT) and Town of Orono have several preserved areas within our town. These areas are managed for habitat, trees, plants, wildlife and recreation. Trails are determined and then are 100% made and maintained by volunteers (your neighbors). Materials to make and maintained trails are financed though OLT memberships. Unauthorized trails may do great damage to habitat and degrade the recreation experience of users. If you believe a new trail or change to an existing trail is needed, please contact the Orono Land Trust via Facebook or website. If you see someone changing or making new trails please let us know. Thank you for your help to keep the land available.
Damaged water bar. While apparently done by bikers, any damage to the trails is disturbing. All work is done by volunteers for the benefit of all users. This damage will allow water to flow where it isn’t wanted – causing erosion and damaging the trail for all users. ASK US about suggested changes to trails. If you did this, please contact us to help repair the damage.
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Our students are overwhelmed, stressed, and filled with anxiety these days. It is our job to notice and adjust our sails in the classroom! One of the best ways to do this is with team-building exercises. You might think that it is a waste of time to do this, but it is not! It is what is getting our students through this very difficult time.
I have seen a dramatic shift over the last four weeks in our students. Theyare getting more and more stressed and need some fun in their lives. I am going to share with you a few of my favorite team-building exercises that you can take into your classroom and help your students gain back some JOY!!
The Affirmation Game - Instruct each student to write their name at the top of a piece of paper and pass it to the right. As the piece of paper circulates, everyone writes something they appreciate about that person, for example, “Maria is great at delivering on her promises,” or “David is a terrific speaker.” At the end of the game, everyone gets their piece of paper returned to them that is filled with affirmations.
Rose And Thorn - Start by having everyone share their ROSE. This is something that makes them feel happy, grateful, etc. After everyone has shared, ask them to share their THORN. This is something that is challenging or something that is bothering them. I love this one because it gets everyone talking and feeling comfortable to share once they hear others share with them.
Rabbit Hole is one of my all-time favorites! Our students ask to play this often! I like to start off the season by playing this and then bring it back quarterly to see how much they improve!This starts with a Hula Hoop resting on 3 cones. Place a hula hoop on top of the cones so that it is elevated off of the ground.
- Tell the students that they are all rabbits and they have to get into their rabbit hole to hide before the fox finds them.
- They must step over the hula hoop with each foot to arrive in the hole without knocking the hula hoop from the cones.
- One by one, each child enters the hole until as many as possible are inside! When everyone is in, ask them to slowly start exiting the hole, one by one, again being very cautious not to disturb the hula hoop.
Once they are able to step in and out, the fun begins!! Be creative and come up with other challenges for them.
- Have them jump into the hoop one foot at a time.
- Jump on two feet into the rabbit hole.
- Have them crawl from underneath the hoop and get their whole group in the hoop.
- See how many people they can get into the hoop.
- Another fun way to do this is to designate a FOX and have them chase the children into the hole. When they knock down the hoop, they join the fox. Keep going until all of the rabbits have been caught.
Take What You Need- Is one to get them laughing for sure. You start with rolls of toilet paper and you ask each student as they walk in the door to “Take what you need.” Theywill take varying amounts of toilet paper. Next, you pass out pens and ask them to write a fact about themselves on each square. This is where it gets fun.
The kids that only took a few squares will finish quickly, while the ones that took a bunch have to really get creative with fun facts. Encourage them to think outside the box and keep it fun! Once they are all done, have each one stand up and read their fun facts. This is a really fun one to do with kids of all ages. For an additional challenge with this one, I like to ask for a fun fact about a classmate the next time they come to class this really gets them to start paying attention and learning things about their classmates.
These are 4 great team-building exercises that you can incorporate in your classes to help get your students focused on positivity and teamwork! You will hear them laugh and see them strategize with each other and watch their worries drift away!
Good luck as you adjust your sails in the classroom and focus on team building and helping our youth feel happy and confident.
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The reniform nematode, “Is a tropical nematode that started in Louisiana and has been around 15-20 years,” says Gabe Sciumbato, plant pathologist at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss. “It’s been moving around on farm implements and is now quite a serious problem in cotton.”
It’s also a stealthy pest. Outward symptoms of a reniform nematode infestation include yield reduction and stunting. When the latter occurs across the entire field, it’s difficult to tell that a problem exists. The reniform nematode can be seen only through a microscope.
On the other hand, infestations of the more-well-known root knot nematode can be picked up fairly easily because they leave visible symptoms on the roots of infested plants, noted Sciumbato.
Plant pathologists and others suspect that the relatively recent “plateau” in cotton yields in some parts of the United States may be related to reniform nematodes, although it’s not the single reason.
The spread of the reniform nematode has become so alarming that a group of cotton producers and Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., recently convinced the federal government to allocate funds for reniform nematode research at the USDA Jamie Whitten Southern States Research Station in Stoneville. Nematologist Lawrence Young was hired to head up the research, which will focus on both short- and long-term approaches to reniform nematode control.
For the long-term, Young and USDA/ARS plant breeder Bill Meredith have begun developing the screening protocols for reniform-resistant cotton varieties. Growers should expect to see results from the project in 10 years.
In the meantime, Young is cooperating with Sciumbato on testing short-term alternatives like crop rotation, nematicides and the use of anhydrous ammonia to slow down the reniform’s march through the Mid-South.
The most effective options may be to rotate into a crop that is not a host of the species of nematode in the field. Growers should routinely take soil samples to know what their treatment and rotation options are, plant pathologists say. The best time to sample is in the fall.
For the reniform nematode, rotation options include corn, grain sorghum, peanuts and nematode-resistant soybeans. Rotation partners for root-knot nematode include nematode-resistant soybean varieties.
Making the wrong choice of a rotation partner can be costly, according to Terry Kirkpatrick, plant pathologist at Arkansas’ Southwest Research and Extension Center.
“If you put corn in a field that has a root knot nematode problem, you may not notice much damage to the corn, but the year you go back into cotton, your problem will be much worse than if you had just mono-cultured cotton. Before rotating, know your nematode.”
Unfortunately, many Mid-South producers have been reluctant to go to corn because of low prices and anxiety over the aflatoxin outbreak of 1998. “It’s hard to justify going to a corn rotation when corn is $2 a bushel,” one cotton producer said.
But if cotton producers really want to reduce reniform nematode populations significantly in the short-term, rotation will have to be a serious option. “With the reniform, you almost have to go one year in corn and one year in cotton,” Sciumbato said.
There are other practices to control reniform nematodes, but don’t expect consistent results. The applications of in-furrow nematicides like Temik have been erratic for reniform nematode control, according to Sciumbato. “Some producers have gotten some good results with it. Some people haven’t. It has a lot to do with rainfall and how many nematodes you have.”
Nematicides applied in a side-dress application or the use of the Vydate as an over-the-top at pinhead square in conjunction with an in-furrow Temik treatment may produce better results than an in-furrow alone, but those results have been erratic, too.
On the other hand, if you plan on making an over-the-top application of a material for plant bugs anyway, and you have nematodes in the field, it probably wouldn’t hurt to go with Vydate.
Neither of those treatments may be as effective as Telone, a fumigant. But Telone II is expensive and the application can be time-consuming.
However, Kirkpatrick said that cotton producers in southeast Arkansas are finding that fumigation with Telone II, is paying off. “They’re going in pre-plant with a $35 an acre Telone treatment because it’s showing that they can make money with it.”
Sciumbato observed that where he put out Telone or Temik for nematodes, those plots tended to have higher numbers of nematodes at the end of the year. “You’re controlling the nematodes until the cotton can make a crop. But those cotton plants have more roots at the end of the year and the nematode are producing so fast.”
Kirkpatrick noted that root knot nematode is still the number one nematode in Arkansas in terms of costs to growers, but reniform nematode, “is rumbling through like Sherman through Georgia.
“In 1990, we had verified reniform nematodes in only two counties. In one of those counties, it was only known to occur in one field. Now, it’s in 12 counties spread as far north as Mississippi County.”
Kirkpatrick said some growers are rotating to rice to control reniform nematode, “because in Arkansas, reniform tends to be in soils with a little higher clay content and a little better hardpan.”
One Mississippi cotton producer traces his problem with reniform nematodes to a change in the way he applied his nitrogen. “We were managing them pretty well when we were using anhydrous ammonia and Temik. Four years ago, because of safety problems with anhydrous ammonia and the cost of Temik and the fact that liquid nitrogen had become competitive, we left off Temik and anhydrous.”
The potential for anhydrous ammonia acting as a fumigant to control nematodes is being looked at closely by Sciumbato and Young. In 2000, Young reported a 26 percent increase in lint yield where he used anhydrous ammonia as a nitrogen source.
“It’s been shown that higher rates of ammonia will disable the reniform nematode,” Young said. “The question is how big an area are we actually treating and is that enough. We’ll be looking at different rates and applying on one side of the row versus both sides of the row.”
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Reflections for the Work of Liberation
The prophetic, pastoral couple, Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes and Andrew Wilkes, pen this book of poetic and prophetic devotions that dare to center the lives of Black people caught in exile and entanglement with the American project.
In times like these, we all need to center ourselves on the word for replenishment, renewal and revitalization. Pastors Wilkes offer that for us in this devotional.
In this introspective daily study of the book of Psalms, Pastors Gabby and Andrew successfully address the concerns of our people, help us unpack our feelings around injustices, give voice to the shared feelings of the collective and challenge us to be bold in envisioning life, and our lives, differently. This is the liberating Bible study that I’ve longed for and love to share.
Order Psalms for Black Lives from The Upper Room.
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Some people need absolute silence while they're studying, others thrive with some background noise. Studies have shown background music increases concentration, allowing you to study for longer periods, music also increases your mood motivating you to stay plugged into your notes. If you're one of those people that like a little noise it's important to find the right music that'll keep you focuses and not distracted.
When studying it is important to keep your music as background noise. Meaning, don't crank the volume. Keep the volume at a low level so you stay focused on what you are reading.
Make a playlist ahead of time. Knowing what you want to listen to and setting it up ahead of time will ensure you're not wasting your study time scrolling through your music app. If you set it up before hand you'll be able to just hit play and get right into your study notes.
A study done at a University in France concluded that classical music put students in a heightened emotional state, making them more receptive to information. Classical music has also been shown to lower anxiety and blood pressure. Participants listening to classical music had lower blood pressure than those listening to other genres or no music at all. So if you're looking to feel more relaxed and retain more information, then click on the classical playlist below or find another one you like nd get to studying!
Instrumental music has the same effect on your brain as classical music, it's calming and helps you focus. Instrumental music tends to have a more modern sound to it. So if you're looking to switch it up from classical, try some instrumental music.
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The Queen wore a face mask for the first time in public last week as she marked the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior in a small private ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
Her Majesty, 94, honoured the British serviceman, whose identity remains a mystery, and the Royal Family‘s own associations with World War One at the London abbey ahead of Remembrance Sunday.
She was required to cover her face during the act of worship under government restrictions.
The head of state was dressed all in black as she placed a orchid and myrtle flowers on the grave, a replica of her wedding bouquet on the grave.
It reflected the custom of Royal bridal bouquets being placed on the grave, a tradition which began in 1923 when Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, laid her bouquet as she entered the Abbey in memory of her brother Fergus, who was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
Many Royal brides since have sent their bouquets to the grave at Westminster Abbey.
Before her death in 2002, The Queen Mother also requested her funeral wreath be placed on the grave of the Unknown Warrior – a wish honoured at the Abbey the day after her funeral.
Tribute: high-quality replicas shop The Queen commemmorates the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior, an unidentified British serviceman who died in WW1, in Westminster Abbey on Wednesday
Paying her respects: The Dean of Westminster Abbey David Hoyle (right) watches as The Queen’s Equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, places a bouquet of flowers at the grave of the Unknown Warrior in front of the Queen in Westminster Abbey
Commemoration: The Queen inspects a bouquet of flowers to be placed at the grave of the Unknown Warrior by her Equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah
Paying her respects: The Queen, 94, travelled by car from Windsor Castle to London to commemorate the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior, according to the Court Circular. The Queen was photographed leaving Windsor Castle yesterday (pictured) before returning two hours later but the reason for the outing was not announced
Tribute: Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah places a bouquet of flowers at the grave of the Unknown Warrior during a ceremony in Westminster Abbey
Paying respects: The Queen’s Equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, places a bouquet of flowers at the grave of the Unknown Warrior on behalf of the Queen during a ceremony at Westminster Abbey
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What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient… highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed – fully understood – that sticks; right in there somewhere. (source: Inception quotes at IMDb)
The scientific study of human evolution places the anatomically modern humans in Africa about 195,000 years ago. The research also located the origin of modern human migration in south-western Africa, near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola. (source: Human evolution at Wikipedia)
As we can see the idea to immigrate took hold almost at the origin of Homo sapiens and if it wasn’t for this resilient idea we would not exist today. To deny immigration is to deny our own humanity. To criminalize immigration is to prosecute the original idea that took us to every corner of the world.
Why are some people so afraid of immigrants? Why is xenophobia in vogue and tolerated?
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Year working: 1911 - 1969
Well known Journalist and author, best known for founding Autosport magazine. Gregor Grant had a formal art training at the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1930’s. Before the war, he was a cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator for a number of Scottish newspapers, including the Glasgow Evening Times, The Evening Citizen and The Bulletin. He also drew and wrote for The Light Car and Popular Motoring magazines. The caricatures in The Bulletin were mostly sportsmen, including footballers, cricketers, rugby players, golfers, hockey and tennis players, as well as musicians, such as Fritz Kreizler and film stars, like Charles Laughton and the Marx Brothers. The captions would read, "An impression by Grant of Greta Garbo as she appears in Queen Christina", or "Alfred Hitchcock, as seen by Grant." The caricatures were of a style that befitted that period, with large heads and little bodies, and they displayed a certain affection for the subject, unlike artists before, such as Gilray, or after, like Gerald Scarfe. The drawings in The Light Car magazine were all to do with motoring, including illustrations for articles, caricatures of drivers, cartoons and vignettes, normally done in black and white, pen and ink with an easy style and fluidity. After he founded Autosport in 1950 he continued to contribute the odd drawing, usually unsigned, for various articles. In 1947 he wrote British Sports Cars, the first edition of which had a cover designed a drawn by him, with hand-drawn lettering! When subsequent editions came out, they had a 'proper' type face, but were eventually replaced by a photographic dust jacket. Below is a list of some of the books he wrote. Gregor Grant is the father of Don Grant the modern artist/illustrator/designer. Don in the past has also produced motoring art and has helped with this biography. Don was responsible for the dust cover design of Gregor’s book on the AJS Motorcycle. See the Artists Listing page for details of Don Grant In Gregor Grant’s memory Autosport magazine continues to support an annual motor sport trophy in his name.
British Sports Cars by Gregor Grant published by Foulis 1947 Modern Motorcars by Gregor Grant published by Temple Press 1949 500cc Racing by Gregor Grant published by Foulis 1950 The Boys' Book of Motor Sport by Gregor Grant published by Foulis. 1951 Formula 2 by Gregor Grant published by Foulis 1953 High Performance Cars (annual) by Gregor Grant and John Bolster published by Autosport 1955 and subsequent years to 1966 World Championship by Gregor Grant published by Autosport 1959 AJS - The Story of a Great Motorcycle by Gregor Grant Published by Patrick Stephens 1969
Artwork for The Light Car magazine 1946. Image courtesy of Don Grant
Caricature of Prince Bira, also signed by Bira 1937. Image courtesy of Don Grant
1938 artwork for The Light Car magazine Image courtesy of Don Grant
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Seven Design and Construction Features Important to Seismic Performance Animation [video] [open html - 40KB]
This is the transcript for a 6:11 video from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Information contained in the video emphasizes the importance for property and business owners to understand seismic risk and the benefits of adopting and implementing building codes with seismic design and construction standards in mind. The video and transcript also provides resources for finding proper building codes for adequate seismic protection.
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Barometric pressure, surface temperature, and wind time series in the eastern equatorial Pacific are analyzed to determine if oceanic tropical instability wave (TIW) sea surface temperature variations cause barometric pressure gradients large enough to influence the atmospheric boundary layer. During the study period from April 2001 to September 2002, 11 TIWs propagated westward past 110°W, causing a spectral peak at 20-30 days in the sea surface temperature (SST) meridional difference between 2°N, 110°W and 0°, 110°W. Likewise, the meridional pressure difference also had a spectral peak in the 20-30-day TIW band. Cross-spectral analysis shows that within the TIW band, SST-induced pressure variations were roughly -0.1 hPa °C-1 in magnitude. The resulting pressure gradient force is comparable in magnitude to other terms in the meridional momentum balance. Implications about the role of the boundary layer capping in the adjustment to SST forcing are discussed.
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At the 32nd meeting of the FAO work group for the Management of Mountain Watersheds, IIAMA UPV Researcher María González presented the work programme and the activities of LIFE Resilient Forests. The meeting was held from 25 to 27 September in Innsbruck, Austria.
During her presentation María González explained how a “ecohydrological” forest management approach can be a solution to adapt forests to climate change.
Climate change will increase both the frequency and the intensity of droughts in many parts of Europe, it will affect the availability of water resources and the risk of wildfires, Maria explains, it it is necessary to implement adaptation measures and LIFE Resilient Forests is a good example of this. By using a decision support software, the project aims at determining which type of forest management practices can be feasible both for public administrations and for private forest owners.
During the meeting, many participants showed interest in this research, and expressed concerns about the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. This is causing a proliferation of wildfires on forest areas which rarely had witnessed this kind of extreme phenomena in the past, Maria explains. A ecohydrological forest management” can be one of the solutions to adapt out forests to the changing climate.
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Our “Smart Poker Table” detects the players’ cards as well as the community cards. It computes the winning probabilities for each player, according to the rules of Texas Hold’em, and renders them onto a screen.
This post explains the technical background of the security camera system, shown in the following movie. The post will answer the questions: How to detect a thief, how to take a photo, how to get notifications on your phone, and […]
Since I had a lot of trouble installing the npm package serialport on my Raspberry Pi B Rev 1 (and Rev 3), I want to share how it eventually worked.
For me the solution for productive Node.js development on Mac, with code execution on a Raspberry Pi was usage of Samba. After following the steps you will be able to develop Node.js applications right on your Mac, execute them on your […] | <urn:uuid:0361b446-e38f-45ae-9895-010082613520> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://timodenk.com/blog/tag/raspberry-pi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940246 | 183 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The distinctive Class 58, nicknamed the 'Bone' because of its unusual shape with a wide cab at either end, is now available to lend some serious hauling power in Train Simulator.
The Class 58 was built between 1983 and 1987 by BREL in Doncaster Works as British Rail wanted a new freight locomotive that would be lower in cost and maintenance whilst being able to cope with the potential growth in rail freight in the 1980s. It was in the 1970s when BR started looking for this new locomotive when they turned to the American design of a modular structure, meaning the loco would be made up of standardized sections that attach to the underframe, allowing for easy maintenance and lower building costs.
Fifty Class 58s were built in total and were initially used on coal trains, however that was short lived as they were entering service around the same time of the miner's strikes of 1984/5 and so were used on a variety of freight services. Contrary to the claims made in the 1980s, the Class 58s proved less successful on various types of freight services when compared to the Class 56s due to an increase in the amount of wheelslip occurred, which was mainly caused by the design of the bogies.
Despite being built for exclusively freight use, the Class 58s did haul various passenger services for example when a loco failed and a backup was required. They also played a key role in 'Spin and Win' charters, with 58017 being the only member of the class to have not hauled a charter service. Having started life in the BR RailFreight livery, the 58s have seen a variety of different liveries following sectorisation and privatisation including Coal Sector Triple Grey, Mainline Freight and EWS.
The Class 58s started to be withdrawn from service in in the late 1990s and by 2002, the last few finished operating in the UK. This wasn't the end of the Class 58 though, in 2000 the Spanish infrastructure operator GIF hired eight Class 58s from EWS, where they have been constantly used up until today and other Class 58s were sent for work in France and the Netherlands. This cascade of Class 58s saw them in a unique set of liveries not usually found on British locos including GIF and ACTS. In the UK, one loco has survived into preservation, 58016 which was bought by the Class 58 Locomotive Group.
The BR Class 58 for Train Simulator, developed by Skyhook Games, includes both BR Railfreight and BR Coal Sector liveries, HAA hopper wagons and PGA wagons. The pack also includes a short Academy tutorial to introduce you to the Class 58's controls.
The locomotive is also Quick Drive compatible, giving you the freedom to drive the BR Class 58 on any Quick Drive enabled route for Train Simulator, such as those available through Steam. Also included are scenarios specifically for the Great Western Main Line route (available separately and required to play these scenarios).
Four scenarios for the Great Western Main Line route:
- An Introduction to the Class 58
- Diverted Merry Go Round
- New Daleks at Didcot
- Overnight Stone to Hayes
- Waterloo to Waterloo Rail Tour
- BR Class 58 in BR Railfreight and BR Coal Sector liveries
- HAA hopper wagons
- PGA wagons
- Quick Drive compatible
- Scenarios for the Great Western Main Line route
- Download size: 208mb
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Towering nearly 20,000 feet into the air, Mount Kilimanjaro is a colossal structure that’s impressive both for its sheer size and the vast array of ecosystems it hosts. As one might expect, then, weather on the mountain can vary greatly. For this reason, you’ll want to make sure that you understand the different weather and climate patterns on the mountain if you’re planning on taking a trip there any time soon.
In this guide, we’ll provide a complete breakdown of Mount Kilimanjaro weather, from the trade winds that generate much of the mountain’s climate conditions to average precipitation and temperature. With this information, you’ll be better able to plan your Mount Kilimanjaro vacation.
Keep reading to find out more about the various weather patterns you can expect from this legendary mountain!
Mount Kilimanjaro Weather Overview
Let’s start by taking a general overview of Mount Kilimanjaro’s weather. Is the mountain hot or cold? Does it rain a lot? What’s the humidity like? Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your take), the mountain is all of these things and more. That’s because Kilimanjaro is divided geologically into five separate ecosystems, each one with its own unique climate. We’ll break down these ecosystems in greater detail later on, but for now simply know that these different ecological zones are the agriculture or cultivation zone, the rainforest zone, the moorland zone, the highland desert zone, and the glacial zone.
What this means for you is that you should expect a bit of everything when climbing the mountain. Independent of these different ecological zones, Mount Kilimanjaro also features wet seasons and dry seasons and a pretty steady year-round temperature. Coming up, we’ll look at each of these phenomena in turn, as well as give some advice on how to best the weather and reach the summit.
The Importance of Trade Winds
To truly understand the unique climate of Mount Kilimanjaro, you must first understand the trade winds and anti-trade winds that dictate weather conditions on the mountain. Primarily, there are two sets of winds—the South-East trade winds and the North-East anti-trade winds—that determine what the weather on the mountain will look like on any given day.
Before we jump into specifics, however, let’s step back and answer an important question: what exactly are trade winds? Essentially, these are winds that come from the ocean and carry moisture. When trade winds come into contact with solid surfaces of any substantial size or volume, they tend to condense and turn into clouds. This can then influence precipitation and other weather factors in that specific area.
With this in mind, let’s take a look at the two different sets of trade winds that influence weather on Mount Kilimanjaro:
South-East Trade Winds
Arising from the Indian Ocean, the South-East trade winds smash into Mount Kilimanjaro from March until May, bringing with them tons of moisture that turns into torrents of rain. As the name implies, the winds come from the south, meaning it’s largely the southern side of the mountain that gets wet. During this time, Mount Kilimanjaro is said to be in its “wet season” and hiking is generally more popular on northern trails such as the Rongai Route.
North-East Anti-Trade Winds
The next set of winds are unique in that they are not trade winds but rather “anti-trade winds,” which implies that the arrival of these winds effectively ends the effects of the former. These winds come from the north and force their way through the space between Kilimanjaro’s two peaks (Mawenzi and Kibo). This gap, affectionately known as the “Saddle,” serves as a meeting place for the two winds, where the North-East anti-trade winds force the South-East trade winds down toward the lower slopes of the mountain.
The effects of this are quite dramatic. Because the North-East anti-trade winds lose all moisture long before they reach Mount Kilimanjaro, they induce a period of dryness on the mountain that makes it easier hike. What’s more, by pushing the rains down, they limit rainfall to slopes 3,000 feet and lower. Lasting from late May to late October, these winds create better climbing conditions and coincide with the peak climbing season on the mountain.
Putting it simply, your Mount Kilimanjaro vacation ill be heavily influenced by the time of year you go—which will be influenced in large part by the trade winds that gain control of the mountain through large swaths of the year. Understanding these trade winds is the first step necessary for reaching the top of the mountain.
Altitude and Weather
To truly have a firm grasp on Mount Kilimanjaro weather, one must also understand the effect that altitude has on the climate. There are two main phenomena that happen with the change in altitude. Let’s take a broad look at both of them:
The Mountain Gets Colder
As anyone who’s ever made it to the top will tell you, Kilimanjaro features both temperature extremes. Specifically, you can expect temperatures constantly above 80 degrees F (and as high as 100 degrees F) at the base of the mountain. As you navigate to the top, however, this temperature will drop precipitously, with the temperature at the summit sometimes dropping as low as -20 degrees F.
Obviously, you’ll want to take this into account so that you have a better idea of what to expect with a trip on the mountain.
It Gets Harder to Breathe
As you climb toward the top, you’ll inevitably experience the effects of higher altitudes, which cause a reduction of oxygen in the air and decreased air pressure. In simple terms, the air gets noticeably thinner as you climb the mountain, with conditions at the top getting absolutely brutal for some climbers. These weather conditions can (and will, if you’re not careful) cause altitude sickness, which unfortunately claims some lives on the mountain every year. Remember: the only way to acclimate to these extreme altitudes is to climb slowly—so keep this in mind if you wish to best the mountain’s famously volatile weather.
Kilimanjaro and the Equator
Mount Kilimanjaro lies just 200 miles south of the equator. While this does mean that the mountain can get quite hot, it also has its advantages. Primarily, due to the mountain’s proximity to the equator, temperatures remain fairly constant on the mountain year round. In a nutshell, this means that you shouldn’t expect drastic temperature changes throughout the year. Rather, weather on the mountain is affected more by the trade winds and altitude, as mentioned above.
Breaking Down the Ecosystems
Just as important as the trade winds are the various ecosystems that make up the mountain. It may be helpful to think of the mountain as a pyramid of sorts, broken into five distinct levels based on altitude. Ranging from lowest to highest, the mountain goes from a thriving, humid, and tropical environment to an arctic desert that’s as brutal to maneuver as it is wonderful to conquer. In this section, we’ll break down the distinct ecosystems so that you have a better idea of what to expect when you climb the mountain.
Ranging from 800 feet to 2,600 feet in the air, the cultivation zone is the only ecological zone of Mount Kilimanjaro with extensive human habitation. Small villages dot the landscape here, and agriculture is the main way of life. A wide variety of crops and livestock also thrive here on the mountain. Live thrives here due to heavy amounts of rainfall and the many rivers that are formed from glacial runoff from the top of the mountain. Indeed, the cultivation zone receives the largest amount of rainfall of any ecological zone on the mountain—meaning you are more likely to encounter wet conditions here than anywhere else during your trek up Kilimanjaro.
Located just about the cultivation zone at 6,000 to 9,200 feet in the air, the rainforest zone also boasts its own unique weather. For starters, temperatures in the zone remain at a fairly constant 60-80 degrees F all year round, making it cool enough to hike without several layers. As the name implies, the rainforest zone also sees its fair share of rain and runoff from higher levels of the mountain. Here, humidity is often at 100%, meaning you’ll want to prepare clothes that will help you relieve excess sweat.
The moorland, or heath, zone ranges from 9,200 feet in the air to 13,000 feet, with weather that’s markedly different from the rainforest zone that precedes it. Here, the temperature is highly volatile; daytime sunshine can have you baking in 100-degree heat, but temperatures at night can drop to nearly freezing. In addition to the unpredictable temperature, climbers are also advised to prepare for the wind. While the moorland zone features low amounts of precipitation, it does boast some pretty intense winds that can rattle you if you’re not expecting them. As such, you’ll want to be sure that you dress accordingly.
This zone is also known for the fine mists that snake up and cover the landscape during the daytime. This can sometimes reduce visibility, so be sure that you are climbing with a porter you can trust.
Highland Desert Zone
If anything, the highland desert zone is even more erratic than the preceding moorland zone. Here, temperatures can soar to true desert-like conditions but drop well below freezing in the same day. Added to this, there’s a distinct lack of precipitation. Less than eight inches falls every year in this Kilimanjaro desert, deterring plant life and creating intense arid conditions. Keep in mind that the altitude here is also crazy, as the highland desert zone ranges from 13,000 to 16,000 feet in the air. At these altitudes, you’ll want to take it slow and easy so that you aren’t done in by the brutal climate.
Home to the mountain’s two peaks, the glacial zone is without a doubt the most brutal of the five ecosystems. Here, temperatures can drop as low as -20 degrees F, with a wind chill that’s just as cold. In simpler terms, the top of the mountain is freezing and can quickly take you out if you don’t come prepared. You can count on snow to fall in this zone throughout much of the year. Compounded with the intense altitude here, the cold conditions can make the glacial zone hard to maneuver even for experienced climbers. For this reason, it’s important that you choose a route that allows you to assimilate to both the altitude and the cold so that you can increase your chances of reaching the top.
Mount Kilimanjaro Wet Months
As we’ve touched on already, certain times on the mountain are wetter than others. Specifically, there are two wet seasons on the mountain, the first being the longer of the two. This first wet season lasts from March to mid-to-late May, with the second coming in November. Climbing during this period is generally not advised, particularly for first-time climbers. In addition to the large amounts of rain that fall during this time period, the mountain is also filled with constant fog and provides the extra danger of mud.
In addition to this, you’ll likely have to deal with large amounts of excess moisture permeating your clothes. Even if you wear good gear, you will be at risk for this. This extra moisture can make the mountain colder, something you definitely want to avoid when you get to higher altitudes. For this reason, you’ll likely come out better by choosing to climb during a different season.
With this being said, if you do choose to climb during either of the wet seasons, it’s better to choose a northern route. Generally speaking, these routes receive substantially less rainfall, making them better for climbers. The only routes through which you can reach the summit from the north are the Rongai Route, an easy, gradually sloping route where you can see both floral scenery and wildlife, and the new Northern Circuit Route, which takes travelers on a 360-degree panorama tour around the northern side of the mountain. No matter which route you choose, you’ll be able to avoid the brunt of the rainfall that comes with the wet season..
Mount Kilimanjaro Dry Months
Similarly, there are two dry seasons on Mount Kilimanjaro. The major dry season begins in July and and runs into October. For this reason, these are popular hiking months for climbers, despite the cooler temperatures that descend on the mountain during the middle of the year. Another dry spell occurs from January to February, but this season is shorter and less predictable, meaning there’s a higher likelihood of rain.
Understanding the wet and dry seasons will help you make a better decision on when to take your trip. With this in mind, be sure to reference this information when booking your flight!
Mount Kilimanjaro Visibility
In addition to these factors, you’ll also want to take visibility into consideration. The year starts out with high visibility in January and February, making these popular months for some climbers. Snow and rain make the March to May rainy season tough for any climber, in no small part due to the decreased visibility that comes with the rain.
Preparing for Mount Kilimanjaro Weather
With all this information in mind, what’s the best way to prepare for Mount Kilimanjaro’s weather? In this section, we’ll go over a few tips that will help you stay safe and comfortable while climbing.
1. Dress in Layers
Successful climbers all know this important tip: dress in layers. If you are serious about making it to the top of the mountain, you’ll want to maximize your chances of success by dressing to fit the situation at hand. This means having clothing prepared that will enable you to conquer the weather in each of Kilimanjaro’s five ecological zones.
In general, climbers dress in three layers: a base layer that’s compatible for the hotter and more humid conditions in the lower regions of the mountain, a mid-layer that will help you combat the volatile temperatures you’ll encounter the middle regions of Kilimanjaro, and a top layer that will protect you from all the nasty environmental hazards endemic to the glacial zone of the mountain.
For your base layer, consider clothing that is sweat resistant and suitable for 100% humidity. The cultivation and rainforest zones are known for being intensely humid, with high levels of rainfall to boot. For this reason, be sure to bring something that will protect you from the heavy rains.
The mid-layer should consist of clothing that will protect you from the cold. It’s important that you load up on well-insulated clothing here, as you’ll be facing some colder-than-anticipated temperatures. Consider down insulation for its ability to fight off tough colds.
You’ll want to do the same for your outer layer, which should also be weatherproof. At the top of the mountain, you’ll likely encounter snow, particularly at the beginning of the year. You’ll also face heavy winds that can pierce to the skin if you wear the wrong clothes. For this reason, make sure that you buy something that’s suited for extreme altitude and arctic conditions.
By preparing properly, you can make your Mount Kilimanjaro vacation smoother and safer. Knowing this, be sure to keep the above advice in mind.
2. Bring Some Heavy-Duty Equipment
In addition to your day-to-day clothes, you’ll also need to bring the right equipment. This includes waterproof hiking boots that will be able to withstand the moisture and general wetness of the mountain, both of which can be quite severe toward the base and in the rainforest zone. Additionally, you’ll want to bring along a sleeping bag that can keep you warm even in freezing conditions. While it may seem trivial, bringing the wrong gear can put you at risk for conditions such as frostbite and, at the very least, can make you so uncomfortable you’re unable to finish your trip.
3. Don’t Go Alone
We know—you’ll be going with a porter. Still, the fact remains that you don’t want to go to Kilimanjaro alone. Rather, it’s better to go with a climbing buddy or partner who can help you weather (see what we did there?) the conditions there. With two people, you also get the advantage of body heat, which can be extremely helpful in the high altitudes near the top of the mountain. Going with someone else also means that you can split carrying the luggage, which can greatly help out during your more-than-likely week-plus trip.
All of this will help ensure that you can best the weather and come out on top—literally. For this reason, consider going with a buddy or two if you’re truly looking to reach the summit.
Best Time to Go to Kilimanjaro
With all this in mind, when should you plan your Kilimanjaro trip? In light of the weather, most travelers tend to hike the mountain from December to March and June to October. These two periods correspond to the driest periods on the mountain, but vary by temperature. Specifically, the period between December and March is noticeably colder than the period from June to October. The advantage to this is that crowds are also significantly lower during this time, making it a good time to go if you don’t want to worry about the hustle and bustle of peak season.
We’ve written a whole article about the best time to climb Kilimanjaro, so if you’re thinking of planning your trips, it’s a good idea to check that out.
The Bottom Line
The first step to successfully climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is understanding the unique weather conditions that dictate life on the mountain. In this guide, we’ve gone over both the basics and the nitty-gritty of Kilimanjaro weather so that you can have a better understanding of what conditions are like across the mountain and why that is the case. We’ve also supplied a few weather-besting tips that will help you top the summit.
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Specific information on the UK government’s approach to reforming higher education finance emerged in November. Following October’s release of both the Browne Report and the Spending Review (see ACA Newsletter Education - Europe, October 2010) the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, appeared before Parliament on 3 November 2010 to present the Statement on Higher Education Funding and Student Finance. In doing so, he put forward the official proposals for university tuition, maintenance grants and loans; a new merit scholarship scheme for low-income students; and student loan repayment terms.
Many of the proposals take their cue from ideas articulated in the Browne Report, but do not conform precisely to those suggestions. For example, the government proposes that there be a cap on tuition of GBP 6 000 (EUR 7 000), although any university or college may charge less than this. Institutions will be able to set their tuition rates independently, but in the exceptional case that they are approved to charge an extraordinary amount of up to GBP 9 000 (EUR 10 600), they will be accountable to the government for meeting “much tougher conditions on widening participation and fair access”. Failing to do so may result in loss of the right to charge more than the GBP 6 000 cap. No students (including part-timers carrying at least one-third of a full-time load) will be required to pay up-front fees, with the government lending any eligible student the money to pay for tuition costs. Repayment of these loans will be 9% of income above GBP 21 000 (EUR 24 800) per year, with the introduction of a real interest rate on a “progressive taper. A new National Scholarships Programme, funded at a level of GBP 150 million (EUR 177 million), “will be targeted on bright potential students from poor backgrounds” and will guarantee such benefits as a “free first year or foundation year”. And those institutions charging about GBP 6 000 will be obliged to participate in the National Scholarships Programme. According to the government, the goal is to implement these changes for the 2012/13 academic year.
The government asserts that “overall this is a good deal for universities and for students”; key stakeholder groups are less enthusiastic. Universities UK has opposed the Spending Review’s call to remove so much public funding for higher education, although acknowledges the government’s proposals as the best way to replace the lost public funds. Some students and faculty are furious, however. More than 50 000 students and faculty members (according to press reports) staged a protest in London against the proposed reforms in early November, resulting in arrests and injuries. A sizeable number of sit-ins and walk-outs also occurred across the country on 24 November, and the country’s National Union of Students has launched a “Right to Recall” campaign, encouraging students to pledge to vote against “any candidate that breaks their pledges on university fees or EMAs [educational maintenance allowances]”. The stakes are high in this debate; tempers are clearly running high, too.
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Salt has long been used as a preservative and seasoning to flavor food. It is about 40% sodium and 60% chloride, and nearly all unprocessed foods are low in sodium. Consuming salt helps with nerve impulses and balances the water and minerals you take in. However, most people are taking in more than our fair share of salt, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying that 90% of Americans consume too much salt. Below are some telltale signs that you might be guilty of this.
1. Trouble sleeping
Your quality of sleep may be subpar due to excess salt intake. A study published in Endocrine Abstracts revealed that more salt in one’s diet could cause later bedtimes, difficulty getting shut eye throughout the night, and perhaps even nightmares. One theory put forward to explain the connection between salt and trouble sleeping is that the frequent urination caused by excess salt leads to intermittent sleep disruptions that affect the quality of nighttime rest. Also, the fluid retention salt intake causes can make it discomforting to lie down at night, particularly for people with sleep apnea.
2. Swelling in strange places
Excessive salt intake can lead to swelling in various body parts, making you feel quite bloated in the morning. This bloating is edema, which is swelling due to excess fluid buildup in your body’s tissues. Your face, fingers, and ankles are the most common places that swell up when you eat too much salt. Mayo Clinic advises that edema can be a sign of an underlying condition like carcinoid syndrome, but it could also be simply due to too much sodium in your diet. Therefore, examine how much salt you eat if you feel puffy than normal. The most straightforward solution to this is to reduce your sodium intake by cooking your food to control salt levels. When shopping, you can also read food labels to pick out low-sodium options, so keep this in mind.
3. Frequent urination
You will likely be familiar with frequent urination if you drink a lot of water to enjoy various benefits ranging from better skin to digestive harmony. However, salt could be the culprit behind your frequent trips to the bathroom. For starters, salt can inspire you to drink too much water because it makes you quite thirsty, causing you to urinate more often than usual. This regular urination happens because your kidneys work overtime to eliminate excess salts. However, peeing too much may be due to other causes like diabetes, prostate problems, pregnancy, and an overactive bladder.
4. High blood pressure
Medical experts frequently link excessive salt consumption to high blood pressure. Therefore, it is prudent to watch your salt consumption if recent checkups indicate you have high blood pressure levels. The sodium in salts acts as a fluid magnet in your body, pulling excess water into the bloodstream if your salt intake is very high. The overabundance of fluid in your body will make your heart pump harder, damage your blood vessels over time, and cause blood clots that increase your risk for heart attacks and strokes. Consequently, consume more fiber, eat more homemade foods low in salt, and consume more fruits and vegetables to keep sodium intake low.
5. Excessive thirst
You have likely had your throat as dry as a bone after eating a bucket of salty popcorn at the movie theater. If you love French fries, chances are you always drink water or soda after eating a bunch. Thirst and salt go hand in hand because sodium assists in balancing fluid levels inside your body’s cells. Your body draws water away from your cells when you eat too much salt, causing you to feel quite thirsty. You will be drinking more water than usual to neutralize the salt levels and keep your entire system perfectly balanced.
6. Frequent headaches
The average person reportedly gets headaches once or twice a week, so anything more than this is a cause for concern. As stated early on, excess salt intake can wreak havoc on your body’s fluid balance, leading to dehydration. Salt causes your brain’s blood vessels to expand more than necessary, leading to the throbbing and annoying pain you may be feeling in your head. Fortunately, in collaboration with the University of Sydney and Oxford University, a study out of John Hopkins University discovered that limiting sodium intake to below 2,300 mg daily and increasing your fruit, low-fat dairy, and vegetable intake could significantly lower the frequency of your headaches. | <urn:uuid:f2f8cac3-6010-46d6-bea3-ef44e7df4640> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.modelonamission.com/major-signs-you-are-consuming-too-much-salt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951966 | 904 | 2.75 | 3 |
Definition of Service Provider
Service Provider is a broad term which refers to any organization or company that provide any sort of services to its customers and users.
How does Service Provider works?
Service provider includes those organizations which provide any sort of services including security services, internet services, legal services, financial services, educational services etc.
There are different types of service providers. Some of these types are Internet service provider (ISP), Application service provider (ASP), Educational service providers (ESP) etc.
How and where Service Provider is used?
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Wendy Ramirez, Media Relations Team, Notified
Simply put, a media contact list is a key factor for successful public relations. It’s a resource that houses contact information of various journalists, bloggers, editors and influencers who are from a specific publication, outlet or industry. This comes in handy when it’s time to send press releases, media advisories or other types of communications.
All companies that practice PR will need a good and robust media contact list to be successful. The point of a media list is to give you the opportunity to reach these individuals and maintain successful coverage and rapports.
Whether you’ve maintained a curated list for years or are wetting your feet and looking into a paid solution, a media contact list is a powerful tool to help build relationships and amplify your campaigns.
But you need to be smart in how you use and manage this database ─ mass emails to anonymous contacts and working with outdated data can render your efforts ineffective.
Why Is It Important to Have a Good Media Contact List?
When distributing a press release, you will send your news to multiple contacts included in your list. In order to receive coverage that you or your client are looking for, you will need to have a solid, curated media list.
To help guide you, here are two key questions we’ll answer:
- How is a media contact list created?
- How do you maintain a media contact list?
How to Create a Media Contact List
In order to build your list, it’s important to understand what you’re looking for. You need to keep in mind the topic and, consequently, the target audience you’re trying to reach.
Here are some steps which will help you obtain the right information.
- Spend quality time researching specific media outlets and journalists.
With the help of free tools—a search engine like Google or a social media platform like Twitter— or paid subscriptions to a media database, you can look for the media outlets and journalists that are specific to your topic and target audience. It’s important to be precise in selecting the most appropriate outlet or journalist relevant to your topic.
- Create a “key term” list related to your search.
Work smarter, not necessarily harder, to maximize the potential of your media database. Rather than searching by outlet, journalist or industry, you can also try searching by key phrases or terms which can reveal niches and opportunities that perhaps weren’t initially obvious.
Creating a list of key terms of phrases before you begin your search is also useful, as many media and influencer databases will allow you to search through a “talking about” filter. This lets you input your key terms or phrases and be directed to the relevant contact(s).
Additionally, it may be fruitful to go directly to an outlet’s webpage and search for your key terms and phrases there to find out who has previously written about similar topics. You can also try a reverse search and search by target location to discover new outlets rather than searching for a specific reporter or influencer.
- Build better media contact lists with the help of AI.
It’s also possible to get better results from a smarter database powered by AI. Notified’s Connect module automatically pinpoints influential, relevant journalists in real time based on the media monitoring and social listening you have done and surfaces contacts who are writing about your brand and your industry.
Connect is also a powerful a search engine that allows you to freely discover influencers and journalists based on your preferences. No matter how niche your topic, you’ll get a tailored list of recommended contacts.
- Find the correct contact.
When creating your list, you need to be sure you’re obtaining the correct contact information. You can cross reference this information on the media outlet’s website or by calling the publication directly to ask for information.
It’s always a good practice to reach out to the journalist or editor and confirm if they are interested in receiving your news, asking for their consent to be included in a media contact list.
Above all, you should avoid sending your news to general emails. Usually general emails are used for inquires—not for press releases.
- Get the right information.
The information that should be included on a media list for each contact is as follows:
- Name of the journalist/blogger/editor/influencer
- Email address or phone number
- Name of the publication they work for
- Industry they write about or cover
How to Maintain a Media Contact List
To maintain a current media contact list, think of your database as a working draft. You should constantly be making additions and deletions to keep the content as current as possible.
It’s important that the information within your media contact list is always accurate and is updated regularly to reflect the changes in the media environment. To do so, distribution platforms will often publish the latest news on media moves. It’s also good practice to connect with your media contacts on LinkedIn to stay on top of job changes.
- Use bounce back emails to your advantage.
While receiving bounce backs to your outreach may feel frustrating, they can potentially be a wealth of information. Who’s on holiday, who’s covering for your contact, who has left the organization and who has replaced them. These are important pieces of information you can gather from auto-response emails.
If, however, you’ve received no response from any given contact despite trying to contact them several times, it may be time to move on and research alternate contacts.
- Don’t be afraid to dive into niches.
While pitching bigger, more traditional media conglomerates has merits and can often yield favorable results, it’s also important to discover reporters at smaller publications, bloggers and influencers with niche beats. Curating lists within your database that you can use for different types of pitches or to even spin the same story in a different way to appeal to a niche list of contacts.
This is where knowing your contacts can come in extremely handy. For example, you may have a trusted contact who writes about business issues but has a personal penchant for fashion. This is information that you can leverage depending on your outreach needs. Further, by segmenting your database into tailored lists of reporters or influencers who cover niche topics, your chances of securing coverage increase.
- Cross-reference competitor media coverage.
While your initial reaction may be to keep competitors at arm’s length, monitoring their PR and marketing efforts can prove useful in garnering new media contacts. It can be frustrating to see your competition land a great media placement, but the silver lining is that you’re now privy to that media or influencer contact.
Make a note of the editor or reporter who worked on the story and find their contact information using their outlet’s website or social media platforms. Add them to your contact list with a note referencing their coverage of your competitor. You can mention this coverage in the future when you reach out to them with your own pitch.
Bonus: Why Should You Tailor Your Pitch to Media?
Some extra value here!
Sending a generic, mass email to your entire media contact list is never appropriate. It not only sends your pitch to many recipients who aren’t interested, but the impersonal tone of the email will likely put many recipients off. It also is a clear sign that you didn’t do your homework in researching the most relevant contacts.
Remember, your contacts are people and they are busy, and you need to respect their time by targeting the most relevant information to the right people. Tailor your pitches to specific reporters or influencers based upon their professional (or even personal) interests, and when it’s appropriate, you can personalize your email to optimize the likelihood of receiving a response.
Get to know your contacts both professionally and personally. Building long-term relationships takes time and effort, but those who play the long game are likely to reap the rewards of curating a powerful media database and strong professional relationships.
Pitching your story to journalists and influencers can be difficult, even with a newsworthy event and relevant content. By using a media contacts list, you can greatly improve your media engagement, build more targeted lists and identify opportunities for coverage. Your ability to better target your outreach and tailor your pitches will also help you develop stronger, more genuine relationships.
Good luck building and maintaining your media contact list! If you’d like to learn more about how Notified can help, click here. | <urn:uuid:98599f3a-64d0-409b-ba48-bec47e560f23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.commpro.biz/how-to-create-a-media-list/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930359 | 1,782 | 1.6875 | 2 |
This photograph, taken in June 1999, shows Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen as the lineage holders of the Aro gTér – wearing the ‘joyous’ lineage shawls (a ro dGa’ ba sKu gZan). These shawls are usually only worn when giving empowerment – particularly of the ‘joyous class’ of yidam.
Empowerment shawls such as this exist within many Nyingma lineages, and their forms vary according to the gTérma tradition to which they are related. Examples can be seen in photographs of Lamas such as Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche – and each portrays a particular aspect of the Vajrayana teachings. The wearing of spectacular apparel relates with the rôle of the Lama manifesting as the yidam into whom he or she is giving empowerment.
Ngak’chang Rinpoche has continually insisted regarding this that:
The vivid costume of the Vajrayana is sometimes misunderstood by those who are not fully conversant with the meaning of ‘transformation’. In the West, we are often
accustomed to ‘importance’, ‘rank’ or ‘status’ being displayed through elaborate costume – but this is not the case in terms of the Vajrayana, where only the very greatest Lamas give empowerment in simple or ragged clothing – and where some, such as Milarépa or Khyungchen Aro Lingma, sometimes chose to be naked. For Lamas such as ourselves to wear elaborate costume is merely a reflection of our incapacity to give empowerment without
In the Aro gTér there are three types of empowerment shawl worn by the lineage holders – which relate to the three categories of yidam: peaceful, wrathful and joyous (Shi, Ga’, and Trö – zhi ba, dGa’ ba, and khro bo). The peaceful shawl (a ro zhi ba sKu gZan) is similar to the ngak’phang shawl (sNgags ’phang gZan) worn by most Lamas of the gö-kar-çhang-lo’idé (gos dKar lCang lo’i sDe) but it has a broad central blue stripe which relates to the transmission of Ati-yoga (shintu naljor – shin tu rNal ’byor gyi theg pa). The peaceful shawl and wrathful shawl (a ro khro ba sKu gZan) is identical for the male and female lineage holder – but the joyous shawls are different, inasmuch as they reflect the inverse pattern of each other. The ‘play’ depicted by these two shawls is an expression of the Khandro pawo nyi-da mélong gyüd (mKha’ ’gro dPa bo nyi zLa me long rGyud).
The joyous shawls relate with method display and wisdom display and their infinite mutually illuminating interactions. This is a reciprocal depiction, in costume, of the yab-yum imagery-such as Ögyen Menlha or Ögyen Chenrézigs. | <urn:uuid:e74c5f45-0013-4788-a70d-52504b4a28aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aroencyclopaedia.org/shared/text/n/ncr_kdt_ph_07_joyous_shawls_eng.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.907823 | 718 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Volume Rate of Change(redirected from Volume Rates of Change)
Volume Rate of Change
The percentage change in trading volume of a security over a period of time. For example, if 10 million shares trade on Wednesday and only five million trade on Thursday, the volume rate of change is -50%. The volume rate of change may determine how likely a price trend is to be sustained; that is, the higher the volume is, the more likely it is that a price change will become a trend.
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Hard-reset or a factory format will downgrade your Linux version firmware to the original OS version.
For example: if your charger is installed with 4.0.4 firmware, a hard-reset will downgrade the firmware to 4.0.
Please note, in case you are using a Windows version of the charger, a hard-reset is equal to a Factory Reset. It will not change the firmware version, but only set the configuration back to factory configurations. If you wish to downgrade a Windows version (for example: from 1.13.9 to 1.13.6) you simply install 1.13.6 via WebUI.
How to do a hard-reset / factory format:
reboot the charger via the service menu or the WebUI
once the chargers start rebooting, press and hold the service button
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The State JustJobs Index incorporates 5 dimensions and related indicators to reflect quantity and quality of work in India.
While it is easy to grasp what is meant by quantity of employment, quality of jobs includes several dimensions, ranging from the presence of collective bargaining and gender equality, to whether the job is in the informal economy, which is characterized by low-productivity.
The State-level Just Jobs Index is focused on the quantity and quality of jobs. The Index focuses on demand-side dimensions--such as employment--instead of supply-side dimensions, such as skills or education.
The final Index consists of 5 dimensions: employment, benefits, formality, income equality and gender equality.
These dimensions are intended to reflect the multifaceted nature of the Indian labor market. Taken together, the dimensions in the Index reflect relative State performance on working conditions, quality and quantity of jobs, level of income and gender equality. Each dimension consists of three different indicators. To weigh all dimensions and indicators equally, there are the same number of indicators in each dimension.
A score ranging from 0-100 was developed for each dimension and each indicator used in the Index. A state’s performance (relative to other states) goes up as the score approaches 100.
This applies for dimensions and indicators with a high preferred value or low preferred value. For example, an equal score for the ratio of female to male employment indicates greater equality in employment rates between females and males--and better performance--for a given State, relative to other States. For an indicator such as unemployment rate, a higher score indicates lower unemployment, and therefore better performance, for a given State relative to other States.
As measured in labor force surveys, unemployment and youth unemployment are less accurate measures of labor market slack because of the country’s large informal sector.
But examining the quantity of employment is by itself an incomplete measure. Many are unemployed because they have to be, but these indicators do not capture pervasive underemployment and the associated poor wages. One must keep the data on the quantity of employment in perspective and also examine the quality of work to get a more accurate picture of labor market health.
Productive employment is a vehicle to lift millions out of poverty, expand the middle class and raise living standards. This spurs aggregate demand, which in-turn expands employment and increases output creating a virtuous circle.
The labor force participation rate is defined as the ratio of the labor force to the working age population (15 and above), expressed as a percentage. The labor force is the sum of the number of persons employed and the number of persons unemployed – that is, those out of a job but actively seeking work.
The proportion of people active in the labor force who are out of a job and actively looking, expressed as a percentage. It Includes anyone 15 years of age and above.
The proportion of people active in the labor force who are out of a job and actively looking, expressed as a percentage but covering only those persons aged 15 to 29 years.
The benefits dimension has been formed as a collection of collective bargaining and social protection dimension into a single dimension.
Collective bargaining refers to “all negotiations which take place between an employer, a group of employers or one or more employers' organizations, on the one hand, and one or more workers' organizations, on the other hand.”
India has estimated 16,000-20000 trade unions with a collective membership of about 10-75 million. While the sheer number of trade unions points to a vibrant trade union movement, that only 2 percent of the workforce is unionized does not speak well of the collective power of workers. When effectively implemented in law and in practice, freedom of association and collective bargaining can facilitate better wage setting, improved working conditions and greater equality, that ultimately fuel productivity and growth
Employees covered by collective (wage) bargaining agreements as a percentage of all earners in employment with the right to collective bargaining.
Total State expenditure on old age pension, as a proportion of total State Gross Domestic Product (GSDP).
The share of workers except self-employed having Provident Fund/pension contribution.
This dimension is highly significant in the context of India as majority of workers are in informal employment.
The overall proportion of informal workers in total employment has remained relatively stable, at around 92 per cent over the course of the last five years.
The three indicators which are used to capture the aspects of informality in Indian labor market are: share of own-account workers and contributing family workers in total employment; share of regular workers in total employment and share of workers except self-employed with written job contract.
Own-account workers are persons who operate their own economic enterprises, or engage independently in a profession or trade, and hire no employees. Contributing family workers are labor in an economic enterprise operated by a related person living in the same household, generally without pay.
The casual and regular workers having a written job contract.
Regular workers are those who come under the purview of labor laws, as a share of the total employment.to
Labor income is the most important factor contributing to overall income inequality and to changes in income inequality.
Labor income will act as a good proxy measure of income inequality since majority of workers are employed in informal sectors. According to the NSS latest report, wage inequality has declined in rural areas while it has increased in urban areas (NSS, 2011-12). The real wages of regular workers rose by almost three times to casual workers in urban areas and over double in rural areas.
The income inequality dimension consists of three indicators: ratio of minimum wages to average real wages; Gini coefficient of consumption inequality and ratio of informal wages to average wages.
State-wise minimum wages as per labor bureau divided by the average wages earned by the workers.
Gini coefficient of consumption inequality is a measure of the deviation of the consumption expenditure among individuals or households within a country, from a perfectly equal distribution.
State-wise informal wages divided by the formal wages.
The increasing participation of women in labor force and closing the wage gap between men and women will boost long-term productivity and hence will have positive impact on growth of an economy.
Female labor force participation has declined consistently since 2004, when it was 42.7 percent. This drop can be attributed to several factors ranging, for example, from girls staying in education longer and delaying their entry into the labor market, to the ‘middle income effect’. A lack of demand from female friendly industries such as apparel and footwear, and continuing social disapproval are both important factors. Other culprits include migration and the nuclearization of families, whereby there are fewer women in the household to contribute to domestic work. Female or male, low labor force participation is a loss of precious productive potential.
The gender equality dimension is comprised of three indicators: ratio of female to male employment rates, ratio of female to male labor force participation , rates and the ratio of female to male average real wages.
Female employment-to-population ratio of the ages 15 and above divided by male employment-to-population ratio of the ages 15 and above.
Female labor force participation rate of the ages 15 and above divided by male labor force participation rate of the ages 15 and above.
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Grand Central Bakery adopts new ownership structure focused on purpose, not profit
A Pacific Northwest-based bakery chain will no longer be privately owned by family and longtime employees.
Instead, Grand Central Bakery announced it would create a “perpetual purpose trust,” a new type of corporate structure that vests shares in a company not in individual owners but in a mission. Under this structure, company officials said, the bakery will aim to uphold principles, not profit.
Grand Central will complete the transition this summer, during which it will become one of the few U.S. companies to be owned by a perpetual trust, the bakery said in a news release. For employees, ownership of the trust “means knowing that the profits will stay with the business and that the company’s leadership commitment to fair compensation and strong benefits will remain a priority,” he said. said the company.
“We wanted to plan for the future and protect the company that we have all worked so hard for,” Grand Central CEO Claire Randall said in a statement on Tuesday. “Day to day, this means things will stay the same for customers and employees and we will continue to be independent and part of the community.”
First known simply as The Bakery, Grand Central was founded in 1972 by Gwyneth Bassetti in Seattle. The company has approximately 370 employees. Today, the company has 11 cafes, wholesale bakeries in the Portland and Seattle areas, and sells its baked goods at dozens of retailers in the Pacific Northwest.
The company said a perpetual trust also provides a “succession plan in a way that preserves the company’s culture, values and mission.” A seven-person independent board will oversee the trust and work with the CEO to “set direction, policies and parameters to guide operations and decision-making,” the bakery said.
Only five states — Delaware, New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon and Wyoming — have trust laws that allow perpetual trusts, according to the Purpose Foundation, a nonprofit launched in 2017 in the goal of changing the focus of capitalism from profit maximization and shareholder primacy to focus on a larger goal. To do this, the foundation created a new subset of trusts that do not exist for the benefit of one person or family, but to fulfill a purpose.
Two other Oregon companies have adopted this new type of ownership. Eugene-based Organically Grown Company, one of the nation’s largest independent organic marketers, changed ownership to a perpetual trust in 2018. Local Ocean Seafoods, a seafood market and restaurant in Newport , also announced plans to transition to similar trust ownership. | <urn:uuid:26facc7d-d800-4c16-9e94-d8bd6455e086> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.upbeetcommunications.com/grand-central-bakery-adopts-new-ownership-structure-focused-on-purpose-not-profit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957635 | 547 | 1.539063 | 2 |
I’ve been reading Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel The Map and the Territory on my Kindle Fire, which is handy because I can easily hover my index over an unknown reference and figure out what Mich-dawg is getting at. Anyway, near the beginning of Part III, H-bomb drops a reference to French Romantic poet and essayist Gérard de Nerval, whom I will cop to not recognizing. But the detail seemed significant, so let my index finger hover I did, but, no dice, Nervs wasn’t in the preloaded dictionary—so I went to the next option: Le Wikipedia. And here’s a snapshot of what I saw:
The man’s life is divided into seven neat sections there on Wikipedia, and what’s right square in the middle? Pet lobster. Holmes had a pet lobster:
I’m guessing if you know about Nerval you probably know about his lobsterkins, but I didn’t. Harper’s ran a piece about Nerval and his lobster back ’08. From the piece:
With all due respect for cats, however, let us consider the case for the humble lobster. The poet Gérard de Nerval had a penchant for lobsters, or at least for one lobster. Nerval was seen one day taking his pet lobster for a walk in the gardens of the Palais-Royal in Paris. He conducted his crustacean about at the end of a long blue ribbon. As word of this feat of eccentricity spread, Nerval was challenged to explain himself. “And what,” he said, “could be quite so ridiculous as making a dog, a cat, a gazelle, a lion or any other beast follow one about. I have affection for lobsters. They are tranquil, serious and they know the secrets of the sea.” (The episode is captured by Guillaume Apollinaire in a collection of anecdotes from 1911). Was there any basis to this story? A generation of Nerval scholars attempted to debunk it, but then a letter to his childhood friend Laura LeBeau was discovered. Nerval had just returned from some days at the seaside at the Atlantic coastal town of La Rochelle: “and so, dear Laura, upon my regaining the town square I was accosted by the mayor who demanded that I should make a full and frank apology for stealing from the lobster nets. I will not bore you with the rest of the story, but suffice to say that reparations were made, and little Thibault is now here with me in the city…” Nerval, it seems, had liberated Thibault the lobster from certain death in a pot of boiling water and brought him home to Paris. Thus we know that it was Thibault, and not just “some lobster,” who went for that celebrated promenade in the gardens of the Palais-Royal. | <urn:uuid:8c6dce72-7395-46da-af35-6031e4c8ff9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biblioklept.org/2012/03/12/consider-gerard-de-nervals-pet-lobster/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965218 | 625 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The nature and intensity of EU industrial policy has drastically changed over the past decades. As a matter of fact, rather than engaging in industrial policy on its own, in its first few months, the European Community tried to prevent its member states from using industrial policy measures that could jeopardise the Single Market. Rules on state aid, for example, saw their first application in the 1960s in an attempt to stop member states from altering the competitive playing field through export aid for intra-community trade. Concerns related to Europe’s inability to keep the pace of the US led to the first attempts to coordinate industrial policy. Many of these attempts, however, failed due to tensions between member states, and an overall hesitancy when it came to abandoning national prerogatives in favour of a more coordinated policy at the EU level (Pavitt, 1971).
After this first wave, the EU entered an “industrial policy winter”: emphasis on completing the Single Market and the gradual implementation of rather laissez-faire economic approaches inspired by the US gradually transformed the words “industrial policy” into an oxymoron, increasingly taboo in EU-level public discourse. The Lisbon strategy set targets for R&D investment and employment, but fell short of laying the foundations of an effective industrial policy: by then, indeed, the term industrial policy had become largely démodé. The Lisbon strategy was critically affected by a lack of coordination and commitment by member states, leading to a significant dilution of the ambition with the “Kok report” in 2004. The following “Europe 2020” strategy, launched by the Barroso Commission in 2009, in the midst of the dramatic financial and economic crisis, refocused the EU agenda towards “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. The strategy was so rapidly eroded by the unfolding post-crisis events that already in 2014, the incoming Juncker Commission decided not to review it, de facto replacing it with a more pragmatic focus on “ten priorities”, which left very little space for a coordinated and ambitious industrial policy and was rather oriented towards doing less, more efficiently. Despite the attempt to trigger an “industrial renaissance” in Europe since 2014, results have remained rather meagre.
The von der Leyen Commission: Departing from a growth-oriented narrative?
When the von der Leyen Commission took office in November 2019, the political attention shifted towards a more assertive European Commission, focused on so-called “competitive sustainability”. Emphasis on the need to reorient policy efforts towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) resulted in the implementation of these goals in the European Semester as well as in external action, i.e. the launch of the European Green Deal, accompanied by the so-called “just transition”, which increased the salience of social impacts alongside climate targets in the EU, although with an extremely narrow focus. The objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050, later coupled with a resounding commitment to cut 55% of emissions by 2030, became the defining trait of the EU as an internal and global change actor. This move also echoed an existing trend at the global level, i.e. the gradual transition from growth-oriented policies towards goal-based policy, centred around the SDGs. This is a fundamental shift, evoked by several governments, activists and academics around the world, but only sparsely implemented in practice. The von der Leyen Commission’s bold move to put sustainability upfront raised huge expectations among those who have advocated such transitions for decades.
At the same time, the resounding announcements on the Green Deal and the Just Transition Mechanism also overshadowed the lack of bold commitments on certain aspects of the SDGs, on which EU institutions have very weak competences. These include, notably, education, health, good governance and the rule of law – all fronts on which more will have to be done in the future.
The 2020 Communication on the Industrial Strategy
Along with the Green Deal, the von der Leyen Commission immediately started to look at how to adopt an industrial strategy that would promote EU competitiveness and support the Commission’s self-assigned “geopolitical” role by boosting strategic autonomy. In March 2020, while the COVID-19 pandemic was already dominating the public debate, the Commission adopted a Communication on “A New Industrial Strategy for Europe”. In that document, the Commission observed that the “twin transition” (green and digital) was a unique opportunity for the EU to “affirm its voice, uphold its values and fight for a level playing field”, adding that this “is about Europe’s sovereignty” (European Commission, 2020, 1).
The Communication also stated that “Europe’s industrial strategy must reflect our values and social market traditions” (European Commission, 2020, 1), which translates into an industrial policy focused on competition and open markets, rather than a revamp of protectionism or heavy subsidies to industry. Europe’s values and traditions, of course, do not end with its unique approach to competition: they also extend to innovation, contracts, corporate governance and finance, as well as the emphasis on empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), protecting fundamental rights and mainstreaming sustainability. The 2020 Communication did not venture systematically into these areas, but constantly referred to them.
The Commission also rightly argued that industry must play a leading role in helping the EU achieve climate neutrality by 2050: all value chains are involved, including existing ones and others to be launched through proactive policy aimed at boosting lead markets. Key pillars of the Communication included actions on strengthening the EU’s specialisation in critical digital technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and metadata analytics; deepening the Single Market by adopting an SME-centric approach; revamping competition rules, including those on state aids; transitioning towards a circular economy; boosting innovation, inter alia, by consolidating and relaunching the European Innovation Council, and leveraging public-private partnerships to help industry develop the technologies to meet their goals; upgrading skills available to European industry; and financing investment and innovation.
The Communication also touched upon the external dimension of the EU industrial strategy by correctly observing that ambitious goals – in terms of sustainability, climate neutrality and even social policy – cannot be obtained if Europe fails to act to establish a level playing field with other countries. Key initiatives include the development of a deeper EU industrial base in strategic areas such as critical digital technologies, defence and space, and pharmaceuticals; and adopting legal and regulatory measures to rebalance global competition, including a screening mechanism for foreign investment, the enactment of a carbon border adjustment tax, and reinforcing customs controls.
The Communication also included a number of provisions related to governance, which, however, fell short of providing sufficient clarity on how the implementation of the industrial strategy would be ensured. The Commission announced several steps, including a focus on industrial ecosystems (14 clusters of sectors and value chains that the Commission has started to adopt as a way to “read” the European economy); the launch of a multi-stakeholder Industrial Forum, with the task of assisting the Commission in tracking the implementation of the industrial strategy and developing the work on ecosystems; and support for the instrument of industrial alliances, which already reportedly proved beneficial in areas such as batteries, plastics, microelectronics and hydrogen.
Against this background, however, the Communication fell short of laying the foundations for a complete set of governance arrangements, which would ensure at once coherence between the several actions foreseen in the strategy, and the achievement of clear, measurable and consistent impacts. The most evident gap was the lack of a set of indicators for monitoring and evaluating progress, an issue which was taken up swiftly by industry groups and associations, in an attempt to fill this gap. But beyond this, other governance challenges were left unaddressed: these include ensuring that EU lawmaking is designed to pursue the goals set by the Green Deal and the Industrial Strategy through a reorientation of the better regulation agenda; enabling a reform of corporate governance to boost systemic transformation; explaining how progress would be conceptualised and measured when adopting the “ecosystem” as the unit of analysis; and reconciling the ecosystems with the numerous other aggregations and clusters of industry actors used in the same or other areas of EU policy (e.g. data spaces, strategic value chains, alliances, Important Projects of Common European Interest, partnerships, missions, Knowledge and Innovation Communities, research infrastructures).
Some of these problems would have likely been addressed by the Commission in the months that followed the adoption of the Communication. However, a more serious set of events came to affect the agenda of the European Commission: the COVID-19 pandemic has indeed triggered a dramatic economic downturn and promises to leave an indelible mark on the future of the EU agenda, including of course the EU’s industrial strategy.
The pandemic changed everything, prompting a refocusing of the EU strategy
The European Union has already learned several hard lessons from the enduring coronavirus pandemic. It emerged quite clearly that the resilience of the Union is lowest where the competences of the EU are weakest, as in healthcare. The need to reorient the EU’s action beyond areas originally identified as key priorities of the von der Leyen Commission also led to an overall shift in the focus of EU action during the first year of the pandemic.
In particular, the need to ensure greater resilience has now become the top priority for EU institutions, which has several consequences for EU industrial policy. While EU policy was aimed at “competitive sustainability” before the pandemic, the post-pandemic recovery is aiming at achieving both resilience and sustainability, which require bolder action on all fronts, including the systemic transformation of industry value chains; an ad hoc approach to digitalisation; a careful and pervasive mapping of the EU’s dependencies on other powers, especially in key technologies and raw materials; and a renewed focus on mitigating the impact of the pandemic on labour markets, accelerating the up- and re-skilling of workers of sectors that are likely to experience the worst downturn.
Greater coordination, however, does not necessarily imply greater centralisation. The pandemic has also marked the rise of decentralised governance as both resilient and sustainable in many industrial settings. In particular, the decentralisation of decision-making and value distribution in complex value chains, as well as the adoption of more decentralised governance in the digital ecosystem (e.g. through edge computing) represent key new frontiers for the EU in the attempt to reconcile competition, coordination, efficiency, resilience and sustainability. Decentralised governance approaches also become an essential way to empower all those industry sectors which, with the (accelerated) digital transformation, are at risk of losing control of the value they generate. This is a concrete risk in several “ecosystems”, from agriculture and food to energy, manufacturing, automotive industry and healthcare.
Despite a recent rebound of optimism among EU leaders, the projections for the EU are worse than for both the United States and China, which seem destined for an earlier recovery from the crisis as well as sustained growth in the medium term. Without disregarding concerns about the tentative nature of these estimates (as well as the questionability of GDP as a measure of prosperity), these prospects illustrate the uphill battle the EU will face in defending its geopolitical role in the global order. Some emphasise the danger of “scarring”, i.e. a long-term impact of the pandemic on the economy of many countries. On the other hand, the crisis is also likely to accelerate change which might improve productivity growth (Kotz et al., 2021). The key to avoiding scarring while still reaping the benefits of change seems to be to ensure the stability of the financial system. This seems to be due in large part to the determined action of the ECB and the financial supervisory bodies.
When it comes to specific industries, a peculiarity of the COVID-19 pandemic is its extremely diverse impact across and within sectors, as shown by a recent study (de Vet et al., 2021). Industries like chemicals, construction, and the food and drinks sector are likely to experience a so-called V-shaped recovery from the crisis; whereas automotive and textile industries will likely be on an earlier recovery path. The worst impacts may occur in sectors that are dependent on human contact and interaction, such as the cultural and creative industries. Faced with such gloomy prospects, the EU has a moral and political imperative to approach the recovery by triggering a deep economic transformation, and to shift the whole direction of its action towards resilience and sustainability. The cornerstone of the EU post-pandemic strategy will inevitably be found in the Resilience and Recovery Fund: the stakes could not be higher, and the multi-level, public-private effort needed to restore a path to prosperity in Europe cannot be underestimated.
The May 2021 Communication on updating the EU Industrial Strategy
In the new Communication, the European Commission (2021) reaffirms the priorities set out in the March 2020 Communication and devotes significant attention to the measures adopted to increase the resilience of the Single Market, including accelerating the work on the forthcoming regulation on foreign subsidies; adopting a Single Market Emergency Instrument to ensure the free movement of persons, goods and services in case of future crises; taking action to improve the implementation of the Service Directive; strengthening the market surveillance of products by supporting competent national authorities; mobilising significant investment to support SMEs with a dedicated SME Envoy, support from “sustainability advisors”, alternative dispute resolution schemes and measures to address solvency risks.
Beyond the protection and enhancement of the Single Market, the Communication reports the results of a thorough mapping and analysis of Europe’s strategic dependencies and “reverse dependencies”, identifying 137 products in “sensitive ecosystems”, for which the EU is highly dependent, showing weaknesses in energy-intensive industries, health and advanced technologies. However, these 137 products represent only a small share (6%) of total imports. The Commission presents six in-depth reviews on strategic areas, i.e. raw materials, batteries, active pharmaceutical ingredients, hydrogen, semiconductors and cloud and edge technologies. The resilience objective will be pursued also by taking action to diversify international supply chains and pursue international partnerships and alliances, in particular on processors and semiconductor technologies, industrial data, edge and cloud, space launchers, and zero emission aviation.
The work on the fourteen ecosystems showed in Figure 1 is coupled with initiatives aimed at co-creating “transition pathways” with industry, public authorities, social partners and other stakeholders, where needed, starting with tourism and energy-intensive industries. This is perhaps the most ground-breaking commitment included in the Communication. However, as recalled below, the extent to which this will configure a real modus operandi in the Commission is unclear at the time of writing.
All in all, the Communication shows a remarkable commitment to protecting the Single Market and promoting competitiveness, productivity and resilience in European industry. At the same time, its ambition does not go as far as realising the systemic change that the President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen evoked with respect to the Green Deal. On the side of governance, the Industrial Forum launched in February 2021 seems to have fallen short of acquiring the centrality in governing the transition that it seemed to have gained in the run-up to the adoption of the Communication.
Industrial ecosystems in Europe
Source: European Commission (2021).
Can the EU lead the way towards a new approach to industrial policy?
The European Commission should remedy the lack of ambition of the recent Communication on the update of the industrial strategy by taking six bold steps.
First, rather than a mere update, the Commission should adopt a full-fledged strategy, with a “North Star”, i.e. a mission to be accomplished in the short and medium term and a concrete timeline, not only for the launch of specific initiatives, but also for the achievement of specific goals. Furthermore, the Commission should define concrete indicators, a governance framework and a contingency plan in case (some of the) progress towards some of the goals appears to be insufficient over time. Regarding indicators, the traditional focus on supply-side or input indicators (e.g. R&D investment as a percentage of GDP) should be complemented by a renewed attention to output, outcome and impact indicators, linked to the overall North Star chosen for the strategy. And on governance, clear rules of engagement with the private sector and a contingency plan appear to be essential elements of a well-drawn strategy.
Second, in choosing its North Star, the Commission should embrace (a refined version of) the Industry 5.0 paradigm currently being developed by its Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. This also means recognising that the Industry 4.0 paradigm does not, in and of itself, provide a complete blueprint for industrial transformation, due to its limited attention for sustainability, let alone resilience and workers’ well-being. The Industry 5.0 approach has the ability to potentially align industrial policy efforts with the overall agenda of the EU, surpassing the traditional separation between the state and the market, and charging both governments and the private sector with a shared responsibility to “row in the same direction”, which would make strides in three main areas: building a human-centric industry focused on well-being, in particular, that of workers; fostering sustainability from an economic, social and environmental perspective; and enhancing resilience.
Third, the EU should firmly depart from unsustainable forms of capitalism that entail shareholder primacy. Even in the US, after resounding statements by the American Business Roundtable and by BlackRock’s CEO among others, President Joe Biden openly committed to “put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism” (Plender, 2021). A new European Enterprise model should be explicitly based on the principles of fairness, resilience and sustainability (Kalff, 2021). Only in this way, industry can become the real engine of the “twin transition”. More specifically: the sustainability pillar of Industry 5.0 requires enhanced corporate orientation towards the circular economy, mitigating climate impacts and ensuring fair value distribution along the value chains; and the resilience pillar requires more decentralisation in corporate organisation as well as a fairer value distribution in value chains.
Fourth, there is a need to consolidate and streamline the many initiatives launched to support industry at the EU level. At a minimum, the Commission should try to reconcile the notions of sector, ecosystem and data space to allow for a more coordinated approach to reaching medium- to long-term targets. After all, it would be very difficult to imagine a successful digital transformation in key ecosystems without a data governance strategy that matches the need, the actors and the value chains operating in those same ecosystems. Or, to put it differently, implementing a sectoral policy to achieve ecosystemic transformation would be preposterous.
Fifth, it is important to take Next Generation EU as a “once in a century” opportunity to rebuild, reshape and repurpose Europe’s industry. The unprecedented resources made available to member states to “build back better”, in the parlance of President Biden, should be used in a consistent and efficient way to avoid the aforementioned problems. System change cannot be achieved if Europe marches to the beat of two different drummers, one at the EU and another at the national level. The scrutiny, evaluation and implementation of national plans for recovery and resilience should therefore be given maximum attention and use new instruments rather than legacy, austerity-based tools. Merging abilities such as strategic foresight, knowledge on regional specialisation and the definition of pan-European industrial transformation pathways with key consequences for member states’ agendas will be key to achieving the ambitions of the twin transition, as well as the “systemic change” recently evoked by Ursula von der Leyen (Sistemiq, 2020). Unfortunately, a first analysis of the available National Plans reveals that member states have given priority to measures aimed at “protecting” the economy and society, thereby mitigating the short-term effects of the pandemic rather than creating the preconditions for change. De Vet et al. (2021) observe that “most measures consisted of horizontal support instruments without predetermined focus”; they also mention the possible confusion generated by the multiplicity of targets given to national governments, including the twin transition, resilience, consistency with the country-specific recommendations, etc.; and the lack of meta-level coordination, especially the need to reconcile national plans with the need to proactively shape inclusive, resilient, fair and sustainable industrial value chains.
Finally, the choice of suitable indicators is of utmost importance. Continuing to track and reward corporate performance by referring to financial indicators and cost optimisation is likely to frustrate any attempt to embark on a system transformation towards Industry 5.0. Beyond the taxonomy (an essential piece of the puzzle), the EU industrial strategy and the various governance mechanisms it relies upon (Important Projects of Common European Interest, partnerships, public-private partnerships, missions, etc.) should measure progress way beyond mere inputs (e.g. R&D expenditure) and outputs (e.g. patent applications). Progress, however, is about outcomes and impacts, and EU institutions should be adequately equipped to measure those impacts on the ground, and take action when data show insufficient progress. As already mentioned, both the March 2020 Communication on “A New Industrial Strategy for Europe” and the recent update in the Communication on “Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery” do not contain any concrete steps towards going beyond competitiveness indicators when tracking the progress of the industrial strategy.Against this background, the proposed indicators developed by the European Roundtable of Industrialists (2020) already took a step forward in the addition of not only impact indicators but also more traditional input and output ones. The Commission, however, will need to develop articulate and comprehensive indicators mirroring the economic, social, environmental and governance pillars of the transition towards Industry 5.0, centred on well-being (and thus, inter alia on alternative measures to GDP); on resilience (as a further elaboration on the first dashboard developed by the Joint Research Centre); and on sustainability.
- 1 The Commission, in its 2021 Single Market report, announces that it will “limit” itself to tracking progress on Single Market integration; productivity growth (based on labour productivity); international competitiveness (EU’s global market share or extra-EU trade); public and private investment (as percentage of GDP); and public and private R&D expenditure (as a percentage of GDP). The Commission further announces that indicators will be monitored with specific reference to ecosystems, but does not specify how the transition from existing to new indicators will eventually take place.
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The US outlook is not as positive as some people make out...
AMERICA'S economy may not be quite as robust as some government statistics indicate and more stimulus could be on the way, suggests Morgan Report contributor Chris Marchese in this interview with The Gold Report.
Chris Marchese says he expects precious metals will go higher as investors seek protection from the effects of monetary policies that don't work. In the process, he expects that greatly undervalued mining shares of silver producers will again shine in the eyes of investors.
The Gold Report: This is an election year and everybody is waiting to see what happens with the US economy between now and November. The Federal Reserve just signaled that it may be less willing to provide more stimulus. What's your reading on that?
Chris Marchese: The Fed meeting minutes signaled that the members are willing to be very accommodating if gross domestic product (GDP) slows down, if it doesn't maintain a 2% inflation rate and/or unemployment starts to creep back up. Then they tried to play the metals down; they don't like high gold or Silver Prices because they delegitimize the Dollar. I think they are doing that in preparation for the next round of quantitative easing, which in my opinion will just be an extension of Operation Twist that ends in June.
TGR: So you think that's all pretty much in place, regardless of how numbers look, unless there's some drastic change?
Chris Marchese: Yes, real GDP is supposedly growing, but our deficits are running higher, and 21.5% of that is government spending, which doesn't include any Social Security or the like. If you take that $3 trillion (T) out, our economy is smaller or roughly the same size as it was back in 2006. So there hasn't been a recovery, even though they try to paint it that there is.
I can make the argument that things have gotten worse. There hasn't been any growth, and unemployment has been getting worse if you count discouraged workers, people no longer considered unemployed and people forced to take part-time jobs or jobs that they're overqualified for. John Williams of shadowstats.com calculates these numbers. Last month, it was almost at a record high of 22.5%. Even the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has it at 15%, and it hasn't really budged.
TGR: What happens if the recovery stalls—or if it takes off faster than expected?
Chris Marchese: I think that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and President Barack Obama might do stimulus, tax cuts or something like that to get a short-term hit. It's like heroin, you get a short-term high, then you come down hard again. We've been doing that since we got rid of the gold standard altogether. It's just the boom/bust cycle that eventually runs out when no one trusts our currency anymore. A growing population is already starting not to trust it. Politicians like to talk the talk—"Oh, we're going to cut $2.6T over the next decade."
Well, it's going to be out of control by that point. Everyone should read the GAO Report, written by the people who audit the government. The phrase "material weakness" is used 50 some-odd times. If that was the case when we filed our taxes, we'd be thrown in jail.
TGR: What do you think the chances are for inflation getting out of hand?
Chris Marchese: I think it's already a problem. I use what's called True Money Supply, which is basically all currency that's readily available for use and exchange—currency, coins, notes, checkable deposits, savings deposits and the like. That's been growing between 10% and 15% over the last three years.
TGR: What's going to happen with precious metals if the economy stalls, or if inflation really picks up?
Chris Marchese: I think it's a win-win either way. For one, as opposed to the 1970s, this is an entire-world problem. China has inflation. Argentina has inflation. Europe is going to have inflation. Everyone is running the money spigots nonstop. I think Bernanke is not going to let this economy stall. It's either going to take off through inflation and people will go to the metals, or he'll do another stimulus and if that doesn't get things going, he'll do another and another.
At some point, it will be too much. Either way, I don't think the metals will do anything spectacular until the end of the summer. At that point, if the economy is not looking good enough, I think Bernanke will do everything in his power to make Obama look good to get reelected.
TGR: Do you have any predictions for gold and Silver Prices?
Chris Marchese: I think in Q412, we'll break $2,000/ounce (oz) in gold and $50/oz in silver. It could run up as far as $60–70/oz just because of the technical buying and no overhead resistance at $50/oz. Toward the end of 2012, it could be $55/oz silver and $2,100/oz gold. That might sound outrageous now, but last April silver ran from $32/oz to $49/oz in the blink of an eye.
TGR: What would you like to leave as a final takeaway for our readers on how to best play this nervous market?
Chris Marchese: Try to buy quality. Buy on dips. Always keep some cash in reserve because, as we know, things can go lower. You don't feel as bad when you have money left to deploy if a stock you like drops by 50%. Remember that negative sentiment in the market is a good thing. That's usually the sign of a bottom or a bottoming process. The average investor gets scared out of the market and sometimes liquidates his or her position at the very bottom. Understand the fundamentals of silver and gold. They are money and have been for thousands of years. Above all else, own the physical asset, then dabble in some mining companies.
TGR: Thanks for joining us today.
Chris Marchese: Thanks a lot.
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A primary school in Gdańsk, Poland, has been fined PLN 20,000 (about €4,600) for collecting biometric data from its students without a legal basis.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) defines biometric data as “personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person”.
Lack of legal basis
The biometric fingerprint data was collected from 680 students as a method of verifying whether they had paid for lunch. The school canteen’s biometric reader has been in use since 2015.
While consent was obtained from the students’ parents/guardians, the president of Poland’s data protection authority (UODO), Jan Nowak, said that the processing of the students’ sensitive biometric data wasn’t necessary for the purpose of verifying whether they had paid for lunch. The school was also found to favour students using the biometric reader by forcing those who didn’t use it to the back of the lunch queue.
Breach of the GDPR
In his decision, Nowak noted that since biometric data isn’t something that changes over time, a leak of such special category data would result in a “high risk of violating [their] rights and freedoms”. He also said that “children require special protection of personal data because they may be less aware of the risks, consequences, safeguards and rights they have in connection with the processing of personal data”.
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Downy mildew of Onions
Onion downy mildew commonly starts in spots in the field and subsequently spreads to surrounding areas.
Elongated (3-30 cm long), pale-yellow lesions appear on the inner and outer side of leaves, covered by greyish-violet down, leaf tips shrivel. Drying up of leaves occurs, beginning with the older and outer leaves and progressing to young leaves, until the entire plant may be killed.
On seed stalks, similar lesions occur, especially on the upper part. These generally affect only one side of the stalk, often causing twisted or lopsided stalk growth. Lesions weaken the stalk and it breaks due to the weight of the seed umbel. Secondary infection by Alternaria porri or A. alternata and Stemphylium botryosum, frequently hastens death of leaf and stalk tissue.
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Ways To Boost Your Immune System
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Due to our previous post on CDC Reports AFM (Acute Flaccid Myelitis) Cases, Windermere Sun is devoting this post to ways of boosting one’s immune system and preventing toxins from accumulating in one’s body.
I’ve gathered multiple videos from my trusted sources on how to boost one’s immune system: Dr. Axe, Dr. Mercola, and Dr. Oz… and a new Devin Burke and Joy McCarthy, below:
I’m going to share with you how to win the battle with your immune system and create a strong immune system naturally. One of the biggest keys is getting more probiotics in your diet and improving your digestive health. New research shows that a disease called leaky gut is a major cause of food sensitivities, autoimmune disease, and a weakened immune system in the body. Probiotics can play a major role in the improvement of leaky gut, however you need to take a few precautionary measures. First, stay away from water that contains fluoride, be wary of taking prescription antiobiotics, and lastly, don’t consume too much sugar in your diet. Make sure you’re consuming a lot of probiotic-rich foods like fermented dairy products, fermented vegetables, and probiotic beverages, as well as a quality probiotic supplement. If you want to take your immune system to the next level, stay away from things that kill probiotics and load up on probiotic-rich foods and supplements.
Hope you will now be much better prepared in facing any antigens and microbes, tastily….
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The United Nations refugee agency is under scrutiny by the United States Congress and the Knesset for links to terrorism.
By David Bedein
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, allocates $1.2 billion from 68 donor nations to 59 “temporary” Arab refugee camps that were established in the wake of the Arab-Israel war in 1948.
At that time, half a million Arabs fled the nascent State of Israel.
The UNRWA refugee population now encompasses five million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war. UNRWA schools indoctrinate their to return to villages their grandparents left in 1948, even though these villages have dissappeared.
Over the last few years, our agency has filmed and documented that Hamas conducts military training for UNRWA children in it weapons training camps.
Kids are handed machine guns and schooled for war, while top Hamas officials on site encourage jihad, and lecture on the importance of taking back their villages – by force of arms.
Once again this summer, Hamas runs military programs with live weapons for tens of thousands who attend UNRWA schools during the school year.
Children Instructed on Use of Lethal Weapons
Al-Kutla al-Islamiya, a division of Hamas, which runs UNRWA military classes, instructs UNRWA children how to fight, shoot lethal weapons, and use hand grenades in preparation for their war for the “right of return.”
After exposure to al-Kutla, UNRWA elementary and middle schoolers join a week-long war games program, held in a military encampment, where they study “jihad, determination, to trust Allah and other Islamic values.”
Without batting an eye-lash, a bonafide UN agency violates the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which states that “children should not be forced or recruited to take part in a war or join the armed forces.”
One might think that UNRWA would object to Hamas recruiting students to become terrorists. The opposite is the case. On the record, the Hamas Minister of Religion told us in a filmed interview that “Hamas’ relationship with UNRWA is good, very good!” In addition, Hamas has a long history of promoting UNRWA educators and admistrators to top positions. Its founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was a teacher in the UNRWA school system for 17 years. And its unions have been controlled by Hamas for decades. Last spring, UNRWA’s former union head Suhail al-Hindi was named to the Hamas cabinet, along with UNRWA’s infrastructure chief Muhammad al-Jamassi.
US Leading Donor but Little American Oversight
While the US is the leading Western donor to UNRWA, doling out $400 million each year to this Palestinian refugee agency, there has been little American oversight of UNRWA.
On paper, binding legislation was passed by the US Congress back in 2003 requires UNRWA to vet personnel to see if there are terrorists on the payroll.
Yet the US has never asked UNRWA to vet its personnel.
US Congressional Research Service reports that the US has never checked to see if its humanitarian funds wind up in the coffers of Hamas, which had controlled the UNRWA administrators and teachers unions in Gaza since 1999.
Now the US Congress has taken off the gloves, directing the General Accounting Office, the GAO, to determine if UNRWA is fomenting terrorism.
The question that the GAO has been asked: Is UNRWA in violation of US penal code § 2339B – providing material support a designated FTO, a “foreign terrorist organization”?
Senator James Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the US Senate Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs, told this reporter that his office made the official request of the GAO, the US General Accounting office, to launch an unprecedented investigation of the alleged terror involvement of UNRWA.
Almost 100% of Gaza UNRWA Workers Active in Hamas
In that context, a newly formed Knesset Lobby for UNRWA Policy Reform, chaired by MK Sharren Haskel from the Likud, convened its first session at the Knesset on July 19.
That Knesset lobby will reconvene in late October, after the US GAO report on UNRWA terror involvement is released.
Knesset Member Avi Dichter, who chairs the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, points a harsh finger at UNRWA, warning that “almost 100 percent” of UNRWA workers in Gaza are active in the Hamas terrorist organization.”
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DALLAS — Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas opened a new state-of-the-art Neuro ICU, which will replace the old and outdated facility. The previous Neuro ICU provided great care to the patients, but was not the greatest healing environment. The ICU was very congested with equipment, doctors, nurses, other medical professionals and loved ones, said Christiana Hall, MD, medical director, Neuroscience ICU at Parkland and associate professor of Neurology, Neurotherapeutics and Neurosurgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in a statement.
The new Neuro ICU provides a family-friendly environment that is a perfect atmosphere for the patient’s healing process. “In the new Neuro ICU, every patient has a private room, nursing is decentralized, care teams have ample work space and the overall environment is serene, family-friendly and patient-focused,” said Kelly Heathman, RN, director of nursing, neuroscience at the hospital, in a statement.
The new ICU design was built using an evidence-based design and includes advanced technology features such as single-patient rooms with private bathrooms, including a shower and a family area with a sleeper sofa so the family is able to be involved in the patient care. The rooms also feature a ceiling-mounted boom that is designed to specifications from the Neuro ICU team. The equipment can be easily moved out of the way to facilitate care such as placing ventricular drains, according to a statement. The department also contains a dedicated CT scanner that will minimize transportation time and the distance to imaging services, which is meant to protect the patient’s safety. Each room will be fit with state-of-the-art “smart” rooms and “smart” beds that will be able to weigh the patients and even alert staff when a patient attempts to get out of bed. The addition of state-of-the-art technology allows the physicians to provide more efficient care for their patients.
Open work areas will facilitate staff interactions across the neuroscience disciplines, which will enhance patient care and safety. The staff will also now be equipped with special phones that will allow for secure texting of protected health information, eliminating the need for paging and callback and saving critical time with patients, according to a statement. Many of the new features at the Parkland Memorial Hospital Neuro ICU are included to be able to improve function and make the facility a more comfortable and family-friendly environment for patients.
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Germans Cross Meuse River into France at Sedan
At Sedan the Meuse Line consisted of a strong defensive belt, six kilometres deep according to the modern principles of zone defence on slopes overlooking the Meuse valley and strengthened by 103 pillboxes, manned by the 147th Fortress Infantry Regiment. The deeper positions were held by the 55th Infantry Division (55e DI). This was only a grade “B” reserve division, but already reinforcements were arriving. On the morning of 13 May, 71e DI was inserted to the east of Sedan, allowing 55e DI to narrow its front by a third and deepen its position to over ten kilometres. Furthermore, it had a superiority in artillery to the German units present. The French command fully expected that the Germans would only attack such formidable defences when a large infantry and artillery force had been built up, a concentration that apparently could not be completed before 20 May, given the traffic congestion; a date very similar to Halder's original projection. It thus came as a complete surprise when crossing attempts were made as early as the fourth day of the invasion.
The success of this plan depended on concentration and coordination. The French had more tanks than the Germans did, but most were dispersed along the front in support of infantry, and they had few reliable radios. By contrast, the Germans placed seven of their 10 armored divisions at the forefront of Army Group A, which would make the big push across the Meuse while Army Group B preoccupied the Allies to the north and Army Group C kept French forces pinned down behind the Maginot Line to the south. Guderian, whose corps now boasted three panzer divisions, would cross the Meuse at Sedan—the site of a crushing German victory over France in 1870—while other panzer leaders, including the hard-driving Maj. Gen. Erwin Rommel, would cross nearby. | <urn:uuid:38880dd0-d371-401a-b0bc-24a057e05f90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://worldhistoryproject.org/1940/5/13/germans-cross-meuse-river-into-france-at-sedan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.98025 | 384 | 3.265625 | 3 |
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The Spiritual Enneagram
The Fourth Dynamic comes from the exploration of the Spiritual Enneagram. The Spiritual Enneagram identifies the essential nature of each person, which lies at the source of their personality. And just as the previous three dynamics emerged in these sessions with couples, the specific pure essential gifts of each partner also became ever so evident.
It also became clear that these precise extraordinary qualities consistently aligned to each person’s Enneagram types. People of the same personality type were expressions of that same specific ‘quality of being’ that made them special.
These are the natural special qualities and essential talents within each person that stand out to everyone. In fact, these are the very qualities in each other that first drew them together. These attributes of their inner nature are what each partner so appreciated, valued, and loved about the other.
However, the source of these striking qualities are not the personality. Nor were these specific essential qualities learned or brought out in their upbringing in their family of origin. After all, brothers and sisters are usually a different personality type, with different gifts — yet they too were brought up in the same family system.
These specific distinguishing qualities are inherent in their very being. This is their true pure Self. These are widely considered spiritual qualities – transcendent qualities like unbounded Peace, unconditional Love, inner Bliss, pure Intelligence, and essential Power. Each of these is the source of an Enneagram personality type.
And they are self-evident. You can readily see these inherent gifts in people – the essentially Peaceful person, the pure Loving and caring person, the innately Happy person, the Intelligent person, the Powerful person, and so on through each of the types.
Partners in the sessions as well as those reading ‘The Conscious Person book series’ were able to identify and come to realize and appreciate the essential pure qualities of their own Self – their Higher Self as it were. And recognize that in their partners too!
This experience crystalizes for them in an intimate way as partners realized that this pure Awareness was their true identity inside. “This is who I am inside.” This is their essential nature. Not their ego. Nor their physical body. Those are mere reflections of this intimate inner Self, however pure or impure those reflections may turn out to be in their persona.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Identifying the specific pure nature of each individual’s higher Self is a new revelation in the evolution of the Personality Enneagram. These are not concepts or models. They are the experiential reality of Self, of who we are. The purer one’s consciousness, the more of their natural Self is experienced and expressed in their personality.
The Spiritual Enneagram also provides a unique view looking into the ego, from the top down as it were. This gives us a new and more fundamental dimension in understanding and working with the inner dynamics within each person.
As you will see, it provides each of us with a unique personal road map. A non-pathological framework that provides the foundation for recognizing and resolving the core needs, sensitivities and imbalances in one’s persona. One that empowers partners so they can better align to and live from, their noble Selves in sustaining a fulfilling relationship together.
This is the conscious path. The goal is to realize and increasingly deepen our conscious connection to our essential nature within our Self. For this place at the core of our being is a place of wholeness, of peace and fulfillment within. This is Home.
Cultivating this pure Awareness is also what strengthens our sense of Presence in our personality in the face of challenges in life. It is what enables each of us to step out of the ego and recognize the stressful patterns and dynamics that are affecting us inside and distancing others right as the tensions are emerging!
The more self-aware each of us is, the more we will readily catch it. Otherwise, when we become triggered or upset, those inner pressures can overshadow our Presence – our pure Awareness. Then there is nobody at home. This is when our insecurities – our frustrations and anger,our fears and selfishness do all of the talking and reacting. This is not our noble and wise, pure spiritual Self.
This is why we seek to gain these awarenesses and become conscious of our inner world. So we maintain and deepen our Presence in our connection to Self, and with each other, through thick and thin.
And a committed relationship is just the place to do it! This is where our insecurities are most exposed. And here is where we can support each other in the process of growing and healing together. It certainly makes it easier to live together if we have this shared self-awareness. Where each of us is able to recognize and own it whenever we become triggered or when inner pressures take over.
It is this self-awareness in our personality that also anchors us inside in the face of rising tensions. The inherent groundedness of Self – our Presence – is what provides the inner security that empowers us to work through any entanglements that need attention. And resolve the issues that can overshadow our pure nature.
In doing so together we deepen our conscious connection to what is noble within ourselves. And in the process, free up even more Self – more inner security, more inner peace and fulfillment from within.
Couples find that this new clarity of inner wisdom enables each of them to increasing attune to and live from their inner purity of consciousness together within themselves. This deeper level of consciousness becomes as concrete as a lighthouse beam they now seek to align to inside their Self to guide them through the situations they face.
Without the inner awarenesses and attunement with their pure and noble inner Self, people instead tend to get caught up in, and live from, their personalities’ insecurities and fears, their resentments and self-serving needs in life. And they usually don’t see it. When that becomes their daily “reality,” it becomes even more difficult for them to recognize these distortions that show up in their persona. Or in their attitudes and strongly held belief systems.
And you can tell. The contrast is ever so evident. In a challenging situation, it stands out when anyone takes the “High Road.” This is when they react graciously, thoughtfully, compassionately, unselfishly, wisely.
Again, where does that come from inside of us? After all, we all have that place of pure goodness inside, as buried as it may seem. And whenever more of our pure nature shows up, it stands right out. Immediately. To everybody.
This place is inside each of us at the core of our being. And this is important to become fully aware of, sensitive to, and align to.
This is why we seek to become Conscious. So we increasingly can live from our natural purity – from wisdom, security, and peace, and in our love and caring for others.
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Safety is the highest priority when Kaskaskia College employees are driving College owned vehicles or equipment or a personal vehicle for College business. Employees are not permitted to put the safety of either themselves or others at risk to fulfill business needs.
Employees who are driving either a College vehicle or other College owned equipment or who are driving a personal vehicle for the purpose of College business are required to refrain from using the cell phone while driving. If it becomes necessary to place or receive a cell phone call while driving, the employee must pull over and safely stop the vehicle before engaging in such calls. If an emergency situation exists, which does not allow the above procedures to be followed, the employee should keep the call as short as possible and stop the vehicle safely at the next available opportunity if further cell phone calls need to be placed or received.
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But what is Branded Content?
Branded Content is nothing more than relevant, informative, interesting, or entertaining content that is presented in a subtle advertising aspect. It is not a matter of focusing on the promotion of the product or mentioning its characteristics, but only shows the values affiliated to the brand in an implicit way. The aim of this advertising strategy is to connect with users by creating an emotional bond.
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Last post: 26/02/2013 at 9:49 pm
8.30am - ellas kitchen breakie pouch 100g and 8oz milk bottle after that.
12.00pm -ellas kitchen lunch pouch 100g then fruit pouch 30g and she gets water or diluting juice with tht.
5pm- ellas kitchen dinner pouch 130g with water or diluting juice.
7pm- 9oz milk bottle thn bed.
She doesnt wake up during the night for a feed.
Any advise on how to make it better for her and how to help me relax when trying her with fruit or normal food, i have let her try stawberry, melon, skips and heinz apple biscuit but i always take them off her because i think about her chocking.
Any advise on how to get to the next stage also i havent tried making her purred food myself as im scared i make it 2 lumpy and she chokes.
7am-5oz bottle (she isnt interesting in milk)
8am-weetabix with banana or porridge, slice of toast with vegemite and some fruit (blueberries/satsuma etc)
10.30-snack of raisins or banana and some water from beaker
12noon-mashed dinner of risotto, stew and rice, pasta with veg and cheese sauce etc followed by a yoghurt or fruit pot
5pm-dinner similar things to lunch she likes to self feed which can get messy but she loves her food so i let her get on with it! she also has a yoghurt or fruit pot (which ever one she didnt have at lunch) followed by fruit and a baby biscuit.
hope that gives you some ideas? x
We are at seven months too. Today in addition to bf on demand she had
Weetabix with milk
Oatcakes with pâté a bit of carrot, parsnip and cucumber
Homemade lentil soup
Rice crispies with milk
Apple and pear purée plus slice of apple and oatcake
Mashed potato and roast beef gravy
As much as possible trying to give what we are eating and finger food. Aim to stop purees in a couple of weeks and do entirely blw
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how did yous go onto making the food more lumpy..
did your kids choke or anythin at first? and how did they learn how to chew my daughter sooks the puree from the pouches at breakfast and lunch but gets spoon fed her dinner so how would i teach her how to chew the food??
With finger food they will start by sucking. Then gradually wee bits will come off the food into their mouths. They will move it around they mouths, sometimes chewing with gums until soft enough to swallow. If they get too much at the back if the mouth. This will make them gag which is a perfectly normal reflex to push the food back to the front of the mouth.
We've been weaning for three weeks (since 6 mth) and she is quite happy switching between purees, lumpy soups and finger food.
(This is quite different to choking which is silent. )
Baby can eat anything you do from six months except honey and nuts. Avoid cooking with salt and eggs must be well cooked.
The earlier you introduce normal food and do away with purees the easier life is and means baby can join in the social activity of eating together with family members.
ive been using them but only for dinner...
if i were you this is what i did/do to give a bit more variety, as too much baby food i think you might have probs later and baby being fussy
for brekfast get some baby porridge from cow and gate, few spoon fulls with 40ml of milk and mix a big squirt of ellas pears or apple puree in
dinner you could use ellas pouch or start try pureeing some sweet pottao or mashed potato
tea.. try some cooked carrot sticks
its a good idea to try finger foods at dinner and tea, it might take a while for baby to get used to it took my baby 3 weeks she will be 9month this week
try some of those rice cakes and carrot puffs from organix range...
buy a hand held blender then you can get the consistencey they way you want it... i know its hard and i worry about choking so i make sure everything is soft or melts in the mouth... toast fingers are good with a little butter on... she likes thses with houmouss on but she hasnt quite got the hang of sandwhiches yet lol
I sit in front of my baby and make a chewing action while I'm spoon feeding her - sounds daft but she eventually copies!!
I was scared of her choking too, but she's been fine. I give her finger foods such as carrot, cucumber, rusks and she just sucks them and bites them when they're soft. Just make sure you watch when she is having finger foods 'cos sometimes they chomp off bits that are too big and you have to get them out!
The other thing you could do is crumble a rusk up in the fruit puree or yoghurt, they dissolve well in their mouth and it gets them used to having to chew.
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Virtual Discovery Kits
The OTM is working to create more virtual programming on an ongoing basis. The Virtual Discovery Kits are a free resource intended for teachers delivering Ontario Curriculum but can be a fun interactive experience for many other groups! The kits can be added as an assignment on your Google Classroom and is best viewed in Desktop mode on a computer.
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December 6, 2011
Breathing new life into St. James Park
New turfgrass will revive green space damaged by Occupy Toronto protest
TORONTO — After five weeks playing host to Occupy Toronto protesters, the lawn at Toronto’s St. James Park suffered severe damage, with the lawn trampled to death.
But local residents concerned about the condition of their communal gathering space can be assured it will be brought back to life. Landscape Ontario is partnering with the Nursery Sod Growers Association of Ontario, Project EverGreen and the community to restore some greenery in St. James Park with a new lawn. Turfgrass is an enormous environmental benefit that is so often underestimated with its incredible ability to keep Toronto clean, green and healthy.
“There is a huge volunteer effort that will be happening here,” says Tony DiGiovanni, executive director of Landscape Ontario. “There will be more than 10,000 rolls of sod and at least 23 dump trucks of soil and an incredible number of people being very charitable.”
Volunteers from member Landscape Ontario and Nursery Sod-Growers Association firms will be on site Wednesday to begin preparation work, but the noticeable difference will happen Thursday as an army of volunteers lays the new sod to replace that which was damaged during the Occupy Toronto protest.
Restoring the lawn at St. James Park is an effort on par with planting a forest of trees when it comes to cleaning our air and creating the best situation for a healthy environment.
“A green and healthy lawn is just as important as a tree,” says Kyle Tobin, owner of LawnSavers Plant Health Care and a manager of the St. James Park project. “We have a unique opportunity right now before winter to restore the lawn and take advantage of ideal conditions. We will get in there and it will go from brown to green immediately and flourish next spring.”
A lush, green lawn is more than just pleasing to the eye. Did you know:
- That 220 square feet of turfgrass produces enough oxygen for a family of four; that means restoring the turfgrass in St. James Park will produce enough clean air for 545 families;
- North American Lawns store billions of tonnes of carbon, making turfgrass a leading contributor to offset carbon and reduce global warming;
- The average front lawn has the cooling effect of 8.5 tonnes of air conditioning; Lawns will be 18°C (30°F) cooler than asphalt and 7°C (14°F) cooler than bare soil in the heat of summer.
- Turf improves water quality by storing and filtering the water that would otherwise go into catch-basins and into the lake.
- A 10,000 square foot lawn will contain six grass plants per square inch,
850 plants per square foot and 8.5 million plants total. Think of your lawn as a forest of grass plants.
Community members interested helping out with the transformation of St. James are invited to come to the park on Thursday to support the massive volunteer effort.
“When you consider the immense environmental benefits of turf, we are going to make a huge impact with the revitalization of St. James Park,” says Alan White, owner of Turf Systems Inc. and a manager of the St. James Park project. “A new lawn in the park will have the equivalent impact of producing enough clean air for 2,180 people each day. It will help maintain a healthy temperature in our environment and work to keep our air and water clean.”
Landscape Ontario Horticultural Trades Association, one of the most vibrant associations of its kind, is comprised of more than 2,000 members, 10 sector groups and nine local chapters. Its trade mission is to promote the horticulture industry in Ontario, and its public mission, Green for Life, promotes the joys and benefits of plants and green spaces. Visit http://www.landscapeontario.com for more information.
Formed in 1960, the Nursery Sod Growers Association of Ontario (N.S.G.A.) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of the turfgrass sod industry. The main objectives of the association are to develop and maintain high standards of turfgrass sod quality, to stimulate consumer knowledge of quality turfgrass sod, to work in close co-operation with allied professions to the benefit of consumer and trade alike, and to gather, analyze and disseminate information of general interest to the public, governmental agencies and other organizations.
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In continuing its mission to take history out of the textbooks by honoring a local veteran each month of the school year, the Hampton Bays School District is paying tribute to Korean War Veteran Herbert Jannsen by flying an American Flag in his honor throughout the month of January.
“The district is proud to honor Mr. Jannsen for his bravery and service to the United States,” said Superintendent of Schools Lars Clemensen.
The American flag was raised during a ceremony at Hampton Bays Elementary School on January 22. During the event, high school trumpet players performed the “Armed Forces March” and high school VFW Voice of Democracy essayist Lily Spellman read her essay entitled, “My Vision for America.”
Jannsen was born in 1930 in Weinheim, Germany, and at the age of 1, he and his family moved to an island in the North Sea, called Föhr. While on the island, which is 50 miles from Denmark, the Jannsen family operated a taxi and tour bus company. Jannsen’s father passed away suddenly at the age of 48 and Jannsen took over the family business to help his mother and two sisters.
As World War II left much of Europe in shambles and many European countries in dire financial conditions, Jannsen decided to seek his fortune in the United States. With relatives on Long Island vouching for him, Jannsen was able to immigrate in 1952.
For about a year, Jannsen worked at various jobs until 1953 when he was drafted into the Army. He was sent to basic training at Camp Kilmer in New Jersey and then to Camp Gordon in Georgia for advanced training as a pole lineman in the signal corp. With the United States involved in the Korean War, it wasn’t long after training that Jannsen was sent to Korea.
In Korea, Jannsen was stationed in the town of Wijambu, a small town near the city of Seoul. After nearly two years in Korea, Jannsen became a United States citizen. In the spring of 1955, Jannsen was honorably discharged and sent back to the states. Though discharged, Jannsen remained in the inactive reserves for several years.
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Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, gave this intervention at the Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment on Friday, 19 October 2018.
On para 155 of the Instrumentum Laboris 19 October 2018
Holy Father, my brothers and sisters,
I would like to follow and build on the comments we have heard about the crushing poverty faced by young people in the world and the consequent dangerous journeys they undertake in search of prosperity elsewhere.
These factors lead to the horrific crime of modern day slavery and human trafficking.
It is estimated that in the world today there are over 40 million people held in slavery. 40 million! And the vast majority of those are young people. This is, in the words of Pope Francis, ‘an open wound in the body of humanity’, in fact, ‘in the body of Christ’.
Human trafficking touches us all. Every country represented in this Aula is a country from which vulnerable people are taken into slavery and into which the victims of human trafficking arrive. I first became aware of this when I listened to a young English woman who was trafficked from England into enforced prostitution in Italy; and when I heard an Afghan woman speak of being held in domestic slavery for 30 years in London, where her only place of privacy was under the kitchen table, where she was permitted to sleep. Children, in forced labour in central Africa, dig out of the earth, with their bare hands, the cobalt used to manufacture the batteries of the mobile phones in our pockets.
In the fight against human trafficking the Catholic Church has a crucial part to play. Human trafficking is a vast, international criminal network. The Catholic Church is a vast, international network committed to all that is good and just. I want to pay tribute, therefore, to all in the Church who help in this struggle, especially many, many religious women who risk their safety to work with the victims of human trafficking.
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In an earlier blog post, we emphasized the importance of buyer personas. In this article we elaborate two similar, but slightly more complicated topics to you:
psychometrics and myth-making marketing.
(The density of the material on these topics made this turn into a longer and more theoretical post than usual).
1.1. What are psychometrics?
Psychometrics are the art and science of systematic psychological measuring.
Systematic psychological measuring is all about quantifying and classifying the psyche.
The construction and application of measurement instruments is the key to psychometrics.
The classic psychometric instrument being the structured questionnaire with standardized answers.
Structured means that the questions are presented in a coherent framework.
Standardized means that the range of possible answers is fixed in advance.
These questionnaires are used for measuring all kinds of psychological or cognitive disposition in a person, like for example, personality or intelligence.
Intelligence being the best understood psychological construct in this day and age.
Psychometrics are commonly used in business to measure work-related cognitive capacities and psychological profiles.
It is business-practice to outsource recruiters, yet some more sophisticated companies build home-made aptitude tests around their unique job qualification requirements.
Psychometric tools to measure job aptitude are utilized by 80% of the Fortune 500 companies!
Among the most tested scales are cognition(IQ), personality, attention, perception, verbal communication, logical reasoning and visual-motor coordination.
Scientific personality tests ascertain data on character disposition and can grant insight into the work mentality and team compatibility of a person.
Besides recruiting, even the power of online marketing stems from the application of psychometrics.
Psychometrics can reveal hidden correlations between psychological factors and user activity/preferences beyond simple demographic profiling.
Any form of data-driven marketing has to be considered psychometric!
1.2. The Black-box model
The Black-box model in marketing and psychology emphasizes our inability to understand the parameters of the human mind.
We can only control and measure the input stimuli and the output reaction, but not the black-box itself.
The input is the external stimuli (an ad, for example) we expose someone to and the output being the testee’s reaction to it.
Psychometrics rely on meaningful statistical correlations between input and output to unveil the black-box of the human mind.
In order to think out of the box you first need to understand the box.
Biology, neurology, and psychology are mapping the human psyche to understand human behavior better. Related fields like anthropology and sociology consolidate their research with the help of psychological models and theories: even cybernetics and information technology ultimately need to face the challenges the human mind poses.
The problem is of universal validity:
Decoding the human psyche is the holy grail of cognitive sciences.
Since marketing aims at influencing psychological attitudes and changing behavioral patterns, it is technically a form of applied psychology.
As such, it depends on a scientific model of the mind.
But: The primary goal of psychometrics in marketing is obviously not to find the ultimate theory of the human mind, but to re-create an operational model of the human mind in relation to your marketing channels.
Knowledge about the psyche is only fruitful if it converts into measurable business success.
In the digital age, the golden way of marketing consists of collecting meaningful data of users and interpreting it with a psychometric delicacy of feeling.
Psychometric marketing tools are the key.
1.3 Quality criteria of psychometric measuring
Good psychometric testing always complies to a series of standardized scientific quality criteria.
Here are the 3 fundamental qualities of well-founded psychometric testing:
Internal: consistency of the data and items of the measurement within itself.
Ex: If you split the item sets into two, do both halves predict the same results?
External: the extent to which a measure varies from one to another.
Does re-testing confirm the result? Do we all interpret the data in a similar fashion?
Execution: Are the psychometric scales standardized?
Measurement: Do we have a systematic and consistent measurement method?
Interpretation: Does our interpretation of the data represent objective reality or personal bias?
Construct: Does the test really measure what it is intended to?
Criteria: Do the criteria applied effectively predict real-world cases?
Apparent: Do the results make any sense whatsoever?
Psychometrics in online marketing don’t need to be in strict compliance with these criteria, however, they offer a great heuristic approach to the benchmarking of your instruments.
Last but not least, the administrative feasibility needs to be taken into consideration:
- Are the psychometric scales cost-effective?
- Do we have the required skill to administer psychometric testing?
- Do we have the required skill to program/create psychometric tools?
1.4 Personality tests
Intelligence tests are the most reliable psychometric tests around, yet their predictive validity is not perfect. The issue partly stems from defining intelligence beyond linguistic conventions, cultural bias, and a limited range of applications.
This problem is even amplified for personality tests.
There are numerous personality tests based upon various psychological models and personality typologies available on the market, among the 3 most famous being:
- the Five-Factor Model (OCEAN “Big Five”),
- the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI),
- and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
Personality tests are generally more prone to bias than IQ tests and vary significantly in the units and scales measured.
Whereas the “Big Five” measures five universal personality traits in degrees, the Myers-Briggs operates with 16 distinct character types.
The discriminatory power of the MBTI (Myers-Briggs) character-type matrix is therefore more difficult to prove scientifically.
For the same reason, the “Big Five” is deemed to be the most scientific of the above-mentioned tests. Its prognostic validity has been backed up by various statistical meta-analysis.
The MMPI has been very popular in clinical and forensic psychology but finds less application in the world of business psychology.
The MBTI is regarded as pseudo-scientific by scientists, yet it is being successfully used by many big, international companies.
It is crucial not to fall for bogus tests which don’t meet the scientific quality criteria.
But: Keep in mind that “scientific tests from the US” do not necessarily perform well in Europe or other areas!
Source: Enneagram Institute
The Enneagram typology test is based on 9 ideal role-types in social organizations which are conducive to synergistic effects.
This more holistic approach aims at identifying the characteristics and core competences of organization members in relation to the organization as a unit.
“The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts”
Although this model generally fails to comply with the rigid quality criteria of science, it is fairly popular among companies in the US, South Korea, and Russia.
Repeatability is a key factor in science, yet the scientific method should not be undeservedly hailed as infallible. Science operates from paradigms which are prone to change over time.
In the final analysis, it is important to figure out which tests work best for your particular case.
Remember that regional characteristics, cultural personality norms, and many other confounding factors can easily impact the validity of psychometric scales.
The importance of the placebo effect must not be underestimated in this case: when organization members consciously accept a test, it is more likely to “work” and vice versa.
There is a panoply of scientific and unscientific psychometric personality tests available online. Scrolling through the tests shows you how different psychometric datasets can look like in practice. Although one should take the results (even of the scientific tests) with a grain of salt, it can serve as a great source of inspiration.
Psychometric data concerning political positioning has deemed to be crucial for political campaigning and personalized ads in general.
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal revealed the power of psychometrics to the world. While only relying on activity data and a basic psychometric personality matrix like the “Big Five”, they managed to predict and manipulate the political orientation of millions of people.
Remember that filling out questionnaires generates a lot of sensitive data about you, which could be used to reconstruct your psychometric profile!
1.5 Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
Hofstede defines culture as the collective mental programming of the human mind, which distinguishes one group of people from another.
Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions are highlighting the differences and similarities between cultural values around the globe.
It is a psychometric tool to benchmark the psychological disposition of whole nations.
Gaps between the scores of the different items indicate cultural differences. The more significant the discrepancy, the more likely a cultural clash.
In this example, the “Long Term Orientation” and “Individualism” scores hint at possible incompatibilities between Luxembourg and the USA.
This insight can be used to adapt business strategies, communication styles, and so on to a new market and targeted audience!
1.6 The Quantified Self
A customer is not just a number, but a concrete, living person.
The Quantified Self-model is the radical opposite of the black-box, it assumes that it can understand a human being by systematic quantification of his/her features.
It is the quest for the “Quantified Self” which turned out to be the main venture of psychometrics.
Capturing a person in its cognitive abilities, personal characteristics and bio-metric data is a functional replication of the human identity.
This topic is so relevant that it has been picked up by most leading business psychologists and marketing analysts!
Note: At this point, it is crucial to mention that there are many competing schools of psychology and that there is no universal consensus on which psychological model effectively captures reality. Some see in the “Quantified Self” a wild fantasy of behavioral psychologists, while others believe that recent progress in methodology and technology bring us closer to actually realizing this vision.
Source: Mark Koester
A systematic application of the Quantified Self model helps keeping track of user data and activity to optimize marketing strategies and choices!
Followers of the Quantified Self are often vilified as “data fetishists” since they advocate for complete measuring and mapping of the mind and body, which requires constant (self-)tracking, (self-)surveillance, (self-)monitoring.
The “data exhibitionism”-trend results in internet users willingly sharing crucial information about themselves.
The primary question posing itself here is whether it is possible for us to locate the dividing line between the psyche and the body (psychometric and biometric), private and public information.
Originally, the “Quantified Self”-enthusiasts were promoting a personal and voluntary data tracking lifestyle, but now the “Quantified Self” risks to become a more powerful version of the buyer persona in the hands of big industry and governments.
Major legal and ethical concerns must be raised here! The Quantified Self is a very powerful psychometric concept which needs to be treated with care!
1.7 The Digital Unconscious
Depth Psychology since Freud defines the personal unconscious mind as a reservoir of drives, feelings, thoughts, and memories outside of conscious awareness.
The Digital Unconscious is the sum of all the digital psychometric data which exists of a person outside of his/her conscious awareness.
Let’s assume an agent on the internet collects and interprets your activity data to assess your Quantified Self. If the agent is skilled enough to do so, (s)he is likely to end up understanding your online activity patterns better than you do yourself. The Digital Unconscious is the Achilles’ heel of every unaware internet user.
Do you have the habit of scrolling and browsing aimlessly through the internet? Maybe there is a pattern underlying your activity, but you just haven’t noticed yet.
Jacques Ellul famously said that reflexes replace reflection, which means that compulsive behavior dominates over rational behavior.
Generally speaking, the more impulsive your online activity is, the easier it is to target and arouse your desires.
The efficiency of the AIDA-Model (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) in Marketing is largely due to the unconscious reception of ads by people!
The implications of this have yet to be grasped.
The Quantified Self could eventually assume the shape of a “Quantified Hive” since the overall personal data could be integrated into an all-encompassing collective matrix.
For now, there is a lot of speculation about whether AI is capable of achieving total predictive power over the human hive.
As a matter of fact, a common denominator at the root of the unconscious of mankind exists: the affinity for mythical meta-narratives.
2. Myth-Making Marketing
We at Neon keep on reminding you to create value and tell a story.
This time we want to add a third point to it: make a myth.
The term “myth” obviously does not mean “false” in this case. Quite the opposite, a myth is a deep and meaningful narrative.
The Ancient Greek myth of Psyche and Eros is the archetype of the relationship between psyche and desire. After going through hardship and suffering for their love, the story ends with Psyche and Eros getting happily married.
This myth contains a fundamental fact of marketing: sex/love/emotion sells.
Storytelling in marketing is re-enacting the mythical psychodrama of Psyche and Eros. The wisdom lies in inspiriting your product with a meaningful quest.
The attainment of the object of desire results in psychological gratification (happiness, satisfaction, confidence, self-actualization, self-esteem, peer attention, flow, etc.).
Myth-Making Marketing starts from the depths where brands need to translate their mission into a myth. Connecting the stories to a deeply rooted myth looks like an inverted iceberg: only 20% of the myth is “visible” through the stories, and 80% is hidden down below, yet you can tease and pull many costumers in.
Ultimately it is the audience deciding whether a brand story becomes mythical or not.
If consumers don’t “hold the belief” or embrace a narrative as meaningful, a brand will fall short of “mythical power”, no matter how beautifully its story is spun.
“When a person(/brand) becomes a model for other people’s lives, he has moved into the sphere of being mythologized.” Joseph Campbell
Successful marketing is more than just manipulating people’s attitude towards a brand or product- it is the crafting of a new identity which gives the product a special intrinsic value.
This is why we call it “Myth-Making Marketing”, because it links our brand or product with the costumer’s own self-actualization.
Source: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) generally don’t suit this kind of “mythological” branding, since they rarely manage to fulfill our growth needs.
What matters from the psychometric perspective is that our marketing strategy ultimately leads to a certain behavior (activity, purchase, loyalty) and attitude (product associations) which we measure!
Self-actualization is the re-branding of the Self: the product becomes the conveyor of a new personal identity.
“The most important question anyone can ask is: What Myth am I living?”
Source: Iconic Fox
Brand Archetypes are used to pick the right associative values for a company or a product.
These archetypes are the ideal representation of the roles and functions of human personality in storytelling/myth-making.
Sometimes, obvious brand archetype choices in relation to our product/service offer themselves to us.
Example: Emulate the myth of the Explorer when you sell backpacks.
Archetypes are expressed in all forms of creative expression throughout the ages and among every civilization.
Jung’s theory suggests that the emergence of these universal patterns in our unconscious mind serve an evolutionary purpose.
Source: Michelangiolo Mazzeschi
The omniscience of the Dragon archetype in the East and West hints at humans being “neurologically hardwired” to these pre-existing mental structures.
Since the amount of archetypes is limited, we can’t but derive our representations from these fundamental patterns which are guiding the myth-making process.
In practice, the prevalence of patterns means that AI-driven tools could perform very well in this domain.
To start a branding process from the scratch implies the necessity of emulating archetypes.
The Sage, for example, is the old wise man: his function is to educate and guide the people. This archetype exists in almost every culture and thus conveys a universal, symbolic message.
But: For Cross- or intercultural marketing, it is indispensable to identify the archetype and adopt a culture-specific representation to ascertain successful branding.
Since Lord of the Rings is fairly popular in China and BaiMei has been immortalized by Tarantino’s Kill Bill in the West, there is a certain “cross-cultural compatibility” between Sage figures such as Gandalf and BaiMei.
Christian missionaries, however, adapted their message to local parameters by “re-branding” their iconography. Christ is represented as ethnically Asian/African or Caucasian respectively.
Assimilation vs. Differentiation are the two strategies to choose from.
It is paramount to understand the culture, myths and symbols of people in order to find the best possible Brand Archetype.
Let’s recapitulate the essential beliefs we communicate in this article:
- We believe that psychology, more precisely psychometrics, can provide a framework to interpret user data more accurately for marketing purposes.
- …that good marketing basically implies good psychology.
- …that psychometric tools have the power to help us understand ourselves and our customers better.
- …that psychometric testing is a key method to take the right decisions.
- …that we are entering a new epoch in the age of psychological profiling, namely the age of the Quantified Self.
- …that we have a digital unconscious which can be deciphered using psychometric techniques.
- …that psychometrics pave the path for an innovative marketing style which we dubbed “Myth-Making Marketing”.
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Sanjay Reddy in Reddytoread:
In the months before Donald Trump’s despicable executive order peremptorily banning entrants to the United States from select majority Muslim countries and placing a temporary stop on all refugee admissions, among other measures, was promulgated, many commentators have attempted to find the words to capture the smallness of mind and of moral vision of the new President. Roger Cohen is among those who have done so recently, in a powerful piece in the New York Times, published just before Trump’s latest execrable order, noting that “A rough translation of ‘America First’ is Muslims last.” That this pitiable notion of “America First”, although in a tradition, is not in keeping with other American traditions, such as for instance that of the Quakers, is the least point. Although it wraps itself in pragmatic claims of protection against terrorism it in fact represents the rejection of the idea of liberal democracy itself, understood as grounded in conceptions of equal treatment of persons (even if this idea was to be applied differently to citizen insiders and non-citizen outsiders).
Considerations of human dignity arising from what the philosopher John Rawls understood as a ‘broadly Kantian’ background to the shared public culture of liberal democracy played a crucial role in upholding their institutions, and underpinning such ideas as ‘public reason’ bringing together the idea that justification in a democracy must require reasons and that these must be of a kind that could be accepted by others, having different ‘comprehensive conceptions of the good’, such as followers of different religions or none at all. Another American philosopher, Richard Rorty, referred to a “human rights culture” underpinning liberal democracies, and crystalized in facts such as the abhorrence of torture, in retrospect a a precisely and presciently chosen example. However he worried, and controversially argued, that this had no ultimate philosophical or political support except itself. | <urn:uuid:9f56cb96-06c5-4269-9fe0-03b43119a5d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2017/01/dangerous-inflection-point.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949306 | 416 | 1.757813 | 2 |
705 Waterfall to Waterloo: How Failure Helped Build an Open Learning Culture
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Friday, October 25
Management and Strategy
How can a traditional learning audience weather a shift toward Agile? What can happen if they don't like that change? How can L&D professionals increase the chance of successful audience adoption? In 2018, the HAL L&D team set out to transition to more agile methods and encountered severe audience resistance. The pilot group didn't understand the changes, L&D didn't communicate well, and the learning cultural gap widened. Struggling with failure, the team needed an innovative approach to immediately right the ship and change the culture. They wound up increasing participation and adoption, and set the standard for their development going forward.
In this case study session, you will walk through how HAL GL&D recognized the change resistance from their traditional learning audience and redirected tactics in the face of failure. You'll explore how the team identified conceptual and cultural differences in their learning audience. Finally, you'll get some ideas on how to take principles they learned and apply them in your own setting to build a more open learning culture.
In this session, you will learn:
- Why understanding learning culture is so imperative to the success of your project
- How to go from a waterfall to a more agile approach to curriculum design
- How to apply elements of metacognition and get the audience to embrace an evolving learning culture
- Implementation techniques that will energize and empower your traditional audience to partner with you
Designers, developers, managers
Global Learning & Development: Design & Delivery
Holland America Group
Michael Blaise is a learning and development professional who uses key instructional design, change management, information architecture, and organizational adoption elements to increase an organization's performance. His focus is to help an organization achieve its strategic goals, increase end-user performance, and empower their behaviors to ensure alignment. Michael also has extensive a passion for leadership development, curriculum design, gamification for engagement, and is always looking to disrupt the norm.
Lead Specialist: Design & Delivery
Holland America Group
Jill Fitzpatrick, lead specialist: design & delivery, is passionate about using user-centric development as part of business strategy. Certified in NLP, learning & development, and multiple psychometric tools, she combines these with strong business acumen to disrupt with purpose the approach of learning. Jill built the learning function for a UK Property business from the ground up, incorporating legislation and compliance, sales, interpersonal skills, and leadership training. Since joining the Holland America Group in 2017, she has focused on innovating ways to improve team efficiency using Agile design principles. | <urn:uuid:7d4c12c4-0d97-4b71-8cab-12a8df2b2d5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.learningguild.com/devlearn/sessions/session-details.cfm?event=669&fromselection=doc.5853&from=sessionslist&session=10307 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.927047 | 568 | 1.65625 | 2 |
I live in a country where a senior averages $60k per year at best, probably much less.
My cousin, a software engineer and co founder of a big company visited me yesterday. I told him that although I just moved to a new job, I'm going to try to apply for a remote job from this site because the income is much higher.
He argued that those high incomes are for Americans because the cost of living is high there, so either they only want certain countries or they will offer me a much lower income.
We spent the night arguing, I told him that the advertised income is fixed and it's unprofessional to accept certain countries only or to lower the advertised income if you know that the cost of living is cheap.
So, my questions are:
- SO knows my country, when I type remote, can I apply to all the jobs I see or are they only for Americans and few other countries?
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Different Attributes of Universal Leadership
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Universal leadership is a term used to describe a leader’s ability to transcend cultural and national boundaries to inspire and motivate people to achieve common goals. Universal leadership is essential because it encompasses the idea that anyone can be a leader. It’s not about position or rank but about serving others and doing what is best for the group.
Leaders in this system are often chosen based on their ability to think outside the box and develop innovative solutions. They also need to be able to work well with others and be able to build consensus.
Universal leadership is often seen as the most effective type because it allows a more diverse group of people to be in charge. This can lead to better decision-making since there are more perspectives involved.
There is no perfect way to lead, as different situations require different approaches. However, some universal attributes make for an effective leader. This article will explore several of these attributes.
A visionary leader has a clear vision for the future and can inspire others to see it. They are not afraid to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. They can also articulate their vision in a way that makes people want to follow them.
Visionary leaders are not just focused on the present but on the future. They know where they want to be and what they want to achieve, and they have a clear plan for how to get there. This type of leader is not afraid of change or challenge and always looks for ways to improve.
These leaders also value collaboration among stakeholders. This is similar to what SMRT CEO Ngien Hoon Ping established at the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore. Leaders can leverage collaboration among colleagues to improve efficiency and productivity at work. He is expected to bring this brand of leadership to SMRT after he was appointed to lead the company.
An inspiring leader is essential because they can motivate people to do great things. They can create a vision for the future and inspire people to work towards it. An inspiring leader can also make people feel good about themselves and give them hope for the future. Hope is an important emotion because it can keep people going when things are tough.
An inspiring leader can also help people see the potential in themselves and others. They can help people believe in themselves and their ability to achieve great things. Lastly, an inspiring leader is someone who people want to follow. People are inspired by leaders who are authentic, transparent, and have integrity.
To inspire others, a good leader should walk the talk. SMRT Chairman Moon Ming Seah is an excellent example of an inspiring leader. While he was at ST Electronics, he encouraged people to create patents and innovate. He also published patents to serve as inspiration for the employees.
Another attribute of a universal leader is being diplomatic. This means they can see both sides of every issue and find a middle ground that everyone can be happy with.
Leaders who can find common ground and see both sides of every issue are much more successful than those who are not. This is because they can build relationships with other people, which is critical for getting things done.
A diplomatic leader can help to resolve conflicts and get everyone on the same page. This is important for achieving goals and moving forward together. A leader who is not diplomatic will often make enemies instead of friends, which can make it challenging to get things done.
An empathetic leader is someone who can understand and feel the emotions of others. They can put themselves in other people’s shoes and see things from their perspective. This is important because it allows them to build relationships with others and connect with them deeper. An empathetic leader can understand what people are feeling and what they need. This makes them more effective at communicating with others and ultimately leading them.
When it comes to leading a team or an organization, passion is key. A passionate leader is truly excited and motivated about their work, and this enthusiasm is contagious. They can inspire others with their vision and get them excited about the future.
Passionate leaders are also more likely to take risks and be innovative. They’re not afraid to try new things or think outside the box – they know this is how progress is made. This willingness to take risks can lead to some incredible breakthroughs and successes.
And finally, passionate leaders are simply more fun to work with. They have a positive attitude and infectious energy that makes coming to work daily a joy. If you’re looking for a leader who will motivate and inspire you, look for someone passionate about their work.
A good leader should have all of these attributes to be successful. While not every leader will have all these qualities, those who possess them are more likely to be successful. If you’re looking for a new leader or want to become a better one, make sure to focus on developing these attributes. | <urn:uuid:2f22fe91-af97-403f-a632-f6e57ff9e24f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manyaxis.com/different-attributes-of-universal-leadership/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.975585 | 1,012 | 2.703125 | 3 |
I’m Perfect Program
Objectives: Columbia Marketing International’s (CMI) imperfect fruit program was designed to make imperfect fruit available to consumers and retailers that are more aware of the waste in produce. I’m Perfect apples and pears are the slightly blemished or marked fruit.
Campaign: As much as 30 percent of apples and pears are set aside for cosmetic reasons, never reaching the grocery store produce section. Usually, these “quirky” fruits are sold to commercial wholesale companies able to remove the skin and use the sweet flesh inside in juices, apple sauce, or baked goods.
CMI created a program to attract the eye of the consumer and give imperfect fruit a second chance. Ads went out to retail publications and sell sheets were directed toward retailers. With a nod to “It’s what’s inside that counts,” retailers were encouraged to use the 3# and 5# poly bag as a way to display and promote the program.
Results: Retailers and consumers are very knowledgeable on food waste in America. By increasing the efficiency of our food system, we can make better use of natural resources, provide financial saving opportunities along the entire supply chain and enhance the ability to meet food demands. According to CMI, getting food from the farm to fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, it uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and it swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the U.S. today goes uneaten. I’m Perfect apples and pears are just too good to waste. Retailers and consumers are enjoying the program knowing they are getting a great product and helping the environment as well. | <urn:uuid:870a0403-e3e3-4026-9d16-6b3d6f90e139> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.producebusiness.com/columbia-marketing-international/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950808 | 367 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Temperature is measured near the Warming Hut off Crissy Field. It’s a good approximation for what we have in the cove.
Tides and Currents
Some good sources to check out:
- Tide Tables
Just the ranges of the tides.
- Currents Tables for GG Bridge
Bear in mind that the currents along the SF shoreline, are often an hour or two ahead of the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Saildrone Current Visualization
Interactive, and live visualizations of currents in the Bay. You’ll need to find the ‘SF Currents’ layer in the left-hand menu. We’ve found these visualizations to be very accurate. | <urn:uuid:8321d943-56eb-4d98-8e58-6bbe974e7926> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dolphinclub.org/weather/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.875281 | 149 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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The next few years are going to be rough on coal producers as nations are slowly shifting away from it as a source of electricity. Solar and wind power is becoming a much cheaper alternative to coal and countries have been making sure that new power plants to be constructed are for renewable sources.
The recent ratification of the Paris agreement has only accelerated this further with six more nations pledging to simply ditch coal in favor of cleaner forms of power generation. These six nations are Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Finland.
Germany has ratified its Climate Action Plan 2050 which lays out its plan to limit coal power to 50 percent by 2030 and by going coal-free by 2050. The Dutch parliament has approved a similar plan to go coal-free by 2030 through the closure of its 5 remaining coal power plants. Canada has also pledged to phase-out coal by 2030 which translates to the country's reduction of CO2 emissions by 90 percent. For Austria, a target of 34 percent renewable energy by 2020 and a long-term target of 100 percent self-sufficiency are on the horizon. Finland plans to outright ban the burning of coal by 2030. Finally, France has a more aggressive timeline for the shift from coal by phasing it out by 2023.
Economic and Environmental Reasons
All these nations stand to gain a lot by phasing-out coal. Not only do these countries get cleaner air by the reduction of greenhouse gases which cause respiratory diseases, they could also save a lot of money by eliminating the need to purchase coal. Finland, for example, imports its coal from other countries. By banning coal, these countries can be more self-sufficient in their power generation.
Government policies may be one of the primary reasons for the gradual phase-out of coal but private companies are also a big part of this change. Companies like Tesla and Solar City take a big risk by providing cleaner energy to consumers but in the process, they are bringing renewables to the mainstream and showing the world that not only are renewables cleaner, they could also be more profitable. | <urn:uuid:135aa5cc-2894-4750-ac6b-e364cba50f7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://futurism.com/six-countries-are-set-to-completely-phase-out-coal-power | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968392 | 418 | 3.09375 | 3 |
May 7, 1892|
|Died||April 20, 1982
|Other names||Archie, Archie MacLeish|
|Occupation||Poet, playwright, essayist, Librarian of Congress, lawyer|
|Known for||Poetry, drama, essays, librarianship|
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
Life and work
MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. His father, Scottish-born Andrew MacLeish, worked as a dry goods merchant. His mother, Martha (née Hillard), was a college professor and had served as president of Rockford College. He grew up on an estate bordering Lake Michigan. He attended the Hotchkiss School from 1907 to 1911 before entering Yale University, where he majored in English, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was selected for the Skull and Bones society. He then enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1916, he married Ada Hitchcock. His studies were interrupted by World War I, in which he served first as an ambulance driver and later as a captain of artillery. His brother, Kenneth, was killed in action during the war. He graduated from law school in 1919, taught law for a semester for the government department at Harvard, then worked briefly as an editor for The New Republic. He next spent three years practicing law.
In 1923 MacLeish left his law firm and moved with his wife to Paris, France, where they joined the community of literary expatriates that included such members as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. They also became part of the famed coterie of Riviera hosts Gerald and Sarah Murphy, which included Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, John O'Hara, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley. He returned to America in 1928. From 1930 to 1938 he worked as a writer and editor for Fortune Magazine, during which he also became increasingly politically active, especially with anti-fascist causes. By the 1930s, he considered Capitalism to be "symbolically dead" and wrote the verse play Panic (1935) in response.
While in Paris, Harry Crosby, publisher of the Black Sun Press, offered to publish MacLeish's poetry. Both MacLeish and Crosby had overturned the normal expectations of society, rejecting conventional careers in the legal and banking fields. Crosby published MacLeish's long poem Einstein in a deluxe edition of 150 copies that sold quickly. MacLeish was paid US$200 for his work.:183
Librarian of Congress
American Libraries has called MacLeish "one of the hundred most influential figures in librarianship during the 20th century" in the United States. MacLeish’s career in libraries and public service began, not with a burning desire from within, but from a combination of the urging of a close friend Felix Frankfurter, and as MacLeish put it, “The President decided I wanted to be Librarian of Congress.” Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nomination of MacLeish was a controversial and highly political maneuver fraught with several challenges. First, the current Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, who had served at the post for 40 years, needed to be persuaded to retire from the position. In order to be persuaded, Putnam was made Librarian Emeritus. Secondly, Roosevelt desired someone with similar political sensibilities to fill the post and to help convince the American public that the New Deal was working and that he had the right to run for an unprecedented third term in office. MacLeish’s occupation as a poet and his history as an expatriate in Paris rankled many Republicans. Lastly, MacLeish’s lack of a degree in library sciences or any training whatsoever aggravated the librarian community, especially the American Library Association which was campaigning for one of its members to be nominated. Despite these challenges, President Roosevelt and Justice Frankfurter felt that the mixture of MacLeish’s love for literature and his abilities to organize and motivate people, exemplified by his days in law school, would be just what the Library of Congress needed.
MacLeish sought support from expected places such as the president of Harvard, MacLeish’s current place of work, but found none. It was support from unexpected places, such as M. Llewellyn Raney of the University of Chicago libraries, which alleviated the ALA letter writing campaign against MacLeish’s nomination. Raney pointed out to the detractors that, “MacLeish was a lawyer like Putnam...he was equally at home in the arts as one of the four leading American poets now alive... and while it was true that he had not attended a professional school of library science, neither had thirty-four of thirty-seven persons presently occupying executive positions at the Library of Congress.”:297 The main Republican arguments against MacLeish’s nomination from within Congress was: that he was a poet and was a “fellow traveler” or sympathetic to communist causes. Calling to mind differences with the party he had over the years, MacLeish avowed that, “no one would be more shocked to learn I am a Communist than the Communists themselves.”:296 In Congress MacLeish’s main advocate was Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, Democrat from Kentucky. With President Roosevelt’s support and Senator Barkley’s skillful defense in the United States Senate, victory in a roll call vote with sixty-three Senators voting in favor of MacLeish’s appointment was achieved.:298
MacLeish became privy to Roosevelt’s views on the library during a private meeting with the president. According to Roosevelt, the pay levels were too low and many people would need to be removed. Soon afterward, MacLeish joined Putnam for a luncheon in New York. At the meeting, Putnam relayed his desire to come to the Library for work and that his office would be down the hall from MacLeish’s. This meeting further crystallized for MacLeish that as Librarian of Congress, he would be “an unpopular newcomer, disturbing the status quo.”:302
It was a question from MacLeish’s daughter, Mimi, which led him to realize that, “Nothing is more difficult for the beginning librarian than to discover what profession he was engaged.”:309 Mimi, his daughter, had inquired about what her daddy was to do all day, “…hand out books?”:309 MacLeish created his own job description and set out to learn about how the library was currently organized. In October 1944, MacLeish described that he did not set out to reorganize the library, rather “…one problem or another demanded action, and each problem solved led on to another that needed attention.”:318
MacLeish’s chief accomplishments had their start in instituting daily staff meetings with division chiefs, the chief assistant librarian, and other administrators. He then set about setting up various committees on various projects including: acquisitions policy, fiscal operations, cataloging, and outreach. The committees alerted MacLeish to various problems throughout the library.:319
First and foremost, under Putnam, the library was acquiring more books than it could catalog. A report in December 1939, found that over one-quarter of the library’s collection had not yet been cataloged. MacLeish solved the problem of acquisitions and cataloging through establishing another committee instructed to seek advice from specialists outside of the Library of Congress. The committee found many subject areas of the library to be adequate and many other areas to be, surprisingly, inadequately provided for. A set of general principles on acquisitions was then developed to ensure that, though it was impossible to collect everything, the Library of Congress would acquire the bare minimum of canons to meet its mission. These principles included acquiring all materials necessary to members of Congress and government officers, all materials expressing and recording the life and achievements of the people of the United States, and materials of other societies past and present which are of the most immediate concern to the peoples of the United States.:320
Secondly, MacLeish set about reorganizing the operational structure. Leading scholars in library science were assigned a committee to analyze the library’s managerial structure. The committee issued a report a mere two months after it was formed, in April 1940, stating that a major restructuring was necessary. This was no surprise to MacLeish, who had thirty-five divisions under him. He divided the library’s functions into three departments: administration, processing, and reference. All existing divisions were then assigned as appropriate.:321 By including library scientists from inside and outside the Library of Congress, MacLeish was able to gain faith from the library community that he was on the right track. Within a year, MacLeish had completely restructured the Library of Congress, making it work more efficiently and aligning the library to “report on the mystery of things.”
Last, but not least, MacLeish promoted the Library of Congress through various forms of public advocacy. Perhaps his greatest display of public advocacy was requesting a budget increase of over a million dollars in his March 1940 budget proposal to the United States Congress. While the library did not receive the full increase, it did receive an increase of $367,591, the largest one-year increase to date.:322 Much of the increase went toward improved pay levels, increased acquisitions in underserved subject areas, and new positions.
World War II
Archibald MacLeish also assisted with the development of the new "Research and Analysis Branch" of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. "These operations were overseen by the distinguished Harvard University historian William L. Langer, who, with the assistance of the American Council of Learned Societies and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, set out immediately to recruit a professional staff drawn from across the social sciences. Over the next twelve months academic specialists from fields ranging from geography to classical philology descended upon Washington, bringing with them their most promising graduate students, and set up shop in the headquarters of the Research and Analysis (R&A) Branch at Twenty-third and E Streets, and in the new annex to the Library of Congress."
During World War II MacLeish also served as director of the War Department's Office of Facts and Figures and as the assistant director of the Office of War Information. These jobs were heavily involved with propaganda, which was well-suited to MacLeish's talents; he had written quite a bit of politically motivated work in the previous decade. He spent a year as the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and a further year representing the U.S. at the creation of UNESCO. After this, he retired from public service and returned to academia.
Return to writing
Despite a long history of debate over the merits of Marxism, MacLeish came under fire from anti-communists in the 1940s and 1950s, including J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy. Much of this was due to his involvement with left-wing organizations like the League of American Writers, and to his friendships with prominent left-wing writers. Time magazine's Whittaker Chambers cited him as a fellow traveler in a 1941 article: "By 1938, U. S. Communists could count among their allies such names as Granville Hicks, Newton Arvin, Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Matthew Josephson, Kyle Crichton (Robert Forsythe), Malcolm Cowley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Erskine Caldwell, Dorothy Parker, Archibald MacLeish, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, John Steinbeck, George Soule, many another."
In 1949 MacLeish became the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. He held this position until his retirement in 1962. In 1959 his play J.B. won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From 1963 to 1967 he was the John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer at Amherst College. Around 1969/70 he met Bob Dylan, who describes this encounter in the third chapter of Chronicles, Vol. 1.
MacLeish greatly admired T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and his work shows quite a bit of their influence. He was the literary figure that played the most important role in freeing Ezra Pound from St. Elisabeths Hospital in Washington DC where he was incarcerated for high treason between 1946 and 1958. MacLeish's early work was very traditionally modernist and accepted the contemporary modernist position holding that a poet was isolated from society. His most well-known poem, "Ars Poetica," contains a classic statement of the modernist aesthetic: "A poem should not mean / But be." He later broke with modernism's pure aesthetic. MacLeish himself was greatly involved in public life and came to believe that this was not only an appropriate but an inevitable role for a poet.
MacLeish worked to promote the arts, culture, and libraries. Among other impacts, MacLeish was the first Librarian of Congress to begin the process of naming what would become the United States Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress came from a donation in 1937 from Archer M. Huntington, a wealthy ship builder. Like many donations it came with strings attached. In this case Huntington wanted the poet Joseph Auslander to be named to the position. MacLeish found little value in Auslander’s writing. However, MacLeish was happy that having Auslander in the post attracted many other poets, such as Robinson Jeffers and Robert Frost, to hold readings at the library. He set about establishing the consultantship as a revolving post rather than a lifetime position.:327 In 1943, MacLeish displayed his love of poetry and the Library of Congress by naming Louise Bogan to the position. Bogan, who had long been a hostile critic of MacLeish’s own writing, asked MacLeish why he appointed her to the position; MacLeish replied that she was the best person for the job. For MacLeish, promoting the Library of Congress and the arts was vitally more important than petty personal conflicts.
In the June 5, 1972 issue of The American Scholar, MacLeish laid out in an essay his philosophy on libraries and librarianship, further shaping modern thought on the subject:
When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it Report to Greco... Kazantzakis thought of himself as a soldier reporting to his commanding officer on a mortal mission—his life. ...
Well, there is only one Report to Greco, but no true book... was ever anything else than a report. ... A true book is a report upon the mystery of existence... it speaks of the world, of our life in the world. Everything we have in the books on which our libraries are founded—Euclid's figures, Leonardo's notes, Newton's explanations, Cervantes' myth, Sappho's broken songs, the vast surge of Homer—everything is a report of one kind or another and the sum of all of them together is our little knowledge of our world and of ourselves. Call a book Das Kapital or The Voyage of the Beagle or Theory of Relativity or Alice in Wonderland or Moby-Dick, it is still what Kazantzakis called his book—it is still a "report" upon the "mystery of things."
But if this is what a book is... then a library is an extraordinary thing. ...
The existence of a library is, in itself, an assertion. ... It asserts that... all these different and dissimilar reports, these bits and pieces of experience, manuscripts in bottles, messages from long before, from deep within, from miles beyond, belonged together and might, if understood together, spell out the meaning which the mystery implies. ...
The library, almost alone of the great monuments of civilization, stands taller now than it ever did before. The city... decays. The nation loses its grandeur... The university is not always certain what it is. But the library remains: a silent and enduring affirmation that the great Reports still speak, and not alone but somehow all together...
Two collections of MacLeish's papers are held at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. These are the Archibald MacLeish Collection and the Archibald MacLeish Collection Addition.
- 1933: Pulitzer Prize for poetry (Conquistador )
- 1946: Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur
- 1953: Pulitzer Prize for poetry (Collected Poems 1917–1952)
- 1953: National Book Award for Poetry (Collected Poems, 1917–1952)
- 1953: Bollingen Prize in Poetry
- 1959: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (J.B.)
- 1959: Tony Award for Best Play (J.B.)
- 1977: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Class Poem (1915)
- Songs for a Summer's Day (1915)
- Tower of Ivory (1917)
- The Happy Marriage (1924)
- The Pot of Earth (1925)
- Nobodaddy (1926)
- The Hamlet of A. Macleish (1928)
- Streets in the Moon (1928)
- Einstein (1929)
- New Found Land (1930)
- Conquistador (1932)
- Elpenor (1933)
- Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1933)
- Poems, 1924–1933 (1935)
- Public Speech (1936)
- Actfive and Other Poems (1948)
- Collected Poems (1952)
- Songs for Eve (1954)
- The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish (1962)
- The Wild Old Wicked Man and Other Poems (1968)
- The Human Season, Selected Poems 1926–1972 (1972)
- New and Collected Poems, 1917–1976 (1976)
- Jews in America (1936)
- America Was Promises (1939)
- The Irresponsibles: A Declaration (1940)
- The American Cause (1941)
- A Time to Speak (1941)
- American Opinion and the War: the Rede Lecture (1942)
- A Time to Act: Selected Addresses (1943)
- Freedom Is the Right to Choose (1951)
- Art Education and the Creative Process (1954)
- Poetry and Experience (1961)
- The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (1964)
- The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
- A Continuing Journey (1968)
- Champion of a Cause: Essays and Addresses on Librarianship (1971)
- Poetry and Opinion: the Pisan Cantos of Ezra Pound (1974)
- Riders on the Earth: Essays & Recollections (1978)
- Letters of Archibald MacLeish, 1907–1982 (1983)
- Union Pacific (ballet) (1934)
- Panic (1935)
- The Fall of the City (1937)
- Air Raid (1938)
- The Land of the Free (1938)
- Colloquy for the States (1943)
- The American Story: Ten Broadcasts (1944)
- The Trojan Horse (1952)
- This Music Crept By Me on the Waters (1953)
- J.B. (1958)
- Three Short Plays (1961)
- An Evening's Journey to Conway (1967)
- Herakles (1967)
- Scratch (1971)
- The Great American Fourth of July Parade (1975)
- Six Plays (1980)
- Archibald MacLeish at Find A Grave
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- 100 of the Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th century (1999). American Libraries, 30(11), 39.
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- "National Book Awards – 1953". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
(With acceptance speech by MacLeish and essay by John Murillo from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
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- Archibald MacLeish papers at Mount Holyoke College
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The Burnside Homes for Children was the new name for Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children. The name change occurred when the Uniting Church in Australia was formed and the Uniting Church Board of Responsibility took control of the Burnside Homes. From 1978 to 1986 residential care at the Burnside site in North Parramatta was wound up. In 1986 all residential care for children and young people had moved offsite and the organisation changed its name to Burnside.
The way children are cared for by Burnside has changed considerably over the years reflecting changes in child care theories. Originally, children were housed on the North Parramatta site, in the cottage homes, which housed 20-30 children.
In the 1960s the capacity of the homes, originally designed to accommodate 30 children, was reduced to house twelve to fifteen. Also in the 1960s, Burnside began to establish group homes in the suburbs which were designed to care for around six children at a time. In the 1970s, a comprehensive and successful system of foster care was established by Burnside social workers.
From the late 1970s the children's cottages on the Burnside site were progressive closed down. In the 1980s Burnside Homes for Children began leasing properties in Fairfield and Cabramatta to provide accommodation for refugee children from Cambodia. Other family group homes were also established in this period.
From 1986 Burnside Homes for Children stopped running children's homes on the North Parramatta site. It became known simply as Burnside.
1911 - 1955 Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes
1955 - 1978 Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children
1978 - 1986 Burnside Homes for Children
1986 - 2000 Burnside
2000 - Uniting Burnside
Sources used to compile this entry: Fernandes, Andrea, 'Leaving Cambodia: stories of Sydney's Pol Pot survivors - Buntha Nhem's migration memories', in Migration Heritage Centre New South Wales, Migration Heritage Centre New South Wales, NSW Government, 2010, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20110422132246/http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/leavingcambodia/buntha-nhem/; Keen, Susan, Burnside: 75 years of caring, Burnside Homes for Children, 1986; Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf.
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Healthcare can be a truly hot topic, but there are so many ways to navigate the conversation without being offensive or leaving groups of people out of the discussion. The health of our mindset and mentality is vital to the rest of our overall being. This is particularly true for people living with chronic illnesses, although it can be incredibly difficult to keep a positive attitude while living with pain and discomfort.
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Then, for every point of comparability and contrast, you clarify each of your topics together. This method works greatest if you need to concentrate on a particular similarity or distinction between your topics, or if you want to construct as a lot as a powerful conclusion or reveal at the end. Using the block method, you’ll find a way to travel like this for pages, masking as many subjects as you want. This approach is finest for giving every subject its own attention but tends to barely weaken the connection between the two. Hey it is Wendy again from Worldwide Speak, and on this video I’m going to speak about the point-by-point technique for the comparability and contrast essay.
Your instructor can also ask for a dialogue of more than one similarity and distinction between the two topics or two views. Identify any gaps in your data and put together to do analysis so you can better examine and contrast the two matters in your essay. Wrap up the introduction with a concise thesis statement. Ideally, the thesis assertion should be an summary of the essay. Here is a step-by-step information to writing an excellent examine and distinction essay.
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A examine and distinction essay is an essay that analyzes and evaluates the similarities and differences between two topics. The thesis assertion Ñn examine аnd distinction essays ought to be one sentence that clearly states thе point you are trying tо make. The thesis statement can additionally be referred to as thе comparability or comparison statement. It is written on the finish оf thе introductory paragraph of your essay. In the introduction, you should present background info on the two topics, and then present some kind of comparison or comparison.
Identify any gaps in your knowledge and prepare to do analysis so you’ll have the ability to higher compare and contrast the two topics in your essay. We supply an array of online homework help and other providers for our college students and tutors to select from based mostly on their wants and expertise. As an integrated platform for both tutors and students, we offer real time sessions, online task and homework assist and project work assistance. Although this sentence has a distinction transition, the factors for contrasting aren’t the same. We would count on similar standards to be used for Bruce , however as a substitute we now have new standards, namelyappearance and intelligence .
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When discussing Alfredâs attributes in the first a half of the sentence, the criteria employed are intelligence and looks. In the second part of the sentence, two new standards are introduced, namely top and physical energy. Nothing makes a textual content staler for a reader than the overuse of favourite phrases and the countless repetition of pet phrases.
It’s all the time important to have someone look over your paper like a father or mother, tutor, or friend, or to seek out the help of an expert editor. Having someone look over your paper will be sure that every thing makes sense and can help you with revisions. Conclusion (This would basically be the identical as the block methodology.) a. What conclusions can we draw from evaluating these two subjects? Clearly San Francisco can be the higher end of the deal because we would get a lot enjoyable stuff to do with out all of the stress of driving everywhere. In this thesis statement, the reader is told what might be happening in the paper and what level the writer goes to makeânamely, that Batman is superior to Superman, as portrayed by Frank Miller.
Both cities have plenty of immigration, entice many vacationers, and have a high cost of living. The first paragraph after the introduction discusses what the governments within the two books have in frequent, however the subsequent paragraph explains how they differ. This strategy works greatest whenever you need to emphasize the connection between your topics, or lack thereof.
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An outliner (or «outline processor») is a specialised type of word processor used to view, create, construct, modify, and maintain outlines. The examine and distinction essay is taught by way of modeling from the brainstorming phase through the first draft. A synthesis essay requires the writer to describe a sure distinctive viewpoint in regards to the concern or matter. Normally, a story essay is written from a personal viewpoint in an essay. The primary objective of the narrative 5 page essay define is to describe something creatively.
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Five Healthy Alternatives For Your Child’s Easter Basket
If you are making an Easter Basket for your kids or grandkids, before you go out to buy some jelly beans and Peeps, think to yourself: do I really want the kids to eat all that sugar?
Plus, gooey, sticky candy gets stuck in teeth and braces, while hard candy and lollipops stay in the mouth, basically bathing teeth in sugar. Now, we are not suggesting you put carrots and celery in there (they might throw them right back at you), but there are healthier alternatives.
We came up with the five best ideas to make a healthier Easter Basket.
When kids wake up to see if the Easter Bunny came by the expect to find a basket filled with candy or sweets. In order to satisfy your child's sweet tooth without providing them with too many unhealthy snacks consider putting in chocolate covered fruit. Chocolate strawberries are a favorite on most holidays you might even find yourself stealing one.
As opposed to sugar covered peeps there are festive Easter Bunny shaped alternatives. Golden Grahams and Gold Fish, for example, both make holiday brands that can provide a quick snack that will also have your family feeling festive. Annie's Bunny Grahams are another healthier choice.
Peanut Butter provides a side that can go great with any type of fruit like apples, or even some type of crackers. Peanut Butter provides protein while also being a tasty healthy treat.
Some studies have shown that dark chocolate can actually help reduce blood pressure. So if you really can't control sweet tooth, and you need your chocolate fix. Make sure that this year it's dark chocolate.
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Assisted Exit: Giving Humans And Animals Dignity In Death
Assisted exit, or Euthanasia, is the process where a professional supplies a drug that helps a dying human or animal pass peacefully and humanely into death. In some circles, this is a topic of controversy but many medical professionals and citizens alike are welcoming the idea as an option for terminally ill or elderly patients.
Assisted Exit: A Way To Control Your End
It’s important to have control over our lives and the way that we lead and leave them. Having the power to decide when you would like to leave this world should be up to you, and only you. While choosing to take your own life is never easy, you should still be the one to make that final decision.
When it comes to our pets, watching them suffer is never something we want, so having the option for euthanasia is a truly important one. Whether the choice must be made because of a terminal condition, emergency, old age or financial problems, the decision is never made lightly. Giving our pets a painless and peaceful death by our sides or in our arms is comforting for everyone.
Pentobarbital Sodium or Nembutal For Euthanasia
Typically, the drug of choice for euthanasia in both humans and animals comes from a class of drugs called, barbiturates. Pentobarbital sodium, commonly called Nembutal, is currently the go-to option for assisted exit, either in a liquid form for animals or a pill form for humans.
The reason that people opt for this method of assisted exit or euthanasia is because it is typically perceived as quick and painless. The drug was originally used as an aesthetic before people realized its true potential. Pentobarbital sodium is a fast-acting central nervous system depressant that will cause loss of consciousness and death in lethal doses.
Pentobarbital sodium can be found in a tablet form, powder form and liquid form.
Why Assisted Exit With Pentobarbital
Pentobarbital can make your final moments (or your pet’s) easy and painless. With the guidance of a reliable distributor and understanding physician, you can take matters into your own hands and decide when the moment is right.
Where To Buy Pentobarbital Sodium
Many pet owners and other individuals have become interested in buying Pentobarbital sodium online. Depending on where you live and the avenues you try to take for purchasing your pentobarbital tablets, will influence how easily you can find these drugs online.
Many countries like Canada, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium and some US states have legalised assisted exit to end one's life when terminally ill. Not all country’s laws are the same but in most places, the drug must be prescribed by a physician and taken under their supervision.
If it is legal in your country, you can purchase Nembutal or Pentobarbital sodium with your physician’s prescription directly through your pharmacy. It is also possible to purchase them online through a reliable distributor.
If you are looking for a reliable and confidential source to buy your Pentobarbital online, Assisted Exit has you covered. They are a responsible company that has been distributing barbiturates to laboratories and individuals since 2012. You can trust that your delivery will be secure as they only provide drugs from a solid network of small direct customers and local distributors.
Can You Buy Pentobarbital Euthanasia Online?
Pentobarbital sodium is a controlled drug and can be tricky to get ahold of. If your country does not allow assisted suicide or euthanasia, you may be breaking the law by having it imported to you. This is why it is important to find a confidential and secure source for distributing.
Finding Pentobarbital or Euthasol for sale online can be done easily when it’s legal in your country. When it’s not legal, on the other hand, you may have to buy from a reliable nembutal supplier. These purchases have long been possible online, in Mexico and in a number of South American countries.
Pentobarbital sodium has several different retail names:
Euthansol - Barbital - Anestesal - Sedalforte
Pentovet - Pentomax - Dolethal - Halatol
Finding a euthanasia supplier in the UK and Europe may take time. In the UK, assisted suicide is illegal in humans still, but the medical field is working hard on changing that and making the drugs legally available to those who want it. Europe is mixed as there are several countries that have deemed the act legal under specific terms and a physician's prescription and supervision.
Look into the company, Assisted Exit, for help finding a supplier for countries that have difficulty obtaining Pentobarbital.
Pentobarbital For Dogs
Finding Pentobarbital for dogs is relatively easy when you are a veterinarian, but owners will have to find other avenues for finding this drug for sale for dogs. The injectable version of Pentobarbital sodium is the method that veterinary professionals use for humane euthanasia in animals.
Making the difficult decision to euthanise a pet is incredibly hard and some people wonder about using at-home euthanasia kits to help their pet cross over to the rainbow bridge. Finding a kit for euthanising your dog at home is not something that is readily available over-the-counter.
It is possible to use Nembutal tablets from online or through a prescription and give them for the purpose of canine euthanasia, but when performed at the vet, they will use the injectable form. Dogs do not do well with masks over their face, so using a euthanasia kit that is strictly meant for nitrogen will most likely only cause panic and fear in pets.
Other Forms Of Assisted Exit
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Pentobarbital sodium and other barbiturates are not the only method of assisted exit. You can find nitrogen kits that include everything needed for proper technique and ease of use. There have also been recent designs and developments of “suicide pods” which use a similar concept of removing oxygen and increasing nitrogen levels. These methods allow for a smooth process and transition into the afterlife as it is described much like falling asleep.
Assisted Exit: Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands
Having the option to take your own life or humanely euthanise your pet should be your choice. If you’re looking to find Pentobarbital sodium, another method of assisted exit or you're just wanting to do some research on the subject, then check out Assisted Exit. They are a company that stands by your side until the very end, ensuring that you will receive quality and confidential products that will bring a peaceful and painless end.
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Objective: Body contouring surgery has become a steadily increasing part of weight loss treatment in the population of patients electing to undergo bariatric surgery. This study aims to elicit factors that can be used to prognosticate which bariatric surgery patients will choose to undergo body contouring procedures.
Methods: A database of 381 patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery between August 2002 and December 2005 was retrospectively reviewed. All patients with subsequent body contouring surgery (group I) were identified and compared with those without it (group II). Variables studied were age, gender, preoperative excess body weight, percent excess weight loss at 6 and 12 months, preoperative body mass index, and change in body mass index at 6 and 12 months.
Results: We identified 24 patients for group I and 168 patients for group II. Group I was significantly younger with a mean age of 36 ± 9 years than group II with a mean age of 41 ± 10 years (P = .023). Change in body mass index was significantly greater in group I with changes of 16.1 ± 4 and 13.82 ± 3 (P = .001) at 6 months and changes of 21.4 ± 6.6 and 17.39 ± 4.6 (P < .0001) at 12 months in group I and group II, respectively. Lastly, the percent excess weight loss at 12 months was significantly greater in group I with a mean percent excess weight loss of 70.1 ± 13.3 than in group II with a mean percent excess weight loss of 62 ± 16.6 (P = .0052).
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Industrial robots with operator.
Virtual Home Assistants (Siri, Alexa… like)
Virtual assistants on machines with operator
Applications, software, digital platforms with any kind of devices (laptop, smartphones, tablets, servers,...).
Emotional mood from the user’s speech.
Up to 32 emotions through artificial vision.
Active machine listening.
Applications included but not limited to:
Equipment and public works.
A sustainable development.
Quality of life and active citizen participation.
Greater efficiency of available resources.
The energy supply.
Planning of automobile traffic.
The provision of health and security services to all who reside in these huge and overcrowded population centers.
Control, learning and perfection of sport techniques.
Athletes’ State of mind control.
Reading and interpretation of the states of mind of athletes.
Coach support tool for sport techniques, teamwork and tactics of the game.
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It does not replace chemotherapy drugs but can be utilized in conjunction with them. Spark Health describes what you can expect from high dose vitamin C IV treatment.
Due to the efficacy and efficacy of administering intravenously vitamin C, it is ideal to administer the vitamin through the intravenous route. A person just cannot take enough pills to have exactly the same results. Patients with cancer already experience nausea and vomiting that is exacerbated due to high doses vitamin.
Individual circumstances determine the amount of IV treatment you need and how much vitamin C you require. Most commonly, treatment is given two or three times a each week for 50 to 100 grams for each dosage. An IV bag’s removal can last about one hour, so expect to sit during that time. Bring something to do, as there isn’t a television to watch in your treatment room.
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In truth, most children shouldn’t actually shed pounds — they need to simply preserve it as they develop taller or placed on pounds more slowly. Planning ahead might help you achieve specific targets, such as boosting your protein intake to 25–30% of energy or cutting down on unhealthy carbs. Exercise also leads to decreased inflammation, decrease blood sugar ranges, and improvements in other metabolic problems associated with excess stomach fats . This doesn’t imply doing belly exercises, as spot discount — losing fat in a single spot — is not attainable. In one examine, 6 weeks of coaching simply the belly muscular tissues had no measurable effect on waist circumference or the amount of fat in the stomach cavity .
When individuals reduce carbs, their appetite goes down and they lose weight . If you wrestle with getting sufficient protein in your diet, a high quality protein supplement – like whey protein — is a wholesome and handy approach to boost your complete intake. If weight reduction is your aim, adding protein could be the single most effective change you may make to your food regimen. Some imagine that that is the main course of behind sugar’s dangerous results on health.
It will increase belly fats and liver fat, which leads to insulin resistance and various metabolic issues . Losing stomach fats, or belly fat, is a common weight reduction aim. When you could have wholesome habits and eat real food, fats loss tends to comply with as a natural aspect impact. EGCG is a catechin, which a number of studies recommend may help you lose stomach fat.
What can I drink to burn belly fat?
Trimming the fat To battle belly fat: Eat a healthy diet. Focus on plant-based foods, such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and choose lean sources of protein and low-fat dairy products. Limit added sugar and saturated fat, which is found in meat and high-fat dairy products, such as cheese and butter.
The impact may be strengthened when inexperienced tea consumption is mixed with train . In a review of studies on intermittent fasting and alternate-day fasting, people experienced a four–7% lower in belly fats inside 6–24 weeks . Based on studies involving people with prediabetes, kind 2 diabetes, and fatty liver illness, resistance coaching may be helpful for stomach fat loss .
One evaluation study discovered that a further 14 grams of fiber per day were linked to a 10% lower in calorie consumption and weight lack of around 4.5 pounds (2 kg) over 4 months . Low carb diets additionally result in fast reductions in water weight, which gives individuals fast results.
Chances are they’ll be more excited about a healthful meal if they’ve had a say in making ready it. You could make healthy selections easier for them by preserving junk food out of the house. There’s no single number on the dimensions that each one kids must reach to be healthy. The right vary is dependent upon how tall they are, their gender, and their age.
The mistaken feedback about your child’s weight can harm his self-esteem. “The dialog ought to be about being healthy and energetic,” not about attending to a specific measurement or quantity on the scale, says Natalie Muth, MD, a pediatrician and registered dietitian. Let them help plan your menu, shop for groceries, and cook meals. | <urn:uuid:b216b313-ade7-4978-967a-f557911f4a00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gamingenthusiast.net/2017/01/11/how-to-lose-weight-in-six-weeks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947137 | 688 | 1.773438 | 2 |
When getting ready for a fight at any level, professional or beginner, there are various methods that can be employed by the fighter and trainer. Obviously, the core training methods for beginners will be the same as that of the pro boxer but on a lesser scale to begin with. A good boxing coach or boxing personal trainer will be able to guide you in the right direction.
So, let’s have a look at some of the routines fighters can follow, whether boxing personal training or getting ready for a world championship contest. Firstly, all of the bases will be covered with basic boxing preparatory training: speed training, strength training, agility, aerobic, anaerobic capacity etc. To last the requisite three minute rounds and be recovered and able to compete again, after a one minute break, you’ll need to have your lungs in good shape. Get those sprints, long distance early morning jogs and hill runs all done in advance.
Swimming, especially deep underwater swimming, is great for increasing lung capacity. However, don’t sacrifice aerobic training in favour of muscle building or weight training. Physical strength is important in a fight but this is a boxing match, not a bodybuilding contest. Guys like Roberto Duran and George Foreman were never body-beautiful but both could complete the 15-round distance with ease.
Pull ups, push ups, chin ups and reps are the staple of any boxing routine – this all helps build core strength, as does squatting with weights. Skipping helps with balance and agility. Yoga also helps with flexibility and agility. Vasyl Lomachenko’s father took him out of boxing training for a year when he was younger and sent him only to ballet classes! Look now at how good his footwork is though before you laugh. Wladimir Klitschko spends an hour moving in circles, setting his feet and perfecting his movement before he does anything else in the gym. The best fighters have an innate, trained appreciation of timing and distance.
Skipping and shadow boxing are good warm up techniques at the start of a training session, followed by the heavy bag. Medicine balls are good for crunching those stomach muscles and helping to protect against
debilitating body shots. Lie back and tense the stomach muscles before your coach cracks the medicine ball down in a rhythm, to harden the belly region.
Nutrition is a vitally important part of competing at the very top of the sport. Early on, many novice boxers get by on the instructions of their coaching team alone but when stepping up in class it is important to employ a nutritional expert to help with diet. Boxing has weight classes for a reason and making weight, while retaining hydration levels, cannot be taken lightly. Sticking to a strict meal plan leading up to a fight means it is easier to burn off fat safely and get down naturally to the desired
Former world champion Ricky Hatton was notorious for “blowing up” between fights i.e. gorging on junk food and alcohol and then using almost an entire camp cutting weight rather than preparing properly.
This affected Hatton’s stamina late in fights, so don’t make this same mistake. Even for beginners, manage your diet and nutrition properly, take notice of what you put into your body. Fatigue can strike early or late in a fight depending on how well you have covered this area.
Techniques for strength and conditioning have moved on a bit since the days of Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard but some staple practices remain. Many boxing fans will have seen Rocky Balboa
chasing chickens and running up steps in the famous Rocky movies, right? Well, dismiss this at your peril because many of those old-style methods have stood the test of time, merely getting updated into new
ideas as new machinery enters the boxing gyms. Old school trainer Ann Wolfe still trains her fighter James Kirkland in some of these old strength and conditioning ways, even today. Kirkland can be seen powering up hills, lifting tractor tyres and punching a heavy bag as Wolfe drives it on the back of an army vehicle!
Now, let’s set out an example if you’re heading into a fight with a six-week training camp. You’ll focus mentally, cut out all of the junk food, alcohol and excess, nailing down the diet. The first two weeks or so will consist of high level strength and conditioning work, covering all of the fitness bases outlined above.
The third week will introduce pad work, technique work, sharpening the tools. Sparring will be introduced around this time as you work against sparring partners with your actual opponent in mind. Working on your
strengths and weaknesses, sparring people with similar attributes as your opponent enables you to get a feel for him/her in the ring and adjust accordingly. This continues until the week of the fight when it is all about keeping the weight down, taking your foot off the gas slightly to ensure no cuts or silly injuries occur and mentally attuning ahead of the contest.
Finally, don’t forget you’ll need a plan and strategy devised by your coach and some basic boxing skills if you’re a beginner. Remember, fights can be won or lost in the boxing gym as much as in the ring. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail as the old adage goes. | <urn:uuid:e8d50ec3-1f5f-4e46-851e-d43035515ea1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hyperfightfitness.com/personal-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953803 | 1,117 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Safety and Security for Children Overseas
The A-OK Program*
The A-OK (Alert Overseas Kids) Program provides security and safety information to American children living overseas.
The program was designed in 1986 for the children of people working abroad at
A-OK goals are to:
• teach children safety and security strategies and techniques that really work;
• build children's confidence and self-reliance so they can act correctly in an emergency; and
• equip children with the knowledge and skills they need in order to recognize, avoid, and where necessary, report safety and security threats.
The Bureau of Diplomatic Security offers this security-awareness program to teach children basic security rules, with special emphasis on foreign environments and local threats. We know that when we teach safety messages to children, they pass them on to their parents and set an example for the entire family.
A-OK materials are provided to a mission's or post's A-OK program coordinator who tailors the program to the local environment as well as to meet the particular needs of different age groups. A-OK materials cover such topics as:
• Home alone safety
• After-school and emergency safety
• Bicycle and street safety
• Fire safety
• Messages in the media
• Drugs, inhalants, smoking, tobacco
• Sexual and child physical abuse
An annual worldwide contest encourages overseas American children to create art depicting their own safety and security messages. Winning selections of this artwork are use to produce an annual A-OK calendar of safety tips.
For more information on the A-OK Program, email us: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Bureau of Diplomatic Security
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ABSTRACT: A detailed study on radiolarian biostratigraphy and paleoecology has been carried out from three outcrops on Havelock Island, belonging to the Ritchie's Archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar Group of islands. Though most of the radiolarian taxa aremoderately preserved, it was possible to demarcate an age ranging from late early to early middle Miocene based on index radiolarians of RN4 andRN5 zones. An attempt has been made to correlate the radiolarian events recorded herein with earlier reports on radiolarians from different DSDP, ODP, and IODP sites of the Indian Ocean and the onshore sections of different islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Basin. A total of 119 radiolarian taxa belonging to 70 genera have been recorded in the present study, out of which 4 species are being reported for the first time from the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. Diversity analyses were performed to deduce the Shannon Diversity Index, Simpson Index, Margalef Richness, and Pielou's Evenness. The Water Depth Ecology index (WADE) has been analyzed for a better understanding of the paleoecological perspectives, and the Nassellaria-Spumellaria ratio of each outcrop has been calculated to ascertain the water depth. Comparison of the data obtained from diversity analysis and WADE index provides a clear picture of the environment during the late early to early middle Miocene. The overwhelming dominance of warm species of radiolarians may be linked to the Miocene Climate Optimum (MCO) event. | <urn:uuid:970408a9-7437-4ea4-abe0-965235d67807> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.micropress.org/microaccess/micropaleontology/issue-382/article-2290 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940044 | 332 | 2 | 2 |
Enjoy a filling, healthy meal without the guilt!
If you’re trying to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight, finding the right kind of foods to eat is essential. Many dieters have discovered that a diet of the most filling foods can help them eat less.
Are you struggling to reach your weight loss goal? Can a diet of the most filling foods help? Yes, but remember, filling doesn’t necessarily mean healthy. Your diet should focus on the most filling healthy foods.
- Fiber rich foods are a good choice because they make you feel full on less volume, preventing you from overeating.
- Foods rich in protein are another good choice. Protein provides staying power by helping keep blood sugar levels from spiking too high or falling too low between meals.
- Include the healthiest fats such as avocado, nuts, olive oil, and fatty fish like salmon and sardines to give you a feeling of fullness.
- The chemical compound of foods can determine how satisfying they are. Beans and lentils contain anti-nutrients which delay their absorption and make you feel full longer.
- Foods naturally rich in water can also make you feel full also, but for a shorter period of time.
Some of the most filling foods include sweets and bad fats … but of course try to SKIP them. Instead, choose from among these filling healthy foods during and between meals to help keep you full throughout the day.
#1: Eggs – Start your day with eggs. Studies show that eating eggs for breakfast can help in your weight battle. Women who ate eggs for breakfast lost more weight than those who had bagels with the same number of calories. The protein will keep your hunger in check and provide lots of energy.
#2: Berries – Get more staying power. Berries are some of the highest fiber fruits around. One cup of raspberries has 8 grams of fiber, twice what you’d get in an apple, for only 65 calories (a medium apple has 95 calories and only 4.4 grams of fiber). Frozen berries are available year round, so add them to protein shakes or yogurt for a filling meal or snack.
#3: Vegetable soup – Start your meal with soup. Vegetable soup is low in calories, broth-based and full of high-fiber foods. You’ll be satisfied with a smaller portion of your main meal. Homemade soups are great to make when you have time, then freeze for a quick meal when you need it.
#4: Whole Fruits –Whole fruit is a tasty and filling healthy food. They’re high in fiber, which contributes to fullness. Especially juicy fruits such as watermelons, peaches, and grapes also have high water content, which gives you a feeling of fullness. Plus, most whole fruits are loaded with vitamins and minerals.
#5: Fish – Fish is one of the most concentrated sources of protein and is healthy in so many respects. Unfortunately fish today can be highly contaminated with toxins, so be sure to choose a safe fish to eat.
#6: Black Beans – Toss them into a soup or salad. Beans are high in fiber and are another good source of protein. A half-cup of black beans will give you about 8 grams of protein along with 8 grams of fiber. Don’t overlook navy, pinto, and kidney beans, which are all healthy, filling and satisfying as well.
#7: Broccoli – Load up. Vegetables are filling foods because they’re full of calorie-free fiber and water. Broccoli is one of the highest fiber vegetables. One cup of chopped cooked broccoli has 6 grams of fiber and only 50 calories, making broccoli a terrific hunger-busting food. Other vegetables to incorporate into your diet include kale, spinach, dark green lettuces, mushrooms, and carrots.
#8: Oats – Avoid feeling famished. Oatmeal for breakfast provides enough energy to last until lunch. Oats are one of the most filling natural foods due to their fiber content. More importantly for feeling full, they are rich in soluble fiber, a type of fiber that absorbs water and expands in your stomach.
#9: Nuts – Go crazy for nuts. A handful of nuts or seeds between meals are a great way to keep hunger pangs away. Nuts are high in protein and provide healthy fats. Both protein and fats contribute to fullness because your body processes them slowly. An ounce of nuts a day can help keep you feeling satisfied.
#10: Quinoa – Try this high protein grain. Quinoa stands out among grains because it has more protein than most grains, about 8 grams per cup. Grains are great filling foods because they are loaded with fiber. Barley and bulgur are also great choices, with 31.2g and 25.6g of fiber per serving respectively.
The Best Healthy Filling Foods for Losing Weight
A diet full of filling healthy foods is the perfect start to cutting calories and losing weight. So, reach for those foods rich in protein, fiber, omega-3 fats, and a healthy supply of water and you’re well on your way.
Now if you want the very best results for losing weight, you should also take the next step: include foods that cause accelerated fat burning in your body and exclude foods that prevent fat burning.
The Diet Solution will…
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Read Jonah 4
How does Jonah respond to God’s mercy on Ninevah and what does this tell us about Jonah?
- It seems that Jonah is furious with God, so upset that he asks God to take his life from him as he would rather die than live.
- This reaction begs the question, does Jonah truly understand God – or does he dislike God.
- Jonah knows God is gracious and compassionate, he has experienced God’s mercy for himself.
- But it seems that Jonah wants God to be exclusively for the Israelites and to show grace, mercy and compassion to only them and no-one else.
- When he goes off to sit outside the city it’s almost as if he is still hoping for God’s judgement to fall upon Ninevah in the way it did with Sodom and Gomorrah
- In behaving in this way Jonah is acting selfishly and irreverently –and in disliking God’s compassion for others, he is effectively disliking God Himself.
Have we ever behaved in this kind of a way?
Have we ever become upset or angry when God showed mercy and compassion to others who we though undeserving?
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Content of the material
- Hot Springs and Thermal Spas
- Safety Tips For Preventing Negative Effects And Accidents Of Bathing
- Check Your Symptoms
- Before And After Meals
- The Importance Of “Ka Ke Yu”; Adjust Your Body To The Water Temperature
- Use A Half-Body Bath Method
- Avoid Taking A Bath For A Long Time
- Putting A Cold Towel On The Head
- Enjoy Open-Air Hot Springs After Indoor Hot Springs
- Take A Enough Rest To Bath After Activities and Drinking Alcohol
- Choose Right Hot Spring Water For Skin
- Do Not Rinse The Body, However…
Hot Springs and Thermal Spas
Natural hot springs, also called thermal springs, have been used for healing and wellness for centuries. The Romans built towns around them, British aristocrats flocked to them during the Georgian era, and wellness fans seek them out today.
Here are some reasons why hot spring spas are good for you, and why you should put one on your travel itinerary.
Safety Tips For Preventing Negative Effects And Accidents Of Bathing
I talked about the positive benefits of bathing in hot springs, it can lead to life-threatening accidents if you don’t know the negative sides.
To enjoy hot springs and a hot bath at home, learn the proper bath tips below.
Check Your Symptoms
The efficacy of natural hot springs has a positive effect on health as you read, but if you are not in the best condition, the Onsen effect can work negatively.
If you have any of the following symptoms, refrain from using hot springs until you are completely cured.
- Severe high blood pressure
- Severe heart disease or kidney disease
- Severe diabetes
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Early and late pregnancy, nursing, predisposition to bleeding, menstruation
- Sensitive skin or severe skin conditions
- Over 50 and have abnormal or anxious blood pressure or heart.
- Elderly people and those with dry skin, avoid bathing in sulfur springs or hydrogen sulfide springs
*sulfur springs generally smell like rotten eggs and the color is emerald green or milky white. Famous sulfur springs in Japan are Takayu Onsen, Manza Onsen, Tsukioka Onsen. (Wikipedia).
Before And After Meals
When you are hungry, the blood sugar level is lower than normal conditions.
Bathing is consumed energy more than you think, it can cause hypoglycemia.
Eat something light in advance.
But, you should avoid soaking in the hot tub right after a meal. Improved blood circulation due to the bathing effect impacts gastrointestinal blood circulation negatively and stops gastric juice secretion and gastrointestinal motility.
It is the one of reasons you should wait for bathing after you drink alcoholic beverages.
Therefore, you should avoid bathing under hunger, eat snacks. But wait for at least 1 hour after a heavy meal and drinking alcohol.
The Importance Of “Ka Ke Yu”; Adjust Your Body To The Water Temperature
“Kakeyu”(かけ湯) literally means rinse the body scooping the water in the bathtub with a tiny bucket before entering a hot bath.
I talk about Kakeyu in a good manner (as cleaning your body) on this page, but also it is an important tip to adjust the body to the temperature of hot spring.
Kake-yu is an important ritual to let the body adjusts the water temperature before soaking in the hot water. If you take a bath without Kake-yu, your blood pressure will rise suddenly. Especially for those who usually have high blood pressure, diabetics, and weakened blood vessels, this is a very dangerous habit at leads to cerebral hemorrhage.
When doing Kake-yu, be sure to rinse from your feet. Rinsing your shoulders at first burdens your heart which can cause paralysis. At public hot springs, doing Kake-yu with a sit position, not standing to avoid splashing the water to other people.
At home, you can use the shower.From the limbs to the upper body, go for 30 seconds or more with hot water at 41 ° C.
Use A Half-Body Bath Method
Recently, the half-body bathing method is recognized as healthy bathing especially for older people, those who are worried about their health, and those who are pregnant, because it has less burden on the heart and can suppress sudden fluctuations in blood pressure.
Besides, the half-body bath promotes metabolism and detox.
At hot springs in Japan, there is commonly a step inside of tubs. At first, sit on the step and bathe the half-body (up to the under chest) for 2-3 minutes and adjust your body to the water temperature.
If there is no step, step into the water thoughtfully and soak the half-body slowly. You can do the same steps at home.
Then, step forward into the water- put your head on the edges and stretch your limbs, your body will float. This floating position is suitable for relieving water pressure and is more relaxing than soaking your body vertically in the bathtub.
Avoid Taking A Bath For A Long Time
When you are cozy in the hot tub, it is likely to take a bath for a long period, but which can cause fatigue, dry skin, and bathing accidents in the worst case.
Repeat going in and out the tub, rather than bathing for a long period at once.
If you are a beginner at bathing in a hot spring or at home, enjoy bathing for 5 – 10 minutes in the first couple of times then take a bath for 30 minutes or less- avoid taking a bath for 30 minutes over.
The hot water around 109 F (42℃) and higher is not recommended for the purpose of relaxation and relief pain and tension. If the water temperature is quite high at around 109 F (42℃), complete to bath for 10 minutes max.
Putting A Cold Towel On The Head
Put a folded cold towel on the head to prevent dizziness caused by a hot flush.
When staying Ryokan or accommodations with hot springs, you will be provided a long thin cotton towel called “Tenugui”, put it on your head while bathing in the tub.
*Anyway, you will have trouble with finding a place to put a towel in a public hot spring in Japan, and also it is taboo that soak the towel in the bathtub. So you have no choice but to put it on the head.
While taking a bath, a pressure called “hydrostatic pressure” is applied to the body. Surprisingly, it’s a strong pressure, and it makes systemic blood concentrate to the head. It can cause a hot flash and lead to the feeling of dizziness in the worst case.
The cold wet towel on your head solves this worry! Place a wet towel to prevent a hot flash in the hot spring.
It is a similar logic that you may feel dizzy when getting out of the tub. This is because the lower body is released from hydrostatic pressure and blood that concentrated in the head flows rapidly to the feet. You feel dizzy because the blood flow in the head decreases at once.
Keeping your head lower is a good way to get out of the bathtub. After bathing, apply cold water to your legs under the knees to constrict blood vessels throughout the body and prevent dizziness. People with high blood pressure should not do this, as this tip raises blood pressure.
Enjoy Open-Air Hot Springs After Indoor Hot Springs
If Ryokan you staying have open-air hot springs and indoor hot springs, take the indoor bath first.The most important thing to keep in mind when taking a bath is to suddenly take a hot bath while your body is cold.Blood pressure rises rapidly – risks of stroke, myocardial infarction.
Please keep in mind, “If you have an indoor bath and an open-air bath, go to the indoor bath first.”
When you take an open-air bath, put a warm towel on your head instead of a cold towel. The lower body is warm but the shoulders and head are cold, resulting in poor blood flow in the head, which can lead to cerebral anemia and a rapid rise in blood pressure.
If you have a headache, you should finish the bath! To prevent these accidents, put a warm wet towel on your head to dilate the blood vessels. It is also effective to take a shower from the head before taking a bath.
*Again, soaking own towel in a public bath is taboo in Japan. Wet a towel outside of the tub.
Take A Enough Rest To Bath After Activities and Drinking Alcohol
During exercise, blood concentrates on the moving muscles to supply oxygen, and works to expel lactic acid(a waste substance) quickly. If you take a bath right after exercise, blood will be dispersed throughout the body and the metabolism of motor muscles will be insufficient. It will also increase the burden on the heart while taking a bath.
After exercising, take a rest for 30 minutes or more after the respiratory rate and heart rate are stable.
When you drink alcohol and take a bath, the blood circulation in the body increase but the blood flow in the head decreases, which can cause cerebral anemia. Also, there are risks of arrhythmias and a heart attack as increasing heart rate.
It is even more dangerous if you are drunk because the bathroom is slippery and there is a risk of accidents such as falls and even drowning.
Not only you shouldn’t drink in the tub while bathing but also take a rest for 1-2 hours before bathing when you have drinks.
Choose Right Hot Spring Water For Skin
The Onsen effect helps to heal and improve skin conditions.
As I mentioned, Japanese hot springs are categorized into 10 types by water properties (includes Ph level) and their effects.
In the Japanese hot spring association’s mandatory, the “Ph” measurement display must be indicated- acidity and alkalinity. If you have sensitive skin and severely dry skin, or skin disease, you should know the type of hot springs when choosing hot springs and also herbal bath salt products.
The Best Native Guide of Hot Springs In Japan; 10 Different Types Of Hot Spring WaterExcited to visit hot springs, Onsen, in Japan? Wait a minute! If you don’t know the types of hot spring water, you may have negative effects from natural minerals. Especially, if you have sensitive skin and chronic disease, you need to know pH levels of hot springs water. To enjoy the best hot spring for you, read here and learn about 10 different types of Onsen in Japan.japanmcconnell.com
Do Not Rinse The Body, However…
Minerals dissolved in the hot spring water become a positive barrier for your skin, it is generally recommended to not rinse after bathing, however, rinse enough if you have sensitive skin, dry skin, and skin diseases.
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Students pursuing an associate degree at any California community college may be required to take a three-unit ethnic studies class beginning in 2022. The statewide Board of Governors is set to hold a public hearing this week on the proposed change to the community college system’s general education requirements.
The move, expected to be approved in July, would mandate students take a class focusing on Native American studies, African American studies, Asian American studies, or Latina and Latino studies before acquiring a degree.
“We feel very strongly that any student receiving a 21st century education should have exposure to the various cultures, ethnicities, and lived experiences of the individuals and communities that make up this diverse country,” Los Angeles Community College District Chancellor Francisco Rodriguez told EdSource.
Once the Board of Governors approves the new requirement, a task force will be created to determine how community colleges will implement the change in their curriculum.
‘Exposing Students to Stories of Ethnic, Racial Groups’
Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi believes that it is time for students to gain a deeper understanding of the important stories surrounding non-white racial and ethnic groups in the country.
He shared that taking an Asian American history class at the University of California Berkeley had more impact on his life than any other course.
“Whether we’re talking about the traumatic spike in anti-Asian hate and anti-Asian violence, whether we’re talking about the Black Lives Matter movement, or hate against so many other groups and communities, all of that highlights the critical importance for us to make sure that our students have an opportunity to learn how to view American society and American history from multicultural perspectives,” he explained.
‘A Great Opportunity’
Alexis Hernandez, a student at Butte College, anticipates that taking ethnic studies at community college will serve as a great addition to her education. She believes classes that tackle ethnicity might allow students to understand one another better as human beings.
“Everywhere you go, you are going to meet different people and it is important to be able to understand where they are coming from and to respect them,” Hernandez remarked. | <urn:uuid:508991f6-4f99-4560-9945-db7a09262d6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecollegepost.com/california-community-colleges-ethnic-studies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946179 | 441 | 1.625 | 2 |
While a cornerstone of President Obama’s plan to trim medical costs – an independent commission to determine how much Medicare pays doctors and hospitals – has run into strong opposition from powerful industry groups, certain hospital systems are breaking ranks and supporting it.
Many are these are so-called “model” systems, such as the Mayo Clinic. They pride themselves on holding down costs and improving quality and are fed up with how slowly Congress has moved to change the payment system.
Glenn Fosdick, CEO of Nebraska Medical Center, said the proposed independent council could help his hospital gain fairer payment. “It’s a better alternative than we have now,” he said. He called the proposal a “step in the right direction,” though he had doubts Congress would ever agree to give away some of its power over Medicare.
Setting Medicare payment rates is traditionally a process filled with political squabbling as members of Congress look to protect dollars going to their local hospitals and doctors rather than promote fees and payment plans that drive efficiency in the health system.
The Obama administration plan is to establish an agency called the Independent Medicare Advisory Council that would make recommendations on Medicare fees to the president. For Congress to overturn this council’s recommendations, lawmakers would have to pass a joint resolution within a month. It would work similarly to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which was formed to reduce the political infighting involved in closing military bases.
“Generally, we like the concept of a non-partisan, less political way to establish payment policy and rates,” said Greg Poulsen, a senior vice president at Intermountain Healthcare, a large hospital system in Salt Lake City. “But we wonder about the devil in the details which have not been seen.”
Obama’s proposal is modeled after a bill proposed in the Senate Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. It would turn the existing Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a nonpartisan panel of experts that advises Congress on Medicare issues, into an independent executive branch agency with power to set policy.
“Every expert out there says this can be a valuable tool to start reducing inflation over the long term,” Obama said at his news conference Wednesday night.
The hospital industry, whose three largest lobbying groups reached a deal with the White House and Senate Finance Committee on health reform that included them giving up $155 billion in Medicare payments over the next decade, said creating a super MedPAC would unfairly usurp legislative power. “We think it would create another layer of regulatory bureaucracy for Congress to weigh in on on Medicare,” Alicia Mitchell, spokeswoman for the American Hospital Association said Thursday.
The Association of American Medical Colleges, which represents teaching hospitals, had a similar view. “The new proposal represents an extreme shift of authority from the legislative to executive branch,” said Atul Grover, chief advocacy officer of the association.
But CHRISTUS Health, a Catholic health system with more than 50 hospitals largely in Texas and Louisiana, supports the Obama strategy.
“Although the AHA and Federation of Hospitals and multiple state hospital associations have aggressively opposed the Super MedPAC strategy, CHRISTUS Health still believes that an oversight mechanism must be put into place to assure accountability among all providers and health care constituents and ensure that they are implementing the strategies to improve quality and decrease costs,” said CEO Dr. Thomas Royer. | <urn:uuid:a9a72e38-fea2-4ac7-8971-f0e99a6a8c38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://khn.org/news/medicarepayments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968459 | 705 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Apple Cider Vinegar - 1 Litre
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Although studies of ACV on Equines has not yet been undertaken, research on other species has shown that taken internally, ACV can slow the absorption of sugar into the bloodstream which in turn aids the absorption of minerals. This may be beneficial to those Equines that have difficulty processing sugars such as those prone to laminitic episodes. It can also ease arthritis symptoms and help to dissolve calcium deposits.
When hoof form and function is less than optimal, ACV can be used topically to help treat symptoms of Thrush, a bacterial infection that thrives in anaerobic environments. The application of a mixture of water and ACV applied to the hooves after cleaning out debris will help to change the pH of the environment that the bacteria is living in and slow the rate of decay. Of course the benefits of ACV use don’t stop with the horse, topical uses for humans also include athletes foot, thrush, rashes and acne just to name a few.
BENEFITS • USES
Hippocrates used vinegar to manage wounds, while medical practitioners in the 1700s used it to treat everything from poison ivy and croup to stomach aches. Vinegar was even used to treat diabetes.
Prevent food contamination by soaking your produce in ACV prior to storage.
Choosing the right ACV
In order to be effective, you must use a raw, organic, unfiltered and unpasteurised Apple Cider Vinegar with the ‘mother’ in it. This is seen as a cloudy substance at the bottom of the bottle. The ‘mother’ is an excellent source of live microbial.
Making the most of your Apple Cider Vinegar
Up to 1 cup of ACV diluted 50/50 with water daily, ideally fed over two feeds. As with any dietary changes, it is recommended that you introduce ACV gradually over a two week period.
1 Tablespoon of ACV diluted in a glass of warm water ideally on rising, half an hour before consuming food.
Topical Dosage – Equines
1 cup of ACV added to your Hoof Bath
50/50 ACV and Water with a few drops of Tea Tree Oil in a spray bottle to treat thrush in hooves. Note: Do not spray on skin if adding Tea Tree Oil
50/50 ACV and Water to cleanse and then apply a high UMF Manuka Honey
50/50 ACV and Water. Gently sponge onto affected areas.
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Moustaches And Skin Cancer
How Facial Hair Can Save You From Skin Cancer
If you thought moustaches were solely to distinguish regular males from porn stars and hipsters, think again. A new study suggests that facial hair has benefits well beyond aesthetics.
Researchers from Australia have discovered that moustaches and facial hair reduce the risk of skin cancer. Using dosimetric techniques, which are instruments that measure the skin and indicate the amount of radiation absorbed over a given period of time, scientists found that people with facial hair had reduced their skin’s exposure to the sun by roughly one-third. The longer the hair was, the better it was at protecting against skin cancer.
The results of this study are pretty much common sense. Although we previously might not have had the science to back it up, people cover up to hide from the sun, so it make sense to assume that a layer of thick hair could serve as protection, too.
There’s no word yet on whether fake moustaches or putting your finger over your upper lip work as effectively.
So there you go. Moustaches aren’t only good for prostate cancer awareness and prevention. They’re fighting the skin cancer battle for us too. | <urn:uuid:51444691-6168-4d1a-8338-5d2695757f50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.askmen.com/sports/news/moustaches-and-skin-cancer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965309 | 255 | 2.59375 | 3 |
This report is the thirteenth in a series of reports on maternal health and birth outcomes issued by Connecticut Voices for Children as part of state-funded HUSKY Program performance monitoring.
Connecticut births in 2012 are described and compared with trends since 2000.
This report finds:
- The HUSKY Program covers two out of every five births in Connecticut.
- Mothers in the HUSKY Program and Medicaid are younger than other Connecticut mothers.
- Mothers in the HUSKY Program and Medicaid are less likely than other Connecticut mothers to get early prenatal care.
- Babies born to mothers in the HUSKY Program and Medicaid are more likely to be preterm and low birthweight.
- Even though the rate has declined dramatically over the years, mothers in the HUSKY Program and Medicaid are far more likely to smoke during pregnancy.
- After years of increase, the rate of caesarean deliveries began to level out for mothers with HUSKY coverage and for other mothers. | <urn:uuid:e4b63159-1d8d-49d0-a2be-f0e66c4aa8a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ctvoices.org/publication/births-to-mothers-with-husky-program-coverage-medicaid-and-chip-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956033 | 205 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Helping Greenville middle schoolers stay on track
It all started with Dave Breslin.
Breslin, a fifth-grade social studies teacher, set the bar high for his fifth-graders, including young Ansel Sanders. The dynamic educator brought learning to life and made it relevant and fun. He wanted to make sure his young students could articulate events surrounding the Trojan War and explain the war’s value to today’s society. Most importantly, he listened to his students, energized them, held a high bar, and recognized their potential.
“Growing up, I sought to emulate Dave Breslin and when I chose to become a teacher, I had my chance to do so,” said Sanders ’09, associate director of Public Education Partners in Greenville.
Sanders earned his B.A. in English from Washington and Lee University in 2004 and went on to earn his M.A. in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University in 2006. He began his career teaching English language arts to eighth-graders in Baltimore, Md., and coaching middle school soccer and lacrosse teams on the side.
If love hadn’t intervened, Sanders said he might still be teaching in that same Baltimore classroom.
He returned to his wife Helen’s hometown of Greenville and took a position as an assistant administrator at Mauldin Middle School. At the same time, he worked to complete his master’s plus 30 in school leadership at Furman.
For Sanders, Furman’s program offered him valuable guidance on both education theory and practical aspects of leadership, such as how to use the school budget as a tool to make decisions that would align with the school’s mission.
Sanders also learned basic management practices and the idea of “being present.” As an administrator, it can be easy to be sucked into minutia, said Sanders. Furman Education Professor Dr. Harris Heath focused on the need to take time to simply walk the hallways— “managing by walking around”—to be informed and aware of students’ and teachers’ successes and struggles.
“Dr. Heath walked us through the process of building our leadership and management capacity and gave us the personal attention we needed to be successful,” Sanders said.
It wasn’t long after finishing his studies at Furman when Dr. Phinnize Fisher, then the Greenville County Schools Superintendent, called Sanders into her office one Monday. “Give me your thoughts on how the young child should be educated,” she asked.
Fisher then told Sanders about her vision for A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, the first urban school built in Greenville in over 40 years, with the first school-wide engineering curriculum in South Carolina. Sanders was appointed founding director of A.J. Whittenberg and went on to serve as lead planner for the district’s new STEAM middle school, now open and named in Fisher’s honor.
Even more opportunities presented themselves for Sanders, and in 2012 he enrolled in a three-year, multidisciplinary Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
Sanders said he wanted a program that would allow him to focus on his field experiences coupled with leadership development. “I wanted to take time to step back as a practitioner and reflect with other practitioners who were wrestling with innovative ideas and system-level dilemmas,” he said in an interview featured on Harvard’s website.
After earning his doctorate from Harvard, Sanders and his family moved back to Greenville. It was an issue of loyalty, not only to family, but also to the network of people in the Greenville area who put faith in him, Sanders said.
“Dr. Heath gave me a shot. Dr. Fisher gave me a shot. Mrs. Gardner at Mauldin gave me a shot,” he said. “I appreciate these leaders and look forward to paying it forward to impact Greenville’s students and schools.”
As part of his role with Public Education Partners (PEP), Sanders is leading the organization’s efforts in OnTrack Greenville, a multi-year effort to improve high-need middle schools. Along with OnTrack, his priorities include strengthening school and community partnerships, fostering ways to support new teachers, and defining and operationalizing advocacy strategies.
Sanders is excited to be back in Greenville and at PEP. “One thing Dr. Heath frequently said was that ‘It does no good to bring a group of people together to bless the status quo.’ I took this learning with me into my school leadership experiences and it served as a guiding principle during my time at Harvard. Now at PEP, I’ll be putting this learning to work, operating at the nexus of policy, research, and practice to challenge the status quo and support all of Greenville’s public school students.
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Some arguments in education are endlessly recycled. Battles over homework, the best ways to teach math, school discipline, and other hot-button issues wax and wane, but they never go away or get resolved. One of these hardy perennials is in full flower again: the myth of the overstressed child.
The New York Times‘s normally sober columnist Frank Bruni last week pronounced himself filled with sadness over the plight of “today’s exhausted superkids” and their childhoods, which he described as “bereft of spontaneity, stripped of real play and haunted by the ‘pressure of perfection.'” He lauded the arrival of a shelf of new and recent books—an “urgently needed body of literature,” in Bruni’s words—collectively arguing that “enough is enough.”
There’s already a fairly rich body of literature on the subject, and it paints a very different picture. In 2006, a trio of researchers—Joseph L. Mahoney, Angel L. Harris, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles—published an extensive study based on a nationally representative longitudinal database of five thousand families and their children. The researchers concluded there was “very limited empirical support for the over-scheduling hypothesis.” In fact, the opposite seemed to be true: Participation in organized extracurricular activities is closely related (even when controlled for socioeconomic status) to a broad range of positive outcomes, including children’s physical safety and psychological well-being, supportive relationships with peers and adults, higher self-esteem, reduced alcohol and drug use, and higher high school graduation rates.
If American childhood has become a hothouse of overscheduling and stress, it’s not showing up in the data. Mahoney and his colleagues calculated just how much time kids spend at sports competitions and practices, faith-based activities, volunteer work, afterschool programs, and other obligations. The average was about five hours per week. Many teens—about 40 percent—spent no time at all in organized activities during the school week.
Where are all the exhausted superkids? A mere 6 percent of U.S. teens participate in twenty hours or more of organized activities in a week, and even those who overdo it end up better off than the completely disengaged. “At a national level, over-scheduling in organized activities seems to be overstated,” says Mahoney, a professor of psychology at Elizabethtown College. “Relatively few youth participate excessively in organized activities and even their adjustment is reliably more positive across broad array of outcomes, from childhood to young adulthood, than youth who are uninvolved,” he observes. When they revisited the data in 2012, Mahoney and his colleagues found the benefits of participation in organized activities had persisted into young adulthood “in terms of lower psychological distress, and higher educational attainment and civic engagement.”
Academically, a similar tale seems to be true: Privileged outliers drive the narrative. In his column, Bruni decried our “insanely programmed, status-obsessed and sometimes spirit-sapping race. Take one more Advanced Placement class. Add another extracurricular. Apply to all eight Ivies.”
Once again, look at the available data and a different picture emerges. One more AP class? Two-thirds of American high school graduates take exactly none. Now factor in the 19 percent of Americans who don’t even graduate. For diligent and ambitious college-bound students, five AP courses over a high school career is a rigorous course load, but not an excessive one. From 2011 to 2014, despite enormous growth in the program, fewer than 8 percent of high school students took more than five AP classes before graduation. Raise that to seven or more APs in high school—presumably the sweet spot of superkid status—and the number drops to less than 5 percent of the three million 2014 high school graduates. Meanwhile the College Board estimates there are at least twice as many, some 300,000 academically prepared students, who either did not take an AP course they could have or attended a school that did not offer an AP course in that subject.
In sum, there is a yawning gap between the media meme of the overstressed American teen and the reality. To his credit, Bruni acknowledges that overscheduling may indeed be a problem among “an ambitious, privileged subset of Americans.” The mischief inevitably comes when the concerns of the worried well-off influence parenting and educational practice for the less well-off. Most children, particularly those from low-income families, are non-participants in the academic and extracurricular arms race.
I have no doubt that for some families, the pressure on kids to achieve and perform are a legitimate source of anxiety. But the far greater concern is almost certainly the undertaxed American child who lacks access to rigorous academic coursework, the incentive and opportunities to participate in organized activities, or both. It would be a shame if the concerns of the privileged few—however valid—became the new conventional wisdom. The data speak clearly: Most kids need more enrichment and challenge, not less.
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In Vivo ARFI Images of Cardiac Ablation
We performed two important preliminary studies in animals. In the first study32 (Appendix 2), we demonstrated ARFI imaging of ablation from the epicardium with a hand held probe. In the second33 (Appendix 1), we demonstrated ARFI imaging of ablation using the AcuNav™ ICE catheter. Both studies confirm that ablation lesions can be imaged using this technique.
In Vivo ARFI Imaging of Ablation with a Hand Held Linear Array
In vivo ARFI images of a canine heart were acquired with a hand held Siemens probe at a frame rate of 10 Hz for three seconds. The chest was opened so that the heart could be imaged at a closer depth. The transducer imaged the heart through an ultrasonically transparent 0.5 cm standoff pad. Other details of the procedure are available in Appendix 2 (ref Fahey).
We observed that when matched with their corresponding ECG, the sequence of ARFI images reflected changes in myocardial stiffness as the muscle contracted and relaxed thoughout the cardiac cycle. The ARFI images acquired during diastole indicate that the myocardium is relatively homogeneous and compliant with radiation force-induced tissue displacements consistently above 10 µm. During systole, myocardial contraction is evident from the wall thickening within the B-mode images and radiation force-induced tissue displacements in the ARFI images have dramatically decreased reflecting the increase of myocardial stiffness as the muscle contracts.
A lesion was created via radiofrequency ablation on epicardial surface of the free wall of the left ventricle. As a result, the lesion moved with the heart, but remained functionally inactive through the cardiac cycle and therefore did not change in mechanical stiffness. B-mode and ARFI images were acquired with the transducer centered over the lesion. The resulting displacement images were examined to determine lesion contrast at various points of the cardiac cycle.
Matched B-mode and ARFI images at four points in the cardiac cycle were examined and are shown in Figure 5 a-d. The relative time of acquisition of these images with respect to the electrocardiogram is shown in panel e. The ARFI images show the ablation lesion as a hemispherical region with small displacements and little variation through the cardiac cycle. The surrounding untreated tissue had large tissue displacements during diastole and a sharp decrease in tissue displacements during systole.
Multi-beat synthesis was used to create tissue displacement plots through a cardiac cycle by sorting 30 frames by their relative times between QRS complexes. Tissue displacement plots at two points within the myocardium, one in the center of the lesion the other in untreated tissue, are shown in Panel f . The two selected regions of interest are marked by their respective shapes in the three B-mode images. From these plots, the cyclic variation in tissue stiffness within healthy cardiac tissue becomes more apparent as there is a 5 µm (or 100%) change between systolic and diastolic displacements. Conversely, the measured displacements inside the lesion are low and remain low throughout the entire cardiac cycle.
These results demonstrated that realtime ARFI imaging of cardiac tissue and ablation lesions is possible and can be used to characterize both spatial variations in elastic properties within individual ARFI images and temporal changes in stiffness across images. This finding could lead to additional criteria for differentiation between ablated and normal tissue. | <urn:uuid:e21f28a6-d2fd-46df-970e-901ecc4983df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wolflab.pratt.duke.edu/grant/prelim1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944143 | 718 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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Entry updated 14 January 2017. Tagged: Film.
Film (1988). Carolco/Tri-Star. Directed and coproduced by Sean S Cunningham. Written by Lewis Abernathy, Geof Miller, based on a story by Abernathy. Cast includes Taurean Blacque, Joyce Collins, Greg Evigan and Miguel Ferrer. 99 minutes. Colour.
A deep-sea missile base is being installed by underwater (see Under the Sea) station DeepStar Six. Explosives open a vast cavern under the ocean floor, in which dwells a monstrous arthropod; it destroys two submersibles, enters the station, and kills most of the crew one by one. This no-better-than-competent Monster Movie was the first of the strange-things-in-the-ocean sf films of the period, others being Lords of the Deep (1989), Leviathan (1989) and The Abyss (1989). Once revealed, the crayfish-thing is anticlimactic. [PN]
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House Panel Moves on Small Business Funding08.01.2017
The House Financial Services Committee passed three bills out of committee recently — including one that aims to give small businesses more access to capital.
Was the JOBS Act not enough?
As reported first by thinkadvisor.com, H.R. 2864, the “Improving Access to Capital Act,” sponsored by Reps. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona, and Trey Hollingsworth, R-Indiana, is designed to help small companies obtain more capital and give investors greater investment opportunities by allowing smaller reporting companies to raise capital from the public through a streamlined Securities and Exchange Commission review process.
The The JOBS Act was approved by Congress and the President in 2012. It included a number of initiatives intended to make it easier for venture-capital backed companies to go public. The Securities and Exchange Commission is still working through the legislation in order to promulgate rules.
The exchange will use a price time-model and is expected to launch in early 2023.
Crypto market development will be influenced by the speed, harmonization and prudence of regulation.
It is important that synthetic US dollar LIBOR is published from end-June 2023.
China’s Futures and Derivatives Law removes a significant barrier to a well-functioning derivatives market.
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Apple’s users love the iOS platform and the devices they use for many reasons. Apple Pay is more efficient than other payment methods, offers better parental control, reliable customer service, and hardware that works well.
Others prefer Apple devices because they are easier to use and offer a more user-friendly experience. The iOS platform is well-known for its security features, including the “walled garden” approach to security.
This belief has led to misplaced consumer beliefs that Apple devices are immune from threats. It’s not. There are still many threats to the Android platform.
However, past malware and hacking incidents have shown that the iOS platform isn’t completely secure and private.
We’ll be discussing the security measures that iOS users can take to make their devices more secure.
In a targeted attack called “Operation Pawn Storm”, a coordinated economic and political espionage operation, iOS devices were among the latest poisoned pawns.
Researchers found that one of the spy apps could collect text messages, contacts lists, photos, geolocation data and installed app lists from iOS devices. These malicious apps could be obtained through social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails and old operating systems. It is clear that many people have attempted to undermine Apple’s security systems, as shown by previous incidents.
Tips to Improve Mobile Security
Cybercriminals will continue to seek out ways and means to hack fingerprint sensors and jailbroken iOS apps. It is crucial to remember that poor security habits can pose serious risks. Here are some ways to improve your mobile security.
Create a unique and strong credentials
Your login credentials, which are Apple IDs and passwords, are the most vulnerable part of any cybercriminal’s arsenal. Make sure your passwords are unique and strong. It is best to choose passwords that do not relate to biographical details like your name or birthday.
Use the appropriate security apps
While you should use iOS’s built-in security features, you can also improve your security by using anti theft apps such as Find my iPhone. This app allows you to locate your phone and track its location. You can also remotely erase data if you are unable to recover it. The two-factor authentication option on iCloud is also available.
Jailbreaking your device is not a good idea
While it’s nice to have more control and free stuff, jailbreaking can make your device vulnerable to malware. iOS controls what apps and data you can allow.
Jailbreaking your iOS device could prevent you from updating apps and iOS version. This will make it impossible to fix bugs and other vulnerabilities immediately.
Be aware of your apps
Always read and be familiar with the security settings and permissions. Cybercriminals love users who take security for granted. They can easily steal malicious attachments or links that you may unwittingly download.
Secure networks should be connected
As much as possible, use a private or secure network. An attacker can use Wi-Fi networks that are not secured to intercept data using man-in the-middle attacks.
Download the official app store
With so many fun games available, it can be tempting to download apps from third-party shops that are compatible with jailbroken devices. It is also one of the easiest ways for malware to be spread. Refuse to be attacked and download your apps from Apple’s official app store.
You can reduce the risk of downloading malicious apps or links by installing trustworthy security software before you download them. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
Improved security on the Horizon
Apple recently announced that iOS 15 will allow users to unlock their devices using six-digit codes. Two-factor authentication is now available for Apple services users who sign in with their new devices or browsers. All Apple devices equipped with TouchID will be affected by the new authentication process.
Here we discussed the ways you can enhance the security of your iOS device.
The above steps will help you to improve the security measures of your iOS system.
Of course! You don’t want any hacker will hack your stuff and use it for their personal purpose.
You can also share this guide with your friends, collagues to let them secure their devices.
Let’s start a steps to avoid any kind malware and hacker integration.
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Intel Core i3-1125G4 is processor manufactured by Intel and launched in Q1 2021 . It's using FCBGA1449 socket. It has 4 cores and 8 threads with clock of 2 GHz that can turbo clock itself to 3.7 GHz . This processor is used in Mobile devices and can consume up to 28 watts of power .
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU is graphic card manufactured by NVIDIA and launched in Q1 2021 . It's using PCIe 4.0 x16 bus type. It has core clock of 1100 MHz and 8192 MB (8GB) of memory . It supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6 . This graphic card is used in Mobile devices and can consume up to 115 watts of power .
Intel Core i3-1125G4 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU can run Valorant game on 3440 × 1440 (Ultra-Wide QHD) resolution with frames per second ranging from 56.2 FPS up to 124.6 FPS depending on game settings.
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With the news coverage of Gaza education bashing has – temporarily- taken a back seat. Now people who have never shown an interest in mid east politics are spewing editorialized “facts” about what side is in the right- 95% of these people have no affiliation or knowledge of the area, issues, and or history. Two of my close friends- ironically Israeli and Palestinian- stated it perfectly ” It is the flavor of the day for people too attached to social media”. This led into a very candid and entertaining conversation about “armchair activists”- and yes these two people are friends and harbor no ill will towards one another. With today’s immediate access to the internet anyone with a WiFi connection and a half way decent computer can claim to be a writer, D.J., advocate, etc. The list is endless and colorful. Social Media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are clogged with politics and everyone has become an “expert”. Interesting and disturbing at the same time.
As an educator in the inner city I have often been at the losing end of these “armchair experts”. People who have never set foot in a classroom, much less my area of the city, are telling me what being a teacher is like! How my job is “easy” and how “plenty of people can do my job”. I especially love when these “experts” are childless as well. I listen and often ignore, I am the one present everyday in my classroom I know what “my life is like”. I also find it pointless to argue with people who are obviously misinformed and seeking attention. Being in the behavior and mental health side of education I often see issues in these people that eerily mirror my most challenged kids. I also am of the school of “spend my hits on real issues worth fighting.” The events of the last two years has me changing my opinion on my once ” ignore and conquer what matters” stance. This “Armchair Educator” movement has reached epidemic proportions and is seeping into classrooms.
In Chicago we are also having an issue with politicians that run the city on a “lie with authority” mentality. People feel that if something is said enough times, with enough conviction, it becomes fact. Sadly it sometimes works on people who are too used to being fed information in dubious formats. This is true with education. There are people who are stating numbers, claiming “proof”, and naming names. Very little of which is correct. I am not discounting that there are a plethora of people in education not suited for it, but that holds true for every position- in every career. I am disputing these “facts”. The beauty of me being an educator in the third largest district in the U.S. is that I am very familiar with “the state of my career”. With a little bit of fact comes a vast wasteland of fiction. This only creates additional- and needless- hurdles in education. We have enough real and legitimate challenges that face our children daily, we do not need to defend ourselves to these “experts”. This takes time from what matters most, our kids.
This brings me to the photo above. When I saw this it struck a chord. This is the “gist of the issue” so to say. These armchair educators spend countless hours on social media slamming a career and people they have no knowledge of, this time would better be spent working. Working on improvement within themselves. Obviously something is lacking if your main drive in life is to post 23 times a day on Facebook how easy teachers have it when you have not held a job in ten years, and or depend on your spouse for support. If people worked to improve themselves -general overall improvement would be a by-product of living a more authentic life. This especially holds true for education. Sitting on your sofa waxing poetic about the “ease of teaching” changes no one. Have a four year degree? Sign up to substitute teach! Don’t have time during the school day? Volunteer at a youth center. There are literally limitless ways someone can help change education, and in turn change themselves. Becoming an “true” activist costs nothing, is free, and the work you do to help a child is priceless. I can speak for the need for true heroes in Chicago. We can not find enough substitute teachers, people willing to read to a child, sponsor an activity, help parents register, etc. Most of the things we need help with take little to no time and require no commitment. This is how you become a true “expert”. Until you sit with a child and hear their story and see their process you can not make assumptions ,and or dictate, “what is wrong”. Nor can you suggest a “fix” when you can’t fully grasp what it is that is broken.
Social media has been a blessing, it has connected people once disconnected and is a place to share photos and moments, but it is also a breeding ground for dissonance. Facebook is not an educational journal, it is not a school district, it is not a child. Sitting on a smartphone with a little bit of time does not make one “an activist/educator.” Only work, getting in the mix of what ails you, and growing oneself through service does this. | <urn:uuid:bbc658d8-cefa-4a96-aa9e-6c731f737d1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bellabirdart.com/2014/07/21/armchair-educators-activists-everyones-an-expert/?like_comment=30&_wpnonce=55ed188606 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969205 | 1,145 | 1.5 | 2 |
While the Internet is a great place to share original content, leaving content posted on a website where anyone can read it leaves it susceptible to theft by unscrupulous website visitors. Fortunately, it is possible to take steps to prevent theft, detect copyright infringement and have illegally copied content removed.
Taking measures to prevent theft of content before it occurs is the first step in avoiding illegal copies of original content. Listed below are several methods of protecting content from theft.
While protecting content can discourage people who may attempt to copy it, it is still possible that illegal copies of content have been made. Detecting illegal copies of content can be done through an online tool that is intended to search for instances of plagiarism based on a URL.
CopyScape allows users to enter the URL of the website where their content is located in order to conduct a search to see if any other websites are using identical or very similar content. While not all of the results are necessarily true cases of plagiarism, CopyScape points users in the direction of possible cases of illegal copies of content.
CopyrightSpot works in the same way as CopyScape, but the website offers more results than CopyScape. Although this means more results that are not actual cases of plagiarism, it gives users the ability to view a comprehensive listing of websites using potentially copied content. An added benefit of this tool is that the website allows users to display a badge on their website notifying visitors the the owner of the content utilizes CopyrightSpot to identify and remove illegally copied content.
CopyGator is another website that uses a URL to search for copied content and allows users to display a warning badge on their website. An additional feature of this badge is that it remains white when there is no copied content detected and changes to red if anyone posts identical or similar content on their website.
A unique tool that can be used to detect illegally copied content is Google Alerts. Google Alerts allows a user to enter a string of text up to 2,048 characters and create an alert that will let the user know if the text has been detected on any websites. Creators of original content should be sure to include quotation marks around the text before creating an alert.
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is an act that was passed in 1998 that protects copyrighted content and makes it illegal for people to attempt to circumvent any blocks that have been put into place to prevent copying of content. Anyone who finds that their content has been illegally duplicated on another website can compose and send a DMCA takedown notice. This notice informs the website host that information that has been included on the site infringes a copyright.
While a DMCA takedown notice can be sent via email, it is important to format the notice formally and include all necessary information. Required information includes an identification of the material that has allegedly infringed upon a copyright, contact information, a written or electronic signature and a statement related to the right of the author of the notice to proceed with the takedown request because they are the owner of the material.
The notice should include a statement that the complaint is being made in good faith and that the author of the notice has included accurate information related to the alleged infringement. The contact information of the hosting ISP can be found through a domain registration database. The ISP will be required to remove the copied content once the notice has been received.
Furthermore, there are a variety of companies that specialize and provide services to protect your content. Those companies offer professional DMCA takedowns, consultations and other related services. Just search Google for "DMCA" and you will find DMCA.com, Guardlex.com and a lot of blogs like Ipwatchdog.com that covers copyright issues. For example, you may want to take a look at Content Protection Plan by Guardlex which could be useful if you want to protect your copyrighted content online.
Although it is possible to protect website content from theft, website owners must be proactive about preventing and detecting theft. Prevention of theft is not always possible, but website owners can use tools to detect theft and utilize a DMCA takedown notice to have any illegally duplicated content removed.
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