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Actress Vanessa Redgrave was honored by the Academy of Oscars yesterday in London. Redgrave was the focus of an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences retrospective, making her the first European actor to receive the honor.
Redgrave, now 74, was celebrated for both her film performances, which have garnered her 6 Oscars nominations, as well as her humanitarian and political work. She has served as an ambassador with UNICEF, and is known for her left-wing political stances.
Her role as an anti-Nazi activist in 1974’s ‘Julia’ won her an Oscar, but her acceptance speech stirred controversy. The nomination was protested by Jewish Defense League due to her narration of the film ‘The Palestinian’ which supported the Palestinian state.
In her acceptance speech, according to Alt Film Blog, Redgrave praised the Academy for not being intimidated by "a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression."
Her words were met with both boos and applause.
Fellow actress Meryl Streep, who made her debut in ‘Julia,’ said Redgrave’s acceptance speech was an inspiration for her. “Fame was not just this stupid vanity ... you could use it to make a difference in the world,” said Streep.
During Sunday’s ceremony, clips of Redgrave’s career were shown, featuring such hits as ‘Blow-Up,’ ‘Julia’ and the musical ‘Camelot.’ Host of the ceremonies, playwright David Hare, said that Redgrave "went on to be so much more interesting than their early stereotyping allowed." edgrave is currently co-starring with James Earl Jones in a London production of ‘Driving Miss Daisy.’ "I stand in profound admiration of her courage, both on and off the stage," said Jones, who received an honorary Academy Award yesterday in front of a matinee audience of their production.
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1. One who dresses and/or behaves in a manner or style associated with another gender. Tom works as an accountant during the week, but he has a performance routine as a gender bender on the weekend.
2. One who challenges, denies, or explores the borders or limitations of gender identity by various means. Some of the leading academic gender benders are gathering this week for a summit on transgender rights.
3. In electronics, an adapter that has either two male or two female connectors and is used to change the gender of a plug. If that's a male connector, we'll need to get a gender bender to finish this job.
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1. n. a device that changes electrical plugs or sockets to the opposite gender—male to female, female to male. You need what’s called a gender-bender to match those plugs.
2. mod. having to do with something that obscures male/female distinctions. Those gender-bender hairstyles can be confusing.
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Analysis by The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran ) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), showed that Iranian society is on the verge of explosion. While the mullahs’ regime clings on to its fragile rule through brutal suppression. Unlike many other governments whose priority has been to combat the Covid-19, Iran’s regime has tried to use the pandemic to prolong its power.
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 30, 2020
The death toll in Iran from Covid-19 is nearing the 200,000 marks despite the unreliable official figures being far less. The Iranian opposition the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran), reported that the death toll at over 194,400 across 478 of Iran’s cities.
Iran has been hit harder than any other surrounding country by coronavirus outbreaks, and that hardship has been exacerbated by worsening conditions in other areas. Human rights violations have never been stopped by the mullahs’ regime.
Those crises have grown worse throughout 2020, mainly because of the regime’s culpability for uncontrolled infection and because the regime has aggressively cracked down on dissent especially supporters of the main Iranian opposition (PMOI / MEK Iran) to calm its own worry over recent outpourings of popular dissent.
November 2019 nationwide uprising happened two months before the start of the year, people in nearly 200 Iranian cities across Iran participated in a spontaneous uprising that revived, anti-regime slogans from the previous uprising at the beginning of 2018.
The international community has been thoroughly distracted by the coronavirus pandemic. The European policymakers were preoccupied with trying to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, prioritizing their economic interests over the Iranian people’s rights and their own humanitarian values. However, 2020 also witnessed important steps regarding the regime’s human rights record and its other malign activities.
Now, it is a step closer to an official investigation into the 1988 massacre by UN Special Rapporteurs after a letter by UN human rights experts was released.
The letter describes the 1988 massacre as a “crime against humanity” and demands that the mullahs’ regime agrees to an impartial internationally led investigation. There is no doubt that the release of this letter is a major embarrassment to the Iranian regime.
Amnesty International promptly called that letter as marking a “turning point” in the three-decade struggle to hold someone accountable for the killings.
The regime’s response to the uprisings in January 2018 and November 2019, and to a wide range of other outpourings of dissent inside Iran. The regime resolved to take their fight with the main opposition beyond Iran’s borders, Tehran plotted to set off a bomb at the Free Iran gathering that was organized near Paris in June 2018 by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
That plot was disrupted by European security services and the conspirators were apprehended. Among them was a high-ranking diplomat-terrorist, Assadollah Assadi, who was serving as the third counselor at the regime’s embassy in Vienna and has since become the first such diplomat to be formally prosecuted in connection with terrorist activity. The significance of this development can hardly be understated. Assadi’s trial is indeed the trial of the entire regime, which based on evidence, sought to eliminate the Iranian Resistance movement in 2018.
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As I write this in August 2019, the amazing writer Toni Morrison has just died at age 88. Her writing prowess is legendary, but in the way she accepted the greatest honor of her life, she taught me an important life lesson I will never forget.
Tributes to Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature when it was awarded to her in 1993. The tributes to her as a writer and a person are many and moving:
Her greatness was absolute. Her words changed worlds. Her work always belonged to the immortal, and her name will never be forgotten.” ~Elizabeth Gilbert
Toni Morrison was a national treasure, as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. ~President Barack Obama
Toni Morrison took the word and turned it into a Song…of Solomon, of Sula, Beloved, Mercy, Paradise Love, and more…She was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them. ~Oprah Winfrey
As powerful as these testimonies are, I read one story about Toni Morrison that contained a life lesson I will cherish and embrace as long as I live.
Toni Morrison showed us how to shine
In her own moving tribute to Morrison, writer Elizabeth Gilbert recounted a story of meeting her idol in 1994, soon after Morrison had received the Nobel Prize. She remembers Morrison being asked what it felt like to win that illustrious award. Gilbert recounts: “She smiled broadly and said, ‘I knew right away, as soon as the phone call came in, how I would respond. I knew that this was not the time to be humble.'”
Gilbert went on: “How often do you hear a woman say, of her own achievement, ‘This is not the time to be humble’? She knew who she was. She knew WHAT she was. And she celebrated it. With great joy and power.”
Are you hiding your glory under a bushel?
It’s true that many women are not good at letting their light shine, but this life lesson should apply to anyone.The #HeartspokenLife should rest comfortably and firmly on the foundation of our true worth.Click To Tweet
I’m reminding myself of this truth as much as I am reminding you.
Of course I’m not advocating that we brag about ourselves.I'm talking about the deep self-knowledge and self-acceptance that allows us to claim our own glory, our own gifts, our own achievements.Click To Tweet They have been given to us by God to put to work in service to the world.
Don’t hide them under a bushel.
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Innovation is often compared to lightning or flying sparks, spontaneous and uncontrollable. Although randomness and serendipity clearly play a role in innovation, and no single analytical tool can innovate in itself, the innovation process can be managed effectively through a set of scientific principles and analytical tools.
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The focus of this article is on what might be termed national administrative law, in contrast to international administrative law that governs international organizations such as the World Bank or United Nations tribunals. In democratic states, administrative law for present purposes includes mechanisms: to redress harm to individuals inflicted by government in the pursuit of government objectives, and for positive control of government agencies by branches of government with sovereign authority in lawmaking, e.g., the United States Congress. The latter function is more apparent in separation-ofpowers systems, though it has parliamentary analogs. It is part constitutional and rights-oriented, and part procedural. Courts, chief executives, and bureaus themselves demarcate administrative powers.
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Essential Workers Are on Strike Today to Support Black Lives
Essential workers from across the country are on strike today amid ongoing protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement. Members of various unions and supporters spanning the hospitality, janitorial, elder care, and restaurant industries are expected to walk off the job as part of the Strike for Black Lives in order to make a statement about protections for Black citizens and also the safety of service industry workers. An exact count of striking workers isn't yet known, but the number is expected to be in the tens of thousands across of dozens of U.S. cities, per NBC 4 New York. In some cases, the workday may not be interrupted, however, and employees may opt to picket or protest during lunch breaks or observe moments of silence.
The strike is led by the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), which has a history of organizing unionization efforts among fast food workers. That group is being joined by other labor unions, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, and United Farm Workers, among over 50 organizations listed on the event website.
Key demands of the strike (per the same website) include wage increases (to $15 per hour), healthcare benefits, and recognizing the right to unionize—all longstanding criticisms of industries including businesses like restaurants, fast food chains, and grocery stores, which have come under increased scrutiny as such work has been deemed "essential" during the COVID-19 pandemic, putting those employees at further and increased risk of infection. To that point, the demands also include provisions requiring employers to provide adequate PPE gear and support or relief for employees who have lost their jobs due to illness or economic downturn during the pandemic.
McDonald's, which has been targeted by a federal lawsuit in Florida over racially-hostile work environments, will be the site of protests in St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri. “We stand with Black communities across the globe in our commitment to address unacceptable racial injustices and are disappointed that these allegations do not reflect the high standards we hold ourselves accountable to every day across all areas of our business,” a statement from the company read in response to the lawsuit. The brand had previously expressed its support of Black citizens after the death of George Floyd.
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How to Optimize Your Jupyter Notebook
This article walks through some simple tricks on improving your Jupyter Notebook experience, and covers useful shortcuts, adding themes, automatically generated table of contents, and more.
By Pier Paolo Ippolito, The University of Southampton
Jupyter Notebook is nowadays probably the most used environment for solving Machine Learning/Data Science tasks in Python.
Jupyter Notebook is a client-server application used for running notebook documents in the browser. Notebook documents are documents able to contain both code and rich text elements such as paragraphs, equations, and so on.
In this article, I will walk you through some simple tricks on how to improve your experience with Jupyter Notebook. We will start from useful shortcuts and we will end up adding themes, automatically generated table of contents, and more.
Shortcuts can be really useful to speed up writing your code. I will now walk you through some of the shortcuts I found most useful to use in Jupyter.
There are two possible way to interact with Jupyter Notebook: Command Mode and Edit Mode. Some shortcuts work only on one mode or another while others are common to both modes.
Some shortcuts which are common in both modes are:
- Ctrl + Enter: to run all the selected cells
- Shift + Enter: run the current cell and move the next one
- Ctrl + s: save notebook
In order to enter Jupyter command mode, we need to press Esc and then any of the following commands:
- H: show all the shortcuts available in Jupyter Notebook
- Shift + Up/Down Arrow: to select multiple notebook cells at the same time (pressing enter after selecting multiple cells will make all of them run!)
- A: insert a new cell above
- B: insert a new cell below
- X: cut the selected cells
- Z: undo the deletion of a cell
- Y: change the type of cell to Code
- M: change the type of cell to Markdown
- Space: scroll notebook down
- Shift + Space: scroll notebook up
In order to enter Jupyter edit mode instead, we need to press Enter and successively any of the following commands:
- Tab: code competition suggestions
- Ctrl + ]: indent code
- Ctrl + [: dedent code
- Ctrl + z: undo
- Ctrl + y: redo
- Ctrl + a: select all
- Ctrl + Home: move cursor to cell start
- Ctrl + End: move cursor to the end of the cell
- Ctrl + Left: move cursor one word left
- Ctrl + Right: move cursor one word right
Shell commands and Packages installation
Not many users are aware of this, but it is possible to run shell commands in a Jupyter notebook cell by adding an exclamation mark at the beginning of the cell. For example, running a cell with !ls will return all the items in the current working directory. Running a cell with !pwd will instead print out the current directory file-path.
This same trick can also be applied to install Python packages in Jupyter notebook.
!pip install numpy
If you are interested in changing how your Jupyter notebook looks, it is possible to install a package with a collection of different themes. The default Jupyter theme looks like the one in Figure 1. In Figure 2 you will see how we will be able to personalise its aspect.
We can install our package directly in the notebook using the trick I showed you in the previous section:
!pip install jupyterthemes
We can the run the following command to list the names of all the available themes:
!jt -l # Cell output: # Available Themes: # chesterish # grade3 # gruvboxd # gruvboxl # monokai # oceans16 # onedork # solarizedd # solarizedl
Finally, we can choose a theme using the following command (in this example I decided to use the solarized1 theme):
!jt -t solarizedl
Once we've run this command and refreshed the page, our notebook should look like the one in Figure 2.
In case you wish anytime to come back to the original Jupyter notebook theme, you can just run the following command and refresh your page.
Jupyter Notebook Extensions
Notebook extensions can be used to enhance the user experience and offer a wide variety of personalization techniques.
! pip install jupyter_contrib_nbextensions ! jupyter contrib nbextension install --system
Once nbextensions is installed you will notice that there is an extra tab on your Jupyter notebook homepage (Figure 3).
By clicking on the Nbextensions tab, we will be provided with a list of available widgets. In my case, I decided to enable the ones shown in Figure 4.
Some of my favourite extensions are:
1. Table of Contents
Auto-generate a table of contents from markdown headings (Figure 5).
Sample codes to load common libraries and create sample plots which you can use as a starting point for your data analysis (Figure 6).
Code autocompletion for Jupyter Notebooks (Figure 7).
The nbextensions library provides many other extensions apart for these three, so I encourage you to experiment and test any other which can be of interest for you!
By default, the last output in a Jupyter Notebook cell is the only one that gets printed. If instead we want to automatically print all the commands without having to use print(), we can add the following lines of code at the beginning of the notebook.
from IPython.core.interactiveshell import InteractiveShell InteractiveShell.ast_node_interactivity = "all"
Additionally, it is possible to write LaTex in a Markdown cell by enclosing the text between dollar signs ($).
It is possible to create a slideshow presentation of a Jupyter Notebook by going to View -> Cell Toolbar -> Slideshow and then selecting the slides configuration for each cell in the notebook.
Finally, by going to the terminal and typing the following commands the slideshow will be created.
pip install jupyter_contrib_nbextensions # and successively: jupyter nbconvert my_notebook_name.ipynb --to slides --post serve
Magics are commands which can be used to perform specific commands. Some examples are: inline plotting, printing the execution time of a cell, printing the memory consumption of running a cell, and so on.
Magic commands which start with just one % apply their functionality just for one single line of a cell (where the command is placed). Magic commands which instead start with two %% are applied to the whole cell.
It is possible to print out all the available magic commands by using the following command:
Bio: Pier Paolo Ippolito is a final year MSc Artificial Intelligence student at The University of Southampton. He is an AI Enthusiast, Data Scientist and RPA Developer.
Original. Reposted with permission.
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Our step by step “Wash Your Hands” Presentation Card is a great resource to remind all ages when and how to wash their hands. Washing your hands is a quick and easy way to keep yourself and others free from harmful germs and disease. This handout features bright, colorful artwork to catch the reader’s attention.
First, the left side of the card includes when to wash your hands, which includes:
- After going to the toilet
- Before and after touching or eating food
- After coughing, sneezing or blowing your nose
- After playing with an animal or pet
- If your hands look or feel dirty
- After touching money
- After taking out the trash
Second, the right side of the card includes the steps in which you should wash your hands, which is:
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- Scrub between fingers, under nails and up wrists
- Rinse off all soap in clean running water
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The global health crisis has triggered a number of negative emotions, like panic, stress, frustration and anxiety. We might find ourselves worrying about our own health, the health and safety of our loved ones, as well as the state of the world.
Anxiety is a normal emotion that occurs when we think about a problem that might occur in the future. The thoughts in our mind that make us feel anxious are known as worries. Not all anxiety or worry is bad – in limited doses, it can motivate you to be prepared for problems.
However, your anxiety might be a cause of concern when:
- You find yourself worrying all the time
- Anxiety is your common reaction to most situations
- Your anxiety feels excessive and out of control
- You are unable to go about your day-to-day life due to anxiety
Chronic worry or anxiety can lower immunity and cause a number of health problems, including irritable bowel syndrome, nausea, fatigue and pain. This is why it’s important to watch out for chronic anxiety and take steps to manage it in a healthy manner. But first, let’s understand why people feel anxious.
What causes anxiety?
Your early experiences with your caregivers have a significant impact on how likely you are to worry in life. You may have developed a tendency to worry if you did not feel safe or protected while growing up. Maybe you grew up with overprotective parents, divorced parents, or you had to take on the caregiver role for your younger siblings.
Anxiety is caused by internal and external factors. In some cases, recognising certain internal sensations in your body – such as an increase in heart rate or difficulty breathing – can trigger anxiety. External factors like an impending presentation or exam can make people feel anxious as well.
When situations aren’t predictable, anxiety is commonly experienced. You might feel anxious about what will happen in the future to you, your loved ones, your relationships or your work. You could also worry about losing something valuable that you already have, such as health, love, wealth, freedom or your life. Amidst the ongoing health crisis, your worries may revolve around the spread of the virus, falling sick, having a loved one contract the illness, financial trouble, emotional instability, lack of household resources and uncertainty about what lays ahead.
Anxiety is often maintained by certain thoughts and beliefs about the usefulness of worrying. For example, you might believe that worrying could prepare you for disappointment, or keep you motivated to solve problems; it might also make you feel safer or serve as a way to express your concern towards someone. If you tend to believe that worry serves any of these positive functions in your life, you may be more prone to worry often and for longer.
Strategies to manage anxiety
Anxiety, when chronic, can seem uncontrollable and can affect your sense of wellbeing. Amidst the global health crisis, it is important for you to stay calm and tackle anxiety effectively. Here are some strategies that can help.
Recognise unhealthy anxiety
Although anxiety serves a function in helping you prepare for situations you worry about, dwelling on these worst-case scenarios can make you feel helpless. It can even prevent you from focusing on other tasks. Learning to recognise when your anxiety becomes unhealthy can make it easier for you to act early.
Use your anxiety constructively. Ask yourself what you are afraid of, what you can do for a more favourable outcome, and how you can prepare for an unfavourable outcome.
Restrict the time you worry
Try to dedicate specific periods during the day to worry. Put off any worrisome thought till the allotted time. You can spend around 20 minutes worrying about whatever has been making you feel anxious. Once this time is up, wait till the next allotted time. This can help you feel more in control of your thoughts and can reduce the effect of worry on other activities.
When you feel anxious, try to focus on your senses. You can name things you can see or hear around you, or pay attention to the sensation of the ground under your feet. This can help you stay centred and bring your thoughts back to the present moment.
Remind yourself that thoughts are not facts
Just because you have a negative thought, doesn’t mean the thought is true. Similarly, worrying about fearful events does not mean that they will happen. Try to distance yourself from your thoughts. You could do this by asking yourself how likely it is that a bad outcome you are worried about will occur. You can also let go of your thoughts by asking yourself if thinking a certain way is helping you or causing you distress.
Engage in other activities like work, or something you enjoy, like watching TV. Keep bringing your attention back to what you’re doing, and you will find that your focus will automatically be taken off the worry.
Acknowledge how you feel
Suppressing your emotions can make them come back stronger. Your feelings can inform you that there is something that needs your attention – so try to accept the way you are feeling without judging or labelling it.
Now that you’re aware of different coping strategies, you can start using them in your own life. A bit of trial and error might be involved – so be patient with yourself. Remember to take things one day at a time, and trust that you will eventually find strategies that work for you and bring much-needed relief from your anxiety. | <urn:uuid:e82efb8d-d8bf-44b8-b72f-910df999d6b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thriveglobal.com/stories/how-to-cope-with-anxiety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953806 | 1,124 | 3.1875 | 3 |
1998 William James Fellow Award
University of California, San Francisco
Paul Ekman has developed methods that allow psychologists to read emotion from the human face. In so doing he has been able to show the universality of emotional expression across cultures and age. His work has related emotional expression to underlying biological mechanisms. Ekman’s research has made it possible for the study of emotion to return to a central place in psychology, and his books have made finding in the field of emotion available to a wide audience. Ekman has also been instrumental in the field of interpersonal deception. His writings in this field have been widely influential in the application of psychology to criminal justice. This work also represents a fundamental contribution to our understanding of human interaction and memory. | <urn:uuid:e9708df0-3623-4670-8bf6-b02363265042> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/fellow-award/recipent-past-award-winners/paul_ekman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958647 | 153 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Well it’s bulls and blood, it’s dust and mud
It’s the roar of a Sunday crowd, it’s the white in his knuckles
The gold in the buckle he’ll win the next go ’round
It’s boots and chaps, it’s cowboy hats
It’s spurs and latigo, it’s the ropes and the reins
And the joy and the pain and they call the thing rodeo
Growing up in Houston, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR) has always been a substantial and influential part of my life. Many of my greatest memories, both in childhood and adulthood, revolve around not only the rodeo itself but also the many events and attractions that draw millions each and every year. HLSR is one of the largest live entertainment and livestock exhibitions in the world, along with one of the richest rodeo events. There’s always something for everyone at Rodeo Houston!
Traditional trail rides kick off the HLSR festivities. These trail rides start in different parts of Texas, Mexico, and Louisiana. It’s often interesting to look up the trail rides and see how many miles each of them ride – one of the longest is the Los Vaqueros Rio Grande Trail Ride which rides 386 miles from Hidalgo, Texas. These riders end at Memorial Park the Friday before the rodeo begins. The City of Houston celebrates this event with Go Texan Day, where residents are encouraged to dress in western wear. There’s nothing quite like being stuck in traffic to allow horses and wagons to pass on a Friday afternoon in Houston!
Volunteers make up a large part of Rodeo Houston. To date, there are over 32,000 volunteers serving on more than 100 different committees. Rodeo Houston’s main objective is to support the education of the youth of Texas. We volunteer our time so that Rodeo Houston can make an extraordinary impact on the lives of our youth. Since the show began in 1932, more than $400 million has been committed to the youth of Texas. In everything that we do as volunteers, we are raising money so that those who might not otherwise have the means to attend college can live that dream. In 2016, the show has made an educational commitment of over $25 million to the youth of Texas. Rodeo Houston exemplifies Daniel Stark, P.C.’s core value of “Be Remarkable!”
For the past twelve years I have had the privilege of volunteering on the HLSR Parade Committee. The parade is held the Saturday morning after the trail riders have arrived in Houston. Decorative floats, marching bands, and thousands of men and women on horseback intermingle to fill the streets of downtown Houston. This year there were over 115 different groups participating in the parade, including the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band (Whoop!). I am always behind the scenes – making sure participants with their horses and wagons are safely parked and unloaded in downtown Houston, escorting dignitaries to their horses before the parade, marshaling the streets so that the parade is safe for everyone, and the list goes on! It is always such a joy and pleasure to volunteer my time to Rodeo Houston – and to watch the parade every year with a front row seat to boot!
Since I have been a part of HLSR for as long as I can remember, it was only a matter of time before I became a volunteer. As a kid I remember doing my homework every night of rodeo under the lights of the Astrodome, the Eighth Wonder of the World. I also had many experiences riding in the Grand Entry, which is like a parade around the arena before the rodeo starts every night. However, my most favorite memory of all is every single time I was able to see George Strait perform after the rodeo. At the end of his performance he would get on his horse and ride around the arena, shaking hands with his fans. Before riding out, he would always toss his hat into the crowd. I was always so close to being able to catch his hat, but never close enough!
Aside from the trail rides and parade, there is the World’s Championship BBQ Contest (known as “the cookoff”), rodeo action, livestock competitions, ranch rodeos, concerts, carnival, pig racing, Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition, shopping, livestock auctions, and the fan favorite mutton bustin’! Rodeo Houston is in full swing now until March 20th. If you’ve never been to Rodeo Houston, I encourage everyone to go at least once in their lifetime for an experience you won’t find elsewhere and never forget.
Spur ’em on down to the next one!
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In a charming building in the middle of the Pijp you’ll find Sabor de Maria, which in Portuguese translates to The taste of Maria. This is where Maria Luiza Dourado, originally from Brazil, has been cooking delicious dishes from Brazilian cuisine for the past sixteen years. That long ago, she picked up the baton from another Maria, who began the store in 1997. The history of the store therefore revolves around the taste of the two Marias.
Maria, who has worked as a cook all her life, prepares here the tastiest Brazilian dishes. Maria describes Sabor de Maria as a real neighborhood store, where local residents come to get good, healthy and affordable food.
What kind of treats are on the menu during WCA? A little sneak peek:
- Feijoada, a well-known Brazilian dish with a special story. Feijoada originated during the time when Brazil was still a colony of Portugal. From plantation owners, enslaved people received the parts of a pig they themselves did not want to eat, such as the skin, tail, and ears. Together with black beans and various vegetables, they created a delicious dish, which has become one of the most typical dishes from Brazil.
- Moqueca de peixe: a fish stew with coriander, tomato and for vegetarians, various vegetables from the oven. It’s a traditional Brazilian dish that was eaten by the Indigenous people centuries ago.
Besides being owner and chef, Maria is also a real film lover and looks forward to her collaboration with World Cinema Amsterdam. She often finds inspiration in the kitchen by the films that she watches. For her, cooking is a process of making – a primal feeling that is rooted in love. She experiences the same feelings when she is touched by a film. Love and attention are the basis of films, but for a cook in the kitchen. | <urn:uuid:a6211ac6-8ca5-48da-9ff0-fb47243224c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://worldcinemaamsterdam.nl/en/news/193/feast-on-brazilian-style-food-with-wca-caterer-sabor-de-maria | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973824 | 388 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Tiko connects across supply and demand, building networks of donors, local services and communities to deliver joined-up health services on the ground.
Our ecosystems are made up of highly diverse actors, from pharmacies to beauty salons to local shops. Being connected through our platform means that each supplier can do what they do even better and are rewarded for it. It also allows us to integrate multiple programmes into one, so Tiko can offer anything from medical consultations to contraceptives, STI test-kits to vocational training to motivate our members.
Through our role as a connector, we ensure our services are relevant and we boost local economies wherever we go. Our signature ecosystem approach means we leverage expertise, funds and infrastructure to scale fast.
Our ecosystems are at varying stages of maturity from nascent projects in Burkino Faso to established programmes in Kenya. In Kenya for example, we are currently operating 145 such ecosystems which have helped us serve 268,226 adolescent girls with contraceptive products and services, in just the last two and a half years - making it one of the most impactful health programmes in East Africa (ITH impact report, 2015-2019). | <urn:uuid:e0beabca-fc90-4c42-81c8-da1b44317747> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://triggerise.org/what-we-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938125 | 230 | 1.65625 | 2 |
We prospectively evaluated 650 consecutive white patients with senile macular degeneration and compared them to a control group of 363 patients. Ocular pigmentation (iris color and fundus pigmentation) was recorded for each patient, as was hair color (as a child and young adult) and age at evaluation. Patients were from the New England states and Florida. Our most significant finding was that 494 patients with senile macular degeneration (76%) had light-colored irides compared with 145 of the controls (40%). Fundus pigmentation closely corresponded to iris pigmentation (P less than 0.01). Hair color was blond or light brown in 370 of the patients with senile macular degeneration (57%) and in 105 of the controls (29%). Further, there was a tendency for individuals with lightly pigmented irides to have senile macular degeneration at an earlier age than those with dark irides (P less than .01). Thus, increased ocular pigmentation tends to decrease the risk of developing senile macular degeneration. | <urn:uuid:49895a01-3c3b-4160-a606-e152d932057f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3970124/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951113 | 217 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide and in the United States, specifically. New research finds that excessive sleep considerably raises the risk of this cardiovascular problem.
In the U.S., over 795,000 people have a stroke each year.
More recently, researchers have started exploring sleep duration as another potential risk factor. Some studies have found that either too much or too little sleep can increase the risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke.
According to these findings, regular sleep deprivation and sleep for more than 7 hours per night are each associated with a higher risk of stroke.
Now, a study appearing in the journal Neurology finds an association between daytime naps, excessive sleep, and stroke risk.
Dr. Xiaomin Zhang, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, China, is the corresponding author of the paper that details this study.
85% higher risk in long sleepers, nappers
Dr. Zhang and the team collected information from 31,750 people in China. None of the participants — who were 62 years old, on average — had a history of stroke or any other serious health condition at the start of the study.
The participants answered questions about their sleeping patterns and napping habits, and the researchers clinically followed the group for an average of 6 years.
The team found that 8% of the participants were in the habit of taking naps that lasted longer than 90 minutes, and 24% reported sleeping for at least 9 hours each night.
Over the study period, there were 1,557 strokes among the participants. Those who slept for 9 or more hours per night were 23% more likely to experience a stroke than those who regularly slept only 7–8 hours each night.
People who got less than 7 hours of shuteye or 8–9 hours had no higher risk of stroke than those who slept 7–8 hours.
Importantly, people who both slept for longer than 9 hours and napped for more than 90 minutes per day had an 85% higher risk of stroke than those who slept and napped moderately.
Finally, sleep quality seemed to play a role — people who reported poor sleep quality were 29% more likely to have a stroke than those whose sleep quality was reportedly good.
These results continued to be significant after adjusting for potential confounders, such as hypertension, diabetes, and smoking.
“These results highlight the importance of moderate napping and sleeping duration and maintaining good sleep quality, especially in middle-age and older adults.”
Dr. Xiaomin Zhang
Study limitations and potential mechanisms
The researchers acknowledge some limitations to their work, as well as the fact that more research is necessary.
First, because the study was observational, it cannot prove causality. Second, the research did not account for sleep apnea or other sleep disorders that may have influenced the results.
Third, self-reported data is not as reliable as data recorded by researchers who observe participants’ sleep.
Finally, the results may only apply to older, healthy Chinese adults and not to other populations.
“More research is needed to understand how taking long naps and sleeping longer hours at night may be tied to an increased risk of stroke, but previous studies have shown that long nappers and sleepers have unfavorable changes in their cholesterol levels and increased waist circumferences, both of which are risk factors for stroke,” explains Dr. Zhang.
“In addition, long napping and sleeping may suggest an overall inactive lifestyle, which is also related to increased risk of stroke.” | <urn:uuid:e1a5721c-b2a9-4de2-9da1-6aac7eb4f4e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clotrimazolecreams.com/stroke-excessive-sleep-may-raise-risk-by-85/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96657 | 739 | 2.953125 | 3 |
our circular economy
The main goal of this project is to preserve an ancestral trade, the master shoemaker, as a heritage of our culture and thus generate wealth for local artisan families.
What does it consist of?
MMARTINYCA has a completely local and artisanal production, keeping intact the 18th century recipe created by the wisdom of the master shoemakers of Menorca.
All our Martinycas are unique pieces, made 100% by hand, and pass through at least 8 artisan hands: shoe last specialist, the cutter, La Seamstress and the Master Shoemaker, to obtain a finish that guarantees exclusive quality. | <urn:uuid:67d190fb-3169-414b-b416-50529ca67d87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mmartinyca.com/en/our-impact-projects/local-and-eco-premium-fashion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.915595 | 152 | 1.757813 | 2 |
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
We are taught about the importance of education since always in Degree Courses. Education has been recognized as a tool to help mitigate environmental issues (Soares et al, 2020) and an important ingredient to bring reforms in any society. Some say education is the passport for the future, some say it is your best investment, and there are hundreds of other such quotations stressing the importance of education.
Nowadays; there is a huge variety and options in education. Students don’t have to limit their career choices to only being a doctor, an engineer, or an architect. Many new fields and doors in the sphere of education have been opened. You can choose to become whoever you were once inspired to be while you were a child. This post is all about those courses, degree programs, and the importance of 1-year degree program.
1-year degree programs/courses:
Lately; students have been so burdened with their four-year-long courses that they seek help from online platforms. Many students take help from Essay Writers UK-based or other such online websites to ease their load and rightly so. They are exhausted and fed up with continuously cramming over their course for three or four years consecutively. Following are some of the 1 year-long courses with the best scope or opportunities:
· Multimedia course:
Agree or not; this is one of the most in-demand courses because of all this social media craze. As Artificial intelligence has taken many industries by the storm (helpwithdissertation, 2021) so it has become important to learn about it. This course teaches the students about web designing, graphics, and all other related things. Besides; students will not have to look for “Do My Assignment For Me UK-based services” because this program does not require the students to write log assignments.
· Marketing & advertising course:
This is the age of digital marketing and this 1-year course is all about that. A digital marketer is the one that all the companies and brands look for. You just need to have basic knowledge and be creative with your ideas to get the best career opportunities.
· Interior designing course:
Some people have so much f creativity and imagination in them that they feel like they don’t even need a certificate to start a career in the respected field. However; the addition of the certificate to your creative powers is going to help you establish your name in the designing industry in the best of ways.
· Hotel management course:
This is another exciting career opportunity for students who are interested in management and administration. This course teaches all the rules and basics of management that helps you get a prominent place in hotels.
Similarly; there are many other such courses of one-year duration like:
- Financial accounting course.
- Foreign language course.
- 3D animation course.
- Strategic management course.
- Property investment course, and so on.
Reasons to choose degree courses of 1 year:
Students are more inclined toward 1 year-long course than the programs of three to four years and there are many legit reasons for this conscious choice. Some of these reasons are as follows:
As this course is only 1 year long so obviously it is faster and quicker to complete. You get to obtain the basic skills and knowledge about a particular field in a shorter time as compared to four or five years long courses.
2. Multiple courses at the same time:
A student who does a course in a one-year program has the option to do courses in multiple categories of the same field. For example; if you have done one year course in management then you can do another course in marketing next. In this way; you get an additional certificate in two sub-categories of the same field within two years.
3. Better career opportunities:
Students who have done these one-year courses have better career opportunities. As they have many choices to do a course on; varying from photography to administration and from animation to graphic designing so they get so they have the scope of better career opportunities.
4. Adds to the knowledge:
Knowledge is knowledge even if you attain it within one year or four years. These one-year courses teach you the skills in the area of your interest which helps you in the future in one way or another. They not only help you to get better career opportunities but also add to your knowledge.
The one-year programs are less expensive so students who are indebted with a loan are unable to study or graduate with higher degrees. Education in today’s time has become so expensive that even students who are interested in higher levels of education are unable to attain it because of its cost.
6. Best options for students uninterested in studies:
There is a huge percentage of students who are not interested in education at all. These one-year courses are the best choice for such students as they provide them with a certificate plus they don’t have to invest too much of their time in education. Obviously; effort has to be invested in this course a swell but not as much as that in four-year-long courses.
7. Numerous choices:
It has been observed that the courses which are of one year span are in more variety as compared to the longer courses. The four-year or six-year-long courses are confined to the typical subjects of medical, engineering, management, and so on. However; one-year-long courses offer diversity including subjects like photography, calligraphy, painting, animation, and so on.
Education is important to attain then whether you attain it in the time of one year or four years, it is up to you. The thing that matters is that you have the knowledge and a certificate to prove that you have got the skills. Hopefully; the above-mentioned reasons will be able to convince the students why one-year-long courses are a good option.
helpwithdessertation. (2021, Jan 12th). How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Education System For The Better. https://www.helpwithdissertation.co.uk/blog/artificial-intelligence/ .
Joana Soares, I. M. (2020). On the path to minimize plastic pollution: The perceived importance of education and knowledge dissemination strategies. Marine Pollution Bulletin , 171. | <urn:uuid:e4bf0ab2-8d1c-4350-8704-79db4cbd11a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uniqueposting.com/7-reasons-to-choose-degree-courses-in-1-year-programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968643 | 1,346 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Bedding with Outlast® for a better sleep
The Outlast® thermo-technology proactively regulates heat and moisture to ensure a better, deeper sleep. As part of an independent study, various subjects have tried out bedding with Outlast® thermo-technology. The test participants ranged from women in the menopause to couples with different heat perceptions. The result: Thanks to Outlast® thermo-technology, temperature peaks in the microclimate can be minimized, which also successfully reduces sleep disorders caused by them.
Absolute moisture in a duvet
– measured according to the “C. Russ” testing method at the INSIDE CLIMATE Munich laboratory.
Less sweating, less freezing – a comfortable temperature all night long
The key to good, restful sleep lies in heat management, as good sleep can only be achieved with as little moisture production as possible. This is where the Outlast® thermo-technology comes in and proactively regulates the heat to stop moisture from developing in the first place. In contrast, other technologies attempt only to wick away the sweat that has developed.
The more Outlast® thermo-technology is used in your bed, the better your sleeping comfort.
Temperature-regulation now also fiber- and down-proof
Outlast offers a new product line for the bedding industry that combines the proven Outlast® temperature regulation with fiber- and down-proof properties in just one layer. For our clients, the “less layers” approach means significant cost and efficiency benefits during manufacturing.Find out more
Bedding for a good future
Outlast recently presented new materials that are sustainable and conserve resources while also impressing with the usual high Outlast® functionality.
Good sleep is so important
As the market leader for heat and moisture management, Outlast is aware of the benefits of its high-performance materials. Improved sleep is one of these benefits. Harvard Medical School discovered in a study that good sleep is crucial for health and well-being:
- Memory: Sleep helps the brain to process new information in the memory.
- Metabolism: Lack of sleep can lead to weight gain and boost our appetite.
- Safety: Sleep deprivation can lead to falls, medical inattention, and traffic accidents.
- Mood: Sleep loss leads to irritability, poor concentration, and mood swings.
- Heart problems: Poor sleep can lead to high blood pressure, stress, and an irregular heartbeat.
- Illnesses: Lack of sleep impairs our body’s defenses against illness.
Tested and proven
The Outlast® thermo-technology processed in bedding has been tested in numerous internal and independent studies and its functionality has been confirmed many times over.
More deep sleep phases
As part of a study, the quality of sleep was measured based on the thermal properties of the respective mattress toppers. The researchers investigated what effects bedding with heat and moisture management has on a person’s sleep behavior. The subjects for this study were male and had a body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 25. They were mentally and physically healthy and did not suffer from sleep disorders. Sleep quality was assessed based on physiological reactions of the subjects during sleep.Read case study
THG SleepView / C. Russ
Outlast commissioned INSIDE CLIMATE (formerly c.russ NETCONSULT)* in Munich with carrying out a study to investigate how the moisture developed through one night when using bedding with and without Outlast® thermo-technology. The THG SleepView microclimate measuring technology, which provides imaging of the moisture, was used for this. This study was partly conducted to show the effects of body temperature on sleep behavior. At the same time, it served to support development work on improved, more comfortable sleep and bedding systems.
* Tests for various final applications such as clothing, shoes, and helmets conducted by C. Russ – INSIDE CLIMATE, an independent test laboratory in Munich (THG AreaView – SleepView). Details on request.Read test report | <urn:uuid:f6615662-d582-46bf-baa1-74dea2ce8af4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outlast.com/en/thermo-technology/areas-of-use/bedding | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936823 | 842 | 1.710938 | 2 |
After the storm comes the rainbow,
Vivacious colors splitting the grey.
After the clouds shines the sun,
Shining light through the tears of the sky.
Storms are alive, in you, in me, in the world.
Slavery was a storm, segregation is a storm,
Genocide is a storm, where is our rainbow?
Where is our colors? Each person is a rainbow.
Equally beautiful, equally bright.
A melting pot of culture and heritage,
A reflection of a rainbow,
A collection of differences blending together in perfect balance.
Rainbows are surreal, something of a dream.
There was a man with a dream,
He fought to find the pot of gold through the storms of time.
He only needed the rainbow.
He needed the people.
He needed you and he needed me.
Segregation has passed, the clouds have blown away,
Yet storms return, and the rainbow breaks through the day.
Brighten our rainbow, and strengthen us so.
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The Citizen Sense Frackbox was designed in response to the concerns of citizens in northeastern Pennsylvania about the effects of the hydraulic fracturing industry on air quality. The Frackbox sensor kit is housed in a US mailbox. It is designed to be placed at sites near fracking infrastructure and at the intersections between infrastructure and peoples’ homes.
The Frackbox monitors criteria air pollutants, including nitrogen oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ground-level ozone (O3). The Frackbox also senses volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX), along with halomethanes and glutaraldehyde. | <urn:uuid:cfa6f538-753d-460f-b74b-e0e7ab0e4ece> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://citizensense.net/kits/frackbox-hardware/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941593 | 142 | 2.90625 | 3 |
John Harvard's Journal
Abruptly, the financial challenges facing Harvard—whose programs, people, and physical plant have prospered from the seven-fold-plus appreciation of the endowment in the past 15 years—have attracted urgent attention. Late on December 2, the University posted a memorandum from President Drew Faust and Executive Vice President Ed Forst stating that the endowment’s value had declined 22 percent through October 31. Moreover, “even that sobering figure is unlikely to capture the full extent of actual losses for this period, because it does not reflect fully updated valuations” for certain classes of assets, “most notably private equity and real estate.” Those assets, managed externally, are valued in periodic reports to Harvard Management Company (HMC); the expectation is that “the endowment will realize further declines in value” there.
The numbers may seem abstract, but their consequences are real. The endowment was valued at $36.9 billion last June 30, at the end of fiscal year 2008; in that year, Harvard’s total revenues were about $3.5 billion, with some $1.2 billion (34.5 percent) from endowment-income distributions. Such distributions are much the largest source of operating revenue today, far outstripping tuition and fee revenues (20 percent), sponsored support for research (19 percent), and other income.
The prospective decline in the endowment is unprecedented. In the past 40 years, the memorandum notes, Harvard’s worst investment loss was a negative 12.2 percent return in 1974. Given the extraordinary circumstances, the University’s planning envisions a scenario with asset values decreasing 30 percent. Accordingly, Faust and Forst advised deans “not merely to contemplate changes at the margins,” but to prepare for significant budget reductions.
The community had been prepared for bad news. On November 10, Faust e-mailed a message announcing that Harvard faced “a period of greater financial constraint.” She noted several sources of pressure, particularly the impact of plunging financial markets on the endowment. “[E]ven well-diversified portfolios are experiencing major losses,” Faust wrote, citing an external projection of “a 30 percent decline in the value of college and university endowments in the current fiscal year.”
Later that day, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith wrote to his colleagues: “The FAS is not unfamiliar with proverbial belt-tightening, but given the current crisis we will need to go significantly further.…[W]e must consider budgeting scenarios that significantly reduce our annual operating expenses.” That was notice enough to attract a standing-room-only audience to the November 18 faculty meeting.
The arithmetic is sobering. Beyond losses in value from negative investment returns, the endowment will be further reduced by current-year distributions for operating and capital purposes—totaling perhaps $1.6 billion. As a hypothetical exercise, that implies a decline in the endowment’s value (including both the negative investment returns of 22 percent to 30 percent, and the funds distributed this year) from $36.9 billion to a range of $24 billion to $27 billion by year’s end. Using the Corporation’s long-term guideline of distributing approximately 5 percent of endowment value annually, such declines imply theoretical reductions in yearly spending power of nearly $500 million to about $635 million (though likely actions, discussed below, would lessen that impact).
Daunting though the University’s situation may be, the case is even more so for Harvard entities that are particularly dependent on endowment distributions (see “The Endowment: Each School’s Stake,” opposite, for each academic unit’s share of the endowment, and the related portion of its revenues, for fiscal year 2008, ended last June 30).
FAS is most vulnerable, in sheer dollars. As Smith noted at the faculty meeting, FAS is using approximately $650 million in endowment-income distributions to support operations this year—more than half its roughly $1.2 billion in budgeted expenses—and had planned on about $750 million of such distributions for fiscal 2010, beginning July 1—approaching 60 percent of the preliminary budget. (In mid decade, endowment distributions accounted for about 46 percent of FAS’s annual operating revenues.)
Now, Smith said, FAS found itself facing a much more adverse environment. Using Faust’s projection as a guideline, he said that if a 30 percent decline occurred, FAS’s endowment would fall by $5 billion (to $11 billion). If the Corporation then hewed to its long-term distribution goal, FAS would receive $550 million in endowment-income distributions for fiscal 2010—$200 million less than planned, and $100 million less than in the current year. Moreover, he said, even if FAS received the full $750 million it had anticipated, its core budget (the College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the faculty members themselves) would still run a $20-million deficit next year, without any new programs or enhancements. (Smith did not note that if this year’s income distributions are taken into account as well, under that scenario the FAS endowment could drop to $10.3 billion, exacerbating the shortfall.)
The central administration will have to mind expenses, too: its operations are funded in part by assessing schools’ budgets and endowment funds. Harvard’s funding model thus assures that changes in endowment distributions and schools’ budgets directly affect administrative finances, so the same cost-cutting guidelines apply.
(The annual half-percent endowment levy to defray Allston development expenses—the “strategic infrastructure fund,” $168 million in fiscal year 2008—is a separate assessment. Although it is a capital item, not an income distribution, FAS members asked at the November 18 meeting if it might be reconsidered, as the pace of work in Allston is recalibrated; Dean Smith indicated that “everything is on the table,” not only within FAS but in the council of deans’ institution-wide discussions with the administration.)
Important uncertainties surround the University’s finances, even as its leaders must prepare future budgets. In extremely volatile markets, endowment-asset values might recover somewhat.
But there are offsetting cost pressures as well. First, in her November 10 message, Faust stated flatly that Harvard “must…affirm our strong commitment to financial aid for our students” at all levels; that substantial part of the budget is off-limits for cutting—and will become more costly as aid requests rise during the recession, and as tuition and fees increase. Second, expensive construction projects under way (the first Allston science laboratory, a Law School office complex, and the art museum renovation, totaling an estimated $1.7 billion) will proceed. Third, sources of additional revenue are constrained: Faust noted that donors will be “harder pressed,” that sponsored-research funding is subject to “the intensified stress on the federal budget,” and that tuition increases will be “moderate” given “economic strain” on households.
How will Harvard respond? The Corporation will determine exactly what budgets it will authorize (and thus how it will spread cutbacks in endowment distributions over time). That decision, usually made around Thanksgiving, has been deferred pending information about the ultimate value of the endowment, and data from the schools and the central administration about savings they might effect. As is its custom, the Corporation would not comment; Faust and Forst did note their expectation that “we will be spending a higher percentage of the endowment next year than we have in the recent past.” But she cautioned that the magnitude of the investment losses is clearly too large to cushion against the prospect of significant budget cuts.
Smith told his faculty that Faust had asked deans to reduce budgeted spending by a percent for this fiscal year (more than $10 million for FAS—not simple to effect with half the year already gone). In a November 24 e-mail, he placed “all staff changes and searches on hold”; urged canceling of “ any open [professorial] search if the priority…changes” or the applicant quality “is not truly extraordinary”; and solicited recommendations for cuts, to be channeled through a “Priorities Committee” that will operate through March.
Informally, University guidance suggests that recommended wage and salary increases for the next fiscal year will be zero, compared to the 3 percent to 4 percent adjustments recently. With wages and salaries totaling $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2008, and more now, each percentage increase worsens the fiscal problem by more than $13 million. Faust and Forst are “taking a hard look at hiring, staffing levels, and compensation”—and “reconsidering the scale and pace of planned capital projects,” including Allston.
To maximize financial flexibility during a period of disrupted markets and a recession of uncertain depth and duration, the December 2 memorandum outlines an additional financial strategy.
First, taking advantage of the University’s top-tier (Aaa/AAA) credit rating and the historically low interest rates, Harvard will issue “a substantial amount of new taxable fixed-rate debt.” Forst said borrowings will depend on the terms and structure of debt that can be sold in the market over time. (According to the 2008 University financial report, taxable bonds and notes outstanding as of last June 30 were $1.3 billion; tax-exempt debt issued at fixed rates totaled $1.1 billion.) The aim is to accumulate cash “to fund ongoing operations and critical academic and research priorities.”
Second, to reduce risk in the cost of renewing its short-term debt in volatile markets, the University intends now to replace such borrowings with longer-term tax-exempt debt instruments. Variable-rate notes and commercial paper outstanding totaled about $1.6 billion as of last June 30; the exact amount now is presumably somewhat greater.
These steps, if effected, may help alleviate other challenges, including those facing the endowment managers. Although HMC declined to comment, it—like other long-term investors with similar strategies— likely has substantial contractual commitments to deliver funds in the future to investment-management firms (which in turn make distributions of funds from successful investments to their limited-partner clients, such as HMC). That is the norm for private-equity, venture-capital, and hedge funds, and for various kinds of real-estate and commodities assets; such assets collectively make up perhaps half or even more of Harvard’s endowment holdings.
(One institution that discloses such issues, the University of Virginia Investment Management Company—UVIMC—revealed that as of September 20, it has “uncalled commitments of $1.8 billion to private funds” during the next five years. Under “normal circumstances,” expected investment distributions would exceed the capital calls, but few distributions were expected through 2009. In a November 26 letter, UVIMC’s chief executive, Chris Brightman, put investment losses at $1 billion, or 21 percent, for the 12 months ended October 31, and explained how his team expected to meet such calls through its liquid assets, bonds, and redemption of hedge-fund investments.)
Harvard clearly is not alone. Universities and colleges nationwide have reported losses and taken action: Stanford intends to reduce its $800-million “general funds budget” for faculty and staff salaries, administrative operations, and non-research expenses by $45 million in each of the next two fiscal years. MIT projected 5 percent to 15 percent cuts, on a $1-billion base, in the same period. (To date, among the few peer institutions that have indicated they do not now anticipate similar reductions are Princeton, with the highest endowment per student; Yale, which said its spending rule will likely “buffer the operating budget from any dramatic short-term losses”; and Duke, where endowment distributions contribute less than one-fifth of operating revenues.)
At Harvard, if the most adverse scenarios become reality, hiring freezes and wage restraints will not be sufficient. FAS will have to reduce programs, Smith told the faculty—“not something we typically do.” The University’s decentralized structure and the schools’ differing revenue streams mean that such work will unfold case by case. Much of it will have to be directed by a relatively new group of deans (half appointed during Faust’s first 15 months) and by an administration that was still filling senior positions last fall.
And these new leaders must cope with the whiplash sensation of pivoting from ambitious planning for future academic growth to the possibility of swift, sharp expense reductions. As recently as October 9, Smith’s fall FAS letter mentioned a nagging “structural deficit”—with no inkling of the possibly draconian cuts now figuring into budget plans.
But Harvard’s leaders sought to balance the disruptive present with a longer-term perspective. Faust’s initial message observed that “we are fortunate to be part of an institution remarkable for its resilience.…Harvard has weathered many storms and sustained its strength through difficult times. We have done so by staying true to our academic values and our long-term ambitions, by carefully stewarding our resources and thoughtfully adapting to change. We will do so again.”
And Smith told his colleagues, “business continues” as they teach students and meet research deadlines—though he added a new priority, bluntly asking them to “save cash.” His most lingering message, perhaps, was that “everything we do has merit,” underscoring “how hard it is going to be to make these changes.” The worst possible solution, he stressed, was a wholesale, fixed-percentage cut: a formula for doing everything FAS does now, but less well. A better solution is possible, Smith said, but, “It has to come from you.” | <urn:uuid:d124edf9-27c5-46fb-975b-e05f85afc33c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2009/01/harder-times | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956581 | 2,978 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Three nuns in colorful habits trudge down a long desert road—but they are not alone. Not far behind them stalks a skeleton, who relentlessly pursues them as they clamber over boulders and menaces them while they sleep. The skeleton represents something more profound than death: it is the “spectre of extinction” that “hovers over our world.”
This is the story of Memento Mori, an artist’s book created by the Sisters of Survival in 1984. The group’s members, Jerri Allyn, Anne Gauldin, Cheri Gaulke, Sue Maberry, and Nancy Angelo, were one of the last performance groups to emerge from the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. Their work was inspired by anti-nuclear demonstrations in Europe and they based their striking visual identity on a dream Angelo had of nuns in habits of the colors of the rainbow in a peaceful cloister setting in Italy.
Thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, researchers will soon be able to explore the archive of the Sisters of Survival, as well as other artists affiliated with the LA Woman’s Building. Founded in 1973, the Woman’s Building offered women a space to grow as individual artists while also emphasizing the importance of cooperation and collective achievement.
The Sisters of Survival were deeply concerned by the prospect of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the early ‘80s, they used their art to educate the public and build community with other anti-nuclear artists and activists around the world. Although most anti-nuclear artwork of the period had a dark tone, the Sisters of Survival wanted their work to be uplifting and sometimes even humorous. For example, at the June 12, 1982 peace march in New York City, Jerri Allyn led rows of rainbow nuns as they danced joyously down the street to Chubby Checker’s hit song “The Twist.”
In addition to performances and exhibitions across the United States and Europe, the Sisters of Survival spread their message by producing postcards, buttons, T-shirts, and artist’s books like Memento Mori. It was printed at the Women’s Graphic Center, one of the major programs run out of the Woman’s Building.
The idea for the photo shoot at Joshua Tree National Monument was largely conceived by Nancy Angelo, who was inspired by her childhood in the Nevada desert. The deep purple cover is stamped with gold leaf and the font and layout of the pages are intended to evoke an illuminated manuscript.
The book shows three women dressed as nuns in habits of different rainbow colors to signify sisterhood and celebrate hope and diversity, as they are chased across the desert landscape by a skeleton. The photographs are accompanied by a meditation on despair in the face of the existential threat of nuclear war: “The spectre of extinction…accompanies us through life, from birth to death.” Despite the heavy topic, the book ends on a hopeful note, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all living things and the need to work communally to create a better world.
The archive of the Sisters of Survival contains a treasure trove of other materials that show how the group developed the idea and produced the book, including the original proposal to the Women’s Graphic Center, page sketches, and the wood printing blocks with the designs that frame the photographs and text.
While only eleven photographs ultimately made it into the book, the collection has hundreds of additional slides from the Joshua Tree photo shoot that tell a more complete story. In this extended narrative, the skeleton mischievously steals the nuns’ food and pours out their water while they sleep. The nuns engage in a ritual with mirrors, flowers, eggs, and other objects, and eventually, the skeleton joins them. The nuns wipe away the skeleton’s makeup and dress her in a red habit, and she accompanies their trek through the desert.
Less than a decade after Memento Mori was published, the political landscape had changed considerably. The Soviet Union collapsed and fears of imminent nuclear war began to fade from public memory. The Woman’s Building closed in 1991, and apart from a few later collaborations, the Sisters of Survival mostly went their own ways. Yet in an age of climate change, pandemics, and global instability, the message of Memento Mori still rings true: we all need each other in order to survive.
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A major component in OML’s mission is the development and stewardship of brave spaces on Muhlenberg’s campus, fostering open and honest dialogue across difference. On this page, learn about the physical spaces, programs and partnering student organizations, which help us to fulfill this mission.
Multicultural Affinity Groups:
OML currently advises eight student organizations formed on the basis of cultural or identity affinity. As advisors, OML provides these groups with meeting space, leadership development in the form of retreats and trainings, and organizational support and troubleshooting. These groups provide service to the College by serving as another home-away-from-home for many of our students. These groups also serve as both advocates and educators through intentional programming and event planning.
- Asian Student Association
- Black Students Association
- Destiny Women of Color Association
- Feminist Collective (FemCo)
- International Student Association
- Men of Color Network
- Muslim Student Association
- Muhlenberg Disability Advocacy Group
- Muhlenberg Trans Advocacy Coalition (MTAC)
- Students for Queer Advocacy (SQuAd)
- Top Naach
Submit a Program or Resource:
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Remember what matters- Connect with those you care about. Bring to mind, relive, remember, and cherish the connections you have and what your current relationships mean to you.
Look for meaning in the current situation. See if there are any positives. Sometimes being in a lot of pain makes you more sensitive to others who go through the same thing.
Keep in mind the “bigger picture” and long-term goals. If you don’t have a “bigger picture” or long term goals, start making them. Working towards long-term goals also produces positive emotions and a sense of mastery and achievement.
Consider what you have that other people don’t have, and how other people could be jealous of what you have. Look for what this is- whether it is a job, an able body, health, a place to live, a relationship, or a child.
Take care of what you need to take care of in the current moment.
If you can’t solve the problem right now, do something restful and restorative.
Maintain balance in your life by giving your mind a “break”- plan adaptive distractions that have nothing to do with your current life stressors.
Remember that physical activity can help you “shift gears” by releasing endorphins and changing your physiological arousal. Since changing physiological arousal is also associated with emotions, this can also help you with your emotions.
If overwhelmed, focus on doing what you can do. If you are able to achieve or accomplish one step, then you can move on to the next. There is only one way to get through a crisis- and that is one step at a time.
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The Jewish people; often called “Am Yisrael” or the people of Israel, we put an emphasis on establishing a structure of community. There is a Midrash that says one who leaves a community is as if he destroys the world. In fact, recitation of the Torah and certain prayers can only be said in the presence of a Minyan (which is ten men); a mini community.
The Talmud says that a Talmid Chacham (Torah scholar) is not allowed to live in a city that doesn’t have several things: Beit Din (court of law), Tzedakah fund in order to help those in need, a Beit Knesset (synagogue), Mikvah (ritual bath), teacher of children..etc (Sanhedrin 17b). The community must provide not only a person’s spiritual needs, but their physical needs as well.
There are three types of community in Judaism: Eidah, Tzibbur, and Kehillah, each signifying a different association. Eidah comes from the word Ed or “witness.” Eidah is a community with people who have have much in common and a strong identity. Tzibbur is a community formed by numbers, not identity. Kehillah is made up of individuals who join together for a common purpose. The Jewish people truly became a Kehillah with the building of the Tabernacle.
On Saturday night begins the holiday of Shavuot, the “Feast of Weeks.” It is celebrated seven weeks after Passover. There are two religious observances of Shavuot: harvesting of grain, and giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai. Shavuot is one of the three pilgrimage festivals when males were required to go to Jerusalem with offerings of the first fruits. Most of the Jewish holidays, including Shavuot revolve around rituals that include the community. We go to synagogue, read the Ten Commandments, the Book of Ruth (which took place during the barley harvest), eat special meals with family and friends. It is customary to learn all night with members of our community. During Shavuot we recite Hallel, Psalms of Praise, and Yizkor, the memorial service.
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Excerpted from: Dre'Kevius O. Huff, Rap on Trial: The Case for Nonliteral Interpretation of Rap Lyrics, 5 Savannah Law Review 335 (2018) (226 Footnotes Omitted) (Full Document)
And he don't know ...
That I dug my key into the side
Of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive,
Carved my name into his leather seats ...
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
Slashed a hole in all four tires ...
Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.
These lyrics are excerpted from the chart-topper "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood. While beginning a law review Note about rap lyrics with lyrics from a country song may seem unconventional, there is a lesson to be learned here. Although reasonable people can disagree, it is a fair assumption to believe Underwood didn't really knock out her significant other's headlights with a baseball bat. No one truly suspects Bob Marley shot the sheriff, or believes that Freddie Mercury killed a man. Country, reggae, and rock, respectively, are not generally associated with violence. Songs in these genres are taken as music made by the artist and not statements made by the individual.
Rap music, however, is scarcely afforded the luxury of a nonliteral interpretation of its lyrics. As stated by Jay-Z in his memoir Decoded,
[G]reat MCing is not just about filling in the meter of the song with rhythm and melody. The other ways that poets make words work is by giving them layers of meaning, so you can use them to get at complicated truths in a way that straightforward storytelling fails to do. The words you use can be read a dozen different ways: They can be funny and serious. They can be symbolic and literal. They can be nakedly obvious and subliminally effective at the same time. The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or autobiography.
Paradoxes abound when rappers face criminal prosecution. When the contents of their music (which they claim embodies their personal experiences) is used against them, they must either defend their lyrics and inculpate themselves or denounce their "real" lifestyle and be derided as frauds in the rap community. Is this because of the less-than-wholesome topics--such as murder, gang violence, and drug use--that permeate to the core of today's rap music (even though, like other genres of music, the songs are simply an artistic use of metaphor and hyperbole by a rapper who, almost always, uses a stage name and adopts a fictional persona)?
Generally, when average the person thinks about violent rap, their mind inevitably turns to the 90's and the vitriolic East Coast vs. West Coast feuds, headed by rap icons Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. Originally on good terms with one another, Tupac suspected that Biggie and Puffy were involved when he was shot outside of his Manhattan recording studio. While territorial rivalry was not uncommon in the rap community, this rivalry "blossomed into a dangerous vendetta between the east and west coast factions, stoked by lyrical provocations from Biggie (Who Shot Ya?) and Tupac (Hit Em Up)." Indeed, "rap music transformed into gansta' rap and became increasingly associated with violence when rappers Tupac Shakur and [Biggie Smalls] were murdered."
Because of this association with violence that rap now possessed, courts began to disregard the notion of artistic license afforded to other genres of music and instead condemned rap for its content. Rap music, like any form of music, or any form of art, for that matter, is subject to the interpretation of the listener/viewer, but we must also consider the interpretation and intent of the writer (who often may not even be the rapper). However, in recent years, courts have begun using these rap lyrics as damning evidence in criminal trials. Ostensibly, these lyrics are used to show that the defendant had either knowledge or intent, or to prove the commission of a crime. In practice, however, these lyrics are used to paint the defendant in a negative light with the hope that the jury will convict the defendant because of what he raps about instead of the evidence presented against him.
Convicting potentially innocent defendants is not only repugnant to basic moral principles, but also to one of the paramount tenets of the criminal justice system, stating that it is "far worse to convict an innocent man than to let a guilty man go free." By convicting defendants based on their music lyrics, judges are unconsciously shaping the future of rap music by putting rappers on notice that their own livelihood could be turned against them in a courtroom. For many artists, rap is not just a form of music, but also a rich collection of art spanning decades of culture, generations of growth, and an ever-increasing fan base.
Although the culture of rap has changed drastically, there are elements of the genre that remain from its roots. The majority of rap artists are generally lower-class black males who use music as an avenue to express the struggles of their everyday lives, including poverty and crime. Not every artist has personally experienced the events expressed in their lyrics. A rapper who witnesses a murder may choose to write lyrics that provide a first-person perspective of the murder, even though he did not personally pull the trigger. However, like other forms of art, rappers must be allowed some measure of artistic license without every word, line, and verse being taken literally-- a liberty afforded to other genres of music. By courts using these lyrics in their most literal fashion, rap artists are not only having their own work used against them, but are effectively being silenced by having their platform for expression taken away.
This Note will consider the consequences of using rap artists' lyrics against them and the overwhelming prejudicial effect these lyrics have on juries. This Note will also evaluate when these lyrics should be used, in what limited scope they should be used, and why rap artists would even bother using incriminating lyrics if they know there is a chance the lyrics could be used against them. The questions I advance are these: when, if ever, can a rapper's lyrics be used to constitute a confession against him? Additionally, do the arguably marginal probative benefits of admitting these lyrics outweigh the evidentiary and policy interests of excluding them?
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Rap's enigmatic nature has drawn both criticism and praise that runs the gamut. Critics bash rap music as profane; however, proponents recognize the social platform rap provides for the disenfranchised--profane lyrics and all. It has evolved from an underground movement popular in inner cities into something that reaches beyond the realm of music. Rap has influenced fashion and politics. Unfortunately, rap music has also wormed its way into the courtroom.
Despite sharing elements with other mediums of art, rap music has been prosecuted (as well as persecuted) for being "evil" and "malicious." The Delphic nature of rap music creates a proverbial Gordian knot for judges; how can a judge interpret rap lyrics, a form of art, in the same way that they interpret the Constitution, the foundation upon which the United States was built? Individuals who are experts in the rap genre vehemently disagree on what rap is and what it stands for; it boggles the mind to understand how judges--who are likely not specialists in lyrical interpretation, context, or the background and history of rap--can definitively decide rap lyrics contain even a scintilla of probative evidentiary value.
While there are legitimate reasons to use rap lyrics as evidence in limited circumstances, there are arguably more reasons to exclude these lyrics and presume them as inadmissible in criminal prosecutions. By admitting these lyrics, the notion that rap music is aggressive or violent (or any other adjectives used to devalue the genre) is further reinforced when fortified by the presence of a (usually gruesome) criminal prosecution. This negative impression marginalizes rap music, even though rap represents more than just prosecutorial evidence to many people. Rap music is like any other medium of expression we enjoy. In a word, rap is entertainment. An escape. Expressive. When we debase the rap genre as wholly degenerate by using lyrics as evidence in criminal prosecutions, we negatively affect both the rapper-defendant in the courtroom, and the rap world outside of the courtroom. When critiquing or analyzing rap music for its evidentiary value, both the judge and jury must go beyond the surface of the music they are listening to and endeavor to ascertain the underlying message the artist is striving to illustrate. To quote actress Samantha Morton, "[R]ap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap ... it meant a whole lot more than that."
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Continuing from Relax. It is not so hard.– here are some very easy to follow tips that can take way the tension and stress.
You will need a tennis ball, a sock, some rice – and that’s it!
Using the tennis ball:
- Rub your bare foot over it, gradually putting more weight on your foot.
- Lie on the tennis ball and move your body over it, for a self-massage.
- Squeeze the tennis ball to beat stress, as you build the strength in your hands
Using the sock and rice
- Fill the sock with rice and knot it at the end.
- Now use this to massage your arms and legs
- Warm the sock (can use your microwave) if you want to apply some heat
Some must-do tips:
Ladies, if you wear high heels often, your calves probably hurt. When you take off your shoes (ah, the relief!), massage your calves – rubbing in circles from the ankles, up to the back of the knees. Feels good, eh?
That computer screen – damned if you do, and damned if you don’t! Give your eyes a break – rub your palms against each other to generate some heat – then cup your hands over your eyes – feel the warmth – enjoy the relief.
It is always more fun to do these with a partner – as it can be really comforting after a long and tiring day. Just do whatever feels good – no training, no equipment needed. | <urn:uuid:86a03025-aad6-4683-adac-a34290420f4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vidyasury.com/2010/07/relax-it-is-not-so-hard-ii.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.90509 | 325 | 1.695313 | 2 |
A pearl is precious to its owner
So is a mother in the eyes of her child,
His first symbol of undiluted love
That showers him with kisses and hugs,
Picks him up when he falls
Though he sometimes prove stubborn.
He has grown to know a secret overtime;
Of how she chooses to overlook his obvious faults
Yet tenderly helps to convert them to areas of strength,
A careful nurturer and the reliable caregiver
Whose words breathe wisdom;
A practical counsellor who makes her life a template
And leads in high volume through her actions.
Beyond her duties as a Mother,
She warms her way into her children’s heart;
Irrespective of the challenges life brings her way
And the numerous stereotypical demands
She stays true to her pledge of true motherhood.
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her Proverb 31:25-28 | <urn:uuid:1acc5a4f-801a-445f-8bd1-f08aced9e267> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abaykells.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/beyond-the-duty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968279 | 260 | 1.742188 | 2 |
US Customs Agency Seeks to Adopt Blockchain Technology to Track Oil Imports from Canada
With the advancement of technology, the importance of oil and gas resources in promoting global social and economic progress is rising.
As oil and gas resources play an imperative role in the energy sector, the technologies of the industry have also developed quickly in recent years. It can be seen that the oil and gas industry is gradually developing towards the direction of automation, digitalization, and intellectualization.
But the management model of this industry is relatively old. The industry is characterized by multi-party cooperation and investment, and high risk of inefficiency, error, and fraud in transactions. Also, the slow exchange of critical data, inefficient trade negotiation process, and high third-party management costs are seen in the oil and gas trade.
However, the management model of the oil and gas industry is changing to address these problems. Key players within the industry have recognized blockchain technology as having the potential for use in the field.
The latest developing news indicates that US Customs and Border Protection has announced its intention to adopt and integrate blockchain to track natural gas and oil imports from Canada. It is a federal agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Now let’s understand the details of the U.S customs agency’s blockchain project.
The department’s research and development unit – the science and technology directorate – has awarded $182,700 to Mavennet Systems Inc., – a Canadian blockchain firm – for the initiative.
Mavennet will develop a blockchain platform that will enable the U.S customs agency to track and audit oil and natural gas trading markets in Canada in real-time.
Canada is the fourth-largest producer of oil in the world. The country exports about 3.5 million barrels of crude oil each day to the U.S., majorly via pipeline.
Mavennet blockchain platform
Mavennet systems have developed a blockchain platform for commercial oil markets in Canada. The platform allows real-time audits of natural gas and oil trading there.
The Mavennet systems will be integrated into the Customs agency. In this way, Mavennet will build a generic end-to-end platform, which the agency can adapt to track various imported commodities. The platform includes API integration and automation and the capacity to adapt to legacy systems.
The department’s technical director – Anil John – mentioned that the system will not only offer digital auditability , but also support emerging worldwide commercial oil consortium standards for verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers for blockchain use.
He said that accurate tracking of oil imports with the right composition and nation of origin and oil flow through refinement and pipelines between Canada and the U.S are of huge interest to the U.S customs agency.
The contracting process
This initial development award is the Phase 1 contract, which is a three-to-six-month long proof-of-concept. The contract looks for promising distributed ledger technologies and blockchain which could fill common needs across the Department of Homeland Security’s wide agency missions.
If the platform operates successfully in Phase 1, it would progress through four development phases that could eventually lead to its operational testing in various environments at DHS, after pilots and demonstrations.
The agreement continues the customs agency’s efforts to exploit emerging technology. During the past spring, the agency took public input on its 21st Century Customs Framework to process imported cargo. Shippers and lawmakers urged it to apply artificial intelligence and blockchain technology in that effort.
Blockchain technology continues to make its inroads within the oil and gas industry. U.S customs agency has finally joined the list of several energy giants, which are investing in the development of this technology.
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In the field of laser cutting metal, the cutting of highly reflective metal has always been a difficult problem for fiber laser cutting machines. This is because highly reflective materials such as copper and aluminum have low absorptivity for laser light and will reflect the laser beam a lot. Therefore, burrs or cracks are prone to occur during the cutting process, and in severe cases, the laser generator may even be damaged.
While laser cutting highly reflective materials is more difficult, that doesn't mean it can't be done. As long as it is equipped with a suitable laser generator and adjusted with reasonable parameters, high reflective materials such as copper and aluminum can also obtain good cutting results.
This 4000W fiber laser cutting machine from ACCTEK is equipped with an IPG laser generator, and we tested its performance in cutting highly reflective metals. As you can see in the video, the 4000W fiber laser cutter can cut 8mm thick copper material at a maximum speed of 16mm/s, and the cutting edge has no burrs, and the effect is good. When cutting 2.5mm thick copper, the speed of the metal laser cutting machine can reach 60mm/s, which is very suitable for batch processing copper workpieces.
The video also shows you the process of metal laser cutting machine processing galvanized sheet, aluminum, carbon steel, in which the cutting thickness of carbon steel reaches 18mm. It can be seen that the performance of the 4000W IPG fiber laser cutting machine is very stable and powerful. It efficiently cuts thick and highly reflective metals, making it an ideal tool for metal fabricators.
When using fiber laser cutting machine to process highly reflective materials, the correct use of assist gas is also a key factor in ensuring successful cutting. Nitrogen is a better choice when piercing and cutting copper. Because nitrogen is chemically inactive, it is not easy to react with the workpiece to be oxidized, which can prevent oxidation well and ensure the uniform color of the cut product. It should be noted that the use of nitrogen-assisted metal cutting requires higher purity.
In addition to the correct use of auxiliary gas, when laser cutting highly reflective metals, it is necessary to patiently adjust the cutting parameters and pay attention to the cutting speed. As you gain more experience with fiber laser cutters, you will eventually get the best results for cutting highly reflective metals. If you encounter problems when cutting copper and aluminum, our professional laser cutting machine engineers will also troubleshoot and solve problems for you.
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- December 31, 2009
Jordan’s only port town, Aqaba, has the potential to become a world-class tourist destination.
Building on Aqaba’s long history as a shipping hub and locus of industrialization, Jordan is working to develop the region into the country’s southern economic growth pole. A master plan is already in place that projects that the Aqaba Special Economic Zone will help create $6 billion in new investments and nearly 100,000 new jobs.
Nathan Associates will help the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) and the newly created Aqaba Development Corporation meet these projections. The first order of business is to assist ASEZA in improving its institutional capacity to perform regulatory and municipal functions, thereby enhancing its competitive position in the region and worldwide. Simultaneously Nathan will work with ASEZA’s counterpart¾the Aqaba Development Corporation¾to help it operate as an independent developer for the Aqaba region.
Funded by USAID and dubbed the AZEM project–meaning “strength” in Arabic–the $5.6 million contract expands Nathan’s work in Jordan. For nearly four years the firm has managed the highly effective Jordan Poverty Alleviation Project and has become increasingly familiar with the nation’s economy as a whole. This familiarity gave the firm insight on how to help Jordan achieve economic growth and good governance in the Aqaba region. | <urn:uuid:30158879-7e80-4f62-b86b-792da220f088> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nathaninc.com/nathan-to-support-development-of-aqaba-special-economic-zone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922828 | 309 | 1.75 | 2 |
Just like Earth, Mars undergoes seasonal changes due to its axial tilt. And while summer heat on Mars can’t compare with Earth’s, along with the Martian summer warmth comes an increase in small whirling storms known as dust devils.
From overhead, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted gigantic dust devils “hoovering” on Mars’ surface, while also seeing the “tracks” of past dust devils, which appear as dark markings on the Martian regolith.
Scientists say that dust devils form when sunlight warms up the air near a dry surface. Warm air then rises quickly through the cooler air above and starts spinning, causing a forward motion. These spinning columns of air become visible by the dust they pull off the ground. The spinning, forward-moving cell picks up dust and sand as it advances, leaving behind a “clean” track.
For instance, in this image above, the thin top layer of reddish, light-colored particles of dust and/or fine-grained sand, leaving the darker and heavier sand beneath. In images, this shows up as the dust devil tracks.
From past experience, researchers have seen that on each Martian spring or summer day, dust devils can begin appearing about 10 AM (local time) as the ground heats, and start abating about 3 PM as the ground cools. The dust devils typically last only a few minutes. | <urn:uuid:d6ba24fe-9a2e-4db3-ba44-9ef7efd6d9d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.universetoday.com/148336/summer-is-dust-devil-time-on-mars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.91393 | 295 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Tao Te Ching – Verse 45
True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.
The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way
and lets the Tao speak for itself.
(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
Great perfection seems flawed
Its function is without failure
Great fullness seems empty
Its function is without exhaustion
Great straightness seems bent
Great skill seems unrefined
Great eloquence seems inarticulate
Movement overcomes cold
Stillness overcomes heat
Clear quietness is the standard of the world
(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
Perfection has no contours.
Fullness is one with emptiness.
There are no straight paths to truth.
Skill is lazy in its restfulness.
Doing Nothing is better than doing something,
Because something is uncomfortable,
And uncomfortable are all things.
They can be spoken of, but that gives little solace.
They are not Nothingness.
(translation by Jeremy M. Miller, 2013)
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The Airbus A380 is a wide-body aircraft manufactured by Airbus. It is the world’s largest passenger airliner.This giant Airbus A380 is 15.8 foot (481 cm) long and has a wing span of 17.4 foot (530 cm).
The model has a 2.6 gallon fuel tank that burns through 0.3 gallons a minute, the giant scale model Airbus A380 Singapore Airlines is powered by four JetCat P120 jet turbines.
The builder of this airplane is Michael Bräuer, he spend 5,000 hours over eight months to build his 1:15 scale A380, using lots of styrofoam and lightweight balsa wood to keep the weight down.
The video from trainfart shows the model plane 1:15 scale taking off from the runway, looking a lot of like a real jetliner in the sky as its flying around for a few minutes. Peter Michel from Germany build this RC Airbus A-380 with 4x Kerosene Turbine Model Airliner only the 4x turbine are 20’000$.//trainfart | <urn:uuid:3d135685-9239-4208-b843-23072d763c97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://siamagazin.com/gigantic-rc-airbus-a380-singapore-airlines-4x-turbine-airplane/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.900732 | 238 | 1.96875 | 2 |
It is that time of year! No, not the holidays. It is time to choose next year's health insurance coverage. National candidates for the highest office are announcing an array of health care and insurance proposals for the future. But is anyone really winning this debate?
9 Reasons Why Health Care and Insurance are Hot Political Topics
1. Health care and insurance are extremely expensive, costing at least 10% of individual income. For employed individuals in commercial group plans, the employee’s monthly contribution is very high, but their employer’s contributions are even higher. If costs were to be successfully contained, employees could theoretically negotiate the difference as an increase in salary.
2. Out-of-pocket health care and insurance costs are also very high. In addition to premiums, costs include annual deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, and the prices of non-covered items. High deductible plans are of particular trouble to health providers tasked with collecting them from patients. But even the best of health insurance products in the market place today have a long list of out of pocket costs that have outstripped wage growth for the past 10 years and counting.
3. Even the most expensive employer-sponsored health insurance plans have reduced their payments to medical providers. This can be a huge shock to the working insured, to learn their expensive health insurance does not translate into better reimbursement to their doctors. A great commercial coverage plan often pays providers less than even the much maligned low Medicare rates.
4. Having so many uninsured or underinsured neighbors is driving up the cost of health care at area hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and medical practices for everyone. There are an estimated 100 million uninsured Americans under age 65, and this is a huge cost to absorb into the system.
5. Because many people have health insurance through their employers, it is tied to their job, instead of to their person. Millions are therefore not as free as they could be to move, become an entrepreneur, go back to school, pursue a different career, switch jobs or just find a better boss. This is bad for them as individuals and also a loss of all that entrepreneurial energy to our communities.
6. Health insurance is not unlimited. All contracts have caps and limits, and they are seldom fully understood by consumers until they reach one, and then gets translated into dissatisfaction with the insurance product itself. Because coverage has important exclusions, lifetime maximums, annual maximums, and strict utilization limits, it can and does run out on people, often when they need it the most, even as they and their employers continue to pay the premiums.
7. When Americans are asked what choices they most want in their health insurance, they want wider choices of providers, not necessarily a wider choice in insurance. In fact, a marketplace with as many different health insurance products as we currently have can actually be very problematic. The average number of choices an employer actually gives to an employee may be one or two companies. Not only do each pay different amounts to doctors, they each have different coverage rules, and have different lists of participating providers. Americans are getting caught out-of-network and having to pay a huge and unexpected expense in surprise medical bills. This is one more thing that would not happen if we had fewer but better coverage choices.
8. The coverage that is currently the standard in the marketplace is not for state-of-the-art or cutting-edge treatment. Insurance contracts instead offer partial coverage of an acceptable quality of care. Consumers who do not understand this will be critical of their coverage and may file complaints and grievances, without realizing that they were never promised experimental or investigational treatments. For true freedom of choice and top rate care, the height of luxury is and maybe always will be the ability to afford to go anywhere in the world and self-pay to get the best of the best.
9. The current system is losing a lot of money out of the system in inefficiencies and profits for the personal gain of certain executives, and these are the stories that make the headlines. From big pharmaceutical companies, to huge medical systems to large insurers, the inefficiencies of some are raising the ire of all. But on a day to day basis, small inefficiencies are also adding to the problem. Some patients are not taking an active role in their own health, pursue treatments rather than cures. There are too many incentives in the current stasis around the challenges that chronically sick legacy patients present to the system.
With enrollment in full swing, data tells us enrollment is down slightly, though between 69-80% of consumers enrolled in commercial health plans are happy with their coverage and would fight to keep it. Yet since 2006, the day of the year that big employer-based coverage breaks even has moved steadily, from February 28th to May 19th, and is it getting worse.
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20 July 2019 marks 50 years since the first humans set foot on the moon; together with BBC Studios, Blue Ant Media, and CuriosityStream, StarHub will revisit this monumental day through unseen footage, untold stories and many more.
Join StarHub as it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing with an exciting line-up of programmes:
Space Voyages (4 episodes)
Premieres 4 July, every Thursday, 10:10 PM on Smithsonian Channel HD (StarHub Ch 415). Exception for Ep 4 on 25 July which will be aired on 1 August.
From Mercury to Gemini, from Apollo to Curiosity, NASA’s giant leaps in engineering and science over the last 60 years have been nothing short of astronomical. Blast off on a celestial voyage as we explore the first half-century of the Space Age. Celebrate the triumphs, lament the tragedies, and learn how modern engineers are using the past as a blueprint, refining yesterday’s technologies in hopes of sending humans off to Mars and beyond.
Astronauts: Toughest Job in the Universe (6 episodes)
14 – 19 July, 8:05 PM on BBC Earth (HD) (StarHub Ch 407)
12 candidates across the UK take on some of the most rigorous challenges in a bid to determine who has what it takes to become an astronaut.
Return to the Moon: A CuriosityStream Original
Tuesday, 16 July, 11 PM on CuriosityStreamHD (StarHub Ch 422)
From the private companies SpaceX and Blue Origin, to China, Russia, the European Union and the United States — the most powerful individuals and nations on Earth are determined to conquer the moon and set up a base to explore the stars. The CuriosityStream original Return to the Moon tells the story of today’s global sprint to take man back to the moon and beyond.
Apollo’s Moon Shot (6 episodes)
Premieres 20 – 25 July, 10:10 PM on Smithsonian Channel HD (StarHub Ch 415)
Revisit one of the most riveting periods in American history in this comprehensive look at the Space Race.
8 Days: To the moon and back (2 episodes)
Premieres 20 July, every Saturday, 8:05 PM on BBC Earth (HD) (StarHub Ch 407)
A film done for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, 8 Days offers viewers with access to previously classified audio files and recreated footage to provide a new perspective to the most important space mission ever flown.
Moon Landing LIVE (2 episodes)
Premieres 21 July, every Sunday, 8:05 PM on BBC Earth (HD) (StarHub Ch 407)
The documentary tells again the story of the moon landing, and how close the mission came to failing, through original Nasa footage and international broadcasts from 1969.
To bring the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing closer to Singapore fans, come join us at Picnic Under The Planets, organized by the Singapore Science Centre and the Smithsonian Channel, in partnership with Blue Ant Media and StarHub. Free-for-all, head down to the Singapore Science Centre on Saturday, 20 July 2019 from 6 PM, for stargazing sessions, movie screenings, stage programmes, food booths and many more.
Exclusive to StarHub subscribers, the first 50 customers to present their StarHub bill or flash the operator logo at the Smithsonian Channel counter at the event, will walk away with an exclusive goodie bag from The Smithsonian Channel and Science Centre Singapore, and secure an experience for four to the live planetarium show at the Omni-Theatre at 7 PM.
In addition, as a companion project to Smithsonian Channel’s landmark six-part series “Apollo’s Moon Shot,” Smithsonian Channel has produced a free-to-download augmented reality app ‘Apollo’s Moon Shot’ for smartphones and tablets that will enable viewers to experience an out-of-this-world close-up of some of the landmark events which defined the start of the Space Age. The app will feature videos from the series as well as interactive AR games that put viewers in the driver’s seat.
From now till 14 July, put your observation skills to the test and count the number of space crafts on StarHub’s Facebook post for your chance to win $50 worth of shopping vouchers; the contest is open to all StarHub Entertainment and StarHub TV customers.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2015
The upper plateau of the Nilgiris, South India, was a grazed, grassy, and open landscape until the mid-nineteenth century when it was subject to colonial rule and commerce. However, even as it initiated and institutionalized capitalism, colonial rule also sought to selectively and legally safeguard from the material consequences of modernity and capitalism the pastoral lifestyles of the Toda graziers and the open and grassy biophysicality of their principal grazing landscape. Anointed the “Wenlock Downs” and reserved as forest in 1900, conservation policies to preserve this landscape for the amenities it afforded the English gentry significantly influenced policies to ameliorate backwardness associated with the pastoral lifestyles of the Toda. As official policy prior to the Second World War the Toda were encouraged to farm the grasslands to which they were given property rights. After the war, pastoralism gained official preference despite ostensible Toda interest in cultivation. English interests in protecting amenities trumped ameliorative interests. An historical racial standpoint, the pejorative labeling of Toda as indolent, also served strategically during the war as a rhetorical device to make a convincing case for pastoralism as an ameliorative panacea. This article is an historical sociology of bureaucratic discourse on Toda labor and landscape during and immediately preceding the Second World War.
2. The Toda case has been constructed from colonial and postcolonial archives and this methodological count nominally qualifies as an historical sociological effort. Historical sociological studies are usually comparative and macroscaled. The only comparative aspect contained in the Toda case is a temporal one between pre-World War Two and wartime bureaucratic discourses on Toda amelioration.
3. The anthropologist Anthony Walker has written at informative length about Toda agriculture and land problems. The historical sources he cites have been both primary—archival— and secondary—Gazetteers. Archival sources that appear in his references are some Board of Revenue proceedings from 1850 to 1927 and a limited number of Development Department Government Orders from 1948 to 1965. His treatment of the archives is straightforward—that is, records as resources rather than as discursive achievements. But for an anthropologist writing in the mid-1980s, the very engagement with primary historical sources is remarkable. His reliance on records as unproblematic resources to agricultural and other external development realities serves his purpose, which is to “rectify the image of the eternal Toda pastoralist.” Walker, Anthony R., The Toda People of South India: Between Tradition and Modernity (Delhi, 2003), 240–97; 311Google Scholar.
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29. TNA, B. G. Holdsworth, Secretary Board of Revenue, Reference-No. 39 64-B/ 28-3, August 25, 1928.
30. TNA, Secretariat Note, Official Memorandum No. 465-A.F/28-1, Revenue, May 10, 1928.
33. The Labbais were a money-lending migrant community. TNA, Revenue Secretary's Note, August 4, 1934.
34. TNA, Letter from R.D. Anstead, Director of Agriculture, to Secretary, Development Department, July 7, 1929.
35. TNA, Letter from Collector E.C. Wood to the Secretary Public Works and Labor, September 9, 1933.
36. TNA, Revenue Secretary's Note, August 4, 1934.
37. TNA, Letter from H.R.H Prince Peters of Greece to Lord Erskine, Governor, August 3, 1939.
38. TNA, Letter from P. MacQueen, Collector of Nilgiris to the Secretary, Board of Revenue, September 18, 1939.
39. TNA, Letter from P. MacQueen, Collector of Nilgiris to the Secretary, Board of Revenue, April 17, 1939.
40. TNA, Letter from S. A. Venkataraman, Registrar of Co-operative Societies, to the Secretary, Development Department, January 1, 1940.
41. TNA, Note by the Additional Secretary, Development Department, October 10, 1943.
42. TNA, Letter from Collector of the Nilgiris to the Secretary, Development Department, November 11, 1943.
43. TNA, Memo No. 9708 E/ 43-15, November 22, 1943, Development Department.
44. TNA, Toda petition to His Excellency the Governor, October 15, 1942.
46. TNA, Report of the DFO, Ootacamund, December 23, 1942. DFO Davis' opinion influenced government position at this juncture.
50. TNA, Letter from A.D. Crombie, Collector of Nilgiris to the Secretary, Revenue Department, February 2, 1943.
51. TNA, Letter from Dyson, CCF, to the Secretary, Revenue Department, March 13, 1943.
53. TNA, Letter from P.W. Davis, DFO, to the CCF, November 7, 1943.
54. Upon Collector MacQueen's 1940 proposal, the government, ruling out the need to legislate the Wenlock Downs as a National Park, deemed it enough that the Downs be “maintained” as one in TNA, G.O. 783, April 4, 1940, Development Department.
55. TNA, Letter from P.W. Davis, DFO, to the CCF, November 7, 1943.
56. TNA, Revenue Department Mis. No. 612, June 21, 1943.
57. TNA, G.O. Ms. 386, April 31, 1944, Development Department.
58. TNA, Letter from T. S. Ramachandran, Collector of Nilgiris, to the Secretary, Board of Revenue, September 9, 1947.
59. I allude to proletarianization as both a concrete and rhetorical circumstance. Concretely, the Toda do work as farm hands for wages, and this can be construed, in terms of social mobility, as a downward movement from a fairly autonomous range-herding pastoral class to an indebted peasantry. And it is this very—perhaps conservative and essential—imagery of the Toda who once grazed freely but now have to toil to live, that serves as rhetoric.
60. Itself “necessarily historical,” “sociology stresses the ‘two-sidedness’ of the social world” or “the fact that social action is both something we choose to do and something we have to do” and “bound up to the further fact that” social reality is “historical reality.” Abrams, Philip, Historical Sociology (Ithaca, New York, 1982), ix–xii Google Scholar.
61. This and other similar contemporary details I have generated from my fieldwork with the Toda during the period 2010–2013.
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Sausage is a type of meat that can be cooked in many different ways. One popular way to cook sausage is by slicing it into small pieces before cooking.
This allows the sausage to cook evenly and prevents it from becoming tough or dry.
However, some people are unsure whether or not they should slice their sausage before cooking it.
In this blog post, we will answer that question and provide some tips on how to cook sausage properly!
Can you slice sausage before cooking?
The process of cutting a sausage cooked is easy and fast. Because the sausage has been cooked, you are able to cut the sausage when the time is appropriate.
All you need is a cutting board and a sharp knife. If you do not have a cutting board, you can use any clean surface that will allow you to slice the sausage without damaging the countertop.
First, find the end of the sausage. You will want to cut off the tip before slicing the sausage into pieces.
Second, hold the sausage in one hand and use the other hand to guide your knife. Start by slicing vertically down the center of the sausage.
Next, start making horizontal cuts perpendicular to your vertical cuts. Finally, turn the sausage on its side and make small diagonal cuts.
After you have finished cutting up your sausage, it is time to cook it! Sausage can be cooked in many different ways . You can fry it, bake it, or even grill it.
Whichever way you choose to cook your sausage, make sure that the internal temperature of the sausage reaches 160 degrees Fahrenheit before consuming.
Can I cut up sausage before cooking?
Slice the links of sausage just prior to making them. Make sure not to cut the sausage links.
Cook the sausages in a moderate oven If you cook them to high the temperature, their skins could pop out.
Make sure to turn the sausages often to ensure the sausages cook in a uniform manner and do not get burned.
Test the sausages by pricking them with a fork. If the juices run clear, they’re done.
If you want to fry up some sausage for your breakfast, you should know that you can cut them before cooking.
Just make sure not to cut the links and cook them in a moderate oven so their skins don’t pop out.
Turn them often to ensure uniform cooking, and test with a fork to see if the juices run clear.
Do you slice sausage before grilling?
Slice the sausage lengthwise, around 80 percent of the way across. Then, fold it up and lay it out flat.
This is an excellent method to ensure that the insides are cooked quickly: place it skin-side down and the skin will not dry out.
If you are looking for an even quicker cook, cut the sausage into small pieces before grilling.
This is especially effective if you are cooking for a large group and need to speed up the process.
Another way to grill sausage is by using pre-cooked sausage. This can be found at most grocery stores and will save you time on the grill.
Simply heat the sausage on the grill until it is warmed through and has char marks.
Cutting your sausage before grilling it ensures that the inside cooks quickly without drying out the skin.
What is the healthiest way to cook sausages?
Sausages can cook in many ways. In general, baking and boiling are the best options since they don’t need much oil.
But pan and stir frying can be a good option when you use an oil that is healthy. In contrast, deep frying is not the most healthy method due to the calories and fat it can add.
To bake sausages, preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with foil then place the sausages on the sheet.
Bake for about 20 minutes or until they are cooked through. Boiling is another option and it only takes a few minutes.
Simply fill a pot with enough water to cover the sausages and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat and let them simmer for about ten minutes.
For pan-frying, heat up some oil in a skillet over medium heat before adding the sausage links.
Cook for about eight minutes, turning them occasionally so they cook evenly on all sides.
Should you boil sausages before frying them?
If you cook fresh or cooked sausage, pre-boiling may help bring the meat to the safe temperature inside faster and eliminate pathogens that are food-borne in the meat.
While you could boil sausage prior to cooking it however, it’s usually not required.
If you cook sausage slowly over low heat, it will cook evenly throughout and be safe to eat.
The water added from boiling can also make the casing less crispy if that’s what you’re looking for in your fried sausage.
If you choose to boil sausage before frying it, boiling for just a few minutes should do the trick.
You don’t want to overcook the sausage or else it might become tough.
Once the sausages are boiled, dry them off before frying them in oil over medium-high heat until they’re nice and crispy.
How long should you boil sausage before grilling?
Sprinkle with water until sausage is covered and cook until the sausage is gray throughout about 10-15 minutes.
The sausage can then be baked until well-browned. The parboiled sausage may also be cooked slowly on coals with frequent turning until the sausage is the sausage is grey-brown all over.
You can also fry the sausage in a pan on medium heat until it is browned all over. Sausage that has been parboiled can also be grilled, turning frequently until it is evenly browned.
For safety, the USDA recommends cooking sausage to an internal temperature of 160° F.
Use a meat thermometer to check the temperature of the sausage before eating it.
Now that you know how to cook sausage, try one of these delicious recipes:
- Sausage and Peppers
- Sausage Pizza
- Sausage Casserole
- Kielbasa and Sauerkraut
- Sausage Gravy
Do you grill sausage with casing on?
As Standing claims, That casing is holding in all of the juices and fats and all the stuff you want in there.
Scoring the sausage will not only allow the fat to go away, but this fat loss can trigger flare-ups, which can cause the sausage’s outside prior to the inside being completely cooked.
The casing also protects the sausage from sticking to the grill grates, which makes flipping them a whole lot easier.
If you do decide to remove the casing, be sure to cook the sausage on indirect heat first before moving it over to direct heat.
This will help prevent the outside of the sausage from burning before the inside is cooked through.
So there you have it leave that casing on when grilling your next sausage! And remember, lower and slower is always better when cooking sausages on the grill.
By following these simple tips, you’ll be sure to impress your guests with delicious grilled sausages every time.
Should sausage casings be removed?
Plastic casings, also known as Chub packages, are utilized to sell ground beef and freshly made pork sausage.
All plastic casings need to be removed prior to the time that meat products are eaten.
Casings can provide you with a wide selection of meat products that have been processed that will satisfy your tastes.
If you are looking for a specific type of sausage, then removing the casing may be necessary in order to find the seasoning and spices that you desire.
Some people also like to remove the casing so they can cook the sausage with other ingredients to create their own unique dish.
Whatever your reason is for wanting to remove the casing, it is important to know how to do it properly so you do not end up ruining the sausage.
How long do cut up sausages take to fry?
To cook sausages, fry in oil, heat 1 tablespoon in a fry pan. Sausages are cooked gently with the oil about 10-12 minutes until cooked to perfection and turning them often.
Sausages are also cooked in an oven a excellent option to cook something else with your oven. Simply preheat your oven to 350F degrees, cook for 20-25 minutes.
Another option is to boil sausages in water, add sausages to a saucepan of boiling water.
Boil for about 12 minutes or until cooked through. Drain the water and serve immediately with desired sides.
All these methods are excellent ways on how to cook sausages perfectly every time! Try each method and see which you like the best.
As you can see, there are many ways that you can cook sausages perfectly every time. Whether you fry them, bake them, or boil them, they will always turn out delicious.
How long does it take to cook cut up sausages?
Set a non-stick pan on the heat to medium and then place the meats. Some of the grease from the sausages will appear as they heat up.
Then turn the sausages over into the hot fat and cover the sausages.
Continue cooking for about 15 minutes by moving them around the pan, rotating them regularly to ensure they cook evenly.
After 15 minutes, remove the lid and let them cook uncovered until they are slightly charred.
This usually takes about five to eight minutes. Sausages are a great food to cook for a quick meal.
They can be cooked in a variety of ways, but one of the most popular methods is to cut them up into small pieces and cook them in a pan.
This method is simple and only requires a few minutes of cooking time.
If you’re wondering how long it takes to cook cut up sausages, the answer is 15-20 minutes.
Why is sausage cut diagonally?
Put the links on your cutting board , and then slice them in a diagonal 45-degree angle.
This cut helps your sausages sear properly while cooking. It will also add a unique touch to the appearance.
When you cut sausage diagonally, it helps the juices disperse evenly throughout the meat. This allows each bite of sausage to be juicier and more flavorful.
In addition, the diagonal cuts create a larger surface area for the seasoning to adhere to. As a result, your sausages will be better seasoned and have more flavor.
Whether you’re cooking breakfast sausage links or patties, it’s best to slice them before frying.
This will help them cook evenly and prevent the fat from oozing out.
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This week, you learned about various relaxation techniques for stress management, as highlighted in Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12. Autogenic training, explained in Chapter 11, can be quite effective for managing stress. As part of this reflective journal, you will utilize autogenic training and share your feedback once you are done. Read Relaxation Techniques for Health (Links to an external site.), and watch All It Takes Is 10 Mindful Minutes (Links to an external site.). Puddicombe discusses the importance and benefits of being mindful.
Before completing this assignment, please ensure that you are undisturbed for approximately 30 minutes. The environment you are in should be quiet and comfortable. The author of your textbook discourages participants from ingesting a stimulant or eating right before participating in this training. When you are ready, assume a body position of your choice, as outlined on pages 251-252 of the course text. Next, listen to the Breath & (Links to an external site.) Autogenics Meditation (Links to an external site.)recording by Dr. Lichtenstein.
Upon completion of the training, please assess your experience via Lab 11.1. Compose an APA-formatted paper, sharing your experience and self-assessment. Your paper should be written in paragraph format and address the following:
- Explain your Autogenic Training Experience: describe how you felt during the training, the environment, and any thoughts that occurred while completing this training.
- Assess your lab responses, including your score.
- Evaluate any challenges you faced while completing this exercise.
Your journal should be one to two pages in length. Include an APA formatted title and reference page. Remember to cite and reference your course text and any additional resources you may have used for the completion of this assignment, according to APA Style (see APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.), APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.), and Introduction to APA (Links to an external site.) for more information). | <urn:uuid:b02380dd-0037-43df-8a15-7c50e8b35f7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://solvedpapers.info/hwe-415-week-3-journal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.89787 | 443 | 2.484375 | 2 |
A decade or two ago, we as children could only but dream of having a robot playmate; drawing our fantasies from futuristic TV shows like The Jetsons and Futurama. However rapid technological advancements have allowed today’s children to live our childhood fantasy. Today, these robots for kids are perhaps some of the most cutting-edge products available on the market and according to US Scientists, they are not only fun playmates, but also have the potential to be a resourceful aide to education and teaching kids about social interactions.
Developed to teach kids how to code, Photon is one such phenomenal robot that promises to grow with your child. The automan stands about 2 feet from the ground and resembles a small dog, with its illuminated eyes and antennae sprouting from the top of its head. Photon is equipped with multiple sensors that allow it to see, hear, feel the touch, distinguish between light and dark, measure proximity and thereby enable it to better interact with its environment and offer various features, which are unlocked along with the child’s development.
The team of engineers behind Photon believe that children tend to spend excessive amount of time using smartphones and computers to no productive avail. Therefore, the thought behind Photon is to provide children with an educational solution in the form of a playful companion that fosters logical thinking and problem solving skills. Although Photon seems to present an enjoyable experience for people of all ages, it was made keeping elementary school children in mind. Which is to say that the entire Photon experience is shaped together with a group of children of ages 6-12, so that it perfectly fits their abilities, needs and expectations. Furthermore, USC studies document that kids with ASD actively interact with robots, Photon therefore has the potential to be a phenomenal aide to classroom education that makes learning a fun experience for all children.
The lively robot encourages interactive learning and therefore, young users can communicate with Photon using commands on a paired Photon application adjusted for both smartphones and tablets. Here children are introduced to Photon’s story- a tiny intergalactic robot from a galaxy far, far away, whose spaceship collided with an asteroid and crash landed on earth. By completing coding tasks, children must help him regain his senses and mend his spaceship, so that one day Photon can safely return to his home planet. The robot uses a programming language inspired by Scratch and Google Blocky, which makes it simple and comprehensible by even the youngest of minds.Furthermore, Photon allows children the flexibility to program their own robot, at their own pace, which adds an air of individuality to each robot.
Coding is perhaps the most rewarding and sought after skill of the 21st century. And Photon was made to help young learners to step into the world of coding. It is expected that over the next ten years there will be about 1.4 million programming jobs and only four hundred thousand graduates in computer science. Undoubtedly, high technological literacy will become a necessity for future generations, and Photon therefore hopes to encourage children to discover new horizons and bridge this gap in the future. But more than anything, it hopes to make children’s first steps in the world of fast emerging technologies accessible, pleasant and, fun! | <urn:uuid:bfff7409-b39d-433f-85cf-4577b06b4574> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wizmojo.com/tag/kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958875 | 663 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Disasters occur every day. The community health nurse has a significant role in preparedness, response and recovery when disaster strikes locally. Effective response to disaster demands the community health nurse to develop specific competencies. These include understanding the role, recognition of disaster-related health conditions, infection control post disaster, disease reporting, public education and stress management in the affected community.
Identify your own level of preparedness should disaster strike in your area. Visit the Red Cross site: http://www.redcross.org/get-help/prepare-for-emergencies/be-red-cross-ready to review details on disaster preparedness kit, plan and information. Discuss your response to this information. Were you surprised at your level of readiness? What steps will you take to prepare yourself and your family for the possibility of disaster? How can you share this information with your community?
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New Haven Center Has Economic Vitality — But It Doesn’t Ripple Far
“What Sukh Grewal sees in New Haven now he has seen before, working in Silicon Valley in the early 1980s: a vibrancy that is making the downtown a center of technological innovation.
‘It’s not unlike what can happen here,’ said Grewal, who launched a start-up software company in downtown earlier this year after a 30-year career at General Electric. ‘New Haven has the lead over the state in terms of software development. We’re not there in New Haven yet, but we felt we could be part of a movement.’
Downtown New Haven has long possessed an enviable entertainment night life, but in recent years, the creative energy has bubbled over with the addition of hundreds of apartments, the opening of nearly a dozen of restaurants and bars in the past year alone, a thriving retail scene and remarkably low office vacancies — surprising in the face of a sluggish economic recovery.
One innovative program, for example, ‘Project Storefronts,’ targets vacant retail space with temporary stores until permanent leases are signed. And late last month, the city touted an 89-percent retail occupancy downtown, with the majority of stores locally owned, as the area headed into the final days of the holiday shopping season.
Grewal’s startup is an example of a growing number of young software, biotechnology and biomedical companies in the downtown area that are growing around Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital — the ‘eds and meds’ — that are at the forefront of downtown’s evolution over the past 20 years.
Those institutions are providing not only jobs — Yale-New Haven’s Smilow Cancer Hospital alone has added 600 jobs since it opened in 2009 — but are supplying research and a ready-made, sought-after pool of employees.
Despite the gains downtown, the vibrancy has yet to make a significant impact in the Greater New Haven area though, and crime in the city, while down overall, remains uncomfortably high.
But apartments are filling up downtown, including those that were converted from less desirable office buildings and, more recently, a new 500-unit apartment tower on State Street. The tower, opened a year ago on what was for decades a vacant lot, is now nearly 90-percent leased, on target with the developer’s projections.
On the ground floor of the 360 State Street apartment tower, a full-service, co-op grocery store opened six weeks ago. The store is attracting 1,000 shoppers a day during the week, offering more than 15,000 different items
In this city of 123,000, the opening of a downtown grocery store — notoriously difficult in mid-size cities — is a coup, and residents hope the Elm City Market will attract more stores and restaurants to open in the Ninth Square district of downtown.
Some dismiss the success as all about Yale and the fact that the university steeps the city in creative energy, not to mention a steady flow of money. City officials readily acknowledge Yale’s key role, but say energy is coming from other quarters as well.
‘A lot of players have been here; it’s not like Yale just moved here,’ said Kelly Murphy, the city’s economic development administrator. ‘We’re seeing momentum after years of working. What people don’t notice is the 10-12 years of smaller projects, getting low level office space off the market and introducing more residential.’
In the past decade, New Haven has benefited from the growth of technology and biotechnology firms — one factor that has helped keep its overall downtown office vacancy low, at 10.2 percent as of Sept. 30, according to commercial real estate services firm Colliers International.
For Grewal, there was never any question that he would launch his new company, Grey Wall Software, in New Haven.
His wife, an immunology scientist and professor, had been recruited by Yale in 1986 — and he had worked in New Haven heading up software development projects for GE for eight years.
Grewal left GE after his unit was moved from New Haven to Shelton, and he took a group of five programmers, many of them Yale graduates, with him. He signed a lease in January, less than a week after seeing 1,600 square feet of space on the third floor of a building on Church Street overlooking the New Haven Green.
The space is spare: dry-erase paper taped to walls, with programming trees mapped out on them; two-drawer filing cabinets bought for $5 apiece from Yale and doors bought from a home improvement store for $25 and finished with stain, and polyurethane form desks. The biggest purchases were 30-inch computer monitors to make minute programming codes easier to see.
Grey Wall — a play on Grewal’s name — is developing software for managing crises, giving decision-makers an overall picture of the problem, and who is doing what and where. Initial financing was private, but Connecticut Innovations — the state’s quasi-public authority that invests in technology firms — has since approved funding for the venture.
‘We knew we were taking a risk,’ Grewal said. ‘But we knew the talent was here. As long as we could recruit, we knew we could succeed.’
The company has just nine employees right now, but recruiting has stretched as far away as Amsterdam. Grey Wall aims, of course, to grow, seeing its software as perfect for managing crises such as the one faced by Connecticut Light & Power Co. after the October snowstorm. In addition to utilities, key customers also are likely to include governments, airports and the aerospace industry.
Downtown New Haven has seen its share of corporate downsizings in recent years, and there are more on the horizon. United Illuminating, for example, will move out of nearly all the 200,000 square feet it leases on Church Street, after it finishes building a new suburban headquarters in Orange.
So far, at least, the city’s expanding roster of non-profits has been moving into the office space that has been left vacant. And the city’s low vacancy rate easily justifies new construction, including the planned first phase of Downtown Crossing on College Street, expected to encompass as much as 450,000 square feet of lab and office space, plus street-level retail.
The office market in downtown New Haven stands in sharp contrast to the central business district in Hartford, where overall vacancies were nearly 25 percent at the end of September.
Robert Santy, president and chief executive of Connecticut Economic Resource Center in Rocky Hill, said New Haven’s downtown is dominated by smaller companies, while the foundation of Hartford’s central business is built on large, mature corporations.
While that gives Hartford a solid base, it also left it open to contraction in the recession, far more so than New Haven, Santy and others say.
‘Changes in the world economy don’t seem to impede growth at Yale to any great extent,’ John Keough, a senior broker at Colliers International in New Haven, said. ‘They did lose money in the market crash of 2007 and 2008, but they are a very stabilizing presence in the New Haven market.’
Given the activity in downtown New Haven, it would seem that a ripple affect to the surrounding region would be inevitable.
But federal economic data suggests otherwise. Employment in the New Haven metro area fell nearly 8 percent since the recession began, while the production of all goods and services in roughly the same time period grew 1.5 percent.
What is startling is that by contrast, the Hartford metro area’s employment fell just 1.5 percent, while output shot up 7.5 percent.
In a recent report from the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C-based think-tank, ranked New Haven 75th in job creation since the recession among the largest 100 metro areas in country, while Hartford ranked 14th. Similarly, New Haven ranked 43rd in output and Hartford, 2nd.
Tony Rescigno, president of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce, said the employers in the broader metro area are still reluctant to hire, particularly in the manufacturing sector.
‘There is still a tremendous amount of uncertainty out there.’ Rescigno said. ‘There’s not a lot of hiring going on.’
And the city as a whole still faces serious challenges. Violent crime — homicides, rape, robbery and assault — is down nearly 9 percent, compared with 2005. But the 34 homicides in 2011 easily surpassed the 23 in 2010.
New Haven’s overall poverty rate is the second-highest among Connecticut cities.
Downtown residents acknowledge New Haven’s urban troubles, but some say they are outweighed by the strides that the city has made. Murphy and others complain that reporting on crime often overshadows the gains the city is making in downtown and elsewhere in the city.
Stephanie Bennett, a North Haven chiropractor who moved into 360 State with her husband Luke a year ago, said she quickly found how much there to do within a few minutes of her apartment.
‘This is the best up-and-coming city in Connecticut,’ Bennett said.
Even amid a sluggish economic recovery, New Haven has seen a flurry of new stores and restaurant openings, including the opening of an Apple store on Broadway.
Some of the retail stability is guaranteed by the Yale, which owns dozens of storefronts in and around Upper Chapel Street — giving them the clout to market multiple locations and offer competitive rents.
One stretch along Chapel between College and High streets has 19 stores, with just one vacant. The block is decidedly upscale and pricey: one shop offers a ‘one-of-a-kind’ diamond vine right for $9,995. It also has history: the Union League Café is on the site where Revolutionary War patriot and the city’s first mayor Roger Sherman once had a home.
One of the stores, Celtica, with handmade sweaters and other Celtic items, moved to the block a year ago, after operating around the corner on College Street for the previous nine years. Owner Sergio Berardelli said a store offering Celtic items, including handmade sweaters, depends on the Irish community in and around New Haven, and Yale, particularly visiting parents.
‘A lot of traffic that comes is because of Yale,’ Berardelli said.
A 10-minute walk to the other end of Chapel lands you in the heart of the Ninth Square historic area.
When the Elm City Market opened six weeks ago, the grocery had 750 founding members. As of December, that number had jumped to 1,200 and there are forecasts for passing 2,000 in the first year. The market — a blend of organic and traditional groceries and prepared foods, many locally produced — also is approaching a pace that would result in the $10 million in sales forecast for the first year, according to Mark Regni, the store’s general manager.
With the growth in the number of downtown apartments, it would seem a natural to open a grocery store. But Bruce Becker, the developer of 360 State, where the market opened in a street-level storefront, said it wasn’t an easy sell.
‘We reached out to 60 operators,’ Becker said. ‘They all said no.’
So far, the market appears to be proving the doubters wrong, so much so that officials from Hartford are studying the co-op model as a potential alternative for Hartford’s short-lived downtown grocery. The Market at Hartford 21, despite opening with fanfare, closed after just six months.
‘The market is going to change the dynamic of the downtown business landscape,’ Regni said. ‘Other retailers may see that and want to open.’
Across Chapel Street from the market, another initiative — a collaboration of ‘Project Storefronts’ and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven — is seeking to carve out a niche for art space in the downtown
People hope the long-vacant building at 756 Chapel will evolve into a workspace for artists, and also play host to community events. Recently, artist David Eugene was rendering a line drawing on the wall on the third floor, the latest artist to adding to original artwork in the building.
‘This has been a dream of mine for a long time,’ Eugene said. ‘Just having a wall space and a Sharpie on the wall.’
Margaret Bodell, who coordinates ‘Project Storefronts,’ said the revitalization in Ninth Square is a boon for downtown, but it can’t come at the expense of the art community that was long part of downtown.
‘Everything is getting jazzed up in New Haven,’ Bodell said. ‘We have to keep the heart and soul of creativity in downtown.'”
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Lawns are a great way to enhance the appearance and value of your home. Like most people, you have probably inherited lawn-care ideas from family and friends so you think you know what to do for the best-looking lawn. What many people do not realize is that back in the ’50s, chemical pesticides were generously used to an extent that there is now legislation to prevent overuse. A large number of chemical pesticides are still in use, but thankfully, many American citizens are gradually becoming concerned about the negative impact of chemicals on their gardens and immediate ecosystem. This is driving many homeowners to learn safer ways to keep their lawns fresh and green. Greener methods are quickly becoming the go-to solution for lawn care. Good lawn-care practice constitutes regular mowing, watering, feeding, and fertilizing. When the soil content is carefully monitored, then the health of your lawn will improve, naturally resistant to weeds and pests.
Keeping Your Lawn Fresh and Green
Watering: During the summer and warmer months throughout the year, water the lawn more frequently. This may seem obvious but there is a reason for stating this simple fact. Overwatering can easily lead to rotting roots, so you need to be careful about how frequently you water the lawn. Under-watering can lead to temporary browning of grass during the summer months, but the grass will quickly recover once it starts raining again. If you have just planted new grass, you may have to water the lawn on a regular basis, ideally once a week. Using a sprinkler system set to water a few times a week is the most prudent way to keep the grass moist at all times. It is up to you how much you want to invest in your lawn, but a healthy lawn is a worthwhile investment for every home.
Fertilizing: Feeding the soil is directly related to the soil condition of your lawn. You may want to incorporate the help of a professional to determine how much soil feed or fertilizer you should use at any point in time. Depending on your geographical location, certain types of fertilizers will be more effective, and this is where the help of a professional can help you choose the right fertilizer. Additionally, if you leave the grass clippings on the soil on a schedule, then that further helps enrich the nutrients of the soil. You should plan to use fertilizer at least once a year. Typically, summer and spring soil feeds are very high in nitrogen for the growth of the grass. Don’t forget to manually water your lawn within three days’ of feeding if it does not rain.
Mowing: Throughout the year except for winter, you can mow the lawn whenever the grass grows high. Depending on the type of grass you have planted, and depending on the soil condition and weather, the grass on your lawn will grow at its own pace. Be sure to keep an eye on its growth and develop a regimen for lawn mowing, based on the needs of your lawn. You may find that you need to mow more often during the spring since this is when plant life springs upward and outward. While mowing, use some containers to collect all the clippings for composting. Between summer and autumn, the growth rate of the grass varies widely, so be sure to adjust your mowing schedule accordingly. During this time, once a week is usually pretty good.
Aerating:Aerating enables loosening of the soil and, and prevents thatch buildup. Aerate when the soil is moist. Ideally, this will be after a rain or after you have watered the lawn. You will usually aerate when the grass is growing. You can aerate any time between spring and autumn, but never aerate when the soil is dry and hard. The aerators will not penetrate the soil layers properly.
Weeding: Generally, you will need to have the soil’s pH checked to determine when to start weeding. Typically, the more acidic the soil, the greater the chance of weed growth. You can use any standard weed killer product to deal with weeds between the summer and autumn months. During winter, you can use some calcium nutrients to check the weed growth. You can also manually uproot weeds or fungus during the winter months, or hire a gardener or neighborhood kid to help with this.
Seasonal care: In the summer, you will need to increase your mowing frequency to keep the grass looking neat. Very hot and dry weather can affect the growth and appearance of the grass during the autumn months, the rate of growth will gradually decrease and you may only need to mow once every other week during this time.
Regularly trimming the edges will keep the lawn looking neat and healthy. In the winter, do not feed the grass as this can lead to premature growth and destruction of the lawn. During spring, the grass will automatically start growing again, and make sure you allow the lawn to recover after the winter. Then you can begin to start trimming the lawn or mow once or twice in a two-week span. | <urn:uuid:48ad68ee-cdb7-48df-a953-9a73afc2f793> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.texaspatiobuilder.com/keeping-your-lawn-fresh-and-green/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960533 | 1,036 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Paz Leiva, Spain •
Nowadays there are adventure books or books about police matters in which one can modify the story, as one reads. Even at the end, there is the option to go back in pursuit of another ending. I don’t have these books, but my grandchildren read them. I read novels. And what I like about a good novel is that the ending is the result of the story, the life, the decisions, the wounds and the falls of its characters. It’s the writer’s art that everything fits together and that everything justifies the ending. The ending is what it is, because it can’t be any other way. —
I know people who are happy about what they live through in confinement. Locked up at home we have discovered that we pray more, that we get along wonderfully, that family is the best and that we have a corner, with a picture of Our Lady, which gives us all the security. And after confinement? – We will export our corner to the whole world.
This is a possible end for when the pandemic ends, if we think that there was a man who on January 20, 1942, sought all possible excuses, to get out of prison and not to go to the concentration camp. That man took refuge in a valley, in a little chapel, and stayed there, praying. And there he stayed for the rest of his life.
It all adds up. The end corresponds to the life of the protagonist. But the story could have unfolded differently.
We go back to the indicated page. To change the ending, we must change a decision of the protagonist.
Let’s see: a man who, on January 20, 1942, does not submit to an examination, in order to get out of prison and not go to the concentration camp. He decides to be taken to the concentration camp. He knows that what God is asking of him is to renounce his freedom. So that God can give his friends their inner freedom. And he changes the life of a concentration camp barracks. And he wrote a book secretly, where he invites his friends to remain united and fight, to listen to the voice of God and work accordingly to co-decide the destinies of the Church and the world. He believed in the salvific mission of the West and he took a chance on it. It was before the Second Vatican Council, he spoke of lay apostles, of the new shores. He maintained his way of loving, of thinking and of living even in front of the Holy Office. He also endured exile.
On the trail of the protagonist, overview 2?
And his friends, who, in 2020, came out of a pandemic, did so like the young people our protagonist met in 1914. They went to the trenches, to the war that was coming, with the health, political, economic, social and existential crisis. And they went out to serve.
And they also had a corner with a picture of the Virgin, which gave them joy in hope and security in victory. And they prayed, but like the apostles.
We are the children of a father who took a chance on us. We are children of war. We can’t just stay in our corner praying. There are many needs around us, and these are not expected or solved by prayer.
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Kwabena Bene, the gallant warrior, finds himself among the hundreds of Maroons dumped unceremoniously by the Governor of Jamaica in Nova Scotia, British North America, in 1796.A hero of the just-ended conflict with the British Militia in Cudjoe Town, Jamaica, Kwabena refuses to call Halifax home. He must lead the battle to be sent back to the rolling hills of Jamaica, to rejoin his people and to continue their struggle against colonial oppression.Kwabena begins a resistance on all fronts. The British on one hand, a rival Maroon leader on the other, and two women, who're caught in the middle. It doesn't take him long to realize this is no ordinary fight. It's a fight for his reputation as a warrior, a leader; a fight for trust, a fight for honor. When betrayal rears its ugly head and his mission seems destined to fail, Kwabena must prove that not even iron bars can stop him from returning to Jamaica. As the mission comes under scrutiny, the daring warrior discovers he's sinking deeper and deeper into a sea of despair that not even his enemies would want him to be. Kwabena Bene despises failure! | <urn:uuid:c2936147-cfcc-456a-8838-1b864e181d47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mappit.net/bookmap/books/161462/marooned-in-nova-scotia-a-story-of-the-jamaican/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.971604 | 251 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Juneau snowfall totals below average , just 51 inches so far
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The seasonal and annual snowfall amounts in Juneau this winter are well below average, according to National Weather Service figures.
National Weather Service meteorologist Nicole Ferrin said an expected snowstorm on Thursday will likely put the Juneau area above the monthly average snowfall for February, which is 11.8 inches (just shy of 30 centimeters), the Juneau Empire reported .
Right now, the monthly total is at 11.7 inches (29.7 centimeters).
“For the airport specifically, we are almost exactly at normal for the month,” Ferrin said. “We’ll probably go above that number this week.”
But Ferrin said 50.6 inches (128.5 centimeters) of snow has been recorded at the airport for the winter. A normal total is about 69 inches (about 175 centimeters).
“We’re actually below normal,” Ferrin said.
National Weather Service figures show the annual snowfall average in Juneau is 86.7 inches (220.2 centimeters). So far this year, 35.5 inches (90.2 centimeters) of snow have fallen.
Records show this could be the sixth straight year with below-average snowfall.
Ferrin said based on forecast models, after Thursday it could be a while before there is another significant amount of snow to add to 2019′s totals.
“After Thursday, we go back to a northerly, cooler flow pattern, and I don’t see another sign of precip in any of the models,” Ferrin said. “This Thursday event could be it for the month total.”
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Housing is one of the top three areas where Latinos in the U.S. report discrimination, according to a nationwide survey conducted by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In Texas, nearly a third of first-time homebuyers are Latino, and Latinos account for 14% of all homebuyers, according to the 2017 Texas Homebuyers and Sellers Report.
3 in 10 Latinos in the U.S. report having been discriminated against when trying to rent or buy housing.
43% of Latinos who earn less than $25,000 per year report experiencing housing discrimination.
1 in 5 Latinos say that they or a family member have been told or felt as though they would not be welcome in a neighborhood, building, or housing development because they are Latino.
44% of Latinos who report living in a lower-income area say other Latinos in the area often face discrimination when trying to find housing. | <urn:uuid:f006db36-7aa6-4950-8859-171c56162942> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.texasrealestate.com/members/communications/texas-realtor-magazine/issues/january-february-2018/latinos-report-discrimination-in-housing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972762 | 202 | 2.171875 | 2 |
This is a Kemper Kombi, an early miniature roll film box camera and graphoscope produced by the Alfred C. Kemper Company of Chicago, Illinois, USA starting in 1893. The Kombi used a proprietary paper backed roll film developed specifically for it by the Eastman Kodak company and shot up to 25 exposures on a single roll of film. After developing film from the camera, the Kombi could also be used as a graphoscope, which was an early form of a slide viewer, in which you remove a round window on the back of the camera and look through the lens to view developed positive images. The Kemper had a variety of accessories made for it including both square and circular masks resulting of exposures in those shapes. The Kombi is considered an early pioneer in a variety of areas, including the first miniature roll film camera, first amateur snapshot camera, and first camera with interchangeable backs which could be bought separately from the camera.
Film Type: Kombi Paper Backed Unperforated Roll Film (~32mm wide), 25 1⅛ inch round or square exposures per roll
Lens: unknown focal length (~28-35mm) uncoated single element meniscus
Focus: Fixed Focus (~6 feet to infinity)
Shutter: Spring Tensioned Rotary
Speeds: Timed (Bulb) and Instant (~1/30 second)
Exposure Meter: None
Flash Mount: None
Weight: 140 grams
|The Kemper Kombi is one of the earliest miniature cameras that was meant to be used by the novice photographer and be capable of good images. The camera is very small and has ornate engravings making for an excellent display piece. In use, the camera is very easy to use and produces 28mm wide round images with good sharpness. Loading the camera is very difficult however, as the camera uses a proprietary size film which has no modern equivalent. Even if you attempt to cut down larger film to fit the Kombi, loading it is not easy.|
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Photography defined as the ability to permanently capture light on some form of light sensitive surface to be viewed at a later time has been around for nearly 200 years. Ever since the earliest forms of photography were developed in the 1830s, photographers have been finding new and innovative ways of furthering their craft.
For those who witnessed those early days, they likely saw it as a form of magic, freezing time in glass and metal plates. As the 1800s progressed, photography evolved from mysterious alchemy to a valid art form. Photographers opened studios everywhere, sometimes even in hotels. For those who wanted a photographic portrait, you merely needed to find the closest studio, put on your best clothes (or in some cases, die), stand still for a couple of minutes, and pay the man or woman to take your photo.
By the end of the 19th century, photography got easier and smaller. No longer was a chemistry background and impossibly large and heavy equipment a necessity to make a photo, as simpler dry plate and roll film cameras started to make photography more accessible.
The camera that is generally accepted as the first “consumer” camera was George Eastman’s original Kodak camera from 1888. The Kodak was a simple box camera with a rotating shutter design that was cocked by pulling a string wound on a coiled spring, and was factory loaded with enough photographic film to capture up to 100 circular images per roll. If you were so inclined, the user could open the camera and develop the images his or herself, but for most people, after finishing a roll you sent the entire camera back to Eastman and they would develop and print your images for you, reload the camera with a new roll, and ship it back to you, all for $10.
Other than the Kodak’s clever barrel shutter, there really wasn’t anything innovative about the camera as it used technology that other camera makers had prior to it’s release. By far, the Kodak’s best attribute was how simple everything worked together. Using the slogan, “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”, George Eastman connected with the average person who had no interest in learning photography, but wanted to make their own photographs. The Kodak was a tremendous success and launched a whole industry of simple and easy to use box and folding cameras that would usher in a new century.
A couple years after the original Kodak was released, a man by the name of William Vivian Esmond patented a new type of simple box camera which US Patent documentation referred to as a Combined Camera and Photograph Exhibitor. Esmond’s camera was given patent number US488,331 and was issued on December 20, 1892. On the second page of the patent documentation, it lists that one half of the patent be assigned to Alfred C. Kemper, “of same place”.US488331
Although the camera illustrated in this patent documentation resembles what would become the Kombi, the hand drawn illustration looks like a bit different. Imprinted onto the back door of the camera is a reference to a patent date of Dec 20, 92 which matches that of US488,311, but doesn’t list an actual patent number.
Most sources agree that within a year of this patent date, the Kombi Combined Camera and Graphoscope would go on sale for the cost of $3.50 and each roll of film, good for 25 exposures was 20 cents. For $3.00, an owner could buy a complete Kombi developing kit, containing all chemicals and tools needed to develop film themselves, or if you so chose, could send the camera back and have the film developed for you at a cost of 15 cents for developing and 1 cent each for a print of a developed image. A clever feature of the Kombi was that additional backs could be ordered with a cover to have fresh rolls of film ready to be swapped out after 25 exposures were made, without having to first develop and reload the camera. Each additional back could be ordered with a fresh roll of film, plus a cover for it, for an additional $1.50.
When adjusted for inflation, $3.50 for the camera, $1.50 for a new back, and 20 cents for each roll of film compare to $103.85, $44.50, and $5.93 today making the Kombi one of the most affordable photographic options available at the time. Compared to Eastman’s Kodak camera which sold for $25 for the camera and $10 to have each roll of film developed and reloaded, the Kombi was a bargain.
Despite competing with Eastman’s Kodak camera, it was Kodak themselves who produced the proprietary film for the Kombi. Contrary to some information found on the Internet today, the Kombi does not use 35mm film, rather a slightly narrower film stock that I estimate to be about 32mm wide. Considering the metric system was not widely used in the 1890s, a conversion of 1.25 inches equals 31.75mm which likely was the actual size, but I found no official reference to the Kombi’s film, other than it exposes images of 1.125 inches wide.
How and why Eastman became the sole producer of the Kombi’s film is not clear, but a theory I have is that Eastman wanted to test the waters for such a simple and small camera like the Kombi before producing a similar model themselves. Two years after the Kombi’s release came the Pocket Kodak which although not quite as small as the Kombi, produced 1.5″ by 2″ images on 102 format roll film.
In my research for this article, every single search I did for the names Alfred C. Kemper or William V. Esmond came back to the Kombi camera, but strangely, I found no other information about what else either man did. I found street addresses for Kemper’s company at both 132-134 Lake Street, Chicago, and also 208 and 210 Lake Street Chicago, suggesting that the company changed addresses at least once. Other references to offices in both London and Berlin suggest the company had expanded internationally, but strangely, I found absolutely no reference to anything else Kemper did. William V. Esmond’s name appeared on a couple other camera related patents after the original US488,331 patent, but it’s not clear if any of his inventions were ever produced. It is also not clear what else Alfred C. Kemper did before and after the sale of the Kombi.AllAboutTheKombi
“All About the Kombi” scan above courtesy, Pacific Rim Camera.
The Kemper Kombi seems to have been moderately successful as they are not hard to find today, but in my research for this article I stopped seeing references to it after 1896 which suggests a short life span. In some advertisements for the camera from the mid 1890s, Kemper claimed that more than 50,000 were produced in a single year which if true, combined with a 4 year production run, suggests that as many as 200,000 could have been made. The number is probably somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000, but it’s not likely we’ll ever know the true number.
I also do not know for how long the film continued to be produced. Many times, an extinct film for a camera that is no longer being made, will continue to be produced for purchase by existing customers, so it’s likely you could still buy Kodak’s film for at least a few years after the camera ended production.
Today, the Kemper Kombi is a very collectible camera for many reasons. For starters, it’s all metal and solid construction means that many have survived much better than other wood and paper cameras that were common in the era. Adding to that the camera’s compact size, good looks, curious operation, and historical significance only adds to the camera’s appeal. As I write this, five examples of the camera are available on eBay, which doesn’t seem like a large number, but for a 130 year old camera, the fact that at any given time, at least one is always for sale, I’d consider that “easy enough” to find.
With the number of reviews of cameras on this site approaching 300 (I honestly haven’t counted), The oldest working camera I’ve managed to shoot is the Kodak No.1 Autographic Special, Model A from 1916. I did post a Camera of the Dead review of the Kodak No. 3A Folding Brownie from 1909, but without any film to shoot with it, I never made any exposures. So when I had an opportunity to not only review, but also shoot my first 19th century camera, I was definitely excited to give it a shot.
This Kemper Kombi belongs to my friend and fellow blogger, Mark Faulkner who had never gotten around to trying it out so he gladly packaged it up and sent it to me earlier this year. I knew the Kombi was small, but I was not prepared for exactly how small it was. Measuring barely over an inch tall and wide, and about 2 inches deep, the Kombi is not only the oldest, but is also the smallest camera I’ve ever used.
The body is almost entirely made of metal with the only exceptions being the single element glass lens, and both a film platen and mask which are made out of some sort of composite material that resembles Bakelite but can’t be as Bakelite had not yet been invented when the Kombi was produced. The total weight of the camera is 140 grams which is very light, but considering the incredibly small size of the whole package, gives the Kombi a reassuring feeling of density.
Edit 7/20/21: After posting this article, Reddit user u/absolutenobody keenly pointed out that the material is most likely Ebonite, which is a type of hard rubber commonly used at the time. Originally developed by Goodyear, Ebonite was used in a huge number of things from slide holders to bowling balls, until it was eventually replaced by other synthetic plastics in the early 20th century.
In use, the Kombi works much like any number of early 20th century box cameras in which there is a single shutter speed that can be shot in Instantaneous and Timed modes. Focus is fixed, as anything from about 6 feet to infinity will be within the meniscus lens’s depth of field.
The Kombi lacks a viewfinder, which might seem odd, but was actually pretty normal for the era as the original Kodak Brownie didn’t have a viewfinder either. While shooting, simply point the camera in the general direction of your subject and press the shutter release. I’ve never found any specifics about the focal length of the meniscus lens, but it’s definitely wider than 50mm, meaning that there is great depth of field and coverage so getting what you want in the image isn’t that difficult.
Another thing missing from the Kombi is an exposure counter. With film loaded into the camera, a small little finger on one of the film spools makes a clicking noise as it passes a metal spring in the film compartment. I’ll cover how this works more in the section below (including a video where you can hear it) about loading film into the camera, but with film loaded, turn one of the advance knobs until you hear three clicks and you are ready for the next exposure.
Two knobs on the camera’s right side are numbered I and II and both can be used for film transport. The Kombi’s instructions say to load a fresh roll of film on the I spool, and advance it to the II spool, but looking at how everything works, I don’t see any reason you couldn’t load it the other way. Whichever way you choose, you must remember to be consistent throughout the duration of the roll.
When it’s time to fire the shutter, you must move the spring loaded metal arm across a curved plate with two indentations in them. The middle spot is used for long or Timed exposures, so should only be used in very low light. If you want to shoot the camera using the single Instant speed, you need to move the arm all the way to the opposite indentation and fire it by pressing down on the arm to allow it to spring back to it’s original position. Although I could find no information about the speed of the Instant setting, I estimate it to be around 1/30 based on the exposures I got later in this review.
Warning: Both cocking and firing the shutter are done in the same motion, so as you cock the shutter, you are also opening it, exposing the film inside to light. It is very important to cover the lens when cocking the shutter, or else you’ll ruin your exposure. Only after moving the curved arm all the way to the opposite side will the shutter be ready to fire. Pressing down on the arm will fire it as it moves past the middle position. If this doesn’t make sense, look through the lens as you cock it, and you’ll see the shutter is always open when the arm is in the middle position.
The Kombi has a single speed shutter and no provision for adjusting aperture, but if you wanted to reduce light entering the lens, an original accessory that slipped over the lens with a smaller hole would effectively “stop down” the lens. In the image to the left, this cover is over the lens. When not needed, you just pull the cover off and be sure not to lose it!
Although most people see the Kombi only as a camera, it also doubles as a Graphoscope, which is another name for a slide viewer. Of course, in order for a slide viewer to work, you need slides, and the proprietary film Kodak made for the Kombi was a negative film, so in order to use this feature, after developing your negatives, you’d need to contact print them onto a transparent film to make a positive. According to the Kombi’s user manual, you could also order premade transparencies of “celebrities, statuary, paintings, views, etc.” for an additional 60 cents.
To use the camera as a Graphoscope, you must first load the developed images into the camera and onto the spools in the same manner as you would load the film. For obvious reasons, you would not include the film platen or the original backing paper that would have come with fresh undeveloped film as you need to physically see through the developed film.
After loading the camera, a round window on the back of the camera must be removed by rotating it counterclockwise and lifting off. With the back open, you would then set the shutter to Timed mode to allow light to pass through the lens, and then put your eye up to the lens and look through the camera with a light source entering the back of the camera to illuminate the transparent image. With either of the Kombi’s two wind knobs, you can go forward and backward on the roll of transparency film to re-view images you’ve already looked at.
Without having access to real Kombi transparencies, I cheated a bit by taking a black and white 35mm negative and cutting it to a square and inserting it into the film plane of the Kombi, opening it up and shooting through the lens with my cell phone. I didn’t have any slide film for this experiment, so I inverted the image in Photoshop to give you an idea of what it might have looked like. The performance of the Kombi’s meniscus lens as a Graphoscope is more than adequate as center sharpness is excellent to the naked eye, although there is quite a bit of softness near the edges.
The Kombi is a pretty simple and straightforward camera to use. At it’s low cost and simple operation, I can see how it would have appealed to those without any previous experience with photography as it breaks everything down to the basics.
When it comes to loading film in the Kombi however, some extra patience is definitely required as the process is not easy. The Kombi’s original manual dedicates almost four complete pages, along with seven illustrations to explain the process which must be done entirely in the dark. Adding to the difficulty, doing this without access to genuine Kombi film makes it even harder as the original film would have had a protective backing paper which would have made attaching it to the spools a little easier.
A Word About Kombi Film: There are many articles that group the Kombi into a vague category of early miniature cameras, and it’s not always clear exactly what kind of film the camera used. In my research for this article, I found no mention anywhere of the exact width of the film Kodak made for the camera. Some sites refer to it as 1.5″ film, which is incorrect. Others suggest that perhaps the Kombi can use unperforated 35mm film, and that is not correct either.
I initially attempted to hand roll some bulk 35mm film and it definitely does not fit. 35mm film is about 1mm too wide on each side, suggesting the exact width of the film gate is about 33mm. To allow for a tiny bit of tolerance so the film doesn’t constantly rub against the edges of the camera while transporting, I feel safe in saying that 32mm film is required to transport through the camera. The Kombi shoots one and one eighth inch images, which converts to 28.5mm, meaning that with 32mm wide film, you should have slightly less than 2 mm of extra space on each side.
The gallery above shows the four pages from the Kombi’s manual (courtesy Pacific Rim Camera) and it does a really good job of explaining the process, but in practice, it’s quite difficult to do as it all needs to be done in complete darkness and you must attach the film to both spools as leaving it loose on one spool will just cause the film to freely flop around in the camera and not lay flat. If this was something you wanted to do yourself, I would definitely recommend using an orthochromatic film so that you can do this with a safe light on which will help as fumbling around with the various small pieces in complete darkness is really difficult.
In my own attempts to shoot this camera, I grew increasingly frustrated at my inability to get the film attached to both spools, inserting two rollers in the correct orientation (remember one of them has a little finger that makes a clicking noise as you advance the film), the two halves of the circular mask (which was broken before I got it), and the platen, all without anything falling out. The few times I did manage to get things together, I found that before I could close the camera up, the film leader had come out of the little slit in the spool meaning that the spool would just rotate freely without spinning the film so I had to keep starting over. I finally had some luck after deciding to just tape the film directly to each spool instead of threading it through the slit.
Although the instructions from the original manual are quite detailed, they require original Kombi film with the original paper backing which is very difficult to find today. I ended up having to custom cut some 120 roll film down to ~32mm and use that without any backing paper. After a lot of trial and error, I finally got it and thought it would be more helpful if I made a video to show you the process. Check out the video below, not only to see how to load film into the camera, but I also show how to count exposures, and what it looks like to see film transporting through the camera.
If the instruction and the video above seem like more than you’re willing to attempt, there is a simpler way to shoot film in the Kombi, but at the expense of only being able to shoot one single exposure at a time.
Rather than load in a roll of film and attach it to the spools, you can simply cut a square of 35mm film and lay it flat on top of the rollers, under the mask, and then reassemble the camera. I found it was easier to place the film sideways in the camera, but depending on how you cut it, it can fit both ways. Unperforated 35mm would be better as the sprocket holes will get in the way somewhat, but it does work. Just be sure to remember to set the film with the emulsion side facing up.
The images below show two squares of film in the camera. Of course, you need to do this with the lights off, as I sacrificed this one square of film with the lights on so I could take these pictures.
This second method is definitely easier, and with practice, I can cut a square of film, load it into the camera, and close it back up again in less than 2 minutes. Whichever method you choose, at least know that what you’re doing is something that very few people within the last century have attempted.
Not having access to real Kombi film, I had to get creative by loading in single exposures of film as described in the section above, but knowing that there likely hasn’t been a Kemper Kombi in active use in quite some time, I figured it was worth the extra hassle. Truth be told, after doing it several times, I was able to complete the entire loading process in less than 2 minutes per exposure. The biggest hassle was taking the camera some place interesting to make an exposure, and then knowing I had to take it back home again to reload it. This resulted in a lot of extra time needed to get multiple exposures for this review.
My choice of film was bulk Kodak Plus-X 125. I chose this film as I was afraid that with the Kombi’s single shutter speed and very small aperture, slower films would not expose correctly, and knowing that there would be a learning curve to getting images from this camera, I didn’t want to waste any of my better film stocks. With a huge supply of Plus-X, I thought it had the right balance of speed and grain that would give me the best chances at getting usable images from.
It would actually take me three different cycles of shooting and developing before I got usable images from these first single exposure experiments. I’ll save you the details, but I could have saved myself a lot of time if I had RTFM. In total, the above two images were the only worth sharing. The one of me is a bit soft as I am a little bit too close to the camera, but at least proves I really did use the camera, and the one of the Pioneer receiver is the only one I attempted in Bulb mode, holding open the shutter for about 3 seconds.
After having some limited success with my single exposure method, I really wanted to use this camera with roll film, like it was intended. I reached out to my good friend and vintage film hacker, Adam Paul and asked if it would be possible for him to custom cut me some 32mm wide film that was narrow enough to fit on the Kombi’s spools, but wide enough to capture a 28mm circular image.
With this challenge in front of him, Adam got to work, and cut down some ORWO UN54 film into 12 inch strips exactly 32mm wide. Knowing that the Kombi has a single shutter speed and no iris, he picked UN54 as it’s ASA100 speed rating and incredible latitude meant it should expose correctly in the camera.
The images above are what I think are the first to be shot in a Kemper Kombi in decades, perhaps even half a century or more. In my research for this article, I found absolutely no evidence of new images being shot in any contemporary review, or even those in published magazines in the second half of the 20th century. The few references to the camera I did find which showed sample images, always featured images shot when the camera was current, and later rescanned.
A combination of the camera using a type and size of film that no other camera has ever used and hasn’t been made in over a century, plus, an extremely difficult loading process likely turned off anyone wanting to give it a try. If you have, or know of someone who has shot recent images in a Kombi besides mine, please let me know.
Image quality is, well, the best you’ll ever see from an almost 130 year old palm sized all metal box camera with no viewfinder. Like all cameras with single element meniscus lenses, center sharpness is quite good with a significant drop off in sharpness near the edges. When the Kombi was sold new, you had the option of circular and square masks, and looking at the circular fall off with these images, I cannot imagine anyone would want to use the square mask as the corners would have been worse.
There’s artifacts all over the images including scratches, orbs, finger prints, and in some cases where my images went off the edge of the hand cut film I was using, but none of these are complaints, in fact, I would say they add to the appeal of the images. If you were to close your eyes and imagine what you would think circular images from an 1890s box camera might look like, these are it!
Using the Kombi is a lot of fun, especially with roll film in it because I didn’t have to keep taking it back home into a dark room to extract the single images. Having to listen for three clicks in between each image worked surprisingly well. I did have a small amount of overlap between some images but that was likely user error as most of the time there was sufficient frame spacing.
In using the camera, it seems the minimum focus is about 6 feet, judging by the mirror selfie which is a tad soft and I am about 4 feet from my reflection. I initially pegged the shutter speed at 1/50 like most Kodak box cameras, but each of the ORWO exposures came out a bit overexposed, so I would estimate the shutter is slower than that, probably closer to 1/30. The lens is also clearly on the wide side. Once again using the mirror selfie as reference as I shoot myself in that same mirror with many cameras, I know that with a 50mm lens on 35mm, at the distance I am standing, I cannot see both edges of the mirror. My best estimate is the lens produces images somewhere between 28-35mm on 35mm film.
I genuinely liked using the Kombi and loved the aesthetic of the images it made, but not having access to the proper film makes repeated use prohibitive. Although this camera is a loaner, I doubt that even if it were in my permanent collection, that I would ever shoot it again beyond this review. It simply requires too much effort to cut the film, load it, shoot it, then develop it (32mm film does not fit properly on a Paterson tank reel), and finally scan it (it also doesn’t fit on normal 35mm film holders).
Still, what an experience. Considering how much more difficult photography was in 1893 when this camera was first invented, the challenges I encountered were likely child’s play back then. Although I do not know how many of these cameras were ever made, the fact that many are in collector’s hands today suggest a decent number were made, and if so, people obviously bought them. For the time they were made, they were the cheapest camera you could buy and one that likely started many people into the world of photography.
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This study examines the additive effect of attitudes towards gender roles and importance of marriage on the centrality of children in seven East European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, the former East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Slovenia using the data from the 1994 International Social Science Survey (ISSP). Results support country related differences in participants' attitudes about gender roles, marriage and children. The results show former East Germany as being the most egalitarian country, Bulgaria and Hungary as the most traditional ones, and Poland, Slovenia, Russia and Czech Republic in between. A model of the dynamics among attitudes towards gender roles, importance of marriage and the centrality of children was tested for the goodness-of-fit using structural equation models (AMOS 4.0) techniques by the method of maximum likelihood. The goodness-of-fit provided evidence that the hypothesised model was stable. The results indicated that attitudes towards gender roles and marriage have a strong impact on attitudes toward children.
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The FDA Approves LAP-BAND® System Surgery for More Patients
The FDA has approved LAP-BAND® System surgery for an increased number of patients. In the past, only patients with a BMI (body mass index) of at least 40, or 35 with at least one obesity related medical condition, were approved for this bariatric surgery procedure. Now, patients with a BMI of 30 or higher, with one obesity related medical condition, can be approved for LAP-BAND® System surgery. There are still other requirements that doctors take into consideration before performing the surgery, but the expanded guidelines open the doors for many patients who otherwise would have been immediately turned away.
A body mass index above 40 indicates that the patient is at least 100 pounds overweight. An estimated 37 million Americans have a BMI between 30 and 40, in addition to a minimum of one obesity-associated ailment. That's 10 percent of the population that could qualify for LAP-BAND® System surgery.
Another stipulation of the new LAP-BAND® System surgery guidelines is that potential patients must have previously tried other weight loss treatments such as diet and exercise. If patients are unable to lose significant weight with other options, they may be able to qualify for LAP-BAND® System surgery. However, doctors warn that the LAP-BAND® System procedure will not do all the work. Patients must adhere to a regimen of a healthy diet and sufficient exercise. Without this, LAP-BAND® System surgery will not produce a successful outcome.
The LAP-BAND® System procedure involves the attachment of an inflatable silicone device to the top portion of the stomach. This greatly reduces the size of the patient's stomach, typically from a six-cup capacity to only half a cup. Because of the stomach's reduced size, the top portion quickly fills with food and enables only a slow and steady amount to make it into the lower portion of the stomach. When the upper portion fills up, the brain thinks that the whole stomach is full, reducing the patient's desire and ability to intake more food. In turn, patients are able to lose a significant amount of weight because they eat smaller portions, eat less often, and feel full quicker when they do eat.
In a study that was conducted to determine the viability of changing the BMI requirements for the LAP-BAND® System procedure, 149 patients that were obese for an average of 17 years prior to the surgery were monitored. The results showed that 84 percent of patients in the study lost at least 30 percent of their excess weight, 65 percent of those in the study were no longer considered obese, and all of the patients in the study were able to keep the weight they lost off through the second year of the study. The approval of less stringent standards for LAP-BAND® System candidates is certainly good news, and many will find the study's statistics inspiring. Hopefully more patients will take advantage of a procedure that has the potential to transform their lives for the better.
If you are interested in undergoing LAP-BAND® System surgery, contact a bariatric surgeon in your area.
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Shanker Blog: Allied Around Student Success
I see multiple stories published daily about the fragile state of the teaching profession and educators themselves. There is also concerning anecdotal evidence suggesting that the work of other school-related professionals, such as bus drivers, paraprofessionals, and substitute teachers, is also suffering due to stress from the pandemic, which may also be contributing to turnover and educator shortages. What can be most productive at this point would be to refocus on and rebuild the trust between families and educators to help promote student learning.
One thing the adults (and the students) in our schools don’t need right now is an opportunistic wedge being driven between the most natural allies in the cause of student success: families and educators. Rather than focus on problem-solving and communication, there are many stories that are focused on pitting educators and families against each other over teaching practices and materials, which is increasing the stress of teaching and learning just about every day.
I’m not just talking about late-in-the-game advertisements during the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. The work to create distrust between these longstanding partners—educators and parents—rather than nurture communication and collaboration, goes back months and has presented itself in state houses across the country. Leading the effort are state laws that create a climate of shoot-first ask-questions-later when it comes to perceived instructional transgressions. Books are being banned rather than discussed in Texas. The Tennessee Department of Education has instituted emergency rules for financially penalizing districts, and disciplining or reporting teachers violating a law of 14 concepts deemed too contentious by the legislature. Similarly, the New Hampshire Department of Education has created an online form to collect complaints about teachers from parents and students. A growing number of states have introduced or passed laws similar to these in 2021, while other states have plans to introduce similar measures in future legislative sessions.
Leading from a point of mistrust isn’t actually leading at all. These new laws and measures are superseding existing processes that include educator and community input and replacing them with top-down laws that cut out educators and even pit them against their communities. That is, there are existing processes for making these decisions that are better, more deliberate, less top-down, and more collaborative which draw on multiple sources of expertise. While elected officials spend time micro-managing ghost lessons, they could be investing in improving family and school relationships and committing to the accountability already built into our educational systems.
Multiple layers of teaching accountability already exist in all states. First, when a teacher is licensed in a state, that teacher agrees to abide by a code of ethics, which is tailored to that state and outlines a commitment to act in the best interest of students, including working in the community. In addition, a teaching license comes with the responsibility to adhere to academic standards in each subject area. These standards are set by the state, most often with a process for regular review and revision, including the input of the state’s educators, families, students, and community members. This layer of accountability provides clear subject matter for teachers, including review processes that regularly create an opportunity for communities to recommend adjustments for new learning. Providing high quality professional development, as well as the time for that professional learning, would be a productive way for legislators to invest in an existing layer of accountability, rather than creating mistrust through these recent laws.
As of 2019, 34 states require “objective” measures of student learning in teacher evaluations (although many have been suspended because of COVID-19). Most states also require in-class teacher observations. Additional layers of accountability have also long existed around the materials and subjects a teacher will use to teach to their state’s academic standards. For example, once a teacher has learned the state academic standards they are responsible for, they still have to learn what textbook has been adopted to facilitate learning. (Textbook adoption and curriculum design are usually out of most teachers’ control, unless they have been selected to participate in textbook adoption or curriculum design committee work as a representative.)
In addition to these layers of accountability, some of the most effective points of trust are also the most local and should be prioritized, especially now. Teachers are expected to participate in parent/teacher conferences throughout the year, as well as be in regular communication with students and families. In addition to these traditional conferences, schools also regularly create celebrations, schedule music concerts or theater performances, or invite families to curriculum nights to learn more about reading, math, social studies, and science work. These all serve as formal and informal opportunities for families to question educators and administrators, learn more about and provide feedback on lessons, the school climate, and priorities for student learning. More so, they serve as opportunities to build relationships with each other, so families and educators can turn to each other, rather than an anonymous link on a department of education webpage, if a concern is found. Prioritizing relationship-building between the adults in a student’s life, and between students and educators, strengthens student learning.
The most important trust point for student academic growth also happens to be the most effective. Timely and high-quality feedback a student receives from a teacher has been shown to successfully improve student learning. Meetings between parents and educators can also provide feedback for families to help their children and learn about the progress a student is making. If legislators wanted to improve teaching and learning conditions, they should invest in meaningful time for educators to meet with parents and invest in the time and conditions for effective student communication—such as reasonable class sizes and the up-to-date research on effective communication and feedback—rather than funding portals for criticism. Teachers have many ways of collaborating with families, which should be amplified and assisted. These promising practices provide a road map to ameliorate the stress both educators and families are feeling during the pandemic.
When I was president of my local teacher’s union I worked with parents and families frequently. I heard Randi Weingarten tell a story of co-writing contract language to improve a school community with parents, and then sharing the negotiating table with parents to successfully negotiate that language. Following her lead, I worked with parents and families to negotiate the inclusion of the Parent/Teacher Home Visit Program and Academic Parent-Teacher Teams, both of which build trust between the adults who are the most invested in student success: parents who care deeply about their children, and teachers who want students to succeed so much they’ve made it their day job.
Investing in these effective trust points, rather than sowing mistrust and division, creates stronger teaching and learning conditions and stronger relationships with educators and families—just the conditions our students need to succeed. Nurturing and strengthening the relationships among educators, students, and their families will also help ameliorate the stress our educators, our students, and our families are under during these uncertain times. Knowing that communication is prioritized can strengthen student learning at a time when everyone is concerned with interrupted learning during the pandemic. And it can alleviate misunderstandings at a time when elected officials are trying to pick fights between educators and parents, instead of creating an atmosphere for working together for student success.
As we address improvements to learning during the pandemic, we need to keep in mind that both teaching and parenting can feel pretty lonely these days. Strengthening family and educator relationships improve student performance in the long run and, during this stressful time, can provide a conduit for empathy and a mutually supportive and constructive path forward.
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The federal government and military are increasingly implementing Internet of Things (IoT) programs to help increase their reach and accomplish missions that they may not have the personnel or resources to accomplish otherwise. For example, IoT devices and sensors are being used for monitoring environmental conditions and alerting firefighters to potential wildfires. They’re also being utilized to gauge water levels and identify the potential for floods.
But, to power these IoT programs as they expand and proliferate across the government, agencies also have to embrace edge computing systems to better access and understand the enormous amount of data produced by these devices.
As the name suggests, edge computing moves some storage and computing resources out of the central data center and closer to where the data is generated at the edge of the network, whether that’s the battlefield, or the area surrounding our nation’s borders. By having the data processed locally, companies can save money and reduce latency issues that can affect an application’s performance.
At the center of these IoT efforts is Kubernetes, which has quickly become the de-facto standard for container orchestration within many IT organizations.
Kubernetes has a lot to offer as the foundation for edge computing platforms, but it also presents several challenges as the scale of edge applications grows. While managing multiple clusters within a single data center is one thing, trying to manage multiple clusters across hundreds to thousands of edge environments that are distributed across the globe is quite another. And when they’re being managed independently with very little uniformity, it can lead to “cluster sprawl” or “IoT sprawl.”
Not only does this increase the complexity of updating and managing Kubernetes, but it also results in an increase in operational overhead and excessive overall costs. Here are three challenges that governments may face when managing Kubernetes infrastructure at the edge:
Limited Network Connection
Although edge computing overcomes some typical network limitations by placing compute resources closer to data sources, most edge deployments require some minimal level of connectivity. There are a number of reasons edge environments might have a limited network connection.
Some geographic regions might be at a disadvantage if their edge environments are located in hard-to-access locations. In areas with fewer people, there may not be as many skilled IT professionals to operate and troubleshoot these environments.
This also creates challenges for compliance-minded organizations that use a firewall as a safeguard for applications. Although a firewall protects data from hackers, it complicates the movement of data and the remote management of those applications.
Admins need a way to seamlessly communicate in limited or intermittent connectivity environments. When there is limited network connectivity, it’s hard to monitor and update without a continuous link to the Kubernetes control plane. If you have sensors located in the depths of a mining site and it’s designed to alert you when there are hazardous particles, how do you power them? Or if you’re operating ships on the open sea that span multiple destination points, how do you bring connectivity to these far reaches of the network?
This not only impacts the operations team that has to keep track and monitor all of these edge environments, but also the customers who are relying on the information that the data is carrying, especially when a large number of edge environments are running software that needs to communicate with central servers or the Kubernetes control plane.
To ensure successful edge deployments at scale across geo-distributed databases, organizations need to find a way for edge environments to work within an unpredictable network landscape when the network is limited or connectivity is lost.
Compute and Power Resource Constraints
While IoT devices benefit from their compactness and small form factors, they often face significant resource constraints in terms of compute and power resources.
Businesses need to be able to run Kubernetes in very resource-constrained environments. There might be situations in which there is no external source of power to fuel your smart devices, and a stand-alone sensor must be able to withstand harsh conditions or operate in hard-to-reach places. When there is limited power and compute capability, it’s hard to monitor and track the performance and reliability of your devices. Airlines or maritime logistics might not have enough granular real-time data to plan and schedule flying or shipping routes. Farmers and crop producers might not be able to incorporate micro conditions to increase production. Companies that rely on data-intensive processes, such as analytics and video streaming, might not be able to run everything because these tasks require a lot of compute and power resources at the edge.
The challenge becomes how to consistently and effectively manage and maintain the health of these disparate resource-constrained devices. Users also need better visibility and centralized control of their edge environments to understand what resources are available and to be able to control access to them and lifecycle manage them.
No Tolerance for Downtime
When you’re managing Kubernetes in the core of the network, keeping everything running and updated is a challenge. But that process becomes much more challenging when you have hundreds of thousands of edge environments that need to be monitored and updated without downtime. This is not only time-consuming and error-prone, but next to impossible for machines that are not accessible because of distance, connectivity, and resource constraints. Companies can’t afford to have a dedicated admin to service each payment processing device in every department store or each smart thermostat in every person’s home.
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A rising immigrant population can be taxing for many developing cities. However, Bellevue is not one of those cities. The Asian immigrant population in Bellevue increased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 24.6 percent in 2008. Asians account for almost three-quarters of Bellevue’s non-white population.
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The widespread use of information technology has undoubtedly turned our lives upside down. The internet and smartphones created a world that is utterly different from the one we experienced before. It has revolutionized the way we connect with each other and we have access to instant and unlimited information so much that we can’t even imagine our lives without it. The technological revolution is about to disrupt industrial production globally, a process that is referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0.
The First Industrial Revolution was the improvement of industrial production with the mechanization through water and the steam engine. The Second one was through electric power and mass production. The Third one used electronics and information technology to automate production and now the Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the Third, the digital revolution that has been occurring since the middle of the last century.
The difference between the first three structural changes and this one is that this time no new disruptive technology is the direct cause of this transformation but rather the way those technologies are applied together to achieve a step up in production processes. For example, analysing large amounts of data to improve production – nowadays called big data analytics – has been in use for decades, for instance in huge projects like a nuclear power plant to optimise electricity production. However, in Industry 4.0 the breakthrough is that data has become so abundant and technologies so much cheaper, that the same techniques are ready to be applied by all companies including small enterprises. They can be applied to optimise production processes on a very wide scale as well, not just on a single machine but on all of the productive capacity that a factory has. Then, through Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, these machines can even communicate with each other directly, without the involvement of a human, and coordinate production between themselves in a very efficient manner.
These efficiencies can both lead to reduced costs and improved top lines for companies. Additionally, a few tangible examples of what benefits Industry 4.0 can bring are custom-made running shoes for everyone that perfectly fit one’s feet or predictive maintenance of machines - data-driven maintenance that predicts when a given part will need to be replaced before the machine breaks down and thus preventing unscheduled downtime or costly failures.
Most industrial companies are aware of this structural change and that they need to be on board not to fall behind with competitors. However, the implementation is still in its infancy across the world. Most of the companies run only ‘pilot projects’ and just a select group of manufacturers have been able to deploy advanced manufacturing techniques at scale. The World Economic Forum created a category for these companies, the so-called Global Lighthouse Network. These companies show leadership in using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to transform factories, value chains, and business models. As of October 2021, only 90 such factories have been identified in the world to implement technologies on a scale that is a clear step up compared to prior standards. The main reason for this lag is not reported to be due to the high capital requirements but rather because of the lack of employees with the necessary know-how to build out and operate these advanced systems.
From an investment perspective, in the following years, it would be interesting to monitor companies that are expected to gain a head start in the implementation of Industry 4.0 processes. They will inevitably generate a competitive edge against other players and could be good stock picks for a long-term buy-and-hold strategy. In addition, due to the current bottlenecks in know-how, companies focused on implementing such systems for industrial players can become very sought after as they continue to commit themselves to take a step up to Industry 4.0 and consequently their share prices may follow suit.
Disclaimer: This article was issued by Tamas Jozsa, research analyst at Calamatta Cuschieri. For more information visit www.cc.com.mt. The information, view, and opinions provided in this article are being provided solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice, advice concerning particular investments or investment decisions, or tax or legal advice.
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NEBOSH International General Certificate
ABOUT THE COURSE
NEBOSH International General Certificate is a globally recognized health and safety qualification intended for companies or individuals working to international standards with regards to Health, Safety & Environment. This course focuses on the International Labor Standards (ILO) codes of practice. Upon successful completion of the certificate, delegates can apply for a membership with Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and/or International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM) as its qualification meets the academic requirements for Technician Membership (Tech IOSH) of IOSH and Associate membership (AIIRSM) of the IIRSM.
Who Should Register For This CourseThis course is suitable for individuals who aspire to gain health & safety knowledge on how to manage risks and hazards in any area of any business. It is also particularly suitable for individuals who are interested to embark on a career in the Health, Safety and Environment.
The syllabus is divided into 3 units, (1) Management of International Health and Safety; (2) Control of International Workplace Hazards; and (3) International Health and Safety Practical Application. Each of the first two units is further divided into a number of elements. There are 13 elements which cover a range of workplace hazards and methods of control and are as follows:
UNIT – IGC 1: Management of International Health and Safety
Element 1: Foundations in health and safety
Element 2: Health & Safety Management Systems – Plan
Element 3: Health & Safety Management Systems – Do
Element 4: Health & Safety Management Systems – Check
Element 5: Health & Safety Management Systems – Act
UNIT – GC2
Control of International Work Place Hazards
- Work place hazards and risk control.
- Transport hazards and risk control
- Musculoskeletal Hazards and Risk Control.
- Work Equipment – Hazards and Risk Control
- Electrical Safety
- Fire Safety
- Chemical and Biological Health Hazards and Risk Control
- Physical and Psychological Health Hazards and Risk Control.
UNIT – GC3
Health & Safety Practical Application
Unit IGC3 is assessed by practical examination carried out in the candidate’s own workplace.
The assessment must normally be taken within 14 days of a written examination.
Course Duration And Assessment
The training is spread over 10 days plus 1 day for examinations. There will be written examinations which constitutes paper 1 (Management of International Health and Safety) and paper 2 (Control of International Workplace Hazards), each lasting 2 hours. Participants must achieve the minimum pass standard in all examinations and assessment to be awarded the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.
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The church is in the Church of England Diocese of Southwark. The Southwark Diocesan Record Office for churches and parishes in the modern administrative county of Surrey, and those London Boroughs that were in Surrey until 1965, is the Surrey History Centre.
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Tandridge a (civil) parisha Civil Parish is the bottom most tier of local government in England Sometimes called Town Councils in urban areas
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“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” – Adolf Hitler
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” – Adolf Hitler
“If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” – Adolf Hitler
These are the most famous quotes from Adolf Hitler who was considered one of the most evil people in history because of the Holocaust. His quest for world domination left Europe in ruins, many countries had been greatly hurt and even completely destroyed because of him. He is responsible for well over 51 million deaths during his time in power. Watching movies is one way to know more about famous personalities and their perspectives. Some of these films tells Hitler’s story from his perspective, as Hitler saw himself, as his followers and the German people saw Adolf Hitler. These films are realistic, comical and authentic film on Adolf Hitler and truly mesmerizing.
If you want to see documentaries based on Adolf Hitler, You can also try Leni Riefenstahl’s famous documentaries “Triumph of the Will (1935)”, “Speer und er” (2005) and Alain Resnais’s “Night and Fog (1955)”.
1. Downfall (2004)
“Downfall” reveals the human and personal element of the end of the war for Hitler and the Nazis. It reveals how real people, people who tell jokes, drink, socialize, listen to songs and dance, also followed national socialism with a devotion that made them to do the terrible things that they did. It reveals how they did not believe what they were doing was wrong, in their minds they were paving the way for their glorious future. It also shows their fanatical devotion and blind faith in their goal, led to their downfall, both as a movement and as human beings.
An enormously accurate film of World War II itself, but also an accurate portrait of the life of the most important and flawed man in arguably all of human history. Downfall is an endlessly rewarding motion picture and one of the best of the year. So if you don’t mind the German language and having to read subtitles, you will be able to acknowledge the importance of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall, and its way of delving deep beneath the skin of its main character.
2. The Bunker (1981)
This is the true story of the infamous Nazi dictator with his historic downfall. The story of Hitler’s last days in an underground bunker gives insight to his madness. Here in the midst of his lackeys the dictator played out the final act of his life.
Anthony Hopkins is superb in his interpretation of Adolf Hitler, without a doubt is one of his best interpretations, performed a work superb in the representation of the Tyrant, manages the body language-gestural of form sublime, not falling into the easy histrionics of character and that we transmit the evolution since we see he as the principle handling the bureau of maps to the General Headquarters, until his off final.
3. Max (2002)
The question of any human aspect of Adolf Hitler is a difficult and controversial one, and Max is to be applauded for making a serious attempt.
Adolf Hitler(Noah Taylor) is introduced to the art world through Max Rothman(John Cusack), an artist himself, who, after losing an arm in the war, now runs an art gallery catering to other promising artists. It is poverty and politics that ultimately lure Hitler away from his talents toward the beginning of the most devastating event of the twentieth century. These are stellar performances
All Rights Reserved 2022 © | blogger2wordpress.comJohn Cusack and Noah Taylor.The portrayal of the conditions of Hitler’s rise are well-done as well. Gritty, poor, devastated, and violent are the world in which this film is set. That’s the way it was.
4. Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
The movie was earlier presented as a TV series and later converted into a movie format. Scottish actor Robert Carlyle plays Adolf Hitler with great guts, conviction and flare to give a real portrayal of this man. The story is about Hitler’s life and how he came to power. It starts with his childhood and ends with his holding the top most position of power in Germany.
“Hitler: The Rise of Evil” cannot be considered as an excellent movie that everyone will like but it is not unsatisfactory at all. If you can stand directors that change history for cash, it is an interesting movie reflecting Hitler’s personality in a successful way.
5. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
“Inglourious Basterds” film’s plot talks about the adventure of 9 Jewish-Americans that take role in dethroning Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. We all know that Hitler committed suicide, but in this film, the American Basterds become successful in not only dethroning Hitler, but Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann, and a numerous amount of Germany’s top ranked army-men and police officers.
I would definitely not agree Quentin Tarantino to be some kind of god, because there are a lot more good directors than him, but he is good at what he does, and that is to make his movies enjoyable, and all i can say is he wont stop with this. My best wishes to Quentin Tarantino for his future movies. I hope they are as great as this one. As to describe this movie I would say it was Enjoyable till the last scene.
6. The Great Dictator (1940)
“The Great Dictator” is one of the best mingling of social satire and comedy, a brilliant and effective combination of entertainment and commentary to ridicule fascism which had taken over Germany and Italy. The Tramp or nameless barber is a private at the very end of World War I fighting for the fictional country of Tomainia. He along with a pilot escapes from the front lines, crashing in a plane, luckily just in time for the Armistice.
Chaplin is just unbelievable. There is an incredible combination of silent and spoken performance, and it evokes both extreme laughter and sadness. One can easily the remnants of his silent career in this and his mannerisms, his physical acting is hilarious. The speech at the end of the film is probably the best I’ve ever seen in any film, his delivery is just incredible, its thought provoking and full of emotion.
7. Moloch (1999)
In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun (Yelena Rufanova) is alone, when Adolf Hitler (Leonid Mozgovoy) arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels (Leonid Sokol) and his wife Magda Goebbels (Yelena Spiridonova) and Martin Bormann (Vladimir Bogdanov) to spend a couple of days without talking politics.
Leonid Mozgovoy’s performance as Hitler is uncanny. He is nervous, annoyed, self-absorbed, even vulnerable, and oblivious to the strained relations around him, including his troubled relationship with Braun, played
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The film can rightfully be called a cinematic milestone because of its portrayal of Hitler. For the first time in narrative film history, Hitler is shown to be human. This is ultimately a valuable artistic judgment, for it fosters understanding of the political forces that he set in motion.
8. Valkyrie (2008)
Tom Cruise does a surprisingly good job at portraying at Colonel Von Stauffenberg, a veteran of the German Army’s North African campaign, whose battlefield injuries clinch his determination to end Hitler’s life. Hence, his recruitment
All Rights Reserved 2022 © | blogger2wordpress.coma cadre of like-minded German generals and civilian politicians.
The direction/cinematography was flawless. The action scenes at the beginning depicting the Afrika Korps under attack was the finest battle sequence I have ever seen. The sequences where airplanes from the period were flying and landing added to the realism of the film.
9. The Producers (1968)
“The Producers” is about two guys named Max Bialystock, (Zero Mostel) and Leo Bloom, (Gene Wilder) who both decided to produce a Broadway Play and try to turn it into an instant flop in order to make themselves rich. Max played a con game with older women in order to swindle them of their money
All Rights Reserved 2022 © | blogger2wordpress.comhaving them invest in his Broadway Plays. The name of the play they produce is called ‘Springtime for Hitler’ & Germany and they are both sure the public will never view and accept this film which glorifies Adolph Hitler.
All in all, I think the actors carry this movie. Mostel, Wilder, Hewett and most others do terrific acts that add up to a very enjoyable movie and I can choose to ignore the logical errors.
10. Mein Kampf (2009)
The film was unforgettable and inspirational. I would certainly recommend it to any history buff or anyone interested in a riveting suspense yarn.
“Mein Kampf” film about Hitler’s early years in Vienna could have been so good if it didn’t try to explain every little thing that would later happen – the idea to the swastika for example, or even the growth of his now characteristic moustache.
The film portrays Hitler as a young, from the beginning hateful man who is adopted
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Do not watch this movie if you’re looking for historical accuracy. On the other hand, I was quite impressed
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Depression, Risk of Suicide is Worsening With Severe Heatwaves, Floods: Study
Scientists have warned that climate change — manifesting in the form of heatwaves and extreme weather events like floods, cyclones, and droughts globally — is impacting the mental health and well-being of millions of people worldwide.
The report was published this month by the Imperial College London and, according to the study’s authors, policymakers are yet to grasp the scale of the implications of climate change on mental health and, subsequently, on the economy. The effect of climate change on mental health “is a big problem that is going to affect more and more people into the future, and in particular, exacerbate inequality. It is very likely to be a really big unaccounted cost,” Dr. Emma Lawrance, who is part of the medical faculty at the ICL, and led the report, told The Guardian.
The link between climate change and mental health is more direct and tangible than one might imagine. “If you have lost your home, if you’re at risk of repeated flooding, if you’re grieving because you’ve lost a family member to a fire or your livelihood because of a drought, that is shock and trauma that translates for some into very prolonged distress and diagnoses of PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder], anxiety, depression and increased risk of suicide,” Dr. Lawrence explained.
Moreover, a 2018 study published in Nature Climate Change established a direct link between rising temperatures and increased rates of suicide — even going on to suggest that the impact of climate change on suicides may be comparable to the impact of economic recessions on self-harm.
A 2013 study also found evidence of increasing temperatures leading to a rise in violence among people. “…mental health of coming generations will be tested as never before by the cumulative and rolling impacts of disasters. These effects will include PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance use and explosive anger leading to family and domestic violence,” Amy Coopes, journalist and medical student from Australia, wrote this month.
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But the impact on mental health also extends to people who haven’t directly been affected by disasters by triggering “eco-anxiety,” which is defined by the American Psychological Association as “a chronic fear of environmental doom.” The American Psychiatric Association (APA), which lays down the diagnostic criteria for mental health disorders, has already recognized climate change as an increasing threat to mental health.
In fact, a 2020 survey by the APA found that 67% of those surveyed were anxious about the impact of climate change on the earth, and 55% about its impact on their own mental health. “It’s only natural to feel anxious in the face of a melting planet and the sixth mass extinction, both wrought by human actions … As individuals, it’s easy to feel helpless to stop the destruction of the biosphere,” an article on Scientific American reads.
The uncertainty about what their future on the planet will look like is impacting younger generations. “Anecdotally there are rising rates of distress, and it is going to affect a huge number of people. The grief and fear that comes with that, and especially for young people who see inaction on climate, can really exacerbate distress,” Dr. Lawrence noted. In fact, German and Dutch courts have directed their respective governments to ramp up the fight against climate change to protect present and future citizens’ rights to life and well-being.
Despite the impact of climate change on mental health, less than 1% of more than 50,000 medical research papers on climate change in the last decade explored mental health-related ramifications, the present study found. “The gap between knowing the impacts and being able to quantify the impacts … is holding us back,” Dr. Lawrence told Reuters.
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Sciatica pain is described as radicular pain that can be sharp, radiating and can cause shooting pain from the lower back down into the leg.
Diagnosing Sciatica Pain
Common observations of sciatic pain include:
- Sciatic pain typically occurs in one leg.
- Sciatica can start in the low back or buttock and radiates down the back of the thigh.
- Sciatica pain is usually experienced as a sharp pain, as opposed to a throbbing or dull ache.
- Words people often use to describe sciatic nerve pain include ‘burning’, ‘searing’, and ‘sharp pain’.
- Sciatica pain is usually worse when standing or sitting still
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The physicians of IIllinois Pain & Spine Institute may perform transforaminal injections into the opening at the side of the spine where the nerve root exits are also referred to as transforaminal epidural blocks. Fluoroscopic guided transforaminal epidural steroid injections may help reduce radicular pain and improve standing, walking and activity in patients with sciatica pain.
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The journey to the medical center, when performed via a medically outfitted aircraft carrier adds to the punctual delivery of patients to the center of medication. Air Ambulance from Patna provides immediate medical relocation with bed-to-bed service that helps maintain the patient's vigor and vitality. We make the presence of medical experts to help patients with assured benefits and assistance all along the journey.
The journey to the medical center when covered in an intensive care equipped flight makes sure the journey gets completed without any trouble or complication. Our round-the-clock serviceable helpline number remains available to understand the miseries related to transportation. Once we learn about the medical emergency and the need for the instant evacuation, we at Air Ambulance Service in Patna inform our skilled medical team about the process and operation.
Panchmukhi Air Ambulance Service in Delhi is Operating Round the Clock
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In recent years, there has been much interest in the potential for situated displays to support sense of community. In this chapter, we describe our experiences of two significant situated display-based deployments which explore some of the issues that arise when such systems are used on a day to day basis. The first deployment described is that of the Hermes system which has been deployed and evaluated in both a University department and a domestic home setting. The second deployment is the Wray photo display which has been deployed in two locations in a rural village located in the north of England. Both deployments made strong use of user-centered design and have benefitted from longitudinal evaluation in order to provide key insights into issues of adoption and appropriation. | <urn:uuid:08f8505d-d0a0-46d4-a344-23f8251f1314> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publications/the-design-deployment-and-evaluation-of-situated-display-based-sy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980876 | 141 | 1.601563 | 2 |
ZAPORIZHZHIA – Along the freshly green riverbanks, the flowers are in bloom. People are outside, enjoying t-shirt weather in the spring sun. The central city streets are busy with life.
This is almost enough to take one’s mind off the city’s many checkpoints and barricades and what they signify. But these moments of stolen tranquility are shattered by the deadly blast of incoming Russian missiles, followed by the air raid siren’s mournful wail.
At night, Zaporizhzhia goes eerily dark as an anti-airstrike measure, letting the big bright stars shine uncontested.
Closer to the front line, south and east of this strategic industrial city on the Dnipro River, a non-stop barrage of rockets can be heard through the day and night.
“Zaporizhia Oblast is, as you know, in flames and people are telling scary stories,” said Kateryna Chernova, the coordinator of an IDP shelter in the basement of one of the city’s factories.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia launched the Battle of Donbas on April 18. It’s the next major phase of its war, after it lost the Battle of Kyiv and was forced to pull out of much of Ukraine’s north.
As part of this offensive, the Russians greatly intensified their attacks in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. For now, Ukrainian forces are holding them back, according to local officials, though evacuees have told the Kyiv Independent that the Russians are slowly advancing.
“In the east, there’s been a very strong activation by Russian forces but they haven’t achieved their targets,” Oleksandr Starukh, the regional governor, told the Kyiv Independent. “On March 5, a front line was established that has gone practically unchanged since then.”
Zaporizhzhia is one of Ukraine’s southern regions — it sits on the Azov Sea, between Donetsk and Kherson oblasts. It contains the vital city of Enerhodar, home of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, seized in February by Russian forces. It also contains the cities of Melitopol and Berdyansk, also under Russian occupation.
The regional capital is a major road, rail and industrial hub with a hydroelectric power plant located in the heart of Ukraine, an important prize to hold. It’s also the historic home of the freedom-loving Zaporizhzhian Cossacks who once fought against Moscow's armies and exemplified their land’s passion for independence.
Western analysts have given the Russians better odds in the open reaches of southern Ukraine, where they can mass their tanks. But Andriy Zahorodnyuk, former defense minister and head of the think tank Center for Defense Strategy said the Russians aren’t doing so well in the region.
“Their whole operation in the east is not working out for now,” he said, citing the Russians’ “colossal losses.”
However, Ukrainian losses are also high, according to presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych. Zahorodnyuk said that Ukrainian forces are having a "very, very tough" time.
The regional military administration said that "active battles" are ongoing throughout Zaporizhzhia Oblast. According to Volodymyr Marchur, a Zaporizhzhia military spokesman, while the line remains stable for now, Russians have intensified attacks in areas of Hulyaipole and Orikhiv.
"We left because the shooting was massive," Svitlana Kozyr from the village of Orikhiv told the Kyiv Independent in Chernova’s shelter. "Two days before we left, it got really intense with Grad fire targeting the civilian population."
According to Marchur, Ukrainian forces are dug in, making it hard to dislodge them without big losses. Lines of trenches have been dug around the regional capital.
Instead of advancing quickly, Russian forces are relying on artillery and rocket attacks, the spokesman said.
“Knowing we’re dug in, they don’t have the strongest desire to attack,” Marchur told the Kyiv Independent. “They’ve lost substantial numbers throughout the country.”
Zahorodnyuk said as part of their eastern offensive, Russian forces are pushing in many different places at once to probe out weaknesses and stretch the Ukrainian forces’ attention. “This is not working,” he said.
He added that the Russians’ top priority remains the Donbas, with other offensives, including in Zaporizhzhia being secondary. He added that they will have significant problems advancing through the Oblast and are not close to having a shot at the regional capital.
The front line is 30-40 kilometers out from the city, placing it outside the range of most artillery and short-range rockets, Marchur said. There’s less that can be done about the cruise missiles that strike the regional capital every few days.
The latest attack happened on April 28, with three known casualties, including one child.
Earlier, three missiles arrived early in the morning of April 26. Two of them struck the city’s aluminum plant and killed a security guard. These missiles passed over the nuclear power plant in their flight, which head of state nuclear operator Energoatom warned "threatens a nuclear and radiation catastrophe."
The intensified fighting is driving more people out of the contested areas, towards the regional capital.
Lena, who was displaced from the village of Poltavka, said Russians have advanced slowly, shelling generously and she’s had to flee their forces multiple times. Most buildings in her area were hit by something, including her family’s three houses. She declined to provide her last name because her husband is an active duty Territorial Defense fighter.
He told her to leave with their three small children because they heard that Russians kidnap spouses of service members to swap them for POWs. She claims this happened to several women in her village.
According to Starukh, 218 people in the region have been “stolen” by the Russians. The mayor of Melitopol has stated that over 100 people were kidnapped in his city alone.
Lena went on to Nova Mykhailivka but the Russians soon entered this village “without firing a shot.” She grabbed her kids and documents and ran, hoping to avoid what happened to her friend, who was wounded with her 5-year-old daughter while fleeing the village of Malynivka.
Despite their gains, the Russians have reportedly experienced setbacks. According to Lena, 60 Russian soldiers came to local government heads in her area and offered to hand in their weapons if they could live somewhere in Ukraine and don’t have to go back to Russia.
“They said there’s no way back for us, they’ll either shoot us or put us in jail,” she said.
The captured areas of Zaporizhzhia Oblast are quieter, though there are still signs of intensified fighting, said local residents who escaped. All of them declined to be identified by last name for the sake of security.
Yevheniy, who recently escaped from a village outside Melitopol, said that he saw a stream of Russian armor pouring out of the captured city over the past two weeks.
Mykola, who escaped from Enerhodar, said Russians locked the area down tight, especially around the nuclear plant. "Every 10 meters there's a tank" there, he said. The Russians installed a new “mayor” in Enerhodar and relaunched schools and kindergartens, trying to pretend like life is back to normal.
Some IDPs who escaped from the devastation of Mariupol through occupied Berdyansk over the past few weeks, told the Kyiv Independent they were shocked when they saw people relaxing or catching fish on the peaceful waterfront, while a few Ukrainian flags continued to hang, although these may have been taken down by now.
Still, Berdyansk remains under an "information blockade," with local media suppressed by the occupiers, according to the National Union of the Journalists of Ukraine. Reporters Without Borders said Russian troops in Berdyansk and elsewhere in the region are searching journalists and seizing their equipment.
Propaganda is active in occupied areas. Regional authorities relayed how some residents of the occupied district of Rozovka were forced to vote in a sham referendum to join the illegitimate occupation government in Donetsk Oblast last week.
The occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia Oblast appear to be held by a mix of Russian soldiers, people mobilized from occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, and the Chechen military.
Yevheniy said it looks as if there’s barely any communication among them with commanders losing track of units that have gone somewhere to loot or cause trouble.
"In our area it was calm," he said. “In the neighboring area, they got drunk, rolled through the village and shot next to people" for entertainment.
This wasn’t an isolated incident, according to Tasia, who fled the Hulyaipole area with her family.
Tasia said in her village, one soldier snapped off a burst of rifle fire at her husband for no reason. Later, he became suspicious of her 17-year-old son and another boy his age and ordered them out of their shelter to see his commander. Both teens’ mothers came along and stood in front of them. The commander ordered both boys to be released. Later, Tasia was told that the soldier was beaten up by his comrades and transferred elsewhere.
Mykola was also threatened as he tried to flee from Enerhodar to Zaporizhzhia. Four assault rifle-toting Russian soldiers stopped his car near Vasylivka. Mykola’s Russian-sounding accent convinced one of them that he’s a Russian traitor, who needs to be summarily shot. The soldier then ripped up Mykola’s Ukrainian documents, jeopardizing his escape.
"One of them says ‘let me kill this old f*ck,’" Mykola recalled. The commander told them to let Mykola go but warned that if they ever saw him near Enerhodar again, they'd kill him. He managed to get into Zaporizhzhia without his documents and is now trying to replace them.
According to Ukraine’s Central Intelligence Directorate, the locals can give as good as they get. It reported that in three weeks, 70 Russian troops have been killed around Melitopol by civilian resistance. So far, Marchur said he’s not aware of any revenge killings by the Russians.
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In the 32-bit editions of Windows XP, there is a default built-in admin account named Administrator. But as soon as you setup another user account, this Administrator account gets hidden and not shown in User Accounts in Control Panel. Using the steps in this article you can unhide this account.
- Open Start Menu → Run to open the Run dialog.
- In the Run dialog, type regedit and press Enter to open the Windows Registry Editor.
- Navigate to the following key in the Registry Editor :
- You would find a DWORD value named Administrator in the right-side pane. If it does not exist, right-click anywhere in the right-side pane and choose New → DWORD Value, name it Administrator and press Enter. Double click on the Administrator value in the right pane. An Edit Value box would pop up. Type 1 and press Enter.
- That’s it. Now you can check this Administrator account listed in the Control Panel → User Accounts.
You can also download the Registry file unhide_admin.zip. Extract it in a folder, and double click on unhide_admin.reg. | <urn:uuid:c31914bc-03d5-4465-9afc-6a2295843f61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.trishtech.com/2010/10/unhide-the-administrator-account-in-windows-xp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.759782 | 261 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The Data Protection Act 1998 – The Act regulates the processing of information relating to individuals, including the obtaining, holding, use or disclosure of such information by organisations, businesses or the government. Everyone who is responsible for using data has to follow strict rules called ‘data protection principles’. The Act was introduced as a result of the European Directive on data protection,95/96/EC. The Government website has more details about the Act, what personal data an employer can keep about an employee, how to find out what data an organisation has about an employee and making a complaint.
The Information Commissioner’s Office – The Office is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. It can help a person find out what personal information is held about them, prevent unwanted nuisance telephone calls, get official information from a public body and stop spam texts and unwanted SMS messages. Its website details how the Office can help in these areas as well as how to register an organisation which processes personal information electronically. It also details the responsibilities and obligations of people who handle personal information about individuals. It provides detailed guides to a number of sectors including charity, police, justice and borders, education, finance, health, local authority, marketing, MPs and political parties and small businesses. It also offers advice on CCTV and on ‘bringing your own device’ to work.
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI Act) – The Act entitles anybody to ask a public authority in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including Government Departments, for any recorded information that they keep. The Act gives the public greater access to information about how decisions are taken in Government and how public services are developed and delivered. A public authority has a legal obligation to provide information through an approved publication scheme and in response to requests.
Requesting Information under the Freedom of Information Act – The Government’s website provides information about the Act, which organisations you can request information from, how to make a request and what to do if the request is turned down.
JISC Legal Information – Hosted by the University of Strathclyde, JISC Legal Information is a charitable body which works to ensure that legal issues do not become a barrier to the adoption and use of new information and communications technologies in further education, higher education and specialist colleges.
The Campaign for Freedom of Information – The organisation played an important part in persuading the Government to introduce the Freedom of Information Act. It was established in 1984 and is non-profit making. It advises the public on using the Freedom of Information Act, encourages good practise by authorities, provides training and tries to improve how the act works.
The BBC – On its website the BBC provides an explanation of the FOI Act, how the BBC uses the Act and how to request information from the BBC. It also provides details of what information it publishes about itself.
Parliament – The House of Commons and House of Lords are required under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to make information that they hold available to the public. Information must be made available proactively via publication schemes which have been approved by the Information of Commissioner’s Office. Also anyone is entitled to make a request for access to information held by either House, that is not already publicly available. The requested information must be disclosed unless an exemption applies. The Data Protection Act 1998 also requires the Houses to comply with certain principles regarding the way personal data is processed.
The Constitution Unit – This is the main research centre within University College London’s Department of Political Science. It has published a guide to the Data Protection Act 1998 which covers the main compliance issues and highlights possible pitfalls. It is aimed at officials in public authorities whose day-to-day work involves handling personal information about members of the public but who are not specialists in data protection.
Data Guidance – This is a subscription data protection and privacy compliance resource tool. It delivers, in one site, legal and regulatory information from all relevant data protection and privacy sources globally. It gathers together all the legislation, official guidance and codes of practice in one place. It provides straightforward notes on key issues such as e-mail marketing, employee monitoring and data breaches. | <urn:uuid:61badba2-346f-42f7-90c3-5c8582d276cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.legal.co.uk/data-protection-and-freedom-of-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.93477 | 949 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Project Finance Jobs
Developing infrastructure is a big undertaking spanning across infrastructure asset classes as well as different roles and responsibilities for each project. A project finance deal will require the services of a whole host of advisors and specialists in unrelated disciplines whose role has one thing in common- all of their input is related to the same project that must be assembled on paper in legal agreements. There are many jobs within the infrastructure industry which will require a working knowledge of project finance and understanding the “big picture” of project finance is critical for even non-financial roles in infrastructure.
The team of advisors and specialists will start working on the project at different stages of its development. The involvement of each specific party differs considerably in terms of quantity of work performed; this can also depend on the type of the project. For example, technical jobs would be more involved in a project using innovative technology such as satellites than more “routine” projects such as roads.
Financial Jobs in Infrastructure
Financial jobs in infrastructure consists of advising, directly providing capital, or coordinating the financial arrangements for the project. There are many firms that satisfy various financial needs of a project and involve different finance roles and responsibilities in a financial organization. However, most project finance deals are large and complex in nature, therefore requiring several financial firms to be involved in a transaction.
- Example: One financial firm will be providing project debt and another financial firm would be advising the government on structuring a deal to best protect tax payer dollars.
Legal Jobs in Infrastructure
Legal jobs in infrastructure also consists of advising various parties within a project deal. There will be multiple legal advisors providing input for different parties involved in a project finance deal. The objective of each lawyer is to protect the interest of their client. Legal jobs span a range of specialized expertise in many different fields such as lending, real estate, and administrative law. In practice, no single professional can possess enough knowledge in such a wide range of fields.
- Example: One lawyer might advise the debt lenders on their financing agreements and another lawyer may advise the engineers on the legal framework for environmental approvals for the project.
Technical Jobs in Infrastructure
Technical jobs in infrastructure spans a wide range of services. There are technical firms that are only responsible for the design and engineering components of the project while other technical firms may be responsible for the actual construction and day to day maintenance of the project.
In summary, the input from financial, legal, and technical specialist of a project will have a direct cost impact to a project. The cost impacts will ultimately affect the ability to finance and the cost in which financing can be obtained
Both types of firms will have to work hand in hand to make and keep a project operational. Even larger technical firms may not have the ability to all the technical components of a project in house and require subcontracting of technical specialist for a project.
- Example: A technical advisor in a project finance deal will assist financial and legal firms in understanding the general technical solution and its impact to financing and legal arrangements. Another technical firm will be responsible for the design of the physical project.
In summary, the input from financial, legal, and technical specialist of a project will have a direct cost impact to a project. The cost impacts will ultimately affect the ability to finance and the cost in which financing can be obtained. Project finance consists of understanding the entire deal and structuring the project to share risks.
Project Finance Roles and Responsibilities in Financial Organizations
In a project finance deal, there are typically two sides to a transaction: the buy-side and sell-side. On both sides of the transaction, there are two broad buckets of services, advisory and lending. Advisory consists of providing financial advice but not providing financing for projects. Lending requires providing financing for the project through a debt or equity investment. To learn more about debt and equity in project finance, check out our article on Sources of Project Financing.
- Sell-side: Party wanting to finance, build, improve, or sell a new or existing asset
- Buy-side: Party who will finance build, improve or buy a new or existing asset
There are financial organizations who can provide services to both sides of project finance deals; however, one firm is never involved on both sides on the same transaction due to conflicts of interest. To learn more about how to break into the industry, read our overview of project finance career paths.
Financial Advisory Firm Roles and Responsibilities
|Advises the seller (typically a government entity) on the financial arrangements and structuring of a project finance deal. They will solicit and review buy-side bids for the project and negotiate on behalf of the seller the financial components of a project finance deal.
||A developer has many roles and responsibilities and works with a team to bring an idea from concept to completed construction. They are responsible for coordinating all parties involved in the development of the project including, finance, legal, and technical elements. Depending on the size, scope, and complexity of the transaction, they can both advise as well as lend to a project. Often, projects require multiple parties and the developer will outsource both the financial advisory and lending to other financial firms.
If a developer chooses not to do buy-side financial advisory in-house, a financial advisory firm will financially structure the developer’s deal and the final deal will be negotiated with the sell-side financial advisor. There are times when an investment bank will offer buy-side financial advisory services as an additional service to lending.
|Sell-side advisory firms: The Big 4 (EY, KPMG, Deloitte, PwC), boutique firms including Project Finance ltd., and SXM Strategies.
||Buy-side developers: Meridiam, Skanska, Star Americas, Plenary
Buy-side advisory firms: some investment banks (society general, Macquarie, key bank, MUJF) and boutique firms
Lender Roles and Responsibilities
|Assists in issuing municipal financial products on behalf of a government entity to finance infrastructure. The financial product raises money for the government upfront and is repaid with interest over time through a dedicated government revenue stream such as taxes.
||Raises capital from private capital market sources in the form of debt or equity. Debt is typically raised by investment banks through their debt capital market divisions. Equity is raised from private equity funds who source capital from various institutional or accredited investors.
Some large developers have their own in-house debt and equity funds to provide capital for projects they are developing.
|Sell-side lenders: Municipal finance groups in investment banks such as Citibank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley
||Buy-side lenders: Investment banks such as Citibank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley. Private equity funds such as John Laing, Plenary, and Skanska
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Laboratory Practice in Analytical Chemistry
- Department of Nuclear Chemistry
First part of laboratory exercises is oriented to qualitative analysis of cations and anions using wet chemistry procedures. Quantitative determination of analyte based upon various titration procedures follows. In the last part of exercises students become acquainted with basic instrumental methods of chemical analysis.
Knowledge of analytical chemistry on the level of a completed basic university course.
- Syllabus of lectures:
- Syllabus of tutorials:
1. Qualitative analysis of inorganic cations and anions using wet chemistry: identification of two cations in mixture, identification of two anions in mixture.
2. Qualitative analysis of inorganic solid substance using wet chemistry: identification of cation and anion in a well-soluble and a bad-soluble solid sample.
3. Acid-base titrations: identification of analyte (sodium or potassium hydroxide or hydrochloric, sulfuric or nitric acid) in the sample, preparation of standard solution of hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide, acidimetry or alkalimetry of analyte in the sample.
4. Precipitation titrations: argentometry of sodium chloride in a liquid sample with Fajans' indication, titration of potassium iodide and chloride in a solid sample using potentiometric indication, titration curve construction and evaluation.
5. Chelatometry: identification of analytes in the sample, determination of magnesium and calcium ions in water as sample, titration of magnesium and zinc ions or lead and bismuth ions in mixture.
6. Iodometry: titration of ascorbic acid in Celaskon pellet, iodometry of acetone in liquid sample based on indirect titration.
7. Permanganometry: preparation of standard solution of potassium permanganate using oxalic acid as the standard, titration of iron in a solid sample using potentiometric indication, titration curve construction and evaluation.
8. Coulometry: determination of hydroquinone in a liquid sample with coulometric titration, calculation of analyte concentration from the electrical charge.
9. Potentiometry with ion selective electrode: determination of nitrate or fluoride ions using ion selective electrode, calibration curve construction.
10. Gas chromatography: separation of oxygen and nitrogen from air sample, evaluation of chromatogram and calculation of fundamental chromatographic quantities.
11. Spectrophotometry: spectrophotometric determination of acetylsalicylic acid in Acylpyrin pellet, calibration curve construction.
12. Solid phase extraction: preconcentration of iron ions from spring water using solid phase extraction, spectrophotometric determination of preconcentrated analyte, calibration curve construction.
13. Test in theory and practical exam with real sample.
- Study Objective:
The laboratory practice in analytical chemistry provides the students with the knowledge, skills, proficiency and thoroughness in elementary and instrumental analytical techniques.
The students will acquire competence to perform practical laboratory analytical work, including data processing, and evaluation and presentation of the results.
- Study materials:
1. G.D. Christian: Analytical Chemistry (5th edition), John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994 (ISBN 0-471-30582-0).
2. R. Kellner, J.M. Mermet, M. Otto, H.M. Widmer (editors): Analytical Chemistry, Willey-VCH, Weinheim, 1998 (ISBN 3-527-28610-1).
- Further information:
- No time-table has been prepared for this course
- The course is a part of the following study plans:
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In the Art and Autobiography section, we’ll be regularly featuring interviews with artists from across the creative spectrum who create, or are attempting to create personal or autobiographical work. We’ll also be featuring examples of personal storytelling from many of these artists. For our first post, Obie award-winning playwright and one of the legendary Five Lesbian Brothers Dominique Dibbell has graciously agreed to share an excerpt from “Adam and Jane”, a memoir she is currently writing about her parents.
After an hour or so, maybe more, my father stopped into one of those Chinese food shops in New York that are very bare bones. Thick, scratched, and dirty plate glass front, approach the counter, order from the menu on the wall above, order taker scurries back through a door to the kitchen and delivers order. Wait 5 to 10 minutes, order taker retrieves your meal from the back and gives it to you. It is in plastic containers, in a plastic bag, and included is a plastic fork, maybe a napkin, and soy sauce and hot mustard packets. If you’re lucky, it comes with a free egg roll.
So we go into this little Chinese food place with my father, and it smells bad. It smells more sad than bad. Like death, sickness, and loneliness are their fare more than lo mein and spare ribs. I am having a moment of disgust for this food and the people who eat it. On the other hand, it is around lunchtime on a cold winter day and I have probably eaten a bagel about four hours ago so I am hungry. I would like to eat some of this Chinese food. Because sometimes, of course, very good food can come out of very sad looking places. Not usually, but sometimes. Also, I am new to New York, so I don’t know that most likely the food from here will be terrible. Also, it might not taste terrible to me because my tastes are not fully matured.
Father orders lo mein. He is asking us if we have ever had lo mein, and then he goes on a long meandering story about Vietnam and buying noodles on the street there. He does not ask us if we would like something. I think that is odd, but on the other hand, he is talking about these noodles like they are the best noodles in all of Harlem. “That is, if the cook feels like actually making the noodles he is really capable of. Because sometimes it is more like they are making food for dogs than for humans.” My father rarely discusses any subject without inserting some kind of scathing criticism of some part of it. My father has the “smarter than you” thing down. That may be the only thing he as left, and he parades it around frequently.
We wait for his order in the tiny, bad smelling place. It is very close and warm, where the outside is very cold, with a mean wind that likes to shoot up my jacket and down my neck and up through my wrists. Wherever it can find an opening. I wish I owned a pair of warm boots. I am wearing Nike running shoes. These are the shoes I run in. I also wear them around. I am feeling bad here in the Chinese food place. I am feeling a little dizzy. I would like to tear off my wool hat and my scarf and my gloves, but that doesn’t make any sense. We will be leaving soon. I don’t want to go outside either, to wander without knowing the plan from one strange, poorly lit store to another.
My father is droning on, holding our eyes with his crazy ones that never seem to blink. My brother has his hands in his coat pockets. He is looking down at the floor sometimes, which is linoleum and dirty, and sometimes looking up at my father to let him know he is still listening. He has a smirk on his face. A smirk seems to be the best way to interact with my father. He is usually saying something about how stupid someone or something else is and looking at us like, “Right?” So we usually have these smirks on our faces that could either mean, “Yeah, right!” or, “We are pretending to listen to you but you are crazy so we are not taking anything you say seriously at all.”
I don’t feel I can keep up the smirk all of a sudden. I don’t feel insulated any more from the fear and sadness I feel when I am with my father. I want to teletransport. I want to apparate. I want a different father, a different childhood. I want to have a mother and father I did not have to fear and that I could trust my whole self with.
What is this place? This dirty, crowded, threatening city. It is cold. What is this coldness? I am not used to any of this. I feel frightened here, and exhilarated. I feel lonely, and comforted by the crowds. I can get lost here. I have literally gotten lost here. I don’t yearn for home, because home is like a warm alternate universe where I will lose my soul. I think there is soul here, in New York City. Maybe I will find mine here.
The man at the counter hands my father his food. Father pulls out crumbled bills from the front pocket of his jeans. Coins too. He counts out the $4.79 carefully and lays it on the counter. I suddenly get the feeling that he wants us to chip in. But I don’t. I am still a child. I have never paid for a grown up’s meal. Or even pitched in. No grown up, let alone my own father. Him counting out that money and reluctantly handing it over to the man is the first and only time all day that he is quiet.
We walk the two blocks back to his apartment in the giant public housing high rise. There is a door that residents and visitors are supposed to be buzzed into by the security people in the booth, but the door is always broken and open. Everyone flows in and out. We take the elevator to the 11th floor and go into his apartment. His wife is not there. She is working. This is before they have children.
I can smell the lo mein and it is making me hungry. He sits down at the table, talking constantly. Low, slow, and sing song. My father does not have nervous energy, like you hear about New Yorkers. He is not jumpy. He is more zombie like.
He pulls out the tall plastic container of lo mein and dumps it into a large bowl. He uses the plastic fork and starts eating. He eats the entire large portion of lo mein. It takes awhile, because he eats slowly, and must talk all the way through it. My brother and I sit there and watch him. It was a large order, which is easily enough for two, but like the loaves and fishes, if shared in the spirit of love, would have been enough for three. He doesn’t offer us a thing. Not a fortune cookie, not a mustard packet, not a glass of New York City tap water.
At the time, being 18 and being used to adults around me behaving selfishly, I am not sure what to make of this. I try to explain it. But even to my victim mind, I cannot find any excuse for not sharing. For not taking your children who you see once in a blue moon, who you’ve promised 18 years worth of undelivered birthday and Christmas presents to a cheap, Chinese food lunch.
Dominique Dibbell lives nestled in the skirt of the San Gabriel mountains, just north of downtown Los Angeles. She is a mother and works a full-time job. Her theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers have been awarded an Obie, a Bessie, and a Lambda Literary Award. She herself won an Obie for her performance with The Builders Association. | <urn:uuid:2dfe2a85-1d73-47a0-a8c1-084ccc37fb19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://keepthelightsonfilm.com/archives/art-and-autobiography/chinese-take-out | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976592 | 1,693 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Clay is no one’s favorite form of soil to have in a garden. It’s quite challenging to work with and persons who have been cursed with it often feel like growing vegetables successfully is next to impossible. Have no fear; there are specific vegetables to grow in clay soil so you can ensure success!
After all, loamy and well-drained soil is what many gardeners aim to have, and plants are always happy to spread their roots in this environment.
What is clay soil?
The most extraordinary quality of clay soil is that it contains particles that do not have much organic matter.
Even when dry, the soil is still very sticky as there is not much space between the particles. This results in flooding as the soil is not well-drained.
If you have clay soil in your garden, you’ll notice that after rainfall the water does not soak into the soil. Instead, it settles and floats on top of the soil making it difficult for water to flow and drain smoothly.
If you’re not sure whether you have clay soil or not, here is a checklist with a few things to help you determine.
- Does the soil stick to your boots when you walk in the garden?
- When you scoop up a handful of dirt, does it form into clumps that are a bit difficult to separate with your fingers?
- Does the soil warm very slowly when wet then dries and cracks in multiple areas?
If you were able to answer yes to all these questions, you do have clay soil in your garden. You can improve the area you wish to plant your vegetables by adding up to 8 inches of compost or organic matter across the garden.
Over time, the soil structure will improve as organisms help to break down the matter. More will need to be added regularly to prevent the garden from returning to its usual clay qualities.
Vegetables to grow in clay soil:
A major challenge with clay is that with light or heavy rainfall it becomes clammy and very heavy. This is because it doesn’t have proper drainage particles, so it holds a lot of water.
Some gardeners have taken the upper hand by improving clay qualities themselves. How is this done? Well, it is possible to routinely integrate organic matter, which enhances the clay’s draining abilities.
You’ll be pleased to know that there are some vegetables which can tolerate this type of soil. So, turn your disappointed frown into a spark-filled smile as you learn more about these vegetables.
Beans are not selective about soil and may work well with clay due to their shallow root system. To get the perfect set of beans, mixing the clay soil in your garden with compost or manure that is fully mature is advised.
This increases the soil’s quality, making it less waterlogged and better able to drain excess fluids. Avoid adding mulch even though it is great to limit weed growth. Mulch will only add to the increased trapping of moisture.
Broccoli is a plant that thrives in soil that is filled with moisture. Once you have planted the seedlings and they begin to develop you should not let the soil be entirely dry.
Clay would be able to hold adequate moisture for broccoli to absorb nutrients. During the harvest, if you’re careful and take some time to protect the leaves of the plant, small stems and will grow. Following this, the heads will develop and produce a second harvest and this sounds great.
3. Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts depend heavily on moisture and the soil should be fertile and have a pH balance between 6.0 and 7.0.
This makes clay the ideal soil texture for them as the tightly grouped particles help to hold the roots firmly in the ground.
When it is time to harvest them, you’ll have lots to spare even at the end of the season. It’s a great vegetable that tastes very similar to little cabbages.
Clay is also quite useful to hold Brussels sprouts in place. As the plant is swayed by harsh winds, it will not be easily uprooted.
Cabbage is a very versatile plant that grows in a variety of colors. They include purple, green, red, savoy and Napa, which is also called Chinese cabbage.
Cabbage is flexible and growing it in clay soil that has been amended with compost will bring some positive results.
As a form of nutrients, you can add fish emulsion or compost tea approximately four weeks after planting. Even though clay holds moisture, this vegetable needs access to at least six hours of sunlight per day. So, try not to plant it at the section in your garden that is too shaded.
Within four to six months, you’ll be able to harvest quality cabbages for the best coleslaws, steamed, sautéed and boiled vegetables.
Even though carrots are popularly grown in well-drained soil, it may surprise you that clay is a viable option.
If you intend to grow miniature carrots, planting them in plain clay will keep the vegetable short and fresh. This occurs because it’s harder for the roots to penetrate the dirt and grow into long and perfectly plump carrots.
Cauliflower is able to survive in clay soils but for better results, it is best to infuse compost or mature manure into the soil before planting it.
It is a good idea to sow the seeds when temperature levels are around 70˚ F. If these temperatures are past the recommended degree, then it could damage the overall turnout.
7. Swiss chard
Chard grows relatively well in clay soil. A huge part of this is the fact that they consist of very shallow roots but enjoy receiving consistent moisture and nutrients from the soil in which they’re planted.
They also need a large amount of sunshine lasting up to 6 hours per day. Similar to most of the vegetables listed in this post, mixing compost with clay will provide sufficient drainage.
Overwatering is not advised even though the roots are not long because it can lead to rotting in a very short while.
Chard has many different colors, including white, green and red, which taste almost the same. Yellow is an all-time favorite among the others due to its sweet flavor when prepared.
8. Daikon radish
Radishes grow really fast and with the right conditions will be ready for harvest within 4 weeks or less. They do need well-drained soil so amending clay is helpful.
Daikon radishes in particular tend to grow rather long and thin while breaking up the clay particles to extend roots. They would thrive in this soil considering not much space is needed for them to expand.
Daikon is a winter radish so it would take between 60 to 70 days to become fully mature. They are grown in colors such as red, white, green and purple.
Have you ever tasted lettuce that has a rather bitter flavor? Perhaps this is due to a lack of moisture while it developed into a mature vegetable.
Clay soil is perfect for growing lettuce because it needs consistent moisture to prevent it from establishing a bitter taste when prepared.
Within a month you’ll be able to harvest all the lettuce you need for salads, garnish and other meals.
Kale is a cool weather plant that enjoys loamy soil types. Ensure to prepare the soil in your garden with compost and manure at least one week before planting.
They grow well in cooler times of the year and within fall you’ll have plenty to share and make as many vegan recipes as you like. The clay soil will remain moist and filled with the necessary nutrients and minerals.
Peas are able to grow well in many different types of soils including sand and clay. With adequate drainage, they will thrive so avoid overwatering them when planted in clay.
This could lead to damage to the roots and eventually, diseases will impact the plant. The soil holds just enough moisture to ensure the tree doesn’t dry out and isn’t able to form the pods. Peas will thrive in your garden if you provide them with the essentials for a high-yielding harvest.
Growing potatoes in clay soil with a raised bed garden may produce more results. Modifying the soil before planting it across a large or small garden space before planting is a good idea.
However, if you have no compost, you can test this experience with the soil as is, but ensure it is planted in an area that gets sunshine for most hours of the day.
You may not receive the highest yield for that particular season, due to the potatoes having trouble spreading. If planted in soil that has more loosened particles, potatoes will flourish.
Pumpkins are not fussy regarding soil texture but they are a little more complex to grow. They prefer to be sown directly into their growth environment instead of sprinkling seeds on top of the soil.
The place must be well-lit with beams of sunshine, plenty of space for the plants to spread their vines, and the soil must be hydrated yet drained well.
Adding cardboard to the base of the plants can help to reduce moisture so the roots are preserved from rotting problems.
Both the summer and winter squash grow very well in clay soil. However, adding plenty of compost to the soil will aid in structuring a proper drainage system.
One of the best features of growing squash is that you can only plant one or two squashes, and in a short time be fully prepared to harvest in large amounts.
Neither of these plants enjoys frost so plant them after the cold season has passed. Properly educating yourself on the different pests and diseases that could affect squash will help you to care for them.
To get better results try using a raised bed garden for your vegetables. For more information, have a look at my post to learn more about the reasons why a raised bed garden is better.
Thanks for visiting this post and stay tuned for future updates.
Other gardening articles:
- How to Start Organic Farming
- Benefits of Gardening
- How To Keep Basil Alive
- How To Grow Green Onion
- Easy Fruits And Vegetables To Grow
- How To Grow Lettuce
- How To Grow Kale
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April 1, 2014
By Jessica Holbrook Hernandez, Expert Resume Writer
It’s very easy to make mistakes while job seeking. Even seasoned healthcare professionals can struggle in the midst of a job search. Don’t be discouraged if you think you’ve made some mistakes along the way. Job seeking is like working a job; you’re always fine-tuning your skills. But before you start searching again, consider the following seven job seeking errors you will want to avoid.
It’s a great idea to organize your search so that you know which companies you want to apply to, why you’re choosing them, and why they should choose you. Having this type of organization helps you write great resumes and helps you choose companies and positions that suit you best.
Some hiring managers find that candidates list references without ensuring that the person actually would recommend them for the job—not good, since some references may not have great feedback to offer.
It’s always a good idea to apply for multiple positions. Just because you think you’re perfect for a job doesn’t mean a manager will think so. To play it safe, keep your options open.
Many professionals have acquired great permanent positions from temporary jobs. In fact, some employers prefer to hire from within—even from their contractor pool—so don’t overlook this option.
Employers don’t like to see a candidate readily willing to use company resources when fulfilling personal objectives. So, if you don’t already have a professional email address, set one up that either uses your full name only (i.e., firstname.lastname@example.org) or some variation with a title (e.g., email@example.com).
If you don’t have a networking pool to turn to—both online and offline—then you’re not fully utilizing your resources. Your friends, family, former coworkers, and strangers in your field are there to help. So, keep up with networking associates and grant them favors when asked. Also, join social networking clubs and organizations to acquire more buddies.
To most job seekers, a thank you note is the last thing on their minds. This is exactly why it’s a mistake to not send one! Get it done by email or snail mail. And don’t forget to thank everyone—hiring managers, non-hiring managers, secretaries—everyone.
There is no doubt that conducting a job search is like working a job itself; you have a lot of work to do to get hired. Minimizing minor errors along the way works wonders in making your job easier. So, keep working hard on your search—and don’t give up—because your next great job is just around the corner!
About the Author
Jessica Hernandez, is a resume authority for the Job Talk America radio program and multi-published expert author for resume, career, and job search publications. She boasts more than ten years in human resources management and hiring for Fortune 500 companies and utilizes her extensive experience to support job seekers in their quest to move onward and upward in their careers. Find out more at Great Resumes Fast.
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eDNA lets scientists survey species without seeing a single specimen
There are a lot of fish in the sea, but then again, there’s a lot of sea, too. If you’re looking for a rare fish in a big area, there’s a good chance you’re not going to spot what you’re looking for. Fortunately, environmental DNA (eDNA) may enable to you look for identifiable traces of an animal in a sample the size of a bucket or two. With this new technique, searching the seas is becoming easier than ever, no boat required.
Just as your skin and hair cells contain your unique DNA, fish and other marine life can be identified by the scales, urine, mucus or other bits of their bodies they leave in the water. With as little as one liter of water (or sometimes more), scientists can isolate and sequence the DNA of any animal that had been near the sampled area. In a controlled test of this technique, researchers were able to accurately identify every species of animal living in a deep-water tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. A follow-up pitted eDNA against trained divers surveying part of Monterey Bay, resulting in divers finding one more fish species, but missing half the invertebrates found by genetic sampling.
Searching for sturgeon
Beyond these tests, eDNA is helping find otherwise rare fish in the field. Alabama sturgeons (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi) are critically endangered sturgeons that live in the Alabama river. The last known individual lost its tracking tag in 2009, but researchers needed to know if any of the fish still survived. Persistent tests eventually turned up with 18 positive DNA samples, confirming the fish’s survival and helping narrow the possible locations to find a sturgeon in the wild.
Whale shark census
In a slightly different scenario, researchers off the coast of Qatar started with a sighting of a school of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), and then used eDNA to survey their family tree. By looking for patterns in the genes of the sampled sharks, researchers were able to estimate the number of breeding female sharks in the Indo-Pacific whale shark population. That number, close to 71,000 females, is supported by estimates derived from separately obtained tissue samples. Aside from confirming the population of these impressively elusive fish, these findings indicate that eDNA samples are a fairly reliable method to find out what’s in the water. The fact that diving, trawling or other more invasive activities aren’t needed should make surveying the ocean much more practical, as long as you have access to a bucket.
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With hunting season underway, a familiar challenge unfolds. Hunters seek publicly managed wildlife, but much of the prime habitat is owned by private landowners. While most landowners aren’t opposed to granting access to responsible hunters, they understandably don’t want to open their gates to every Joe Schmoe with a rifle. And while most hunters respect property rights, no hunter can spend all their free time knocking on landowners’ doors asking for permission to hunt.
It’s a classic problem of supply and demand. How can the demanders of wildlife (hunters) connect with the suppliers of wildlife habitat (landowners) in a way that promotes win-win cooperation instead of conflict and resentment? Fortunately, as new technologies emerge, some entrepreneurs are taking a shot at solving this problem—and the early results are promising, to the benefit of both hunters and landowners.
One leader in this space is LandTrust, a startup based in Bozeman, Montana. LandTrust uses an online marketplace to provide hunting opportunities on private lands. Think of it like Airbnb, but for private land recreational access. Any landowner can enroll, set their own rules and prices, and manage who has access to their property and for what purposes. Hunters can browse available hunting opportunities and request daily bookings at hundreds of properties across the country.
This innovative approach has the potential to solve many of the West’s bitter hunting-access debates, which often pit landowners against sportsmen. Landowners can earn extra revenue from allowing managed hunting, while hunters gain exclusive access that would otherwise be difficult to find. And it’s not just for the uber-rich, either. Hunting opportunities on LandTrust are available in some areas for as little as $50.
Such a platform can be used to enhance access for a variety of recreational purposes. On LandTrust, landowners can opt to allow walk-in access across their property, allowing users to unlock access to parcels of public land that are otherwise inaccessible or difficult to reach. And if hunting’s not your game, LandTrust can be used to find opportunities for fishing, hiking, horseback riding, and even bird watching.
Other examples are popping up elsewhere. The Alberta-based Canadian Land Access System uses a similar online interface to provide access to private lands for hunting, fishing, biking, and other forms of outdoor recreation. Users book access to a property and then scan in and out at access sites, notifying the landowner of their presence and allowing users to receive up-to-date access rules. Hipcamp uses a related model for camping on private lands throughout North America.
The benefit of these systems is not just that they connect supply and demand—it’s also in how they build trust among users. The platforms verify users’ identification, require prepayment via credit card, and provide dual rating systems to ensure accountability and weed out bad actors. They also solve another crucial access challenge: liability. LandTrust, for example, provides landowners with general liability insurance and handles all waivers from users, giving landowners peace of mind that they can allow access without exposing themselves to liability risks.
Such an approach could generate immense benefits for ranchers and farmers and the wildlife they support, which in turn benefits all hunters. Market approaches like this enable landowners to diversify their incomes and help sustain large working landscapes from the threat of subdivision or other land uses. And they are far better than mandates, regulation, and other government-led approaches to enhance access, which can backfire by straining relationships between landowners and sportsmen.
The wildlife that hunters enjoy doesn’t fall from the sky. Its survival often depends on the private landowners who provide habitat. The more we can do to support entrepreneurial solutions that help landowners continue to provide habitat while also enhancing public access, the better off we all will be—hunters and landowners alike. | <urn:uuid:b52d00f7-bbd5-4ae0-96d7-63e2670b1291> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://perc.org/2021/11/05/a-market-solution-for-hunting-access/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938215 | 787 | 1.625 | 2 |
Drugs and iPads in the Class Room
Mary Morrison, American Renaissance, August 26, 2016
It was finally the last week of classes at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and I was looking forward to a much-needed break from noise and chaos when I spotted the high school nurse storming toward me with one of my most difficult students, Ronald.
“Mrs. Morrison!” she shouted. “Ronald just had his meds switched and I need you to keep an eye on him during class for any changes in behavior.” She quickly let go of Ronald and scurried back to her office, where a long line of students awaited their morning dose of behavior medication, insulin shots, and respiratory therapy.
I knew Ronald’s behavior all too well. He was hyperactive, perpetually angry, and had a habit of getting out of his seat and yelling obscenities at any moment. I’d had a look at his IEP (Individual Education Program) when he joined my third period a month ago. This behavior was carefully noted, considered to be a part of his learning disability, signed off on by the principal, school psychologist, and parents–and therefore to be tolerated at school. This meant there was little I could do when he told a visiting parent the day before that he’d “like to stick my d*** in your a**.”
I also knew Ronald’s parents had filed a lawsuit against the district claiming discrimination and racism because the school counselor and two school psychologists had strongly urged them to put Ronald in a school for severely emotionally disturbed children (with expensive door-to-door transportation provided by the school district). Ten years ago, Ronald would have been sent to such a school despite his parents’ insistence that he be in a regular classroom; a generation ago, he would have been locked in a psychiatric ward. I was the third teacher he had been assigned to this semester.
As class sizes increase and as the population changes, many more children are coming from single-mother, chaotic families. More emotionally disturbed students are mainstreamed due to the high cost of special education, and since suspension and expulsion is rarely allowed, there is much greater use of psychiatric drugs to control students.
One in 13 US school children reportedly takes prescription psychiatric drugs: Zoloft, Effexor or Luvox for depression, social phobias, or anxiety; Ritalin or Adderall for ADD and ADHD, and mood stabilizers such as lithium to treat manic depression.
Students talk openly of the drugs they are on, drugs for which the long-term effects on developing brains are largely unknown. I find it ironic that drug-avoidance is an integral part of the mandated high school health curriculum when so many of our students are taking powerful drugs on the recommendation of school psychologists and therapists.
Ronald was moving with a peculiar, slow, flat-footed gait and looking a bit slack-jawed. I guided him to his seat as my class began to fill with 38 other students, including six special ed students. They all have Individual Education Programs because of their disabilities. As usual, the aide assigned to accompany these students as part of their mainstreaming is nowhere to be seen. It’s just as well; the majority of the aides are little better than the students they are supposed to monitor and help.
Lupe, one of my quiet, shy students, approached my desk just before the third-period bell. “Mrs. Morrison,” she says, “the counselor wants to put me in a therapy group this period and I don’t want to go. I already attend three different therapy groups during the week: anger management on Mondays and Wednesdays, family therapy on Thursdays and AlaTeen [AA for teenagers] on Fridays. I think that’s enough.”
I think so too, but we have three therapists assigned to our school and a fourth who works on an itinerant basis, and there is a lot of pressure to fill up these so-called therapy sessions. They all take place during class time.
As I’m taking roll–the school gets more money when more people attend, and we have to do it every period–I notice the principal in my doorway motioning me to come outside. “I need your iPads,” she says. “I’m going to lock them in the office with all the other ones where they’ll be safer. We’ve lost several already, keyboards too. You’re the only teacher who still has them in a classroom. Bring them over after school.”
I am glad to get the iPads out of my classroom. For two years, these $768 iPads have been sitting in the bottom two drawers of my filing cabinet, rarely used, mainly because my school did not have WiFi until two months ago, and it still doesn’t work well. The Peterson educational software that is supposed to help students with math and English–for $250 per iPad–was never installed even though Peterson was fully paid up front, to the tune of $6.4 million.
We got the iPads in the first place because of pressure from the school board. “Our children are not connected to the modern world,” members told us, none of whom had ever been a classroom teacher. “They are being left behind, missing out on the vital world of information and technology; they’re being set up to become the next generation of housekeepers and gardeners!” a particularly obnoxious school board member–a former La Raza activist–thundered during a speech justifying the school boards’ request to spend one billion dollars buying the over-priced devices.
I remembered a report from a neighboring school, a supposed “technology-centered learning academy” whose teachers had undergone intensive training on “iPad applications in the classroom” during the summer. Each student had been assigned an iPad so he could “take ownership and responsibility” for his own learning, have 24-hour access to technology and media, enhance his knowledge base and world experience, and research meaningful career paths. According to the superintendent, it was an issue of “social justice.”
The report said that by lunch on the day the iPads were handed out, students had managed to by-pass the encrypted filters the district had put on the iPads, and were freely accessing Facebook, YouTube, and porn sites. By the end of the week, the school hastily recalled the iPads only to discover a third of them were missing. The superintendent who had so strongly pushed to spend $1.3 billion for iPads because “high-quality educational opportunities are being denied to low-income students of color” soon resigned. He was replaced by an 82-year-old interim superintendent who had been accused of sexual harrassment, costing the district $93,000 in payments to the accuser.
Teens reportedly spend about nine hours in front of a screen each day outside of school time. They don’t need another screen to stare at in class; they need a teacher.
The school psychologist interrupts me just ten minutes later. “I know it’s the last week of school, she began, “but I need you for an emergency IEP meeting tomorrow morning before school. I know you don’t have this student, but I need a teacher in the meeting and I can’t ask the student’s teacher, Mr. F.”
I knew why she couldn’t ask Mr. F. Earlier in the year, he told a student that the micro-shorts she was wearing were inappropriate in class, let alone on school grounds around teenage boys. The student called her mother and the mother had marched into district headquarters yelling about a “male teacher looking at her daughter ‘down there’.” The district, as usual, sided with the parent and if it weren’t for tenure, Mr. F would have been fired. As it was, he was written up, placed on administrative leave, and later transferred to another school.
After school, I dutifully scoop up the iPads, including the chargers and keyboards, put them on a special cart designed to charge all the iPads at once, and head to the principal’s office to turn them in.
“You’ll most likely never see them again,” she tells me. “The district decided students should be using lap tops instead of iPads so they just bought $200 Google ChromeBooks for the entire student body. They’ve arrived and you’ve been assigned 20 for the next school year. Oh, and we’ve been told to ‘keep it quiet’ that the iPads are being locked away.” I pushed the charging cart and iPads to the back of a closet, disgusted at the tremendous amount of money wasted on them.
Despite several interruptions, period three–the class with Ronald in it–had gone well: We managed to read a selection from our textbook, had a round-robin discussion, and reviewed for a test. That was because Ronald had fallen fast asleep as soon as the third-period bell rang, his face plastered to his desk with a long string of drool seeping out of the side of his mouth.
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By Roger Dye and Jayna Richardson
“My wife and I came here with no hope. We were not going to get divorced, but we haven’t had any joy in our marriage for several years. We were just resigned to a marriage without happiness. But what you have taught us this week has given us a new vision. We leave here with real hope for our marriage, the spark of joy restored to our family.”
This quote is from a pastor in Panamá who attended a Spanish-language FamilyLife event. His story—and hundreds of others just like it—validate the need for gospel-centered Spanish events and resources for families. But the translation process is more vigorous than it might seem in order to produce resources that are usable internationally, consistent with FamilyLife’s message, and biblically accurate.
Forbes Magazine published an article in 2021 stating that “Spanish is spoken by more than 559 million people globally. Of those, 460 million are native speakers, making Spanish the language with the second largest population of native speakers in the world… In the U.S., 13 percent of the population speaks Spanish at home.”
The potential audience for Spanish resources is huge, but the process isn’t as simple as creating a word-for-word translation from the English text. With 21 countries and dozens of cultures having Spanish as the official language, a common phrase in one country might be highly offensive in another, or it could be complete gibberish. To ensure that the resources will be universally understood and internationally accepted, every project passes through the approval process of at least three countries: a translator, an editor, and a proofreader, each from a different country.
Next, the translation returns to the FamilyLife Global office to make sure the resource is still consistent with FamilyLife’s message and that it remains theologically accurate. Although the translators and proofreaders are Christians, they are not trained theologians. Finding the most accurate word to correctly convey a biblical principle can be very challenging.
In one instance, a translator was working on a resource that deals with the story in Genesis 2:18 where God created Eve as a helper for her husband, Adam. The translator used a workplace term for “helper” instead of the biblical word. FamilyLife Global Representative Roger Dye recommended using the biblical term instead, but the translator wasn’t convinced. Finally, Roger suggested, “Read that sentence to your wife. Let’s get her take on it.”
She was horrified. “We can’t teach women that they are errand-girls! I am your helper because I am honored to be the woman that God created me to be, but I will never be your errand-girl!”
Examples like this are one of many reasons we have multiple countries involved in the translation process, with both men and women, in addition to the Global Office providing feedback to ensure the proper tone and biblical accuracy.
The process is arduous and requires incredible attention to detail as well as discernment and prayer. But the needs are great, and the results can speak for themselves. A pastor in the Dominican Republic wrote, “I was convicted this week that as a husband, I have not been representing Christ to my wife, and that begins to change today!” These Spanish resources are imparting truth and hope, and God is using them to change lives.
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“Environmental justice requires that all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, have the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards.”
OPAL – Environmental Justice Oregon
Environmental justice is a critical element of the Quiet Clean PDX effort to eliminate the use of gas powered leaf blowers.
The health risks associated with gas powered lawn and garden equipment are highest for those who operate this equipment regularly. They are exposed to high levels of toxic pollutants and fine particulates for many hours each day. They are also exposed to high levels of noise that can quickly induce permanent hearing loss if proper ear protection is not worn at all times.
Workers don’t always have a say in the equipment they’re required to use. Yet no one will benefit more immediately and over time from the elimination of gas-powered leaf blowers than the workers who use them. We believe anyone who can accomplish the same task using safer equipment should use the safer equipment.
There is no evidence that regulations restricting gas powered leaf blower use have an adverse economic impact on lawn care or maintenance contractors or workers. We believe that properly enacted policies by local and state governments can ensure an equitable transition away from gas powered leaf blowers that creates a level playing field for all businesses regardless of their size and which protects the rights of all workers who use this equipment.
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The famous album cover “Abbey Road” from The Beatles could have been also inspired by a catwalk scene in London 1969. Sylvia Schramm followed the question, how would it look then today?
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In this article, you will learn about the differences between American Pitbull Terrier and Standard Bully breeds. You will also learn about the American Staffordshire Terrier, another breed of Pitbull. Learn what makes these dogs unique and why they make excellent pets. This article is meant to provide basic information for owners of these breeds. It is important to keep in mind that all Pitbull breeds are highly prone to the same behavioral problems.
The standard bully is a popular dog breed, and it comes in different sizes. Generally, males are larger than females, and the average size of the breed is between 60 and 80 pounds. This breed also varies in height, but the average height is approximately 16 to 19 inches. They have thick bones and a heavy, blocky head, and they are among the most obedient dogs in the world.
American bully breeds can be divided into two subtypes: purebred and mixed. The American Bully is the largest of the breeds. They have a large head and chest, and are incredibly affectionate. Generally, this breed has a ten to twelve-year lifespan and is perfect for family life. This breed is also a great watchdog and can be very protective. But before getting a bully, make sure you know the basic facts about its personality, characteristics, and health.
The American Bully’s short coat is low-maintenance. It sheds moderately but should be brushed and bathed regularly. Be sure to take special care of the folds in the face. Clean them regularly and dry them thoroughly. OEBs need exercise, but it is not as high as other bully breeds. A daily walk and some backyard play should do the trick. If you’re looking to get a Bully, this breed is a great choice.
The American Bully is an intelligent breed of dog that comes from working dogs. This means that it retains a lot of energy and needs daily exercise to stay healthy and happy. It can also get bored easily and may be destructive when it’s bored. If you’re looking for a family dog with a great personality, the American Bully may be a great fit for you. With this personality, they’re also easy to train, so make sure you invest in good training.
Although the American Bully breed is increasingly popular, not all Pitbulls are Pitbulls. Despite the similarities between the two breeds, it’s important to know that each one has its own distinctive features. One of these characteristics is that it’s a bloodline, and it can be traced back to a mother or father. In fact, this bloodline has its own distinct characteristics, so you should be aware of the bloodlines before adopting a Bully.
American Bullys were created to remove the characteristics that made Pitbulls aggressive, so they’re not aggressive. These dogs love being around humans and are gentle around babies. They’re great lapdogs and love affection. Despite their name, this breed has very low exercise and grooming needs, and their love is unconditional. This makes them a great choice for families with children. If you’re looking for a dog that will make you happy, this breed is perfect for you.
American Pitbull Terrier
The American Pit Bull Terrier is a dog breed recognized by the United Kennel Club and the American Dog Breeders Association. This medium-sized dog is intelligent and has a short, solid build. American Pit Bull Terriers are excellent companions and can be trained to behave in many ways. In addition to their reputation for aggressiveness, this breed is also known for their loyalty. Read on to learn more about this popular breed. Read on to learn more about its history, characteristics, and how you can get one of your own.
The first thing to know about the American Pitbull Terrier’s health is its breed type. This type of dog has many health issues. Some of the most common include eye diseases. If your American Pitbull Terrier has cherry eye disease, he or she may have a red mass in the corner of the eye. While the condition can be painful, it can also be treated with surgery. An examination by a veterinarian will help you determine the severity of this condition and how to treat it.
Although the American Pitbull Terrier is generally healthy, there are a few common health problems. The aortic valve in American Pitbull Terriers is susceptible to shrinkage, which puts extra strain on the heart. Left untreated, this condition can cause serious cardiac problems. This disease is hereditary and can affect either a puppy or an adult dog. Therefore, it is imperative to take your American Pitbull to a vet if you suspect your American Pitbull Terrier is suffering from this condition.
An Am Staff has a similar appearance to the Pitbull and Am Staff. Although the two breeds are large, they do not share a similar tendency to be vicious or destructive. The aggressiveness of an Am Staff dog is dependent on the owner and his or her upbringing. The underlying psyche determines the level of aggression a dog exhibits. If a dog is trained and raised to be aggressive, it may become a devoted member of the family.
The American Pitbull Terrier belongs to the molesser family of breeds. Both the American Pitbull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier are incredibly devoted companions. They are both beautiful, affectionate, and sweet. And while they do have some differences, they are both loving and loyal. If you want to learn more about them, check out our American Pitbull Terrier Breed Information
The American Pitbull Terrier is an athletic medium-sized dog with a muscular build. Their coat is short, dense, and shiny, and it lies close to the body. This helps the breed excel in a variety of sports. American Pit Bull Terriers weigh anywhere from 17 to fifty pounds. A perfect breed for many families. It is a great choice for dog sports. You can find pitbulls for sale at most dog stores and breeders.
American Staffordshire Terrier
An American Staffordshire Terrier is an extremely intelligent, trainable dog. They enjoy pleasing people, and have been trained for many jobs, including detection and service dogs. The average Amstaff is a sturdy, robust 19-inch dog. Some Amstaffs are shorter, and the breed is not as robust as the Pitbull. But despite their size, the American Staffordshire Terrier is an incredibly loyal family pet.
The American Staffordshire terrier is a muscle-bound softie that forms fast bonds with its humans. These dogs are good watchdogs and loyal companions, but they also require a lot of exercise to burn off their high energy. American Staffordshire terriers also love to play fetch and frisbee. While these two characteristics make them excellent companions, the breed is not for every family or situation.
Although they are often confused, the two breeds are quite distinct. While the American Staffordshire Terrier is a pitbull, the pit bull is an unofficial catch-all term for many bully breeds. The American Staffordshire Terrier is AKC recognized while the pit bull is not. Both breeds are extremely intelligent, and they’re very loyal to their owners. But, be aware that some pit bulls are aggressive towards people and other dogs. If you’re considering purchasing one of these dogs, you should do it properly.
The American Staffordshire Terrier’s ancestors came from England, where they were mixed with Terriers and Bulldogs. In the 19th century, they were used in dogfights, and they remain illegal today. They had many names in the UK and the United States, including American Pit Bull Terriers, Pitbull Terriers, and Yankee Terriers. In 1936, the American Kennel Club accepted the Staffordshire Terrier as a breed and renamed the breed as such. They gained popularity as companions for their owners, and their temperaments compel their owners to walk them barefooted.
In the United Kingdom, the American Staffordshire Terrier is the tallest breed of Pitbull. The American Staffordshire Terrier is the shortest, whereas the Staffordshire Bull Terrier is the smallest. There are several other breeds of American Pitbull Terriers, such as the American Bully and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, but both are essentially Pitbulls, although the United Kennel Club does not recognize either.
The American Staffordshire Terrier needs daily exercise, and should have at least an hour of exercise. This breed was originally bred for stamina, so they should receive supervised exercise on a daily basis. Its high energy level requires frequent reminders to take a break. However, it should not be exercised outside the home. A small dog can easily get bored and may even become destructive.
The American Staffordshire Terrier is known as a family dog, and is best suited for households with children over the age of six. However, the breed can be quite rough around children, so parents must supervise playtime with this breed. Because they were bred to be fighting dogs, they do not generally get along well with other dogs, but this does not mean they are not friendly. You should not get one if you don’t know the other owners’ personality. | <urn:uuid:20ab59b8-7fe7-49ab-8086-5fc224b17d2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://puppyheaven.com/pitbull-breeds-and-types-of-pitbulls/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967083 | 1,907 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)Woodblock Prints Title:
Couple Under Mosquito Net1st Publication:
1797 - 1800Size:
15 x 10-1/4Date of this edition: 1797 - 1800 Publisher:
Some slight color fading. Upper right corner repaired, one pin hole, a few small clear area. Very good colors and impression. Very good to excellent overall condition for an Utamaro Print.Notes:
This is a really beautiful print by Utamaro. These tones are very fragile, it is amazing to see it in this almost exceptional colors and condition.
Before the arrival of the Prussian blue in the mid 1820's, almost all the blue pigments used in the prints have faded. In the late 1880's, the pigments were still visible, so a lot of reprints were made with the new technology, allowing the blue color to be in full display. 95 % of the prints prior to 1820 have little to no blue color left, even prints referenced by Museums. Most of Utamaro's blue colored prints are in fact reprints from the 1880's. The most common way to differentiate the reprints from the originals are from the seals. Reprints are lacking some seals, as opposed to the originals.
For reference, you can see the the original listed by the British Museum HERE
As you can see, the blue color from the print referenced by the British Museum is completely faded, yet all the seals checks out. The 1880's reprint of the edition has a missing seal on the bottom right corner of the print.Pictures:
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UBC Theses and Dissertations
The acquisition of a written language by E.S.L. children during the kindergarten and grade one years Chow, Mayling
This research investigates the development of writing in children who are learning English as a second language (ESL). Its underlying hypotheses are that: 1) ESL children will learn to write independently when placed in a social and psychological setting that facilitates language learning; and 2) they will use the same strategies and follow the same general patterns of development as those reported for English-speaking children. Current research on emergent literacy provided the theoretical framework for this study. This investigation followed eleven ESL children from the beginning of Kindergarten to the end of Grade One. The children's writing samples were collected daily and were analyzed and classified within Gentry's (1982) stages of writing development. The data were examined for implied strategies, knowledge and understandings. Observational notes on the children when writing revealed characteristics and behaviours found at each level of writing development. The results point to the similarities between how ESL children and English-speaking children learn to write when challenged to discover the English writing system for themselves. The theoretical perspective of writing as a developmental process was evident throughout the study. Additional findings highlighted the significant role of literature in ESL learning and the importance of a learner-centred approach to literacy instruction. The implications of the research findings for ESL methodology is discussed together with an account of the children's development in writing.
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Farmers Markets: Local farmers markets and festivals are great places to browse for unique gifts during the holidays. There is usually a diverse array of options, which can include art, food, beauty supplies, clothing, and decor–perfect to suit anyone! Also, this is one of the easiest and most fun ways to shop locally. The Tuscaloosa Farmers Market is open at the Tuscaloosa River Market from 7 am to 12 pm every Saturday.
Find Local Artists: Art is often an underrated gift to give for the holidays. You could get a portrait done for someone or a reproduction of a beloved photograph, and buying an artist’s original piece is always an option. Local artists offer affordable prices and are used to doing these commissions during the holidays. You can find local artists via social media, local festivals and markets, and through the University of Alabama’s (or any college really) Art Department.
Plants: For an outdoorsy and nature-focused friend or relative, plants can make a cute, cheap, and unique gift. Contact your local nursery, gardener, or even possibly a hardware store to find a variety of plants–both indoor and outdoor, floral and greenery, decorative, herbs, and food-producing plants. There is a type of plant for every need.
Your Local Coffee Shop: Never underestimate the gift of coffee. As a coffee lover myself, I thrive off of getting a brand new bag of coffee as a gift. It is a great example for someone to try new brands and flavors, and it can accommodate almost any holiday price range. Also, don’t forget about teas or other drinks available at your local coffee shops.
Antique Shop: Antique stores often have literal one-of-a-kind pieces at a wide range of prices. From old books to art, to decoration, antique stores have something unique to fit everyone.
Thrift Store: If you are looking for a similarly quirky and unique gift for a lower price, thrift stores are a great option, too! They greatly reduce excessive waste produced around the holidays, and they can be perfect to find that perfectly weird gift for a friend.
Local Bookstore: Local bookstores can be a more obvious option for your bookworm friend or family member. However, never underestimate the gift of a book for someone who may not be an avid reader. Bookstores often carry unique magazines and comic books, as well as fun biographies about a favorite celebrity or pretty coffee table books about animals.
Make a Donation: Lastly, a final unique gift for a friend is to donate some money to a charity or organization in their name. You can choose something that you know they are passionate about, such as the Human Rights Campaign or Wildlife Preservation. Many organizations also offer memberships or gifts that they might also enjoy. NPR often includes a t-shirt or tote bag with certain donations, and art museums provide memberships with benefits for donors. You can both give a unique gift for the holidays to someone you care about and help make the world a better place. | <urn:uuid:6cca4e75-9ba9-4d8e-ba70-5db03646c8dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hercampus.com/school/alabama/8-ways-buy-gifts-locally-during-holidays/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94853 | 628 | 1.664063 | 2 |
How Do You Know If You Tore Your Meniscus?
Meniscus tears are quite common; 40% of people over the age of 65 have had one, and the knee joint is frequently injured during sports competitions. Depending on the severity, there are treatment options for mild or severe meniscal tears.
What Is a Meniscus Tear?
Damage to the c-shaped cartilage between the tibia and the femur is known as a meniscus injury.
Torn Meniscus Symptoms — What Does a Torn Meniscus Feel Like?
After a meniscus injury, many people can still put weight on the affected knee. Knee popping and locking is an unsettling experience for many people. Your doctor will use imaging tests like X-rays or MRIs to accurately diagnose your knee injury.
The Meniscus Tear Test
The circumduction knee test (also known as the McMurray test) is used to identify any protruding meniscus “tags” or fully adrift loose bodies in the knee, as well as knee locking, clicking, pain, general mobility limitations, and instability.
Can a Meniscus Tear Heal on Its Own?
Physical therapy can be used to increase flexibility and strengthen the knee joint and surrounding tissues after a torn meniscus. It’s best to seek professional treatment advice before attempting to diagnose or treat your injury at home.
Treatment Options — Physical Therapy Exercises for Meniscal Tears
Physical therapy for meniscus tears may be the best option for you. Physical therapy will focus on restoring knee flexibility first, then strengthening the surrounding tissues.
Arthroscopic Meniscus Surgery
Meniscus tear surgery, which involves shaving or removing damaged portions of the knee cartilage, and chondroplasty, which involves removing damaged cartilage to allow new healthy cartilage to develop, is often the best option for treating a full or partially torn meniscus.
Meniscus Tear Recovery Time — How Long for a Meniscus Tear to Heal After Surgery?
The recovery time for each knee injury will vary depending on the patient and the severity of the injury. Most people can expect to be out of commission for three months after arthroscopic meniscus surgery, with meniscectomies requiring a more flexible recovery timetable of about one month.
Can you walk around with a torn meniscus?
Many people with a torn meniscus can walk, stand, sit, and sleep without pain unless the torn meniscus has locked the knee.
Can a medial meniscus tear heal on its own?
Some people believe that meniscus tears will heal on their own over time; however, there are different types of meniscus tears, and some tears will not heal without treatment. If your tear is on the outer one-third of the meniscus, it may heal on its own or require surgical repair.
Will walking on a torn meniscus make it worse?
Pain is common, but people can still walk; swelling is also common, and it can worsen over time; you may also notice your knee stiffening.
How long does it take for a torn meniscus to heal without surgery?
Meniscus tears are the most commonly treated knee injuries, with a recovery time of 6 to 8 weeks if treated conservatively and without surgery.
What happens if a meniscus tear is left untreated?
Untreated meniscus tears can cause the frayed edge of the meniscus to get caught in the joints, causing pain and swelling, as well as long-term knee problems like arthritis.
Will a knee brace help with a meniscus tear?
A knee brace can be worn after meniscus tear surgery to limit knee flexion and rotation, protecting the meniscus while allowing weight-bearing and movement , and braces can also be used to support the knee during physical therapy exercises later in the rehabilitation process.
Does a torn meniscus hurt to touch?
Swelling, difficulty moving your knee or inability to move it in a full range of motion, and the sensation of your knee locking or catching are all symptoms of a meniscus tear.
How can I heal my meniscus without surgery?
You can do the following to hasten your recovery:
- Rest your knee.
- Ice your knee to reduce pain and swelling.
- Compress your knee.
- Elevate your knee with a pillow under your heel when you’re sitting or lying down.
- Take anti-inflammatory medications.
Is it worth having meniscus surgery?
Surgery to repair tears in the meniscus relieves symptoms 85% of the time, which means that out of every 100 people who have this surgery, 85 will have pain relief and be able to use their knee normally, while 15 will not. Meniscus repair is most successful in: Younger people.
What is the best exercise for a torn meniscus?
What is the best way for me to exercise to heal my meniscus?
- Straight-leg raises to the front and back.
- Hamstring curls.
- Heel raises.
- Heel dig bridging.
- Shallow standing knee bends.
Is heat or cold better for torn meniscus?
If you have a muscle tear or strain, you will experience severe pain, swelling, and bruising. If the muscle is torn, apply ice to reduce swelling and then switch to heat once the worst is over.
Is a torn meniscus a permanent injury?
Meniscal tears are common knee injuries, and patients often return to their pre-injury abilities with proper diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.
How do I know if I’ve torn my meniscus?
Pain in your knee, especially when twisting or rotating it. Difficulty fully straightening your knee. Feeling as if your knee is locked in place when you try to move it. Feeling as if your knee is giving way.
What kind of knee brace do I need for a meniscus tear?
The DonJoy Deluxe Knee Hinged Brace is one of the best knee braces for those who want to prevent menisci injury by stabilizing the knee, those who already have a mild to moderate meniscus injury, and those who want to support the meniscus on a daily basis.
How long does it take for a strained meniscus to heal?
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A new study found that Google’s Gmail favors liberal candidates, allowing the vast majority of emails from left-wing politicians to land in the user’s inbox while more than two-thirds of messages from conservative candidates are marked as spam.
North Carolina State University’s Department of Computer Science published, “A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020,” last week in order to determine if spam filtering algorithms (SFAs) are biased toward a particular political party or ideology. The extensive study took place over a course of five months, from July 1, 2020 to November 30, 2020 on Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo. They created 102 email accounts and subscribed to two Presidential, 78 Senate, and 156 House candidates.
To accurately estimate the political biases and mitigate any potential effects of demographics (ethnicity, age, and gender), we created multiple email accounts with different combinations of demographic factors and designed two experiments. The first experiment studies the general trends of biases in SFAs across the email services for the Presidential, Senate and House candidates. The second experiment studies the impact of different email interactions such as reading the emails, marking them as spam, or vice versa on the biases in SFAs. We designed an automated process to perform all the subscriptions, and took periodic backups to keep all the email accounts active as well as to keep track of the correct number of spam emails received over the course of data collection for each of the three services,” they wrote.
“We made several important observations in our study. For example, as an aggregate trend, Gmail leaned towards the left while Outlook and Yahoo leaned towards the right. Yahoo retained about half of all the political emails in inbox (up to 55.2% marked as spam) while outlook filtered out the vast majority of emails (over 71.8%) from all political candidates and marked them as spam,” the proposed methodology section continued. “Gmail, however, retained the majority of left-wing candidate emails in inbox (< 10.12% marked as spam) while sent the majority of right-wing candidate emails to the spam folder (up to 77.2% marked as spam).”
The study “further observed that the percentage of emails marked by Gmail as spam from the right-wing candidates grew steadily as the election date approached while the percentage of emails marked as spam from the left-wing candidates remained about the same” in the days leading up to Election Day.
he study, conducted by Hassan Iqbal, Usman Mahmood Khan, Hassan Ali Khan and Muhammad Shahzad, aimed to determine whether email services exhibit aggregate political biases, treat similar emails from senders with different political affiliations in the same way, if the interactions of the users with their email accounts, such as reading emails, impact the political biases of SFAs and whether SFAs exhibit different political biases for recipients belonging to different demographic.
Google dismissed the group’s findings.
“Political affiliation has absolutely no bearing on mail classifications in Gmail and we’ve debunked this suggestion, which has surfaced periodically from across the political spectrum, for many years. Mail classifications in Gmail automatically adjust to match Gmail users’ preferences and actions. Gmail users can move messages to spam, or to any other category. Gmail automatically adjusts the classifications of particular emails according to these user actions,” a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
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NYC’S Smart Buildings Get Better Grades
Large buildings in NYC are now assigned a public letter grade based on energy performance.
Do you have an “A” in your lobby? Crafting a smart building strategy is the first step to improve performance and ease operations.
Smart buildings require less human intervention from distracting details and provide the right amount of information for easier decision-making. A smart building strategy is beyond today’s latest widget; it’s grounded in a deep understanding of both new and 100-year old technology and looks at a building as a whole. As your smart buildings partner, we will help you every step along the way to address your critical needs, reduce costs, and increase the value of your properties.
Smart buildings capitalize on your existing systems and create a flexible platform for strategic upgrades in the future as building needs and technology options change. They help you to –
- Make informed decisions based on key performance indicators
- Ease operations with one platform for meaningful issues only, increasing productivity and garnering better results
- Improve your publicly visible letter grade
We can help you keep it simple and identify the right solutions without complicated or unnecessary upgrades. It’s time to start planning now.
Learn about NYC’s “Green New Deal” on this episode of SWA’s Buildings and Beyond where we break down the details of the bill and share some advice for building owners and managers.
Read SWA’s blog post for a primer on what the new Climate Mobilization Act means for building owners.
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Two little boys aged 8 &10 were extremely mischievous.
They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew all about it.
If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved.
The boy’s mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children.
So she asked the preacher if he would speak with her boys.
The preacher agreed. But he asked to see them individually.
So the mother sent the 8 year old first, in the morning.
The preacher, a huge man with a booming voice asked the boy sternly…
“Do you know where God is? Son!”
The boy made no response;
just sat there wide eyed with his mouth hanging open.
So the preacher repeated the question in an even sterner voice.
“Where is God?”
Again the boy made no attempt to answer.
The preacher raised his voice even more and now shook his finger in the boys face and bellowed, “Where is God?”
The boy screamed and ran out from the room, directly to his home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him.
When the older brother found him in the closet, he asked, “what happened?”
The younger brother, gasping for breath replied “Brother, we are in big trouble this time…
I really loved reading next line again and again. Scroll down and see what he said…
……”God is missing, and they think we did it! !!!!!!”
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How tall is william penn?
We found no record of his height, and nothing said that he was short or tall, so going by the averages of the day, we're guessing he was about 5 (feet) 6 (inches) tall,” said Sharon Sexton, director of marketing and communications at William Penn Charter. His statue is 37 ft tall.
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March 1, 2004
by Lyndon Smith, Sandra Aldebert & Dr. Ken Glick
In today’s environment, staying at the forefront of our profession requires commitment to lifelong learning. As a practice develops, so must a dentist’s diagnostic and clinical skills, as well as the technical competency of the team. For a practice to really reach its fullest potential, these must also be supported by effective administrative and business skills; and a highly developed ability to communicate with patients.
Providing such a resource is the mission of The Dental Learning Centre, the new, all-Canadian teaching facility. Uniquely created for the dental profession, the TDLC is designed to afford all aspects of clinical, technical and academic learning for dentists, hygienists, dentals assistants and administrative staff as well as dental lab technicians and dental industry personnel.
A collaborative venture supported by Ivoclar Vivadent, Modular and Custom Cabinets, SciCan, Scotiabank, Straumann Canada and Ultra Laboratory Group, The Dental Learning Centre (TDLC) is located in Oakville, a suburb of Toronto.
To facilitate as many learning styles as possible, designers allowed for great flexibility in their approach to guiding participants through the incremental stages of learning. Programs flow from theatre style lectures to skill enhancing exercises to live patient treatment where class sizes are limited to 20.
The “Theatre in the Round” lecture facility on the first level allows participants to eavesdrop from the toe of the dental chair in one of the largest operatories in the world. Directly adjacent is a consultation/treatment presentation area where simulated patient interactions utilize technology to increase patient awareness and enhance patient learning. These consultative “playlets” can be interactive between the clinician and the audience while the over the shoulder video camera/microscope and a widescreen LCD monitor provide ease of viewing for course participants.
The third level Clinical Skills Facility supplies 15 fully serviced workstations where new clinical/technical skills can be readily developed and enhanced. Initially through the use of typodont models to phantom heads, a dentist is hands-on through the entire procedure while the instructor demonstrates from a glass-enclosed HI-TECH operatory with sophisticated audio-visual for clear viewing. The TDLC is Internet enabled to provide international outreach for distance education programs.
The final stages of the clinical/technical journey are centred in the Live Patient Facility on the main floor. An 11 operatory, natural dental practice, this area is fully equipped for dentist, dental assistant and hygienist to gain hands-on practical skills on a participant’s own patients. All phases of dentistry will be offered from esthetics, implants and restorative to wide-ranging team activities that include radiography, photography, case presentation, patient communications, soft tissue management and more.
Across the board, our Founding Members echo that this unique venue is perfect to support their learning-based, client service focused outline.
“We enthusiastically sought the opportunity to become part of a training/learning Centre unsurpassed in the industry and utilizing the latest technologies available in teaching its specialized audience. We found The Dental Learning Centre to be enhanced by being fully equipped with superior audio visual capabilities, numerous technologies including microscopes and the new KaVo laser, live operatory, practical hands-on stations and the latest addition–patient phantom units. These extraordinary training tools combined with comprehensive course content allow TDLC participants to walk away knowledgeable and enlightened by their experience”. Being able to collaborate in this dream project has truly allowed us to “build something special together that dentistry will come to”.
There is nothing magical about lifelong learning; it is about asking yourself: “What are the things I do every day I would like to do better?” “What else can I offer my patients to enhance their dental health and appearance, and their quality of life?” “What can my team and I learn to enrich our patient relationships, ourselves as professionals and our entire practice?”
There is nothing similar to TDLC in the Canadian marketplace. The positive energy of current course participants confirms that it is among the most revolutionary venues in the field.
More photos are available at http://www.tdlc.ca
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To achieve quality data, it is essential to eliminate irrelevant variables, which can be done through feature selection. This service offers support and developement capabilities to introduce advanced techniques for feature selection in order to optimize the amount of data processed for a particular data-related task, generally involving an intelligent or decision-support system.
The emergence of Big Data has revolutionised virtually all areas of our lives. our lives. This phenomenon has been brought about by the exceptional increase in the amount of digital data being produced and stored every day, as well as the exceptional increase in the amount of data being produced and stored amount of digital data being produced and stored every day, as well as the proliferation and commercialisation of ubiquitous devices that allow us to be proliferation and commercialisation of ubiquitous devices that allow us to be always connected and constantly always connected and constantly accessing all kinds of information. Without However, we sometimes forget that it is better to go for data quality rather than data quantity. rather than quantity of data. And, in order to achieve quality data, it is essential to eliminate those variables that are irrelevant, which can be done through feature selection.
Typically, feature selection is performed on general purpose computers, which work efficiently on a class computers, which operate efficiently in double-precision (64-bit) floating-point and provide RAM memory of hundreds of GB with high bandwidth. However, other architectures that focus on minimising power consumption by providing fewer hardware resources are now increasingly being used. Examples of platforms where feature selection is offered include GPUs (Graphic Processing Units), with hundreds or thousands of low-frequency cores, or wearable devices (glasses, watches, bracelets or even rings), designed to be worn as a garment or accessory. Efficient exploitation of these technologies requires changes in the implementation of feature selection algorithms.
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Intel Corp. rolled out its new “Madison” 64-bit processor on Monday, pairing it with an enhanced “Gallatin” 32-bit Xeon processor. Meanwhile, Advanced Micro Devices struck back with several new Opterons for the server market.
The three new X86 processors are intended to put more pressure on RISC architectures like the SPARC architecture, IBM’s high-end POWER processors, and the Alpha 64-bit chips, which still control the high-end clustered computing market from a performance standpoint. Intel’s Madison, meanwhile, represents the third significant revision to Intel’s 64-bit architecture and its latest effort to topple RISC.
While Intel executives say that Madison boosts performance by 50 percent compared to the prior-generation “McKinley” chip, the company’s message remains the same: taken as a whole, the price of an Intel-based server versus its performance makes it far more attractive compared to a RISC-based server from Sun or another manufacturer.
“This is like a marathon,” said Mike Fister, senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Platforms Group at Intel. “We’re only a few miles in on the marathon, and we’re out near the front of the pack if not in front, and our intention is to win the race.”
Intel claims that over 50 server configurations will be shipped using the Itanium 2 processor lineup this year, which includes the McKinley and Madison processors. Because of an earlier bug that was found in the McKinley processor, however, customers will receive a free drop-in replacement to the Madison chip, and the McKinley processor will most likely disappear quickly.
However, when compared against its stated rival, the entire RISC market, Intel has been overmatched. Intel does not disclose the number of 64-bit processors it has shipped. Instead, Fister said it advises financial analysts and reporters to use industry reports such as those prepared by analyst firm Gartner Inc.
Gartner believes Intel shipped only 3,643 64-bit processors in 2002, compared to over 479,000 RISC processors from multiple vendors. In 2003, Intel is expected to ship 8,508 processors, for an estimated total revenue of about $222.3 million. But RISC’s market share is expected to drop, as the firm estimates vendors will sell only about 403,600 processors, worth about $18.0 billion in collective revenue.
Gartner analysts said more customers are beginning to buy Intel’s arguments. “Yes, it’s the price/performance argument,” said Martin Reynolds, an analyst and vice president at Gartner. “It puts a server in a different range, with respect to price.”
Fister said he believes the market’s acceptance of the Madison will be seen in the number of server configurations customers are expected to ship by the end of 2003: over 40 two- and four-way systems, and over ten high-end servers using between 8 and 128 processors. OEMs will either use Intel’s 2870 chipset, or design their own scalability switch for greater scalability.
“We’re not disappointed with the volume systems shipped,” Fister said of the Itanium processors.
Madison, which has been branded officially, and awkwardly, as the “Intel Itanium 2 processor with 6 Mbytes of Level 3 cache” will run at speeds of 1.5-, 1.4-, and 1.3-GHz. The fastest Madison processor will also be the only one to ship with 6 Mbytes of L3 cache, however; the 1.4-GHz model will boast 4 Mbytes of L3 cache, while the 1.3-GHz model will only include 3 Mbytes of cache. Madison will be fabricated on 0.13-micron technology, and on 300-mm wafers, Fister said. Madison boasts 410 million transistors.
Later this year, Intel will release the “Low Voltage Intel Itanium 2” or “Deerfield” processor, running at 1-GHz and with 1.5 Mbytes of L3 cache. Deerfield will consume approximately half the power of the Madison, or about 62 watts, Fister said.
The 1.5-GHz Madison will cost $4,226, while the 1.4-GHz and 1.3-GHz versions will cost $2,247 and $1,338, respectively, Intel said.
In a bid to boost the adoption of the Madison further, Intel has successfully ported 400 of the world’s top enterprise applications to the Itanium code base, Intel said, including over 90 percent of the world’s database applications. In addition to OEM systems shipping from Dell, IBM, and SGI, Intel is expected on Monday to highlight new enterprise customers such as BMW, Chevron/Texaco, Fortis Health, Fuji Film, and Reuters.
The 32-bit battle
Meanwhile, AMD’s Opteron and Intel’s Xeon will begin their struggle anew on Monday, with the release of Intel’s “Gallatin” processor, boasting a full 2 Mbytes of on-chip cache. AMD, meanwhile, has entered the server arena in earnest with its 100- series and 800-series of Opteron 64-bit processors for single-processor and eight-way servers, respectively.
The Opteron, however, still poses a bit of a puzzle. Although the chip’s 64-bit capability makes it a prime competitor to the Itanium, AMD still continues to price it against the Xeon, Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager of AMD’s Microprocessor Business Unit, said in an interview last week.
Both Intel’s Fister and Gartner’s Reynolds said they hadn’t seen any meaningful competition from the Opteron as yet. “AMD’s never really targeted the corporation before,” Reynolds noted last week. “But again, it’s price/performance based: it makes a lot of sense if you’re buying 50 processors to be able to get them for $100 to $500.”
AMD introduced six new processors: the Opteron Model 840, 842, and 844; and the Opteron Model 140, 142, and 144. AMD said that the 800 series could be used in either 4-way or 8-way servers, while the 100-series chips were designed for single-processor workstations.
“We’re going to be very aggressive in the 4P market,” Seyer said last week, while talked more about its own Opteron plans. “We believe that customers have been short-changed from their CPU perspective.”
AMD did not announce any new OEM customers for the Opteron. However, through a new validated server program, system builder Celestica will now build bare-bones Opteron systems for customers. The program will initially offer two servers in both barebones and fixed configurations: a 4-way capable rack-server, the 4U/4P A8440, based on the AMD Opteron 800-series processor, and the the 1U/2P A2210, based on the AMD Opteron 200 Series processor. Systems are available immediately, AMD said.
AMD’s Opteron processor Model 840 is priced at $749, while the AMD Model 842 will cost $1299 and the 844 will be priced at $2,149. Meanwhile, the Model 140 will cost $229, while the 142 and 144 will cost $438 and $669, respectively. The Xeon, meanwhile, will be Intel’s 32-bit tool for server OEMs. Intel’s Xeon MP “Gallatin” family will include a 2.80-GHz processor with 2 Mbytes of cache for $3,692; a 2.50-GHz part with 1 Mbyte of cache for $1,980, and a 2-GHz part with 1 Mbyte of cache for $1,177.
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Communications satellite firm Sky and Space Global says 200 of its nanosatellites will be launched into space by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic in 2018.
Virgin Galactic is better known as a developer of space tourism, but is also developing the capability to launch small satellites.
Virgin Galactic will use its orbital launch vehicle, LauncherOne, to deploy the satellites, starting in the second quarter of 2018.
"This agreement is part of our long-term strategy of building Sky and Space Global's nano-satellite communication system infrastructure and service," Sky and Space Global chief executive Meir Moalem said on Monday.
Sky and Space Global is listed on the Australian share market, but its areospace operations are based in Europe and Israel.
Sky and Space Global is aiming to construct a communications infrastructure, based on nano-technology, that has global reach but low costs.
Mr Moalem said LauncherOne's ability to carry multiple nanosatellites simultaneously was expected to deliver substantial cost savings.
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"Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it."--Ronald Reagan on health care in 1961
Monday, August 24, 2009
Health Care Quote of the Day
What health care "reform" is really about:
For a eulogy of Ted Kennedy for the rest of us, go to The Funeral Guy .
Entertaining. Sophomoric, maybe. But it is satirical commentary by two Washington Post political commentators, Dana Milbank and Chris Cill...
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** Winner – Conservation Category RIAI Architecture Awards 2020 **
** Finalist – Irish Construction Excellence Awards 2020 **
Leinster House was designed by Richard Cassels and constructed between 1745-48 for the Earls of Kildare and Leinster, the Fitzgeralds. It remained in the family for seventy years until it was acquired by the Royal Dublin Society (1815) and later by the Irish Government in 1925.
This was the largest conservation project undertaken by Oldstone and, due to its scale and complexity, required meticulous planning and organisation. In summary the works involved cleaning, repair, replacement and rebuild of the various building elements. The scale is indicated when considering 150,000 kgs of stone was replaced, 1,000 stone indents undertaken and over 900 crack injections completed. The high standard of stone detailing and quality of workmanship that was required reflected the importance of the building.
East, North & South Elevations
The east, south and north facades were mainly constructed in granite with Ardbraccan blocking stones, cornice stones and string/cill courses. The granite façades were heavily stained and a low-pressure mild abrasive blast was used to produce a clean uniform finish.
The Ardbraccan stonework was replaced in its entirety on all three elevations whilst the profiled granite stone below the cornice was replaced in various locations. These works required each stone to be numbered, photographed & measured before being lifted and transported to an off-site storage facility. Profiles of each stone element were taken, proof drawings and stone schedules issued, and sample presented to the Client for approval. This process was repeated for all stone elements (Ardbraccan & Granite) that were replaced on the building.
Approximately 1,000 stone indent repairs were completed the majority of these on the East Elevation. Cracks within the granite were sealed involving in excess of 900 crack injections. Structural repairs to the window heads required granite lintels to be replaced and stainless-steel angles inserted.
Constructed entirely of Ardbraccan limestone with decorative elements in the form of string courses, window hoods, window brackets, pediments, columns and cornice details.
The facing stone was steam cleaned and stubborn carbon staining was removed with mild abrasive techniques. A significant number of the facing stones on the upper levels were refaced or repaired with indents using Ardbraccan salvaged from the works. Localised repointing was completed to the upper levels whilst the rusticated stonework at ground floor level was fully repointed.
Upon completion of the repair works, a shelter coat was applied to the Lecarrow stone repairs that were completed during a previous repair phase. The varying colour tones, evident on the restored façade, are now due to the new Ardbraccan stone indents.
Porch, Balustrade & Basement
The Portland stone porch, steps and balustrade on the East elevation was cleaned with steam and mild cleaning chemicals to remove fungicidal growth and carbon staining. Indent repairs completed, a number of the balusters replaced, and the stonework repointed. Detailed records of the basement flagstones were taken prior to them being removed.
The existing concrete cappings on the six chimneys were removed and replaced with lime flaunching and vented chimney pots. One chimney stack was rebuilt entirely whilst the others were repaired. All stonework was cleaned and the existing cement render at the base of the stacks was replaced with lime. | <urn:uuid:0fb16bc7-ea44-46ef-b7f7-d47d7f020f62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oldstone.ie/project/leinster-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969839 | 738 | 2.34375 | 2 |
|Ordered||20 Sep 1943|
|Laid down||22 Mar 1944||Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg (werk 476)|
|Launched||30 Apr 1944|
|Commissioned||1 Jul 1944||Oblt. Fridtjof Heckel|
|Successes||1 ship sunk, total tonnage 1,317 GRT|
Surrendered on 9 May 1945 at Stavanger, Norway (Waller & Niestlé, 2010).
Taken to Loch Ryan on 31 May 1945 for Operation Deadlight.
Operation Deadlight (post-war Allied operation, info)
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-2322 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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Standards Slip Slowly At First, Then Rapidly
A while back, a concierge of my apartment building was caught breaking into a neighbour’s apartment and rummaging through their possessions.
It’s easy to take necessary disciplinary measures against the individual and consider the matter settled.
It’s far more effective to look at the system which enabled this to happen. Once you look at the system, you can begin to notice how the standards have steadily fallen when enabling this to happen. This includes:
- Salaries of staff members not keeping pace with inflation. This both encourages theft and high-rates of churn.
- Failing to replace staff members quick enough leading to stressed out staff.
- Deteriorating relationships between staff and residents (due to the above two factors).
- Shortcuts were increasingly taken to save time (notably with spare keys being kept in the mailroom accessible by all staff instead of locked in a safe accessible only by the building manager).
- Not undertaking a proper background check on staff.
- Failing to properly follow-up on past concerns by residents of missing valuables.
Sure, it was the rogue concierge who committed the crime, but it was a slow erosion of high standards which created the environment for this to happen. Simply recruiting a new staff member doesn’t solve the underlying problem.
This happens in communities too. A major ‘blow-up’ is rarely the result of a single unexpected incident. It’s almost always the result of standards that have declined rapidly over time. These standards often begin with recruiting but continue with how members are engaged, treated, and concerns acted upon.
It’s easy to dismiss the minor things, like grumbles from members about how they’re treated. But these are usually the first warning signs that your standards are slipping. Better to deal with it now than later. | <urn:uuid:eeb8ea15-3a3b-46aa-99db-5f0f7e2ad7cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.feverbee.com/standards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957998 | 395 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The Ferris State University College of Business’ heralded Information Security and Intelligence program has been included in the charter class of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, for schools offering cybersecurity instruction.
ABET is considered the gold standard among accrediting bodies applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology. Greg Gogolin, ISI’s program coordinator and director of Ferris’ Center of Cyber Security and Data Science, said the Baltimore, Maryland-based nonprofit, non-governmental agency conducted an extensive review. The review was to assure the university’s program met the quality standards of the profession.
“There were several hundred hours of campus investment provided to bring about this accreditation,” Gogolin said. “ABET looks into factors such as income data for our graduates, program outcomes and the professional status of our graduates. Other designations that our program has received over the years were more focused on curriculum.”
Gogolin said the ISI program made its first inquiries about ABET Cybersecurity accreditation, in 2017, when the intent to certify leading programs was announced. Other institutions that received ABET accreditation include two universities in Missouri, (Fontbonne, in Saint Louis, and Southeast Missouri State, in Cape Girardeau), Towson University, in Towson, Maryland; Cedarville University, in Cedarville, Ohio; and two U.S. military academies (the Air Force Academy, in Colorado, and the Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland).
“Receiving ABET accreditation for our ISI program is an important distinction as more and more cybersecurity-focused learning is established across the state,” Gogolin said. “We are proud to be among those in ABET’s charter class, having received an accreditation that will certainly be desired by other programs.”
Those designations received by the Information Security and Intelligence program include:
- A National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense by the National Security Agency
- A Center of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence by the Department of Defense
- ISI program is also an Amazon Web Services Academy
- A Cellebrite Forensic Academy
- An EC-Council Accredited Training Center
- A Palo Alto Networks Academic Partner
- A CompTIA Academy Partner
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Every year fungal disease across the world cost the agricultural industry billions in destroyed and damaged crops. In medicine the human burden of fungal disease is comparable to TB or malaria. There is in agriculture and medicine a problem with antifungal resistance and potential for effects of use in agriculture impacting human pathogens.
In antifungal discovery the mode of action and selectivity are vital issues determining the ultimate success of a drug or fungicide including its wider impact in toxicology studies.
The aim was to work with the agrochemical multinational company BASF as their global partner of choice in fungicide discovery which would stop the growth and/or kill the fungal disease in agricultural crops whilst not inhibiting processes within the plant.
In medicine we worked with Mycovia Pharmaceuticals to identify mode of action and selectivity for their novel candidate drug used initially for recurrent thrush. This occurs in 5-8% of women and was approved for use in April 2022. Working with Pulmocide Ltd we identified the mechanism of action of their novel chemical Opelconazole that is approved for administration directly to lungs of lung transplant patients with the life-threatening fungal disease aspergillosis.
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Music is The Solution, Not the Problem – Part 1
How often do we hear about music programs being cut back or eliminated from school programs K-12, public and private? They say we need more math and writing skills. So, the outcome is the same over and over again. As parents, policy makers and the schools themselves urge this trend forward, what are they missing? What are we overlooking? To answer this question we need to think about why music is of any importance at all.
We hear music every day, so frequently and in so many ways. We hear it on television commercials, movies, radio clips, online, everywhere and anywhere. So many of us listen to and hear music daily, that we all sort of take it for granted. Well, we shouldn’t. Music is not just a CD, a download or thing that some of us do on our spare time just to have fun, to pass the time (which is not to say that there is anything wrong or inappropriate with having fun or recreation with music.)
By viewing music as a purely recreational activity and a commodity, we continue to downgrade it as an essential and necessary part of primary education. As we continue down that slippery slope, more of us are buying into that kind of perspective.
In turn, our politicians and educational bureaucrats continually purge music education, performance and appreciation from our schools as a superfluous unessential and way to successfully trim budgets. This policy and mindset is having a profoundly negative affect on our kids, our culture and our society.
Please consider the following facts.
1. Music, which must have begun as an attempt by our ancestors to answer their most fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of their very existence, predates “civilization” by some accounts up to 50,000 years.
Just recently a prehistoric flute was found in Germany and identified as being the oldest musical instrument ever discovered. If this is correct (as we have every reason to believe that it is), our predecessors started to make music approximately the same time they began drawing and painting cave art.
What were they making music about? Perhaps we can draw comparison to prehistoric wall art in order to improve our ability to contemplate on what they may have been thinking or “playing.” After all, we do not have any remains of their music intact as we have of their instruments but there is one thing we can know for sure. Our predecessors had plenty of time to listen to and reflect upon their world, in between hunting parties, staying warm and just surviving. And this is key: the experience of timelessness and of the eternal just happen to be one of the core elements, qualities and benefits of making music.
Running brooks, the wind, rustling leaves, growling wolves, roaring lions and singing birds were the perpetual backdrop of our predecessors existence. Seen in this perspective, music represents one of the very most profound practices of humanity. Music and cave drawing and painting represents mans first attempt to conceptualize, represent and understand the world.
2. Do writing, reading and mathematics all come from the same part of our brains? That would be a good question to ask a brain researcher. Perhaps what is more important is that writing, reading and mathematics are an outgrowth of music. We know that in ancient Greece, music was a science – a realm of exploration comparable to and as important as astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.
3. We listen to and play music because there are thoughts, feelings and emotions that simply can NOT be put into words or translated into a mathematical formula. The fact that we can comprehend certain realms only through hearing or playing music demonstrates and proves our profound need through music, to answer our most burning questions about our existence.
This is why we have to reconsider the importance and role of music as being a key component to our children’ primary education. I will elaborate further in – “Music is The Solution, Not the Problem – Part 2.” Suffice to say, if we continue down our current path, our children and their children will suffer an incalculable lose to their ability to think, to be whole and to being human. | <urn:uuid:fac04181-09ed-4683-a93b-01eb5d8b8647> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clemenbit.com/what-is-the-educational-purpose-of-music/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972073 | 849 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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