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A Now and Forever Family
There was a day not too many years ago when the definition of “a family” was not debated within the mainstream of society—a family consisted of one father (male), one mother (female), and 2.1 children (male and/or female). Today, the strings wrapping up that neat package have come untied to an alarming degree. And even in the conservative (Christian or otherwise) segments of society where family might still be defined traditionally (biblically), there seems to be little hesitation about breaking the family unit up. Where families began traditionally, divorce and “open family” arrangements are often causing them to end non-traditionally.
The results of the dissolution of the definition are everywhere. Children are being raised with only one parent, or at times by two parents of the same sex. In the case of single-parent homes, the children spend precious little time being “parented” due to the confluence of school and work schedules and other normal interruptions usually shared between two parents. Many of these children are, along with their peers, raising themselves. As a result, a whole generation is growing up with a certain angst which they can’t define. To put it simply, they are insecure—and afraid. The cocoon that was to protect them has been shredded, and the winds and rains of life are soaking them way before their time.
Regardless of your age, you may be one of those people. Perhaps your family was broken apart, and you were catapulted into a new role with new responsibilities that you did not want. Perhaps you long for the days when family was a place to know and be known, to love and be loved, to give and be given to. Perhaps you’re afraid to turn around, knowing there is no family standing behind you, encouraging you on in life.
If that’s your story, Jesus has good news for you. Those who believe in Him are part of His family. Jesus can be a parent (Isa. 9:6b), a brother (Rom. 8:29b), and a friend (John 15:15). And think of this: Even the best of earthly families are only for a little while—but Jesus’ family is now and forever.
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Note: All birds switching to Harrison’s should start out and remain on High Potency Coarse for a period of no less than 8 months. (Many species are recommended to stay on High Potency Coarse).
Any dietary changes should be undertaken gradually. An important concern is the bird’s refusal to eat a “new” food, leading to significant weight loss. Weighing the bird (in grams) on a daily basis using a gram scale is the best method for monitoring adequate food consumption. Weight fluctuations greater than 10% are considered problematic. Even if provided with supplemental food, birds can starve while merely appearing to chew their food but not consuming it. Grinding the food into a fine powder is not the same as eating the food.
Monitoring droppings is an excellent indication of the amount of food the bird is eating. Prior to the diet change, the number and character of the droppings (color, amount, liquid, form, shape, lack of odor, staining) should be noted. Any change in the volume or number of droppings (usually a dramatic decrease in amount) indicates insufficient food consumption. Owners should not be confused by the appearance of wet droppings, which they may assume to be normal. Wet droppings usually have little fecal matter produced from food consumption. Wet droppings are often a sign of weight loss as fat and muscle are converted to energy and water. The character of the droppings will change as the bird consumes more formulated diet – they usually become more firm with a definite shape.
Some birds switch to a new diet with little to no work on the owner’s part. Other birds are very selective about what they eat. Birds should not be left alone to select their own diets. Like human children, birds will often choose the wrong foods and “parental intervention” is required. The single most important thing you can do for your bird is to feed it right.
The”Controlled Meals” Diet Conversion Method (medium and large birds only)
High Potency Coarse
- Make fresh Harrison’s nuggets available at all times throughout the day.
- Select ONE item that you know the bird is known to eat (in many birds this will be seed). Discontinue every other item from the bird’s old diet.
- Make that ONE item available three times a day, for a full 15 minutes (no shorter, no longer), then remove that food completely. Do not limit the amount of this food available during the 15 minute window (controlled meal). Space these feedings out by periods of 6 hours. Maintain a strict schedule.
- Offer no other food at any time.
- Taper. Once the bird is eating the nuggets remove one feeding window of the older food. The more the bird eats of Harrison’s remove a second window.
- Once the bird is switched completely to nuggets discontinue all feeding windows.
This method is best used in birds who’s eating habits can be individually observed. Split birds up into different enclosures or rooms during this period if necessary.
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It gets hot in Australia – really hot! It can be dry heat, which is common in inland regions away from the coast, or it could be the humid heat of the lush tropics of Far North Qld and the Northern Territory. Temperatures can reach 45o C for dry heat, and 40 oC in humid areas –however lower temperatures can still be extremely hazardous to your health.
Any type of heat can be fatal for those not acclimatised or who don’t take the proper precautions.
Do not underestimate the heat of an Australian summer – especially when doing farm work outside. It is vital that you take all the necessary precautions to ensure you don’t suffer a heat-related incident.
Heat stress – what is it?
Heat stress occurs when the body cannot get rid of excess heat. When this happens, the body’s core temperature rises and the heart rate increases.
A heat related illness can result from working outside in sunshine, doing heavy or repetitive manual work, working in packing or machinery sheds or other areas of high humidity, and/or wearing high levels of personal protective equipment – eg chemical/hazmat suits.
Your employer should provide information on how to manage working in hot weather and provide water, shade and appropriate breaks during the hottest part of the day.
Some of the effects of excessive heat include:
Also known as prickly heat, is a skin irritation caused by sweat that does not evaporate from the skin. Heat rash is the most common problem in hot work environments.
- Clusters of red bumps on skin
- Often appears on neck, upper chest, folds of skin
- Try to work in a cooler, less humid environment when possible
- Keep the affected area dry
Are caused by the loss of body salts and fluid during sweating. Low salt levels in muscles cause painful cramps. Tired muscles—those used for performing the work—are usually the ones most affected by cramps. Cramps may occur during or after working hours.
- Muscle spasms
- Rest in a shady, cool area
- Drink water or other cool beverages
- Wait a few hours before returning to strenuous work
- Seek medical attention if cramps don’t go away
Is the body’s response to loss of water and salt from heavy sweating.
- Cool, moist skin, heavy sweating
- Headache, nausea or vomiting, dizziness, light headedness
- Rapid heart beat
- Sit or lie down in a cool, shady area
- Have plenty of water or other cool beverages to drink
- Call 000 if signs or symptoms worsen or do not improve within 60 minutes.
- Do not return to work that day
The most serious form of heat-related illness happens when the body becomes unable to regulate its core temperature. Sweating stops and the body can no longer rid itself of excess heat.
- Confusion, fainting, seizures
- Excessive sweating or red, hot, dry skin
- Very high body temperature
First Aid while you wait:
- Move to a shady, cool area
- Loosen clothing, remove outer clothing
- Get someone to fan air on you and if possible place cold packs in armpits
- Wet yourself with cool water
- Drink fluids (preferably water) as soon as possible in SMALL sips
Untreated, heat exhaustion can lead to heatstroke, a life-threatening condition that occurs when your core body temperature reaches 104 F (40 C) or higher. Heatstroke requires immediate medical attention to prevent permanent damage to the brain and other vital organs that can result in death.
You can take a number of steps to prevent heat-related illnesses. When the temperatures climb, remember to:
- Wear loose fitting, lightweight clothing.
- Protect against sunburn. Apply sunscreen generously, and reapply every two hours — or more often if you’re swimming or sweating.
- Drink plenty of fluids. Staying hydrated will help your body sweat and maintain a normal body temperature.
- Take it easy during the hottest parts of the day. If you can’t avoid strenuous activity in hot weather, drink lots of fluids and rest frequently in a cool spot.
- Get acclimated. Limit time spent working in heat until you’re conditioned to it.
- Be extra careful if you’re at increased risk. If you take medications or have a condition that increases your risk of heat-related problems, avoid the heat and act quickly if you notice symptoms of overheating.
Heat stress is like any other safety issue at work, it can be very dangerous and has recently killed several farm workers in Australia. Treat it with the respect it deserves and follow the rules – that’s the cool thing to do!
Guide for managing the risks of working in heat – Safework Australia
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Because the School Board wanted 7 percent [instead of the required 5 percent] of the budget in the reserve fund, Vitti said he didn’t have enough money for the district itself to completely fund all media specialists’ salary. At the middle and high schools, principals will be given a choice between using district money to pay the salary of a media specialist or a full-time teacher.
It is worth noting that Vitti increased the high school day from 7 periods to 8 (14% increase) without increasing the budget for teachers by 14%. This change mandated high school principals to convert the librarian position to a teaching position in an (often futile) attempt to comply with the class-size amendment.
The Times-Union did some research regarding the school library situation with the results posted on scribd. Vitti was hired during the 2012-13 school year. I have analyzed this document for the 2013-14 school year, Vitti’s first school year in Duval County. Some notes:
- K-8 schools were considered both elementary and middle schools
- 6-12 schools and Exceptional Student Centers were considered both middle and high schools (The kids who are able to read at the Exceptional Student Centers deserve access to books as much as anyone else).
If I made any mistakes, feel free to let me know and I’ll correct them. Here are the numbers I found:
- 74% of existing Duval County Secondary School libraries in 2012-13 (79% of high school libraries, 71% of middle school) were eliminated in 2013-14, Vitti’s first full year as Superintendent.
- 90% of Duval County high schools (26/29) had no full-time librarian in 2013-14.
- 86% of Duval County high schools (25/29) and 74% of middle schools had no librarian at all in 2013-14.
- 58% of Duval County elementary schools did not have a full-time librarian, but all had at least a part-time librarian.
- In 2013-14, Vitti’s funding decisions eliminated library positions from 28 secondary schools.
- While 90% of high schools didn’t have a single full-time librarian, Paxon (the college prep school) received funding for two librarians.
- Vitti cut the equivalent of 27.5 full-time positions at these middle and high schools where librarians were eliminated.
- Vitti blamed the School Board wanting to save an extra $62 million or so for cutting librarians.
- Estimated savings from killing our library system? 28 positions @ $65k salary and benefits = $1.8 million (roughly 1/10 of 1% of DCPS’s annual budget).
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Mathilde Gintz & Adeline Vieira from the ConstructLab collective wanted to highlight the rails still present in the Prés-de-Vaux neighborhood, witnesses of a past working class life. They wrote on them, in white ink, snippets of testimonies from the inhabitants and passers-by of the neighborhood, collected by our civic service volunteers Claire Monribot & Laura Tisserand.
The ConstructLab and Hôp Hop Hop collectives explored the present and questioned the future of the Prés-de-Vaux during a week of residency, from June 19th to 25th 2022. Equipped with microphones, notebooks and cameras, they surveyed the neighborhood to translate it in an artistic way.
Fichtre! is an event supported by the Ministry of Culture, the DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Grand Besançon Métropole and the City of Besançon.
ConstructLab is a European network of architect-artists. Rather than imagining new buildings, they construct common and collaborative situations with existing places and those who live in them. The collective rafts in streams, builds furniture to create links between communities.
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Defining Mold – The presence of mold, water damage, or musty odors should be addressed immediately. In all instances, any source(s) of water must be stopped and the extent of water damage determined. Water damaged materials should be dried and repaired. Environmental sampling is then recommended to determine the type and extent of the existing mold. Mold is a structural, health and environmental problem. some mold defects can’t be seen and will only be detected through sampling.
This mold is a slow growing fungus. It grows well on high cellulose materials like straw, grass, saw dust, lumber and drywall plaster board or ceiling tiles. Like a fungi, it requires a moisture source. About15 species of Stachybotrys can be found worldwide, but it is most common in the Western U.S. Generally, this mold grows where the relative humidity is above 55 percent or the material is water-saturated. In studies conducted in North America, Stachybotrys was found in 2 to 3 percent of home environments sampled.
Disease – Stachybotrys atra spores are breathed into the lungs. Persons with chronic exposure to the toxin report cold or flu-like symptoms with sore throat, diarrhea, headaches, fatigue, dermatitis, intermittent local hair loss and general malaise. The toxins may also suppress the immune system. Infants may be particularly susceptible to the effects of these inhaled mycotoxins because their lungs are growing very rapidly. Mycotoxins are lipid-soluble and are readily absorbed by the intestinal lining, airways, and skin.
How to Control Stachybotrys – Homes and buildings with water damage should be repaired, the source of moisture eliminated, and all moldy material should be removed. Reduce humidity in the home with adequate venting of appliances such as dryer vents bathroom and kitchen cooking vents, etc. Even “excessively sealed” homes with inadequate air exchange can cause high humidity inside from showers, cooking, laundry, etc. Although some molds can be killed by cleaning the moldy surface with chlorine, Stachybotrys oten has a germ, mycelium, that is buried inside the water damaged surface that may be inaccessible to chlorine. It is best to remove all of the water damaged material.
A group of molds which is found everywhere world-wide, especially in the autumn and winter in the Northern hemisphere. Only a few of these molds can cause illness in humans and animals. Most people are naturally immune and do not develop disease caused by Aspergillus. However, when disease does occur, it takes several forms.
Disease – The type of diseases caused by Aspergillus are varied.
Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA) – This is a condition which produces an allergy to the spores of the Aspergillus moulds. It is quite common in asthmatics; up to 20% of asthmatics might get this at some time during their lives.
Some Penicillium species are fairly common indoor fungi, even in clean environments. This particular specie of fungi can proliferate in abundance in indoor environments. P. species can be found at the sub-basement levels offices and rooms, in libraries, auditorium, storage room of paper materials and also in ventilation systems. Some P.species can produce small, nondescript conidia and complex mixtures of metabolites that are more or less toxic.
Like all other molds, spores have the highest concentrations of mycotoxin, although the vegetative portion of the mold, the mycelium, can also contain the poison.
Disease – Exposure to the various penicillium toxin can result in the following ill health effects:
* Patulin, a toxin from P. expansum: cytotoxic and/or carcinogenic
* Citrinin, a toxin from P. citrinum, – expansum & – viridicatum: nephrotoxic
* Ochratoxin, a toxin from P. cyclopium & -viridicatum: nephrotoxic
Two major differences between poria and ordinary decay fungi are that ordinary decay fungi require the structure to provide the water (green wood, rain and plumbing leaks, condensation), while poria provides its own water through rhizomorphs connected to moist soil outside the structure, and poria dies quickly when deprived of water, while ordinary decay fungi usually just go dormant. These differences make both the detection and control of poria very different from those of ordinary decay fungi. An inspector who does not accurately diagnose poria infection can make a company responsible for repairing extensive decay, including that already repaired, within less than one year; or, in the extreme, razing and rebuilding the entire structure. This presentation provides illustrations of how to diagnose, evaluate and control poria infections and an opportunity to question two people with experience with this fungus. | <urn:uuid:6a8d007a-5b28-49b8-b041-4a65e63a2246> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://home-inspector.com/inspections/mold-inspections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.923431 | 1,039 | 3.53125 | 4 |
A core element of marketing is cost. To know whether you’re spending money in the right places and targeting the right audience, you look at factors like ad spend, cost per click, cost per lead, conversion rate, and return on investment.
Your customer acquisition cost (CAC) is a metric that looks at the bigger picture in terms of how much you’re spending to acquire a customer. When combined with other marketing-focused metrics, CAC is a crucial piece of your marketing puzzle that helps you determine whether you’re making a desirable profit as a result of your marketing.
What Is Customer Acquisition Cost?
Customer acquisition cost tells you how much you spend, on average, to earn each customer that comes your way. When calculating your CAC, you’ll need to consider how much you spend on things like your:
- Mailing list
- Sales employees
- Marketing strategies
- Promoted posts and paid ads
- Influencer partnerships
Anything that costs your business money to draw in customers is part of your customer acquisition cost. How many customers you get from those tools and tactics will determine your CAC.
Why Is CAC Important to Businesses?
As a business owner, you should want to know if the efforts you’re making are helping your goals, especially when it comes to the money you spend on marketing to your ideal customer. Customer acquisition cost is a metric that can provide insight into the effectiveness of your strategies.
Your CAC tells you how much you’re spending per customer to get them on board. Say, for example, you’ve spent $2,000 on a new marketing campaign. You got 100 new paying customers from that campaign. Your CAC is $20 for this campaign (your costs/the number of customers), meaning that you spent an average of $20 to get each of your new customers.
Your CAC will help you determine if those marketing efforts are worth it based on how much you’re spending to obtain each customer and how much profit you’re making from them.
What’s a Good CAC?
A good CAC might look different for every company, depending on the value of their products and how much their customers spend. A $20 CAC could be an excellent number for a technology company with an average sale of $600 but not so great for a craft supply company with an average sale of $50.
To determine if your CAC is a good number for your business, consider the following:
- Do your new customers make one purchase, or do they keep coming back to buy more? If you have customers who continue to buy from you after you’ve initially acquired them, you’ll want to consider the customer lifetime value (CLV). This metric can be more valuable than your CAC because it determines how much a customer contributes to your overall revenue. If you spend $20 on a customer who continues to make multiple purchases throughout the year, that $20 was well spent.
- How much of a profit are you making from each customer, on average? When you add up all of your expenses that went into what your customer paid for – your employees, vendor costs, marketing, etc. – do you make enough profit to justify your CAC? If you’re only getting about $5, on average, for each $20 customer, you’re not making enough for that $20 spend to be worth it. However, an average profit of $100 for each $20 customer could be worth your costs.
It’s important to point out that having a $20 CAC is not the norm. Take a look at this presentation from Chatter Buzz, which shows average CACs from various industries. The lowest CAC on the list comes from the travel and hospitality industry, about $44.73 per customer. The highest CAC goes to the technology industry, about $133.52 per customer. These numbers might look scary at first, but with the right marketing techniques in place, these customers could become lifetime customers (and that’s priceless).
Improving Your CAC
The key takeaway when it comes to your CAC is that you want that number to be as low as possible. The less you spend to obtain a customer, the higher your profit, no matter how much you make from each one. Here are a few ways to improve your CAC:
- Understanding your customers’ behaviors and targeting their natural behaviors with a successful sales funnel.
- Form relationships with customers. Learn about them, find out what they need with polls, surveys, and feedback, and continue to follow up with them through meaningful communication after they’ve made a purchase.
- Make it easy for customers to contact you at every step of their buying journey. Be available by phone, email, live chat, and social media.
- Create a winning website. Make it easy to navigate and search, and make it engaging enough that people want to keep digging through your information, products, and services.
- Don’t forget about your current customers. They’re already there, so you don’t need to pay to get them. Work on improving your repeat purchase rate with a loyalty program and exclusive offers for your existing customers.
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“Race matters. Race matters in part because of the long history of racial minorities’ being denied access to the political process…Race also matters because of persistent racial inequality in society…And race matters for reasons that really are only skin deep, that cannot be discussed any other way, and that cannot be wished away. Race matters to a young man’s view of society when he spends his teenage years watching others tense up as he passes, no matter the neighborhood where he grew up. Race matters to a young woman’s sense of self when she states her hometown, and then is pressed, “No, where are you really from?”, regardless of how many generations her family has been in the country. Race matters to a young person addressed by a stranger in a foreign language, which he does not understand because only English was spoken at home. Race matters because of the slights, the snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts: “I do not belong here.” In my colleagues’ view, examining the racial impact of legislation only perpetuates racial discrimination. This refusal to accept the stark reality that race matters is regrettable.”
–—-Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotamayor, dissenting in the case of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative, Integration and Immigration and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary, in which a 6-2 majority ruled that Michigan voters could ban race-based preferences at universities without violating the Constitution.
This screed was remarkably unprofessional for a Supreme Court Justice, an emotional recitation of unsupported assertions, perceptions and complaints with no constitutional relevance. Sotamayor, you may recall, was nominated by the President in the midst of a public debate regarding the importance of “empathy” on the bench, code for “we need more women.” But the Constitution is supposed to be interpreted by principles of law and legal reasoning, not from “the heart.” Well, we clearly got the empathetic Justice he wanted, for better or worse.
Yes, race matters. And gender matters, as girls become acculturated at an early age to be submissive and to see themselves as defined by how males regard them. Being gay matters, certainly, as children feel isolated and out of place. Religion certainly matters, as it can make you seem different, or dangerous, or weak. Not having a father matters, or being an orphan, or growing up in a foster home, or being poor. Being small, or short, or fat, or unattractive matters. Yes, and stupidity matters too, as does being clumsy, and socially awkward, or having a speech impediment, or other, more serious physical handicaps. It matters when you are poor at making friends, and when your parents are drunks or criminals, or when they rape, abuse or beat you.
I agree that race can be a significant burden in America; I also know that a lot of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans and others have compensating advantages, including strength of character and a solid upbringing, that allows them to succeed despite any disadvantages conferred by their race. I also know that there are many, many white Americans who labor under other disadvantages of birth, family or circumstance that make the plight of typical black Americans look very manageable by comparison.
What Sotomayor calls “stark reality” is her own bias, allowing her to isolate the very real problems of some groups and justify placing them above the rights of their fellow citizens, guaranteed in the founding documents, the Declaration and the Constitution. The decision she derides doesn’t deny that race matters, but that it matters more than that guarantee.
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so does someone have details of the bug?
id really like to know more
The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser contains a bug that can enable serious security attacks against websites that are otherwise safe. The flaw in IE 8 can be exploited to introduce XSS, or cross-site scripting, errors on webpages that are otherwise safe, according to two Register sources, who discussed …
Wow, I love this story,
2 sources close to El Reg, read 2 barmen in Mr Goodins local boozer.
An MS flaw reported on by a GOOGLE spokesman.
All in the space of a weeks worth of multiple new GOOGLE releases.
A flaw that needs to be manipulated to work, and apparently on very few sites. So the bug isn't a natural disaster, but malign coders can exploit it. Come to that, I can edit the registry to make my IE icon appear or disappear on my desktop, does that make me a hacker, or is it a fatal bug in Windows?
Perhaps Mr Goodin would care to comment on how many hacked sites are hacked by Firefox, or their GOOGLE backers.
What is the going rate for backhanders from GOOGLE'S marketing department these days, does it match up to Mozilla's, or is it just another nice little sideline.
It seems that Microsoft and Google are going toe-to-toe over security.
An[sic] GOOGLE flaw reported on by a MICROSOFT spokesman.
All in the space of a weeks worth of multiple new MICROSOFT releases. Should be fun.
... fixed that for you
What are you talking about? Firefox isn't exactly a cracking tool, unless the crack is the most trivial tool in the world. The rest of your diatribe could be poured over for generations for signs of intelligent life in 2009.
I do hope the fans of another bloated browser with an increasingly poor track record in security aren't going to start throwing stones at IE over this.
Five years ago, there'd be hundreds of comments of that nature posted about an article like this. But not today, one hopes.
"A flaw that needs to be manipulated to work, and apparently on very few sites."
Security flaws (almost) always have to be maniuplated to make them work. And I don't know why you think it'll work on very few sites; any site that uses scripting is presumably vulnerable. XSS can be a serious problem.
" So the bug isn't a natural disaster, but malign coders can exploit it."
Yeah, can and will, given the past track record with security exploits.
"Come to that, I can edit the registry to make my IE icon appear or disappear on my desktop, does that make me a hacker, or is it a fatal bug in Windows?"
It does make you one and indicates a bug in Windows, if you figure out how to do it just by someone visting a page, or without any user interaction whatsoever.
I guess it goes something like this: They check for one kind of exploit (and fix it if need be), then check for a second kind of exploit (and fix it if need be), but don't check again to make sure the first exploit wasn't introduced by fixing the second. We can only speculate about how that could happen without knowing the specifics, but it's not at all hard to imagine that it could, especially given that one of the checks apparently involves changing character encoding.
Yep, exactly the thought process I see that has fucked everything up.
So the flaw isn't the problem, the malicious coding is, in exactly the same way as you later describe me as a hacker.
The full truth is staring you in the face every morning when you shave, if you yet do, there is the real problem, you and people like you.
IE isn't the problem now is it.
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Grants, Resources, and Supports
The Science Team at OSPI works closely with national and statewide Science and STEM partners, and is dedicated to providing guidance for the development and implementation of Washington’s science learning standards and science education grants. On this page you will be able to view grant opportunities, awards, competitions, resources, and guidance.
Both grants have the same purpose: to collaborate as a network to develop and deliver climate science professional development using NGSS. Applicant eligibility is the difference between the two grants.
Form Package 809-Clime Time ESDs and Tribal Schools
This grant is for the educational service districts (ESDs) and tribal schools spread throughout the state
Form Package 817-Clime Time CBOs
This grant is for community-based nonprofit organizations (CBOs) and community-based nonprofit tribal education organizations (CBTEOs). OSPI interprets non-profit, community-based tribal education organization to mean an, "organization focused on education, whose board or leadership team is comprised primarily of federally recognized tribal leaders or members, and who has demonstrated collaboration with tribal nations, with a vision and mission that shows a commitment to serving tribal communities."
We have NEW resources for ClimeTime grant applicants! These resources will help eligible applicants prepare themselves for the short application window in iGrants.
- ClimeTime Grant Application Guidance
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- ClimeTime Grants Information PowerPoint from Monday, June 21
- ClimeTime Network(link is external)
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The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship is a paid fellowship for K-12 math, science, and technology teachers. Einstein Fellows spend a school year in Washington, DC serving in a federal agency or on Capitol Hill.
Schools and districts with a strong emphasis on sustainability are invited to apply for the U.S. Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools Award. Schools and Districts must be making significant strides in 3 main pillars:
Pillar 1: Reducing environmental impact and costs.
Pillar 2: Improving the health and wellness of schools, students, and staff.
Pillar 3: Providing effective environmental and sustainability education, incorporating STEM, civic skills, and green career pathways.
National Youth Science Camp is an annual program available to two high school seniors per state. Recipients are selected by a committee formed by the governor based on academic proficiency in the sciences, leadership qualities, and intellectual curiosity. For more information visit the National Youth Science Camp website. You can view a sample national youth science camp application essay from one of Washington's previous nominees.
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) are the highest honors for America's teachers of mathematics and science. These awards recognize and honor K-12 teachers for their outstanding work in the classroom and also as leaders within their schools and communities.
Samsung and its partners are asking teachers to participate in its annual contest to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, a key academic challenge in our country.
Mission 7 to the International Space Station.
This resource encourages K–12 educators to use consistent and clear prompts structured around the crosscutting concepts to provide a common scientific language that students and teachers use as they engage in the formative assessment process.
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) DataStreme Project is a free professional development program for in-service K–12 teachers, in which they gain considerable subject matter content and confidence in Earth and Space Science instruction.
A compilation of monthly articles from EARTH magazine. Rather than focusing on visual and physical properties, this book explores minerals' myriad uses in scientific research, manufacturing, medicine and many commercial applications.
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Laboratory Guidelines, an overview to provide information about the importance of safety in laboratories.
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Growing up, Jason Briney had always wondered what it would be like to walk around the USS Enterprise-D, the flagship of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
“I grew up on Next Generation as a kid, and it just kind of lit up my imagination,” the 31-year-old tells Inverse. “I was like, the ship is so huge, I wanna walk around in it and be on there and take part in what they’re doing.”
So he built it. Well, a virtual reality model of it, at least. Briney, a Michigan-based artist and video game art instructor, is using the game developing software Unreal Engine 4 to recreate the whole ship in intricate detail.
For reasons of obvious epicness, the project has attracted a lot of attention. The YouTube walkthrough of his work to date earned more than 400,000 in a little over a week. That count would be higher, but earlier this week it was pulled down for copyright violation.
There’s no indication of why the material was flagged, although Briney suspects that audio he took from Star Trek: First Contact may have alerted YouTube’s automatic copyright detection software. It can still be watched on Vimeo:
(Vimeo has since taken the video down.)
Briney says he’s reached out to CBS to try and open channels of discussion about his project and potential eventual licensing, but that there isn’t an easy way to get ahold of the right person at the massive corporation that owns the Star Trek franchise.
Inverse also reached out to CBS to ask for information on why the YouTube video was removed, and if the company has policies around fan-generated derivative works, but a spokesperson declined to comment.
But other non-official Star Trek products have gotten traction. The most significant is probably Axanar, a feature film project that has raised more than a million dollars on Indigogo. Axanar appears to have the consent of CBS, so long as the creators don’t make a profit from the film and follow certain guidelines.
Briney says he won’t contest the decision to take down the video, but instead he will post it again in the next few days using only non-copyrighted audio. And he’ll continue to reach out to CBS to get their blessing on the project.
And it’s a huge project. After more than a year of work, the exterior is mostly done and the upper four decks are partially complete. But the whole ship has 42 levels and is designed to carry more than a thousand passengers and crew.
While the project is far from finished, a lot of the spaces in the ship that are featured in the series have been recreated with attention to fine detail — and a cheesy ‘90s aesthetic.
The best part so far, says Briney, was when he put on his Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses and stepped into the bridge for the first time.
“I put the glasses on, and I was standing right in the center of the bridge looking around and just hearing the audio. It was a very surreal moment.
“Sometimes in Oculus Rift demos, you don’t feel a sense of what people are calling in VR a ‘presence.’ But I definitely had a very big moment of presence, just feeling like I was there,” he says.
“I just walked up and looked at some of the materials I made, and I really felt like I could put my hand on the chair. I’m looking around, I’m like ‘Oh, where’s the crew?’”
The first goal is to create a virtual museum that fans can look around and explore.
The pie-in-the-sky goal would be to have the ship populated by crew and fans that can interact with each other, as in a massively multiplayer online game, says Briney.
Despite the hiccup, the project is “still moving full steam ahead,” says Briney.
He’s set up a Patreon page for fans who want to financially support the work and be involved in its development.
He hopes that he’ll have some sort of product ready for release next year, for Star Trek’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
One day, he hopes all the Trekkies who ever dreamed of stepping foot on the Enterprise will be able to visit the ship together.
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Conditioners are like cold creams or moisturising lotion for your hair. Just as you need moisturisers to keep your skin soft and glowing, you need conditioners to keep your hair soft and shiny.
'Everybody needs conditioner. Use just a little, but do use it, even if you have oily hair. There are special non-greasy conditioners in the market formulated for oily hair types,' says Pune-based hairstylist and salon owner Fazila Ashar.
Question: Why use conditioner?
Answer: "Every hair root has an oil gland. Each hair on our head stands separately because the oil from the gland coats each strand. When the oil from the natural oil glands is not able to reach and cover the whole length of the strand, hair becomes dry and damaged, leading to hair fall. That's why you need conditioners to nourish the entire strand, from root to tip. Especially for treated hair - whether you have got them permed, straightened or coloured - conditioner is not optional, it is an absolute must," says Dr Shehla Agarwal, a Delhibased dermatologist.
Question: How do you know that you are using the shampoo and conditioner right?
Answer: Try this test: After you've rinsed off the shampoo, run two fingers over the surface of your wet hair - that should make a slight "squeaking" sound. Only then, take a dollop of the conditioner, and work it into your strands, starting about two inches from the roots. Move towards the tips, covering the entire length. Conditioner needs time to work. If you apply and rinse immediately, you're not giving it a chance to do its job - keep the conditioner on for at least 5 minutes. Rinse till your hair feels soft (but not slimy). The amount of conditioner needed depends on how your hair feels. Decrease or increase the amount you use till your hair comes out "behaving" perfect - they should be manageable, soft and tangle-free.
Never put conditioner on your scalp. It can make itchy, oily patches to break out all over your head. If you have an itchy scalp, get an oil massage or hot-oil treatment before shampooing and conditioning your hair.
Don't change your conditioner brands too often. Give the product a little time to "tame" your tresses. If a hair care brand really understands and nurtures your hair, stick to it.
Leave-in conditioner is great for hair that needs extra moisturising. Once you're done washing and conditioning, apply your leave-in conditioner on wet strands - don't rinse it out.
Add to the at-home treatments henna (mehendi), mixed with oil or egg yolks, adds bounce and shine to your hair. However, it can leave your hair feeling rough and tangled - apply a dollop of conditioner after you have applied henna to smooth things over. Traditional herbal treatments such as reetha and shikakai also tend to dry out hair. Conditioning is a must to soften hair washed this way.
When having hot water baths? 'Cold weather calls for more conditioner since hot water strips the oil from your hair, leaving it brittle and dry. A common mistake people make - they apply oil, and then shampoo it off with hot water. You are first adding moisture, then taking it right back out!'explains Dr Agarwal.
Get the heat to help your hair, not damage it! 'For deep conditioning, apply oil and wrap a hot, steaming towel around your head. Use the heat to help the oil soak into your scalp more effectively. Follow through with a shampoo and conditioner. This is something you can do at home once a week,' she says.
Condition, don't straighten!You can say bye-bye to thick, gorgeous hair if you regularly singe your tresses with hot hair-irons and blow-dryers. If you are going for the straight look, slather on a smoothing, anti-frizz conditioner, instead of using hot iron. If you want a beautiful head of healthy, glossy curls, volumising conditioners are the answer. They enhance the curls and add bounce.
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Colour photograph of Mairi MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish having dinner at the Lodge Hotel in around 2000, with Dr John Holliday on the left.
60th anniversary souvenir edition of NHS Glasgow’s ‘Health News’ newspaper, July 2008, containing articles and photographs from the birth of the NHS in 1948 to 2008. Most folk on Tiree will have used Glasgow’s hospital facilities at some time over the decades, and many took up positions in nursing there. The paper provides an insight into health care at that time. From ‘Harbour’, Caoles.
Four photographs of Charles McLean (1894-1923), youngest son of Lachlan McLean and Mary McDonald, Kenovay, taken in around 1914-1920. Charles died at the age of 28 after being gassed on the Somme during WW1. Top left: Charles in the uniform of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, with his brothers Hector McLean (left) and Donald Archibald McLean (right). Top right: Charles (seated left) and two fellow patients in their ‘hospital blues’ uniforms. Lower left: Charles (standing 3rd from right, wearing Glengarry hat) and other patients and staff at the Army Hosptial. Lower right: Charles (seated left) in around 1914(?). Part of a large collection of items belonging to and about Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay (1890-1981), and his family.
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Black & white photograph of Mary/Mashag MacLean (1888-1964), Kenovay, in nurses uniform in around 1924. On the reverse is written “Dear and kind Auntie Mashag”. Mary was the youngest sister of Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay. She married Alfred McGill and had a son, Freddie. Part of a large collection of items belonging to and about Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay (1890-1981), and his family.
Black & white photograph of two generations of MacLeans of Kenovay & Linlithgow, in 1941. (L-R) Mary, Charles, Effie, Donald Archibald (father), Euphemia (mother), with Alister in front. Taken just before Charles, an RAF airman, went missing in action over the English Channel in November 1941. Part of a large collection of items belonging to and about Donald Archibald McLean, Kenovay (1890-1981), and his family.
Click here for additional photos taken at that time, which include Isabella McLean.
Click here for postcards of Linlithgow High Street ca 1900 and Linlithgow Academy 1920s.
Euphemia in later years wearing a brooch given to her by her son Charles.
Colour photograph of the Tiree District Nursing team in the 1990s. L-R: Kate MacCallum, Jane Williams, Sylvia Pearson, Ann MacKinnon, Mairi MacLean. Seated: Flora MacKinnon, Storm Byfield.
Collection of 36 original colour photographs, including the Reading Room and first exhibitions, Whitehouse Cattle Show, houses Taigh a’ Bhochdainn and Lag nan Cruach before renovation, ploughing demonstration, Tiree district nurses, Tiree football team ca. 1999. Most are catalogued separately (see 2018.54.5 – 27).
Softback report ‘Profiles: Health and Community in Rural and Urban Argyll’ using data from the Rural-Urban Morbidity Recording Project (2001-2004), by Jane Farmer et al, 2004. The profiles include the work of health professionals, people’s health status and their use of health services. They also highlight strengths and weaknesses of living in the local communities – centering on factors which might be related to health. See pages 17-23 for data from Tiree. | <urn:uuid:2d714e0c-1a38-48a6-9fd9-5c8508bf0fc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aniodhlann.org.uk/tag/nurses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936731 | 836 | 1.882813 | 2 |
A malapropism (also called a malaprop or Dogberryism) is the use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance. An example is the statement by baseball player Yogi Berra, “Texas has a lot of electrical votes”, rather than “electoral votes”… Humorous malapropisms are the type that attract the most attention and commentary, but bland malapropisms are common in speech and writing.
The expression was named after the character “Mrs. Malaprop” in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play, “The Rivals.” Via linguistic back-formation,
the blending of idioms or clichés is called a malaphor.
These showed up somewhere on Facebook today – I think it was a screen cap of a twitter feed followed by a slug of suggestions from commenters. I found them delightful, and thought I would digest them for my readers here.
You can take one man’s trash to another man’s treasure but you can’t make it drink.
We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.
It’s not rocket surgery.
Not the sharpest egg in the attic.
… until the cows freeze over.
… until the last banshee is hung.
You’ve opened this can of worms, now lie in it.
America was a tinder box with a hair trigger just waiting for the other foot to drop
It’s like icing on the gravy.
“They’re too many cooks in the broth”.
Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.
Not the sharpest knife in the crayon box
An ounce of safe is worth a pound of sorry.
We’ll drive off that bridge when we get to it.
We’ll jump off that bridge when we get to it.
You’re making me want to drink like a fish out of water
“We’ll burn that bridge when we jump off it”
I am bound and determined not to use any more cliches.
We’ll cross that bridge when it hatches.
That’s where the butter meets the bridge!
Does the Pope 🤬 in the woods?
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines.” (Mr. Furious, from the movie Mystery Men.)
Never look a gift horse in the peas and carrots
It’s 6 one way, a dozen another.
Well, that gets the monkey off my face.
Even a blind pig can find the sharpest whip in the drawer twice a day.
Sticks and stones will make hell freeze over.
…like stink on rice
A bird in the hand has no bite.
And my all-time favorite, from Pinocchio’s Jiminy Cricket: You’ve buttered your bread… now sleep in it!
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This guide defines how to update an Amazon Echo Dot, involving how to manually update an Echo Dot along with how to get automatic updates. So, without further delay, let’s get started!
How to Update Echo Dot?
In general events, the Echo Dot will automatically install its updates from time to time. But, there are plenty of aspects that can cause an update to fail, or a Dot to not install the latest version itself right away even when the updated version is available. Well, if you think your Echo Dot requires an update, then you can force it to update.
This is how to update an Echo Dot Software:
- In the very first place, you need to be sure that your Echo Dot is on, attached to your Wi-Fi network, & also connected to a stable internet connection.
- Then, you need to hit the button named mute.
- Now, verify the mute button turns red or the ring light turns red.
- Now wait for the Echo Dot to update.
How to Update Echo Automatically?
Echo Dot is composed to update automatically, as long as it is connected to a stable internet connection & is not busy with any other task. However, if the Echo Dot is in a noisy ambiance where it has to determine whether or not someone is addressing it, or it is continuously in use activating smart home devices, playing music, or doing other tasks, it might experience troubles performing automatic updates.
An Echo Dot also cannot install its updates itself if it is not connected to a stable internet connection, as a weak or spotty internet can prevent updates. On the other hand, the update can also fail for lots of other factors as well, therefore, manually updating an Echo Dot is actually very important.
Does An Echo Dot Require to be updated?
Well, the Echo Dot might or might not require to be updated, depending on whether or not it has been getting the automatic updates on a regular basis. Well, Amazon does release updates from time to time, therefore, each Echo Dot does require to be updated eventually.
Software updates will enhance the stability of the Echo Dot, add different new features, close security-oriented loopholes, & many more.
And in case you suspect that your Echo Dot might require an update, you will be able to check whether or not one can be available on the Amazon website. You will require to verify the version of the Echo Dot, & if you find that you are using the outdated version of Echo Dot, then it requires to be updated.
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This is how to verify if your Echo Dot requires an update:
- Head over to the Amazon’s site & locate and open the Alexa page.
- Now, choose the option Settings.
- Now, you need to choose your Echo Dot from the list of your devices.
- Now, navigate to the ‘About’ section, & check out the Device software version.
- Then, directly invoke the Alexa Device Software Versions site, & check out the latest software version for the Echo Dot.
- Follow the on-screen instructions and update your Echo Dot software.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How long does it take to install the Echo Dot update?
This actually depends on the strength of your internet connection; however, it will take up to 15 minutes to finish the firmware update.
How to update the Wi-Fi password on my Echo Dot?
For updating your Wi-Fi settings or modifying the Wi-Fi networks on the Echo Dot, invoke the Alexa App & then navigate to the Devices section > hit the option Echo &Alexa& select your device. Now, hit the Wi-Fi network, and then choose the option Change next to Wi-Fi Network.
Why does the Alexa application say my Echo is offline?
There can be different factors responsible for why your Echo device shows offline. Well, there can be a problem with your Wi-Fi, or your Echo might be too far away from the router. You might also require updating the Alexa app on your phone.
How to sync Amazon Music with my Echo Dot?
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VIDEO-Integrated Water Management Project at INA, Costa Rica
Axel Haase, in conjunction with Oliver Kopsch of DWC Germany, conducted a hands-on training workshop at INA, the national vocational training institute of Costa Rica. The INA Naranjo/PPP project partner symposium took place in November, 2014. In this workshop, under supervision, students learned about rainwater technology, grey water recycling, constructed wetland and filtration systems (special membrane filtration) and constructed under supervision a Constructed Wetland Plant (SEE VIDEO BELOW) to clean the waste water of a training bakery and toilets. The clean water can be used for irrigation.
In this video, Oliver Kopsch from DWC Germany explains the concept of a newly built constructed wetland terrain at INA Naranjo as the outcome of a 1 week workshop on integrated water management done by DWC, INA and its team in November, 2014. This project was done in partnership with develoPPP.de, a branch of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) . Video is in English. | <urn:uuid:79d17ed2-364a-47f7-85bb-deaeef8b1c89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aquamarkcr.com/portfolio/integrated-water-management-project-at-ina-costa-rica/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.923382 | 234 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Plotting is the first step of the farming process. It involves creating large (100GB+) files that can then be stored and farmed with very little energy use. Be sure to read the Chia Blockchain software FAQ.
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Guide to selecting the best high endurance consumer grade M.2 NVMe SSD for plotting. (Chia Decentral)
Guide to building a low cost computer optimized for plotting Chia. (Chia Decentral)
Introduction to the basics of plotting and the recommended hardware requirements. (Chia Network)
A guide for choosing the best SSD for plotting based on capacity, interface, endurance, and price. (Chia Decentral)
Practical tips on how to clean up your files in case of a crash mid-plotting. (The Chia Farmer)
A buying guide that helps you select the right motherboard for your plotter, farmer, or hybrid build.
A guide on how to put together a small form factor Intel NUC specifically for parallel plotting. (Chia Decentral)
A detailed guide on how best to optimize parallel plotting to determine the appropriate resource allocation and staggering. (The Chia Farmer)
A simple and easy-to-use calculator to determine profitability and help plan mix of plot sizes.
Chia Log Analysis parses your existing Chia plotter log files and builds a .csv file containing all the important details.
Upload plotting logs for analysis and statistics collection.
A tool to graph Chia Plotting activity in a linux terminal. Use a 24-bit colour terminal, like xterm or gnome-terminal.
Python program to monitor your plotting and check/move plots when complete and smartly queue up next plot. Has coin monitor as well to track when you get XCH.
Calculator to determine ideal split of plot sizes in order to maximize drive space used.
A tool to determine the optimal combination of plot k-sizes to avoid wasting disk space.
Tool to Monitor and Analyse Chia Plotting log files, show health and progress of running plots and estimated time to completion on Windows, Linux and Mac.
This plotting calculator will give you the ideal plotting settings based on your system specifications.
Microsoft Excel VBA macro that parses your plotting logs to extract important information into a spreadsheet.
Harry Plotter is an easy to use magical Chia plot manager for muggles! It works on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Hot Plotter allows you to remotely start chia plots utilizing MadMax, or the official Chia plotting tool. Supports Windows or Linux.
Building upon the official Chia docker image, Machinaris combines the Plotman CLI with a simple WebUI.
A multi-threaded implementation of the chia plotter designed to maximize temporary storage bandwidth. (madMAx43v3r)
Lightweight manager for madMAx43v3r/chia-plotter
Plot manager with madmax support, automatic plot replace, HDD groups, multiple jobs, and web plotting dashboard.
Batch file plot launcher for Chia CLI Windows 10.
A simple script that can watch a list of directories and does some action when a specific kind of change happens. Can be used to replace old plots with portable plots one at a time.
Plotting manager similar to Plotman but not Python based
Windows based plotting manager
Windows PowerShell plot manager with a GUI with a lot of features.
This calculator figures out reasonable settings for plots based on your system specifications.
Cross platform (Python) plotting manager to help keep plots generating.
Several tools for automating the plotting process.
A walkthrough of how to concurrently plot on multiple computers within the same network without running multiple full nodes. (NotAnotherTech)
A short video going over how to queue parallel plotting in the Windows GUI for Chia. (NotAnotherTech)
storage_jm walksthrough using ChiaCalculator to estimate the expected returns of chia plotting and farming regularly. (Chia Decentral)
Chia president, Gene Hoffman, chats with experts in plotting to discuss their plotting setup as well as answering commonly asked questions from Keybase. (Chia Network) | <urn:uuid:c515fa69-e040-49e1-86ff-82ad22fa6d41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chialinks.com/plotting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.806863 | 1,679 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The most common site of skin cancer, or abnormal cell proliferation, is sun-exposed skin. This common type of cancer, on the other hand, can create on sections of your surface that are not frequently exposed to sunlight. Skin cancer is classified into three types:
1. precancerous carcinoma
2. squamous cell carcinoma
Limiting and avoiding contact with infrared (UV) radiation can help you minimize your risk of developing cancer. Health reactive company is an Ayurvedic bases company. It helps your skin for unusual changes can aid in the detection of skin cancer in its early stages. Early identification of skin cancer increases your chances of effective skin cancer therapy. melanoma cancer Treatment (ilaj) is also possible with Ayurveda.
Skin cancer occurs most commonly on sun-exposed skin, such as the forehead, face, lips, ear, neck, chest, hands and fingers, and legs in women. However, it can also appear on locations that are infrequently exposed to sunlight, such as your hands, beneath the fingernails, and in your genital area. Melanoma that develops in persons with darker skin It is more prone to appear in places that are not regularly exposed to sunlight, like the palms of hands and the soles.
Treatment for skin cancer
Skin cancer treatment is determined by cancer. Skin cancer is classified into four stages: stage 0, stage 1, stage 2, and stage 3.
Cryotherapy - Liquid nitrogen is used in cryotherapy to cure skin cancer. After therapy, the cells slough off.
Excisional surgery - This procedure entails removing the tumour as well as some good skin around it to ensure that all disease has been eradicated.
Mohs micrographic surgery - The visible, elevated region of the tumour is removed initially in this treatment. Then, with a knife, your surgeon removes a thin coating of skin cancerous cells. Successive layers of tissue are removed one at a time until enough cancer cells are visible under the microscope.
Curettage and electrodesiccation - The technique scrape across the tumour with a tool with a pointed looped rim to remove cancer cells. An electric needle is subsequently used to eliminate any leftover cancer cells in the region. This procedure is frequently used to treat basal cells and squamous cell malignancies, as well as precancerous skin lesions.
Immunotherapy and chemotherapy - Chemotherapy employs the use of drugs to cause death. Anticancer drugs can be applied topically (topical chemotherapy) if the cancer is restricted to the top layer of your skin, or taken orally or through an IV if cancer spreads to other regions of your body. Body revival product employs your own immune system to eliminate cancer cells.
Radiation treatment - Radiation psychotherapy of treatment for cancer that use radiation (high-energy beams) to either kill or prevent cancer cells from growing.
Photodynamic treatment -
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A descriptive paragraph that tells clients how good you are and proves that you are the best choice that they’ve made.
The United States of America is a federal republic of fifty states, a federal district, and several territories.It is commonly called the United States, the United States of America (shortened to U.S. and U.S.A.), and also sometimes just America.
The country is mostly in North America. There are forty-eight states that border each other and Washington, D.C., the capital district. These states are between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. They are bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. | <urn:uuid:64a958ea-8825-46b1-b21e-9f3b9f735307> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://steptoabroad.com/usa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967501 | 141 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Youth Group 2 Go: Do All Paths Lead to God?
Youth Group 2 Go lessons are single-session, topical studies. This turnkey lesson answers questions such as: "Is Jesus is the only way to Heaven?" and "are all other religions are wrong?"
THEOLOGICAL QUESTION: If Jesus is the only way to Heaven, are all other religions wrong?
BIG IDEA: Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He claimed it, and He proved it by His death and resurrection. All other religions are based on works—doing something to earn salvation, paradise, nirvana, or whatever. Only Christianity is based on grace—trusting in Someone to receive salvation and experience a restored relationship with God, both now and for all eternity.
CATEGORY: Questions about my relationship with God
Youth Group 2 Go
These single-session, downloadable youth group curricula are designed to be stand-alone topical studies you can easily grab and go with. Pick and choose the topics that address your group’s specific needs from one of the following four categories:
- Questions about God
- Questions about my relationship with God
- Questions about God’s Word
- Questions about sharing the Gospel
Each lesson’s practical application will encourage your students to be doers of the Word and not hearers only!
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Pure Tone Audiometry
In case you have been suspected of hearing loss, you might be asked to go for the Pure Tone Audiometry test, which will allow the examiner to spot deficits and specific frequencies completely. Audiometer will be used to perform Pure Tone Audiometry. Simran Speech & Hearing Clinic uses different audiometer types for different types of functions, which will enable the tester to decrease or increase the sound intensity/frequency of the signal as required.
Pure Tone Audiometry is generally known as the threshold search or screening. There will be screening audiometry tones present, which will come across as 500 to 4,000 Hz. The upper limits given to adults are 25 to 30 dB, while for children it will be 15 to 20 dB. Your results are recorded as they pass, and the results will be deducted from the normal limits, which will be referred to as hearing loss, and if needed, there will be a repeated screening test done as
Through the threshold test, the examiner will be able to know about the softest sound that the patient can hear. This test needs to be done by an expert only who can decipher the results. Simran Speech & Hearing Clinic has a recommended process to be done for Pure Tone Audiometry. The test will begin with the ear, which has a better hearing possibility. The tester will release a pure tone to the ear, which will be clearly audible. | <urn:uuid:799e561f-90de-43b7-bcde-c655be475dd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simranspeechandhearing.com/services/pure-tone-audiometry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95166 | 287 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Definition of acrostically
The word acrostically uses 12 letters: a, a, c, c, i, l, l, o, r, s, t, y
acrostically is playable in:
Meanings of acrostically
adv. - After the manner of an acrostic.
Other words with the same letter pairs
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Jesus Clears the Temple
On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
I struggle with anger. I do not need professional counseling or incarceration. I am not actively destroying property or abusing people. I simply struggle. I grew up with a father who conditioned me over time to believe that the “appropriate” response in tedious or trying situations is to blow your top, if only for a few seconds. It rarely ends well, and it usually costs me time, money, and humiliation.
I’ve always been mildly troubled by Jesus’ anger in the temple courts. He blew his top! This was not the meek, mild Sunday School Jesus whose portrait hung on the wall. Reconciling an angry Jesus is difficult for me. The anger I observed in my father was what my mother termed inappropriate and immature. So, I struggle with anger.
How do I reconcile Jesus’ anger and actions in my mind and heart? I have a cerebral understanding that there is an appropriate righteous anger as spoken of in Scripture and displayed by Christ in this passage. I wrestle with this. How can I harness my anger and yet express it “righteously?”
I look to Jesus for clarity. In this passage, Jesus is making a stand for all things holy. He was trying to impress upon people the holiness of God and his temple. His anger was just and flawlessly righteous. The temple encounter gives us a small insight into the mind of God. God is jealous for righteousness and is incensed when sinful men trample on his holiness.
How do I follow Christ’s lead? I desire to be the one who stands “white hot” for God in the face of the unrighteous. As Christ-followers, we’re totally appropriate getting upset over our own sin. Evils should incense us. This side of heaven, I suppose I will continue to struggle with righteous anger as well as fear and doubt. I will continue to thank God for his grace and mercy, even as I defile his temple and use him for personal worldly gain.
For this, Christ was born. For this, Christ was crucified. For this, Christ rose from the grave.
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What did you learn about anger when you were a child? How have your views of anger changed over time? How do you reconcile Jesus’ anger and actions in your mind and heart?
PRAYER: Jesus, help me know what you deem holy. Help me to take a bold stand for those things. Help me to be slow to anger. Continue to reveal yourself to me in ways that grow me. Forgive me when I defile your temple in my daily actions. Bless those who make a stand for righteousness. Amen. | <urn:uuid:eee48c49-eb55-4c0e-b73f-7f28e474e5d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theologyofwork.org/the-high-calling/daily-reflection/jesus-clears-temple | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965784 | 624 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Each item in Minecraft has a unique ID assigned to it, known as an item ID, this can be used in commands to spawn the item into the game. The item ID for granite in Minecraft is shown below:
When Minecraft updated to version 1.13, a changed dubbed “The Flattening” was introduced. In “The Flattening”, numerical IDs and item data was removed, and some item IDs were changed to make them more logical – Granite was one of the many items that had their IDs changed.
For this reason, if you”re playing on a Minecraft version below 1.13 (1.12, 1.8, 1.7), you should use what we”ve named a legacy ID for this item. The legacy ID for granite is:
Granite has a data value of 1. You will need to add this to commands, along with its legacy item ID (below), to spawn it.
Items from earlier versions of Minecraft were assigned a numerical ID – a unique number to represent it.
This item also has a data value assigned to it. The data value is 1 – you need to add this to the item ID (with a colon before) in order to spawn granite.
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The numerical ID for Granite is:
The Granite item can be spawned in Minecraft with the below command. Cheats must be enabled before this will work.
If you are running the Essentials plugin, you will need to run /minecraft:give instead of simply /give. This is because the Essentials /give command overrides Minecraft”s built-in command.
Below is a table of the tools that can be used to break Granite blocks, and the speed it will take to break at (in seconds). This is calculated with the formula (1.5 * Block Hardness) / Tool Multiplier.
All Minecraft 1.16 item IDs
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Granite is similar to the stone block, but has less uses (currently). It is primarily used as a decorative block, but also can be used instead of stone in a few crafting recipes.
|Polished Granite, Granite Wall, Granite Stairs, Granite Slab|
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WASHINGTON, D.C.— With the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that upholds the rights of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients earlier today, People For the American Way President Ben Jealous and Political Director Lizet Ocampo released the following statements:
“At least for now, today’s ruling on DACA ends the hellish uncertainty that Donald Trump forced on hundreds of thousands of young people in this country. It also shows us how much elections matter, because the two Trump justices – Gorsuch and Kavanaugh – are on the wrong side of this ruling and the wrong side of history. This could easily have gone the other way. While an immediate threat is removed, we still need to ensure DREAMers are protected in the future. We have to keep that in mind in November when we vote for president and for senators,” said Jealous.
“DREAMers are Americans who have never known any other home. They are neighbors, members of our armed forces, and frontline workers like firefighters, health care workers and grocery store employees. We still need to do more to ensure that DREAMers’ status here is protected and ensured, and the onus must be on lawmakers to come up with a legislative solution to protect our immigrant families. But today, at least, we can breathe a sigh of relief,” said Ocampo.
About People For the American Way
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Slave Lake town councillors got a look at how much it would cost to up the town’s snow-removal game. For the type of snow-blower needed to remove windrows of snow from residential neighbourhoods, the starting price would be $600,000. This is the machine that blows snow into trucks. Three trucks would be needed to keep up with the blower, operations director Calvin Couturier told council at its March 8 meeting. That would be another $540,000. Plus three more operators, at about $210,000 per year. Total increase to the town’s budget: Around $1.4 million the first year.
Apparently this type of service level does exist in some municipalities. In most, it doesn’t. In some, council heard, the graders just plow through the neighbourhoods and don’t worry at all about leaving windrows across people’s driveways. Slave Lake graders at least have a gate that comes down, reducing what’s left across driveways to not that much.
How about if you hired out the trucking, Couturier was asked. $425,000 per year, was his estimate.
“And we’d still have to buy the snowblower.”
How about a partnership with the airport (which has a snowblower), asked councillor Steve Adams. It wouldn’t work, Couturier said. We’d need the machine at the same time.
Couturier’s report included a list of obstacles to quick and efficient clearing of Slave Lake’s streets that he called “hurdles.”
Parked cars on residential streets seems to be the biggest of these. He called it “a nightmare.” It was agreed that better communication – perhaps in the way of signs – could help. Couturier admitted communication efforts by his department haven’t been that great, especially this winter.
“Too busy,” he said. “We’ve been down two guys all winter.”
Garbage pick-up day is another hurdle Couturier mentioned. If a neighbourhood is scheduled for plowing, but it coincides with garbage day, it throws a monkey wrench into the rotation. We take a lot of flak for that, Couturier told council, but it’s no use trying plow streets with garbage cans all out.
People piling snow where it shouldn’t go doesn’t help either. Couturier told council some people have been known to blow their driveway snow onto the street, “and then complain to us!”
The upshot of the conversation was a motion to have administration bring a report on possible changes to the snow removal policy.
Only one item emerged as definitely in need of improvement, as well as being achievable without spending much money or creating other problems: better communication.
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Hello! In Icelandic, “halló” is the word for “hello.” It can be used as a casual greeting, or as a formal introduction.
How To Say Hi In Icelandic
There is no one definitive way to say “hi” in Icelandic. Some of the more common ways to say hello include “halló” (literally “hello”), “góðan daginn” (“good day”), or “til hamingju” (“congratulations”).
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the necessary tools and materials needed to say “hi” in Icelandic will vary depending on the situation. However, some things that may be necessary include a basic knowledge of the Icelandic language, as well as some common phrases and expressions. Additionally, a smile and good attitude always go a long way!
- first, you should say hello in icelandic. 2. then, you can say “hi” or “how are you?” 3. lastly, you can ask how the other person is doing
1. There are a few different ways to say “hello” in Icelandic, depending on the context and relationship between the speakers. 2. The most common way to say “hello” is “halló”, which can be used both informally and formally. 3. Another common way to say “hello” is “góðan daginn”, which is used mainly in formal contexts. 4. There are also a few other ways to say “hello
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Icelandic For Goodbye?
Takk fyrir, Goodbye
How Do You Say Greetings In Icelandic?
In Icelandic, you say hello by saying “halló”. You say goodbye by saying “sjáumst” or “góða nótt”.
How Do You Say I Speak A Little Icelandic?
I speak a little Icelandic.
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Tallinn - capital and most populous city of Estonia. This city is the 146th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 1st most popular cities in Estonian Wikipedia. Article "Tallinn" in Estonian Wikipedia has 89.6 points for quality (as of April 1, 2022).
The article contains 95 references and 52 sections.
This article has the best quality in Slovenian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.
Achievements in all the time:
Achievements in the last month:
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in the last month.
In March 2022 the article "Tallinn" was edited by 4 authors in Estonian Wikipedia (51st place) and written by 41 authors in all languages (4681st place).
Since the creation of article "Tallinn", its content was written by 111 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia (3rd place) and edited by 5009 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1568th place).
Tallinn is on the 1st place in local ranking of cities in Estonian Wikipedia
and on the 146th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.
The article is cited 15316 times in Estonian Wikipedia (2nd place) and cited 80915 times in all languages (1728th place).
The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:
- Local (Estonian): #1 in July 2020
- Global: #220 in October 2009
The highest popularity rank from 2008:
- Local (Estonian): #1 in February 2019
- Global: #2605 in August 2018
There are 55 language versions for this article in WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).
The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipedia dumps from April 1, 2022 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).
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According to reports, the Chinese delegation has adopted three major measures to achieve “zero infection” of the epidemic.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 14th. Title: Gold Medal Maintains the First Sequence of Epidemics and Strive for “Zero Infection”
——Interview with Liu Guoyong, Secretary General of the Chinese Sports Delegation of the Tokyo Olympic Games
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Zewei, Gao Meng, Wang Jingyu
The Chinese sports delegation for the Tokyo Olympics was formally established on the 14th. Liu Guoyong, secretary-general of the delegation and director of the Department of Competitive Sports of the State Sports General Administration, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency reporters that the goals of the Chinese Legion include curbing the continuous decline of gold medals in recent Olympic Games. Trend, remain in the first sequence of the Olympic Corps, and strive to achieve “zero infection” of the epidemic.
Liu Guoyong said that the Tokyo Olympic Games is the largest overseas Chinese sports delegation participating in the Olympic Games. Chinese athletes will participate in 30 major events and 225 minor events, which is the largest number of overseas minor events. At present, the delegation is ready in all aspects and is ready to go. It is believed that under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, with the support of the people of the whole country, the Chinese Legion will certainly live up to expectations and complete the Olympic Games’ goals and tasks.
“We want to achieve a double harvest of competition performance and spiritual civilization. Specifically, there are four aspects: one is to curb the trend of continuous decline in the recent Olympic gold medals; the other is to strive for better results in the competition with the strong players. , To remain in the first rank of the Olympic team; the third is to ensure that there are no doping incidents and game style issues, and to play the spirit of the Chinese team; the fourth is to strive to achieve’zero infection’ of the epidemic.”
Liu Guoyong analyzed the gold medal situation of the Chinese Army, and believed that advantageous events such as table tennis, badminton, diving, weightlifting, and shooting would continue to maintain their advantages. At the same time, some potential advantages of the Chinese team showed some bright spots, such as rowing and kayaking. It is an 8-person boat and 4-person boat. It has made rapid progress. The Chinese team has also obtained some qualifications for emerging sports such as rock climbing and skateboarding. Some ball sports, such as women’s rugby, women’s hockey, and women’s water polo, are in the quality of will, physical fitness, and skills. Tactics and other aspects have been greatly improved; taekwondo, karate, boxing, etc., will also have good performances.
The Tokyo Olympics is a special Olympics held in the context of the epidemic. Liu Guoyong said that the one-year postponement of the Olympic Games has an impact on competitive sports, especially on the teams preparing for the Tokyo Olympics in all aspects. First, it disrupted the rhythm of the entire game. Second, the number of international events has decreased. Third, there is less mutual understanding among players and teams. Fourth, many veteran athletes are facing retirement.
“But no matter what you say, the epidemic is fair to all athletes. We have also seen that under the epidemic, foreign athletes still have not relaxed their training, they are very self-disciplined, and have created a number of good results; Chinese athletes are also doing a good job in epidemic prevention. Under controlled circumstances, the closed training has been strengthened and good results have been achieved. I hope that in the Tokyo Olympics, the athletes can show their superb skills and good looks.” Liu Guoyong said.
The prevention and control of the epidemic is of vital importance to the Chinese delegation. He said: “The biggest variable and the biggest difficulty this time is the prevention and control of the epidemic. The Chinese delegation attaches great importance to the prevention and control of the epidemic and puts it in the work of the competition. First (location).”
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School & Library Visits
The Ghost of Walhachin is an ideal resource for Grades 3 - 6 students.
The fictional adventure of the characters is an engaging story for new readers, and the historical and environmental facts provide launching points for exploration and discussion in other subject areas.
I look forward to working with educators in planning author visits that suit the needs of your classroom.
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The Ridge Interpretive Center is physically located on Macon County Road 10 in the Warrior Stand Community about twelve miles south of Tuskegee and nine miles north of Hurtsboro. Visit our Contact Us page for a map and directions.
Mailing address: 10735 County Road 10
Union Springs, AL 36089
The Ridge Project pays homage to a cluster of historic rural communities located along a ridge line in southeast Macon County, Alabama where Native Americans created a trading path long ago. The path became a segment of The Federal Road, the main route for pioneer emigration to the Old Southwest during the great "Alabama Fever" land rush.
To provide classroom resources and educational programs and events about our region's historical and cultural significance for the benefit of students, teachers, the local community, and visitors of all ages.
The Ridge Macon County Archaeology Project derives its name from the topography found in southeastern Macon County, Alabama that divides the drainage basins of the Chattahoochee and Tallapoosa Rivers.
The Ridge communities bustled with Native American activity from pre-historic times: pioneer activity from 1817-1836, and antebellum activity from 1836-1865. From the Civil War throughout Reconstruction, and from the rise of Tuskegee Institute’s outreach beginning in the 1880s to the mid-1950s, The Ridge and adjacent communities experienced major shifts in population, agriculture, the economy, and in the centers of power in government and education. Today southeast Macon County spans a rural historic landscape with a legacy that is reflected in the residents who are a community of descendants of the original free and enslaved Alabama Fever settlers.
"The chances are good that all who trace their ancestry to anywhere in Alabama south of the Tennessee Valley have a forebear who came over the Federal Road. During its period of maximum use, when "Alabama Fever" was epidemic in the Carolinas and Georgia, the population of the territory (later the state) increased by over half a million."
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Lots of people who read my articles and e-books understand me as a scientific research man who suches as to price quote research studies as well as use research study to daily troubles such as weight loss, body building, and also other health/fitness associated topics. Nonetheless, occasionally you have to go back from the science as well as take a look at the big picture to help bring people back right into emphasis, so they can see the woodland for the trees, in a manner of speaking.
For the majority of people reading this write-up, locating an efficient diet plan that functions most of the time should appear as complicated as nuclear physics. It’s not, but there are a bewildering variety of selections for diet plans around. High fat or no fat? High carbohydrate or no carbohydrate? Low healthy protein or high healthy protein? To make issues worse, there are a million variations as well as combinations to the above diet plan situations to contribute to the confusion. It appears limitless and also causes many people to vomit their hands in aggravation and quit. In this short article I will certainly try to alter all that.
There are some general standards, general rules, as well as ways of viewing a diet plan program that will certainly allow you to determine, once and for all, if it’s the best diet plan for you. You may not constantly like what I need to claim, and you need to be under no illusions this is another quick fix, “lose 100 pounds. in 20 days,” overview of some kind. However, if you are sick and sick of being confused, tired of taking the weight off just to place it back on, as well as sick of questioning exactly how to take the primary steps to choosing the ideal diet plan for you that will lead to irreversible fat burning, then this is the short article that could transform your life …
Does your diet regimen pass “The Examination”?
What is the top factor diets fail long-term; most of all else? The top reason is … drum roll … a lack of long term conformity. The numbers do not lie; the huge majority of people who slim down will reclaim it – as well as often surpass what they shed. You understood that currently didn’t you?
Yet, what are you doing to prevent it? Below’s an additional reality check: basically any kind of diet plan you select which follows the standard idea of “melting” more calories after that you take in – the well approved “calories in calories out” mantra – will cause you to reduce weight. To some degree, they all work: Atkins-style, no carbohydrate diet regimens, low fat high carbohydrate diet plans, various crash diet – it just does not matter in the short term.
If your goal is to shed some weight rapidly, then select one as well as follow it. I guarantee you will certainly lose some weight. Researches normally discover any of the commercial weight loss diet plans will certainly obtain roughly the exact same quantity of weight off after 6 months to a year. As an example, a current research located the Atkins’ Diet regimen, Slim-Fast strategy, Weight Watchers Pure Points program, as well as Rosemary Conley’s Eat Yourself Slim diet plan, were all similarly reliable. (1 )
Various other research studies contrasting other preferred diets have actually come to essentially the same verdicts. For example, a study that compared the Atkins diet plan, the Ornish diet plan, Weight Watchers, and The Area Diet plan, located them to be essentially the same in their capacity to take weight off after one year. (2 )
Recall what I stated regarding the primary reason diets fail, which is an absence of compliance. The lead scientist of this current study specified:
” Our test located that adherence degree as opposed to diet plan kind was the key forecaster of weight reduction”( 3 )
Converted, it’s not which diet plan they picked per se, yet their capacity to in fact adhere to a diet plan that forecasted their weight loss success. I can just see the hands rising now, “however Will, some diet plans must be far better than others, right?” Are some diet regimens far better then others? Definitely. Some diet regimens are much healthier then others, some diet regimens are better at preserving lean body mass, some diet regimens are better at suppressing appetite – there are numerous distinctions between diet plans. Nevertheless, while most of the prominent diets will benefit taking weight off, what is perfectly clear is that sticking to the diet plan is the most crucial element for maintaining the weight off long term.
What is a diet regimen?
A diet is a short-term method to drop weight. Long-term weight reduction is the result of an alteration in way of life. We are concerned with life long weight monitoring, not quick fix weight reduction here. I do not such as the term diet, as it stands for a short-term attempt to reduce weight vs. a modification in way of living. Want to lose a number of weight swiftly? Heck, I will certainly provide you the info on how to do that here and now for on the house.
For the next 90 to 120 days consume 12 scrambled egg whites, one whole grapefruit, as well as a gallon of water two times a a day. You will certainly shed plenty of weight. Will it be healthy? Nope. Will the weight remain off once you are made with this diet plan as well as are then required to return to your “typical” means of consuming? Not a chance. Will certainly the weight you shed originated from fat or will it be muscular tissue, water, bone, and (with any luck!) some fat? The point being, there are several diet regimens around that are completely capable of obtaining weight off you, however when considering any kind of eating strategy designed to lose weight, you have to ask on your own:
” Is this a means of consuming I can follow long term?”
Which brings me to my test: I call it the “Can I consume that way for the remainder of my life?” Test. I recognize, it does not exactly roll off your tongue, yet it understands across.
The lesson here is: any type of dietary strategy you choose to lose weight has to belong to a way of life modification you will certainly have the ability to comply with – in one type or another – for life. That is, if it’s not a means of eating you can comply with forever, even after you get to your target weight, after that it’s worthless.
Therefore, several crash diet you see out there are immediately eliminated, and also you do not need to fret about them. The inquiry is not whether the diet plan works in the short-term, yet if the diet can be adhered to forever as a lifelong means of consuming. Going from “their” means of consuming back to “your” method of consuming after you reach your target weight is a recipe for catastrophe and also the cause of the well established yo-yo dieting syndrome. Profits: there are no short cuts, there is no freebie, as well as only a dedication to a way of living change is mosting likely to keep the fat off long-term. I realize that’s not what the majority of people want to listen to, however it’s the truth, like it or not.
The stats don’t exist: getting the weight off is not the hardest part, maintaining the weight off is! If you take a close take a look at the many popular fad/commercial diet regimens out there, and also you are truthful with yourself, and also use my examination over, you will certainly discover a lot of them no longer interest you as they as soon as did. It likewise brings me to an example that includes additional clarity: If you have diet regimen A that will cause the most fat burning in the fastest amount of time yet is unbalanced and essentially difficult to follow long term vs. diet regimen B, which will take the weight off at a slower speed, yet is much easier to adhere to, well balanced, healthy and balanced, and also something you can adhere to year after year, which transcends? If diet regimen An obtains 30 lbs off you in 30 days, yet by following year you have gained back all 30 lbs, but diet plan B obtains 20 pounds off you in the next 3 months with an additional 20 pounds 3 months after that as well as the weight stays off by the end of that year, which is the better diet plan?
If you don’t understand the answer to those concerns, you have actually entirely misunderstood of this post and also the lesson it’s attempting to educate you, and also are established for failing. Go back and also read this section again … By default, diet plan B transcends.
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Spaceship Verotchka …
THE SPACESHIP VEROTCHKA
1. An Anniversary
On the one year anniversary of the death of Pasha the inhabitants of Lai completed the spaceship Verotchka and prepared the ship for its maiden voyage.
When the Galactic Alliance began construction of the Lai space station the Lai began work on Verotchka. They used the last of their resources available planet side to create their greatest work. Verotchka’s mission was to move into deep space and hopefully find a new planet for the inhabitants of Lai and to provide an opportunity to leave the confines of their space station.
Though deep space travel presented many extremely difficult situations the AI of the Verotchka was top of the line and programed to evolve as the journey progressed.
2. Crew Members
The AI on the Verotchka was also programed to maintain two crew members. These two crew members were given with two major tasks. First, was to ensure the ship was running smoothly by following a very strict daily routine. Second, was to start incubation of embryo’s from the ships embryo bank.
Incubation would begin an embryo’s life cycle. The embryo would reach adulthood to replace the two crew members when their time had reached a conclusion.
When embryo’s developed into children Verotchka would start cryo-dreams. Cryo-dreams contained an evolving curriculum created by Verotchka using dreams to teach new crew members their functions. Each embryo had dreams of their birth, their parents, and their day to day life.
Multiple embryo’s would begin incubation at different set times to provide back-up in case a crew member died before their conclusion.
A crew members conclusion was one of their fundamental functions on the Verotchka.
3. In Deep Space
Alex had a fondness for Lai’s ancient relics. Verotchka produced clothing worn by ancestors over a million years prior just for Alex’s conclusion. The ship ensured that Alex wore a comfortable silk overcoat and a long straw brimmed hat that made Alex look like an ancient artisan. Alex was happy with his choice. He thanked Verotchka for the kindness as he opened the hatch to Verotchka’s greenhouse.
Alex also carried a stack of heavy books in one hand. Most of his lifetime he carried ancient bound books from one corner of the spaceship to the other. This ensured that he was never without a good read. A few of his favorites were a text on ancient physics, a collection of poems, and short stories written by Somyan.
The Verotchka headed deeper into space. Alex’s conclusion would begin the next life cycle and start the next one hundred years of Verotchka’s journey.
Through the doorway walked Kuzi. A bald old man with a long grey beard, a white cotton gown, and a flashlight that fit in the palm of his hand. Kuzi saw Alex and smiled.
“Goodbye old friend!” Alex trumpeted.
Kuzi condensed the flashlight until it became paper thin and placed it in his pocket. He followed Alex into the depths of the greenhouse until they reached a terrace overlooking a tropical forest. Shadows cast darkness upon the ancient canopy below.
“Once again, Goodbye.” Alex said, “Thank you for your gifts and your kindness. I will never forget. I cannot find the gratitude to express.”
4. Spaceship Companions
Visibly moved by emotion, Alex shrugged his shoulders. Touched by emotion himself, Kuzi bent over and kissed Alex. For a second the old men kissed. Not a passionate kiss but a simple sharing of emotion between two old friends who travelled millions of miles together.
“At times I have felt like your pet, Kuzi,” continued Alex, “as I have worked with you to keep the Verotchka running smoothly. I have shared your company at supper to drink your homemade liquor. Due to our diligence the Verotchka moved further into deep space than any other in the history of space travel. When a destination is determined and our travels have ended let your kindness and dedication be known. I wonder if we will meet again in the stars?”
“Only Verotchka knows.” Kuzi answered, “But probability is against us.”
Alex walked out onto a raised platform where he laid himself down.
“I will take good care of your books Alex.” Kuzie held back a tear.
5. Spaceship Composition
His conclusion had begun.
As the platform moved Alex deeper into the greenhouse he wondered what it meant to be composted. He thought about his molecules journey from soil into plant and then into the air. His molecules would become a part of the Verotchka! Many brave crew members before him became a part of this spaceships molecular memory.
Kuzi would soon be awakening the next pair of humans to be caretakers. This new pair would hold their positions and fulfill their duties for another hundred years.
Alex felt a slight pain as a robotic arm produced a syringe and began an injection. His mind centered on how both Kuzi and himself started as embryo’s here on Verotchka. Embryo’s thawed to begin cellular Meiosis hidden within the metal confines of Verotchka’s outer hull. As the embryo’s developed a nervous system Verotchka would begin the manipulation and storage of binary information.
Alex thought about his “School of Dreams” where he learned about what it meant to be Lai while his small body cultivated into adulthood. There was a mother and a father. Friends and foes struggled through Math and Physics problems with him. He witnessed many gardens grow. He experienced his first crush.
A childhood of artificial memories to last an adult lifetime before composting back to the Verotchka. Alex remembered. He remembered he smiled when he looked up at young Kuzi who welcomed him.
At this moment Alex understood the meaning of it all. Companionship.
Mechanical cranes lifted him into the air as he contemplated this new revelation. For a moment Alex could only see darkness. A crane placed Alex onto the loading area of the composter and the process began. Alex’s body slowly moved into the machine.
He strained to hear anything but everything was silent. For a split second he recalled every square inch of the Verotchka. The bay doors that always stuck. His place in the garden where he would read.
On one of the locations he recalled, a massive cliff overlooking an ocean, stood Kuzi. Kuzi stood and waved with another figure. The figure was a young woman who just woke up from her “School of Dreams” and was set to replace Alex on the journey.
7. The New Girl
As the injection took hold Alex fell further into this dream.
“My name is Terra.” She spoke. A girl, maybe ten, who now stood in a flower garden. She was carelessly dressed and dirty. She looked like she spent her days reading and playing tomboy games. Her look was charming and beautiful as she motioned for Alex to move closer.
“I am going away.” Alex told her. “I dreamt about you during my cry-youth. I remember you as I am seeing you now.”
Alex felt this connection had meaning. A last shred of epiphany before his molecules returned to the soil.
“Your service is known Alex. I will never live up to your accomplishments here aboard the Verotchka.” Tera pulled some flowers from the garden and handed them towards Alex.
“I have dedicated my life on Verotchka and now I sacrifice my body.”
“Follow me Alex.” Tera started to walk and Alex followed as the landscape changed from a small flower garden, to a field of poppies, to an ancient pine forest. He kept his pace while she walked quickly in front of him. Soon they came to a small cabin located on the outskirts of a green pasture. She walked up to the door and waited.
The door opened and Alex saw Kuzi inside where he worked in an ancient makeshift kitchen with a wood burning stove.
“Do you want some food before your journey?” Kuzi asked.
8. A Spaceship Journey
Soon Alex and Tera left Kuzi and walked deep within a wooded forest of pine. They could hear the awkward crunch of dried needles at their feet.
“So where are you going first?” Terra asked Alex as they walked.
“I guess back to my Mother.” Alex replied.
“Alex your work on the Verotchka will be remembered for generations to come through the reuse of your molecules. Your kind and earnest heart will never be forgotten. Once your molecules move into the rotation of life your spirit will remain in cryo-youth dreams. You shall live for thousands of years.” Tera explained as Alex held her hand tight.
“Have you begun to forget yet?”
“No. I think I remember…”
Mist started to cover the ground as forest suddenly opened onto beach.
“Wait! Let me go with you as far as the ocean.”
Alex could barely see the waves through the thick white mist. This mist resembled smoke as it moved around their feet and covered their legs.
A sun began to set.
To Be Continued….
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The most important cryptocurrency project focused on security and user privacy undertakes a network upgrade. \tThe developers report that this hard fork will bring significant improvements in several areas such as network efficiency and ring improvement. \tThe currency is one of the most controversial among the community due to its opaque network, but at the same time it is indispensable in the fight against authoritarian regimes. The most important privacy blockchain in the world, Monero, since weeks ago announced the update that would bring various improvements to its network. The time has come and the application of the new hard fork was successfully carried out at the level of block 2,688,888. The developers called on the participants to update their software in order to have the possibility to continue using the network. Monero and its native currency, XMR, are among the most controversial in the entire crypto market. The community around this project is one of the most solid and its foundations are entirely organic. Its enthusiasts qualify themselves as "maximalists" and consider that this project fulfills all the purposes outlined by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin White Paper. In that sense, they criticize that the main cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, suffers from flaws that Satoshi was not able to correct. Among them, poor privacy for users and the scandalous centralization of the mining business that deprives millions of people from being part of the generation. XMR's proposal, they claim, fills all those gaps left by Nakamoto. They call their currency (Bitcoin) a "first experiment" and even label it an "altcoin". This is how the Monero blockchain works This is not the place to define which is the best of the cryptocurrencies between BTC and XMR, even if it is clear which is the most popular and used. In any case, the important thing is that the Monero network is undertaking one of the most important updates of its blockchain. With it, they seek to improve the user experience and privacy qualities. To understand the magnitude and importance of the changes implemented in this new hard fork it is worth briefly reviewing how that blockchain works. There are four main features on which the blockchain relies to become the most secure and private of the entire virtual currency ecosystem: \tRing Signatures. \tStealth Addresses. \tRingCT. \tDandelion++. The XMR cryptocurrency is based on three core values that are at the heart of its philosophy. These are privacy, security and decentralization. To this end, the developers claim to avail themselves of the latest and most robust encryption tools available. The level of privacy is one of the main reasons for the coin's existence. Indeed, there are projects that are secure like Bitcoin or Ethereum, but privacy is poor. Monero developers claim that there are certainly projects with security options based on RingCT, for example. However, for most such currencies, privacy is an option and not an attribute imposed by the network as in the case of Monero. Monero XMR is one of the well-known privacy coins and, among them, it is undoubtedly the most important and efficient one thanks to its robust transaction and wallet hiding features. That makes it a powerful tool. Image: Cryptoinforme.com Ring Signatures This is one of the best thought-out tools for the XMR cryptocurrency. With it, the chain hides the address that is responsible for sending during the transaction. Any network user can create these signatures and the conjugation of them creates a ring. In this way, when a person sends a transaction, it is mixed with others that form the ring and then sent. In doing so, no outside observer will be able to tell from which of the keys in the signature group the transaction is coming from. With this tool, the transaction of money in the form of XMR becomes anonymous. According to the Monero portal, this mechanism in its blockchain is implemented by using the keys of an account and a series of public keys. The latter are known as "outputs" and are extracted from the network with a "triangular distribution method". This whole process is just one of the multiple mechanisms on which the blockchain is based. For users, it is a great advantage to have this concealment, as people's financial privacy is guaranteed. In countries where totalitarian governments exist, this network works as an impeccable mechanism to receive funds without being victims of reprisals from the state apparatus. Stealth Addresses At the other extreme, the person receiving the funds also has a privacy protection mechanism. In that sense, the recipient is not registered on the blockchain thanks to Stealth Addresses. Thus, the person sending funds creates random unique addresses for each transaction on behalf of the recipient, the portal explains. "With Monero, third parties are unable to know about the existence of transactions between two people." "The recipient can publish only one address, but it makes all their incoming payments go to unique addresses on the blockchain, where they cannot be linked to the recipient's published address or to the addresses of other transactions," they stress. With this, only the two parties (the sender and the receiver) know the addresses. In this way, this blockchain makes it impossible to verify the sender and receiver of an XMR transaction. This fulfills another of the important steps that guarantee the four main characteristics of the network. Unlike other chains, such as the Bitcoin blockchain, the Monero blockchain is completely opaque. This translates into the fact that a third party will not have the ability to find out if private transactions between two people take place. In Bitcoin, the blockchain is public and fully transparent. That gives the possibility that a moderately thorough analysis will be able to find the whereabouts of the person behind the funds. RingCT The third feature of the Monero network is called Bulletproofs. With this feature, confidentiality is maintained when sending funds from this network to other protocols. Similarly, with RingCT, transaction amounts are hidden. Simply put, when a user sends amounts (even to other protocols), the amount sent is hidden. Add to this the other two features described above, and there is no possibility of tracing the sender, the receiver, or the volume of money being sent. The RingCT confidential transaction stands out because of the advantages over other networks. For example, when sending cryptocurrencies in Ether, BTC or others, not only the address of the sender and the receiver is known, but also the amount and the funds stored in their respective wallets. With that, users are exposed to criminal organizations. If a bank account is transparent, it means that anyone can see it, including extortionists and kidnappers. With these three operating characteristics of the Monero blockchain, people are guaranteed security and privacy. Dandelion++ Finally, with the Dandelion++, the link between the transaction and the physical address of the person behind the transaction is completely broken. In other chains, the users' IP could be linked to the transaction. To avoid this, VPNs are generally used, but in Monero this option comes built-in. The development of Dandelion was originally intended for Bitcoin transactions, but in Monero it is also adopted as an extra security measure. By applying the Dandelion++ option to nodes, some detectors such as Chainalysis will be unable to override the anonymous nature of transactions. It should be noted that the network has a lot going for it and technology is not slowing down at any time. It is to be expected that many interested parties will work daily to neutralize a blockchain like Monero. Hence, developers feel obliged to make frequent updates to improve the protocols. Consequently, that is precisely the vision of the developers of this blockchain with the update that was applied this Saturday. What are the improvements of the Monero upgrade? The Monero update, successfully applied to the network this August 13, will make it possible to strengthen all the features that make this chain one of the most impenetrable in the world of cryptocurrencies. Image: News.bitcoin.com With an eye on improving the network's security, privacy and decentralization qualities, the developers aim to improve the operating mechanisms explained above. Thus, the update features the following improvements: \tIt increases the Ring size from 11 to 16. This is the largest absolute increase in the entire base anonymity complex for every transaction given on the Monero network. \tThe hard fork will upgrade the bulletproofs algorithm to bulletproofs+. With this, the typical transaction size will be reduced by 5% to 7%. This will allow transactions to be less heavy and, with that, faster. In addition, the typical verification performance will be improved by 5-7%. \tAppearance of View Tags. This new option will reduce the synchronization times of a wallet by approximately 30% to 40%. \tThe update also includes sensible changes to commissions. The portal explains that this will "improve the security and resilience of the network to rapid changes in the fee market or attacks by malicious entities". \tThe last of the hard fork enhancements include major fixes to multi-sig features along with critical security patches. As mentioned above, the upgrade to the Monero blockchain was successfully completed this Saturday. With it, the most secure and private currency of the entire ecosystem further increases its qualities and consolidates itself as the most solid project in terms of guarantees of the right to privacy of its users. Binance welcomes re-powered Monero One of the good news for the aforementioned blockchain is that it received the backing of the most important cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance. The cryptocurrency exchange led by Changpeng Zhao announced that it will support the new update of this blockchain, which further guarantees its continuity. In the official communication, apart from talking about the approximate date and the corresponding reversal of transactions for the migration, the platform announced the support. "Binance will take care of all technical requirements for all users who have XMR on their Binance accounts. We will reopen deposits and withdrawals for XMR once we deem the upgraded network to be stable, and will not notify users in a further announcement." It should be noted that the Monero blockchain is not very popular for many centralized cryptocurrency platforms. This is because the privacy features are not compatible with many legal requirements that force platforms to maintain collaboration with regulators. Thus, an opaque network like Monero contradicts KYC or know-your-customer mandates and anti-money laundering (AML) laws. This explains why many exchanges have taken XMR off their list of options and others have not even taken the initiative to include it at some point. The recent Tornado Cash case is a reminder to many platforms that they should do their best to avoid these types of privacy assets. In any case, some users in that community consider XMR's stay on some platforms to be temporary. The moment regulations become clearer, the currency will be excluded from all exchanges, they warn. The world's largest exchange by trading volume, Binance, announced that it would support the Monero network upgrade. This marks an important difference with other cryptocurrency exchanges, which prefer to stay away from XMR. Image credit: Vanguardngr.com The use of Monero for criminal activities The high security and privacy qualities of handling funds on the aforementioned network make it an ideal choice for criminals. It is no surprise that it is one of the favorite currencies in the dark web. It is also the most used option by the so-called cryptojackers. The latter, by means of bots, use the computing power of victims to generate money. In other words, without the victim's knowledge, they infiltrate their devices and start mining for them. It should be noted that the Monero blockchain works with the Proof-of-Work (PoW), which means that it is generated by the mechanism known as digital mining in the same way as Bitcoin does. The difference is that XMR is mined with CPU, while Bitcoin requires more sophisticated hardware such as Application-specific integrated circuit or ASIC. In any case, one should not lose sight of the fact that the bulk of financial crimes are carried out with the use of fiat currencies and through traditional banking. A recent example was uncovered by INVESTOR TIMES with the Juicy Fields case. According to an expert's report, more than 60 banks were involved in this scam, which allowed criminals to drain an approximate $1 billion euros from their victims to Cyprus. Although this scam also relied on cryptocurrencies, the amounts in these were minimal compared to the amount moved in fiat money. From this it can be assumed that as long as criminals continue to go unpunished using business as usual money and methods, it is unlikely that Monero will be at the top of their list of options. Although XMR is one of the favorite currencies within the so-called dark web, the crimes committed with that cryptocurrency would be lower than those committed through fiat money. Image: Cryptoslate.com Some Monero features As already said, the Monero network for the generation of new coins is given by means of PoW. However, unlike Bitcoin, its protocol is anti-centralization, which implies that it is resistant to ASICs. If any manufacturer were to create machines that could mine XMR, this coin would be quickly monopolized by large companies in the same way as happened with Bitcoin. With that, hashing and difficulty would increase negating CPU mining. "To mine XMR does not require expensive specialized equipment like Bitcoin's ASICs. It's enough with CPU or GPU to mine from home and without major complications." To avoid that scenario, the network works with an algorithm called Randomx. This is an ASIC-resistant and CPU-friendly program. In this way, Monero mining can be performed from any computer without major impediments for users. In fact, on CPUs it is more convenient than on GPUs. There are two ways to mine on the Monero blockchain. The first is individually and the second is through mining pools. In the first case, it is a "lottery" that could take months or years without seeing results. With the second mode, you get consistent results, albeit with low rewards. The developers recommend not to use the most crowded pools, as this can lead to a dangerous concentration of the network. In this regard, it is noteworthy that the largest mining pool in this network, MINEXMR, announced its closure last Friday (August 12). This is because it controlled 48% of that network, which increased the odds of a 51% attack. This is positive news for the health of this blockchain. The XMR issuance curve Although the Monero coin shares similarities with BTC, it is not entirely identical in its generation mechanisms beyond PoW. For example, Satoshi Nakamoto's coin has a quantitative limitation of 21 million, meaning it is deflationary. XMR, on the other hand, has an indefinite issuance curve, which makes it an inflationary coin. The developers claim that this is a way to always maintain a stable reward for miners. That way, miners have the necessary motivation to keep the network secure. In that sense, the issuance of XMR is infinite. It should be noted that there are two main types of issuance of this coin. The main curve, which consists of 18,132 million coins by May 2022. In parallel, the tail curve is counted. This is equivalent to 0.6 XMR for each mined block. This is triggered once the main issuance has taken place. This results in a 1% inflation. It should be noted that in the Monero blockchain blocks are processed every two minutes. This means that in order to have a good mining reward, several factors such as the cost of electricity and CPU capacity must be taken into account. Although XMR can be generated from virtually any computer no matter how old it is, the higher the CPU power, the better the performance. For many users, the main profitability of the currency is to buy it and keep it for the long term, since its valuation has been highly positive over the last few years. How to mine XMR? Unlike mining with other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Litecoin, generating XMR does not require specialized and expensive equipment such as ASICs. The process of mining Monero can be done from any CPU or with graphics cards. Image: Coinlib.io Generating coins or fractions of XMR is a simple task, although it is not as cost-effective to do it with the old laptop. The advantage is that no further permissions are required from the authorities where mining is regulated. But being a PoW-generated coin demands computing power and that implies considerable energy consumption. Although the cost of the bill will never be the same as mining Bitcoin with the Sha-256 algorithm or Litecoin's Scrypt, the costs must still be weighed. For example, mining on an old computer that generates more in bill costs than the rewards obtained is not the best decisionto make. In any case, the first option should be to choose a computer with an advanced CPU such as AMD's Epyc 7742. This one has 64 cores that allow mining with a computation of 44,000 H\/s. In addition, its power consumption is only 225 W. Of course, there are less expensive options. Once you have the equipment, you must choose the software, for example, the Monero Spelunker, which is adapted for mining with CPU in the aforementioned blockchain. Once the equipment is ready, in which one must also take care to have an adapted GPU and SSD memory that provide greater mining power, the user must join a pool. Each pool requires steps to be followed to start operating. In that case one must search the list and choose one or mine on one's own in the form of a "lottery". Alternatives to Monero It should not be overlooked that XMR is not the only privacy coin on the market. There are others that can fill that role very well such as Secret or Zcash. The most recent case occurred with the legendary Litecoin LTC. This coin applied the Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) update, in which it made a radical turn to its traditional operation. With the MWEB, LTC joined the club of privacy coins. It should not be lost sight of the fact that the privacy of the coin is optional and a change from one modality to another facilitates tracking. As uncomplicated as it would be to break LTC's privacy, this shift led to some problems with exchanges . Some platforms excluded the currency to avoid run-ins with regulators and AML laws. This media outlet reported at the time about Litecoin's problems with its new vision. As emphasized above, the big difference between Monero and the rest of the privacy coins such as Zcash or Litecoin, is that in these privacy is optional. At the other extreme, in Monero, it is a feature of the network itself and extends to all its use in a mandatory way. So far there has been no news of sanctions from other platforms against the XMR coin, which indicates that it will continue as before, but with greater power. This work is for informational purposes only. 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Behaviour change to increase Open Science in researchers
‘Open Science’ refers to concepts of openness, transparency and reproducibility in research, seeking to make research more reproducible by other researchers and to open up research beyond the ‘ivory towers’ of academia. Open Science behaviours include pre-registering your research (specifying in advance the methods and analysis plan), making your data and code open and your published results available to all via Open Access. However, well-documented barriers exist to researchers adopting Open Science behaviours, such as novelty rather than replication being seen as more valued, a steep learning curve for some behaviours such as learning new open software and lack of incentives.
Evidence from behaviour change research has a key, untapped potential to assist in improving the adoption and maintenance of good Open Science practices (Norris & O’Connor, 2019). As a multidisciplinary field, behaviour change provides a plethora of theories and approaches across psychology, sociology and economics that have been applied to diverse behaviours across health, education, finance and beyond (Michie, West, Campbell, Brown, & Gainforth, 2014).
This PhD will use behaviour change theory and frameworks to develop and test interventions to increase Open Science behaviours. Methods used in this PhD could include use of qualitative or questionnaire methods to understand the barriers and facilitators to specific Open Science behaviours, as well as development and evaluation of interventions using frameworks such as the Behaviour Change Wheel. Applicants interested in pursuing this project would ideally have a passion and evidenced experience in Open Science, accompanied by a strong background in behaviour change, psychology or behavioural science more broadly, meta-research or evidence synthesis.
Munafò, M. R., Nosek, B. A., Bishop, D. V., Button, K. S., Chambers, C. D., Du Sert, N. P., ... & Ioannidis, J. P. (2017). A manifesto for reproducible science. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(1), 1-9.
Norris, E. & O’Connor, D. (2019). Science as behaviour: Using a behaviour change approach to increase uptake of Open Science. Psychology & Health.
How to apply
If you are interested in applying for the above PhD topic please follow the steps below:
- Contact the supervisor by email or phone to discuss your interest and find out if you woold be suitable. Supervisor details can be found on this topic page. The supervisor will guide you in developing the topic-specific research proposal, which will form part of your application.
- Click on the 'Apply here' button on this page and you will be taken to the relevant PhD course page, where you can apply using an online application.
- Complete the online application indicating your selected supervisor and include the research proposal for the topic you have selected.
This is a self funded topic
Brunel offers a number of funding options to research students that help cover the cost of their tuition fees, contribute to living expenses or both. See more information here: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Research-degrees/Research-degree-funding. The UK Government is also offering Doctoral Student Loans for eligible students, and there is some funding available through the Research Councils. Many of our international students benefit from funding provided by their governments or employers. Brunel alumni enjoy tuition fee discounts of 15%.
Meet the Supervisor(s)
- Dr Emma Norris is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health, within the Department of Health Sciences and Co-Chair of the Health Behaviour Change Research Group
Dr Norris is a researcher in behaviour change and health psychology, exploring evidence synthesis of behaviour change interventions, as well as development and assessment of physical activity, smoking cessation and digital interventions. Before joining Brunel, Dr Norris was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London working on the Human Behaviour-Change Project
: synthesising published literature on behaviour change using machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. Dr Norris' PhD tested Virtual Field Trips as physically active lesson interventions for primary-school children.
Dr Norris is also an advocate for Open Science. She established and Chairs Brunel's Open Research Working Group and is Brunel's UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Local Network Lead. She is also interested in designing behaviour change interventions to facilitate Open Science behaviours in researchers.
Dr Norris is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She is Co-Chair of the European Health Psychology Society’s Open Science Special Interest Group. Emma sits on the Editorial Board for BMC Public Health
& Cogent Psychology
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In fact, the original utilization of the title ‘robot’ in the Karel Capek’s 1920 enjoy R. ( Rossum’s Universal Spiders ) inside it the story of a robotic uprising resulting in person extinction. During the real life, of many reports records work at a whole a number of understood threats regarding robotic technology. Off concerns about spiders built to revolutionize the field of battle due to the fact independent destroying servers, to help you robots that may simply take man’s jobs and you will bring about unemployment, poverty and public collapse; such or any other worries daily profile how robots, fake cleverness or any other automation technologies are chatted about in news reports or any other media.
Into the somewhat equivalent an approach to crawlers, video games supply a photo problem, ‘new alleged dehumanizing potentials from “continuously” gaming, commonly mobilizing adjoining psychologic issues to habits and desensitization’ (Taylor & Elam 2018: 246). An element of the reason for these types of response to clips online game is the fact, as well as the scenario to possess spiders, people have a restricted understanding of the way they work, the kind of models, and you can whatever they might help people get to. Brand new breadth from feel and you may interactions you to games and you will crawlers make it is possible to commonly realized or talked about in public forums, beyond niche scholarship and you may e-books intent on video game or even analyses off individual–desktop otherwise individual–bot correspondence. Even one of users themselves, the new immense set of games is such one not one people can play them all. Consequently, most people question the role games (or at least the brand new games they won’t gamble) can also be or is control community, consequently they are discouraged because of the them.
Additionally, you to definitely game can also be portray a relationship of many hours, days otherwise weeks regarding gamble. If you’re online game-professionals might view this while the time well-spent, when you look at the tremendously go out-worst neighborhood, people paying tall go out to relax and play can regarded suspiciously. Just as specific crawlers, most frequently the individuals designed because the companions or amusement, are seen as the a complete waste of big date, gamers are questioned what they are finding as a consequence of their engagement having games. Time invested with machines having some thing apart from of course energetic aim, specifically for adults, can be regarded as wasteful because it detracts out of ventures to possess performs, public development and people bonding.
Men and women are and all the more motivated to think of how gaming might bring a plus at the office, because the ‘there are lots of delicate event one gamers can be make use of when you look at the a professional function, such as teamwork, problem solving and you may strategic planning’ (Gardner, cited into the Molloy 2019)
Coming to new defence out of robots or video games tend to involves making the case you to reaching her or him is beneficial within the a basic, financial experience. As an example, a financial Times blog post titled ‘An upswing of your spiders may help person workers’ argues you to cooperation ranging from human beings and crawlers increases commercial production, since the ‘automated systems is better to during the harmful, and you may repeated otherwise day-intensive work’, if you are ‘humans succeed to the abstract and creative tasks’, ergo ‘putting him or her together with her normally harness the many benefits of both’ (Feet 2019). To tackle video games became a possibly lucrative job for those which compete expertly and people who load on the web, and this is other trick rebuttal from the proven fact that video game was a waste of day (Dollinger 2018). Sooner even in the event, these types of talks just are designed to reinforce the theory you to definitely person– machine connections have to be economically active otherwise trigger real simple consequences in order to have value in this community. It’s our very own vow one to centering on play and you can playful interactions within paper can help to figure out most other important models of worth, if you find yourself disrupting the theory one peoples–machine correspondence should become financially effective and this tend to performs-associated. | <urn:uuid:a54f42cf-be5e-4ecb-9fdb-11587c707020> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://senaubaines.com/with-the-a-crawlers-bad-and-hazardous-spiders-such/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952444 | 908 | 2.078125 | 2 |
PEI is an initiative of the Alto Comissariado para as Migrações – https://www.acm.gov.pt/68 – through the Gabinete de Apoio ao Empreendedor Migrante – GAEM (GAEM targets migrants (e/immigrants) with a business idea to implement in Portugal, needing orientation and operational support to understand if the idea is viable as well as to structure and develop the idea. This office works in the Centros Nacionais de Apoio a Migrantes of Lisbon, Porto and Faro. For detailed information see: http://www.acm.gov.pt/-/gabinete-de-apoio-ao-empreendedor-migran-1?inheritRedirect=true) and has the purpose to encourage the entrepreneurship by communities of immigrants, especially those who live in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods, through the .
This measure is being developed in the country since 2009. For detailed information see: http://www.acm.gov.pt/-/programa-de-empreendedorismo-imigrante-pe-1?inheritRedirect=true. Its purposes are:
- Develop an enterprising attitude to life, promoting self-esteem and trust in yourself;
- Develop personal, social and business management skills, essential to the business creation;
- Promote the business creation in a sustained way;
- Facilitate the connection between the potential entrepreneur and the entrepreneurship support programs already existing and carried by several entities;
- Promote the execution of businesses already existing in the informal economy.
The main project activities and support are:
- Course «Supporting the Creation of Businesses», it lasts for 62 hours, during 10 weeks (10 group and 8 individual sessions). This allows in leading the attendee in structuring a business idea and in the development of the entrepreneurial skills. At the end of each course, two documents can be issued:
- Certificate of Attendance (CF) confirms the presence (total) at least in seven group sessions and in two individual sessions.
- Letter of Recommendation (CR) that focus on the maturity of the business idea. This document proves, in the trainer’s perspective, that the business project at issue gathers conditions to become a credible business, being its development recommended, in order to implement.
- Consulting – addressed to the participants whose business idea indicates to gather conditions to become a credible business, namely the attendants who received the Letter of Recommendation. This support has as goals: Restructure little aspects of the business idea (when that justifies); Identify financial supports or others; Support the business execution; Guide in the business management, in the meantime formalised.
- Consulting meetings are held after the course and are, generally, individual. Consulting meetings are promoted by the trainer and are held by request of the entrepreneur, having in account specific necessities.
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Authors: Shaun K. Morris, Shally Awasthi, Ajay Khera, Diego G. Bassani, Gagandeep Kang, Umesh D. Parashar, Rajesh Kumar, Anita Shet, Roger Glass, Prabhat Jha
To estimate the number of rotavirus-associated deaths among Indian children younger than five years.
We surveyed more than 23 000 child deaths from a nationally representative survey of 1.1 million Indian households during 2001-2003. Diarrhoeal deaths were characterized by region, age and sex and were combined with the proportion of deaths attributable to rotavirus, as determined by hospital microbiologic data collected by the Indian Rotavirus Strain Surveillance Network from December 2005 to November 2007. Rotavirus vaccine efficacy data from clinical trials in developing countries were used to estimate the number of deaths preventable by a national vaccination programme. Data were analysed using Stata SE version 10.
Rotavirus caused an estimated 113 000 deaths (99% confidence interval, CI: 86 000-155 000); 50% (54 700) and 75% (85 400) occurred before one and two years of age, respectively. One child in 242 died from rotavirus infection before five years of age. Rotavirus-associated mortality rates overall, among girls and among boys were 4.14 (99% CI: 3.14-5.68), 4.89 (99% CI: 3.75-6.79) and 3.45 (99% CI: 2.58-4.66) deaths per 1000 live births, respectively. Rates were highest in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, which together accounted for > 50% of deaths (64 400) nationally. Rotavirus vaccine could prevent 41 000-48 000 deaths among children aged 3-59 months.
The burden of rotavirus-associated mortality is high among Indian children, highlighting the potential benefits of rotavirus vaccination. More
Morris S, Awashti S, Khera A, Bassani D, Kang G, Parashar U et al. (2012) “Rotavirus mortality in India: estimates based on a nationally representative survey of diarrhoeal deaths” Bulletin of the World Health Organization 90:720-727. | <urn:uuid:8853ad96-e5ff-46ba-aab7-2a94a8e89042> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.dcp-3.org/resources/rotavirus-mortality-india-estimates-based-nationally-representative-survey-diarrhoeal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917082 | 491 | 2.75 | 3 |
Chanel Wewege was just like any other South African teenager. She lived in Port Elizabeth, in grade 11 and enjoyed spending time with her friends. Chanel came from a religious family and was close to her younger brothers and parents. She first began experiencing strange symptoms whilst on holiday but they became progressively worse over time. It started off with a bit of dizziness but quickly progressed to serious bleeding, bruising and unbearable back pain.
Her parents, sensing that something was seriously wrong with their daughter took Chanel to the hospital where, after extensive testing, it was realised that Chanel was suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). AML is a type of blood cancer that, without treatment, can quickly become fatal.
Chanel and her family barely had time to process the devastating news before she was rushed to Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to begin treatment.
Chanel spent an entire year at the hospital undergoing chemotherapy and continuous testing – a process that took an extreme toll on her body, whittling her down to a mere 35 to 40 kilograms. The treatment forced her to be isolated from others, as exposure to any germs could potentially overwhelm her severely strained immune system.
Another devastating consequence of her condition was losing her hair. Despite having being warned by her medical team, Chanel found this to be an incredibly hard reality to accept.
Constant fear of death
The psychological side of cancer is usually overlooked by outsiders. Living with a chronic illness is difficult at the best of times but when you are stuck in a hospital bed for a year, facing with the constant fear of death, it is almost impossible to stay strong.
During these dark times, mother stayed by her bedside constantly, acting as a pillar of strength and doing her very best to keep her daughter’s hope alive. Her father was tasked with looking after her two brothers back home in Port Elizabeth.
Leukaemia Unveiled delves deep into both the physical and psychological toll that cancer takes on not only the patient, but the entire family. Chanel’s family pulled together under the toughest of circumstances to overcome one child’s illness whilst trying to provide their other two kids with as normal a life as possible.
Chanel is now 28 years old and has been in remission since 2005. She still lives in Port Elizabeth, has worked as a make-up artist and even auditioned to become a Top Billing presenter in 2012. She is also the lead singer in a rock band called Shackles and Sherry.
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Retirement isn’t the start of the end. It’s the beginning of a new, exciting chapter of your life. Instead of slowing down, retirement could be the time for you to learn new things and experience a new way of life. Most of all, it is important to remain happy, healthy, and financially stable.
When it comes to retirement, the first thing many people do is create a bucket list of things they’ve always dreamt of doing but never had the chance. In this blog we look at some of the top ways to stay happy and healthy throughout retirement, as well as things you need to consider in terms of your finances.
1. Get your finances in order
Many people dream of using their retirement to finally experience the things they haven’t yet had a chance to. By getting your finances in order from the start, you will have a better idea of what life in retirement will look like.
Taking a look at your pension in the years before retirement will make getting your finances in order easier. With the right pension scheme, you’ll have an array of options once you hit 55, including releasing up to 25% of your pension tax-free. This could mean more financial flexibility as you start to plan for retirement. Taking money from your pension early isn’t right for everyone as it could leave you worse off in later years. So, before making a decision, it is a good idea to talk with an independent financial adviser such as Portafina.
It might also be beneficial to explore switching your pension to a better provider. Even if you only have a few years left until retirement, transferring your savings from an average pension to one with a great track record could boost your savings, making your goals more achievable.
2. Treat yourself
After decades of hard work, retirement can be an opportunity for some well-earned me time. Be it a city break or a treat, scheduling in some time to celebrate reaching this new stage in life can give you a mood boost. By first managing your finances and improving your retirement fund, you will know how much money you’ve got to live the life you want. The important thing is to make sure you are not spending too much at the start of retirement because that could mean leaving yourself with less to live on in later life.
3. Get involved in the community
Keeping your mind and body active is essential for remaining happy and healthy. Maybe there is a charity close to your heart, or a career that you always wondered about but never had the opportunity to experience. Volunteering is a great way to keep yourself active, remain social and do something good for the community. Try to find something that fits within your budget. If you are having to commute, for example, this may take funds away from your essential outgoings. Before taking on a new responsibility, remain mindful of the resources you have.
4. Travel more
One thing that finds its way onto many people’s bucket lists is travel: be it drinking wine in Italy, exploring the wonders of Australia, or experiencing a new culture. Whatever your dreams may be, with good financial planning you will know if they are in reach. The earlier you start planning, the more you can do to boost your finances to give you an extra bit of cash towards your goals. Our financial advisers here at Portafina can help you make the most of your pension while ensuring your choices are affordable.
If your finances are not going to stretch as far as you hoped, city breaks or even days out to places you’ve never been are great ways to experience something new without breaking the bank.
5. Get a new pet
Research shows that furry friends can have a positive impact on your health and wellbeing. But with them does come an added expense. Before making the decision to bring a new friend into your home, it is a good idea to look at your budget and make sure you can afford the added costs of care.
6. Take up a new project
Retiring means that you can get stuck in to all those things you’ve been meaning to do but never had the time. Some common fun projects are mapping out your family tree, redecorating your home, and learning a new skill. Whatever you decide, getting involved in new projects can keep you active and entertained, improving your health and happiness. Pay close attention to the additional costs that may crop up with the project you choose and make sure you can find place within your budget to account for this.
7. Take classes and pursue hobbies
Just like taking up a new project, taking classes and pursuing hobbies are also beneficial for your health and happiness. They help to keep your mind and body active while also being great ways to make the most of your time. Who knows, you might even pick up a valuable skill that could earn you a bit of extra income.
8. Stay within your budget
You may have noticed a recurring theme here – careful planning and budgeting. While this is essential for financial stability, it can also take away the stress of money management, leaving you to enjoy your retirement and removing the health issues that come hand in hand with stress. After all, your years of hard work have earned you a happy, stress-free retirement. It is important to plan ahead and make sure that your money will last you over the years. Current life expectancy figures mean that your pension, and any other sources of income, may need to last you up to 30 years. Remaining within your budget will allow you to enjoy your time while leaving you financially secure throughout the entirety of your retirement.
9. Be one with nature
While it may sound cheesy, being outside in nature is an instant mood boost and essential in maintaining your wellbeing. It also gives you the opportunity to spend quality time with your family, as well as freeing the mind. Spending time outside is a great way to easily slot in some exercise while having a nice day out.
10. Keep making 5-year plans
Circumstances are always changing, and things happen that are beyond our control. Planning for the next 20 years in one go is never going to work out the way we expect. Regularly reviewing your plan and adjusting it based on your circumstances is a great way to stay on top of your finances. You might even find that you’ve been doing great and been able to save more money than you expected, leaving you with that extra bit of cash to cross something else off your bucket list.
Plan your way to a great retirement
Retirement is an exciting time in life. It’s a chance for you to finally do the things you’ve always wanted to and enjoy some quiet time free from the stress of work. By implementing simple things in your day-to-day life that keep you happy, healthy, and financially stable, you will be able to enjoy life to its fullest.
However you choose to live your retirement, you pension will be a crucial part of your income. The more money you have, the more things you’ll be able to experience. Our regulated financial advisers are here to help you make the most of your savings, allowing you to cross things off your personal bucket lists and have the best possible retirement. They can also advise you on the best ways to make your money last so that you can continue enjoying your retirement for years to come.
1This is based on a pension of £50,000 at age 55, retiring at 65.
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As bandwidth demands continue to increase, the requirement for fibre-optic internet connections has risen up the regulatory agenda. Ofcom is now making obvious signals that it wants the issue investigated and the government is tackling the subject through the Caio Review.
At the centre of the debate is the Communications Management Association (CMA), which is representing businesses' IT interests through its regulatory forum leader, David Harrington.
A veteran of the telecoms industry, Harrington has seen vast changes in the regulatory scene, from the dismantling of BT's monopoly to the transformation of Oftel into Ofcom.
Speaking exclusively to ZDNet.co.uk, Harrington explained why providing a fibre-optic connection to every UK home and business is essential; how Ofcom is finally coming round to supporting the idea, having suffered a "lack of thought leadership"; and why European commissioner for information society and media Viviane Reding is simply "the greatest".
The need for fibre-based broadband access is one of the most hotly debated regulatory issues at the moment. Why do we need fibre to the home (FTTH)? Copper is pretty fast these days.
Copper provides at most 24Mbps — if you live in the exchange — and it's not symmetrical. Although services that require over 10Mbps are not yet here, they are coming. There is an ever-growing demand for higher and higher bandwidth. Viviane Reding said it's the most important topic in the telecoms world today. The challenge is where the investment comes from and how it's funded. How do we regulate when we can't apply yesterday's thinking?
Equipping the UK with nationwide fibre to the home would cost around £15bn. That's a lot of money, which few companies would be prepared to invest. Who would do it?
That's the issue. Openreach has the Ebbsfleet [fibre-to-the-home] contract. The most likely company is BT. No-one else has the reach. The thing is, BT won't [invest] at the moment because it has enough problems with 21CN [its £10bn backbone network upgrade]. The last thing they need is another £15bn [investment].
What about Virgin? It already has a network covering half of all homes.
Yes, but they are half way not there.
Where is the business model? It's dangerous to invest £15bn with uncertain returns.
Ed Richards [Ofcom's chief executive] said a couple of weeks ago that it could be that telecoms is one of those areas where "build it and they will come" [as a model] might work. That is a sea change in Ofcom's thinking.
It's interesting that you mention Ofcom. The regulator issued a consultation document on fibre access late last year. The CMA responded quite critically at the time.
It was a terrible document. It completely lacked thought leadership. From an economist's point of view, it was probably just, but that's all I could say of it. But Ed Richards' speech was far more upbeat: "We are going to do something about this."
But £15bn is a lot of money to invest.
Well, £15bn is the cost of Crossrail and, arguably, the cost of the 2012 Olympics. If you put a similar amount into fibre, think of the longer-lasting impact, compared to the other two projects.
The other two projects are backed by taxpayers' money. Should the government help pay for FTTH?
It has national benefits, so it needs a national investment. Why should we entrust it to a private company and go hands-off at the government level? There is a case for using government money.
Do you think taxpayers will find it acceptable?
So, if it is too expensive and the returns are too uncertain for a private company to invest, and it's unpalatable for the taxpayer, how could it happen?
I would be a rich man if I had an answer. That's the whole point of what Francesco Caio is doing: how to find an answer to this conundrum [Caio, former chief executive of Cable & Wireless, is investigating the barriers to next-generation networks on behalf of the government]. My best guess is that we will see islands of fibre. Look at Amsterdam, where the council has entered into a joint venture with private money [to roll out fibre in the city]. If we had the same here, we could have islands of fibre in cities, then run it out into some of the communities. It seems a logical explanation of what is likely to happen. Some could be operated by different operators. It could be allowed [by regulators] as long as there is open access [for competitors to sell services using the infrastructure].
Do you have a preference for the type of architecture used? Openreach's Ebbsfleet deployment uses a PON-based approach (passive optical networking), but it could be done using point-to-point.
Because point-to-point has an electrical component at the switch, it is more amenable to [sharing the network with] other providers. There is some concern, based on present knowledge of Ebbsfleet, that other service providers might not be able to...
...deploy services to their customers because of the technology used. Point-to-point does have virtually unlimited bandwidth, although it's 30 percent more expensive than PON.
There has been much debate over the universal service obligation (USO), which obliges BT to provide telephony services to any UK resident who wants them. Some people argue that the USO should be extended to include broadband. Should it include broadband, in your opinion?
At some point, yes. But it comes to the issue of: "Who?". If it goes to BT, you're enforcing a monopoly. My personal view is there should be a universal fund for anyone that wants to deploy the infrastructure.
How would a universal fund work?
All players in the industry would contribute to it. That fund could be allocated by the government according to their rules. It could be auctioned off by geographic severage.
It might be difficult to split the USO between multiple carriers though.
Don't forget that we already have the case of Hull, where the USO is carried by Kingston, not BT.
When would you want this extension to the USO to be in place?
The sooner we start, the better. If we wanted a broadband infrastructure by 2012, we should have started last year.
You hinted earlier that there are problems with BT's own network, 21CN. Are you satisfied with progress?
No. Nobody is. It's delayed by 18 months to two years. I understand there are technical difficulties. I understand [BT's chief executive] Ben Verwaayen was told that it wouldn't be done before 2014. But he said it must be done by 2011, in time for the Olympics. So huge pressure was put on the technical staff, against their advice.
So you think BT's [already delayed] completion deadline of 2011 will slip?
Almost definitely. It's a hugely expensive programme that's almost two years out-of-date. There is bound to be some impact on the end date. Whether BT can recover lost time — I wouldn't put my shirt on it.
The CMA's chief executive, Glenn Powell, told me a couple of years ago that BT was poor at communicating its plans for 21CN, meaning businesses were being kept in the dark on how they would be affected. Has that situation changed?
That was so 18 to 24 months ago, but not now. They need to talk to us so enterprises can plan ahead and put money in their own budgets.
Do you think 21CN will deliver the benefits BT promised?
I think so. They [will] have an end-to-end IP network. It's bound to encourage the development of IP-based applications. And it will have carrier-grade quality of service (QoS), which is important.
One of the more important regulatory events this decade was the functional separation of BT, which created Openreach. While the theory behind Openreach was largely welcomed, carriers argued vehemently for a long time afterwards. Are you satisfied with Openreach?
It's a darn sight better than anything we had before, but it's not perfect. The imposition of SLAs and SLGs [service-level agreements and service-level guarantees] by Ofcom will help. That has been too long coming. That is just an example of how they're improving. From our point of view, functional separation has been a huge success. The EU has now embraced the concept. One of the arguments against it is: it inhibits investments. But it hasn't inhibited investment here.
Do you think we finally have equivalence of treatment between service providers?
Equivalence now is 100 percent or 1,000 percent better than anything we had before [Ofcom's] strategic review. If you'd talked to BT's competition, they would have given you a yard-long list of things not done. If you were to ask now, the list would only have a dozen things on it.
Ofcom celebrates its fifth birthday this year. Would you say it has been a success story?
Undoubtedly. For sure.
What about its latest chief executive, Ed Richards?
Ed Richards has got his own agenda. He comes from the entertainment sector, rather than the telecoms sector. One sometimes wonders if there are enough senior posts in Ofcom filled by people from telecoms, rather than the media.
Isn't that just a result of Ofcom covering five disciplines? Telecoms is only one.
The question is: is the balance right? Stephen Carter was the last visible telecoms guy. That's not a criticism, just a comment on the way things are going. Ofcom has been a damn sight better than Oftel ever was.
There have been proposals made by the European Commission for one single super-regulator for Europe. Would you be supportive of a super-regulator?
I think it's absolutely essential. A new regulator at the centre will have more teeth. We cannot go on as we are. Effectively there is no single market in telecoms and that means that European enterprises are disadvantaged in the global market. ABN Amro told the Gartner summit in April that they would save huge amounts of money if there was a single market. One Italian car manufacturer has said it has 872 contracts to support its pan-EU telecoms needs. That's ridiculous.
Do you think the regulatory set-up is equal across European countries?
Some countries are good; some countries are not. Some regulators are not independent of the state, like Poland, for example. Some countries' governments have control of the incumbent [telco]. Some have inadequate competition rules or don't impose equal-access obligations.
Is everyone supportive of the need for a European super-regulator?
Incumbents have said: "You can't do this". Most national regulatory authorities, including Ofcom, see this as a threat to their autonomy and oppose any extension of centralised authority.
How would such an organisation be created?
There is a huge debate over what form it would take. The solution is very likely to be a development of the existing European Regulators Group, although it's by no means clear just how it will be funded and how independent it will be from political interference.
One of the other big European issues is roaming. Call costs have fallen dramatically, following the demands of Viviane Reding. As a representative body for business telecoms users, you must be pleased with this.
It's great; absolutely terrific. It took us nine years of badgering.
Presumably you are supportive of Reding?
She is the greatest. This really chimes with what the CMA are doing.
Do you think data roaming prices need to fall?
Unless prices come down by July, [Reding] will legislate, and she means it. These stories of £10,000 bills are crazy. Even national downloads are crazy at the moment. | <urn:uuid:cd659a0e-05ad-4bc8-b3dd-c3d9866d92f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/finding-a-funder-for-fibre-to-the-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974779 | 2,513 | 2.015625 | 2 |
How to Become a Trademark Agent in India
A trademark agent or an attorney is a person who gives advice and deals which all the legal aspects of filing a trademark application to the grant of the application, opposition cases etc.
To become a trademark agent in India it is necessary to clear the preliminary exam which is the trademark agent examination which will take place once in a year.
The person is eligible to apply for the examination under the Trademark Act 1999, if he has completed 21 years and should be a graduate in any university in India or any other equal qualification or should hold a degree in law.
The Application to trademark agent examination should be made in Form TMA-1 given in Schedule II of trademark Rules 2002. The application should be submitted in triplet with a prescribed fee of Rs 1,000 to the trademark office. The candidates who are eligible to write the exam will be called for a written exam and a viva voce. The written exam will be for 150 marks whereas the viva voce will be for 50 marks. The exam will deal with the Trademark Laws and Practice from the Trademark Act and Rules.
The person who has cleared the examination will become a trademark Attorney in India. In India, trademark agent can help the clients in registering a company’s logo, name or an individual’s logo or name for their product and they have the right to deal with the clients regarding any cases related to their products. | <urn:uuid:f3e51da5-a616-4fb8-b929-ac1e68f8a4a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawprojects.net/trademarks/how-to-become-a-trademark-agent-in-india.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930369 | 296 | 1.601563 | 2 |
For most parents back to school is emotional, exciting and relieving! For students, it could translate to a mixed bag of emotions: joy, fear, anxiety, and routine. But overall it means an end to the oh-so-long summer holidays.
The education scenario has witnessed a progressive change, and the advances in technology have demonstrated their value in everyday learning. Digital technologies are now deeply rooted in everyday learning, and they transformed education a few years ago. Robotics and artificial take advancement to the next level. Robots are now paving new avenues for pedagogy and are improving the quality of education received.
One of the challenges in the education field is the case of homebound children. These students are unable to attend school regularly due to a variety of reasons like long-term illnesses or disabilities or students with behavioral issues. Over more than 6.5 million students in the US are said to miss considerable amounts of school time (Source: a study by Elizabeth Cha, Samantha Chen, and Maja J Mataric). The current solutions offered to this problem often do not take into account the absence of social connection with peers.
This is where telepresence robots step in. These robots help students stay on track with their education and help them feel an integral part of the education system and their peers. They assist in real-time learning, allows them to participate in the classroom as if they were physically there.
At OhmniLabs we are working with MissingSchool, an organization in Australia dedicated to bringing education and school to children in hospitals or long-term care. In 2010, Darcy, who was suffering from three rare blood disorders, used the Ohmni robot to continue with his education and keep in contact with his classmates. It assisted him in keeping on track with his class, interacting with his classmates and eased his transition into normality.
The presence of robots in schools is a novel idea and is faced with challenges of its own. Each student is different and has different requirements. Our primary aim at OhmniLabs is to understand the challenges faced by students in difficulty and to make their education goals met with effective cognitive and social development. And to make education accessible to all. | <urn:uuid:02e73acd-687e-47d1-8895-d58bb146abed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ohmnilabs.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034173974-MissingSchool-Shares-How-Students-Get-Back-To-School-With-Ohmni-Robots | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977745 | 462 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Talavera, L., Costas, S., & Ferreira, Ó. (2022). A new index to assess the state of dune vegetation derived from true colour images. Ecological Indicators, 137, 108770
Talavera, L., Costas, S., & Ferreira, Ó.
Vegetation on coastal dunes is a key element, as it promotes the growth and stabilization of these landforms while contributing significantly to biodiversity. Physical (e.g. impact of storms), ecological (e.g. animal grazing) and human-related (e.g. farming and recreation) factors may disturb coastal dune vegetation, changing dune dynamics and eventually inducing ecogeomorphic state shifts. Therefore, understanding vegetation dynamics and state turns crucial to predict dune evolution paths. The latter must be supported by observations combined with the development of tools (e.g. indexes) able to detect eventual changes and to automatically categorize the state of the vegetation. Here, a multi-step index to characterise the dune vegetation state (DUVES) was developed and tested in Barreta Island (South Portugal), where grey dune vegetation has declined in recent years. The index was computed using classified true colour orthophotos and orthomosaics derived from UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) surveys. Google Earth images were used as complementary data to analyse the evolution trends. The possible sources of disturbance (i.e. human-related activities and gull occupation) were also investigated by comparing their distribution with the vegetation changes. DUVES successfully identified different states of vegetation cover that expressed its stability, perturbation or growth based on temporal changes and allowed the analysis of their evolutionary trends. The distribution of perturbation was mostly associated with gull nesting areas, increasing over time, and to a less extent to human-related activities. The observed grey dune habitat loss was due to replacement of plants typical from this habitat by ruderal species promoted by the positive feedback established between gulls and vegetation. The developed index proved to be of great utility to define dune habitat evolution and understand the associated drivers, being a tool with a wide range of applications, namely for improving future coastal management actions aimed at conserving dune habitats. Moreover, DUVES is potentially transferable due to its easy adaptability depending on the particularities of each study site or goal. | <urn:uuid:241abf81-7a70-4a10-900b-8f48be087494> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cima.ualg.pt/en/publications-in-internationals-jornals/talavera-l-costas-s-ferreira-o-2022-a-new-index-to-assess-the-state-of-dune-vegetation-derived-from-true-colour-images-ecological-indicators-137-108770 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934892 | 492 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Focusing on Safe Foods Instead of Triggers
"Make sure you avoid stimulants like caffeine, alcohol, unnatural sugars, cruciferous vegetables, anything with a peel, bubbly drinks, dairy in all forms, and more," I was told when I was first diagnosed. Much of this advice came from others with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's. As opposed to from my doctor, who told me to experiment and discover what worked well for me. I did not take his advice, though. Because I was so afraid of worsening my symptoms, I cut out tons of foods until I went into my first remission.
Food triggers are scary
When I was finally able to reintroduce foods like cheese and brownies and cold, crunchy salads, I was in bliss, and I realized how much I had stolen from myself in the process of worrying about everything as a trigger. Not only did I miss out on the tastes and textures I love for months, but I also eliminated a lot of the joy I found in experimenting in the kitchen.
This isn't to say that I don't have triggers. I actually do avoid caffeine and alcohol, in particular, as well as seeds. When I'm really sick, lots of things bother me, from raw vegetables to tomato sauce. Still, when I found myself in a new flare a few years later, I decided to change my outlook on eating. Instead of focusing on cutting out trigger foods, I tried to embrace my safe foods.
I made a list of foods that I can eat and that I enjoy. Pasta made that list, as did white and sourdough breads. I learned that I do well with mushrooms — even if many of my friends with UC don't — and that I can actually still eat pizza. I could have vegetables and fruits in blended form or soup form. Even though my list was limited, I appreciated focusing on what I could include rather than what I needed to let go of.
Embracing my "safe foods" for ulcerative colitis
I looked up recipes that included my safe foods, from pasta bakes to homemade baba ganoush to a million variations on tacos. Part of the allure of all this was taking what I knew I could eat and riffing on those ingredients. Though I had limitations, I was still changing up my daily meals, browsing food blogs, and sending pictures of my new creations to my friends and family. In a way, I felt normal, even though I was still running to the bathroom and seeing blood in the toilet.
On the days that I didn't have the energy to cook, I even found my safe foods on restaurant menus and ordered food to-go. Of course, pizza was high on my list, but I found that Thai noodle dishes were good as long as they weren't too spicy. Fresh Mediterranean food worked too, as long as I stayed away from raw vegetables.
Getting creative with my safe foods
This strategy to focus on what I could have imbued me with a sense of gratefulness. I was able to see that even in a terrible period of my life, food could be joy and connection, not an enemy. Even in my dark times, I could enjoy the beauty of tastes and smells, the excitement of something brewing in my kitchen.
As I got closer to remission, I added in even more foods, slowly expanding my list of safe foods, my palate, and my experimentation. I'll never forget that first list though, the one that seemed small, but actually sustained me for months – a bright spot as I healed. | <urn:uuid:00765e94-82dd-48b3-ad73-cc6b02040822> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inflammatoryboweldisease.net/living/safe-foods-versus-triggers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.989289 | 737 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Registration opens January 2021!
This is a course designed to help prepare beginning coaches to support programs at the club level. a basic understanding of the sport is required, but not racing experience is necessary.
Friday, February 26
ACA Long Term Athlete Development, Introducing Canoeing & Kayaking, Equipment Introduction, Safety & Rescue, Technique of Canoeing & Kayaking
Saturday, February 27
Practical Experience working w/ Cascade athletes, Equipment Practical, Technique of Kayaking, Technique of Canoeing, Physiology, Conditioning, Strength, Evening Meal/Function
Sunday, February 28
Basic Training Methods, The Role of a Coach, Introduction to Racing, Test and Certificate Presentation
Pictured: 1988 K2 1000m Olympic Champions, Greg Barton & Norman Bellingham USA
The ACA, with the support of the ICF, provides a Coach Education Program to help local club coaches become better equipped to provide their athletes the opportunity to be successful at the level of racing they choose to pursue.
In he next section find the course presentations
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As preparation for our January trip to Peru, our class has been visiting a large property a few miles off campus owned by McDaniel College. Below, Casey, Elizabeth, Ian, and Becca share what they found.
“The acquisition of the Charles S. Singleton farm in 1988 [by McDaniel College] makes possible the fulfillment of a desire by Dr. Singleton and Marthiel Mathews as well as being a challenge to a college community–a challenge to move toward a new venture in which success can be measured in some very unusual instructional and agricultural terms.”
[George A. Grier]
If you are reading this post, you most likely belong to one of two groups:
Group A: The group of people who already know about Singleton-Mathews farm and are currently thinking something along the lines of: “Wow, those are some inspirational words, Mr. Grier! And what a challenge it is!”
Group B: The somewhat larger group of people who know little to nothing about Singleton-Mathews farm. In which case, you may be thinking something like: “What? McDaniel has a farm?? I’ve been here for (insert number of years that you’ve been here) years and I didn’t know that McDaniel was in possession of an entire farm?”
To those in the second group: don’t panic! We, the Forest Online class, are here to clear up any confusion. If you haven’t already read the blog posts from other groups about the history and the natural history of the space, you can check them out here and here, respectively. In this post, you’ll be learning all about the future of the farm (So if you belong to the group with some prior knowledge– don’t leave just yet! There will still be some great information in here for you.)! | <urn:uuid:2fa717a7-f67d-473e-a21a-cb5692ac2974> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theforestonline.com/tag/retreat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952638 | 398 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Yes, triggering thoughts and feeling emotional can feel very vulnerable! Breathe through it. You are not your emotion, it can be important to observe our emotions and acknowledge they exists. Try to experience your emotions like wave, coming and going. Notice how the water is calm, you begin to see the wave building (that is the emotion/feeling). What happens after the wave passes? (Water is still and calm). Recognize that the emotion will pass, it won’t last forever. You may find it helpful to concentrate on some part of the emotion, like how your body is feeling, or what the emotion looks like. Don't try to push the emotion away - This makes the emotion stronger, and increases our suffering.
Emotions are neither “good or bad”; it’s just there. Remember, we label our experiences as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Anger, fear, sadness are all painful emotions, but they are not bad. We all experience these feelings.
Here is a strategy that can help us create distance between our thoughts/feelings and our personalities. Remember - You are not your feeling. Your emotion is part of you, and it does not define you
Practice creating distance by saying “I am having the Feeling _____” or “I am having the thought____” versus “I am angry” “I will fail”.
It can be helpful to first learn about what worry/anxiety is, when it comes up, and to be more aware of the 'worry process'. These thoughts can get in the way of what we want, and can impact our confidence, self-esteem, and overall well-being. Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives us something to do, but does not get us anywhere (fun, but also realistic quote!). Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are SO connected. When we experience a particular thought, it can trigger a feeling and lead to a behavior.For example: thought (I can't do this/I'm not good enough) leads to feeling (anxious, sad, depressed) which leads to behavior (isolate, withdraw). The reason I share this, is because when we shift the way we think, it will shift the way we feel and behave. Which gives us more control of our emotions.For example: thought (it is going to be okay) leads to feeling (calm, relaxed) leads to behavior (engaged, motivated).It is important to stay grounded in our thought patterns. Often times, "worry" is about the past or the future, and with that - we completely miss the present moment. And this impacts our emotional control!
- it may be helpful to reflect on what exactly feels triggering in those moments. Is it the core beliefs of 'not being good enough' or irrational thoughts of 'what could happen' (things that actually have not happened, worst case scenario) Some thoughts like predicting or assuming what is going to happen - these are known as 'fortune telling' basically assuming the outcome of the future…without evidence, this is actually not happened AND it takes you away from enjoying the present moment. I'll share some more worksheets on these particular thought patterns (core beliefs and cognitive distortions) which will help you gain more awareness into what is triggering some of the feelings you experience.
Even this thought of "not good enough" is another judgment or opinion we might have of ourselves which adds to feeling upset, bothered, or insecure. We can challenge this thought by reflecting on 'what is good enough'. Make expectations of yourself more realistic, you are Human, you are allowed to make mistakes and there is no such thing as perfect.
Cognitive distortions are irrational thoughts that we can get stuck in. They are common, yet unhelpful
Cognitive distortions are simply ways that our mind convinces us of something that isn’t really true. These inaccurate thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions — telling ourselves things that sound rational and accurate, but really only serve to keep us feeling bad about ourselves
· You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.
· You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
· You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.
DISQUALIFYING THE POSITIVE
· You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.
JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS
· You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusions.
Mind Reading. You arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting negatively to you, and you don't bother to check this out.
The Fortune Teller Error. You anticipate that things will turn out badly, and you feel convinced that your prediction is an already established fact.
MAGNIFICATION OR MINIMIZATION
· You exaggerate the importance of things (such as your goof-up or someone else's achievement). Or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny (your own desirable qualities or the other fellow's imperfections).
· This is also called the "binocular trick."
· You assume that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: "I feel it, therefore it must be true."
· You try to motivate yourself with shoulds and shouldn'ts, as if you had to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything. "Musts" and "oughts" are also offenders.
· The emotional consequence is guilt. When you direct should statements toward others, you feel anger, frustration, and resentment.
LABELING AND MISLABELING
· This is an extreme form of over-generalization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself: "I'm a loser." When someone else's behavior rubs you the wrong way, you attach a negative label to them: "they are annoying."
· Mislabeling involves describing an event with language that is highly colored and emotionally loaded.
· You see yourself as the cause of some negative event which in fact you were not primarily responsible for.
Core beliefs are the very essence of how we see ourselves, other people, the world, and the future. Sometimes, these core beliefs become 'activated' in certain situations. This is where the automatic thoughts/cognitive distortions can stem from
Just because we have thoughts does not mean they are 100% true. We can work towards challenging the self-talk into something more healthier and rational. We can challenge the thoughts by asking ourselves questions…
· What negative thought about a situation/incident/experience am I having?
· How is having this thought helping me?
· How is having this thought hurting me?
· What evidence/facts support my thought? Is there evidence contrary to or against my thought?
· Am I interpreting/judging/labeling the situation or experience without examining all of the evidence?
· How would a friend think about this situation? What would a friend say?
· How can I think about the situation/incident in a positive way?
· What else can I tell myself in this moment?
· Will this situation or experience matter six months from now? How about one year from now? Five years?
Cognitive Therapy Techniques/Skills to Change Your Thoughts
Identify Distortions in automatic thoughts.
Examine the Evidence - Instead of assuming that your negative thought is true, examine the actual evidence for it.
For example, is it true that I never do anything right? What are some things I do well? What are the things I'm not so good at?
The Double-Standard Method - Ask yourself, "Would I say this to a close friend who was very much like me and had a similar problem?" "What would I say to a friend?" Practice saying that to yourself.
The Experimental Technique - When you have a negative thought, ask yourself if there is a way you could test it to find out if it is really true.
Thinking in Shades of Gray - (useful for all-or-nothing thinking) Remind yourself that things are usually somewhere between 0 and 100 percent.
Instead of insisting "I am perfect and never make a mistake" or "I am a horrible person, I messed up/I'm giving up…."
acknowledge a mistake, forgive yourself, and move forward with your life
The Survey Method - Ask yourself "Would other people agree that the thought is valid?"
Or ask people in your life you trust questions to find out if your thoughts and attitudes are realistic.
Define terms - (useful if you are labeling yourself). Instead of putting yourself down as "a failure" or "a loser" or "a fool." Ask yourself:
What does failure mean? What is a loser? What is a fool?
The Semantic Method - (useful for "should statements"). Substitute a phrase like "it would be nice" or "it would be preferable" in place of "I should."
This may help you look at the thoughts without having expectations, and decrease times of being too self-critical.
Re-attribution - (useful for personalization). Ask yourself what other factors may have contributed to this problem.
Focus on solving the problem one step at a time, instead of using up energy towards feeling guilty or blaming yourself.
Cost-Benefit analysis. Ask yourself, "How will having this thought/belief help me, and how will it hurt me?"
You can also use this question on negative behavior patterns (i.e. lying in bed, spending too much time on social media) or self-defeating beliefs like "I must always try to be perfect."
Each of us has a set of messages that play over and over in our minds. This internal dialogue, or personal commentary, frames our reactions to life and its circumstances. One of the ways to recognize, promote, and sustain optimism, hope, and joy is to intentionally fill our thoughts with positive self-talk.
Too often, the pattern of self-talk we’ve developed is negative. We remember the negative things we were told as children by our parents, siblings, or teachers. We remember the negative reactions from other children that diminished how we felt about ourselves. Throughout the years, these messages have played over and over in our minds, fueling our feelings of anger, fear, guilt, and hopelessness.
That voice inside your head has a huge impact on who you are and how you live your life. You may not think so, but with practice you can change your self-talk. Why wouldn’t anyone want to develop a habit of positive self-talk? It uplifts you; it helps increase your confidence, it enables you to attract what your heart desires, it allows you to adopt a healthier lifestyle and it helps reduce stress.
Try the following exercise. Write down some of the negative messages inside your mind that undermine your ability to be the best version of yourself. Be specific, whenever possible, and include anyone you remember who contributed to that message.
Now, take a moment to intentionally counteract those negative messages with positive truths in your life. Don’t give up if you don’t find them quickly. For every negative message there is a positive truth that will override the weight of despair. These truths always exist; keep looking until you find them.
You may have a negative message that replays in your head every time you make a mistake. As a child you have been told, “You’ll never amount to anything” or “You can’t do anything right.” When you make a mistake—and you will because we all do, and we are allowed to make mistakes, we are Human—you can choose to overwrite that message with a positive one, such as “I choose to accept and grow from my mistake” or “As I learn from my mistakes, I am becoming a better person.” During this exercise, mistakes become opportunities to replace negative views of who you are with positive options for personal enhancement.
Positive self-talk is not self-deception. It is not mentally looking at circumstances with eyes that see only what you want to see. Rather, positive self-talk is about recognizing the truth, in situations and in yourself. One of the fundamental truths is that you will make mistakes. To expect perfection in yourself or anyone else is unrealistic. To expect no difficulties in life, whether through your own actions or sheer circumstances, is also unrealistic.
However, it can easily slip your mind to regularly practice positive self-talk if you don’t make it a habit. And yes, it might sound and feel ridiculous at first, but if you keep going with your positive self-talk it will become natural to you. To help you stay on track, you may like to put some post-it notes wherever you'll see them: on the bathroom mirror, on your computer screen, inside of your wallet, in your car — wherever works for you. It’s important to constantly remind yourself to speak kindly to yourself until it becomes a habit.
Bring your awareness to your self-talk when you wake up, when you’re driving to work, waiting to be served at a restaurant, exercising, or lying down; use it every day, in all situations.
When negative events or mistakes happen, positive self-talk seeks to bring the positive out of the negative to help you do better, go further, or just keep moving forward. The practice of positive self-talk is often the process that allows you to discover the obscured optimism, hope, and joy in any given situation. Your self-talk creates your reality.
Some examples of messages you can remind yourself of:
· I am capable.
· I know who I am and I am enough.
· I choose to be present in all that I do.
· I choose to think thoughts that serve me well.
· I choose to reach for a better feeling.
· I share my happiness with those around me.
· My body is my vehicle in life; I choose to fill it with goodness.
· I feel energetic and alive.
· My life is unfolding beautifully.
· I am confident.
· I always observe before reacting.
· I know with time and effort I can achieve.
· I love challenges and what I learn from overcoming them.
· Each step is taking me to where I want to be.
Notice Your Patterns
The first step toward change is to become more aware of the problem. You probably don’t realize how often you say negative things in your head, or how much it affects your experience. The following strategies can help you become more conscious of your internal dialogue and its content.
· Journal Writing: Whether you carry a journal around with you and jot down negative comments when you think them, write a general summary of your thoughts at the end of the day, or just start writing about your feelings on a certain topic and later go back to analyze it for content, journaling can be an effective tool for examining your inner process.
· Thought-Stopping: As you notice yourself saying something negative in your mind, you can stop your thought mid-stream my saying to yourself “Stop”. Saying this aloud will be more powerful, and having to say it aloud will make you more aware of how many times you are stopping negative thoughts, and where.
· Rubber-Band Snap: Another therapeutic trick is to walk around with a rubber band around your wrist; as you notice negative self-talk, pull the band away from your skin and let it snap back. It’ll hurt a little, and serve as a slightly negative consequence that will both make you more aware of your thoughts and help to stop them! (Or, if you don’t want to subject yourself to walking around with a rubber band on your wrist, you’ll be even more careful to limit the negative thoughts!)
Replace Negative Statements
A good way to stop a bad habit is to replace it with something better.
Once you’re aware of your internal dialogue, here are some ways to change it:
· Milder Wording: Have you ever been to a hospital and noticed how the nurses talk about ‘discomfort’ instead of ‘pain’? This is generally done because ‘pain’ is a much more powerful word, and discussing your ‘pain’ level can actually make your experience of it more intense than if you’re discussing your ‘discomfort’ level. You can try this strategy in your daily life. In your self-talk, turning more powerful negative words to more neutral ones can actually help neutralize your experience. Instead of using words like ‘hate’ and ‘angry’ (as in, “I hate traffic! It makes me so angry!”), you can use words like ‘don’t like’ and ‘annoyed’ (“I don’t like traffic; it makes me annoyed,” sounds much milder, doesn’t it?)
· Change Negative to Neutral or Positive: As you find yourself mentally complaining about something, rethink your assumptions. Are you assuming something is a negative event when it isn’t, necessarily? (For example, having your plans canceled at the last minute can be seen as a negative, but what you do with your newly-freed schedule can be what you make of it.) The next time you find yourself stressing about something or deciding you’re not up to a challenge, stop and rethink, and see if you can come up with a neutral or positive replacement.
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A year after doling out $32 million in funds for new programs at local schools, Chicago Public Schools is about to open the application process for round two.
This time, officials say, they’ll make it easier for principals to apply for the funds, meant to make neighborhood schools more attractive and program offerings more equitable across the city. They’ll also evaluate applications more on their own merit and less in the context of other nearby schools. And they’ll tell schools that don’t win new programs why.
“We are taking a much more nuanced approach this year,” Sam Mathias, who works in the district’s Office of Innovation and Incubation, said at an informational meeting Monday evening for educators and school community members interested in funding for 2020.
The city introduced the competitive program funding process last year in an effort to stem the tide of declining enrollment citywide. Then, 108 schools sent letters of intent to apply, and 58 were invited to submit full proposals. Ultimately, 32 schools were awarded funding to be used over a six-year period for new language, gifted, International Baccalaureate, personalized learning, STEM, and arts programs.
But critics questioned how the applicants were whittled down, and on Monday, some said the district’s method of judging schools left deserving schools without. The district evaluated applications using the Annual Regional Analysis, a report it commissioned that split the district into 16 regions to compare access to top-rated schools and sought-after programs.
The district then heavily weighed those geographical boundaries when deciding where to award the program funding.
In Rogers Park, where Monday’s meeting took place, none of the six neighborhood elementary schools have the sought-after programs, noted Betsy Vandercrook, who sits on the Local School Council of Kilmer Elementary.
“But if you combine us with Edgewater and other neighborhoods in the region, it seems like our region looks really good,” Vandercrook said.
Sullivan High School, the school that hosted Monday, applied for the funds last year but was turned down. Nearby in Edgewater, Senn High School was among the 32 awardees, providing the means to expand its IB programming.
“It’s not fair to our kids,” said Esther Mosak, a Sullivan LSC community representative. “What this model has done is given schools that already had programming more programming, and schools that didn’t have any got nothing.”
Mathias said this year’s decision making would be more focused on neighborhoods than on broader regions of the city. He also said decisions would be more “holistic,” taking into account not just the regional analysis but also socioeconomic data, staffing, and what programs schools already have.
It has also streamlined the application process, narrowing it down to three questions, a letter of support from the school council, and a form of approval from the network chief.
The district will host three workshops to help principals complete what used to be an “onerous” and lengthy process, in the hopes of making it easier for overworked principals to apply, Mathias said. Also new this year, schools can only apply for one program.
Even for schools who don’t receive program funding, the district’s central office will provide a clear explanation for why they didn’t make the cut, along with suggested areas of improvement and support for professional development so they can “start to tailor their school to be more in line with what the program intended,” Mathias said.
Letters of intent are due Dec. 3, giving the district time to advance the process before winter break. Final applications are due Feb. 7, with site visits and evaluations to take place before the funds are awarded in April. More information can be found on the district website.
No matter how the process changes, some school communities are likely to feel left out when the winning applications are announced next spring. Mathias took a question from one audience member who pressed him on whether the district would award funds to a school for an International Baccalaureate program if a nearby school got an IB program through last year’s competition.
“We do look at this more globally than I think a school does, to be frank,” Mathias said. “If there’s an IB school next to yours and another area of the city without an IB, that school is more likely to get it than you.”
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The Celeste apple tree is highly valued by gardeners for its productivity and ease of maintenance, and its juicy fruits - for its taste, long shelf life and attractive appearance. The hybrid was bred in Germany, and combines the qualities of the best dessert fruits, being an improved clone of the famous Delkorf apples. Why are Celeste fruits good, and what are their features? Everything in order.
The appearance of the tree
Apple trees of Celeste visually do not have special features that distinguish them from other apple trees. The dull leaves are slightly curved and the branches are covered with greenish bark. The tree is medium-sized and reaches 3-4 meters in height. However, growth slows down when the fruit first appears. Flowering occurs in the first half of May. Beige buds turn into pinkish-white saucer-shaped flowers.
What the fruits look like
Apples of the Celesta variety have a decent marketable appearance and are distinguished by taste properties that allow the fruit to be considered dessert. Fragrant, sweet, crunchy flesh melts in the mouth, and a slight sourness is a distinctive feature of the variety.
The fruits have a regular rounded or slightly elongated shape. The main color is yellowish green. On the sides, and less often on the entire surface of the glossy rind, pale vertical stripes of red shades are noticeable. Celeste apples are large and can weigh up to 200 grams.
Fruiting begins quickly. The primary crop can be taken in the third year of life, but there have been situations when Celeste bore fruit just a year after planting. Apples ripen alternately, therefore, they require manual picking, to which the variety is successfully adapted. The fruits are highly transportable and rarely break even if dropped.
The first stage of the collection falls on the second half of August. Celeste is particularly stable and produces a high-quality harvest every year. With proper planting and regular care, up to 110 kilograms of juicy and strong fruits are harvested from one tree.
Since the cultivar, called Celeste, was bred by crossing, it is genetically resistant to a wide variety of diseases. These include powdery mildew, scab, black cancer and some types of viruses.
However, it should be borne in mind that an apple variety considered resistant to a certain type of disease, after several years, can become infected with it. This is due to the fact that pests and bacteria can mutate, giving rise to new physiological races. In addition, rodents and flying insects can visit the garden, therefore, preventive treatment measures should not be neglected.
An important feature of the hybrid variety is winter hardiness. Apple trees of Celeste are resistant to frost and can withstand a drop in air temperature down to -40 C.
Pollination is the process by which an apple blossom receives pollen from another plant before fertilization begins. This is necessary to improve the quality and quantity of the crop. The success of the process is ensured by butterflies, bees and the wind, transferring pollen between the flowers of the trees.
For this reason, apple trees of various varieties are recommended to be planted in groups, close to each other. A suitable pollinator can grow in his or her area. For pollination Celeste are perfect:
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- Jharkhand has reported 28 COVID-19 positive cases as of April 16
- Government introduces a hi-tech robotic delivery device in a hospital
- The device has the maximum capacity of 30 kg with a range of 300 feet
New Delhi: Jharkhand government has come up with an innovative way to tackle the Coronavirus crisis. To cut down human interface, the authorities have decided to include a remote-controlled robot which has been named as ‘Co-Bot’ in the isolation facility of Chakradharpur Railway Hospital in the state. The robot is helping deliver food and medicines from one bed to another, without involving health workers to attend to COVID-19 patients. Talking about this new initiative, Aditya Ranjan, Deputy Development Officer, West Singhbum said,
Co-Bot name has been carved out from COVID and Robot. Today, our country is facing a very big crisis. Our enemy is the mighty virus that spreads from one person to another. Knowing such circumstances, we have decided to deploy a robotic device in the isolation facility as a pilot project in our fight against the virus. Depending on its success, we will scale-up the project.
Further highlighting the features of the robotic device, Mr Ranjan said,
The robot device has a maximum capacity of 30 kg with a range of 300 feet. CO-BOT is basically made of steel having fiber wheels fitted with hospital trolley on its top for carrying medicines and food. In simple language, it is a delivery device that helps in minimising interaction of COVID-19 patients lodged in isolation centres with hospital staff who are at the maximum risk of getting infected with the virus.
The installation cost of co-bot is Rs 25,000 per machine. The machine is run by remote control and the device is fitted with both camera and speaker. Moreover, as a precautionary measure, the device is sanitised every-time it is sent inside the COVID speciality ward.
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Guidelines for NACLA assignment
For this assignment, you are to read current news articles about Latin America from the website for the North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA) and submit two short reviews during the semester. Please submit one review per due date. Each review is to be at least 3-4 pages and each due date corresponds to a regional topic in Latin America. I’ll explain further later in these instructions. To select the articles, go to the website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and choose an article from any of the sections listed at the top of the banner, such as “Magazine,” “Columns” and “Opinion and Analysis.” However, to gain complete access to all the resources in the website, I strongly encourage you to sign up for a free account. The registration is easy, just create a username (or use your e-mail) and password, and you’re ready to go!
The due dates for these reports are October 5 and November 2. Here are the regional topics corresponding to each due date:
October 5: Mexico, Central America or the Caribbean (Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, etc.)
November 2: South America (Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, etc.)
Please submit your reports through Canvas in either of the following formats: doc, docx or PDF (if you are using Apple Pages to compose your review, please be sure to convert your paper to docx or PDF before submitting it). Late papers will be accepted for each submission, but only for one week after the assigned due dates and will be assessed a full grade deduction. Please use both a title page and a works cited page (neither of these pages count toward your 3-4 pages of text). These two reports will count as a combined 20% toward your final grade. In your works cited page, compose your article entry in a format like this:
Nidia Bautista, “Justice for Lesvy: Indifference and Outrage in Response to Gender Violence in Mexico City,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (July 31, 2017).
In terms of the content of each report, I am looking for two main points of discussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points in the article that you selected. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What is the main issue being discussed? (i.e. immigration, elections, education, environment, women’s issues, crime, etc.) Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? (i.e. Enrique Peña Nieto, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, President Trump, etc.) How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? In other words, please try to be as objective as possible during this portion of the assignment.
And for the second point of discussion, please analyze the article that you selected and present your point of view on the story. For example, how do you feel about the story? How did this article contribute to your understanding about modern Latin America? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article? (i.e. did he or she exhibit any conservative or progressive opinions?) Whether you are liberal or more conservative in your political views, I encourage you to present your views as you discuss this portion of the assignment.
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Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, responding to President Obama’s proposed gun legislation by saying that instead of enacting tougher new laws, Americans should simply pray for protections.
As a free people, let us choose what kind of people we will be. Laws, the only redoubt of secularism, will not suffice. Let us all return to our places of worship and pray for help. Above all, let us pray for our children.
Rush Limbaugh, being Rush Limbaugh.
You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue on Friday in a news release, in which he suggested that President Barack Obama should swear in on Das Kapital — Karl Marx’s famous analysis of political economy — rather than the Bible.
The problem for (MSNBC’s Lawrence) O’Donnell is not (Pastor Louie) Giglio, it’s the Bible. He says the practice of presidents putting their hand on the Bible is ‘one of our most absurdist [sic] traditions.’ Furthermore, he says that because Obama embraces the gay agenda, he should not swear on the Bible. The point is not without merit. Given Obama’s ideology, perhaps it would make more sense for him to swear on Das Kapital.
An excerpt from the White House’s response to petitions from Texas and seven other states calling for the right to secede.
As President Abraham Lincoln explained in his first inaugural address in 1861, ‘in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual.’ In the years that followed, more than 600,000 Americans died in a long and bloody civil war that vindicated the principle that the Constitution establishes a permanent union between the States. And shortly after the Civil War ended, the Supreme Court confirmed that ‘[t]he Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.’
Zack Kopplin, who is 19 and a history major at Rice University, discussing his fight to keep religion out of Louisiana’s science classes — including those at private schools receiving government money.
These schools have every right to teach whatever they want — no matter how much I disagree with it — as long as they are fully private. But when they take public money through vouchers, these schools need to be accountable to the public in the same way that public schools are and they must abide by the same rules.
Southern Methodist University professor Mark Chancey, citing one example of what is being taught at Texas public school courses on the Bible. Chancey authored a new TFN Education Fund report that examines what students are learning in those courses.
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South Korea battling 2nd wave of coronavirus: Official
Our forecast turned out to be wrong, says chief of Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health authorities in South Korea on Monday urged for an amplified guard against coronavirus, saying that it was battling a "second wave" of the novel infection.
The country has seen a rise in new virus cases for some time now. However, the latest number of cases i.e. 17, is the lowest since May 26.
It has reported a total of 12,438 cases thus far, including 280 deaths, and 10,881 recoveries after successfully suppressing the first wave, which began this February.
"We originally predicted that the second wave to emerge in fall or winter," Yonhap News Agency quoted Jeong Eun-kyeong, chief of Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as saying.
But the second round of virus outbreak, she added, is in progress in the capital and its vicinity.
“Our forecast turned out to be wrong. As long as people are having close contact with others, we believe that infections will continue," Jeong said.
An intensive tracing and and testing campaign reduced the numbers to single digits by late April.
But as the country lifted virus restrictions in early May, new cases surfaced among youngsters who visited nightclubs in Seoul.
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Meaning and usage of [the Islamic Maghreb Al-Qaeda Organization
Al-Qaeda organization in the Islamic Maghreb
How to read: al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb organization
Alias: AQIM, Islamic Maghreb of the al-Qaeda organization, the Islamic mug ribs countries of the al-Qaeda organization, Islamic mug ribs countries of the al-Qaeda organization, al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb, the Islamic Maghreb al-Qaeda mechanism
English: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Military organization of Islamist based in Algeria. The overthrow of the Algerian government as the main objective, and terrorist attacks against the Algerian government and military, has made such foreigners kidnapped in the ransom, it is generally considered to be a terrorist organization. Until 00 years had identified himself with the [Salafi movement's group for preaching and combat (GSPC)], was renamed in the Islamic Maghreb Al-Qaeda Organization in 2000, self-proclaimed member of the international terrorist organization [al-Qaeda] It became so.
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The hacking entity OurMine has scored another big name. The group hacked the Twitter account of Wikipedia’s co-founder and the hosting service Wikia, Jimmy Wales. The hack was carried out on 20 August 2016.
Details About the Hack
The OurMine team gained access to Wales’s account and posted the following messages:
“RIP Jimmy Wales
1966 — 2016
A few minutes later, OurMine posted another message:
“I confirm that Wikipedia is all lies
OurMine Team is the true
[Link to the OurMine site] “
The tweets were later deleted when Jimmy Wales got a hold of his Twitter account.
The latter post is typical of their campaign of self-promotion. OurMine claims that they’re not blackhat hackers, but a security firm that wants to demonstrate that nobody is safe from hacking. To do that, they’ve hacked a few celebrities Deadmau5 and PewDiePie, but their more notable attacks were carried out against notable figures in the IT sphere, like Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and others. OurMine also claims to have access to Bill Gates’s accounts, but that remains unconfirmed. The hacks often implemented cross-posting to Twitter. That is to say; OurMine hacked accounts connected to Twitter and used them to post something. They have used Quora, Vine, Pinterest.
OurMine – Blackhat or Whitehat?
OurMine has always claimed that their hacks were made to promote security, to show that everyone can be hacked. They are right, as all these CEO’s could have had stronger security measures to their sites. Mark Zuckerberg was reported to use the same password, “dadada” on three separate social networking sites, Twitter, Linkedin, and Pinterest. Not using the same password across account is one of the most basic guidelines, and it’s surprising that CEOs of big corporations don’t do it.
OurMine often use the image bellow:
The hack likely wouldn’t have happened if the CEOs didn’t string their profile. A lot of sites offer the option to log into their system by using a Google+ or Facebook profile. That can save some time, as it doesn’t require you to make another account, but the connection between the sites can be used for hacking. If one site is accessed, the information it contains can be used to hack you social media profile.
Even though OurMine does demonstrate that everyone can be hacked, as they claim, that doesn’t make the group virtuous. Their end-goal is financial profit. OurMine provides “security scans” costing $5,000. The group offers these scans to let their customers know if they have unsecured accounts. The whole service smells fishy. The more advisable option is for users to avoid reusing and change their passwords frequently. The only thing OurMine will be likely to do is to abuse the information their too trusting customers are ready to provide. | <urn:uuid:7407e428-46b7-4984-9706-e35acaa13a1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bestsecuritysearch.com/wikipedia-founders-twitter-account-hacked-ourmine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959929 | 655 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The History of Colourism
Colourism is discrimination based on skin colour where fair coloured individuals are favoured above their dark skinned counterparts. This is more than just an admiration for light skinned people; it is a deeply embedded repulsion for dark skin and what it represents even by dark skinned people themselves.
Colourism in our societies is real, live and working each day to threaten the very existence of black skin as we know it. When the colour of your skin dictates how successful you become, the people you hang out with, and how other people look at you among other aspects of your life, then it is no longer business as usual.
The Origin of Colourism
Colourism can trace its origin back to slavery and colonization. While the white people had their own ideologies and theories that placed the other races below them, with Africans at the bottom, they needed to have interacted with people of colour to indoctrinate them into self hate and hate for others like them. Colonization and slavery provided the perfect avenues.
Asians are known to have occupied 25% of Egypt, which formed North Eastern Ethiopia back in the 3rd Millennium BC. This was way before the slave trade. The interaction led to the rise of a mixed, lighter skinned class born of the Asians and the black women. Children born of these unions took up the identities of their fathers and were therefore pushed higher into the social order.
They took up leadership alongside their Asian fathers and as expected, the first people to be called Egyptians were under the leadership of this mixed offspring. They had no regard whatsoever for their black mothers’ race which was condemned to remain inferior.
The colonization of Africa between the 15th and the 20th century was also a great player in colourism. Europeans represented power, plus they brought with them the promise of a better life, opportunity, sophistication and greatness. In the people’s eyes, the only thing that stood between them and these things was lighter skin.
Between the 15th and 19th century, the slave trade saw numerous Africans enslaved in the West. As in the case with Asians, children were born of the white masters and the female black slaves. The mulattos, as they were commonly called were fair skinned which earned them privileged treatment. They were housed in their masters’ homes to do domestic work which was easier.
Some slave masters even helped their mulatto offspring to get freedom and others sent theirs abroad to study. Upon their return, they took up jobs as lawyers, teachers and doctors among others. By then it was clear to the black slave community that lighter skin meant beauty and privilege; the key to a better life.
Colourism in our societies is real, live and working each day to threaten the very existence of black skin as we know it.
The feeling was not lost on the lighter skinned slaves either; only for them it was rewarding to know that they were better than their black counterparts in every respect. When slavery ended during the 19th century, the gap between the light and the dark skinned Africans could not be bridged. Colourism was too deep rooted.
In US, the mulattoes were not willing to give up their position in the society. Black people whose ‘blue veins’ could not show through the skin were not admitted to schools, churches, institution of higher learning and other social places because they were not light enough. Other tests like the paper bag test and comb tests were also used deny them admission.
This culture outlived slavery, decades later, colourism was still rampant. It still affected education, employment and social status in America by 1960. Offspring of the black people knew nothing of their ancestors’ history apart from the fact that they were slaves. They grew up hating what black skin represented and knowing that being black meant they were not good enough.
Latin American countries like Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela have quite a significant number of a dark skinned population, with Brazil topping the list. This is probably because it had the largest number of slaves. Colourism was rampant and was even given credibility by government policies that clearly favoured light skinned people over the dark skinned.
An immigration decree No. 58 that was put to effect on 28th June 1890 by Manoel Deodoro da Fone denied immigrants with African, Asian and indigenous descents from migrating into Brazil. Dark skinned Brazilians were generally denied land titles and opportunities for formal employment.
On the other hand, immigrants from Europe were offered free entry into Brazil, land grants, state funded housing, cash grants, food and hospital care in what was referred as the ‘whitening project’.
For Asians, lighter skin was associated with the affluent since they could afford to stay sheltered from harsh weather. The poor on the other hand had to work in the scorching sun as manual labourers. This darkened their skin. The high status accorded to the white colonial masters by Asian colonies like Indians, Vietnamese and Filipinos also made the people value white skin colour.
In the UK, colourism can be traced back to scientific theories that uphold the superiority of the white race and treads down on the black race. Carl von Linnaeus and German anatomist Blumenbach gave different classifications of race. However, both concluded that African Race was inferior to all others.
During the Victorian Era, explorers wrote about their African tours which painted Africa as an evil place and Africans as ‘savages and barbarians’ who needed civilization, such portrayal was bound to spark prejudice against black skin and value for lighter skin. Dark skinned people could therefore not be treated with any dignity.
Colourism is a global issue. The above are just a few representations of different regions of the world.
It is easy to read about colourism like it is history...so sad, right? Except, it is not! Such a strong historical backing only proves that you don’t have to look far to come face to face with the fact that lighter skin is considered better, more beautiful and more acceptable.
Mass media has played a big role in promoting colourism. The fact that it can influence many aspects of our lives makes it a powerful tool for promoting colour discrimination. According to The New York times, 18th Jan 2010, skin tone and other aspects of race are great determinants of employment opportunities, political outcomes, perception of intelligence, and even how justice is served.
The issue gives an account of 2 murder trials in Philadelphia involving two defendants, one light skinned and the other dark skinned. Despite a lot of evidence against the light skinned and little against his dark counterpart, the former gets life sentence while the latter gets death raw. There was no proof that skin colour was involved but you can’t help wondering...
When it comes down to physical appearance and skin colour for that matter, women are judged more harshly than their male counterparts. The colour of their skin gets to determine the kind of jobs they get, their social status and even the kind of husbands they get married to.
Lighter skin can therefore translate to association with the affluent, better employment rate by up to 20% and better paying jobs (65% more) than dark skinned women. It can also create an opportunity to get a desirable marriage partner. Beyonce’s father, Matthew Knowles confesses to having dated white or only very light skinned girls despite being dark skinned himself.
Hollywood producers and agents have been accused of propping up light skinned and straight haired black women and outrightly ignoring the true representation of black women. They do this while purporting to give all-inclusive representation.
A good example is using the light skinned Zoe Saldana to play Nina Simone, a dark skinned singer and activist in explicitly. Zoe had to go through a lot of makeup to play a role that could have been easily played by a dark skinned woman.
In UK the same sentiments are echoed; there is a scarcity of dark skinned actors. A move that many embraced as a step in the right direction involved featuring Thandie Newton, a British born biracial woman in a film adaptation of the award winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun by Ngozi Andichie.
However, the move drew negative reactions and a petition citing that she was in no way fit to represent an Igbo woman. The petitioner cited that Thandie was just another way of portraying black as ugly and undesirable and light as the way to go.
India’s Bollywood has also been accused of discriminately giving forefront acting roles to the fairer skinned. India’s skin lightening market was worth 432M in 2010 and reported a growth of 18% per year. The lightening products are usually endorsed by celebrities, whose images look altered to appear whiter, keeping colourism on the go.
Tina Daheley an Asian BBC newsreader confirms the existence of colourism by saying that “Light skin privilege is REAL’’. She gives this as a comment on a story about light skin celebs having it easier.
The world of music and advertisement has not been left behind either. The people of colour who have made it in the music industry have ‘one thing in common’; light skin. This is according to Matthew Knowles. He further adds that he had been conditioned to believe that white was better and that his desire to date white women was a way of getting ‘back or getting even’.
Some advertisement photos of dark coloured models have raised suspicion of whitening. Beyonce’s L’Oreal advert photo raised eyebrows because her skin was several shades lighter and her hair long and blonde, the very representation of ‘beauty’.
Back in Africa, many countries are struggling with issues of colourism. A good example is South Africa. Changing the tone of your skin to a lighter tone significantly adds value to your life. People will generally have a better perception about you, acknowledge and respect you. The phrase ‘Yellow-Bone Factory’ is a familiar one. It involves bleaching your skin to achieve the lightest tone.
Where does this leave Us?
The clamour for skin lightening is not going anywhere anytime soon. We are therefore left with a large population of dark skinned women who are prepared to do whatever it takes to get lighter skin. This is in an effort to become beautiful, improve social standing and increase employability among other benefits.
The insatiable needs have led to the saturation of the market with substandard and dangerous skin lightening products. Unfortunately, some of these ventures have produced devastating results. On the other hand, men too are joining the bandwagon of skin lightening while quite a good number is likely to choose lighter skinned women as spouses.
The role of mass media cannot be underestimated, it will continue to fill our minds with perceptions of dark is ugly and light is beautiful unless we do less of lightening products bans and do more to educate the populace on the dangers of some of this products and above all else, the value of self love.
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“Imagine a wristwatch-sized device that non-invasively ‘sees’ under the skin surface, and monitors patient glucose levels, allowing diabetics to continuously test their blood sugar accurately throughout the day without the need to prick their fingers,“ said Steven Van Fleet, President of Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies, Inc. (MASTInc), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Micromem Technologies Inc., a Canadian-based company. “The ability to have constant monitoring of key life-values, such as serum glucose or other critical enzymes, hormones and proteins would forever change the way we manage diseases and deliver healthcare.”
MASTInc technology is based on the simple idea that everything in the world exhibits a unique magnetic signature. With the company’s glucose monitoring device, for example, very specific magnetic sensors based on Hall sensor technology could be calibrated to detect specific magnetic moment behaviors at certain frequencies of glucose molecules in the blood, and measure these levels in a known unit volume.
The company’s ultra-sensitive Hall Cross Sensor (HCS) features a Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) substrate that makes it more sensitive to magnetic fields while reducing errors from magnetic interference and noise. The sensors are typically used to produce low power, high sensitive devices such as: hearing aids, cardiac devices, glucose monitoring, oil and mineral detection, computer technology, security and defense applications. Recently, the company’s researchers developed a glucose-monitoring device for the detection of specific elements in the blood. It has the potential to use the sensor in a non-invasive approach to detect fluctuations in blood glucose without the diabetics’ inconvenience of having to puncture their fingers to test blood sugar levels.
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Where to find support if you experience mitral valve regurgitation
Mitral valve regurgitation is a common kind of heart disease in the United States. Not only does it impact many people today, but its prevalence is expected to double by 2030.
Fortunately for mitral valve regurgitation patients, there are plenty of resources available to make living with the condition easier. Understanding what mitral valve regurgitation is, what symptoms to look for, and what support is available can lessen the impact this heart disease has on a patient’s life. Learn more below.
What is mitral valve regurgitation?
Mitral valve regurgitation is a type of heart valve disease that allows blood to leak backward via the mitral valve each time the left ventricle is contracted. This can be caused by issues with the mitral valve itself or problems with other parts of the heart that lead to leakage. Cases of mitral valve regurgitation can range from mild to severe, and in advanced cases, it will prevent an adequate amount of blood from reaching the body.
What are the symptoms of mitral valve regurgitation?
Typically, mitral valve regurgitation will be discovered when a doctor hears a murmur or whooshing sound through their stethoscope when listening to the heartbeat. In addition to this distinctive noise, those impacted may experience:
- Tiredness or general fatigue
- Heart palpitations
- Rapid breathing and shortness of breath
- Chest pains
If a doctor suspects a patient has mitral valve regurgitation, they will typically order an echocardiogram, a CT scan, and/or an MRI scan to gain more information.
What support is available to mitral valve regurgitation patients?
For patients who have been diagnosed with mitral valve regurgitation, there are many ways to find support, including :
Learning more about the condition. Because heart disease is a concern for many Americans, there are ample resources and information available to those impacted. The American Heart Association has a robust library of web pages aimed at awareness and education for patients and their families.
Joining an online support group. Nonprofits such as Heart Valve Voice US offer a great opportunity for heart disease patients to connect via online communities. In addition to its community outreach, Heart Valve Voice also promotes awareness and provides resources for patients living with heart disease.
Participating in clinical trials. Participating in a clinical trial can be a great opportunity to increase researchers’ knowledge regarding mitral valve regurgitation in addition to gaining access to potential new treatments and therapies. Clinical trials test for both safety and effectiveness, and participating is a fantastic way to help science move forward.
Talking to your doctor about treatment. In many instances, medical treatment is not necessary for mitral valve regurgitation, but in some cases, medications may be prescribed to prevent the symptoms from worsening. Patients may be prescribed diuretics to lessen fluid buildup, blood thinners to prevent clots, and/or high blood pressure medication to keep the pressure on the heart lower. In some advanced cases, surgery may be necessary to replace the damaged valve.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 19: The effects of low-pressure monsoon has caused nationwide cloud and resulted in rainfall in some parts of the country today.
The Meteorological Forecast Division has said that the rainfall in the country's central region is the result of the low pressure monsoon system. The low pressure monsoon circle has gradually weakened in Nepal and the development of the low pressure region has caused rainfall in the Kathmandu Valley and the surrounding districts, expert at the Division Barun Poudel said.
According to him, Nepal's weather is the result of the impact of low pressure region near Orissa and north-west Bengal in India. Poudel added that the existing pattern of weather would continue till Sunday. Remaining parts of the country would experience rainfall this evening.
As per the latest update, Taplejung recorded the highest rainfall with 40 milliliters while Kathmandu has the lowest rainfall of just three milliliters. RSS | <urn:uuid:632358bd-c4dc-415d-a284-01b6ce623c7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/low-pressure-monsoon-causing-rainfall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94777 | 198 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Payday Loans and the Pandemic – Consumer Action
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated economies the world over, and America didn’t escape unscathed. Thousands of businesses went under, millions of citizens lost their jobs, and entire industries disappeared virtually overnight.
The many Americans who suddenly found themselves without a source of income have been scrambling for financial support. Unfortunately, the government’s stimulus checks were akin to little more than a glass of water for a family of five dying of thirst.
Many people have had to borrow money to keep up with their bills, and consumer debt levels reached record highs in 2020. While the pandemic caused spikes in several forms of credit, one industry has been particularly problematic: the payday loan industry, which has always capitalized on the vulnerability of distressed borrowers.
What is a Payday Loan?
Payday loans are short-term, small balance loans that are allegedly intended to help consumers cover their emergency expenses. Traditionally, they have a repayment term of a single pay period (two weeks), after which the lender debits the borrower’s bank account or cashes a post-dated check.
Payday lenders are happy to work with borrowers of all levels of creditworthiness, which attracts those on the lower end of the spectrum. However, they charge astronomically high prices for the privilege of working with them.
Because of their short turnaround times and incredibly high costs, most borrowers struggle to pay them back on time. Many who take out payday loans have to roll them over (pay another large fee to extend the repayment term) or take out another payday loan just to afford the first. That’s known as the payday loan trap, and it often keeps people stuck in an endless spiral of debt.
Did You Know?
Payday loan laws vary between states, but the Federal Truth in Lending Act requires all of them to disclose their interest rates. However, many of them try to direct the attention away from the interest rate and draw attention to their costs as a flat fee. It looks a lot less intimidating that way, but don’t let them fool you.
According to MyCreditSummit.com, the average payday loan has an effective interest rate of 671%. A payday loan of $300 with a two-week repayment term and an interest rate of 671% would cost $77. It doesn’t sound like that much when you only consider the fee, but it adds up quickly. For perspective, your credit card probably has an interest rate of no more than 36%.
The Effect of the Pandemic on the Industry
The pandemic generated widespread financial distress, intense demand for fast cash, and millions of consumers without the income necessary to pay back their debts. These are the perfect conditions for payday lenders, and they leaped at the opportunity.
Reports of increased payday lending have come in across the country, including California, Florida, and the Southern states in general. One study suggests that on a national scale, the rate at which workers took out payday loans tripled during the pandemic.
Wisconsin officials attempted to be proactive about the problem and issued a warning to all payday lenders in the state not to take advantage of the opportunity by raising rates. It was a nice idea, but warnings don’t do much to discourage payday lenders. The industry’s hallmark is taking advantage of people in crisis.
The sad reality is that in many states (including Wisconsin), payday lenders are free to charge whatever they want. Payday loans are regulated on a state level, not countrywide. That makes it incredibly difficult to reign in the industry on a larger scale.
Payday Lenders Stole PPP Funds
As if they hadn’t done enough, payday lenders have also circumvented financial aid intended for struggling businesses. During the pandemic, despite the surge in demand for their services, more than half a billion dollars of funding went to payday lenders from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
That means that payday lenders weren’t just taking money from consumers directly through their usurious and impossibly burdensome loans. They also went behind consumers’ backs and stole the cash that was supposed to bolster businesses and help people keep their jobs.
Those Who Don’t Learn From History
Tragically, the pandemic isn’t the first time this has happened. Payday lenders have been taking advantage of consumers in their times of greatest need for years. During the financial crisis of 2009, payday lenders enjoyed a similarly profitable period.
Wisely, they use their cash surpluses during these periods to consolidate their power. The industry has always been a controversial one that faced significant regulatory obstacles, so they’ve invested in consistent political lobbying for their cause.
Unfortunately, they’ve had a lot of success. They’ve convinced many that they have to charge such high-interest rates to stay afloat while working with risky borrowers, even though studies have shown consistently that their services do more harm than good.
During the pandemic, they took the same tactics. Pro-payday lending parties were able to overturn the law that required payday lenders to verify that their borrowers could repay their loans before offering them one. They’re once again free to lend as they will, without consideration for their borrower’s financial situation.
Better Alternatives to Payday Loans
If you’re struggling to make ends meet due to the pandemic, payday loans are tempting, but they’re not a viable financial solution. They’re far more expensive than virtually any other form of credit, even the options out there for people with low credit scores.
Before you decide to take out a payday loan, make sure to try every possible alternative first. If you need a few hundred dollars or less, paycheck advance apps like Earnin are a great place to start. They bear no interest and cost less than $10 a month to use.
If you need a larger amount, consider using a coronavirus hardship loan through government funding or even private lenders to help get back on your feet. Take a look at our resources page for a full guide to the options available.
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Paleo Diet Recipes Don’t Include Baked Goodies? Think Again.
Paleo diet guidelines essentially dictate banishing from your kitchen the following ingredients:
- Dairy products
- Wheat and gluten
If you notice, these are major ingredients widely used in creating the most decadent baked creations, right? This led almost everyone to think they need to say good riddance to all their favorite baked goodies for good when embracing Paleo. Well, not necessarily.
Whether you love baking or fond of baked products, you don’t have to give it up altogether. You still can bake, but this time, you will need to learn how to bake smartly.
In my previous article, I have featured the use of herbs and spices in breathing live to Paleo diet recipes. While one cannot imagine our ancestors munching on chocolate brownies and raspberry muffins, there are actually great ways to create these treats without going against the Paleo diet recipes guidelines. With a little creativity, you can look forward to creating mouth-watering, significantly healthier baked products for you and your family to enjoy.
Refined flour, as you may have already known is a complete no-no in Paleo diet recipes. However, almond flour actually presents a wonderful substitute to regular wheat flour. If you have a coffee grinder, you can create and stock almond flour by grinding raw almonds that have been blanched in boiling water for 10 seconds. Make sure to store the flour in an airtight container.
Butter, margarine and vegetable oil are forms of fat, which means, you will need to substitute them with a healthier Paleo-approved fat. Great alternatives include canola oil, coconut oil, almond and walnut oil. If you want to infuse that nice nutty flavor, walnut and almond oils are perfect substitutes, although both can be slightly more expensive.
For ingredients that call for that light, tropical flair to it, coconut oil is the perfect choice, which also happens to work well with cookies and pie crusts.
When using any of the aforementioned alternatives, make sure to add a small pinch of salt with every half a cup of butter you replace. This will help you retain that buttery flavor with that hint of saltiness.
It can be a problem if the recipe calls for the use of sugar since it is not included in the list of approved Paleo diet ingredients. You can replace sugar with maple and honey syrup, which are both natural sweeteners. As a guideline, 4 tablespoons of sugar should be substituted with 3 tablespoons of honey.
Agave nectar is also recommended, which has a considerably lower glycemic index. When using, keep in mind that agave is actually 25% sweeter than the regular sugar so you need to use less.
Too Much Fat
How about if you simply want to cut down on the amount of fat from your baked goodies? You don’t have to feel deprived since there are actually a number of healthy alternatives to choose from such as fruit puree like crushed pineapples and mashed bananas as well as vegetable purees such as carrots and zucchinis.
Milk is definitely not part of any Paleo diet recipes, right? The problem is, most of the baked products require the use of milk. The best substitute for evaporated milk would be coconut milk, which is especially great when making pumpkin pies. You will find coconut milk to be rich and creamy, containing medium chain fatty acids, which are essentially good fats.
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JenaBatteries and BASF are cooperating in the production of an electrolyte for a battery technology that is particularly suitable for stationary storage of electricity from renewable energy sources and for stabilising conventional transmission grids.
JenaBatteries has developed this technology based on a so-called redox flow battery (RFB) with organic materials. Two liquid organic electrolytes separated by a membrane and stored in separate tanks store the current. BASF will supply one of the two electrolytes as part of the collaboration. JenaBatteries plans to market the first RFB in 2020.
RFBs store electrical energy in chemical compounds. The two reaction partners are present in dissolved form and circulate in two separate circuits. The ion exchange between the two energy-storing electrolytes takes place through a membrane in the galvanic cell. Here the chemical reduction or oxidation of the dissolved substances takes place. Electrical energy is absorbed during charging and released during discharging. The size of the connected and scalable tanks is the determining factor for the capacity of the RFB. They are therefore suitable for use as large-format, stationary energy storage units with a capacity of 100 kilowatts and above and a capacity of 400 kilowatt hours and above. With a high degree of flexibility, RFBs enable particularly high outputs of several hundred megawatts and capacities in the range of gigawatt hours. RFB do not contain any flammable or explosive substances and they can be charged over 10,000 times. | <urn:uuid:03042060-7ae9-4ec0-9620-e4d319125f29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.windtech-international.com/product-news/jenabatteries-and-basf-cooperate-in-the-development-of-power-storage-technology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941253 | 315 | 2.75 | 3 |
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133. Solomon Stoddard (1643-1729). Common Place Book and Sermon Notes. Manuscript on paper, 1660-64. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, MS 104
Solomon Stoddard was born in Boston in 1643 and graduated from Harvard College in 1662. From 1667 to 1674 Stoddard served as the first librarian at Harvard. This volume contains his college notes. These include the name of the instructor for the day, as well as the scripture that was expounded in class and then applied to seventeenth-century society. Using what would have been the blank portions of the pages, and turning the volume upside down, Stoddard also used the volume to make notes for sermons that he preached during the early years of his ministry at Northampton, where he served until his death in 1729. His grandson, Jonathan Edwards, was ordained associate pastor of the Northampton church in 1727. | <urn:uuid:be9be39f-9704-468c-a564-933328860b34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/jewels/themes/theology/133 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971058 | 213 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Through my artworks, I explore visual storytelling in a stylized and linear style. Upon entering the realm of illustration, anime and manga fascinated me, and I was inspired to draw characters with pen and ink. Because of that, most of my works gravitate towards a stylized representation black and white figures. While sometimes I use digital colors in my work, I feel intentional use of black (traditional or digital) can be just as capable in painting at conveying powerful messages and imaginative worlds. When I do incorporate digital colors, I do so not only to represent an exploration of myself as an artist but also, to push the personal message(s) in my pieces. I also utilize specific stylizations of reality to convey more imaginative expressions and designs. Drawing inspiration from pop culture and Japanese culture, my artworks tell different stories of a stylized character often accompanied by a side character or grounded in a setting. My works also explore my personal feelings or emotions through the deliberate use of color as a tool to push the visual narrative. Illustration is a profound medium that not only actualizes my imagination but also conveys emotions that resonate with my viewers.
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When you think about automation, there’s a good chance you think about robots in a factory or a warehouse. That’s partially because a lot of automation that is starting to be utilized more and more has to do with robotics. However, as a new report from the Brookings Institute explains, it’s not just blue collar jobs associated with physical labor that are under threat.
Developments in robotics will contribute to the loss of largely blue-collar jobs, but will also AI threaten the high-paying jobs many of us are striving to one day obtain, according to the report. Robert Maxim, a research associate in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, tells Inverse automation is going to impact pretty much every kind of job.
"“Most workers in the U.S. economy are going to see a disruption."
“There are really no workers in the U.S. economy that are going to escape scot-free from emerging technologies,” Maxim says. “Most workers in the U.S. economy are going to see a disruption in some form from either an existing form of automation or an emerging form of AI. In that sense, we’re kind of all in it together here.”
Maxim explains that AI will displace jobs in legal services, financial services, science, technology and more. He says we’re already seeing AI replace power plant operators, chemical engineers, laboratory technicians and more in certain places, and soon we’ll see even more well-paid jobs being displaced.
“Better-paid, white-collar occupations tend to be the most exposed. A secondary group of exposure are higher-skilled production and manufacturing factory jobs,” Maxim says. “Those are kind of the two broad categories that are most exposed.”
Maxim says that the jobs that are least likely to be threatened by AI are jobs that require human traits that a robot or AI cannot replicate, like empathy, intuition and creative thinking.
“What will not go out of vogue is the ability to work with other people, manage people, do teaming and thinking about use cases for new technologies,” Maxim says. He says jobs in caregiving, for example, will be safe because they require intrinsically human qualities. If you have to be good with people to do the job, it’s less likely robots or AI are going to replace you any time soon.
Ironically, since women have historically been pushed away from jobs in tech and science and pushed toward they healthcare, caregiving and similar fields, women could be less affected by developments in AI. The report claims women’s involvement in “education, health care support, and personal care services appears to shelter them” from the effects of AI.
Maxim isn’t painting a doomsday scenario for folks out there who have fought their way to the top of industries like finance or technology, though. He says because the people in these careers tend to be well-educated and have acquired many skills over the course of their career, they’ll be best suited to adapt to change in their industry and find other kinds of work.
“A lot of the white-collar workers who are exposed to AI will probably be the ones that are best equipped to make the adjustment,” Maxim says. He says the people that will be most hurt by AI will be from jobs in factories, warehouses, energy plants and similar locations where they have a well-paying blue-collar job, since these people tend to have less education and fewer relevant skills.
Maxim believes we need to focus on helping those who aren’t as well-educated and will be hurt most by developments in AI when we consider policies that could prevent AI from having a terrible effect on many people’s lives. He says we should incentivize companies to retrain these people, instead of just laying them off, possibly by offering these companies tax credits to do this. We should also consider where we invest our resources.
“We should be investing in these new technologies in a way that actually develops new jobs and new opportunities for areas that have been previously hollowed out by rounds of automation and globalization-based displacement,” Maxim says.
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Nvidia have today launched their latest Maxwell GPU to the masses. And the GeForce GTX 960 is most definitely a card for the masses—as their latest mid-range graphics card release it has been designed to hit the 'sweet-spot'—1080p gaming at high settings at a decent price point.
The GeForce GTX 960 follows in the footsteps of the GTX 760, GTX 660 and GTX 560 before it. Inside is the new GM 206 GPU, built on the same Maxwell graphics architecture as the GTX 980 and GTX 970. Obviously we're talking about a smaller scale chip here though, with 'just' 2.94 billion transistors as opposed to the 5.2 billion in the GM 204 its bigger brothers use.
It uses just eighty SMM modules to support it's 1,024 CUDA core count, and with that comes sixty-four texture units and thirty-two ROPs.
The big news for the specs sheet is that it's only running a 128-bit bus compared with the 256-bit bus the GTX 980 and GTX 970 uses. Nvidia is using the same memory compression algorithms it used in the top Maxwell cards, so effective memory bandwidth is boosted, but it's still short of the old GTX 760.
But Nvidia is looking for the GeForce GTX 960 to replace even older cards. They estimate that two of three PC gamers are currently using either a GTX 660 or older GPU in their gaming rig.
We're putting the finishing touches to our GTX 960 review, but first impressions are that this card just about does what it needs to. Compared with the AMD Radeon R9 285 it just about has the edge at 1080p, but it's a rather close call.
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Which is Better? Working at the Office or Working from Home?
In 2013, a memo from Yahoo’s Human Resources department was sent all Yahoo employees, banning remote working;
“Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings”.
Virgin’s Richard Branson, however, was quick to voice his disagreement with Yahoo’s actions, calling it a “backwards step in an age when remote working is easier and more effective than ever.”
And a year later, in 2014, the number of people working from home in the UK rose to its highest ever levels, with 13.9% of workers remotely working – 4.2 million in total. 5% of these worked from home, while the remaining 8.9% used their home as a base but worked at different locations.
But is working from home really ‘better’ than working in an office?
Best for who?
Working from home affects more than just the individual employee. Managers must be sure they are able to effective communicate with their workers, especially those who don’t work in the office every day. They must remember to keep remote employees ‘in the loop’, whether that be via regular phone calls, emails or video messaging.
Managers want people in the office because they want to see their little empires there in front of them.
The main reason most employers aren’t in favour of home-working is because they don’t trust their workforce, according to Gary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management School. “They’ll never say that, but that’s what it’s about. Managers want people in the office because they want to see their little empires there in front of them,” he says.
Business owners also need to evaluate whether or not allowing employees to work from home is a good idea or not. Smaller businesses might save money by having a team of remote workers – unless workers claim back for expenses used by working at home. Then there are information-security issues to consider. Is it wise to allow employees access to sensitive information in the comfort of their own homes?
As you are starting to see, remote working isn’t as simple as it may first appear, and your superiors have a lot to consider when you request to work from home.
But have you fully thought about the implications yourself? Working from home always sounds like a great idea – but there are considerations you should take into account if you decide to make the shift. Let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of both office work and home work:
Working at the Office
If you’re reading this, I imagine you’ve most probably worked in an office at least once in your professional life. Desk jobs take up a large part of the work sector, especially in a digital world; now more than ever more work is done online, using computers and technology.
Whilst every office environment is different, all desk jobs share common features which we can all appreciate and understand.
Advantages of working in an office
- Easily distracted -Office workers get distracted every 3 minutes, and claim that workplace distractions are a major detriment to job satisfaction. Things like background noise levels, annoying colleague chit-chat and random, unexpected team meetings are among the top ways employees are distracted from their work.
- Office politics can be overwhelming - You can’t escape office politics at the office, and sometimes the fight for power can be overwhelming.
- Lack of personal space- Personal space is another important factor for job satisfaction, and some offices, particularly open-plan offices, can make employees feel uncomfortable.
- Bad for your health- Sitting down all day at your desk can seriously harm your health. If you work from home, you’re more likely to get up and move, and have more flexibility to schedule short 5 minute breaks and/or stretches to help combat the symptoms of prolonged sitting.
Working from Home
In an article published on Wired, Naveen Narayanan explains that the notion of “work” has changed. “Going to work is now less about being at a particular location, getting face time, chatting up with co-workers and being ‘in the office’. In arguably every industry, it is more about getting things done, servicing clients, completing projects, managing co-workers, etc., regardless of where you are.”
According to Wrike, 1 in 4 of us would accept a reduction in salary if it meant we could work from home. And it’s easy to see why…
Advantages of working from home
- No commute - The average monthly commuting cost for a UK worker is £161 and is 47 minutes long. This amounts to a large amount of money/time spent a year just on travelling to and from your place of work. Working from home eliminates this waste and allows you to better control your time and money.
- No uniform - Every day can be a pyjama day if you want it to be! There’s zero pressure to dress up in formal clothes, and you can wear whatever makes you comfortable.
- Control of your working environment - No more arguing over the thermostat or being cramped on a tiny desk. At home, you control the temperature, the lay-out and which radio station to listen to (if any). What’s more, you can decide whether or not you want to start at 8am, 9am or even 10am. This is especially helpful for parents who work from home. Just make you sure you complete the full amount of hours expected by your employer!
- Fewer interruptions (in theory) - The majority of those who work from home will experience less interruptions, as co-workers can only communicate with you via email or phone.
Disadvantages of working from home
- Increased costs? - Despite the savings on commuting costs, working from home can have its own costs that would normally be covered by your employer. You may see an increase in your utility bills from extra use of heating or air conditioning. You may also need to purchase equipment that you would normally use in your office such as printers, scanners or other equipment.
- Lack of focus and/or motivation – Working from home requires you to be disciplined and self-motivated. However tempting it may be to stay in bed or catch up on TV, you must be able to get keep yourself focused on your work. Working from home can make you feel like you’re ‘invisible’ and ‘untouchable’, and you don’t have the presence of your co-workers and manager to motivate you to work.
- Lack of social interaction with co-workers – As much as your co-workers annoy you, many of us crave social interaction of some form. You might find yourself experience bouts of loneliness if you work from home for long periods of time, especially if you are unable to get out much at the weekends.
- Work/life balance can become distorted - When you work in an office, you have a clearer definition between your work at your private life. Working from home blurs the line between your professional and private life.
- No IT department – In the office, if your computer breaks or the internet goes down, there’s usually an IT worker nearby who will deal with the issue. Your boss is alerted to the problem, and is the one who has to deal with any financial consequences. When you work from home, you may find yourself unable to work if your internet goes down or if your computer breaks – especially if it’s your own and not issued by your employer.
- Alienated from company developments - A lot can happen at the office in an average working day: morning meetings, company updates, team developments, successes, problems etc. If you’re working away from the office for long periods there will be a great deal of information that you will miss out on.
As we can see, there are a lot of factors to consider when thinking about whether or not you should work from home. Not everyone has that certain combination of skills to successfully work remotely (self-motivation and focus, for example), and not all jobs lend themself to remote working.
There are those who retain the belief that things are best done face-to-face; “Teams need to be in daily contact and nothing beats physically sitting and reviewing work together to gauge people’s initial reactions and true thoughts,” says Jim McCall, MD of digital agency The Unit. “Teams [at The Unit] have ‘stand-ups’ every day, using agile boards [white boards with columns and tasks] that workers need to physically interact with.”
Despite this, people who work remotely are reported to be more satisfied with their jobs, and there are those – like Richard Branson – who think office jobs are becoming a thing of the past.
One possible solution to the problem of dissatisfaction in the office is to improve workplace environments by making them more comfortable for employees. This is already starting to happen, with more and more offices using innovative designs and flexible work spaces to promote workplace satisfaction and increase productivity.
The office should remain for those who want want the office
I’ve already mentioned, that it’s not always practical for employees to work remotely, and I don’t think the office is going to disappear any time soon. Robert Gorby, Powwownow’s marketing director, agrees; “the office should remain for those who want the office”.
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The of the global micro-irrigation systems market was USD 9.70 billion in 2021 and is expected to register a revenue CAGR of 9.4% during the forecast period, according to the latest analysis from Emergen Research. Technological advancements in micro-irrigation systems and the launch of advanced systems that help save water are some of the key factors expected to drive the market revenue growth between 2021 and 2030.
Farmers are increasingly aware of the benefits of micro-sprinkler irrigation and moving away from flooding. irrigation to micro-sprinkler systems. Additionally, farmers are turning to micro-irrigation as traditional irrigation technologies have various drawbacks including wastage of water, difficulty in irrigating mountainous terrain, and uneven water distribution, among others. Additionally, micro-irrigation can also increase yields while reducing costs associated with water, fertilizer, and labor.
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Additionally, manufacturers are launching innovative products, which is expected to drive the market revenue growth. On August 31, 2019, for example, Rivulis Irrigation India, part of global micro-irrigation company Rivulis Israel, launched Manna, which is a satellite-based software solution for irrigation in the country.
The report also discusses key players involved in the market, such as Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., Netafim, The Toro Company, Nelson Irrigation, TL Irrigation, Microjet, JSS Irrigation, Valmont Industries, Inc., Rivulis, Reinke Manufacturing Co., Inc., Hunter Industries and Irritec SpA as well as new market entrants. The competitive analysis also includes a regional analysis of major geographic regions. The report covers regions such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa.
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Open-field cultivation allows for cultivation over large areas and is also cost-effective. Additionally, open-field crop production allows crops to grow naturally where the roots are well adapted, under the appropriate climatic conditions and during the appropriate seasons.
The drip irrigation systems segment is expected to register a rapid revenue CAGR during the forecast period. This system is generally used in arid and semi-arid regions with water shortage because it has better water and fertilizer saving rate. It allows the application of water directly to plant roots, reducing overwatering, runoff and evaporation. This has increased the demand for drip irrigation systems and driven the revenue growth of this segment.
The North American market accounted for the largest share of revenue in 2021. This can be attributed to the increase in government funding for conducting R&D activities on drip irrigation technologies, which is also expected to contribute to market revenue growth. For example, the Israeli company Netafim has exported drip technology to several small businesses in water-scarce regions of Paraguay.
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What’s the Difference?
Simply stated that urethane is just a form of rubber with distinct chemical characteristics. There are some dumbbells or plates which are being described as polyurethane. Urethane and polyurethane are used interchangeably.
Rubber comes from plants and trees whereas urethane is a man-made substance. Urethane prefers outlast rubber and can resist sunlight and outdoor environments.
Where They Vary
The real difference between rubber and urethane plates or dumbbells is in their hard/soft qualities. Generally, urethane is harder than rubber. The engraving capabilities and higher resistance to degradation make urethane superior. On the other hand, rubber has more elastic memory and resilience on impact. Due to this reason most bumper plates are constructed with rubber. In short, both rubber and urethane weights serve distinct purposes.
Which Should You Prefer?
If you want to maximize the longevity and condition of your fitness equipment, both urethane and rubber are great. Urethane is known to benefit from its hardness and it is more tear-resistant than rubber. Also, urethane plates have a specific color reproduction and it looks incredible when finished.
Rubber weights on the other hand have a more muted look and will not reproduce logos to the same precision. The flaw of urethane is its feel. Most users do not enjoy the feel of urethane. If you have ever grabbed a urethane dumbbell with an iron grip it will feel like you were touching stiff plastic. Some customers don’t like the plastic-looking surface of Urethane.
Also, urethane tends to be more slippery in the hand due to the components. This is the reason it is very important to shop for a good brand with gripped plates. The HAJEX Urethane Plates are a perfect buy. They offer great features at relatively low prices as compared to other brands.
From the pricing, Rubber benefits. Virgin rubber weights offer high quality that will look and feel premium. When it comes to purchasing rubber weight, virgin rubber is far better than recycled rubber. Virgin rubber will last longer and has a very low odor.
The HAJEX Rubber Dumbbells are an ideal example of high-quality rubber dumbbells that have a bounty feel. While recycled rubber has a propensity to have some odor. Recycled rubber may be made with quality components or chemicals, depending on the manufacturer.
If you want custom logos and colors, Urethane is worth the cost. Yeah! Urethane weights are always more costly but look amazing. For upscale gyms and facilities, they are perfect. For those individuals who are looking for an alternative to iron products, rubber weights are a great choice.
The surface of both rubber and urethane can vary from model to model. But often urethane has a non-tacky and smooth surface. The quality virgin rubber is also smooth but recycled rubber has a quite rough texture.
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Let us now praise the famous men, and our fathers who begot us… (Ecclesiasticus 44:1)
“Are you a distinguished person? I ask my friend in a text. “Very,” he replies, quicker than usual. “How did you become distinguished?” I ask, without abandoning my research. “I made a request,” he said.
My question for him was not a joke. This followed a discussion I had just had at home. My husband, an academic, was looking for an appropriate title for the conferences he wanted to organize in his department. I had offered my suggestions, some of which had been taken, but there was one word that I kept protesting against. “Distinguished” – “Distinguished Lecture Series”.
“Why do you need to call something or someone distinguished?” I asked.
His response was simple: “Otherwise people wouldn’t know it was.”
“Let people decide if it’s distinguished or not…” I gave up after a while.
“Distinguished” is just one of many words that belong to the genre of image building in the world of arts and letters. For many of us that might seem like putting the cart before the horse, because a word like that is meant to compel obedience – we’ve been told it’s distinguished and there’s no room for disagreement. This is how consensus is built, but, more importantly, this is how fake news is created. The whispering network has the butterfly effect, but the whispering starts from one person. Very often, especially in our time, the whisper of greatness begins with the person whose greatness is about to be proclaimed.
The mode of operation is similar to that of a Ponzi scheme (I am also thinking of the set-up that the entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes managed to do for years). Like the non-existent company to which investors entrust their money, adjectives are invoked to create reputations. It is, of course, a scam. But we are his voluntary collaborators. Just look at the biographies of writers and scholars to see how it works. People who call themselves “prominent” in their biography are a sad commentary on the culture of self-publicity necessary for survival, or “eminence.”
“Prestigious” is a word used for forums, but now, as a transferred epithet, also for people. Since it’s hard to call yourself a prestigious person, especially because the sophisticated society I’m talking about would never get caught saying “Pata hai mera baap kaun hai?” », we qualify our endorsers as prestigious. It is our way of approving those who approve of us, so that their approval is amplified.
“Famous”, “great”, “well known”, “prominent”, “excellence”, “esteemed”, “legendary”, “masterful”, “well traveled”, “award winning” – these are some of the stocks ; there are others that are more common: brilliant, unique, original and, increasingly, “a classic”. This is the moment when, despite my discomfort with such sayings, I think of the phrase of the MFA instructor: “Arrey baba, show, don’t tell”. King, Emperor, Raja, Sultan, Ustad, Pandit, Gurudev – these were once the words for special status. In our new economy, notoriety markers have moved from nouns to adjectives. In the past, you could only be a name: “Professor”. This is no longer enough. Adjectives are to be worn as an army man wears their decorations.
There is an economy of intimidation in these adjectives, and the sound of the siren announcing the arrival of red-light automobiles, not unlike Bond’s use of the proper name: the name is Bond, James Bond . Self-advertisement and self-satisfaction have been forced upon us. A few weeks ago, when I was looking for a book online, I found the biography of an anthologist which made me think to check if I had read correctly: they had been called “the anthologist the most respected in the country. There must have been a competition between anthologists, the news of which had not reached me.
There is a tragicomedy happening in our culture. We praise ourselves because no one else praises us. This is just part of the DIY culture that is essential for survival now. We frantically arrange adjectives like whoever assembles an IKEA piece of furniture – the result must be as functional. This is the status of fame in our culture – its necessary functionality translating into an axiom, like the United States of America calling itself “the greatest country in the world”. First self-confidence, in these words, only then the world outside of us will believe us.
When I wrote about what we call “literary” as being Brahmanical (“Reading, without the sacred thread”, IE, December 19, 2020), there was a feeling of anger among a certain group of people. Needless to say, they had benefited from the operation of the “system”. Like the surname which indicates our caste, the words which announce or follow our names are like our surnames – perhaps this explains why the Indians, when using the English language, have often confused “title” with ” Last name”. Some of these new surnames are surnames and first names of other people, often deceased: Nobel, Fulbright, Charles Wallace, Windham-Campbell; or Booker and Chevening; or Oxford, Harvard, Rome; or New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, etc. As if all this were not enough, we also have those who claim the status of Adam: “was the first to receive the (an award or scholarship)…” and places that present themselves as “one of the most great institutions of India”.
You have to find fame somehow, and the easiest way to do that seems to be through contagion: getting touched by celebrities, their versions of gurukul, their gharana, their endorsements, getting one pedigree as people used to by virtue of birth and the wealth of connections that brought. As I see the toolbox of fame in operation everywhere, I sometimes think of Marc Antony’s words in Julius Caesar, and how he could have replaced ‘honourable’ with famous today: ‘And…is a famous man’.
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Game Randomness And Bags
Posted February 22nd, 2020
Randomness is important to get right in games.
Not enough and a game becomes too predictable. Getting a good score becomes a game of memory rather than skill. A game quickly becomes old because there is not much variety.
Too much and a game becomes too unpredictable. It can also make the game unplayable, or too easy. If a game is too random you can't guarantee that it is theoretically beatable and you also can't guarantee that it will be difficult. Randomness can completely invalidate the skill of the player.
Another issue with too much randomness is that it actually seems less random. Human brains are pattern seeking, and true randomness means that things that don't look random can happen. A truly random coin can return 3 heads in a row, but it won't seem random to a human.
True randomness can create the impression of unfairness, and imagined randomness can seem more fair. If the world "knows" that it gave you a band hand in a card game two times in a row, and then compensates by giving a good hand, that seems fair, and people often expect it.
These are all important problems in a game. Generally, a game is expected to be:
- Difficult, requiring skill
- "Fair" - not rigged
And all of these are affected by the amount, and type of randomness in a game.
In game design, there are many different ways that randomness can be categorised and used in a game. Game randomness is often split into "input" randomness and "output" randomness. Input randomness is randomness that occurs before the player makes a decision, such as in level generation. Output randomness is randomness that occurs after the player makes a decision. One example of this is random amounts of damage when a player attacks.
In this post, however, I will only be discussing one technique to control randomness in games. This technique is called random bag generation. I will also only be discussing it in the context of input randomness.
Random bag generation is a technique used to make random spawning more enjoyable.
Let's say you can spawn multiple types of objects, for example, a vampire or a mummy or a skeleton in a Halloween game.
Instead of choosing a monster to spawn randomly, you put all of the options in a "bag". When you spawn a monster, you randomly remove one from the bag.
Next time you spawn, the monster you just spawned is no longer in the bag, so you won't have the same monster multiple times in a row. When the bag is empty, you refill the bag. If the last monster in a bag is a mummy, and the first monster in the next bag is also a mummy, then you have a mummy twice in a row, but that is acceptable.
Initially, Tetris would randomly choose a tetromino at the moment of spawning. Not from a bag, but from a random number generator. This led to the problem of having the same tetromino multiple times in a row. To fix this, a later version would check if the spawned tetromino was the same as the previous one, and choose one more time.
Later versions extended the history to look at the last few tetromino.
Finally, they used a bag implementation. All 7 tetromino were put in a bag and shuffled. A tetromino would be chosen at random from the bag, and, when the bag was empty, it was refilled.
In my game Deluge, I ran into problems with deciding where to spawn the obstacles.
The spawning algorithm I was using meant that people were able to get very high scores without moving because they can stay at the sides of the world and obstacles were not spawning often enough on the sides.
How did I solve it? I looped through every horizontal "region" in the game world and added a random position within that region to a bag. I also made sure that there was a higher frequency of positions at the sides. And then, when spawning an obstacle, I would choose a random position from the bag. This made the game much more fun because you had to be alert to win. I could guarantee that the game won't be easy a large percentage of the time.
Hopefully this technique not only showed how to use bags for random spawning, but also showed how randomness and game design are used together.
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Looking at working in France? Whether you’re moving for family, friends, or just looking for a new start, this blog covers the foundations of what you need to know to get the ball rolling for your career across the water.
France has many employee benefits to offer including a legal minimum of 25 paid days annual leave a year, a legal maximum of a 35 hour working week, and cheaper costs for commuting to and from work. But what else do you need to know about working in France? Is working weekends illegal? Find out in our blog.
Before you can consider working in France, if you’re not natively French you’ll need to get proof of your French language proficiency to a high enough standard, usually a minimum of C1 or C2 level on the proficiency scale, so that potential employers know you’ll be able to communicate with them. You may also need to submit your CV and cover letter in both the English and French language if some employers request you to do so, regardless of whether the role is primarily French or English speaking.
Secondly, if you’re planning on working in France for longer than 12 months you’ll need to submit a residence permit application at a local town hall in France. This is your permission for living and working in France.
Finally, it’s important to note that workplaces in France are traditional in the sense that punctuality is important and offices tend to be formal with defined senses of who does what according to job roles. Although work lunches are popular, socialising with colleagues outside of work hours isn’t really a done thing.
Similarly to the UK, the qualifications required for different jobs in France varies with the job. If you’re going into a skilled profession such as engineering, psychology, veterinary work or similar domains you’ll need a minimum of a postgraduate qualification such as a Master’s or PGdip/cert. However, other jobs such as marketing, sales, recruitment or similar tend to favour experience. This being said, it is worth noting that someone with relevant qualifications and experience may outweigh someone with only experience depending on the employer.
French language qualifications (such as an A-Level) will also stand you in good stead to potential employers as it’s proof that you have made the effort to learn the language skills required to communicate.
1. Is working weekends illegal in France?
The short answer is no it isn’t, but the longer answer is a little more complicated. French law does state that employers aren’t allowed to contact employees who work Monday-Friday at the weekends or outside of working hours about anything work related. However, for those that work in retail jobs or similar, if their contract includes a weekend work day then that is not against French law.
2. Can I be working in France after Brexit?
Yes, absolutely! You just need to make sure that you have all of the relevant documentation (such as a residency permit) and ensure it’s up to date since British Nationals no longer have the freedom to work in EU states without such documentation. Working in France after Brexit may be slightly more difficult now that we have left the EU, but it’s definitely not impossible.
3. How to get a work visa in France?
You can apply for a work visa in France after you have been employed there for three months or longer. Alongside your visa application you’ll need to submit a copy of the work permit that you provided to the company you work for, and your contract of employment to prove that you work for who you say you do.
Find out more about how to apply for a work visa in France.
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Since 2012, undocumented immigrants called Dreamers have received deferred deportation, work permits and — at one time — federally-backed mortgages, which have lower credit score and downpayment requirements for potential homebuyers.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program gives protections to about 800,000 children who grew up in the United States without immigration documentation. Major U.S. lenders, including Wells Fargo, assumed that these Dreamers qualified as lawful U.S. residents and granted them federally-backed mortgages (FHA loans).
But as early as 2018, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development started telling lenders that Dreamers have never been eligible for FHA loans. The communication that ensued was confusing, contradictory and even misleading, according to a complaint filed on June 9 by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.).
“It was an administrative trainwreck — and yet another example of what happens when the Trump administration’s disregard for immigrants and inability to govern collide,” said a statement by Robin Thurston, senior counsel for Democracy Forward, a Washington D.C.-based legal services and public policy research organization that requested an investigation into HUD’s actions, on June 5.
HUD’s Office of the Inspector General would not confirm or deny an investigation, but HUD Secretary Ben Carson agreed to cooperate with any investigation. In the meantime, HUD has denied a “formal or informal policy change” on multiple occasions, including in a letter to Rep. Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, in December 2018, according to records.
“FHA’s policy has not changed… Any entity asserting that the Obama Administration deemed DACA recipients eligible for FHA loans or that the Trump Administration changed this policy is incorrect,” a HUD spokesperson told Yahoo Finance in an email, explaining that FHA’s 2015 handbook “clearly states that ‘non-U.S. citizens without lawful residency in the U.S. are not eligible for FHA-insured mortgages.’ This policy has never changed.”
But internally, HUD employees admitted that HUD began enforcing DACA ineligibility recently, when the housing agency noticed that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) defines Dreamers as unlawful residents, according to internal emails, memos and documents that Democracy Forward obtained by a Freedom of Information Act Request.
“The decision was made to enforce [Dreamer ineligibility] only at this time… Everyone just assumed they [Dreamers] had lawful status,” said an email from the assistant secretary for housing – Federal Housing Administration commissioner to the Philadelphia quality assurance director in November 2018.
HUD made its decision based on USCIS’s definition, but the law is not consistent on whether Dreamers are “lawful.” According to regulations by the Department of Homeland Security, which is the parent organization of USCIS, a person “who has approved deferred action status” is in “lawful status.”
“HUD made a choice to exclude DACA recipients from FHA loans by defining lawful residency in a different way, in a manner to exclude them, which is made clear in the FOIA documents,” said Menendez.
‘Wide eyes and a puzzled look’ among lenders
For U.S. mortgage lenders, the confusion began at a May 2018 HUD training session, where a mid-level HUD employee allegedly told lenders that DACA recipients are ineligible for federally-backed mortgages.
“Just about every lender representative at the roundtable had wide eyes and a puzzled look on their face” when it was stated, wrote Jana Holmstrup, CEO of Kings Mortgage Services in an email to HUD officials in August 2018, adding that the mortgage industry was at odds on the matter and the policy needed to be officially announced.
After May 2018, HUD doubled down on the Dreamer exclusion in private emails, internal memos, a confidential briefing book and a HUD roundtable discussion. HUD explained that the government has “deferred” prosecution against Dreamers — not made them legal. But when lenders sought official public guidance, internal documents showed that HUD did not provide any.
Lenders complained that private correspondence about the issue resulted in some lenders advertising and granting federally-backed mortgages to Dreamers, while others — like Northwest Mortgage Group (Ore.), Kings Mortgage Services (Calif.) and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation (Wisc.) — were obliged to stop offering loans to Dreamers.
“Due to the fact that I was invited and attended [the discussion where HUD staff stated DACA recipients are ineligible for FHA financing] — and heard [them] say it — we now find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage,” said Holmstrup, who said that Kings Mortgage’s competitors, including Alterra Home Loans (Nev.), American Pacific Mortgage (Calif.) and Country Club Mortgage (Calif.), continued to offer FHA financing to Dreamers because they hadn’t “heard” of the change. Altera, American Pacific and Country Club Mortgage did not respond to requests for comment.
Wells Fargo and, allegedly CitiMortgage, also provided FHA loans to Dreamers, according to complaints. CitiMortgage did not reply to a request for comment, but Wells Fargo told Yahoo Finance that they offered a “small number of FHA loans to borrowers with DACA status prior to HUD’s definitive statement on the issue.”
Some local HUD bureaus, like the Denver Homeownership Center, also advised lenders to go ahead with loans to qualifying DACA recipients, according to a letter from a lender on October 18, 2018.
The lack of guidance from HUD has hurt not only lenders but Dreamers as well. In December 2018, Direct Mortgage Loans (Md.) denied an FHA loan to a DACA recipient who was about to close on the purchase of a house, according to a letter from Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
“My family is so excited about this house we are giving up Christmas, and I pawned all my jewelry to get the money to buy the house. Because the lender said everything looked good, I gave my landlord notice that I would be leaving the end of December. Now I find out that because I have DACA, I don’t qualify to buy a house with FHA,” wrote the DACA recipient, who has lived in the U.S. over 20 years, has a social security number and pays taxes.
It is unknown how many Dreamers have applied for or received a federally-backed mortgage, but some 13.6% of Dreamers have purchased a home, according to a 2019 survey of over 1,000 DACA recipients by the National Immigration Law Center, the Center for American Progress and a University of California professor.
‘Just post the freaking DACA FAQ’
In response to lenders’ requests for clarification, mid-level HUD staff drafted a short DACA policy explanation for a HUD “Frequently Asked Questions” web page in May 2018, which was actually never published for the public.
“FHA’s longstanding policy has been that Non-U.S. citizens without lawful residency in the U.S. are not eligible for FHA insured mortgages. According to the USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services]… DACA recipients are not granted lawful residency status… and therefore are not eligible for FHA financing,” an amended draft of HUD’s unpublished DACA policy reads, according to an email on October 11, 2018.
Employees insisted in emails that the FAQ get published but it was never posted. Internal emails, memos and documents reveal a year-and-a-half long correspondence between employees and high-level officials about publicizing the FAQ.
“It wouldn’t be private if [a HUD manager] would just post the freaking DACA FAQ,” wrote a HUD employee in an email some six months into the battle, calling for clarity.
The first record of management action on the FAQ came on December 19, 2018, five days after a BuzzFeed News article alleged that the Trump administration is ‘Quietly denying federal housing loans to DACA recipients.’
The draft FAQ on DACA “was reviewed by program counsel but I do not know if it was shared with OGC [Office of General Counsel] leadership,” wrote a manager. According to an OGC email two weeks prior, OGC had in fact reviewed the FAQ and was told by management not to publish it.
“[The documents] don’t say exactly why the FAQ wasn’t published, and honestly I don’t think there’s any reasonable explanation why. They had internally reached a conclusion that would have provided clarity to the lending market and borrowers, and for no reason we can tell, failed to publish it,” said Thurston.
But HUD Secretary Carson told a different story before Congress on April 3, 2019. Democracy Forward alleges that Carson deceived Congress about DACA eligibility in a testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies.
“His failure to reveal that there was at least an informal policy change and imply DACA recipients were still getting loans suggests either an unwillingness to reveal the policy change, or that [he was] unaware of a significant change within his own agency,” said Thurston.
At the Appropriations Subcommittee meeting, Aguilar asked Carson whether DACA recipients are eligible for FHA-backed loans and whether it was possible someone outside of HUD had issued guidance.
“I inquired of the appropriate people, including the FHA commissioner [Brian Montgomery], and no one was aware of any changes that had been made to the policy whatsoever. I’m sure we have plenty of DACA recipients who have FHA mortgages,” replied Carson. “That would surprise me,” if folks in the mortgage industry heard guidance that DACA recipients should not receive FHA mortgages, he said, adding that it was possible that an unauthorized entity had provided guidance.
Thurston told Yahoo Finance that Carson’s answer showed either ignorance of a significant change within his own agency, or an unwillingness to reveal the policy change.
Homeownership for Dreamers
In June 2019, Vargas introduced the “Homeownership for Dreamers Act”, which would make Dreamers eligible for FHA loans, but the bill never passed the U.S. House of Representatives even though it was backed by Waters, chairwoman of the house financial services committee.
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) has urged Congress to pass the Homeownership for Dreamers Act, citing that 92.6% of Dreamers are Hispanic or Latino — a demographic group that is responsible for more than half of homeownership growth in the U.S. over the past decade. These homeowners rely on federally-backed mortgages, twice as much as other groups: some 42.8% of hispanic homebuyers have an FHA loan compared to 20.6% of non-hispanics, according to NAHREP.
“We must ensure that DACA recipients eager to contribute to our economy through homeownership are given the tools to do so,” said Noerena Limón, senior vice president of public policy and industry relations at NAHREP. “Reviving and rebuilding our economy will require input from all sectors of our economy, including from our DREAMers.”
Sarah Paynter is a reporter at Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter @sarahapaynter
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Shortly after October ends we enter the period where we remember “The Fallen”. That encompasses mostly those who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars, as well as conflicts that may have affected your own country or yourself. In the case of South Africa it is mostly “The Border War” and to a lesser extent the Korean Conflict. But often we forget those that get caught up in these conflicts, and who suffer the results of the madness that we get caught up in.
Millions of civilians have lost their lives in the last century through bombing, occupation by the enemy, being used as hostages, deliberate extermination and all manner of other things that are too horrible to contemplate. That continues to be true even as I peck away at this keyboard. Civilians are really the pawns stuck in the middle.
And then there are those who lost siblings or parents, or friends or neighbours. Those stories of suffering never really came out, and sadly in many cases the families never really came to terms with their losses. Just as many of the combatants came home with horrific wounds or PTSD.
War does not only touch soldiers, but almost everybody around them. The only group that is seemingly unaffected by war seems to be those who send the troops off in the first place, the politicians and their governments very rarely see the front line unless it is to inspect rows of smartly turned out squaddies who were really canon fodder for the puppet masters.
The recent election in the United States is going to have interesting consequences for the world as it totters once again on the edge of a potential World War Three. Will we step back from the brink? will the troops be sent home leaving the battlefield that is Syria and the Middle East simmering and imploding after so much meddling by “superpowers”? I cannot answer that.
If/when peace breaks out will the people of Syria remember their dead? will anybody mourn their innocents? Mothers probably will, but the powers that be? probably not.
This year I will wear my poppy with pride and remember those who I can relate to. My Grandfather, my Father, my Uncle, the boys from Bravo Company, the boy from Echo Company, the crews of merchant ships, the men of the navy, the soldiers and airmen, the nurses and VAD’s, the civilians, the animals, the children, 6 million Jews, the Men of the Mendi, the conscience objector, the policemen, the mothers, daughter and sisters, and so many more that I could be here till next year and never cover them all. However, we must always be mindful to remember:
‘When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.’
I do not however remember the politicians and dictators who create this horror, they are not worth remembering.
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Moses had charged parents in teaching their children to whet the word of God upon them (Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 6:7) by frequent repetition of the same things over and over again; and here he himself takes the same method of instructing the Israelites as his children, frequently inculcating the same precepts and cautions, with the same motives or arguments to enforce them, that what they heard so often might abide with them. In this chapter Moses gives them, I. General exhortations to obedience, Deuteronomy 8:1; Deuteronomy 8:6. II. A review of the great things God had done for them in the wilderness, as a good argument for obedience, Deuteronomy 8:2-5; Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 8:16. III. A prospect of the good land into which God would now bring them, Deuteronomy 8:7-9. IV. A necessary caution against the temptations of a prosperous condition, Deuteronomy 8:10-14; Deuteronomy 8:17; Deuteronomy 8:18. V. A fair warning of the fatal consequences of apostasy from God, Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 8:20.
|A Charge to Israel; Israel's Retrospect.||B. C. 1451.|
1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
The charge here given them is the same as before, to keep and do all God's commandments. Their obedience must be, 1. Careful: Observe to do. 2. Universal: To do all the commandments,Deuteronomy 8:1; Deuteronomy 8:1. And, 3. From a good principle, with a regard to God as the Lord, and their God, and particularly with a holy fear of him (Deuteronomy 8:6; Deuteronomy 8:6), from a reverence of his majesty, a submission to his authority, and a dread of his wrath. To engage them to this obedience, besides the great advantages of it, which he sets before them (that they should live and multiply, and all should be well with them, Deuteronomy 8:1; Deuteronomy 8:1), he directs them,
I. To look back upon the wilderness through which God had now brought them: Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness,Deuteronomy 8:2; Deuteronomy 8:2. Now that they had come of age, and were entering upon their inheritance, they must be reminded of the discipline they had been under during their minority and the method God had taken to train them up for himself. The wilderness was the school in which they had been for forty years boarded and taught, under tutors and governors; and this was a time to bring it all to remembrance. The occurrences of these last forty years were very memorable and well worthy to be remembered, very useful and profitable to be remembered, as yielding a complication of arguments for obedience; and they were recorded on purpose that they might be remembered. As the feast of the passover was a memorial of their deliverance out of Egypt, so was the feast of tabernacles of their passage through the wilderness. Note, It is very good for us to remember all the ways both of God's providence and grace, by which he has led us hitherto through this wilderness, that we may be prevailed with cheerfully to serve him and trust in him. Here let us set up our Ebenezer.
1. They must remember the straits they were sometimes brought into, (1.) For the mortifying of their pride; it was to humble them, that they might not be exalted above measure with the abundance of miracles that were wrought in their favor, and that they might not be secure, and confident of being in Canaan immediately. (2.) For the manifesting of their perverseness: to prove them, that they and others might know (for God himself perfectly knew it before) all that was in their heart, and might see that God chose them not for any thing in them that might recommend them to his favour, for their whole carriage was untoward and provoking. Many commandments God gave them which there would have been no occasion for if they had not been led through the wilderness, as those relating to the manna (Exodus 16:28); and God thereby tried them, as our first parents were tried by the trees of the garden, whether they would keep God's commandments or not. Or God thereby proved them whether they would trust his promises, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, and, in dependence on his promises, obey his precepts.
2. They must remember the supplies which were always granted them.
(1.) God himself took particular care of their food, raiment, and health; and what would they have more? [1.] They had manna for food (Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 8:3): God suffered them to hunger, and the fed them with manna, that the extremity of their want might make the supply the more acceptable, and God's goodness to them therein the more remarkable. God often brings his people low, that he may have the honour of helping them. And thus the manna of heavenly comforts is given to those that hunger and thirst after righteousness,Matthew 5:6. To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. It is said of the manna that it was a sort of food which neither they nor their fathers knew. And again, Deuteronomy 8:16; Deuteronomy 8:16. If they knew there was such a thing that fell sometimes with the dew in those countries, as some think they did, yet it was never known to fall in such vast quantities, so constantly, and at all seasons of the year, so long, and only about a certain place. These things were altogether miraculous, and without precedent; the Lord created a new thing for their supply. And hereby he taught them the man liveth not by bread alone. Though God has appointed bread for the strengthening of man's heart, and that is ordinarily made the staff of life, yet God can, when he pleases, command support and nourishment without it, and make something else, very unlikely, to answer the intention as well. We might live upon air if it were sanctified for that use by the word of God; for the means God ordinarily uses he is not tied to, but can perform his kind purposes to his people without them. Our Saviour quotes this scripture in answer to that temptation of Satan, Command that these stones be made bread. "What need of that?" says Christ; "my heavenly Father can keep me alive without bread," Matthew 4:3; Matthew 4:4. Let none of God's children distrust their Father, nor take any sinful indirect course for the supply of their own necessities; some way or other, God will provide for them in the way of duty and honest diligence, and verily they shall be fed. It may be applied spiritually; the word of God, as it is the revelation of God's will and grace duly received and entertained by faith, is the food of the soul, the life which is supported by that is the life of the man, and not only that life which is supported by bread. The manna typified Christ, the bread of life. He is the Word of God; by him we live. The Lord evermore give us that bread which endures to eternal life, and let us not be put off with the meat that perisheth! [2.] The same clothes served them from Egypt to Canaan, at least the generality of them. Though they had no change of raiment, yet it was always new, and waxed not old upon them, Deuteronomy 8:4; Deuteronomy 8:4. This was a standing miracle, and the greater if, as the Jews say, they grew with them, so as to be always fit for them. But it is plain that they brought out of Egypt bundles of clothes on their shoulders (Exodus 12:34), which they might barter with each other as there was occasion; and these, with what they wore, sufficed till they came into a country where they could furnish themselves with new clothes.
(2.) By the method God took of providing food and raiment for them [1.] He humbled them. It was a mortification to them to be tied for forty years together to the same meat, without any varieties, and to the same clothes, in the same fashion. Thus he taught them that the good things he designed for them were figures of better things, and that the happiness of man consists not in being clothed in purple or fine linen, and in faring sumptuously every day, but in being taken into covenant and communion with God, and in learning his righteous judgements. God's law, which was given to Israel in the wilderness, must be to them instead of food and raiment. [2.] He proved them, whether they could trust him to provide for them when means and second causes failed. Thus he taught them to live in a dependence upon Providence, and not to perplex themselves with care what they should eat and drink, and wherewithal they should be clothed. Christ would have his disciples learn the same lesson (Matthew 6:25), and took a like method to teach it to them, when he sent them out without purse or scrip, and yet took care that they lacked nothing,Luke 22:35. [3.] God took care of their health and ease. Though they travelled on foot in a dry country, the way rough and untrodden, yet their feet swelled not. God preserved them from taking hurt by the inconveniences of their journey; and mercies of this kind we ought to acknowledge. Note, Those that follow God's conduct are not only safe but easy. Our feet swell not while we keep in the way of duty; it is the way of transgression that is hard,Proverbs 13:15. God had promised to keep the feet of his saints,1 Samuel 2:9.
3. They must also remember the rebukes they had been under, Deuteronomy 8:6; Deuteronomy 8:6. During these years of their education they had been kept under a strict discipline, and not without need. As a man chasteneth his son, for his good, and because he loves him, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. God is a loving tender Father to all his children, yet when there is occasion they shall feel the smart of the rod. Israel did so: they were chastened that they might not be condemned, chastened with the rod of men. Not as a man wounds and slays his enemies whose destruction he aims at, but as a man chastens his son whose happiness and welfare he designs: so did their God chasten them; he chastened and taught them, Psalms 94:12. This they must consider in their heart, that is, they must own it from their own experience that God had corrected them with a fatherly love, for which they must return to him a filial reverence and compliance. Because God has chastened thee as a father, therefore (Deuteronomy 8:6; Deuteronomy 8:6) thou shalt keep his commandments. This use we should make of all our afflictions; by them let us be engaged and quickened to our duty. Thus they are directed to look back upon the wilderness.
II. He directs them to look forward to Canaan, into which God was now bringing them. Look which way we will, both our reviews and our prospects will furnish us with arguments for obedience. Observe,
1. The land which they were now going to take possession of is here described to be a very good land, having every thing in it that was desirable, Deuteronomy 8:7-9; Deuteronomy 8:7-9. (1.) It was well-watered, like Eden, the garden of the Lord. It was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, which contributed to the fruitfulness of the soil. Perhaps there was a greater plenty of water there now than in Abraham's time, the Canaanites having found and digged wells; so that Israel reaped the fruit of their industry as well as of God's bounty. (2.) The ground produced great plenty of all good things, not only for the necessary support, but for the convenience and comfort of human life. In their fathers' land they had bread enough; it was corn land, a land of wheat and barley, where, with the common care and labour of the husbandman, they might eat bread without scarceness. It was a fruitful land, that was never turned into barrenness but for the iniquity of those that dwelt therein. They had not only water enough to quench their thirst, but vines, the fruit whereof was ordained to make glad the heart. And, if they were desirous of dainties, they needed not to send to far countries for them, when their own was so well stocked with fig-trees, and pomegranates, olives of the best kind, and honey, or date-trees, as some think it should be read. (3.) Even the bowels of its earth were very rich, though it should seem that silver and gold they had none; of these the princes of Sheba should bring presents (Psalms 72:10; Psalms 72:15); yet they had plenty of those more serviceable metals, iron and brass. Iron-stone and mines of brass were found in their hills. See Job 28:2.
2. These things are mentioned, (1.) To show the great difference between that wilderness through which God had led them and the good land into which he was bringing them. Note, Those that bear the inconveniences of an afflicted state with patience and submission, are humbled by them and prove well under them, are best prepared for better circumstances. (2.) To show what obligations they lay under to keep God's commandments, both in gratitude for his favours to them and from a regard to their own interest, that the favours might be continued. The only way to keep possession of this good land would be to keep in the way of their duty. (3.) To show what a figure it was of good things to come. Whatever others saw, it is probable that Moses in it saw a type of the better country: The gospel church is the New-Testament Canaan, watered with the Spirit in his gifts and graces, planted with the trees of righteousness, bearing the fruits of righteousness. Heaven is the good land, in which there is nothing wanting, and where there is a fulness of joy.
|Cautions Relating to Worldly Prosperity.||B. C. 1451.|
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Moses, having mentioned the great plenty they would find in the land of Canaan, finds it necessary to caution them against the abuse of that plenty, which was a sin they would be the more prone to new that they came into the vineyard of the Lord, immediately out of a barren desert.
I. He directs them to the duty of a prosperous condition, Deuteronomy 8:10; Deuteronomy 8:10. They are allowed to eat even to fulness, not to surfeiting no excess; but let them always remember their benefactor, the founder of their feast, and never fail to give thanks after meat: Then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God. 1. They must take heed of eating or drinking so much as to indispose themselves for this duty of blessing God, rather aiming to serve God therein with so much the more cheerfulness and enlargement. 2. They must not have any fellowship with those that, when they had eaten and were full, blessed false gods, as the Israelites themselves had done in their worship of the golden calf, Exodus 32:6. 3. Whatever they had the comfort of God must have the glory of. As our Saviour has taught us to bless before we eat (Matthew 14:19; Matthew 14:20), so we are here taught to bless after meat. That is our Hosannah--God bless; this is our Hallelujah--Blessed be God. In every thing we must give thanks. From this law the religious Jews took up a laudable usage of blessing God, not only at their solemn meals, but upon other occasions; if they drank a cup of wine they lifted up their hands and said, Blessed be he that created the fruit of the vine to make glad the heart. If they did but smell at a flower, they said, Blessed be he that made this flower sweet. 4. When they gave thanks for the fruits of the land they must give thanks for the fruits of the land itself, which was given them by promise From all our comfortable enjoyments we must take occasion to thank God for our comfortable settlements; and I know not but we of this nation have as much reason as they had to give thanks for a good land.
II. He arms them against the temptations of a prosperous condition, and charges them to stand upon their guard against them: "When thou art settled in goodly houses of thy own building," Deuteronomy 8:12; Deuteronomy 8:12 (for though God gave them houses which they builded not, Deuteronomy 6:10; Deuteronomy 6:10, these would not serve them, they must have larger and finer),--"and when thou hast grown rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold (Deuteronomy 8:13; Deuteronomy 8:13), as Abraham (Genesis 13:2),--when all thou hast is multiplied," 1. "Then take heed of pride. Beware lest then thy heart be lifted up," Deuteronomy 8:14; Deuteronomy 8:14. When the estate rises, the mind is apt to rise with it, in self-conceit, self-complacency, and self-confidence. Let us therefore strive to keep the spirit low in a high condition; humility is both the ease and the ornament of prosperity. Take heed of saying, so much as in thy heart, that proud word, My power, even the might of my hand, hath gotten me this wealth,Deuteronomy 8:17; Deuteronomy 8:17. Note, We must never take the praise of our prosperity to ourselves, nor attribute it to our ingenuity or industry; for bread is not always to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding,Ecclesiastes 9:11. It is spiritual idolatry thus to sacrifice to our own net,Habakkuk 1:16. 2. "Then take heed of forgetting God." This follows upon the lifting up on the heart; for it is through the pride of the countenance that the wicked seek not after God,Psalms 10:4. Those that admire themselves despise God. (1.) "Forget not thy duty to God." Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 8:11. We forget God if we keep not his commandments; we forget his authority over us, and our obligations to him and expectations from him, if we are not obedient to his laws. When men grow rich they are tempted to think religion a needless thing. They are happy without it, think it a thing below them and too hard upon them. Their dignity forbids them to stoop, and their liberty forbids them to serve. But we are basely ungrateful if the better God is to us the worse we are to him. (2.) "Forget not God's former dealings with thee. Thy deliverance out of Egypt, Deuteronomy 8:14; Deuteronomy 8:14. The provision he made for thee in the wilderness, that great and terrible wilderness." They must never forget the impressions which the horror of that wilderness made upon them; see Jeremiah 2:6, where it is called the very shadow of death. There God preserved them from being destroyed by the fiery serpents and scorpions, though sometimes he made use of them for their correction: there he kept them from perishing for want of water, following them with water out of a rock of flint (Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 8:15), out of which (says bishop Patrick) one would rather have expected fire than water. There he fed them with manna, of which before (Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 8:3), taking care to keep them alive, that he might do them good at their latter end,Deuteronomy 8:16; Deuteronomy 8:16. Note, God reserves the best till the last for his Israel. However he may seem to deal hardly with them by the way, he will not fail to do them good at their latter end. (3.) "Forget not God's hand in thy present prosperity, Deuteronomy 8:18; Deuteronomy 8:18. Remember it is he that giveth thee wealth; for he giveth thee power to get wealth." See here how God's giving and our getting are reconciled, and apply it to spiritual wealth. It is our duty to get wisdom, and above all our gettings to get understanding; and yet it is God's grace that gives wisdom, and when we have got it we must not say, It was the might of our hand that got it, but must own it was God that gave us power to get it, and therefore to him we must give the praise and consecrate the use of it. The blessing of the Lord on the hand of the diligent makes rich both for this world and for the other. He giveth thee power to get wealth, not so much to gratify thee, and make thee easy, as that he may establish his covenant. All God's gifts are in pursuance of his promises.
III. He repeats the fair warning he had often given them of the fatal consequences of their apostasy from God, Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 8:20. Observe, 1. How he describes the sin; it is forgetting God, and then worshipping other gods. What wickedness will not those fall into that keep thoughts of God out of their minds? And, when once the affections are displaced from God, they will soon be misplaced upon lying vanities. 2. How he denounces wrath and ruin against them for it: "If you do so, you shall surely perish, and the power and might of your hands, which you are so proud of, cannot help you. Nay, you shall perish as the nations that are driven out before you. God will make no more account of you, notwithstanding his covenant with you and your relation to him, than he does of them, if you will not be obedient and faithful to him." Those that follow others in sin will certainly follow them to destruction. If we do as sinners do, we must expect to fare as sinners fare.
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Adult Learning in and through the Arts. ERIC Digest.
by Kerka, Sandra
It has become increasingly clear that millions of contemporary adults...have
grown up with little or no grounding in the arts, and do not even consider
participating in an artistic discipline or attending an arts event when
choosing among their leisure and entertainment options (McDaniel and Thorn
1997, p. 6). The focus of much contemporary research and policy in arts
education is on the K-12 level. However, arts learning experiences also
benefit adults. Lifelong learning in the arts is a broad subject that may
be viewed from many perspectives. This Digest discusses adult learning
in the arts and addresses current issues in adult arts education.
ADULT ARTS LEARNING: SOME EXAMPLES
The motivations and objectives of both providers and participants in
adult arts learning are diverse. Adult educators seeking to foster transformative
learning invoke the role of imagination in developing new perspectives;
they view the arts as a way of engaging adults in imaginative exploration
of themselves and their relationship to the world (Dirkx 2000; Kazemek
and Rigg 1997). In adult literacy education, analysis of paintings and
poems can be a means of developing visual and linguistic acuity, critical
thinking, and aesthetic judgment (Dreybus 2000; Kazemek and Rigg 1997).
Greene (in Elias, Jones, and Normie 1995) speaks of aesthetic education
as a form of critical literacy to empower people to read and name their
For prison inmates, the arts can be a route to reconnecting with learning,
developing interpersonal and reasoning skills, and exploring different
value systems. For example, drama workshops in a prison literacy program
draw on learners' experiences, involving them in role playing to reinforce
literacy practices and helping them reinterpret their experiences metaphorically
(Kett 2001). Another approach to the arts as experiential learning is the
Duke University business school's Leadership and the Arts course (Alburty
1999). The program equates leaders and artists in that both know how to
coach, encourage, take risks, innovate, inspire, and express a vision;
both use the capacities of emotional observation and critical judgment.
Intergenerational arts projects foster the development of communication
and reflection skills and formation of new perspectives about oneself and
others. Apol and Kambour (1999) used dance and writing with elders and
adolescents to engage both verbal and nonverbal ways of knowing and help
them express "the complex physical, social, and psychological issues in
their lives" (p. 107). Such therapeutic benefits of creative activity are
often an important motivation for arts participation. In Bardsley and Soskice's
(1998) survey, one-third of adult arts learners sought job-related skills,
but the majority were motivated by increased confidence, maintenance of
physical and mental abilities, and recovery from loss or illness. Similarly,
in a music appreciation course, two-thirds of adult participants cited
therapeutic motivations such as coping with stress (Buell in Jones, McConnell,
and Normie 1996).
These examples involve different providers: adult educators (Dirkx,
Dreybus, Kazemek and Rigg), artists/arts educators working with adults
(Apol and Kambour, Buell), and educators using the arts in other subject
areas (Alburty). In addition, a great deal of adult arts learning takes
place formally and informally in museums, parks, galleries, theatres, and
similar venues, organizations that may not view their role as primarily
educative (Chadwick and Stannett 2000). With many different providers,
there are multiple, sometimes competing, purposes for adult arts education.
Is it to develop the individual, to maintain the dominant culture, or to
change the culture (Elias et al. 1995)? Is it to develop appreciative audiences
or creative practitioners (McDaniel and Thorn 1997)? To liberate creativity
or to develop technical skills (Milton in Elias et al. 1995)? Is art the
means or a goal in itself; that is, are the arts used for instrumental
purposes such as critical thinking, literacy, therapy, or other outcomes
often used to justify arts education, or does arts learning have intrinsic
value (Maguire in Jones et al. 1996)? All of these purposes may have value,
if the programs based on them match the goals and motivations of learners.
ISSUES IN ADULT ARTS EDUCATION
These multiple purposes raise certain issues for providers. First, what
counts as art and who decides? The concept of "High Art" has perpetuated
an image of the arts as limited to the art forms and aesthetic values of
an elite. Folk art, popular culture, and the like do not meet the standards
of the dominant value system (Jones 2000). For many, creative activity
ceases after childhood, as "social values, cultural attitudes, and educational
practices contribute to a loss of art making experience over a life time"
(Jongeward in Jones et al. 1996, p. 116). Mullen's interviews with "ordinary
Canadians" (in Elias et al. 1995) acknowledged participants as active members
of their culture, creating and transmitting cultural knowledge, yet they
often expressed "a sense of inferiority or inadequacy in relation to definitions
of 'art' and 'artist'" (p. 254). Maguire (in Jones et al. 1995) argues
that too often the art work of people with disabilities is viewed merely
as therapy instead of having inherent value.
On the other hand, the Adult Arts Education Project began with the assumptions
that every person is endowed with creative impulses and that the arts can
play an integral role in everyone's life (McDaniel and Thorn 1997). Defined
more broadly, the arts are a means of organizing and making meaning of
experience (Lomas 1998); they are "languages for the communication of new
ideas" (Milton in Elias et al. 1995, p. 75). To Nolan (in Jones et al.
1996), the function of art is "to destabilize fixed ideas and existing
identities; to help us find a new way of seeing, of hearing, of thinking,
of feeling.... And to find from those experiences new ways of experiencing
our communities, our neighbors, our society" (p. 48).
Based on these definitions, a second issue is what are the goals of
adult arts education? Adult educators have challenged the limitation of
education in the arts to induction into a canon of great art works (Jones
1999). Arts education can help foster identification of and appreciation
for cultural heritage (ibid.). However, cultural institutions such as museums
can sometimes serve as purveyors of "official" knowledge and culture (Chadwick
and Stannett 2000). Rather than a one-way transfer of this knowledge, arts
education can play a more dynamic role in developing adults' abilities
to analyze, interpret, and produce cultural knowledge (ibid.). For example,
adult learners can question dominant cultural representations in museums,
asking what is suppressed/forgotten, in whose interest has the selection
been made, and whose voices and cultural preferences are portrayed (ibid.).
These activities reflect the social change purposes of adult education.
However, learners may have more instrumental goals--such as the acquisition
of technical skills and experience to become professional practitioners
or teachers (Milton in Elias et al. 1995)--that may clash with providers'
goals. Brown and Brownhill (1998), for example, questioned the purpose
of art history in a part-time adult degree program: for art appreciation,
development of aesthetic judgment, or acquisition of skills? They shaped
a course in which art is first contextualized (its time, place, reason
for creation, creators, medium), then adults bring their experience to
bear on it. The intent was not to produce expert art historians but to
develop visual and interpretive skills, which are transferable to a critical
viewing of the world.
A third issue is how should learning in the arts be assessed? According
to Jones (2000), assessment in adult visual art classes typically involves
an exhibition or portfolio and uses subjective and aesthetic criteria,
ignoring the learning that has taken place. Jones also notes that values
and standards in the arts change over time. He proposes a model of creative
activity in which learners' work is compared to expected learning outcomes
such as the development of visual perception, the ability to exploit potential
of the medium, involvement in the creative process, and acquisition of
relevant knowledge. The focus shifts from outcomes based on content to
developmental processes. Using Milton's (in Elias et al. 1995) definition
of the arts as languages, the emphasis of assessment "is placed upon the
understanding of social and communicative processes ... on the social functions
of the artistic language used, rather than on its grammar and vocabulary"
COMMUNITY ARTS AND ADULT LEARNING
Community arts is an approach that illustrates the issues of what art
is, what the purposes of arts education are, and how arts learning should
be assessed. Community arts are focused on the production of art as the
expression of community culture, not as a commodity (Williams 2000). Collaborative
artistic production is a powerful vehicle for experiential learning and
appreciation of other value systems. Community arts have been used by adult,
feminist, and popular educators (Clover 2000) and community development
and social work practitioners (Williams 2000). They have both instrumental
and intrinsic purposes. For example, a Toronto project engaged women in
photographic explorations of violence and poverty and the creation of both
individual and collective artistic products (Clover 2001). Because art
had been viewed "as something that is done only by naturally born talents
or those highly trained," the women were empowered by seeing the artistic
process as accessible and possible (ibid., p. 5). Community arts projects
can also be therapeutic [e.g., a project in which feminist artist-educators
used women's crafts as artistic expressions to overcome feelings of isolation
and create a sense of community (Clover 2001)] and transformative [e.g.,
in an environmental adult education project, community members created
paintings on Toronto garbage trucks to raise awareness of garbage and the
process of waste removal (Clover 2000)].
Community arts address the issue of what counts as art. Lomas (1998)
charges that community art is devalued because established traditions,
theories, and control of taste, aesthetics, and interpretive skills are
in the province of "High Art." She notes that funders more often support
arts teaching via technique (content, form, adaptive behavior) rather than
authentic experience. Williams (2000) discusses the need to acknowledge
community art as an important catalyst for cultural development and outlines
suggested outcomes for evaluating the impact of community arts programs,
with indicators for each: building social capital, effecting social change,
contributing to economic development, recognizing diversity, and defining
Humans are impelled to interpret and make meaning of experiences. Moreover,
"adults will eagerly engage in learning and growing and will participate
when meaningful opportunities and conditions are presented" (McDaniel and
Thorn 1997, pp. 67-68). Adults may find a rich source of meaningful learning
opportunities in and through the arts. Education in the arts includes activities
whose primary purpose is to encourage people to engage with the arts as
creators, participants, or appreciators (Jones 1999). Education through
the arts involves activities that use the arts to achieve ends that are
tangential to the arts (ibid.), developing new ways of seeing, knowing,
and experiencing. "The different spaces in which these activities take
place embody different value systems. Maybe it is time to reconsider what
we mean by the arts and by creativity" (p. 7).
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s herbarium (BKL) is on temporary loan to the New York Botanical Garden. For access to BKL resources, please contact Matthew Pace at [email protected]
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herbarium includes over 300,000 specimens of preserved plants. The collection is worldwide in scope, with concentration on plants of the greater New York area and cultivated plants.
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The herbarium also incorporates a number of historically important collections including:
- The personal herbarium of A.A. Heller, rich in types from the western United States.
- The personal herbarium of Camillo Schneider, which formed the basis for his monograph on woody cultivated plants, Handbuch der Laubholzkunde.
- A rare bound set of Australian algae and useful sets from the Whitney South Seas expedition and the Mulford expedition.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Herbarium houses over 300,000 specimens of preserved plants. These collections are not only valuable resources for researchers—they often have a story behind them as well. Whether brought back by a trailblazing expedition, cataloged by a pioneering scientist, or assembled by ordinary individuals with a love of nature, the Herbarium collections are tangible testimony to the human quest for knowledge.
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The Mulford Expedition to Bolivia
Collections made by O.E. White, M. Cardenas, and H.H. Rusby during the Mulford Expedition to Bolivia in 1928. The collection includes many isotypes of the species Rusby described from the expedition.
North American Graminae and Cyperaceae by Asa Gray
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A set of Heller's collections from the western United States including types for most of the species he described in the journals Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club and Muhlenbergia
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Types and other collections made by H.K. Svenson during his trip in 1930
The Whitney South Seas Expedition
A set of the collections made by Jones, Beck, and others during the Whitney Expedition to the South Pacific in 1922
The Rocky Mountain Expedition of 1862 by C.C. Parry, E. Hall and J.P. Harbour
Collections made in 1862, including isotypes of species described by A. Gray
The Personal Herbarium of Camillo Schneider, 1915-1919
A collection of 6,000 cultivated plant specimens, mostly from the Arnold Arboretum
Mauritius Ferns of Nicolas Pike
Collections made by Pike while he was the U.S. Consul to Mauritius (1866–1876).
Musci boreali-americana by Sullivant and Lesquereux
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John Macoun's Canadian Mosses
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Phytotheca boreali-americana by Collins, Holden, and Setchell
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Algae and Corallines of New York Bay by C.F. Durant
A complete bound set, published by G.P. Putnam, 1850
Algal Herbarium of John Hooper
Originally part of the Long Island Historical Society collection, which formed the basis for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden collection
American Algae by Josephine Tilden
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Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences Collection
Collections of Rev. George Hulst and Rev. Stephen Calverley, 19th-century Brooklyn naturalists who helped found the academy
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With foreign exchange market online trading, you will find that spreads vary from broker to broker and by currency pairs at each broker as well. In general, the most liquid pairs have the tightest trading spreads and fewer sudden price movements. The less liquid the currency pair, the wider the spread. This is especially true of some of the less-traded crosses.
It is to your advantage to trade when there is peak liquidity and market interest, as this is when short-term forex trading strategies are the most effective.
You will find that market liquidity is the most robust during the European session, which runs from approximately 2 am Eastern Time (ET) to noon Eastern Time (ET). This is when the Asian and North American trading centres overlap with European time zones.
I call this the London session, where you will find significant price action in and around the London open (3 am ET) and the London close (11:30 am ET).
I know of a forex trader in the Seattle area who only trades the London close, and does quite nicely at that time.
Trading during other forex time zones may leave you somewhat disappointed with the anaemic price action during those times.
For the best forex time zones to trade, please check out this blog post:
https://www.tradingsmarts.com/forex-wealth/ (Forex Wealth Strategy #3).
There you will find the best foreign exchange market hours.
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You may be struggling with the whole concept of margin and leverage in the forex market. They’re not the easiest concepts to grasp. I know it took me a while to get my head around them.
In case you are not familiar with the functions of the forex market, here is a brief foreign exchange market definition… it is the market in which the various players are able to buy, sell, exchange and speculate in currencies.
Foreign exchange market participants comprise banks, central banks, commercial companies, institutional investors (a.k.a., the ‘Big Dogs’), investment management firms, hedge funds, investors, ‘noise traders,’ and retail forex brokers.
In terms of foreign exchange market efficiency, it is the most efficient of markets, putting in ~US$5.3-trillion a day
Before we get to the nub of margin and leverage, a member asked me how much a trade costs. It has more to do with the mechanics of margin and leverage, which you will better understand as you read on.
I’m going to dive right in. If you get overwhelmed, hang in there, as the going gets easier, as you progress through this blog post.
You may wish to click through to the In Sum section first, and then backtrack.
Let’s get started, so that I can sort fact from fiction.
Let’s explain leverage in terms of all three possible lot types, be they standard, mini, or micro.
I’ll start off with an account size of US$35,000 and later on work with a smaller account size (US$2,000).
Assume an account size of US$35,000 with 2% risk per trade, 30-pip stop loss, 20-pip profit per lot, and trading with 100:1 broker-offered leverage. True leverage is trade size divided by account size; therefore, leverage is not 100:1.
US$35,000 x 2% = US$700 risk per trade
One standard lot controls US$100,000.
Regular Account (1 pip EUR/USD = US$10): US$700 divided by US$300 (30-pip stop for a regular account) = 2.33 (2) regular lots you can trade. You are trading a US$200,000 (2XUS$100,000) trade size for 2% risk on your US$35,000 account. Your trade is levered at over 5:7 (US$200,000 divided by US$35,000). Your profit is 20 pips times 2 regular lots = US$400 profit.
One mini lot controls US$10,000.
Mini Account (1 pip EUR/USD = US$1.00): US$700 divided by US$30 (30-pip stop loss for a mini account) = 23.33 (23) mini lots you can trade. You are now trading US$230,000 (23XUS$10,000) for 2% risk on your US$35,000 account. Your trade is levered at over 6:6 (US$230,000 divided by US$35,000), but you’re still not risking any more than 2%. And, even if your 30-pip stop is hit, the risk is still the same. Your profit is 20 pips times 23 mini lots = $460 profit (more than with a standard account).
One micro lot controls US$1,000.
Micro Account (1 pip EUR/USD = US$.10): US$700 divided by US$3.00 (30-pip stop for a micro account) = 233.33 (233) micro lots you can trade. You are now trading US$233,000 (233XUS$1,000) for 2% risk on your US$35,000 account. Your trade is levered at more than 6:7 (US$233,000 divided by US$35,000), but you are now able to trade US$233,000 on this trade – for the same amount of risk. Your profit is 20 pips times 233 micro lots = $466 profit. And now, you’re getting an even bigger bang for your buck than with mini and standard accounts!
For 20 pips profit, using the same amount of risk, you would have made:
On a regular account = US$400 profit
On a mini Account = US$460 profit
On a micro Account = US$466 profit
Translation: With foreign exchange market online trading, you’re getting a bigger bang for your buck with mini and micro accounts, without risking any more. This is very important to understand, as it equates directly to longevity in this business, and how to grow your account the best and fastest way – which is what leverage is all about in the first place.
You will notice how, if you understand leverage and position sizing correctly, and utilize MICRO LOTS, which are just 8-10 cents a pip (depending on the pair), you can grow your account faster and smarter by getting more mileage for your money – still protecting your account balance, which is the first rule of trading.
Okay, now that you hopefully understand the three types of lots, let’s consider just one more example using the micro lot and a smaller account size.
One micro lot controls US$1,000.
US$2,000 (account size) x 2% = US$40 risk per trade
Micro Account (1 pip EUR/USD = US$.10): US$40 divided by US$3.00 (30-pip stop for a micro account) = 13.33 (13) micro lots you can trade. You are now trading US$13,000 (13XUS$1,000) for 2% risk on your US$2,000 account. Your trade is levered at 6:5 (US$13,000 divided by US$2,000), but you are able to trade US$13,000 on this trade – for 2% risk. Your profit is 20 pips times 13 micro lots = $260 profit.
The key takeaway is, with a US$2,000 account size, trading micro lots, and applying the 2% risk parameter, you are able to trade upwards of 13 lots.
I recommend that you strive for 20 pips (that’s where the 20 pips comes from) a day which, in a standard account, translates into US$4,000 per month – which is more than most people make in their day jobs.
As far as the 2% is concerned, that comes from my personal belief that you should never risk more than 2% of your trading capital on all trades in play.
As to the 30-pip stop placement, that is where I recommend you place your stops, unless you are trading longer-term, in which case you should use a wider stop.
With 100:1 leverage, margin is 1%, meaning that, to control US$100,000 (standard account), you would need US$1,000; to control US$10,000 (mini account), you would need US$100; to control US$100 (micro account), you would need $10.
US$1K initial margin controls US$100K (one standard lot), or ten mini lots.
According to one trader, he uses the risk formula of 1.5% account risk per trade. With an average stop of 30 pips, that means that, to take a US$100K position, for example, his account equity needs to be US$20K (30 pips equals = US$300, which is 1.5% of account equity @ US$20K, or US$10 per pip risk). Or, to put it another way, his selected leverage in that scenario (or multiples thereof) is actually 5:1 (US$20K equity to US$100K position sizing).
Canadian FX brokers must abide by the IIROC margin requirements which, for a pair like GBP/JPY, is 6.4% (converted to USD, closer to 10%).
This commentary was prompted by a remark I heard in a forex user’s group meeting about foreign exchange market online trading: “I want to trade with the broker that gives me the highest leverage possible.”
Leverage in the forex market simply means to borrow money to trade.
Let’s suppose you have a $2,000 mini account, and you go long one lot of USD/JPY. One mini lot controls $10,000 of currency, meaning you are borrowing $10,000 from your broker, secured by your $2,000 account balance. Mathematically, the equation to calculate leverage is:
Transaction Value / Account Balance = Leverage
Expressed as a ratio: thus, $10,000 / $2,000 = 5
So, in your trade, you are leveraged at 5:1
Given your understanding that your broker advertised 200:1 leverage, let’s see what happens, if you trade at that leverage. Using the same equation, let’s see how many lots you could trade.
Transaction Value / $2,000 = 200
Solving for Transaction Value yields $400,000 (2,000 times 200).
Remember, one lot is worth $10,000. So, you are trading 40 lots (400,000 divided by 10,000).
If you follow the general rule of thumb that says, don’t risk more than 3% – 5% of your assets (I say 2%) on any one trade (lets use 4%), you need to hold your risk to 4% of $2,000, which amounts to $80.
Given you have 40 lots, your risk (controlled by your stop) can be no more than 2 pips (80 / 40).
Perhaps you won’t even be able to place this trade, if that is equal to or less than your broker’s spread.
Or, to look at it another way, you will likely get stopped out with a stop only 2 pips away from your entry
Consider this trade with the same $2,000 mini account – again, you are going long one lot of the USD/JPY.
But now, with $80 as your risk (same 4% of your assets, as before), you can go as high as 80 pips for your stop (each pip is worth a dollar for a mini account).
Ultimately, your trade turns out to the good. Your profit is 100 pips, or $100 on a trade that controlled $10,000. That’s a 1% return.
Not exactly a killing but, looking at it another way, on the $2,000 you invested, your return is actually 5% (better than what you can get at the banks these days).
Not too shabby for a single, small trade, probably over a short period of time – not to mention the power of compounding.
Just think where you could be, if you could pull this off a couple times a week with just 5:1 leverage.
In sum… leverage, from a broker’s perspective, is the maximum borrowing allowed in your account.
If the leverage is advertised as 200:1, that means you are allowed that, and no more.
That does not mean, however, that you have to trade with that amount of leverage.
Through the eyes of the trader, leverage is the value of your transaction divided by the value of your account, expressed as a ratio.
That means that you can trade at any leverage your heart desires, up to the maximum permitted by your broker.
You control leverage by the choosing the number of lots to trade and the amount you put in your account.
(Info via Dick Thompson)
As regards foreign exchange market online trading, you start your journey by maintaining funds in your trading account at your broker-of-choice.
These monies are ordinarily segregated in trust – often as dictated by the legal authority under which your forex broker operates.
Your broker often mandates account minimums.
To enter and maintain a trade, you need to commit some of your trading account (called ‘margin’). The trading account itself is sometimes referred to as a ‘margin account.’
The amount of margin you allocate to a specific trade is a percentage of the trade value, expressed as a ratio (called ‘leverage’).
Leverage ratios can vary from 1000:1 (that’s not a typo) to 10:1 (with 50:1 being the norm in the U.S., as mandated by the Dodd-Frank legislation). You must reserve 1% of the trade value as margin, should the ratio be 100:1.
Let’s suppose you go long a full size lot for the USD/JPY pair. The value of that trade is US$100,000 (standard lot).
If the leverage offered by the broker is 50:1, you must commit and maintain 2% of the trade value in your margin account, or $2000.
If the USD/JPY trade goes in your favour, your account balance will appreciate by the amount of the increase, thus facilitating you being able to do more trading.
If, on the other hand, your trade swoons, even if only for a short while, you must allocate additional margin funds to your trade.
This has the net effect of reducing your account balance, thus leaving less margin funds available for other trades.
Should your trade result in losses that exceed your account balance, the forex trading platform will more than likely collapse the position automatically, unbeknownst to you.
(Info via Investopedia)
Regarding foreign exchange market online trading, be sure to thoroughly vet whichever forex broker you settle on.
In order to start trading the forex at a broker, you have to establish a funded account, called a margin account.
This initial margin balance is henceforth considered collateral that abides by the posted margin requirements of your broker, and is the basis upon which all trades are collateralized.
Beyond that point, your broker will not issue any margin calls (i.e. request further collateral to keep open positions active). This is unlike margin-based equity trading or futures markets.
Instead, your broker will hold you to its required ratio of margin balances to open positions.
Should you let that ratio slip, your broker is within its rights to close out your positions without notifying you.
If this happens, that usually translates into losses being realized, thereby reducing your margin balance.
With some brokers, all positions are liquidated, in the event you let your margin account fall below the required margin ratio.
With other brokers, they will ensure that the required ratio is re-established by closing out the largest losing positions, or portions thereof.
What this all amounts to for you is that you thoroughly understand your broker’s margin requirements and liquidation policies by reading the fine print in the account opening contract before you sign on the dotted line.
Requirements will usually be dictated by account size and the account types you will be trading – be they standard lot sizes (100,000 currency units), mini lot sizes (10,000 currency units), or micro lot sizes (1,000 currency units).
Okay, you have a margin account with a leverage ratio of 100:1, representing 1% margin.
In simple terms, $1 of margin in your margin account can control a position size of $100.
A margin requirement of 100% is the usual norm for small accounts with most forex brokers, although it varies with account size.
What this means, of course, is that you have to maintain 100% of the required margin at all times.
In other words, a position size of $10,000 would require that you have $100 in your account – $10,000 divided by the leverage ratio of 100 is $100.
(Info via FOREX.com – Brian Dolan, GAIN Capital Group – Mark Galant)
The real-time mark-to-market calculation shows your unrealized P&L and margin balance. This is determined by where you could close your open positions in the market on the spot.
This feature is offered by most forex brokers, but its implementation depends on your broker’s forex trading platform.
In the case of being long, the price used will usually be determined by where you could sell at that instant.
Whereas, in a short situation, the calculation will take into account where you can buy at that moment.
Your margin balance reflects your initial margin deposit, your realized P&L, and your unrealized P&L.
Realized P&L comes from collapsing a trade in play, or a portion thereof.
When you close out a full position, your gain or loss is reflected in your margin balance, and is not factored into the unrealized P&L calculation.
If you close out only a portion of your open position(s), only that part of the trade’s P&L is realized, and the net effect gets reflected in your margin balance.
Your unrealized P&L and your margin balance continually fluctuate based on positions in play.
A winning open position translates into your unrealized P&L being positive and your margin balance increasing.
Conversely, a losing situation would see your unrealized P&L turn negative, and your margin balance be reduced.
Given that forex prices are constantly changing, your mark-to-market unrealized P&L and total margin balance change in kind.
(Info via FOREX.com – Brian Dolan, GAIN Capital Group – Mark Galant)
To conclude, your online forex trading platform takes care of calculating your P&L for you automatically, be it realized or unrealized.
The P&L calculation take effect as soon as you enter a trade.
From margin maintenance and risk management points-of-view, it makes sense to know beforehand how big your position will be, how much margin you should risk, and what your P&L outcomes will be before you commit to a trade.
You can see that the P&L implications for your trading are huge. You need to stay on top of their impact on whatever trade you are contemplating, so that you maintain your margin balance, and maintain control over your trading.
By doing so, you will live to see another trading day. You will avoid costly mistakes, like entering a trade that is too big, or engaging stops that put your margin account in jeopardy – i.e. causing it to fall beyond the margin requirement.
You should calculate where your position would in the event of your margin balance falling below the required ratio.
(Info via FOREX.com – Brian Dolan, GAIN Capital Group – Mark Galant)
To repeat… NEVER risk more than ~2% of your trading capital on ALL of your open positions.
The base currency is the first currency listed in the currency pair. It is the basis for the buy or the sell.
Example 1: The EUR/USD is trading at 1.2400/03 (bid/ask). You buy the euro at 1.2403. You are now ‘long’ the euro and ‘short’ the U.S. Dollar. The euro is the base currency for the EUR/USD (euro/U.S. dollar).
The euro goes higher to 1.2537. You sell it there.
In summary, you bought the euro $100,000 at 1.2403 and sold the euro at 1.2537. Your profit is .0134 (134 pips) or US$1,340 (.0134 x euro $100,000 = $1,340). Or, stated differently, 134 pips times the pip value of US$10 = US$1,340.
Example 2: The current bid/ask price for USD/JPY is 107.20/107.23. This means that you could buy $US1 for 107.23 Japanese yen, or sell $US1 for 107.20 Japanese yen. The U.S. dollar is the base currency for the USD/JPY pair (U.S. dollar/Japanese yen).
Example 3: You sell Japanese yen. The USD/JPY is trading at 107.20/23. You buy at 107.23. You are now long the U.S. dollar and short Japanese yen.
The U.S. dollar falls to 106.76.
On this USD/JPY trade, you bought US$100,000 at 107.23 and sold it at 106.76. Your loss on this trade is .47 (47 pips) or US$440.24 (US$100,000 x 0.47 = JPY47,000 / 106.76 = US$440.24).
It used to be that the pip was the smallest unit of value in the forex market. Today, however, many forex dealers quote in tenths of a pip. They have carried out the quote one extra decimal number to give better and more accurate spreads. For example, with 1.47253, the 3 is the tenth of a pip.
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“Follow your passion, even if no one else cares about it.” Black won the World Yo-Yo Contest, performed in Cirque du Soleil, and talked at a TED conference.
This is one of the most creative and famous conferences in the world and, of course, no yo-yo people had ever been on their stage before. The pressure did not seem to faze him. His ability would lead him to success, and he was recognized with one of the biggest standing ovations.
He has achieved dreams, once thought impossible. He says that, even if you don’t have any special talent, you can achieve your dreams.
His show turns just a simple toy into a spectacular performance. He started with no talent, but rose to the challenge, and made his unprecedented dream come true.
He defined his own happiness, and chased his dream, giving up a career as a systems engineer to become a professional performer.
He trained for 10,000 hours – practicing that took him to the title of world champion in just four years. He won the World Yo-Yo Contest held in Florida, USA. It was not achieved by his talent, but by his extraordinary effort.
He couldn’t speak English (being Japanese), but had to learn, so that he could address audiences when performing.
He even took up ballet, jazz dance and acrobatics to improve his performance. That surprised him because, when he was a boy, he was not good at, and hated sports.
Who could imagine that just a Yo-Yo could take Black to the stage of his dreams?
Not bad for a kid who, at age 14, had lost everything, and had no vision for the future. He started with no special abilities or talent.
His motto: “Live our limited life, happy.”
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The Tuesday Podcast: The Million-Dollar Microsecond
On today's Planet Money:
In high-frequency trading, people program computers to buy and sell stocks in quick succession under certain, pre-defined circumstances. The idea is to profit from fleeting changes in the price of a stock.
High-frequency traders include big banks and tiny little companies. And they're all trying to be even faster than each other.
A few years back, all the high-frequency traders were trying to get a one-millisecond edge over everybody else. Today, they're angling for a one-microsecond edge.
Shaving one microsecond off their time can win a company an extra $1 million per day, according to one expert we talked to. (The extra microsecond allows them to rush in and place their buy or sell order before everybody else drives the price up or down.)
Pension funds and other big, institutional investors complain that high-frequency traders profit by getting information about what buyers and sellers are about to do.
"All they care about is jumping in front of us, and making a penny or two," says Kevin Cronin of the investment management company Invesco.
But NYSE Euronext, the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, says we shouldn't be worried about all these companies and their superfast computers.
Steve Rubinow, the company's chief information officer, says this:
Every innovation of this type makes the market more efficient. ... The faster we trade, and the more people you have trading, any aberrations that exist in the market are taken out of the market really really quickly, which makes for a fairer market for all participants ... Those prices are about as fair as they could be.
NYSE Euronext just built this huge new data center out in Mahwah, New Jersey. The stock exchange's trades will flow through the computers there.
High-frequency traders can pay to rent space in the data center. That's important because the tiny delay involved in waiting for information to travel electronically from the stock exchange can actually make a difference in the microsecond economy.
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According to WHO, mental illness affects one in four individuals. More specifically how does this affect Asian Americans (and not Asian-Americans. In respect to Asian Americans and Filipino Americans, we will not be using a hyphen. In respect to non-binary Filipinos, we will be using the ‘Filipinx’ iteration.)
In a study done on the cultural factors influencing the mental health of Asian Americans, key cultural factors act as barriers to Asian Americans when receiving health care: language, level of acculturation, age, gender, occupational issues, family structure and intergenerational issues, religious beliefs and spirituality, and traditional beliefs about mental health. However, a young, anonymous Filipinx American source, not related to the aforementioned scientific study, reached out to me personally and was unsure if they could pinpoint a single cultural factor that affected their revealing their depression to their parents.
They stated, “I ultimately didn’t think they would believe me, so whatever category that falls under.” We will refer to this anonymous source as J.
They knew they had “a type of issue” because of their constant worrying. They can recall instances in elementary school of excessive stress over homework and behavioral discipline, which would not have aggravated other children. However, once they were a junior in high school, they realized they may need help once a friend reached out to a therapist and J found themselves identifying with a lot of the same struggles, emotionally and mentally. While this was validation of their own feelings, J still decided against seeking help for themselves. J refused to reach out to their parents was the underlying fear that their parents would not believe them. They acknowledged they lived a privileged life; there was no reason, logically, to “disrupt” their family life if there was no “real reason.”
It took a catastrophic event for J to attempt to reach out to professionals, and even later to reach out to their Philippine-born Filipinx American parents. At the time, one of J’s friends committed suicide, which not only affected J internally and emotionally but their friend circle as well. J approached their mother first when their father was working night shift. J went to their parent’s room and despite the apprehension in revealing something previously so private, J confided to their mother that they believed they had a mental illness.
J’s assumptions were true—their parents did not believe that they had depression, let alone any kind of mental illness. After this confession, J’s mother informed their father. J’s parents told them that they didn’t need help. After reflecting on the situation, J now believes that their parents were dismissive of the confession because J approached their mother in a dismissive tone. J was having a panic attack, and their mother was doing her best to calm them down. While J’s mother was soothing J, she insisted that it was “just something they were going through” and that “this feeling would pass,” as opposed to accepting it as a symptom of mental illness.
Unfortunately, it took a desperate cry to catalyze change. What was once a staunch position against the mere existence of mental illness became a moment of clarity. J admitted to their mother they “wanted to die.” J and their parents went to a therapist together to talk about mental illness and what it means to be diagnosed with depression. In retrospect, J believes this is the epiphany her parents needed to accept J’s mental illness. The therapist described in detail the science behind depression and the options available to J to help combat depression. Once J’s parents were informed and in the presence of a respected profession, J felt that they were starting to believe them.
Ideally, J’s parents would have believed them upon their initial confession. However, after speaking with J’s mother after the fact, she admits she was in denial. She was afraid of how their extended family members and friends would react to discovering J’s mental illness. She believed her child was perfect and felt that if J was diagnosed with depression, it would take away from her perfection and label her and her spouse bad parents. However, if it takes a meeting with a professional therapist to help dispel incorrect stigmas of mental illness, then sources and services should be in place to make access to this knowledge universal.
All instances of depression are unique as all individuals are unique. While this source is Filipinx American, that does not necessarily mean their experience is synonymous with other Filipinx Americans experiencing depression. However, there seems to be a universal pause, a fraught reluctance to divulge a condition one would hope to trust the care and attention of to their parents.
It could be due to the lack of knowledge. The study mentioned earlier by Kramer, Kwong, Lee, and Chung specified the data collectively as “Asian Americans” with data surveying multiple Asian groups in America. However, cultures within Asia are distinct; Asians are not a hegemony. As awareness of mental illness and the importance of mental care is surging and a resistance to the stigmas toward mental illness is forming, what stops Filipinx American families from accepting and seeking help for these mental illnesses?
J approached their parents with their mental illness, and while J’s parents love J wholly and unconditionally, J was met with doubt and hesitation in regard to the acceptance and understanding of their mental illness. The barriers that affected J were primarily traditional beliefs about mental health. It seems that J’s parents’ initial reaction would be the opposite, as they are college-educated, white-collar, healthcare providers in the United States. So, if mental health awareness can slip through the cracks with two Registered Nurses, what can be said about those with parents who aren’t in the medical field?
While J’s parents are college-educated, Registered Nurses, they still adhered to an underlying, unsaid notion that speaking of mental illness just wasn’t done. And since this is unsaid, there are no conversations pinpointing any particular reason as to why. There is a term, utang na loob (ooh-tang – na – low-ob), which translates to “debt of gratitude.” To J’s father in particular, J did not have anything to want or worry. They lived a comfortable life in rich and powerful America. Reflecting back to his childhood in the Philippines and the arduous lengths it took for J’s father, his siblings, and parents to immigrate to the States, this seemingly “invisible” enemy within J’s mind was nothing in comparison to the physical labor, stress, and sacrifice he endured to provide a better life for J. Was J not grateful? Did J not have this understanding of utang na loob? But that in itself may not be the case for all Filipinx Americans. Some Filipinx communities have been in America since 1763.
For those Filipinx Americans who are religious, as the country is predominantly Catholic, one argument may be to refer to God, or that the reason one is afflicted is because they are not in “conversation” enough with God or the scripture. Or, maybe it’s simply tied back to the fact Filipinx families still attempt to present an image of unity and strength, and having a mental illness, to them, means they are not “mentally strong.” There isn’t a study to find and quote at the moment, but it can be universally understood that the idea of family is integral to the Filipinx and Filipinx American identity. However, it’s hard to hone in on exactly what it is that causes apprehension towards talking about mental illness.
The Philippines is incredibly diverse. With the language itself, the country is estimated to have over 170 present. There are more than 7,000 islands within the Philippine archipelago, and the country is divided into three island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
J’s mother is from Luzon, specifically Quezon City, and speaks Tagalog. While Pilipino and English are the country’s national language, Tagalog is the most widely spoken. However, not everyone speaks Tagalog. Within Luzon itself, the largest island of the Philippines, the people and languages spoken range from Ilokano, Kapampangan, Bicolano, Tagalog, and Pangasinense. Venture a bit south to J’s father’s family, who is from the Visayas. He and his family speak Visaya, or as it’s correctly spelled, Bisaya. But within the Visayas, people from Cebu, like J’s father’s family, or Cebuanos won’t say they speak Bisaya; they’ll say they speak Cebuano, as the people within the Visayas all speak their own language. J’s lola, or “grandmother” in English, once stated, “We do not speak Bisaya. The Waray, Boholano, us Cebuanos, we do not speak Bisaya. We speak our own.”
The reason for this explanation is to detail just how vast and various the Filipinx experience is. Throw in the American and individual experience, and now the broad “Asian American” studies seem futile. The rise of studies aimed at the reception and acceptance of mental illness can and will help bridge the gap between generations. Fil-Ams don’t ask for help because there isn’t any help available. Filipinx Americans need studies regarding mental health specifically honing in on the different groups and languages available in the Philippines to illustrate and guide those who are a part of its diversity. | <urn:uuid:965c32ba-7e76-4f12-ab96-c3c679b9eab6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ayaskala.wordpress.com/2020/03/30/what-stops-fil-ams-from-seeking-help-by-keana-aguila-labra/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977642 | 2,047 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Texas Tree Tips: November 2014
by Steve Houser
Tree Planting, Part 2 – Selecting a Tree
Once you have determined a planting location, selected a tree species, and resolved any potential conflict with underground/overhead utilities, consider the optimum size of tree to plant for your circumstances. This decision is typically based on what your budget will allow and how quickly you want to begin enjoying the benefits of having a tree.
Trees can be planted any time of the year, but fall offers the best planting results because the root system will grow vigorously and begin establishing new roots before the next hot summer. If you transport a tree during the growing season (spring and summer), always cover the foliage with a tarp or shade cloth, or the tree can be completely desiccated (dried out) before reaching its destination. Trees don’t mind a warm gentle breeze, but traveling “mach 4 with your hair on fire” is cool only if you are a Top Gun.
You might find it interesting to know that if you plant an acorn, a sapling, and a balled-and-burlapped tree ranging from 1 inch in diameter to 10 inches in diameter, all in a row, 20 years later it is likely that you will have trees all about the same size. The term “balled-and-burlapped” refers to trees that are field grown and dug for transplanting by placing burlap around the root ball. While digging balled-and-burlapped trees is a standard nursery practice, it can result in a loss of up to 50 percent or more of the tree’s root system. Therefore, a 3-inch-diameter tree can take two years to redevelop roots and start to grow, whereas a 10-inch-caliper tree could take up to five years before it is fully established and begins to expand its canopy. The 10-inch-caliper tree can cost thousands and provide an immediate effect, whereas a 2-inch tree costs relatively little and requires patience for a few years. As a result, a 2- to 4-inch tree is the optimum size for most property owners to either plant themselves or have planted by a landscape contractor.
If the budget is tight or you are a do-it-yourselfer, plant an acorn, bare root tree, or containerized sapling by following the recommendations in this previous article. Be sure to keep the roots of these trees moist at all times, as they can dry out quickly in the open air.
If you can identify the smaller valuable trees (oaks, pecans, etc.) that the animals often plant in your flower or mulch beds, you can transplant them to a pot or a spot in the yard.
Containerized trees enjoy the benefit of rooting-in quickly, but they may have problems with circling roots. A balled-and-burlapped tree will have a much better root system, especially if it has previously been root pruned.
Whether you plant your new tree yourself or hire a company, here are some things to look for:
- Visit a reputable nursery or contact a reputable landscape contractor with experienced and knowledgeable staff.
- Avoid purchasing trees with more than one trunk. Their root systems are often poorly distributed beneath the trunks, and it may be difficult to keep them from tipping over.
- Look for even branch distribution along the main trunk rather than several limbs growing closely together off the main trunk. The former will be more structurally sound as the tree matures.
- Avoid trees with major limbs that cross or with limbs that form tight “V” shapes. Those “V” branches are weak and can easily split in wind and ice storms. Choose trees with deep “U” shapes or 45- to 90-degree angles, which are stronger.
- Avoid trees with co-dominant stems or two or more limbs that compete with each other for dominance. An “excurrent” growth form is stronger than a “decurrent” form.
- Check the trunk and primary limbs for wounds, scrapes or sap oozing out of the trunk. Oozing sap can be due to a wood-boring insect.
- Check the twigs to be sure the buds are healthy; scratch a twig with your thumbnail to be sure it is green, healthy and full of moisture.
- Check the smaller roots to be sure they are white and healthy rather than brown or dry.
- The tree should not have the ends of the limbs or top cut back to a stump or stumps.
- Check the root ball size of a balled-and-burlapped tree. It should be at least 10 to 12 inches for each inch in trunk diameter for most tree species. (Trees up to 4 inches in diameter are measured at 6 inches above the ground and trees between 4 and 12 inches are measured at 12 inches above the ground.)
- Check to be sure no roots are circling or binding the base of the trunk. These can cause problems down the road as both the trunk and root expand, putting pressure on each other. (Similar to being joined at the hip with an unsavory relative … not ideal.)
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Former first lady of Ukraine Kateryna Yushchenko spoke to BYU students on Oct. 16 about the dangers Russia poses to the rest of the world. Yushchenko, who still remains active in advancing freedom in Ukraine, spoke with grim conviction about the current Russian invasion of Crimea.
“Putin doesn’t look at the world the same way as we do,” Yushchenko said. “The U.S. looks at the world as a win-win situation. Putin looks at it from 19th-century power politics where if I win, you lose.”
Ukraine has been at war with Russia since pro-Russian forces took control of the Crimean Peninsula on Feb. 26. Russia annexed Crimea months later with a referendum currently not recognized by the United Nations. The U.S. and Europe have placed economic sanctions on trades with Russia in an effort to push back on Russia without violence. According to Forbes, these sanctions have failed.
Yushchenko said she believes Putin wants to create a Russian world that goes from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a world that is no longer based on democracy or America.
“Putin wants to create an empire,” she said. “He has said that he believes the greatest tragedy of our century was the fall of the Soviet Union.”
She also said she believes Ukraine’s democracy offered an opportunity for other surrounding countries to have democracy. Eventually the people of Russia will want a free market and a democracy, and Putin’s power will be in jeopardy.
A large part of her speech was dedicated to her hopes for Western intervention.
“The world needs to make clear demands on current leadership,” she explained. “The U.S. must honor commitments made in the Budapest Memorandum.”
Yushchenko was referring to a memorandum signed in 1994 by the U.S., Russia and Ukraine in which Ukraine promised to get rid of its nuclear arsenal, the third largest in the world, in exchange for territorial integrity. Those who argue in favor of stronger actions against Russia rally around this document as proof of their argument.
She also opened up about her fears that Russian expansion will not end with Ukraine, believing Putin has his eyes set on many nations in the Baltic.
“Once you start questioning any borders, you start questioning all borders,” she said.
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For every person who complains of severe pain at the slightest cut or scratch, there is another who can undergo a full root canal without so much as a topical anesthetic. Why is that? Why is it that some people seem to have a higher pain threshold than others?
The perception of pain is both a biological and psychological function. Therefore, determining why pain thresholds are different from one person to the next requires looking at both factors. Even then, a lot of what medical science believes about pain perception is speculation.
Pain As a Biological Response
From a biological standpoint, pain is a physical response to something gone wrong in the body. The brain understands pain thanks to signals it receives from pain receptors. Furthermore, there are different types of pain receptors that respond to different stimuli. Those that respond to a burn are different from those that respond to a cut.
The chronic pain page on the Utahmarijuana.org website explains that a small segment of the population is lacking in pain receptors. Whether that means complete or partial lack is unclear. Either way, it is well documented that pain receptor volume can vary from one person to the next. This suggests that people with fewer pain receptors are likely to have a higher pain threshold.
Another biological feature to consider is the central nervous system. Our nervous systems don’t all react the same way to every stimulus. So where there are differences in nervous system reactions, people can experience pain differently.
Psychological Responses to Pain
Understanding pain perception from a biological standpoint is easy compared to understanding it from a psychological standpoint. Pain experts generally recognize five psychological factors that influence pain perception:
1. Personality Traits
Personality traits play into pain perception based on how a person interacts with others. It is believed that those who are highly empathetic tend to have a lower threshold, especially when they don’t receive the empathy they expect from others. Likewise, people whose personalities are more introspective (think loners here) may have a higher pain threshold because they have less need for empathy.
2. Cognitive Traits
What a person thinks about pain probably affects their pain threshold. The cognitive aspects of pain perception suggests that a person who expects to experience severe pain during some future event probably will. The opposite is also true. As an extension of that, people who have a tendency to exaggerate their thoughts may have a lower pain threshold because their thought patterns exaggerate the perception of pain.
3. Belief Systems
What a person believes about pain and its treatment can influence perception. This is proved by multiple studies involving standard pain treatments versus placebos. If a person believes a treatment will reduce pain, that person’s threshold for pain may increase due to the placebo effect.
4. Cultural Variables
Though science does not give a definitive explanation as to why, studies have concluded that cultural variables contribute to pain tolerance. Variables can be specific to city neighborhoods or as broad as entire regions of the country.
5. Learned Behavior
Last but not least is learned behavior. It is believed that many people develop their pain tolerance based partially on what they learn from those around them. This suggests that people can be taught to deal more effectively with pain, thereby increasing their tolerance.
There is so much about pain that medical science still cannot explain. We know that some people seem to have a higher pain threshold than others. We just aren’t sure why that is. | <urn:uuid:baa9a270-1620-4e03-aaaa-9365200132ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abouthealthylife.org/back-pain/why-do-some-people-seem-to-have-a-higher-pain-threshold.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953733 | 696 | 3.515625 | 4 |
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It has the animalistic brutality youd expect of a man raised by apes, but also offers surprising depth and substance. Tarzan is the son of a british lord and lady who were marooned on the west coast of africa by mutineers. This project grew out of my son joshuas stated desire to read the entire run of the authorized tarzan novels the original series by edgar rice burroughs, and those erb inc. Free ebooks by edgar rice burroughs sorted into series and other works, and presented in chronological order. This jack higgins book list gives all the jack higgins books in chronological order, so lets you see the characters develop and witness events at the correct time, just as jack intended.
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GLOBAL – Sweden is the most sustainable country in the world, according to a new study by investment manager RobecoSAM.
The study, which evaluates 59 countries – 21 from developed markets and 38 from emerging markets – on a broad range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors relevant for investors, ranked Sweden top with a score of 8.25 out of 10.
Rounding out the top three were Australia and Switzerland with scores of 7.87 and 7.83, respectively.
Sweden earned high scores across almost all criteria and, contrary to many developed countries, also scored well on environmental factors such as the use of renewable energy sources and CO2 emissions.
Jürgen Siemer, senior analyst at RobecoSAM, said: "We look at factors such as how a country's government deals with an ageing population, the type of policies and structures in place to foster competitiveness or its dependence on foreign sources of energy. All of these are essential for a country's long-term financial health."
Nigeria came bottom of the ranking with 2.51.
Venezuela and Egypt fared only slightly better, with 3.35 and 3.34, respectively.
The framework of the study – entitled 'Measuring country intangibles: RobecoSAM's country sustainability ranking' – primarily focuses on mid- to long-term factors that have an indirect impact on a government's ability to repay its debt or raise revenue, but that are not considered by traditional sovereign ratings.
Results indicate that a stronger sustainability profile corresponds with a lower insurance premium, suggesting there is added value in gathering information on risks related to a country's sustainability profile in times of risk aversion.
Investors' demand for long-term orientated strategies that integrate ESG considerations across a range of asset classes is likely to grow, according to RobecoSAM, particularly in the wake of the financial crisis, which exposed some of the shortcomings of traditional measures used to evaluate country risk.
This the first country sustainability ranking produced by RobecoSAM and Robeco.
Robeco began to conduct research into country-level sustainability in 2008.
The study can be found here.
In other news, draft guidance on corporate reporting issued by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which will underpin the new regulations on narrative reporting that come into force for financial years ending on or after 30 September 2013 for UK listed companies, has been welcomed by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).
The IIRC says the guidance is a step towards a corporate reporting landscape that achieves concise, relevant and focused information about the strategy, governance, performance and prospects of a business to support investor decision-making.
Paul Druckman, chief executive at the IIRC, said: "I welcome the FRC's encouragement of innovation and experimentation in reporting, which should support a shift in the mindset of a business away from rigid compliance and towards the better communication of its individual value-creation story for its providers of financial capital.
"There is, of course, more to do in terms of articulating a common vision, a clearer roadmap for businesses to follow and, perhaps, more clarity around the definitions of key terms."
While it is the IIRC's vision that IR will evolve to become the long-term global corporate reporting norm for businesses in the future, it believes the draft guidance represents an important stepping stone towards greater alignment between the objectives of high quality, relevant corporate reporting and the means by which this can be achieved, offering the potential for greater clarity for businesses and investors.
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- 1 How many sheep can you have per hectare?
- 2 How much land do you need per sheep?
- 3 How many sheep can you have per hectare NZ?
- 4 How many sheep can one acre hold?
- 5 How much land do you need for 2 sheep?
- 6 Is there money in sheep farming?
- 7 Can sheep live on grass alone?
- 8 What are the disadvantages of sheep?
- 9 Do sheep need a salt block?
- 10 Can sheep eat themselves to death?
- 11 How much land do 2 cows need?
- 12 How many sheep can you have on 15 acres?
- 13 How many sheep can you keep on 5 acres?
- 14 Do sheep destroy pastures?
- 15 How much does a sheep cost UK 2020?
How many sheep can you have per hectare?
The stocking rate norm for sheep on irrigated Italian ryegrass/clover should be from 25 to 30 ewes, with at least 30 lambs per ha.
How much land do you need per sheep?
You can reasonably expect to keep six to ten sheep on an acre of grass and as much as 100 sheep on 30 acres of pasture. If you want to keep more than an acre can sustain, you’ll have to look into purchasing additional land as you’ll likely need to rotate your flock to keep them fed.
How many sheep can you have per hectare NZ?
Sheep farming in New Zealand is extensive in nature, with sheep being farmed on the high or hill country at stocking rates around 7–12 sheep per hectare, mostly with no supplementary feed and no housing.
How many sheep can one acre hold?
Typical stocking densities on productive grass can be approximately six to 10 sheep per acre. However, the stocking density will vary according to climate, topography and grass quality (both farm specific and seasonal variations).
How much land do you need for 2 sheep?
A general rule of thumb is that 1 acre of land can support two sheep, but this varies greatly based on rainfall and your soil quality. If rain is plentiful and your soil rich, your land may support more than two sheep per acre, while an acre in drought-ridden area may not support even one.
Is there money in sheep farming?
Sheep farmers derive their income from the sales of lambs and wool and related products. Though it varies by state and farm, most income comes from the sale of lambs. Dairy sheep farmers have three sources of income: lambs, wool, and milk (or dairy products).
Can sheep live on grass alone?
Sheep are perfectly”designed” to not only live on grass alone, but thrive on it! They can carry multiple lambs, make milk to nurse their young and really put on their weight with access to high quality forage.
What are the disadvantages of sheep?
- Susceptibility – There are few farm animals more vulnerable to predators than sheep.
- Parasites – Sheep are also susceptible to parasites and must be wormed monthly.
- Rebellion – Some sheep like to play by jumping over or running through fences.
Do sheep need a salt block?
Sheep need many essential nutrients. These include sodium and chloride (salt) as well as selenium, a naturally occurring mineral. To supplement, farmers hang salt blocks or pour loose salt into feeders.
Can sheep eat themselves to death?
Sheep have been known to eat themselves to death. They are grazing animals that will eat the food available to them which, if dietarily unsuitable, can be a big problem. Certain medical conditions can also cause sheep to eat until death.
How much land do 2 cows need?
You may have heard a rule-of-thumb is that it takes 1.5 to 2 acres to feed a cow calf pair for 12 months.
How many sheep can you have on 15 acres?
But, a good rule of thumb is 10 ewes and 15 lambs per acre of pasture.
How many sheep can you keep on 5 acres?
It’s recommended that you begin with 2 sheep per acre and never exceed 4 sheep per acre. When you do decide to add more, you’ll more than likely have to make the proper accommodations. For example, grass, flowers, and other vegetation tend to grow best in the spring.
Do sheep destroy pastures?
Sheep look great out grazing in a pasture! But is grazing sheep on your pasture really good for the pasture plants and the soil underneath? Sheep do not ruin pastures, however, mismanagement of grazing animals can and will degrade pastured land.
How much does a sheep cost UK 2020?
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This episode explores "Why Sports Need the Help of Smart Technology" and invites Professor Wu Chengwen (the first-generation pitcher of the Giants' Junior Baseball), polar ultramarathon athlete Chen Yanbo (Asia's first four-polar championship overall champion), Taiwanese female archery athlete Lin Shijia (Bronze Medalist in the 2016 Rio Olympics Women's Archery Team) and a senior citizen representative presented their experience in sports technology in their lives and saw the rise of sports science research in Taiwan.
Program highlights Representative of Senior Citizens - Teacher Yao: "I am over 60 years old, and I need to take safety into consideration when retraining. Are there any similar wearable devices that can help us exercise more safely?" Smart photo retouching Devices Obtain Important Physiological Information A relatively advanced wristwatch has an optical sensor that can detect blood oxygen and even blood sugar. The acquisition of this physiological information is useful for judging whether your current physical condition is suitable for vigorous exercise. quite important.
Then there are our textiles, which can also wear sensors, make wires and small chips like sensors on the fabric, so that when exercising, whether it is doing heavy training or doing outdoor aerobic exercise, If you want to do a comparative diversity body measurement, you can do it more accurately. (2:09-3:17) The representative of the student family - Shi Jia: "A few years ago, I received the help of sports science in the National Training Center. During the training, I can improve the training or competition performance, and make a combination and improvement for our physiolog | <urn:uuid:e44975a2-bf23-460e-8e3b-fe5f5d7b163d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.letsmakeadifferencesm.com/forum/general-discussions/sports-technology-smart-photo-retouching | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936273 | 325 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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