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Universities in the Twenty-first century
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Martedì, 5 July, 2016 - 11:00
Affordable access to quality higher education has been a cornerstone of American life since the nation’s founding. American higher education is admired around the world as a model of excellence and innovation, but there is a consensus today that higher education in the U.S. is not on a sustainable path. There are no simple solutions to the problems plaguing colleges and universities. A small band of innovators has taken up the challenge, launched a revolution and has started to remake higher education. The result will be a new, more sustainable ecosystem. Technology holds the key to innovation in higher education. I want to describe the world that the innovators are building, using as examples the innovations powered by online education, unexpected partnerships, business reinvention and a willingness to disrupt the status quo. What will the University of the 21st Century Look like? It will be very different from the ones we attended. | <urn:uuid:fc026999-8b2e-4cf3-9b90-1caddef118c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dis.uniroma1.it/node/7341 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939123 | 238 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The Brulé Sioux of the Rosebud Agency came to accept their neighbor John Anderson and appreciate his body of work—mostly photos of them.
John Alvin Anderson, pioneer photographer, stood on a rise near the Rosebud Agency at the Great Sioux Reservation, Dakota Territory. The young man focused his camera on a group of Brulé Sioux sitting quietly in a creek bed below. The Indians looked up and saw a man with his head under a dark cloth, pointing a large box at them. As Anderson took aim, the Sioux sprang from their council meeting and rushed about, clearly agitated. Perhaps they wanted to flee or to attack—maybe both. Friends of Anderson quickly intervened, trying to calm the Sioux. Anderson meant them no harm, they told them. He was new to the West and, while he had learned about camera technique, flash powders and glass plate negatives, he did not know his subjects. The Swedish-born 16-year-old photographer did not know this group of natives had never seen a camera. It was 1885, and though the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee were a few years away, there was plenty of tension between the homesteaders and the reservation Indians. For all these Sioux knew, the hidden stranger meant to shoot them with a newfangled gun.
Donald Hogg, John Anderson’s great-nephew, said that John saw his subjects coming toward him and “fled.” But he did not flee far. The young photographer’s new home was a log house on the Nebraska prairie across the border from the Rosebud Agency. After that shaky beginning, Anderson and the Brulés became friends. Unlike the photographers who traveled the West arranging props and romanticizing images of exotic natives, Anderson took pictures of his neighbors. He learned their names, witnessed their hard times and shared in some of their celebrations. His photographs of the Sioux, or Lakotas, are a visual reminder that hostility and distrust did not extend to all; homesteaders and Indians were not always at each other’s throats.
John was 14 years old when he first met the Brulé Sioux. He would say goodbye to them, and mean it, more than 50 years later at age 67. During his life on the Plains, he married Myrtle Miller, raised a son, Harold Roscoe, and made numerous photos at Fort Niobrara and the Rosebud Agency. His photos of the Sioux, particularly during the early years, provide an honest record of late 19th-century reservation life.
The Andersons’ family had sailed from Stockholm in 1870. Andrew and Anna Anderson brought their six children, including 1-year-old John, to Long Island, but soon traveled with other Swedish families to Limestone, Pa. Two more children were born there. After Anna’s death at 48 in 1879, 10-year-old John lived with his sister Amanda and her husband, Gus Carlson.
Four years later, in 1883, Andrew Anderson and his four sons, including John, traveled on the Sioux City–Pacific railroad line to Stuart, Neb. They claimed 80 acres in Cherry County, near Fort Niobrara. Father and sons hollowed a “soddie” into a hillside and put a cook stove beneath one of their few nearby trees. The next year they built a log house, said to be the first in Cherry County. They sent East for their furniture, including a dining room set and a piano. John’s sister Amanda and her family soon arrived from Williamsport, Pa., to claim adjoining land.
The Andersons’ log house was near newly incorporated Valentine. The railroad arrived there in 1883, and the land distribution office opened in 1884. Valentine was rough, tough and growing. John, working as a novice carpenter, earned enough money within two years to help financially at home and to buy the camera that later so alarmed the group of Brulé Sioux. For a short time, John had returned to the East to study, and while there, he became interested in photography as a career. Upon returning to Cherry County, he immediately focused on his goal. Everyone and everything provided photo opportunities—scenic views, soldiers, military activities and the Sioux who were his neighbors. Soldiers at Fort Niobrara offered John his first paid job—as a civilian photographer.
Four other photographers, William R. Cross, A.G. Shaw, James Wagner and a man named Godkin, also worked in the Valentine–Fort Niobrara area between 1883 and 1891. Anderson apprenticed himself to Cross in 1886 at Fort Niobrara and traveled with him to Fort Meade in western Dakota Territory. He opened his own studio for the public briefly in 1888 and again in 1891, while continuing as a civilian photographer for the Army. Anderson collaborated with Shaw during 1891, but most of Shaw’s work has been lost. Cross is represented in a small collection at the Nebraska Historical Society in Lincoln, where most of Anderson’s negatives and prints of the Brulé Sioux are collected. A fire that destroyed the Anderson home in 1928 wiped out much of Anderson’s material, but, fortunately, many examples of his early photographs remain.
Henry W. and Jean Tyree Hamilton, who wrote the text for the 1971 book The Sioux of the Rosebud: A History in Pictures (photographs by John A. Anderson), first discovered Anderson’s photographs of the Sioux while going through the papers of Remington Schuyler. An artist and friend of “Johnny” who also lived near the Rosebud Agency, Schuyler died in 1955, leaving 16 original Anderson prints and five postcard reproductions among his papers.
The Hamiltons, intrigued that this graphic historical legacy was produced by somebody they had never heard of, investigated further. They interviewed John Anderson’s friends, family and associates and also gained permission to see two surviving diaries: John’s diary covers March 25, 1889, to February 25, 1890; Myrtle Miller Anderson’s journal was written during 17 days, January 1 to January 17, 1930. The Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City, S.D., now owns both documents.
After viewing the collection of photographs, the Hamiltons divided Anderson’s work into three periods—1885 to 1900, when he concentrated mostly on spontaneous shots of group activity on the reservation (the Rosebud Reservation was born when the Great Sioux Reservation was split up in 1889); 1900 to 1910, when he produced formal portraits of prominent families and chiefs; and after 1911, when he posed his subjects among props, with backdrops. Occasionally his male subjects wore borrowed medals or other unearned symbols of leadership.
An addition in some of Anderson’s photographs can be disconcerting for the viewer. Anderson usually used a blanket as the backdrop for his studio portraits. However, on more than a few occasions, he went with the latest style popular with city photographers—a painted background of an Italian garden scene. Those Anderson pictures of American Indians suggested that the natives had been photographed while touring Italy.
John Anderson’s early and later outdoor work, however, both in group and individual studies, is unmistakably real. His earliest photographs are “as it was.” His later carefully composed scenes accurately re-create everyday life on the Rosebud Reservation. Away from his studio, he moved through the reservation by horse and wagon, hauling a tripod, a bulky camera and perhaps as many as a dozen heavy glass plate negatives. Everyone there apparently came to trust the man who hid his head under a dark cloth to “shoot” them.
In The Sioux of the Rosebud, the Hamiltons write that during their own visit to the reservation in 1940, the Indians, particularly the women, were reluctant to have their pictures taken. Yet the Sioux permitted John Anderson to photograph both men and women as early as 1887. An 1887 photograph taken at Fort Niobrara features the Oglala Sioux Standing Bear (Mato Najin) posed in the back, with Long Pumpkin and Long Pumpkin’s wife and daughter in the foreground. In another photo, Nellie Good Shield (Wahacanka Waste), an elderly Sioux woman, sits serenely facing the camera for her portrait shortly before her death in 1890. Mothers with daughters, grandmothers and toddlers, newlyweds, friends and four generations of women in one family are all represented in Anderson’s work.
Little Bald Eagle (Anuka San Citka) appears in a photo with his family, all posing in front of his tepee on the Rosebud. One of his sons is holding an 1873 model Springfield carbine, a firearm carried by most of the soldiers at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Although capturing movement was not easy in those days, Anderson succeeded in a photo of a young woman hurrying along with a load of firewood, a dog trotting by her side.
Anderson lost his first camera to a charging Longhorn during the issuance of government beef to the Sioux. The “white man’s buffalo,” as the Sioux called the cattle driven up from Texas to replace the slaughtered buffalo herds, were allowed to roam freely on the reservation. Sioux on horseback hunted them. When Anderson focused his camera on a hunting scene, he saw a steer running straight toward him. John jumped out of the way in time, but his camera did not survive.
Anderson’s second camera, an 8-by-10-inch Premo view camera of beautifully inlaid mahogany, patent date 1893, resides safely with the Nebraska State Historical Society. It weighs about 6 pounds, can be tilted up and down as well as swiveled, and is capable of taking horizontal or vertical pictures. A 3-foot red leather bellows extends the camera to 40 inches. The extra focus length permits small objects to be photographed larger than life-size.
When Maj. Gen. George Crook arrived at the Rosebud early in 1889, he chose John Anderson as his official civilian photographer. Anderson’s diary says only that he “obtained some interesting negatives” and that “General Crook bought $20 worth of landscapes.”
While Anderson and his camera traveled, befriending and photographing Brulé Sioux, Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne visitors, many other homesteaders trembled at every encounter with Indians and panicked at every rumor. Anderson’s diary entry on May 27, 1889, says: “A report was circulated through the country that the Indians had broken out, and were making depredations in Crookston [Neb.]. I at once hired a horse and took my camera and went to the scene of the massacre, which was not to be found. I returned to Valentine and stayed there awaiting news of further trouble, which did not come. As the sun was setting in the West, the citizens of Valentine were surprised to see hundreds of frightened settlers coming into town for safety, scared almost to death. One farmer left their home forgetting a small boy who was out in the field somewhere at the time of departure and were so scared that they had forgotten their boy. They returned to find him waiting for them unharmed. One woman near Norden was scared to death, she died in the wagon while fleeing for some place for safety.”
Although Sioux police monitored their own people, the reservations were porous. Sioux warriors and nervous homesteaders would occasionally meet on the rutted streets of Valentine or even share an American holiday. John’s diary entry of July 3, 1889, reports, “266 Indians on their way from Rosebud to Fort Niobrara [to celebrate July Fourth] camped on the banks of the Mineakaduze river put on their War Paint, mounted their steeds and with a rush, warwhoop and shooting came into town nearly scaring many people to death.”
The year 1889 was not a good one for the Sioux. They parted with 9 million acres of their Great Sioux Reservation, rations were cut and many Indians were hungry and sick that winter. Over in Nevada, an Indian messiah named Wovoka was teaching a new religion, the Ghost Dance, that spoke of the complete disappearance of all white men. Some of the Sioux liked the sound of that. Meanwhile, John Anderson’s brief diary entries suggested his own unrest:
December 29, 1889. Printed my last at Fort Niobrara.
December 30. Packed to Quit business and go East.
December 31. Left Fort Niobrara for good.
Jan. 8, 1890. Left the wooly west for Pennsylvania.
For whatever reason, Anderson had seemingly left the Sioux forever. But he returned 17 months later, without giving an explanation. During his absence, the Ghost Dance became popular among the Sioux, Indian police killed Sitting Bull and the bloody confrontation took place at Wounded Knee.
In June 1891, an ad in The Republican, a Valentine, Neb., newspaper, informed its area residents that “Shaw’s Art Gallery will be conducted by John Anderson who took lessons under a superior French artist this last winter.” In July, Shaw’s Art Gallery ran another ad in The Republican: “Indian photographs and views taken during the late Indian War and views of the last Sun Dance for sale.”
In 1893 Anderson moved even closer to the Sioux, into the Rosebud home of Colonel Charles P. Jordan and his wife, Winyan-hcaka (the True Woman, Julia), a full-blooded Oglala. Jordan, a cousin of the late George Armstrong Custer, owned the Jordan Trading Post. Anderson worked for Jordan, first part time, and later bought an interest in the trading post. He helped his Rosebud community whenever he could. Charley Eads, a contemporary who worked at the Jordan Trading Post, observed, “I’ve seen hungry old Indians with no money come in and go back and talk with John and he would give them things to take home and eat and then charge them to himself.”
Anderson returned East periodically to visit family. While in Pennsylvania, John took on a childhood friend, Charles A. Schempp, as a photography partner, and they remained partners even after Anderson returned to the Rosebud. Once while in Bradford, Pa., Anderson attended one of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West extravaganzas. Among the performers were Rosebud Sioux Indians, fresh off a European tour. Anderson’s great-nephew Don Hogg said that the crowd was astonished after the performance when Anderson began chatting with the Indians in their own language.
Anderson was 26 in 1895 when he married Myrtle Miller. Born in Williamsport, Pa., she had to adapt quickly to the West. Years later, she wrote about her buggy journey to her new log home: “I noticed a small bunch of cattle running and said to Mr. Anderson, ‘Why are those big dogs chasing them?’ ‘Dogs nothing’ John answered. ‘They are gray wolves. They won’t bother us as long as they have cattle to chase.’” Before long, she had a visitor at the house: “I was scrubbing the floor in our little one window bedroom. I looked up and there was a large painted Indian leaning against the window and trying to look inside. It frightened me but when I told Mr. Anderson about it, he said, oh that is nothing, he was just curious.”
Myrtle Anderson, though, learned to adapt to her new environment. “When Mr. Anderson asked me if I would be willing to come West for no more than three years until we got a start, little did I know that I would be in South Dakota for 40 years,” she later wrote. They raised their son, Harold Roscoe, on the reservation and later mentored Benjamin Reifel, who became a U.S. congressman from South Dakota, (January 3, 1961, to January 3, 1971). Reifel (Wiyaka Wanjila) was born on the Rosebud to a full-blood Sioux mother and German-American father, lived as a teenager with the Andersons and worked for John at the trading post. He also posed as an Indian flute player in a later Anderson photograph.
John and Myrtle Anderson permanently said goodbye to the Rosebud Reservation in 1936, moving to Rapid City, S.D. They opened their own Sioux Indian Museum, displaying artifacts that John had collected during their years among the Sioux. His collection remains in that city today as part of the Sioux Indian Museum, administered by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, U.S. Department of the Interior.
In 1939 the Andersons retired to Atascadero, Calif., where John died on June 26, 1947, still thinking of the Plains. “John never liked it here,” Myrtle later wrote a friend after his death. “He always longed for the wide open spaces of South Dakota.”
Of the more than 1,000 glass plate negatives taken during John Anderson’s career, 400 survive. All of these, except for one taken at a Nebraska trading post, were produced in natural light. Other indoor photographs were posed under a skylight supplemented with reflectors.
When the Hamiltons visited the Rosebud Reservation while preparing The Sioux of the Rosebud: A History in Pictures, they found Anderson photographs that had been torn and repaired with transparent tape many years earlier. “Some had spent many years with their owners in Brulé Sioux cabins,” they said. “The edges of some had frayed from many years of handling.” Anderson’s photos were considered “keepers” by his subjects, and today we’re fortunate that so many were kept.
Kansas author Barbara Stern says Anderson’s original work can be found at the Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City, S.D., and the Nebraska Historical Society in Lincoln. The Sioux of the Rosebud: A History in Pictures, with photos by John A. Anderson and text by Henry W. Hamilton and Jean Tyree Hamilton, is recommended for further reading and viewing.
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This week, the University of California at Irvine rescinded its job offer to distinguished Duke law Prof. – and eminent liberal – Erwin Chemerinsky, because, according to Chemerinsky, the chancellor “didn’t know how controversial I would be” and “some conservative opposition was developing.”
Chemerinsky, who has represented Valerie Plame and a Guantanamo Bay detainee, penned op-ed pieces for major publications and offered a liberal point-of-view to various talk shows, had been offered the position of dean at UC-Irvine’s fledgling law school.
Even conservative scholars were puzzled by UC-Irvine’s decision, because Chemerinsky’s deanship would have given the law school a formidable start, and it is unlikely that other equally qualified individuals will be vying for the opening. Although the university’s chancellor insisted politics had nothing to do with it, the job offer was coincidentally withdrawn after a piece by Chemerinsky appeared in The Los Angeles Times criticizing the Bush administration.
Whether or not UC-Irvine’s decision was politically motivated, it adds another dimension to the debate about the role politics should play in education. College instructors often opt to skirt political issues in their classrooms, but should they also curb their political lives outside of it?
At that question, some conservatives are probably asking: “Since when do college instructors avoid political discussion? Our public universities are nothing if not liberal indoctrinators!” But I can assure you as a university instructor that many of us have pondered how vocal we should be about our political leanings in the classroom, in fear of sparking an inextinguishable debate. As I prepared my syllabus this quarter, I found that, given the textbook graduate students are required to use in teaching college composition, political discussion would be unavoidable.
I have decided to be open about my political views, and all instructors should have the right to do so, as long as they encourage open debate in response. One of the most invaluable offerings of a college education is the ability to think critically and determine your stance on the important issues of our time. Sure, we could churn out student after student who is armed with specialized job skills and conservative pragmatism, but what about the rest of what constitutes becoming a part of the greater society?
I could teach my students the rhetorical strategies but never give them an example of these rhetorical strategies at work in a political argument, or I could teach them about how to present a convincing argument but not encourage them to actually have opinions to argue. I refuse to do so. This generation’s students are going to be in the position to make this world a better place, and thus the last thing they need is more political apathy.
When I was a freshman in college, the war in Iraq was just beginning, and my roommate (a Muslim) and I had watched the first bombs light up the sky on our tiny little dorm television. I thought myself adamantly anti-war, yet when one of my professors played for us an audio clip of an Iraqi-American woman praising America for helping her native country escape a tyrannical dictator, I wasn’t angry and I didn’t cry “indoctrination!” Instead, I listened, as my college education had taught me to.
Indoctrination does happen, and I am certainly not encouraging that here. However, fear of being called an indoctrinator should not limit a professor in their teachings, and certainly should not limit their activities outside of the classroom.
This past June, the American Association of University Professors published a piece titled “Freedom in the Classroom”, which discusses the difference between education and indoctrination. They got it right when they separated the two in this way: “Indoctrination occurs only when instructors dogmatically insist on the truth of such propositions by refusing to accord their students the opportunity to contest them . . . The essence of higher education does not lie in the passive transmission of knowledge but in the inculcation of a mature independence of mind.”
In other words, instructors should be open to criticism themselves as they teach their students how to be open to it. If a student makes a valid point that contradicts the professors, they should congratulate them, not kick them out of the classroom. In my own instruction, I plan to offer various facets to every argument I present in class. And while I may tell them which side of the debate I happen to be on, I would expect those who disagree with me to come forward. If students in my classroom feel unable to do so, then I am doing something wrong.
If political discussion becomes taboo in a college classroom, or if suddenly all politically active instructors, conservative or liberal, were kicked off college campuses, college education would suffer immensely. Not only would it be a despicable affront to free speech, but the students would be missing a key part of their education.
Let’s hope the situation at UC-Irvine is not repeated elsewhere.
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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WJZ) -- Off to the moon from the Eastern Shore. Friday night, south of Ocean City, NASA will launch a new spacecraft from Wallops Island.
Alex DeMetrick reports it's searching for answers to a mystery first seen by Apollo astronauts.
It's not the moon's surface this latest NASA explorer is designed to study. It's called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE for short.
"I think a lot of people have this idea we know everything there is to know about the moon, and that's really far from the truth," said Dr. Michelle Thaller, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center.
Like the mysterious dust cloud Apollo astronauts saw high above the surface. What was holding it up?
The moon's microscopic atmosphere is less than a millionth of the density of Earth's.
But then the moon is like a giant battery.
"The day side of the moon is positively charged. The night side is negatively charged. And this charge goes around the moon and lifts up this little cloud of dust," Thaller said.
That's one theory the rocket launch scheduled at Wallops Island, Va.--which is just south of Maryland--might ultimately answer.
It's already known that meteorite hits throw dust up off the surface.
The LADEE spacecraft will travel low over the moon, using a collection of instruments to measure what trace elements are in its meager atmosphere and analyze dust samples.
"What a weird idea. There's this traveling dust storm, and how would that effect our machinery? How would that effect astronauts if they're on the moon?" Thaller said.
The launch is set for 11:27 p.m. It should be visible over much of Maryland within a minute. Look for it in the south-southeast sky.
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By Dr. Micaela Wexler
EVERY parent should care about gay rights because the way gay teenagers are treated, and the way they react to this mistreatment affects ALL teenagers. Let’s start with the most grim of those reactions: suicide.
Teenagers who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (GLBT) have the highest suicide rate of any population in our society. According to a study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the numbers of lesbian, gay and bisexual youth who attempt suicide every year may be as high as one out of three. This is regardless of whether they are in or out of the closet.
Those statistics alone should be reason for every parent to care, because as a psychiatrist I can tell you teenage suicide affects all teenagers.
But, there are other important reasons why every parent should support gay rights. One out of every four LGBT youth experiences bullying, which ranges from severe physical attacks to verbal abuse. Bullying, like suicide, affects all kids. It creates an atmosphere of vulnerability for everyone. We should want a world for our children in which people are not attacked simply for who they are, in which people are allowed to love whomever they want, and to have that love celebrated. We should want a world for our children which promotes diversity and acceptance. How does the child with a mental health or physical challenge feel watching gay children being attacked and not defended? How does a teenager who is slow to develop or who is not conventionally attractive, or is overweight, feel hearing the words “faggot” or “dyke” used as slurs? Don’t you think they feel vulnerable on some level?
And, how do you know your own child won’t be bullied for being gay? Children are often bullied for many reasons which are cloaked under the homophobic label. There have been several well publicized cases of children being bullied who never identified as being gay. Carl Walker Hoover, was only 11 years old when he committed suicide in 2009 after being the victim of anti-gay bullying. He was an athlete and a Boy Scout, and there was no evidence he had ever asserted his sexual preference.
That leads me to what I hear as a psychiatrist: parents are often the last people an LGBT child will come out to. Your child may very well be gay, and you may not even know it. Especially if you don’t support gay rights.
So, now that you know you should, as a parent, support gay rights, no matter what, the next natural question is HOW?
First, watch your language. Do you say “that’s so GAY?” Do you use the word “faggot?” “Queer?” “Homo?”
If so, then it will be easy. Just stop. Get the gay slur jar going: a quarter for every time one of your kids catches you using those words. If three kids catch you all at once, then you’re out three quarters. By doing something like this, you are going a long way to supporting gay rights: you are communicating to your children that homophobic behavior is wrong, and maybe, they might think twice about doing it themselves. Children raised in a home where cursing is not allowed tend to have better manners and better language. Why not extend that to homophobic slurs?
If you don’t use those words, you’re not home free. You might still be guilty of homophobic language. What was your reaction to the repeal of DOMA? Was it negative? Do you express to your kids that marriage should only be between a man and a woman? Why? Don’t you think that’s homophobic? If you really believe this, why can’t you keep it to yourself? Why do your kids have to hear it? I’m sure there are all sorts of beliefs, like your thoughts on S&M sex, for example, that you don’t share with your children. Why share your anti gay marriage thoughts with them? It’s not going to affect who they marry, any more than your thoughts about your friend’s husband will affect who they have sex with. But, keeping it to yourself if you don’t agree with it might help stop anti-gay bullying.
Do you lie about friends or relatives who are gay: “They’re just friends.”
Do you even HAVE gay friends? They’re out there: why haven’t you included them in your social circle?
Maybe there is someone at work who is gay, or someone on TV, and you make rude comments. Doing that is anti-gay, and contributes to anti-gay bullying.
Or, maybe you just make comments like, “I don’t care if people are gay, they should just keep it to themselves.” If you don’t CARE, then why does it MATTER if they keep it to themselves? I truly do NOT care if people dye their hair. I truly do not expect my 82 year old neighbor to keep that to herself. (I, however, will be keeping my own hair dye decisions to MYSELF, thank you very much.)
Maybe you are not one of those people who has to change their language. Maybe you have always been open minded and accepting, and your children know this. Wonderful! You are ready to really step it up for gay rights! Did you attend a gay pride event last month? Oops! You didn’t? Why not? You don’t have to be gay to attend a gay pride week event. How did you not know that? Well, there’s always next year. You have a WHOLE YEAR to plan. And, to TALK about it with your kids! They can help you plan. You can all do research on which gay pride event you want to attend. I hear Seattle has a great gay pride celebration with all sorts of family friendly activities. This would be a great vacation option for the family, and great material for that “how I spent my vacation” essay. Great way to set the tone for the new school year.
What about your bookshelf: are there books about gay topics? Go to the gay section of the book store and buy the book with the most prominent title. You don’t even have to read it. (Your kid might, so you should probably look through it. And, I wouldn’t recommend how-to books on gay sex – that might really freak them out.)
And, it doesn’t stop there. Supporting gay rights can actually be really fun, when you consider all the artists, musicians and fashion designers who are gay! Wait! Have you been wanting a Michael Kors watch or a Marc Jacobs bag? Well, now you HAVE to go out and get one. It’s your duty as a parent. | <urn:uuid:9dfc47a8-7d3f-47f9-8cc2-32a5ebfabf6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wexlerpsychiatry.com/my-kid-isnt-gay-why-should-i-care-about-gay-rights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967816 | 1,448 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Dental Assistant Kaiāwhina Mahi Niho
Dental assistants help dentists with patient care and running dental practices.
Orthodontic auxiliaries must be registered with the Dental Council of New Zealand.
Dental assistants may do some or all of the following:
- greet and prepare patients for treatment
- mix materials for fillings
- clean and prepare instruments
- pass instruments and materials to the dentist
- develop x-rays
- make moulds of patients' teeth
- complete infection prevention and control procedures
- follow up with patients where required
- perform reception and clerical duties
- order dental and office supplies.
Dental assistants may progress to become orthodontic auxiliaries, and assist orthodontists with patient care. To become an orthodontic auxiliary you need to complete approved training and meet other requirements set out by the Dental Council of New Zealand. An Annual Practising Certificate and registration with the Dental Council of New Zealand is also required.
- Dental Council of New Zealand website - information about training requirements and registration for orthodontic auxiliaries
Dental assistants need to be reasonably fit and healthy.
Useful experience for dental assistants includes reception and hospital work.
Dental assistants need to be:
- friendly, polite and caring
- good at listening
- able to communicate effectively
- quick and efficient
- able to work well under pressure
- able to remain calm in emergencies
- organised and able to follow instructions.
Dental assistants need to have knowledge of:
- basic dentistry and hygiene
- general dental practices
- dental materials and vocabulary
- how to use and care for dental equipment, including sterilisation procedures
- dental surgery procedures, including the use of sedatives and anaesthetics.
- work regular business hours and may be required to work late nights and weekends
- work in dental surgeries, hospitals, private dental practices and community health centres.
There are no specific secondary education requirements to become a dental assistant. However, health education, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics to at least NCEA Level 2 are useful.
Years Of Training
There are no specific entry requirements to become a dental assistant, as you gain skills on the job.
However, many employers prefer you to have completed the New Zealand Dental Association Certificate in Dental Assisting, or employ you as a trainee while you complete the certificate.
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The Internet of Things is actually changing our reality. The worldwide number of IoT devices is anticipated to develop from 30.7 to 35.8 billion in a single year (2020-2021). Both industrial and consumer niches get changed by various IoT applications. This year (and beyond) innovation in real, connected, smart products will boil down to a certain one thing: data. Streaming analytics and other new technologies to empower continuous data monitoring and assist organizations with settling on progressively strategic decisions will enable IoT to soar beyond the buzzword zone With regards to IoT in the enterprise, that’s just the beginning. Through a recent collaboration with TDWI, Altair, a provider of simulation design, HPC and data analytics, surveyed executives and analysts from different enterprises to accumulate the most recent IoT insights directly from the bleeding edges of this disruptive and transformational technology. Significant security specialists concur that organizations need to adapt fast to the changing nature of security risks. As more information access points are added to IoT frameworks, programmers find new feeble points to target. In 2020, the key risk zone will be the country level assaults. In the interim, stealing credentials and phishing remain the simplest approaches to get to information, consequently, organizations should remain cautioned. One method for modernizing security strategies is utilizing AI to automate threat response processes. This will likewise cut the work for security teams which we see the absence of. Let’s look at some of the top insights of IoT for this year Digital Transformation Organizations have numerous inspirations launching their IoT projects, however, digital transformation is the unrivaled leader (62%). Notwithstanding, as companies attempt digital transformation projects to rethink product development, improve customer experiences and make significantly progressively productive internal procedures, information challenges take steps to slow development. Three Key Questions So as to make a solid user experience, you have to concentrate on the following three inquiries: First, what reason will your IoT product serve? What does success for the business resemble? Ultimately, how would you accomplish it? IoT and AI In 2020, organizations will invest large amounts of energy in real-time data processing instead of gathering it for some other time. As artificial intelligence algorithms are getting increasingly advanced, they will discover new intriguing applications with regards to IoT frameworks to automate decisions and enable instant planning. Focus on the Value By the day’s end, it’s not about the innovation, it is about the worth you’re giving to clients. Make the least reasonable applications to test and make progress at an early stage. Data Sources As the number of IoT projects grows, projects are getting increasingly complex, with more data sources to battle with. About 20% of people believe that they’re managing more than 100 information sources at any one time. This issue will just develop as data volumes increment exponentially (175 zettabytes by 2025 as indicated by IDC). Companies need to guarantee their data management solutions can stay aware of these ever-developing data volumes. Edge Computing Not at all like unified centralized cloud computing, edge computing refers to data processing exercises performed close or at the information source. The edge endpoints may incorporate workstations, cell phones or IoT sensors with restricted storage & power. With no compelling reason to move whole datasets to the network center(cloud), companies get significant wins. Monetize Data There is a perpetual amount of data available to organizations however, many are battling to make sense of how to manage the collected data. While there are acceptable utilize cases available, a lot more organizations can be adapting their information. Real-time Data Visualisations Numerous companies despite everything battle to productively access and viably utilize their information. This and the requirement for data democratization within companies has made it richly evident that real-time data visualization and analysis are important highlights of any IoT in the enterprise. 75% of people believe that their IoT projects require or will require the visualization of fast-changing data. Network with Operators IoT is totally unique for operators. The innovation isn’t managed, it’s divided and it brings another arrangement of challenges. Operators need to associate with each other to make IoT a success. 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Ways To Help Your Child Overcome Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal response to something dangerous or stressful. Anxiety can be an adaptive response when it motivates us or warns us of danger. However, anxiety can also show up unexpectedly, causing such distress that it interferes with a person’s ability to lead a normal life. It can affect the way that we think, feel and act.
People of all ages experience anxiety, including young children and adolescents. Children may experience symptoms such as stomachaches, headaches, muscle tension, rapid heart rate, and/or difficulty breathing. Psychologically, children who are anxious may have negative thoughts and imagine the worst possible outcome. Behaviorally, a child who is anxious may refuse to attend school, have difficulty sleeping, engage in frequent crying, or present with what some parents view as “temper tantrums,” irritability and avoidance. It is important to understand that these children are feeling overwhelmed, and unable to verbalize their experience of anxiety. Fortunately, anxiety is treatable, and children tend to be responsive to such treatment.
As a child’s primary support, you can help normalize your child’s experience by helping them gain an understanding of anxiety, its prevalence, and common signs and symptoms. There is a beneficial article from “Hey SIGMUND” that provides parents with a clear and concise explanation of anxiety and the ways in which you, as a parent, can support your child in overcoming anxiety: Anxiety in Kids: How to Turn It Around and Protect Them For Life. This article also provides practical coping strategies that you can practice with your child.
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- Press Release
- August 8, 2022
Hubble View of Megamaser Galaxy IRAS 16399-0937
This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most — it hosts a megamaser.
Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times brighter than the masers found in galaxies like the Milky Way. The entire galaxy essentially acts as an astronomical laser that beams out microwave emission rather than visible light (hence the ‘m’ replacing the ‘l’).
A megamaser is a process where some components within a galaxy (like gas clouds) are in the right stimulated physical condition to radiate intense energy (in this case, microwaves).
This megamaser galaxy is named IRAS 16399-0937 and is located over 370 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image belies the galaxy’s energetic nature, instead painting it as a beautiful and serene cosmic rosebud. The image comprises observations captured across various wavelengths by two of Hubble’s instruments: the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
NICMOS’s superb sensitivity, resolution, and field of view gave astronomers the unique opportunity to observe the structure of IRAS 16399-0937 in detail. They found it hosts a double nucleus — the galaxy’s core is thought to be formed of two separate cores in the process of merging. The two components, named IRAS 16399N and IRAS 16399S for the northern and southern parts respectively, sit over 11,000 light-years apart. However, they are both buried deep within the same swirl of cosmic gas and dust and are interacting, giving the galaxy its peculiar structure.
The nuclei are very different. IRAS 16399S appears to be a starburst region, where new stars are forming at an incredible rate. IRAS 16399N, however, is something known as a LINER nucleus (Low Ionization Nuclear Emission Region), which is a region whose emission mostly stems from weakly-ionized or neutral atoms of particular gases. The northern nucleus also hosts a black hole with some 100 million times the mass of the sun! | <urn:uuid:f3ed64fe-7ef3-4748-9981-bd807d091d52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/hubble-view-of-megamaser-galaxy-iras-16399-0937/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.914022 | 473 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Info about Bamako, (Mali)
Other names for Bamako are BKO, Bamaco – Bamako, Bamakas, Bamako, Bamaku, Bamakó, Bamakɔ, Bammaco, Bammako, Mpamako, ba ma ke, bamako, bamakw, bmqw, Μπαμάκο, Бамако, Բամակո, במקו, باماكو, باماکو, ባማኮ, バマコ, 巴馬科, 바마코, latitude is 12.6500000, and its longitude is -8.0000000.
Bamako population is 2.009.109 citizenry, this area timezone is Africa/Bamako (Africa/Bamako_cet).
Some of the things you can do if you travel to Bamako are hammam, canoeing, abseiling, kayaking, islands, shooting ranges, paddle, boat rides, cathedrals, monuments, hiking, golf, desert, disco, treasure hunts, towers, water parks, aquariums, rafting, volcanoes, scuba diving, walking trails, caves, mosques, museums, adventure parks, bridges, hiking trails, amusement parks, tennis, zoo, statues, religious sites, escape room, climbing, scenic roads, wildlife, mountains, art galleries, nightlife, swimming, skydiving, wellness, music, therms, playgrounds, adventure, valleys, parachute, ranches, gardens, jet skiing, horse trails, biking, clubs, festival, fishing, theme parks, spa, national parks, countryside, bars, off-road trails, water sports, casinos, forest, historical sites, parks, ancient ruins, events, turkish baths, farms, walkways, diving, pubs, architectural buildings, fountains, wine bars, secret, running, hunting, nature reserves, churches, shopping, nature, lakes, sailboats, slopes, natural places, trail running, docks, surf, rivers, cemeteries, beaches, mines, geological formations, water skiing, paddleboarding, food, castles, skiing around Mali.
More details about Bamako in Mali (ML)
It is the capital of Mali.
Bamako has timezone UTC±00:00 (during standard time).
In Bamako there are 2.009.109 citizenry, according to 2009 latest census.
Bamako square area is 245000000 sq. km., so Bamako is ideal for people who like big cities, crowdy with a lot of attractions and entertainment. If you book an accommodation in Bamako you may find expensive accommodations because of Bamako very high housing costs, so for this reason you could enjoy Bamako like basecamp if you want to relax after visiting the Bamako.
Its altitude above mean sea level specifically meters above mean sea level (MAMSL), counts 350 meters. That’s why Bamako is an ideal destination if you and your friends like high mountains to go to in your next vacation and love sports on top of mountains when on holiday to see a new place.
If you are looking for sea, rivers, lakes in Bamako. Bodies of water like Niger River are a must if you are interested in destinations where you can find water.
Bamako things to do and activities: best trip destination for:
Interactive Bamako (Mali) Map and attractions
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Since 1978, cost of living has gone up three-fold. Medical costs, much to the horror of everyone in Congress, has gone up six-fold. And college education has gone up a whopping tenfold. This is beyond the housing bubble, the stock market bubble, any bubble you can think of.
The entire article is worth a read: http://huff.to/hTRHAV
It turns out that sitting on your bum all day is bad for your health, and it seems like everyone is writing about stand-up desks. Well Count me in. I was already growing tired all the sitting I was doing so I decided to build my own stand up desk. Fifty bucks later, and here is what I ended up with:
Michael Hyatt is taking some of the complexity out of his organization and has this to say:
The number of meetings. We should be very careful about setting up routine meetings. Once they are in place, they are hard to eliminate—they seem to take on a life of their own. Every once in a while (perhaps annually) it is good to re-evaluate every standing meeting and ask five questions:Seth Godin has 9 great ideas for shaking up your meetings. Here are a couple:
“What is the intended outcome of this meeting?”
“Are all the people who attend this meeting really necessary to achieve this outcome?
“Can we meet less frequently and still achieve this outcome?”
“Can we meet for a shorter period of time and still achieve this outcome?”
“Is there some way to accomplish this outcome without a regular meeting?”
9. If you're not adding value to a meeting, leave. You can always read the summary later.
1. Cut the meetings you have in half. Cut the time of the meetings that remain in half. Unproductive talk and time will fill the space of long meetings - The Peter Principle in action.All of their advice is a little different, but with a consistent theme: don't have one if you don't need to. And if you do, have an agenda, keep it short and lively, and send out minutes promptly.
4. Be controversial. Not outlandish, but stimulate robust dialogue. The reason most meetings are boring is because most meetings are boring. As the meeting leader, it's up to you to make it interesting.
Together we can make the world a better place. Or at least meetings.
What are meetings like in your organization?
I hate brainstorms.Okay then. It turns out there is research to back this up. Most of the research shows that groups individuals working alone will generate more ideas that those working together. But as Bob Sutton points out this research is flawed.
I hate running them, I hate contributing to them and I hate using them to solve problems.
They waste huge amounts of time and talent and they are no f***ing good at delivering decent ideas.
The academic research on brainstorming -- the laboratory studies that are described as showing it doesn't work -- are rigorous but irrelevant. They compare how many ideas individuals working alone versus versus working in groups can utter into a microphone in the same stretch of time. This is irrelevant and silly, as the practical norm that people take turns talking seems to explain why people are more productive alone -- so this research rules out LISTENING TO OTHERS as productive behavior. Also, the way those studies are done makes it impossible for people to build on each others' ideas -- because building on the ideas of others is impossible when you work alone.So is Brainstorming worth it? I can be if it's done right. Companies Like Pixar and IDEO have created some of the most imaginative films and products using brainstorming as a part of their process. According to Tom Kelly the General Manager of IDEO:
Brainstorming is practically a religion at IDEO, one we practice nearly every day. Though brainstorms themselves are often playful, brainstorming as a tool - as a skill - is taken quite seriously. And in a company without many rules, we have a very firm idea about what constitutes a brainstorm and how it should be organised.So what makes a good brainstorming session? Honestly I still struggle with it. But here are seven secrets to good brainstorming and six sure fire ways to kill a brainstorm.
How do you brainstorm?
photo by: Khilwat
Create a custom color palette. You may not have your logo on the slides, but you can still incorporate your brand into your presentation material. Create a color palette based on your logo or on a photo representative of your industry. My favorite tool for this is Kuler. Just upload an image and let Kuler do its thing. You can tell it whether you want bold, colorful, or subdued colors.
Write down the RGB values for each color. You can enter those values into PowerPoint's color picker when selecting color for text, shapes, or lines. These will then show up as choices the next time you need to change a color. I create a color palette slide at the end of the deck to use as reference while creating the presentation. An example of this is below.
Once you have a palette use it in a consistent way for text, shapes, charts, etc.
Use Grids to create a flexible, yet consistent layout. In Slide:ology, Nancy Duarte recommends using grids to maintain consistency in the placing of elements from one slide to the next. Check out Adam's example of a 4 x 4 grid system. Try a 5 x 5 grid or 4 x 5 grid. A 3 x 3 grid is great for using to the rule of thirds. Here is an example of a Fibonacci grid with the color swatches for a corporate color palette.
|From Jeromy Timmer|
Use photographs. People remember pictures better than words. This is called the picture superiority effect. In addition, people remember concepts better when they hear about it and see it (but reading does not count as seeing). Since this is a live presentation, you have the hearing part covered. Use pictures and images to reinforce the
The clip art built into MS Office is overused and cliched. Avoid it. Instead, use professional looking photographs from stock image sites such as iStockPhoto.com or Flickr. You can find very creative and striking images from the stock photo sites. But if you need shots of people exhibiting genuine emotion you'll have better luck with Flickr Creative Commons photos.
Use fewer words. As a rule: If you are going to say it, then it does not to be on the slide. This will keep you from reading the slide, which bores the audience to death and reduces comprehension. Use keywords and headlines for the audience to key in on. But avoid complete sentences (other than the headline, or pertinent quotes).
Those tips will get you started toward better looking presentations. for more advice on Presentation design read the following.
Speaking about Presenting
Olivia at Speaking about Presenting asks the question, "what would you like to see in PowerPoint slide design in 2009?" This is aimed at an audience already on the better presentation bandwagon. But I still see a lot of basic mistakes in PowerPoint design. So before talking about what I'd like to see in PowerPoint slide design is a discussion of what needs to come off of PowerPoint slides.
There is a direct correlation between the amount of unnecessary junk on the slides and the boredom of the audience. This isn't cause and effect, they both result from the presenter not really understanding the needs of the audience.
So take some time to figure what the audience needs are and get rid of the following elements from your slides.
Company Logo. The audience does not need a reminder of whom you work for on every slide, especially if you all work for the same company.
Animated Logo. One company I worked for had an animated logo in the top left corner of their standard template. Every 30 seconds the logo would spin around and explode in a fountain of color. I can only imagine what went though the mind of the audience, "I think I might buy . . . whoooaaa look at the pretty colors . . . what was I thinking?"
Page numbers. Page numbers are for books and documents. There is absolutely no reason the audience needs to know that a particular slide is number 42 of 168. Unless you plan on giving the audience a printed version of the presentation as a document . But don't do that either. If you must, print it with the page numbers and present it without.
Document control information. I've seen copyright notices, trademarks, file names and revision numbers (e.g. Company.Training.Pres ver. 2.00.1.15) appear in slide footers more than once. Again, this might be appropriate if you print them (please don't), but take them off your presentation. The audience does not need to see these.
Standard Templates. All of the standard Microsoft PowerPoint templates stink. Horribly. The ones that aren't completely awful are so overused that they've become a cliche. Don't use any of them. It is possible to get a well designed, thoughtful and useful template. But be careful, some designers think putting an animated logo on every slide is a good idea.
Bullet Points. Don't get me started on bullet points.
All of these things have one thing in common: they don't serve the needs of the audience. Once you take all of that junk out of your presentation, you can keep a professional, brand oriented appearance using the tips in part 2.
- Set the rules
- Follow the rules
- Improve the rules
- Set the Standard
- Follow the Standard
- Improve the standard
Set the standard
This means to set the standard work. You can not improve if everybody doing the same job does it differently. Work with the people who actually do the job to develop a current best practice, and make that the standard process everybody follows. This is not just for front line workers, this applies to the CEO as well.
Follow the standard
Many managers assure me they have standard work procedures in place, but when pressed admit that it is only followed half the time. In this case we need to work on following the standard. This does not mean cracking the whip, or yelling at people, or holding other people accountable.
Find out why people are not following the standard and use lean tools to correct the process. Make the process as simple as possible and use signs and visual cues to make the next steps obvious. Build in visual controls to so that deviations from the standard are apparent. Once everyone is following the standard work, you will be able to see what is hard to do or doesn't work well and you can move on to improving the standard.
The best predictor of future success is current success. If you are able to manage a mediocre process, you will be able to manage an improved process. Likewise, if you can't manage an existing process, an improved one will likely revert to chaos before too long.
Improve the standard
As when setting the standard, get your front line people involved in improving the standard work. They know exactly where the current process falls short and they'll probably have good ideas for improving it. Make this a part of the culture instead of something that happens in big projects infrequently. Encourage employees to make suggestions any time, evaluate those suggestions with the group, and follow up with her whether you implement the suggestion or not. Facilitating this improvement cycle should be part of a manager's standard work.
This is the foundation of any improvement strategy whether it is lean, six sigma, TQM or the Red X. Improvement is impossible without managing those three things.
So what do you need to work on in your area? Setting standards, following standards, or improving the standards?
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved an emergency loan of $1 billion in immediate budget support to Pakistan to shore up the country’s public finances and help strengthen a slowing economy, according to a press release on Friday.
The quick dispersing Special Policy-Based Loan is part of a comprehensive multi-donor economic reform program led by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stabilize Pakistan’s economy after a major deterioration in its fiscal and financial position in mid-2018 caused growth to slump and threatened progress in alleviating poverty.
ADB approved $1.3 billion budgetary support loan for Pakistan, including $1 billion in crisis response facility
1st time in Pakistan’s history that any govt availed crisis response facility to repay its foreign debt n build forex reserves. https://t.co/rnhkVftHwW
— Dr Humma Saif (@HummaSaif) December 6, 2019
ADB’s financing was approved after the government implemented a series of IMF-supported reforms and actions to improve its current account deficit, strengthen its revenue base, and protect the poor against the social impact of the economic crisis.
“ADB is committed to providing wide-ranging support to strengthen Pakistan’s economy and reduce the risk of external economic shocks,” said ADB Director General for Central and West Asia Mr. Werner Liepach. “These funds will meet the government’s emergency financing needs to prevent significant adverse social and economic impacts and lay the foundations for a return to balanced growth.”
Pakistan is facing significant economic challenges on the back of a large balance of payments gap and critically low foreign exchange reserves together with weak and unbalanced growth. While the country’s economy has a history of boom and bust economic cycles, it reached a tipping point in 2018 after foreign investment shrank sharply in an uncertain political and global economic environment and the ongoing poor performance of state-owned enterprises caused public debt to reach unsustainable levels.
However, the government has shown policies and figures indicating a gradual improvement which led to the approval of the loan.
an inflow of foreign investments worth $1 billion in the forms of Treasury Bills and Pakistan investment bonds as State Bank set the interest rate at a whopping 13.25%, making Pakistan a fierce global competitor in the securities market
The trade deficit fell by 34 per cent in the first four months of current fiscal year led by a paltry growth in exports and a double digit decline in imports of non-essential products. In the first four months it dipped to $7.77 billion from $11.69bn over the corresponding period last year, reflecting a decline of $4.19bn or 33.52 per cent.
A number of measures have been taken in this regard which helped in reducing the import bill and simultaneously formed a stimulus for sustainable economic growth by improving competitiveness and efficiency of the industry especially export oriented and import substituting units and reducing anomalies and cost of doing business.
Read more: Pakistan’s Economy is Turning Around!
This was followed by an inflow of foreign investments worth $1 billion in the forms of Treasury Bills and Pakistan investment bonds as State Bank set the interest rate at a whopping 13.25%, making Pakistan a fierce global competitor in the securities market.
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Yelp Reviews “Not Recommended?” Here’s How to Unfilter Them
Are your Yelp reviews “not recommended?” That can hurt your rating. Here’s how to un-filter them, prevent that from happening again, and increase your rating.
Specifically, here’s what we’ll cover in this article:
Why are my Yelp reviews “not recommended?”
Yelp uses an algorithm to filter out fake reviews. But sometimes it filters out genuine reviews. Here’s why real reviews might get filtered out:
- The user hasn’t posted enough reviews.
- The user hasn’t posted enough photos.
- The user doesn’t have enough Yelp friends.
- The user hasn’t filled out enough of their profile information.
- The user has been inactive long enough to be considered a dead account.
- The user only posts positive or negative reviews.
- The review is too positive or negative.
- The review is too short or vague.
- The review isn’t considered useful, funny, or cool.
- The review violates Yelp’s Content Guidelines.
- Yelp doesn’t trust the IP address the review came from.
- The review came as part of a big burst of reviews.
Unscrupulous people pay for bot accounts to post positive reviews for their businesses. Even worse, sometimes those people pay bots to post negative reviews of competing businesses.
Obviously, bot accounts and fake reviews (lies, by any other name) are a blight on any review platform. So Yelp made an algorithm to filter out spam reviews.
Unfortunately, Yelp’s filter isn’t perfect. Yes, it filters out fake reviews. But it also sometimes filters out genuine reviews. And when genuine 5-star reviews are filtered as Yelp reviews “not recommended,” it doesn’t count toward your business’ Yelp rating (boo!).
In fact, about 22% of all Yelp reviews are “not recommended” and another 7% of reviews are removed outright (see our Yelp fact sheet). That means Yelp hides or removes almost a third of all reviews. And unfortunately, Artificial Intelligence company Quantified Communications found that Yelp tends to filter out many authentic reviews and fails to filter many fake ones.
But how does Yelp’s filter determine which reviews to hide? Why are only certain Yelp reviews “not recommended?” First, it’s helpful to understand where fake reviews usually come from and recognize the common signs of fake reviews.
What Yelp watches out for: signs of bots & fake reviews
Most fake reviews are made by large armies of bot accounts. Bots are made quickly and cheaply with little to no profile information (that would take too much effort) and originate from the same IP address. Since they’re not real people, they don’t make Yelp friends, mark reviews as useful, or message other users.
Their fake reviews tend to be short, vague, generic, overly-positive toward whoever paid for them, and overly-negative toward competitors. Fake reviews can also consist of broken English, and copy-pasted text. When bots aren’t submitting fake reviews, they lay dormant doing nothing.
So Yelp trusts users with unique profile information, lots of Yelp friends, messages, and other types of social engagement. Yelp trusts users who are active and prolific in posting reviews—some positive, some negative—and photos (which are hard to fake).
Yelp prefers medium-length, reviews with specific information that’s considered cool, funny, or useful to fellow Yelpers. And Yelp prefers when the reviews are positive or negative but not too much.
Knowing that, here are all the reasons why a Yelp review might be “not recommended.”
The user hasn’t posted enough reviews
Yelp trusts users who are very active and post many reviews. Users who’ve posted too few reviews could be perceived as new bot accounts or old dead accounts.
The user hasn’t posted enough photos
Yelp trusts active users who are very prolific on Yelp. Yelp also trusts users who post photos because photos are much harder to fake.
The user doesn’t have enough Yelp friends
When a user has many Yelp friends, it helps validate that they’re a real human being (not just a bot) who has relationships with other human beings.
The user hasn’t filled out enough of their profile information
This includes missing a profile picture, description, and even a connection to Facebook. Filling these things in—especially the Facebook connection—helps Yelp know the user is a unique human and not a generic bot.
The user has been inactive long enough to be considered a dead account
Yelp trusts active users over accounts that stay dormant for long periods of time. If the user hasn’t used their Yelp account in a long time, they may find their Yelp reviews not recommended.
The user only posts reviews with the same sentiment
When all of a user’s reviews are either good or bad, no matter which business they’re reviewing, this implies it’s a bot account paid to give positive reviews to whoever paid for them or negative reviews to competitors. But this also filters out users who are just very positive (or negative) reviewers.
The review is too positive or negative
Fake reviews tend to be overly-positive toward the business that paid for them and overly-negative toward competitors. Unfortunately, that means super-happy and super-unhappy customers get their Yelp reviews not recommended too.
The review is too short or vague
Fake reviews tend to be short and generic, like “I loved it!” Unfortunately, that means even genuine reviews get filtered if they seem too short, vague, or unhelpful to readers.
The review isn’t considered useful, funny, or cool
If the review doesn’t get any engagement from any other users, that’s a sign it isn’t helpful to Yelpers, so Yelp filters it out.
The review violates Yelp’s Content Guidelines
Here’s Yelp’s Content Guidelines in a nutshell:
- No inappropriate content, like hate speech or threats.
- No conflicts of interest, things should be unbiased and objective.
- Don’t post promotional content unless you’re using your Business Owners Account.
- Make sure your contributions are relevant and appropriate for the Yelp community.
- Don’t publicize other people’s private information.
- Don’t steal intellectual property.
- Never demand payment from a business, unless it’s for a refund.
Yelp doesn’t trust the IP address the review came from
An IP address is like the internet version of a “home address;” it’s a loose way of finding where your device is located.
Yelp doesn’t trust an IP address when it’s the source of lots of reviews. Such IP addresses are usually sources of bot farms and fake reviews. Yelp might also distrust IP addresses that are too far from your business, which is also a symptom of fake reviews.
For example, let’s say there’s business based in Atlanta. Yelp knows the IP addresses located in Atlanta. But then Yelp sees 100 reviews originating from an IP address in Bangladesh, and they’re all reviewing that Atlanta business positively. Naturally, Yelp smells something fishy and filters the reviews.
The review came as part of a big burst of reviews
If your business suddenly receives a big spike in reviews all at once, it can either look like you paid for a bunch of fake reviews or your competitor paid to have you review bombed. Either way, big waves of reviews can trigger spam detection algorithms.
So there are a lot of reasons why a genuine review might get filtered. The worst part is knowing that Yelp can change its filter algorithm at any time without warning and there’s nothing you can do about that. It’s possible you could wake up one day and find most of your Yelp business reviews gone, hidden by the filter. But that’s just one of the many dangers Yelp reviews pose to your business.
The good news is if your business earned a 5-star review that’s been filtered, you can help it get unfiltered.
How to get Yelp reviews out of the “not recommended” filter
The key to unfiltering good reviews is to help Yelp trust the reviewer and their review. That means connecting with the reviewer and reacting to their review.
Here are the steps you can take to help rescue Yelp reviews from the “not recommended” filter:
- Find the reviewers you want to help unfilter
- Engage them
- Tag their review of your business as useful, funny, or cool
- Ask the reviewer to complete their Yelp profile
- Offer a reward
Step 1) Find the reviewers you want to help unfilter
Log into Yelp and go to your business’ Yelp page. Scroll down toward the bottom and click the section titled “other reviews that are not currently recommended.”
You want to identify the reviewers who left positive reviews that got filtered out. Then you’ll want to decide which reviews you want to help unfilter.
Once you know which reviewer you want to help get unfiltered, go to Yelp’s Find Friends page and search on the reviewer’s name in the “Search Friends on Yelp” search box.
This will take you to Yelp’s Member Search page where you can continue searching for more reviewers.
If you’re having a hard time finding them, try searching by location.
Step 2) Engage them
That means you should follow them, compliment them, and add them as a friend. Users who get compliments, followers, and friends tend to be real people, not spammers, and Yelp knows that.
You can also message them thanking them for their review (and maybe encouraging them to come again for repeat business!). If you send them a message, make sure to ask them a question. When Yelp sees a user receiving and sending messages, that gives Yelp a lot of confidence the user is an actual human being engaging with other humans.
Step 3) Tag their review of your business as useful, funny, or cool
While you’re on their profile, click “Reviews” on the left to see the reviews they’ve written. Then find their review of your business. Tag it as “useful,” “funny,” or “cool.”
When you engage with their review, it shows Yelp that the review is authentic and helpful to Yelpers. This goes a long way in helping Yelp trust the review and unfilter it.
Step 4) Ask the reviewer to complete their Yelp profile
Including their profile picture, description, and connection to Facebook. You can also advise them to review other businesses (both positively and negatively) to help them seem like active, engaged users with many reviews.
It might feel selfish to ask them to complete their profile for you, but think about it from their perspective. They spent time and effort writing their review, but Yelp hid their review as if it was spam. How rude! By helping them get unfiltered, you’re helping them get their reviews seen and helping gain influence on Yelp. That’s a win for them.
Step 5) Offer a reward
If they go to all this trouble for you, you should make it worth their while. The reward could be a discount, a Buy-One-Get-One, or maybe just an Amazon gift card. Offer whatever seems appropriate.
Just be clear NOT to promise a reward for writing a review, which is illegal under FTC regulations. But you can reward them after they’ve already given a review, as long as there was no expectation of a gift in advance. And of course, you can reward them for completing their profile—there’s nothing illegal about that.
How to prevent Yelp reviews from being “not recommended”
You can never guarantee that a review won’t be filtered, but you can help minimize the chance of it being filtered. The key is to help Yelp trust the review before it gets filtered (usually 1-2 days after posting). Here are several steps to helping reviews avoid being “not recommended:”
- Be specific when asking for reviews
- Don’t ask for reviews all at once
- Don’t use your own device to submit Yelp reviews
- Monitor your Yelp business review page frequently
- Engage with positive reviews
- Engage with reviewers (both positive and negative!)
Be specific when asking for reviews
Yelp doesn’t trust reviews that look too short, vague, positive, or negative. So if you ask customers for reviews, ask them in a way that encourages them to write medium-length posts with enough specificity that won’t sound overly positive.
Also, encourage customers to post photos. Yelp loves photos because they’re difficult to fake.
Just don’t be pushy when asking for reviews. That’ll backfire. (And then you’ll wish the review was “not recommended”)
Don’t ask for reviews all at once
If you’re asking customers for reviews, don’t ask lots of customers all at once. Big waves of reviews can trigger Yelp’s spam detection algorithm and end up “not recommending” the reviews.
Don’t use your own device to submit Yelp reviews
It might be tempting to have a tablet where people can submit Yelp reviews. Unfortunately, when Yelp sees lots of reviews coming from the same IP address, Yelp might assume you’re violating their “Don’t Ask” policy. That means lots of “not recommended” Yelp reviews..
Monitor your Yelp business review page frequently
You should be monitoring your Yelp business review page on a frequent basis so you can see when new reviews come in and when your rating changes. If that sounds like too big a time commitment for you, you could always sign up for a free review monitoring service.
Engage with positive reviews
When you see new positive reviews, make sure to mark them as funny, cool, or useful. This helps Yelp trust that the review is authentic and helpful to users, which reduces the chance of Yelp “not recommending” the review.
Engage with reviewers (both positive and negative!)
When you see positive reviews, make sure to connect with the reviewer. That means following them, complimenting them, and adding them as a friend.
You can also send them a message thanking for their review (and maybe encouraging them to come again for repeat business!). If you message them, make sure to include a question they’ll probably respond to. When users send and receive messages, it makes them look more authentic to Yelp.
When you see new negative reviews, make sure to message the reviewer asking for feedback. Negative reviewers can sometimes offer the most constructive feedback, and it’s very satisfying when you turn negative reviewers into positive ones!
However, if there’s an egregiously bad review, just know there are ways to remove a negative Yelp review that’s hurting your business.
All the above techniques will help you reduce the risk of reviews being “not recommended.” Most reviews are up for 1-2 days before being filtered. So being proactive and engaging them early and often can help prevent many reviews (and reviewers) from being unfairly filtered.
But the fact is that Yelp’s still going to filter out some genuine 5-star reviews. And the only way to win in the long-term is to improve your overall Yelp rating.
How to improve your overall Yelp rating
No matter what you do, Yelp is still going to not recommend reviews it considers spam—whether or not they really are. Even if there was a way past Yelp’s filter, Yelp is liable to change its filter algorithm at any time without warning.
So what can you do about it? Get as many 5-star reviews as you can.
Yes, it seems obvious. But in the long-term, negative reviews need to be drowned out with good ones, and you always need to keep your reviews up-to-date. So you need to get as many 5-star reviews as frequently as possible.
And how are you supposed to do that? Here’s how you can get more Yelp reviews with 5 stars that don’t get filtered.
In short, you need to earn your customer’s trust, then ask them for a review, follow up with customers who don’t respond, and ask for reviews as frequently as possible. Here’s how.
Earn your customer’s trust before asking them for a review
The first step to earning 5-star reviews is helping your customer as much as possible. Yes, that seems obvious, but you need to do everything in your power to serve them the best experience possible before asking for a review (not after!). If you’ve done a good job, they’re much more likely to give 4 or 5 stars.
Once you’ve done everything possible to help your customer fix their problems, then ask them how they would rate your business on a 5-star scale.
Just don’t ask in person, because they’re liable to be polite and tell you what you want to hear. Ask via text, email, or whatever’s appropriate.
If they say they’d rate you 4 or 5 stars, encourage them to write a review on Yelp.
If they say 3 stars or fewer, ask them for feedback. Negative reviewers can be the best sources of constructive feedback, and sometimes you can turn negative reviewers into really positive ones.
Follow up with customers who don’t respond
When you ask customers how they’d rate your business, most won’t respond. That’s natural. So it’s good to follow up with them.
The longer you wait, the more likely they are to forget your business and the less willing they are to write a review. We’ve found that businesses that follow up 2-3 times often get twice as many reviews. So don’t be afraid to follow up early and often.
If you’re using email, try waiting 3-7 days between emails. If you’re texting them, don’t follow up sooner than 7 days or you’ll risk upsetting most customers.
Request reviews frequently
Don’t wait until the end of the month to ask all your customers for reviews. There are several reasons for this.
First, if you get a bunch of reviews all at once, it might trigger Yelp’s spam detection algorithm, and many of those reviews might end up filtered.
Second, ask customers for reviews earlier rather than later. The longer you wait, the more they forget you, and the less willing they are to write a review.
Third, prospective customers looking at your Yelp rating want to see that your reviews are fresh and up-to-date. So it’s important to keep your reviews recent. That’s why you should request reviews frequently. That means weekly or even daily, not monthly.
Automate your review process
Now you might be thinking this all sounds like a lot of time and effort. And you’d be right. That’s why it’s important to automate as much of your review marketing as possible so you can spend your valuable time doing what matters: serving your customers.
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Big Water on Mallorca – level 2
Torrential rain caused flash floods on the Spanish island of Mallorca, and at least ten people died and more are missing.
Spain’s prime minister flew to Mallorca and tennis player Rafael Nadal joined the recovery efforts. People filmed him clearing mud from a house, and he also opened up his tennis academy for those who need a place to stay.
You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.
What do you think about this news?
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Webinar: Protecting Web Apps with Secure Components
Simplicity, convenience, security and privacy are key considerations for users of digital services. Service providers and device manufacturers therefore need to ensure that devices offer adequate security. As the deployment of web applications grows, so does the need to protect them with use cases like online authentication, digital signatures, credential provisioning and secure payments.
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Updated on July 30, 2021
For a long time now, healing through art has been recognized by artists all around the world. However, recently art therapy for depression is gaining recognition as well. Since art therapy has the potential of creating new modes and avenues for expressing oneself, it can provide invaluable benefits to people who are suffering from severe depressive episodes. Recently, there has been mounting evidence pointing towards a positive outcome in art therapy for depression.
Even though artists of all genres have recognized and appreciated the healing process of art, only in the past few decades has art been able to enter into psychotherapy. With art therapy emerging as a legitimate field of therapy, people suffering from depression have been provided a new avenue of recovery, opening up new possibilities for healing.
How does art therapy for depression works?
Work on self-expression
Depression is a very deep disorienting, painful as well as isolating experience. It robs the person of the capacity to feel happy. Furthermore, it silences the sufferer and causes the person to lose the ability to voice out the suffering. People suffering from depression are not able to communicate their problems and pain in a healthy manner. Thus, depression turns into destruction and destroys one’s sense of self, emotions as well as functionality.
Art therapy for depression can be an opportunity for such people to push against the walls by immersing themselves into the process of creation. Researchers have shown that creating or making art can have a very positive impact on a person’s psychological as well as physical well-being. Patients have reported, that while they are making art, they end up talking to the therapist about their problems. Somehow, making art makes the process of communication much easier.
Art therapy for depression provides a non verbal communication mode
Explore thoughts and emotions
Art therapy for depression can help people fully explore their emotions, thoughts and address their mental health problems in a positive and safe manner. Art therapy further allows a person to achieve a sense of self-sufficiency, break through the dysfunctional thought patterns which have led to depression and gain a sense of independence. It also helps develop coping mechanisms, strengthen problem-solving skills and increase the empathetic ability of a person.
Allows future visualization
Reinforce positive actions and coping skills in patients
Notice thinking patterns
Strengthen relationships and connection
Focus on highlighting the positives
No need of direct art
Research proof supporting art therapy for depression
A study published in 2015 examined the impact of art therapy on anxiety, distress, trauma, depression, low self-esteem and finally the inability to cope. As per the researchers, patients who were receiving art therapy for depression showed improvement in case of 14 out of 15 randomized controlled trials. A few of the studies have also indicated that art therapy turned out to be a more effective treatment than the control groups who were not receiving art therapy. The participants who took part in art therapy made less phone calls to their mental health and medical care providers, had reduced numbers of somatic symptoms and complaints and reduced utilization of mental and medical health services.
How is art therapy integrated into the treatment of depression?
Art therapy for depression is not a stand-alone treatment. It is normally incorporated within a range of therapeutic interventions which enables the psychologist to create a comprehensive treatment experience for people suffering from depression.
How does art therapy for depression work?
As per research, when a person sees something which he or she believes is soothing, beautiful and pleasing, the neurotransmitter dopamine which is located in one of the pleasure regions of the brain gets released. Thus, when people create art, the release of dopamine causes an increase in the positive feelings and allows the person to feel happy.
In the field of art therapy for depression, therapists are performing what is normally considered as the hardest of tasks by traditional psychoanalysts. They are getting the people who are suffering from depression to proactively express their symptoms through art allowing them to manage and overcome the same. This leads to the end result being a person who feels positive, has a higher self-esteem and sees the world as a beautiful place
Frequently asked questions
Their are specific form of drawings which help a therapist understand and access depression of the patient. These are:
- The Don Jones assessment
- Draw a person picking apple from tree
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A royal stay in London
A ROYAL STAY IN LONDON
The nation’s capital and home to the British monarchy, London is the soundest base to discover the heritage of the royal family.
London attracts millions of visitors yearly that come to learn more about the royal family. Locations such as Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court Palace and Westminster Abbey are the perfect starting points to uncover the extraordinary heritage of the royal family of England.
Here are some places to visit during your next stay in London…
Windsor Castle and Great Park
Though a short drive from London, Windsor is an imperative stop when discovering the heritage of the British monarchy.
Windsor Castle is a medieval fortress, built in the 11th century, and the residence of the royal family. The architecture is particularly impressive, and the castle boasts a collection of 300,000 books, 300 fireplaces and 400 clocks.
Windsor Great Park is nearly 2,000 hectares large and can be discovered on foot or by horse-drawn carriage. This park is a romantic place to visit and offers a beautiful walk between 500-year-old oaks.
The tower of London
Another must-see stop on your visit is the Tower of London. This historic fortress on the banks of the Thames played an important role in English history. You can see it yourself and take a look at the crown jewels in their famed exhibition. If you book early, you could even get tickets to see the Ceremony of the Keys, an event that occurs daily and dates back to the 14th century.
Kensington Palace and Hyde Park
Kensington Palace was the royal residence of Charles and Diana, but more recently of Kate and William. Here you can admire collections of royal ceremonial costumes, splendid halls and the famous King's Gallery.
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Table of Contents:
- Can you melt chocolate chips for dipping?
- What's the best way to melt chocolate chips?
- How do you melt chocolate chips for dipping on the stove?
- How do you melt chocolate without a bowl?
- Can you melt chocolate in a plastic bowl?
- Can you melt chocolate with butter?
- How do you melt dark chocolate for dipping?
- Can I use coconut oil to temper chocolate?
- Will coconut oil dissolve sugar?
- Why does my chocolate not get hard?
- What ingredient makes chocolate harden?
- What chocolate hardens after melting?
Can you melt chocolate chips for dipping?
Yes, you can melt chocolate chips in the microwave as long as they are a high quality brand of baking chocolate chips. I like to use these Ghirardelli Baking Chips . To microwave them, set your microwave at half power and stir the chocolate every 30 seconds until smooth.
What's the best way to melt chocolate chips?
- Place the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl.
- Put the bowl of chocolate chips into the microwave and nuke them for 30 second on high power.
- Remove the bowl from the microwave and stir the chocolate.
- Place the bowl back into the microwave and nuke it for another 30 seconds on high power.
How do you melt chocolate chips for dipping on the stove?
To melt chocolate on the stovetop, place the chopped chocolate in the top of a double boiler over barely simmering water. This method keeps the chocolate away from direct heat, which allows it to melt at a low enough temperature to prevent scorching and separating.
How do you melt chocolate without a bowl?
1: The Microwave Method (Aka the Quick-and-Easy Way)
- Step 1: Chop chocolate into small pieces and place in microwave-safe bowl.
- Step 2: Microwave at 70% power for 1 minute. ...
- Step 3: Continue to microwave in 30-second increments, stirring frequently, until the chocolate has fully melted.
Can you melt chocolate in a plastic bowl?
Cut the chocolate into similar-sized pieces and place in a clean, dry microwave-safe glass or ceramic bowl. Don't use a plastic bowl, as it can retain moisture and make the chocolate seize.
Can you melt chocolate with butter?
Chocolate can be safely melted with a small amount of liquid, such as milk, cream, butter, or alcohol if they are placed in the pan or bowl together (the same time).
How do you melt dark chocolate for dipping?
The chocolate is now ready to be used for molding candies, coating, or dipping. Tempering Chocolate Method 2: Starting with a pound of broken chocolate, melt two-thirds of the chocolate over indirect heat, such as in the top pan of a double boiler. Melt just until the chocolate is liquid and smooth (at 110°–115°F).
Can I use coconut oil to temper chocolate?
Even the simplest chocolate recipes, like truffles, brownies, or chocolate bark can be improved by using tempered chocolate. ... There's nothing easier than mixing together some raw cacao powder, coconut oil, and maple syrup, letting it set in the fridge for a few minutes and voila – you've got raw chocolate in no time.
Will coconut oil dissolve sugar?
Place 1/2 cup sugar in a small bowl. Add the slightly softened LouAna Organic Coconut Oil. Use your fingers to mix the sugar and coconut oil together, but not so much that the sugar dissolves.
Why does my chocolate not get hard?
If your homemade chocolates aren't hardening, it's because cocoa butter can be a bit weird to work with. Real butter is simple: It hardens when it's cold, and melts when it's warm. That's because milk fat is all the same kind of fat, and it behaves predictably.
What ingredient makes chocolate harden?
cocoa butter molecules
What chocolate hardens after melting?
There is not much of a secret or trick to dipping something in chocolate and getting it to harden, actually. Simply melt semisweet chocolate by itself or with a little cream or butter. Dip, then refrigerate. When the chocolate is cooled, it hardens.
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You’re probably familiar with some of the ways in which fraudsters approach victims - emails, texts, phone calls, letters and sometimes doorstep scams.
But did you know that social media is also a favourite place for scammers?
This month Get Safe Online’s campaign is all about Social Media scams – and the attached leaflet provides some great tips on how to avoid being scammed on social media.
For more tips on staying safe online then visit www.getsafeonline.org
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The British Prime Minister's planning to bring his EU withdrawal agreement back before Parliament next week.
Boris Johnson insists once passed, the UK will leave by the end of next month.
Meanwhile, the SNP's election success has increased the likelihood of a second Scottish independence referendum.
Party leader Nicola Sturgeon says the "mandate to give people a choice must be respected".
Political expert Professor James Mitchell says there are potential consequences for the British Prime Minister. He says the relationship between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom will deteriorate and support for Scottish independence will likely increase.
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A father whose son took his own life in July 2020 is calling for an "urgent overhaul" of the way some counsellors and therapists assess suicide risk.
His son Tom had died a day after being judged "low risk", in a final counselling session, Philip Pirie said.
A group of charities has written to the health secretary, saying the use of a checklist-type questionnaire to predict suicide risk is "fundamentally flawed".
The government says it is now drawing up a new suicide-prevention strategy.
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Microsoft has teamed up with cyber insurer At-Bay to offer corporate users of Microsoft 365 lower cyber insurance rates. It marks the first of several potential partnerships with insurers that will see Microsoft link its security and software systems to assess underwriting risk, which will both boost buyers’ cybersecurity and improve affordability of cover.
At-Bay said businesses that adopt security controls, including multifactor authentication and Microsoft Defender for Office 365, will improve their defences to cyber risk and see their premiums adjusted in line with loss history and risk profiles.
“Incentivising the implementation of security controls with improved policy terms and pricing has strengthened the overall security of At-Bay’s portfolio companies. According to At-Bay, their insureds are seven times less likely to experience a ransomware incident than the industry average,” Microsoft said.
Microsoft will roll out similar models with other cyber insurers and use its products to help improve insurers’ data insights for underwriting cyber risk. Customers will be able to opt in to share data and details about their security through Microsoft 365 and its other products, which could bring down their premium rates for cyber cover.
“This model rewards customers with real savings when adopting cybersecurity best practices and gives insurers the information they need to proactively protect their customers against breaches,” Microsoft said. “Insurers struggle to acquire and use dynamic, real-time data needed to mitigate cyber risk,” added the software company.
“For cyber insurance to play a meaningful role in overall risk management, buyers and sellers need the benefit of data and clear visibility into what is covered and factors either minimising or multiplying risk exposure,” said Ann Johnson, Microsoft’s corporate vice-president of security, compliance and identity.
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After reading about the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and the subsequent adjustments ordered by the Supreme Court, consider how these changes impact an individual judge’s view of a “reasonable sentence.” Then, in a post to the discussion board, answer these questions:
Describe how you would tell a “reasonable” sentence from an unreasonable one—what are the hallmarks of a reasonable sentence?
How does a forensic psychologist’s sentencing evaluation affect what would be considered a “reasonable sentence”?
After reading about the changes to the Sentencing Reform Act, do you agree with the Supreme Court decisions to grant more discretion to federal judges? Why or why not?
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Historical Geographies explore how the world used to be and how we can see traces of these spaces in the current day. My research in this field has examined diverse objects from ethnographic films and colonial texts to playgrounds and bridges!
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Rooted in Christ
Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time (C) | Fr John Patrick Kenrick reflects on the Jewish roots of our faith, and calls us to renewed hope in Christ who alone can save us.
The readings we hear at Mass are meant not only to educate us in the faith but also to sustain us when we feel challenged by either the prevailing social ethos or by particular difficulties that we face in trying to be faithful to Christ.
Christians in the UK are having to face the reality that our numbers continue steadily to decline and society is no longer recognisably Christian in any meaningful sense. There are many factors that have contributed to this decline – the materialism of a wealthy society, a widespread amnesia about the nation’s Christian roots, the prevailing view that religion is a private matter, the desire to be seen to be impartial in matters of religion and a consequent neglect of Christian doctrine in schools, a loss of respect for authority including religious authority, and an inertia on the part of many Christians when it comes to meeting the challenge posed by secularism. For this we are all to blame – from those who govern down to individual Christians.
All children, of whatever faith, deserve a thorough education in our Judaeo-Christian heritage if they are to understand our nation’s history and culture including our concept of human rights and duties to community. And in Christian schools and parishes, in particular, priority should be given to formation in the faith and active evangelization. We could also do with improving our public image! Going to church on Sunday can seem like self-indulgent piety to those unable to feed their own children. Christians are very active in helping the poor and the needy but faced with a growing gap between rich and poor, we could be more vocal in demanding social justice – employment opportunities for young people, affordable housing and wages that at least cover the cost of living. In a previous age the promotion of Christianity would have been seen as part of the solution to social and moral ills.
The Jewish people have faced many challenges to their faith in their long history and the first reading from the book of Wisdom today reminds us of something that helped to sustain them. It says ‘the devout children of worthy men offered sacrifice in secret’. These words might make us think of penal times and the three hundred or so years when Catholics, forced to practice their faith in secret, nevertheless felt confident that their personal fidelity would one day lead to a revival of the Catholic faith.
The second reading reminds us that faith was Jewish before it was Christian. God’s constant care for His chosen people continues to inspire Christians today. Abraham’s faith predates even the Jewish tradition. Abraham may have been an illiterate nomad but his faith in God was simple and sure. It was the honest response of a human soul to his Creator. It was as pure as the response of fallen humanity can be, and it anticipated the more perfect fiat of the new Eve. God spoke to Abraham and he responded with obedience and trust. His obedience was such that he was even willing to sacrifice his own son, Isaac, the very son through whom God would effect His promise. Isaac was as much the fruit of his mother’s faith as his father’s. Yet neither parent could have hoped to see the countless descendants that God had promised. So there is a faith there that also anticipates our own faith in Jesus – the faith of ‘those who do not see and yet believe’.
Faith, hope and charity are the work of God’s Spirit within us. They are all connected and we should pray for an increase in all three. Just as Abraham recognized that his faith made demands of him, we must accept the demands being made of us – above all the demand to witness to Jesus Christ by what we say and do. The gospel is not just a reminder to act, but also a warning of the dangers of not acting on our faith. Much has been entrusted to us – in fact far more than was entrusted to Abraham. He will be the first to condemn us if we fail to witness to the truth that God has come to us in Jesus, to make His love for us visible and tangible.
Our society should be one in which human beings can truly flourish, and that is far more than can be achieved by subscribing to a transient secular philosophy or to a misplaced confidence in the nation’s inherent greatness, let alone a vague optimism that the market will, in time, solve the only problems that really matter. We need solid grounds for believing in ourselves and grounds for genuine, lasting hope. We can only truly believe in ourselves if we first believe in God and in what His Son has promised to those who love and obey Him. The gospel insists that we be prepared, ready to greet the Lord when he comes again as Judge. Now is the time to perfect our response to His great love for us, the love which we see in his willingness to suffer and die as a man to save us from our individual and collective rebellion. For those who turn to Jesus Christ there truly is no need to be afraid.
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Brezova pod Bradlom, May 3 (TASR) – Even the most tragic death can’t cover who Milan Rastislav Stefanik was and what he did so that Slovakia became a state-forming nation of an independent Czechoslovak state, President Zuzana Caputova stated on Monday on the occasion of 102nd anniversary of Stefanik’s death at the M.R. Stefanik Memorial in Brezova pod Bradlom (Trencin region).
The head of state pointed out that the formation of a new, free state was Stefanik’s great life task. He claimed that the policy of the new state could be European, human, world and “truly” Czech and Slovak. “After decades of historical turbulence, we have the opportunity to pursue this Stefanik-like policy. If we didn’t use this opportunity, we would betray the legacy that Milan Rastislav Stefanik left us,” stated Caputova.
Parliamentary Chair Boris Kollar (We Are Family) said that Stefanik became a legend after his death, to which almost all Slovak political currents subscribed after 1919. “For some he was a Slovak patriot who contributed to the setting up of Czechoslovakia. For others – a Slovak patriot who didn’t complete his work – the full liberation of the Slovak nation,” said Kollar.
Culture Minister Natalia Milanova read Prime Minister Eduard Heger’s (both OLaNO) speech in Breazova pod Bradlom. According to him, Stefanik was characterised by intellect and charisma, he didn’t know the word impossible. “He believed the truth, he lived the truth and defended the truth,” pointed out Heger, adding that Stefanik wasn’t afraid of obstacles and learnt how to overcome them.
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Internet problems got you relying on your mobile data.
And you want to use Chromecast regardless.
But then you’re not sure how.
Luckily, you’ve come to this article.
Keep reading to learn:
- 3 types of hotspots (#2 is ideal for Chromecast).
- 7 steps to save up mobile data when using Chromecast-enabled TV.
- And much, much more…
- Does Chromecast use mobile data?
- Chromecast and mobile data: 4 things you need to know
- How to save mobile data when using Chromecast
- Step 1: Limit the amount of data certain apps can use
- Step 2: Avoid using too many streaming services
- Step 3: Avoid watching videos over a long time
- Step 4: Reduce the quality when streaming videos
- Step 5: Enable data saving mode
- Step 6: Change your live wallpapers to a regular one
- Step 7: Turn off your Chromecast TV when not in use
Does Chromecast use mobile data?
Your Chromecast-enabled TV can use mobile data by turning on the hotspot on your smartphone. You can do this via the guest mode feature. However, you need strong mobile data to stream in HD quality.
Chromecast and mobile data: 4 things you need to know
#1: A mobile hotspot works with Chromecast-enabled TV
Did you know you can use hotspot from your phone to your TV?
But while mobile hotspots aren’t as powerful as Wifi routers…
They can still work as an alternative internet source.
To understand how they work…
In a nutshell, data hotspots are internet access points. It enables you to connect to a network wirelessly.
There are 3 types of Wifi hotspots, namely:
- Public hotspot.
- Mobile hotspot.
- Pre-paid hotspot.
They differ in speed and security capacities.
But most of us only know about mobile hotspots. So here’s a fact about them…
While some mobile hotspots can connect to up to 10 devices at once, others can only support a total of 5 devices.
So, it varies depending on your data.
“Are they safe to use?”
Mobile hotspots are safe.
That’s because they’re private.
Meaning they’re hard to connect to unless you know the host’s password.
“How can I hotspot my phone’s data to my Chromecast-enabled TV?”
To answer that, we’re starting with:
Enabling guest mode
The key to having a mobile hotspot is having guest mode enabled.
And when you turn it on, you can connect your Chromecast-enabled TV to your phone.
But first, what’s a guest mode?
You see, the guest mode is pretty much like what the name suggests.
You’re borrowing the internet from another device. So there’s a guest and a host.
In this case…
The guest is the Chromecast, and the host is your phone.
But using this method could be pretty overwhelming for some.
That’s because there are separate instructions for the guest and host in enabling the Guest mode feature.
But don’t worry, I’ll walk you through each one.
Let’s start with the host, which is your phone. Follow these simple steps to enable guest mode:
- Make sure your phone has mobile data.
- Go to the Google Home app.
- Select your Chromecast-enabled TV.
- Open Settings.
- Click Recognition and Sharing.
- Click Guest mode to turn on.
Once done, you can proceed to your TV and enable its guest mode. Here’s a step-by-step guide:
- Open Settings > Google > Devices and Sharing > Cast options > Guest mode.
- Open any Chromecast app, e.g., Youtube.
- Click the cast icon.
- Click Nearby devices.
- Enter PIN.
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#2: Your streaming quality depends on your mobile data
According to statistics, the average mobile connection speed is 6.8 Mbps.
That can already be good for some web surfing experiences.
And quick enough to stream a 1080p video.
However, that’s not the case when you’re using your data.
It’s because it has a maximum capacity.
So if you endlessly use your data, you’ll reach your data limit.
And when that happens, you won’t be able to hotspot your data to your Chromecast TV.
Luckily, certain apps have automatic features to help you conserve data.
For instance, YouTube.
When watching a YouTube video, the app will automatically change the quality.
“Why is that?“
You see, youtube will choose the most suitable quality for your current bandwidth speed.
And as of today, here’s the list of video resolutions on youtube:
Note: 144p is the lowest video quality while 1080p is the highest.
Therefore, you’ll likely get the lowest video quality if your data is weak.
On another note, you’ll experience a 1080p resolution with fast and unlimited data.
#3: The highest data-consuming apps
Since mobile data is a limited source of network…
Mobile hotspots provide a limited experience.
That can be true when dealing with apps while using mobile data.
On average, surfing 10 websites daily can use up to 100 MB.
Now, here are some apps that can eat up your data rapidly:
So beware of these apps when using mobile data.
Moreover, simple activities can eat up your data rapidly.
Especially when you do them repeatedly.
Here are a few examples of activities that use mobile data:
- Using Google maps.
- Playing online games.
- Checking your emails.
- Listening to online music.
- Scrolling via social media apps.
#4: Chromecast uses data when it’s idle
Your Chromecast-enabled TV consumes data in 2 major ways.
The first one is when you stream videos in HD quality.
And the second is when your TV is idle.
Yes, you read that right.
Even though you’re practically doing nothing with your TV, it’ll still consume your data.
Notice the live wallpapers on your TV every few seconds and the weather forecast?
News flash, they’re the culprit.
You see, live wallpapers and weather forecasts are automatic features from Google servers.
And what’s worse is that it never ends.
Try to leave your Chromecast on for a month, and you’ll be surprised to know that you lose 15 GB or more.
Meanwhile, if you have 2 or more Chromecasts installed on different TVs in your home, you could use up to 40GB of data.
And to think you lose this chunk of data without watching anything on your Chromecast…
That’s a considerable amount of data going to waste.
So, to save you from all this distress, here’s:
How to save mobile data when using Chromecast
There are 7 easy steps to save mobile data when using Chromecast.
Step 1: Limit the amount of data certain apps can use
You need to conserve data.
Imagine if you run out of data while in the middle of sending a work email.
That’d be frustrating.
So to avoid that from happening, you can limit the amount of data an app uses.
This way, you can monitor what apps are using data.
All you have to do is to turn off the setting that allows background apps to run.
Follow these steps to restrict apps from using data:
- Go to your phone’s settings.
- Click on Network and Internet.
- Tap Data usage or connections.
- Select the app and tap Mobile data usage.
- Toggle down Allow background data usage.
Step 2: Avoid using too many streaming services
Using too many streaming services is dangerous for your data.
You’ll not only lose your data quickly…
But you’ll also experience buffering and lags.
And you don’t want this to happen to you.
So you should avoid using them simultaneously.
With that, use one app at a time.
Then make sure to exit the app when you finish using it.
Moreover, only download games or videos when you have Wifi.
So that when you’re offline, you’ll have access to it.
And it won’t take up your data.
Step 3: Avoid watching videos over a long time
Watching videos for an extended time will rapidly burn down your data.
And when you’re out of data, you won’t be able to stream more videos.
So it’s best that you conserve your data by watching videos shortly.
Because, again, mobile data is only limited.
So you have to restrict your time using it.
Step 4: Reduce the quality when streaming videos
“Can I still watch a long video?”
However, it’s advisable that you reduce the quality.
That way, you can keep some data for other videos you may want to watch in the future.
Here’s how you can lower the video quality on Youtube:
- Click your profile picture.
- Select Settings.
- Select Video quality preferences.
- Choose between Auto or Data saver.
Note: The Auto option gives you the most suitable quality depending on your data. While the Data saver option automatically lowers the picture quality so it’ll load faster.
Step 5: Enable data saving mode
Active apps and services automatically use mobile data when there’s no internet.
So what you do is use Data Saver.
Google says that it lets you save as much as 50% of data.
That’s because Data Saver provides a lightweight version of every video you watch.
This way, you can conserve your limited data plan.
Here’s how you can turn on data saving mode in 3 steps:
- Go to your phone’s setting.
- Select Network and Internet.
- Turn on Data Saver.
You can watch this short video if you want a visual guide on using data saver:
Step 6: Change your live wallpapers to a regular one
Changing your TV’s live wallpaper is also a recommended step.
You can use a low-resolution image as your Chromecast TV background instead.
You can either search for one on the internet.
Or you can choose an old image that has a solid background color.
Once done, follow these steps for you to have your new background:
- Go to your phone’s Google Home app.
- Tap Chromecast.
- Tap the 3 dots at the upper right of your screen.
- Select Ambient mode settings.
- Select the Google Photo’s options.
- Select the image you chose.
Step 7: Turn off your Chromecast TV when not in use
Turning off your Chromecast TV is practically the best solution for saving data.
If you turn off your Chromecast TV, it won’t be able to connect to the data.
Thus, you can conserve your data for other essential purposes.
To turn off your TV, simply click on the power button on your remote control.
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The everydayness of politics both brings forth issues of where the domain of politics sits and how such analyses overcome falling into banality as “everything as politics” devolves into inconsequential argumentation. Further, it raises questions of how one escapes or partialises themselves against battles for hegemony. A domain of politics has become increasingly fluid as issues surrounding art, ethics and identity become fodder for culture wars and key determinants for the production of new constituencies. Everything is a game of power in this sense.
Such is a consequence of the expansion of the liberal polity itself, as politics as the arena of the state and more fundamentally the cleavage of the community in defining the borders of a territory and national identity have become closed off. Heidegger defines politics through two key elements, the friend-enemy distinction as expounded by Schmitt and politics as the art of the possible. The liberal polity has attempted to sublimate the friend-enemy distinction, instead seeing politics as a framework of negotiated agreement as in a marketplace or a courtroom. Concurrently this diminishes possibility as the possibilisation of political demands or the construction of alternative praxes of national identity and organisation are curtailed, boxed into professional networks and technocratic organisations that can enact negotiated settlements and preside over sectoral disputes.
“Today the political erupts in very different places and we are confronted with a paradoxical situation: ‘the political constellation of industrial society is becoming unpolitical, while what was unpolitical in industrialism is becoming political’. A series of new resistances have emerged which are grass roots-oriented, extra-parliamentary and no longer linked to classes or to political parties. Their demands concern issues which cannot be expressed through traditional political ideologies and they are not addressed to the political system: they take place in a variety of sub-systems”.
Hegemony is pushed into the extra-political arena of technocratic argumentation and geopolitical manoeuvres while political demands are caught within sub-politics as described by Mouffe. An economistic sectoralism emerges as demands remain at the level of “democratic demands”, limited to specific spheres that are encased within their own logics. Collective identities or multiplicities are superseded by networks that abstract and obfuscate political action and communication. Requirements of technical expertise or particular educational backgrounds become an increasing feature of this post-political landscape, as experts-in-theory are demanded to resolve social problems. Politics is then a set of constructed choices between differing models of society with similar core functions: a market economy, a limited-yet-strong state, a series of institutional and policy-making networks with associated think tanks and NGOS, and a communicative function funnelled through media organisations and a highly-regulated public sphere. A Habermasian tetralogy comprising economy, state, governance and civil society.
Yet the cloying nature of this tetralogy has produced backlashes against it, both using and subverting the sub-politics of a regimented public sphere to produce new organisational possibilities and meaningfully expand the friend-enemy distinction into networks of power themselves. The most obvious example is populism as a modality of politics. As a concept it has various guises, from Latin American populism (or Caudillismo) to right-wing populism. The rise in worker and farmer militancy across many Western countries (and preceding them in India and Sri Lanka) also suggests a new form of sectoral populism that focuses upon its immediate interests while also advocating wider strikes and acts of opposition against an array of institutional actors and elites. What all have in common is the re-instantiation of the friend-enemy distinction and the recognition of networks of power as a limiting factor of political action.
Laclau sees populism as politics tout court, the essence of the demand concatenating into political action that can overcome the stultifying administration of a bureaucratic technocracy. “What is crucial for the emergence of the ‘people’ as a new historical actor is that the unification of a plurality of demands in a new configuration is constitutive and not derivative”. Through a plurality of demands new possibilities can be forged that (re)conceptualise a people as a unifying totem. Politics through populism is premised on the centrality of the demand as the functional part of distinction and possibilisation, the two elements of politics. This is done through the process of constructing equivalential chains out of particular demands, concatenating toward a partial whole that can then take on the project of hegemony against a designated enemy. Against the regimentation of politics into statecraft and microcosmic conflict, populism provides space for the emergence of a chain of demands that goes beyond their sublimation within an established framework of governance.
However, it also represents its totalisation and stultification. Populist reasoning shows a cyclicality, as it must either continually contain new demands producing infinite equivalential chains which must inherently dilute their content, becoming themselves abstractions which move beyond their capacity to be made, or make such chains restrictive in the types of demands compatible, thereby reducing the chain back down to a series of democratic demands. The difference inherent to the demand as an articulable problem in and of itself, something not simply amenable to established political action but something outside the frame of the politically conceivable (the Overton window), is brought back into the conceivable through the equivalential chain.
“A demand which is met does not remain isolated; it is inscribed in an institutional/differential totality. So we have two ways of constructing the social: either through the assertion of a particularity – in our case, a particularity of demands – whose only links to other particularities are of a differential nature (as we have seen: no positive terms, only differences); or through a partial surrender of particularity, stressing what all particularities have, equivalentially, in common. The second mode of construction of the social involves, as we know, the drawing of an antagonistic frontier; the first does not. I have called the first mode of constructing the social logic of difference, and the second, logic of equivalence”.
This isn’t a simple case of sublimation of difference by equivalence though. Rather, both sit in dynamic tension with each other as the production and addition of demands alters the discursive system of articulation. In other words, there is a constant conflict between forces of abstraction and forces of concreteness as demands are the implementation of real political forces/interests while their concatenation is an abstraction of these demands into unifying concepts.
The chain itself is homonymous, both demonstrating the extension of demands into the equivalential field but also becoming chained up, totalising the political into the abstract. If administration is the field of abstraction, the removal of politics from the polis and into the technic, the production within the equivalential field as chains grow longer and longer and demands are removed from their concrete or contingent origin inheres a vesica piscis between the fields. Demands abstracted become the formative position for new administrative formalities which produce further abstractions (of the people and their demands). The chain falls back into the realm of policymaking and demands once again become individuated and transparent to administration. Populism presents a Janus-faced character, going to the limits of the political while also falling back into its administrative modes.
Populism in its concrete representations demonstrates this Janus-faced nature. Latin American populism or right-wing populism in Trump or Orbán show the expunging of established politics and the concatenation of demands into an overarching chain bound with a meta-syllabic marker (nationality, sovereignty, dislocation) that can transform and/or conflict with administrative order. Trump’s “drain the swamp” or Chavez’s fight against Venezuelan media present the mechanism for this conflict: a new politics vs. an old administrative apparatus. Tired elites versus the people. However, as the new politics develops and produces its own administrative fetters, it also produces its own elites and corruptions. The Obrecht scandals in various left-wing Latin American governments. The Trump Organisation’s tax affairs. Orbán’s distribution of favours and land to political allies. As new demands grow within the new politics, chains can become closed off and existing ones are abstracted into almost ethereal conflicts (against economic imperialism or the deep state, both difficult to define but clearly existent) which shutdown popular opposition. The crackdowns on protests by Ortega in Nicaragua or Maduro in Venezuela show the limit of populism and the requirement for consistent renewal and engagement with the people on a concrete level. If populism is politics tout court, then it shows the cyclical nature of fields of abstraction and equivalence and the limiting factor of politics itself: the destruction of individuation in the goal of totalisation.
Thus if populism is politics tout court, then a concomitant politics of difference or of autonomy is required to limit the abstractions and corruptions of populism, maintaining the friend-enemy distinction without quashing the potentiality of politics within a massed people that limit or militate against political possibilities. Heidegger sees the political being within the will. “Will aims at a goal. But the one who is striving wilfully does not recognise and grasp this goal blindly and on its own; rather – and this is essential – it is seen in connection and in combination with the ways and means”. It this unifying will, analogous to the equivalential chain, which encompasses politics. In this we see the Heideggerian theory of the state as the essence of the political, where the domain of the people sits in cooperation with the leader. The demand, where it exists, is surrounded by the state and its people, thus submerging it within the populist abstraction.
The demand sits before truth. Truth itself is an affirmation of power, the capacity to decide between demands and form a corpus of legitimacy. The demand is itself tension between interacting subjects but also within the subject too. In the Hobbesian state of nature, political origination doesn’t emerge with the first sovereign coupling but with the demand as an intersecting element that brings forth action from the milieu and that sits between individuals. The ways and means that Heidegger prioritises as secondary to the will, as its organisational element, are the foundational aspects of politics itself. In a politics of difference the essence of a political being is subverted by a univocal being, “a plastic, anarchic and nomadic principle, contemporaneous with the process of individuation, no less capable of dissolving and destroying individuals than of constituting them temporarily; intrinsic modalities of being, passing from one ‘individual’ to another, circulating and communicating underneath matters and forms”. This goes from the state to the multiplicity as the organisational locus of political demands, and moves beyond a simplistic individualism or sectoralism toward essences of power and will themselves which are both constructable and de-constructable in their machinations.
This inverts what Heidegger describes as the origination of the state and the formation of the leader, taking politics beyond its limit if we are to see methods of exit from totalities which preserve lifeways and maintain the essence of demands themselves without their dilution in chains. Populism as a dynamic is a necessary component of any politics as the equivalential chain takes it to the limit, beyond the ordained or codified, allowing for alternative groups to seize power and distribute resources according to new logics. However, to go beyond stultification we must go beyond populism into the differential nature of the demand itself and into the origination of the categories of politics – state, people, polis, etc. This means not just inverting Heidegger’s historiography of the state but also Laclau’s framework of populism, seeing the demand as the infinite problem in-itself rather than the consequence of a pre-existing political field. The demand is the origination, the communicable variable that puts actions upon others, producing conflict and cooperation. It is outside the state or the administration as such, informing them but also deforming them as demands go beyond sovereign capacities. The demand then is the plane through which the friend-enemy distinction becomes codified but also through which it becomes violently transmogrified as enemies become indistinct, contingent and multiplicitous.
This also then raises the question whether the agonistic politics described by Mouffe is an adequate basis for the plane of demands, or whether it leads to the ossification and abstraction of the demand and thus de-individuates and massifies the people as a codified unit, easily swayed by an elite. “A democratic society requires a debate about possible alternatives and it must provide political forms of collective identification around clearly differentiated democratic positions. Consensus is no doubt necessary, but it must be accompanied by dissent. Consensus is needed on the institutions constitutive of democracy and on the ‘ethico-political’ values informing the political association – liberty and equality for all – but there will always be disagreement concerning their meaning and the way they should be implemented”. However this very institutional consensus provides an opening for technocracy to re-enter the political arena, becoming part of the constitutive mechanisms. The very question of democracy and of the political domain must remain open otherwise massification and the entrenchment of totalisation become second-nature to an agonistic system as much as they are to a liberal one.
Agonistic politics is a structure for the containment of violence and the prominence of the demand as a representation of the popular will (and the contestation of wills thereby). However, it also inverts this in using violence to constrain the excess of the demand, routing it into particular conclusions which partialise and perforate it. The agonism here is doubled over, both affirming the demand while also dislodging its intension as an expression of particular will via its extension into a general will. Politics in this framework is both included and occluded as the structural terms always control the background.
Instead the agon should be conceived as one of exit and autonomy, of the production of difference and the possibility for new institutions to emerge outside of a mass framework of conformity. An “agonistic struggle being between different spheres, alongside an internal one” goes beyond an institutional settlement into the very grounds, the ways and means of organisational loci and the demand as foundation of politics. The univocal being, that of a nomadic politics of drift that sits between and within the concepts of people and state is an unsettling one, dislodging accepted methods and opening up truths to criticism. This politics of difference is one of separation and autonomy, that neither escapes politics nor transcends but rather undermines and ungrounds institutional configurations, pushing forward both populist sentiments but beyond that singular demands outside established collective frameworks that complexify and overdetermine state and governance themselves.
A politics of the groundless, of the unmoored that represents pure difference. This isn’t a rugged individualism a la libertarianism (where individualism dies in the quantification of the marketplace) but a de-institutionalisation away from the centre toward the frontier. The excess of populism is entirely the popular exit from political institutions and onto the canvas itself – the creative capacity for forging new lifeworlds and extending the potentiality of the will itself. Politics here is both undermined and undergirded in that the demand is constituted across a multiplicity (of structures, forms and fragments of identity) rather than inscribed in a chain. This is a revolutionary populism in that it goes from the exegetical to the differentiating, forging lines of force that complexify and overwrite established vehicles of identitarian and political representation. This isn’t exit in a pure utopic sense but a line of critical and violent autonomy forged constantly through the conflicts of will.
Martin Heidegger, Nature, History, State: 1933-1934
Chantal Mouffe, On the Political
Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason
Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason
Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason
Will Grant, Populista: The Rise of Latin America’s 21st Century Strongman
Martin Heidegger, Nature, History, State: 1933-1934
Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition
Chantal Mouffe, On the Political
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The Maine Campus
Last week's announcement of a new dormitory wing reserved for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals is not particularly interesting. It came as no surprise that the university, concerned more with sensitivity than education, would forge ahead with such a reckless plan. Many would prefer to ignore the issue. However, as a supposed voice of the reactionary social policy, I feel that this decision, indeed the university's stance of anti-discriminatory education, is worthy of comment.
Lane, Michael L., "The Right View. Sensitivity U" (1996). Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. 750.
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The property was sold in 1934 to Christian Christensen, a Dane who settled in Iceland in 1931 with his Icelandic wife Ólöf Ólafsdóttir. They kept ten cows, and sold the milk, which was delivered to people’s homes by horse-cart. Christensen subsequently operated an abattoir, a smokery and a meat shop on the farm. The farm buildings were demolished in 1965.
In 1946 the Reykjavík municipal authorities purchased the land, which was used in 1948-58 as allotments where children grew vegetables during the summer holidays. The idea of creating a public park first arose in the late 1950s, and was put into practice a decade later.
The park was designed by landscape architect Reynir Vilhjálmsson. Designed in a modern style, the garden was influenced by Nordic trends. Klambratún Park is a popular place for outdoor activities and social gatherings. Open-air concerts and other events have been held there.
Kjarvalsstaðir, the gallery of the Reykjavík Art Museum, named after the famous Icelandic painter Jóhannes S. Kjarval, opened in the park in 1973.
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$60 an hour sounds like a lot of money, but is it that much if you convert it to the annual salary? We’ll give you the numbers, so you can judge it yourself. We’ll also take a look at jobs that pay this much. $60 an hour is how much a year, exactly?
This hourly wage is almost three times the median in the United States, which is $22 per hour (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). So, if you make $60 an hour, you’re much better off than the average person in the US. In fact, you’re in the top-earning 10% of workers. $60 an hour is how much a year before and after taxes?
$60 an Hour Is How Much a Year? Gross Pay
To calculate your annual salary, multiply your hourly wage by the number of hours you work in a week. Then, multiply that number by 52 (there are 52 weeks in a year). Assuming you work 40 hours per week, your gross pay would be $60 x 40 x 52 = $124,800 per year. That’s not too bad!
Of course, you’re not going to take home all of that money. So, let’s take a look at your net pay. Your net pay is what is left after taxes and other deductions are taken out of your paycheck.
$60 an Hour Is How Much a Year? Net Pay
The amount of money you keep after taxes depends on your tax bracket. The higher your salary, the higher your tax bracket, and the more taxes you will pay. If you’re filing as a single person with no dependents, making $124,800 a year puts you in the 24% tax bracket. This means you owe $14,751 plus 24% of the amount over $86,375.
That’s not all. There are also state and local taxes, FICA and state insurance taxes. Sounds complicated? We know, so let’s keep it simple. Your take-home salary turns out to be about $80,284.
$60 an hour is how much a year after taxes in your case? If you suspect your tax bracket is higher or lower, you can estimate your net pay with an online calculator, entering your specific circumstances.
$60 an Hour Is How Much a Week or a Month?
If you’re paid hourly and want to know how much that is per week or per month, it’s easy to calculate. Just multiply your hourly wage by the number of hours you work in a week or month. Or, convert your annual salary to other time periods.
- There are 2,080 hours in a year, so you’re making $60 × 2,080 = $124,800. $80,284 of that is left after taxes.
- There are 52 weeks in a year, so your weekly earnings are $124,800 ÷ 52 = $2,400. After taxes, they amount to $1,543.92.
- Divide $124,800 by 12 months in a year, and you get a monthly paycheck of $10,400. Your take-home pay will be $6,690.33 per month.
No matter how you look at it, $60 an hour is a lot of money. It’s even more impressive when you realize how much that is per year or month.
£60 an Hour Is How Much a Year in the UK?
In the United Kingdom, the average number of working hours in a week is 37.5. That means there are 1,950 hours in a year, so £60 an hour translates to a yearly salary of £117,000. That’s very good, considering that the cost of living in London for a family of four is about £3,566 monthly, or £42,792 per year.
What Jobs Pay $60 an Hour ($124,800 a Year)?
But what about jobs that actually pay $60 an hour? We looked through the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ tables and found several examples of occupations that pay around $60 an hour on average.
- public relations manager;
- human resources manager;
- computer hardware engineer.
As you can see, most of these positions require a lot of training and experience. They also tend to be in management or involve working with complex systems. $60 an hour is how much a year in their case? Most of them work full-time, so the figures calculated earlier stay accurate.
Is $60 an Hour a Good Wage Everywhere?
If you compare the cost of living in different parts of the country, you’ll see that $60 an hour is worth more in some places than others. In general, cities have a higher cost of living than rural areas. And, within the U.S., some states are much more expensive to live in than others.
For example, $60 an hour in Mississippi allows a family of 2 adults and 3 children living on one salary to cover all the basic expenses (housing, food, transportation, child care, etc.), with about $40,000 left over. In the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan area, on the other hand, they won’t be able to put much into savings.
The Bottom Line: $60 an Hour Is a Lot of Money
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James Bennett, Commercial Director, Systems and Services, Signify UK & Ireland: Manufacturing organisations can play a big part in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. For many businesses, this usually means using electric vehicles and using cleaner fuels. But why stop there? Several aspects of manufacturing units and warehouses offer more significant opportunities to go green. In fact, according to the UK Green Business Council (UKGBC), the building sector has the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 25% of UK greenhouse gas emissions in the UK come from buildings and infrastructure.
Warehouses, too, have a significant role in making the global economy sustainable, and smart efficient solutions such LED lighting and connected controls can help. The UK Warehousing Association estimates that warehousing in the UK accounts for 566 million sq ft of property – a rise of 32% over 2015. It is a significant part of the UK’s building stock and therefore has a considerable carbon footprint. Whether new construction or retrofitting, warehouses can be designed with sustainable practices, and the good news is that it’s not an all-or-nothing approach.
Switch to LEDs
A simple first step for warehouses is to swap out the inefficient lighting for efficient LED lighting as it can be upto 80% more efficient than traditional lighting. As LED lighting can last up to 25 times longer than conventional sources, you also get the benefit of reduced maintenance costs, which due to the ceiling heights in warehouses can be a very costly exercise. Our data suggests, switching to LED lighting in the sector could reduce 131.5 thousand tonnes of CO2 emissions, saving the sector up to €440m.
But the possibilities get even brighter, so to speak. When organisations make the switch to LED lighting, a layer of lighting controls can also be added to enable further savings. The lighting levels can be automatically adjusted depending on the tasks and occupancy within a given space. These additional energy savings can come from daylight-sensing, scene/task setting and presence/occupancy detection, all of which will help to further reduce the energy consumption of the warehouse.
The Smart Warehouses
Connected lighting can play a significant role in enabling a warehouse to become even more energy efficient, operationally efficient & sustainable. One such system is our Interact “connected lighting” system. Intelligent drivers and sensors are embedded into the light fixtures to create either a wired or wireless infrastructure allowing a full remote control and management of the lighting. A remote cloud-based system can also be used to allow for multiple sites to be connected into one common platform/dashboard. It then becomes easy to take complete control of the lighting across multisite and countries, from anywhere, at any time. Intelligent Occupancy sensors continuously gather data about presence and footfall within the space. Heat maps can then be simply created to show which areas are being more frequently used to improve lighting management and operating expenses by optimising stock locations and pick times.
Environmental sensing is another possibility. Temperature can be continually monitored and optimised, ensuring the right amount of heating or cooling is applied to the space. Similarly, CO2 levels can be monitored to keep an eye on ventilation and air flows.
Armed with this additional functionally, intelligence, data and insights, warehouse managers can now make informed changes to their warehouses and achieve ever better levels of operational efficiency & sustainability
The Green Halo effect
The benefits of warehouse sustainability go beyond environmental responsibility. A sustainable warehouse —appropriately lit, appropriately heated, and carbon-neutral — can be a differentiator in the labour market, attracting the best people, especially among the younger working cohorts.
A connected lighting system can be a key enabler for building a better, cleaner, more sustainable future. As other crucial elements in the global economy, warehouses must find ways to put those systems to work. | <urn:uuid:6b94bbb9-1880-4d6a-b8f8-5840b8f7526d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://warehousenews.co.uk/2022/07/connecting-with-a-sustainable-warehouse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.926952 | 776 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Here is a problem that we encountered when trying to update our Nginx software: the update was simply overwriting our custom Nginx rules, many of which were created to stop folks from messing with our sites. We use cPanel to manage our domains but were manually updating vhost config files for our domains. Updating them over and over again when you have a couple of sites is not tough. But if you have more than a dozen of sites, the process becomes time-consuming. You just have to find the “createvhosts.py” files to address the issue.
In our case, the file is located in our scripts directory (scripts/createvhosts.py). Those of you who know your Nginx are going to find the file pretty easy to read. As you can see in the above example, there is no need to hard-code your IP (“%s” takes care of that). Things are a bit different for those of you who want tn ban certain IPs from accessing specific files and directories on your site.
Before making changes to your files, make sure you back them up. When you are done, you can rebuild your vhosts by going to: WHM -> Plugins -> Nginx Admin -> Rebuild Vhosts. Needless to say, you can build very sophisticated templates with this approach, but you have to know what you are doing. | <urn:uuid:19206fcc-8eb1-4bf1-ab1e-494d50d8f128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wpsolver.com/change-default-vhost-config-template-for-nginx/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97524 | 292 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Considering that the fastest person can only run about 18 miles per hour (30 kilometers per hour), your body is moving at speeds that are unnatural when it is in a motor vehicle. There is a lot of kinetic energy involved. That means when you are in an auto accident, some of that kinetic energy is absorbed by your body. In other words, you are hit by metal with a lot of force. That is why bones break and a lot of damage is done to muscles and organs. Besides broken bones and injured internal organs, people in a car accident almost always suffer from injuries that are invisible to the naked eye and cannot be picked up by X-rays.The first is whiplash, damage to the neck tissue that happens when the head and neck suddenly move back and forth beyond their range of motion. The pain and stiffness may manifest days or even weeks after the accident. For some people the pain eventually goes away but for others it persists indefinitely until it is treated.Another injury that might happen in an accident is a herniated disc (also known as ruptured disc or slipped disc) of the spine. Discs are soft tissue that is filled with a jelly like substance that are found between the vertebrae. Their role is to cushion the vertebrae and to keep them in their positions while also allowing you to move freely. The spine is made up of 33 vertebrae total. I don’t know about you but that screams to me that you are built to move and when you injure a disc you cannot move. A herniated disc is one that has slipped out of place or has ruptured. In some cases, the herniated disc presses on a nerve causing serious back pain for many years, or for the rest of the injured person’s life if they do not address it or improperly address it.A third injury is damage to the nerves, the muscles and the ligaments. This damage is not easy for doctors to pick up because it does not appear on X-ray images. They cause a lot of incapacitating pain long after the accident.The standard medical approach is to suppress the pain with pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs with the hope that the damage will correct itself. This approach does not address the source of the problem so the scar tissue might heal in abnormal ways, making movement painful and unbearable for many years, even for the rest of the injured person’s life.These injuries need the help of a chiropractor who will address the source of the problem by rehabilitating the spine from the inside out. The chiropractor helps to heal the nerves and soft tissue, and also realigns the damaged spinal structure and function. It is only after the adjustment is done by the chiropractor that the injured person’s body begins to heal properly and the pain goes away.As a matter of fact, any person who has been in an auto accident should see a chiropractor after the usual hospital treatment. Even if there is no pain or stiffness it does not mean that the muscles, joints and spine were not damaged. The chiropractor will examine the body to evaluate its health, and then give an accurate and safe treatment plan that will prevent any pain from developing.
How Archetype Is Positioned To Be Americas # 1 Natural Health and Movement Center.
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Natalies story of how she was terrified to visit a chiropractor, until she realized the benefits and relief it provided for her chronic back pain.
This is the most common response I hear any time I ask to see a patient’s blood work. They have been told that everything is normal, yet they still feel awful. How could this be the case? This post is specifically about why medical and functional blood analysis is different and absolutely needs to be understood | <urn:uuid:3c8de080-92ab-4252-9aa1-d55e39d77e5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archetype.health/post/body-goes-auto-accident | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968322 | 791 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Actinopteri (ray-finned fishes) > Pleuronectiformes
(Flatfishes) > Soleidae
Etymology: Pardachirus: Greek, pardias, -ou = a fish similar to grey mullet + Greek, cheir = hand (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Lacepède.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Marine; reef-associated; depth range 1 - 15 m (Ref. 3200). Tropical
Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea and Persian Gulf to Durban, South Africa and Sri Lanka (Ref. 30573).
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 26.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 11441); common length : 20.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 3505)
Occurs in shallow coastal waters, on sand and mud bottoms (Ref. 30573). Feeds mainly on bottom living invertebrates. Marketed fresh. Produces a bitter toxic substance from the bases of the dorsal and anal fin rays that deters predation, even by sharks (Ref. 9710) and thus may prove valuable as a shark repellent (Ref. 4537).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Heemstra, P.C. and O. Gon, 1986. Soleidae. p. 868-874. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 3200)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 125652)
Common namesSynonymsMetabolismPredatorsEcotoxicologyReproductionMaturitySpawningSpawning aggregationFecundityEggsEgg development
ReferencesAquacultureAquaculture profileStrainsGeneticsAllele frequenciesHeritabilityDiseasesProcessingNutrientsMass conversion
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969
): 25 - 29.3, mean 28 °C (based on 1176 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82805
= 0.5156 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00977 (0.00466 - 0.02049), b=3.08 (2.90 - 3.26), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this Subfamily-BS (Ref. 93245
Trophic level (Ref. 69278
): 3.5 ±0.37 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179
): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153
): Low vulnerability (16 of 100) .
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649
): (0 of 100) .
Nutrients (Ref. 124155
): Calcium = 63 [30, 134] mg/100g ; Iron = 0.559 [0.309, 1.060] mg/100g ; Protein = 19.3 [17.6, 21.0] % ; Omega3 = 0.0867 [, ] g/100g ; Selenium = 29.2 [14.1, 62.0] μg/100g ; VitaminA = 66.7 [17.2, 244.3] μg/100g ; Zinc = 1.1 [0.6, 1.7] mg/100g (wet weight); | <urn:uuid:27e00dbf-3cc3-41c1-8907-b7dfe7f5cff0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fishbase.org/summary/8917 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.674726 | 844 | 2.921875 | 3 |
The sacred abode of Goddess Yamuna is nestled near the foot of Kalind Parbat on a side of Banderpoonch Parbat It is believed that the Yamunotri temple is built by the king of Tehri, Naresh Sudarshan Shah in the year 1839. It is one of the Chota Chardham pilgrimage sites. The Yamuna river is gushing down from one side of the temple. The Yamunotri Temple holds Goddess Yamuna in the form of a black marble idol. Ganga Devi also finds her place in the form of white stone by the side of Yamuna. The temple closes its portals as the winter season arrives on Yama Dwitiya that is the second day after Diwali or on Bhai Dooj. Goddess Yamuna is taken to Kharsali village in the winter season in a palanquin and remains close entire winters. The goddess Yamuna comes back to the Yamunotri temple on Akshaya Tritiya that is April/May. Both the closing and opening ceremonies of the Yamunotri shrine are brought about with grand celebrations, elaborate rituals and Vedic chants.
According to the mythology Yamraj, the brother of Yamuna bestowed a holy boon to her on the auspicious day of Bhai Dooj that whosoever will take a dip in the Yamuna river at Yamunotri Dham will attain salvation and will thus have freed oneself from being taken to Yamlok.
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Yamunotri Dham Yatra
Yamunotri Dham temple seats Goddess Yamuna and is located at a 5km trek from Jankichatti. It is situated on the bank of the holy river Yamuna. Gomukh, the source of the holy river Ganga is located in Gangotri Glacier at a trekking distance of 19km from Gangotri town. Motorable roads end at Janki Chatti and from here one needs to trek to reach the temple. Plan a trip to visit this beautiful sacred temple from April/May to June and September to October/November. Strictly avoid the monsoon season as at this time it is risky due to landslides, floods. Low temperature and heavy snow make the winter season the most inappropriate season for the devotees.
Importance of Yamunotri Dham Yatra
Paying a visit to the holy Yamunotri temple is an integral part of the popular Chardham Yatra in Uttrakhand tour. This temple is devoted to goddess Yamuna. Every year numerous pilgrims visit the Yamunotri temple. Yamuna Devi assumes great religious importance for Hindus. The pilgrims believe that by worshipping goddess Yamuna they can also please and get blessed by Surya Dev, Yama and Sugna Devi.
Yamunotri Yatra by helicopter
Yamunotri Yatra by helicopter is the easiest and perfect way to pay a visit to the Yamunotri temple in a short time. Helicopter tour is good for those who have a shortage of time and for those also who are facing health issues and are not able to perform pilgrimage relatively quick. The helicopter operates from Sahastradhara, Dehradun helipad every morning for the temple and returns to the city every evening. You will depart from Sahstradhara helipad, Dehradun, and will be arriving at Kharsali. There you will be escorted to the Yamunotri by Palki. After the Jal Abhishek and VIP darshan, you will be heading back to Sahastradhara, Dehradun with some good memories.
Yamunotri Dham Opening Date
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It is no coincidence that the rate of respiratory infections increases during the winter months. More families are visiting, residents go “home” for dinner, visitors traveling from other areas of the country bring “foreign” microorganisms along and thus we have the perfect storm. Understanding that these are things we can’t change, let’s talk about the things we CAN change that may assist in preventing the spread of infection.
Each of us should have a proactive infection control program addressing the basics such as hand washing as the simple act of washing your hands is the leading way to prevent the spread of infection! The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also states the single best way to prevent seasonal flu is to get vaccinated every year. That said, good health habits like covering your cough and washing your hands often help stop the spread of germs and prevent respiratory illnesses like the flu. Some other preventive steps recommended by the CDC include:
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too. This also means that you can and should limit visitation by anyone with symptoms of illness.
- STAY AT HOME WHEN YOU ARE SICK! If possible, stay home from work, school and errands when you are sick. What is your facility policy on employee illness? Do staff members with obvious symptoms of illness come to work and provide care for your frail residents?
- Cover your mouth and nose. Use a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Even the “benign” sneezes we all experience may carry harmful bacteria so cover your mouth and nose!
- Clean your hands! Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub. Hand washing has been proven to be the first defense against the spread of infection!
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose or mouth. Everyone tends to put their hands to their face and it is a bad practice!
- Practice other good health habits. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids and eat nutritious foods. Many organizations have “wellness programs” for their employees. Think about ways you can foster good health habits including educational materials, rewards for participating in exercise programs, smoking cessation assistance, etc.
It’s a fact, the flu season is upon us, we can’t ignore it and can’t avoid it but we can be aware of it! It is also a fact that respiratory illness including pneumonia is the leading cause of hospital readmissions! If you would like assistance with your infection control program please contact your HealthCap Risk Manager. Let’s work on preventing the spread of these infections and keep our residents and staff healthy! | <urn:uuid:23630bdb-856d-4b71-be51-2799aacbf995> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthcapusa.com/blog/the-perfect-storm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956478 | 616 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Two men each claim to be the prime minister. Lawmakers are exchanging blows in Parliament. A former finance minister says the country is on the brink of an “economic anarchy.”
Welcome to Sri Lanka, where the political crisis is getting worse by the week.
The trouble started when President Maithripala Sirisena, fed up with disagreements with his prime minister over money, an alleged conspiracy plot and unresolved issues of wartime crimes against civilians, fired Ranil Wickremesinghe and his Cabinet and replaced them with a government headed by a popular former strongman, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
But lawmakers balked and twice passed a no-confidence motion. Sirisena, however, refuses to accept that his choice of prime minister has been defeated.
Jehan Perera, head of the local analyst group National Peace Council, said that the government appointed by the president can’t be called legal because Sirisena had not sought a parliamentary vote when he dismissed Wickremesinghe.
“It can be called illegitimate because provisions for a confidence vote in Parliament are being blocked by the president’s own party through their riotous behavior,” Perera said, referring to a brawl last week that was followed by another pandemonium in the chamber when Rajapaksa loyalists refused to let the speaker conduct proceedings.
Wickremesinghe says his dismissal is invalid because he still holds a majority in the 225-member Parliament. The dismissal is also disputed because of a latest constitutional change, which lawyers say has taken away presidential powers to dismiss the prime minister.
Despite all the drama and two rival prime ministers, life hasn’t collapsed – thanks to the efficient bureaucracy that keeps the wheels of administration turning.
Even though there is no Cabinet recognized by Parliament, and despite warnings by Wickremesinghe supporters that state officials should not take orders from an “illegal government” of Rajapaksa, bureaucrats continue to work with the president who is the chief executive and the ministers appointed by him, officials said on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
However, decisions regarding new projects or purchases involving large sums of money are on hold.
The absence of a recognized government has delayed the budget for 2019. Mangala Samaraweera, who was finance minister in Wickremesinghe’s Cabinet, said that there will be no legal way of spending money in the coming year without a parliament-approved budget.
Sri Lanka’s Constitution says that control over public finances lies with Parliament and no funds can be released without a warrant signed by the finance minister and approved by the legislature. That means all government payments starting from January can be deemed illegal, Samaraweera says.
Sri Lanka is on the brink of an “economic anarchy and chaos as never experienced before.”
“The cavalier and irresponsible actions of the president … based on personal animosities and precipitating a series of illegal acts, places at risk Sri Lanka’s ability to meet its immediate debt obligations,” he said.
Sri Lanka has to repay $1 billion of its foreign loans in early January, which is also in the prerogative of Parliament to approve.
Wickremesinghe’s lawmakers have presented a motion to the speaker seeking to block funding to the prime minister’s office, which if passed, would curtail Rajapaksa’s functions.
“As far as the people are concerned, they are witnessing the normal functioning of the country,” insisted government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella.
However, he conceded that Sri Lanka will have issues on accessing government money if the stalemate is not resolved by the end of the year. Snap elections are set for Jan. 5. (AP) | <urn:uuid:26d4cb06-f535-40a1-aed3-ff6babdedbea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eyesrilanka.com/2018/11/22/two-premiers-and-no-government/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966079 | 794 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently released a warning for parents against the use of nursing pillows for infant sleep due to suffocation risk. The agency continues to investigate infant deaths associated to pillow-like products and “lounging pads” which are not designed for sleep. Bare is Best when it comes to a safe infant sleep environment.
The initial assessment of pillow-like products found death risk when children are left near or on products and the child rolls off, rolls over or falls asleep. These nursing pillow products are sold by popular brands such as Boppy, My Brest Friend, and Blessed Nest.
Boppy’s user instructions outline a possible suffocation hazard and alert parents to not leave their child unattended, never allow a baby to sleep or lie face down on a pillow, and never to use in a crib, bassinet, or play yard. A study by Consumer Reports found at least 28 infant deaths related to nursing pillows and lounging pads between 2012 and 2018. The article emphasizes that due to the CPSC’s inability to warn against specific brands prior to recall, parents must be particularly attentive to product hazards and instructions.
The CPSC reminds parents to not allow infants to sleep on pillow-like products and do not use infant inclined products for sleep. Follow the ABCs of safe sleep at every sleep time: 1) Baby is Alone in their own separate sleep space with nothing in the crib except a mattress with a fitted sheet. 2) Baby is placed to sleep on their Back, and 3) baby sleeps in a Crib, play yard or bassinet that meets the federal safety standard.
For more information on safe sleep, visit KID’s Safe Sleep web page. Report any incidents you’ve had with loungers or nursing pillows to SaferProducts.gov and let us know your safe sleep tips in the comments below! | <urn:uuid:064056b1-b095-44d4-b00b-53bbaabb437f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kidsindanger.org/2020/10/cpsc-releases-warning-about-use-of-nursing-pillows-for-infant-sleep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941898 | 397 | 2 | 2 |
How bright is Asteroid 192 Nausikaa?
The current visual magnitude of Asteroid 192 Nausikaa is 10.00. Given its brightness, Asteroid 192 Nausikaa should be visible with the help of a binocular with a 60mm aperture, might require a small telescope.
The following chart is the predicted light curve (visual magnitude as a function of time) of Asteroid 192 Nausikaa, according to the most recent ephemerides data. Magnitude data is sampled with a 2 days interval and there might be inaccuracies for objects changing brightness very rapidly during the course of a few days. For comets there could be large discrepancies between the observed and predicted brightness because of their highly dynamic behaviour. | <urn:uuid:0e69bb4e-e6c3-45d3-91d3-0e8d66d83b90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theskylive.com/how-bright-is-nausikaa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.902887 | 150 | 2.75 | 3 |
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Root Canal Treatment
If your dentist prescribes a root canal, then you’re probably wondering what a root canal is — or if you do know, maybe you’re nervous about the procedure. No need to worry, though, because root canals are a safe and common procedure performed millions of times every year. According to the American Association of Endodontics , root canals are as routine as getting a filling, relatively painless, and extremely effective as treatment for a damaged or infected tooth. So what exactly is a root canal?
A root canal is a procedure, typically performed by an endodontist, to repair a damaged or infected tooth while still preserving the remaining healthy parts of the tooth. To perform the procedure, the damaged or infected tooth is left in place within the gum line while an endodontist thoroughly cleans the canal surrounding the tooth’s roots.
Why You May Need a Root Canal
You may need a root canal if you have a damaged or infected tooth that affects the dental pulp of the tooth. Dental pulp is the soft core at the center of a tooth that extends from the crown of the tooth (the visible top part) down to the tip of the roots deep within the gumline and extending to the jawbone. This dental pulp contains nerves, blood vessels and connective tissue, so when a tooth becomes damaged (by cracking or by cavity), bacteria can enter and damage the tooth’s health.
If this bacteria or decaying material is left untreated within the tooth, you run the risk of getting an infection or having a tooth abscess manifest. These symptoms can lead to pulp death, bone loss and a full loss of the tooth itself. Other symptoms that may indicate a need for a root canal are swelling around the face and neck, holes in the tooth (which cause toothaches, tooth pain and temperature sensitivity) or even gum swelling.
Getting Started on Root Canal Treatment
A dentist or endodontist (“endo” being the Greek word for “inside” and “odont” meaning “tooth”) typically performs root canals. Once they take dental X-rays to assess the damage to the tooth, they will administer a local anesthetic to the affected area to help suppress any feeling. To keep the tooth clean and dry during the procedure, dental specialists use a small, rubberlike sheet called a dental dam in the mouth.
During the procedure, your dentist or endodontist will remove decay from the outer areas and then make an opening through the crown of the tooth. This is done so that the dentist or endodontist can access the dental pulp inside. Once the hole is made, the infected or diseased pulp is removed from the tooth.
Clearing the Root Canal of Infection
Once the dental professional removes the diseased or infected pulp, they flush and clean the pulp chamber and root canals. If necessary, they may reshape or enlarge the root canals to allow for better access for the filling process that comes later.
After a thorough cleaning, your dentist or endodontist may apply medication to the pulp chamber or the root canal to help clear any lingering infection they may have missed. If the original infection has spread to other areas of the mouth, you may get a prescription for antibiotics or have another procedure scheduled, depending on your dentist’s recommendation.
If your root canal procedure requires more than one visit, your dental provider may give you a temporary filling for the crown on top of the affected tooth. This temporary crown helps protect the tooth from food debris and saliva while you wait for your next procedure. While this crown remains in place, avoid biting or chewing with it until the full tooth has been both treated and restored to your dentist’s satisfaction.
Filling the Root Canals
Once the tooth has been properly cleaned and treated, it’s time to refill the tooth to restore its structural integrity. It’s possible that more anesthesia might not be needed for this part of the process. If you had a temporary crown and filling placed on the tooth, your dentist or endodontist will remove and replace with a compound of rubber and sealer paste that will fill the remaining area inside the tooth. Once the dental pulp area is refilled with this paste, they will add an adhesive filling to the root canals to make sure they’re protected from saliva or food debris.
Final Stage of Root Canal
By now, your dentist or endodontist has drilled into your tooth, hollowed it out, thoroughly cleaned it, and then refilled it with sealant and adhesive paste. Now the dentist must restore the tooth’s strength to protect it from future damage and allow it to be used normally again.
This starts by placing a crown on top. Crowns are made of several different kinds of material, most notably gold or porcelain fused to metal, but they can also be made of porcelain alone and can be tinted or colored to match the exact color of your other teeth so they don’t stand out.
Your dentist or endodontist may also recommend inserting a metal post into the tooth for added structural integrity before the crown is applied.
After Your Root Canal
Your tooth, and the surrounding area, may be a little sensitive for a few days after the procedure. This is completely normal, and over-the-counter pain medications can help alleviate any lingering pain or pressure you may experience. If the pain continues for longer than a day or two, you should contact your dentist or endodontist immediately for further recommendations.
Otherwise, your restored tooth and crown should be both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Practicing good and constant oral hygiene will ensure that your restored tooth will continue to work well for a lifetime.
Ask your dentist or endodontist if you may need a root canal in the near future or if there’s anything you can do to help prevent it. | <urn:uuid:a673380b-d5f1-4778-bfdd-c9ff3c2a98e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.colgate.com/en-sa/oral-health/root-canals/root-canal-treatment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929333 | 1,231 | 3.5 | 4 |
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NEW YORK - New York City's public schools will begin reopening on Dec. 7, beginning with 3-K, Pre-K, and grades K-5, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday.
Soon afterward on Dec. 10, all grade levels of District 75 schools, which provide support for students with significant challenges like autism or significant cognitive delays, will begin reopening as well.
“We now believe we know what we didn’t know, we know what works through actual experience," de Blasio said.
The plan to reopen the city's schools safely means that testing will be increased to weekly, with parents required to sign a testing consent form to allow their children to attend school.
De Blasio said that the city would be moving towards a 5-days-a-week in-person learning schedule as much as possible.
About 190,000 students will be eligible to return to classrooms in the first round of reopening, just a fraction of the more than 1 million total pupils in the system. The great majority of parents have opted to have their kids learn remotely by computer.
Despite the new approach, however, the city's middle and high schools will not yet reopen as a plan for their reopening is still being developed.
“This will be the model for the duration,” de Blasio said. “This will take us through until we have a vaccine.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he supports de Blasio's school reopening plan.
“I think that’s the right direction,” the governor said in a conference call with reporters. "We do have new facts and information on schools.”
The mayor said the city was doing away with its previous trigger for closing schools, which was when 3% or more of the virus tests conducted in the city over a seven-day period came back positive.
New York City exceeded that threshold early in November, and things have slightly worsened since then.
Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, said the union supports the reopening plan as long as stringent testing is in place.
"This strategy — properly implemented — will allow us to offer safe in-person instruction to the maximum number of students until we beat the pandemic,” Mulgrew said in a statement.
Mark Cannizzaro, the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, which represents principals, said school leaders “deeply understand the need for children to learn in person as regularly as possible, so long as all safety protocols are based on the guidance of medical professionals.”
De Blasio also announced that 1,636 new COVID-19 cases were reported in New York City, while the 7-day-rolling average increased to 3.9%.
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Tax administrations around the globe are taking on new responsibilities to support wider government actions to help address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These responsibilities often go beyond the functions normally provided by tax administrations and can present a number of challenges as well as opportunities for the future, including around increased agility and improved whole of government working. This document sets out some considerations that tax administrations may wish to take into account in addressing aspects of these challenges as well providing a number of examples of assistance provided by different tax administrations.
It has been produced by the OECD Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) Secretariat in collaboration with the FTA Enterprise Risk Management Community of Interest. It takes account of input provided by tax administrations, including through virtual meetings, surveys and bilateral discussions. This document does not make recommendations as regards particular measures since national circumstances and considerations will vary greatly. Tax administrations are invited to provide comments on this document by emailing the FTA Secretariat at firstname.lastname@example.org. The intention is to update this document later in year.
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many tax administrations have taken on new roles to assist in the provision of wider government support. In many cases these have entailed responsibilities not normally provided by tax administrations, such as making support payments to citizens or providing new forms of analytical assistance to other parts of government. The speed with which such measures have to be implemented presents a number of challenges but also offers opportunities for learning lessons and for improving processes going forward, including as regards resilience and agility as well as closer working with other government agencies.
This document captures some of the new responsibilities taken on by tax administrations and suggests some considerations that administrations may wish to take into account. These new roles are described in the following categories:
Financial assistance, providing support to citizens and businesses, whether closely targeted or on a more blanket basis;
Providing services, using tax administration staff or services to support wider government COVID‑19 responses; and
Information assistance, supporting government by sharing information or using the administration’s data analytics capabilities.
Following the description of the challenges and potential mitigation strategies, the document also briefly describes the opportunities that may arise from taking on these new responsibilities including the use of swift development and implementation processes. Finally, an overview of some of the new responsibilities introduced by Forum on Tax member administrations is contained in Annex A. These examples are not intended to be comprehensive but rather to assist administrations in their domestic considerations, including where discussions with peers might be helpful.
In taking on these new roles, there are a number of common issues that tax administrations are likely to face, including the:
Rapid development of IT solutions. The need to provide large-scale support quickly in a time of crisis will often require an equally rapid development of new IT tools. Compared to previous IT development, this may also require more agile forms of decision-making in the development phase. Such agile methodologies are generally based on co-creation between business and IT departments with joint decision making, adaptation and testing to a tight timetable. The main downside is that the compressed timescales may limit consultation and evaluation prior to launch with potential implications for functionality. Compressed timetables may also reduce the time available for testing during the different phases of implementation, carrying risks for stability. It will be important to understand and document the risks involved and to maintain focus on the “must-haves”.
Fraud risks. It is likely that a trade-off will need to be made as regards the speed with which support is to be provided to large numbers of people and the risks of fraud. Outside of system vulnerabilities (e.g. to hacking or internal fraud), this essentially depends on two factors: what level of verification of entitlement is required prior to payment and what information is available to allow for cost-effective post-payment compliance checks. These issues need to be considered together in both the design and implementation of the policy.
As regards verification, there are two ends of the spectrum. At one end is verification which can be done based on robust information already held by the tax administration (or other government agency) for processes which are already subject to high levels of verification, such as payments of certain benefits and refunds as well as regulatory processes. At the other end, is a process with a high degree of self-verification and limited ability for the administration to perform cross-checks prior to making payments. The more that self-verification is used, the more administrations may wish to focus on risk assessment prior to payment as well as the development of a post-payment compliance strategy. A post-payment compliance strategy might, for example, require the provision of qualifying evidence after the event, the provision of robust identity and contact details of the person or business, the use of electronic and traceable payments, etc. In any event, the risks of fraud and the acceptance of risk levels should be well documented and signed off at appropriate levels of seniority.
Data protection. Providing support at speed may require the use of data held by the administration, provided by other government departments or received from third parties, for reasons other than those for which the data was originally provided. This can create data and privacy protection risks and administrations would be well advised to carry out a data protection impact assessment and to consult with the relevant data protection authorities. In some cases, it may require some changes to the legal framework or the assumption of some degree of legal risk. In some circumstances, it may be possible to obtain advanced consent for the use of data from recipients of support. For example, there might be a requirement for consent by the applicant to use specified data for verification purposes as a condition of being able to receive the support.
Cooperation on policy design and implementation. Decisions by policymakers on some forms of fiscal support through the tax administration may also fall short of desired outcomes unless administrability issues, effective targeting and fraud risks are fully taken into account. It may, therefore, be sensible for tax administrations to be involved in the design of policy from as early a stage as possible, including advising on possible alternative approaches. Ideally policy design and implementation discussions should involve other agencies that have responsibility for making large scale payments to citizens, such as social security and pension benefits, since they will have extensive experience on application processes, evidence requirements and fraud risks. Co-design will also allow policy makers to be involved in decisions about the risks involved, including those related to the delivery of projects to time and to budget, as well as operational risks and fraud risks. Additionally, it will allow administrations and policy makers to agree on requirements for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
Capturing decisions and lessons learnt. Given the scale and scope of the support programmes, it will be important that there is an effective audit trail for decisions taken, risk identification, mitigation strategies and risk acceptance. In addition, it may be useful to begin capturing lessons learnt while everything remains relatively fresh and relevant personnel are still in place. This may be useful for the future resilience and agility of tax administrations both in general and for future crisis management (including the possibility of future waves of the virus). Administrations may wish to develop a common template looking at learnings in the policy design phase, the implementation phase, the launch and post-launch phase, possibly commissioning a small group of experts to undertake this work. This could cover descriptions of the process and an initial evaluation of the effectiveness of, among other things: different governance arrangements; the operation of project teams; systems resilience and adaptability issues; legal issues; budgets; testing; monitoring and evaluation; etc.
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge to the economy and the lives of many people around the globe, leading to increased unemployment, significant drops in income and heightened risks of business failures. Governments worldwide have swiftly taken multifaceted actions to support their citizens and businesses in this difficult period in order to mitigate the impact of these sudden and deep shocks on individual households, businesses and the wider economy.
Among these actions are direct government financial assistance programmes, usually targeted at those facing the most difficulties. These include:
Financial support for citizens, for example, providing new unemployment benefits, income support, one-off grants as well as other forms of financial support. Recipients might include: all households with income below certain thresholds; individuals who have lost their jobs; students and recent graduates unable to find work; and self-employed individuals who may have suffered significant reductions in income from containment measures or from significantly reduced demand.
Employer subsidies, where payments are paid to employers to encourage them to keep on staff (including through furlough schemes), to re-hire workers laid off as a result of COVID-19, or to help prevent further job losses; and
Company subsidies, for example, providing payments to companies which are facing demonstrable hardship in order to alleviate cash-flow concerns which may have impacts on their ability to retain staff, pay suppliers or meet loan payments and other costs.
Recognising the close connections that tax administrations have with citizens and businesses and their ability to operate at scale, many governments have asked their tax administrations to oversee the implementation and ongoing operation of some of these financial assistance programmes.
There appear to be a number of explicit or implicit objectives as to how these financial assistance programmes are delivered, namely
That the payments are made quickly given the urgent need for support;
That application processes are clear and relatively simple for applicants to complete;
That as many as possible of those who are entitled to the support actually receive it; and
That opportunities for fraud are minimised without damaging the achievement of the first three objectives.
In meeting these objectives, administrations have to overcome a number of challenges that arise, for example, from short implementation timelines, systems constraints, lack of full information and the additional burdens on an already stretched workforce. Some considerations that tax administrations may wish to take account of to help meet these objectives are:
Digital delivery at scale. Given the very large numbers of potential applicants and the need to make payments as quickly as possible, it will be important to develop online forms and digital services to expedite processing where it is not possible to use or repurpose existing solutions (for example, by using systems to report and pay wage taxes in “reverse gear” to process and pay-out a wage subsidy). This will often mean using an “agile methodology” to quickly build an IT solution, something that not all tax administrations will have experience of using. This will require rapid familiarisation with agile techniques, the risks involved, effective governance arrangements and sufficient budget.
While digital may be the default application process, mandating the use of digital channels and instruments to apply for financial assistance can exclude significant numbers, particularly among the elderly population and those without sufficient resources. Administrations will want to consider how best to provide assistance in those cases, for example allowing applications by phone or mail, and appropriate communication channels to ensure that these populations are reached, including working with relevant stakeholders. In addition, in designing digital solutions administrations may wish to make provision for authorised persons to make applications on behalf of those unable to do so themselves. In this case, close attention will be needed to minimise opportunities for fraud (such as clear identification of the person, the nature of the authorisation and follow-up actions, such as letters of confirmation to the underlying applicant and risk based compliance activity).
Avoiding excessive burdens. Since the objective is to make payments as quickly and simply as possible while minimising fraud, administrations may wish to document their risk appetite as to the extent of pre-validation required of claims. This will depend heavily on the design of the policy and the difficulties that applicants might face. In this regard, early engagement with policy makers will be important to explore design options and residual risks.
Depending on the design of the policy, it may be possible to undertake validation without seeking additional information from the claimant. This may be the case where some of the information is already held within the tax administration, such as contact details or information on previous income. In some cases, there may already be payments being made to some applicants by another government body, for example those that provide child benefits, healthcare benefits, income subsidies, etc.
Administrations may also wish to explore whether there are additional data-based validation options, such as through exchange of appropriate information or through direct confirmation of eligibility (for example, from universities or student loan bodies as regards payments to students). In summary, it could be very helpful to identify all of the available data sources relating to the population covered by the financial assistance, some of which may require new legislation to access.
Where it is not possible, cost-effective or sufficiently timely to automate validation checks based on information accessible to the tax administration, then consideration needs to be given as to what is reasonable, in the circumstances, to ask of applicants by way of supporting information. Where evidence requirements may cause difficulties for large numbers of applicants, then decisions may need to be taken on what degree of self-attestation is sufficient, possibly with supporting evidence sought at a later date (agreement to which could also be a condition for payment). In this case, having highly robust identity information from applicants will be critical and enhanced identity checks, using for example anti-money laundering evidence requirements, may be appropriate.
Compliance strategy. There will always be those who seek to defraud such financial assistance programmes, and this may be compounded by the significant amounts being paid out quickly. Tax administrations will wish to consider the balance between pre-payment and post-payment compliance measures. In both cases, compliance activities will be driven by risk assessment given the large populations involved. Risk factors can be established around the degree of confidence that the information provided by applicants is correct, with different confidence levels triggering additional pre-payment checks and post-payment compliance activity. Risk factors might include:
Previous tax non-compliance by the applicant;
Lack of previous contact with the tax administration or other government agency;
Recent establishment of a business;
Significant increase in the number of previously reported employees;
Recent change of details (such as address or bank account);
Old identification documents;
The use of the same IP or physical address for multiple applications.
Consultation with other agencies making significant amounts of payments, such as social security agencies, could be of high value in this respect given their long experience in risk identification and prevention. In developing post-payment compliance strategies administrations will wish to take account of the further information that may become available over time, for example in future tax returns or third party data. In addition, administrations may wish to supplement their information sources through the promotion and efficient follow-up of whistle-blowing mechanisms.
Communication. Ensuring that as many as possible of those who are entitled to payments know how and when to apply for financial assistance requires a multifaceted communication strategy, with particular consideration given as to how to reach those who may be more digitally challenged, such as the elderly. Consultation with other agencies responsible for making payments to citizens could be highly valuable both for general communication purposes and for possible inclusion in their own targeted communications. Additional multipliers might be government agencies who have interactions with small businesses, such as local authorities, and trade associations. Tax administrations may also wish to consider setting up dedicated help lines for different taxpayer segments and the development of guidance for commonly occurring issues. This could be supported by redeploying staff, such as those currently not engaged in their regular pre-crisis work, with appropriate training and support.
In addition to communication strategies to support applications, administrations may wish to make clear both the penalties for supplying false information as well as more general messaging around the harm that fraud causes to wider society at a time of crisis. There may be useful lessons here from other government agencies which make payments to citizens.
Tax administrations are large organisations that employ skilled and specialised staff that interact with citizens on a daily basis. Taking account of that, a number of governments have asked their tax administration to assist other agencies or the government in general in manoeuvring through the crisis by providing emergency hotline services or by redeploying staff to provide other forms of assistance (either from within the tax administration or through temporary transfers).
Tax administrations are used to dealing with large contact volumes. In 2017, for example, Forum on Tax Administration members received more than 300 million incoming telephone contacts, and many have put in place service or call centres to deal with the requests generated by taxpayers and other stakeholders. Understanding that these processes and related infrastructure have been used successfully over many years, some governments have asked their tax administrations to assist them in providing emergency hotline services to citizens to answer questions related to the COVID-19 crisis.
In responding to such requests, the key challenge for tax administrations lies in preparing and providing training for officials tasked with carrying out new responsibilities, while at the same time managing the increase in the number of normal day-to-day incoming calls due to the reduction of in-person interactions and questions about COVID-19 related tax measures. Considerations that tax administrations might wish to take account of include:
Co-operating with other government agencies to prepare virtual training modules;
Leveraging the service and call centre employees of other government agencies to manage the volume of calls at peak times;
Employing additional temporary or agency staff to provide more basic information to free up more experienced staff; and
Where no additional resources are provided to the tax administration, redeploying officials from areas that have seen reduced activity (e.g. debt collection or audit / verification) to assist in answering incoming calls related to the administration’s regular functions.
Understanding that tax administrations employ staff that includes not only tax specialists but also staff with a variety of other skills (such as data scientists and analysts, communication experts and behavioural scientists), several governments have asked their tax administration to support other parts of government by redeploying staff to, for example, health authorities, emergency services and other government departments.
This could include, for example, staff being reassigned to support contact tracing, data analysis, call centre support, reviewing support claims, research, etc. Some administrations also reported redeployment of staff that have relevant health care experience to assist health authorities.
Redeploying staff to other parts of government is not a simple task and comes with some significant challenges. First, there are some logistical challenges in setting up appropriate physical accommodations (such as office space), communication technologies, budgetary changes, insurance coverage etc. Second, to function properly, redeployed staff need access to the other agencies’ IT systems and staff may need to receive special training and preparation for carrying out the new responsibilities. Third, the tax administration may have to handle the loss of skilled experts at a time where staff numbers may already be reduced due to COVID-19 related impacts.
Considerations that tax administrations might wish to take account of include:
Co-operating with the IT-department of the other agency to see whether the tax administration’s IT equipment can be quickly repurposed for the new use, for example, so that redeployed staff can access the IT systems of the other agency or that other agency staff can use the tax administration’s IT infrastructure (e.g. for analytical purposes);
Co-operating with the other agency to provide necessary training (and other preparations) for redeployed staff;
Analysing the impact on the tax administration’s resources so that remaining staff can cover the functions of those that have been redeployed or priorities can be revaluated;
Developing arrangements, where appropriate, to allow staff from one agency to be reassigned formally to another agency such that they have access to the same systems, internal services, terms and conditions etc.; and
Where necessary, allocating suitable tax administration premises or facilities for use by other agencies.
Access to data and information is extremely important for governments to understand the COVID-19 crisis and address it effectively and efficiently. Analysing and monitoring data is critical, for example, when trying to understand which parts of the economy are affected the most, which support measures might be most effective in supporting citizens and businesses, and to forecast how the virus may impact the economy going forward. Tax administrations can play a key role in this as they are data rich organisations that have significant analytical resources and extensive experience in both handling and sharing data sets.
Tax administrations hold information on large parts of the population and economy. This includes taxpayers’ personal information, such as address and bank information, and revenue and income information sourced from tax returns or third-party information reporting obligations.
In times of a crisis, this information can be extremely useful. Income and revenue information can be used to determine eligibility of COVID-19-related benefit or support, and taxpayers’ address and account information can be used to contact citizens and businesses or to make direct benefit or support payments.
Where other government agencies are in charge of implementing the COVID-19 related support measures, the tax administration might be asked to share the information it holds. Providing the information demanded by other government agencies in a timely manner while maintaining confidentiality and data protection is one of the key challenges that tax administrations will face. The speed with which new procedures for exchanging this information need to be created require specific attention to potential privacy, disclosure and fraud risks. This is compounded by the fact that the human and IT resources needed to support these new procedures will often be operating in a remote working environment. Considerations that administrations might wish to take account of include:
Reallocating human and IT resources to support the information sharing;
Developing protocols for the interchange of information, and automation;
Using secure channels (or developing those where they do not exist);
Logging of all information exchanges; and
Where necessary for legal reasons, providing only the information required in a general way, i.e. building a two-way exchange system where the administration would only confirm certain thresholds (for example, income or turn-over) without revealing specific figures.
Tax administrations receive vast amounts of data on a regular basis either through direct taxpayer reporting (for example, e-invoicing information and the filing of tax returns) or through third-party reporting for example, information from financial institutions or employers. As a result, many tax administrations have built significant capability and expertise in collecting, modelling and analysing statistical data.
Many governments have recognised this expertise in processing and using data and have asked tax administrations to support health authorities and other government bodies to make informed decisions. This can be done by:
Analysing existing data sources, such as e-invoicing information, pay-as-you-earn and VAT returns, to produce statistical data on the COVID-19 impact on the economy and to identify areas where additional support might be required or where the recovery has started and support measures might be reduced. This might also assist the government with monitoring and preventing price-gouging.
Collecting and analysing new data sources (for example, via web scraping) to support health authorities with predicting the further course of the crisis or to inform wider government policies.
In times of tight resources where tax administrations have to focus their resources on supporting taxpayers through the crisis while bringing in much needed government revenue, a key challenge will be to manage the increased frequency and format of data collection, processing and analysis, as well as any related technical difficulties. Also, office closures and remote working may make it difficult for the administration’s data scientists to fully access the required IT equipment and programmes. Considerations that administrations might wish to take account of include:
Employing new methods and tools to amalgamate data for statistical purposes regarding the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis;
Collaborating with data scientists from other government agencies or academia to process and analyse data; and
On an exceptional basis and under strict health and safety restrictions, providing data scientists with access to offices where necessary to use on-site IT equipment and tools which are not available in the remote working environment.
The challenges faced by tax administrations during the COVID-19 crisis and their responses offer opportunities for reconsideration of both operational resilience for possible future crises (including possible further waves of COVID-19) and for more efficient day-to-day operation of the tax administration, including reduction of administrative burdens. The experience with providing assistance to, or on behalf of the wider government may provide opportunities in a number of areas, including:
Digitalisation. In implementing the various new responsibilities, some tax administrations have undertaken rapid development of new digital services and tools. This provides an opportunity for administrations to review how they approach digital development in general and whether different and more agile methods could be applied more widely than may have previously been the case. In addition, it would be sensible to reflect the lessons of the crisis in future development of e-administration systems, in particular whether they are sufficiently robust to support both business operations and swift changes in government policy, including provision of financial and other support. A core consideration here is the resilience of the e-administration systems themselves to cyber-security attacks and system failures.
The legislative framework in a crisis. In order to make changes at speed, it may sometimes be the case that legislative changes are needed (and some options may not be pursued as a result given timing considerations). The tax administration may wish to reflect on where legislative issues led to less good outcomes during the crisis or the assumption of a high degree of legal risk, and what additional flexibilities might have been helpful in the crisis. This could feed into wider consideration of how the balance between proper Parliamentary scrutiny and oversight can be maintained while allowing for more rapid temporary legal changes to be made, including, for example, delegation of some policy decision-making to tax administrations which currently appears to vary significantly between jurisdictions.
Co-ordination and co-operation across government. Taking on new functions very rapidly is a very different environment from implementing tax policy changes in the ordinary course of events. In the latter case, there is often considerable consultation with stakeholders on significant changes to tax law requirements which have major impacts on how tax is administered (as opposed to changes in rates). This is not possible in a crisis and administrations may, therefore, wish to consider how such consultation can be conducted in a compressed timescale to surface issues of administrability at speed and to allow consideration of possible alternative implementation options. In addition, tax administrations may wish to review their existing processes for engagement with other government agencies and how they can best work together to improve services for citizens as well as to improve resilience and agility.
This annex provides an overview of the new responsibilities that tax administrations have undertaken to assist in the provision of wider government support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The examples below, which are not intended to be comprehensive, are aimed at providing food-for-thought for administrations’ domestic considerations, including helping to identify where discussions with peers could be useful.
Financial support for citizens
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is jointly delivering, with another government department, the new Canada Emergency Response Benefit, which provides financial support to Canadians who lost income and/or employment because of COVID-19.
The CRA is delivering the new Canada Emergency Student Benefit programme, which provides financial support to post-secondary students as well as recent post-secondary and high school graduates who are unable to find work due to COVID-19.
The Israel Tax Authority (ITA) is responsible for providing grants to the self-employed to help compensate lost business income. The ITA was involved in the policy design from the outset and developed a simplified solution based on existing data available within the ITA. This removed any need to seek additional information from taxpayers or tax practitioners.
The Latvian tax administration is evaluating, calculating and making payments of benefits to employees of companies that face downtime.
Lithuania is providing support to individuals and businesses that have experienced financial difficulties because of COVID-19. A one-stop-shop principle has been applied as regards requests that are addressed to the tax administration and/or the State Social Insurance Fund Board (SODRA).
Payments provided to individuals and small business by the Malaysian Tax Administration through the existing Cost of Living Aid Programme were rescheduled to assist individuals in managing the difficulties caused by COVID-19. In addition, National Caring Aid was developed to provide a one-off cash payment to eligible citizens facing financial difficulties due to COVID-19.
The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been making economic impact payments to citizens.
The CRA is delivering the new Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy programme which provides a subsidy to eligible employers to re-hire workers previously laid off as a result of COVID-19 as well as to help prevent further job losses and better position businesses to resume normal operations following the crisis.
Revenue Ireland has developed and implemented a temporary wage subsidy scheme, with subsidy payments being made through the payroll tax system.
The ITA has made grant payments to small and mid-sized businesses to cover fixed costs that could not be reduced. The ITA was involved in the policy design from the start. This helped to ensure a smooth and swift implementation based on existing data in the ITA’s systems, using a standardized formula. The grant system automatically pays applicants, except in cases where risk assessment processes that are built into the system flag anomalies which needed further investigation.
The Finnish Tax Administration was tasked by the government to provide companies with loans. Under the arrangement, a company can request a refund of the value added tax (VAT) that has already been paid in January, February, and March 2020 by making a payment arrangement request. The company undertakes to pay the refunded VAT back to the administration.
A Special Caring Grant was implemented to provide financial aid to qualified micro-enterprises affected by COVID-19.
The Swedish Tax Agency is responsible for the payment of sales support for all companies whose sales have dropped by at least 30% because of COVID-19. In addition, the agency is administering reduced employer contributions for all companies over a period of four months.
The Georgia Revenue Service (GRS) supports the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of Georgia to process the information received from self-employed people who lost income due to COVID-19. This includes those who were not registered as taxpayers but are eligible to receive compensation from the government. As part of this arrangement, the GRS sent employees to assist the ministry in processing the income documents provided by nonregistered self-employed persons as part of their application for compensation.
The GRS is monitoring the implementation of the government’s COVID-19 response on a daily basis. In particular, mobile teams:
The GRS is providing assistance to the government telephone hotline, which was specially developed during the pandemic to answer all questions related to the state of emergency, new regulations, etc.
Revenue Ireland has redeployed staff and is supporting other government agencies by:
The Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate is providing information to the Ministry of Economy and Innovation to facilitate the payment of a COVID-19 related one-time subsidy for small companies. The subsidy is calculated according to income tax amounts paid by the company in 2019. Once the application is submitted, the State Tax Inspectorate calculates the amount of the subsidy and forwards the information to the Ministry.
The Russian Federal Tax Service has been assisting the government in ensuring that businesses are aware of all eligible support measures (beyond tax measures).
The Spanish Tax Administration (AEAT) is co-operating with the Ministry of Health in a number of IT developments. Further, some officials have been allowed to collaborate in the activities of other public bodies on a voluntary basis.
The Spanish government has publicly announced and is studying a minimum vital income for those affected by the pandemic. AEAT is participating in the technical preparation of this measure.
The IRS has been redeploying resources to support health authorities and emergency services as well as to support Customs authorities in the clearance of medical supplies.
GRS collects and processes information about individual taxpayers who lost income due to COVID-19 and are eligible to receive monthly compensation from the government for six months (from May to October 2020). Each month, GRS passes the final list of beneficiaries to the State Agency of Employment Support, which is in charge of paying the compensation.
The Hungarian Tax Administration is supporting the Hungarian Statistical Office by providing new data sets and more frequent statistical data.
Revenue Ireland has provided other government agencies on request with confidential taxpayer information during the pandemic. Usually these requests are urgent and essential in order to support citizens facing unemployment, health issues, etc.
The Malaysian Tax Administration has been supporting the government by using taxpayers’ information to process and verify eligibility for special financial aid during COVID-19 pandemic. This includes National Caring Aid (for households and single individuals) and the Special Caring Grant (for micro-entrepreneurs).
The Portuguese Tax Administration has been providing taxpayer information (fiscal situation, income, turnover, or other relevant information) to other government bodies to allow them to check whether taxpayers are eligible to benefit from subsidies that can be used to adapt and restructure activities and operations to meet new requirements related to COVID-19. In addition, the Tax Administration is assisting other government bodies concerning the validation of income shortfalls, so that taxpayers can benefit from a reduction in rents where appropriate.
The FTS has provided information to relevant bodies about SMEs which have applied for employment retention bank credits that are guaranteed by the government as well as for applications for employment retention subsidies.
AEAT supplies specific tax information to other public bodies (financial, employment or contractual services) in relation to the granting and control of aid, subsidies, guarantees, public contracts, etc. related to the measures taken to fight against or mitigate the effects of the pandemic.
The Swedish Tax Administration has been providing support to another government authority in making aid payments to companies that have had to lay off staff due to the crisis, which will include undertaking tax audits based on the aid payments made.
The IRS has been using its database of contact details to support wider government communication.
The IRS has been using their expertise in data analytics, modelling, etc. to support health authorities in mapping relationships and disease spread patterns, as well as providing assistance in relation to other government policy areas.
Source: Responses of members of the FTA Enterprise Risk Management Community of Interest to a survey on the challenges that tax administrations are facing in delivering, or helping to deliver wider government COVID-19 support.
OECD (2019), Tax Administration 2019: Comparative Information on OECD and other Advanced and Emerging Economies, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/74d162b6-en.
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Potent functional antibody responses elicited by HIV-I DNA priming and boosting with heterologous HIV-1 recombinant MVA in healthy Tanzanian adults.
UNLABELLED: Vaccine-induced HIV antibodies were evaluated in serum samples collected from healthy Tanzanian volunteers participating in a phase I/II placebo-controlled double blind trial using multi-clade, multigene HIV-DNA priming and recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (HIV-MVA) virus boosting (HIVIS03). The HIV-DNA vaccine contained plasmids expressing HIV-1 gp160 subtypes A, B, C, Rev B, Gag A, B and RTmut B, and the recombinant HIV-MVA boost expressed CRF01_AE HIV-1 Env subtype E and Gag-Pol subtype A. While no neutralizing antibodies were detected using pseudoviruses in the TZM-bl cell assay, this prime-boost vaccination induced neutralizing antibodies in 83% of HIVIS03 vaccinees when a peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) assay using luciferase reporter-infectious molecular clones (LucR-IMC) was employed. The serum neutralizing activity was significantly (but not completely) reduced upon depletion of natural killer (NK) cells from PBMC (p=0.006), indicating a role for antibody-mediated Fcγ-receptor function. High levels of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC)-mediating antibodies against CRF01_AE and/or subtype B were subsequently demonstrated in 97% of the sera of vaccinees. The magnitude of ADCC-mediating antibodies against CM235 CRF01_AE IMC-infected cells correlated with neutralizing antibodies against CM235 in the IMC/PBMC assay. In conclusion, HIV-DNA priming, followed by two HIV-MVA boosts elicited potent ADCC responses in a high proportion of Tanzanian vaccinees. Our findings highlight the potential of HIV-DNA prime HIV-MVA boost vaccines for induction of functional antibody responses and suggest this vaccine regimen and ADCC studies as potentially important new avenues in HIV vaccine development. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Controlled-Trials ISRCTN90053831 The Pan African Clinical Trials Registry ATMR2009040001075080 (currently PACTR2009040001075080).
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The cosmos has come a long way (pun intended). But the most fantastic story of all time isn’t fully understood — especially the early chapters, ‘written’ in history during the first two to three hundred million years of the universe’s 13.8 billion-year existence.
The James Webb Space Telescope could be the key. The observatory can look about three times as far back in time than the iconic Hubble. The Webb will detect infrared wavelengths long enough to pierce through the dense smog of all the light and dust that sits between Earth and the furthest galactic posts, revealing information about the ancient universe where these wavelengths began their journey through space billions of years ago.
Although not quite yet ready to collect data, the Webb Telescope promises a level of perception made possible by its four instruments. These instruments can operate at the same time to siphon observations of objects like galaxies — maximizing the efficiency of the telescope.
James Webb Telescope: Mission update
On March 17, NASA announced that the Webb has started a new phase of its preparations to look deep into space and time: A six-week procedure called multi-instrument multi-field (MIMF) alignment. This process will help ensure all four of its science instruments go live by the summer of this year.
The process is a critical next step following the Webb’s most-recent triumph: Producing the mission’s first focused image, released by NASA on March 11, of a star. The image was made possible by carefully aligning all the Webb’s 18 mirror segments to work as a single unit — but this procedure is also still ongoing, Webb deputy senior project scientist Jonathan Gardner explains to Inverse.
“We lined them up so that we can have a perfectly focused image in one of our four cameras, but now we need to change that alignment so that it's perfect across the whole field of view of all four instruments,” says Gardner.
The current alignment process will be followed by spending two months revising the different filters and modes of all four cameras on the telescope. Finally, the preparations will reach a crescendo in the summer when the mission releases its first scientific images. Gardner predicts these will be published in mid-July 2022.
What will the Webb detect?
One central area of study for the Webb will be early galaxies. These cosmic bodies are beacons for scientists investigating the early universe. Because Webb lets scientists operate more than one instrument at any given time, it can collect more precious drops of distantly-emanating galactic light from these far-off lanterns.
Webb interdisciplinary scientist Rogier Windhorst explains how it works: Imagine “a full circular pineapple slice with a hole in the middle” as a stand-in for Webb’s field of view.
Within that field of view, two of the four operational instruments can observe the sky at one time, Windhorst says.
Collecting data from two instruments at once enables scientists to reap twice as much information about the distant universe during a single window of time. For example, if someone snaps an image of two different non-adjacent regions of the early universe through the same filter. One shot, but twice the data.
“You have to plan it to make sure that the data is useful, but if you plan it right, you essentially double the data. Thereby observing two times as efficiently,” Windhorst says. This may be particularly useful for deep-field surveys, which look at a single field of view for a long time to collect as much data as possible for scientists to then sift through.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is one of the most significant feats accomplished by Webb’s predecessor. Hubble spent 592 hours creating that iconic cosmic landscape; Webb would take just 30 hours to do the same, says Windhorst.
“The parallel capability kind of comes with the design of the telescope,” Webb scientist Gardner explains.
“But in order to take any kind of data, the four instruments… have to be lined up to have a good sharp image in those instruments. And that’s the process we’re in right now.”
According to Windhorst, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) are exceptionally efficient in tandem with one another because they are similar instruments, so the data from one compliments the other.
How Webb could explain galactic evolution
There’s another big reason this approach is helpful: Statistical analysis of galaxies helps us understand their evolution.
Galaxies are the islands of the universe where matter, dark matter, and light are concentrated. The stars and planets that coalesced into the earliest galaxies may have done so quickly enough in some places to produce supermassive black holes, now found at the center of almost every galaxy we’ve ever observed. Galaxies from the first few million years of the universe will be frequent targets of Webb’s amazing eyes; galaxies at the edge of Hubble’s capabilities that can bring researchers one step closer to understanding why the universe appears the way it does today.
It’s a numbers game: Since galaxies evolve over tremendously long timescales of millions and billions of years, you can’t watch a single galaxy’s changes in real-time. Cosmologists studying the evolution of these structures can’t approach their research the way a horticulturist can study a single plant to glean its transformations.
“What we have to do with galaxies is we have to look at the most distant galaxies to see how galaxies start, and then we need to look at less distant galaxies to see the sort of average properties changing over time. We can’t do a one-to-one comparison,” says Gardner.
Scientists do deep-field surveys to try and spot these slow changes. Parallel data collection boosts the number of similarly-aged galaxies they can look at in different ways at one time, revealing more information about a particular chapter in the universe’s history.
Besides the primary target, Webb’s instruments could also collect observations of older or younger galaxies. This provides data of different evolutionary stages that may go unnoticed otherwise.
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- May 25, 2018
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: Black Feminism, Blog
Mont-Saint-Hilaire Nothing boosts a woman’s morale at the movies than to see BadAss women owning their power and kicking butt as they complete their mission, which is usually to save the world—because that’s what we do.
However, until recently, such BadAss women all have been white, in the movies and in real life—whether “Lean In”-type CEOs like Sheryl Sanberg——-or Angelina Jolie as Hollywood’s imagined Laura Croft, Uma Thurman in Kill Bill or Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as Thelma and Louise.
The original Charlie’s Angels was about sweet-looking women who could hold their own at a time when women were still viewed as fragile and feminism was still in its infancy. But in truth, it was all about the hair, and Farrah Fawcett influenced at least two generations with her fluffy ‘do.
The reboot of Charlie’s Angel’s had one noticeable change to the team of kickass white women; they added Lucy Liu. And yet, it was still a story about white women.
Even the reboot of Laura Croft with Alicia Vikander doesn’t take us any place different, though Gal Gadot as the new Wonder Woman is slightly suggestive of diversity and difference because of her Israeli heritage.
No doubt about it, BadAss Black women (BABW) are few and far between in the movies and in real life. For example, in the real corporate business world, Xerox had one Black Woman CEO, Ursula Burns. Her departure created a void in real life leaving the largest 500 S&P Companies (Fortune 500) in the United States with absolutely no Black women and only 15% (white) women overall.
And in the movies, before there was Wakanda’s all-female security force, there was just one newly released movie, Proud Mary that starred our favorite actress Taraji Henson as a BadAss Black Woman.
We would have to go back 44 years to find any Badass Black women movie predecessors. Back then, there was Pam Grier starring as Foxy Brown in a series of movies and also as Coffy.
Then there was the martial arts expert Tamara Jones as http://sargeantstudios.net/?p=1015 Cleopatra Jones. When the black movies (Blaxploitation or not) disappeared, so did the image of strong BadAss Black women.
In 2018, there are so few models in film, on TV, and in real life, for young Black girls to look to and imagine themselves as powerful and fierce rather than reduced to stereotypes of video vixens, “babymama,” or angry Black women. For a brief moment, we had former First Lady Michelle Obama who gave us an emotional and political respite from the negative images. But the belief that Black women are not worthy of positive affirmation impacted how FLOTUS Michelle Obama was treated in the press initially. She too was accused of being an “angry black woman.”
This dearth of positive role models for black girls leads me back to the fictional country of Wakanda in the Black Panther film. For the first time in a major movie blockbuster, we have a queen mother (Angela Bassett); a nerdy genius sister (Letitia Wright); Lupita Nyong’o as the Black Panther’s love interest with her own agenda to spy, rescue women from persecution, and kick a few butts along the way; and finally the Amazon-like Dora Milaje (Adored Ones) royal guards in the forms of Danai Gurira as Okoye, Florence Kasumba as Ayo, Sydelle Noel as Xoliswa and even Killmonger’s partner-in-crime, Tilda Johnson aka Nightshade, is also a BadAss—though short-lived. She is sacrificed by Killmonger for the greater good of his cause.
What I loved about the Dora Milaje, the royal guards, is was that they were completely bald. And it never looked so good!
No weaves, no concerns about hair texture or flyaway strands getting in your face as they kicked, punched and speared their way to save the day. And they never gave up— even when they were being pummeled and killed. BadAss Black Women till the end.
And by the way, they break the colorism barrier that has plagued the Black community by privileging light-skinned women over their darker sisters! Yes! Long hair— out! Light-skinned—out! And I’m not hating on my light-skinned sisters because they too are victims of white supremacy thinking and how it has shaped our beliefs so profoundly that beauty is anyone who is close to white. Think I’m lying? Google “beauty” and see how the coding only offers up images of white women, and one Asian woman. Google “black beauty” and the coding brings up images of horses. Just recently, one or two images of black women have shown up. But what does it mean when we are placed alongside hundreds of images of black horses? There are no horses coded in “beauty.” Just whiteness. [Update–the white men who code Google’s algorithms have become more culturally sensitive, but not much].
My most favorite scene is when Okoye, leader of the Dora Milaje confronts her love. He asks “you would kill your love?” And she, unflinching and holding a spear in her hand ready to impale him, answers “to protect Wakanda? Yes!” Game over.
Brother man looks around at the havoc these KickAss Black Women guards have inflicted on his men and drops his weapon. There is no indication that their love has diminished, it’s just that there was a boundary he dared not cross. Her duty to protect the throne and her love of country outweighed her love of an individual man. We have much to learn from her and the other women.
This is the second crisis that Danai Gurira’s character Okoye’s encounters. Prior to this scene, she is implored to rebel; she refuses because her commitment as a member of the Dora Milaje is to duty and protecting the throne and “whoever sits on it” is what matters most. Now that’s loyalty.
What emerges from the Marvel-imagined universe of Wakanda is an array of Black Women of every ilk. They are mother, sister, lover, protector, warrior, and so it is in real life.
Black Women in America, and I would even say globally, have received a bad rap and lots of bad press. People see us either as Jerry Springer-like drama queens,
ghetto-fab baby mommas, video vixens working our behinds, sex toys to be used or discarded, or angry Black Women.
There is no room in white America’s psyche (and even among our own Black folk) for variation in Black Women, and if we don’t fit, we still get put in a box!
If there is a moral in the Black Panther film and its Afro-futuristic country of Wakanda, it is that Black women are diverse, powerful, brilliant, loyal, fierce, passionate, and we have every right to demand Respect.
N.B. And, if we don’t receive it, maybe we just need to kick a little ass to get the process moving in the right direction.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The following questions come from 10 years of email from
water-rockets.com users who have written to ask:
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to build a rocket, and step-by-step instructions?
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Eligible land: Land along water that are tributaries of or potential spawning areas for salmon and steelhead stocks plus one of the following:
- Cropland that is planted to annual crops.
- Pasture land.
- Marginal pasture.
Contract length: Land can be enrolled for 10-15 years.
Riparian buffer width:
- Hedgerow Buffers 15′, Forest Riparian Buffers 35′ minimum to maximum of 180′ for streams => 15′ Bank full width.
- Local Conservation Districts and Farm Service Agency will work with you to determine buffer width.
- Riparian buffer width is flexible and may move toward or away from the stream at different locations to meet a landowner’s needs – as long as the average meets the minimum requirements for your stream.
Cost-sharing for developing riparian buffer: Cost for developing riparian buffer (installing fences and animal watering stations, planting trees, etc.) will be paid by:
- U.S. Department of Agriculture – 90%
- Washington State Conservation Commission- 10%
Annual Payments (rent):
- Annual payments amount to 150% of the Farm Service Agency soil rental rates per acre. (Roughly $300/ acre of buffer area enrolled)
- Lands protected under the State’s Growth Management Act will receive an extra 10% per acre.
Endangered Species Act (ESA) connection:
- Riparian buffers are designed to meet the technical requirements of ESA.
- Landowners will begin to address the ESA listing of salmon by further protecting and enhancing stream banks.
- This program is another step in the right direction for good land stewards.
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Customised courses for members of the university
The existing courses are offered digitally wherever possible (online courses)
In principle, we offer subject-specific University Library introductions or search skills training sessions for your course, seminar, colloquium, etc. We will adapt the content of the course in accordance with the concrete requirements of the group and, by arrangement, will show you
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Semester courses on information, data and media literacy (IDM)
Information, data and media literacy (IDM) incorporates knowledge and skills that make it possible to identify information needs related to a particular problem, to obtain information and data, and to evaluate information and use it effectively.
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The Companion to Planning in the Global South offers a collection of essays on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. This edition is particularly timely for a South Asian audience, given the emerging debates on cities and urbanization in India, as well as on both planning practice and education. The global South is home to much of the urbanization of the 21st century; and the need of the hour is no longer to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned, but to re-theorise planning from these geographies and from a commitment to diverse modes of practice.
The five sections of this book discuss planning and the state; economy and economic actors; new drivers of urban change; landscapes of citizenship; and planning pedagogy
The chapters in each section are not generalised, ‘universal’ analyses and prescriptions, but instead are critical and located reflections in thinking about how to plan, act and intervene in highly complex city, regional and national contexts. The contributing authors to this Companion are all planners of very different kinds, and this diversity ensures a rich variety of insights, primarily based on cases, to emphasise the complexity of the world in which planning is expected to happen.
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Having one of those days? You have to write, you have targets to meet but everything that comes out is just blah.. forcing it is like painting a fence in the rain. But everything you know and have been told about writing is running on train carriages through your head:
‘you can’t edit a blank page‘
‘ writing is hard work‘
‘ it is better to write a 1000 bad words than nothing at all‘
and so on…..
The Cambridge dictionary defines Procrastination as: “The act of delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring.”
I am not bored, I am willing to work hard but sometimes my brain feels fried, my writing bucket is empty and I have to leave it alone for a minute and find something else to do. I resist, I have my work cut out for my, a schedule on the board and a self imposed deadline.
I have written my 1000 words of crap today and I am done. I am not waiting for the muse, I am waiting for the kettle to boil. I have also done my ‘pages’. My crap is written for the day. I have tried editing my WIP, but there is a glitch in the story that I am not up to fixing today so I have set about finding things I can do to avoid writing today:
- Clean the oven – this is an old favourite of mine. I can highly recommend Selley’s oven cleaner it is cheap, very toxic and quick to get your bake-house shining.
- Walk the dog.
- Take pictures of the dog and post her photos on Instagram.
- Clean your desk, take care of those niggly little things that you promised to get to later: school notes, bill payments, hotel bookings, twitter.
- Clean out your drawers – all of them. Kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, office, kids rooms…
- Weed the garden.
- Plant a new garden, will involve a trip to the nursery so research plants and make a list. May need ice-cream.
- Buy some books. About anything, but maybe at least one about writing.
- I see an opportunity here to re-arrange bookshelf to accommodate new books, maybe should wait until they are delivered? or not?
- Sign up for an online course, about anything. Could be about writing though, it all helps?
- Plan an elaborate dinner even though no one will be home to enjoy it because it is a karate night and you will all be eating subway for tea.
- Read something.
- Watch something.
- Listen to something, a podcast, an audible book?
- Take the dog for another walk if she comes out of hiding.
- Make dog an appointment to see the vet for a check up due to her hiding from walkies.
- Still have to check Facebook! lets see what all our wonderful ‘friends‘ are achieving with their clever, ‘I am so good I am a writer skills!’
- Pluck your eyebrows while telling yourself that you are a good writer, you are just having a bad day.
- Put on something lovely but comfortable and take yourself out for lunch. Pull out the note book you keep in your bag, that pen you got for your birthday, order your favourite meal, and breath while flicking through one of their old magazines, it will give you something to focus on while you eavesdrop on the couple at the next table.
- Write up a new schedule for getting work done. Laminate it. Everything looks better when laminated.
- Take a nap.
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My pastor and mentor in the ministry told me, “Always put some of the cookies on the bottom shelf.” I tell my own students, “One goal is for the kindergarten kid to be able to tell mommy and daddy at lunch exactly what your sermon was about.” Clarity is so critical in preaching. In order for the sermon to stick, the listener must first understand. Only then can they retain and ultimately apply the truth. Clarity, therefore, for every level of spiritual maturity is the first domino that must fall.
The pursuit of clarity is a theological and homiletical non-negotiable. The manner in which one pursues it, however, is paramount. Unfortunately, many utilize the pursuit of clarity as warrant for watering down or even omitting biblical content and/or terminology. Preachers often categorize certain biblical terms as “insider” jargon and aim for its elimination for the sake of “outsiders.” Terms such as propitiation, atonement, sanctification, repentance, and even sin and salvation among others find themselves out of a job due to their theological gravitas. This path to clarity is misguided. It assumes pastors preach to crowds instead of local churches. It acts as if preaching is not discipleship. It prefers short-term communication efficiency above long-term spiritual depth.
Jim Shaddix with Jerry Vines in Progress in the Pulpit argues for the role preaching plays in forging the corporate identity of the church. He writes:
Preaching creates in us a corporate consciousness and a sense of common bond. It shapes us into a corporate body that has corporate values or goals…Consider a few ways to make this happen in your preaching…use and explain the language of Zion. One of the most significant characteristics that defines community is language. People are bound together by their ability to communicate with one another. Their ‘ownership’ of terminology ties them together. And that’s what’s so ironic about many contemporary calls for preachers not to use terminology that’s unfamiliar to the unchurched…But we need to think critically about this counsel. If the church loses its language, it will lose an important aspect of its community. When we lose some of our terms that define us as a people, as well as their distinctive meanings, we lose some of that which sets us apart from our culture.
Jim Shaddix, “Pulpit Discipleship: Shepherding the People to Christlikeness Through Preaching,” in Progress in the Pulpit: How to Grow in Your Preaching (Chicago: Moody, 2017), 77–78.
Shaddix reminds us as preachers that we preach week by week to the called out ones—the community of faith—the church! Our convictions, our actions, our culture, and our language should be different from the world around us. The unchurched who often gather with us for worship might not be familiar with every term we use. Yet, this does not warrant the removal of such terminology. Instead, carefully explain, clarify, and teach the value of such terminology. Is this not what the Levites did among the congregation as Ezra read from the Law of Moses?
See Nehemiah 8:5–8. By doing the same, you will further instruct the saved and simultaneously inform the lost.
Preaching is a primary contributor to both individual and corporate discipleship as it proclaims the Word, which forges Christlikeness. Thus, preaching shapes the identity of the family of faith. This identity and Christlikeness will always seem strange and even offensive to an unbeliever no matter what terms we use. Therefore, fear not the weighty terms of the faith. Claim them. Use them. Explain them. Clarify them. By doing so you will harness their power in forging the family identity of those who look forward to a day when not only our words, but also all things will be made new.
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This assignment 2 will be assessed as though it were a real business proposition viable in the current economic and political climate. You may also wish to consider wider issues such as:
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Part 1: Multimedia Pitch (1000 words)
Individually, you are required to develop a written presentation to work as though you have been commissioned to provide a professional Digital Business consultancy to a potential investor in your business. You can assume that the potential investor has limited technical knowledge so do not confuse them with technical jargon. If a technical description is absolutely necessary then it must be explained briefly in non-technical terms in an appendix to your written submission (part 2). (the actual requirement is to make a multimedia digital presentation, I will need to transfer your written presentation into a multimedia pitch, hence please write in regards to this need, covering the assessment criteria provided in the attachment file).
Part 2: Written Submission (1100 words)
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The annotation should be no more than 200 words (half a page) per reference. This limit might be reached for one or two critically useful sources. The best work will consist of an appropriate blend of academic and practitioner literature. To ensure your work is contemporary it should be supported by evidence of current debate in media.
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5 Foods That Attract Mosquitos To You
August 18, 2020
Most of us who have been outside at night in the warm summer months have seen it and perhaps even commented on it: Some people, for some reason, seem to attract mosquitos in Atlanta more than others. One or a few people in a group may be getting savaged by these little monsters while the others are sitting comfortably, relatively unscathed. Is there a reason for this, or is it just plain luck or lack thereof? Are you someone who believes that you’re always a big target for mosquitos when they strike?
There could be reasons for this, and one of them could be the foods that you eat and the liquids that you drink. Mosquitos tend to eat things like nectar and plant juices, but they also feast on the blood of animals and humans, as we all know. While there are things that attract mosquitos to some humans over others like blood type and carbon dioxide output, diet can be a factor. Tuxedo Mosquito has been eliminating the threat of these invaders for years, and below we’d like to discuss five foods that attract mosquitos to you.
What is it that people like to drink when they’re outside at dusk in the summer, enjoying a nice big barbecue feast? Beer is the answer for a lot of people. Unfortunately, it seems that mosquitos are drawn to those who consume beer. There is no definitive scientific answer as to why this is the case yet, but it is something to keep in mind if you’re going to have a few cold ones outside at night, as a beer can be a magnet to a variety of mosquito species in Atlanta.
Bananas & Avocados
Bananas and avocados are also two seasonal foods that people really enjoy, especially on a warm night. Who hasn’t had some type of salad or appetizer loaded with guacamole or diced avocado, and who doesn’t love a nice banana-based treat from time to time? It’s not just these two foods that attract mosquitos, it’s what they have in common. Both are rich in potassium. Consuming potassium leads to the production of lactic acid, which is also a known mosquito magnet.
How many times during those outdoor meals in the summer have you found yourself diving into a big bowl of potato or tortilla chips over and over? While it’s a good way to enjoy a dip and other tasty treats, it’s also a lot of exposure to one of the types of foods that attract mosquitos. That’s because salty foods also increase the production of lactic acid, once again making you a big-time mosquito magnet.
The list of foods that attract mosquitos almost reads like a list of foods that we enjoy during the summer, which is perhaps why they are so prevalent. Sugary foods will definitely make you a target for these flying critters, as the smell of the sugar permeates the air and attracts not only mosquitos but other bugs.
Do you remember as a kid, making a huge ice cream sundae and eating it outside to look at the stars? Do you remember being bitten constantly by mosquitos as it happened? If so, it’s because ice cream is one of those foods that attract mosquitos, and that’s because the dairy present in it also prompts the body to produce lactic acid. The sugary toppings are not much help, either.
What Do Mosquitos Hate?
Given the list above, you may be wondering if there is anything you should eat outside at night. There are certain foods that mosquitos tend to dislike, and they include odorous things like onions, garlic, tomatoes, and chili peppers. Therefore, put down the guacamole and enjoy some hot salsa and you may be better off. However, if you really want to take the fight against mosquitos, then you need to seek the help of the professionals at Tuxedo Mosquito. We’ll come and take a look at your situation and put together a plan of attack that will help you minimize the invasion and resulting annoyance brought on by these relentless attackers. Contact us today to learn more about effective mosquito control in Atlanta.
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With This Publisher, Native American Superheroes Fly High
In comics and graphic novels, Native American characters aren't usually very prominent. They're often sidekicks — or worse. But a new publisher focused exclusively on Native writers and artists is changing that. Called Native Realities, the company just released the reboot of the first all-Native superhero comic.
Comics creator Jon Proudstar remembers the first time he saw a Native American character in a comic. It was Thunderbird, in the X-Men, and he was quickly killed off. Proudstar was 8 years old and he was not happy. "And for years I just lamented about it and said one day I'll bring him back," he says.
Proudstar, who is Yaqui and Mexican, went one better. He created the first comic book to feature a whole team of Native American superheroes. Tribal Force debuted in 1996 — but the publisher went out of business after just one issue. "For years I kept trying to get a publisher, and nobody would touch us," Proudstar recalls.
One reason? His main character was a sexual abuse survivor, not unlike an elementary student he met while working at a school in Tucson, Ariz. — who eventually took her own life. "You know, it broke my heart," he says, "I thought something big was going to happen from her death and nothing did and they swept it under the carpet.
He found this problem was persistent in Native communities, and he wanted to do something about it. "As a young man, as a warrior, I just felt I should be doing something. How can I combat this?"
Over the years, various publishers approached him about Tribal Force, but they always had the same question — can you tone that down? Can you not talk about it? "And I was like 'No! That's why I'm doing what I'm doing.'"
... to be able to create these kinds of characters and distribute these kinds of characters is really what we're all about.
Then Proudstar found Lee Francis and Native Realities Press, which focuses on Native writers, artists, and game designers. Francis, who's from Laguna Pueblo, N.M., calls himself an "Indiginerd" — and he wasn't put off by Proudstar's subject matter. "These are things that we face in our community and we still need superheroes for this stuff," he says. "We need people that are going to be there to be protect us, that are going to be there to help us out."
Francis was an educator before becoming an entrepreneur. He says Native kids don't have representations of themselves in popular media and culture, "and to be able to create these kinds of characters and distribute these kinds of characters is really what we're all about."
Native Realities also published Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers,edited by Kickapoo author Arigon Starr — best known for her comic book Super Indian -- and created with a slew of other Native writers and artists. I caught up with her at the first Indigenous ComicCon, a convention Native Realities produced last fall in Albuquerque, N.M.
"We all knew there were other tribes that were involved in the codetalking project besides the Navajo," Starr says. The book is designed like a graphic novel, and made up of historical vignettes. "Here's the story of two Creek soldiers in Sitka, Alaska, versus the Japanese. We're trying to do this on multilevels ... to get the stories out there, but also to show language and culture."
Native Realities founder Lee Francis is working on the second Indigenous ComicCon, slated for the fall. He'll publish more comics and games this year as well — they'll be available online, in schools and at Native American community centers.
Proudstar is working on more chapters of Tribal Force, happy he found an outlet that understands Native storytellers. "It's amazing because it's never existed before, at this level, at the creative level and the support level, and Lee is so enthusiastic," he says. Ultimately, he hopes his work will prompt more people and tribal councils to address sexual abuse and suicide. "It needs to happen, it has to happen. So hopefully Tribal Force is the first step in that."
The next chapter of Tribal Force is due out this summer.
Editor Nina Gregory, producer Andrew Limbong and web producer Petra Mayer contributed to this report.
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A look into wealth-based detention, how Atlanta taxpayers pay for nonviolent jail detainments, and a closer look into activism dynamics
ATLANTA — It’s no secret that cash bonds unjustly punish the poor. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is well aware. In February 2018, just a month after Bottoms assumed office, she spearheaded an ordinance for bail reform that was voted in with a 13-0 majority despite reluctance from the City Council.
The ordinance was passed following the demands issued by the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) and Civil Rights Corps in response to a 2017 incident in which 10 Atlanta men were denied asking for bail at the municipal court. The groups said these actions were unconstitutional, violated basic human rights, cost municipalities millions of dollars in excess costs, and furthered mass incarceration in the state.
According to the SCHR, in one case, because a homeless man could not afford a $200 bond, city taxpayers paid a total of $5,558.40 to incarcerate him. In 2016, at least 890 people were transferred from the city jail to county jail due to their inability to pay bail. These detainments cost taxpayers approximately $700,000.
SCHR and Civil Rights Corp won that battle for recognizance bail for petty crimes. The resulting ordinance allowed the Atlanta Detention Center to release without-bail individuals with pending nonviolent misdemeanor charges. This was met with some opposition from the city council, particularly councilmembers Joyce Sheperd, District 12, and Michael Julian Bond, Post 1.
“There are victims of these crimes, even if they (the offenses) aren’t violent,” said Bond. He also suggested the council “be careful in our zeal for civil liberties,” a sentiment he reiterated during his defense of the Atlanta Police Department in one of the council’s budget meetings last month.
During the ordinance discussions, callers shared similar concerns, worried that the ordinance allowed rapists and murderers to run free. The municipal court does not handle violent felony offenses.
SCHR’s aims to abolish what they call the “criminalization of poverty,” which is enforced by unreasonable fees, fines, privatized probation, and bail.
“Every day, nearly 750,000 people are detained in jails across the country because of an inability to purchase their freedom,” they say. “Unfortunately, our current bail system has two tiers: one for people with money and one for people without.”
What this means for protesters in the Black Lives Matter movement
An arrest comes with a mugshot. A jail booking comes with a record. And bail functions as a paper trail to keep tabs on protesters in the future. There have already been reports of Atlanta residents being arrested weeks after protests for alleged prior actions. If you’ve been charged, you run the risk of increased surveillance online and at future events.
Most protesters are arrested on charges of unlawful assembly or disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, which are covered under the ordinance. In Georgia, both convictions can come with $1,000 in fines or a year in prison. Protesters often qualify for bail on personal recognizance or simply receive a citation at the scene.
Why, then, have so many protesters been denied these options?
When Atlanta resident DJ Thomas was arrested May 30 after a protest at the Governor’s Mansion, he went before a judge who ordered a $6,000 bail for his release.
“If you don’t have $6,000 in cash then you have to call a bail bondsman who will pay the bail for you and then you pay 10%,” Thomas said. “A system set up to favor the rich and punish poor people.”
Although bail funds are released after your day in court, you lose that 10% as a fee to the bonds company. In addition to the upfront costs, you’re on the hook for a 5% Peace Officer Annuity Benefit charge, 10% Police and Prosecutors Training Fund fee, 10% Indigent Defense Fund fee, and a 15% fee for General Cases, which goes right to the Atlanta City Detention Center — a center that Mayor Bottoms vowed to close in 2019. In the city’s initial budget proposal for fiscal year 2021, the detention center was slated to receive $18 million in funding. Changes to the budget regarding the jail have since been adopted.
About conditions at the city jail, Thomas said, “You will never get anything in jail on your own terms. It doesn’t matter how legitimate your request is.” He shared a story about his requests for water that were denied several times.
Protester Zeno Rivera agreed, explaining how he was misgendered during his arrest on June 13.
“I was being asked if I was sure if my gender was male. Another transman and I were subjected to a preliminary medical screening that no one else was offered to discuss our ‘condition,\’” he said. “Multiple cops on the interstate clocked me as Assigned Female At Birth (AFAB). They called female officers to pat me down, tried to put me on a van with other AFABs, and seemed shocked when I told them my gender is male. I got the sense that cops are not entirely clueless to transgender physiology, regardless of whether or not they ‘agree with it.’ It was admitted to me that following policy meant I had been identified as AFAB based on my appearance, and they were determined to treat me as a female.”
Thomas and Rivera are two of the more than 10,000 protesters who have been arrested across the U.S. since the country has seen Black Lives Matter demonstrations have taken hold in the wake of George Floyd. Atlanta saw a string of mass arrests, along with more instances of police brutality and assault during arrests, locking up peaceful demonstrators and pitting them into the very system they’re working to abolish and reform. Additionally, given all we know about cash bail in Atlanta, taxpayers paid for the detainment of these protesters while the jail received more funds.
Bottoms’ defense of mass arrests has often been centered on organizer-reported aberrations and the myth of the “outside agitator” in what we typically might see of an Atlanta protest as relayed on the news. But of the 298 arrested during the last weekend of May, only six had addresses outside of Georgia, according to the AJC.
The idea of “outside agitators” goes back to the Civil Rights Movement, in which “Northern communists” were seen as opportunists preying on supposedly easily fooled Black organizers in the South, enforcing the idea that Black, Southern communists could exist, let alone come together en masse, was absurd.
Those on the frontlines have been assailed by Chemical Weapon Convention-banned tear gas, misused rubber bullets, and pepper spray, while those who are home-bound watch police brutality on a loop on their screens via livestreams and social media posts.
“The image of [the police] with plastic shields and riot armor marching on us [as we] linked arms and held hands is something that will sit with me forever,” recalls Rivera. “‘Everybody go live! Go live! Show the world what they\’re doing to us!’”
It’s a time when we have to worry about our own security as much as that of our fellow protesters. However, according to various sources, some protest organizers have actually been cooperating with the police, sparking tensions and conflicts within the movement. Over the past month, protests have been fractured by infighting. Protesters who were deemed “provocateurs” have been handed to the police and arrested.
“I think it’s despicable,” said Thomas, in regards to some protest organizers cooperating with police. “Why would you seek more cooperation with the things you’re fighting to destroy?”
Organizations in Atlanta and across the nation have been called out for collaborating with the police, including sharing assembly plans and “directing folx into the hands of waiting officers,” Rivera says. “Some of these ‘organizers’ will hand over protesters to the police because the only safety they\’re interested in is their own. ‘See, I cooperate with cops. I help you guys. You protect me.’ It\’s absolutely futile. Cops will act based solely upon appearance and not the merit of character or whatever. When it comes to the actual protesting and being in the street safety has to be paramount… the only safety they\’re interested in is their own.”
This sort of behavior undermines the movement, adds Thomas.
“Everyone protesting agrees that systemic racism has to stop. Is that a message that deserves to be diluted?” he wonders. “When you have ideas and goals and then you try to edit them to make them palatable to everyone, you ultimately lose what you\’re originally fighting for. You can\’t be everything to everybody and if you\’re worried about not pissing people off, you really need to evaluate your message. I would love for every single person to be behind this, but that isn\’t realistic. When you tell someone they\’re privileged and you shove that in their face, some people won\’t like it and that\’s okay. It\’s much better to spend the energy organizing and communicating with the people who are actually showing up.”
It brings to mind Letter From a Birmingham Jail, in which Martin Luther King, Jr., critiques liberal backlash. What is peaceful protest behavior? Who decides? When the parameters of peace are decided by the oppressors, ideologies split and divide groups.
I probed Thomas on why organizers might behave in this way, considering the roles of privilege, pandering to white Democratic America to “legitimize” the movement, or flat out misunderstanding the mission. He acknowledged it could be any of these, but pointed out a suspicion “that for a lot of the organizers doing this, they still see law enforcement as ultimate authority and feel like they still have to play along with their bullshit.”
This, of course, erases the radical work of Angela Davis, Paul Robeson, Harry Haywood, and many other Black leaders who were associated with the Communist Party USA. Mayor Bottoms’ initial critique of the protests on May 29 was effectively a rehashing of this 60-year old narrative: essentialist drivel that denies the multiplicity of Black thought.
“Appealing to white Democrats, or even suburbia, is extremely dangerous,” he said. “There is no room for compromise on these issues. When you tell someone they\’re privileged and you shove that in their face, some people won\’t like it and that\’s okay. It\’s much better to spend the energy organizing and communicating with the people who are actually showing up.”
Thomas told me about the Hong Kong protesters’ tenet “Do Not Split,” and how groups make room for divisions to accomplish different actions at different times. We could see increased instances of de-arresting. We may see more corrupt organizers outed for the sake of public safety.
Rivera points out the importance of community accountability action, which is vital in a world without police. We can learn to take care of each other, even in a world where we think it’s someone else’s job. We can learn to be a community.
For Thomas, whose friends raised more than enough money to bail him out in May, part of that transformation is in paying it forward. Although Bottoms’ administration may be failing Atlanta and the bail system is fundamentally biased against vulnerable groups, he and others are looking for ways to unify. He and others are currently crafting a nonprofit to challenge “organizational and communication gaps in the protests,” focused ultimately on “doing this work that’s right here in front of us.”
Complete unity in a deconstructive movement is nigh impossible. After all, the goal of the current movement is to abolish the faulty structures that do not serve vulnerable communities. These communities are some of the most voiceless in our nation, and what we plan to replace them with remains to be seen. Still, we must do our best as active participants to make our own solutions, ones that do not involve law enforcement. Once we stop relying on state violence to solve our problems, we can draft community solutions on our own terms.
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SEATTLE, Feb. 13, 2001 — Today the Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system made its public debut at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, and Jim Allchin, group vice president of Windows and the platforms product group, introduced the world to Windows XP (previously code-named
), the new Windows for home and work. The event featured a sneak peek at the brand new visual design for Windows and on-stage demonstrations of exciting new personal computing experiences enabled by Windows XP, as well as videotaped statements by industry leaders pledging unprecedented support for the product.
“People want to do more and more with their PCs,”
“Windows XP builds on their dreams, taking the power and adaptability of the PC to a new level. It delivers on our vision of bringing the most advanced Windows ever to home users, unlocking the true and amazing potential of everyone’s PC.”
Windows XP, built on the enhanced Windows 2000 engine, features a fresh new look and extends the personal computing experience by uniting PCs, devices and services like never before. Windows XP also represents an important step in delivering on the Microsoft .NET vision. The Windows XP-based PC will be at the center of the .NET experience, empowering people to move beyond disconnected applications, services and devices to complete computing experiences that redefine the relationship between people, software and the Internet.
Windows XP Introduces a Fresh New Look
Windows XP will introduce a brand new look that will make it very easy to use, yet incredibly powerful for all types of PC users. The new visual design will facilitate task-based computing, bringing a fresh look to a familiar desktop, and will be the most significant update to the Windows interface since Windows 95. The design will bring a simple, colorful and clean look to the desktop, while also making the PC easier and more intuitive to use. Focused on enhancing the user experience, these improvements are the result of significant customer feedback, research and development. Those interested in obtaining a first look at these exciting new elements should visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp .
Windows XP Will Deliver and Enable Rich User Experiences
Windows XP will not only improve the PC experience, it will extend the power of the PC across devices, digital media and Web services to provide new, richer experiences for users. Microsoft demonstrated examples of these rich user experiences, such as the ability for anyone who has a digital camera or scanner to copy pictures to their PC, view, print and share them with the world. Windows XP enhances the digital music experience, making it easy for users to build their digital music collections quickly, and take their music with them on popular portable music devices. Additionally, Windows XP makes it easy and fun for users to find and view movies from the Web, edit and share their own home movies, and play back DVDs. Windows XP also makes it easy to get help with a question or problem, allowing users to directly connect to a friend or an expert who can help. The Windows XP-based PC will be the place where all of these digital devices, exciting media and compelling services come together.
Industry Rallies Behind Windows XP
Even before the official launch of Windows XP, scheduled for the second half of this year, industry leaders are rallying behind the new operating system. Personal computer manufacturers look forward to bringing customers compelling new products by combining the latest hardware innovations with the new Windows.
“The combination of Windows XP and Compaq PCs will give our customers a much richer computing experience, whether they’re at home, at work or on the road,”
said Michael D. Capellas, Compaq’s chairman and chief executive officer.
“Compaq and Microsoft share a common vision focused on making it easier for customers to access the information, content and entertainment they want — when, where and how they want it. Windows XP is an innovative product that will help make this vision a reality. Compaq has worked closely with Microsoft to bring Windows XP to life, and we are committed to making it available on our business and consumer PCs as soon as it is released.”
In addition, retailers are already anticipating strong demand for a wide array of products that will work with Windows XP, including new PCs, software, hardware and devices. Many of these retailers are planning to offer products that will ensure a smooth transition to Windows XP when it becomes available later this year.
“Circuit City is making a strong commitment to our consumers,”
said W. Alan McCollough, president and chief executive officer of Circuit City.
Beginning today, we’re going to ensure that all Windows-based PCs we sell are configured to allow for an easy transition to
Windows XP. When it’s available, all the Windows-based PCs we sell will be running Windows XP. We’re also working closely with Microsoft to help our hardware and software partners be ready for this important launch, and ensure today’s products are ready for Windows XP.
Windows XP Availability
Windows XP will be made available in two versions: Windows XP Professional for business users and Windows XP Home Edition for home users. The second beta version of Windows XP is scheduled for release in the next month to a select group of Microsoft customers, partners and beta testers. The final version of Windows XP is scheduled to be generally available in the second half of 2001.
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Arenal Volcano within Arenal Volcano National Park is one of the most known tourist attractions in the country. Addressing 290 square miles, the preservation room discusses eight of this 12 lifestyle zones in Costa Rica and is a popular place to go for a myriad of people. There are numerous lodges and resort hotels in your neighborhood, providing to many techniques from adventure travel to all-natural hot spring season pleasures. Birdwatchers should visit a€“ regarding the 850 types which have been identified in Costa Rica, the majority of can be obtained right here.
Manuel Antonio State Playground
The jewel of Costa Rica, Manuel Antonio nationwide Park could be the tiniest playground in the nation, yet has some really remarkable landscapes. Forbes magazine known as they one of the most stunning parks in the nation last year. The species belongs to the charms. Consider white mud shores nestled into coves, the rich exotic forest over the sides, huge hills rising up from the center of this woods. The interesting and delightful coral reefs tend to be a snorkeler’s dream!
Set in the southern area Pacific coastline of Costa Rica, Ballena aquatic state Park try a largely oceanic park, with 110 escort in Pompano Beach hectares of area and 5375 regarding the ocean. It’s named following the humpback sharks that migrate from July to October, right after which again from December through March. In a country with 11 era a lot more aquatic region than area, Costa Rica’s Ballena Marine National Park was aimed at saving the wealthy aquatic ecosystem associated with the location.
Carara State Playground, Core Pacific Coast
Located on the main Pacific shore, Carara state playground is among the most north rainforest event regarding the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Initially a biological hold, the park enhanced to a national playground in 1998. The playground could very well be most well-known because of its untamed scarlet macaw people but enjoys a wealth of some other exotic bird variety that attract birdwatchers and creatures devotee. Another popular attraction around the playground will be the Tarcoles lake Crocodile Bridge. Travelers wonder in the remarkable proportions a€“ some achieving 16 feet long- and wide range of crazy crocodiles inside their normal environment. Two and three-toed sloths can certainly be based in the park. There are two main hiking trails within the playground: the 0.6-mile Araceas character path plus the 2.7-mile Laguna Meandrica Trail. Carara state playground is one of the most readily available rainforest day trip activities for tourist staying in the San Jose and main Pacific place.
Palo Verde Nationwide Park, Guanacaste
Palo Verde nationwide playground are an often-overlooked wonder of wetlands amid the tropical dried out forests of the Guanacaste state. The park is flooded by Tempisque lake to generate a marshy house for an abundance of wetland bird variety like Roseate Spoonbills, Egrets, material Storks, and Herons. Inside the green season (from Summer through November), the park marshes swell and attract animals a€“ upping your odds of sightings. Publication a float trip with a specialist naturalist directing your through this big system of stations and mangroves on the lookout for animals.
Rincon de los angeles Vieja National Park, Guanacaste
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New Yorkers generally like to keep their cool, but they’ve lost it over the NYC Hospitality Alliance insinuating that the city might crack down on bottomless brunch—which, it turns out, is illegal. “This might be your final weekend for happiness,” warns Jezebel. “Bottomless brunch is technically illegal. See you in jail,” tweeted New York magazine.
The communal freak-out is probably unwarranted, seeing as the law isn’t new and the Hospitality Alliance has no law-enforcement power. But what if the unthinkable happens, and unlimited mimosas go the way of smoking inside and keeping ferrets as pets?
Research shows New Yorkers might not be losing as much as they think: Paying for an all-you-can-eat or –drink meal might mean feeling obligated to eat and drink beyond your stomach’s means—even if you’re not enjoying it. For a 2011 article in the Review of Economics and Statistics, “The Flat-Rate Pricing Paradox: Conflicting Effects of ‘All-You-Can-Eat’ Buffet Pricing," Cornell economists David Just and Brian Wansink carried out a field experiment on diners paying a flat rate for lunch. Just and Wansink recruited 66 people who were on their way to an all-you-can-eat restaurant serving a pizza buffet. They let half the participants pay the regular price, $5.98, for the buffet, while they gave half their subjects a coupon for 50 percent off. Unbeknownst to the diners, their pizza intake was then monitored by their waiters and later analyzed by Just and Wansink.
Just and Wansink discovered an unexpected correlation between price and consumption. “Because a customer faces no marginal cost to consumption,” they wrote, “Conventional utility maximization implies that he or she should continue to eat until the marginal utility of consumption reaches 0. Economic models of consumer behavior commonly assume that utility of consumption is unaffected by the price paid.” But the two groups were consistently eating different amounts of pizza, with people who paid full-price eating, on average, 31.77 percent more than the group that paid half (4.1 slices versus 2.9). Just and Wansink say this illustrates the “sunk cost fallacy”: Although the money’s already been spent—the cost is “sunk”—consumers are irrationally trying to “make up” the sunk cost. (Presumably, the group that didn’t get a discount wasn’t just extra-hungry.)
And when Just and Wansink surveyed customers after their meals on how much they’d enjoyed their pizza, they discovered a negative correlation between taste and consumption: The more pizza people ate, the less they enjoyed it. Bottomless brunch suddenly sounds a lot less appealing.
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The Defendant, David Wayne Mihalyko, pled guilty to trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, after he attempted to sell two Oxycontin tablets to an undercover police officer for $60. The Defendant’s 1998 Chevrolet Blazer and his Samsung cell phone were seized by police at the time of his arrest, and the Crown sought forfeiture of these items under Saskatchewan’s Seizure of Criminal Property Act.
The Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench ordered forfeiture of the cell phone, but found forfeiture of the vehicle would be disproportionate to the offence in question, and therefore “clearly not in the interests of justice,” pursuant to Section 7(1) of the Act.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal overturned the lower court’s decision, stating that the trial judge placed too much weight on proportionality in his analysis, and failed to adequately consider the need to compensate the Province for harms caused by drug trafficking. Furthermore, the appeals court found that the Defendant had not adequately demonstrated that he would receive hardship as a result of forfeiture of the vehicle. Mr. Mihalyko’s Chevrolet Blazer was therefore ordered forfeit to the Crown.
This case is a disturbing example of the significant potential for punitive effects in civil forfeiture law, even resulting from a seemingly minor or inconsequential offence. Mihalyko may have been a good opportunity to challenge the Saskatchewan law on the basis that it enabled punitive double jeopardy, but unfortunately, it seems that no constitutional challenge was mounted.
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Ever wondered what this beloved summer pastime looked like in the 19th century? Learn more about its fascinating evolution and plan your own with our list of essential accessories.
When describing the quintessential picnic experience, the first things that come to mind are generally wicker baskets, chequered blankets and the English countryside. But this wasn’t always the case.
Early book references loosely suggest that the word ‘picnic’ has its roots in old French, deriving from the verb piquer, which can be translated as ‘to nibble’ or ‘to pick’, and the word nique, used to describe something small and trivial.
“It’s one of those words that developed over time in different circles and may well have been formed using different colloquial words,” says historian and media representative at the Historical Association, Paula Kitching.
As for the activity itself, Gilles Ménage’s 1694 Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Langue Françoise describes the ‘pique-nique’ as a meal where every guest contributes a share. A favourite pastime of the Parisian aristocracy, that meal was held indoors and resembled banquets mixed with intellectual conversations — nothing like today’s casual picnic gatherings.
“Bearing in mind the background of the word and the grandness associated with [a pre-packed meal] then, we can assume the idea of ‘going on a picnic’ was popular among families and houseguests in big stately homes in the 18th and 19th centuries — it’s when the idea of the picnic as an event may have come into fashion,” says Paula.
From upper-class decadence to everyday outings
During the French Revolution, some aristocratic picnickers fled France, spreading their version of the picnic elsewhere, including London. In 1801, a group of wealthy Francophiles founded the Pic Nic Society. The clan’s indoor picnics involved excessive food and wine, dancing, theatre plays and gambling.
It was the emergent middle class that moved the picnic outdoors and stripped it of its indulgent connotations, which weren’t in line with Victorian values. Soon enough, people would carry their overflowing baskets (Fortnum & Mason’s curated ones were all the rage) to various outdoor settings, including sporting events such as the Epsom Derby.
“[The picnic] is likely to have been adopted as something to do in the newly developing leisure time that some urban dwellers began to have in the 19th century,” says Paula.
By the 20th century, new modes of transport had made the English countryside more accessible, and outdoor picnics boomed. According to Paula, the picnic has remained popular ever since, thanks to “the freedom of a meal outside that doesn’t require the stricter customs of sitting indoors.”
Three centuries later, the principles that define a winning alfresco feast remain the same. Read on as we reveal the essential items to help you take your picnic game to the next level.
From blankets to baskets: the must-have picnic items for the perfect outdoor feast this summer
Traditional wicker basket
Every picnic needs a hamper, and this one by display4top is both elegant and practical. It comes with four sets of dinnerware: high-quality ceramic plates, cutlery, napkins, wine glasses and a bottle opener are all included. The basket is easy to carry and the insulated lining helps keep your food and drinks at the right temperature. It also includes a soft, waterproof picnic blanket.
Insulated basket & cooler bag
If you’re sick of carrying endless accessories from the car to your ideal picnic spot, try this two-in-one, fully insulated basked and cooler from Eono. It’s made of rugged polyester with a sewn-in aluminium frame and padded handles, as well as a heat-sealed, leak-proof lining, while its zipped closure keeps food hot or cold, as needed. It can carry up to 30kg and can be folded in seconds, making it extra-convenient for storing.
So that’s your picnic basket covered, but what about the utensils? GEEZY’s plastic tableware set is the ideal choice if you’re looking to limit waste. Reusable and safe to load into your dishwasher, each set comes in an easy-to-store container and includes plates, cups, forks, knives and spoons (six for each category). You can even choose from four available colours, including blue, green or pink.
British weather can be quite unpredictable, so it’s a good idea to invest in a waterproof blanket, especially in autumn or spring when the grass can get damp. Opt for this one by GUSUWU — its bottom is covered with PVC material, making it moisture- and tear-resistant; it includes enough space for six to eight people; and it can be folded and carried around easily thanks to its handle. And when you’re done, you can clean with ease using a damp cloth.
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What qualifications do I need to be an Environmental Engineer? The highest-paid 10 percent of marine mechanics made at least $30.46 an hour and $63,350 or more per year. $114,010. Statista shows that averaging all of the different engineering degrees together, they rank the best! These numbers represent the median, which is the midpoint of the ranges from our proprietary Total Pay Estimate model and based on salaries collected from our users. Most Likely Range. 83 salaries reported, updated at June 29, 2022. Typical salary ranges from $80,000 (at 25% percentile) to $125,000 (at 75% percentile). Do marine engineers make good money? AK. Marine engineering intern. Ukraine* The Pentagon solicited 1,300 proposals from 800 companies forweapons innovations to be used in Ukraine against Russia, and will bereviewing them over the coming weeks. Chemical engineers are typically employed in the areas of manufacturing and research. National average salary: $39,141 per year. Starting salary. To help you make the decision that is right for you, weve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of Best Vallue Marine Engineering Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making Over $110k.. To further help you make the college decision, weve developed a unique tool These insights are exclusive to Mint Salary and are based on 452 tax returns from TurboTax customers who reported this type of occupation. 66,900. Those with more skills and experience can earn six figures, per year. U.S. - average salary for Bachelor's degree holders by discipline 2020 | Statista Approximate values based on highest and lowest earning segments. MACKAY MARINE. A marine engineer is someone who designs, builds, tests and repairs ships, boats, underwater craft, offshore platforms, and drilling equipment. $55. The average salary can go up if the candidate has an engineering design background and experience. These numbers represent the median, which is the midpoint of the ranges from our proprietary Total Pay Estimate model and based on salaries collected from our users. Are marine engineers in demand? Senior positions can fetch you something north of $100,000 per annum. A mid career Mechanical Engineer with 4-9 years of experience earns an average total compensation of 45,300, while a Senior They work not only for chemical companies, but also work in the manufacturing of electronics, clothing, paper, medicine, and food to name just a few. They often work closely with Read about What does a marine engineer do? There is no doubt that marine engineering is a lucrative profession with starting salaries ranging from $26,000 per annum to $40,000 per annum. CLOSED NOW. are compensated the highest in District of Columbia, which has average pay scales of approximately $121,290. The average salary for a Marine Engineer is $112,643 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience. Is this useful? How to Become a Merchant MarinerMost prospective mariners must typically undergo certification with the U.S. Coast Guard. Choose your desired career path.Apply for a TWIC.Get a physical and drug screening.Apply for an MMCParticipate in an Apprenticeship program. Mariners can choose from among different career paths within the Merchant Marine. Mechanical Engineer Salary | US News Best Jobs 693 Mechanical Engineers job openings on indeed require this certification in 2012, it increases by 693 in comparison to previous year. Else you can work in high-end dive operations that go on for a few months. $30 to $37 per hour. Marine engineers also create designs for controls and other mechanisms. A person working as a Marine Engineer in Bahamas typically earns around 44,300 BSD per year. Fourth Engineer: Rs 1.5 to 2.25 lacs INR; or 2000 to 4000 USD per month. There is no doubt that marine engineering is a lucrative profession with starting salaries ranging from $26,000 per annum to $40,000 per annum. Marine Engineer salaries vary drastically based on experience, skills, gender, or location. Mechanical engineering. Marine mechanics here can work on motors and parts for all types of boats and ships. Marine engineers make a handsome salary. Asked by: Camren Boyle. Their starting salaries are typically amongst the highest starting salaries for 4 year undergraduate degrees. I have seen Marine engineers making a good amount of money and shifting their career to MBA, IES, IAS and other sectors. There is no doubt that marine engineering is a lucrative profession with starting salaries ranging from $26,000 per annum to $40,000 per annum. Senior positions can fetch you something north of $100,000 per annum. If you are a freelancing contractor, you can earn even more. The top 10% in this field earn a staggering $145,790 per annum. General. Some of the $6.1 billion in securityassistance that the U.S. has committed to Ukraine since the war began couldfund these novel programs. Search: Marine Jobs That Don T Require A Degree. r/engineering is **NOT** for students to ask for guidance on selecting their major, or for homework / project help. An entry-level Marine Engineer with less than 1 year experience can expect to earn an average total compensation (includes tips, bonus, and Marine engineering. In fact, jobs with Energy, Transportation, and Manufacturing companies tend to be the highest paying. Chemical Engineering. The top 10% in this field earn a staggering $145,790 per annum. Find a way to align your choice of major with your academic and career goals Salary: The median annual wage for marine engineers and naval architects is $92,400 . Entry-level hourly wage. Along with the pay charts for enlisted personnel, the above figures for monthly pay are the absolute minimums. How can I study environmental engineering? The figures are salaries paid per month in Indian Rupee and US Dollars : Fifth Engineer or Engineering Cadet: Rs 35 to 75 thousand INR per month; or 300 to 1200 USD per month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average ocean engineering salary was $98,730 per year and $47.47 per hour as of May 2019. | <urn:uuid:97202373-d6e5-4902-bd16-9e6ad32897b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bndbprod.com/hmlz9ro4/785219277c8eac76e060b3a79eed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953493 | 3,248 | 2.375 | 2 |
Walking in the streets and alleyways of Sydney’s Circular Quay and Rocks precinct is like finding your way through a maze. When the first fleet landed at Sydney Cove in 1788, urban design wasn’t exactly top of the list as far as priorities were concerned. It was to be a penal settlement after all. Other than foot traffic, horse and cart was the mode of travel, and thoroughfares developed in an ad-hoc way.
These days, the area is well-known for its euphoric feeling with icons like the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Opera House, high-rise buildings and the quay itself punctuating the landscape. Not to mention a vibrant dining, entertainment, shopping and weekend markets experience.
Of course, Sydney does not stand alone with its maze-like early development and contemporary life. Similarities exist for other great cities of the world, including New York and its Lower Manhatten area and San Francisco and its historic waterfront precinct. Harbourside environs in Cape Town, Istanbul and Hong Kong also come to mind.
If you’re unfamiliar with such city areas, there’s no question you will need help navigating their many twists and turns. Tourists are often seen, map in hand, discussing directions with locals.
But for the conscientious pedestrian, entering the earliest – and now preserved and celebrated – settlements of the great cities of the world should also trigger an awareness of the sins of colonization that can easily be forgotten amid the enjoyment on offer. Indigenous lives lost, land taken, identity pillaged and children stolen at the hands of colonizers, are, in our 21st century way of thinking, unthinkable.
In Australia, the plight of our Indigenous peoples has itself taken many twists and turns since settlement 234 years ago, making for a complex and at times volatile human maze. Latterly, remedial action through land compensation, the 2008 national apology and formalized recognition of their civilization and traditional custodianship have opened a significant space for the healing of deep wounds and the forging of a more purposeful and reconciled relationship between us.
Actions taken in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa have opened similar spaces for healing and reconciliation, signaling a global move towards races or civilizations living with respect for one another and in harmony rather than at war or seeking to destroy one another.
How sad it was for our world, therefore, to watch Russia invade Ukraine last month and to see it advancing with its tanks and artillery towards the beautiful, historic city of Kyiv, causing untold damage in towns and villages along the way. Ukraine have mustered strong resistance to the invasion. Sadly, in only one month of fighting, at least 20,000 people have lost their lives (including more than 1,000 civilians), approximately 10 million have been displaced, and property damage is estimated at USD119 billion.
I must admit to praying more about this conflict than about any other world issue since it began on 24 February. It’s a tough call for Ukraine in the first instance. It’s hard not to fight force with force and they have been very strategic and clever in how they have implemented the defence of their country.
It’s a tough call also for the world community as it considers how it can appeal to Russia to stop the invasion. And it’s a tough call now for Russia’s leaders to step back from their show of force and to live in peace with their neighbours.
Pride is now involved, and one suspects that a little bit of help from above might be required right about now. In today’s world, you don’t need to be navigating streets to feel like you’re in a maze. We need less suspicion and more trust, less murkiness in our communication and more openness, a deep inner resolve to judge our own motivation and insatiability before inflicting damage at will on others.
The world is holding its breath for peace in Eastern Europe. But it was Saint Peter who wrote that what we really need is love and respect for each other, including for our differences. “Above all,” he said, “love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins’ (1 Peter 4:8, NIV). And it was Jesus Christ who chose the bowl and the towel as the essence of his leadership, not the sword.
Peace will come only out of leadership with genuine, forgiving love for humankind at its centre. It’s a tough call that can be the focus of our prayers and the solution to finding our way.
Peter McGuigan describes himself as a ‘communicator and collaborator for a better world’. He is the writer of a substantive body of opinion and feature articles, and is the author of books on leadership, church polity and spirituality. He delivered award-winning journalism across several editorships and has led teams large and small in both communications and front-line mission work as a Salvation Army officer, including internationally. He has also served as the President of the Australasian Religious Press Association and Chair of The Salvation Army’s Moral and Social Issues Council. He holds a Master of Arts (Writing). | <urn:uuid:bec662eb-365a-4ea1-b630-9f9671e1114a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christiantoday.com.au/news/a-tough-call.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962852 | 1,070 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR ASBL
|Coordinator Country||Belgium [BE]|
|Total cost||1˙908˙375 €|
|EC max contribution||1˙908˙375 € (100%)|
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
|Duration (year-month-day)||from 2017-10-01 to 2022-09-30|
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Why sexual reproduction is overwhelmingly predominant among the metazoans remains unclear. Ancient asexual taxa are interesting model systems to gain general insights into the adaptive values of sex. The most notorious and the highest taxonomic rank within the metazoans to reproduce asexually is the bdelloid rotifers. While studies suggest that most asexuals arose recently, the published genome of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga provided the first positive evidence for the long-term ameiotic evolution of this group, confirming its ancient asexuality. How bdelloid rotifers have been able to persist despite the expected negative consequences of asexuality is the focus of this ERC proposal. I will study the mechanisms that prevent genome deterioration and promote diversification in the absence of meiotic recombination. I will include sexual rotifer sister clades in the comparison and study all components of the bdelloid lifestyle that may foster their evolution. One of the key components could be their desiccation resistance and the associated DNA double-strand breaks that appear upon prolonged desiccation. To this end, I plan to (i) sequence genomes of sexual rotifers and distinct bdelloid species that diverged a long time ago, including lineages that never experience desiccation; (ii) apply contact genomics, cellular and molecular assays, as well as targeted mutagenesis to uncover their DNA repair mechanisms; (iii) use whole-genome and RAD sequencing to perform a population genomic study of genetic exchanges among bdelloids; and (iv) investigate the function of the meiosis-specific Spo11 gene in bdelloids through targeted mutagenesis and complementation experiments. Using a computational simulation I will generate theoretical predictions on the impact of the mechanisms promoting genome evolution in asexuals. This proposal should revolutionize the field of asexual evolution and provide a new biological model system to study fundamental processes such as DNA repair.
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This page is about our views on the ownership of property. This topic is related to what many people call "property rights"; we are cautious about using the term "property rights" because this term can impose one particular view of property and ownership on people who may hold differing views.
Ownership and responsibility
Our beliefs state that in a healthy state, people take responsibility for their actions. Responsibility is hard to define, but our view of responsibility is that it involves a certain degree of accessibility and openness to discussion about the way a person's actions affect others.
Some ownership, such as the ownership of small items held within a home, may have little or no effect on other people on a daily basis. But in other cases, such as of land or buildings, the effects of a person's choices involving that property can be large. | <urn:uuid:9d947e1d-ebfc-4adf-b032-d86d4780816b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://whythisway.org/wiki/Ownership | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970849 | 171 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Pencapaiannya tersebut membuat bos Mercedes, Ross Brawn, angkat topi. Argentina hosted the first South American Grand Prix in 1953 , and Morocco hosted the first African World Championship race in 1958 Asia (Japan in 1976 ) and Oceania (Australia in 1985 ) adopted, and the primary race in the Middle East was held in 2004 The nineteen races of the 2014 season had been spread over every populated continent aside from Africa, with ten Grands Prix held outside Europe.
In concept, all FOCA teams were purported to boycott the Grand Prix as an indication of solidarity and criticism on the dealing with of the laws and financial compensation (and extreme opposition to the accession of Balestre to the place of FISA president: each Colin Chapman of Lotus and Frank Williams of Williams said clearly that they might not continue in Formulation One with Balestre as its governor).
For much of the game’s history, qualifying periods differed little from apply sessions; drivers would have one or more classes wherein to set their fastest time, with the grid order decided by each driver’s finest single lap, with the fastest on pole place Grids had been usually restricted to 26 cars – if the race had extra entries, qualification would additionally decide which drivers would begin the race.
Brawn GP went by way of a painful size reduction, shedding tons of of employees, but ultimately won the 12 months’s world championships with Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello BMW F1 was purchased out by the original founder of the crew, Peter Sauber The Lotus F1 Crew 34 had been one other, previously manufacturer-owned team that has reverted to “privateer” ownership, together with the buy-out of the Renault crew by Genii Capital buyers in recent times.
McLaren also introduced that it was to reacquire the shares in its group from Mercedes Benz (McLaren’s partnership with Mercedes was reported to have began to sour with the McLaren Mercedes SLR street automobile undertaking and tough F1 championships which included McLaren being discovered guilty of spying on Ferrari ). Therefore, in the course of the 2010 season, Mercedes Benz re-entered the sport as a producer after its purchase of Brawn GP , and break up with McLaren after 15 seasons with the team. | <urn:uuid:a8ac9542-02dc-44d5-8e30-1a8258582fe6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.libertybellpress.com/method-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969284 | 473 | 1.867188 | 2 |
April 27 is the birthday of Ulysses S. Grant, hero of the U.S. Civil War, and, as far as history tells us, the only person to have been arrested while serving as president of the United States.
This was back in 1872, a time when presidents didn’t travel around in giant motorcades surrounded by security.
In Grant’s case, he drove a carriage pulled by horses, and he was all too happy to race through town whenever he could.
The trouble was, Washington DC had been having trouble with speeding carriages, including an accident in which a woman and her son had been trampled and injured by a driver.
The next night, at the same intersection, 13th and M Street, President Grant was racing through with his horses, and he was stopped by William West, a Black police officer who’d served under Grant in the Civil War.
West told the president he had to slow down, and Grant promised he would.
But the very next day, at the very same spot, West caught Grant speeding again.
It’s said that president may have tried to suggest he didn’t realize how fast he’d been going, like so many fast drivers have done.
But he also reportedly told the officer, if you think I’m speeding, then I was speeding, and went with West to the police station.
Grant posted $20 as bond – and he had to walk home.
In other words, when he got picked up for speeding, U.S. Grant gave an unconditional surrender.
Today is also the birthday of telegraph pioneer and code-maker Samuel Morse.
My favorite Morse Code story is at the headquarters of Capitol Records in Los Angeles, which uses lights to send Morse Code messages promoting upcoming record releases.
So if you live in LA and want to know when the next Katy Perry single is going to drop, learn Morse Code.
Capitol Records Building Morse Code (Atlas Obscura)
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Community development projects almost universally require communities to contribute collectively towards project costs in cash, materials, or labor. But despite their ubiquity, we know little with certainty about the consequences of such collective contribution requirements or whether these consequences differ when contribution requirements are in cash or labor. We experimentally evaluate the effects of community contribution requirements in cash and in labor in a project to provide safe sources of drinking water in rural Bangladesh. Cash contribution requirements lead to a large decline in take-up and impact, relative to a contribution waiver, while labor contribution requirements with the same value when priced at the market wage do not. The difference appears to arise because many households value their time below the market wage. Substantial welfare gains may be realized by replacing cash contribution requirements with labor contribution requirements in other contexts in which the monetary value of time is low. | <urn:uuid:f33276ef-4328-437c-be59-8400360d79f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://epic.uchicago.edu/events/event/anna-tompsett-stockholm-university/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930537 | 166 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Buzzword alert! “Curation” is the new ‘in’ activity on the Web it seems. Consultants are rushing in to cash in on the new challenge encapsulated by the term. The Web has so far been an information bonanza for all. Every pundit and his dog gushes about the free exchange of knowledge over the Net — specifically greased by social-media platforms — and how it “empowers” the hapless and enriches the impoverished.
The other side of this unprecedented access to information, however, is the proliferation of noise. The digital age has seen an unprecedented quantity of data capture points in the hands of an unprecedented number of people. Digital cameras, mobile communication and Net access devices, and of course personal computers all have the larger proportion of the data they capture as images, audio, and text eventually ending up on the Net — sent out as email, uploaded onto social networking sites, and streamed onto other people’s devices. A lot of these go on to be regurgitated and consolidated into content published on on-line news sites, e-zines, and blogs.
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Finding relevant information is becoming harder and harder as the amount of noise to sift through increases. This is where curation comes in. Even as the volume of information increased with the advent of democratised network computing, the amount of waking hours of the average person remained the same. In short there is too much information and too little time. Time-challenged people now demand a presentation layer to filter out a the negative-wealth of irrelevance that accompanies the typical Twitter or Facebook feed and the thousands of results that get splashed on their browsers at the click of the “Search” button on sites like Google.
Content was once king, but with the reality today is that content without curation is simply noise. As such services and platforms built around the concept are attracting the attention of potential investors.
Ironically, curation preceded the sort of “search” delivered by sites like Google. Web directories (Web sites where people submitted their favourite Web links) were once the killer app of the search industry in the mid- to late-90’s. In fact, search pioneer Yahoo! started out as a human-managed search directory. But these Web directories were soon supplanted by algorithmic search engines like Google as the Web grew bigger and the volume of data to sift through beyond the abilities of humans to vet.
For now, curation is a trending buzzword. But with search algorithms progressively getting more sophisticated and smarter, the line that separates algorithmic search and curation is likely to blur. Trust Google to close the notional gap that for now exists.
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In constructing his sociological theory of religion, Durkheim was influenced by the ideas of Robertson Smith and Fustel de Coulanges. Even more, he was negatively influenced by the theoretical views of Sir Edward Tylor and Max Muller, and Durkheim’s attempt to refute these views is one of the more interesting aspects of The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Tylor’s theory of animism had postulated that early humans had acquired beliefs in souls and dismembered spirits as a consequence of dreams and reflections about deaths, and that this idea of dismembered spirits had been transferred upon animals, objects, and places of the physical world. With this perspective, Tylor argued that a “minimal” definition of religion would include a belief in spirits or souls. In contrast, Muller’s theory of naturalism assumed that early people had been overwhelmed by the forces of nature, and that the earliest gods and spirits were actually personifications of natural phenomena.
Durkheim argued that these two theories were demeaning to the very idea of religion, for they implied that religious beliefs were only “a tissue of illusions” which did not have any basis in reality. If religions were based on such a shaky foundation, they would not have survived in all known societies; Durkheim declared that it was “inadmissible” to suggest that irrational illusions could account for the great influence of religion in the evolution of law, morality, and science. Also, since religious phenomena were social in essence, Durkheim found it illogical to account for the origins of religion by reference to individual consciousness. His own sociological theory emphasized two ideas: First, religions had the important social functions of promoting group solidarity and cooperation; second, religious beliefs were ultimately founded on reverence for a reality which did exist—the reality of human society. Although he did not believe in the existence of gods, spirits, or totemic ancestors, Durkheim paradoxically wrote that all religions were true because of their foundations in social reality. He did not appear to understand why so many critics charged that his own theory raised the same objections as those of Tylor and Muller.
Making a distinction between symbols and what they symbolize, Durkheim argued that all sacred symbols were unconscious “representations” of society and that “the idea of society is the soul of religion.” As evidence, Durkheim pointed to three facts: First, the human species does not and cannot long exist as isolated individuals; second, societies usually continue to survive beyond the death of the individual; and third, all societies have rules which individuals are required to obey. The social collective, therefore, demands and is worthy of respect and veneration, but society is a complex abstraction which must be conceptualized in concrete images, symbols, and objects. According to Durkheim, the simplest form of social organization was the clan, and the clan’s concrete representation was its totem. He explained that “the totem is the clan’s flag” and that, like the flag of a country, the totem was an unconscious means of promoting loyalty, dedication, and group solidarity. Like the flag, moreover, the clan’s totem was important because of its use as a symbol, not because of its intrinsic value as an object.
With the assumption that totemism was the earliest form of religion, Durkheim presented an interesting, if somewhat speculative, theory of how religious evolution had occurred. The sense of clan solidarity led to the idea that souls of dead ancestors entered the bodies of babies born into the clan, and the belief in the immortality of the soul was a symbolic way of expressing the truth that the clan as well as the larger society would continue after the death of the individual. With the belief in the existence of dismembered souls of tribal ancestors, it was logical that some of these souls would be venerated and elevated to the status of “high gods.” Thus, totems, souls, spirits, and gods all had their origins in society and its needs for social cohesion. Even modern society had not outgrown the need for a common religion, but since science and the modern worldview had made it impossible to believe in gods or spirits, Durkheim expected the emergence of an abstract religion in which humanistic symbols would acquire the status of the sacred.
Beginning with the pessimistic view that individuals tended to seek selfish satisfactions at the expense of the needs of society, Durkheim was convinced that a common religion was necessary to promote the costly sacrifices necessary for social survival. Many sociologists have noted that the problem of order was one of the major themes in all Durkheim’s writings. Fearing that hyperindividuality would promote an unhealthy condition he called “anomie” (a failure to internalize appropriate norms), he was convinced that religion had the positive consequence of establishing a shared sense of cohesion and solidarity. A rather negative view of human nature is reflected in his declaration that “there is no morality which is not fused with religiosity; even to the secular mind, duty—the moral imperative—is a thing which is august and sacred.”
This ethical perspective was in the background when Durkheim insisted that a well-integrated society required a “collective conscience,” for the French word for “conscience” refers both to an ethical sense and to consciousness. Influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “general will” and to Auguste Comte’s “consensus,” Durkheim defined the collective conscience as “the totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of the same society.” The various components of this system of beliefs were called “collective representations” (images, symbols, and concepts), and one of the key representations was a cosmology (or worldview). By the term “collective conscience” Durkheim did not mean some kind of mysterious collective mind; rather, individuals learned to accept the collective conscience through a process of social education, and Durkheim wrote that “consciousness cannot exist except in and through individual minds.” This meant that there was always a double aspect to humankind: the individual and the social aspects. Certainly individuals were capable of some unique and innovative ideas, and such innovations could be joined with existing concepts to form “a synthesis of particular conceptions.” Although he endorsed an authoritarian enforcement of social norms, Durkheim’s theory of a collective conscience was entirely compatible with the possibility for social change.
In addition to being necessary for maintaining order, religion was the “primordial” matrix which made it possible for other cultural elements to emerge. In fact, Durkheim went so far as to argue that the fundamental categories of thought had their origins in religious beliefs and practices. Periodic rituals provided a sense of regularity necessary for measuring time; religious myths included a category of causation which was a prerequisite for the growth of science; religious duties and taboos provided a foundation for the evolution of laws and morality; and beliefs in totems and ancestral spirits were the earliest forms of kinship systems. Durkheim even thought it was possible that economic practices had their foundation in religion. Unfortunately, there was not much empirical evidence for these conclusions, but Durkheim did correctly observe that in the so-called primitive cultures, religion appeared to fulfill many more functions than was true of more developed cultures, implying that the functions of religions were progressively being replaced by other beliefs and practices.
With his emphasis on the communal and emotional components of religion, Durkheim was naturally fascinated by the ceremonies and rituals of the Australian aborigines. He divided the cult practices into five categories: Sacrifices were concerned with offerings and communion; mimetic rituals were related to attempts at causation; ritual taboos were useful in enforcing social interdictions; commemorative rituals kept alive a common awareness for past events; and piacular rituals helped maintain courage following sorrowful tragedies such as death. According to Durkheim, such cult practices “give rise to the expression of joy, of interior peace, of serenity, of enthusiasm; for the faithful they are like an experimental proof for their beliefs.” Within his own European experiences, Durkheim was favorably impressed with the sense of the sacred preserved in Judaism and Catholicism, but he was very critical of the tendency for Protestants to minimize the importance of ritual and emotional experiences. | <urn:uuid:78c679ce-a15b-49b3-beec-7ee05df6cfb5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enotes.com/topics/elementary-forms-religious-life/critical-essays | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973854 | 1,769 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Working at the Norfolk Library comes with a lot of benefits. For example, I’m allowed to bring Fergus with me whenever I’m taking care of him.
The Library also pays for most of my health insurance, which is such a wonderful contribution considering I work there part-time.
I’ve also been afforded opportunities to learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Norfolk Library identifies as an anti-racist library and that means doing some deep work to ensure that we are who we say we are. So when it came time for the library to commemorate Juneteenth, we decided learning more about this holiday would be the best way to honor it.
Tomorrow I lead a book discussion of On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed. If you have never read this book written by a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, then I highly recommend it. It’s well-written, interesting, and a slim 148 pages. It also has me caring about Texas (and US) history in ways I never thought possible.
For example, I learned that the theme park Six Flags Over Texas, which was the original Six Flags, was so named because of the six flags of the countries that ruled over Texas in its history: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.
Texas was part of the confederacy?!?!?!
Maybe I knew this years ago when I was in grade school or high school and maybe not. Because I had undiagnosed narcolepsy for many of those years and the fact that those years are now approximately 3+ decades ago, I’ve given myself leeway for not remembering a lot of what I learned and experienced.
I always thought of Texas to be a land of oilmen, cowboys and ranchers. This book has taught me that’s not at all the case. Eastern Texas, an area that is vastly green and fertile, was imagined by Stephen F. Austin as, “a western version of the cotton fields of Mississippi that had produced such great wealth for plantation owners.” Austin also knew that the land could never be developed without enslaved people clearing and planting the land as free labor and intensely lobbied Mexico, who was anti-slavery, that no Americans would come without the guarantee of chattel slavery.
Yep. Eastern Texas was developed on the backs of enslaved people all in the name of wealth accumulation for white people. Just like many other states.
Again, maybe I understood this reason why slavery was historically accepted in the development of the US from long ago and maybe I didn’t. Or maybe I’m now looking at this information with the eyes, heart, and mind of a 44-year-old white woman who has seen present-day racial injustice, inequity, and inequality in this country and who is *finally* paying attention to how it’s all connected.
Because you can’t read a book like On Juneteenth and not look at the bigger picture. Or realize that there are truths out there, you just had the privilege of not knowing about them. Imagine what would it mean if we were taught in school the words of Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, in his 1861 Cornerstone speech:
The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.”
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
How many times have I heard people say the Civil War was about states’ rights? These words unequivocally show otherwise.
If we heard Alexander Stephens’ words taught in schools today, perhaps we would better recognize the deep-seated racism that existed and continues to exist in this country. You know, the kind of racism that gets some books banned in school districts or libraries because they suggest racism still exists.
If I could, I would give a copy of On Juneteenth to everyone in the United States. Then I would invite them to the Norfolk Library, either in-person or on-line, to talk about it. Because that’s what we do at the Norfolk Library and I’m glad to be a part of it.
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Filmshows on Biodiversity
ECOMOVE International carried out an extensive project to support the UN-Conference on Biological Diversity 2008 (in Bonn, Germany). In the framework of this project the conference had been promoted by a complementary cineastic, educational and cultural programme. For this reason a series of high quality film and TV productions had been compiled and presented at various film screenings within Germany in the run-up to the conference. The screenings had been accompanied by discussions and a special school programme. | <urn:uuid:1d1da772-16c6-4559-bab8-ab5d64bed95f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ecomove.de/film-show-biodiversity.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964245 | 111 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Update: Just added some new shots of the chassis, tubes, board, Orange Drop caps, Fisher speaker, etc.
The Original 40XL
This page is dedicated to photos of our ’69 Silvertone 1422, also known as the Sears 40XL. We recently acquired this amp and found it to be one of the nicest 40XL’s we’ve seen in many a year. This Made-in-USA amp is totally original, right down to it’s late 60’s dark olive vinyl, green sparkle grille cloth, and a 12-inch Alnico magnet made by Fisher. The only cosmetic damage we could find is a bump (dimple) on the cabinet edge, right side of the control panel, and a chip off one control knob.
The 1422, or 40XL, was marketed by Sears as a 40-watt, 12-inch, combo tube amp for guitar. It features two separate input channels, and built-in reverb and tremolo. The reverb and trem are controlled by a dedicated foot switch. Sears advertised these as 40-watt combo amps. But in reality, the two 7189 power tubes put out around 20-watts or less. In fact, the features and chassis layout suggest that it could be an American copy of a the mid-60’s Marshall Model 1974, which was an 18-watt combo using two 6BQ5’s (EL84’s).
Summer of ’69
This amp was built, sold, and first played in the Summer of ’69. The code on the CTS potentiometers read “137-6919.” Decoded, that means “137” = Mfr’d. by CTS; “69” = Year Mfr’d. (1969). “19” = Week Mfr’d. (2nd Week of May).
How Does It Sound?
Well, it’s a loud 18 to 22 watts, that’s for sure. HUGE in the mid range, solid in the bass range, but not too sparkly or chimey at the high end. Poor speaker sounds like it’s wearing a heavy wool sweater. And there is a noticeable 60-Hz hum. But we will dig into it and find out what’s wrong.
Major improvements! We took the chassis out of the cabinet, cleaned and tightened all the loose connections, and relocated one unshielded cable sitting too close to the transformer (will completely remove that later). Now, the amp is almost silent when idling, the 60-Hz hum is completely gone, and frequency response at the high and low ends have improved!
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Posted on 1st Nov 2019
by Joshua Chuah
At some point in our lives, each and every one of us will experience this strange thing called pain, whether physical or emotional. Experiencing pain is part of conscious living, it is part of being human. The question is - What exactly is pain? Is it as simple as “pain = tissue/body damage”? (eg. If my back hurts, there has to be something wrong with my spine)
The purpose of this post is to help you understand what pain actually is, as I strongly believe that understanding pain will help change your perception of pain, allowing you to have better capacity to deal with pain and be able to make better decisions on how to respond and manage pain, making it a crucial part of the recovery process.
What is pain?
Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage”.
The key word in that definition is an “experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage”. Basically, pain is created as an output of the nervous system (brain, spinal cord) in response to perceived threat from bodily tissues and the environment, however not always (but can be) actual threat. Pain occurs when credible evidence of danger related to our body is greater than our credible evidence of safety related to our body. Essentially, pain acts as an “alarm system” of the body, a protective mechanism to warn you that there is a potential threat, it is NOT a direct interpretation of how much damage is present. Pain does not come into the body and up to the brain, it is a response produced by the brain, and this response can be influenced by many factors that I will cover later in this post.
Consider this simple scenario – You reach out to touch a boiling kettle, the moment you contact the kettle, a signal from sensors in your fingers is sent to your brain and your brain processes it, and deems it as a threat due to its excessively high temperature that can potentially burn you if you leave your hand on it. The brain then creates a pain response which makes your instantly draw your hand back. You move on with your life with no actual damage to the hand at all. Pain is considered a helpful response in this case.
Here comes the confusing part - Pain, although in many cases can occur as a result of tissue damage (eg. High grade ankle sprain, ACL rupture, acute fracture) , can also be present in individuals with no real tissue damage. Studies have demonstrated that people with actual tissue changes in the body identified by MRI’s can experience NO pain at all (eg. disc buldges, arthritis, tendon changes, rotator cuff tears). This brings up the question – does pain really equal tissue damage? Are levels of tissue damage directly correlated with pain levels? Evidence suggests otherwise- Tissues can be sensitive with no presence of real damage. Pain is not just all about tissue damage itself, many contributing factors can drive tissue sensitivity.
The concept of tissue sensitivity
To understand the concept of tissue sensitivity, let’s go back to the analogy of pain as an “alarm system” in your house, the purpose of this alarm system is to ensure that no one breaks in.
Let’s consider 2 scenarios:
What this means is that the “alarm system” can go off even when no one is trying to break into your house, it goes off even if it starts raining and rain droplets contact the windows. Protection can be overamplified, which is unhelpful in this case. The longer pain persists, the less it has to do with structural damage, and the more it has to do with potential drivers of sensitivity.
This isn’t to say that the pain isn’t real in this case, it is very real, it just means that you should be looking at other factors that could be driving the sensitivity other than purely structure.
Drivers of sensitivity
There are a multitude of factors that can drive sensitivity and increase the pain experience in individuals, tissue structure being just one of them. Structure is definitely an important factor and not to be missed especially in acute cases, but so are these other factors as it can act to “wind up” sensitivity, resulting in an amplified pain response.
The overflowing cup
The overflowing cup analogy adapted from Greg Lehman – The pain experience can be viewed as the overflowing cup, many factors that have the potential to drive sensitivity can fill the cup, if there is a sudden increase in a stressor or a new stressor (whether physical or psychological load/stress) that tips you over the edge, spilling the cup, pain can potentially emerge.
Think back to a time when you’ve had an onset of pain – Was there a change in stressors? Were you having poor sleep quality or poor sleeping patterns out of your norm in that period of time? Was your training load higher than usual? Was life more stressful at that period of time?
Perhaps you’re experiencing pain now, have a think about these contributing factors and see if it applies to you. Identifying these factors will be a good start for you to come up with a plan to address them. Every individual’s pain experience is different, 2 people with the exact same condition can have totally different contributing factors and pain experiences.
The purpose of this post is introduce this concept of pain and sensitivity, to help you understand what pain is and the multidimensional nature of pain. This is certainly not a topic that can be covered in one post.
The key messages here being
A few extremely helpful resources can be found here
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You’ve heard it mentioned in countless prison movies—the hole, prison slang for solitary confinement—and it turns out, the truth is pretty ugly.
Let’s define the term first. An inmate in solitary confinement will be housed alone. Generally, the only humans he interacts with will be prion guards, and even that will be brief. He will remain in his cell almost all the time, perhaps being permitted out for a brief period to shower or exercise (also by himself). Solitary has other nicknames too, such as adseg (short for administrative segregation). Solitary is often placed in an area called the SHU, for Secure Housing Unit.
Some of the first US prisons used solitary for all inmates. The theory was that prisoners kept alone would have time to think about their erroneous ways and reform themselves. What happened instead was that, deprived of human contact, the prisoners went crazy. Because solitary confinement was also expensive and restricted inmates from doing most kinds of work, it was soon replaced by other prison models.
But solitary remains in use for several purposes: 1. Punishing prisoners for crimes or misconduct committed while they are locked up; 2. protecting vulnerable prisoners from other inmates; 3. restricting suicidal inmates’ access to objects they could use to harm themselves; and 4. segregating inmates determined to be especially risky, such as gang members.
Conditions in solitary vary a great deal. In some cases, they are very poor. The cell may be extremely small and sometimes devoid of everything except some kind of toilet. The inmate may even be naked. Prisoners in solitary are often given little to do with their time.
There are no limits on the length of time someone can spend in solitary. Some have spent decades there. Many advocates argue that this amounts to torture, especially when the prisoners are young or mentally fragile. It’s also poor policy, in that most prisoners in solitary will eventually be freed but will have a sky-high risk of recidivating.
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This week we are talking ocean themed yoga and movements. In the past couple of weeks I’ve shared about zoo themed yoga and farm yoga and movements. The ocean is another great place to learn and play. Ocean themed yoga is perfect for toddlers through elementary school-aged children.
Before we “dive” into all the ocean themed yoga pose ideas, you need to be sure to remember to check out the ocean themed gross motor and fine motor ideas from Pink Oatmeal. This will give you even more ideas for working on motor skills with an ocean theme!
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Deep Breathing – Put your hands on your stomach and fill it up with air (like a pufferfish) blow out all your air and repeat.
Dolphin Pose – Make dolphin noises!
Lotus Pose – Move your arms at your side like an octopus!
Tall Kneeling reaching above your head.
Fish Pose – Move your face to make a fish face!
Forward Bend – Let your arms swing side to side like a jellyfish.
Squat Pose – Move your hands in front of you like a lobster claw
Reverse Tabletop – Do the crab walk.
Upward Dog – Bark like a sea lion!
Bridge Pose – Think of ships going under the bridge!
Boat Pose – Can be done individually or with partners!
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A small but tenacious group of parents and others who are against vaccines may soon enjoy support from the White House, a fact that is causing health experts alarm. Since 2000, a small but tenacious group of parents have refused to vaccinate their children and advocate against it, believing that the contents cause autism. Because of this, cases of measles, whooping cough, and mumps have increased dramatically, illnesses which medical science was thought to have under control, and in the case of measles, nearly wiped out.
Now they’re back with a vengeance, as a 2015 outbreak of measles at Disney World suggests, and anti-vaccinators may be to blame. Not only does the trend hurt individual children, but it weakens herd immunity effect. There will always be those with compromised immune systems and other natural impediments to vaccination. But if everyone around them is vaccinated, they are by default protected. The herd immunity effect weakens however with each child left unvaccinated.
Recently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is a known vaccination skeptic, met with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Kennedy suggested that Trump tapped him to lead a panel on vaccines. Quizzically, just after this meeting, a spokesperson for Trump assured the press that no one had been selected for the position just yet.
Meanwhile, Kennedy told reporters he had been offered and accepted the position. In the past, Kennedy has supported an exemption for parents against vaccination, as it’s illegal in most states not to vaccinate your kids. According to Kennedy, mercury additives in vaccines cause autism, and big pharma, the government, and the media have all conspired to keep this from the public.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. talks to reporters outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Not only have vaccine myths been debunked, backing an anti-vaccine agenda runs counter to the government’s own stance, as well as that of the medical establishment. There already exists a federal advisory committee on immunization. These are medical experts and public health professionals who weigh in on vaccine-related issues from time to time.
Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Peter Hotez, told The Washington Post that few could be less qualified than Kennedy for a vaccine commissionership. Hotez also said that there is overwhelming evidence that no link between autism and vaccinations exists. There isn’t “…even any plausibility for a link,” he said. Daniel Salmon is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He’s also the deputy director of the school’s Institute for Vaccine Safety.
Salmon said that, “Vaccines are very safe and very effective.” They offer a high level of protection. Most are “80-99% effective.” Meanwhile, according to Salmon, negative effects are very rare. Because of this, vaccinating children should be one of the simplest decisions parents make, not only to protect the child but other vulnerable people in society.
Newborns and small children can get up to 200 vaccines. But the advantages far outweigh the risks.
In the case of an adverse reaction, the most common side effects are soreness at the injection area, a lack of energy and in some cases, a low-grade fever. In very, very rare cases, a febrile seizure can occur. These may look worrisome, but they do not cause any long-term effects. As for a connection with autism itself, 13 studies of the highest caliber have been conducted. All turned up bupkis. The CDC, Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, and many other esteemed medical organizations regularly assess such studies. Hotez called the pile of evidence against vaccines causing autism “massive.”
Kennedy is hardly the only celebrity anti-vaxxer out there. Count Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey among them. And Trump himself has made statements supporting the movement. During the 2015 Republican Presidential Debate, Trump said he witnessed it himself. “We had so many instances,” he said, “people that work for me, just the other day, two years old, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.”
Oddly enough, former neurosurgeon and housing and urban development (HUD) nominee, Dr. Benjamin Carson, on that very same stage, noted the overwhelming evidence against vaccines causing autism. So what is the fear, if anti-vaxxers grow in number or are allowed more leeway? It could increase the infection and transmission of diseases such as the flu, pertussis or whooping cough, measles, and many others.
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More American Beauty, from "Keeping America Real"
by Robert Reilly
Many people see America as the new Rome. We are builders and organizers, practical people who, when in need of culture, borrow Europe's just as Rome borrowed Greece's. Of course, there is truth in this comparison, but it has its limits. It is precisely the practical nature of the American people that insulated the United States from the ideological ravages of Europe and made the continuation of art possible here. In the 20th century, Europe largely destroyed its culture, which is why so many of its artists and intellectuals fled to America. When philosopher Eric Voegelin left Nazi Germany, he was in a state of despair over the fate of the West. In America, he saw that the practicality of the American people was rooted in experience, in an acceptance of reality that was not filtered through ideological lenses. He took hope. In American music, we can hear what he saw. In terms of music, this meant the retention of melody, harmony, and rhythm in the works of some of our major composers.
Though for one painful generation many composers abandoned these essential elements, American music recovered from the loss more quickly than did European music. I have written at length in these pages about the destruction wrought by the ideology of Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples, which, according to him, was to assure the supremacy of German music for another hundred years. This ideology, despite its temporary fascination, passed through America's bloodstream without permanently infecting it because it was alien to our nature. Proof of this was provided by the number of American composers who were immunized from it in the first place. Last month, I surveyed the works of Samuel Barber and others who never forsook music as a medium for beauty. They left a living legacy that is now being cultivated by our contemporaries, several of whom, like Dominick Argento and Ian Krouse, I was able to review briefly. Now, there is more good news provided by several releases of recent American music by composers Steven Gerber and Lowell Liebermann.
Just as Ian Krouse's passionate Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra sounds as if he had picked up the violin where Samuel Barber laid it down, the same can be said of Steven Gerber (b. 1948) and his Violin Concerto, composed in 1993. Two CDs of Gerber's music have appeared simultaneously, one on the Koch International Classics label and the other on Chandos. Koch features Gerber's Violin Concerto, a Cello Concerto from 1994, and the Serenade for String Orchestra, written in 1990. Chandos presents Gerber's Symphony No. 1, the Viola Concerto, the Triple Overture, and Dirge and Awakening, also all composed in the 1990s, except for the symphony, which was completed in 1989. For those who appreciate contemporary music that maintains its link with the tonal tradition, these works constitute a major discovery. The discovery is all the more surprising considering Gerber's training with Milton Babbitt, one of the high priests of the "coterie of twelve-notery," as it was called by composer Robert Simpson. In the 1980s, Gerber abandoned serialism and began working in a tonal, if at times dissonant, idiom.
The first work I listened to was the Symphony No. 1, which immediately brought to mind Shostakovich in its searing intensity and gravity, and in the nagging insistence of its motifs. Appropriately enough for that allusion, it is magnificently performed by the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, under Thomas Sanderling. After listening to this work and the others on the Chandos CD, I was not surprised to learn that Gerber is the most frequently performed living American composer in Russia. The Viola Concerto and the Dirge and Awakening also tap into the darker areas of the soul in a gripping, moving way. Do not be discouraged by this description. The agony that Gerber expresses is musically compelling. My only reservation is that, in certain sections of the symphony, I find the means of development slightly ponderous. It sounds as if the background is too much in the foreground – a fault that Gerber rightly ascribes to minimalism, which, he says, "sounds to me like accompaniment with the melody omitted."
Gerber, however, never omits the melody. In fact, the music on the Koch disc confirms him as a composer with a major melodic gift. His Violin and Cello Concertos and the Serenade dispel any suspicion that he is an ersatz Russian artist. These works may share the same seriousness of purpose and eschew empty virtuosity, but they sound American. There is a greater breadth to them and a touching lyricism, especially in the slow movements. (The Lento movement of the Violin Concerto is ravishingly beautiful). The shades of Shostakovich are gone. In their stead, I hear a direct lineage to Barber, maybe a hint of Randall Thomson, and playful allusions to Sibelius (especially in the first movement of the Cello Concerto) and the English pastoral tradition (especially in the Serenade). The two concertos are classical in their construction: theme, counter-theme, development, variation, recapitulation, and resolution. Yes, the sonata form is alive and well. This is very satisfying music to listen to and easy to follow. That may sound slightly condescending, but it is meant as a tribute to a masterful composer who is bold enough and confident enough in his materials to write transparently.
Symphony No. 1; Dirge and Awakening; Viola Concerto; and Triple Overture. Chandos Chan 9831
Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; Serenade for String Orchestra. Koch 3-7501-2 HI
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Coach seats generally account for more than 85% of the capacity in single aisle aircraft used for domestic routes. Beverage service in coach is limited, so bringing our own hydration aboard any flight over two-three hours is mandatory unless you like getting dry mouth, lightheaded and lethargic from dehydration. The growth of international long-haul (6+ hours) and the newest ultra-long haul (15+ hours) routes place an even greater premium on in flight health and wellness writ large, but hydration in particular. Airplane cabins are dry by design, mimicking desert conditions. Modern cabin design has followed economic trends in the world with increasing competition for high revenue frequent business flyers leading to a hard product arms race in the front of the planes.
Simultaneously, the rise of ultra-low cost carriers (ULCCs) has created the need for increased density in the main cabin, spawning new “Slimline” seat designs, which have hard plastic backs and seat back pockets with wire mesh reinforced nets that greatly reduce usable seat back storage. The soft leather/elastic seat back pockets of previous designs afforded ample storage and flexibility even for long flights in Coach. These new Slimline seat designs make it much more difficult to store traditional cylinder shaped water bottles. These factors conspire against us to make staying hydrated in-flight more difficult than ever. Landing in a dehydrated state only makes a trip more difficult and less enjoyable/productive.
How much water should you drink per flight hour? The Aerospace Medical Association suggestions drinking eight ounces of water every hour you are in the air. For a three hour flight, that means you must consume at least 24oz. of water. Some airlines such as Delta, are now using larger 10oz. cups, which is great. Unfortunately, I have yet to take a three hour flight with three drink services in the main cabin and even then, that would only satisfy the minimum. Individuals with higher metabolisms who live a more active life or have a higher fitness level will likely need even more water (this author certainly does).
Waiting for water
A simple rule to stave off dehydration is to never feel thirsty. You need to constantly be drinking enough water to maintain a healthy hydration level. Especially on long haul flights, I'm parched each and every time drink service comes around. I definitely don't fault the flight attendants; they have a much wider range of responsibilities than most people realize. Most people reading this article are likely good passengers with proper etiquette and don't want to hit the call button every time they need more water. We need to take responsibility for our own fluid supply. However, modern security measures in the post-9/11 era have made this annoyingly difficult.
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TSA lets you bring an empty water bottle through security and most airports have dedicated bottle filling stations at the water fountains (awesome and good for the environment). The new seat designs combined with the new coach cabin layouts make it much more difficult to carry a traditional cylinder shaped water bottle like Nalgene, Hydro Flask or Yeti on board. Their conventional cylinder design makes it difficult (sometimes impossible) to fit a bottle with any useful capacity in the new Slimline seat back pockets. These bottle designs were never optimized for transportation and storage density. They are bulky and somewhat heavy, especially if you opt for vacuum insulated designs. Airplanes are uniquely inconvenient because there isn't any sort of deep beverage holder (which Nalgenes rarely fit anyway). You can try using a bladder but you’ll be moving your bag around the whole flight.
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Soft water bottles such as Hydropak and Vapur are a good alternative to the hard sided bottle. The soft-sided construction allows them to conform to a wider range of storage spaces than a cylindrical water bottle like Nalgene, Yeti or Hydroflask while being substantially lighter than their cylindrical brethren. Soft bottles also fold up when they are no longer needed, so post-consumption storage and transport is a breeze. Unfortunately, soft-sided bottles can “flop” or fall over when stored in a seatback pocket, encroaching on precious legroom. They are also difficult to clean and are easily lost when empty. I lost five bottles and stopped buying them after the fifth bottle went MIA. I am a well-organized traveller who runs through a pre-departure checklist as if I were in the cockpit. I don’t often lose things. In fact, I still have the first pair of Oakley Blades I bought in 1988. This made the easy disappearing act of the soft-sided bottle particularly troublesome.
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Theodore Roosevelt, the greatest environmental and conservation President, promoted the passage of the Antiquities Act of 1906, and since then, 16 Presidents have designated a grand total of 157 National Monuments and National Parks.
Four Republican Presidents added no national monuments or national parks—Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, although Nixon is seen as a great environmental President with his Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel, and the signing into law of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, and the first declared Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
Under Theodore Roosevelt, a total of 18 monuments or parks were added, including Devils Tower National Monument, Petrified Forest National Park, Muir Woods National Monument, Grand Canyon National Park, and Olympic National Park.
William Howard Taft added 10 national monuments and national parks, including Navajo National Monument and Zion National Park.
Woodrow Wilson added 13 national monuments and national parks, including Dinosaur National Monument, Acadia National Park, and Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
Warren G. Harding added 8 national monuments and national parks, including Great Basin National Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, and Bryce Canyon National Park.
Calvin Coolidge added 13 national monuments and national parks, including Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Statue Of Liberty National Monument, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail, and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
Herbert Hoover added 9 national monuments and national parks, including Arches National Park, Portion Of White River National Forest, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Grand Canyon National Park (extension), White Sands National Monument, and Death Valley National Park.
Franklin D. Roosevelt added 13 national monuments and national parks, including Dry Tortugas National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Zion National Park (extension), and Grant Teton National Park.
Harry Truman added just 1 national monument and national park, Effigy Mounds National Monument.
Dwight D. Eisenhower added just 2 national monuments and national parks, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
John F. Kennedy added just 2 national monuments and national parks, including Russell Cave National Monument, and Buck Island Reef National Monument.
Lyndon B. Johnson added just 2 national monuments and national parks, an extension again of Grand Canyon National Park, and Portion of Tongrass National Forest.
Jimmy Carter added 15 national monuments and national parks in just one term as President, a reason why Carter is seen as one of the top three conservation oriented Presidents, alongside TR and Nixon. Among those monuments and forests Carter added were Denali National Park in Alaska, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, and Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
Bill Clinton added the grant total of 19 national monuments and national parks, including Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, California Coastal National Monument, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Portion of Sequoia National Forest, President Lincoln and Soldier’s Home National Monument, Sonoran Desert National Monument, Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument, and Governors Island National Monument.
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Whose is their voice?
Palestinian hardliners are gaining ground
THE killings go on and the political stalemate persists. On Christmas Day, Israel carried out its first “targeted” assassination in two months, killing two Islamic Jihad men and three civilians in Gaza. Hours later a Palestinian bomber killed himself and three Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv. In reprisal, Israel's army mounted an incursion into the West Bank city of Nablus that killed one Palestinian and wounded 17 others. On January 14th a Palestinian suicide bomber killed herself and four Israelis (three of them soldiers) at a crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has served notice that, unless the Palestinian Authority (PA) cracked down on Muslim fundamentalist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Israel would “disengage” by seeking to enforce its own solution in the occupied territories, with a security wall carving through the West Bank and threatening to slice Palestine into three enclaves on about half the West Bank's land. Gaza would be a disconnected fourth chunk. On January 11th Mr Sharon's promise to dismantle some Jewish settlements as part of this plan provoked a furious demonstration by 100,000-plus settlers and their sympathisers in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square.
The PA's dwindling hope is the “road map” proclaimed with much fanfare by President George Bush last June but which, by August, had withered as the violence goes on. The map proposed that Israel would withdraw from the West Bank cities it reoccupied after the latest intifada and freeze Jewish settlement. The Palestinians were to cease fire and disarm their militias. But their newish prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, has yet to get anywhere near doing that.
Early last month, Egyptian-mediated ceasefire talks between the Palestinian factions broke down. The Islamists said they would stop attacking civilians inside Israel only if Israel guaranteed to end its assassinations and incursions in the occupied territories. Mr Sharon said he could not. Mr Qurei has refused to meet his Israeli counterpart because, so long as he is unable to persuade the Palestinian factions to cease fire, he has nothing to trade.
Even if he could fix a truce, he may be losing the power to police one. The PA shows signs of disintegration, with cracks not so much between the more secular Palestinians and the Islamist opposition as between the PA's own governing institutions and Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
In November, Palestinian gunmen, quite likely from Fatah, tried to kill Ghassan Shakaa, the mayor of Nablus, a scion of one of the district's big landowning families and a long-time champion of their interests over the younger and poorer Fatah rebels who now rule the refugee camps. Elsewhere in the West Bank and Gaza, Fatah fighters have laid siege to PA police stations, demanding jobs and money as the price of any ceasefire.
Amid this chaos, Hamas looks like a paragon of discipline. It has claimed no suicide attacks inside Israel since September, notwithstanding this week's suicide bomb at a border checkpoint and the mortars with which its militias pepper Jewish settlements in Gaza every day. Hamas may, for the moment, be exploiting Fatah's disarray to make political headway within the PA's areas rather than to fight the Israelis. This mutual enmity eases among the foot-soldiers, hence a joint claim of responsibility by Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, an armed wing of Fatah, for this week's suicide bomb.
Islamists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad recently won an absolute majority in elections for the student council at the West Bank's Birzeit University, once a bastion of Palestinian secular nationalism. Similar Islamist coalitions now control most of the Palestinian universities, together with influential professional bodies such as the Engineers' Association in Gaza. This bolsters the findings of most pollsters: that if there were a freely contested general election in the PA, Hamas would not only reach parity with Fatah in most areas but, in some, such as Gaza, Hebron and Nablus, it might well eclipse its rival.
So Mr Sharon's plan to disengage also holds much less dread for Hamas and Islamic Jihad than for the Palestinian nationalists of Fatah, who favour a two-state solution based on Israel's full withdrawal from the territories it captured in 1967. The Islamists have long viewed the “armed intifada” as a means to force an Israeli withdrawal rather than negotiate one. A unilateral Israeli retreat from half the West Bank and parts of Gaza would, in their eyes, simply keep the flame of the conflict alive.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Whose is their voice?"
From the January 17th 2004 edition
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On May 14th the Bishops of England and Wales announced that they are re-establishing the requirement to abstain from meat on Fridays, effective 16th September 2011. As indicated below, this means that it is now a sin, and sometimes even a mortal sin, to eat meat on Fridays. As our own Bishop Christopher Budd has explained in his Ad clerum of July 2011, this is now a matter of “precept”, i.e. a legally established moral obligation.
This blog post will focus on the question of sinfulness, a matter that has been less noted in recent discussions. More general postings on the topic of Friday abstinence are viewable on this blog here; a post on what exactly does and does not constitute ‘meat’ here; and on how a parish priest can dispense someone from the law here. There is similarly a useful post at Fr John Boyle’s blog here and at CUF here (though the CUF post concerns the American context where Friday abstinence is recommended but not obligatory). There are also some Lenten comments on the benefits of 'giving things up' here, here, here, here, and here.
The Church law concerning abstinence from meat on Fridays is a matter that can be determined locally by each national Bishops’ Conference for the Catholics of that region: Post-Vatican II, canons 1251 and 1253 gives each Bishops’ Conference the authority to substitute the universal law of Friday abstinence from meat with another local practice for the Catholics of that region. In 1985 the bishops of England and Wales (along with a number of other countries) determined that each person was to be allowed to decide for themselves which particular Friday penance they wished to perform, and this determination held until the present change:
At the May 2011 meeting of the Bishops' Conference the bishops made a series of resolutions including one that re-established that the canonical Friday penance is to be fulfilled by abstinence from meat: “the Bishops' Conference wishes to remind all Catholics in England and Wales of the obligation of Friday Penance. The Bishops have decided to re-establish the practice that this should be fulfilled by abstaining from meat. Those who cannot or choose not to eat meat as part of their normal diet should abstain from some other food of which they regularly partake.” This resolution returns Catholics in our countries to the universal practice envisaged as normative in canon law. To consider the sinfulness of failing to observe Friday abstinence it is thus necessary to look at the universal law, a law which many of us are no longer familiar with because it has not been in force in England and Wales in recent years.
But what of mortal sin?
Before considering mortal sin with respect to Friday abstinence it’s important to briefly recall what holds for any mortal sin: For a sin to be sufficiently serious that it is ‘mortal’ there are three conditions that must hold: the matter itself must be grave (i.e. when considered in the abstract, apart from the person acting, the thing itself being done must be serious), the person acting needs to fully know what he or she is doing, and the person acting needs to give deliberate consent to what they are doing (CCC 1857). When sins are referred to in the abstract as ‘mortal’ it is always the matter of the sin that is being discussed.
Friday Abstinence and Grave Matter
In our modern society, and in the contemporary Church, the notion of penance has almost entirely faded from the popular consciousness. As a consequence, it is difficult for us to appreciate just how gravely important the pre-modern Christian Tradition considered penance to be. Yet, even a casual reading of saints and pre-modern scholars indicates a different set of priorities, and the pre-Conciliar teaching that breaking the law of Friday abstinence was 'grave matter' for mortal sin is something that can be found in any of the older Manuals of moral theology: The Manualists argued that the seriousness of the Christian obligation to do penance, combined with its specification by Church law, means that this is a matter of mortal sin. This said, they also argued that the matter of this sin is such that the quantity of meat eaten and the frequency with this is done would affect whether the sin concerned was a matter of venial sin or mortal sin. To consider another example, the sin of theft is also a mortal sin and one that similarly admits of what is called ‘parvity of matter’, i.e. if you are only stealing something small like a grape then the matter is not substantial enough for it to be the grave matter that constitutes a mortal sin. Concerning Friday abstinence, however, there was no consensus among the Manualists as to how much meat, or with what frequency, constituted 'grave matter' for mortal sin.
Post-Vatican II Reaffirmation
In the post-Conciliar period, the 1966 constitution Paenitemini (III.II.1) of Pope Paul VI re-affirmed that failure to make "substantial observance" of the law of Friday abstinence is grave matter, i.e. constitutes a mortal sin. Clarification was then sought in a dubium as to the meaning of “substantial”, resulting in a decree from the Sacred Congregation of the Council in 1967. The clarification interpreted “substantial” in such a manner that indicated that it was not just a matter of how much meat was eaten, or on how many days, but also a matter of such things as the differing significance of different days of penance, for example, eating meat on Good Friday would be more serious than eating meat on a regular Friday. The clarification stated that "one sins gravely against the law, who, without an excusable cause, omits a notable part, quantitative or qualitative, of the penitential observance which is prescribed as a whole” (24 February 1967; reprinted in Canon Law Digest, vol. 6, pp. 684-85). The Latin text of this dubium can read here and an analysis in Canon Law Abstracts here. It might be noted that the Council's response does not give a precise answer to the question of ‘how much’ constitutes grave matter but it would seem to exclude a single Friday constituting a mortal sin, and also, by referring to a spectrum of quantity and quality, helpfully re-affirms the appropriateness of considering the above-mentioned principle of ‘parvity of matter’ to be relevant to Friday abstinence.
Can the Church ‘create’ sins to impose on us?
Before concluding, some comment needs to be made about the ability of the Church to create a law that binds us under pain of sin. Many people can accept the notion that the Church makes laws to regulate Church life, just as any society or club makes laws that govern its members. But does the Church really have the authority to ‘make’ a sin by establishing a law that it imposes on us? In short, yes, and this is what we see if we look back at the history and origins of the Church. In general, we can observe a pattern that holds for any Church precept: Divine Revelation gives us a general law that is made particular and concrete by a specific Church law in a particular time and place. Concerning fasting and abstinence, Divine law establishes the general precept that we need to do penance, a general precept this has been specified by particular Church precepts in varied ways through the Church’s history. The earliest post-Biblical record of the Church’s life is found in the late 1st century-early 2nd century document The Didache (‘The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles’) and it records how the Church imposed on the early Christians the obligation to fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. What this manifests is the fact that the early Church understood itself to have received from Christ the authority to command like this. As the Lord Jesus said to St Peter and the Apostles, “Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven”(Mt 16:19; 18:18), and, “He who hears you hears me; he who rejects you rejects me”(Lk 10:16). This ‘binding’ is imposed on us to lead us to salvation because we need concrete laws to guide us.
And so it that today the Catechism gives clear expression to the traditional “five precepts of the Church”, of which the fourth of these is “You shall observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church (CCC 2043)”.
Confusing Guidance? “a particular Friday” –and likely mis-readings
Finally, I would like to turn to some guidance notes issued in 2011 by the office of the General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference, Fr Marcus Stock. Though these guidance notes no longer appear on the Bishops' Conference website they were widely quoted at the time. Q11 of those notes, I fear, was almost certain to be misunderstood. In general, the guidance notes are excellent and beautifully conveys the importance of Friday penance and abstinence. Concerning the matter of sin, however, the matter that has been the focus of the comments on this page, the guidance is seems likely to confuse. It cites the above-mentioned 1967 statement of the Sacred Congregation of the Council which indicates that sometimes eating meat on Friday is a venial sin not a mortal sin. The guidance notes then appear, at first reading, to make the unwarranted leap to the conclusion that, “Failure to abstain from meat on a particular Friday then would not constitute a sin” (Q11). However, having met and spoken at length to Fr Stock on this point, and having been shown the sources Fr Stock edited to produce his text, I am confident that his meaning does not substantially differ from what has been outlined in my previous comments above. Fr Stock means two things: First, he intends to refer to the fact that there will be exceptions when someone is not obliged to abstain on a Friday. For example, the law of abstinence does not apply on Solemnities (like Christmas) so it is not a sin to eat meat on “a particular Friday” that is a Solemnity. In addition, to use the classical terminology, those who are “physically and morally” unable to fulfil a law like the law of abstinence are thus not required to keep it –for example, someone who is ill and unable to get any sustenance other than meat. Second, concerning the source of the “gravity” of the obligation: the guidance notes argue that the source of the ‘gravity’ is from the general Divine precept to do penance and the general ecclesial precept to do penance on Friday, rather than from the further specification in the precept that this penance should take the particular form of abstinence from meat. I’m not sure this is a useful distinction to make, or that it is entirely accurate (surely a new specifying precept brings an accompanying new obligation to keep it -even if it is not a ‘greater’ obligation), but nonetheless the meaning of the guidance notes does not contradict the more general point that there is an obligation and that one sins by failing to keep it.
Summary of the Law
To conclude, the following summarises the re-established law as in now stands in England and Wales: “The law of abstinence forbids the eating of meat [i.e. mammals and birds], but eggs, milk products, and condiments [i.e. seasonings] made from animal fat may be eaten. Fish [including shell fish] and all cold blooded animals may be eaten, e.g., frogs, clams, turtles, [snails] etc” (Paenitemini, III.III.1 (1966)). Unlike the pre-1966 legislation, meat-derived products and meat broth may be eaten –though a meat soup with large chunks of meat would seem to move from the category of broth to that of meat. The law of Friday abstinence from meat binds all those who are age 14 and older (Canon 1252) -unlike the law of fasting there is no upper age limit when the law of abstinence ceases to apply. The law of abstinence does not apply when a Solemnity falls on a Friday (canon 1251). "In individual cases, for a just reason", a parish priest can dispense one of his parishioners from the Friday abstinence (canon 1245).
In summary, eating meat on Friday is a sin (excluding Solemnities or serious grounds for exception such as illness), but whether it is a mortal sin or a venial one will depend on many factors, including the quantity of meat, the number of Fridays in question, and the significance of the particular Fridays in question.
Concerning the present legal situation:
“The days of penitence to be observed under obligation throughout the Church are all Fridays and Ash Wednesday, that is to say the first days of "Grande Quaresima" (Great Lent), according to the diversity of the rites. Their substantial observance binds gravely.” (Pope Paul VI, Paenitemini (1966), III.II.1).
A 1967 decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Council interpreted the above cited statement of Pope Paul VI saying that the 'grave' obligation applies to "the whole complexus of penitential days to be observed . . . that is, one sins gravely against the law, who, without an excusable cause, omits a notable part, quantitative or qualitative, of the penitential observance which is prescribed as a whole" (24 February 1967; reprinted in Canon Law Digest, vol. 6, pp. 684-85). This decree is published in full here, with a canonical analysis in Canon Law Abstracts here.
Concerning the analysis in the pre-conciliar manuals:
“This precept binds under pain of grave sin, but a violation of it would not be a mortal sin unless an appreciable quantity of unlawful food were taken. Theologians are not agreed on what quantity is necessary to constitute grave matter, but, in the opinion of some, two ounces would be necessary and sufficient.” (Thomas Slater, A Manual of Moral Theology, Vol. 1, 4th edition (New York: Benzinger Brothers, 1918), p.572.
“This law binds per se under pain of mortal sin because its matter is objectively important; but it admits of parvitas materiae.” (Antony Koch, A Handbook of Moral Theology, Vol. IV, 3rd ed, edited by Arthur Preuss (London: B. Herder, 1928), p.377).
“The laws of fasting and abstinence in themselves obliged gravely. Slight violations of them are only venial sins.” (Heribert Jone, Moral Theology, 15th edition, trans. Urban Adleman (Cork, Ireland: Percier Press, 1956), p.264).
“The obligation to abstain binds under pain of grievous sin but it admits of slight matter –equal to the size of a walnut = about four grammes.” (Dominic Prummer, Handbook of Moral Theology (Cork: Mercier Press, 1956), p.227)
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Neil Aggett’s interrogator had a “morbid interest” in him, the inquest into the late trade unionist’s death heard on Wednesday.
Former minister Barbara Hogan told the Johannesburg high court on Wednesday that security branch policeman Stephan Whitehead had an “unhealthy” interest in Aggett and his then partner, Elizabeth Floyd.
Hogan recalled how Whitehead, who was not part of her interrogation team, would “every now and then come in” to ask her “weird stuff” about Aggett and Floyd, who were detained by the security branch police in November 1981.
“It wasn’t stuff, you know, about what these people were doing politically. It was like: ‘What is the relationship like?’ … The relationship between Liz [Floyd] and Neil. And: ‘Who wears the pants in the relationship?’” Hogan told the court.
“And actually I became very uncomfortable, because I got the impression that Whitehead had a morbid … interest in Liz and Neil.”
Later, under cross-examination, Hogan called Whitehead’s interest in the couple an “obsession”.
“It was like someone who was a voyeur,” she said.
Whitehead has been described as Aggett’s main “tormentor” during his 70 days in detention at what was then John Vorster Square.
Aggett became the first white political detainee to die in detention when he was found hanged in the early hours of February 5 1982 at the notorious police station.
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In 1982, an inquest headed by magistrate Pieter Kotze ruled Aggett’s death a suicide, concluding there was no one to blame for the tragedy. This was despite evidence that Aggett was tortured.
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Aggett and Floyd had been named on what became known as the “close comrades list”, a report compiled by Hogan that contained the names of people she associated with — most of whom were not directly linked to the ANC, which was banned at the time.
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