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Cinderella Word Search Printable – Word search printables are enjoyable for children of all age groups. The word puzzle is simple to make and can be easily printed for no cost. The word puzzle is great for indoor play with children or for rainy days. In a wordsearch puzzle it is possible to discover words from all directions. The letters form sentences that are arranged that are left and right. A printable crossword puzzle, brain teaser or crossword puzzle can be used to test your memory.
Cinderella Word Search Printable
Cinderella Word Search Printable – There are two types of word searches printable. The first type of printable word search is free. It uses an online dictionary that is free. After downloading it, you can print it off your personal computer. The second word search printable type is paid. It is free. To print, it will cost you about two dollars. Download a word-search sample here and save it to your computer. It is possible to share this printable with your kids.
Word-search printables can be made online. These are most popular for Thanksgiving and Halloween. These two are great for any age. The first one contains 10 Thanksgiving-themed words that your children will enjoy, while the second one has Thanksgiving-inspired words. The game can be played with your entire family to get them to know one other. It is also possible to add more remarks to the wordsearch, making it faster or more difficult.
The Valentine’s Day, Christmas and Valentine’s Day printables are the third kind of printable word search. This puzzle helps reinforce the day’s spelling patterns. It is the ideal puzzle for elementary school students and can be used for a school party. This kind of game will keep your kids entertained for a while, regardless of whether they are looking for something to do before the event or to keep them engaged throughout the celebrations. The site What the Teacher Wants has an unlocked holiday-themed word search worksheet which you can download at no cost.
The Christmas-themed wordsearch printable makes a wonderful gift to give during the holiday season. It’s a great way for your kids to get connected with others. Additionally, it helps them develop fine motor skills. A Christmas-themed word search is also a great activity for Sunday School classes as well as classrooms. It can also be used as a family celebration activity. This puzzle will benefit everyone of all ages. | <urn:uuid:68f851b5-2bbd-49a0-b09d-2e3e5c510115> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://richridha.com/cinderella-word-search-printable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941758 | 505 | 1.8125 | 2 |
An Ethical Education – the Visions of Haim Perry and Shay Yasu
Deputy Superintendent in Israel’s police force Shay Yasu shares his experience in the Social Cohesion Leadership Program, which included an inspiring meeting with the educator Haim Perry, who was a formative figure for him in his childhood.
Deputy Superintendent Shay Yasu’s journey to leadership positions in Israel’s police force was long and winding, and included three danger-filled years – including malaria and hunger – in refugee camps in Sudan on his way from Ethiopia to Israel as a child, and then challenging years integrating into Israeli society. Throughout the long difficult journey, one figure stands out – the legendary educator Haim Perry. Yasu and Perry met again as part of a workshop in the Social Cohesion Leadership Program, creating a moving moment for all the participants in the program.
“When Haim entered the library where we met at the workshop, I instantly stood, in his honor,” Yasu relives the moment. “I was a student for one year at Yamin Orde, the boarding school which Haim Perry ran for 27 years. But even one year with him is priceless. Haim Perry sees the person in front of him – not color, nationality or religion – he believed in every one of the kids in the school. The fact that he always saw the good in us enabled us to see ourselves that way, and that made all the difference.”
Yasu’s life after that year in the school began an upward trajectory, and included a BA in criminology, a law degree, a Masters degree in public management and positions in intelligence and investigation in Israel’s police force. Yasu also wrote and published books about his journey to Israel from Ethiopia and about the integration of the members of the Ethiopian community in Israeli society.
2015 was a turbulent year in the relationship between Israel’s police and government and the members of the Ethiopian-Israeli community. Yasu, together with leaders in the police force and community members, founded a program to build trust around the burning issues. This activity led to significant reforms, including hiring and promoting police officers from the Ethiopian-Israeli community, implementing body cameras and more. For this activity, which led to increased trust between the Ethiopian-Israeli community and the police, Yasu was awarded the Israeli President’s prize for excellence in security. Today Yasu serves as the head of the awareness and development department in the Israeli police force, and works with different communities, including Ethiopian-Israelis, ultra-orthodox and Arabs.
Today Yasu is participating in the fifth round of the Social Cohesion Leadership Program. The program was launched in 2019 by The Ted Arison Family Foundation, in partnership with Merchavim and Ruach Tova. Each round of the program includes 20 participants from the private, public and NGO sectors, selected according to their ability to bring real change to their organizations, and to promote social cohesion in Israeli society as a whole. The program includes a series of lectures, meetings and evets in the field.
“The great potential to create change that this program offers is not only in the realm of personal enrichment, but in the cooperation that is formed between participants, which have enormous potential to create positive change far beyond the program,” explains Yasu. “For example, I connected with another participant, Natanel Zelikovit, from the Haredi Institute for Public Affairs, and we are already discussing a cooperation between the police and the ultra-orthodox community and will include field visits by the police to improve communication with this community.”
Even after years of activity in the areas of social cohesion and diversity, Yasu feels that he is learning a lot of new things in the program: “There are a number of lessons that I’m taking with me from the program: the need to always ask yourself if you’re doing enough, the importance of cooperation between different organizations, and the principle that we should not wait for others to do what we can do now.”
But perhaps the most important thing that Yasu takes away from the program is the importance of listening. “Really listening is already 50% of the solution,” says Yasu, and tells about a trip that the program took the participants on in Jaser-A-Zarka. “There’s a large sand border separating Jaser from Caesaria. Only when we heard a resident of Jaser talk about how this makes him feel, did I truly feel his difficulty, and it’s hard to argue with feelings. Only truly listening to opinions of people in different groups in Israeli society will pave the way for social cohesion.”
Ilana Sarig Hughes, the program’s director, concludes: “The program is full of significant, inspiring moments, like the meeting between Shay Yasu and Haim Perry, along with significant learning and deep understanding of the concept of social cohesion. Even though the program’s participants bring with them rich experience in the arena of social cohesion, here they gain a new perspective which enables more effective action. It’s moving to see the reactions to the experiences people undergo in the program, and the partnerships that form there and bring the program’s vision to life long after each cycle is complete.”
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Sexual assault gained attention on the campus when the Education Department identified it in an initial list of 55 institutions facing a federal inquiry for potential Title IX violations over their handling of sexual-violence cases.
The institution has affirmed its commitment to victims of sexual assault and collected resources online.
Minot State University (University) enters into this Resolution Agreement (Agreement) with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), to resolve the above-referenced complaint and to ensure compliance with Title IX of the Edu...
Dear President Shirley: This letter is to inform you that the U.S. Department of Education (Department), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has completed its investigation of the above-referenced complaint filed with OCR against Minot State University ...
This 7-page document bundle includes letters from the Education Department to the university and complainant informing them that an investigation is being opened and requesting data from the university.
This investigation stemmed from a federal complaint filed by a student who said that the university had failed to promptly and equitably respond to reports of sexual violence, including her allegation in April 2013 that she had been harassed and assaulted by a professor.
The Office for Civil Rights found numerous problems with the Minot State's handling of the student's case, including that the university did not determine whether she had been subjected to a hostile environment. The office also faulted the university for failing to take "prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end any harassment, eliminate a hostile environment, and prevent further harassment from recurring."
The government's letter of findings stated that the university was out of compliance with the gender-equity law known as Title IX at the outset of the investigation. "Although the university has since designated and adequately trained a
Title IX Coordinator," the letter stated, "its sexual harassment or sexual assault policies and procedures remain in violation of Title IX."
To resolve the investigation, the university agreed to offer the student at the heart of the case remedies to make up for problems she had faced as a result of its delay in dealing with her complaint.
The university also agreed to revise its Title IX procedures and its code of conduct, to craft a policy for working with the local police department on reports of sexual violence, and to provide the government with documentation of its handling of sexual-assault allegations over the 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 academic years, among other things.
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The ‘Green Scene’ Series on Newstalk is a weekly update on energy and environmental matters with Pat Kenny and MaREI Director Brian Ó Gallachóir.
On November 18, 2020 Prof Ó Gallachóir looked at Eco-tourism – new opportunities post-COVID?
Eco-tourism – new opportunities post-COVID?
- Tourism causes negative environmental impacts such as foul beaches, overcrowding, traffic, aeroplane emissions and other environmental impacts
- Global tourism is estimated to be responsible for 5% of greenhouse gas emissions
- Ecotourism is a rapidly growing movement towards creating a greener and more ethical form of tourism worldwide.
- In addition to the environmental dimensions, ecotourism seeks to support the local economy, culture and communities in the process.
- Fáilte Ireland suggest that the future sustainability of our tourism industry depends on the extent to which we protect the credibility of our clean green image.
- The increasing popularity of greenways, walking holidays and other ecotourism offerings reinforce this.
- The Burren Eco Tourism Network has won a Lonely Planet award in its ‘Best in Travel’ picks for 2021
- The group consists of more than 60 local enterprises committed to sustainable tourism in the Burren limestone landscape and the Cliffs of Moher geopark.
- It is the only Irish tourist project included in the Lonely Planet’s list of more 30 global tourism enterprises.
- The network was listed in the ‘Best in Community’ category.
- Local people who lead trekking tours and home stays in Ethiopia also made the list.
- Lonely Planet says that Burren Eco Tourism Network has “transformed Ireland’s Burren and Cliffs of Moher geopark into a global leader for sustainable tourism“
Biofuels – can we reduce emissions by burning fuels?
- We currently use liquid biofuels (about 260 million litres in 2019) to displace petrol and diesel as part of our strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport – we used 4.4 billion litres of fossil based fuels!
- Most of the biofuels (68%) used in Ireland last year came from biodiesel that was produced from used cooking oil.
- Biodiesel is made from used cooking oil through a chemical process called transesterification which separates the oil into glycerin and methyl esters (biodiesel)
- The biodiesel is blended with diesel and when someone fills up their car, van or truck with diesel, it contains about 6% of biodiesel
- Biodieselaccounts for 80% of biofuels used in 2019 in Ireland, bioethanol for 20%.
- Most bioethanol we used comes from corn (maize), most of which is generated in the EU.
- Maize is milled to release its starch, diluted, cooked with enzymes added to produce glucose, which is then decomposed using fermentation into bioethanol and carbon dioxide.
- The Government introduced a biofuel obligation scheme in 2010 to oblige fuel suppliers to ensure a certain proportion of their fuels were liquid biofuels.
- These biofuel feedstocks absorb CO2while growing and release it when combusted in the car engine – resulting in them being considered net-zero CO2 (i.e. 100% lower than petrol or diesel.
- Using lifecycle analysis (taking into account the emissions used to produce the biofuels, transport the biofuels, etc.) the CO2 emissions were 83%lower than petrol and diesel.
- Biofuels usage in 2019 effectively reduced GHG emissions in transport by approx. 666 thousand tonnes of CO2. For reference, total emissions from transport are 12 million tonnes
- The current target is to increase the obligation to increase the blend of biofuels to 10% for petrol and 12% for diesel by 2030. This would result in about 1 million tonnes reduction.
- These targets meet (at these target levels) blending walls, the amount standard engines can readily use without damage.
- Renewable diesel (or hydro-treated vegetable oil, HVO) is generated using a different chemical process and can be used (up to 100%) in diesel engines without modification
- The first commercial production of HVOglobally was in Ireland’s only oil refinery in Cork Harbour.
- Sweden achieved 30% renewable fuels in transportin 2020, with a significant contribution from HVO.
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Fascinating Facts About Computer Technology And Internet
Adult patrons may elect to have the filter disabled for unrestricted Internet access for any lawful function that meets library guidelines. A new virtual actuality headset designed for mobility will serve as an entry level into a brand new digital world. The $599 Mova headset from XRSpace, based by former HTC chief Peter Chou, will support 5G and be the unique on-ramp to Manova, a social actuality platform that aims to defy the boundaries of area and time to deliver folks collectively.
File sharing is an example of transferring large amounts of knowledge throughout the Internet. A laptop file may be emailed to customers, colleagues and friends as an attachment.
This frees up time for different programs to execute in order that many applications may be run concurrently with out unacceptable velocity loss. RAM could be learn and written to anytime the CPU instructions it, however ROM is preloaded with information and software that never changes, subsequently the CPU can only learn from it. In general, the contents of RAM are erased when the facility to the pc is turned off, however ROM retains its knowledge indefinitely.
Computer software includes pc programs, libraries and related non-executable data, similar to online documentation or digital media. It is commonly divided into system software program and application software Computer hardware and software require each other and neither could be realistically used by itself. When software is saved in hardware that cannot simply be modified, such as with BIOS ROM in an IBM PC compatible computer, it’s sometimes known as “firmware”. Since historical times, simple guide devices like the abacus aided people in doing calculations. Early within the Industrial Revolution, some mechanical units have been constructed to automate lengthy tedious duties, corresponding to guiding patterns for looms.
To prevent or assist with issues, most banks have 24-hour live customer support or e-mail customer service. Online Banking has turn out to be increasingly popular on this tech-savvy era. Most banks now allow transactions to be done on-line via their web site or via phone apps. While some individuals query the safety of making transactions online, the largest benefit is that online banking is very convenient. | <urn:uuid:5f01a25a-d505-4e63-8980-8bd9162d4e88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://2048gamevl.com/computer-and-internet-fraud-8.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938394 | 443 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The Obama administration is developing a “universal Internet ID” program that would watch, track, monitor and potentially control your activity on the Internet. These “trusted identities” are being touted as a way to increase safety and security on the Internet and as a way to eliminate the need for dozens of different usernames and passwords. But is a universal Internet ID that is issued and controlled by the U.S. government really a good idea? Right now, Obama administration officials are trying to make it seem as non-threatening as possible. They are insisting that it will not be mandatory. They are insisting that it would be impossible for hackers to steal the universal Internet identities. They are insisting that none of our personal information will be gathered or used by federal agencies. But in light of how regularly the government has abused our liberties and freedoms in recent years in the name of “security”, should we really believe what they are saying about this new universal Internet ID?
Perhaps to assuage concerns about “Big Brother”, the Obama administration is proposing that the U.S. Commerce Department be the one to oversee these new universal Internet identities.
But how long do you think it would take for the Department of Homeland Security (along with several dozen other government agencies) to get involved in “administering” these “trusted identities”?
The potential for government abuse of such a system is absolutely staggering. As we have seen so many times over the past few years, when you give government bureaucrats an inch, often they end up taking several miles.
The video posted below is an excerpt from a CBS News report about these proposed universal Internet identities….
So what are some of the other potential problems of such a system?
Well, by creating a “master key” to the Internet for each and every individual, if it is lost or stolen you could literally lose everything you have worked so hard for in a single day. Imagine what could happen if a very evil hacker gained instant access to your bank account, your credit cards, your Paypal account, your email, your Facebook account, your Twitter account, your Ebay account, your Amazon account, your blogs, your websites and everything else of importance on the Internet that belongs to you.
Just imagine the damage that could be done.
In addition, it would only be a matter of time before this universal Internet ID becomes “a de facto national ID”.
In fact, it is not hard to imagine that “in the name of security” Americans would soon be required to link the universal Internet ID to biometric information or even link it to a microchip implant of some sort.
Of course this new program is going to “start out as voluntary”, but how many times before has the government introduced “voluntary” programs that later became mandatory?
Once this universal Internet ID is implemented, it is only going to be a matter of time until many different federal agencies and a significant percentage of large corporations begin demanding that people start using it. Eventually it would become extremely difficult to function on the Internet without one. Once that point arrives, it would only be a very small step to make it mandatory for everyone.
Of course right now the Obama administration insists that it is “doing us a favor” by creating a system that would enable us to be able to get rid of the dozens of usernames and passwords that we all use now.
But what all of this really sounds like is the kind of Internet controls that are being imposed in places like China.
The truth is that a universal Internet ID would give the U.S. government more power to license, monitor and police the Internet than they have ever had before.
In fact, some talking heads on the major news networks are already touting this new identification system as a way to “tone down” the “vicious” rhetoric on the Internet.
Of course what that really means is that they want to shut up a lot of the dissenting voices out there because they are not “politically correct” and they don’t agree with the version of the “truth” that the establishment media is constantly pushing.
Hopefully the American people will realize that a universal Internet ID controlled by the government would be another gigantic step in the direction of becoming a Big Brother police state. Unfortunately, the American people have not been doing a great job of standing up for liberty and freedom at this point. There was an initial uproar when the new “naked body scanners” were installed at U.S. airports and when airport officials started feeling up our private areas as part of the new “enhanced pat-downs”, but most Americans seem to have accepted these “new security procedures” at this point.
So now the Obama administration is ready to push even further. They want to put a chokehold on the last great bastion of free speech in America – the Internet.
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Virtual machine storage policies are essential to virtual machine provisioning. The policies control which type of storage is provided for the virtual machine, how the virtual machine is placed within the storage, and which data services are offered for the virtual machine.
vSphere includes default storage policies. However, you can define and assign new policies.
You use the VM Storage Policies interface to create a storage policy. When you define the policy, you specify various storage requirements for applications that run on virtual machines. You can also use storage policies to request specific data services, such as caching or replication, for virtual disks.
You apply the storage policy when you create, clone, or migrate the virtual machine. After you apply the storage policy, the Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) mechanism places the virtual machine in a matching datastore and, in certain storage environments, determines how the virtual machine storage objects are provisioned and allocated within the storage resource to guarantee the required level of service. The SPBM also enables requested data services for the virtual machine. vCenter Server monitors policy compliance and sends an alert if the virtual machine is in breach of the assigned storage policy.
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“Save Trees Save Earth”- a very common phrase that we have been listening to since our childhood. But the need to save them is vital now. Here we are offering a 10 lines essay on Save Trees for Class 3 students.
From providing oxygen for breathing to maintaining ecological balance, from offering food and shelter to fighting pollution- trees do so much for us. Given below is Save The Trees Essay for your reference. You can download these 10 lines on Save Trees essay in PDF format for free here, through the link provided below.
10 Lines Essay on Save Trees for Class 3
- Trees are like the lungs of the earth. They are the assets that keep our mother earth healthy.
- Trees play a significant role in our existence. They consume carbon dioxide and provide us with fresh oxygen to breathe.
- Human beings and herbivores are largely dependent on them as they are the source of food, fruits and vegetables.
- We get medicines, timber, wood, gum, fibre, rubber, latex, and so many other things from trees.
- They offer shadow and shelter not only to humans, but also give habitat to wildlife.
- They try to maintain environmental balance. For instance, when it gets too hot, trees help in bringing rainfall. They fight severe climate changes.
- Trees make the mother earth look beautiful and relaxing. They nourish various life forms in many ways. Planting more trees will also add to the earth’s natural beauty.
- Trees fight water pollution and prevent soil erosion. They prevent pollutants from flowing into water sources.
- The only way we can defend global warming and environmental pollution is by saving and planting trees.
- Taking action towards saving trees is not something we would merely do to save them, but to protect our own lives. Save trees, save lives!
A Short Save Trees Essay for Class 3
Trees are the backbone of our planet Earth. Without trees, we will not be able to breathe or survive on this planet. We should save trees and plant more trees. In our school, we plant a sapling every week. Also, we get an opportunity to water the sapling each month. I have also planted a few saplings at home. Trees play an important role in balancing the environment, ecosystem and preventing global warming. We must plant more trees and avoid polluting or littering our planet. Trees have medicinal benefits and we must not exploit them. We must safeguard our environment by avoiding deforestation. Trees give us shade and shelter to wildlife in the jungles. We must ensure to plant more trees in our neighbourhood and schools.
We hope that the above-mentioned Essay on Save Trees will aid your kid in understanding the importance of saving trees.
With deforestation happening at a pace much higher than earlier, saving trees now needs more action than words. Trees are to the earth what the lungs are to a human body. Trees cleanse the environment and give us fresh air to breathe. However, uncontrolled deforestation has led to rapid global warming and a huge decline in environmental conditions.
You may check out other Essay for Class 3 on various important topics and help your little one in framing good essays.
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Little Rock Residents Organize against Texting and Driving on Halloween
A group from Little Rock is doing its part to protect the area’s motorists this Halloween by presenting a program highlighting the dangers of texting and driving.
THV 11 News reports the group set up a mock crash scene outside of Faith Baptist Church where visitors can see the result of an Arkansas Car Accident caused by distracted driving. The program then takes participants inside to witness the “funeral” of two people killed in the accident. The aim of the program is to make people think about the dangers of texting and driving before they get back behind the wheel.
Several applications for Smartphones are available to help with this. Some work by sending calls and texts to an away message when the phone is traveling more than 10 mph, while others send an automatic text response to incoming calls and messages when the phone’s owner is driving.
The Arkansas Personal Injury Lawyers with Rainwater, Holt & Sexton say that with Halloween approaching, it is important for motorists to be aware and focused on the road as trick-or-treaters mix with traffic. Motorists should do their part to prevent accidents by putting down the phone while driving.
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By TERENCE TOH
WRITING a novel is no easy task, as most authors can tell you. The process is certainly not for the weak of the heart or mind, requiring large amounts of time, energy, persistence, inspiration, dedication, and often, caffeine. Student Ng Zhan Ming, however, has managed the commendable achievement of completing his debut novel at the age of 17.
In Mars 12: Destination Mars, Ng weaves a thrilling tale of 12 teenagers in a race to build a rocket to Mars. “I always believed in the power of young people,” said Ng, 18. “I initially wanted to use trained professionals as the characters of my novel, but I changed my mind because I knew I had more to offer by writing about teenagers.”
The Raffles Institution (Junior College), Singapore student will be taking his GCE A-Levels at the end of this year and is an active member of his school’s astronomy club.
Mars 12: Destination Mars tells the tale of Hendrick Ng, a bright young student selected by eccentric billionaire James Billion to participate in a revolutionary programme aimed at achieving travel to Mars.
Hendrick is taken to Billion’s space mission base in Florida, US where he meets his 11 teammates, including the abrasive Connor Wilson and the sweet-natured Ren Xinlei.
Things, however, become complicated as personalities clash, romance develops, and tempers flare with the presence of a mysterious person out to sabotage the mission.
“Hendrick Ng is the ideal version of me after smoothing out all rough edges,” Ng says. “He is my proxy. Nevertheless, Hendrick is written as an empty shell, allowing every reader to easily fit into the story and perceive the world through his eyes.”
Ng credits scientist Albert Einstein and writer Jules Verne as his sources of inspiration. “Verne was a dreamer too, and he was better at dreaming than Einstein. It was his 1865 novel, From The Earth To The Moon, that inspired me to write my own novel. I learned a lot about writing science fiction through reading his books, and I would say that my novel is partly a tribute to him.”
Ng says it had been about one-and-a-half years since he wrote his book, but the creative process still remains fresh in his memory. “Because it was the school holidays, I would spend up to 10 hours writing every day,” Ng says. “I would write late into the night, sometimes ending work as late as 3am. The first draft was completed in early February last year.”
While the writing process was difficult, Ng says it paled in comparison to editing.
Destination Mars went through about five rounds of editing, with almost half of the first draft altered during the first round alone. And even after that was done, there was still no time to rest! “The shipment of 800 books came in November last year, and I had to start selling the books right away,” he explains.
“As I had no distributor, I became the distributor. I immediately advertised on Facebook and allowed people to contact me by phone and order by mail. I approached my school’s bookshop and managed to convince them to display and sell my books.” Ng says he’s happy with the feedback to his book so far, and sold 400 copies of them before the book had officially hit the shelves.
One of the most unique things about Destination Mars is the vast scientific information contained within its pages. In the chapters describing the construction of the Satan V spacecraft, which the protagonists use to travel to Mars, Ng supplies his readers with a wealth of technical detail, from the spacecraft’s propulsion to the special suits his young astronauts wear on the surface of Mars.
“I have read extensively about astronomy since I was young, so I had some basic knowledge about rocket design before writing. I spent about two hours researching for every five hours writing,” says Ng.
“The research was painstaking. But the hardest aspect was to present hard, raw chunks of information in an interesting and exciting way without compromising the facts. Also, it was difficult to infuse light-hearted elements such as romance and humour, and weightier elements such as science and action into a single plot.”
While the adventures of Hendrick and his friends will continue in Survival, the sequel to Destination Mars, Ng says he will be putting the series on hold, as he doesn’t want his work to be restricted by his studies.
His next project will be a novel called All The Way North, which will be set in the same universe and time frame as the Mars 12 series, and feature a new set of characters.
“I have completed the planning and research for All The Way North, and the draft is now 40 pages and growing,” Ng says. “Currently, all I can reveal is that the story will be about a group of teenagers surviving an alien invasion in the near future without any survival or combat training.”
He adds that the storyline will contain ethical, tactical, military and scientific elements, and would hopefully hit the shelves by 2013. Asked what advice he could give to all other dreamers out there, Ng simply says “dream big!”
“Every success starts with a dream. Nothing gets done without someone actually trying to do it in the first place,” says Ng. “Everything that is humanly possible is not impossible for the dreamer.”
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Russian Government decided to expand the North Caucasus tourism cluster. The resolution № 1195 "On special economic zones in the North Caucasus Federal District", dated 29 December 2011, was published on the site of Russian Government.
In particular, Russian Government decided to create a special economic zone for tourism and recreation in the areas of Dzheyrahsky and Sunzha districts of the Republic of Ingushetia. The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia will sign on behalf of Russian Government an agreement with the Government of the Republic of Ingushetia and with the administrations of Dzheyrahsky and Sunzha districts of Ingushetia.
In addition, at the suggestion of Ministry of Economic Development of Russia is decided to increase the area of previously established under the RF Government Resolution № 833 from October 14, 2010 tourist-recreational special economic zones.
In particular, the special economic zone in the Republic of Dagestan, previously bounded by Hunzah area, will be expanded by Derbent, Karabudakhkent, Kaiakent and Magaramkentsky areas.
SEZ in the Karachai-Cherkess Republic, which was bounded by Zelenchukskaya area, will include Urupskiy area.
SEZ in Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, located on the territory of Cherek, Elbrus and Chegem areas will complement the land of another area - Zolsky.
The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia will sign on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation appropriate supplemental agreements amending the previously concluded agreements on the establishment of tourist-recreational special economic zones with the highest executive authorities of Russian regions and executive and administrative bodies of municipalities.
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Ixtli in Yollotl in Nahuatl (a language spoken by more than two million people descended from Aztec-Toltec culture) manifests the dual conception of the men. The essential component of Ixtli (face) is the Yollotl (heart).
The Nahua education describes man as the owner of a face and heart: it was a preoccupation of the wise (Tlamatinime) to communicate knowledge to faces and firmness to the hearts. The absence of cultivating the heart leads man to wander without purpose, without finding its centre or root. The absence of cultivating the face conducts to stubbornness and crime. The absence of both leads to slavery and negation of one self.
The situation for Mexico’s indigenous cultures is hard. They are a neglected sector of our society. They are not integrated and are widely discriminated and excluded because of the colour of their skin, their language, their culture. Often they don’t even speak Spanish.
From the Tharahumara (Raramuri), the Huichol, (Wixarika) the Nauhas, Zapotec to the Maya, and Lacadon, we see a struggle to hold on to their customs. In Mexico, as we are seeing globally, there is a lack of recognition, acceptance and inclusion for minorities. Here, ironically, the darker the skin, the more they suffer from discrimination. The Afro-descendants are the most discriminated minority, followed by the indigenous groups in general.
There is a need to really see them, to respect these minorities: We need to recognise them with a face and a heart.
A promise to my child
Inside its mother´s womb, the human heart beats for the first time on the 18th day after conception. Every single one.
Explaining to a child what human kind has been capable of, to explain that there have been so many atrocities committed to different groups because of racial, ideological or religious discrimination, that it has been a constant in our history the idea of eradication, convention, seclusion its hard -braking.
But it is a reality of our past and present, and could still be in our future. So in those moments, it’s important to emphasise our responsibility to raise children with an awareness of others, to understand discrimination and to oppose it. To love people for what they are and to respect differences between us. We all have a beating heart.
This promise is from a parent to a child, but it´s a promise to humanity, to raise children not to be indifferent, practice tolerance, accept diversity and reject exclusion. One of the foundations of a healthy society is to feel a part of it.
A laser cut acrylic pendant in the shape of a human heart is the symbol for this promise. It’s intended to work both ways, for the parent to remember to care for the values transmitted in everyday actions. And for the child as a constant reminder to never become a passive bystander, and follow a path of inclusion and respect.
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Changes in home and work environments have put us all at risk for conditions ranging from carpal tunnel to heart disease. Exercise is a recommended solution, but who has the time?
Yahoo! health expert Dr. Richard Besser has an easy exercise program you can do at work:
Find a way to get exercise on the way to work. Park farther from the office or get off public transportation one stop early. The added exercise is beneficial over time. A 150-pound woman can burn up to 100 calories a day with a little extra walking.
The stairwell is not just an emergency exit. Climbing stairs improves muscle condition and circulation. Get off the elevator two flights early. Your new-found energy might replace that second cup of coffee.
Office exercises extend beyond heart health. Dr. Besser also offers measures to prevent damage to your wrists and hands associated with repeated activity and static muscle tension. Proper ergonomics are part of a safe work environment.
Need help getting motivated? Recruit your colleagues for an office-wide exercise program, take a 10-minute walk on your break, or swap one email message a week for in-person contact.
The little bit of exercise you get throughout the day can make a big difference to your health, says Dr. Besser.
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Published in Nature Microbiology, the collaborative study from EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) and Cambridge University, reveals that the dominant species of Lactobacillus bacteria found in kefir grains cannot survive on their own in milk.
However, when the species work together the milk colonises in a sequential manner in which early members open the niche for the followers by making available metabolites such as amino acids and lactate - they each provide something the other needs to be able to thrive.
“Cooperation allows them to do something they couldn’t do alone,” says Kiran Patil, group leader and corresponding author of the paper. “It is particularly fascinating how L. kefiranofaciens, which dominates the kefir community, uses kefir grains to bind together all other microbes that it needs to survive – much like the ruling ring of the Lord of the Rings. One grain to bind them all.”
Kefir is an increasingly popular fermented milk drink sometimes referred to as a 'superfood' thanks to its wide ranging health benefits, including improved digestion and lower blood pressure and blood glucose levels.
To make the product you need kefir grains taken from another batch of kefir. The grains are added to milk to ferment and grow. Approximately 24 to 48 hours later (or, in the case of this research, 90 hours later), the kefir grains consume the nutrients available to them and grow in size and number.
Microbial community model
For scientists, kefir provides an easy-to-culture model microbial community for studying metabolic interactions. And while kefir is quite similar to yogurt in many ways – both are fermented or cultured dairy products full of ‘probiotics’ – kefir’s microbial community is far larger than yogurt’s, including yeast as well as bacterial cultures.
While scientists know that microorganisms often live in communities and depend on their fellow community members for survival, mechanistic knowledge of this phenomenon has been quite limited. Laboratory models historically have been limited to two or three microbial species, so kefir offers – as Patil describes – a ‘Goldilocks zone’ of complexity that is not too small (around 40 species), yet not too unwieldy to study in detail.
The researchers began their work by gathering 15 kefir samples from several places and see how they each grew.
Sonja Blasche, a postdoc in the Patil group and joint first author of the paper, said: “Our first step was to look at how the samples grow. Kefir microbial communities have many member species with individual growth patterns that adapt to their current environment. This means fast- and slow-growing species and some that alter their speed according to nutrient availability.
“This is not unique to the kefir community. However, the kefir community had a lot of lead time for co-evolution to bring it to perfection, as they have stuck together for a long time already.”
In order to find out the extent and the nature of the cooperation between kefir microbes, the researchers combined a variety of state-of-the-art methods such as metabolomics (studying metabolites’ chemical processes), transcriptomics (studying the genome-produced RNA transcripts), and mathematical modelling. This revealed not only key molecular interaction agents like amino acids, but also the contrasting species dynamics between the grains and the milk part of kefir.
“The kefir grain acts as a base camp for the kefir community, from which community members colonise the milk in a complex yet organised and cooperative manner,” Kiran says. “We see this phenomenon in kefir, and then we see it’s not limited to kefir. If you look at the whole world of microbiomes, cooperation is also a key to their structure and function.”
In fact, in another paper from Kiran’s group in collaboration with EMBL’s Bork group, in Nature Ecology and Evolution, scientists combined data from thousands of microbial communities across the globe – from soil to the human gut – to understand similar cooperative relationships. In this second paper, the researchers used advanced metabolic modelling to show that the co-occurring groups of bacteria, groups that are frequently found together in different habitats, are either highly competitive or highly cooperative.
This polarisation hasn’t been observed before and sheds light on evolutionary processes that shape microbial ecosystems. While both competitive and cooperative communities are prevalent, the cooperators seem to be more successful in terms of higher abundance and occupying diverse habitats.
Source: Nature Microbiology
Patil. K. R., et al
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Jenkins calls for convictions in George Floyd case
New Orleans Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins sat at his desk Wednesday, wearing a white long-sleeved T-shirt with a homemade message inscribed in all caps in black marker.
His shirt read, "Charge & convict the murderers of George Floyd!"
Floyd, a black man from Minneapolis, died Monday while a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on the back of his neck for at least seven minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and said he struggled to breathe.
Floyd's arrest and subsequent death was recorded by a cell phone video posted to social media, inciting peaceful demonstrations and protests in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area that later turned violent.
"I wear this on my shirt, because I want this to be clear throughout the whole video that we can't talk about justice until all four of the men who murdered George Floyd are charged and convicted of that murder," Jenkins said in a video posted to social media on Wednesday. "We've had this national dialogue about policing in the black community for years upon years upon years, over and over and over. At this point, I don't know what to do.
"We've marched. We've protested. We've petitioned. We've done op-eds, PSAs. We've tried to change policy. We've literally begged you, 'Stop brutalizing us. Stop taking our lives.' It is to no avail."
Jenkins spoke for more than two minutes regarding the long fight for racial equity, all the while positioned in front of his poster of Fred Hampton -- the former chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party who was killed at age 21 by the FBI and the Chicago police department during a raid on his home in 1969.
Jenkins -- whose current Twitter display picture is of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was shot and killed after being chased by two armed white men on Feb. 23 -- previously has said Hampton is one of the examples he uses when discussing racial inequality.
On Wednesday, Jenkins predicted that civil unrest was sure to come -- and it did. On Thursday, protests turned into riots all over the country.
In Minneapolis, protestors set a precinct station ablaze and set fire to several other buildings in the area. In Denver, demonstrators blocked highways and police shot rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd.
And in Louisville, seven people were shot during a protest after the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman who was shot eight times by the Louisville police department on March 13 while she was reportedly sleeping in her home.
"But who is gonna protect us from those who are in charge of protecting us -- who aren't doing that, who are taking our lives?" Jenkins said. "Who protects us from the police? That is the dilemma that you've placed on the black community, because we see these videos over and over and over again.
"And what we see is ourselves. We see our loved ones. Over and over again, we see our own demise. We see our own murders. We see ourselves dying in the street. Over and over and over again. We are tired of begging you to see our humanity. We are tired of begging you to not kill us and murder us."
All four of the police offers involved in Floyd's death were fired the day after the incident.
As of Friday afternoon, one of those police officers has been brought into police custody and formally charged.
Derek Chauvin, 44, was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter on Friday for his role in Floyd's death. Chauvin is the former officer who was shown on the cell phone video putting his knee on the back of Floyd's neck.
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Here’s the “theory” behind fasting before a workout:
Working out when your blood sugar is low, e.g. first thing in the morning without breakfast, leaves your body with no choice but to burn fat for energy.
This premise sounds good. Good enough to become popular among some bodybuilding, fat-loss, and even personal training communities.
But, it’s COMPLETELY FALSE. In fact, fasting actually works against you. Here’s why:
1. It’s not based on science.
In general, you should always be skeptical when people make claims that sound good, but haven’t been backed by scientific evidence. You don’t believe in those male enhancement commercials, do you? Fasting before working out is no different.
Repeated studies have shown no difference in body composition or lipid utilization (i.e. fat burn) during a workout between fasted or fed states.
Schoenfeld, et al. studied twenty healthy young female volunteers to ascertain whether fasted or fed states made a difference. Conclusion: they found no difference.
Gillen, et al. studied sixteen overweight women to see if fasted or fed states made a difference. Conclusion: “fed- versus fasted-state training does not alter [the] response.” No difference.
2. You actually burn more calories throughout the day (i.e. Afterburn Effect) if you’ve eaten before.
Paoli, et al. performed an experiment with eight men to see what effects being fed or fasted had on lipid utilization 12-24 hours after a workout. They found that the FED group experienced higher VO2 (oxygen utilization) both during the workout and 12-24 hours later, which implies greater excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC). In other words, you burn more calories even after the workout ends by eating beforehand.
They concluded that when exercise is done to lose body fat, fasting before exercise does not enhance lipid utilization. On the contrary, it’s actually better to eat before working out.
3. You’ll “hit the wall” very quickly during any moderate to high intensity workout.
Normally, your muscles store enough ATP and glycogen to do about 1-2 minutes of continuous moderate-to-high intensity exercise.
Afterward, your body relies on glycogen reserves in your liver, blood stream, and digesting food to quickly feed your voracious muscles.
When you have low blood sugar or no food being digested, you “hit the wall” pretty quickly during any moderate, HIIT, or other high intensity workout, because your body literally runs out of readily-available energy. This means less calories burned, less cardio, less musculoskeletal training.
4. You risk breaking down muscle protein for energy.
When training in a glycogen-depleted state, studies (here and here) have shown that one may actually break down muscle protein for energy during exercise. Yes, fat may be broken down too. But, why risk burning your own muscle for energy at all?
So, What Should You Do?
Simple! Before working out, have something healthy to eat. It can be as easy as a whole fruit and a protein shake. A protein bar with coconut water. Dried fruits and nuts.
Just don’t fast, please!
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So what can we carry out for a significantly better life? Works out good connections are the antidote to life’s challenges and pressures. Inside longest educational study on man joy, Harvard learned that good interactions will be the secret to delight and wellness. The research, which started in the 1930s, has generated that close associations are an important component in a happy existence. This breakthrough research emphasized relationships since the buffer against mental and actual conditions.
Good relationships appear over the top: Harvard’s research on adult development
Harvard learn of Adult developing were only available in 1938, and it has become the longest study of pleasure. Starting as a study on xxx development, the researchers understood which they had accessibility an unprecedented pair of information. Analyzing detailed real and mental signals offered distinctive insight into a difficult aspect to ascertain â happiness. The accessibility this expansive information shared several important secrets about healthy relationships.
The research job started as a longitudinal research of mature Development centered on psycho-social predictors of health and the aging process. It has now been running near 80 decades. The trial number of over 700 males originated from two completely different groups. One from Harvard and also the additional from bad, inner-city Boston, covering an easy socio-economic range and many backgrounds. It’s become perhaps one of the most inclusive scientific studies on adult life previously performed. The study has widened to incorporate spouses as well as the next generation regarding the original test class.
The scientists taped their particular lifestyle and experiences, together with their bodily health. Every 2 yrs they carried out surveys on subject areas instance relationship, job pleasure and social activities. And each five years healthcare testing was actually undertaken, such as chest area X-rays, bloodstream and urine tests, MRIs and cardiograms. The outcome happen startling.
The current and fourth manager associated with learn, Robert Waldinger, clarifies, „The unexpected choosing would be that the connections and exactly how delighted we have been within connections provides an effective influence on the health”. Waldinger states it wasn’t their own levels of cholesterol which forecasted how they were planning to grow old, but rather just how content these were inside their relationships. „the individuals who were the majority of satisfied in their relationships at get older 50 had been the best at age 801”, he confirms.
A beneficial union is the best tonic
These results validated that those who were in great connections existed longer and were more happy, claims Waldinger1. The analysis emphasized now and time once again. Those in more content marriages experienced less actual discomfort, the men with assistance systems had less emotional destruction as they aged and those that had been alone and social loners often passed away earlier. The conclusions provide the attention exactly how essential connections tend to be, and not any interactions, but healthy relationships.
Great connections are so powerful that they secure our very own systems, actually up against the ravages of the aging process and pain. Really love that helps to keep all of us delighted and healthy, it will be the center that helps to keep us youthful and strong. Accordingly, developing strong relationships should be a lifelong quest and satisfaction.
Waldinger, the current director associated with the project, sums within the three most significant existence instructions obtained learned from the research of great interactions and an effective life2.
Within the decades and through changing personal, financial and governmental surroundings, healthy interactions and near contacts with others, have already been clinically been shown to be one particular important and cherished advantage we are able to build up through our very own lifetime. Waldinger summarizes their particular greatest session merely, „good relationships hold united states happier and much healthier. Period2.”
Watch him go over it more in his TED TALK:
How to make good connections?
So since we know secure relationships associate with a more happy and healthiest existence, it could make you thinking developing good interactions. There’s absolutely no single answer to that issue; fairly truly a manner of drawing near to the interactions inside your life, made up of numerous little acts of love and gratitude. Listed below are some functional tips to bolster the relationships and create solid and enduring interactions inside your life.
Mineo, L. (2017). Good genetics are wonderful, but delight is much better. Harvard Gazette. Found at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/
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Depending on your subject you might find that your Faculty/Departmental Library or the University Library or Online resources have the resources you are looking for yet as a member of Christ's College you have exclusive access to material that might be unavailable or in high demand in other libraries. This is where Christ's library becomes an importance source and study space for your studies. We aim to provide all books needed on all subjects for Part I papers and as many as possible for Part II papers, with some material for Part III and postgraduate studies also available. You will also have the Christ's Library staff to help along the way with any library enquiries.
In the beginning of every academic year we have general induction tours . We also have information on our website. Relevant information is also sent to student via email every term.
You can also find Library Induction information all year around on our library website.
We also offer a virtual induction of iDiscover with visual guides and practice exercises on our iDiscover webpage. If you need further assistance in understanding iDiscover, our library online catalogue, please don't hesitate to speak to a member of staff.
You can contact us or book an appointment any time of the year , to speak to a member of staff. We can answer your enquiries or direct you to the right resource. Our office is located on the first floor, Monday to Friday 9-5.
Christ's members are allowed to borrow up to 15 items at a time from Christ’s for 2 weeks; instructions on how to borrow items can be found on our website or you can email or come in person to the library and library staff can help you.
You can visit our webpage that has a video of our library space.
We have additional information for those that need further assistance or disability students on more detailed space descriptions of the library.
We have a number of different spaces in the Library for all our user needs. The library is open 24/7 with available self issue machines on the first floor.
Reading Room: Our reading room on the first floor that has 60 available study spaces for our users
Group Study Room: Located on the Mezzanine, top floor, this room can be booked for group study.
Library Corridor: On the Ground Floor we have an area with comfortable armchairs and coffee tables for eating, socializing or casual studying.
There are eight computers, two printers, and a photocopier/scanner in the Library. For more information on Computers and Printing.
We try our best to be as inclusive as possible to all our users. Please visit our dedicated page on Disability/ Assistive Resources for information on our accessibility and disability resources in Christ's and Cambridge Libraries.
Unfortunately you may not study in the Old Library. Our Working Library (21st century material) with a Reading Room on the first floor is the main study area.
You can visit the Old Library and bring family/friends by arranging an appointment by contacting library staff. From there we can set a date and time for your viewing. Alternatively we hold exhibitions in the Old Library throughout the year. | <urn:uuid:7d466c9e-0e77-4774-a6cb-6147ee2849a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/newstudentfaq | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945528 | 1,738 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Foundations of Cloud Computing
Why Learn Foundations of Cloud Computing?
This beginner course covers the foundations of cloud computing in a platform-agnostic way. What is a cloud? What are the types of cloud services? Who owns the cloud? Which cloud provider, service, or deployment model is right for you?
This course will teach you what cloud computing is, why it’s useful, and careers that exist in the field. You’ll learn to identify the advantages of different deployment models and types of cloud services like SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. Plus learn the benefits and drawbacks of each of the major cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Learn the foundations of cloud computing across platforms like AWS, Cloud, Azure, and GCP.
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Long-Term Investments Needed To Survive Ebola, Other Outbreaks
Nature Medicine: Ebola: a call to action
“The size, speed, and potential reach of the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa presents a wake-up call to the research and pharmaceutical communities — and to federal governments — of the continuing need to invest resources in the study and cure of emerging infectious diseases. … Encouragingly, on 21 August the Wellcome Trust announced two initiatives: rapid funding for research proposals targeting the current and future Ebola outbreaks and a five-year £40 million commitment to fund research focusing on health challenges facing Africa, including emerging and endemic infections. The latter initiative, which takes a more long-term view, is a step in the right direction. The ability to survive the next outbreak requires continued investment by all nations in detection, prevention, containment, treatment, and education. Anything less would be unethical” (9/4).
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Langlade County Annual Fish and Wildlife Public Meeting held April 10
For the Antigo Times
Wisconsin residents will be able to nominate and elect local representatives to the Wisconsin Conservation Congress and express support or non-support for a range of advisory questions on conservation and natural resources management issues at the Congress’ spring meetings in every county of the state on Monday, April 10 at 7 PM.
The county meeting is held jointly with the Department of Natural Resources Spring Hearings. For those unfamiliar with the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, it is a statutorily established advisory group to the state Natural Resources Board (NRB) on all natural resource issues.
“In Langlade County, the joint DNR and Conservation Congress annual county meeting will be held at the Antigo High School, in Antigo,” said Ronn Krueger, Sr., chair of the Langlade County delegation.
At the meetings, citizens will have the opportunity to comment and register their support or non-support for congress proposals that could someday become the rules that regulate fishing, hunting, trapping, and other outdoor recreation activities in Wisconsin. They may also submit resolutions addressing conservation needs and concerns they observe.
“Citizens have the opportunity to weigh in on natural resources issues that may affect them. The Congress asks these questions to gauge the public’s support, or lack thereof, on any given issue,” said Ronn.
Results of the public’s input on these proposals will be presented to the Natural Resource Board in May of 2017. If there is support for a proposal, the advisory question could become a DNR rule change proposal in the following years.
This year the Conservation Congress will seek public input on 49 advisory questions on a range of topics, some of which include:
- a proposal to establish the wild turkey as Wisconsin’s state game bird;
- a proposal to provide training on lead reclamation for shooting ranges;
- a proposal to add a surcharge on otter applications to fund aquatic furbearer research
- a proposal to increase inland trout stamp fees;
- a proposal to establish a new bear hunting zone south of Hwy 10;
- Use of lights to scan after dark for predatory calling;
- On-line voter accessibility.
“Conservation Congress advisory questions generally originate from citizens’ ideas,” said Larry Bonde, Chairman of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. “If resolutions presented at the county level meetings are supported, the resolution is advanced to one of the Congress’ advisory committees and the District Leadership Council for consideration.
“Each year, there are over 200 resolutions submitted locally. Not all pass, but the ones that do have the potential to become a rule, policy or legislative change in the subsequent years,” Bonde said. “It is a true grassroots process that empowers the citizens of this state to shape natural resources policy.”
Anyone submitting resolutions must submit two copies of their resolution typed or neatly printed on 8-1/2 by 11 inch white paper. Resolution writing instructions and a template for writing a resolution are available online at http://dnr.wi.gov/About/WCC/springhearing.html
In addition to the Congress advisory questions, the county meeting is also reserved for the election of delegates to the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. To vote for Congress delegates, one must be 18 years old and provide identification along with proof of residency in the county.
“There will be two seats up for election in Langlade County in 2017,” stated Ronn. “Any citizen of the county, who is a Wisconsin resident and is at least 18 years of age, may be nominated to the Congress for a two or three year term. Nominees must be willing to volunteer their time and represent their local citizens on natural resource issues.”
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PEPFAR's annual planning process is done either at the country (COP) or regional level (ROP).
PEPFAR's programs are implemented through implementing partners who apply for funding based on PEPFAR's published Requests for Applications.
Since 2010, PEPFAR COPs have grouped implementing partners according to an organizational type. We have retroactively applied these classifications to earlier years in the database as well.
Also called "Strategic Areas", these are general areas of HIV programming. Each program area has several corresponding budget codes.
Specific areas of HIV programming. Budget Codes are the lowest level of spending data available.
Expenditure Program Areas track general areas of PEPFAR expenditure.
Expenditure Sub-Program Areas track more specific PEPFAR expenditures.
Object classes provide highly specific ways that implementing partners are spending PEPFAR funds on programming.
Cross-cutting attributions are areas of PEPFAR programming that contribute across several program areas. They contain limited indicative information related to aspects such as human resources, health infrastructure, or key populations programming. However, they represent only a small proportion of the total funds that PEPFAR allocates through the COP process. Additionally, they have changed significantly over the years. As such, analysis and interpretation of these data should be approached carefully. Learn more
Beneficiary Expenditure data identify how PEPFAR programming is targeted at reaching different populations.
Sub-Beneficiary Expenditure data highlight more specific populations targeted for HIV prevention and treatment interventions.
PEPFAR sets targets using the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) System - documentation for which can be found on PEPFAR's website at https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. As with most data on this website, the targets here have been extracted from the COP documents. Targets are for the fiscal year following each COP year, such that selecting 2016 will access targets for FY2017. This feature is currently experimental and should be used for exploratory purposes only at present.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY FLAG:
This FHI Track I Faith-Based Regional Initiative for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (FABRIC) activity is linked to the FHI OVC Mission-funded PEPFAR activity (#7984) that will use capacity building tools such as the Organizational Performance Capacity Assessment Tool (OPCAT) to improve NGO capacity for managing OVC programs.
FHI will continue to support the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) and its sub-recipients (SRs) in OVC program design, implementation and direct OVC service provision through ongoing training, mentoring and support. FHI will continue to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system through quality assurance and improvement procedures and regular data verification checks. The emphasis areas for this program are local organization capacity building, community mobilization/participation, development of networks and linkages, quality assurance/improvement and training. The primary target populations are OVC and caregivers.
FHI together with SACBC began implementing the Track 1 FABRIC program across 11 sites in South Africa in February 2006. In FY 2007, the SRs will reach OVC and their families with psychosocial support, educational support, nutritional support, economic support, health care, palliative care, legal support, pediatric treatment referrals and child protection services. The program will encourage home and community-based care referrals and will integrate age-appropriate HIV prevention messages in its key activities. The major components of this program are: 1) capacity building in OVC program design and implementation; 2) collaboration and coordination with government and other services/programs for the provision of quality care and support to OVC; 3) effective M&E; and 4) gender mainstreaming. These activities are directly aligned to the South Africa Department of Social Development (DoSD) strategic priorities for OVC in its national plan of action for OVC for 2006 to 2008. Strategy one seeks to strengthen the capacity of families to provide essential care and support for OVC. Strategy two seeks to mobilize communities to care for OVC. The remaining DSD strategies focus on creating an enabling environment in terms of policy, legislation, advocacy and coordination. FABRIC will ensure that each OVC gets at least 3 services, per the South Africa PEPFAR guidance.
ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:
ACTIVITY 1 (CAPACITY BUILDING)
FHI will provide further technical assistance to SACBC to strengthen their organizational capacity to support SRs using tools such as OPCAT. Both FHI and SACBC will continue to provide assistance in project and financial management and OVC technical areas to SRs to improve the quality of their OVC programs. This support will include training and ongoing supervision and mentoring. FHI will ensure that SACBC together with each SR have clear sustainability plans and will provide training and links to other providers for the establishment of creative income-generating activities (IGAs) to support OVC and their families. FHI will develop wrap-arounds with other partners for food and nutrition assistance to ensure more sustainable food and nutrition support. Public-private partnerships will be encouraged at the local level, for example soliciting support from local businesses such as bakeries.
ACTIVITY 2 (COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION)
In line with the DoSD policy framework for OVC, FHI and SACBC will jointly boost networks developed with government and with other USG partners. FHI and SACBC will work closely with DoSD through forums such as the National Action Committee for Children Affected by AIDS (NACCA) and the provincial and district committees to strengthen networks and linkages to improve care and support for OVC and also to link caregivers to other government programs. FHI will ensure that strong referral systems are in place at local level for the provision of essential services such as health care, educational support, food security and nutrition and legal assistance. FHI will continue to
support community mobilization and coordination. SRs will be encouraged to liaise with community leaders and community members to target the most vulnerable, identify local resources and develop linkages with other services. In FY 2007, FHI will emphasize pediatric treatment. SRs will be supported in conducting mapping exercises to identify the nearest treatment sites for pediatric referrals. SRs will be trained in basic pediatric HIV testing, treatment and care in order to provide essential information and support for pediatric treatment to OVC and their families. All referrals will be tracked closely to ensure the referral service has been provided and the feedback form has been completed and returned to the SR by the referral site. Age-appropriate prevention messages and life skills programs will be integrated into the after-school care program.
ACTIVITY 3 (MONITORING AND EVALUATION)
FHI will strengthen technical skills around M&E for SACBC and the SRs through ongoing training and mentoring. FHI will compile, integrate and analyze existing and new data and will participate in the documenting of the OVC model of care to be conducted by USG. FHI will participate and provide ongoing comments in the development of the national DoSD M&E system and will ensure that the indicators required for the national database are included and collected by the SRs. FHI and SACBC will implement information verification procedures as part of regular site visits and will ensure that the M&E forms are translated into local languages in low-literacy areas.
ACTIVITY 4 (MAINSTREAMING GENDER)
In FY 2007 gender will form an integral part of the FABRIC program's activities. FHI will ensure that girls and boys are receiving equitable support and access to essential OVC services, especially education. Partners will work with male groups in their dioceses to mobilize the involvement of men as caregivers. Female child-headed households will receive special attention to ensure that the burden of care on them is decreased and that they continue to access education and to receive adequate mentoring and support. Communities will be mobilized to enforce OVC protection from exploitation and abuse and to mitigate against stigma and discrimination. Advocacy initiatives will also be conducted at the congregational level to ensure that the church is supportive and promotes the same messages to address gender inequities. FHI will link gender to sustainability efforts by improving access to training and resources for female primary and secondary caregivers. FHI will set-up a tracking system to ensure that equitable access to care and support is enhanced and that activities addressing gender inequities and child protection are recorded and reported.
Improve reach (# of OVC) and coverage (# of geographic regions) in 14 sites across 8 provinces; Strengthen the capacity of SACBC and its SRs to effectively coordinate and sustain programs at the local level; Enhance skills and knowledge of caregivers through training in OVC technical areas; Improve the FABRIC M&E system and align with the DSD national system and indicators through quality assessment and improvement; Equitable access to care and support and resources for male and female OVC; Increase in the number of male caregivers trained and mentored to care for OVC; Establish linkages to income generation service providers and training opportunities for SRs and families caring for OVC; and Increased awareness and community mobilization against gender-based violence and child abuse.
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Enzymes are biocatalysts and are made up of amino acid or they are proteins. All enzymes are protein but all proteins are not enzymes. Enzymes can be differentiated between one another and they can be used as diagnostic tool to detect some diseases in human. Enzyme concentration varies in diseased condition therefore variation in enzyme concentration can be used as tool in detecting disease or disorders related to the particular part of the human body.
Enzyme concentration can be detected at plasma level, serum level or cellular level. Enzyme concentration depends on factors like enzyme formation, release into circulation and also enzyme clearance and cellular leakage of enzymes. Variation in enzyme concentration from the normal indicates disease or disorder in human.
Lactate Dehydrogenase and Disease:
1. Lactate dehydrogenase converts puyruate to lactate in a reversible manner. This enzyme exists in 5 forms such as LDH-1, LDH-2, LDH-3, LDH-4 and LDH-5. In other words lactate dehydrogenase is an isoenzyme and its normal concentration in body is 60-250 IU/L.
2. Lactate dehydrogenase is an important biological marker.
3. Disease of liver, heart, muscle and some form of cancer can be detected using Lactate dehydrogenase.
4. Lactate dehydrogenase concentration increases within 12hrs after myocardial infarction, therefore this can be used as indicator of myocardial infarction.
5. Lactate dehydrogenase concentration also increases during leukemia, renal cell necrosis, hepatic necrosis, carcinomas, muscular dystrophy and many more conditions.
Creatinine Phosphokinase and Disease:
1. Creatinine phosphokinase enzyme converts creatinine into phosphocreatinine using energy rich molecule such as ATP. This also exists in three different forms such as CPK-1, CPK-2, CPK-3. Normal concentration of creatinine phosphokinase is 4-60 IU/L.
2. CPK-1 concentration increases in brain injury may be occurred due to trauma, stoke or bleeding in the brain.
3. CPK-1 concentration also increases during lung injury in human.
4. CPK-2 level increases after myocardial stroke or heart attack, and also during viral infection of the heart muscle cells.
5. CPK-3 concentration increases in skeletal muscle injuries, muscular dystrophy and also after strenuous exercise.
Alkaline Phosphatase and Disease:
1. Alkaline phosphatase catalyses the reaction of phosphoric acid from monophosphate esters. It is also isoenzymes and occurs in six different forms.
2. Alkaline phosphatase level increases during liver damage due to hepatocarcinoma, liver cirrhosis, and much more.
3. Alkaline phosphatase level increases during ostioblastic activity in children.
4. Alkaline phosphatase level increases during hyperparathyroidism.
5. Alkaline phosphatase level increases during rickets, ostiomalacia.
6. Alkaline phosphatase level decreases during anemia.
7. Alkaline phosphatase level decreases during scurvy.
8. Alkaline phosphatase level decreases during defective calcification
Acid Phosphatase and Disease:
1. Acid phosphatase enzyme catalyses formation of phosphoric acid from monophosphate ester. Occur in two forms such as prostatic ACP and non-prostatic ACP.
2. Acid phosphatase enzyme used as biological marker of prostate cancer.
3. Acid phosphatase enzyme level are increased during conditions such as breast cancer, hyperparathyroidism, leukemia.
Serum Glutamate Oxaloacetate Transferase and Disease:
1. Serum glutamate oxaloacetate trasferase enzyme act as marker of myocardial infraction and also other forms of heart diseases.
2. Serum glutamate oxaloacetate trasferase enzyme level also increases during kidney damage, liver damage, skeletal muscle damage.
Enzymes not only help in biological reactions of the body but also can be used as markers in detecting disease or any other abnormal conditions in the body of a human.
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Kool G Rap (or simply G Rap) is one of the most influential rappers in America’s history with MTV even reverencing him as “the godfather of hip-hop”.
He was 15 years old when he decided not to walk in his peers footsteps of drug-dealing and focused on music. His search for a DJ to collaborate with led him to DJ Polo and after recorded the song, It’s a Demo overnight, they joined the Juice Crew, releasing a debut album in 1989 titled Road to Riches.
Best Known For
His legacy as an inspiration for many rappers today is due to his well-known rap style of multisyllabic rhyme, Mafioso content and gruff vocals. He has released 5 solo studio albums with the most recent in 2017 titled Return of the Don.
Kool G Rap is straight. He famously dated Karrine Steffans for 4 years until their 1999 split and even have a child together. He also once dated Satina Pearce but has been married to Ma Barker for a long time now.
His family background has been kept hidden from public knowledge. His birth name however, is Nathaniel Thomas Wilson. He became a father for the first time to a son he named Naim Wilson (born 1998).
Kool G Rap’s religious beliefs and practices are unknown at the moment as this is also a private issue for the rapper.
Worth To Know
According to him, the “G” in his name stands for “Genius”.
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Physics, climate change and sustainability
Physics and physicists are playing a vital role in helping meet the challenge of climate change.
Combating climate change and building a thriving, environmentally sustainable economy presents us with enormous challenges, as well as opportunities. The COP26 Conference in Glasgow emphasised the urgency of this task and the scale of the difficulties we face. To cut carbon emissions and other damaging pollution we need new technologies which can cut emissions and bring new sources of energy into affordable use.
Physicists have a crucial role to play in this work and are responsible for innovations ranging from low-energy computing to breakthroughs in solar and wind power and the battery technology which is needed to store energy drawn from new sources. The IOP and its allied physical societies across the world are committed to supporting physicists in this work, and in ensuring they have the investment, networks and working environment they need to succeed in this vital endeavour.
- See our detailed statement on climate change (PDF, 140KB)
- Listen to our series of podcasts about the role of physics in powering a new green economy
The IOP and its greenhouse gas emissions
We recognise we have a role to play in cutting harmful emissions. We have started work on measuring our carbon footprint with a view to reducing it. Our new London headquarters at 37 Caledonian Road has been designed to minimise its environmental impact, with solar panels on the roof to generate electricity, rain-water recycling and innovative heat pumps which draw energy from underground for heating. Additional electricity we use at the building is also drawn entirely from sustainable sources.
The IOP’s investment policy
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The path of nonconformity is alluring to those who don’t seek to follow the herd known as a society. Instead, they want to make unique individual choices in life, disregarding other people’s opinions and defying society’s norms. And in doing so, they follow their inner compass, their own definitions of right and wrong, and ideas of what’s desirable and undesirable. However, such a way of life could evoke resistance from one’s surroundings and lead one to become a social outcast or get in trouble with the law.
For those reasons, many people prefer to walk in line, exchanging their individuality and independence for the comfortable benefits of conventionality. Throughout history, several influential philosophers have dealt with the idea of nonconformity, often with unique viewpoints. One of the most well-known pleas in favor of nonconformity is the essay “Self-Reliance” by transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Another interesting case for those not fitting the norm is Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger. And Nietzsche’s concept of the ‘overman’ (or Übermensch) could be considered a call to arms for breaking free from the flock and forging one’s individual path.
Being the odd one out
An interesting example of someone who refuses to conform to society’s standards is the main character of Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger (L’Étranger). The story takes place in French Algiers and tells about a man named Meursault: a true loner. Even though he fancies pretty standard things like swimming, eating, and physical intimacy, Meursault seems pretty detached. When his mother dies, he doesn’t seem to care too much about it. And the next day, he watches a comedic movie with his date: former co-worker Marie. When Marie asks him to marry him after a couple of meetings, he indifferently agrees.
The immoral and cruel Raymond, an associate of Meursault and the neighborhood’s pimp, abuses his mistress: an Arab girl. When Meursault and Raymond walk on the beach, they encounter the girl’s brother, accompanied by another Arab man. As retribution for what he’s done to his sister, the brother stabs Raymond in his arm and face. After his wounds are treated, Raymond returns to the beach with a gun. Meursault then takes the gun from Raymond and sends him home.
Meursault continues his walk on the beach alone and encounters the Arabs. When the brother flashes a knife at him, Meursault shoots him five times. In the book, written in a first-person narrative, Meursault doesn’t mention a motive for his deed, except that the heat and bright sunlight bothered him.
Meursault shows no remorse over his crime and refuses to renounce his atheism and embrace God, which evokes the disgust of the people around him. Also, when it turns out that he didn’t weep at his mother’s funeral and went to see a comedic movie the next day, people conclude he’s a cruel, coldhearted murderer. Even though he killed someone, he wasn’t as horrendous as people believed him to be, as they misunderstood his indifferent nature as a symptom of evil. At the end of the story, Meursault accepts that the universe is meaningless just before his execution, granting him a sense of freedom and inner peace.
The loner Meursault was the odd one out, defying social norms, and being unapologetically himself. He didn’t seem to follow conventional ideas of good and evil and mainly followed his impulses and feelings. He was isolated from society and human emotion. He was a non-conformist, although not necessarily by choice. He was different but didn’t feel the need to fit in. Until his death, he remained true to himself. By embracing the meaninglessness of existence, and creating purpose out of his execution (namely to enjoy it) Meursault dies heroically.
The point of the book The Stranger was not to justify murder but to show how people can condemn someone who refuses to play the game. Disapproval from the masses is often experienced by those who follow their own paths. Such disapproval can lead to ridicule, ostracism, accusation, and thus even trouble with the authorities: not just because one breaks the law, but because people tend to misinterpret those who aren’t quite like them. But is social disapproval a reason to conform? Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson doesn’t think so.
Trusting one’s voice
The core idea of Emerson’s essay called Self-Reliance is that, above everything else, we should trust our inner voice. Emerson argues we’re all equipped with an inborn intuition that tells us what to do and that it’s not necessary to seek guidance from other people. We just have to look at babies, young children, and even animals to see that they’re driven by a natural inclination telling them what’s wrong and right for them individually.
Emerson saw the inner voice as a divine spark or “over-soul:” the God that resides within us. In his view, self-reliance means that we follow our inner voices and place them above the voices of others. After all, a person has unique experiences that apply to that person alone, and no one else knows what it’s like to be in that person’s shoes, as the divine plan is customized to each individual. I quote:
And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
According to Emerson, there’s no point in imitating: everyone has been appointed to their unique plot of ground. What set apart great people like Plato and Moses is not that they followed the masses but that they followed themselves. So, to be self-reliant, one must be a non-conformist; one has to go against normalcy if one’s inclined to do so.
However, Emerson was aware of the downsides of being a non-conformist. Going against the grain can lead to resistance, misunderstanding, and estrangement from one’s surroundings, which also happened to Camus’ character Meursault. “To be great is to be misunderstood,” Emerson stated. We shouldn’t let this resistance stop us from going our own ways because if we nonetheless choose to conform out of convenience, we betray our inner compass and, thus, ourselves. Meursault refused to betray himself when the chaplain demanded of him to embrace the Christian God. The latter would possibly have made things easier for him, but then he wouldn’t have been faithful to himself.
Although Emerson was a pantheist (and thus believed that God is all around us and within us), he urged us to connect with God without a mediator, like, for example, the chaplain from Camus’ story or the church in general. So, even though Meursault wasn’t religious, we could say that, ironically, his divine spark urged him to stay true to himself and reject an institutionalized form of religion.
Emerson observed that most people exchange their individuality for conformism. Society decides what we think and do, what professions we have, and if we follow as obedient sheep, we’ll enjoy the benefits of the herd. We easily fall for badges, ranks, and status, which are all pretty meaningless outside of the societies and institutions that create them. Hence, Emerson sees society as a joint-stock company.
..in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
So, to be non-conformists, we must be willing to go against social norms if our nature inclines us to do so, which is a pretty radical thing to do. It means that no law, whether religious or enforced by the government, is more sacred than the law of one’s own nature.
However, Emerson urges us to be self-reliant and part of society simultaneously, as it’s easy to conform among the crowd but also easy not to when living in solitude. A great man, according to him, is someone who, in a crowd, “keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude,” which doesn’t mean that he exhibits his “specialness” but manages to live independently without becoming a hermit.
Forging the individual path
Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept called the ‘overman’ (or ‘Übermench’ in German) represented an ultimate goal for humanity. The overman is free from societal and religious morals and ideas and creates his own values and goals. So, there seems to be an overlap between Emerson’s self-reliant person and Nietzsche’s ideal human. However, where Emerson believed that meaning comes from the God within, Nietzsche rejects God and makes “meaning” a purely human affair.
In Nietzsche’s book ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’, the idea of the overman unfolds through the story of a sage named Zarathustra who spreads his wisdom among the people open to it. Zarathustra proclaims that humans are a rope over an abyss between beast and the overman. Our purpose is to overcome the distance between beast and overman: a dangerous crossing that transcends the mediocrity and conformity in which the masses dwell.
I teach you the overman. Human being is something that must be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All creatures so far created something beyond themselves; and you want to be the ebb of this great flood and would even rather go back to animals than overcome humans? What is the ape to a human? A laughing stock or a painful embarrassment. And that is precisely what the human shall be to the overman: a laughing stock or a painful embarrassment.Friedrich Nietzsche (as Zarathustra), Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zarathustra’s Prologue, par. 3
Nietzsche wasn’t fond of religion (namely Christianity), nationalism, and any other form of gang-mentality in which people share a set of values that are not their own. Like domesticated sheep, they enjoy the lower pleasures that society offers them and embrace safety and security rather than the risky road of becoming the overman, someone who has gone beyond ‘human,’ over the abyss, towards the end of the rope.
But one may ask: “why should I engage in such a challenging undertaking?” The reason is the escape from nihilism. With his famous statement “God is dead,” Nietzsche pointed to the downfall of God as a universally accepted authority when it comes to morals and ‘truth.’ So, to prevent ourselves from falling into nihilism or substitutes like nationalism and hateful ideologies as a consequence of a lack of meaning and ultimate concern, we have to reinforce our individual values and purpose. But this requires breaking free from the herd, which out of ignorance tries to pull us back into the world of comfort, security, shared ideologies, archaic morals, and, especially today, rampant consumerism keeping us weak and docile.
So, drawing from the views of Nietzsche and Emerson, we can say that we create the loner’s path ourselves. It’s not a road paved by others, nor the road less traveled; it’s unique to us, designed by us, and goes through a landscape exclusively ours to explore. A unique path needs a specific compass. And to buttress ourselves against nihilism, we need to create strong values and purpose. But, as we see in The Stranger by Camus, if we choose to stray from the conventional route, we become the odd one out and invite social disapproval. Hence, to purchase non-conformism, we need strength and willingness to be laughed at, despised, and even punished.
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Opportunity to capture and store rainfall
Roseville’s City Council and Placer County Water Agency’s (PCWA) Board of Directors opted into the initial phase of the Sites Reservoir project-a proposed off stream surface water facility west of the Sacramento River.
With this approval, both water agencies will officially invest into the project and join other water districts in providing necessary backing to cover a portion of the project costs. The merits of the project comport with Roseville and PCWA’s longstanding commitment of improving water supply reliability for customers and creating projects that promote environmental sustainability.
“We have a commitment towards water supply stewardship,” said Susan Rohan, City of Roseville Mayor. “Both Roseville and PCWA believe in a project like this because it offers tremendous opportunity to capture and store rainfall and put it to good use – for both water supply and the environment.”
Diversion from Sacramento River
The proposed project would divert water from the Sacramento River and its tributaries. Water would fill the off-stream reservoir during times of high flow, including the winter months when surplus water is usually available, with up to 1.8 million acre-feet of water. If Sites had been in place in 2016, about 500,000 acre-feet could have been captured and stored-a much-needed boost to overall state water supplies in the middle of the recent historic drought.
“As recent dry years have shown, continued reliance on the American River to meet statewide demands necessitates the need for storage alternatives,” said Gray Allen, PCWA District 1 Director. “The Sites Reservoir project is a critically important effort to increase overall surface water storage north of the Delta, and benefits the citizens of Placer County by easing the constraints created by drought. Sites Reservoir will enhance our communities’ economies and provide tangible environmental benefits.”
Folsom Reservoir Offset
Looking ahead, the project is envisioned to alleviate some of the burden often felt when water is released from Folsom Reservoir for environmental purposes through coordination and integration with the Central Valley Project statewide system, which includes Folsom Reservoir. Ostensibly, Sites Reservoir would expand the pool of available water resources and used to meet environmental benefits in the Delta, which would effectively increase the amount of water available in Folsom Reservoir year-round.
“In order to obtain approval and eventually build a project of this magnitude, it requires strategic partnerships like we’ve been able to attain with Roseville and PCWA,” said Jim Watson, general manager at Sites Project Authority. “We are assembling a critical mass of water agencies who see the vision and need of creating another water supply asset that has lasting statewide benefits.”
By opting into the project, both Roseville and PCWA will participate on the Sites Joint Powers Authority Board. The water agencies will share a board seat, rotating annually, and participate in technical support work needed to develop plans to operate the proposed reservoir. While Roseville and PCWA do not intend to obtain water allocations from this project, both agencies see the benefit of increased water supply reliability for its customers by reducing reliance on the American River. | <urn:uuid:60434d0b-6184-426f-a112-592ae5019ba9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rosevilletoday.com/news/roseville-reservoir-in-placer-county-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943011 | 660 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Welcome to our experimental local history pageThe Caloundra RSL Sub Branch is utilising the expertise (that's code for "stealing the ideas") of Caloundra Family History Research, and has begun building a proper memorial to the many people of the area who have served Australia in, with or alongside the Defence Forces. At this early stage the information regarding Landsborough and Caloundra has been combined, below. The information comes from society member Ruth Carmichael, to whom we are immensely grateful. As we develop we hope to garner more material, and if you or anyone you know has material to submit, please do so by clicking the button below.
WWI troops born in Caloundra Cyril Samuel Leach
, born in Caloundra on 18 Apr 1897, enlisted from Landsborough. He died in Mackay in 1972. Cyril's grandfather, Samuel Leach, purchased 40 acres of land at Golden Beach in 1881 and built a home near Bells Creek. Samuel's neighbour was the explorer William Landsborough.Edwin Arthur King
, born in Caloundra on 15 Aug 1893, enlisted from Warwick. He died in Marburg on 14 Jan 1933. His father, Allan King, built King's Grand Central Guest House and was one of Caloundra's first councillors.Caloundra St. School Honour Roll• Edlundh, Charles Edward 1894-1962
• Gosling, William 1896-1918 KIA
• King, Edwin Arthur 1893-1933
• Rooke, Vivian Morley 1893-1971
• Sutton, John Francis C 1871-1939
• Tripcony, Thomas Martin 1889-1975
• Westaway, Gilbert Percy 1887-1970
Caloundra RSL Military Display
A time capsule of unique collectibles and memorabiliafrom the First World War through to more recent conflicts.10.am-2pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Caloundra RSL Sub Branch - 19 West Terrace.Sunshine Coast World War I Data
The Adopt a Digger website researches WWI diggers and nurses from the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland (the information is supplied by descendants and volunteers).
Families who lost loved onesWilliam Gosling
died at the Somme on 8 Aug 1918 and was buried at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, France. William was the youngest son of George Gosling, a lighthouse keeper on Bribie Island. The Gosling family arrived in Queensland from Essex, England in 1889. Thomas Gilvear
and family left Scotland in 1911 and settled at the Glass House Mountains. Thomas and six sons served in the Great War. He and sons Thomas, John and James Smith Gilvear returned home. Tragically, sons Kenneth, Alexander Smith and Robert Gilvear lost their lives at the Somme.To "right the wrongs of the past"Horace Thomas Dalton
, an indigenous man born in Dunwich, served in the Light Horse for the rights and freedoms of his fellow Australians. Horace, an oysterman in Caloundra in the 1930s, was buried in an unmarked grave at Ipswich in 1956. In 2012 a military service was given to "right the wrongs of the past".
The Great War 1914-1919
"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"
Caloundra War Memorial, Kings Beach Caloundra and the Hinterland
Landsborough Shire was a quiet place to live when war broke out in 1914. Caloundra was becoming a popular seaside resort by then.
Only two WWI servicemen were born in Caloundra and only fifteen families lived in Caloundra permanently between 1899 and 1920. Most families lived in the resource-rich hinterland, as told by Gary McKay in "Times of Change - A History of Caloundra City".Landsborough Roll of Honour
This alphabetical list
, transcribed by Ruth Carmichael, commmemorates those who enlisted, fell or were wounded during the Great War 1914-1919. Discovering Ancestors
Caloundra Family History is for anyone interested in family and local history.www.caloundrafamilyhistory.org.au
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The first challenge in Challenges for Game Designers, “The Path,” asks you to design a game for 2-4 players progressing on a path from point A to point B with the first player to reach point B winning. Earlier in the chapter, Mario Kart had been used as an example of a game with the “race to the end” core dynamic and that’s the idea that stuck with me when I started thinking about this challenge.
Once I decided on the Mario Kart theme, a few things felt mandatory for the theme. First, the players would be driving around a race track trying to be the first to cross the finish line. Second, there would need to be items like shells, banana peels, stars, and mushrooms that either give a player a boost or allow him or her to slow down another player. Third, I wanted to give players a choice of driving recklessly fast and risking crashes or driving at safer speeds.
With those basic ideas in place, I decided to prototype a board game. The board is a race track divided into spaces with a finish line marked between two spaces on the track. In addition, some spaces were marked as item blocks (blue squares with a question mark) and others as hazardous (yellow triangles with numbers).
On each turn, you can choose to either drive fast or drive safe. If you drive safe, you move 1d6 spaces along the track. If you drive fast, you move 2d6 but risk crashing when you move through hazardous spaces. In any die you rolled for movement this turn is equal to or less than the number in the hazard triangle of a space you are moving through, then you wipe out and stop your move in that space.
When a player ends their move on an item block space, they get to draw an item card. The item cards have the various power ups that can be used during the race. You can only be holding one card at a time. The power ups have the following effects when played:
- Green Shell: A racer 5 or fewer spaces ahead of you loses a turn
- Red Shell: A racer any number of spaces ahead of you loses a turn
- Banana: A racer 5 or fewer spaces behind you loses a turn
- Mushroom: If you are driving fast, you move an extra 1d6 spaces
- Star: Cancels out a shell or banana card
In a normal game, the first player to cross the finish line wins the race. Since the track is a loop though, it would be easy to play multi-lap races.
What I’m happy with after playing:
- Item cards: These were a fun addition to the game.
- Fast or safe: My wife and I both thought about the choice between fast and safe and had a couple of wipeouts during the race when trying to go fast around the curves.
What I’d change in the next iteration:
- Race track: I’d want to try out a different track design with a few more level 2+ hazardous spaces. Ideally, the course would be customizable or the game would come with a few track choices.
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For more than 25 years, I have been creating retablos, hand-painted images of saints and angels.
Shortly after teaching myself the rudiments of reproducing iconic images on pieces of pinewood, I was fortunate to be able to apprentice with Master Santero Charlie Carrillo for a short time in Santa Fe.
Charlie and I went on a several expeditions to gather the natural materials from a variety of sites, including Abiquiu and Chama, New Mexico. My teacher and mentor taught me about the use of natural pigments for colors and how to create gesso from gypsum and rabbit-skin glue, tools I still use to this day.
The retablos are then sealed with homemade varnish from a mixture of trementina (pine sap) and grain alcohol.
The annual Corrales Harvest Festival (always in late September) is the main arts and crafts fair in which I participate, selling my santos in La Entrada Park next to the Corrales Library.
My retablos now hang on walls in homes from California to Boston, from Florida to Colorado, from Finland to Australia. Family members, friends and collectors like author Gary Soto and actor Edward James Olmos are among the proud owners of these pieces.
Retablos that I have recently painted can be purchased at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Albuquerque, throughout the year.
When I taught at School-on-Wheels in Albuquerque’s South Valley, I was able to organize the creation of a Fresco Mural involved students of Bernadette Vigil, who apprenticed under an apprentice who learned directly from Mexican master fresco artist Diego Rivera.
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London: A new study into a rare type of pancreatic cancer has found that one may inherit more than twice the number of cancer genes than experts previously thought.
The research was led by the ARC-Net Research Centre of the University Hospital of Verona, Italy, with significant contributions from the University of Glasgow.
Researchers found there were a significant number of inherited mutations in this type of cancer 17 percent of PaNETs cases looked at were linked to inherited faulty genes.
Previously it was thought only 5 per cent of tumours were linked to hereditary genes.
Using international expertise the study also discovered how mutations affected different genes and their functions.
Four key cellular processes were affected by mutating genes including: the DNA repair systems; the systems that control cell growth; the systems that regulate the processes of cellular ageing; the systems that regulate chromosomal structure.
NETs are relatively rare and represent less than 0.5 per cent of all malignant tumours. They are low-incidence tumours, but with high prevalence, often because patients live for many years with the disease.
The study was coordinated by the Veronese multi centre team of Arc-Net, led by Professor Aldo Scarpa, which brought together pancreatic cancer expertise from around the world.
Professor Scarpa said: “In this study we studied 160 PaNETs. By sequencing the genome of these tumours we have decrypted the landscape of genetic alterations of these tumours. This discovery will allow us to target the development of specific therapies that aim to counter the alterations identified”.
Professor Andrew Biankin, the University of Glasgow’s Regius Chair of Surgery and the Director the Translational Research Centre said: “This study is a great example of International Team Science under the auspices of the International Cancer Genome Consortium.”
“We managed to overcome all the societal hurdles of data and material sharing to make significant findings in an uncommon cancer type that can be difficult to treat,” Biankin said.
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What it does
Removes all data until a specific string of characters is found. This transform is line-based meaning the entire line with the specified string will be preserved.
Remove Until is one of the solutions we came up with to solve the banner page problem or the general Page Range problem.
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Living on campus is often the default when you start college — but most students quickly realize that it’s far from ideal. Typically, staying in a dorm means sharing a small room with a stranger (and other areas of your housing with a large number of students), adhering to strict rules, and being stuck with a meal plan. If you’re wondering whether you should move off campus, the answer is probably yes for a few main reasons.
1. Save Money
Even though you don’t receive much more than a simple room when you live on campus, dorms tend to be much more expensive than renting your own apartment. This is because you’re paying extra to be close to your classes and to receive meals. As a result, though, more of your budget goes to housing and less to enjoying student life. You can find housing to fit virtually any budget when you live off campus. To spend as little as possible, find an apartment where utilities are included and that has many bedrooms to split costs with a large number of roommates.
2. Choose Your Neighbourhood
Proximity to classes does have its advantages, particularly if you’re taking many morning classes. However, there’s often no need to live on campus — you’ll find it’s just as convenient to be a short commute away. The added advantage is that you are able to choose from a variety of neighbourhoods to find somewhere safe and close to the kinds of services you want, whether that’s grocery stores, restaurants, nightlife, or your part-time job.
3. More Freedom
You likely started college with ideas about how much freedom and independence you would have, only to find out that living on campus can often resemble being at your parents’ house. There are many rules to follow, including periods of quiet during the lead-up to exams and perhaps even a curfew. There are far fewer rules when you live off campus — you just need to be respectful of your neighbours and keep the apartment in good condition to avoid losing your security deposit.
4. Great Amenities
College dorms are scarce in terms of amenities. For instance, you usually don’t have more than a mini fridge and a microwave. In off-campus housing, a full-size kitchen is standard. Plus, you’ll share a bathroom with far fewer people. Some buildings even have extra perks, including a gym, study areas, and lounges where you can meet other residents.
5. The Option to Have a Car
It can be difficult to have your own car when you live on campus. Often, there are no reserved spaces, which is a big problem when there’s insufficient parking for everyone. When you live off campus, you may be able to request a space on site or at least find parking nearby.
6. Privacy and Personal Space
Many students find making the adjustment to being around other people almost all the time quite exhausting. Plus, your personal space is extremely limited. Moving off campus will allow you to maintain an active social life, but you can also spend time alone whenever you choose.
7. Stay Over the Summer
It may be more convenient to continue living in your college town over the summer, such as if you want to take summer classes, continue working, or find an internship nearby. You’ll likely need to find off-campus housing if you want to do any of these things, as dorms tend to shut for the summer. In fact, even if you want to spend all or some of your summer at your parents’ home, it will be more comfortable to leave most of your belongings behind to avoid another big move in the fall.
You can find Niagara College student housing at Foundry Lofts. Receive your own bedroom in a spacious suite equipped with stainless steel appliances. In addition, you’ll have access to exclusive amenities, including fitness facilities, a games room, and a movie theatre. Sign a lease now to take advantage of the lowest rates of the year. | <urn:uuid:050b3949-2c55-4d26-815d-f0d069942924> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myfoundrylofts.ca/2022/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962838 | 836 | 1.78125 | 2 |
“SCORNING WITH THE FIERCE PRIDE OF INDEPENDENCE THE SWEETS OF CIVILIZATION”
IRVING, Washington. The Crayon Miscellany… No. 1. Containing a Tour on the Prairies. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1835. 12mo, original green cloth, facsimile of original printed paper spine label laid down. $600.
First American edition, published one month after the London first edition.
In 1832 Irving joined the party of Indian Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth on his expedition to the land of the Osages and Pawnees. "Everything relating to aboriginal life or manners, had an attraction for Washington Irving which he could not resist. The hardy fur-trapper, with his trusty rifle, and his dusky bride, scorning with the fierce pride of independence the sweets of civilization; the wild warrior of the plains, in his swift foray on the herds of the civilized intruders on his domains, or in the bloody invasion of a neighboring tribe, all had for the author a warm coloring which he loved to paint. It is of such scenes, blended with the softer traditions of Indian lore, and the dreams of the better land, this book is composed. Irving eagerly seized the opportunity offered by a government mission to the Pawnees, of observing for himself the peculiarities of a savage race; and of what he saw he has made the most charming picture ever painted of its life" (Field, 186). The narrator of Irving's work, Geoffrey Crayon, was already familiar to readers as an unabashed Anglophile and Hispanophile. This first volume of the Crayon Miscellany amends Crayon's personality to that of "an amiably resolute affirmer of his own new nation with its special scenes, attributes, and local variations. A Tour portrays the interaction between this well known literary personality and certain American scenes he has not previously explored" (Kime, Western American Literature). The two other volumes of the completed Miscellany are not related to America. With 12 pages of publisher's advertisements bound in at the rear. Howes I86. Langfeld and Blackburn, 33. Sabin 35139. Wagner-Camp 56:2. Early owner signature.
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Sunnybank Private Hospital offers comprehensive and high quality inpatient and day rehabilitation programs.
The definition of rehabilitation is “the process of restoring people to their highest level of function following injury, surgery or illness”.
Who will benefit from our Rehabilitation Therapy?
We strive to assist patients to improve their level of physical independence after loss of function or ability.
Our goal is to return you home safely and with confidence. Our team is committed to providing the highest standards of care in a friendly environment.
- Parkinsons disease
- Vascular disease
- Pulmonary disease
- Other neurological disorders
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Recurrent falls
- Balance disturbance
- Limb oedema management
- Post surgery or illness
Day Rehabilitation is suitable for patients who have established rehabilitation needs but do not need the support of inpatient medical or nursing care.
- Comprehensive medical assessment
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Pathologist
- Social Worker
- Nursing Services
- Limb Oedema Management
Inpatient Rehabilitation is suitable for patients who have a functional disability and need the support of a medical facility and nursing care, particularly following recent illness or surgery.
A rehabilitation assessor or specialist will assess you to ascertain your treatment requirements. This will ensure you have access to the most appropriate form of rehabilitation at each stage of your recovery.
Inpatients will need to bring the following:
- Night clothes and personal toiletries
- Comfortable day clothes and covered in shoes
- Current medications
- X-rays or relevant scans
- Health Insurance details & Medicare Card
- Special equipment such as walking aides, splints or prosthesis
- Please DO bring your enthusiasm!
- Individualised programs
- Professional nursing and allied health care
- Cared for by our experienced medical team of physicians
- Wide range of adjunct therapies and services
- Double rooms available
- Discharge home visits
- Free Wifi
- Local and friendly hospital with easy access
We encourage your family and friends to visit you between 10.00am and 8.30pm. As an inpatient, your rehabilitation is a structured and continual process, and your treatment takes priority during these times.
Referrals are accepted from medical specialists, general practitioners, allied health professionals and nursing staff.
If you are an inpatient at another hospital, your doctor will arrange for a rehabilitation assessment nurse to assess you to determine whether Sunnybank Private Hospital can meet your needs. If being referred from home, a doctor’s referral is necessary.
Referrals can be made by either contacting:
Rehabilitation Liaison Co-ordinator
Phone: (07) 3344 9640
Fax: (07)3344 9469
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I have been researching gun violence and its prevention for more than 25 years, and much as I accept Jonathan Freedland’s analysis of the deep structures, party politics and ideological delusions that sustain this gun culture (America, how long will you sacrifice your children on the altar of gun worship?, 27 May), I often feel that there’s a mismatch between problems and responses.
After all, America has three gun violence problems. In order of victim magnitude these are: gun suicides, some 60% of all shooting deaths, mainly white middle-aged men; gun homicides, as many as 18,000 victims a year, disproportionately young African-American men; and mass shootings, producing around 1% of annual gun homicide victims.
It is undoubtedly the mass shootings that punctuate, focus and drive the “gun debate”, but strategies to tackle just one of these problems are unlikely to have much purchase on the others.
A sizeable majority of mass shootings are carried out with legally owned weapons, increasingly assault rifles, yet the daily carnage on the streets of inner cities, where the overwhelming majority of America’s young people are shot and killed, is dominated by illegal handguns. The fight will inevitably be a long and hard one, and gun-control measures are certainly a major part – though not the whole – of that. But we do need well-evidenced, credible policies that address the actual issues. There is no panacea here.
Professor emeritus of criminology and public policy, University of Brighton
I found Jonathan Freedland’s excellent article saddening, not just because of the horror of the latest mass shooting but also the wider demise of America’s “promise of possibility” that the awful events in Uvalde and elsewhere reflect.
Like many people of my generation, I was attracted in my teens to the US by the promise and hope of its history, politics, music, film and literature – a promise that existed even amid the turmoil of the civil rights and anti-war protests of the 1960s and 1970s. We taught American history and American studies and focused on the American dream – the belief that a society could, in Freedland’s words, “form anew, free of the past”, a dream of endless possibility. But what hope now for America in the post-Trumpian era with a militant rightwing and seemingly all-powerful gun lobby? Maybe Malcolm X was right all along: “I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”
Neil A Wynn
Emeritus professor of 20th-century American history, University of Gloucestershire
As a member of Extinction Rebellion, I think the answer to Jonathan Freedland’s appeal must be direct action by the victims, specifically parents and children. As with climate change, marching and writing to politicians about gun control has had no effect, despite widespread support by the public.
The politicians responsible for non-action (leading Republicans such as Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell) must be targeted with blockades of their homes and offices by parents and children with graphic banners; the National Rifle Association should be sued for millions of dollars for the deaths that its lobbying has led to. No doubt this is already being done or considered, and it is arrogant for non-Americans to give their advice – but I’m not making any apologies.
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The Employment of Pump Technicians in the United States
Natural resources are important for the business. The United States gets most of its energy from oil and natural gas, according to the College Board. A pump technician works to transfer materials from one vessel to another.
A pump technician is also known as a pump operator. A pump technician decides how much material to pump through schedules, instructions or verbal orders. Production supervisors or engineers set the schedules.
Workers fix pumps and vessels. Before the material is transferred, pump technicians connect the hoses and pipes to the vessels. A pump technician regulates the flow of substances by turning valves.
The pump operators earned a national mean hourly wage of $19.95 and a national mean annual wage of $41,490 in May 2009, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The industries that employed the most pump operators were the support activities for mining with a mean annual wage of $42,110; oil and gas extraction,$40,490; petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers,$40,850; and basic chemical manufacturing, $44,980. The employment of pumping station operators is expected to decrease by 25 percent through the year of 2018, according to the National Employment Matrix.
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Characteristics of a Marine Service Technician
Marine service technicians repair and maintain boats. Marine service technicians use their knowledge, experience, and skills to repair and install equipment. They also maintain metal and woodwork.
Experience in Service Technicians
A service technician can work in a variety of industries to provide services. The service technician is usually the one who goes to the customer's location to fix machines or equipment that cannot be moved due to size or connections with outer systems. You should have good technical and mechanical skills to be a service technician. You should have experience with tools that can be used to lift heavy equipment and be physically fit to do so.
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Service Technician is a title that covers skilled workers in many industries. Service technicians work with computers, automobiles, and appliances. Service technicians are the same regardless of their area of expertise, they provide services and repairs.
Field service technicians are service technicians who go to a client's home or business to perform repairs. Service technicians are often called to fix broken products and replace faulty parts. Service technicians will need to be able to use diagnostic tools to identify the issue and then either fix the problem order necessary parts for the repair.
The International Society of Certified Electronics Technicians was founded in 1965, to create a certification process for electronics service technicians. It helps protect consumers by providing training and best practices to its 50,000 members. The National Institute for automotive service excellence has been certifying automotive service technicians since 1972.
The Fuel Dispenser Problem
Thousands of service technicians work for the members of the PEI group. The dispensers, nozzles, hoses and tanks all need regular maintenance to keep them operating safely and provide gasoline, diesel, ethanol or CNG to billions of motorists. The fuel keeps flowing even if the price of oil is high.
There will be a need even through the ups and downs. Today more than ever, qualified service technicians are in high demand. New technologies and regulatory changes require the replacement of thousands of fuel dispensers.
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District grants fund small-scale, short-term activities that address needs in your community and communities abroad. Each district chooses which activities it will fund with these grants. Rotary Clubs within our District should complete the application form at the bottom of this page before 25th March 2022.
What district grants support
You can use district grants to fund a variety of district and club projects and activities, including:
- Humanitarian projects, including service travel and disaster recovery efforts
- Scholarships for any level, length of time, location, or area of study
- Youth programs, including Rotary Youth Exchange, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), Rotaract, and Interact
- Vocational training teams, which are groups of professionals who travel abroad either to teach local professionals about their field or to learn more about it themselves
You have plenty of freedom to customize your service projects. Refer to the Terms and Conditions for Rotary Foundation District Grants and Global Grants for information about district grant requirements.
How they’re funded
Districts may use up to 50 percent of their District Designated Fund to receive one district grant annually. This percentage is calculated based on the amount of DDF generated from a district’s Annual Fund giving three years prior, including Endowment Fund earnings. You aren’t required to request the full amount available.
You’ll receive this funding as a lump sum and then distribute it to your clubs.
Clubs need to become qualified to apply for district grants. Learn more about the qualification process.
How clubs request funds
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Every 500 years, a majestic bird with fire-colored feathers, feeling that death was close, would build a nest high in the tree tops so the sun would burn it down… And then a tiny newborn bird would rise from ashes, growing again, beautiful as ever.
In many cultures, a phoenix was a symbol of resurrection. The meaning of this symbol has been transformed over years, and now it can be treated as a metaphor of renewal, of good changes happening after a huge failure.
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is built on this ancient metaphor.
This business novel, written by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, tells us about the story of “Parts Unlimited”, a fictional company that was going through a serious crisis and was on the verge of collapsing.
To save the company, the leadership tried to launch a new project – Phoenix – which, they hoped, would close the gap with competition. Analyzing the problems and finding solutions, they managed to make the company profitable and bring it to a new level.
Containing some core concepts of effective business strategies, “The Phoenix Project” is still a fictional text. Relationships among characters, their discussions and attempts to improve the situation, failures and successes greatly illustrate how exactly the techniques and approaches the authors talk about work in real life.
As the story unfolds, we see how the company, just like a mythological phoenix, rises from ashes.
In a nutshell, the protagonist of the novel, Bill Palmer, an IT director at automotive parts manufacturer and retailer company “Parts Unlimited”, is promoted to Vice President of IT. Steve Masters, the CEO of the company, asks him to “undertake some kamikaze mission” and help the company to regain profitability, increasing their market share and keeping customers.
Bill unwillingly accepts the offer and, together with system manager Wes, and Patty, the director of IT service support, starts fighting numerous issues that begin to snowball: a problem with payroll that puts employees at risk of not getting paid, security breaches that obviously didn’t comply with state regulations, and many others.
The situation was getting out of control, but at some point, Bill meets a very interesting character – Dr. Erik Reid.
Erik, a new board member, plays a central role in the novel. As Bill notes, he is like Master Shifu in the “Kung Fu Panda” movie, sharing wisdom and coaching Bill to find answers by himself.
To explain why the company is failing and what can be done to save it, Erik takes Bill to one of the company’s manufacturing plants. He believes that the principles used in manufacturing are the same as those needed at IT, so he physically shows Bill how the system works. Just like manufacturing needs maintenance policies, IT needs preventive measures, otherwise the business may suffer:
People think that just because IT doesn’t use motor oil and carry physical packages that it doesn’t need preventive maintenance… That somehow, because the work and the cargo that IT carries are invisible, you just need to sprinkle more magic dust on the computers to get them running again... showing how IT risks jeopardize business performance measures, you can start making better business decisions.
Step by step, Bill understands the connection and applies the principles, admitting that he has no idea how companies who don’t use them survive.
In our “Phoenix Project” summary, we will not retell the fictional part of the novel: we will focus on the most important concepts Bill discovered and applied.
One of the most important concepts Erik tells Bill about is “the Three Ways” – the main principles on which DevOps are built. The Three Ways are about providing value to the customers by creating a culture where employees cohesively work together, understanding the interrelations between different parts of one business system. As Erik says to Bill,
Your job as VP of IT Operations is to ensure the fast, predictable, and uninterrupted flow of planned work that delivers value to the business while minimizing the impact and disruption of unplanned work, so you can provide stable, predictable, and secure IT service.
So what are the Three Ways Erik is talking about?
The First Way concerns the processes between the business and the customer – in particular, it explains how to create a fast flow of work from Development into IT operations, and then to the customer.
According to this principle, to maximize the flow, you need to optimize for global goals. So, instead of focusing on local goals like Ops availability measures, you’d need to have a bigger picture in mind which you’d strive for. The entire system is more important than specific departments.
The authors provide the following measures to create the fast flow:
In the book, the First Way – creating flow – took place when Bill tried to organize the change process, making his people put their intended changes on index cards and then put the cards on a kanban board. The cards visualized the work in progress in a way that everyone could see.
It’s important to mention here that the kanban board, as Patty explains, is “one of the primary ways our manufacturing plants schedule and pull work through the system” - this is one of the proofs of similarity between IT and manufacturing.
To limit the work in process (WIP), she makes a decision to visually demonstrate all the activities involving their key resources on the kanban board, where index cards will be arranged in four rows: “Move worker office,” “Add/change/delete account,” “Provision new desktop/laptop,” and “Reset password”, diving each of the rows into three columns labeled “Ready”, “Doing”, and “Done.”
She insists that all important activities must go through the board, not by emails, phone calls, or messaging: if it’s not on there, it won’t be done, and if it is on there, it will be done faster:
You’d be amazed at how fast work is getting completed, because we’re limiting the work in process. Based on our experiments so far, I think we’re going to be able to predict lead times for work and get faster throughput than ever.
In addition to that, an important part of the First Way which the company was missing was the disability to distinguish what work mattered versus what did not. As Erik pointed out, taking needless work out of the system is more important than putting more work into it.
This is why it is mandatory to know what exactly can help achieve business objectives – projects, security, compliance with regulations etc. After all, it is the outcomes that really matter, not the work you do.
The Second Way is about fixing quality at the source in order to avoid rework. This is possible due to constant flow of fast feedback that helps not make the same mistakes and enable faster detection and recovery of problems. “A feedback loop” should go from the earliest parts of product definition, design, and development. This way, the quality is created at the source.
The practices necessary to apply the Second Way are:
A critical part of the Second Way, as Erik explains, is making wait times visible – which is, knowing when your work has to wait to be done (since the resource who is supposed to do it is busy) or when your work has to go back through the process (because it needs to be redone or lacks some parts).
The wait time is “the percentage that resource is busy, divided by the percentage that resource is idle” – for example, if the resource is fifty percent utilized, the wait time is 50/50, which means that you have to wait for 50 percent of his time to get your work processed.
Erik gives an example: at his plant, specific components were never showing up on an assembly line, but it was not because they didn’t have resources or tasks were taking too long; following the parts around, they found out that the parts were in queues.
He insists that the same happens at Bill’s “plant”: people believe that their personal project is a top priority, and want it to be finished first, at the expense of everything else.
To help Bill understand where the root of the evil is, Erik asks him: do the projects people are pushing increase operational stability? Do they decrease the time required to detect and recover from security breaches? Do they increase the capacity of the most constrained resource of the company, Brent? The answer is obvious – those projects are not a good use of time.
The need for amplification of feedback loops is another important part of the Second Way. A huge problem the company was struggling with was the low data quality, which made it impossible to do any sort of forecasting:
Most of the time, we’re flying blind… The best data that we have right now comes from interviewing our store managers every two months and the customer focus groups we do twice a year. You can’t run a billion-dollar business this way and expect to succeed!
Evidently, what they needed to do was to start collecting accurate and timely information from their stores and online channels to create appropriate marketing campaigns and provide the right products – that was the only way to increase their market share.
The final way shows how to create a culture that “fosters experimentation, learning from failure, and understanding that repetition and practice are the prerequisites to mastery.”
The practices necessary to create such a culture are as follows:
According to the authors, experimentation requires taking risks and the ability to learn from past mistakes and success. This, in turn, requires courage to do things differently from what you are used to. Even though it may seem scary, it’s a good way to improve the system of work.
As for repetition and daily practice, this helps develop skills and habits that make the work process safe and enable resume normal operations. Erik explains to Bill that a genuine culture of improvement is impossible without practice and drills, emphasizing that five minutes daily is more useful than three hours once a week.
The Third Way is all about ensuring that we’re continually putting tension into the system, so that we’re continually reinforcing habits and improving something. Resilience engineering tells us that we should routinely inject faults into the system, doing them frequently, to make them less painful.
Repetition is especially important for teamwork since it creates transparency and, as a consequence, trust. And without trust, any complex business problems cannot be fixed.
This is why, in one of the chapters, Steve holds a meeting where he tells his people about “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni – a book about team dynamics which emphasizes the importance of mutual trust and vulnerability at a workplace. Steve suggests using the technique described in the book, telling sensitive information about his private life and encouraging the others to do the same.
Speaking about teamwork, we can also mention that Bill, an ex-soldier who used to serve at the Marine unit, often draws parallels between management in the army and at the company, hoping that his previous experience would help him at his new position. However, Erik explains that the company environment is not like army:
What worked for you in the Marines will never work here, considering how they run this circus. Instead of one general in your chain of command, you’ve got ten generals calling the shots here, and all of them have a direct line to each and every private in your company.
The problem, as Erik explains, is that rigor and discipline are not everything: efficiency and processes are not enough to achieve results. He tells Bill that the reason why they fail is that they don’t understand what work actually is – and that there are more than one type of work.
So, according to Erik, the work IT does can be divided into 4 types:
Business projects. These include business initiatives; they are usually tracked by the Project Management Office.
Internal IT projects. This type includes internally generated improvement or Operation projects created by business projects. They are usually tracked not centrally but by individual budget owners (e.g. database or storage managers).
Changes. Changes – version updates and any other improvements – are often generated by business and internal projects. They are tracked in the ticketing system.
The IT department of “Parts Unlimited” was supporting over 35 business projects through Project Management Office plus more than 70 smaller ones and internal initiatives. These projects created 437 changes which made Bill think these should be treated as a different type of work: these changes were literally defining the work schedule. The changes were smaller than the projects but they still require resources and need to be deconflicted.
Realizing that serious problems like payroll failure and SAN incident happened because people were not talking to each other about changes they were planning or implementing, Bill made a conclusion they needed a sustainable process of change control that would prevent “friendly-fire incidents”.
So, he organized a meeting in which he started a new policy - continuously authorizing and scheduling changes, providing the following information: who is the person planning the change; what is the system being changed; and a summary of the change.
However, an interesting issue popped up: it was not clear what can be treated as a “change”. After arguing for half an hour, they reached a consensus on the definition:
A ‘change’ is any activity that is physical, logical, or virtual to applications, databases, operating systems, networks, or hardware that could impact services being delivered.
To avoid confusion, the final decision was to submit requests for changes, schedule time for the changes to be reviewed, and get them approved before implementation.
Unplanned work (recovery work). These are operational problems caused by other types of work being done at the expense of work which has actually been planned.
Unplanned work is not free – after all, it consumes time that could be used otherwise. It leads to chaos, shortcuts, and, as a consequence, more fragile applications (which, due to the domino effect, will create more unplanned work). This is why it needs to be controlled, just like changes.
A great way to decrease the unplanned work is to analyze the capacity initially, before accepting work.
When you spend all your time firefighting, there’s little time or energy left for planning. When all you do is react, there’s not enough time to do the hard mental work of figuring out whether you can accept new work.
One of the biggest problems negatively impacting the Phoenix project was the amount of unplanned work assigned to Brent – the IT genius who supported many people at the same time, fixing their problems. People at the company were constantly bothering Brent, asking him to fix a million things. This distracted him from his main responsibility – Phoenix.
To prevent unplanned work from hitting Brent, they found a solution: to create a resource pool to handle escalations, which would be the only group allowed to access Brent – and only after an official approval.
This group would have to document all they learned from Brent (because he would never explain how exactly he fixed problems, which made him an irreplaceable asset). Finally, Brent would never be allowed to work on the same problem twice.
This approach would hit two birds with one stone: Brent would focus only on the most important thing, and his colleagues would learn from him.
In one of the conversations with Bill, Erik gives him some home reading – “The Goal” by Dr. Eli Goldratt, which describes the Theory of Constraints. Erik explains that in most plants, there is a small amount of resources (men, machines, or materials) that dictate the outputs of the entire system.
This amount of resources is called constraint – or bottleneck, and it has an important role in the system work:
“Until you create a trusted system to manage the flow of work to the constraint, the constraint is constantly wasted, which means that the constraint is likely being drastically underutilized.”
According to Dr. Goldart, there are 5 steps in the Theory of Constraints:
Applying the Theory of Constraints step by step, you identify the bottleneck and improve the flow of work, since the actions taken without taking the bottlenecks into account bring only short-term results.
As Erik explained, any improvements made besides the bottleneck are illusory: the improvements made after the bottleneck are useless as they still wait for work from the bottleneck, and the improvements made before it result in more problems piling up.
In “Parts Unlimited”, the person who was the main constraint was Brent. Doing a lot of unplanned work, he constrained many important flows of work, including restoring service.
As Erik explains, “exploiting the constraint” meant not allowing Brent waste any time: not making him wait for anything, and not letting him focus on anything but his main priority. As a result, the needed application support was outsourced, and Brent was moved outside of the organization.
As we can see from “The Phoenix Project”, conflicts between IT Operations and Development can be resolved with the right approach. Adopting specific cultural norms and implementing effective practices into daily work routine, it is possible to produce a high quality product and satisfy customer requirements.
Stability and reliability can be preserved even deploying hundreds of changes every day, and high-performing organizations like Amazon, Netflix, and Google prove it.
Collaborative work, shared goals, experimentation, and a culture of learning are effective means to build quality and functionality, and make the company achieve success in the market.
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(NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have offered “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials.
The Russian military has since launched a full-scale ground offensive in eastern Ukraine’s disputed Donbas region, capturing the strategic port city of Mariupol and securing a coastal corridor to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
Jun 03, 12:39 pm
EU issues latest package of sanctions
The European Union announced a new package of sanctions targeting Russia on Friday. The EU is banning all sea transfers of crude oil from Russia after a six-month transitory period, to allow for the market to adjust.
The EU will also ban imports (sea transfers) of refined petroleum products from Russia, after an eight-month transitory period.
The EU also added 65 new individuals to its sanctions list, including retired Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva. She became chair of the board of the National Media Group and previously sat as a deputy in Russia’s State Duma.
Kabaeva was sanctioned by the U.K. on May 13, which said she is alleged to have a close personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but has not been sanctioned by the U.S.
Jun 03, 12:17 pm
Marriott suspends all operations in Russia
Marriott International announced Friday that it will suspend all its operations in Russia, after operating there for 25 years, due to the conflict in Ukraine.
It said the suspension comes as newly announced U.S., U.K. and EU restrictions will make it impossible for it to operate or franchise hotels in Russia.
Marriott closed its corporate office in Moscow and all upcoming hotels and future developments and investments were paused on March 10.
The company also announced it has given $1 million in disaster relief funds for associates and their families who have been directly affected by the war. Lodging is being offered to refugees from Ukraine at 85 hotels in neighboring countries.
Jun 03, 7:50 am
Russia now controls over 90% of Luhansk region
Russia now controls over 90% of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk Oblast and “is likely to complete control in the next two weeks,” the U.K. Ministry of Defense said Friday in an intelligence update.
“Russia is now achieving tactical success in the Donbas. Russian forces have generated and maintained momentum and currently appear to hold the initiative over Ukrainian opposition,” the ministry said. “Russia has achieved these recent tactical successes at significant resource cost, and by concentrating force and fires on a single part of the overall campaign.”
Russia has been unable to advance its other fronts or axes, “all of which have transitioned to the defensive,” according to the ministry. In fact, the ministry noted, none of the strategic objectives of Moscow’s original plan have been achieved.
Russian forces failed to achieve their initial objectives to seize Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and other major cities.
“Staunch Ukrainian resistance and the failure to secure Hostomel airfield in the first 24 hours led to Russian offensive operations being repulsed,” the ministry said. “Following the failure of the initial plan, through false planning assumptions and poor tactical execution, Russia adapted its operational design to focus on the Donbas.”
Russian forces are now battling Ukrainian troops for control of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which comprises Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.
“In order for Russia to achieve any form of success will require continued huge investment of manpower and equipment, and is likely to take considerable further time,” the ministry added.
Jun 03, 5:49 am
100 days of war
Friday marked the 100th day since Russian forces invaded neighboring Ukraine.
In a statement, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the “full-scale invasion” as a “continuation of Russia’s aggressive actions it unleashed 8 years ago by occupying Crimea and parts of territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.”
“Today, our people defend not only their right to exist and live in an independent state, but the security of Europe and the whole democratic world,” the ministry said. “Every day our defenders, at the cost of their own lives, bravely repel Russia’s war machine and fight for freedom and peaceful future of the continent.”
“For 100 days of war, the Kremlin has failed to reach its main goal — conquest of Ukraine,” the ministry added. “Instead, Russia has become the most sanctioned state in the world, and its activities within international organizations and participation in international events have been significantly limited or stopped. The Ukrainian army is bravely holding the line and has liberated territories in a number of regions. Ukraine is determined to have a complete victory over the Russian invader.”
The ministry thanked the “dozens of countries around the world who provide significant support” to Ukraine. It also called on the international community to support the establishment of a special tribunal to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
“In order to stop Russia’s crimes against the Ukrainian people, destruction of our economy and blackmail of the whole world by famine, consistent support for Ukraine should continue. Assistance to our state today is the best investment in peace and sustainable development of all mankind,” the ministry said. “The main pillars for our victory remain unchanged: maximum sanction pressure on Russia, deliveries of necessary weapons and granting Ukraine the status of candidate on the way to full-fledged EU membership.”
Meanwhile, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova applauded progress that’s been made in the so-called special military operation in Ukraine.
“The special military operation will be continued until all of its objectives declared by the Russian administration, including denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, are achieved,” Zakharova said at a press briefing Friday. “A lot has been done in this area: militants of the Azov nationalistic formation have surrendered in Mariupol and the liberation of Donbas has been consistently carried out.”
Jun 02, 1:34 pm
Russia controls about 20% of Ukraine’s territory, Zelenskyy says
Russia now controls over 46,300 square miles of Ukraine, which accounts for about 20% of Ukraine’s territory, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Since Russia’s invasion began, Russian forces have gained control of over 16,602 square miles, or roughly 7% of Ukraine’s territory — an area that’s comparable to the size of the Netherlands, Zelenskyy said Thursday in a speech to the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg. Combined with the territory from Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the war in the Donbas region, Russia’s control of Ukraine now accounts for 20% of its territory, he said.
-ABC News’ Christine Theodorou
Jun 02, 6:35 am
Ukrainian first lady sits down for exclusive interview with ABC News: ‘Don’t get used to our pain’
Since the start of Russia’s invasion, the Ukrainian first lady has been in hiding with her two children. A difficult question her 9-year-old son keeps asking is when the war will end, Olena Zelenska said in an exclusive interview with ABC News.
“Unfortunately, I don’t think any Ukrainian would be able to answer that question,” Zelenska told Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts in her first televised solo interview since the invasion began.
In discussing the state of the conflict nearly 100 days after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” in Ukraine, Zelenska said that conceding territory to Russia won’t stop the war.
“You just can’t concede … parts of your territory. It’s like conceding a freedom,” Zelenska, 44, said in the interview, airing on Good Morning America Thursday. “Even if we would consider territories, the aggressor would not stop at that. He would continue pressing, he would continue launching more and more steps forward, more and more attacks against our territory.”
Jun 02, 4:34 am
Russia takes most of key city in Donbas
Russian forces have taken control of most of Sieverodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said Thursday in an intelligence update.
“The main road into the Sieverodonetsk pocket likely remains under Ukrainian control but Russia continues to make steady local gains, enabled by a heavy concentration of artillery,” the ministry said. “This has not been without cost, and Russian forces have sustained losses in the process.”
Sieverodonetsk, an industrial hub, is the largest city still held by Ukrainian troops in the contested Donbas region of Ukraine’s east, which comprises the self-proclaimed republics in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.
“Crossing the Siverskyy Donets River — which is a natural barrier to its axes of advance –- is vital for Russian forces as they secure Luhansk Oblast and prepare to switch focus to Donetsk Oblast,” the ministry added. “Potential crossing sites include between Sieverodonetsk and the neighbouring town of Lysychansk; and near recently-captured Lyman. In both locations, the river line likely still remains controlled by Ukrainian forces, who have destroyed existing bridges.”
Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk are the last major cities in the Luhansk area still controlled by Ukraine.
“It is likely Russia will need at least a short tactical pause to re-set for opposed river crossings and subsequent attacks further into Donetsk Oblast, where Ukrainian armed forces have prepared defensive positions,” the ministry added. “To do so risks losing some of the momentum they have built over the last week.”
Jun 01, 9:27 pm
Ukraine’s first lady tells ABC News that giving up land is ‘like conceding a freedom’
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska spoke about the state of the ongoing conflict with Russia and where the Ukrainian people currently stand as a country.
In her first televised solo interview since the invasion began, Zelenska, 44, told Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts that conceding territory to Russia won’t stop the war.
“You just can’t concede…parts of your territory. It’s like conceding a freedom,” Zelenska said. “Even if we would consider territories, the aggressor would not stop at that. He would continue pressing, he would continue launching more and more steps forward, more and more attacks against our territory.”
The interview with Zelenska will air Thursday, June 2, on Good Morning America and across ABC News. GMA airs at 7 a.m. ET on ABC.
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Designer of the Maserati MC12 Explains How It Could’ve Been So Much Better
Frank Stephenson makes sketching up supercars look remarkably easy.
I've always thought the Maserati MC12 was the Ferrari Enzo's more handsome, more interesting cousin. It's a classic-looking race car shape, and you just can't beat that big Maserati trident in the front grille. It's a joy, then, to hear the background story of the design from the man who penned the MC12, Frank Stephenson.
Stephenson has a long, storied history of successful car designs, from the Ford Escort RS Cosworth to BMW's first Mini Cooper. He recently started a YouTube channel to showcase these designs and the design process behind them. Needless to say, the MC12 is a good car to get the background story on.
He talks us through a lot of the design decisions that went into the car, and also what stuff had to be kept in the design from the Enzo. For those who are not familiar, the MC12 shares a ton of components with the Ferrari Enzo, like its 621-horsepower, 6.0-liter V12, its six-speed sequential transmission, and a plethora of other mechanical parts. However, it's a stretch to say one is just a re-bodied version of the other.
But even the small similarities in the designs of the two cars bothered Stephenson, especially the driver and passenger windows. For whatever reason—almost certainly cost—Stephenson was forced to retain the same side glass profile from the Enzo. That means the design is a little compromised in its profile. Thankfully, Stephenson sketches out what the car would've looked like if he had his way. Of course, it looks better.
He also goes into detail about the car's functional design components, like the various intakes and exhausts used to manage the heat within the car's systems. Stephenson insists throughout the video that things that work beautifully just end up looking beautiful, and seeing the way the MC12 both looks and performs, it's hard to refute that point.
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Artificial Intelligence & Data Driving Creative Business Transformation
Recently, ASFA (Association of Superannuation Funds Australia) collaborated with industry leaders and shared insight on the changing environment to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data. We summarize some of the interesting facts:
• AI mimics human intelligence. That is, AI is machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision technology, data science and analytics, robotics and sensors. AI can support industry.
• AI Industry projected to be valued at USD$22 trillion by 2030. Australia invested USD$52 million in the Technology Sector.
• Australia has a measured approach to use AI. The USA invests $20 per capita in AI and Australia invests $2 per capita in AI.
• The world in the last year, 2020, has increased investment in AI by 19% where Australia reduced investment by 82%.
• Core advantage of investing in AI, provides efficiency, analytics and automation of functions to industry.
• AI is not a regulated market.
• AI Ethics is a new concept to industry. There are eight ethical core principals for AI and Data (general guideline for businesses): 1. Deliver benefit not cost. 2. Human centered values. 3. Fairness. 4. Privacy and security. 5. Reliability and safety. 6. Contestable. 7. AI provides transparency. 8. Fund and provider accountability.
• Consumer Data Right for superannuation is the biggest change. Superannuation not designated as a sector focus at the moment (work in progress).
• Australia has taken the lead in applying the Consumer Data Right to other sectors. Not just Banking.
• Government providing support to make a change and develop law, legislation and policy.
• AI Key Risk is a human designing the machines. Humans need to be clear on their ethics or we risk hard coding poor behaviors at scale. Poor behaviors will impact Banks, Financial Services and Industry.
• Data has a lot of value and liability and is the new OIL. It has a lot of power, helps us to make better decisions but you want to be careful how you store and manage it.
• The biggest issue in industry, leaders and experts are not working together. Ethics models may assist to improve this issue (eight ethics outlined above).
• All levels of Management (including Boards) should invest in time to understand AI and Data.
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The elaborate guide 2020 | Dunning as a process for payment of debt
Historically, the term dunning had a very different context to which it would be in a SaaS context today.
What Did Dunning Previously Mean?
The historical use of dunning relates most typically to the collection of debts.
If a company used intimidation tactics or harassment to collect payments, for example, they were said to be dunning.
The term itself comes from the phrase Delinquent User Notification.
Dunning could and still can take many forms. It might be a reminder that payment is overdue, or it could be something more severe like a final or instant demand for payment.
Dunning in Relation to SaaS
Today, dunning still exists. If we ever miss a payment on our credit card or smartphone bill we might even be subject to dunning at various levels as individuals.
However, what we want to focus on is its relevance to you in your SaaS business. How can you use different dunning techniques as a customer service tool that will also protect and help you to grow your revenue?
What Does Dunning Mean in a SaaS Context?
As a SaaS business, you need a dunning process. If you're in any subscription business, you need a dunning process.
9% of 500 equals 45 payments a month that will fail. Customers' credit cards will expire. Some customers might have lost theirs and cancelled it. There'll be network issues, cards declined, and a myriad of other potential problems.
Most of the time, customers don't even notice the problem; and this is where dunning will be useful to your business. If your subscription management platform has this feature, you can alert customers on-time and ensure they experience no service interruptions. An efficient dunning process is also a fantastic opportunity to enhance the trust customers have in you.
What You Want Dunning to Achieve for Your Business
The beautiful thing about having dunning management in your subscription management platform is that you can automate the entire process.
What can dunning management do for you?
Notify Customers of a Problem
Notifications should be the first port of call in your dunning strategy.
Don't cancel your customers' subscription the moment their transaction fails, and you do not receive a payment. Instead, let them know there's been a problem, explain that you'll maintain access to their account for a specified period and that you'll try to retake payment shortly.
Ensure you give your customers enough time to update their details or take the necessary action.
Retry Failed Payments
You've given your customers a period of grace, so you need the system to try and take payment after this time.
The number of times you try to take payment is up to you. However, beware that your subscription management platform might limit this or work to timelines.
So long as you have told customers at what point you will cancel their services, you have done as much as you can.
Let You know of Data Related to Failed Payments, Dunning, and Churn
A great dunning management platform will be able to show you a summary of failed payments. Also, you should be able to see data around how many of your customers updated their payment details, and how many you lost.
Knowing this will enable you to plan out your communications to customers.
When you take payment details, you will have the customer's card expiry date. You can feed this into your customer relationship management (CRM) system to provide reminders to customers in advance of their card expiring.
Over time, you can also change up your reminder emails. If you have enough subscribers and many failed payments per month, you could even A/B test reminder emails to see which ones inspire action.
Manage Customer Permissions
One way to reduce instances of payment failure is to get permission from your customers to get updated details from credit card providers.
Instead of emailing your customers to remind them to update their details, you would contact the card issuer and get the new card details.
Reducing Involuntary Churn and Improving Customer Experiences with Dunning
Involuntary churn is when you lose a customer due to payment failure (also often referred to as “technical churn”). The customer didn't want to unsubscribe, but the failed payment led to you canceling their account. You shouldn't take it for granted that customers will come back. They're just as likely to remember that you didn't give them any time to fix the issue and will look for an alternative. Think about youroverall churn rate. What percentage of this is involuntary churn? What could you do about it?
If you don’t proactively manage dunning yourself, you’re telling customers that their card is expiring or whatever happened is their problem. By automating the process, you’re maximizing your potential to keep the customer. You are taking ownership while still letting your customers deal with the issue on their terms.
Using Dunning in Your SaaS Business
By adopting an effective dunning strategy, you will enhance the security and trustworthiness associated with your brand. You’ll also make transactional interactions with your customer more seamless and improve yourretention rate.
Payments are going to fail. It’s a fact.
How you position your business to deal with it, or to reduce the number of occurrences, will help your business grow in the long term.
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One of the most valuable possessions you can have is your property. It allows you to increase your finances by leveraging your investment. To be successful, you must avoid thinking like a homeowner and start thinking like a business owner.
While it is evident that owning rental property is a great financial investment, many individuals are not aware of the complexities connected with managing their rental properties. By staying clear of these frequent property management errors, you can save money and prevent problems in the long run.
Terrible Decisions Made in Property Management
Among the most vital tools for an investor is property management. Owning an investment property is one of the most effective methods to accumulate wealth, yet you need to plan. You will earn a bigger return on investment (ROI) in the long run if you take the time to look after your rental properties. However, there are some management mistakes you need to be wary of when getting into property investment.
Handling it Yourself
To save money, many first-time property owners try managing their own businesses. This usually ends up costing them in the end. The small print in most purchase agreements may be incomprehensible to you. However, to ensure that your rights and obligations are protected, you should consult with an experienced professional that can walk you through the documentation. To reduce the burden of managing rental property in a homeowners’ association community, you can turn to HOA management companies Boston to lighten your workload.
Not Hiring Property Managers
Although this may appear obvious, it is surprising how many people invest in rental properties and think they can handle everything. Working with a property rental management company allows property owners to focus on locations where they feel they are best equipped, while property management services take on the rest.
Not Screening Tenants
Screening prospective tenants can be time-consuming. You need to investigate their references and credit score, as well as their rental background. This stage can be tedious, but neglecting it can be devastating. You could end up with a renter that has violent tendencies, causing extensive property damage.
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Development of a New Class of Fe-3Cr-W(V) Ferritic Steels for Industrial Process Applications [electronic resource].
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 2005.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
- Additional Creators:
- United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy. Office of Industrial Technologies, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- The project described in this report dealt with improving the materials performance and fabrication for hydrotreating reactor vessels, heat recovery systems, and other components for the petroleum and chemical industries. These reactor vessels can approach ship weights of about 300 tons with vessel wall thicknesses of 3 to 8 inches. They are typically fabricated from Fe-Cr-Mo alloy steels, containing 1.25 to 12% chromium and 1 to 2% molybdenum. The goal of this project was to develop Fe-Cr-W(V) steels that can perform similar duties, in terms of strength at high temperatures, but will weigh less and thereby save energy.
- Report Numbers:
- E 1.99:id14239
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
Sikka, Vinod K.; Jawad, Mann.
- Type of Report and Period Covered Note:
- Final; 09/30/2001 - 12/31/2004
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A Fire Officer is highlighting the importance of taking care when using white goods, and how closing doors can help prevent fire spread following a tumble dryer fire above a pub in Connah’s Quay last night.
Two crews from Deeside and Lee Williams, Deputy Head of Business Fire Safety attended the fire on Church Street, Connah’s Quay.
The incident involved a tumble dryer on fire in a utility room in the first floor accommodation area.
20 people were evacuated from the pub downstairs, but thankfully no-one was hurt.
The fire is believed to have been caused by an electrical fault in dryer. The dryer and its contents were extensively damaged by fire.
Lee explains: “This incident really highlights how doors can help prevent fire spread, and why we encourage residents to close all internal doors as part of their night-time routine.
“The smoke, fire and heat damage were confined to the utility room as the utility room door was closed. This closed door prevented the smoke, fire and heat spreading to the rest of the first floor accommodation and to the pub downstairs.
“The fire involved a tumble dryer – as temperatures drop, very often we use tumble dryers more often. However, as our use increases, so does our tendency to become complacent in our use, often forgetting some simple dos and don’ts which could significantly reduce our risk from fire.
“Here are some simple steps we should all be following:
- Don’t overload plug sockets - the high wattage for a tumble dryer means that it needs its own 13-amp socket. Keep an eye out for any scorching or burn marks, including checking any visible electrical wires.
- Don't leave appliances unattended – don't turn the tumble dryer on before you leave the house or go to bed. Tumble dryers contain powerful motors with fast moving parts that can get very hot.
- Keep your dryer well ventilated, make sure the vent pipe is kink free and not blocked or crushed in any way.
- Always clean out the filter after using your tumble dryer.
- Always allow each drying programme, including the 'cool down cycle', to complete fully before emptying the machine. If you stop the machine mid cycle, the clothing will still be hot.
- Don’t ignore the warning signs – if you can smell burning or clothes feel hotter at the end of the cycle, stop using your appliance and have it checked out by a professional. Please follow the manufacturer’s instructions on the use and maintenance of appliances and register appliances at registermyappliance.org.uk – this enables manufacturers to contact you if any faults become apparent, or if any recall notices are issued. Further information from manufacturers on defects, or appliances that have been recalled, can also be found on the Electrical Safety First website www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk
- Most importantly of all – make sure you have a working smoke alarm and test it regularly – we recommend once a week! You should also ensure you have an escape plan for you and your family should a fire occur – and once you're out of the house, you should always stay out, never go back.
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Edujoy Entertainment By Appquiz
December 12, 2018
There are a lot of games out there for youths, including board video games, video video games, and pc video games. Learning Games for Youngsters is all about games that train youngsters almost each subject you can think of. Phrase, spelling, social research, brain, science, art, vocabulary, literature and keyboarding games will get your kids started on a studying journey.
Some studying video games in this class are printable. On this tutorial I’m covering the perfect 5 gaming apps, that may help your child study while enjoying games on android gadget. Lately, kids are virtually born with the flexibility to use a smartphone and have an instantaneous understanding of expertise from a young age, and ninety one percent of youngsters play video games.
The app might be customized and Scout will learn your child’s name, favourite shade, and favorite food. More generally, I believe it’s reasonable to assume that many board video games promote analytical abilities—if we combine them with specific lessons in essential thinking.
Here is Information Journey’s assortment of 100 enjoyable, free online instructional video games for teenagers. Our educational game shows youngsters the alphabet letters and teach them to acknowledge letters as they appear. Online coloring pages, jigsaw puzzles and word games are just some sections of this massive website.
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Enteroviral infection in Child
Enterovirus infections are common in children and can clinically manifest in a variety of ways, including:
- Nonspecific febrile illness – Fever and irritability, particularly in infants.
- Exanthems and enanthems – Herpangina, hand-foot-mouth disease, and nonspecific exanthems. (See also Herpangina, Hand-foot-and-mouth disease, and Viral exanthem)
- Neonatal viral sepsis
- Respiratory disease – Upper respiratory tract symptoms, eg, sore throat and coryza, are common with enterovirus infections. Lower respiratory tract involvement may include pneumonia and bronchiolitis. Pleurodynia is associated with paroxysmal thoracic pain. EV-D68 has been associated with lower respiratory tract disease, both in children with and without asthma.
- Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis – Epidemic; associated with severe eye pain, photophobia, conjunctival erythema, and congestion. (See also Hemorrhagic viral conjunctivitis.)
- Myocarditis / pericarditis – Upper respiratory symptoms typically precede onset of fatigue, chest pain, and shortness of breath.
- Central nervous system (CNS) disease – See below.
- Viral meningitis – Fever, irritability, headache, stiff neck, photophobia, nausea, vomiting
- Encephalitis / meningoencephalitis – Acute onset of altered mental status, abnormal neurologic exam, and/or seizures. Brainstem encephalitis (EV-A71) can lead to noncardiogenic pulmonary edema and nonmyocarditic cardiopulmonary collapse.
- Polio-like acute flaccid paralysis – Prodromal febrile illness followed by acute, typically asymmetric, flaccid weakness of the limbs with decreased reflexes and intact sensation; cranial nerve dysfunction may also be present. Several nonpolio enteroviruses are associated with acute flaccid paralysis in children similar to that caused by polioviruses. Most notably, clusters of acute flaccid paralysis in children have been associated with EV-A71 outbreaks, some of which have been widespread in parts of Asia. Geographic and temporal association of acute flaccid paralysis and cranial nerve dysfunction in children during outbreaks of EV-D68 respiratory disease in 2014 in the United States was noted. As virus has not been identified in spinal fluid in these cases, definitive evidence of causation is lacking. Per the CDC, acute flaccid paralysis temporally associated with the 2014 EV-D68 outbreak is being referred to as acute flaccid myelitis.
Most enterovirus infections are self-limited and not immediately life-threatening. However, some presentations can represent life-threatening emergencies, including brainstem encephalitis, myocarditis, severe respiratory distress, and neonatal enterovirus sepsis. Neonates, children with immunoglobulin deficiencies, and transplant recipients are predisposed to more severe and persistent disease. Long-term morbidity may occur, including chronic dilated cardiomyopathy, persistent neurologic deficits, and polio-like acute flaccid paralytic disease.
A08.39 – Other viral enteritis
B30.3 – Acute epidemic hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (enteroviral)
53648006 – Enteroviral infection
Nonspecific febrile illness:
- Serious bacterial infection (urinary tract infection, bacteremia, meningitis) – Consider in young infants, ill-appearing children, or patients with prolonged fever without a source.
- Other viral syndromes (influenza, HHV-6 [eg, roseola], parechoviruses) – May be difficult to clinically differentiate.
- Community acquired bacterial pneumonia (Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae) – Focal lung and radiographic findings.
- Atypical pneumonia (Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae) – Typically mild, insidious onset; can cause diffuse rales and wheezing.
- Asthma / reactive airways disease – Enteroviruses may trigger asthma / reactive airways disease.
- Other respiratory viruses (respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, rhinovirus, coronavirus [eg, SARS, MERS-CoV], adenovirus, human metapneumovirus) – Can present with similar clinical findings.
- Noninfectious heart failure – Lacks prodromal illness, associated viral symptoms, multiorgan system involvement.
- Bacterial pericarditis (Staphylococcus aureus, H. influenzae, M. pneumoniae) – Typically high fever, purulent pericardial effusion, elevated inflammatory markers. Positive blood or pericardial bacterial cultures.
- Other viruses (adenovirus, influenza, etc) – Can present similarly and be difficult to differentiate. Viral PCR of nasopharynx, bronchoalveolar lavage, blood, pericardial fluid, or myocardial biopsy can assist in identification.
- Bacterial meningitis (S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis) – Ill-appearing children with high fever and meningeal signs. Typically high CSF white blood count (>500/mm3), low CSF glucose, high CSF protein. Positive CSF gram stain and culture.
- Viral meningitis / encephalitis / paralytic disease (parechoviruses, HSV, West Nile virus, and other arboviruses, influenza, adenovirus, Epstein-Barr virus) – Can present similarly and be difficult to differentiate clinically. MRI, lumbar puncture, and PCR and/or serologic testing of CSF, serum, and nonsterile sites can be useful to identify etiologic agent. | <urn:uuid:36bc387b-4b8a-42f9-8720-4c00ccd3a5e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visualdx.com/visualdx/diagnosis/enteroviral+infection?diagnosisId=50214&sex=F&age=5&moduleId=7&contentModuleId=102 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.821084 | 1,306 | 3.4375 | 3 |
British summer is in full swing, temperatures recently hit mid/high 30’s, in parts of the UK. With such high temperatures, visitors should take extra care when out and about in Newstead Abbey & Gardens.
It is always good to prepare for a hot day out, whether that be with yourself, a loved one or a group of friends or family!
To make your visit a little easier, we have a few tips to help you take extra care if outdoors:
WATER IS YOUR BEST FRIEND
Keeping yourself hydrated is important every day, but in this scorching heat:
- Carry a bottle of water with you at all times.
- Remember that our cafés can top up bottles with tap water, as part of the refill scheme – so refill using nearby jugs or ask at the café till point.
- Water is your dog’s best friend too, so be sure to bring or ask for water for your dog too.
KEEP COOL WITH SHADE
- Make sure to lather you and your family with sunscreen, with a high enough SPF for your skin type!
- With plenty of tree cover in the park, keep to shaded areas to keep you as cool as possible.
- If you don’t have sunscreen, be sure to keep indoors and away from the sun.
- If walking your dog in the grounds, make sure to keep them with you at all times, and consider walking in shade and at the cooler periods of the day, such as, first thing in the morning, to avoid the hottest part of the day. Do not leave dogs alone in the car, as like you, they too will need plenty of fresh air and shady walks.
- If you are exercising, avoid doing so during the hottest parts of the day – and once again stay hydrated!
DRESS YOUR BEST FOR THE SUNSHINE
- Wear light & cool clothing on hot days and perhaps carry a cardigan for cooler evenings and sun protection.
- Wear a sun hat to give you extra shade, plus makes you extra stylish in the sun.
- Top it off nicely with a pair of sunglasses. Not only will it help you see better in the sun, they can help protect your eyes too!
- Newstead Grounds are bigger than you think, wear footwear that is comfortable. Your feet will thank you for it!
PICNIC WITH CARE
- Find a spot where the sun won’t scorch you. Always be mindful of where you can place yourself or the people that are joining you; there are plenty of spots near trees, so you can catch some shade while enjoying the summer.
- Picnics are welcome, but remember BBQ’s are not allowed in the park or gardens, for the safety of all wildlife!
- Be considerate of others, remembering to take litter home with you.
- Rubbish can be a serious problem in the park. Not only does it damage the lavish scenery, but it also harms wildlife – so we appreciate all the help from so many visitors and volunteers!
PARK IS HOME TO THE WILDLIFE
- Many resident peacocks and a range of wildlife roam the grounds freely; they are beautiful and majestic animals, but still wild so the grounds are their home.
- Be mindful to keep dogs on leads and away from wildlife for the safety and enjoyment of the wildlife and your peaceful walk.
- Walk along paths and keep away from long grass as this is where deer typically spend time with their young.
Enjoying Newstead Abbey & Gardens can certainly be a memorable day for you and everyone involved as long as we strive to take care of ourselves and those around us – so be safe if you are outdoors in the heat during the summer.
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Pushing for change, some in Jordan point to king
It’s usually a few younger protesters who break out in the chant - startling and almost unheard of in this country where the monarchy has always been almost sacrosanct - “Down, down with the king.”
The rest of the opposition, including its biggest and most powerful faction, the Muslim Brotherhood, are quick to make clear they don’t demand the ouster of Jordan’s King Abdullah II. But after the past week’s angry protests sparked by a government hike in gas and fuel prices, they warn that this usually placid U.S. ally will be thrown into turmoil unless the king allows change.
The unusually violent protests have shifted the focus of discontent from the government, at which anger was focused in the past, squarely on Abdullah for the first time. As a result, the monarch faces the biggest test yet of his democratic reform program, which his critics say does not do enough to end his monopoly on power. Anger over the price hikes has given the opposition, led by the Brotherhood, a rallying point to push him for more dramatic moves.
At the heart of the political standoff is a half-British king trying to forestall Arab Spring-style uprisings that have toppled autocratic regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Libya and led to the civil war in Syria. A darling of the United States and other Western governments who celebrate him and his beautiful Palestinian wife as modern celebrity-monarchs, the king still sits at the helm of a sprawling and largely feared intelligence service, a carefully lubricated patronage system and a U.S.-trained military.
His moribund economy is largely dependent on aid from Washington, Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing Arab states. Government opponents say their phones are bugged and homes watched. At times, such as during the 2010 parliamentary elections, his government was accused of blatantly rigging the vote.
“We’re not calling for the king’s ouster, but for him to listen to the people’s demands and embark on real and serious reforms,” Zaki Bani Irsheid, a leading figure in the Islamic Action Group, the political arm of the Brotherhood, told a press conference Monday.
“We did not raise the slogan of toppling the king, but it is being called for by some in street protests, a precedent which indicates that popular tension is growing and an explosion is looming.”
The Islamic Action Front now heads a newly created coalition of the fragmented opposition groups. But its control is loose, and the coalition uncomfortably brings together a wide ideological spectrum, from Islamists to Arab nationalists to communists.
Around 400 demonstrators protested Monday in front of the prime minister’s office, blocking the road in a traffic circle and demanding the reversal of the fuel and gas price hikes. A few young secular activists in the crowd chanted “down, down with the king” and “Abdullah, you either reform or go.”
Calls for the king’s ouster reflect “the anger over the price hikes, which dealt a serious blow to the vast majority of Jordanians, whose per capital income is $3,000,” said Khaled Ramadan, a prominent activist representing Arab nationalists.
“But in a broader perspective, the tension started building up over the snail-pace of reforms, with no visible sign that the government and its security apparatus, which maintains the upper hand, are taking a step back,” he said.
University senior Sohaib Breizat, 21, member of the largely secular Hirak movement comprising young Jordanians, said, “We want a total hands-off for Jordanian security in our daily lives.”
“Why do Jordanians need certificates of good conduct from Jordanian intelligence when they apply for government jobs or drivers’ license?” he asked. “We keep asking for more freedoms, but we get less. It seems our calls are falling on deaf ears.”
Hirak surfaced in the wake of the Arab Spring through Internet social networking.
“We want justice and equality, better opportunities for everyone, including women, jobs for college graduates, respect for our right to free speech, opinion, union and assembly without security interference or intimidation,” said a Hirak spokesman, Suhaib Assaf. “We want government transparency and a serious clampdown on corruption, as well as an end to nepotism and bureaucracy.”
Jordan has some of the aspects of a police state - the often-thuggish secret police; the manipulated elections; the fawning royal stories in the government media; the hundreds of billboards with the king’s face gazing upon his subjects.
However, the reality is complicated. It’s illegal to criticize the king here, but prosecutions are rare and those convicted often get royal pardons. The secret police are feared, but are not a constant, threatening presence as in Syria. If some politicians say their phones are tapped, even the harshest critics speak fairly openly.
Abdullah has faced little public criticism at home since he ascended to the throne in 1999. After the Arab Spring’s eruption in late 2010, Jordan has seen frequent but small protests.
Then, last Tuesday, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour hiked the prices of cooking and heating gas by 54 percent and some oil derivatives by up to 28 percent, saying that was necessary to reduce a record budget deficit and growing foreign debt and tackle high unemployment, poverty and waves of Syrian refugees, who are straining meager resources. He said the move was part of Jordan’s efforts to secure a badly needed $2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to shore up the kingdom’s shaky finances amid a shortfall of Arab donations this year.
The protest backlash was unusually violent, with one person killed and 75 others, including 58 policemen, injured. There was also a change in tone, as angry protesters blamed Abdullah for the price rise, accusing him of supporting state corruption by allegedly pocketing state money to spend on personal pleasures.
It was a rare departure from the norm of revering Abdullah’s Hashemite dynasty. Its line of descent from the Prophet Muhammad, combined with the elaborate system of patronage aimed at powerful local leaders, has earned the family immense loyalty among the Bedouin tribes who make up the traditional core of Jordanian society.
Protests have dwindled to a handful per day this week, and violence has waned. But the opposition has vowed to continue until the price hikes are revoked.
The protesters also want broader political gains.
The Islamic Action Front’s leader, Hamza Mansour, said as a first step, the king must dismiss Ensour and “form a national salvation government that would include Islamists and other opposition figures to change controversial legislation, like the election law, and help parliament regain its independence so that it can impartially monitor the government and official corruption.”
So far, Abdullah has maintained control, partly by relinquishing some of his absolute powers to parliament. His reform roadmap envisions parliamentary elections slated for Jan. 23 as a vehicle toward having an elected prime minister for the first time in the country’s history. Previously, it was the king’s prerogative to appoint the premier.
He also changed 42 articles, or one-third of Jordan’s 60-year-old constitution, to ensure an end to government manipulation over parliament. He created a constitutional court to monitor the application of the law. Other new laws encourage a multiparty system, allow Jordanians to elect mayors and city councils and lift restrictions on rallies and public gatherings.
Abdullah also changed the election law. But the Brotherhood responded by announcing a boycott of the upcoming election, saying the legislation favors locally-based conservative candidates rather than parties with an ideological base. The government said it has adopted a globally recognized system of elections, and that the Islamists’ alternative would inflate their own representation.
Information Minister Sameeh Maaytah said the groundwork was laid for reform, but that “change can’t happen overnight.”
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I’m challenging you to a Nutrition WOD of the Day Challenge *wellness of the day. Time to move on and keep making progress. Who is ready to start getting lean with me? Stop counting calories because it’s unnecessary and ridiculous. Stop eating processed food. Let’s get rid of 3 processed items for the week that you are consuming regularly. East less crap – Carbonated drinks, Refined sugar, Artificial sweeteners and colours and Processed Foods! It’s easy to reach for food that doesn’t serve you especially through a drive through. How can you drop weight? Eat proteins, fibre and healthy fats and carbs in the form of veggies and protein. Here are some suggestions that work for me.
Nutrition WOD of the Day Challenge
Stop being on a life DIET. Stop struggling and start living. If you want a DIET here is mine (D.I.E.T: Do It Everyday Trina!):
- Eat food in it’s natural state
- Eat lots of veggies
- No processed garbage
- Eat protein at every meal
- Healthy Snack between meals
- Drink lots of water
- Never go more than 3 hours without eating
- Eat healthy fats
- Sweat daily
- Move daily
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This project is best completed on a day with low humidity because the salt will absorb moisture in the air. Mix the salts in the bowl and mix properly. Add food coloring and stir with a steel spoon until well blended. (Meals coloring will stain plastic or wooden spoons.) Add glycerin and about 4 to 5 drops of important oil; stir again. Modify the coloring if desired by adding more food coloring. Spoon the coloured salts into decorative glass jars or gift baggage. Add a present tag with directions to make use of 1/3 to 1/2 cup of the salts in a bath.Older children can even uncover hours of enjoyable by engaged on creative projects involving salt. Let’s check out a few of these advanced initiatives in the subsequent section.
Fashionable cigarette filters don’t pose any main, enhanced danger to cigarette smokers (worse than really smoking the cigarette it’s attached to) in response to the businesses that produce them 1. However, this has not all the time been the case. In the early 1950s, Phillip Morris was utilizing a form of asbestos in its cigarette filters as a result of, at the time, asbestos was thought to be safe 1. The consequence was a bizarre and distinctive type of cancer found in people who smoked these cigarettes. Phillip Morris additionally suffered filter issues in the 1990s when a batch of frequently filtered cigarettes was contaminated with a pesticide. Both of those merchandise, Вейп для трав in keeping with snopes.com, which revealed the historic accounts, had been recalled once the danger was realized. It’s scandals like this that endure and make the rumors of unusual chemicals being positioned in modern cigarette filters so compelling for folks 1.
The start of All of itHeemeyer’s story, at least the interesting half, begins in Granby, a town in a excessive basin of the Rocky Mountains in northern Colorado. Granby, elevation somewhere around 8,000 ft (2,438 meters), is small. Fewer than 2,000 people stay there now, and it was no greater than that in June 2004, when Heemeyer bulldozed his way into historical past. | <urn:uuid:c62b07a2-6063-45ff-936b-cd6a8a97b54f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prestigecompanionsandhomemakers.com/initiatives-embody-making-salt-dough-much-like-molding-clay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951379 | 455 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Langmede History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Origins Available:
Of all the Anglo-Saxon names to come from Britain, Langmede is one of the most ancient. The name is a result of the original family having lived in the village of Langmead, in the county of Devon. This surname was used to refer to those individuals who lived at the lang-mead, which literally means the long meadow.
Early Origins of the Langmede family
The surname Langmede was first found in Devon, where the name dates back to at least the 14th century. There are numerous different spellings of the surname.
Early History of the Langmede family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Langmede research. Another 51 words (4 lines of text) covering the years 180 and 1808 are included under the topic Early Langmede History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Langmede Spelling Variations
Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Langmede were recorded, including Langmead, Langemead, Langmeed, Langmede, Langemede, Langmaid, Langmayd, Langmade, Longmead, Longmate and many more.
Early Notables of the Langmede family (pre 1700)
More information is included under the topic Early Langmede Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Langmede family
To escape oppression and starvation at that time, many English families left for the "open frontiers" of the New World with all its perceived opportunities. In droves people migrated to the many British colonies, those in North America in particular, paying high rates for passages in cramped, unsafe ships. Although many of the settlers did not make the long passage alive, those who did see the shores of North America perceived great opportunities before them. Many of the families that came from England went on to make essential contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Research into various historical records revealed some of first members of the Langmede family emigrate to North America: Robert Langmead, who settled at Pouch Cove in Newfoundland in 1841. William Langmayd was registered in Petty Harbour in 1708. Richard Langmeed sailed to St. John's, Newfoundland in 1841 and B.E. Langmade landed in San Francisco in 1852..
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In a statement issued on 12 May, the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE points out:
"The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) expresses its solidarity with the struggle of the working class, the poor farmers, the youth, and the women of Colombia against the anti-popular measures of the reactionary government of Iván Duque. The government promotes the interests of local monopolies against the Colombian people, forges alliances with the USA in the imperialist plans against other peoples in the region, and essentially cooperates with paramilitary groups that have murdered hundreds of grass-roots fighters in the past years.
The fact that the government was forced to withdraw the bill that provided for tax increases for the people under the weight of the strikes and the mass people’s demonstrations is evidence of the power of class struggle, the capability of the people to hinder the barbaric attack of the capital.
We unequivocally denounce the bourgeois state repression and violence that led to the death of dozens of demonstrators in the past days. We express our condolences to the families and friends of the victims and demand that the murderers are punished.
We particularly express our solidarity with the Colombian Communist Party, which, facing difficult circumstances, is at the forefront of the struggles to defend the life and the rights of the people. The KKE and the labour–people’s movement in our country stand by the side of the Colombian people and their just struggle; a fact that was also expressed at the strike rallies for Labour Day.
Proletarians of all countries unite!"
PAME: Solidarity with the workers of Colombia
In a statement issued today, 18 May, the All-Workers Militant Front stresses out that according to the latest data published by Colombia's Trade Unions, around 50 protesters have been killed, more than 1,600 have been injured and over 1,000 have been arrested during the last period of nationwide demonstrations.
At the same time PAME adds that "such a situation has been desired by the European Union and Europe's governments which escalate violence and repression against workers, criminalize demonstrations and mobilizations, while they abolish trade unionist rights and freedoms, such as the right to Strike".
"The governments of the capital in all over the world are taking measures in order to protect the competitiveness and profitability of the big business groups. The attack against labour rights goes hand by hand with the sharpening of repression and authoritarianism", reads the PAME statement.
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National Ranch Water Day celebrates the creation of Texas’s version of a skinny margarita. It is also recognized as the “Unofficial Cocktail of West Texas,” and is a mix of tequila, lime, and soda water. Are you wondering why the people of Texas love this drink so much? Well, it’s because Ranch Water is delicious in taste, low in calories, and helps one cool down! Created by RANCH2O Spirits, the drink is all you need to experience a night out at the bar even while sitting at home. What are you waiting for? Drink it up!
History of National Ranch Water Day
What is Ranch Water and why does it deserve a special day? Well, anyone who has ever tasted the delicious alcoholic drink will know what we are talking about. Ranch Water is a cocktail drink made with lime, sparkling mineral water, and tequila. The sparkling water used in the drink, however, is known as Topo Chico, a Mexican brand of mineral water.
Due to the use of ingredients from the region, Ranch Water is a drink that is specifically found in Mexico and is amongst the most popular drinks in the area. Trust us, a visit to Mexico is not complete till one has tried the cocktail!
Like any other cocktail, Ranch Water was also a creation that started as an experiment. Nearly 15 years ago, the drink was created in Austin by Kevin Williamson, the award-winning owner of Ranch 616. Initially, he kept adding mineral water to his margarita as he continued to drink it. But as he began to enjoy the taste, he thought of adding other ingredients, such as fresh lime juice and a splash of orange cordial, and voila! Ranch Water, Texas’s iconic cocktail, was born.
However, it wasn’t until February 2021 that National Ranch Water Day was created by RANCH2O Spirits. The brand formulated the idea of a special day to celebrate the exquisite drink, and promote the canned version of the cocktail, which is now mass-produced by the company.
National Ranch Water Day timeline
The word ‘cocktail’ is mentioned in a British newspaper.
The first cocktail, known as Sazerac, is developed in New Orleans.
“The Bartender's Guide” is published and lists recipes for cocktails.
The Piña Colada is invented at the Beachcomber Bar.
National Ranch Water Day FAQs
Why is it called Ranch Water?
It is believed that the name honors the ranchers who founded the Don Celso Distillery.
What flavor is the original Ranch Water?
The original Ranch Water hard seltzer is made with a taste of agave nectar and lime.
What is the new Ranch Water?
Topo Chico recently announced a new Ranch Water, which will be made with lime juice.
National Ranch Water Day Activities
Head out for Ranch Water
To celebrate the day, step out with your friends to have some Ranch Water. All you have to do is visit different bars so you get to experience a new sitting with every drink you order.
Find out the history
Ranch Water has a rich history like all other drinks we spot on the menu. Read up all that you can to find out how the drink was created or better yet, watch a documentary regarding its history.
Host a Ranch Water drinking competition
Mark the day and celebrate the creation of Ranch Water. Have a Ranch Water drinking competition and award the person who drinks the most cans in ten minutes.
5 Interesting Facts About Cocktails
The sales of Ranch Water
They hit $4.1 billion in 2020.
A world record in 2013
Sheldon Wiley made 18 cocktails in one minute.
Margaritas drunk in the U.S.
185,000 margaritas are drunk hourly.
The Commonwealth cocktail
It contains 71 ingredients to honor the 71 countries.
The highest cocktail bar
It is on the 118th floor of Hong Kong’s ICC Tower.
Why We Love National Ranch Water Day
It brings back the love for cocktails
Yes, we all love to have a scotch on the rocks, or simply a glass of wine. However, cocktails have a flavor of their own and are super easy to drink, whether you are at a club, or having dinner at a restaurant.
It appreciations Ranch Water
Believe it or not, Ranch Water is a tasty drink and has gained a large fan following for a reason. Hence, keeping a day to honor a drink this delicious is crucial! Who knows, it might inspire people to create their drinks.
It’s a fun day/night
The day provides a fun night out for all those who spend all week working and simply need to relax and enjoy. Get together with your friends and enjoy a few Ranch Water cocktails.
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Attention alarmists: the latest version of the world's most widely used climate model arbitrarily increases the fictitious forcing from CO2 'back-radiation' and non-existent positive-feedbacks from clouds by 25%, from a fallacious 3.2C to 4.0C per doubling of CO2.
Journal of Climate 2011 ; e-View doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00197.1
The Evolution of Climate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks in the Community Atmosphere Model
A. Gettelman et al
Abstract: We use the major evolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) to diagnose climate feedbacks, understand how climate feedbacks change with different physical parameterizations, and identify the processes and regions that determine climate sensitivity. In the evolution of CAM from version 4 to version 5, the water vapor, temperature, surface albedo and lapse rate feedbacks are remarkably stable across changes to the physical parameterization suite. However, the climate sensitivity increases from 3.2K in CAM4 to 4.0K in CAM5. The difference is mostly due to (a) more positive cloud feedbacks and (b) higher CO2 radiative forcing in CAM5. The inter-model differences in cloud feedbacks are largest in the tropical trade cumulus regime and in the mid-latitude storm-tracks. The sub-tropical stratocumulus regions do not contribute strongly to climate feedbacks due to their small area coverage. A “modified Cess” configuration for atmosphere only model experiments is shown to reproduce slab ocean model results. Several parameterizations contribute to changes in tropical cloud feedbacks between CAM4 and CAM5, but the new shallow convection scheme causes the largest mid-latitude feedback differences and the largest change in climate sensitivity. Simulations with higher cloud forcing in the mean state have lower climate sensitivity. This work provides a methodology for further analysis of climate sensitivity across models and a framework for targeted comparisons to observations that can help constrain climate sensitivity to radiative forcing. | <urn:uuid:8811634a-4589-472b-9c51-57f59ee17a9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/09/climate-scientists-arbitrarily-increase.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.85992 | 429 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The English High Court (the highest civil court) has blocked the publication of a scientific paper that would have revealed the full details of a zero day vulnerability in Volkswagen’s immobiliser mechanisms – the temporary injunction against publication has been granted to stop the publication of “Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer” – due to be presented at a Usenix security conference.
One of the paper’s authors is Flavio D. Garcia, who is based in the UK (the University of Birmingham) and so would have to respect the injunction or face contempt proceedings (and the possibility of prison) – the two other authors Roel Verdult and Baris Ege, both of Radboud University Nijmegen are not in or from the UK so it’s not clear to me how effective the injunction would be against them if they opted to defy it.
It’s difficult to see this as an open-and-shut case about academic freedom – as Volkswagen were not trying to supress the fact of the vulnerability, merely the details of how to conduct the crack – but it does concern me. Many security researchers make it their normal practice to publish the full details of zero day exploits – some arguing that the pressure thus applied is the only way to ensure the problems get fixed. It’s a legitimate argument to make and it should not, in my view, be a matter for the courts to judge on as a matter of routine.
I am not a lawyer but my understanding is that temporary injunctions are usually granted pending a full hearing – to preserve the status quo ante while the full legal arguments are heard: so this may have some time to run yet.
- Researcher’s paper banned for containing luxury car security codes (rawstory.com)
- Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars (guardian.co.uk)
- Scientist banned from revealing codes used to start luxury cars (zendialogue.wordpress.com)
- Court Prohibits Hacker from Revealing Automobile Security Flaw (darkgovernment.com)
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Teachers across Hawaii are getting the attention of school officials and their state legislature by exercising an old union tactic, work-to-rule. They added a local Hawaiian tradition, sign waving, to bring students and community members on board.
Two years after an imposed contract stuck them with wage and benefit cuts, the teachers are building momentum to win a better deal in 2013.
Each Thursday, teachers arrive exactly when school starts—which is late for most teachers, who plan lessons, make photocopies, and prepare for the day in the early hours. When school gets out at 3 p.m., they leave. On these weekly protest days, there is no after-school tutoring, grading papers, lesson planning, supervising clubs, or planning homecoming or proms with students.
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Before and after school, the teachers gather to wave signs outside their schools, along roads, and over bridges, adapting a Hawaii tradition of waving signs to bring attention to causes, political campaigns, high school sports teams, and other community events. After the morning sign-waving session, they march into the school in unison.
What started at James Campbell High, Hawaii’s largest school, just outside of Honolulu, spread to 51 schools in two weeks.
Theresa Schubert heard about the protest from Campbell teachers and took charge of getting her Honolulu high school to join in the action. She knew the school would miss her in the afternoons—because she is the student activities coordinator.
“I know the truth,” she said. “If I were to clock out at 3 p.m. according to our contract, nothing would happen.”
If teachers, who are salaried employees, did not work with students after school and during their lunch breaks, said Campbell teacher Tammy Jones, “the clubs would stop. A lot of the students wouldn’t have any safe, productive activities.”
High Turnover Hurts Teacher Morale
“In Hawaii we have an education problem,” said Corey Rosenlee, a 15-year Campbell High social studies teacher. “We don’t have enough teachers to fill the classrooms.”
Rosenlee was one of the initial organizers of his school’s work-to-rule protest. He blames Hawaii’s startlingly high teacher turnover rate on low teacher pay and morale. The state loses more than half of new teachers after five years. Nationally, the rate is much lower.
“The revolving door hurts our students,” Rosenlee said.
A starting teacher’s salary is $31,000 in Hawaii, compared to $47,000 in Chicago and $52,000 in Washington, D.C. Hawaii teacher activists argue the high cost of living in those cities is similar to that of Hawaii, a small but densely populated state.
Hawaii has a high number of teacher vacancies that are filled by “emergency” teachers, who work without a teaching degree and for less pay.
Like teachers in the continental U.S., Hawaii teachers are under pressure to accept performance evaluations based on standardized tests, said Doug Robertson, a fourth grade teacher in Waipahu. They are also facing cuts to health benefits and already low teacher salaries.
Teachers have already paid for the budget crisis in Hawaii, which has the only statewide school district in the U.S. They took cuts to pay and health benefits when Governor Neil Abercrombie imposed a “last, best, and final” contract offer in June 2011, forcing them to take the same concessions other public workers accepted.
The Hawaii State Teachers Association negotiated a compromise settlement, but members voted it down. The compromise would have included performance-based pay and changes to teacher’s evaluations, required for states to meet federal “Race to the Top” goals. It would also have started a two-tier system for teachers. For instance, new hires would get fewer sick days than veteran teachers would, said Robertson.
“They are trying to play us against future teachers,” he said.
The imposed contract expires in 2013. Teachers are mobilizing now so that these negotiations don’t end as badly as the 2011 negotiations did.
Robertson started prepping his co-workers to protest, even before he heard about the work-to-rule action at Campbell. “I went around after school, to almost every single teacher,” he said, “just asking people, ‘Is everyone as frustrated as we are?’”
Jones, who has a Ph.D. in education, said she was frustrated too. “I just felt stuck,” she said, after the union encouraged teachers to write letters to the governor. “We felt we needed to do a more aggressive action.”
High school teachers started meeting to discuss how they were going to bring more attention and action to their fight for a better contract.
Naming themselves Hawaii Teachers Taking a Stand, they picked the work-to-rule strategy to highlight how valuable teachers are by working only the minimum hours required in their contract. For teachers, like many workers, the eight hours required by their employer is only a portion of their total contribution to their schools and their students.
“What surprised us was how supportive the students have been,” Jones said. “They aren’t mad at us. They are out with us.” Students have joined in the action by meeting teachers after school and waving signs supporting their demand for a fair contract and fair pay.
Six hundred people gathered at Campbell High’s after-school protest November 15. Graphics teachers printed t-shirts with the slogan “You can’t put students first if you put teachers last” and signs for supporters to carry that read “Honk if you love teachers.”
Working to rule is a versatile tactic. Sometimes it is used to draw attention to a worksite issue like short staffing or unsafe conditions. It can also be a pressure point, letting the work pile up or slow down to push the employer to settle a contract. Communications workers used the work-to-rule strategy to stop concessions at Verizon in 2003. Workers at the Staley corn processing plant in Illinois used work-to-rule for nine months in 1992 and cut the plant’s production in half.
Hawaii state employees cannot legally strike until they resolve pending charges at the state labor board, so teachers turned to work-to-rule as a creative way to get the state government’s attention and build support among teachers and community members.
Schubert has bad memories of participating in the strike 12 years ago. “It was disheartening,” she said. “The public was not sympathetic. People were yelling at us, swearing. They said we were whining.
“I think this is a smarter way to go,” she said. “Raising awareness in the community, to try to get the public on our side first.”
Schubert, who is raising five children, is definitely feeling the budget cuts imposed on teachers. She wants to win a contract, but she also sees this as a long-term struggle. “Being a part of this is not just for me,” she said. “It’s for those who want to be teachers in Hawaii.”
Members of the hotel union, UNITE HERE, which has a large presence in Hawaii, came out to support sign waving protests at schools yesterday. The two unions have historically worked together. For instance, in solidarity with hotel workers, teachers boycotted Hyatt hotels when planning student events like proms.
Hawaii Teachers Taking a Stand has also drafted a bill, called “A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom Act,” which members are circulating around schools to offer their solution to the education crisis. The bill proposes to increase school funding, bring Hawaii teachers’ salaries up to par, impose a more objective evaluation system based on observation, and lengthen the school day.
Rosenlee said he is inspired by the diversity of approaches to resisting the current attacks on education—from the California ballot proposition that stopped education cuts by raising taxes on the wealthy, to the strike that won a pay raise for Chicago Teachers this year. “I tell people, ‘They were able to get an increase because they were able to stand up,’” he said.
Rosenlee emphasized the grassroots nature of the Hawaii teachers’ actions. “We came up with this on our own,” he said. “It’s a teacher-generated movement.”
Reprinted with permission from Labor Notes.
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This course introduces students to the conduct of political research using quantitative methodologies. The methods are examined in the context of specific political research activities like public opinion surveys, voting behavior, Congressional behavior, comparisons of political processes in different countries, and the evaluation of public policies. Students participate in joint class projects and conduct individual projects.
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Proper financial planning is a must if you want to achieve your financial goals, and here’s how mutual funds can help you get there.
Mutual funds are a vehicle for investing in a diverse pool of assets. Depending on the level of risk you want to take, building a portfolio of mutual funds with either equity funds or debt funds is advisable. This can improve your finances by improving returns, saving tax, helping you achieve your financial goals etc. Here are five ways in which mutual funds boost your finances.
1. Market-linked returns
Unlike traditional investment avenues, mutual funds do not offer fixed returns. Mutual funds give you market-linked returns; that means if the market performs well, the returns will be good as well. This helps your fund grow quicker than it would have with just a traditional investment. Market linked funds like ELSS, MFs and ULPPs offer returns as high as 25%, and are long-term in nature. On the other hand, traditional plans usually offer returns ranging from 8%-9.5%, which are applicable at the time of investing.
There is a flip side to this, however. Since it is possible for markets to perform poorly as well, you could lose a part of your portfolio at times. Hence, it is important to stay invested over a longer period, and that you choose your mutual funds based on your risk appetite. Moreover, diversification of investments can help you spread the risk across sectors and caps .
2. Benefits of Diversification
Even if you do not have a high-risk appetite, a mutual fund is a good investment option for you as it allows you to break up your investments into smaller funds with varying degrees of risk. You can choose to invest in cash funds, bonds, and equities.
This will reduce the risk to your investment. Even if the markets fall, a part of your money will remain safe in debt and cash funds. If the markets perform well, then you will benefit as equity funds can fetch you high returns.
3. Tax efficiency
Mutual funds not only help to increase your wealth, but can also reduce the tax burden on your income. For instance, under Section 80C, you can get a maximum tax deduction of Rs. 1.5 lakh by investing in Equity Linked Savings Scheme (ELSS), which is a type of diversified equity mutual fund.
4. Different funds, different goals
Your financial goals are sure to change at different stages of your life. Mutual funds can help you achieve both, short-term and long-term financial goals, as there are different instruments that cater to varying needs.
For instance, investing in bond funds makes an ideal choice to achieve short-term goals. On the other hand, long-term goals can be achieved through investing in balanced and equity funds, and cash funds are ideal for emergency or contingency funds.
Other benefits of investing in mutual funds:
• You can invest as low as Rs. 500 per month via SIP
• You can buy, track, and redeem mutual funds online
• You can redeem mutual funds within 2 to 5 days
• You can refer to the past performance of a mutual fund before making the buying decision
• Your money is managed by experts, and proper guidance will be given to you
5. Better performance than Fixed Deposits
Fixed deposits (FDs) have long been India’s most trusted investment option. But take a moment to look at the returns. You will notice that debt mutual funds offer better returns than FDs.
Aside from better returns, debt mutual funds can be more tax-efficient than FDs as well as you can avail the indexation benefit after three years.
If you make wise choices, mutual funds can do wonders for your finances. Understand the funds and weigh them against your risk appetite. Make an investment that will be suitable for you.
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Agricultural Services Division
Production of high quality agricultural planting material for sale to the farming community and the general public thereby contributing to improved food security
The key responsibilities of the Agricultural Services Division are as follows:
- To produce high quality agricultural planting material for sale to the farming community and the general public thereby contributing to improved food security.
- To expand and conserve germplasm collections of strategic crops of agricultural importance in live genebanks and /or cold storage, so as to ensure sustainability of the Agriculture Sector, for the benefit of both the present and future generations.
The Agricultural Services Division (ASD) is pleased to offer an Appointment and a Pre-Order System for our customers. For further information please click on the following link: https://agriculture.gov.tt/media-releases/re-opening-of-sales-offices-appointment-and-pre-order-system-only/
There are four (4) stations under the purview of the Agricultural Services Division:
- La Reunion Plant Propagation Station
- St Augustine Nurseries, Curepe
- Marper Farm, Manzanilla
- National Seed Bank
The Agricultural Services Division is divided into two (2) sub-divisions:
- Horticulture Subdivision
- Crop Production Subdivision
The Horticulture sub-division encompasses three stations: the La Reunion Plant Propagation Station, the St. Augustine Nurseries and Marper Farm.
At the La Reunion Plant Propagation Station, major emphasis is placed on the production of cocoa plants, breadfruit and coffee as well as avocado, mango and minor fruits nursery plants.
The St. Augustine Nurseries is responsible for the production of citrus nursery plants, mango, avocado, other minor fruit plants as well herbs and spices and selected ornamentals.
Marper Farm propagates avocado, mango, minor fruit, bananas and coconut plants. Various tree crop types are maintained and conserved at all stations including Marper Farm where particular emphasis is placed on the conservation of cocoa germplasm.
Crop Production Sub-division
The Crop Production sub-division comprises of one station, the National Seed Bank (formerly known as the Chaguaramas Agricultural Development Project) which is located at Tucker Valley, Chaguaramas and is responsible for producing locally adapted, true seed material e.g. corn, pigeon peas, ochro, bodi, pumpkin, melongene, hot pepper and other local vegetables. The National Seed Bank is also mandated to conserve germplasm collections of key strategic crops of agricultural importance under cold storage conditions. In addition, root crop planting material are also cultivated and sold at this station such as cassava and sweet potato.
Local seeds are packaged and are sold at all county offices, National Seed Bank, St. Augustine Nurseries, La Reunion Plant Propagation Station and Marper Farm.
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Results from the study showed that supplementation with a natural eggshell membrane ingredient may reduce cartilage turnover and provide joint health benefits like improved joint-recovery time and reduced discomfort post-exercise.
Researchers are pointing to a new study that suggests that a proprietary eggshell membrane ingredient may provide joint-recovery benefits post-exercise. The clinical trial,1 recently published in Clinical Interventions in Aging, is also the first to use the cartilage degradation biomarker CTX-II to evaluate the efficacy of a joint-health intervention in healthy subjects.
NEM is a natural eggshell membrane ingredient from Stratum Nutrition (St. Louis). The company’s website states that the ingredient is designed to not only support joint flexibility but to help promote future joint health. Jason Theodosakis, MD, contributing author to this study, explained: “This triple-action NEM ingredient contains naturally occurring hyaluronic acid, chondroitin, and glucosamine, as well as three types of collagen, peptides, and amino acids-providing defense for joint health."
As the authors note in the study, exercise becomes an increasingly important aspect of overall health and joint health as people age, but with age comes decreased flexibility, joint and bone frailty, and reduced balance. The authors also point out that many existing studies support exercise as a way to relieve osteoarthritis symptoms, especially in the knees and hips. But even moderate exercise, the authors write, can result in joint stiffness and discomfort.
One of the main goals of this study was to determine whether oral supplementation with the eggshell membrane ingredient could reduce exercise-induced joint damage, or cartilage turnover (as indicated by the cartilage degradation biomarker CTX-II, assessed via urine samples), either directly after exercise or 12 hours post-exercise. A secondary outcome of the study was to determine whether participants supplemented with the eggshell membrane ingredient experienced reductions in exercise-induced joint pain and stiffness. This parameter was evaluated using a participant questionnaire.
In the double-blinded study, 60 healthy, postmenopausal women with no reported prior joint pain were supplemented with either 500 mg NEM eggshell membrane or the equivalent dosage of a placebo once daily for a period of two consecutive weeks. During the study, participants completed a moderate exercise regimen consisting of 50-100 steps per leg on alternating days. The study authors evaluated cartilage degradation at one and two weeks of supplementation.
Participants who received the NEM ingredient demonstrated improved recovery from exercise-induced joint pain by day 8 of the study, reduced stiffness by day 4, and reduced post-exercise discomfort by day 7. The placebo group, meanwhile, did not show any significant differences in immediate pain, recovery pain, and recovery stiffness compared with baseline.
In addition, participants supplemented with NEM showed a lasting decrease in cartilage degradation. The authors state that this is the first evidence suggesting that the biomarker for cartilage degradation, CTX-II, can be used to evaluate the chondroprotective efficacy of joint therapeutics in healthy individuals.
Kevin J. Ruff, PhD, MBA, CCRP, senior director of scientific and regulatory affairs, Stratum Nutrition, commented on the study results in a press statement: “This study is significant not only for the growing body of research supporting NEM’s fast-acting benefits for joint health, but importantly for demonstrating these same benefits for the first time in individuals with truly healthy joints. The novel trial design employed in this study has even received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.” | <urn:uuid:0240e9bd-640a-44fa-b7b2-8d5d566fa338> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/view/eggshell-membrane-reduces-joint-discomfort-post-exercise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939991 | 745 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Toward the Analysis of the Structure of Granular Materials
Keywords:granular systems, local structure, structural transformations, order parameter, phase diagrams, anistropic phase, configurational entropy
The structural ordering, which is observed in granular materials and some other soft-matter objects (e.g., dusty plasma) on the meso- and macroscales, has been studied using geometrical methods (Voronoi diagrams) and by analyzing the structural order parameters. The phase diagrams for the translational and orientational order parameters testify to the native anisotropic character of granular materials. The model of lattice gas entropy has been used to describe
the vertical density distribution in granular materials in a gravitational field. The obtained theoretical results agree well with experimental data and reproduce them in the nearest vicinity of the states with maximum packing.
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The Weeping River is an amazing bedtime story for kids
It was rainy season. Yamuna river was flooded and overflowing. The rushing water was making a loud noise. The Emperor’s palace was situated on the river bank. The Emperor was fast asleep.
It was a peaceful night and so, the sound of the roaring river could be heard very distinctly.
At midnight, the Emperor suddenly woke up because of the noise. He tried his best to go back to sleep but the sound of the water was so frightening and loud that he could not sleep again.
Finally, he got up and went near the window. The stars were twinkling in the sky and the waters of Yamuna were sparkling under their light. Hearing the gushing water, the Emperor thought, could it be that the river is crying? He thought for a long time but he could not find the answer.
At last, unable to sleep, he opened a book and started reading it. In a short time, while reading the book his eyes became heavy and he dozėd off.
In the morning, when the Emperor came to the court, he asked the courtiers, “Why is the river crying? But no one could give a satisfactory answer to it. Emperor thought that only Birbal could answer his query and so, he sent for Birbal.
Birbal came at once. Emperor Akbar asked him the same question. Birbal said, “I will give you my answer only when I will listen to the river with my own ears.
The Emperor agreed, “Well, then tonight, you listen to the river!” In the night, it was calm and quiet everywhere and the river could be heard weeping. Birbal was with the Emperor in his palace.
Again, the Emperor asked him the same question. Then Birbal said, “Your Majesty, the river is going to her husband’s (the sea’s) place from her father (mountain). She is feeling very sad to leave her father’s house and so, she’s weeping.
The Emperor and Other Cartiers were very pleased with Birbal’s reply.
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Portugual’s Douro Valley has a storied wine history that dates back centuries, most notably from the time of its demarcation as a region in 1756. One of the original properties within that demarcation is Quinta da Pacheca which we were lucky enough to visit just a few short months ago.
The name ‘Pacheca’ is derived from Lady Mariana Pacheco Perreira who was the property owner in 1738 according to a document of that same year.
Prior to that, the property is referenced as far back as 1551 where it was a vineyard belonging to the Monasteries of Salzedas and St. João de Tarouca. It is a stunning estate (something we’d come to expect with every winery in the region) that covers approximately 75 hectares in the lower Douro, in the village of Cambres.
This renowned historical property began to embrace modernization and increased production when it was purchased by D. José Freire de Serpa Pimentel at the turn of the 20th Century.
Back then, modernization meant the construction of 8 granite stone tanks where some of Pacheca’s red wines are still vinified today as part of a limited production offering. It also meant replanting the vineyards into single-variety-blocks which was practically unheard of at the time.
Quinta da Pacheca was one of the first wineries in the region to bottle DOC (denominação de origem controlada) wines under its own brand and in 1977, and, under the guidance of D. Eduardo Mendia Freire de Serpa Pimentel, was the first in Portugal to produce white wines from Gewurztraminer, Riesling, and Sauvignon Blanc.
In the mid 1990’s, Pacheca began focusing on enotourism by offering guided tours and culinary classes (more on that a little later), along with the construction of the Wine House Hotel which opened in 2009 and features a handful of ‘rooms’ in the vineyard built in the shape of wine barrels.
Yes, those wine barrel rooms you’ve seen on social media actually exist and aren’t just ‘instagrammable’, they’re a brilliant way of drawing wine enthusiasts for a truly unique wine stay.
Today the Quinta is owned by Paulo Pereira and Maria do Céu Gonçalves who purchased it in 2012 but the Serpa Pimentel family is still involved, including Maria Serpa Pimentel who continues on as the estate winemaker.
Now back to those cooking classes…
So much of culture is historically rooted around the dinner table. It is where families and friends come together as one. Cooking is one of the main forms of expressing and identifying a culture and good food and good wine have gone together since the beginning of time.
For us, there is no better, and no more enjoyable way to immerse yourself in a local culture than by enjoying the pleasures of the local table, with the locals.
At Pacheca, we got a first-class cooking demonstration from Chef Marcos who was not only incredibly talented but had a warmth and passion for cooking that is beyond infectious. Despite the fact he was cooking that evening for a wedding of about 300 guests, he happily and energetically guided us through a culinary experience that included fresh local octopus, traditional croquettes and a crème brulée that was caramelized with what can best be described as a 19th century iron.
As Chef Marcos took us through the cooking class, Ricardo dos Santos (Tasting Room & Direct Sales Manager) provided a lineup of Pacheca wines that represented the spectrum of their wines, both still and Port. We enjoyed the 2020 Superior Branco, the 2019 Douro Tinto, the 2017 Lagar no. 1 Reserva, the 2018 Vintage Port, their Ruby Reserve Port, the 20-year-old Tawny Port and 40-year-old Tawny Port.
To finish with such a splendid wine and food pairing experience was a truly fitting end to our time in the Douro Valley.
2020 Pacheca Branco Grande Reserva
The round and fruity Branco Grande Reserva shows the fresh acidity that is a Duoro Valley signature. Made from a blend of Viosinho and Rabigato, this wine is raised in 500 litre barrels made of oak and acacia after the initial fermentation in stainless steel tanks. Medium body with slightly fresh acidity, there are notes of melon that layer in with the citrus and mineral to create a nicely balanced wine that charms with its simplicity and refreshing characteristics.
2017 Pacheca Grande Reserva Touriga Nacional
Touriga Nacional is the main grape of the Duoro Valley and the grapes for this wine come from a 32 year old plot overlooking the river at 140 metres of elevation. Notes of plum and white pepper are delivered with a soft, smooth mouthfeel that shows polish and class. Medium body and medium minus tannin, this is a wine designed to deliver immediate pleasure. 18 months in French oak adds texture and a bit of spice.
2017 Lagar No. 1 Reserva
The beautiful dark purple colour informs you that this will be a wine that will impress. There is a lovely nose that evokes dark fruits such as blackberries and black cherries with hints of baking spice. On the plate the body is full with medium plus tannin. Flavours of raspberry and blueberry gain added complexity from the spice notes and bitter chocolate. A serious wine that will reward a bit more time in the cellar. Very complex.
2018 Pacheca Vintage Port
A delicious and deeply coloured vintage port that was nearly opaque in our glasses. The palate comes across as very ripe with blueberry and blackberry flavours delivered with intensity. Vanilla and clove spices add complexity and accentuate the sweetness. There is both power and elegance to this wine. Charming today, it will no doubt evolve in cool cellars for decades to come.
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American consumers are spending more, getting less, and borrowing more to fund this involuntary spending spree.
Retail sales in March were 7% higher than they were in the stimulus-fueled March of 2021, but thanks to inflation, they didn’t get as much bang for their buck.
Seasonally adjusted, retail sales were up 0.5% month-on-month in March at $677 billion.
As WolfStreet put it, “Stimulus Miracle March 2021 was a very tough month to beat. But Americans did blow by it. What they didn’t do is blow by the now raging inflation.”
Unsurprisingly, higher gasoline prices accounted for the bulk of that increase in retail sales as consumers pulled back in other areas. Online sales fell for the second straight month. It was the first back-to-back decline in online sales in over a year.
Increasing retail sales is usually viewed as a good sign for the economy. It signals that consumers are confident and able to spend money. Reuters reported that the pickup in consumer spending is “helping to underpin the economy.”
This is just wishful thinking. Paying more and getting less does not “underpin” an economy.
In a high inflation environment, surging retail sales tell a different story. Consumers spend more because they have to. This is an involuntary spending spree. American consumers are spending hand-over-fist in an effort to keep up with surging prices.
Since retail sales are expressed in dollar amounts, they reflect both units sold and rising prices. That means there are two ways retail sales can go up.
- Consumers buy a larger quantity of stuff.
- The price of the stuff they’re buying goes up.
In other words, just because dollar widget sales increase doesn’t mean people bought more widgets. It could be that they bought fewer widgets but paid more for them.
This is exactly what’s happening in many retail sales segments.
You can see clearly see the pain from rising prices when you look at individual categories in the Consumer Price Index Data.
The CPI for durable goods was up 17.4% year-on-year in March, even with a month-on-month drop of 0.9% thanks to a sharp drop in used vehicle prices after a massive spike.
The CPI for nondurable goods was up a blistering 3.8% in March and up 13.1% year-over-year.
When up put a 7% increase in retail sales in the context of these rapidly rising prices, it doesn’t look so good. Americans are spending a lot more money and they’re getting a lot less for it.
And in order to keep up with surging prices, Americans are turning to plastic. Revolving credit, primarily credit card debt, rose by a whopping 20.7% in February. That helped fund a 0.8% increase in February retail sales – revised up in the latest data from 0.3%.
This raises an important question: how much longer can over-indebted consumers keep paying these upward-spiraling prices? Especially given the fact that the Fed is now raising borrowing costs?
They can’t. Savings are running dry and credit cards have limits.
They’re going to have to start cutting back on many buying a lot of stuff just to keep up with the rising cost of necessities.
This does not bode well for the economic future.
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The current economic situation is characterized by globalization and faster homogenization of products and ideas. The innovations of today can be in a hard competition with the products of other companies the very next day. Having a good product is no guarantee for success any more.
Therefore, it is important to keep an eye on the current and future workforce. It is not just a competition for the best market position but also for the future talents. Often high- performance employees are already hired, so it is important to identify and utilize them. For this reason, we consider that HR development is one of the most effective tools to ensure your economic success.
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In the digital age, we have to face increasingly rapid changes and developments. Every innovation increases the speed of progress itself and the networked globe is presenting new challenges and opportunities. Processes and tasks are getting more and more dynamic while results are increasingly difficult to predict exactly.
From a corporate perspective, these circumstances require flexibility, the willingness to change and an interorganizational dynamic, which can compete with the rate of change of the environment.
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The kitchen counter is the heart of the kitchen. The kitchen counter top material should be hard, stain resistant, scratch resistant and heat resistant. There are some popular materials that usually used as a kitchen counter top such as metal or stainless steel, stone, laminate wood and tile. But stone is the most popular of all.
Stone is more expensive than other materials for kitchen counter top. But more people prefer the stone material because it needs low maintenance, repairable, impervious to water and unaffected by heat. Also, each stone has a special pattern which always different from one to another. So it is like you have an unique artistic masterpiece in your kitchen.
A stone work has to do by a specialist because of its weight and vulnerability to acids. Stone will easily crack if it’s not carefully maintained and not evenly supported. A kitchen’s cabinet top must be flat and level. Not like tile or laminate wood which can easily installed by any person. Even if you just want to shape the edges, you cannot do it by yourself. | <urn:uuid:801ff229-d56e-4977-ba8a-96269aaae745> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.texaspatiobuilder.com/stonework-houston/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952367 | 214 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Latin Name: Quercus robur
Group: Seven Helpers
Emotional Group: Despondency or despair
Chronic condition: Persevering
For those who are struggling and fighting strongly to get well, or in connection with the affairs of their daily life. They will go on trying one thing after another, though their case may seem hopeless. They will fight on. They are discontented with themselves if illness interferes with their duties or helping others. They are brave people, fighting against great difficulties, without loss of hope or effort. [Bach: Twelve Healers and Other Remedies 1936]
Our whole object is to realise our faults, and endeavour so to develop the opposing virtue that the faults will disappear from us like snow melts in the sunshine. Don’t fight your worries: don’t struggle with your disease: don’t grapple with your infirmities: rather forget them in concentrating on the development of the virtue you require. [Bach]
Oak is for the type of people who, although they feel hopeless of any cure, still struggle and are irritated that they are ill. These people have physical diseases which tend to go on for years and, although they feel quite hopeless about themselves, they still go on trying and struggling. The illnesses of this type are where much balance is lost, mental and physical. Mental, such as severe nervous breakdowns, or such types of insanity which can be described as completely unbalanced (where there is great loss of control); and the same in the bodily state, where the patient loses control over parts of the body or its functions. [Bach]
The oak grows on neutral or lime-rich heavy clays and loams.
Oaks are native to Britain and grow throughout the country. Sessile Oaks predominate in the north and west on the poorer soils while Q. robur is more common in the south- east of the country. It is one of the most common native woodland trees.
Oak - Form and Function
It is fashionable to look upon the pattern of growth as an expression of the selfish gene, to see any characteristic as being evolved to further the selfish prospects of the individual species. With Oaks such an idea does not square with reality; functionalism is given the lie by this tree which adapts its behaviour to help others rather than oppose them. True the jays bury the acorns, just as do the squirrels and mice and in that they do a service to the Oak but this illustrates cooperation and not a selfish cunning. The same is true of other relationships throughout nature. The blue tit builds its nest in a hole in the Oak tree and then gathers the nearby insects to feed its young. The relationship between bird, food and nest is clear enough but the advantage does not accrue to the Oak, rather to life at large.
….At the end of it all we can look at the Oak tree and ask ourselves what was it that Bach saw and felt in you that gave a clue to this remedy state? These are people, he said, ‘who are struggling and fighting to get well…they will fight on…they are brave people, fighting against great difficulties.’ That is the Oak. It is the Oak tree and the Oak person: the gesture of the tree corresponds to the gesture of the emotional state. The emotional state corresponds to the tree. Those who take the remedy do not gain in strength and determination. They gain in understanding and that allows them to look afresh at the chronic life difficulty that they face. They begin to see a new way to grow.
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The most striking difference among human populations, or “races” (a loaded term that I discuss in WEIT), is skin color. As we all know, and as the following diagram shows, populations from tropical areas have darker skin than do populations from higher latitudes:
Fig. 1. Distribution of skin pigmentation among human populations (from Encylopedia Brittanica)
What causes this variation? Various theories have been suggested, including sexual selection for different skin tones in different places, but because of the strong correlation between pigmentation and amount of sunlight, biologists have suggested that pigmentation differences are a result of natural selection imposed by different light levels in different places. Here’s the amount of light (measured as total annual UV) in different areas of the world (note: the original figure that was here was incorrect: the source implied that it was yearlong UV incidence but it was actually for the month of November only, which accounted for its asymmetry around the equator).
Fig. 2 (from Jablonski and Chaplin 2010): Annual mean UVA (380 nm). Intensity is indicated by gradations from dark to light varying from 65 to 930 Jm−2 in 10 steps with oceans partially grayed-out.
The idea that pigmentation evolved as an adaptation to light levels is supported by the observation of facultative changes in pigmentation that occur with higher exposure, that is, tanning. Light-skinned people get darker when exposed to more sun.
These differences among populations almost certainly represent more than one evolutionary event. First, although we don’t have fossil skin from our African hominin ancestors like Homo erectus, it’s likely that they were dark, as are African populations now. But even earlier ancestors may have been lighter. If you look at our closest relatives, chimps and gorillas, you see that their skin (at least those parts under the hair) is unpigmented. Only the exposed parts are pigmented. The ancestral color of humans, then, was probably light (but not as light as, say, Swedes) and then, as we became “naked apes,” evolved to a darker shade. (The evolution of hairlessness in our species is another matter, perhaps involving our ability to sweat.)
Then, as the presumably dark populations of humans moved into the Middle East and Europe, they evolved lighter skin color. But when those populations colonized Australia, skin color got dark again. This almost certainly happened, too, when humans moved from northern Asia across the Bering Strait and down into the Americas: those populations that reached Central and South America likely re-evolved dark pigmentation.
What were the selective pressures that caused these changes? For a long time I accepted the “classic” story that was taught in school: populations getting more sunlight evolved darker skin as protection against UV-induced melanomas and the toxic effects of too much vitamin D3, which is produced only by sunlight striking the skin. In low-light areas, skin evolved a lighter shade because we need fair amounts of vitamin D3 to build strong bones (without it, children get rickets, which is why foods like milk often have added vitamin D). Thus, dark-skinned ancestors in the tropics would have reduced vitamin D toxicity and fewer melanomas, while lighter ancestors in the temperate zones would have stronger bones. This could cause differential mortality or reproduction that would explain the differences in pigmentation.
The problem with this story is just that—it’s a story. Although this scenario sounds plausible, there wasn’t much hard evidence supporting it, at least not when I was in school. A recent paper in PNAS by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin summarizes the latest evidence and comes to some different conclusions about the evolution of human skin color. Their findings:
Why tropical populations are darker. Probably not because of melanomas. The authors dismiss this:
Sunburn and skin cancer have negligible effects on reproductive success (7, 18). Nonmelanoma skin cancers are common in older individuals from modern lightly pigmented populations inhabiting sunny climes, but they are rarely fatal or incapacitating (20). Melanoma afflicts younger individuals and is often fatal, but it is much rarer than nonmelanoma skin cancers.
They also point out that most human skin cancers result from light-skinned individuals moving to the tropics, something that wouldn’t have occurred in our ancestors. They conclude that “the effects of skin cancers on reproductive success in humans today are modest, and were probably statistically inconsequential before rapid, long-distance travel and migration.”
Jabonski and Chaplin also criticize the idea that too much vitamin D was another selective force: they say that “overproduction of vitamin D was refuted as the primary cause of the evolution of dark pigmentation by the discovery that hypervitamosis D due to sun exposure is physiologically impossible because of photochemical regulation.”
This was all news to me, and I was glad to hear it. I won’t be telling my students so much about melanoma and vitamin toxicity when discussing the evolution of skin color.
If it’s not skin cancer or hypervitaminosis, then, what were the selective pressures? Jablonski and Chaplin suggest that it’s the quantity of folate (folic acid), one of the B vitamins that plays a crucial role in biosynthesis, including DNA synthesis and repair. In a paper published in 2000 which I had not previously seen (citation below), the authors floated the idea that because folate can be destroyed by sunlight in the blood vessels of the skin, the skin evolved to be darker to keep folate from being destroyed. In the present paper, they specifically mention that an absence of folate could cause neural tube defects (NTDs) in human embryos, serving as a potent selective pressure.
I find the evidence for this theory intriguing but a bit thin. The authors say that there is evidence of a “protective effect of dark pigmentation against folate depletion,” but looking up the studies cited I see only a correlation between “racial” origin and NTDs. This might be due to factors other than pigmentation. The authors seem on stronger ground when claiming that folate protects against neural tube defects, several studies show that supplementing women’s diets with folic acid leads to a significantly lower production of NTDs in their offspring.
Why populations experiencing less solar radiation are lighter. Here the authors pretty much accept the idea that selection is based on the need for vitamin D3, which not only builds bones, but plays a role in the immune response, cell proliferation, and functioning of the brain, heart, and pancreas. Since folate is produced in the epidermis and dermis, it seems plausible that the skin got lighter to ensure adequate amounts of this important vitamin. But again the evidence is not conclusive. The strongest, cited in the 2000 paper, is that recent dark-skinned migrants from tropical to temperate areas (Ethiopia to Israel, India to the UK) tend to suffer from vitamin D deficiencies.
Why there is tanning? Jablonski and Chaplin suggest that tanning was an adaptation that evolved not to protect long-distance human migrants (since they didn’t exist in our ancestors), but to protect populations at intermediate latitudes where there is much greater seasonal variation in the amount of UV. Seasonally variable pigmentation would be useful in protecting against folate depletion in high-UV seasons while allowing vitamin D synthesis during periods of low UV.
The work of Jablonski and Chaplin is intruiging, I’ll certainly be telling my students about the “folate hypothesis,” as well as about the evolution of tanning. But I’ll insist that these ideas are tentative. Studying the adaptive significance of human racial variation is a difficult task for two reasons. First, we can’t do experiments on humans, except for medically-related ones like giving pregnant women folic acid. We certainly can’t move people wholesale from place to place and look at the connection between their traits and their fitness, though we can in some cases take advantage of fortuitous migrants. In fruit flies, which are larger in more northern areas than in tropical areas, we can actually do experiments, and show that large body size evolves in the laboratory when we rear flies under cold conditions.
The other problem is that traits distinguishing human populations evolved a long time ago (between 60,000 and 10,000 years ago, when humans moved out of Africa and colonized North America and Australia), and we can only speculate about selective forces that occurred so long ago. (That said, the geographic distribution of UV light hasn’t changed much since then!)
It’s curious, but understandable, that we know so very little about the evolution of population differences in our own species. We do know a bit about skin color, but as for nose shape, hair texture, eye folds, and body build—the other traits that distinguish human populations—our ignorance is deep.
Jablonski, N. G. and G. Chaplin. 2010. Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 107(supp.):8962-8968.
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Roddy Graham's Blog: 19 March 2009 - Joined up transport
19 March 2009
When will this government ever learn? It seems that despite the economic spiral, it is hell-bent on spending money as if it was going out of fashion.
The latest example is a £7.75m UK Transport Research Centre. Hold your breath - it's going to shape the future of the UK transport industry! Actually, thinking about it, don't bother, otherwise you'll soon be dead.
UKTRC, unveiled by transport minister, Andrew Adonis, is based in three places - Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Leeds. That's a great start - a centre in three places. Now that's what I call really joined up thinking but then again Government is notorious for chalking up expenses, so why make any exception?
Apparently, the UKTRC will draw on scientific advisers from across the UK to develop a sustainable transport future. How many times have we been promised that one?
Now I may be accused of prejudice but our neighbours here in Wokingham, TRL, seem to have an unbelievable wealth of expertise in the field of transportation. TRL, Mr Adonis, stands for Transport Research Laboratory. Pay them a visit. We've also got MIRA. Why the need for yet another think-tank? Now's the time to economise and make use of the resources we already have at our disposal.
And, as I've stated many times before, we don't want promises but action. Time to 'walk the talk' Government. We are still waiting for that integrated transport policy promised so long ago.
While I'm on my soap box we also need less degrees in kite flying and more degrees in what will help drive this country forward. So when will Government stop trying to get everyone into higher education and concentrate on delivering degree courses that matter to students with the necessary academic qualifications at prices they can afford? We're in an economic downturn and the talk this week is of course fees doubling! Our students are debt-ridden enough without setting them the fine example of loading them with even more debt or turning them off a university education for good. The future of our country seems to be darker by the day.
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Solidarity with Our Lady of the Sorrows
It is highly recommended to pray in solidarity with Our Lady meditating on her Seven Sorrows. It is an act of filial devotion and reparation for all that she suffered for each one of us. She is so appreciative of this special devotion that she richly rewards those who practice it.
In the 14th century, the Blessed Virgin Mary revealed to Saint Bridget of Sweden (1303- 1373) that those who pray a Hail Mary while meditating on each of her Seven Sorrows will receive seven graces. Here is what she promised:
Our Lady of the Sorrows
I will grant peace to their families.
- They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries.
- I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.
- I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.
- I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.
- I will visibly help them at the moment of their death; they will see the face of their Mother.
- I have obtained this grace from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness, since all their sins will be forgiven. My Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.
The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady
1. The prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2: 34, 35)
2. The flight into Egypt (Matthew 2:13,14)
3. The loss of the Child Jesus in the temple (Luke 2: 43-45)
4. The meeting of Christ and His Blessed Mother on the Way of the Cross
5. The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ
piercing of the Side of Our Lord with a spear and His Descent from the Cross
7. The burial of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the tomb.
(Say one Hail Mary while meditating on each Sorrow)
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen
Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum, benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus frúctus véntris tui, Jésus. Sáncta María, Mater Déi, ora pro nóbis peccatóribus, nunc et in hora mortis nóstrae. Amen.
O sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
(300 days indulgence)
Posted October 13, 2012
Related Topics of Interest
The Seven Sorrows of Our Lady,
Seven Holy Founders of the Servites
La Macarena, Our Hope - Holy Week in Seville
Our Lady Rewards Those Devoted to Her Sorrows
Why Saturday Is Dedicated to Our Lady
The Meaning of the Three Falls of Our Lord
Wisdom: the Queen of Virtues
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A KGB official handed over the personal effects of Raoul Wallenberg to his relatives nearly 45 years after the Swedish diplomat was arrested by the Soviets in Budapest, and insisted he had died in jail.
Soviet officials also for the first time expressed remorse about the arrest of Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi gas chambers during World War II."The detention of Wallenberg was a tragic mistake," Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said Monday in a press briefing.
Wallenberg's half-sister, Nina Lagergren, received the passport, driver's license, address book, calendar and cash her half-brother carried when he was arrested in January 1945.
"It was terribly emotional to see his handwriting and his photograph and his identity papers," Lagergren said.
Family and friends from the Raoul Wallenberg Association in Stockholm were in Moscow at the Kremlin's invitation looking for clues about the fate of the Swedish diplomat, who would have been 77 Tuesday.
The move to clarify what has become a diplomatic embarrassment for the Soviet Union came under the political reforms of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Previous governments attempted to ignore the case.
The delegation gave the Soviets a list of reported sightings of Wallenberg in Soviet prison camps and were to meet with officials twice more this week, according to Per Anger, head of the association. He refused to say when and where Wallenberg was last reported seen.
But, dashing hopes that the Kremlin might have new information on Wallenberg's fate, the Soviets clung to their decades-old assertion that he died of a heart attack in 1947 at Lubyanka, the KGB prison in Moscow.
Human rights activist Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, have made several trips to prison camps in search of Wallenberg, but never turned up anything.
Lagergren, however, said she believes Wallenberg still is in isolation at a Soviet prison, his identity long covered up.
"We are confident that he has been able to survive," she said.
Anger, a colleague of Wallenberg in Hungary, said Kremlin officials serving now may be genuinely ignorant of Wallenberg's fate.
"We think it's difficult to find people in the gulag," he said, referring to the Soviet prison camp network.
The only proof of death offered by Vladimir Pirozhkov, deputy chief of the KGB, and Deputy Foreign Minister Valentin Nikiforov was a doctor's letter reporting the death, which was announced in 1957.
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As parents, we want to give our children the best that the world has to offer- right from food, education, clothing, or entertainment. While the journey may be different for every parent, the focus to secure their child’s life remains consistent. Hence, among other things financial independence is the best gift you can give yourself and your child.
Here are some crucial investment decisions that will help you achieve financial goals in both the short and long run;
Prioritise Your Financial Goals
Make sure you identify your short-term and long-term goals before planning for them. For example, higher education or marriage are long-term goals while short term goals could be your child’s 18th birthday party/gift, a vacation abroad or even an expensive electronic gadget.
Accordingly, practice financial discipline and start saving a portion of your salary to meet these goals. For short-term goals, you can invest in a debt plan or a hybrid plan of a Mutual Fund. For long-term goals, you can invest in a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) of an insurance company (ULIP) to meet financial goals for your children. Another option is investing in mutual funds. Through the power of compounding, it creates a good corpus for the investee by investing in equity-focused funds in the long run. Additionally, one can look at PPF investments to meet goals for higher education by investing early on.
Invest today for a better tomorrow
As a parent, you make sure you’re always there to provide for your children. However, life is unpredictable and given the fragility of human life in the current pandemic and even otherwise, it is wise to take a term insurance policy for financial security in case of a misfortune. The insurance amount depends on the income of the life assured and the financial needs of the family. Make sure to purchase cover for the loans that one has taken so that the children/heirs are not burdened.
Say yes to health insurance
The pandemic has also highlighted the importance of Health insurance. It is essential to have a basic healthcare cover for you and your loved ones. You can opt for a family floater plan which will provide coverage to everyone in the family. If faced with an illness, you will not have to worry about finances at the last minute.
Investment for your daughter
Parents of young daughters can invest in the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana which is a small saving deposit scheme for girls. It also has a maximum tax benefit of Rs 1.5 lakh under section 80C of the Income Tax Act. The interest accrued, and maturity amount is exempt from tax. This investment scheme is available for 2 daughters in a family with an investment of up to Rs 1.5 lakhs pa. for 15 years. The girl child should not be more than 10 years old at the time of opening the account.
The golden rule
Parents often invest in Gold for their children’s marriages- investment in the Sovereign Gold bonds is a better option than earns interest and there is no cost of storage. Unlike physical gold jewellery which requires locker rent charges in addition to other security issues and extra making charges. The sovereign gold bonds are available in Demat form and have tax benefits too.
Knowledge is power
The Pradhan Mantri Vidya Lakshmi Karyakram has been introduced to provide educational loans for students. An educational loan portal, Vidya Lakshmi, provides a single window for students to access information about various loan schemes offered by banks. They can submit applications for educational loans. The Department of Financial Services has made it mandatory for all banks to accept education loan applications only through the Vidya Lakshmi portal.
Saving in a piggy bank
One also needs to inculcate in the child the importance of saving and therefore incentivise the children towards it. Through saving a part of pocket money and investing the same – gives them lessons in wealth creation and investment. The same can be started with small amounts invested in the savings account/Fixed Deposit in the child’s name – he/she will also have a sense of pride in owning the account.
Additionally, by imbibing some of the following tips and tricks, you can ensure financial security for your child:
- Always keep aside at least 10% of your savings for your child’s needs (especially short-term ones- extra tuition/short trips etc) which will not upset your budget
- Keep separate investments for long and short-term purposes which should be monitored separately
- The long-term Fund should not be touched, and the contribution should be made regularly
- Do not get perturbed by market crashes/negative returns as the returns over a long period of time are usually attractive
- Always diversify your savings in different asset classes so that the risk is limited at the same time returns are hedged for inflation
- Encourage the children to save money and help them operate their bank accounts to make them financially aware. Getting introduced to financial savings at a young age will set the foundation for strong financial knowledge which will help them in their life ahead
by Dr Poonam Tandon, Chief Investment Officer, IndiaFirst Life
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Industry 4.0 in a Nutshell.
Nowadays, everyone is talking about Industry 4.0 and SAP IAM (Intelligent Asset Management), but what exactly it does?…and what it focuses on?
In this blog, I would like to brief about Industry 4.0 in a nutshell and touch base on its association with SAP IAM (Intelligent Asset Management)
We hear other terms viz., I4.0, Smart Manufacturing, Manufacturing 4.0, Smart Factory, etc…
The core focal point of Industry 4.0/IAM is to have “Digitisation” of physical assets in a digital network to enhance the product portfolio…
The topics that I would be covering in this blog are as follows,
- How it was before Industry 4.0
- Origin of the term Industry 4.0
- What is Industry 4.0
- Focus points of Industry 4.0
- Key BOMs of Industry 4.0 – A few of them will be briefed in this blog
- Challenges of Industry 4.0
How was it before Industry 4.0:
I will touch base at very high-level about the revolutions that took place from time to time
- Industry 1.0
First Industrial Revolution between 1760 and 1840 in Europe and the United States
It was the transformation of manufacturing processes from hand production methods to the mechanized factory system.
- Industry 2.0
Second Industrial Revolution was a rapid standardization and industrialization between 1870 to 1914, during this phase advancement in manufacturing and production technology was enabled
- Industry 3.0
The third Industrial Revolution is also called Digital Revolution was the transformation of mechanical/analogue electronic technology to digital electronics between 1950 to 1970 and is continued to the present day
- Industry 4.0 (Present world)
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is called the Technological Revolution, which enables smart technology in traditional manufacturing/production processes
Origin of the term Industry 4.0:
The term Industry 4.0 was publicly introduced in the year 2011 at Hannover Fair, which is one of the world’s largest trade fairs at Hannover, Germany.
What is Industry 4.0
It mainly emphasizes the utilization of IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things) by which one can enable a complex network of manufacturing management to have automation and data collection/ exchange/ analysis to predict potential failures of an asset and to improve productivity and efficiency of manufacturing assets.
Focus points (a few) of Industry 4.0
- Interconnectivity: Connecting Machines, Devices, Sensors and people (Operators/Manufacturers/Service Providers) to communicate with each other using Internet of Things by collecting/Exchanging the reliable data
- Transparency: By collecting/Exchanging data at various operating conditions of an Asset, it provides valuable insights to operators to take a firm decision at right time to improve the efficiency of the physical asset and thereby improving production efficiency.
- Predictive Maintenance: By usage of IIOT sensors and the technology of interconnectivity the healthiness of an Asset can be identified in life and allows machine operators to perform cost-effective maintenance rather than adopting Run to Fail concept.
When we look at the above focus points, we can understand the core objectives of SAP IAM (Intelligent Asset Management) and their association with I4.0….
- Cloud-based network collaboration on asset management with manufacturers by establishing a global equipment registry (Asset Central) and by leveraging IoT
- Predicting failure of an asset by correlating the data between Input parameters and historic data, thus providing statistics on ‘Anomaly Detection’
- And Influencing Asset Strategy Decisions
Key BOMs of Industry 4.0 at a high level:
- Internet of Things platforms – Enabling a vital change in productivity
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Advanced Human-Machine Interfaces (User Interfaces to have an effective operation of a machine from the human end and on the other hand machine simultaneously sends critical information that helps the operator to make a firm decision)
- IIOT sensors
- Data Analytics
- Cyber-Physical System (Physical and Software components are deeply interconnected and able to interact with each other)
Challenges of Industry 4.0
- High Capital Investment
- Business Model Adaptation
- Unclear ROI (Return On Investment)
- Lack of adequate skill set to expedite the transformation towards I4.0 functionalities
- IT security Issues (Letting critical process networks open)
- Reliability/Stability of communications between Machine to Machine/User Interfaces
- Reluctance to Change Management
- IT system outages/failures that would cause huge re-investment
By leveraging I4.0 concepts, SAP IAM adopts the capabilities of
- Network Collaboration:
Connecting multiple business partners for inter and intra company information exchange and collaboration. Also sharing model databases with applications such as equipment look up, spare parts management, Equipment performance improvements, equipment obsolescence strategies
- Maintenance strategy definition:
Improving Asset Strategy Performance by assessing criticality using Risk Priority Number (RPN) and FMEA(Failure Mode and Effects Analysis)
- Condition Monitoring and alert mechanism:
Visualization of sensor data and the alert mechanism by leveraging asset indicators
- Root Cause Analysis: Failure Mode Analytics (PdMS)
- Prediction Via Machine learning
SAP IAM~Intelligent Asset Management and its association with Industry 4.0 can be understood from https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1126407
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Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, said the net is “keeping a very close eye” on Tropical Storm Barry, which could develop into a Category 1 hurricane. The HWN has announced no plans to activate, however, and remains at Alert Level 2 — monitoring mode.
At 2100 UTC, the storm’s center was 90 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi and some 175 miles southeast of Morgan City, Louisiana. The storm is generating maximum sustained winds of 40 MPH with higher gusts and is moving to the west at 5 MPH.
“Although hurricane watches and warnings are now in effect, the National Hurricane Center states that Barry could become a hurricane prior to landfall,” Graves noted. “Even if Barry does not reach Category 1 hurricane status, wind gusts to hurricane force are possible in the warning area. Regardless, if Barry becomes a hurricane or not, this system is looking to be a major rainmaker.”
Forecasters concur that the storm will continue to intensify until making landfall. A danger exists of life-threatening storm surge along the coast of southern and southeastern Louisiana. The storm’s slow movement will result in an extended period of heavy rainfall and the threat of flooding along the central Gulf Coast and inland through the lower Mississippi Valley through the weekend into early next week, forecasters said.
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Solung Festival (1st of September)
About Solung Festival
Solung is a popular festival in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is an annual festival celebrated every year on the 1st of September.
It is the most popular observance of the Adis and primarily happens to be a festival based on agriculture, but it also includes the social and religious features of the people who observe it.
The Solung festival can mainly be categorized into three parts, which are as under—
-The first part is known as the Sopi—Yekpi, also known as the Limir—Libom, which happens to be the sacrificial day.
-The second part is known as the Binnyat, which includes a ritual offering to the goddess of crops, known as Kine Nane, and finally,
-The third part is known as the Ekop, also called the Taktor, wherein a ritual takes place to protect the people from all evil forces, harms, etc. and this is done by appeasing the household guardian—Gumin-Soyin, and the god of wisdom and human welfare—Doying Bote.
Some of the major highlights of the festival include females coming together to worship the goddess of crops Kine Nanne, to protect their fields from calamities like epidemics, etc.
There’s a vow for protection of domestic animals, which the people do by offering prayers and rituals to the god of domestic animals, known as Dadi Bote.
There’s also a vouching for peace and prosperity that all the people together pray for as they participate in the celebrations of the Solung Festival.
Feasts are conducted with a lot of merriness and enthusiasm. In the evenings, girls perform the traditional Ponung dance on songs sung by Miri—the Aabangs singer, who narrates all the myths through his songs vocally.
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There are millions of webpages all across the worldwide web. As an online-based business owner, it can sometimes be difficult to understand your competition and ensure that your website is working to the best of its ability. Because of the amount of competition that you have, web monitoring is crucial in providing a better experience for your clients, visitors, and even for your own future success. Understanding why monitoring is so important for your company will help in finding the tools that are right for you.
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Security Issues and Threats
Cyber hackers are continually trying to find loopholes in different internet systems. If your site is left vulnerable and doesn't have the security in place that it needs, you and your customers' information will be at risk. These hackers can get into the system, steal personal data, and then use this against those who have entered it into your website. This is especially common among eCommerce sites where customers put in sensitive credit card information. Monitoring for threats can prevent hackers from getting a foothold into the internal workings of your website.
Uptime and Downtime
Every single online-based company's site will have both uptime and downtime. Uptime refers to how often your pages are public on the worldwide web. Downtime refers to how often the site is down for any length of time. The beauty of monitoring is that it allows you to know when each page was up or down and for how long this occurred. This can help you in making important decisions on server performance and whether or not you need to work with a different host.
Your clients will come to your site and go on whatever page they find the most useful. If the pages aren't functioning properly, they may not be able to checkout, join an email subscription service, comment, or otherwise read what you have to say. Functionality goes across all different devices since more people are using their phones and tablets to log onto different webpages across the internet. You want to know that your online presence is user-friendly and that those visiting will not have an issue with its content.
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24 Apr 2018
A team of researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast is visiting Charleville this week to unearth information about a top-secret United States Air Force base that was considered the last line of defence for Australia against the Japanese in World War II.
Associate Professor in Tourism Brent Moyle is leading the team, which is working alongside Griffith University academics in a three-year project to create a virtual tour of the Charleville airfield circa 1942 when it became the terminal for heavy bomber aircraft from the USA.
Dr Moyle recently received a $700,000 Advance Queensland Fellowship from the State Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation for this project to design, develop and evaluate immersive digital heritage tourism experiences to preserve the region’s unique and charismatic World War II and aviation heritage.
“Many wartime remains are still visible at the airfield, including an aircraft hangar, the radio tower and a concrete shed that housed the top-secret Norden bombs fitted to the US aircraft, with debate continuing about whether other relics are buried at the site,” he said.
Among the researchers is Chris Little from Griffith University who is using non-invasive methods for 3D capture of historical artefacts that will be used to help develop interactive virtual experiences.
“This research presents an immense opportunity to open windows into the past, exposing greater knowledge around the sites themselves and sharing their hidden stories,” Dr Alexandra Bec, also from USC, said.
“Investing in this project offers the Charleville community and Murweh Shire Council enhanced commercial benefits for the region. Virtual tourism has been shown as a powerful tool to enhance visitor numbers.”
Dr Moyle said using augmented and virtual reality systems to “bring the sites back to life” had strong potential to boost tourism in Charleville.
The research project will have three stages over three years, starting with the collection of stories and memorabilia associated with the World War II site. It will be followed by design work for prototype virtual experiences, then an evaluation of the experiences developed.
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The first garden hose ban in the UK will begin tomorrow as Southern Water imposes limits on customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The August 5 ban is the first in the country and will limit a selection of actions, all based on the use of excess water. Officials pointed to ever-lower reservoirs due to prolonged dry weather that has plagued the country for weeks in their reasoning, meaning further bans could follow.
Where are the watering bans?
Sprinkler bans are currently in place for Southern Water and South East Water customers.
They mainly reside on the South Coast, Kent and Sussex, with those in the latter not expecting restrictions for another week.
As Southern Water enacts its ban on Friday, South East Water customers won’t have to follow the restrictions until August 12.
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South West Water and Welsh Water have warned they may have to follow their South East and South counterparts.
South West Water asked people to help save water by taking shorter showers, reusing dishwater on plans and refraining from washing cars.
The company warned that if demand continues to grow, it may have to “make the difficult decision to introduce formal restrictions over the coming weeks”.
If South West Water were to introduce a garden hose ban, customers living in the following counties would have to obey:
Welsh Water has had fewer supply problems than its English counterparts, with supply lines holding up well in the country.
But some areas, particularly Pembrokeshire, have struggled with less rainfall.
Officials asked customers to help conserve water where possible and “use what you need, but please don’t waste it.”
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Data is transmitted, stored and neglected across our networks every day. For most of us, this data is largely inconsequential and poses no serious risk. But for businesses dealing with sensitive information, a breach of the network is extremely significant. Customer data such as financial records, social security numbers and other private information, if left unsecured, would be at risk, leaving an organization open to the loss of public trust, lawsuits and a huge financial liability. InfoGPS Networks in North Canton, Ohio, designed a software solution to keep track of sensitive data to limit risk across networks and devices.
“We are not a company born from developers, we are a company born from the industry. I’m an entrepreneur who used to work in IT and was tasked with securing data on the networks I was responsible for. I needed to know where my customer’s data could be found on the network and if it was sensitive, so that I could protect it,” said Hugenberg, founder and CEO of InfoGPS. “I was at an organization that suffered an incident, and we spent a lot of time and money reviewing what assets or devices had been accessed, only to discover that no breach took place. I realized then that if we had a technology solution like InfoGPS, we would’ve found that out right away.”
The software company automates the discovery, classification and risk ranking of network data so that organizations, enterprise-level corporations and small businesses alike get a clear view of the sensitive data on their network. InfoGPS analyzes data and breaks it down so users can see what sensitive data exists, how much is at risk, the location of the data, and who has access to it. Unlike other software solutions, InfoGPS doesn’t make copies of data to index it or move it around the network, which can put the sensitive information at even greater risk. Instead, it runs in real-time across the network, never duplicating data but instead flagging it for further action at the source. This proprietary technology is unique in the cyber security industry.
The technology also assigns a real dollar value to data, letting organizations know the true value risk associated with each piece of sensitive data. This allows the software to focus more on significant risk points, and the IT department to prioritize the expense of resources like time and money.
InfoGPS is developing its innovative software solution as a member of the Braintree Business Development Center, a northeast Ohio regional partner of Ohio Third Frontier. At the incubator, they’ve received office space, help applying for grants, pitch assistance, access to capital from investors and mentorship. Through Braintree, they were also introduced to JumpStart and the Impact Angel Fund, additional regional partners of Ohio Third Frontier. The interconnected support systems have been crucial to InfoGPS’s development.
“We could not have started without Braintree’s assistance. Braintree introduced us to the entire network in northeast Ohio and helped us apply for grants we needed early on. I’m a pretty old school, bank loan, 60-page business plan sort of guy, but Braintree helped us realize that sometimes it takes a compelling 5-minute pitch. To be passionate and show your value to investors can be just as, if not more, convincing to them. This giant network of entrepreneurial resources is why we’re so excited for the future of InfoGPS.” | <urn:uuid:39a85da9-ff79-4aab-888f-6dd87dd33fd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://weare.techohio.ohio.gov/2017/10/12/infogps-locates-and-secures-sensitive-data/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956429 | 716 | 1.679688 | 2 |
City officials, organizers attempt to bring bike share program to Knoxville
A bike share program could be coming to Knoxville within the next few years if insufficient infrastructure and questions about funding don't put a spoke in the wheel.
Knoxville City Councilman George Wallace, employees of the city's Office of Sustainability, representatives from the University of Tennessee, nonprofit organizers and other key players have met twice in the past month to examine successful bike share programs in other cities and evaluate what it would take to bring one to Knoxville.
"(The idea) seems to be gaining ground, and there is widespread enthusiasm for it," Wallace said. "There's a lot of moving parts. ... It's going to take a wide base of people to get involved."
While several different business models for funding and operating bike share programs have emerged in recent years as the idea has picked up speed across the country, the general premise remains the same: a participant can pick up a bike at one of many strategically-placed stations, ride to a station near their desired destination and drop the cycle off for another to use.
Advocates for the program believe it will provide city dwellers and tourists with a convenient, environmentally-friendly method of transportation that will improve riders' health and serve as an extension of the public transit system.
"A bike share promotes making biking more mainstream in a community," said Caroline Cooley, the president of Bike Walk Knoxville who helped initiate the conversation. "People who are hesitant to invest in a bike or who are a little fearful of riding a bike on their own can try the bike share."
Cooley, a retired physician, said there is a wealth of data proving that incidental daily activity, such as walking a half-mile to the grocery store or riding a bike to a concert in Market Square, substantially reduces the risk of becoming obese or developing a variety of diseases.
"The more people we can get on a bike to do errands — that would have a positive impact on public health, both physical and mental."
This isn't the first time organizers have tried to bring a bike share program to Knoxville. Three years ago, similar efforts never came to fruition.
"I think there were a lot of factors, but mainly the timing wasn't right," Sustainability Director Erin Gill said of the organizers' previous attempt. " ... They also recognized that the bike infrastructure was not ready to support an influx of folks on bikes."
Infrastructure has improved since then, Gill said, but there is still much work to be done. The city has added bike lanes in the past few years, and redevelopment projects, such as the construction on Cumberland Avenue, have altered and continue to alter the streetscape to make the city more bike-friendly.
Organizers are tasked with solving the riddle of how to foot the bill for such an expensive, non-self-sustainable program. In some cases, large corporations such as Citigroup in New York City have donated huge sums of money to sponsor bike share programs. Other cities' programs rely on federal, state and local grants as well as private donations.
Knoxville organizers are currently evaluating the pros and cons of forming a nonprofit organization to fund the bike share, Cooley said, but the plan is tentative and constantly evolving. | <urn:uuid:a6132f19-3f4d-449f-8df3-6fbaa6ffd5f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/city-officials-organizers-attempt-to-bring-bike-share-program-to-knoxville-3abdac8c-82f6-20d2-e053-0-391088741.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972641 | 675 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The First Angelinos:
By William McCawley
The crowded landscape of Los Angeles holds an ancient story, William McCawley writes. It is the story of the brave and resourceful Indian peoples who once inhabited the spacious valleys and plains of Los Angeles and Orange counties in Southern California; of daring seafarers who traveled the open sea in wooden canoes to trade with their kinsmen dwelling on the Channel Islands; of skillful hunters clad in deerskin costumes who roamed the valleys and hills in search of their prey; of powerful shamans who transformed themselves at will into bears and wolves, and an all-knowing, all-powerful creator-god who established the rules by which life was to be lived. It is a story of tragedy and great courage, and an Indian people decimated by disease, prejudice, and poverty, struggling to survive in a new and often unfriendly world. It is the story of the Gabrielino Indians.
This is a definitive study of the pre-mission Gabrielino s religious beliefs and practices, the structure of their society, their political system, the ways they made a living, and their elegant arts and crafts. This invaluable book, accessible to the scholar and general reader alike, is drawn from published and unpublished work of explorers, historians, archaeologists, and ethnographers, including famous ethnographer John P. Harrington.
The First Angelinos is the first book-length treatment of the Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles in more than thirty years. It is divided into eleven chapters organized by subject heading. The topics include: the Gabrielino Community; Gabrielino place-names; political and social structure; economic organization and trade; religious beliefs and ritual practices; music; oral literature; and games and recreation. The sources of information about the Gabrielino are described in detail, and brief biographical sketches of primary Gabrielino consultants are given. The final chapters of the book discuss the decline of the Gabrielino culture during the late 1700s and early 1800s, following the establishment of Missions San Gabriel and San Fernando.
The First Angelinos contains more than sixty illustrations of artifacts in local museum collections, including many photographs taken by the author. The book also includes regional maps showing the locations of the major Gabrielino communities that have been prepared using information obtained from the notes of anthropologist J. P. Harrington, and maps and documents from the Spanish and Mexican periods. Appendices include the Gabrielino vocabularies collected by Andrew S. Taylor, Oscar Loew, Henry W. Henshaw and Horatio Hale; and a previously unpublished Gabrielino vocabulary of more than one thousand terms collected in 1908 by C. Hart Merriam. | <urn:uuid:8628a180-741e-4d9c-a60a-e70e9cf79413> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.theautry.org/collections/books/products/257784 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943345 | 556 | 3 | 3 |
Last year I wrote a Binocular Highlights article in April. Springtime nights are wonderful, and the sky is in transition from winter sights to summer sights.
Well, it’s over a year later, a challenging year for many, and it’s SUMMERTIME, SUMMERTIME! The summer night sky, especially the Milky Way, is a wonderland for observing with binoculars, while summer nights are not as comfortable as springtime nights.
Go and find those binoculars, and if necessary, clean them – carefully. Let’s go on a little tour.
I do not have graphics to show you the sky, so I suggest downloading (if you haven’t already) one of the many FREE night sky apps for your phone. That will be a big help.
We’ll focus on the SOUTHERN SKY, yes, the mother-lode of binocular objects, in Scorpius, Ophiuchus, Serpens, and Sagittarius.
Begin with Antares, the bright orange alpha star at the heart of Scorpius. In binoculars it is brilliant. A little to it’s west you will see a faint smudge. Keep looking, maybe move the binoculars back and forth a little, it will show up. That is M4, a globular cluster containing hundreds of thousands of stars. It is 7,200 light years distant, the closest globular to us.
Moving east-southeast from Antares for about 5 degrees and you run into another globular cluster, M19 in Ophiuchus. Even though it is a little dimmer than M4, it might appear brighter because it isn’t competing with a bright star.
Moving east from M19 into Sagittarius, we hit the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. As you move east you will bump into a couple of pretty nebulae and an open cluster to boot, all in the same field! From bottom there’s M8 (the Lagoon Nebula), above it is M20 (the Trifid Nebula), and just at the upper left (northeast) of M20 is open cluster M21.
Moving a few degrees north from M21 you will encounter another open cluster, M23. About 4 degrees northeast from M23 and you hit M16 (the Eagle Nebula) in Serpens. You might not see the nebula but it’s a star forming nebula and has an open cluster of stars visible. It is also famous for the Hubble image named “Pillars of Creation.” A few degrees south of M16, back in Sagittarius, lies M17 (the Omega/Swan Nebula). Drop about 4 degrees southeast from M17 and open cluster M25 shows up. Now moving south another 5 degrees and Elliptical Globular Cluster M22 pops into view. While it is a bright cluster, its location near the galactic bulge region, with all the intervening dust, makes it appear dimmer.
Just think about it, as you are looking at Sagittarius you’re looking toward our Galaxy’s center.
What’s in the Sky?
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If you’re in the UK, you may not have slept well this week. According to the weather gauges at the University of Reading, where I work, Tuesday 11 August was the third hottest night in records that date back to 1908.
But it seems that, as is often the case with summer hot spells, the heatwave is ending with some spectacular thunderstorms. Tragically, downpours in Scotland are even thought to have played a part in a landslide that derailed a train – although it is still too early to say for sure.
At the time of writing, the forecast shows scattered thunderstorms are possible everywhere leading up to the weekend. While parts of the UK have endured nearly a week of stifling heat, much of the country now faces hail, lightning, gusty winds, torrential downpours, and flooding.
Forecasting which parts of the country will be hit by downpours, and which will miss them, is extremely difficult. But while such an uncertain forecast doesn’t help much if you’re planning a picnic, it is still useful for those who are managing rivers and trying to reduce the risks associated with floods.
Those people should now be doing things like clearing trash screens to aid drainage, putting up protection for individual properties and moving vulnerable possessions, and checking on dams to make sure they are ready to withstand the additional pressure and amount of water coming through caused by heavy rain.
These are low-cost actions that can be taken ahead of any possible outburst which might lead to flooding and can prevent a lot of damage – and heartache.
Forecasters will be closely monitoring the situation. Thunderstorms are notoriously difficult to predict with a frustratingly stubborn level of uncertainty in how they evolve in our supercomputer weather simulations.
Nevertheless, forecasters will be ensuring that updates are sent to those who need them quickly and preparing for the worst-case scenarios. Even a few hours’ advance warning could be the difference between safety and disaster.
Summer flash floods can affect anyone, anywhere. Even if you don’t live near a river, an extreme and sudden downpour on soil baked hard by days of sunshine can turn your home, your street, or your town into a devastated flood zone in minutes.
Currently, most of the UK has a “yellow” warning. The Met Offices says “Yellow means keep an eye on the latest forecast and be aware that the weather may change or worsen, leading to disruption of your plans in the next few days.”
As the warnings get more serious and turn amber or red, or if the forecast is for severe “danger to life” flooding then this could mean a potential paddling pool depth of water falling everywhere in minutes. Such a battering, as the thunderstorm passes, provides enough force to overturn cars as the water all rushes together.
Power failures and travel disruptions are a given and can happen suddenly. Don’t take chances and keep you, your family, and your community safe.
We have come a long way in our ability to predict the most intense “convective” rainfall from summer storms driven by summer heat in the UK. But there is still a lot about the science that we don’t understand. Advancements in these areas would help us to better understand when and where sudden, heavy downpours will strike.
The problem comes due to the huge amounts of energy that drive these storms. The heat and humidity in recent days feed the development of the thunderstorm, but the volatile, unstable air means that it is very tricky to work out exactly where each thunderstorm will be. A few hours ahead we can usually at least say which parts of the country will be affected, but thunderstorms have a very small footprint and can rapidly change.
One thing we do know: as our climate changes, and summer heatwaves become more common, these kinds of sleepless nights – and the incredibly dangerous summer downpours that relieve them – are also going to become more likely.
Even though the disruption and danger they can bring can be significant, it is difficult not to appreciate the majesty of these natural phenomena. Watching a thundercloud develop is mesmerizing, as it grows and grows and then towers over you. Lightning strikes are dangerous, but seen from a distance, provide one of the greatest shows the sky can provide. You can check out online lightning trackers to find where lightning is currently active. | <urn:uuid:906c4a47-5666-4250-8946-7b98624f3510> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thenextweb.com/news/thunderstorms-are-difficult-to-predict-and-heatwaves-make-it-even-harder | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957089 | 910 | 2.625 | 3 |
Welcome to our Mille Lacs Lake Fishing Home Page
Mille Lacs Lake is Minnesota’s second-largest lake and it covers 132,000 surface acres. Mille Lacs is a great lake for outdoor recreation, but it has been known for its outstanding walleye fishery over the years. There was a walleye collapse and they are hoping to be coming out of that now, however, there are plenty of restrictions on the lake as far as keeping walleye throughout the seasons. This has been a huge debate on the lake. Fortunately, the smallmouth bass fishing is off the charts good right now which is helping make up for the walleye issues.
Primary Species of Fish
Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Perch & Northern Pike
Mille Lacs Lake has been an awesome walleye lake historically. There have been some issues in recent years and there have been new regulations put in place to try to restore the walleye fishery to its better years. The smallmouth bass fishery has taken off recently with anglers reporting lots of bass being caught with some absolute huge bass here too. Smallmouth bass in the 4 to 6 pound range are possible on any given day and on some days, you may catch several fish in this range with lots of 2 to 3 pound fish too. Pike fishing is good for anglers who go out and target them and some big fish are here too.
Secondary Species of Fish
Largemouth Bass, Muskie, Crappie, Bluegill & Other Sunfish
This lake has a very diverse fishery. Some anglers do target muskie and largemouth bass, however, most anglers don’t come here for these fish. The panfish are a nice addition for anglers looking to catch some perch, crappie and bluegill.
Fish the Flats
This lake also has some pretty large flats. The flats can hold a variety of bait fish which will then attract game fish. The mud flats are popular among the walleye anglers during the early summer. You need to cover some water on the flats because the fish can literally be anywhere.
Fish the Points
This lake does have some points and they are worth fishing. If the fish aren’t there though, there are so many other areas you can fish and have success on this lake, so don’t be stuck on having to fish points. You will find a variety of fish moving in and off the points such as walleye, bass, pike and panfish.
Fish the Reefs
The reefs are going to hold a lot of smallmouth bass and walleye from summer through fall. Once the summer patterns set in, you can just come out here and fish the reefs every day you are on the water. There will always be some fish using the reefs from summer through fall.
Fish the Rocks
This lake has a lot of rocks and the smallmouth bass love the rocks. You will find a lot of smallmouth bass in the lake and where you find rocks, there will most likely be smallmouth bass. Walleye are often found around the rocks as well. Panfish, pike and muskie can be found around the rocks too.
Fish the Shorelines
This lake is huge with miles of shorelines. You will find a little bit of variety around the lake. Along the shorelines, the rocks and weeds will usually hold more fish. The weeds can hold a little bit of everything, but expect to find pike, some walleye, largemouth bass and panfish. Around the rocks, you are going to find lots of smallmouth bass, some walleye, perch and other panfish. The shorelines are great for fishing in the spring. Fish anywhere between 4 and 12 feet of water and just cover some water casting. You will catch smallmouth bass, some largemouth bass possibly, northern pike and some walleye too.
Fish the Weeds
This lake has a lot of vegetation and you can definitely target the weeds while fishing here. If you fish the weeds hard, you will find northern pike, largemouth bass, some muskie, panfish and some walleye too. Occasionally you will find smallmouth bass relating to the weeds, but they will usually be found on the rocks.
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If you’re not sharing how you felt in a situation because you aren’t clear on it yourself, that’s typical too. It’s okay to share an experience with your therapist and let them understand that you’re not sure how to feel about it. This opens the door for them to speak to you about it and for you to explore your feelings around it. It’s likewise all right for you to ask your therapist to avoid exploring a topic for a specific amount of time. Healing must happen at a pace you are comfortable with.
Prior to getting into more detail, it is very important to keep in mind that developing a trusting relationship with your therapist is important. Small talk and general discussion are an essential part of this procedure. Some people may use little talk to prevent discussing the concerns that brought them to therapy. In some cases, when someone goes into oversharing about their life, it’s because they are preventing getting to the source of why they are seeing the therapist in the first place.
Now, it is essential to point out that in some cases a concern that your therapist asks may get you talking about something that seems off subject but really does connect mentally for you. If you feel that what you’re talking about appears unassociated however was activated by the therapist, continue exploring that opportunity.
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This year did not turn up anything very unusual, but it did take me places I don't often go.
Wright's Cove is an area on the southeastern corner of Bedford Basin, below the Burnside Industrial Park, and includes Navy Island Cove, home of one of the few remaining steel side trawlers of the 1960s.
Navy Island Cove, an undisturbed backwater, is frozen solid. The gypsum stockpile conveyor looms in the background.
Hydra Mariner, the former Cape Mira was built in George T. Davie+Son in Lauzon (Lévis), QC and launched May 27, 1963. Its sponsor was Judith Smith, daughter of Ronald G. Smith, one of the founders and head of National Sea Products. The boat began fishing out of Louisbourg in October of the same year. In 1976, following the upheaval in the Newfoundland fishery, it was moved to Natlake and worked out of Burgeo. Eventually it returned to National Sea and was converted to a scallop dragger working out of Lunenburg.
In 2001 it was renamed Hydra Mariner with a plan to convert it to a "chase boat" for seismic operations. I suspect this never happened and the boat kicked around various berths in Halifax for several years. In 2009 it found its spot in Navy Island Cove and has not moved since, except for a brief excursion in February 2014. It parted its mooring lines and drifted ashore, but was soon refloated and resecured by the RMI Marine tug Belle-D.. There does appear to be some activity on board from time to time, in the summer, perhaps as a sometime liveaboard/summer camp. It is now considered to be a "yacht".
At the other end of the harbour, at Eastern Passage, the above mentioned RMI Marine has its base.
Its tug Belle-D and one of its landing craft and two dive tender /workboats await the next assignment.
In the background, at the government wharf, the former Province of Nova Scotia cable ferry LaHave 2 and the former HMC Dockyard fire boat Firebird sit idle.
The ferry has been fitted with spuds and has been used for a variety of construction projects since 2010 when it was acquired by Municipal Enterprises. The fireboat on the other hand has not found a new occupation since it was sold as surplus last year.
Just to the north is the Valero dock, (also known as Ultramar, and the former Gulf Oil refinery dock.) It sees very little tanker traffic, but is home to the barge John P. Oxley.
Built in 2001 by les chantiers Verreault in Les Méchins, QC, it is a pollution control and oil recovery barge, operated by the Eastern Canada Response Corp.(ECRC). Since its arrival in tow of the tug Océan Foxtrot on Christmas Day 2001 it has left port only once, for refit in Shelburne, NS in 2011.
One of the only working parts of the harbour today was Autoport where another car carrier was busy unloading. Hoegh Sydney arrived yesterday just after Viking Queen departed (see previous post)
One of the more colourful spots in Halifax harbour, now partly concealed by the King's Wharf development, is the home of Dominion Diving in Dartmouth Cove.
Its fleet of nine workboats and several scows and barges all wear the unique company colour. Located at the mouth of the Sawmill River (which is being daylighted), the recreation of a portion of the Shubenacadie Canal's inclined plane, and the cconflunece of the Shubenacadie Trail and the Trans Canada Trail, one has to wonder how long this prime site will be able to hold out against the inevitable pressures of development.
As mentioned above, there was very little commercial activity in the harbour. Oceanex Sanderling arrived early at Halterm pier 41 but appeared to be taking a day off.
At Imperial Oil the Torm Louise completed unloading and moved out to anchorage number 1 to take on bunkers. Once that operation was completed it sailed for Sept-Iles, QC. [Later info: the ship is instead headed for Quebec City.]
Atlantic Bear (see Tugfax) returns to base after assisting Torm Louise to move off Imperial Oil dock #3 to nearby anchorage to take on bunkers.
Of typical Mid-Range size - 29,283 grt, 49,999 dwt, it is markedly different from the Korean built tankers we usually see. It dates from 2009 and Guangzhou International, in Guangzhou China, and is one of Torm Lines' Super Ice class. Its heavy bow and full width bridge are sure indicators that it was built for harsh weather.
There was also activity at the Coast Guard Base at Bedford Institute. The patrol vessel CCGC Corporal McLaren M.M.V. sailed early in the afternoon, but did not get far before returning to base. It was destined to Cow Bay where a whale stranding was reported. However the whale was "refloated" and lead back out to deep water in very short order by a group of hardy volunteers.
Corporal McLaren M.M.V. outbound, but soon to turn back. The new pier at HMC Dockyard is taking shape in the background.
Meanwhile sister vessel CCGC G. Peddle S.C. arrived from seaand followed the McLaren in to BIO.
That was not the only CCG activity. CCGS Sir William Alexander arrived earlier from the Sydney area, well encrusted with ice, and carrying a very icy buoy on deck.
Another far reach of Halifax harbour, well outside the normal confines of the port, is at the harbour's entrance. Sambro is home to numerous fishing vessels and is the base for the lifeboat CCGC Sambro.
One of ten Arun class boats in service with the CCG, it was built in 1996 by Hike Metal Products, in Wheatley, ON and is due to be retired. Its replacement, Pennant Bay is currently undergoing trials and training in Dartmouth and will soon be in service. That Sambro was not tied up at her normal dock may signal that this move may be very soon.
Nearby at Sambro Head, Canadian Maritime Engineering operates the former Brenton Gray's boatyard.
Currently it has the harbour tour vessel Silva on the cradle for refit.
Silva (whose official name is Silva of Halifax) dates from 1939 when it was built as a three masted trading schooner by Karlstads Mek. Verk. in Sweden. Working the Icelandic trade it was converted to an auxiliary motor vessel, then a bulk carrier before it was "rescued" by Canadian Sailing Expeditions and converted to a harbour tour boat, closely resembling its original design. Passing through Tall Ship Silva Inc to Murphy Sailing Tours Ltd, the boat is a popular waterfront attraction (in summer). Its fleet mates are also in winter layup in various parts of the harbour, although former fleet mate Haligonian III, retired in 2016, remains tied up in Sambro. | <urn:uuid:9165b455-a5c2-46e7-ab8b-f27a3a6dba49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shipfax.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-years-tally.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97039 | 1,490 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Archaeologists conducting excavations at the 14th century ringfort in Rozprza in central Poland, discovered traces of earlier fortifications that can be dated to the end of the 10th century. These new discoveries shift back the site’s dating half a millennium into the past. The researchers state that this may be the case on numerous other sites that were initially studied and dated during archaeological projects conducted in 1960s.
Dr Jerzy Sikora of the Institute of Archaeology of University of Łódź, who excavated the Rozprza site, believes that this might be the case of many early Piast dynasty sites that were studied in the past due to inaccuracy of the research methods available then. Modern dendrochronological and radiocarbon dating techniques allow for better and more accurate – even precisely to a specific year – dating of structures such as f. ex. ramparts or ringforts.
In case of the Rozprza ringfort it was previously thought that it was a rather small structure with inner diameter of 18 metres, surrounded by small un-fortified settlements. Long-term aerial prospection conducted between 2013-2016 and geophysical survey revealed that to South of the outer rampart a borough was located, surrounded by its own additional moat. Small settlements that once were believed to surround the fort turned out to form part of the borough.
The newest discoveries and analysis reveal two periods of the site’s occupation – first dated to the end of 10th century/beginning of 11th and second dated to 14th century. The fort in it’s earlier phase was a small structure surrounded by a dirt rampart covered with cubes of turf. In the later phase it formed a larger settlement with the additional borough, centrally placed motte where supposedly a tower was located. The motte is believed to initially measure 20 metres in diameter.
First mention of the site is dated to 11th century. Rozprza was one of the most important ringforts in Central Poland in 12th century and a place where the ducal administration official resided. It held the status of a castellany in 13th century. Dendrochronological dating revealed also that the site was additionally fortified with wooden poles cut down in 1576.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) State senators unveiled a $4.3 billion transportation plan March 25 that would continue paying for several of the state’s highway mega-projects and purchase four ferries while shelving 31 projects that rely on dwindling gas tax revenue.
The Senate’s Democratic and Republican transportation leaders also called for a study of new ways to bankroll highways, bridges and ferries in the future, as high-efficiency cars and periodically high pump prices drive down state gas tax collections. Various kinds of tolling seemed to be early favorites.
Under the Senate’s proposed transportation budget, a half-dozen major highway projects would continue drawing money based on the project list developed last year. They include the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, the State Route 520 bridge over Lake Washington, and the State Route 395 North Spokane Corridor.
Some of the policy details of those mega-projects still aren’t settled. For instance, the earthquake-damaged viaduct may be replaced by a tunnel, but that decision still hasn’t been totally finalized. What exactly to do about the 520 bridge is still not fully resolved.
“I really probably shouldn’t say this, but I hope those people building those mega-projects would make some decisions and move forward, because the Legislature’s only going to have so much patience,” said Senate Transportation Committee Chairwoman Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island. “We’re really delighted that a decision has been made on the viaduct. We hope it can be made on 520 also.”
The Senate plan also continues paying for about 400 other projects, but the original 16-year gas tax-financed construction plan is now short about $6 billion, due to dropping tax revenue and construction cost inflation, officials said.
That means the money for new projects is now projected to run out in 2015, putting 31 more planned highway projects on a list to be “delayed” pending a new source of money.
“You’ll see in this budget, we’re not able to fully fund any new transportation construction after 2015,” Haugen said.
Examples of the newly shuttered projects were transit and car pool lane improvements to Interstate 90 between Seattle and Bellevue, and a proposed “cross-base” highway in the Tacoma area. That list could change in the future, though, transportation leaders said.
Underlying the newly delayed projects are another 19 that won’t be built before money from the nickel and 9.5-cent gas-tax plans expire. Those 19 projects were outside the budget horizon as of last year’s supplemental transportation budget, officials said.
Rep. Dan Roach, R-Bonney Lake, predicted discord in the Legislature now that more gas-tax projects are being delayed. Many lawmakers took a potentially unpopular vote based on their areas getting projects under the plan, he said, but now may have “nothing to show for it.”
“I think there will be some opposition on both sides,” he said.
On the positive side, officials said they would pay for four new 64-car ferries, assume no more than a 2.5 percent fare increase and provide operating money for all ferry routes.
Ferry riders, however, may have to pay a new fuel surcharge to help buoy the system’s operating budget when the price of diesel spikes, lawmakers said.
The House will release its transportation plan next, and the two sides will hash out their differences before the Legislature’s scheduled adjournment in late April.
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The first two books in The Sugar Baron’s Daughters series by Lisa T. Bergren swept me from my comfortable couch to the wild jungles of Nevis during the start of the Revolutionary War. I’ve been eager to continue the story of the Banning sisters and see how all the conflicts they’ve faced are finally resolved in the third book, Selah.
Coming of age in the West Indies, Selah finds herself drawn to helping the slaves on her family’s plantation, the Double T. Jedidah Reed feels he also has been called to serve the slaves of Nevis. But as the two began an insecure courtship, threats of starvation and conflict due to the American Revolution and the less savory plantation neighbors throw the Double T into despair. Selah wants to help the slaves find freedom and security, but at what cost to herself or her family?
Once again, Lisa T. Bergren has crafted an intriguing, heartfelt story full of strong relationships and enough action to keep the story moving forward. While this book focuses on the love brewing between Selah and Jedidah, it’s much more than another romance story. Lisa’s stories focus on life: the ups and downs, the good and bad, and all the relationships that come with it. The romance is just one aspect of a whole. This story also focuses on the strong bond between the three Banning sisters and the people who live with them on the Double T plantation and the island of Nevis.
While this is Selah’s novel, I love that Keturah and Verity both play prominent parts in the story still. They help guide Selah in her decisions, and the conflicts that began in the other novels continue in this story. Keturah’s quarrel with Angus Shubert affects Selah’s choices and Verity’s involvement in the American Revolution prods Selah to do what she must to help her family and the people on the Double T.
Selah’s actions are the heart of the story, beyond her decisions when it comes to Jedidah. I love that Lisa gave her a deep love for the slaves on the plantations and great care for the good of everybody on Nevis. Her courage and bravery shines through when she makes nontraditional choices in regards to slavery and holds steadfast to her belief about doing whatever she can to help them have better lives through freedom and opportunity. These decisions reminded me that caring for and loving people, no matter when or where we live or who they are, is important.
While I wish there wasn’t so much heartache associated with Selah and Jedidah’s relationship, their romance was still sweet and adorable. Jed just might be my favorite of the three Banning love interests for the honest and open way he speaks about faith (though a Scottish pirate is definitely high up there too). I like how Lisa shows the two of them growing stronger in their faith right alongside the growth of their love for one another.
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Between 2019 and 2020 Boulder and the surrounding areas were hit by a spree of bike shop smash and grab burglaries (see “Cycles of crime,” 10/28/21). In total, $985,000 worth of bikes were stolen and $231,837 in property damage was done in the process.
Then, in November, the office of the Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that they had indicted and arrested eight individuals in connection with the crimes, via “Operation Vicious Cycle.” It was a huge breakthrough in the case and a huge victory for detectives and police.
“This is the kind of case that required a team effort of different agencies from around the metro area,” Michael Dougherty, District Attorney of Boulder County, says. “This indictment reflects that [bike theft] is an absolute priority for law enforcement.”
The multi-jurisdictional crime ring, as Dougherty calls it, had been brought down. But the question remained: Where had all those stolen bikes gone?
No one knew the answer to that question. Not until Bike Index, a nonprofit bike registry service, started getting tips about a Facebook user selling bikes possibly stolen from Colorado—all the way down in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
“It was on my backburner for a while, and then finally one day I took a look and haphazardly checked on six [stolen] bikes,’” Bryan Hance, one of the founders of Bike Index, says. He got onto the vendor’s regionally-locked Facebook page called “Alexander’s Bikes” and started checking the vendor’s inventory against bikes listed as stolen on Bike Index.
Of the six bicycles Hance checked, he says he identified four of them on the vendor’s page right off the bat.
“It was like, ‘OK, there’s clearly something here,’” he says.
Hance and his team figured out the seller’s posting schedule and started taking screenshots, cataloguing them into a file. They then quietly started reaching out to shops in Colorado that had been burglarized, groups on Facebook like “Denver Stolen Bikes,” and other connections they had in the Colorado cycling community, asking people to match bikes on the Facebook page with those reported stolen. They compiled an online archive where Colorado victims of bike theft can look to see if their stolen bike is (or was) with this vendor.
Many of the bikes being sold on Alexander’s Bikes had only been stolen weeks prior, Hance says. The bikes were moving fast, and selling for just under market-value. Some even had stickers on them from the shops they were stolen from, like Full Cycle in Boulder.
“This goes beyond casual,” Hance says. “If we had found bikes from Texas or other areas it would have been one thing, but they were all coming back to Colorado.”
For years there had been rumors of an organized crime ring stealing bikes in the U.S. and funneling them down into Mexico, but there hadn’t been any proof. Now at least, they had [I]strong[I] evidence for that theory—even if they couldn’t do much about it.
Eventually, Hance got this information in front of a detective, who promptly told him to [I]stay quiet[I]. At the time, the police had been in the final stages of rounding up and arresting the eight individuals from Operation Vicious Cycle, and they didn’t want Hance tipping off the thieves that their Mexican associate had been outed.
“It sucked, because I kept seeing all these victims and I kept matching their bikes,” Hance says. “So when they finally published Operation Vicious Cycle, we gave [police] a heads up saying, ‘Look, we are going to put all these bikes out there, we’re going to name names, and we’re going to basically try to blow this guy away.’”
And on December 16, that’s exactly what they did. Bike Index published its findings in an article titled “Closing the loop” and effectively exposed this vendor to the world.
“This got picked up by Mexican-cycling Twitter and Mexican-cycling Facebook and a whole lot of people started emailing us about this guy’s reputation and sending us more information that we didn’t know,” Hance says. “People think [Mexican cyclists] don’t care, that they just want cheap bikes and that’s not it at all. The actual cyclists down there are wrecking this guy even harder than we are.”
Not surprisingly, the vendor denied everything. In fact, he claimed victimhood himself, posting that he had been hoodwinked and had been sold hot bikes he didn’t know were stolen. But neither Hance, nor Colorado or Mexico’s cycling communities were buying it—Alexander’s Bikes was bombarded with angry comments and posts.
“He deleted everything soon after that,” Hance says. “His [business] page is gone. His personal page is gone. His Tik Tok is gone. His Instagram is gone . . . We were starting to see him get flak from his own customers right before he pulled the plug on everything.”
Hance admits that it’s disappointing this vendor wasn’t brought to justice. But he also points out that this accounts for a missing link in the bike theft mystery—answering the enduring question of where many of Colorado’s stolen bikes are going and how they’re being sold.
“This is at least one of the channels where they are getting rid of these bikes,” Hance says. He knows Alexander isn’t the only vendor of his ilk—he’s just one outlet in a network of stolen bicycle trafficking. Alexander’s business is closed (for now) but there will be others who step in to replace him, Hance says.
“We want to be really clear that this is about the bigger problem,” he says. “It’s not about this one fucking dude named Alexander. It’s about guys like him and the systems that allow them to propagate.” | <urn:uuid:00d61f17-6690-442c-b22b-38d79b5ae0a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.boulderweekly.com/news/the-pipeline-to-mexico/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977819 | 1,358 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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For Guillermo del Toro, it’s what lies beneath the bed, behind the curtain, or in the darkness that made him tick as a child, and inspires him creatively as a director. As a self-confessed lover of the macabre, del Toro surrounds himself with art, imagery, sculptures and collections of all that can feed his obsession with monsters and ghouls, using this to fuel his imagination.
His own personal collection of curiosities are housed within the walls of Bleak House, the ultimate collection of the macabre, where he can both work and take inspiration.
But in the dark and ghostly he also sees beauty, and this is reflected in his films, often stunningly shot and incredibly designed. Being an accomplished artist he sketches and creates his monsters on the page first in his notebooks, before they are brought to life in film predominantly using practical effects.
But these are not your garden variety monsters, ghouls and contraptions that del Toro creates. Leaning on his encyclopaedic knowledge of the history of horror he creates nods towards his favourite art, towards famous monsters and films which have provided him with his inspiration. His monsters serve a higher purpose than that of just to scare (though scare they certainly do), driving his stories and tapping to the audiences most primal fears of what happens when you turn off the lights.
“It would be a cliché to say that, because I am a Mexican, I see death in a certain way. But I have seen more than my share of corpses, certainly more than the average First World guy. I worked for months next to a morgue that I had to go through to get to work. I’ve seen people being shot; I’ve had guns put to my head; I’ve seen people burnt alive, stabbed, decapitated … because Mexico is still a very violent place. So I do think that some of that element in my films comes from a Mexican sensibility.”
Though many of del Toro’s films weave dark tales, his use of colour brings a vibrancy to proceedings, often working with his longterm collaborator, director of photography Guillermo Navarro, to add visual depth to his films, letting the image tell the story as much as the dialogue in any given scene.
Over the years del Toro has intertwined his more personal Spanish-language films with larger scale Hollywood movies. He has struck the proverbial gold mine on a number of occasions with his more intimate stories, however his break into Hollywood filmmaking was not an initial success, and perhaps shaped his approach to projects he took on later in his career.
As we look forward to his latest movie Crimson Peak, Flicks and Pieces ranks del Toro’s cinematic efforts thus far:
8) Mimic (1997)
“I remember the worst experience of my life, even above the kidnapping of my father, was shooting Mimic. Because what was happening to me and the movie was far more illogical than kidnapping, which is brutal, but at least there are rules. Now when I look at Mimic, what I see is the pain of a deeply flawed creature that could have been so beautiful.”
Guillermo del Toro’s first foray into Hollywood film making was not a happy affair, with studio interference damaging his take on the story he intended to tell, as well as how he intended to tell it. Reportedly demands were made for changes to the script midway through shooting the movie, perhaps accounting for the formulaic and underwhelming resulting piece.
Though we see glimpses of del Toro’s imaginative creature creation, Mimic is a largely forgettable and lacks the depth we would later become accustomed to expect from a del Toro movie. Guillermo del Toro himself would later come to publicly disown Mimic, though he did eventually revisit the film for a Director’s Cut DVD release.
7) Blade II (2002)
“I’m a huge comic book fan. It’s tough to do a bad comic book movie. So many people don’t understand that comic books are one of the most sophisticated forms of entertainment. There are some comic books that rank up with the greatest works of humanity for me.”
Blade II was both del Toro’s second crack of the whip at both making a film in Hollywood, and his second vampire movie. It was also his first involvement in a sequel, shifting the tone of Stephen Norrington’s Blade, upping both the humour and action quota in comparison to the first entry into the series.
The film was solid if unspectacular, and del Toro turned down the opportunity to later work on the third instalment of the trilogy in favour focussing on Hellboy.
6) Cronos (1993)
“I’ve been obsessed with vampires all my life. I’ve never been satisfied with the romantic conception of the vampire, so I was fully conscious, trying to reformulate that myth from a completely new perspective, which is alchemy and addiction and Mexican melodrama all together.”
As his first feature length film, Cronos was to be the World’s introduction to Guillermo del Toro. And quite the introduction it was. An early of example of his passion for horror, and intricate design, Cronos tells the tale of an ageing antiques dealer who stumbles upon a device which grants the user eternal life, at a dear cost.
The Cronos device itself is incredibly detailed, showcasing del Toro’s eye for detail. Horrifying, intelligent and exciting, Cronos put del Toro firmly on the map.
5) Hellboy (2004)
“What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don’t think so. It’s the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.”
Ron Perlman’s casting as Hellboy’s titular character proved to be a stroke of genius, bringing heart to del Toro’s adaptation of Mike Mignola’s comic series. It was the actor and director’s third collaboration, with Perlman proving with style that he is leading man material.
Sandwiched in between The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy marked the midpoint of what was probably the most prolific period of del Toro’s filmmaking career thus far in terms of quality, and more than holds its alongside these two giants of his filmography.
4) Pacific Rim (2013)
“A movie like this, it’s easy to forget how unique you can make it. I wanted to make the movie not a war movie but an adventure movie — a movie that has a huge, romantic sense of adventure, grandeur, operatic battles that were not only respectable but have a huge emotional content. Because in a movie like this when you have 25-story monsters and you don’t have a sense of awe and scale, everything is lost.”
When Guillermo del Toro announced that he was making a monster movie, it was clear that his take on the genre would be massive in scale and beautifully designed.
Drenched in neon colours, with gigantic Kaiju vs Jaeger battles Pacific Rim is hugely fun, if not del Toro’s deepest movie. Nevertheless, it acts as del Toro’s love letter to the genre, and in his hands it is a lot more fun than it has any right to be.
3) Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
The second time around, del Toro’s trip into the world of Hellboy brought a significant increase in the more fantastic elements of the universe, as well as a beautiful colour palette, and incredible practical effects.
Hellboy II improved on almost every aspect of the original film, and expanded the scale significantly, featuring an excellent villain in Prince Nuada, an awe inspiring Troll Market sequence which harks back to the Star Wars Cantina scene and lot and lots of monsters. Hellboy II was an amalgamation of what del Toro does best – stunning visuals and beautiful monsters, with a lot of heart and a large serving of humour.
2) The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
“To me it’s not a ghost story, but a story with a ghost.”
Returning to smaller scale filmmaking following his unhappy time shooting Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone marked a return to form for del Toro.
During the final throws of the Spanish Civil War, young orphan Carlos is taken in at a small orphanage, and soon begins to encounter the ghost of another small child named Santi who disappeared from the orphanage previously.
Rather than relying on cheap jumps and scares, del Toro finds unease in slowly playing with the audiences expectations, and layering on the tension as the Santi haunts the lonely and lost inhabitants of the orphanage, making this a modern horror classic.
1) Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
“These shots are not eye-candy, they are, to me, eye-protein.”
Beautiful, mesmerising and heartbreaking, Pan’s Labyrinth is del Toro’s masterpiece. Set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War (as with The Devil’s Backbone), Pan’s Labyrinth tells the tale of a young girl’s journey into a fantasy world.
Throughout the duration of the film it’s unclear as to what we are seeing is reality or Ofelia’s imagination as she blocks out the cruel truth of the world surrounding her. She encounters the devious and terrifying Pan, the horrific Pale Man, who takes inspiration from Goya’s painting Saturn Devouring his Son, as well as her new stepfather Vidal, who is ultimately the most dangerous character she will face.
Pan’s Labyrinth cinematographer Guillermo Navarro picked up an Oscar for his work on the film and this is reflected in the beautiful use of colour, light, framing and camera movement throughout the film, with each aspect marrying perfectly to create a visually stunning treat.
Yet there is so much more to Pan’s Labyrinth than it’s visuals, and it will go down in history as a modern classic, and the ultimate tragic fairy tale.
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Location: 95 km from Durban, South Africa
The Umkomaas River originates in Giant’s Castle of the Drankensberg mountain range and follows a winding course down to the Indian Ocean. Whitewater rafting trips are available on the Mkomazi River (another spelling) in a valley that lies just 95 kilometers from Durban and 65 kilometers from Peitermaritzburg, in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Rafting operators often meet their guests in Richmond.
Level of Difficulty: Class III / Beginner
The Umkomaas River is a big-volume river, and has even been dubbed the most high-volume whitewater available south of the mighty Zambezi. The Class III rapids are a rollercoaster ride over huge waves, with very few rocks to slow the momentum. This river is not very technically challenging, but it is also not a mellow float. For beginners, the Mkomazi is an exhilarating introduction.
Scenery: Plateaus, Exotic Game Animals, Wooded Hillsides, Bushveld
The scenery on this 24 kilometer stretch of the Umkomaas River varies between the plateaus and hillsides of the bush country, and tropical-esque wooded hillsides. For 13 kilometers, the river winds through the Duma Manzi Reserve, home to an incredible array of game species. Wildlife sightings here may include zebra, Blue Wildebeests, impalas, the White-Tailed Mongoose, and the clawless otter. White Rhino, buffalo, giraffe, and waterbuck were also introduced in 2006.
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