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Let Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War teach his peers a valuable lesson: Movies need more Greek choruses. In Erlingsson’s case, that’d be an Icelandic chorus, shadowing choir conductor and amateur eco terrorist Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) as she carries out her one-woman campaign against metal and mining corporation Rio Tinto. She’s a tenacious, clever foe, loosing arrows over power lines to cut electricity to the company’s aluminum plants, job producers to some, warts upon Iceland’s pristine landscapes to others, meaning mostly to Halla. The band following her as she goes about her business never comments on her actions in words, just in music.
Maybe they’re on Halla’s side. Rio Tinto’s industrial impact on the gorgeous Icelandic expanse lovingly captured by Erlingsson’s cinematographer, Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson, is offensive to the eye. Maybe they’re appalled by Halla’s motivations, muddied by both her virtue and her selfishness. It’s possible that fighting for a greener world in Halla’s way, causing havoc for the ostensible greater good, incurs consequences that extend beyond Rio Tinto. In Woman at War’s opening scene, her meddling causes literal sparks to fly. Lights flicker inside the company plant as workers scramble to fire off generators and avoid imminent catastrophe. Abruptly shutting off power to a building that houses a directional drill isn’t a victimless crime.
Woman at War takes no firm position on matters of environmentalism, which is to the film’s benefit. Halla’s crusade against the rape of Iceland’s natural beauty is noble. “I know these people,” exclaims Baldvin (Jörundur Ragnarsson), Halla’s ministry man on the inside during one surreptitious meeting. “I’m surrounded by those psychopaths all day long.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, her deeds have attracted attention on a global scale, forcing the hand of other companies interested in laying down roots in Iceland to reconsider. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Halla’s civil disobedience and property destruction have put her on radars. Authorities aren’t on to her. They just know somebody out there has a grudge against Rio Tinto.
Baldvin reminds Halla, and the audience, that Rio Tinto is run by bad people, and so she remains the hero. Yet, the chorus scores her plots and plans with encouragement as much as with judgment. Halla routinely evades the long arm of the law, but justice has to grab someone, and that someone, nearly without fail, is Juan Camillo (Juan Camillo Roman Estrada), a tourist with a knack for being in the wrong place (the site of one of Halla’s crimes) at the wrong time (the moment the police swoop in to arrest her).
Making the repeat arrest of a minority into a successful recurring joke takes both a deft hand and wicked chutzpah. Erlingsson has both. Poor Juan. The joke is on him, but the moral imperative is on Halla. Every move she makes has a ripple effect. The backlash is felt by Rio Tinto’s workers. It’s felt by Juan. It’s even felt by Halla, who wants to adopt a child from the Ukraine, a desire jeopardized by her refusal to put to bed her guerilla tactics and let the conflict die. In the real world, she’s made her point. In her mind, her point’s yet to be made. Erlingsson shoots each sabotage sequence with tongue firmly in cheek, the chorus looking on dispassionately while Halla takes her schemes to comical lengths.
Most of that comedy comes from Geirharðsdóttir herself, as committed to performance as Halla is to activism. She finds character in Halla’s stubbornness, crafting an endearing portrait of a woman ready to do whatever’s required to realize her goals, whether adoption or subversion. Stoicism is her greatest asset. She’s pleased with herself but never shows it. If she was a cat, she’d purr. But Geirharðsdóttir reveals Halla’s interior apart from her dogged grudge with Rio Tinto. Her determination is impressive but at times exhausting. Rather than wear out her viewers, she tips her hand. Halla’s tired out, too. All she truly wants is to rest.
Geirharðsdóttir lets that ray of vulnerability through while Erlingsson keeps Woman at War’s tone balanced between dark humor and cultural critique. The film directs a bitter, humorous eye at the complications between embracing activism and functioning in society, especially in an era of increased global commerce and tech surveillance. How much is activism worth when there are eyes in the sky everywhere and conglomerates at the ready to swoop in to undo your efforts? Erlingsson shrewdly withholds easy answers to the question, and the band plays on.
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Writer: Benedikt Erlingsson, Ólafur Egill Egilsson
Starring: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Davíð Þór Jónsson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson, Magnús Trygvason Eliasen, Ómar Guðjónsson, Jóhann Sigurðarson
Release Date: March 1, 2019
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Higher Costs to Electric Ratepayers
- Ohio has traditional assisted families that cannot afford their utility bills with payment assistance, payment plan, and weatherization programs.
- The General Assembly has traditionally favored weatherization funding over payment assistance because it is a permanent solution.
- After weatherization, many of the households no longer need assistance to afford their utility bills.
- If low income weatherization is eliminated there will be a greater need for bill payment assistance; bad debt and disconnections will increase; and families could be uprooted from their homes, schools and jobs.
Increased Use of Medical Services
Weatherizing homes is proven to have a positive effect on the health of the families living in them. These benefits will be lost for 10,000 Ohio homes a year.
- Weatherization identifies and corrects problems that can result in carbon monoxide poisonings.
- Energy efficient homes are less likely to rely on unsafe heating methods which reduces the instances of house fires.
- Energy efficient homes have lower utility bills which eliminates the choice between heating your home and feeding your family or buying medications.
- Residents of weatherized homes report fewer emergency room visits, fewer missed workdays, and lower medical costs.
Increasing Energy Usage Undermines the Intent of HB 6
- Increased energy use translates into higher wholesale energy prices.
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During 2017 the U.S. Mint will be celebrating it's 225th anniversary, on January 12th the Department of the Treasury, in Washington DC, hosted a special media event and unveiling. Using the tagline “Remembering our past, and embracing our future”, the briefing officially launched what the Mint is describing as a special year long series of events in celebration of their 225th anniversary celebrations.
The press event may have launched the 225th anniversary celebrations but the focus was squarely on the unveiling of the 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin. Mint Chief of Staff Elisa Basnight led the event and had the following comments on the new coin
“It proudly represents our nation. It's past, it's present and it's future. What this coin symbolises for me personally ... is the evolution of Liberty. Liberty is a representation of how anything is possible. Lady Liberty, as depicted on coinage throughout the years, is modelled on our societies continued evolution. As we as a nation continue to evolve, so does Liberty's representation.”
Also present was United States Mint Principal Deputy Director Rhett Jeppson who added some historical perspective to the celebrations.
"We are very proud of the fact that the United States Mint is rooted in the Constitution ... Our founding fathers realized the critical need for our fledgling nation to have a respected monetary system, and over the last 225 years, the Mint has never failed in its mission."
The obverse of the coin depicts an allegorical image of lady liberty that was heavily inspired by the Statue of Freedom that stands atop the dome of the US Capitol building. The bust of a youthful liberty wears a crown comprised of large five pointed stars, facing left. The obverse legend reads : "LIBERTY" and "IN GOD WE TRUST” To the top and bottom of the coin along the rim. The dates of "1792" and "2017" appear at either end of the profile portrait , indicating the 225th anniversary. The design is completed by the initial “JK” and “PH” which stand for Mint Artistic Infusion Program (AIP) Designer Justin Kunz and sculpted by Mint Sculptor-Engraver Phebe Hemphill who were responsible for the design.
This is not the first time that the Statue of Freedom has been the inspiration for a coin. The 1989 Congressional Bicentennial commemorative coins also featured this image on the half dollar and silver one dollar designs.
The reverse in turn features a bold and powerful eagle in flight, with it's eyes toward opportunity and a determination to attain it. The bird is in full flight with it's wings spread, facing towards the viewer's right. The majority of the obligatory inscription were reserved for this side of the coin and read : "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "E PLURIBUS UNUM", "1OZ. .9999 FINE GOLD" and "100 DOLLARS." These incriptiona are further joined by the initials “CTC” and “MG” for AIP Designer Chris Costello and Mint Sculptor-Engraver Michael Gaudioso. Finally the “W” mintmark appears to the bottom left indicating the coins origin from the West Point minting facility.
As indicated above, the 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin will be a high relief design coin struck from 1oz of .9999 Fineness(24-karat) gold. The coin has a planned release date of April 6th 2017.
In addition to the high relief design, which features sharper details and more dramatic contrasts there is also a final design element to be noted. This is the addition of raised edge-lettering. The edge inscription reads : “225th ANNIVERSARY” and is bookended by five pointed stars at either end.
In addition to the gold $100 coin there will also be a silver medal of the same design released later in the year, similar to what was done with the 2016 design as well.
In a subsequent press release the United States Mint revealed that the 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin is the first in a new biennially released series of 24-karat gold coins that will feature similar designs. These coins will depict an allegorical image of Liberty in a variety of contemporary forms - including designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Indian-Americans among others-to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States.
The coin has met with mixed responses from the numismatic community. These range from praise and excitement to disappointment and indifference to outright anger over the chosen design.
The mainstream press however have widely reported on the new coin, choosing to focus their attention on the fact that Lady Liberty is for the first time depicted as an African-American woman on a US coin. Of course this is not the first time a black women has appeared on a coin from the US Mint, the 1994 Women in the Military silver dollar coin comes to mind, but hey – why let facts get in the way of a good story right? Granted this is the first time that Liberty herself, the enduring symbol of Americas promise and potential, is depicted as such. It will be interesting to note if the rest of the series will receive similar attention in the years to come.
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Steenweg op Wortel 1 , 2330, Merksplas, Belgium
Status of Establishment
The penitentiary institution of Merksplas was built in 1825 as a colony for the accommodation of beggars and tramps. After WW II, this institution evolved to a half-open prison with communal regime. Today, this institution is a closed penitentiary institution for sentenced persons and a secure institution for social defence for confined persons.In June 2009, De Haven, a ward for the secure care for confined persons with a mental disability, was first occupied. The ward is located in a new building, built especially for that target group. In collaboration with the Flemish government, the penitentiary institution of Merksplas is a trend-setter for the accommodation and treatment of mentally disabled confined persons in an institution for social defence. The penitentiary institution has been a protected monument since 1999 and is located in a classified landscape. | <urn:uuid:7f3c9ba6-8566-48a5-b2b6-16b30cd3d741> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.europris.org/establishment/merksplas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945947 | 226 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Trio of galaxies spotted reshaping universe around them as they emerge from ‘COSMIC DARK AGE' (VIDEO)
Researchers believe they have found the farthest galaxy group ever seen by mankind, and we are witnessing it emerge from a so-called ‘cosmic dark age’ as it reshapes the universe around it.
The trio of galaxies, named EGS77, dates back to when the universe was just 680 million years old.
In the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, the universe was a thick, cloudy soup dense with hydrogen atoms and almost entirely bereft of light.
After 500 million years, the epoch of deionization began, in which ever-expanding galaxies began to burn away the fog, splitting the hydrogen atoms into bubbles of plasma, thus allowing light to travel across the cosmos. Think of ice melting on top of a lake in the spring, as NASA so eloquently put it.
This trio, located some 13 billion light-years away, is just now leaving the darkness, encased by three overlapping bubbles of cosmic plasma which are only now deionizing their corner of the universe (clearing away the fog) and letting the light in (and out), thus ending the cosmic dark age.
“EGS77 is the first galaxy group caught in the act of clearing out this cosmic fog,” study co-author James Rhoads of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said.
Astronomers think they’ve spotted these plasma bubbles expanding for the first time, reshaping the universe around them and giving us an, albeit distant, glance into the cosmic past, showcasing some of the earliest light ever observed.
“EGS77 has formed a large bubble that allows its light to travel to Earth,” study co-author Vithal Tilvi, a researcher at Arizona State University, explained. “Eventually, bubbles like these grew around all galaxies and filled intergalactic space, reionizing the universe and clearing the way for light to travel across the cosmos.”Also on rt.com Famous photogenic black hole spotted spitting out matter at nearly the SPEED OF LIGHT
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The Eswatini Sport & Recreation Council (ESRC) is the supreme governing body for sport in Eswatini . It is a Government Category A Public enterprise mandated to regulate and promote sports development and sports for positive social change. Its mandate is an endeavour to contribute to national development goals in line with the Eswatini Development Index. The organization receives an annual subvention from Government to deliver this huge national mandate that encompasses passive recreation, recreational sport, competitive sport and elite (international) participation.
To create a well regulated and coordinated sport industry that promotes a healthy, passionate, proud and winning nation in sport and recreation.
To develop and regulate all sport and recreation activities in the Kingdom through quality sport and recreation programs and facilitating maximum access to resources and opportunities for Swazi citizens.
1.Integrity – Bucotfo
– honesty, trustworthiness, truthfulness, consistency
– acting according to the highest ethical standards and transparency
2.Respect – Inhlonipho
– We treat others with dignity, honoring their right to exist
– We listen to others and treat everybody in the organization and our stakeholders as important
3.Accountability – Kumelela Lokwentile
– making commitments and being willing to be judged against them.
– delivering on commitments
– being responsible for our actions | <urn:uuid:b7ff85fe-8e16-4796-8bf4-e5b1b5b2b8dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sportscouncil.org.sz/about-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.91505 | 283 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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We are thrilled to partner with the Karrabing Collective and former Collaborative Studio fellows, Adam and Zack Khalil, for a night of uprooting indigenous narratives from the past and centering them in the present. NIGHT TIME GO and INAATE/SE/ provocatively mix media and genre to embody the alternate Ojibway and Karrabing stories as dynamic and ever-enduring. Co-presented with E-flux, as a part of their Toxic Assets Series, we are lucky to have the Karrabing Collective in town for a night of documentary that blends the nuanced, overt, and specific ways the colonized have and continue to resist.
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Oct 19, 2017 at 8:30 pm
Karrabing Film Collective’s NIGHT TIME GO with INAATE/SE/
Screening to be followed by discussion with the Karrabing Film Collective's Elizabeth Povinelli, Vivian Ziherl, Zack Khalil and Adam Khalil
NIGHT TIME GO
30 min., 2017
On September 19, 1943, a group of Karrabing ancestors escaped from a war internment camp and walked over 300 kilometers back to their coastal homelands in Northern Australia. Night Time Go is an exploration of the settler state’s attempt to remove Indigenous people from their lands during the Second World War using truck, train, and rifle and the refusal of the Karrabing ancestors to be detained. The film begins by hewing closely to the actual historical details of this ancestral journey but slowly turns to an alternative history in which the group inspires a general Indigenous insurrection driving out settlers from the Top End of Australia. Mixing drama and humor, history and satire, Night Time Go pushes subaltern history beyond the bounds of settler propriety.
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75 min., 2016 [excerpt]
History is written by the victors, but this film reminds us that the history of the oppressed can still be saved from being extinguished. Native American video artists Adam and Zack Khalil here reclaim the narrative of the Ojibway of Sault Ste. Marie, in Michigan’s Upper Penninsula, from the archives and museums that would confine it to the past. Using personal interviews, animated drawings, performance, and provocative intercutting, the Khalil brothers’ feature debut makes a bold case for the Ojibway people to be their own storytellers—while seeking a cure for the damage inflicted by colonization—in a spiritual reconnection with tradition.
The chief accomplishment of the Khalil brothers is their refusal to succumb to any of these pressures, instead blending their own personal ingenuity with a way of seeing the world that emerges from their culture – Daniel Walber of ‘Nonfics’
Adam Shingwak Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist. His practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Adam’s work has been exhibited at UnionDocs, e-flux, Maysles Cinema, Microscope Gallery (New York), Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), Spektrum (Berlin), Trailer Gallery (Sweden), Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay), and Fine Art Film Festival Szolnok (Hungary). Khalil is a UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow and Gates Millennium Scholar. In 2011 he graduated from the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College.
Zack Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His work often explores an indigenous worldview and undermines traditional forms of historical authority through the excavation of alternative histories and the use of innovative documentary forms. He recently completed a B.A. at Bard College in the Film and Electronic Arts Department, and is a UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow and Gates Millennium Scholar.
The Karrabing Film Collective is a grassroots Indigenous based media group. Filmmaking provides a means of self-organization and social analysis for the Karrabing. Screenings and publications allow the Karrabing to develop a local artistic languages and forms and allow audiences to understand new forms of collective Indigenous agency. Their medium is a form of survivance—a refusal to relinquish their country and a means of investigating contemporary social conditions of inequality. The films represent their lives, create bonds with their land, and intervene in global images of Indigeneity.
Vivian Ziherl is a critic and curator from Australia, currently living and working in Amsterdam. In 2015 she founded the art and research project Frontier Imaginaries. Prior to that she worked with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, led the curatorial platform Landings together with Natasha Ginwala, staged performance programs at the Stedelijk Museum together with Hendrik Folkerts, and edited several books including Lip Anthology (MacMillan/Kunstverein, 2013).
Elizabeth A. Povinelli teaches anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University. She was previously editor of Public Culture and her most recent books are Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Libearlism (2016), The Empire of Love (2006), and Economies of Abandonment (2011). Her writing and filmography focus on the conditions of otherwise in Late Liberalism. She is a founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. | <urn:uuid:d2523d82-54b3-41bc-8322-13572fd35387> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-10-19-karrabing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.926175 | 1,167 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Flat breads are one of the easiest breads to make, indoors or outdoors. Indeed, flat breads exist in the cuisine of many cultures around the world. Once you have flour, you can make flat breads. Once you have a fire, you can make campfire flatbreads.
Here I’d like to share how we make flat breads outside, on courses and on trips.
As well as the ingredients being simple, this type of bread is also quick to make and quick to cook – ideal if you are either short of time or very hungry, or both.
At their most basic, all you need to make flat breads is some flour, a small amount of fat and some clean water.
In terms of cooking equipment, life is equally simple in flat-bread land. All you need is a hot flatt(ish) surface.
The basic ingredients for flat breads are very few and ones you will often have in camp or on a trip:
- Oil or butter
Start with plain white flour, as it’s simplest to get good results. You can then try self-raising or wholemeal, before experimenting further if you wish.
Personally I like to use olive oil for very simple flatbreads as it gives a flavour I enjoy. Melted butter also works well.
Basic Flatbread Method
- Take a couple of handfuls of flour and put them into a bowl, mug or billy can.
- Lift your fingers through the flour a few times to aerate it.
- Add a tablespoon (approximately) of oil or melted butter to the flour and mix.
- You need surprisingly little water. Add a small dribble of water to start with and mix.
- Keep adding a little dribble, then mixing until you start to get a dough.
- If you add too much water, resulting in a sloppy dough, add a little more flour to soak up excess.
- Once you have a dough, keep working it for several minutes, after which the dough should start to feel somewhat bouncy and resistant to pressure from your fingers.
- Small breads cook quickest, so start with breaking off a dough ball then begin to flatten it out in the palm of your hand, before stretching it out with your fingers.
- Once you have your small, thin piece of dough, you can place it onto a hot pan or skillet.
- One or two minutes on each side is all you need for the bread to cook.
Additional Flatbread Flavours
The above flat bread recipe is surprisingly tasty but you can make many further enjoyable flavour varieties with the addition of one or two extras. Again these may be in your cook kit already. Mix any dry ingredients with the flour before adding oil and water. Below are some suggestions…
- Garam Masala
- Mixed herbs (dried)
- Oregano (dried)
- Basil (dried)
- Rosemary (chopped finely)
- Garlic powder
- Garlic clove (chopped finely)
- Garlic butter (in place of oil or butter)
- Foraged wild garlic leaves or flowers (finely chopped)
These are just a few suggestions to get your imagination going. What else do you think would make a tasty addition? Let me and other readers know in the comments section below what you’d like to try or what you have tried…
Improvised Flatbread Ovens
While a skillet or flat frying pan makes a good flat surface on which to cook flat breads, there are also other options. You may not be carrying any sort of flat pan or frying pan. You can still cook flat breads, though, if you have a billy can or a metal mug.
Rake out some embers from your fire to create an even bed of hot coals. Place your billy can or metal mug on its side on top of the coals and allow it to heat up. Then add your flat bread(s) to cook inside. As well as the direct heat coming up through the metal, you also gain something of an oven effect with the semi-enclosed space holding hot air.
Flexible Flatbreads and Accompaniments
Flatbreads are quick, easy and tasty. They are good for a quick campfire snack or to stave off hunger before cooking a
After a day of hiking or canoeing, I like to get the fire or stove on and make a warm drink to help with hydration. This type of simple flatbread is great accompaniment to get some calories into your system at the same time, to provide a little extra energy for finishing setting up camp or cooking the evening meal.
If you have a small fire at lunch – even in a fire box – flat breads can easily be made too. They are delicious with ham or dry cured meats.
If you have a little time, another of our favourite lunchtime accompaniments is to cook off some slice Halloumi cheese along with some cherry tomatoes, then top cooked flatbreads with some of the mix.
I’m sure there are many other tasty combinations. Let us know your suggestions in the comments below…
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You can’t dive under it. Scuba divers have been caught in tsunamis. They lived to tell the tale, but it was like being caught in a washing machine. Originally Answered: Could you survive a tsunami by swimming through the wave?
What happens if you are scuba diving during a tsunami?
If you’re too close to powerful tsunami waves, you’re at risk of being dragged inshore onto hard land. Just like in drift diving – only much stronger and faster – there is the risk of crashing into underwater structures, being knocked unconscious or sustaining fatal blows.
Should you dive into a tsunami?
You can’t surf a tsunami because it doesn’t have a face. Many people have the misconception that a tsunami wave will resemble the 25-foot waves at Jaws, Waimea or Maverick’s, but this is incorrect: those waves look nothing like a tsunami. … On a tsunami, there’s no face, so there’s nothing for a surfboard to grip.
What happens if you swim into a tsunami?
“A person will be just swept up in it and carried along as debris; there’s no swimming out of a tsunami,” Garrison-Laney says. “There’s so much debris in the water that you’ll probably get crushed.” … A tsunami is actually a series of waves, and the first one might not be the largest.
Can you drown in a tsunami?
Drowning is the most significant cause of death due to tsunamis. Injuries from debris account for many of the health care needs in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. Falling structures and waters full of swirling debris can inflict crush injuries, fractures, and a variety of open and closed wounds.
Will a life jacket help in a tsunami?
As our experiments demonstrated, it can be concluded that when people are engulfed within tsunami waves, PFDs will provide them with a higher chance of survival because they will remain on the surface of tsunami waves and are still able to breathe.
Are there sharks in tsunamis?
Over a hundred adult sharks can be seen just off the shore. … Happy news though: improved fisheries management is helping both leopard and white shark numbers to recover along the California coast.
What kills you in a tsunami?
Many people are killed by tsunamis when they are hit by floating debris or smashed into buildings or walls. If you are far enough offshore, there is nothing being tossed around that can kill you. … Tsunamis can last for a while. There are some good lessons to be learned by survivors of past tsunamis.
What is the deadliest wave in the world?
Pronounced, “Choo Poo,” this one is known as the “heaviest wave in the world.” The shape of the wave is unique, due to the semi-circular angle of the reef. The wave looks as if it sucks up the whole ocean even though swells rarely get above 10 feet in height.
Can fish survive a tsunami?
RE: Can fish survive a tsunami? Yes, they can, the operative word being “can” which implies “sometimes”.
Can a boat outrun a tsunami?
Damaging wave activity can continue for many hours following initial tsunami impact. … Boats are safer from tsunami damage while in the deep ocean ( > 100 m) rather than moored in a harbor. But, do not risk your life and attempt to motor your boat into deep water if it is too close to wave arrival time.
Can you survive a tsunami in a submarine?
Submarines are relatively unaffected by weather or tsunamis when submerged in deep open waters. Once a submarine is deep enough the conditions on the surface are not felt. However if a submarine has to go shallow or to periscope depth then conditions on the surface become a major concern.
What was the most recent tsunami in 2021?
2021 Fukushima earthquake
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|Casualties||1 dead, 186 injured, 16 serious|
What is the average death toll for tsunamis?
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by Samantha J. Bily, Esq.
If a claimant is suspected of having conversion disorder, is it compensable? Both the legal and medical community are grappling with this issue.
First, what is conversion disorder? Imagine an employee suffers a compensable injury to his right shoulder. He undergoes surgery, after which he contends he is completely unable to move his right arm. His physicians run numerous tests, none of which reveal any evidence of an etiology that explains the employee’s inability to move his arm. He may be intentionally refusing to move his arm, or he may be suffering from an underlying psychological condition that prevents him from doing so. Different from malingering, (in which a patient intentionally presents exaggerated symptoms), and factitious disorder, (in which the patient’s motor-sensory deficits are under voluntary control to play the role of an injured person), conversion disorder is an involuntary underlying psychological condition which results in blindness, paralysis, or some other neurological symptom that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.
The disorder has the medical community in disagreement as to whether the condition can fairly be said to be involuntary, and if so, what tests conclusively determine whether it is involuntary as opposed to voluntary. The State Board of Workers’ Compensation has addressed the issue in several recent cases, most of which involved numerous conflicting medical opinions as to whether the claimant’s condition was involuntary. Decisions have gone both ways, with detailed consideration of the medical opinions and the testing used to reach those opinions, evidence of pre-existing psychological injuries, testimony from individuals who knew the claimant both before and after the compensable injury, and in some cases, surveillance footage, some favorable to the claimant, some to the defense. However, it seems the most telling factor in many of the decisions is the judge’s determination of whether the claimant is credible. Regardless, employers and insurers should be aware of this medical phenomenon. As with any psychological condition, if the claimant can sufficiently prove that the condition is the result of a compensable injury, employers and insurers will be held liable. | <urn:uuid:dd0dd535-c961-4ac0-8be6-09d8eede4995> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atkinsdavid.com/compensability-of-inexplicable-paralysis-blindness-or-other-neurological-symptoms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966322 | 425 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Homework Question on Branding and IMC
- Assess how branding has increased in the last few decades.
- Think of a brand; analyze how the organization developed its brand equity.
- Assess the influence of branding on an organization’s IMC.
- The paper Must be two page double-spaced pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Homework Answer on Branding and IMC
Companies have realized that branding is an essential part of their activities. It has notably grown in the past two decades after the realization that a firm needs to stand out in the market for it to attract consumers. Part of this objective involves branding. The reason is that something has to be attractive for anyone to be coaxed into using it. In a world of competition, companies use branding as a form of marketing. CEOs have put effort and money in branding because it is the primary tool of market communication for an organization.
The business dynamics changed after the realization of how people react to a brand (Marketing, 2005).One enterprise that has had a great deal of success that is attributable to its branding is McDonald’s. It has developed its brand equity through extensively protecting it and establishing values that can only be identified by the organization. Branding phrases and values such as fun, cleanliness, uncompromised quality, and exceptional value can only be linked to McDonald’s in the fast food market.
The eminent consistency it has shown for sixty years helps consumers to identify easily with it. This has helped in the creation and protection of the brand equity; the success of the brand of McDonald’s comes from the relationship that consumers have with it, based on the way it is portrayed. Branding helps in the organization’s integrated marketing communication since it acts as the primary means through which a message can be sent to consumers about the firm. | <urn:uuid:80f07879-f2e5-4b45-be19-9f0c8467c10a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bestessayservices.com/blog/sample-business-studies-essays-on-branding-and-imc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96183 | 444 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The identification of a new H3K4Me3 binding protein (MORC3) was demonstrated . the one hand gathers the published affinity probes able to decipher small molecule targets and off-targets in a close-to-native environment. These are small molecule analogues of epigenetic drugs conceived as protein target enrichment tools after they have engaged them in cells or lysates. Such probes, which have been designed for deacetylases, bromodomains, demethylases, and methyltransferases not only enrich their direct protein targets but also their stable interactors, which can be identified by mass spectrometry. Hence, they constitute a tool to study the epigenetic complexes together with other techniques also reviewed here: immunoaffinity purification with antibodies against native protein complex constituents or epitope tags, affinity matrices designed to bind recombinantly tagged protein, and enrichment of the complexes using histone tail peptides as baits. We expect that this toolbox will be adopted by more and more researchers willing to harness the spectacular advances in mass spectrometry to the epigenetic field. binding that is addressable by a molecule equipped with a handle allowing post-lysis pulldowns. In this case, a cross-linker can also be added. It has to be noted that any modification of the initial molecule Rabbit polyclonal to SRP06013 can impair binding, that the bulk and length of the linker matters, and that cross-linking can be relatively low-yielding and unspecific . Hence, Yohimbine hydrochloride (Antagonil) we propose to distinguish (Fig.?1) between the: Small molecule ligand immobilized on a solid matrix. Different solid matrices can be envisioned, the most common being Sepharose beads or magnetic beads. Small molecule ligand functionalized with an enrichment handle. This enrichment handle can be a biotin moiety, allowing subsequent enrichment with a streptavidin matrix. It can also be a biorthogonal tag allowing for further enrichment using click reactions [16, 17]. Small molecule ligand functionalized with a cross-linking group and an enrichment handle. The cross-linking group are very often photoreactive functionalities such as benzophenones, aryl azides, or diazirines [18, 19]. Open in a separate window Fig. 1 Affinity probes for the identification of drug Yohimbine hydrochloride (Antagonil) targets by chemical proteomics strategies. An analogue of the small molecule is synthesized that a is covalently attached to a solid matrix or b possesses an enrichment handle or c possesses a cross-linking moiety and an enrichment handle Deacetylase enrichment probes Since Yohimbine hydrochloride (Antagonil) the HDAC inhibitor Vorinostat (aka SAHA) has been the epigenetic drug the most studied by chemical proteomics, we shall begin by describing the various reported approaches using linkable analogues of this molecule. They constitute a good overview of what is possible in the field: all the approaches described above (Fig.?1) have indeed been successfully used for the identification of Vorinostat targets. A team of researchers in Cellzome immobilized a linkable analogue of Vorinostat (p-aminomethyl Vorinostat) and an analogue of Givinostat on Sepharose beads to obtain an affinity matrix able to enrich HDAC1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 10 out of K562 cell extracts. They then set the free Vorinostat and 15 other HDAC inhibitors (PCI-34051, MC-1293, valproic acid, PCI-24781, Romidepsin, Tacedinaline, Entinostat, BML-210, Mocetinostat, Scriptaid, Belinostat, Apicidin, Panobinostat, Dacinostat, Trichostatin A) to compete for binding with the beads using six different drug concentrations. The proteins eluted from the beads were labeled with TMT and measured simultaneously to obtain the dose-response curves in one mass spectrometry measurement. Kdapps for all the drug-native protein interactions could hence be obtained, establishing the selectivity profiles of these inhibitors. The authors then adapted the chemical proteomics method to high-throughput replacing mass spectrometry readout by multiplexed fluorescent antibody on dot blot arrays. This allowed them to profile a small library of molecules in the lysate of Jurkat and Ramos cells for HDAC1, 2, 3, and 6 binding. Bufexamac, an anti-inflammatory drug with unknown target, was identified as preferentially inhibiting HDAC6 in this screen, and its profile was further assessed by the original chemical proteomics profiling assay revealing its selectivity for HDAC6 and 10 in the 10?M range . The immobilized Vorinostat was later also used to profile dual HDAC/BET inhibitor binding to class I and. | <urn:uuid:b63d4ea4-b5f7-4b85-979a-6e0fee35771a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hudsonneurosciences.com/%EF%BB%BFthe-identification-of-a-new-h3k4me3-binding-protein-morc3-was-demonstrated-113/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.906884 | 1,051 | 1.8125 | 2 |
“I want to be with those who know secret things. Or else, alone. “ ~Rainer Maria Rilke Tweet this
I recently read a beautifully poetic blog post on Space2Live entitled, “I Belong Deeply to Myself But I’ll Let You In: The Ebb and Flow of Introvert Intimacy”. It got me thinking about how being introverted can affect our approach to intimacy.
While many people fear being alone, introverts relish solitude. It feels good. If we are being true to our introverted nature, we have a deep and meaningful connection with our own mind and spirit. Put simply, we introverts are pretty good at being intimate with ourselves. That in itself is something to strive for. We can’t begin to love another person well if we don’t know how to love ourselves.
So we’ve nailed the first step towards intimacy with others. But what about the next step? And the next after that? Does being introverted help or hinder the creation of intimate relationships with others? Does it even make a difference?
“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” ~Warsan Shire Tweet this
I’m not the only one who has grappled with the above questions. Marilyn Monroe (who was probably an introvert, by the way) was known for being an easy breezy, bubbly blond. But in reality, she was an intensely introspective woman who loved great literature and wrote poetry.
One of Monroe’s unpublished poems talks about how our inherent aloneness both separates and intertwines us in a powerful way:
Only parts of us will ever
touch parts of others –
one’s own truth is just that really — one’s own truth.
We can only share the part that is within another’s knowing acceptable so one
is for most part alone.
As it is meant to be in
evidently in nature — at best perhaps it could make
our understanding seek
another’s loneliness out.
Our aloneness mirrors the separation we see in nature. It creates a barrier between us and ‘them’. Or so it seems. In reality, the understanding that we reach in solitude helps us to connect with others who share our perspective. Even if that perspective was reached in a solitary state – especially if it was.
For it is when we are alone that we are most authentically ourselves. With no one around to impose their beliefs on us, we can connect with deeper, universal truths. We can discern our thoughts and feelings from those of another person or society as a whole.
Being intimately aware of who we are and what we believe prepares us for intimacy with others. Tweet this
The tricky part for introverts is giving up a portion of our blissful solitude in order to be intimate with another. Firstly, we must decide who is worthy to know our truth. Who can bear the weight of our thoughts, ideas and dreams? Who will honor the privilege of being accepted into our inner world? And how much small talk must we endure to find them?
Then it’s time to get naked.
Emotionally naked, that is. Creating intimacy with another person involves a level of honesty and transparency that can feel a whole lot like going skinny dipping … in a public pool … in broad daylight. It is not easy for anyone.
“I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop.” ~H.G Wells
The question remains, is being intimate with others any harder for introverts than it is for everyone else?
What do you think?
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The Venda (also VaVenda) population of about 600,000 people coalesced into an identifiable social unit in the area of the northern Transvaal and in Zimbabwe over several centuries. The Venda language, tshiVenda or luVenda, emerged as a distinct tongue in the sixteenth century, according to scholars. In the twentieth century, the tshiVenda vocabulary is similar to seSotho, but the grammar shares similarities with Shona dialects, which are spoken in Zimbabwe.
Venda culture is similarly eclectic; it appears to have incorporated a variety of East African, Central African, Nguni, and Sotho characteristics. For example, the Venda forbid the consumption of pork, a prohibition that is common along the East African coast. They practice male circumcision, which is common among many Sotho, but not among most Nguni peoples.
Early Venda social organization consisted of small kinship groups, often dispersed among several households. These were organized into chiefdoms, and some were ruled by chiefly dynasties in the eighteenth century. Smaller chiefdoms often served as vassal states to larger and stronger chiefdoms, but they were neither entirely incorporated into them nor administered directly by a paramount chief. Venda traditional religious beliefs, like other aspects of culture, appear to have combined elements from several neighboring religious systems and Christianity.
Bantustan - Venda
The homeland of Venda became nominally independent in 1979 but was not recognized by any country except South Africa. Unlike other homelands, Venda actually drew most of the 700,000 people assigned to live there. Its economy depended on agriculture and small industry, and coal mining began in the late 1980s. Nearly 70 percent of the men worked elsewhere in South Africa, however, and at least 40 percent of the homeland's income was migrant labor wages. Facing economic collapse, Venda authorities applied for readmission into South Africa in 1991. Their petition was essentially overtaken by the political negotiations and constitutional reforms of the early 1990s, which led to the dissolution of the homelands in 1994.
Three Black homelands - Transkei, Bophuthatswana, and Venda - were declared to be "independent states" in 1976, 1977, and 1979, respectively. Since independence their workers had not been regarded as domestic elements of the South African economy. In addition to hearing appeals from other divisions of the Supreme Court, the Appellate Division also acts as the appeal court for the "independent" homelands of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, and Venda.
Venda became the third independent homeland on September 13, 1979. The small territory in the northeastern corner of the Transvaal is more cohesive than other homelands, consisting of two sections (which the Nationalist government has promised to join) and with 68 percent of its official population actually living within its borders. The decision to opt for independence appeared tainted, however, by the tactics of Chief Minister Patrick Mphephu against the opposition party. Although it won a majority of elective seats in both homeland elections, the party was kept from power by detention of twelve of its members and by Mphephu's influence over appointed traditional members of the assembly.
By the mid-1970s educated Blacks (here comprising persons with a secondary education or more) were less prone than they had been formerly to deprecate traditional forms. Some, as a gesture stressing their Africanness, were prepared to be sympathetic to traditional practices. Such Blacks, however, dislike the use of these practices if they are perceived as divisive and may derogate groups such as the Venda and Shangaan-Tsonga who seemed to cling to traditional forms because of ethnic parochialism.
The Black education system was administered by the Department of Education and Training in Pretoria, which controlled the policies of all Black schools except those that exist in Transkei, Bophuthatswana, and Venda. In the latter three jurisdictions the education systems were administered locally but in coordination with the department in Pretoria, which provided assistance as required.
South Africa regarded the small military forces organized in the three Black homelands it recognized as independent in the late 1970s as an integral part of an overall defense system. In 1980 two combat infantry companies cooperated with South African forces in counterinsurgency operations along the border with Botswana. An embryonic homeguard was authorized for Venda in 1979.
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Whenever we need some quiet time at home or an independent reading station in kindergarten, I bust out the kids' favorite independent reading activities for a minimum stress, maximum fun learning time.
All 3 of these independent reading activities have many ways to differentiate to meet the needs of all your young learners and build their phonics skills. So whether you're working on beginning and ending sounds, letters, CVC word reading, or digraphs like "sh" and "ch," I've got something for you.
Without further ado, the 3 most begged for independent reading activities are...
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Get ready to sit back and watch kids get excited to practice reading all on their own. You might even have time to sit down and drink coffee while it's still hot. The best part? It's all hands-on!
Kids dream of the day they'll get to drive, so bring that dream to life with phonics parking lots. It's so simple, you'll need 10 plastic cars, hot wheels, or trains you have lying around the house.
If you don't have ten little cars you can usually pick them up from the dollar store or here on Amazon.
Print out the 3 beginning sound parking lots or the 3 ending sounds parking lots and you're almost ready to play. Just label the cars with the 10 necessary letters using a dry erase or sharpie.
All the beginning sound parking lots use the same letters, and the ending sounds have the same letters on each of their mats too! This makes it so you only would need to change the letters on the cars when you're ready to move from beginning to ending sounds.
I love this game because kids are SO psyched to play and can do so independently. So they're working on their phonemic isolation (isolating sounds in words), while I can step back and beam with pride.
Kids can play this independent reading activity with a partner or on their own. You don't need anything but a sharpie, crayon, and popsicle sticks.
Prep this quick independent reading activity in 5 steps:
Once you teach this game to your kids or students, they'll know how to play forever. This makes it the easiest independent reading center. They see the popsicle sticks, and you barely have to say a word!
Just print and play. Kids freak out when you share they'll be reading and building based on the words they have on their cups.
The Cup Stacking Challenge bundle comes with 4 building challenges per vowel and digraph. So you get stacking cards that focus on CVC words and digraphs ch and sh. The set comes with 7 sheets of challenges, focusing on each of the vowels in CVC words and the two digraphs.
Each challenge requires only 6 cups. Use either plastic or paper to write the words listed at the bottom of that challenge's sheet. Below is an example with the "i" words using paper cups and the "sh" words using plastic cups.
Download your bundle now to start playing these independent reading activities that kids beg for!
Most kids begin reading in kindergarten at the age of 5 or 6. What does "reading" look like at this age? Well, in kindergarten kids by sounding out simple 3 letter words using their knowledge of letters and sounds. They also read words they have explicitly memorized aka sight words.
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The AN word family words are perfect for practicing with your kindergartner as they begin to sound out words.
Word Families are sets of words that have the same ending and rhyme. The ending of words in a word family is commonly referred to as the "root."
Children have more success when reading words that are familiar, so by having kids reads words that have the same end, they can decode the sounds with increased speed. Studies have shown that learning to read word families develops vocabulary, as well as children's ability to recognize patterns in words, ultimately leading them to read with greater understanding and speed.
To grab your list of AN words, click the list below or continue reading for more AN words printable worksheets.
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of worksheets, but I also know that teachers often use worksheets as homework to reinforce skills learned in the classroom. Here are some printable worksheets that would help strengthen reading skills, followed by some hands-on ways to teach the AN family words.
If you've read my blog before, you know that I would never share worksheets without sharing ACTIVITIES that make learning these words even more fun.
Got a child who cringes when you show them a worksheet? That's okay! Try any of these activities to make practicing reading AN words more hands-on and exciting for young learners. You can use these games with any word families!
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The AT word family is one of the first sets of words young children learn to read, usually in kindergarten. These words are practiced as part of a word family.
A word family is a set of words with the same ending. The words in a word family always rhyme.
Here is a downloadable list of words from the AT word family. Just click to download and read on for some great printable worksheets and activities to teach the words in the AT word family.
When kids are first starting to read, they usually begin reading CVC words. CVC stands for consonant vowel consonant words.
The AT word family is one of the first, if not THE first, family of words children practice reading in school. Since “a” is the first letter of the alphabet, children are usually most familiar with its sound out of the vowels: a, e, i, o, and u. “T” is also another sound kids more easily remember.
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These FREE downloadable worksheets will help your child build fluency with the words in the AT family.
When working with the list and flashcards in the printable packet, I recommend using the 3 letter CVC words for beginning readers. The 4 letter words (CCVC words) are only for a challenge.
There are so many hands-on ways to use the AT word family flashcards for activities and games that your kid will love. I find that just going through the flashcards can be boring, so check out the activities we played with them below!
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Okay so I usually call this game, SWAT it, but it didn't rhyme, SPLAT the AT word it is!
Use those flashcards you just printed out and call out a word. Kids love getting permission to make something go SPLAT! Make sure to use blue painters tape so you don't ruin your walls!
Kids absolutely love muffin pan spelling so if you're looking to try this with other word families you can find more picture cards there. We use any muffin pan and these soft and magnetic Coogam letters.
Try this game with one of two ways:
Create a word ladder listing all the words you can think of that rhyme with at! Display them with Post-its, flashcards, or these cute paint chip cards.
Using the picture and word flashcards from the AT word packet, play a classic game of memory. Take turns flipping two cards and if they match, you keep them. Continue flipping them over till all are gone.
This is pretty intuitive, but a simple sorting game can be great practice. Read the word and match it with the picture.
As kids sound out the words, they're practicing their phonics letter/sound association, but they also need to be able to BLEND those three sounds together to make the word, which is a very important phonemic awareness skill that lots of people don't know to practice.
Let's really lean in to that family part of "word family." All these words live together! So let's give them a house.
I created this printer friendly (black and white) decodable book to help kids practice reading words in the -at family. It’s FREE to print and use with your child. They can even color it in. Maybe it’ll be the very first book they read!
Kids are expected to read most CVC (consonant vowel consonant words) at the end of kindergarten based on Kindergarten Common Core Standard CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.D. Since the AT family is usually the first set of words children learn to decode (sound out) independently, they are likely to begin reading these words around the middle of kindergarten.
But I want to make sure I say that everyone is different and that's okay! Not all kids will read these words in kindergarten.
According to understood.org, "Not all kids develop reading skills at the same rate. Taking longer doesn’t mean they’re not on track to become good readers." That's a very important reminder for parents in this world where we are constantly comparing ourselves and our kids.
Other families to work on after the -at word family would be the -ag, -ad, -am, and -an families.
I've created these activities and printables for the -an word family just for you!
The letters in all these families use the usual phonetic sounds for each letter so they don’t confuse beginning readers (unlike the -ar and-as word families where there are letters making irregular sounds like the “a” in far and the “s” in has).
Hands on learning is my secret to teaching reading so kids are never bored!
I NEVER use workbooks or worksheets.
When I say "hands on learning," I mean any kind of learning where your child is actively participating in creating new knowledge or solving a problem. This is also called learning by doing. From your own childhood, did you ever really learn something from a worksheet? I remember the projects, the games, the activities that got me and my classmates up and moving, creating, and solving problems.
Hidden Object is a hands on learning game that combines reading skills with a fun, element of surprise.
What you'll need-
On the Post-its, write the letters your child is learning. If you're child is just starting to recognize letters, I recommend starting with the letters of their name.
In this version, children will either say the letter name or the letter sounds as they lift each bowl on the hunt for the hidden object.
Another idea would be to include words that have a new sound they've just learning like digraphs: sh, wh, th, and ch.
This simple hands on game can be used for so many different skills: letter sounds, letter identification, sight words, CVC words, digraphs, etc.
In this instance, Big Sis was practicing reading CVC words (consonant vowel consonant words) that had different vowels in the middle. If I notice her struggling with a specific vowel or letter sound, I would put more words with those sounds on the Post its.
Whenever I discuss early literacy skills like reading CVC words and sight words, I want to reinforce that all the games and wonderful activities are only part of the reading puzzle. The biggest thing you can do for your child to have success with reading from an early age is read to them everyday.
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Wondering how to teach CVC words to the young learners in your life? Let's do it, the fun way. Instead of using worksheets to teach CVC words, I'll share with you the top hands-on activities that really get kids excited about reading.
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CVC words are the building blocks of kindergarten reading and writing. CVC stands for consonant-vowel-consonant. These are the first words that kids read by decoding, otherwise known as sounding out.
CVC words make sense to kindergarten readers, because they are phonetic and don't have any tricky sounds or rules. Examples of CVC words include Bob, mat, kit, peg, fog. As you read these words you'll notice that each letter makes its phonetic sound; there are no long vowels or tricky digraphs like sh/ch/th. That's why CVC words are the words your child should be reading first.
Most children learn "a" as their first vowel. For that reason I recommend teaching kids to sound out CVC words that have an "a" in the middle first. Stick with one word family like the -am, -ad, or -at word family (you'll want these freebies).
The first 7 activities are best for how to teach CVC words to beginners. Activities 7-10 focus on how to teach CVC word families and are better for children who are successfully sounding CVC words out with independence.
All you need are letters, a muffin pan, and these epic picture cards for 4 ways to play. You can grab the cvc words list with pictures here.
When I discovered magnetic bingo chips, I nearly lost my mind. This is one of the most engaging ways I have used for how to teach CVC words. Print out the FREE CVC words cards. Then place one magnetic bingo chip on each dot. Finally give your child their magnetic wand to touch each of the chips with as they sound out the word. Viola!
Where could it be? Read the word and lift the cup. This hands on reading game is perfect for beginners, since you can play with as many or as few CVC words as you'd like, preventing visual overwhelm!
KindergartenWorksheetsandGames.com brings this hands on game where kids have to find the beginning sound for each picture to crack the code. Once the pictures are complete, they reveal a CVC word at the bottom. How fun!
An important part of how to teach CVC words is not just blending the words but for children to understand the word they just read. In this magnetic letter game, kids will make their own CVC words and determine whether or not they're real words or silly words.
The Coogam magnet letters are perfect to use when teaching CVC words, because the vowels are red and the consonants are blue, making it really easy for children to make their own CVC words.
For additional practice with nonsense CVC words, you have got to check out this video version of the Real or Silly word game by the extremely silly Mr. B's brain.
Got a wiggly kid in need of reading practice? They'll love this SPLAT the CVC word game as you call out CVC words and they make them go SPLAT! Use 5 words with beginners and increase as they build fluency (that means are able to read faster).
Rather than matching CVCs on a worksheet, let's make it FUN! Grab your free CVC words with pictures HERE and play a classic game of memory or give each student one card and have them find their partner! There are so many ways to practice reading CVC words with these pictures and words.
Kids love any kind of activity where they get to go on a "hunt," right? So if you've got an active kiddo, this is JUST how to teach CVC words so they'll be super into it. First hide the Post-its around the house or classroom; then have your child find them and return them to the home base.
Write CVC words in from 3 different word families on dot stickers, then place the stickers on the Duplos. Next, hide the Duplo bricks around the house and have your little one find them.
Then comes the reading part. Each brick must be sorted with the ones in its word family. Once all the bricks in the family are reunited, build a tower with them to complete the game.
This fun game is ICanTeachMyChild.com's take on how to teach CVC words, and it is ridiculously fun. You're going to need some ping pong balls and containers to try to match the words on the ping pong balls to the word family cups.
Children usually begin reading CVC words in kindergarten, when they are 4-6 years old. If you're looking for a program that WILL teach your child to read with hands-on games and activities, that's easy for parents and fun for kids, check out our signature program The Fun Club.
Here are the skills your child should be able to do in order to begin reading CVC words:
My favorite book series for beginning readers that I recommend to every family are the Bob books. Their books are truly decodable, so there are no tricky words that make kids confused.
I cannot recommend the BOB series enough because the books are simple, short, and not too many words on the page. They combine CVC words and sight words to create fun and easy to follow stories kids enjoy.
I use these books for all my kindergarteners and my own child. You betcha I cry every single time one of them reads a whole book for the first time!
Teachers begin teaching CVC words in kindergarten, once children have learned their letters and sounds.
CVC stands for consonant vowel consonant. These words are the simplest words to sound out aka decode.
Here are four CVC word games for kindergarten from least to most difficult. All of them use a muffin pan and CVC words with pictures.
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For this activity in particular, I recommend using words from the AT Word Family for the most beginning readers. The AT Word Family is one of the very first word families children are taught to read.
Not only do kids practice their beginning sound knowledge with this game, they also are building awareness of the other sounds in the word.
The beauty of the muffin pan is that it breaks down each word into 3 components: the CVC -consonant, vowel, consonant parts. Similarly to a story, each word has its beginning, middle, and end.
To play, place each CVC word's picture by the corresponding line on the muffin pan. Point out how the middle and ending sounds are there, but the beginning sound is missing.
First have your child choose a beginning sound matching the picture.. Then model how to sound out the word: /b/ /a/ /g/. Finally, blend the sounds together to make the whole CVC word.
It's okay if your child cannot yet blend the sounds together.
Having you model pointing to each letter from left to right while saying the sound will greatly enhance their understanding of the steps it takes to read a word.
In this version, everything is the same except the ending sounds missing from the CVC words.
It might seem we have gone a bit out of order by skipping the middle sounds. However, middle sounds are the most difficult to isolate since vowels are similar in sound.
Have your kindergartner isolate the ending sound of the word, then find the matching letter and complete the word. Don't stop just there! Point to each letter from left to right and sound out the word before blending the sounds together to make the complete CVC word.
Teaching CVC words in kindergarten is a snap when you break it down letter by letter.
In the example, kids are given the four letters that are the correct ending sounds. But, if you're child is ready for a challenge, you can include more letters (up to 10) for them to choose from!
If you're looking for more ending sounds activities that kids will love to get their hands on, try these.
Isolating middle sounds to complete the CVC words is a trickier skill to practice. This is because vowels have multiple sounds and often sound similar for young learners.
Accordingly, we stick to teaching CVC words with short vowel sounds: bat, rat, dog, fog first. Kids wait until first grade to practice words like car and for (where the vowels don't make their short vowel sound.)
In kindergarten we teach kids two ways to isolate and listen for the middle sounds in CVC words:
One of my favorite strategies for stretching out the word is to speak "Whale" like Dory in Finding Nemo. Certainly, if your child has seen that movie, they'll know just what to do. Really stretch out the CVC word and listen for the middle sound.
Like with ending sounds, you can offer just the 4 missing middles or give them a chance to pick out the right ones out of all the letters!
To learn more about isolating beginning, middle, and ending sounds, check out these sound isolation activities.
In my house, I'm known for sitting around with my Cup Of Noodles. So my kids' dubbed this version of the game: Cup of Wordles.
This activity is the culmination of teaching CVC words in kindergarten! The kids have to build the entire word themselves. It's still very simple since there are only 4 words to build at a time, and the kids have the letters to choose from.
In 4 cups, I put the letters needed to make each of the words. Then I place each cup in the beginning sound spot of the muffin pan.
Kids choose a cup and unscramble the letters in it to make the word on the matching CVC word picture card. Then, they check their work by sounding out the letters to read the CVC word.
The Cup of Wordles title is just another engaging way to engage the kids in play. They could be bakers, chefs, or home cooks in the kitchen using their letter ingredients to make delicious words.
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Dr Michael Mosley on the importance of routine for sleep
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One of Higgin’s tips may come as a surprise to many, that is to not open the windows.
Higgins says: “It would seem a given to open your windows when it’s warm but when it’s hot outside it will actually allow a lot of the air to just come into the house and cause a stuffy raised temperature.
“If you do require some natural airflow then try just cracking them ever so slightly for a short period of time.”
As a result, it is recommended people resist the instinct to open all windows in their bedroom.
With regards to the bedroom itself Higgins also suggests keeping it as dark as possible during the day.
The sleep specialist explains: “Use heavy curtains to block any lights from windows during the day. Heat transfers through the windows and can build up during the day, so it’s a good idea to keep the curtains/blind down.
“This will help control the temperature of your room between 15.6 and 19.4 degrees…most doctors recommend this as the best temperature for sleeping.”
As well as keeping the room cool, Higgins recommends cooling clothing before bed.
Specifically, socks. Higgins says: “Your feet contain many nerve endings for your body so cooling your feet can lower the overall temperature of your body.
“Try putting your socks in the fridge and then wearing them before you to go to bed to keep you cool.”
However, Higgins cautions these socks should be subsequently taken off before bed.
While keeping the body and room as cool as possible is essential, maintaining peace of mind is too is key.
After a long day the mind can be tired and torn or wracked with disruptive thoughts not conducive to a good night’s sleep.
Higgins recommends incorporating winding down exercises “in your head as part of your sleeping routine” alongside “deep breathing exercises and meditation”.
The reason for this is these processes can help lower blood pressure and allow the body to fall asleep with greater ease.
It is hoped with these suggestions, Britons will find sleeping an easier thing to achieve amid recent studies showing sleep quality has declined in the UK.
Scientists have put this down in part to increased anxiety levels triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, a cost-of-living crisis, and a national problem with insomnia.
Experts say the keep to fixing Britain’s sleeping problem is to understand sleep better.
Professor Russell Foster of Oxford University says, for example, some people think they’re sleeping worse when they’re actually sleeping better.
As a result, the hope is by understanding how the body reacts to sleep will enable a greater insight into how to consistently obtain the right amount of the right quality.
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TreeSisters is a UK registered social change and reforestation charity that places tropical forest restoration into everyone’s hands. Through individuals and businesses that give back to Nature every month, TreeSisters has so far funded the planting of over 16.7 million trees across 12 locations.
It ran from 12:00 PM, 22 April 2021 to 12:00 PM, 29 April 2021
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Humanity needs to scale up Nature-based solutions to climate change fast. Reforestation is a highly effective approach, however many reforestation projects do not address the needs of the people who live with, in and near the forest, focusing solely on carbon sequestration, and neglecting the broader needs of the interconnected web of life. In addition, a quantum human behaviour shift is needed to reduce overconsumption, reconnect to Nature and focus on restoration.
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Inspiring and motivational Happy New Year image quotes to encourage you to embrace the opportunities that a new year brings.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
~ Danny Kaye
Another fresh new year is here
Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
~ William Arthur Ward
The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.
~ Melody Beattie
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful. And don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
~ Neil Gaiman
It doesn’t matter where you came from, all that matters is where you are going.
~ Brian Tracy
Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better person.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~ Robert Breault
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
~ John Burroughs
Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.
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Activity time: 3 minutes
Materials for Activity
- Religions Time Line
- Sticky notes and fine point markers
- World map or globe
Preparation for Activity
- Post the Religions Timeline.
- Have map or globe handy.
- Create sticky notes saying, "Latter-day Saints, 1830," "Baha'i, 1863," "Seventh-day Adventists, 1863," "Church of Christ, Scientist, 1879," "Jehovah's Witnesses, 1879." Keep them out of sight.
Description of Activity
The time line is updated to add Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Baha'i, Seventh-day Adventists, Church of Christ, Scientist, and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Ask participants if they remember about when the five faiths emerged. Place sticky notes on the time line. The religions appeared between 1830 and 1879, spanning fifty years.
Ask if participants remember where in the world these five faiths were born? Point out the United States for four of the faiths and Iran for Baha'i. Share that, all together these five faiths include 36.1 million followers, about one for every ten Buddhists, one for every 25 Hindus, one for every 42 Muslims, or one for every 58 Christians. | <urn:uuid:a4faef7e-a43b-4d21-b6b3-c2e96a9bb811> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/youth/bridges/workshop15/187577.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.906106 | 268 | 3.765625 | 4 |
War Music: An Account of Homer’s Iliad by Christopher Logue
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2016. 352 pages.
Christopher Logue’s recent volume of poetry, War Music, holds Homer’s deft portrait of the Trojan War up to the present’s light. In the preface to his translation of Homer (1791), William Cowper stressed the “fidelity” the translator owes to the original; however, the object of this fidelity is fluid in the contemporary era. Logue’s War Music is something other than a translation, but neither is it a collage of fragments meant to anchor us to the past; it is truly “an account” of the source material. Logue’s loyalty is to the truth of the characters’ emotions, but the poetry is fitted to contemporary English from its opening lines: “Picture the east Aegean sea by night, / And on a beach aslant its shimmering / Upwards of 50,000 men / Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.”
Vibrant assonance and smooth alliteration take the place of blank verse in imitation of Homer’s measures, while the image transfers the soldiers’ slumbering violence to their beached vessels of war.
Logue, who died in 2011, renders Homer beautifully but not transparently; his voice is an explicit frame that illustrates the original tragedy with images drawn from various places, many of them nearer to us than Homer. Logue compares Paris to Joachim Murat (a vain and fearless cavalry officer for Napoleon); he compares the surge of Achilles’ horses to the majestic rise of rockets on Cape Kennedy. A fragment meant to portray the flood of the Scamander against Achilles is composed of an enormous glacial seiche scouring an Alaskan fjord. The images are not merely interesting for their anachronism. On the morning when Patroclus leads his fateful last assault against the Trojans, Logue describes the dawn with an image worthy of Homer and just as timeless: “First sunlight off the sea like thousands of white birds.”
The present edition brings together several of Logue’s independently published collections on The Iliad and includes a final appendix of incomplete work intended for a sixth volume, “Big Men Falling a Long Way.” Poet Christopher Reid collected and edited these fragments, and he introduces them with a thoughtful essay on his process and intention. A cautious editor, Reid is careful to impose none of himself on Logue’s work. The resulting appendix, then, is slim compared to the other sections and obviously incomplete, but Reid, exhibiting the most essential fidelity, urges that even a glimpse into Logue’s completed work is better than nothing. Differing versions and working drafts of passages are the real treasure—the reader is able to see Logue’s mind at work, what the poet tried out, reworked, amended, or discarded. The version we have, with interpretive commentary between most of the fragments to explain its likely state of completion or revision, and where it fits within Logue’s decades-long process with the manuscript, reads with the same pleasure as the previously published volumes. Only a few places in the section lack context, but these shock the reader with the reminder of a life’s work interrupted. | <urn:uuid:15369555-25f6-4636-847c-8ee905095999> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2016/september/war-music-account-homers-iliad-christopher-logue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942244 | 724 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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There may be times where it is convenient or required to use only a file path to run an executable script. This article covers how to specify in a file which program should be used to interpret it.
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Welcome to the CPL Meteorology question and answer forum. Please feel free to post your questions but more importantly also suggest answers for your forum colleagues. Bob himself or one of the other tutors will get to your question as soon as we can.
damien created the topic: Volmet, true or magnetic
I've jumped straight to CPL and I'm having trouble knowing what's weather forecast is true and whats in magnetic.
I can't see anything in the Bob Tait Met book that specifically states what Volmet, Metar etc are in.
Can anyone help please?
John.Heddles replied the topic: Volmet, true or magnetic
Presumably you are concerned only with wind direction.
The best place to sort out the story is via the AIP, which can be downloaded from the Airservices Australia website if you don't already hold a copy.
Run a search on "wind direction" and you will determine that the magnetic/true differentiation is tied up with "runway operations": wind direction for runway operations is in magnetic, otherwise it will be true. (reference Gen 184.108.40.206 at page Gen 2.1-1).
Similarly, run a search on "runway operations" and, while the expression is not defined explicitly, it clearly relates to matters associated with the aeroplane's specific runway-related activities.
So, in summary, if you are getting information relating to your specific takeoff and landing or related activities in real time, ATC will call wind direction in magnetic. All other occasions will be called as true. Information such as ATIS/AWIS will be magnetic, aerodrome forecasts will be true and so on.
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What Are Amphetamines
One of the most common Amphetamines today is known as Speed. Amphetamines or Speed, as I will call it from now on, are synthetic stimulants which have been available since the 1930s. In the 1950s and 60s it was commonly prescribed by doctors for depression and as an appetite suppressant.
It usually comes as a grey, white, or dirty white, pale pink or yellow powder, and is often contained in a ‘wrap’ which is a folded piece of paper that looks like a very small envelope. Illicit tablets containing amphetamine are available, but are much less common than the powder form of the drug.
This drug can be snorted, swallowed, injected or smoked, it has also been known to be mixed with liquid and drank. Other street names for this drug are Whizz, Billy, Uppers and Sulphate.
Amphetamines include drugs like Dextroamphetamine, Benzedrine, Ritalin and many other chemicals. Amphetamines were originally developed as a treatment for asthma, sleep disorders (narcolepsy) and hyperactivity. Many of the effects of amphetamines are similar to cocaine.
Amphetamine commonly used today is illegally manufactured, as opposed to amphetamines diverted from legitimate sources. The amphetamine sulphate powder is ‘cut’ with other substances (e.g. brick dust, scouring powder, sugars, caffeine), and purity levels are often only three to five per cent.
Amphetamine is the most impure illegal drug available in Britain.
Effects And Risks Of Taking Amphetamines
Effects of Amphetamines:
- Increased heart rate
- Increased blood pressure
- Reduced appetite
- Dilation of the pupils
- Feelings of happiness and power
- Reduced fatigue
Risks of Amphetamines:
- Insomnia, restlessness
- Paranoid psychosis
- Violent and aggressive behavior
- Weight loss
- Mixing Viagra with Amphetamines increase risk of heart problems
Are Amphetamines Addictive
Addiction to and withdrawal from amphetamines are both possible. Amphetamine use also causes tolerance to its effects. This means that more and more amphetamine must be used to get “high.” Like Cocaine withdrawal, amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue. Users will go to extreme measures to avoid the “downer” that comes when the effect of amphetamines wears off. Heavy long term use can lead to mental illness. | <urn:uuid:3f168e1d-209d-4179-a71b-cd488f3f0369> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drugs-info.co.uk/drugs-index/amphetamines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959731 | 533 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The main contribution to economics that was developed by Keynes came with the publishing of his book, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” in 1936. The book contained a new economic outlook of the government and money, and from the roots of the book, came the introduction of macroeconomics. According to the School of Thought (2011), the development of Macroeconomics can be attributed to the works of Keynes, and the controversial arguments that he had with fellow economists helped the development of economics. The other contribution that Keynes had on the world is probably the influence that he had on other Keynesian economists like Joan Robinson, with whom he belonged to a reading group. The influence that Keynes had on his protégées can be seen in later works developed by these economists.
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Juicing can be a simple, fast way to add large amounts of nutrients and enzymes to your daily diet. Whether you are new to juicing or have already experienced its many benefits, this article will show you some helpful tips that can help you get all you can from your juice.
Immerse yourself in the taste of the juice, and don’t rush things. Make sure to get all the flavor possible out of your concoctions. Leave the juice in your mouth so that it can blend with your saliva, beginning the digestion process.
Think of the juice as your whole meal. Once you are more experienced and know how much produce you’ll need for a glass of juice, it will be easier to do. If you juice as meal, the vitamins and nutrients will enter your bloodstream faster.
Every time you use your juicer, rinse and wash it immediately afterwards. In addition, some vegetables and fruits will stain the juicer if it sits too long before cleaning.
Putting your juicer on the counter and not hidden in a cabinet is a great idea. You will get more use out of your juicer if you keep it in this location. Having your juicer at-hand at all times will encourage you to use it daily.
Before you create any concoctions, do some research on your fresh produce. There are a number of different minerals and vitamins found in fruits and vegetables. Use produce which covers different nutritional requirements, such as vitamin C or niacin. While giving your system the nutrients it requires, you will also be enjoying new and delicious drinks.
You are going to get pulp in your juice sometimes, however, you can remedy this with a coffee filter. You might not enjoy the consistent pulp some juices make. Use a cheesecloth, coffee filter, or fine strainer to take out the pulp if this is the case.
Juicing for the fridge is a great idea, however, you will want to prevent color change in the juice. No matter how good it is for you or how delicious, nobody likes drinking off-colored juice. All you have to do to prevent this color change is to squeeze a few drops from a fresh lemon into your juice. The flavor will not be overwhelmed from the lemon and the juice will maintain that bright fresh look.
If you suffer from diabetes or hypoglycemia, you should just juice vegetables until you talk to your doctor. Drinking fruit juice often causes blood sugar to spike. You must watch how much fruit is being juiced for your personal medical needs. Vegetables are typically lower in sugar content and can be used freely.
It should be an easy way to add more vitamins and nutrients to your diet. By applying the tips in the article above, you will be able to make healthy juices you will like. | <urn:uuid:111746b8-c326-420b-8e61-ae8d72878ea7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://diy-selzerwater.com/juicing/get-the-most-out-of-your-juicer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939888 | 574 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Type: Ring/Pharynx interneuron
In MoW: RIP
Male Wiring Project:
In Wormbase: RIP, RIPL, RIPR
Lineage: AB alpapaaaa, AB arappaaaa
Description: Anterior processes of RIP neurons run in the lateral labial process bundles and enter the pharynx close to its anterior end. Gap junctions between RIPL/R neurons and the pharyngeal I1's, as well as possible gap junctions between RIPL/R and the pharyngeal motor neuron, M1 constitute the only connection between the pharyngeal nervous system and the somatic nervous system.
(Altun et al, 2009)
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Students should be well aware that the maximum personal UK income tax rate is 40% but how does this compare to the rest of the EU?
The EU have released the 2009 edition of their report on the “Taxation Trends in the European Union”. There are some interesting findings.
The top personal income tax rates in the EU range from a high of 59% in Denmark to a low of 10% in Bulgaria. The 40% top rate of income tax is also present in Greece, Hungary and Poland.
The arithmetic average of the 27 member states is 37.8% so the UK rate is slightly higher than the average for the EU. What is interesting is that the newer member states such as the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia all have relatively low income tax rates (15%, 16% and 19% respectively). When compared with the older EU member states the UK rate is relatively low.
This is all very interesting but the key thing to remember for the exams is that the top rate of income tax in the UK is 40%. In fact, ask anyone that has qualified since 1988 what the highest income tax rate is and they should say 40%. The top rate has been 40% since 1988!
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The Palace of Illusions, like so many other books, had been on my list for a long time. For some reason, this book intimidated me. Maybe because it was based on the Mahabharata, an epic that I wasn’t too familiar with as against the Ramayana. So it was with the hope that I’d come to love it that I picked it up and started reading it. Never mind that it was for a challenge that I did this. Or it would have taken a further long while for me to pick it up.
The first thing that I acknowledged when I started reading The Palace of Illusions was the fact that times were different during the epics. Women were treated as people who shouldn’t take part in world affairs. It was unbecoming of a lady, they said. Thus it was decreed that they should only support the men in their family if they didn’t want shame to befall them and their entire clan. I thanked goodness I wasn’t born then.
But another thought struck me through this all. If I had been born back then (maybe I had, who knows?), I probably would have taken it as it was even if I saw the unfairness of it all. That’s because you tend to accept what is taught to you as a child. And if that keeps going on around you for years, you start believing it to be true.
I also thank goodness times have changed and that we can actually question things that aren’t fair.
It was cruel that a woman couldn’t question it when her husband was ready to ruin her life just because his mother made an unreasonable demand. There is nothing righteous in the path they took, something that was the first domino in the grand scheme of things. It was a grossly unfair patriarchal stupid society, something that has filtered down even to this age. Of course, it has changed a lot since then, but you get the point!
That’s the whole problem with the whole of history. It has always been written from a man’s perspective. A man’s courage was praised more than anything, making him able to rule over lands and hearts in equal measure. But description of a woman’s courage has been very rare. She displays the same courage as does a man, and she is branded a selfish witch. Proving my point that history has always been unfair to women, cruelly relegating her to the mere folds of a sari, to the side of a warrior to give birth to his heir and then watch from the sidelines.
The Palace of Illusions is an insight into the mind and heart of one of the most important women of the Mahabharata – Draupadi, or Panchaali as she would have preferred to be called. While it has been said that she was the cause of the Great War, it has been conveniently omitted to mention in the annals of history that it was the greed and lust of the men that actually put into motion the events that led up to the war of Kurukshetra.
Nobody asked Yudhishthir to wager everything he had in a game of dice. Blinded by his greed to win, he even put his wife on the line – an utterly shameful act. And to think that he was the one who walked up to heaven in the end. Not to forget his brothers, also Panchaali’s husbands, watched as Duryodhan and Dussasan inflicted insult upon insult upon their wife.
Even after all this, how can Draupadi have been the cause of the War? Merely because she saw it fit to spear those who insulted her honor? *shakes head*
Putting all this aside, The Palace of Illusions is so beautifully written, so realistic a picture drawn that I could feel my blood singing, my heart thumping in my ears, and my mind exploding with rage. Everything we know about the epic is so well and relevantly used in this book that despite the anger at the unfairness, it made me smile multiple times. Most other times, however, the strong narrative almost moved me to tears. And that, I thought, is the genius of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni – one that I hadn’t known until now.
What else can I say about such a book other than that it is a must read for those familiar with the Mahabharata. It will give you a fresh perspective. But if you aren’t, then there’s all the more reason to read it. So go ahead and plunge into the pages!
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
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The daily routine of Animal Crossing players involves fulfilling Nook Miles tasks and checking almost every corner of the island. Sometimes you want to clean up or move stuff and continue with your island designing.
Perhaps one of your daily tasks is to shake trees and check for items and creatures that fall from them. It is all fun and peaceful until something quite heavy falls from that tree, followed by rumbling music.
A swarm of wasps will attack you, and before you know it, your eye is swollen, and if you get attacked again in this state, you will get knocked out.
To avoid getting stung and knocked out by wasps, you have to know what to prepare and how to position yourself. But in case things get complicated, bring medicine along to cure yourself after getting stung.
When you start shaking trees to either see what falls from them or if you want to harvest fruits, always have a net on your hand.
Position yourself in front of the tree when you shake it.
When wasps appear, your character will face it, and if you are in front of the tree, it will be easier to spam the A button and catch the wasps.
If you do not have your net ready, you can quickly hold one from the hotkeys during the short animation before the wasps attack. However, this is quite risky because your avatar will have to face the screen after pulling out the net, making it hard to catch the insect.
Another option you can do is run and go inside a building, such as the Museum, Nook’s Cranny, the Tailors, Resident Services, the airport, or your home.
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Commentary on Jeremiah 18:1-11
The story of Jeremiah’s visit to the potter’s house and God’s use of the potter’s process as a metaphor for God’s own work is wonderfully and frustratingly straightforward. We get it. But it immediately raises questions.
The hermeneutical question is, “what relationship or analogy shall we suppose between Jeremiah’s audience and our own communities?” In the text, the “clay” represents a “nation” or a “kingdom,” and at his call in chapter 1, Jeremiah was indeed “appointed a prophet to the nations”–a broader scope than that claimed by most parish preachers. So is this text of mere historical interest–“look how God used to be involved in the affairs of nations?”
Or does the reference to the “house of Israel” in verse 6 invite us to hear ourselves addressed in the passage since we, like Israel, are in a specific covenantal relationship with God–a covenant to which prophets urge us to remain accountable. And if we do hear ourselves addressed, how narrowly focused is our understanding of “ourselves;” is God’s dealing with the nation of Israel typical for how God deals with individual Christians or congregations, or should the potter metaphor be reserved only for God’s work with the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church–the whole “people of God?”
The theological questions revolve first around God’s prerogative to discard a blob of clay (a nation–even the nation of Israel) when God senses that it will fail to conform to God’s purposes. Second, we must grapple with the testimony of Jeremiah that the peoples’ actions and disposition contribute directly to God’s ability to form them for use. Further, is a discarded nation (or church body or congregation) utterly condemned (separated from God forever), or is it only out of the picture for the particular part of the mission for which God is forming vessels? Those who believe that a people’s salvation is by grace alone will struggle with the former meaning even though the language of the text leans in that direction: “Look, I am a potter shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, all of you from your evil way, and amend your ways…”
Assuming that many of us will consider the contemporary congregation or church body to be a faithful analogue for the “nation of Israel,” the ecclesiological questions are, first, “who exactly has to repent here in order to render the lump of clay useful?” Again, it is a matter of scope; is it the individual Christian, the congregation, the denomination, or the nation that must change…and how, exactly? And second, does the promised presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church offer any more protection from the potter’s negative judgment than was offered to Israel through the covenant (a decidedly conditional protection according to this text)?
The clarity of this episode from Jeremiah allows these questions to arise quickly. Enjoy wrestling with them (as I have here), for in the process your own theological commitments will be taken down to the potter’s house for some debate with God’s vivid metaphor.
One possible means for encouraging your audience to engage the text is to use the sermon as a means to enter fully into the potter’s metaphor–extending, through sensory imagination, the bare bones given here. The first step in such a composition process is to establish a firm theological framework made up of brief true statements inferred from the text and then fleshed out by the whole canonical and Christian witness. A possible framework from this text might be: God has a mission; God employs nations and peoples in service to that mission; people are free to choose whether to be employed (or employable); God desires people to repent of evil and turn toward God’s will; God is active in the formation of that/those people; God is a sovereign mission director (God alone decides who is suitable).
Once the framework is in place, the sermon can enter into the metaphor in a number of ways. Gather the elements of the scene: the potter, the potter’s hands, the clay, the wheel, the shaping tools, and the water (for sure, do not forget the role water plays in shaping pots!). Or envision the steps in the process–even those that occur before and after the throwing and reshaping referred to in the text: for example, the envisioning of the shape depending on the intended use; the kneading of the clay (to get the air out); the firing; and the glazing. Then, flesh out the theological framework by imagining the dynamics of the potter’s work.
For example, note how advantageous it is for the potter to recognize the unsuitability of the clay before the clay is fired and glazed. At that point all that is lost is the potter’s time and patience; but after firing and glazing the piece is useless. A sermon that uses the imagery of the text but builds on a broader theological framework might consider whether the Church is a lump of clay–and therefore able, through water and the hands-on work of God, to be reformed for mission–or a useless bit of dust-collecting kitsch (no offense intended to St. Paul’s use of the “clay pot” imagery!).
However you might use this iconic metaphor, when I am sitting in your congregation on September 5th, let me hear about the use to which God intends to put this finished product, this people. What is God’s mission and what is our part in it? As the wheel spins and the water flows, what does the potter feel in this lump of clay? What in us serves as encouragement (or discouragement) that this vessel will continue to serve God’s purpose? | <urn:uuid:cac51b4c-1912-4eac-b7d9-435fb122b73e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-23-3/commentary-on-jeremiah-181-11-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942339 | 1,267 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Albert Einstein - German-born theoretical physicist; developer of the theory of relativity (1879–1955). This person is the 9th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 22nd most popular people in Romanian Wikipedia. Article "Albert Einstein" in Romanian Wikipedia has 73.5 points for quality (as of April 1, 2022).
The article contains 58 references and 44 sections.
This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.
Achievements in all the time:
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In March 2022 the article "Albert Einstein" was edited by 1 authors in Romanian Wikipedia (3220th place) and written by 125 authors in all languages (459th place).
Since the creation of article "Albert Einstein", its content was written by 99 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia (156th place) and edited by 15233 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (20th place).
Albert Einstein is on the 22nd place in local ranking of people in Romanian Wikipedia
and on the 9th place in global ranking of people in all the time.
The article is cited 716 times in Romanian Wikipedia (5601st place) and cited 42457 times in all languages (3340th place).
The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:
- Local (Romanian): #3 in October 2011
- Global: #9 in February 2005
The highest popularity rank from 2008:
- Local (Romanian): #12 in May 2017
- Global: #20 in March 2018
There are 55 language versions for this article in WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).
The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipedia dumps from April 1, 2022 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).
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Between 9:20 and 10:57 local time on Thursday morning, a partial eclipse could be seen in northeast China. At its height, at 10:08, about 21 percent of the sun was covered by the moon's shadow.
Many astronomy lovers in the cities of Harbin and Changchun witnessed it using techniques carefully designed to protect their eyes from the sun's rays.
The eclipse could be seen, weather permitting, across northeast Asia, including much of Siberia, northeastern Mongolia, northeastern China and all of Japan, before becoming visible in western Alaska. Here it reached a spectacular peak just as the Sun set beyond the west-southwest horizon late Wednesday afternoon.
Since its course took it eastward across the International Date Line, the eclipse started on October 14 but ended on the previous day. Yet this is still less fantastic than the ancient Chinese belief that solar eclipses were caused by a heavenly dog or dragon eating the sun!
This was the second partial solar eclipse of 2004. In the first, on April 19, the lower third of Africa could see the new Moon partially occlude the Sun.
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Sen. Smith is pushing the legislation, because right now there are not enough teachers to meet the demand in all locations and in all fields, resulting in teacher shortages. More than 40 percent of the nation’s small, rural school districts struggle with adequately staffing their schools, and shortages are most acute in certain subject areas. There is a growing need for STEM, foreign language and special education teachers.
China is striving for a stonger position on the global stage. It has made extraordinary investments in research and development in an attempt to dominate new technological frontiers like artificial intelligence and quantum computing. But scientific and commercial advances, on any front and by any country, should not be achieved through the alleged theft of intellectual property, the co-opting of U.S.-funded researchers...
Today, the internet provides unlimited access to high-quality, free and educational resources for almost any age or skill group. And yet, these critical career paths lack awareness and excitement. Many nonprofit organizations are making it their mission to change that, upsetting outdated models in education and, subsequently, recruiting.
When it comes to kids and screen time, the tide seems to finally be turning. What was a few short years ago a distinctly minority viewpoint - that time on phones, tablets, laptops, and video game consoles is bad for children and should be severely restricted - is now gaining ground.
Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies have enabled automation to scale and pose legitimate workforce threats. However, these innovations are creating new jobs and recreating old ones that together shape the building blocks of a future workforce. This dynamic opportunity engine is driven in large part by a fast expanding innovation ecosystem that combines a bevy of thriving, scaling, and nascent startups and their emerging workforce needs.
Many teachers struggle giving science instruction its due. In fact, the 2018 National Study of Science and Mathematics Education reported that many elementary school teachers do not even provide science instruction every week.
By using the Opportunity Zones designation, Secretary DeVos is focusing investment in projects that serve children in some of the neediest areas of the country. Establishing competitive priorities is a practice every Administration has used to encourage certain activities, assist specific groups, or focus government support in targeted areas.
The latest university cyberattack has reignited the discussion of internet and data safety in higher education. Monroe College is the latest target, with many of its technology systems disabled and the hackers demanding around $2 million in Bitcoin to restore access. Schools must be aware of the prevalence of ransomware and should consider steps to mitigate their risk of attack.
The kind of attacks more commonly reserved for banks and other institutions holding sensitive data are increasingly targeting school systems around the country. The widespread adoption of education technology, which generates data that officials say can make schools more of a target for hackers, also worsens an attack's effects when instructional tools are rendered useless by internet outages.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wants to put a priority on competitive grants that square with the Trump administration's initiative to improve economic opportunities in distressed areas. In the Federal Register, which is where the U.S. government publishes agency rules and public notices, DeVos' proposed priority is to "align the Department of Education's ... discretionary grant investments with the Administration's Opportunity Zones initiative, which aims to spur economic development and job creation in distressed communities." | <urn:uuid:9e78a9de-ca11-43c4-8030-d3a469797d1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://usinnovation.org/tags/education?page=7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949269 | 679 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Usually when we think about agriculture, we think about all of the healthy fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, and grains that we eat. But nearly all food comes from agriculture – even our indulgences like candy!
According to Candystore.com, Iowa’s most favorite Halloween Candy is Reese’s Cups. Second and third place contenders are M&Ms and Butterfingers.
Let’s break these down and look at the agriculture that helped make these sweet treats.
Soy lecithin you may not be familiar with. Lecithin are fatty compounds that can come from plant or animal sources (eggs, cotton seeds, etc.). Soy is abundantly produced in Iowa, throughout the Midwest, and throughout the world which is why soy lecithin is found in so many of our foods. It acts as a great emulsifier that helps oils and water stay mixed in our food products. Just a small amount goes a long way to helping improve the texture, appearance, and shelf life of food.
Peanuts are the second main ingredient in Reese’s Cups. Despite the name, they are not nuts at all. They don’t grow on trees like almonds, walnuts, or pistachios. They are grown underground! They are legumes and related to beans and peas. What we know as peanuts are produced as part of the root structure of the peanut plant. Legumes are important in agriculture because they host bacteria in the soil that help turn nitrogen into nitrates. Plants use nitrates in soil to stay healthy. Peanuts and other legumes are used in crop rotation to help keep soils healthy. Peanuts can be roasted, boiled, and also ground into peanut butter.
The term “sugar” can be used to either refer specifically to sucrose or it can be used generally to refer to all simple sugars (lactose, glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, etc.). chocolatiers may use any of these sugars to sweeten their chocolate. Most commonly, sugar comes from sugar beets grown in the upper Midwest (Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana) or sugar cane grown in more tropical climates (like Florida).
Reese’s Cups also use another sweetener called dextrose. Dextrose is a simple sugar obtained most often from corn (field corn, not sweet corn), but can be obtained from other sources as well, such as wheat, sorghum, and tapioca.
The primary ingredient is of course chocolate. It is a slightly different ratio of cocoa powder, milk, and sugar, etc. but it has all of the same component parts. What makes M&Ms fun and unique is their colorful candy shells. To get the right appearance and to not let the candy shell mix with chocolate center, the chocolate is sprinkled with a little bit of cornstarch. Cornstarch (from field corn) acts as a moisture barrier to keep the candy shell crunchy and not mix with the chocolate. The shells are then made from a little corn syrup, dextrin, food colorings, and gum acacia.
The flakey buttery center of Butterfinger candy is a mix of corn syrup, sugar, ground roasted peanuts, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, molasses, confectioner’s corn flakes, salt, soybean oil, and cornstarch. You can see a common theme in these candies (chocolate, sugar, etc.). The molasses, corn syrup, and peanut butter are all mixed together. Molasses comes from sugar beet or sugar cane juice that is boiled down until it yields a thick, dark syrup. It can also be made from sorghum, dates, or pomegranate.
The sticky rich mixture is poured over confectioner’s corn flakes. These are not like the breakfast cereal. They are small pieces of field corn that have been rolled flat and dried. The corn flakes provide the candy the crispity-crunchity texture. Finally chocolate is poured over the center filling. Check out the video on how Butterfingers are made.
As you can see, a lot of the ingredients used in these candies come from Iowa and Midwest agriculture. Corn syrup, corn starch, and corn flakes from field corn. Sugar and molasses from sugar beets. Soy lecithin and soy oil from soybeans. And milk! No wonder Iowans like these sweet treats.
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Amanda Hendrix, Cassini Scientist on the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (bio)
This is a neat movie (click here to download or click here to watch it) put together by Brent Buffington, on the Cassini Navigation team. I love these kinds of movies, because you can really get a good idea of what the spacecraft is doing during a flyby. Everything goes pretty fast, so you may want to watch this a few times to really absorb what’s going on!
In the big left-hand window (you can see a still from the first frame of the movie below), you can see Cassini and a projection of the active (or “prime”) instrument’s field-of-view (FOV) (see key below). The right-hand windows show a view of what the boresights are seeing. Sometimes they’re staring, sometimes they’re scanning. Generally, since the optical remote sensing (ORS) instruments are pretty much bore-sighted (as shown in the upper right window), that means that when one of them is “prime,” the others are “riding along” and also getting data, resulting in a wonderful multi-wavelength suite of measurements.
So we start off with a long, distant stare, with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) prime. Even though Enceladus is still far away and small, staring for such a long time gives all the optical remote sensing instruments a nice chance to build up signal and get a good spectrum, useful especially for investigating surface composition.
After VIMS, ISS (i.e., the camera) takes over for a stare at Enceladus (notice that Enceladus is still smaller than a Narrow Angle Camera–NAC, here). Also notice that the phase angle is pretty high, meaning that the body is only partially illuminated and will appear as a crescent (not unlike our own Moon last night!).
After the cameras, radar does a scan of Enceladus. To do this, we have to turn the spacecraft 90 degrees, since the radar is mounted on the spacecraft at a different orientation from the cameras.
After radar, the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) is prime and does a scan and a stare to get temperature information, of the north polar region.
Then Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) does a slow scan of Enceladus to do surface composition (and potentially gas) measurements.
The Composite Infrared Spectrometer then does another scan (notice that we are getting pretty close to Enceladus and it’s looking bigger!).
For the final remote sensing observation before closest approach, the camera system does a three-panel mosaic of the cratered northern hemisphere. This will be our best look yet at this terrain.
After the cameras, the spacecraft does a big turn to put the in situ instruments’ sensors into the proper orientation for the closest approach (facing into the direction of motion, so they can “scoop up” particles around Enceladus). Remember that the closest approach (about 50 kilometers, or 31 miles) occurs near 20 degrees south latitude – not in the plume. About a minute after the closest-approach, we’ll be over the south pole and in the plume (at about 641 kilometers, or 398 miles). So we’re diving in the plume a little more than we’ve done before! The in situ instruments will get great measurements of particle size and composition, and gas composition, both in the plume and close to the surface of Enceladus.
Now, it isn’t obvious from this movie, but Enceladus goes into eclipse (i.e., it passes into the shadow behind Saturn), very close to the time that Cassini is making its closest approach, and remains in eclipse for a couple of hours. This is a prime opportunity for the Composite Infrared Spectrometer to do temperature mapping of the hot, active south pole region (which is now in view, after Cassini has swung through its closest approach), with no contribution or heating from solar illumination. The other remote sensing instruments will ride along, but without light from the sun, it isn’t clear exactly what they’ll measure – so that will be a surprise! While Enceladus is in eclipse is also a nice time to do radar measurements (radar doesn’t need the sun to illuminate the surface), which we do next, followed by another Composite Infrared Spectrometer scan, post-eclipse.
We complete the flyby with an Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph-prime stare at Enceladus (note that by this time, Enceladus is distant and small again), followed by a turn to Earth to downlink the data!
Key to instrument Field of Views:
Optical Remote Sensing, or ORS, instruments:
UVIS (Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph) – long narrow magenta field of view
VIMS (Visible-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer) – big red square
ISS (Imaging Subsystem, i.e., the camera) – white square (small=Narrow Angle Camera; large=Wide Angle Camera)
CIRS (Composite Infrared Spectrometer) – red circular field of view and two small red parallel narrow fields of views
HGA – high gain antenna, used for communication with Earth
Radar – green circle (centered on the high gain antenna)
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Cross-armed and teary-eyed parents sat across from me, listening to me speak about the issues in their children’s classroom. They took a deep unified breath after I stated clearly, “There’s no such thing as a bully in a preschool classroom.” One parent stood to walk out before their partner asked them to stay. It was a tense room, tense because parents tend to get overwhelmed with fear and anger when they imagine that their three year old may be in danger of being hurt. In this meeting I was asked by the preschool to handle a tension that had been growing incrementally for months between the parents, teachers, and school directors over the behavior of one child whom had been singled out as the problem. What the families were there to understand was the preschool’s decision to help this young child by allowing them to remain enrolled.
The child was going through hardships at home and had recently been diagnosed with sensory processing disorder and possible ADHD symptoms. The preschool, one that I love and respect, was attempting to help the child and the community at the same time. The parents of the children that this child had hit and had bitten, where there trying to understand why the school was not protecting their children. The teachers, caught in the middle, were there to hear me explain that the patient stance the school directors were taking was so that the community could move in a trajectory that could help all children through all their setbacks and needs. This is common in a preschool setting. It is common in schools. The dilemma of helping one child who has hit a bump in the road that tends to create waves through the entire microcosm of the school. How does the school help the child, train the teachers to keep all children safe, and educate the parenting community so they do not feel threatened by the ups and downs of a classroom’s issues and setbacks?
The primary barrier in these types of scenarios in a preschool is the teachers’ and parents’ level of knowledge and training on social emotional development. A survey done in 2015 by the Zero to Three organization found that parents believe children reach self-control markers earlier than brain science tells us they do. Multiple studies have also found that preschool teachers tend to confuse normative rough and tumble play with aggressive behavior and most of the times this is heightened when the child is a person of color. Also, many parents and teachers are not aware that most children under 18 months will express frustration and anger by biting, hitting and pushing. All of these are examples of the problem in many early childhood settings where the caregivers are not well versed in normative social emotional development that is then seen as challenging behavior, oppositional behavior, and/or aggressive behavior.
A second barrier is the lack of support and professional development for early childhood educators to manage and include children with learning differences or developmental delays. The CDC states that 1 in 6 children has a developmental delay and less than half of them are diagnosed in the early years. For those teachers who do not know how to help and assist a child with a developmental delay, a popular choice to keep their classroom manageable is to remove or isolate the child with the delay. Many children who have differences will be isolated from their peers in an effort to keep all children “safe” including the child with the delay. However, that defeats the social purpose of a classroom and can create emotional and psychological issues for a child who already has an academic and/or developmental delay.
The sad truth is that children that are seen as violent or “not progressing” are often isolated, mismanaged with physical restraints, asked to leave, or suspended from their early childhood setting. In my work I have seen all of these outcomes. In my day to day in the field I have counseled parents whose children were inappropriately restrained when their children had episodes of anger and/or tantrums, that to the well meaning teachers seemed violent and intrusive to their classrooms. Once more, this is an example of not having enough training. Most behavioral practitioners will tell you that if you have to use restraint, your intervention is not working. Yet, there is a myth out there that restraint is the way to go when a child is emotionally dysregulated and tantruming. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The result is that often the family then bounces from school to school, never truly getting the intervention and help their child needs. We know that interventions given in the early years are more effective than interventions given in the school age years. The prognosis is more positive and effective, and when schools do not give guidance to parents in an early education setting to attain help for their child, the long term repercussions increase.
There is not enough research to state with clarity how these moments in a preschool classroom affect the other children. It is an area that needs to be researched primarily because most teachers often respond inappropriately to a dysregulated student in an effort to not “disrupt the classroom.” Since they are worried about the other children, they then remove or restrain the child who is seemingly “out of control.” When you observe a preschool classroom you will see young children feeling concern and empathy for the child who is crying or screaming. You will see children with leader qualities attempt to gently tell their friend to calm down by saying, “It’s okay, you feel better soon,” or the shy ones getting close to the teacher and pulling her slightly towards the child who is overly upset in an effort to feel safe. Now imagine the message these kind and empathic children receive when the child is removed, restrained or punished. A simple A + B equation in their concrete minds tells them that when they are angry or sad, the teacher will reject them. This creates a lack of safety and a lost opportunity for teachers and students to learn how to manage emotions and enhance their emotional intelligence.
The best way to decrease the suspensions and the mismanagement of children’s normative behavior in the classroom is to increase education on normative development for parents, and to increase and change licensing requirements for early childhood teachers to include social emotional learning courses and special training on monitoring development. They also need training on inclusion in the classroom for children with learning differences and developmental delays.
Screenings like the Ages and Stages and DECA need to be part of the process of evaluation and progress-keeping for all early childhood centers. Training of the majority of the faculty and the staff of early childhood centers can be an amazing way to truly benefit from the information obtained from these screeners. Most schools who are part of the Early Head Start and Head Start programs have a disabilities coordinator who manages and helps parents maneuver the system and help create interventions at school and at home. It would be wonderful if local and state mandates would require and fund these services for all early childhood centers licensed by the state and local governments.
We need to educate schools and families around the requirements and the rights given to them and their children by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Part C and part B of that act requires that treatment and interventions be available for children birth to 22 years old. Too many families are unaware of those services and find themselves alone in the process of attempting to have their schools give them the services promised.
The most salient solution is to build a community and maintain a culture in the early childhood centers where parents teachers and directors are all working together to achieve the best outcomes for the children. It goes back to the repeated sentiment of “it takes a village” to raise a child. It’s repeated because of its validity. Building a space where parents and teachers hold the child, and school teachers and directors hold young parents through the early struggles of raising a child, can only bring about positive outcomes.
In the end we must remember that these big topics and issues are multi-dimensional. We all fantasize that one clean answer will fix an issue, but usually the answer is a “yes and…” rather than “this is the way.” What we must all get used to is being open to finding solutions and helping one another as a community rather than operating only in individualistic and uninformed ways. We also need to understand that as humans we are complex and the solutions to most setbacks are equally so. | <urn:uuid:99ae4366-2141-41ac-801a-220c38f3a7d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.momsrising.org/es/blog/discipline-assistance-and-bullies-in-a-preschool-classroom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978418 | 1,694 | 3.0625 | 3 |
By YVONNE DALEY
DANBY — A group of Danby residents has purchased six empty buildings in the heart of downtown Danby. They plan to restore the buildings and to boost the economic vitality of this quiet community.
Developers plan to open a diner in one of the buildings and establish shops in some of the others, according to Annie Rothman, spokesman for the group of investors.
A seventh building located close to downtown was purchased recently by someone independent of this group. The investor, who was not named, hopes to make the building into a professional center.
Developers hope to attract specialty shop owners, a doctor, dentist, pharmacist, lawyer or other professionals, or perhaps a bank branch office — services the town has been without for many years.
The move is another in the town’s capricious history of fame and fortune.
The first player in the saga is Silas L. Griffith, the lumber baron and state senator who made Danby a center for commerce in the 1850s. After his death, Danby’s fortunes declined considerably.
Then came Pearl S. Buck, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who in 1969 bought six dilapidated buildings, one of them the general store that Griffith had built and where he made his first money.
Buck had a dream of establishing Danby, situated between Rutland and Manchester, as a cultural-artistic center. The dream did not flourish.
Instead, Buck established the town as an antique center with antiques, crafts and copies of her books prominent in the six century-old buildings.
It was the Buck name and Buck herself — dressed in high fashion with her trademark string of pearls and surrounded by her coterie of unusual friends — as much as anything that attracted people to Danby.
When Buck died four years after she came to the town, the dream died with her. The buildings, which she had painted with her personal brand of Chinese red and white paint, were deserted.
They stayed that way for six years while Buck’s estate was disputed in the courts. Buck had left most of her assets to her business associate Theodore Harris. Her family brought suit, and the courts ruled that Harris had held “undue influence” over the author in the last years of her life, that is during her stay in Danby. A settlement was reached in which most of her fortune went to Buck’s children.
By then the red and white paint was flaking and the buildings were in decay. A Connecticut businessman, Ernest B. Latham II, bought four of the six buildings formerly owned by Buck.
Latham moved to Danby, at least part-time, and did some restoration of the buildings — fixing roofs and broken water pipes, and painting exteriors. The Lone Star Cafe operated in Griffith’s store until last year, and some of the houses were rented.
But the buildings had entered another period of decay and were put up for sale earlier this year.
Curiously enough, Rothman had always had an interest in the Griffith building. Shortly after she bought her home, Rothman began research for a book on Griffith, the charcoal king whose rise to fortune fascinated her.
Griffith is the man who more than 80 years ago left money in his name for an annual Christmas celebration for Danby and Mount Tabor children. Each year, children trek into the Danby Congregational Church to receive a toy and fruit in his name.
In researching the book, Rothman found that Griffith was both saint and sinner. Griffith went from modest beginnings to great wealth. In 1861 he built the S. L. Griffith and Co. general store. He sold the store to his brothers in 1865 to devote his time to the lumber business.
He built a logging empire, established company stores and boarding houses and kilns in Danby, Mount Tabor, Dorset, Manchester, Peru, East Arlington and Stratton and, later, bought back the general store.
His 12 sawmills cut 50 million feet of lumber a year and he was said to have ‘been the third largest lumber shipper in the United States. During this era, Danby’s railroad station shipped the greatest amount of goods of any Vermont rail depot.
Rothman said that a diner will be built in this building. Later, the group of developers hopes to open shops in the huge three-story building once it has been restored to its original design, insulated and fire-alarm systems installed. They plan to call the building S.L. Griffith and Co.
“Silas would be proud,” said Rothman Tuesday as she gave a tour of the buildings.
The Obediah Hadwen house, next to the old general store, will be divided into a number of shops. The group already has one tenant. This building, with its plank floors and tin ceiling, needs the least amount of work.
The next house up the road, called the Mill River House, is included in the group. It has a nice bay window and, like the others, a slate roof. No plans for this house have been announced.
The River House, which is next up the road and across the Mill River, was in earlier days a harness shop and shoe manufacturing operation. A pharmacy is planned for the River House.
Behind the four houses, a large lawn will be cleared and made into a town green overlooking the Mill River.
Another house across the road from the Mill River House, called the Ralph House, is included in the deal. No specifics were available on this property.
The last building is the Old Danby Post Office, which was also a general store and more recently a crafts center. This building has fine carved wooden doors and huge windows, overlooking Main Street and will be made into apartments and businesses.
Rothman said the group of investors views the effort as a town project. She said there was consensus among the developers that the small-town character of Danby would be preserved.
Rothman will offer 15 percent discounts for Danby residents renting space in the Hadwen House, which is expected to open first. In addition, she is offering a 10 percent discount to others who rent space and use local help for construction.
Paul Wilson General Contractor Co. of Danby is in charge of the general renovations.
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By Mouser Electronics, www.mouser.com
The capabilities of programmable logic devices such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) have grown rapidly since they were first introduced decades ago as a replacement for glue logic and as an ASIC prototyping device. As gate density grew, FPGA and CPLD vendors began to add circuits with dedicated functionality to complement their unassigned gates and logic functions. Today, most FPGA and CPLD vendors offer product families that provide a variety of popular MCU cores and other IP cores. Using cores gives system designers access to familiar development tool sets, operating systems, and selectable performance to fit applications that were once considered the exclusive province of DSPs and ASSPs.
There are two kinds of cores – hard and soft. Soft-cores are described by logic function – not physical implementation – and typically consist of HDL code. Altera's Nios II processor is an example of a soft MCU core. Hard cores, as the name implies, have physical implementations. When used with FPGAs and CPLDs, hard cores are usually called embedded cores because they are embedded in the die and surrounded by programmable logic. The new hard processor system (HPS) is a new dual core ARM Cortex-A9 from Altera that not only includes the processor itself, but also a variety of memory and networking interfaces.
Altera Hard Processor System (Image courtesy of Altera)
There are several compelling reasons to consider using FPGAs that include MCU functionality. Most important is to recognize the hidden costs of using a dedicated MCU. For instance, if the part does not have the right mix of features, external logic and software must be developed to fill the functionality hole. These chips are not able to take into account dynamic market conditions that could require a new interface or peripheral. Conversely, some features of the MCU may not be used in a particular application. This increases product cost, which can be critical in cost-sensitive markets.
Embedded MCU implementations neatly address these problems. Developing system-level software on a single chip can shorten the overall software development cycle. Using the FPGA vendor’s tools make it easier to find bugs and identify compatibility issues. If the desired functionality cannot be implemented in software, the requirements for additional hardware support can be recognized sooner rather than later. The chip can be programmed and reprogrammed as needed during the design process to correct flaws or to add new features, enabling more rapid prototyping and fast time-to-market. FPGA and CPLD can also be upgraded in the field if requirements change – even after the devices are deployed in a product.
Integrated Development tools for MCU and FPGA development reduce time to market (Image courtesy of Altera)
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"A federal judge issued a ruling Tuesday requiring New York to hold its presidential primary in June and restore Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other former presidential contenders to the ballot.
The ruling from Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York, an Obama appointee, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) decision to scrap his state’s primary violated the First and 14th Amendment rights of White House contenders who have since ended their campaigns.
“The Court concludes that Plaintiffs and Plaintiff-Intervenors have shown a clear and substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the Democratic Commissioners’ April 27 Resolution removing Yang, Sanders, and eight other Democratic presidential candidates from the ballot deprived them of associational rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution,” Torres ruled, referring to entrepreneur Andrew Yang, another former presidential candidate who filed the lawsuit against New York. "
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Rhea was created using data obtained by NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft.
The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 417 meters (1,400 feet) per pixel in the full size version. The mean radius of Rhea used for projection of this map is 764.1 kilometers (474.8 miles).
This map is an update to the version released in February 2010 (see PIA12561 ). The title of that older version ("Map of Rhea - February 2010") denotes the month the map was released, not when the data in the map were collected. The title of this new version reflects when the most recent data used in the map were captured. The newest data were used to improve coverage north of the equator between about 250 degrees west longitude and 300 degrees west longitude.
Six Voyager images fill gaps in Cassini's coverage of the north pole.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
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What Are a Few Examples of Great Foods To Cater?
If you have an event coming up, then you might be wondering what a few examples of great foods to cater might be. One of the great ways for you to reduce the amount of stress that is associated with your next event is to have trained professionals provide you with delicious meals that will allow you to focus on other areas of your event. At the same time, there are plenty of foods from which to choose. Not all of them are great for catering. What are a few examples of great foods to cater?
Consider Going with Small Plates and Hors D’Oeuvres
If you have a large event that is coming up and want to provide food that will facilitate socializing, then consider going with small plates and hors d’oeuvres. These are great choices because your guests will be able to eat them with one hand. Because they won’t need a fork and knife, they will be able to enjoy their food as they move from person to person, mingling with everyone else at the party. If you have an event coming up that involves a lot of socializing, then consider going with these options.
Think About Using Sandwiches
In order to make the cleanup process easy after the event is finished, think about going with sandwiches and wraps. Because these sandwiches and wraps are pre-packaged, the cleanup process is a breeze. There are no utensils needed. The paper can simply be balled up and tossed out. Furthermore, sandwiches are also relatively quiet. This means that if there is an important topic that is being covered at the event, the sandwiches are not going to serve as a distraction.
Take Advantage of Breakfast Options
When people think about breakfast food, they don’t usually think about catering; however, if you have an event that is going to take place in the morning, there are still opportunities for you to include breakfast food! For example, you can go with a simple pastry spread that people can pick at during the event. On the other hand, there are hot food options available as well. That is where we can help you. At Chef’s Catering, we can provide you with great food that will meet your catering needs!
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World Stationery Day is an annual event observed every last Wednesday of April and this year it will be held on April 26. We use the day to celebrate all stationery which includes pens, pencils, paper, staplers, erasers, highlighters, markers, postcards, crayons, and adhesive tape. Stationery is used for written correspondence and is an important tool of correspondence. Since prehistoric times, humans have made use of a wide variety of tools and implements to write letters, pass across messages, or preserve information. Today, stationery still plays a major role in our society despite the advancement in technology.
History of World Stationery Day
The word ‘stationery’ is derived from the Medieval Latin word ‘stationarius’, meaning ‘unmoved’ or ‘permanent.’ According to Wikipedia, stationery refers to “commercially manufactured writing materials, including cut paper, envelopes, writing implements, continuous form paper, and other office supplies.” Stationery could also mean special paper used for writing letters. According to several historians, paper was invented by a Chinese eunuch named Tsai Lun around the year 121 A.D. He apparently did this by mixing the inner bark of a mulberry tree with bamboo fibers. Prior to that, ancient records were written on either bamboo, which was quite heavy, or silk, which was costly. Also, ancient Egyptians would fashion papyrus plants into solid, dried sheets.
Pens can also be traced back to ancient times. In 1300 B.C., metal styluses were used to write on wax tablets by the Romans. These iron instruments were shaped like pencils, sharpened to a point at one end, while being flat and circular at the other end. During the same period, Asian scribes made use of bronze styluses. Years later, Egyptians used thick bamboo/calamus reeds. The famed quill pen didn’t make an appearance until the sixth century in Seville, Spain. Made with either swan feathers or goose feathers, the quill pen lasted for centuries and came into use all over the world. The 19th century saw the invention of ballpoint pens, which immediately phased out quill pens.
In the 21st century, pen and paper are becoming less popular due to the advancement of technology. Online learning, with the use of mobile devices, has recently revolutionized the educational system. Texting and email communication have phased out the old art of letter writing. Even personal notes are now shared via mobile applications. Yet in all this, old-fashioned stationery has not completely died out as it still proves useful in the world.
World Stationery Day timeline
Paper is invented in China by Tsai Lun.
The quill pen is invented in Seville, Spain.
Ballpoint pens replace quill pens.
The Biro brothers file the first patent for a ballpoint pen called ‘Birome.’
World Stationery Day FAQs
What is inside a pencil?
Pencil lead is usually made of graphite powder mixed with a clay binder, which is then fired in a kiln.
When were pencils invented?
Pencils were first invented during the 1700s.
What are the ingredients in pen ink?
Pen ink is primarily made up of dye or pigment particles, along with other additives such as water, polymers, linseed oil, and so on.
How to Observe World Stationery Day
Use your stationery
In our world of phones, laptops, and gadgets, writing things down with pen and paper is almost becoming a lost art. Today, be intentional in doing things the traditional way be it making a to-do list or sending someone a nice hand-written note.
Buy more stationery
Thinking of the perfect present for that friend or family member? Give them something unique by sending them a lovely stationery set.
Use the hashtag
Not everyone knows that World Stationery Day exists. Make a fun post about it on social media and make use of the hashtag #worldstationeryday to create wider visibility.
5 Interesting Facts About Stationery
Stale bread makes good erasers
Before erasers were invented in 1770, stale bread was used to clean pencil marks.
Post-it notes were created accidentally
Post-it notes were created because a scientist invented glue that was too weak for other purposes.
King Louis XIV had customized stapler pins
In the 18th century, the stapler pins invented for the French King Louis XIV bore his insignia.
Paper is produced in tons
Every year, over 300 million tons of paper are produced around the world.
Pencils have a lot of mileage!
The average pencil can draw a line 35 miles long.
Why World Stationery Day is Important
It takes us back to the old days
This holiday takes us right back to when things were simpler. We’re encouraged to put our devices down for a while and use our stationery instead.
It supports stationery makers
Ever wonder about the people who make paper, pens, and other materials that are so useful in our daily lives? This day not only shines a spotlight on them but purchasing stationery also keeps the stationery industry afloat.
It aids focus and learning
According to several studies conducted by scientists, it has been proven that writing with pen and paper aids focus and has positive effects on the cognitive process. This means the simple act of writing things by hand is much more beneficial to us than typing on a keypad.
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The Inplane Mask Head (A2052) is a Long-Wire Data Acquisition (LWDAQ) Device that drives nine IRLEDs (infra-red light-emitting diodes). The A2052A-8 has nine infra-red LEDs on the back side and three 8-mm snap-in standoffs. The A2052A-12 has 12-mm standoffs. The A2052A with no suffix has no snap-in standoffs.
The A2052A has the same connector locations, LED locations, standoff locations, and board dimensions as our earlier A2034A, and NIKHEF's RASLED card. The A2052A replaces the RASLED when you upgrade to Long-Wire DAQ. The RASLED is not a Long-Wire device. One functional difference between the two boards is that the RASLED card as a green LED that turns on when the LEDs turn on.
If you want to put the snap-in standoffs into the board yourself, view our standoff installation video.
The A2052 is complies with the LWDAQ Specification. It is LWDAQ Device type 1 (LED device) for the purpose of device-dependent jobs. The A2052 LED driver is element number 0 or 1.
Note that the A2052 ignores DC8, which is normally the WAKE bit for LWDAQ devices. But the A2052 has only two states: off or on. The off state is equivalent to the usual sleep state.
You will find the data acquisition steps required to capture an image and flash lasers on an A2052 in Rasnik.tcl, which is the TclTk script that defines the Rasnnik Instrument in our LWDAQ Software. In Driver.tcl you will find the routines that compose TCPIP messages to communicate with a LWDAQ Driver. We use these routines in Rasnik.tcl.
Connect the A2052 to a LWDAQ driver (such as the A2037) or multiplexer (such as the A2046) with a LWDAQ cable. You can use shielded or unshielded. Once you are capturing images of your LEDs, you can adjust the exposure time used by the flash_job to make them brighter or darker in the image.
Example: Suppose we want to illuminate nine LEDs in series. These nine LEDs are in an existing optical assembly. We have two wires coming out of the assembly, and the LEDs take 100 mA. The A2052A provides a two-way connector (P1) for the two wires, and will source 100 mA into them when the driver instructs it to do so. Pin one on the connector, which is uppermost in Figure 1, is the negative terminal of the LED current source, and pin two is the positive terminal.
We put a two-way socket on the two wires coming out of our instrument. We plug this into the A2052A. We connect the A2052A to a LWDAQ driver with a CAT-5 cable up to one hundred meters long. We note the device socket into which we plug the head, and determine the device address we should use with the driver to make it communicate with our device.
To flash the light emitting diodes, we tell the driver the address of the A2052A, and the type, which is one (1). We specify our desired on-time for the LEDs, and instruct the driver to execute a flash_job.
The A2052A flashes its bottom-side LEDs during a flash job. It comes with either 8-mm or 12-mm standoffs, and we can order other lengths as you require.
The A2052 is asleep whenever it is not driving its LEDs, so you never have to send it a sleep command. To measure the propagation delay of signals travelling from the driver to the A2052A and back again, you execute the loop_job and read the loop time out of the driver.
We intended the the A2052 to pass 80 mA through its nine LEDs. We miscalculated, and it passes 110 mA instead. The extra current, combined with the low forward voltage drop of the LEDs we used in our ATLAS circuits combined to make our A2052 vulnerable to damage when left on for more than a few hours. We describe this failure in the Reliability section of our Proximity Mask Head (A2045) Manual. When an A2052 suffers severe damage through over-heating, it's optical power output drops to 1% of its undamaged value. By replacing one of the 47-Ω power resistors (R3 and R4) with a 100-Ω resistor, we can stop the over-heating. As reported here, an A2052 with the 100-Ω resistor will remain on for at least a week with no damage.
To be sure of long LED life, we prefer the LED current to be around 80 mA. Some A2052s with one power resistor switched to 100 Ω still showed LED current of over 90 mA, so we switched both power resistors to 100 Ω in these boards, and so reduced the current to 80 mA. This contrasts with the A2045s made in a different year with a different batch of LEDs. In many of the A2045s, the current with a single 100 Ω resistor is only 70 mA.
The A2052 uses the same differential transceiver, clamping diodes, power supply switches, regulator, and logic chips as the Proximity Camera Head (A2047). For a discussion of the radiation tolerance of these components, see here. The LEDs on the A2045 are vulnerable to neutron radiation, as we describe in Pre-Production Radiation Tests.
We picked an A2052A at random and measured its power consumption in two states.
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|On||110 mA||110 mA||1.0 mA|
We intended the A2052A to pass 80 mA through its LEDs, but we miscalculated, as we describe above.
You will find the A2052 circuit diagram here, and printed circuit board files here.
Here is the A2052 circuit diagram.Receiver and LED Driver
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Porsche is one of the most recognizable cars in the world. This car was designed to be this way. It was no accident. Ferdinand Porsche founded this company in 1931. Ferdinand would prove to be an excellent engineer that would go on to develop a brand that was associated with style, high-class sophistication, and speed.
The early models of these cars were colorful and with big lights in the front. There were models with drop top roofs as early as 1952. Porsche would go on to make variations of the brand with models like the 912 and the Boxster.
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This embodied the car and the picture of the wild stallion with an incredibly high kick meant something. It was an unspoken symbol of the powerful performance that the Porsche was supposed to provide. This awesome horsepower feature meant speed and the design of the Porsche symbolized luxury. This was a combination that made the brand stand out as a something of a sports car. People that hear about this vehicle will instantly conjure up imagery of a rich lifestyle and a fast driver speeding down the highway. The mere name of the car strikes up a vision. This is branding at its best.
These cars have always been rather small. This is where a lot of the sports car association comes into play. People that have seen a Porsche know that this is not a family car. It’s too small for a large family, but this unique design is on purpose. This is another thing that makes the car recognizable to many people.
The Porsche brand has actually expanded into tractors and race cars, but the consumer model brands are still the most popular. The Boxster and the 911 are at the top of the list of best sellers. Have a peek at this article. This brand is recognized almost instantly. People that are driving these cars don’t have to stop for spectators to support these vehicles. When these small, stylish cars go speeding by people, know what they are viewing.
The brand name stands out even more sense these cars are typically sold at authorized Porsche dealership with the big logo on the sign. This is unique because most cars, even the popular ones, don’t have any logo association. The Porsche, however, does and this has been a very important part of the branding process. Champion Porsche Dealer in Miami gives you more options and better pricing on your new and Pre-owned Porsche. | <urn:uuid:cfdf6e0b-ab28-440c-b8b9-fd61a34f333f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://canadiantechblogger.com/pre-owned-porsche-buying-one-less/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978249 | 506 | 1.796875 | 2 |
How Your Favorite House Decoration Is Made Through Plastic Injection Moldingby Mavis Poppe Digital Marketing Specialist
Ever wondered how your favorite plastic house decoration is made? If it is incredibly detailed and extremely durable, then it has probably been made through plastic injection molding in China.
Plastic injection molding is a process that molds plastic into specific products with the use of extreme heat and high pressure. Just like any manufacturing process, plastic injection molding first goes through its design process. The design process is split into two for this type of manufacturing: designing the product and designing the mold. After the designs have been finalized, the manufacturing process will begin that will create the final output.
Interested in learning more? Read on to learn how your favorite house decoration is made through plastic injection molding.
Designing The Product
Designing the perfect product takes time and effort. In order to give customers the highest quality possible, companies work hand in hand with plastic injection molding companies to make the most productive design. To reach an even higher level of detail, companies make use of computer-aided design (CAD) software to capture even the tiniest of details. Other objectives taken into consideration are its aesthetic look, functionality, and manufacturability.
The next step in the process of plastic injection molding is designing the actual mold.
Designing The Mold
The planning process is crucial to any manufacturing company because it saves up on preventable costs. The reason why planning is so important is so that problems can be predicted and solved before they even happen. In terms of mold design, how the product will be assembled is taken into consideration. The necessary adjustments will be made if the computer-aided design software spots an error or a possible misalignment.
After the necessary designs have carefully been created, the manufacturing process can begin.
Turning Recycled Plastic Into Pellets
Before the plastic gets fed into the injection molding machine, it must first be turned into plastic pellets. You may not know it, but your favorite house decoration may be created from recycled plastic. After being collected from the recycling centers, these plastic products first undergo an extensive cleaning process. After this, they are fed to a grinder and subsequently turned into plastic pellets.
The next step would be the actual plastic injection molding process that creates the finished products. Plastic injection molding goes through four steps: clamping, injection, cooling, and ejection.
Step 1: Clamping
Before inputting the material into the mold, the two parts of the mold must first be secured. This is what the clamping unit is for. First, the two halves are attached to the plastic injection molding machine. Then, the unit powered by hydraulics pushes the two halves together with sufficient force. This is in order to keep the molds securely closed as the plastic material is injected inside.
After the mold has been secured shut, the raw plastic can then start to be injected into it.
Step 2: Injection
In order to be injected into the mold, the raw plastic pellets must first be melted down. This is done through the injection unit that is used to insert it into the mold. The unit is made of a series of screws that constantly turn, producing high levels of heat and energy, effectively melting the pellets down. After this, high pressure is used to quickly inject the material into the mold. The quick insertion of the material causes a buildup of pressure that holds the material together.
After the molten plastic has been injected into the mold, the cooling process can begin.
Step 3: Cooling
Once the molten plastic makes contact with the interior of the mold, it will immediately start to harden. The plastic will cool in the form of the mold, creating the pieces of the product. In order to prevent any errors due to shrinkage in the cooling stage, the injection process allows for extra material to flow in and reduce shrinkage. The mold will be kept closed until the set cooling time is over. In order to calculate the exact cooling time, the thickness and the type of plastic used will be taken into consideration.
After the product has cooled, it can now be ejected from the machine.
Step 4: Ejection
Once the part has cooled down, the plastic injection molding machine will then activate its ejection system on the rear of the mold. High force is used to eject the piece as it has a tendency to shrink and stick to the mold. To further help its ejection, a releasing agent may be sprayed onto the mold cavity before the process starts. Once the product is ejected, the mold will then close once more to prepare for the next injection.
These are the steps to create your favorite house decoration made from plastic injection molding.
Chances are, your favorite plastic house decoration is made through plastic injection molding in China. In order to better understand how it is that your decoration is so intricately detailed, take note of the step-by-step manufacturing processes found in this article. Thinking of purchasing even more plastic house decoration? You should do it if you want a kind of decor that will last you through the years.
These are the basic processes of plastic injection molding that create your favorite house decoration.
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Jeff Bezos, owner and founder of amazonis one of the richest men in the world, second only to Elon Musk. But how did Jeff Bezos make his fortune? As many know, the multinational platform started as a small venture from a garage.
Before 1994, Jeff Bezos he was just an employee, albeit a high-level one, in a company wall street. But that changed with ambition, and above all, with the wisdom of anticipating that the world would go through a great technological revolution.
The correct forecasts of Bezos, made him understand, at 30 years of age, that the world would go through a radical change with the internet, which would alter the main habit of the capitalist world: shopping.
The story goes that it all started in a garage in Seattle, where Bezos started an online bookstore called Amazon, using an almost makeshift table. The story is correct, but very summarized.
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Actually, the history of Bezos’s wealth dates back to the 1980s, when along with studying Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the Princeton University I worked at a McDonald’s.
The current entrepreneur graduated from college with honors, and later, Bezos began working in startups before joining DE Shaw & Co., a Wall Street investment bank.
So began a career of meteoric rise that in just eight years took him to the vice presidency and a coveted salary. But he wanted something more. So, they say, he invited his chief banker to a walk in Central Park where he revealed his millionaire idea: sell books online.
His boss advised him to forget about his dreams and focus on his work, but evidently Jeff did the opposite and supported morally by his first wife, MacKenzie Scott, and financially by his parents, who loaned him $300,000, he moved to Seattle. where he rented a house that would become Amazon’s first office.
After a few months of work and after considering names like Cadabra and Relentless, Amazon (named after the Amazon River, the largest in the world) debuted online on July 16, 1995. After that, Bezos’ achievements they were increasing.
Within two months, Amazon was selling books to 45 countries and bringing in about $20,000 a week. But far from opening a bottle of champagne, Bezos dedicated himself to reinvesting everything he earned and his life rose as follows.
- 1999: He is named Person of the Year by the magazine Time.
- 2000: Cover Blue Origin, LLCan aerospace company to provide low-cost access to private space travel.
- November 2012: The magazine fortune names Bezos its Entrepreneur of the Year 2012.
- March 2012-2013: Leads the team of the F-1 engine recovery project of the apollo 11, financed with private funds, which, in March 2013, recovers parts of two rocket engines from the Atlantic seafloor. The rockets from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission remain the property of the POT.
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- August 2013: It is announced that Bezos will buy the newspaper Washington Post. Bezos is the owner as of October 1.
- November 2015: Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, successfully lands a rocket on Earth after a spaceflight. In the past, rockets were scrapped after launching spacecraft. Reusable rockets would substantially reduce the cost of space flight.
- December 2016: Along with other tech execs, Bezos meets with the president-elect donald trump at Trump Tower to discuss topics like education, trade and immigration.
- January 2019: For the first time, Amazon has annual sales of $200 billion.
- March 2019: Haven, the name of the company created by Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon to improve the health care system, is announced.
- May 2019: Bezos unveils Blue Origin’s new rocket engine and a mockup of the lunar lander he wants to use to transport cargo or people to the Moon. The first lunar lander mission is scheduled for 2024.
- April 2020: Bezos ranks first on Forbes’ annual list of billionaires, with a net worth of $113 billion.
- August 2020: Bezos is the first person in history to achieve a cumulative fortune of more than US$200 billion, according to Forbes.
- February 2021: In its Q4 2020 earnings report, Amazon announces that Bezos will step down as CEO in Q3 2021. He will move into the role of CEO. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy becomes CEO at that time.
- April 2021: Bezos ranks first on Forbes’ annual list of billionaires, with a net worth of $177 billion.
- May 2021: During the company’s annual meeting of shareholders, Bezos announces that he will officially step down as CEO on July 5. That’s the anniversary of the date Amazon was incorporated in 1994.
- July 2021: Bezos travels to space and back in an 11-minute journey aboard the rocket and capsule, a system developed by his space company, Blue Origin.
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When it comes to your career, you naturally want to take steps that will enable you to succeed and enjoy working in the ideal industry. As a person who is creative, has a passion for beauty and fashion, and has artistic flair, one of the career options that you might want to consider is a career in the beauty industry. This is a career choice that is perfect for those who want to help others, unleash their creativity, and can easily adapt to new trends and techniques.
If you want to enter into this type of career, it is important to take the right steps. From finding a good cosmetology school in Houston Texas to gaining work experience, there are various steps that you can take. By taking the right steps, you can ensure you not only break into this type of career but that you enjoy a successful future within the beauty industry. In this article, we will look at some of the preparatory steps you should take.
How to Prepare
In order to improve your chances of a successful career in the beauty industry, it is important to prepare. There are a few key things that you can do in order to do this, and this includes:
Decide On Your Chosen Area
One of the first things that you need to do is research the industry and decide what area of beauty you want to work in. There are many different areas that you can choose from depending on your interests and preferences, and by making this important decision, you can then work out what sort of training you need to undertake in order to break into your chosen career within the industry.
Find a Suitable Training Course
You also need to ensure you find a suitable training course where you can develop the skills and gain the qualifications that you need to break into your beauty career. Of course, in addition to finding the right course, you also need to ensure you find the right training facility. This means finding a beauty school with a solid reputation for excellence and great reviews from others. In addition, make sure you look at the course options available to ensure that they can accommodate your needs and provide access to the type of beauty course you are looking for.
Try to Gain Work Experience
One of the other things that is well worth doing is to try and get some level of work experience while you are training. You can contact local salons to see whether they can provide you with any work experience at weekends, and while you might only be doing menial jobs until you have trained, it will give you experience of working with customers and in a salon setting. This can go a long way toward helping you to secure a position once you have qualified.
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Motive Matters for Productive Dialogue
Striving for True Dialogue
Having open and productive conversations is more important now than ever. We find ourselves with multiple high-stakes, high emotion situations in which opinions are utterly different. Knowing this may cause us to avoid those conversations at all cost, or not really say what we feel, believe and value. Although that removes the discomfort today, it can leave us disappointed (in ourselves and others), and keep us disconnected from others. It doesn’t open us up to learning, and prevents others from learning from us.
The goal is to have true dialogue. Each person fully putting their own meaning into the conversation. When each person understands and appreciates (not necessarily agrees with) the others’ view, that is when real dialogue can happen. Then in that dialogue can genuine learning, problem-solving and connection happen. Using the wisdom and framework of Crucial Conversations© can lead us to true dialogue.
The place to start is decide if you are having the right conversation. Do you need to discuss a single incident? A pattern of behavior? Or the fact that your relationship is being affected? Having the right conversation can save frustration and confusion in the future. For example, if you’re talking about not closing the copier lid with a lot of passion and ferocity—maybe it’s not about the copier lid. Perhaps there’s something deeper to discuss. When you look at which conversation you really need to have, you can prioritize and focus on the conversation that will make the most difference.
Get Your Motive Clear
Once you know what conversation to have, the next place to look is within yourself. Start with getting your motive clear. Only hold the conversation when you are sure your motive is toward a positive outcome—to learn, to understand, to come together with mutual purpose and mutual respect. You are not ready for the conversation if your motive is to be right, to look good, to save face, to punish, or to blame. If a healthy motive isn’t readily apparent, try looking to longer-term outcomes.
A great place to start figuring out your motive is with some questions:
- What do I really want?
- For myself?
- For the relationship?
- For the other person?
- How would I behave if I really wanted that?
Taking some time to figure that out can make a noticeable difference in how you approach another person, and a conversation. When you motive is to really understand how someone else sees a situation, to have an open conversation about a topic, or to maintain a collegial or friendly relationship, what you say will naturally lean towards creating dialogue.
Memorizing these simple questions can prepare you if you unexpectedly find yourself in a tough conversation. If that happens, take a deep breath, and in that pause, ask yourself those questions. When you’ve already thought about those things, it will be easier to reconnect with the answers in the moment. The more you take that step, you may find it has become a habit!
Visit the blog again soon to learn the next step to helping your approach conversations in a way that will increase the likelihood you achieve your motive of understanding, learning, and collegial connection.
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Retractable awnings are a graceful form of environmental control. Natural, transitory shade and passive cooling create more comfortable spaces, both inside and out.
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However, retractable awnings have to be used properly for them to be truly effective – and this means they have to be extended and retracted at the right time. Motorization is the basis of effective retractable awning usage. In fact, according to the Professional Awning Manufacturers Association (PAMA) of which Retractableawnings.com is a long standing member, motorizing retractable awnings increases awning usage by 400%.
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Somfy has engineered its own style of radio communication, Radio Technology Somfy (RTS). This system is the most popular retractable awning motor in the world, with over 4 million systems installed. Somfy RTS motors have a narrow bandwidth, so they won't interfere with other RF systems, like garages or rolling shutters.
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Carrying a business in this highly rigorous corporate world needs to plan with due care in respect of investment. Growth of business is majorly depends upon its way of investment and management policies. As there are various methods and steps of project reporting including feasibility study in respect of new venture of the clients. This gives an idea about the total investment needs; any form of risk involved, how to overcome the risks while implement project policies; time involved, human resources needs, technology needs and lots more while completing the new ventures.
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- Review of finance policies and control system including quality standard, refinement and modification processes, coordination with any other cell while implementation of the project policies.
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- Management of project administration
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If you enjoy games, you know how exciting the full gaming encounter is. Nonetheless, if you are a novice at video games or perhaps a skilled, learning more about video games can really benefit all of your gaming encounter. The following piece will instruct you on all you have to know about online games.
Don’t go ahead and take phrase of your minimal on whether a game title is appropriate for these people. In case a video game is ranked M for fully developed, there is usually a valid reason for it. Do your research around the popular new activity your youngster is pleading for. Make sure it is some thing you would like them enjoying before you decide to spend money on it.
If as a parent you are focused on video game articles, control what down loadable mods are placed within the activity. These downloadable mods are normally developed by participants, not the recording online game businesses, so there is absolutely no ranking system. Whatever you thought had been a fairly un-dangerous game can turn a whole lot worse with one of these mods.
Ease and comfort is key. Practically nothing hampers a marathon game playing program more quickly than a crowded hand. The few added $ $ $ $ to purchase a cushy mouse (or control should you video game on a gaming console) are well worth the investment. Numerous merchants have trial models out that one could attempt, so take advantage of the opportunity to discover the mouse or controller that molds to the hand flawlessly.
If you can’t get past a specific stage, turn off all noises, whether it is the in-activity appears to be or tunes which you have place on. This will help to truly center on what exactly is happening before you and you might have an improved chance of proceeding within the activity.
Being a parent, it is important to remember that youngsters do not have an “away from” switch inside their head. Without adult involvement, children can (and may) play video games for a lot of several hours with out halting. It is very important monitor the amount of time your child can enjoy their game titles. Establish a restriction and become consistent and organization using this reduce.
Control is important in all issues, and playing video games is not any different. Taking part in for a long time on stop isn’t good for you, actually or emotionally. There are many video games on the market that know this and include steps to point out to anyone to take pauses. Take the initiative yourself, although! Established a security alarm in order that you don’t perform for over an hour or so right.
Stay at home and cut costs by taking part in video gaming with the close friends. Many people utilize these games as a type of amusement. Most games at present are offered to engage in online with others. You may also talk to your buddies while playing. Minimize bills by keeping yourself property and playing video games.
Just before enjoying a brand new xbox game, browse the cheat publication. Most online games use a reserve you can aquire independently. You really should consider carrying this out and reading through it before you enjoy, or even when you are enjoying. In this way, you can find the best from your activity play.
Develop hands energy. Squeezing a tennis golf ball is not just the best way to relieve stress, it will also increase the strength in your hands. This is certainly important for individuals marathon game playing periods that may keep your hands confined and tender. Experiencing much more palm power also provides you with better control, supplying you with an advantage in all your online games.
Maintain a video video game celebration. A lot of youngsters love playing video gaming and can carefully love a get together having a video game theme. Opt for your child’s favorite game playing program and also have a cake made to display this. Then, setup the video gaming program which means that your kid and his friends may play game collectively.
Get walkthroughs for your game before starting. Using this method, you’ll find that you hold the walkthrough readily available when you want it. You won’t have to cease your video game and check for the very best walkthroughs inside the warmth of perform. You should certainly find 1 or 2 really good walkthroughs and have them willing to entry during play.
Show patience should you be expecting a significant name to drop from 60 bucks to 20. Generally, it occurs 5 various months once the original launch time. Even so, some titles have actually survived on top of the 20 dollar cost stage for someone to two full many years. Recognize how lengthy you are prepared to wait.
Take into 롤대리 purchasing your game playing extras and consoles from Craigs list. EBay is a fantastic market place that does not only is handy simply because you are purchasing on the internet, but features a greater variety of the video games that you desire. Prices on Craigs list can also be outstanding, since there are a lots of individuals looking to purge their older video games.
Preview all online games that you simply get for your kids to make certain they are age group suitable. Also, it is significant to speak with the mother and father of your children’s good friends to find out what kind of online games are permissible at their good friends homes. Should you can’t review the overall game, get a review on-line to help you information your final decision.
In summary, enjoying video gaming is usually a extremely exciting encounter for an individual. But, regardless of what your degree of video games experience, simply being well-informed on the nuances of video games can certainly make playing video games much more fun. Use the recommendations from this post to boost the next game playing practical experience. | <urn:uuid:938858d6-3c09-4fcb-9505-6e473a9e7704> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lovefornewfederaltheatre.com/if-you-like-online-games-this-post-is-for-you-personally/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962395 | 1,184 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Today, organizations are showing a growing appetite for solutions that provide a deeper understanding of not just assets, but also the complex interactions across environments. This shift is driven by the need to be more agile and respond to real-time changes in the world, and it involves moving beyond tracking individual assets or devices to focusing on everything within a rich environment—from people, places, processes, and things to their very relationships.
To really understand these intricate environments, companies are creating digital replicas of their physical world also known as digital twins. With Microsoft Azure Digital Twins now generally available, this Internet of Things (IoT) platform provides the capabilities to fuse together both physical and digital worlds, allowing you to transform your business and create breakthrough customer experiences.
According to the IoT Signals report, the vast majority of companies with a digital twin strategy see it as an integral part of their IoT solution. Yet the reality is that modeling entire environments can be complicated. It involves bringing together the many elements that make up a digital twin to capture actionable insights. However, siloed data across these experiences makes it challenging to build digital twin solutions that bring those models to life, and doing so in a scalable, secure way is often time-consuming.
Azure Digital Twins now ready for enterprise-grade deployments
Azure Digital Twins is an industry-first solution. It breaks down silos within intelligent environments by fusing data from previously disparate devices and business systems. It means you can track both past and present events, simulate possibilities, and help predict future events for those environments.
With Azure Digital Twins now generally available, it offers ready-to-use building blocks that can simplify the creation of detailed, comprehensive digital models that bring solutions to life. This trusted enterprise-grade platform brings the scale, reliability, security, and broad market availability that enables customers to build production-ready solutions.
Customer insights and partner solutions with Azure Digital Twins
Intelligent environments come in all shapes and sizes, and their attributes and outcomes are as varied as the industries in which they are used. As such, the possibilities for digital twins are endless—it can be used to model industries and environments that include factories, buildings, stadiums, and even entire cities. Today, we are working with customers and partners who are creating digital twins to model everything from facilities and spaces such as, smart buildings to manufactured products and the very processes within their supply chains.
One company pushing the boundaries of renewable energy production and efficiency is Korea-based Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction. Doosan worked with Microsoft and Bentley Systems to develop a digital twin of its wind farms, which allows operators to remotely monitor equipment performance and predict energy generation based on weather conditions.
“To maintain our competitive edge and increase energy efficiency, we need to optimize turbine operations through data analysis and gather feedback to develop and test advances in wind turbine development. We created solutions with Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Hub, and Bentley iTwin to make that possible by combining data from multiple sources into actionable insights.”—Seiyoung Jang, General Manager, Strategy and Innovation, Doosan
The solution uses Azure Digital Twins to combine real-time and historical IoT, weather, and other operational data with physics and machine learning-based models to accurately predict production output for each turbine in the farm. Based on the simulated models, Doosan can proactively adjust the pitch and performance of individual turbines, maximize energy production, and generate insights that will improve the future design of its next-generation wind turbines.
The innovation and productivity that Azure Digital Twins enables doesn’t stop there:
- Johnson Controls is collaborating with Microsoft to digitally transform how buildings and spaces are conceived, built, and managed. At the center of this collaboration is a holistic integration between their platform, OpenBlue Digital Twin, and Azure Digital Twins. This partnership helps enable integrated building management, and the platform serves as the foundation for energy and space optimization, predictive maintenance, and remote operations.
- Ansys, a market leader in simulation software, now offers native integration of simulation-based digital twins via Ansys Twin Builder for customers using Azure Digital Twins. This lets engineers quickly deliver real-time, physics-based simulation models for operational use. Doing so helps make it possible to efficiently integrate the simulation-based twins into a broader IoT solution.
- Brookfield Properties, one of the world’s largest commercial office landlords, partnered with Willow to create a digital replica of their One Manhattan West (OMW) property using Willow’s Azure Digital Twins-based product. Dedicated to creating a “live, work, play” ecosystem, this lays the groundwork for a digital-first future while unlocking cost savings, energy optimizations, and value-added services today. This solution leverages premade, open source models by RealEstateCore that can be used to help accelerate development across industries.
Azure Digital Twins platform capabilities
The Azure Digital Twins platform was built to simplify and accelerate the creation of IoT connected solutions. With a comprehensive set of capabilities, companies can develop customized, connected solutions with ease. And with the ability to layer your vertical domain specialization—such as 3D or 4D visualizations, physics-based simulation, and AI—on top of Azure Digital Twins, it’s easier than ever to focus on driving results for your customers.
This also includes new developer experiences with broad language support for SDKs, Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL) modeling and validation tools, and the Azure Digital Twins explorer sample which helps visualize the graph representing your environment. Other capabilities at the core of the Azure Digital Twins platform allow you to:
- Use an open modeling language, DTDL, to easily create custom models of intelligent environments. In addition, premade models and converter tools for vertical standards help accelerate development when getting started with use cases across industries.
- Bring digital twins to life with a live execution environment that is scalable and secure and uses data from IoT and other sources. Using a robust event system, you can build dynamic business logic that helps keep business apps fresh and always up to date. You can also extract insights in the context of the modeled world by querying data on a wide range of conditions and relationships.
- Break down silos using input from IoT and business systems by easily connecting assets such as IoT and Azure IoT Edge devices via Azure IoT Hub, as well as existing business systems such as ERP and CRM to Azure Digital Twins to extract relevant insights across the entire environment.
- Output to storage and analytics by integrating Azure Digital Twins with other Azure services. This includes the ability to send data to Azure Data Lake for long-term storage or to data analytics services such as Azure Synapse Analytics to apply machine learning. Another important use case is time series data integration and historian analytics with Azure Time Series Insights.
Digital Twins Consortium: Advancing technology with open partnerships and ecosystems
Built upon open partnerships and open ecosystems, Microsoft co-founded the Digital Twins Consortium in May 2020 in collaboration with other companies. Together, we are contributing to best practices and shared digital twin models. We are committed to helping create an industry standard and bringing digital twins—including DTDL—as well as all the different vertical specializations of digital twins across industries into an open ecosystem.
There are now more than 170 members that span companies, government agencies, and academia to drive consistency in the vocabulary, architecture, security, and compatibility of digital twin technology as it’s used across industries. This means that everyone across the ecosystem can benefit from a collective pool of industry standardized models so you can accelerate your digital twin journey.
Get started with Azure Digital Twins
As Microsoft Azure partners and businesses who are already using Azure Digital Twins have shown, it offers a robust platform for building enterprise grade IoT connected solutions with the scale, compliance, security, and privacy benefits that customers can bet their business on. Learn more about Azure Digital Twins and how to get started building digital replicas of your own intelligent business environment.
• Learn more about Azure Digital Twins.
• Get started with Azure Digital Twins technical resources.
• Watch Azure Digital Twins demo video.
• Read Azure Digital Twins customer stories.
• Watch the Azure Digital Twins technical deep dive video featuring the WillowTwin solution.
• Learn how IoT and Azure Digital Twins can help connect urban environments.
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Stressful thoughts can overwhelm us when we’re in a jam. Even minor stressors can overwhelm the good stuff of life if we don’t have a handle on how we’re managing our minds.
Happy Not Perfect is a mindfulness app by Brit, Poppy Jamie (coincidentally, the Pop of fashion brand, Pop & Suki). Drawing from her own struggles with stress and anxiety, Poppy developed Happy Not Perfect alongside the world’s leading breathwork experts, designers, psychologists and neuroscientists. The app offers daily tools to help people feel happier, less stressed and more emotionally balanced throughout the day.
We asked Poppy to share a few solid tips for turning off the panic response when stressful thoughts start to swamp our brains. Skim through and send to a frazzled friend who would benefit!
On Work Stress
Stress and anxiety in the workplace, whether it’s your job or studying for required exams, has a huge impact on our mental and physical health. Feeling overworked can cause stress and anxiety levels to rise, the immune system to weaken and makes burnout likely. External stress triggers include deadline anxiety, difficult co-working relationships, fear of failure, and more, leaving us feeling overwhelmed.
Try our tailored mindfulness game based on your mood. It can be done on the run (in the loo, in a cab) and can help shift your perspective. It’s made up of seven steps built as researched backed positive-psychology activities — all to help you relax the nervous system through belly breathing and encouragement to journal. These focused activities allow you to process your thoughts and calm your emotional center. You are then guided to shift perspective and reframe your thoughts through writing a gratitude diary, exercising compassion and thinking of others.
The Stress of A Big ChangePeriods of major change can be unsettling and anxiety inducing. Moving jobs, cities, schools or even homes are all stressful situations. And perhaps the irony is that change is meant to be exciting and fresh, and combined with opportunity, a really incredible thing. But the fear of the unknown can be also be challenging.
We like to find solutions that are practical and actionable. So our top tips for managing the anxiety of change are belly breathing and writing a gratitude list. Belly breathing is a simple (and free!) way of helping feel better when a lot is happening. It automatically takes us out of fight-or-flight mode into feeling safe and okay. Also, during periods of feeling unsettled, a brilliant thing to do is write a gratitude list. By simply recognizing what we do have can help us feel more grounded — it’s a physical reminder that everything is going to be okay.
A break-up in a relationship can feel like the most awful thing in the world. This holds true not only for romantic break-ups, but break-ups from a friend, family member or other relationship, too. But the truth is, sometimes nothing can be said or done to help that horrendous feeling. Allow yourself to have those feelings as they may be needed. Feel them, and see what lessons you can learn. Questions may arise: Am I good enough? Could I have said more? Should I have said less? But the truth is, you are exactly where you are supposed to be.
Show yourself some love, because this is exactly when we should start loving ourselves. The Happy Not Perfect app offers a brilliant self-love and kindness meditation prompt which is proven to help us feel loved, supported and all the things we need when feeling a bit blue.
The ultimate trick? Power in repetition. The power of the mind can turn any day from being the worst to manageable. Also, the more you practice taking control of your mind in stressful times, the more balance you will feel for longer. Our mind is like any other muscle, if we practice strengthening the neural circuits that help us stress less, we’ll be be better prepared for when challenging scenarios come our way. | <urn:uuid:7b567e70-2c3c-4af5-a794-7c9bfb22c5b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dev.thechalkboardmag.com/happy-not-perfect-how-to-take-control-of-stressful-thoughts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936812 | 827 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The Montessori approach to education is grounded in the belief that children have a dynamic inner desire to explore and learn about their environment.
In the words of Maria Montessori: “Education is not something which the teacher does, but is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to word, but by virtue of experience in which the child acts on his environment . . . We must offer the child the help he needs, and be at his service so that he does not have to walk alone.”
The Montessori Method of education, developed by Dr.Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood. Dr. Montessori’s Method has been used for over 100 years in many parts of the world.
The Montessori method views the child as one who is naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment. It attempts to develop children physically, socially, emotionally and cognitively.
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Older people who eat healthy, with more fruits and vegetables, nuts and fish in their diets, may be less likely to experience declines in thinking and memory over time, according to a new international study.
“It is likely that a healthy diet has effects on cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular disease, and that this is an important mechanism for reducing the risk of cognitive decline,” said lead author from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and the National University of Ireland in Galway.
Since the study was observational, the findings can only say that a healthy diet was associated with a reduced risk of cognitive decline; they cannot prove there is a causal relationship.
The researchers used data from two multinational randomized trials that included more than 27,000 men and women age 55 and older who had a history of coronary, cerebral or peripheral artery disease or high-risk diabetes and who were followed until death, stroke, heart attack or hospitalization. Half the participants were followed for less than five years.
Participants filled out a 20-point food frequency questionnaire at the beginning of the trials and completed a mini-mental state exam at least twice during their respective trials.
Of the 27,000 total participants, almost 17 percent experienced marked cognitive decline based on their mental state exams.
The researchers used the food frequency questionnaire to estimate how “healthy” people’s dietary habits were, awarding higher scores to frequent consumption of foods like vegetables, fruits, nuts, soy proteins and fish.
The top fifth of people with the healthiest diets were about 24 percent less likely to experience cognitive decline during the study than the bottom fifth with the worst diet scores.
Those with the healthiest diet tended to be more active, were less likely to smoke and had lower body mass index.
About 14 percent of people in the healthiest diet category had cognitive decline compared to 18 percent of those in the least-healthy category after taking physical activity, high blood pressure and cancer history into account.
All study participants were at high risk for cardiovascular disease, so the results may not be generalizable to the broader population.
Source: Neurology, online May 6, 2015.
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What are your thoughts on cumulative voting in the multi-member districts that Illinois had before 1982? (Includes discussion of methods of gerrymandering and combatting gerrymandering).
What is going on with redistricting in terms of the independent vote?
Do the numbers in the Racial Communities portion of Mike McDonald's Redistricting Practicalities presentation represent the total black population or the voting age black population in Cleveland and Detroit?
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My focus would not just be on problems, but on solutions
I want the Environmental Audit Committee to push the agenda for action on climate change, writes Philip Dunne MP
We face a pressing climate emergency. The public quite rightly expects the Government to address the challenges we face right now. This is a huge agenda and one of the defining policy areas of this Parliament.
Measures to reduce consumption of fossil fuels, to cut emissions, and protect the natural world will impact on how we live our lives – how we travel (public and private transport); how we live and work in buildings (heat and energy use); how much and what we consume (food, clothing, consumer and industrial goods); and how we use our land and oceans (sustainable farming, fishing and forestation).
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) scrutinises performance against this whole agenda, since it looks across government, rather than shadowing an individual department, and beyond to the environmental impact of public and private sectors.
“Aside from our previous chair, I have the best attendance record on the committee since joining”
This is why I am standing for chair of the EAC. I profoundly believe we have an obligation to leave our environment in a better state than we found it.
My interest stems from representing the Ludlow constituency since 2005, unarguably one of the most beautiful in England, comprising 600 square miles of farmland and forestry, half in the Shropshire Hills AONB.
I am species champion in Parliament for the rare wood white butterfly. My constituency hosts one of England’s last breeding grounds for freshwater pearl mussels, and one of few southern breeding sites for curlew. Last year I helped successfully fend off a large development of part of the Mortimer Forest near Ludlow. Shropshire is one of the three leading English counties generating renewable energy. I helped deliver a community hydro-electric generation scheme in Ludlow.
I joined the EAC as a member two years ago, my first act on ceasing to be a minister (in defence and then health). Aside from Mary Creagh – who was an excellent chair in the last Parliament – I have the best attendance record on the committee since joining.
I have sought to shine a light on issues profoundly impacting our environment, but not so visible to the public. I also led the EAC investigation into hand car washes, which pollute watercourses, and revealed modern slavery in our midst.
I raised adaptation for climate change through better NHS preparedness for heatwaves, more transparency to encourage green finance and greening of UK export finance, in improving biodiversity, air, water and soil quality.
The coming task is significant. I would work collaboratively with colleagues to encourage individual interests of members. A focus would not just be on problems, but also on solutions – seeing how British innovators in the technologies of tomorrow can build on existing UK world-leading strengths in finance, green energy and engineering.
We have a huge opportunity to showcase our international leadership at COP26 in Glasgow in November. I hope the EAC can push the agenda for the Government, local authorities, and local communities to lead the way internationally to commit to action on climate change and help the UK become one of the first countries to reach net-zero emissions.
Philip Dunne is Conservative MP for Ludlow
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The Mystery of Maine’s Wildlife
Join Ed Robinson and Merrymeeting Audubon at Curtis Memorial Library for a presentation on the Mystery of Maine’s Wildlife. Based on essays from Ed’s book, Nature Notes from Maine Volume II, the presentation will cover eight charismatic, native species including the Atlantic puffin, black bear, and Canada lynx.
Ed grew up in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of western New York and developed a deep love for wild creatures and the natural environment. Since moving to Orr’s Island, Maine from England in 2007, he has been exploring this beautiful state and writing about the creatures that live here. Ed recently published his second book, Nature Notes from Maine: Puffins, Black Bears, Raccoons & More, with the profits benefitting public education and conservation of the environment around us.
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Dogs are incredibly loving and very intelligent animals. They feed off human attention and are extremely loyal and caring. Therefore, as a dog owner it is your duty to provide them with buckets of love and attention. Looking after a dog is no easy task and there are certainly times when it can be challenging, however it is also very rewarding, and you can rest assured that you have a friend for life in your dog.
Your dog is a part of your family and so they need to be loved and looked after. Knowing how to care for your dog and give them a healthy amount of attention is key as their owner as this will keep your dog happy and healthy. However, it is also important to know when to leave your pet to their own devices and understand when they may not want to be fussed or would rather be left alone.
So, we thought we would talk about how to ensure that you are giving your dog the right amount of love and attention as well as different ways you can do this.
Training your dog is very important and it is something you should do from the moment you bring them home. This enables them to understand simple commands so that you can communicate with them and provide discipline whilst also keeping them safe. Furthermore, communicating with your dog and teaching them commands will stimulate their minds and allow them to develop more understanding of things, which is healthy in any pet.
In order to have a loving relationship with your dog, they have to trust you. You should always be gentle towards your dog and this will help you to build a loving and trusting relationship with them. Some dogs are naturally more reserved and less trusting than others, and as the owner it is up to you to understand their behaviours and allow them space so that they can feel comfortable and trust you in their own time. You should always avoid shouting or any sort of threatening or intimidating behaviour towards your dog, and you should also praise them a lot.
Exercise & playtime
Providing your dog with the right love and attention means dedicating time to play with them and exercise them. This is essential for dogs as it keeps them healthy, but it also helps for you to build a stronger relationship with them. You should walk your dog everyday, but you can also exercise and play with them in other ways, like playing fetch in the back garden for example.
By nature, dogs want to be around people and they do not like being left alone. Therefore, as their owner it is your responsibility to dedicate time to spend with them and provide them with love and attention. Not only does this strengthen your bond but it makes your dog feel loved and happy. Spending time with your dog also makes them feel more relaxed and comfortable around you.
A key part of showing love and attention to your dog is affection. You should show them lots of affection and reciprocate their energy and excitement. For example, when you wake up in the morning, or when you arrive home from work, they will most likely be very excited and you should respond to this by showing them affection and giving them some healthy attention. You can show affection in all kinds of ways, like through cuddles, rewards, or simply by praising them when you are around them.
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Electricity consumers in India often face poor quality supply in the form of frequent interruptions, blackouts, and low voltage levels. This forces them to invest heavily in alternative power supply sources and voltage stabilizing devices or suffer inconvenience and loss of productivity. The problem is more severe in rural and semi-urban areas. The electric utilities continue to justify large capital expenditure and consequent tariff increase by citing the goal of improvement in supply quality. There is no independent mechanism to monitor the supply quality and hold electric utilities accountable for their performance. Through the electricity supply monitoring initiative (ESMI), Prayas is to make available in public domain the electricity supply quality data for a few hundred locations across the country. (www.watchyourpower.org).
Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative (ESMI) was selected as a finalist for the Google Impact Challenge, India, 2013 given to NGOs using technology for social impact.
Shweta is a research associate with Prayas (Energy Group). She has been working renewable energy policy and regulatory space with a focus on energy access and has been actively involved in the implementation of the Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative. | <urn:uuid:019e7f49-bd90-49bf-a071-840aab56e4da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://epic.uchicago.in/talk-by-shweta-kulkarni-on-watching-power-supply-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933555 | 230 | 2.265625 | 2 |
India and Japan signed an Agreement between the two countries concerning Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between the Armed Forces of India and The Self-Defense Forces of Japan.
The agreement was signed on September 9th by Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and Ambassador of Japan Mr Suzuki Satoshi.
According to India Strategic:
This agreement establishes the enabling framework for closer cooperation between the Armed Forces of India and Japan in reciprocal provision of supplies and services while engaged in bilateral training activities, United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Humanitarian International Relief and other mutually agreed activities.
The agreement will also enhance the interoperability between the Armed Force of India and Japan thereby further increasing the bilateral defence engagements under the Special Strategic & Global Partnership between the two countries.
And on September 10, 2020, the Prime Ministers of India and Japan talked with one another and highlighted the importance of the agreement.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs highlighted the exchange as follows:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a telephonic conversation with his outgoing Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe and conveyed his gratitude for playing a key role in greatly strengthening ties between India and Japan.
In the talks, PM Modi apprised Shinzo Abe his intention to work closely with the new government of Japan and wished him the very best for the future, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
It said the two leaders expressed confidence that the strong momentum attained in partnership between the two countries in the last few years will continue unabated in the future.
Last month, Shinzo Abe decided to resign citing health issues.
“Prime Minister Modi expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Abe for his personal commitment and leadership in greatly strengthening the relationship between the two countries,” the MEA said.
The two leaders also welcomed the signing of a reciprocal logistics support agreement between the Indian Armed Forces and the Self-Defense Forces of Japan.
“They concurred that the agreement will further enhance the depth of defence cooperation between the two countries and contribute to peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region,” the MEA said.
“Made a phone call to my dear friend @AbeShinzo to wish him good health and happiness. I deeply cherish our long association. His leadership and commitment have been vital in taking India-Japan partnership to new heights. I am sure this momentum will continue in the coming years,” PM Modi tweeted.
After years of negotiations, India and Japan on Wednesday signed the landmark agreement that will allow their militaries access each other’s bases for logistics support.
Reaffirming their mutual trust and friendship, PM Modi and Prime Minister Abe recalled their shared experiences during visits to each other’s countries, the MEA said.
It said the two leaders reviewed the status of ongoing cooperation, including the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) project, under the framework of the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
They agreed that the strong and enduring partnership between the two countries will play a critical role in charting the course for the global community in the post-COVID world.
The MEA said the two leaders expressed appreciation for the support provided to resident citizens in each other”s countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and agreed that such efforts must be continued to sustain the strong people-to-people ties between the two countries.
For India, Japan is the sixth country to sign such an agreement with India. The others are the United States, France, Australia, South Korea and Singapore. The focus has been upon strengthened naval cooperation through sharing logistics support and working to bolster interoperability among the fleets.
Ultimately, this about Indian focusing on extending its reach into the Indian Ocean.
Reportedly, India is negotiating similar agreements with the UK and Russia.
This agreement provides a boost to the QUAD efforts, involving the U.S., Australia, Japan and India as well.
Featured Photo: 2018 meeting between the two Prime Ministers. Credit; Reuters.
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For the past 7 years, my parents have not seen my sister-in-law or let her come into the house. The grandparents are extremely stubborn, although they have been married for 7 years and have two children, they still have not accepted them.
It was also because my little brother was impatient and accidentally announced he was ready to give up his family for them when my grandparents were resisting me and my siblings getting together.
The mother is heartbroken and upset when her son doesn’t need her for his girlfriend. After that, my brother actually moved out to live with my sister, registered his marriage, and held a wedding without his parents. Then they gave birth to two children. Over time, the mother calmed down and was no longer angry with her son, she accepted her grandson, because after all, the two children are my blood and blood. However, only her sister-in-law forbade her to leave the door.
My mother is heartbroken and upset when her son doesn’t need him as a friend. (Illustration)
For the past 7 years, my mother has not spoken to her sister-in-law nor seen her face to face. On the New Year’s holidays, only his brother takes his children to his grandparents’, on weekdays he alone comes to the house.
That’s how it was until recently, my brother was unlucky enough to be diagnosed with a terminal illness. He has severe kidney disease, the doctor said he needs a kidney transplant to have a healthy life. My parents knew about it and lost their limbs. He is the only son of his grandparents, now he is seriously ill, this shock really depressed his parents.
Although there is a treatment plan for his condition, finding a willing kidney donor is not easy. Parents are old, have many underlying diseases and cannot donate. How many outsiders accept that?
My brother is so ill, my parents don’t want to be mad at my sister-in-law. Because of this, the grandparents met their sister-in-law for the first time in 7 years. The first sentence she spoke when she saw her husband’s parents made her burst into tears: “I will donate my kidney to him.”
The relationship between husband and wife is really deep, but in the end they are just strangers. Getting married and getting divorced is normal. How many people can sacrifice themselves for their spouse? So, in my parents’ imagination, I never would have thought that my sister-in-law would do it voluntarily. But without having to be mentioned by her grandparents, she seems to have thought it through and decided.
The grandparents immediately picked up the siblings to live together, take care of their grandchildren and help them in whatever way they could. (Illustration)
For seven years she was shunned and hated by her in-laws, but her sister-in-law never cared. On the New Year holidays, she still prepares gifts for my brother to bring back to his parents. Sister-in-law really has nothing to criticize. It is precisely at this important moment that she is ready to stand by her husband’s side and make sacrifices for him, which is extremely valuable and respectful.
My brother loves his wife very much, but if she doesn’t donate, he won’t be able to live with his wife and children for long. Seeing my siblings hugging and crying, my parents deeply regretted that they had treated my sister-in-law badly over the past few years.
The grandparents immediately picked up the siblings to live together, take care of their grandchildren and help them in whatever way they could. The sister-in-law never mentioned any old stories, the more she thought about it, the more tolerant and noble she became. In fact, my brother left the family because she totally deserved it too! | <urn:uuid:00ce979a-025b-4742-9820-0a0e209fa1a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ngoc.blogtuan.info/2022/04/30/7-years-ban-by-my-sister-in-law-when-i-first-met-her-she-said-7-words-that-made-my-parents-cry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.991528 | 801 | 1.625 | 2 |
Southern Rock Dtella
|Class:||Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)|
|Order:||Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)|
|Family:||Gecko (Gekkota: Gekkonidae) iNaturalist Observation|
|Species:||Southern Rock Dtella (Gehyra lazelli)|
|This Photo:||Rear Toes|
Thank you Yingyod Lapwong for confirming the id of this species for us
EXTRA - Photo Specific Information:
It is sitting on a glass window and unfortunately the reflections are interfering with the detail.
General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Notice the unusual toes for Gehyra.
They appear to have suction pads AND still one claw in the middle of each toe.
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This course prepared you for the Microsoft MOS 77-418 exam.
A core-level candidate for the Microsoft Word 2013 exam should have a fundamental understanding of the Word environment and the ability to complete tasks independently. They should know and demonstrate the correct application of the principal features of Word 2013.These candidates should be able to create and edit 2-3 page documents for a variety of purposes and situations. Examples include professional-looking reports, multi-column newsletters, résumés, and business correspondence. Candidate roles might include students, clerical workers, instructors, and others. | <urn:uuid:b93a01fd-be11-45a1-8413-2d82f7e27e30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.howtonetwork.xyz/course/microsoft-office-specialist-word-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.879238 | 116 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The story goes like this. Stone mason and sometimes preacher Marinus of Arba and his life-long pal Leo were forced by some political upheaval to leave their home of Rab, a Roman colony on the island of Arba in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of what is now Croatia. The two young men settled in the northern Italian city of Rimini to find work reconstructing the city’s ruined walls. But there they ran afoul of the infamous persecution of Christians ordered by the Emperor Diocletian and had to flee the city.
At the same time some of Marinus’s sermons as an ordained Deacon were found somehow at odds with the not-yet codified tenets of the Church so he could find no refuge. The pair fled to the rugged, remote, and unpopulated Apennine Mountains determined to live as monastic hermits equally free of the Emperor and the Pope. By tradition on September 3, 301 CE Marius began laying the stones of a chapel and the establishment of a monastic community.
A much later German etching depicting Saint Marinus the Stone Cutter building his monastery.
Marinus died many years later in 366 with the words Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine—I leave you free from both men—meaning the Emperor and the Pope. By then his community had grown and prospered and the monastery high on the top of Monte Titano had become a haven for refugees persecuted by both. It would remain so through the centuries.
Eventually Marinus would be canonized as San Marino and the community that sprang up around his Hermitage would become known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino. The tiny nation, occupying less than 24 square miles, has maintained its independence ever since and celebrates September 3 not only as Marinus’s Feast Day, but as foundation date of the Republic.
That makes San Marino easily the oldest surviving continuously sovereign state in the world, and because it never came under the rule of even a local nobleman or feudal governance by the Abby, also the oldest Republic. This was made possible by its isolation, the terrain so rugged that it was said there was hardly a square inch of level ground, location away from traditional trade routes and invasion corridors, sometimes surprising friends in High Places, and just plain dumb luck.
In its earliest years San Marino was informally ruled by the hermit monks of Church of St. Agatha on the top of Monte Titan. This hardly was governance of any meaningful kind. In the early 400’s with Rome near collapse eight neighboring towns joined with San Marino seeking protection from invading Goths. These communes became the along with the original settlement became San Marino’s nine municipalities. With the expanded territory and population, the heads of families established themselves as ruling council known as the Arengo which governed from the 5th Century to 1243. By then it had grown to representatives of more than 50 extended families and had become a cumbersome body and was riven by feuds and rival cabals.
The Sammarinese, as citizens are known, fed up by oligarchic rule established their own Grand and General Council which Pope Innocent IV, the titular head of state, in one of the first acts of his Papacy, recognized as the country’s ruling body. Every six months the Grand and General Council elected two Captains Regent to co-hold executive power. They were not eligible for re-election, but could be returned to the position on later occasions. Traditionally the pair of Regents were drawn from opposing factions on the Council and since the adoption of a two party system, from each of the political parties. This form of governance was molded after the Senate and Consuls of the old Roman Republic. This arrangement was codified the Leges Statutae Republicae Sancti Marini—Constitution of San Marino—recorded in a series of six books written in Latin in the late 1600. In 1631the Papacy waived its light claims on San Marino and recognized its independence from the Papal States.
The Constitution of San Marino was codified and published in 1600.
If maintaining essential independence for nearly 1400 years from the declining years of the Roman Empire, through the Dark Ages, and the Renaissance when intrigue and war spread across the Italian Peninsula as the Papacy, ambitious city states, and various leagues and alliances struggled for supremacy was hard, the challenges of the Napoleonic era, clash of Empires, and the rise of the European nation state was even more daunting.
In 1797 San Marino’s independence was threatened when Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Army was rampaging through Italy. Somehow Antonio Onofri, one of the two serving Captains Regent, managed to befriend the General and impress him with his tale of San Marino’s long independence as a republic. Napoleon at this stage of his career was still an ideologically committed Republican himself. Not only did he offer to guarantee and protect San Marino’s independence, but he offered to award the country territory from adjacent states. The grateful Grand and General Council politely refused that off rightly fearing that accepting a land grab would alienate more powerful neighbors and lead to attacks when the French would inevitably eventually leave Italy.
An even greater challenge was the long struggle of Italian unification that began after the final fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and continued up to the final surrender of the Papal States and the location of a capital at Rome for the Kingdom of Italy. San Marino began the period completely surrounded by the Papal States. But in 1859 the rapidly expanding Kingdom of Sardinia extended its borders over Central Italy and San Marino lay astride the border between that Kingdom and the Papal States. In accordance to its traditions, San Marino became of place of refuge for many fleeing the fighting, but especially for refugees from pro-unification areas. In December 1860 the Papal province of Marche adjacent to San Marino was incorporated in the Kingdom of Sardinia.San Marino was often blessed with friends in high places like the great Italian unifier Giuseppe Garibaldi.
That made San Marino an island in an area aflame for unification. In gratitude and in recognition of the tiny nation’s long resistance to Papal rule, unification leader Giuseppe Garibaldi prevailed upon the soon-to-be King of Italy, Victor Emanuel II who had led the Sarndinian-Piedmontese forces which had captured Marche, to respect the traditional independence of San Marino.
San Marino was not immune from its own domestic crisis. By the turn of the 20th Century the citizenry had become restive under the Grand and General Council which had become increasingly oligarchic. In a bold and unusual move in 1906 the Sammarinese Socialist Party agitated for and achieved a call to meeting of the ancient Arengo, where the heads of families, under some public duress, voted to authorize universal manhood suffrage for the first time in elections to the General Council. The Socialists took advantage of the change to assume leadership of a majority coalition in the Council. The oligarchs formed a counter-party and bided their time for a chance to resume power.
The eruption of World War I interrupted the internal political struggles and put independence once again at risk. Italy initially entered the war on the side of Austria-Hungary, honoring old treaty obligations. Then in May of 1915, Italy changed sides, declaring war on its former ally in hopes gaining territory along the frontier between the countries. San Marino, however, declared its neutrality, which was taken as hostile by Italy which feared that the small state could become a nest of Austrian spies and agents and that the country’s powerful new radio transmitter atop Monte Titano could be used by the enemy.
Italy tried to force the occupation of San Marino by units of the Carabinieri paramilitary police which the Republic refused and resisted. In retaliation Italy cut San Marino’s telephone lines and established a partial blockade. The Italians did not, however, invade the country.
Still within San Marino there was some popular support for the Italians. Small numbers of Sammarinese formed a volunteer unit to fight with the Italians. Another volunteer group set up a Red Cross field hospital. This was regarded as hostile by the Austrians who broke diplomatic relations and threatened the country should the front move its way.
The Italians fared poorly in a brutal campaign that turned into retreat and then stalemate. The Sammarinese once again offered shelter to refugees.
In the aftermath of World War I the old oligarchic faction reorganized under Giuliano Gozi, one of the volunteers with the Italian army and then serving as both Foreign Minister—effectively the leader of the Cabinet—and Interior Minister which put him in control of the Army and police forces. Gozi founded the Sammarinese Fascist Party, modeled on the Italian Party, in 1922 and used street thugs to intimidate the Socialists and syndicalists—unionists. In 1923 Gozi was elected the first Fascist Captain Regent. After 1926 all other parties were banned and until the end of World War II both Captains Regents were Fascist in contradiction to the ancient Constitution. Although San Marino had become a single party state, Fascist power was not absolute, however, and independents continued to hold a majority in the Grand and General Council until 1932. After that a split in Fascist ranks weakened the Party.
Despite cordial relations with Mussolini and the Italian Fascists, San Marino once again declared its traditional neutrality with the outbreak of a general European War in 1939. It had already not followed the Italian Party’s lead in adopting Anti-Jewish legislation in 1938. It had a small, but long-standing Jewish population, and after persecution began in Italy some Jews found refuge in San Marino. During the war anti-fascist Italian Partisans also occasionally found secret refuge there, although the local Fascists expelled those who were discovered.
In 1940 the New York Times erroneously reported that San Marino had declared war on Britain. The Sammarinese government scrambled to wire London denying entering the war. With the fall of Mussolini in Italy in July of 1943 and the subsequent official separate peace with the Allies, the Sammarinese Fascist Party lost power, although they were briefly restored in 1944. The Fascists reiterated neutrality in April of 1944 but the British bombed the country on June 26 believing it was a repository for military supplies for the Germans. The government denied allowing munitions of any nation to be stored on its territory.
Indian troops passing the grave of a German soldier. After they cleared out the Nazis in the Battle of San Marino in 1944 the British withdrew their troops from the tiny nation.
In early September the Germans forcibly occupied the country, the first and only time the country was overrun by a hostile power. The Germans were already in general retreat in Italy. On September 17 the 4th Indian Infantry Division attacked the Nazis and ousted them in the brief Battle of San Marino. After driving the Germans out the Indians quickly withdrew and left the country in the control of its own armed forces.
The German occupation effectively finished the Fascists as a political force in San Marino. Multi-party parliamentary government was restored and in 1945 a coalition led by the Communists achieved a majority and ruled until 1957. It was the first time anywhere in the world that Communists formed an elected government.
The Grand and General Council was for years split between multiple parties, some of them quite small, a mirror of the situation in Italy. In 2008 a new election law put restrictions on small parties forcing most of them out of existence or to join coalitions. There were two main opposing coalitions, the Pact for San Marino, led by the Christian Democratic Party, and the United Left, led by the Party of Socialists and Democrats, a merger of the Socialist Party and the former communist Party of Democrats. Today the center-right party coalition is the Republica Futura which was formed by fusion of the Popular Alliance (AP) and the Union for the Republic (UPR). The other side has reformed as the Democratic Socialist Left. The frequent turn-over of Captains Regents has resulted in San Marino having more recognized female heads of state than any other nation in the world—15, including three who served twice.In April 2017 two women, Mimma Zavoli and Vanessa D'Ambrosio were elected Captains Regent of San Marino. At age 29 D'Ambrosio was the youngest head of state in the world.
Today San Marino is the smallest member of the Council of Europe but it is not a member of the European Economic Union or the European Parliament. None the less, it is by agreement allowed to use the Euro as currency and as is customary has its own national images printed on the obverse side of notes, most of which are snapped up by collectors.
With an economy relying heavily on finance, technical services, and tourism, the approximately 35,000 residents enjoy the highest per capita income in Europe and are the only country on the continent with more automobiles than people. Its citizens are also among the most highly educated in Europe. Unlike many small nations with substantial finance industries, San Marino does not rely on being a tax shelter. There is a corporate profits tax rate of 19 percent. Capital gains are subject to a five percent tax, and interest is subject to a 13 percent withholding tax. Foreigners use San Marino banks for their renowned stability and the high level of technical and personal services.The Guard of the Rock on parade, one of the major units of the San Marino regular Army.
By agreement Italy is responsible for the general defense of San Marino, but the country maintains a fairly sizable military establishment for its size. This includes colorful units with largely ceremonial duties including the Crossbow Corps, Guard of the Rock (also a combat unit and border patrol), and Guard of the Council Great and General (which protects the government). In addition every family with more than adult two males is required to provide a member of the Company of Uniformed Militia. Participation is so popular that it is over subscribed. | <urn:uuid:70a61dde-dd86-47ba-b22a-6684aa0450f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://patrickmurfin.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-oldest-nation-and-republicsan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972771 | 2,885 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Ziath reports on how its super-fast 2D barcode rack readers are assisting leading COVID-19 testing lab, SummerBio LLC (Menlo Park, California, USA), to provide rapid, low-cost, high-volume testing solutions for educational organizations, employers and laboratories.
SummerBio was conceived during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, to combat expense and slow turnaround times of existing PCR testing. The company was formed by a group of life science automation industry veterans with decades of experience building and operating large-scale laboratory robotics. SummerBio’s investment in automating the RT-PCR testing process has enabled them to become one of the top COVID-19 testing labs in California in less than 1 year.
"Through clever use of automation, we have driven down the cost per test to less than $10"
Dave Scheinman, President of SummerBio said “In the early days of the pandemic everyone was scared – do I, have it? Do you, have it? We felt that if we could get people the information to know what their COVID-19 infection status was quickly, they could make informed decisions” His co-founder, Sasha Seletsky commented “We really wanted to enable high volume, low cost and fast turnaround COVID-19 testing to make it suitable for surveillance testing. To date SummerBio has processed more than 7 million tests during the pandemic including a peak of 1,000,000 a day during August 2021. Through clever use of automation, we have driven down the cost per test to less than $10".
Their robotic liquid handling cells use a bespoke 2ml cryotube, developed in Korea, housed in boxes of 100 which allow very high levels of automation to process these racks at speed. Key to this automation is four Ziath Cube 2D barcode rack readers which can image a full rack of 100 tubes and read out all the barcodes in a little over 1 second. This means that SummerBio can quickly and reliably track each box of COVID-19 patient sample tubes throughout the whole testing process. For the RT-PCR step, licenced from Columbia University, the samples are robotically decanted into 96 position tube racks that are compatible with the 96-well PCR plates used in the final analysis. Here, a set of Ziath Mirage readers are used to control the flow of racks through the workstations. Any positive samples identified by PCR can then be withdrawn from the 96 well racks using a pair of Ziath Mohawk tube pickers to make tube selection quick and easy. By grouping the positive samples together into a daughter rack, a confirmatory PCR can be run if required. Beneficially the Ziath Mirage can again be used to prepare the pick lists and confirm which tubes are in the re-test racks. | <urn:uuid:456c32e1-d6aa-4c0c-aeb9-a56a6ec0d058> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ien.eu/article/fast-2d-barcode-rack-scanners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951195 | 585 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Obama warns French firms on Iran sanctions
13 February, 2014
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that America would take tough action against firms violating sanctions against Iran, after a French commercial mission raised hackles in Washington.
France and the United States work closely together to maintain pressure on Iran to drop its alleged nuclear weapons program and, if anything, Paris has adopted the tougher diplomatic stance.
But last month a French commercial delegation visited Tehran to study investment opportunities, threatening to this united front before French President Francois Hollande's state visit to Washington.
On Tuesday, the two leaders appeared alongside each other at the White House to field questions from reporters and to insist on the strength of their coordinated approach to the Iranian stand-off.
Obama had tough words for anyone hoping the now looser embargo — Tehran's reward for signing an interim deal to allow tighter controls on its nuclear program — would leave an open door. "Businesses may be exploring: 'Are there some possibilities to get in sooner rather than later if and when there is an actual agreement to be had?'," Obama said, standing alongside Hollande.
"But I can tell you that they do so at their own peril right now. Because we will come down on them like a ton of bricks."
Hollande said he does not control French corporations but made it clear that sanctions on Iran would not be dismantled until a final deal on Iran's nuclear program had been reached.
"So companies just make their decisions when it comes to traveling, but I certainly let them know that sanctions were in force and would remain in force," Hollande said.
"Sanctions will only be lifted if and when there is definite agreement," Hollande said, insisting that Iran must have "renounced the nuclear weapon, fully and comprehensively."
The 116-strong French delegation, with representatives from major companies like Total, Lafarge and Peugeot, was the largest of its kind from Europe since November's landmark nuclear deal.
Under that agreement, Iran gained limited relief from crippling US and EU sanctions, but must halt some of its nuclear fuel enrichment and allow the UN nuclear watchdog access to its plants.
The sanctions have had a devastating effect on the Iranian economy, but it remains a major oil exporter and a huge consumer market with a relatively skilled workforce and huge commercial potential.
Many French firms have longstanding commercial arrangements with Iran despite political tensions and Paris' steadfast opposition to its nuclear drive, which the Islamic regime insists is peaceful.
Obama has welcomed the interim nuclear deal as a victory for his muscular diplomacy, but he faces domestic pressure not to move too quickly on the easing of sanctions.
Some US lawmakers are even pushing for stronger measures, despite warnings from the White House that this could scupper the negotiations and lead to a military confrontation with Iran.
Israel, a US ally and itself an undeclared nuclear power, has not ruled out strikes to derail a program it sees as an attempt to acquire atomic weapons and tip the balance of power in the Middle East.
"We don't want new sanctions, because the ones we have in place are already squeezing Iran and brought them to the table," Obama told the news conference.
"But we also want to send a message to the Iranians ... that the sanctions regime not only will stay in place, but will likely be tightened in the event these talks fail," he said.
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World Suicide Prevention Day – #WSPD18
World Suicide Prevention Day is 10 September, an annual awareness raising event organised by International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
We will be supporting the day through raising awareness on social media, discussing suicide prevention in our drop in services this week and letting me people know about the services we offer for those who are struggling to cope.
Suicidal thoughts are far more common than people realise but we just don’t talk about them. There are certain factors that should be considered if you suspect someone to be having suicidal thoughts. It’s important to know the signs; it could make the difference at saving a life.
Certain factors are known to be associated with increased risk of suicide. These include:
- Drug and alcohol misuse
- History of trauma or abuse
- Social isolation
- Poor social conditions
- Family breakdown.
If you are feeling suicidal or are concerned for someone else, please remember there is help available in Surrey:
In Surrey and Aldershot we have 5 Safe Havens are places where people can go when feeling suicidal or experiencing a mental health crisis. They are open 365 days a year, open evenings and weekends. To find out more https://www.catalystsupport.org.uk/how-we-help-you/safe-havens/
The Welcome Project, who are part of Catalyst, also offer 1-1 support and group activities for those who are struggling to cope with their emotional wellbeing. To find out more https://www.catalystsupport.org.uk/how-we-help-you/welcome-project/
Other help and support available
- Samaritans offer a 24-hours a day, 7 days a week support service. Call them FREE on 116 123.
- Papyrus is a dedicated service for young people up to the age of 35 who are worried about how they are feeling or anyone concerned about a young person. You can call the HOPElineUK number on 0800 068 4141, you can text 07786 209697
- NHS Choices: 24-hour national helpline providing health advice and information. Call them free on 111.
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Interesting observation here. Freehold in Lancaster hosts some 50 or more pairs of jackdaws that nest in the mostly redundant chimney pots. It is a very successful colony. There is however territorial friction and a nest close to us was destroyed by a more dominant pair. The debris was ignored and after 2 weeks we swept it up. I would have expected a random collection of sticks but when I examined the pile this was not the case. There appears to be a carefully collected or adapted set of 5 or 6 lengths of twig to assemble the nest. interested to know if anyone else has observed this…. | <urn:uuid:39c89d61-1b48-4f3a-86c4-11e36a59c980> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lancasterbirdwatching.org.uk/forums/topic/freehold-jackdaws/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977397 | 122 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Statistical Dynamics of Religions and Adherents
published: Dec. 14, 2007, recorded: October 2007, views: 3902
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We argue that religion is another degree of freedom to describe a population on an evolving network. We present a comprehensive analysis of 55+2 so called religion evolutions, as measured through their number of adherents. The Avrami-Kolmogorov differential equation which usually describes solid state transformations is used in each case in order to obtain the preferential attachment parameter introduced previously . It is often found close to unity, indicating a smooth evolution. However large values suggest the occurrence of extreme cases which we conjecture are controlled by so called external fields. A few cases indicate the likeliness of a detachment process. Various cases are illustrated. It seems that religion is an as exciting, and even more physically interesting statistical physics subject than language due to the presence of external fields and various time scales. Hamiltonian and Langevinian like description will be suggested. M. Ausloos and F. Petroni, Statistical Dynamics of Religions and Adherents, Europhys. Lett.77 (2007) 38002 (4 pp); D.M. Abrams, S.H. Strogatz, Modelling the dynamics of language death. Nature 424 (2003) 900 (3 col).
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The ? Operator
One way of avoiding the verbosity of if and else statements is to use the more compact ternary operator, ?, which is unusual in that it takes three operands rather than the more usual two.
<?php $fuel = 2; echo $fuel <= 1 ? "Fill tank now" : "There's enough fuel"; ?>
In this statement, if there is one gallon or less of fuel (in other words $fuel is set to 1 or less), the string “Fill tank now” is returned to the preceding echo statement. Otherwise, the string “There’s enough fuel” is returned. | <urn:uuid:100f3728-7dfe-4c16-b1ed-505654386765> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://loopandbreak.com/the-operator/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.919766 | 135 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Obama’s comments about Trump came at a news conference in California after a meeting with southeast Asian leaders on Tuesday. Obama stressed the importance of being Commander-in-Chief and said Trump as president won’t be nearly as entertaining as many might believe.
He added that the campaign trail isn’t about pandering to particular voters; it’s about communicating a thorough plan to benefit everyone.
“I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president,” Obama said. “And the reason is that I have a lot of faith in the American people. Being president is a serious job. It’s not hosting a talk show, or a reality show. Whoever’s standing where I’m standing right now has the nuclear codes with them, and can order 21-year-olds into a firefight, and (has) to make sure that the banking system doesn’t collapse, and is often responsible for not just the United States of America, but 20 other countries that are having big problems, or are falling apart and are gonna be looking for us to something.”
When it comes to his thoughts on Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the president admitted he hasn’t studied their campaigns as deep as he’d like.
The site reports:
“Ultimately, I will probably have an opinion on it, based on both — (having) been a candidate of hope and change and a President who’s got some nicks and cuts and bruises from — you know, getting stuff done over the last seven years.”
Trump responded to Obama during an event in Beaufort, South Carolina:
“He has done such a lousy job as president,” Trump said, before adding that he didn’t mind being targeted by Obama, saying he took it as a “great compliment.”
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Step 1: Flora
To produce real milk protein without the environmental impact of livestock, the team at Perfect Day teaches tiny organisms called microflora to create animal-free milk protein. They do this by giving a digital version of the milk-making genetic blueprint from a cow to the microflora.
Step 2: Food
Just like cows, flora need a food source to enable them to produce milk protein, so Perfect Day feeds them simple plant sugars.
Step 3: Fermentation
They then use fermentation to enable the flora to efficiently convert plant sugars into milk protein.
Step 4: Animal-free milk protein
The result is an animal-free milk protein that is identical to the protein found in cow’s milk. It’s approved as safe by the FDA and is even purer than traditional dairy as it’s free from any lactose, cholesterol, hormones or antibiotics. | <urn:uuid:ce374de6-c1f2-4378-8e53-abbd3f9774d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.californiaperformance.us/pages/process | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.88861 | 268 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Qualification: Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care Optional Units
Unit: Unit 378 Understand how to support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions
Learning outcome: 5. Understand how to achieve effective communication with individuals with an autistic spectrum condition
Assessment criteria: 5.2 Describe methods and systems used to develop and support an individual’s communication
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I earlier explained is your computer safe without antivirus or not. I also explained the top common sources of virus. Now I am going to talk about computer virus effects that may occur on your computer.
Computer viruses have minor to serious effects on your computer, which can be seen immediately or sometimes later. Here are the top 5 common effects of computer viruses.
1. A virus-infected file can corrupt a Word or PowerPoint in a way that all its information does not remain in the original shape or it's removed permanently. A virus could delete your files. More dangerous viruses would delete your files then also crash your Windows so that you are left with no chance to try to recover your files.
2. Some viruses are made to find out sensitive information from your computer such as credit card detail or stored passwords etc. A user will not notice anything on the computer because the virus would do its job in the background and quietly.
3. Viruses can slow down your computer
4. Viruses can change the file extension. For example it may change a .jpg file to .exe file so that it will never open in any image viewer application.
5. Not just that! Viruses can even become obstacles in data recovery processes or running the antivirus scan on the computer, because these don'twant that you could remove viruses from your computer. | <urn:uuid:0adfde10-9760-4026-96ec-e7767c58a33b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.scientificera.com/8-internet/287-top-effects-of-computer-viruses | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962177 | 275 | 3 | 3 |
UBUNTU Systems Administration
Ubuntu has quickly become ubiquitous as a result of its worldwide adoption, broad-based support, wealth of documentation and ease of use. The quick acceptance of this Open Source Linux OS has been truly remarkable. Nonetheless, the complexities of Ubuntu should not be underestimated.
Those characteristics that make Ubuntu a solid and robust OS are also its Achilles heel. For one thing, the regular update releases, highly responsive security patch updates, bug management and tracking and support for a vast array of hardware device drivers allows Ubuntu to be an attractive fit in almost any IT infrastructure. On the other hand, regular reboots to apply the latest kernel updates or security patches can present challenges for a 24×7 high availability environment – not unlike Windows.
Fortunately, Ubuntu provides several high availability configuration options. When coupled with VMware, either as a host or a guest, the options for high uptime availability provide even greater flexibility.
Ubuntu plays nicely with VMWare providing a solid platform for multiple guest OS’s to perform rolling upgrades. Utilities such as VMWare’s vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and other tools and techniques provide support for Backup Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
Best practice demands Proactive Monitoring of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), regardless of the robustness and resilience of any operating system. These best practices have been a cornerstone of the value-added services we provide for all of our clients at Intersect Consulting, Inc.
Contact us at Intersect Consulting to discuss how we can help architect. administer, update and maintaing your Ubuntu systems infrastructure for resilience, high availability, performance and security. | <urn:uuid:9b67c2ec-e25b-425b-af53-6e1b1fcf8fac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intersectconsult.com/services/system-administration-services/ubuntu-systems-administration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.879117 | 340 | 1.53125 | 2 |
A Short History of Peanut Butter
Today is National Peanut Butter Day. When I think of peanut butter, I always think of George Washington Carver. While he didn’t created peanut butter, he taught the farmers to rotate their crops. There was an overabundance of peanuts which, as they say, necessity is the mother of invention.
Before we get to the modern history of peanut butter, let’s talk about who ate it first. That was the Aztecs and the Incas. They ate peanut butter back as far as 1,000 B.C. Later in America, peanuts were not eaten by humans. They were used as feed. Until…
Enter Marcellus Gilmore Edson in Canada who patented a machine for making peanut butter from roasted peanuts. To give it a good consistency, he added sugar.
In the U.S., George Bayle of St. Louis produced and sold a peanut butter paste snack food.
John Harvey Kellogg – yes, of Kellogg’s cereal – got a patent for a peanut paste from boiled peanuts. They were used in his Health clinics. The Patent was for a health food.
Joseph Lambert and Dr. Ambrose Straub, who worked for Kellogg, created a peanut butter making machine.
Joseph Rosefield, a chemist, develops the first peanut butter that didn’t separate by adding hydrogentated oil.
Joseph Rosefield licenses his process to the company who made Peter Pan peanut butter.
Joseph Rosefield starts making his own brand of peanut butter, “Skippy.” He further developed both a smoother peanut butter and also created the first “chunky” style by adding back chipped peanuts.
Proctor and Gamble
Health Benefits and Issues
Today we know, as did John Harvey Kellogg, that peanuts are high in protein, vitamins
Another known issue with peanuts and peanut butter is the peanut allergy. Many people are allergic to peanuts.
And then there’s the mold/fungus. Dr Weil states that Aflatoxin is a carcinogen produced by certain strains of the mold Aspergillus flavus an A. parasiticus that grow on peanuts stored in warm, humid silos. Dry Roasted peanuts are free of this mold.
So the healthiest peanut butter is??
The healthiest peanut butter would be raw peanuts that have been soaked overnight, roasted, then ground into peanut butter. You probably won’t find this in a store, but you can find a recipe on Whole Natural Life’s Website.
What is your favorite way to eat peanut butter?
Some people love peanut butter any way they can have it. Others like it on toast, maybe a peanut butter cookie, but that’s about it. What is your favorite way to eat it? Do you have any favorite recipes?
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<anchorkey> element allows an author to define a
@conref target that will be resolved dynamically when rendered for an end user
of the content. This element is useful when doing an initial process of the DITA content prior
to final rendering of the content; it allows specified keys to be preserved after that process,
and conref relationships which use that key will not be resolved during that initial
@keyref attribute is specified on an
element, it indicates that any conref relationships using that key will not be resolved.
Applications that support run-time resolution of
@conref with keys will then
be able to dynamically resolve this
@conref at display time.
There is no difference between specifying
<anchorkey> within a map (in
<topicmeta>) and specifying
within a topic. In both cases, processors are instructed to delay resolution of that key for
the current set of information. However, the best practice is to only use
<anchorkey> within a map. If it is specified in a topic, that topic
will define a usage for the key for every user of that topic. This makes the topic less
portable, because users that do not want to delay resolution of that specific key will not
be able to include the topic in their information.
Many publishing systems for which DITA is used as a source format do not have a way to dynamically resolve content references; those systems will not see any benefit from this element. When DITA is used for those systems, behaviors related to this element are ignored.
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
+ topic/keyword delay-d/anchorkey
In this example, a set of information contains multiple components. Some references to component
A use keys rather than a direct reference, so that
@conref can be redirected
to a different component when component A is not installed. The keys might be exported, in addition to the IDs, so that some
references become bound to the actual component while other references might be redirected.
<map> <topicref keys="componentAconfig commonconfig" href="componentA/configA.dita#configA"> <topicmeta> <exportanchors> <anchorkey keyref="commonconfig"/> <anchorid id="step1"/> <anchorid id="step2"/> </exportanchors> </topicmeta> </topicref> </map>
@keys attributes declares two distinct keys that can be used to refer to this topic (componentAconfig and commonconfig). Only the
second is preserved using
<anchorkey>. A task topic from another
component might reuse steps within this topic in a variety of
<steps> <step conkeyref="componentAconfig/step1"><cmd/></step> <step conkeyref="componentAconfig/step1.5"><cmd/></step> <step conkeyref="commonconfig/step2"><cmd/></step> <step conkeyref="commonconfig/step2.5"><cmd/></step> <step><cmd>And that is the end of that</cmd></step> </steps>
<step>becomes <step conref="componentA/configA.dita#configA/step1"><cmd/></step>. At that point the
<anchorid>element instructs the step1 ID to be preserved; for runtime applications which support it, this relationship will be preserved in the processed DITA output.
<step>with the same key becomes <step conref="componentA/configA.dita#configA/step1.5"><cmd/></step>. However, conref relationships to step1.5 are not preserved, so this conref should be resolved into static content.
<step>three, the map instructs that both the key commonconfig and the ID step2 should be preserved in any content generated for this DITA topic. For formats that support runtime resolution through keys, a process must convert the
@conkeyrefvalue into an equivalent value for that format.
<step>four is delayed, the specific element that is referenced should not be delayed. Thus the fourth step becomes <step conref="componentA/configA.dita#configA/step2.5"><cmd/></step>. This value is then processed as an ordinary
This allows the information assembler to resolve references that must be to componentA while deferring references that can be fulfilled by alternative component content.
<anchorid>element cannot reference an element with the usual topicid/elementid format. If the two
<anchorid>elements in the example had been set to config/step1 and config/step2, then they would only ever apply in a topic with id="config". It would not be possible to redirect the key to another topic, but still preserve conref behaviors as desired.
@conrefresolution for an entire topic using the key. If
@conkeyrefon a task topic element is set to "componentAconfig", which is not delayed, the
@conrefwill be evaluated as usual. However, if
@conkeyrefon the task is set to "commonconfig", which is delayed, resolution of
@conrefon that element should be delayed by a processor.
@conrefmight be resolved at run-time when an end user is reading the content.
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Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was born in La Spezia (Italy), studied composition in Rome with Giacinto
Sallustio, was taught by Egon Koehler about the composition system of
Scriabin, and studied before the Second World War with Walter Klein in Vienna, who was a pupil of
Schönberg. Scelsi developed his own style from 1956, in which he uses the 24-tone system (quarter-tone system)
in virtually all his works. From a total of five string quartets, there are three written in the
quarter-tone system: the second (1961), the third (1963) and the fourth string quartet (1964).
Scelsi occupies himself in his compositions with the depth of the sound (la
profondeur du son), what he calls the third dimension of sound, besides pitch and tone duration,
a dimension about which he observes that it cannot be described up to now.
With regard to performance technique of the string quartets Scelsi gives a comprehensive range of prescriptions for ways of playing: to use a particular string; to use certain fingers; alternation of long and rhythmic tones, tremoli, pizzicati, glissandi, sordini speciali, and a special kind of vibrato: the vibrato ampio, a vibrato which lies between a molto vibrato and a trill. This relates to another remarkable fact: the continuing presence with Scelsi of double- and multiple stops on the string instruments. The difference in point of view is that some composers see the string quartet as a four-voice sound source whereas Scelsi sees it as a sound source with 4 to 10 voices.
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Use your smartphone to configure your Commtel entry system by SMS.
Fill in the on-screen boxes. Tap send, and your smartphone will compose and send SMS command messages to your Commtel entry system to make your changes.
No need to remember and type in your entry system’s SMS command words or SMS command format.
No need to re-type previous commands when you only want to modify something. Your smartphone will remember the Call Button numbers, PIN Codes and Authorised Numbers you have previously sent, then recompose and send an appropriate command SMS to make your changes.
Store the details of one or more Commtel entry system in your smartphone. No need to remember or look up the telephone number or login code for each command SMS.
Name your Commtel entry system such as “Front Gate” or “Rear Gate”. Store multiple named Commtel entry systems in your smartphone and send each command SMS to the appropriate telephone number carrying the appropriate login code.
See what you are controlling at a glance by renaming your relays such as “Relay 1” to “Vehicle gate” and “Relay 2” to “Pedestrian gate”, then have your smartphone translate and format those into the appropriate Commtel entry system SMS commands.
Pull in telephone numbers from your address book to use within command SMSes for the Call Buttons and Authorised Numbers of your Commtel entry system.
Fixed a keyboard issue where you were unable to add international numbers using the + symbol.
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According to the Stroke Association, approximately 100,000 people experience a stroke each year. Many people are able to make a good recovery, but the impact of a stroke can leave a devastating impact on the individual and the family that surrounds them. In order to combat this impact, it’s important that a stroke is recognised and treated quickly, which is why we – in conjunction with our charity partner of the year, the British Heart Foundation – have created this short article on understanding stroke symptoms and when to seek help.
What Is A Stroke?
A stroke is when the blood flow to the brain is disrupted, restricting oxygen to the brain cells which causes them to become damaged. The impact of a stroke will often depend on the severity of the stroke.
There are a number of different types of stroke, including ischemic stroke (blockages) and hemorrhagic stroke (bleeds). There is also Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), which is where blood flow is disrupted but, unlike a stroke, it returns on its own, TIA act as a warning sign of a stroke.
An ischaemic stroke is the most common – accounting for approximately 87% of all strokes. These occur when a blood clot stops the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain. There are different reasons why a blood clot may cause a stroke. One cause is when fatty deposits build up on the inside walls of the arteries, particularly our neck and brain. This can lead to blood clots forming around broken fatty deposits, which could break off and block blood flow.
Haemorrhagic strokes make up approximately 13% of stroke cases, occurring when a blood vessel bursts and bleeds into the brain. A hemorrhagic stroke can often happen as a result of high blood pressure, which weakens the arteries and makes them more likely to rupture.
A TIA, also referred to as a mini-stroke, is a temporary blockage of blood flow to the brain. A TIA can cause sudden symptoms, such as speech and visual disturbances, but often the effects don’t last very long. However, it is still important that urgent medical advice is sought if you or your loved one think you may have experienced a TIA.
What Are The Signs Of A Stroke?
The main symptoms of a stroke can be remembered with the word FAST:
Face – their face may have dropped on one side, they may not be able to smile, or their eye or mouth may have drooped on one side.
Arms – they may have weakness in one arm, meaning they are not able to lift both arms up.
Speech – their speech may be slurred, or they may not be able to talk at all. They may also have difficulty understanding what you are saying.
Time – if you notice any of these signs, it’s time to call 999.
However, the word FAST, also has two meanings here – because timing is critical if you or your loved one experience a stroke. The longer the wait for treatment, the bigger impact the stroke can have on an individual’s speech, movement and independence, so it’s not just important to think FAST, but to act FAST, too.
Thinking FAST helps us to easily identify the obvious signs of a stroke, but there are a number of less common symptoms that are important to bear in mind, too.
These additional symptoms may include:
- An acute headache that comes on suddenly and causes very severe pain
- Loss of consciousness
- Complete paralysis on one side of the body
- Loss of sight or blurred vision
- Problems with balance and co-ordination
If you or your loved one are concerned after experiencing one or more of these symptoms, it’s important to seek medical advice in order to rule out stroke or another cause.
Differences between a stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
A transient ischaemic attack (TIA), which is also known as a mini-stroke, presents the same signs and symptoms as a stroke. However, unlike a stroke, they tend to last for much shorter periods of time before stopping completely. Although the symptoms do improve or go away with a TIA, they should not be ignored as urgent medical attention may be required.
Whilst a TIA is technically not referred to as a stroke, it does act as a serious warning sign of a problem with the blood flow to your brain and it may mean that you are likely to experience a stroke in the near future.
For more information on whether stroke symptoms are permanent, please click here.
If you or your loved one have experienced a stroke and are looking for a little extra support and care at home, Helping Hands offer person-centred stroke aftercare. Whether you are in need of a helping hand during your rehabilitation, or your loved one has experienced a loss of independence following a stroke, we offer bespoke support ranging from 30-minute visits to full-time live-in care. We’ll work closely with you and your loved ones to establish the right level of care to suit your needs, offering a helping hand whenever you need it.
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With the end of summer quickly approaching and the warm sunny days coming to an end, now is the perfect time to get those last-minute gardening jobs done before the start of Autumn. Many of us will agree that we get great joy from pottering around our gardens, although there is no denying that keeping your garden in tip-top condition requires year-round effort.
After a few months of planting, potting, strimming, and cutting you may think that your weekends of hard work in the garden are over. Although, we recommend not hanging up your gardening gloves just yet, as there is always a long list of gardening jobs to get done to ensure your garden is prepared for the long Autumn months ahead.
As with most big tasks, we recommend taking your garden step-by-step, to ensure that you don’t feel too overwhelmed and still enjoy the last of the summer sun. Our expert team of gardening experts has compiled a list of tasks to complete over the next couple of weekends.
Trim your hedges
We advise trimming hedges at the end of summer as the baby birds have already flown the nest and it will enable them to stay looking tidy throughout the autumn and winter months. Here at Smiths Hire, we have a wide range of electric and petrol hedge trimmers available for hire, that make this task a breeze. Our powerful trimmer means that you can easily cut through conifer, low growing or large evergreen hedges.
De-weed the garden
Although this may not be the most exciting task, the more you weed now the better your garden will look later on in the year. Weeding can often be time-consuming but requires little effort, making it one of the easier gardening jobs. We recommend hiring one of our brush cutters for those large weeds and for the smaller ones a gardening hoe will do the job. When removing weeds it is important to ensure that you remove the roots of the plant to avoid future regrowth.
Aerate the lawn
The process of aerating your lawn involves mechanically removing small plugs of thatch and soil from the lawn to improve its natural aeration. This step helps to keep your lawn looking healthier and can help to reduce future maintenance requirements further down the line. Some of the main benefits of lawn aeration are stronger roots, reduced soil compaction, improved water uptake and reduced water puddling. Our lawn aerators are available for hire and are easy to use, meaning that you can keep your lawn in peak condition.
Strim long grass, weeds or undergrowth
This can be one of the more daunting tasks, due to the fact that long grass and weeds can quickly overtake a garden, especially in the summer if left to its own devices. Hiring a reliable and powerful strimmer can be the difference between spending days and spending hours on the task. Our lightweight strimmer can quickly help to tidy up undergrowth, weeds and long grass making the garden look tidier in a matter of minutes.
Get rid of garden waste
Equipment such as chippers and shredders can make getting rid of garden waste easy, due to their ability to shred vast quantities of waste safely. Any branches from pruned trees or hedges are able to be broken up into wood chips that can then be used elsewhere within the garden for borders. As this equipment can be bulky and is often only used a handful of times a year we recommend saving that space in your shed and hiring one with Smiths Hire.
Gone are the days of having to split logs by hand, instead now our portable log splitters are able to make light work of this labour-intensive task. Any trees that have been logged during land clearance or branches using some of our chainsaws that have been pruned make great firewood.
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The News Roundup — International
The effects of a massive alleged Russian hacking effort targeting at least five federal agencies continue to develop.
Earlier this week, expert Scott Jasper told 1A that the hack also affects tens of thousands of companies, in addition to the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health, among other agencies. He called the attack very sophisticated. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says the malware involved could be extremely challenging to remove. And Russia continues to deny any involvement in the attack.
Nigerian authorities say hundreds of school boys were released after being kidnapped by Boko Haram from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria. But it remains unclear if every child who was originally taken has been freed.
Meanwhile, French president Emmanuel Macron tested positive for COVID-19. And the prime minister of Estwatini (the country formerly known as Swaziland), Ambrose Dlamini, died from the virus in a South African hospital. Dlamini is the first world leader to die from COVID-19.
Plus, Brexit. The transition period for the U.K. leaves the E.U. is concluding on December 31. Like other governments with important end-of-year deadlines, there’s still a lot to work out.
We bring you all those stories and more on the global edition of the News Roundup.
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Wall Street Journal – PAULO CASACA: Last April, on a tour of Iraq, I spent several days in a camp north-east of Baghdad populated by several thousand Iranians. They were members of Iranian People’s Mujahedeen, an organization the regime in Tehran considers as its enemy number one, with America and Israel. Arriving at Camp Ashraf after traveling around Iraq felt like reaching an oasis. Traffic police who imposed fines on speeding; Ashraf was the only place I found in Iraq where
traffic rules were respected and enforced. Wall Street Journal
By PAULO CASACA
Last April, on a tour of Iraq, I spent several days in a camp north-east of Baghdad populated by several thousand Iranians. They were members of Iranian People’s Mujahedeen, an organization the regime in Tehran considers as its enemy number one, with America and Israel.
Arriving at Camp Ashraf after traveling around Iraq felt like reaching an oasis. Traffic police who imposed fines on speeding; Ashraf was the only place I found in Iraq where traffic rules were respected and enforced. People could move in peace and freedom. The urban infrastructure, such as water, sanitation and electricity, was very well maintained by the Iranians themselves.
The sprawling enclave looked like a microcosm of another Iran. Here, where all the road signs are in Farsi and English, I found an extraordinary collection of mainly middle class, university-educated activists united by their hatred of the Islamic fundamentalist regime in their homeland.
I was also struck by the cultural diversity: Dozens of well-stocked libraries, several theaters and movie halls, five orchestras and, according to Kamyar Izadpanah, a U.S.-educated composer, one of the best Persian music conservatories in the world. Two universities — set up with the help of professors from Baghdad University — teach a wide array of subjects from law to engineering.
About a third of these dissidents are women, and women hold senior leadership and management positions. One of them, the Mujahedeen’s secretary general, Mojgan Parsai, studied computer science in the U.S. In Ashraf, women are proud of their achievements in gender equality. My most moving meeting was with former political prisoners, who described horrific torture and rape that they suffered at the hands of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
At the “terrorism museum” in the middle of the camp, an astonishingly large number of terrorist devices used by the Iranian regime to liquidate its opponents are on display. Photographs and grim statistics chronicle 450 acts of terrorism around the world attributed to Tehran’s operatives — irrefutable proof that these activists have been the victims of terrorism and the Iranian regime the perpetrator.
I left the camp with the clear impression that the Iranian Mujahedeen is a legitimate resistance movement that merits the support of the free world. In a region still dominated by intolerance, tyranny and blind fanaticism, this movement is advocating an Islam based on democratic governance, secularism, tolerance, and gender equality. The fact that the movement is led by a woman — Maryam Rajavi, who lives near Paris — only sharpens the contrast with a regime that bars women from high political office.
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I recount my experience because I believe the Mujahedeen constitute our best chance to counter the growing Iranian threat. And counter it we must. While Iraq dominates the U.S. presidential campaign, it is Iran that is fast becoming the focal point of international concern. Rightly so. Iran is home to an Islamic fundamentalist regime that openly sponsors terrorism, foments violence in Iraq, develops long-range missiles, and has been caught “red-handed” concealing critical aspects of its advanced nuclear program.
Where does this leave the West’s policy options? Some in Europe and in the U.S. — oblivious to the evident failure of years of “constructive engagement” with Iran that only strengthened the more radical faction of the theocratic clique — insist on continuing on the same path. But Iran’s mullahs are proven masters in the art of taking the carrot and asking for more. If we don’t change course, we may end up with nothing better than a promise of compliance that Iran — like North Korea in the 1990s — could secretly break. This is precisely what Iran did when the “EU-3” foreign ministers visited Tehran last October and struck an agreement with the Iranian leaders to suspend uranium enrichment. We now know that the promise was never respected.
The Iranian leaders’ intransigence is to a large extent based on their perception of a widening gulf between the U.S. and Europe. This, Iranian strategists declare, creates a “security margin” for Tehran. They seem convinced that the trans-Atlantic divide will prevent any serious action against the Islamic Republic. The hard-line ayatollahs already ridicule the very idea of Security Council sanctions.
In their view, trade rather than other concerns ultimately determine Europe’s position on Iran, while the U.S. is bogged down in Iraq. This situation has provided Tehran with an exceptional window of opportunity that it hopes will be wide enough to take its nuclear weapons project beyond the point of no return. As long as the regime remains in power, Iran will continue to be a source of instability and terrorism.
Europe has a grave moral and political responsibility to adopt a new, firm approach on Iran. The failure of past diplomatic and economic sanctions imposed on Iraq is no argument to foreclose the use of effective pressure against Iran, even though the current state of global oil markets would complicate any decision. But the West must start sending the right signals if its resolve is to be taken seriously in Tehran. It must stop sending trade missions to Iran, as both the U.K. and France recently did. And it must stop staging big diplomatic events to promote ties with the Iranian regime, as Germany did.
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There is, however, a much more effective way to obliterate the Iranian rulers’ “margin of terror” — what their “security margin” really means — and that is to support the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations. Western governments must speak out more forcefully in support of the millions of Iranians, particularly the young and women, who want to see a democratic, secular and pluralist government replace the current theocracy.
It is my view, shared by more than 1,000 members of parliaments in Europe, that our first political step should be to end the international blacklisting of the mullahs’ principal opposition movement — the Iranian Mujahedeen.
Many in the U.S. Congress and prominent voices in international law endorse the call. Senior U.S. officials confirm that an exhaustive, 16-month investigation by several U.S. government agencies, including the State Department and the FBI, has exonerated members of the Iranian Mujahedeen of terrorist charges. Officials on both sides of the Atlantic are on the record as saying that the only reason why the group was put on the U.S. terrorism list in the first place was to send a “goodwill gesture” to the Iranian regime.
Let Iran’s clerical rulers know that their “security margin” is history. That’s the only way to save the world from cataclysmic options a few months, or years, down the road.
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Baby clothes manufacturers in USA often show concerns about keeping baby outfits safẹ. In this blog, you are going to discover some useful tips. So, keep reading.
The skin of a newborn baby is extremely sensitive. Even the smallest things can lead to allergic reactions which ultimately irritates them. Hence, it is necessary to take special care of your baby’s clothes. The top infant clothing suppliers in UAE, Green Orbit points out some amazing facts. Check them out.
Step-By-Step Guide To Wash Baby Outfits By Hand
- Begin the process by disinfecting and sanitizing your hands. You might not know this but dirty hands bring in the maximum number of germs and bacteria. Hence, it’s crucial to sanitize your hands and wash them thoroughly every time you are about to wash your baby’s clothes.
- Experience teaches that reading instruction on babies’ outfits helps parents to comprehend the material. Whatever is written on the label simply gives us an idea of how to wash them.
- Another significant factor is measuring the water temperature. Washing outfits in excessively hot water can be the first step to destroying your kid’s outfit. It may also cause tears as well as rips on them. Moreover, there are high chances that you could burn your hand. Therefore, the ideal temperature for washing those little clothes must be between 30-40 degrees celsius.
- Bacteria accumulate even before a wash. So, make sure to soak the tiny outfits in hot water for 30 minutes before washing. Also, soak them in warm water after you have done washing them. This will ensure that a maximum number of bacteria has been eliminated.
- Finally, always try to use a liquid detergent. Because the regular powder detergents often leave behind their residues in the outfits which causes allergic reactions. A good liquid detergent that is eco-friendly and without any harmful chemicals can be a perfect fit.
Additional Tips For Keeping Their Clothes Safe
Drying the clothes before safely preserving them also deserves undeniable importance. Besides, damp clothes have a higher chance of causing fungal infections in kids. Sun-drying these apparel is a much safer option for little babies’ skin.
When you have a lot of clothes to dry quickly, simply toss in a dry towel. This is particularly applicable when you are machine washing the clothes. Throw the towel along with the outfits inside the washing machine for 15-20 minutes. Moreover, the dry towel will help in absorbing the moisture from other items as well.
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Videogame on PC and MAC
Demo released in 2018
Creators : Team of 16 students from GAMAGORA school (Lyon, France)
Ecosystem is a construction, management and exploration game in an open world. In a post-apocalyptic setting, nature has been preserved under a giant dome. Under this dome, the player must build a city, collect and product resources by taking care not disturb the ecosystem.
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We know that the challenges facing the world require multidiscipline, multi-partner, multi-sector global collaborations to develop successful and sustainable solutions. To achieve this, we must break down the barriers within our institutions – the structures we have operated in for decades – and challenge ourselves to find new ways of working and new ways of sharing.
About six years ago, the University of Glasgow began drawing up plans for a collaborative research building to co-locate researchers from across the university, bringing a mix of disciplines together in multi-use spaces designed to stimulate engagement and collaboration. This highly flexible building would support research, promote external engagement and catalyse collaboration.
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This has resulted in the new Advanced Research Centre (ARC), which will open officially in June 2022. Designing and bringing the ARC to life has challenged all those involved. Almost every aspect of the building has tested our normal processes and required us to rethink approaches. Here are some lessons we can share on the key challenges and how to overcome them.
A multidisciplinary research centre is likely to sit outside of your traditional college configuration, which challenges the normal academic structure. There is no single connecting theme or focus. So how do you decide who moves in or how to arrange these research groups? How can you bring people into your research centre without leaving gaps in other university colleges? Finally, how do you ensure the new research centre is open and inviting to those in the colleges who do not have a dedicated space in the building?
You need to develop a structure to identify which researchers will move in. Based on this, labs and workspaces can be designed that are fit for purpose. We settled on five broad themes:
- Creative economies and cultural transformation
- Digital chemistry
- Global sustainable development
- Quantum and nanotechnology
- Technologies touching life.
Through these themes, academic leads, research groups and individuals could be identified and agreed as the first residents. There will be more than 500 researchers in the ARC, at all career stages, drawn from across the university. Through a curated programme of initiatives and events, researchers will be encouraged and supported to create cross-disciplinary networks and partnerships, make connections, work together to drive discovery research and deliver solutions to current and future global challenges.
Creating a strong professional support team from within your university is key to helping you address many of the challenges you will encounter in setting up a collaborative centre. This group will also be key to ensuring there is facilitation and support to bring together research groups and individuals from across disciplines (and from outside your centre) to address challenge-led research solutions. We pulled together a multidisciplinary team from across professional services areas and colleges to provide leadership, ideas and support. Many have moved into new, permanent ARC positions, some have been seconded onto the project, while others have absorbed the new activities into their existing roles, recognising the pivotal role the centre will play in the future of research at the university.
This approach ensures the research centre is immediately integrated into the university and its networks. We’ve found that everyone involved has embraced the ARC and opportunities it presents for the wider university, looking beyond their own college or service area.
This will vary with every research centre, so you’ll need to develop an approach that works to meet your ambitions. In our case, we see the research centre as existing to support the key strategies of the university. This means that rather than developing a standalone centre-specific strategy, our delivery plan is focused on feeding into the institution-wide Research Strategy 2021-25. This ensures that we remain a useful asset for all the research communities within the university. This decision was vital in setting out expectations and clarifying the role of the ARC within the wider institution.
Communication of the project
It takes care to avoid a potential “us and them” environment developing within a university if a huge amount of money is being poured into a new research centre that houses a select group of researchers and staff. Ensure your communications are frank and honest from the start, acknowledging potential tensions. Make it clear the space belongs to everyone within the university community, regardless of where their desk is located.
For the past two years of development, our communications focused on taking the university community with us. The challenge now is to ensure that those working in the £116 million building also feel ownership for the centre and their role in delivering its purpose.
Enjoy the new and ongoing challenges that setting up and running a multidisciplinary research centre will bring. It will force you to break down the barriers that exist between academic and service areas within a university and to rethink approaches and try new ways of working.
The ARC has been a fascinating project to work on during the planning and development phase and now, as we prepare to open, it is an exciting operational project. We hope it will continue to challenge us for many years to come as it changes how we do things at Glasgow.
Andrew Tobin is the inaugural director of the new Advanced Research Centre (ARC) and professor of molecular pharmacology; Laura Tyler is research communications manager at ARC, both at the University of Glasgow.
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Pricing is a necessary evil in the retail industry. While it facilitates your ability to generate revenue, it can be tricky to determine the right value for your garment. In today’s post, I’ll break down the 4 most important components you should consider when determining your pricing strategy.
The concept of margins is first on the list because everything else that follows contributes to the increase or decrease of this number. A margin is simply a measure of profitability, it quantifies the earnings or profit that is left after you subtract out the costs of what it took to produce your products. To calculate margin percentage, take the MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price) – cost to manufacture the item/ MSRP. The margin percentage says, “When I subtract out the cost of the item, there is a x percentage of the retail price that I retain for profit.” On the other hand, marking up the cost of the item indicates how much you’re increasing the retail price by to earn a profit. Both concepts are two sides of the same coin.
Example: If the cost to purchase/manufacture an item is $4.00 and the item is being sold at retail or to a retailer for $12.00, the margin percentage would be 67%. This indicates that the item is selling at a price that allows the manufacturer/designer to retain a 67% profit of the retail dollars charged to the consumer or retailer after subtracting out the cost of the item. Using the same cost and retail, the markup would be 200% above cost. This number is calculated by subtracting the retail from the cost, which is $8.00 and then dividing the $8.00 margin amount by the cost of the item. In simple terms, this means you’re charging the consumer two times above the “at cost” price of the item. Selling something “at cost” would mean charging $4.00; everything above that amount is considered your profit margin and can be discussed as a dollar amount or percentage.
Try this Formula:
Margin % = (Retail Price – Cost to Manufacture) ÷ Retail Price
2. Determining Your Base Margin
Now that you have an idea of what margin is, you have to decide what margin percentage will allow you to cover your expenses and eventually earn true or gross profit. When determining your base margin, consider the costs of doing business, which consists of many variables. Overhead is a word you hear a lot in business and is simply the basic costs of operating your business. These factors range from employee salaries, rent, office supplies and inventory, studio, and possibly retail locations. Marketing and sales are another category of costs to consider; whether you’re handling your public relations in-house or through an agency, there are necessary expenses required to get the word out about your brand. It is also important to understand raw material costs because prices of commodities such as cotton, leather, gold, silver, etc. fluctuate regularly.
Photography credit to Maker’s Row factory Gotham Textiles.
Changes in the costs to manufacture the item you’re selling will greatly affect your margins if the price of these materials increases or decreases. The margin percent that you choose should be high enough to cover your expenses and fair enough to actually generate sales. There needs to be a balance of low margin and high margin items in your assortment to average out at the base margin needed to successfully run your business.
3. Pricing Tiers
Pricing in retail is not created equally. Manufacturers don’t charge retailers the same prices even if they are all purchasing the same products. Volume, leverage, and relationships are factors that will determine what manufacturers charge retailers. Volume is king. Retailers who have the capacity to move the most units generally get the best prices for several reasons. If a retailer commits to purchasing significant volume in a product, they are making an investment and casting a vote of confidence in a brand’s performance. It also shows that they believe in a brand’s product and that they have a consumer base that aligns with the brand culture. For these reasons, they receive the benefit of the best price so that they can continue to buy in greater volume. Additionally, bulk retailers typically get the best prices because volume helps keep the costs down across the entire manufacturing chain. Raw material suppliers and producers will likely give a better price to a brand that’s completing a 20,000 unit order versus a 5,000 unit. Designers need to have high volume accounts that can consistently support that production size.
Lower volume accounts can serve a great purpose as well. They can help introduce your product to a new market, feature your product in a curated shop, or offer substantial qualitative value to consumers through your products. When negotiating prices, lower volume accounts might be charged more than a bulk retailer. Although your prices should always be fair, they need be a representation of how a retailer is able to expand your business. Smaller accounts that don’t buy high volume units may be charged a premium considering the cost of producing smaller quantities than larger volume.
Relationships also play an important part in pricing. When you’ve built a friendship or rapport with buyers and retailers, negotiate better prices to strengthen the relationship. Determining price is a constant balancing act between charging accounts low and high volume prices, while keeping in mind the base margin you need to average out to in the end.
4. Market Values
The market determines costs. Although you can choose your prices and decide what costs you’re willing to pay, market conditions and consumers resistance or willingness to pay for an item at a certain price will dictate what retailers can sell your item, and what costs will work for retailers. The market is an ever-changing component to pricing that you have to stay on top of because it can directly impact your profitability. Research how your competitors are pricing products similar to your offering. This doesn’t mean you have to change your pricing, it means you have to understand where you’re placing yourself amongst the other manufacturers in your category. If you decide to price higher than the competition, you should have a firm handle on why your product is more valuable and be able to convey that message to retailers and consumers.
Photography credit to Maker’s Row factory Gotham Textiles.
On my blog, I expanded on the topic of luxury retail because there are tangible and intangible qualities that explain why a brand is worth more than other brands in similar markets. Trends also matter in respect to the market because consumer tastes change over time. Products that consumers were willing to pay premiums on lose value as new products are introduced or as a certain style or look goes out of fashion. You have to keep this in mind when pitching prices to retailers and be flexible to either move with the market or hold your ground and cater to the consumers that are devoted to your niche.
All of these factors contribute to how profitable your collection will be. Fashion retail is a balancing act between aesthetics and commerce. You should aim to make a great product that’s interesting, fun, and useful while also having a strategy in place to generate profit and keep your business going. | <urn:uuid:dfb9b599-58a1-408b-806d-a1c806656f78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://makersrow.com/blog/2015/05/how-to-price-your-garment-4-key-things-to-remember/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937923 | 1,501 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Finding ways to uplift and support women is something I’ve pushed for throughout my career. At Stack Builders, where I’ve been working for the past 8 years, we feel strongly about gender equality and are constantly working to implement different initiatives to provide and support more opportunities for women — not just to work in our company, but to be a loud, strong voice in the software industry. In one of our most recent initiatives, we have partnered with Girl Stats, a research organization that develops tools, data analytics and insights that help to highlight the risks faced by girls and women in global supply chains.
Our pro bono work on the Girl Stats’ platform, done by one of our female developers helped to increase its scalability and traffic by modernizing their tech stack and updating the accessibility of their website. Partnering with Girl Stats has reinvigorated our belief that companies can bring about positive change in society, especially when we work together. We hope organizations will continue to find unique ways to collaborate on projects that further their visions of diversity and inclusion and help close the gender gap.
Our Stack Builders team has exceptionally talented women who are proud to support and mentor other women in both the company and the industry at large. Working in the software industry has led us to see the challenges in diversity and inclusion up close. We have created different spaces for women within our company to talk about some of the barriers we currently face and to think about ways to overcome them.
There’s still a lot of work to be done, but I believe that each step we take toward closing the gender gap will have a positive ripple effect on women around the world. The tools and insights that Girl Stats provides can be a first step for companies to understand how they can improve their operations to positively impact women. If we are all mindful of the importance of being agents of change now, together we can create a society where women will have more opportunities in the near future.
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NATIONAL JAN. 27, 2013 -Japan Today ( 22 )TOKYO —
A safety survey of roads around Japan’s public elementary schools has been carried out by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, along with the National Police Agency and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. According to the data collected, over 74,000 spots are currently unsafe for children going to school.
The survey was launched as the result of a traffic accident in Kyoto in which a youth, who had no driver’s license, drove a minivan into a group of mostly children on their way to school. Two were killed and eight injured in the incident.
According to TV Asahi, the government ministries joined forces with the NPA to analyze the safety of streets surrounding 20,160 schools nationwide and discovered 74,483 spots in which safety measures, such as building sidewalks and installing pedestrian crossings, were necessary. In other cases, there are no guard rails on narrow roads, separating where pedestrians can walk from the road itself.
Work was already underway in 22,714 locations and the administrators of a further 1,122
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Choices abound when it comes time to plan that massive great room centerpiece.
The classic is built on site by a mason and is constructed to draw air well. Its outer surface can never be too hot to ignite the home wall and ceiling construction materials that touch it. A fireplace featuring natural stone also requires a substantial footing, one that descends as deep into the ground as the foundation for the house walls themselves. Put these all together — foundation, masonry materials, local skilled labor — and you can come up with a hefty bill, up to $10,000 or more (we’ve heard of some that cost more than $50,000).
The next most popular option features man-made rock. They’re made with a combination of lightweight rock bits, pigments, and cement. They can be made to look like almost any kind of natural stone.
There are a number of advantages to man-made (also called synthetic or cultured stone) hearths. Because of the lighter weight of the cultured stone, they usually don’t need additional footing but can be built on the subfloor of the home. Generally, the man-made rock is a veneer set into a mortar backing erected on metal lathing over a wooden framework (other backings can be cinderblock or even rigid foam). Smoke and exhaust gases from the firebox are routed up through the roof in a metal flue set off from the synthetic-rock chimney by noncombustible spacers.
All of this makes for a hearth and chimney that are extremely difficult to distinguish from those made from natural stone, and at less cost. Although the synthetic stone itself can cost twice as much as natural stone, a hearth and chimney of synthetic stone can be built at a total cost of 25 to 40 percent less than one of natural stone, owing to less labor and footing cost.
Also available are wood-burning hearths without a visible chimney, which are often good choices in dens, libraries, and bedrooms. These fireplaces expel smoke through flues hidden behind the wall. These models tend to cost several thousand dollars.
Gas or propane fireplaces, which can be operated with the flick of a switch, are gaining in popularity because of their convenience. Like fireplaces of cultured stone, they’re lightweight and don’t require additional foundation work. The smell of smoke doesn’t permeate the room, and the difficulty and expense of acquiring wood to burn is removed. And they can be placed in locations awkward or impossible for wood-burning fireplaces. These run from $1,500 to $3,000 uninstalled.
Freestanding wood-burning and gas stoves remain popular, particularly for cabins and hunting retreats. The “classic” is the pot-bellied or Franklin stove made of metal, which burns wood and expels smoke through a round metal flue. These types can stand anywhere in a home as long as a flue can be routed up and out; many times you’ll see them in a kitchen or basement den. The main advantage of a stove is that more heat is released to the surrounding air of the room.
Another idea is a pellet stove. The convenience factor for pellet stoves comes from the extra step of having your fuel wood pre-processed into small, easily managed bits. Pellet stoves generate a very intense fire, and ash remaining after a burn is therefore minimal. They’re also more controllable in terms of managing temperature.
Freestanding wood, gas, and pellet stoves also offer the benefits of being direct-vent heat sources.
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Publications in Scientific Journals:
N. Putri, D. Landskron, J. Böhm:
"Assessing the performance of Vienna Mapping Functions 3 for GNSS stations in Indonesia using Precise Point Positioning";
Advances in Geosciences,
Tropospheric delay is one of the major error sources for space geodetic techniques, such as the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Mapping functions are used to scale the delay from zenith direction to the elevation angle of the signal. Several mapping functions have already been published, including the Global Mapping Functions (GMF) and Vienna Mapping Functions 1 (VMF1). Recently, a refined version of VMF1, VMF3, was released. The tropospheric gradients GRAD were also determined using the same data set as VMF3. This study aims to test the performance of VMF3 on GNSS observations in Indonesia, using observations from 21 stations of the permanent GNSS network in Indonesia, InaCORS. Data processing was carried out using Precise Point Positioning in Bernese GNSS Software, version 5.2 for the year 2014. Station coordinates were estimated daily, while the zenith wet delays were estimated every 30 min and tropospheric gradients were estimated hourly. A similar processing scheme was carried out using GMF and VMF1. Generally, the results from VMF3 agree very well with the results from GMF and VMF1, although small biases can be found, especially for the height component. Based on the repeatability, while there is no significant difference for the latitude and longitude, there are slight improvements for the height, particularly compared to GMF. The estimated gradients tend to fluctuate more compared to gradients from GRAD. The correlation coefficients between the estimated gradients and those from GRAD are small, with the largest being 0.65 at site CUKE.
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
Electronic version of the publication:
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What is loyalty? Never cheating in a relationship? Your dog never running away? Or is it always being a good friend? Maybe loyalty isn’t an action at all. Many people try to decipher the real meaning of loyalty, but it has a unique meaning to each person. There are three different examples of how loyalty is viewed differently; in the story Beowulf, through a teenager’s life, and in the movie The Lion King. Each will display different views of loyalty and point out many similarities as well.
The Epic Beowulf emphasizes loyalty; it was one of the most important qualities a man could possess in Beowulf’s time, and the presence of extreme loyalty in a person elevated him from ordinary to heroic. Beowulf’s loyalty saved Hrothgar’s country and his people, he transcends above other men because of his extraordinary loyalty to his king. For example, he rushes to help Hrothgar each time he needs him, conquering Grendel, his mother, and the dragon. Beowulf isn’t doing this for the throne or to become famous he simply wants to help Hrothgar and do what is right.
There are many occasions that show Beowulf’s loyalty towards his community. However, it’s not only Beowulf who is loyal: Wiglaf was also very heroic and loyal, almost every character in Beowulf is loyal to someone, in their own way. We can learn from this epic: trust in and remain loyal to your leader and your country. A second view of loyalty is in a teenager’s life, a teen has many different ways to show loyalty. Loyalty in a relationship is one example of how teens’ show loyalty.
They must be faithful and honest to their partner, in order to keep a healthy relationship. A friendship needs loyalty, because friends are there for support, to confide in, and trust, if friends weren’t loyal you wouldn’t trust anyone. They also need to show loyalty to their family, be there through hard times, for support, and be someone who will never turn on them and always love them. Another way teenager’s express loyalty is towards strangers, such as at a job and school.
In a work environment you need to be loyal to your boss and co-workers, show up on time and be dependable. They must show loyalty to customers, get the order right, and respect them. Teens show loyalty to many people in their lives. Loyalty is expressed in the movie The Lion King which tells the story of loyalty as Simba returns to the Pride Lands to stop Scar from ruining everything. Simba remains loyal to his land, father, and friends throughout his adventure to stop Scar yet handle the responsibility of growing up and becoming king.
Although Simba shows loyalty to others, he mainly shows loyalty to himself, which makes this different from the prior examples. He must convince himself to he is the new king and he can win against Scar, and the other challenges he will face along the way. He also is basically growing up on his own, and forces him to grow up and take the Pride Lands back from Scar and be a true hero, and prove his loyalty to everyone. His friends show loyalty to him by helping him and encouraging him through it, giving him the confidence he needs and not leaving his side.
Loyalty may come across as a commitment, promise, or honor now, but it is still debated and there are tons of examples and stories to support any view of the word. Whether through bravery and courage in Beowulf, commitment and dedication in a teen’s life, or simply loyalty to yourself in The Lion King, it is a thousand words in one. Loyalty can be expressed by anyone, even pets, they are always loyal and love you and can’t hurt the same ways other disloyal people can. It’s a word with a mystery definition yet is cherished by so many people. | <urn:uuid:3e087e11-ffb5-451b-a62d-fa459c9cd7a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://graduateway.com/beowulf-and-loyalty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979668 | 830 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Ham radio operators from the Crawford Mountain Club (three brothers) in Botetourt County will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise from 2 p.m. on Saturday to 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 26-27. The event is ARRL Field Day (www.arrl.org/FieldDay), an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL, the national association for amateur radio in the United States.
Hams from across North America ordinarily participate in Field Day by establishing temporary ham radio stations in public locations to demonstrate their skill and service. Their use of radio signals, which reach beyond borders, bring people together while providing essential communication in the service of communities. Field Day highlights ham radio’s ability to work reliably under any conditions from almost any location and create an independent, wireless communications network.
Some hams will also use the radio stations set up in their homes or taken to their backyards and other locations to operate individually or with their families. Many hams have portable radio communication capability that includes alternative energy sources such as generators, solar panels, and batteries to power their equipment.
This year’s event is also noteworthy given that a particularly active hurricane season is predicted. “Hams have a long history of serving our communities when storms or other disasters damage critical communication infrastructure, including cell towers,” said Larry Dennis, call sign KS3H. “Ham radio functions completely independently of the internet and phone systems and a station can be set up almost anywhere in minutes. Hams can quickly raise a wire antenna in a tree or on a mast, connect it to a radio and power source, and communicate effectively with others,” he added.
During Field Day 2020, more than 18,000 hams participated from thousands of locations across North America. According to ARRL, there are more than 750,000 amateur radio licensees in the US, and an estimated 3 million worldwide.
Among the tenets of the Amateur Radio Service is developing and practicing skills in radio technology and radio communications, and even contributing to international goodwill. Hams range in age from as young as 9 to older than 100. A self-study license guide is available from ARRL: The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual (www.arrl.org/shop/Ham-Radio-License-Manual) and for Kindle (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07DFSW94G).
For more information about ARRL Field Day and ham radio, contact Larry Dennis at email@example.com and visit www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio.
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