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HERE Tracking is a fast and flexible IoT location platform that makes it quick and easy to add location awareness to your products.
HERE Tracking exposes a set of REST APIs and client libraries to enable location tracking and geofencing for a variety of device form-factors including small-footprint (small memory and processing power) devices. HERE Tracking also includes end-user applications on mobile and web to be used as reference apps to demonstrate the product capabilities.
For more information on:
For the available authentication options, see the Identity & Access Management Developer Guide.
HERE Tracking provides resources to address the following high-level use cases:
|Connect Devices||Provides the APIs to connect all your tracker devices and to rapidly deploy your IoT solution.|
|Real-time Location and Data||Track your devices indoor and outdoor, see traces on a map, create geofences and get custom notifications.|
|Historical data||Retrieve historical tracking data for analysis with data visualization tools such as charts, graphs, and heatmaps.|
HERE Tracking builds upon a set of objects and backend capabilities that facilitate working with IoT devices in an open and flexible manner. Here's a summary of the main features:
Add devices to the cloud and configure in detail how they report their geolocation and environmental data.
Use WLAN, Cell and Bluetooth LE to determine position on devices without GPS or in areas where GPS is unavailable.
Manage the configuration for your devices and access their reported geolocation and environmental data.
Access current and historical data that a device collected.
Create geofences that generate events and trigger notifications when a device enters or exits a geofence.
Create sensor rules that generate events and notifications when get triggered by a reported device sensor reading.
Create rules that generate events and notifications when get triggered by a device behaviour.
Manage associations between devices and rules, geofences and sensor rules.
View event history.
Receive notifications via email or webhook when an interesting event gets triggered.
Collect and analyze historical data of all the devices of the project.
Associate external IDs or additional descriptive data with HERE Tracking resources.
Ingest data from third-party clouds using Virtual Devices.
Create and manage shipments to track multimodal logistics journeys.
Create and manage locations that are geographical building blocks for shipments.
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Shaxi is an 87MW hydro power project. It is located on Jialingjiang river/basin in Sichuan, China. The project is currently active. It has been developed in single phase. The project construction commenced in 2007 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in 2010.
|Project Type||Total Capacity (MW)||Active Capacity (MW)||Pipeline Capacity (MW)||Project Status||Project Location||Project Developer||Hydropower||87||87||–||Active||Sichuan, China||Sichuan Jialingjiang Shaxi Hydroelectric Power Development|
The project was developed by Sichuan Jialingjiang Shaxi Hydroelectric Power Development.
Shaxi is a run-of-river project. The gross head of the project is 9.8m. The project generated 334.169 GWh of electricity. The project cost is $156.11m.
The hydro power project consists of 3 turbines, each with 29MW nameplate capacity.
The project has 3 electric generators installed at the site. The generator capacity is 29 MVA.
The project construction commenced in 2007 and subsequently entered into commercial operation in 2010.
About Sichuan Jialingjiang Shaxi Hydroelectric Power Development
Sichuan Jialingjiang Shaxi Hydroelectric Power Development Co., Ltd. is a hydro power generation company. The company owns and operates 87 MW of Sichuan Jialingjiang Shaxi River hydro power project located on the Jialingjiang River in Shaxichang Town of Sichuan province, China.
All power projects included in this report are drawn from GlobalData’s Power Intelligence Center. The information regarding the project parameters is sourced through secondary information sources such as electric utilities, equipment manufacturers, developers, project proponent’s – news, deals and financial reporting, regulatory body, associations, government planning reports and publications. Wherever needed the information is further validated through primary from various stakeholders across the power value chain and professionals from leading players within the power sector. | <urn:uuid:0372c4fe-9e7f-4979-818a-66cba255230d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.power-technology.com/marketdata/shaxi-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.903445 | 435 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Imagine airplanes with quiet engines that have no moving parts and that don’t burn smelly fossil fuels.
MIT researchers say they’ve taken another step toward building such aircraft — which could someday resemble the silent shuttlecraft of science fiction — by using a type of propulsion called “ionic wind” to fly a small unmanned glider.
“This is the first-ever sustained flight of a plane with no moving parts in the propulsion system,” Steven Barrett, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, said in a statement. “This has potentially opened new and unexplored possibilities for aircraft which are quieter, mechanically simpler, and do not emit combustion emissions.”
Barrett and his team have published their results in the journal Nature.
If you apply voltage to a pair of electrodes, a wind can be produced between them. This is called ionic wind, or electroaerodynamic thrust. It happens when one electrode strips electrons from air molecules, and those ionized air molecules are drawn to the other electrode, pushing uncharged air molecules along their way.
The phenomenon has been known about for years, and you can find videos on the Web of hobbyists making desktop “lifters” that create a tiny amount of thrust and hover a few inches above a desk.
It was largely assumed it would be impossible to produce enough ionic wind to propel something larger, researchers said in the statement. But Barrett’s team has found differently.
Barrett said he was partly inspired by the “Star Trek” movies and television series — and their portrayal of silent, effortlessly flying shuttlecraft.
“This made me think, in the long-term future, planes shouldn’t have propellers and turbines,” said Barrett, who has been working on the idea for years. “They should be more like the shuttles in ‘Star Trek’ that have just a blue glow and silently glide.”
Barrett’s team produced a glider that has a 5-meter wingspan but weighs only about 5 pounds. The plane is outfitted with electrodes on its wings.
No jet engines, no propellers involved.
The plane is powered by a stack of lithium batteries that supply, via a power converter, 40,000 volts to the electrodes.
The team has flown the glider multiple times about 55 meters (plus a 5-meter bungee launch), across a gym at the university.
Barrett said that in the near term, the propulsion system could be used to make quieter drones. In the distant future, Barrett said, he could see ionic wind combined with more conventional combustion systems to fly passenger planes and other large aircraft.
“This was the simplest possible plane we could design that could prove the concept that an ion plane could fly,” Barrett said. “It’s still some way away from an aircraft that could perform a useful mission. It needs to be more efficient, fly for longer, and fly outside.”
“We show that conventionally accepted limitations in thrust-to-power ration and thrust density, which were previously thought to make electroaerodynamics unfeasible as a method of aeroplane propulsion, are surmountable,” the paper said.
The paper closed with a reference to the world-changing moment when the Wright Brothers flew their airplane at Kitty Hawk.
“The flight distances of 55 [meters] and durations of 12 [seconds] for the heavier-than-air aircraft with solid-state propulsion described here compare well with the powered flight of the first heavier-than-air aircraft propelled by moving surfaces at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, 114 years ago. The Wright brothers achieved a flight of 35 [meters] lasting 11 [seconds] — although they did have to carry a pilot rather than a remote control unit,” the paper said. | <urn:uuid:2487645a-429e-450b-9a37-eca5e5ae3179> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2018/11/21/send-down-shuttlecraft-scotty-mit-engineers-design-airplane-engine-with-moving-parts/TvXpZmTjZTopEKoY5YRwoM/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957996 | 819 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Art at Hillside
Subject Leader: Mr Frost
Subject Support Coach: Miss D McCann
Link Governor: Jenny Craig
At Hillside, we believe that art is a vessel through which creativity, flair, emotions and personality can all be expressed and appreciated. We believe that the teaching of art should be through practical exploration where children can develop both an appreciation and a passion for a range of art forms, styles and medium. The cornerstone of our art education comes from children’s knowledge of artists, architects and sculptors. By allowing children to respond to the artist’s work that they are exposed to, we are creating independent learners who can make decisions for themselves based on what does or does not inspire them. We want our pupils to be confident in saying their opinions in a respectful and well-thought out manner and to recognise that opinions may vary greatly in art.
The Subject Leader:
I am Mr Frost, art subject leader at Hillside Primary School. Hillside’s motto is ‘Developing the Individual’, and I firmly believe that Art and Design contributes significantly to a pupil’s ‘rounded’ development. Art has the ability to be weaved throughout the curriculum and we do not underestimate its importance. Research suggests that the arts develop creativity, a core prerequisite of innovative mindsets, communicative attitudes and problem solving. Art and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. At Hillside, we have designed a high-quality art and design progressive plan that will engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. In addition to this, our pupils will learn about how art has shaped our history and how it reflects it.
As our pupils progress through Hillside Primary School, they will draw upon their experiences within art and design, using a range of materials creatively to design and make products through drawing, painting and sculpture. They explore different techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. A clear progressive pathway throughout the year groups (see progression map for more information) ensures that high standards and quality of teaching are maintained, resulting in our pupils making good progress in the skills that they are demonstrating, vocabulary that they are being exposed to and knowledge that they are gaining.
To ensure that high standards are being maintained across each year group, termly monitoring takes place in the form of evidence gathering from floor books (Key Stage One), sketch books (Key Stage Two) and pupil voice. When planning their topics, teachers focus on at least one artist per term. This meets the National Curriculum (2014) strand of knowing about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understanding the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
By the time our pupils reach the end of Key Stage Two, they will have been given opportunities to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products through drawing, painting and sculpture. They will have explored different techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. In addition to this, our pupils will have learnt about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers; described the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines; and made links to their own work. Our pupils will have created a wide range of art that will have been showcased within their classrooms, during assemblies and to other teachers within our school. This ensures that a sense of pride is created in terms of the output produced.
Our Curriculum and Curriculum Design
Art is closely linked to other subjects across the curriculum so that children get a holistic understanding of their unit. An example of this can be found in Year Two, where children look at the work of Martin Bulinya to supplement their learning of Africa; or in Year Six, where children study the work of William Morris alongside their topic of Victorians. By doing this, children are able to gain an appreciation for how art styles differ based on time period and locality.
In EYFS art is seen as seminal in the achievement of the Early Learning Goals (ELGs). Whilst lessons are not focussed on these specific goals, they are focussed on the constituent skills required to attain them. Therefore, art lessons foster opportunities for children to: discuss art that they have seen and ask questions about it; give focused attention to what the teacher says and show an ability to follow instruction; be confident to try new activities and show independence; hold a pencil effectively; use a range of small tools, including scissors and paintbrushes; and begin to show accuracy and care when drawing. Art makes a significant contribution to expressing the world through activities such as discussing how art makes them feel, and from having hands on experiences with a range of media such as paint, colour and materials.
As pupils progress throughout the school, we want them to be more independent with their ideas and make appropriate choices for themselves. As such, we allow opportunities for the children to plan and design their ideas so they are clear on what their final piece will look like through the sequences of lessons that we teach. We encourage and praise the children to discuss their work and share why they have chosen a certain technique. Through utilisation of a variety of teaching and learning styles, pupils are motivated to question, form opinions and offer peer support as they focus on art from various periods of history including significant artists, architects, sculptors and painters from all around the world.
To this aim, we have designed our curriculum so that art units follow a six-lesson structure. The six lessons are carefully sequenced so that pupil’s skills and ideas are pruned before producing a final piece. An art unit will always start with a review of the artist of the term: children analyse the work of their artist, considering the era of the art and respond to different pieces by thinking about colours, line, form, shape or style. Lesson two, three and four include drawing from observation, working in the style of the artist and practising with the medium that they are focussing on for that half-term. Lesson five involves pupils creating a final piece, which brings together all of the skills from lesson one to four. The final lesson encourages pupils to think emotionally and critically about their own work as they self-assess their final-piece and express their opinions about their peers’ work in a respectful manner during an exhibition. This structure present both a clear journey for teachers to plan their artwork and allows children to build the necessary skills to produce a final art piece.
Each of these lessons is carefully aligned to the progression map, which demonstrates how expectations increase throughout the year groups. For example, children in year three are expected to imitate artwork that they see, whereas pupils in year four are expected to use the artwork that they see as inspiration for their own, personal final-piece. Progressively, in year six, pupils are expected to be able to make appropriate choices for themselves, like choosing an appropriate print type and using their own designs inspired by the artist they have studied. The increased opportunities for independence as children grow and develop ensures that by the time they leave primary school, children are able to use their learning to take charge of their own artwork and produce pieces more personal to themselves. This approach supports children’s transition to Key Stage 3, where they are expected to produce creative work through exploration of their own ideas and experiences.
The objectives for art in KS1 and KS2 are clearly set out for each year group in the National Curriculum:
Art across the curriculum
At our school, we have aligned our curriculum so that the teaching of art is relevant to the history, geography or English units that children are studying at the time. English texts are chosen to engage and bring learning to life for the children, and from this we ensure that art is reinforced too. In ensuring that there is pride in their writing, some children are encouraged to design/ decorate their page so that it represents the writing they are doing; for example, in Year Six, when writing a persuasive leaflet about Alton Towers, children were encouraged to include their own drawings of the theme-park and colour the leaflet to represent the Alton Towers theme.
The teaching of art contributes well to mathematics and science. Children develop the skill of accuracy when using rulers which they can then apply to their art lessons. This helps them to become aware of how they want their work to be presented. Knowledge of fractions and ratio is also important in art so that children can choose the correct proportions for different features; for example, knowing that a head is estimated to be about a seventh of the human form. Shape is a mathematical topic where children become familiarised with symmetry and pattern which they can use when creating their own art work. Particularly when studying artists such as Lowry and Warhol, geometric shapes are particularly prominent and these shapes are used to inspire children in their own artwork. Art also links well to skills needed in science lessons. Children learn how to create mathematical and scientific tables, such as bar charts, line graphs and even pie charts, to present their learning, which highlights the importance of accuracy.
Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE)
Children develop self-confidence by having the opportunity to explain their designs and work in their art lessons. They are encouraged to offer peer support and praise to one another. In addition, children learn to express themselves and show their character through their own style of art as they progress through primary. Significant societal occasions, such as the Queen’s jubilee, Remembrance Day and Easter are just some events that we utilise at Hillside as art opportunities so that children can artistically express themselves with relevance to the things that are important to the society in which they live.
Computing enhances our teaching of art wherever appropriate in all key stages. The children use computers in a variety of ways such as finding information on the internet and presenting information on artists, architects, sculptors and painters via PowerPoint.
Art units are closely mapped-out with relevance to the historical or geographical topic being taught. These subjects work together to allow children to question art, and to research how famous artists, architects, sculptors and painters decided to pursue the subject; how their geographical upbringing has influenced their style; and how art has developed and been influenced by previous eras. Initial art lessons, within the 6-lesson structure, focus on children researching the work of famous artists, which allows them to understand the context behind the artwork. For example, it allows the children to understand what it would have been like during the period of the Maya and what equipment they had to use; how the locality and weather-types of Africa have impacted its art; and how events such as World War Two impact the style of artwork created by Henry Moore.
Throughout the year, there are many opportunities for art and R.E to link together. Hillside provides the children with R.E days during each term where children move through the school to learn about many religions. Children recognise that religious beliefs are often expressed through art forms, such as stained-glass windows, glyphs, marks and paintings. The children often work to create respectful, artistic pieces to depict religious content that is then showcased through the school. Linking these two subjects allows the children to develop a respect for different religions and to understand how art and religion link across the world.
British Values is a core value that all staff share at Hillside Primary. British Values links with art in a variety of ways: children are encouraged to show mutual respect for others’ artwork and provide supportive feedback in exhibition lessons; and pupils are tolerant of other people’s opinions towards art work.
Art supports spiritual development by introducing children to the work of great artists. It also fosters awe and wonder at the achievements of these great works of art. Children develop great admiration, appreciation and respect for their peers’ work when they see the level of achievement, effort and progress. Furthermore, art is closely linked with R.E. topics, whereby children’s creativity is often encouraged in order to portray certain religious stories or other religious matter.
Art supports moral development by encouraging mutual respect and the consideration for others’ work. Pupils are encouraged to show compassion when assessing the work of others through, understanding how their comments can build up or hinder another’s self-belief. This is promoted through ‘exhibition’ lessons at the end of an art unit in which children assess their peers’ work, drawing on positives and areas for improvement. Children have to act sensitively to others, showing an awareness of how they can be a critical friend and offer constructive feedback without being offensive.
Art and Design supports social development because, on occasion, children are required to work in pairs, groups or teams collaboratively. Children often work collaboratively requiring co-operation and communication, linking to the values of trust and compassion. Discussions about what the artist is trying to portray and their opinions on the artwork are actively encouraged, in an atmosphere whereby children mutually respect and value each other’s opinions. Children will also work with each other to discuss and analyse the art work of their termly artists.
Art supports cultural development work by enabling children to study art involving various cultures and civilizations from around the world. They lead to a greater understanding of different ways of life and a respect for cultures that are very different from our own; how they can enrich our own lives. The fusion of art work between our own and other cultures leads to pupils incorporating designs, patterns and motifs in their own work developed by a deeper understanding of the culture. In addition, the art long-term plan, is designed to link closely with the curriculum areas with which they are best suited. For example, in Year Two, to support the learning of the overarching unit ‘Africa’, the artwork and style of the Maassai people is studied. For the overarching Year Six unit, ‘The Victorians’, the work of designer William Morris is studied and children work up to creating a motif. Furthermore, this artwork is supplemented more during their trip to Blists Hill where they look at an alternative method of printing known as Intaglio Printing. Local artwork is considered during a ‘Local Area Study’ in which children go to Gladstone Pottery museum to make ceramics.
We place great importance on enrichment opportunities to enhance the art curriculum. Opportunities allow teachers to facilitate learning so that pupils can note connections, contrasts and trends over time and are more holistically developed to enter the world as wider informed individuals. Enrichment opportunities include:
- Year One received a visit from members of The Brampton Museum, who delivered an outreach programme where children looked at old toys to inspire their art unit, made pomanders Christmas tree decorations.
- Year Two visited Gladstone Pottery museum to look at how Stoke-on-Trent was revolutionised by the pottery industry and the impact that it had on art designs.
- Year Three visited Outback2Basics where they looked at stone-age art.
- In Year Four took part in a Roman Day, where they created Roman Jewellery.
- Year Six visited Blists Hill where they planned, designed and created an intaglio print.
- In the autumn term, children took part in an art after-school club where they created a piece of artwork inspired by Stoke-on-Trent
- For the Queen’s jubilee, children each created a piece of artwork focussed on the queen. The artwork was then displayed on the day of the jubilee at the local church, where children and parents could go to see their artwork in an exhibition.
Assessment for learning
Children demonstrate their ability in art in a variety of different ways through a range of medium. The medium mentioned explicitly in the national curriculum are explored multiple times as a child progresses through primary. This ensures that skills are built upon and developed each time. At the end of an art unit, teachers assess the pupil against the progression map, deciding whether the pupil is emerging, expected, or exceeding the standard. This is recorded on an online assessment system which can be accessed by staff across the school. This is used to provide accurate information to other teachers, the art subject leader and learning support assistants termly and during times of transition.
Assessment does not just take place at the end of a unit, however. Assessment is ingrained into all art lessons, with children constantly prompted to self-assess their own work and comment on what worked well/ didn’t work well. When a pupil produces a final piece, that work is then presented in an exhibition, where their peers comment on what is good about the piece and what could be improved in a constructive, friendly manner. The teacher is consistently assessing children as they walk around the class, identifying any issues and intervening when necessary.
I believe that all pupils are able to make good progress in art. It is very common to hear children say, ‘I aren’t very good at art’. At Hillside we aim to foster a ‘can do’ attitude, which encourage children to make mistakes in work and put in effort with the knowledge that every blank page is an opportunity to improve from their last piece of work. We encourage the children to change their mindset and think positively about art. The children have been taught to believe that art is not something that is fixed, but rather can be improved on, regardless of attainment level. So, instead of saying ‘I can’t do it!’ the children follow the sentence with ‘yet!’ Children know that once they have practised all of the skills in the build up to final piece, they will make progress and improve.
“Art is my favourite subject because I like painting,” Year One pupil.
“I enjoyed the art work about Africa. I like the colour that Martin Bulinya uses in his work,” Year Two pupil.
“I liked drawing the different animals in the rainforest,” Year Three pupil.
“I really like Andy Warhol’s prints and when we did a press-print of them,” Year Four pupil.
“Edward Munch is my favourite artist. His painting called ‘The Scream’ is really good and I enjoyed working in a similar style to him,” Year Five pupil.
“I love art, it’s my favourite subject. I like how we get to use and experiment with different medium. I like using pencil the most because I like shading but I also liked when we did the mono-prints with William Morris,” Year Six pupil.
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Choosing the right home karaoke system can be an overwhelming process, especially when you’re not sure what to look for in the various models out there. Thankfully, this guide will teach you everything you need to know about home karaoke systems, including what makes them unique and what they do well. Armed with this knowledge, you’ll be able to make an informed decision about which one is right for you.
1) The Different Kinds of Systems
First off, let’s go over some of your options. There are many different karaoke systems on the market. If you don’t have a lot of money to invest, then it might be best to look into a portable one that is wallet-friendly. The downside to these units is that they often have fewer features and inferior sound quality than higher-end units.
2) Sound Quality
Sound quality can make or break a karaoke experience, so make sure you choose a system that offers high-quality sound. Luckily, many systems now come with Bluetooth capabilities—just look for Bluetooth or wireless in your description. If you don’t want to shell out big bucks on a brand-new system, consider buying used. Some older models are still quite adequate! Even if your budget allows, be sure to read reviews before buying new to ensure quality.
One of your main concerns when buying a home karaoke system will be which features you need. We’ve outlined a few key considerations below, but in order to make an informed decision, think about how you’ll use your system.
a. Space - Usually a karaoke system will require much audio equipment and cabling. So make sure to plan your space in advance before diving into buying one. AC Ryan Karaoke System is a modern karaoke system whereby it is designed to look like a soundbar which can also double up as your TV speaker. Aesthetically nicer looking for contemporary homes today.
b. Microphones - This feature is super important, as a good microphone will aid in your singing. These days wireless microphones are the rave. Gone are the days with dangling, tripping wired microphones. However, please choose UHF wireless microphones as they are most suitable for singing. Please see our other blog regarding wireless microphones for more info.
c. Speakers Power - A simple karaoke system power ratings range around 30W - 50W RMS. A better quality one will range around 100W - 180W RMS. Those 200W RMS and above are usually used in commercial outlets which are overkill for most homes.
d. Types of inputs - We recommend at least 3 different inputs for your karaoke system, Auxiliary (For Karaoke), Optical (for TV) and Bluetooth (for Music). If you are still using old VCD or DVD players, then you might want to consider getting a karaoke system with multiple Auxiliary inputs.
e. Songs - Depends on what type of song system you need. There are streaming types, local playback types. Some with monthly subscription. Or you can simply do without any of these song system and sing on YouTube with your Smart TV. There are many karaoke channels on YouTube or karaoke apps on smartphones these days.
There are a number of factors that go into choosing a home karaoke system. The type of songs you want to sing, your budget and your overall purpose in owning one will all factor into your decision. You can spend anywhere from $200 to over $2000 for one of these systems, so it’s worth spending some time thinking about which features you want and how much you want to spend. | <urn:uuid:ac0a33ed-9305-4954-964a-7585d355fc95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acryan.com/ms/blogs/faq/which-home-karaoke-system-is-the-best-for-you | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940241 | 767 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Shakyamuni, Vitarka Mudra Buddha Statue
Handcrafted Copper Gold Plated Shakyamuni Buddha in Vitarka Mudra. Vitarka mudra is one of the much commonly found mudra or poses. Vitarka Mudra is the mudra or a gesture representing the discussion and transmission of the teachings by the Buddha. It is also taken as the hand gesture which induces the energy of the teachings and discussions of the spiritual principles which may also involve the arguments of the ideas. These discussions may also feel like the transmission of a particular teaching without the use of words.The Vitarka Mudra is usually performed by joining the tips of the thumb and the index fingers together while keeping the other fingers straight, which is pretty much similar to Abhaya as well as Varada mudra but with the thumbs touching the index fingers. The circle formed by the thumb and the index finger symbolizes the constant flow of energy and information. | <urn:uuid:d9252e52-e38c-477d-9a92-b91366ccb128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.durbar-square.com/es/products/shakyamuni-vitarka-mudra-buddha-statue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938655 | 194 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Working from home on your own business may be a dream you’ve had for years. While you love what you do and things are going well you may find that excitement has worn off.
There is no one to talk to.
The whole business rests on your shoulders.
Here are a few ways to recharge your battery and help you stay in love with working from home on your own creative business.
1. Find a professional organization for support. There are organizations for all sorts of hobbies, interests and professions – find a group that will help you make the connections and get the support you need.
2. Find a mentor or be a mentor. You’ve heard it a hundred times. The best way to help yourself is to help someone else.
4. Volunteer. Like mentoring, volunteering can provide encouragement as well as a social outlet. Besides, you never know what contacts you might make while you are making positive changes in the world.
5. Find a hobby. Often times creative business owners turn their hobbies into businesses and then they have no distractions. Take up golf, hiking or any other hobby and take your mind off your creative business a while. You might be surprised at the creative energy and/or relaxation that comes from it.
6. Take a class or two. Becoming a beginner at something forces your brain to think differently. Learning new skills will help you to feel more confident and give you new perspective on your work/life.
7. Find a person who understands and can appreciate what you are dealing with. Finding someone you can pour your heart out to (and listen to her pour her heart out in return) can go a long way toward relieving stress. Having a confidant that really “gets it” can make you feel so much better about some of the work you do or the decisions you have to make.
8. Stay positive. It isn’t always easy to keep your mind in a good place but it will make a world of difference. When you feel that you are having “one of those days” take time to make a list of all you are grateful for and treat yourself with extra tender care.
9. Take a day off. If you can’t manage a day then take a couple of hours to plant some plants, take a walk, plan a grown up “play date” or just take yourself out for a cup of coffee. Even grown ups need a time out now and again.
10. Do a search for “work from home success stories” or “small business success stories” and while you read about how other people have succeeded in small business keep in mind that YOU can do it too!
Remember, you started this creative business to have freedom and to do what you love to do. Make sure that you do what you need to do to take care of yourself and keep your spirits up so that the burden of owning your own business doesn’t get the best of you.
And if it does get the best of you today, it’s OK. Tomorrow is a new day and you can start fresh!
Do you have any other tips to boost morale?
By: Vicki O’Dell, The Creative Goddess
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NEW YORK — Recyclables, punk rock, martial arts, fencing and toys are some factors expected to define activewear trends for 2002.
That’s what Emanuelle Linard, manager of Edelkoort Inc.’s U.S. office, Trend Union, sees on the horizon. Based in Paris, Edelkoort is a consulting company to fashion houses and industrial companies, and publishes forecasting publications.
“We believe young people are going to be more individualized. This go-get-it girl is more creative and inventive,” she said. “She’s looking for more personal and new ways to express her body and herself.”
Activewear is expected to take on more of a “trendy streetwear” look instead of a sports-specific one.
Teenagers are combining activities, said Linard, adding that she recently saw teens in Manhattan mixing hip-hop dance with basketball moves, and others practicing capoeira, a form of Brazilian dance, on monkey bars.
Linard highlighted six key trends for activewear: post-industrial, punk, martial arts-inspired, virtual, movement-dancing and toy-related. The first is “a little recycled” looking, inspired by washed canvases, grays and browns, she said. Punk centers on destroyed or unfinished garments like vintage looks with holes. Martial arts-inspired draws from loose-fitting attire for aikido, tae kwon doe, judo and yoga.
Virtual features quilted, rounded, ergonomically correct styles with computer-generated designs, while movement-dancing has a “streetwear ballerina” look, Linard said. The toy-related group plays up bright primary colors similar to shades favored by Bart Simpson, she said. | <urn:uuid:3c4402dc-32be-4651-b51d-eebc2c681d27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/article-1184583/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.923631 | 386 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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Village can't require nonresidents to annex their land in exchange for water and sewer services
Topic:UTILITIES--LAWS AND REGULATIONS
Note:In McQuillin Municipal Law Report -- no. 1 (January 1995).
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YouTube flags the Notre Dame fire as misinformation, a 24-year-old engineer is changing lives with his 3D printed prosthetic limbs, and Twitter goes down memory lane.
Reddit users are pointing out how YouTube flagged livestreams of the devastating Notre Dame cathedral blaze as misinformative. Not only that, but YouTube’s algorithm decided to offer users a completely unprompted and unrelated description of the September 11 attacks beneath the livestream, alluding to the possibility that the catherdral fire was related to terrorism. As of this recording, officials have not made that claim. YouTube told BuzzFeed.News the September 11 panels were automatically triggered, and that it disabled them for livestreams related to the fire.
A 24-year-old man is making prosthetic limbs more accessible for low-income countries pic.twitter.com/EqYMEMkoo2
— Tech Insider (@techinsider) April 13, 2019
24-year-old Guillermo Martínez is trending on Twitter after a video about his 3D printed prosthetic arms being distributed in low-income countries snatched the hearts of thousands on the platform. The young engineer, who bought his first 3D printer for $172 a few years ago, has since gone on to print and fit thousands of prosthetic arms for people all over Kenya. The arms are designed for people who are missing part of or all of their arm and built with a high-tension string mechanism. This allows them to actually grip objects weighing up to 10 kg. The video from Tech Insider says producing and fitting a prosthetic can cost $1,000, which is eight months of income for the average worker in Kenya. Because of 3D printing, it costs a lot less for Martinez to create the prosthetics, which is also why he’s handing them out to those in need – for free.
And lastly, Twitter users are gushing over their old computers after a single post from Washington Post reporter Christopher Mims went viral. Mims posted a photo of his old Commodore 64 and asked his followers to post pictures of their first computer. It spurred thousands of responses. Compaq Presarios, Osbornes and other weird boxes suddenly flooded his Twitter feed. Suddenly everyone was reminded of the simpler days, when the internet didn’t exist and people crowded around an 8-bit machine to enjoy the beeps and boops of the archaic family computer.
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y research for Hiding in Plain Sight conveniently took place in Córdoba's historic downtown. The Historic Archive of the Province of Córdoba was three blocks from Plaza San Martín, formally known as the plaza mayor (main public square) ...
Author: Erika Denise Edwards
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Details how African-descended women's societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina Argentina promotes itself as a country of European immigrants. This makes it an exception to other Latin American countries, which embrace a more mixed--African, Indian, European--heritage. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic traces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a "black disappearance" by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a "white" Argentina. Erika Denise Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods, with a focus on how these women sought whiteness to better their lives and that of their children. Edwards argues that attempts by black women to escape the stigma of blackness by recategorizing themselves and their descendants as white began as early as the late eighteenth century, challenging scholars who assert that the black population drastically declined at the end of the nineteenth century because of the whitening or modernization process. She further contends that in Córdoba, Argentina, women of African descent (such as wives, mothers, daughters, and concubines) were instrumental in shaping their own racial reclassifications and destinies. This volume makes use of a wealth of sources to relate these women's choices. The sources consulted include city censuses and notarial and probate records that deal with free and enslaved African descendants; criminal, ecclesiastical, and civil court cases; marriages and baptisms records and newsletters. These varied sources provide information about the day-to-day activities of cordobés society and how women of African descent lived, formed relationships, thrived, and partook in the transformation of racial identities in Argentina. | <urn:uuid:c02ff0d4-8bbf-4a16-86ec-0f353ac94950> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.getbookfast.com/now/hiding-in-plain-sight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937816 | 465 | 3.265625 | 3 |
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In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the city's greatest temple, smashing its world-famous statues and destroying all that was left of Alexandria's Great Library.
Today we refer to Christianity's conquest of the West as a "triumph." But this victory entailed an orgy of destruction in which Jesus's followers attacked and suppressed classical culture, helping to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline. In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey brilliantly resurrects this lost history, offering a wrenching account of the rise of Christianity and its terrible cost.
"A feast of tales of murder, vandalism [and] willful destruction . . . Nixey has a great story to tell, and she tells it exceptionally well." -- Guardian
"[A] bold, dazzling and provocative book." -- Peter Frankopan, best-selling author of The Silk Roads
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- 1 What is Castillo de San Marcos made out of?
- 2 Is Castillo de San Marcos man made?
- 3 How did they build Castillo de San Marcos?
- 4 Did slaves build Castillo de San Marcos?
- 5 What is the oldest fort in America?
- 6 Why did fort San Marcos fail?
- 7 Why couldn’t the English colonists take over Castillo de San Marcos when they attacked the Spanish in 1702?
- 8 What happened at Castillo de San Marcos?
- 9 How much does it cost to get into the fort at St Augustine?
- 10 What is the oldest fort in the world?
- 11 How thick are the walls of Castillo de San Marcos?
- 12 How big is Castillo San Marcos?
- 13 How long does it take to tour Castillo de San Marcos?
What is Castillo de San Marcos made out of?
The Castillo is made from coquina, a locally sourced stone-like compound made of shell and limestone. The use of coquina as the building material for both the Castillo de San Marcos and the nearby Fort Matanzas created fortresses that were nearly indestructible.
Is Castillo de San Marcos man made?
Readers: In a state that embodies transience, Castillo de San Marcos — Florida’s oldest man-made structure and America’s oldest fort — wears its age proudly.
How did they build Castillo de San Marcos?
“Coquina” (Spanish for “tiny shell”), is a soft limestone made up of broken shells and sand cemented together by calcium carbonate, essentially creating a natural form of concrete. The stone for the Castillo was quarried on nearby Anastasia island.
Did slaves build Castillo de San Marcos?
Construction of the Castillo He recruited large numbers of Indians, slaves, and skilled craftsmen. Augustine as skilled craftsmen, engineers, laborers and slaves became residents. By August 1695, the massive Castillo was at last complete and it was christened as the “Castillo de San Marcos” or St.
What is the oldest fort in America?
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument The oldest masonry fort in the US and only surviving 17th century military construction in the country still stands in St. Augustine, FL.
Why did fort San Marcos fail?
Colonial James Moore from Carolina led an attack on St. Augustine in 1702. The English burned the city and surrounding Indian missions, but failed to take the Castillo de San Marcos. Additional fortification walls were added over time to protect the city from invaders, forming five in total.
Why couldn’t the English colonists take over Castillo de San Marcos when they attacked the Spanish in 1702?
Unable to attack the Castillo by direct assault, the English surrounded the fort and cut off its supply lines. Digging a series of trenches, the English inched closer to the Castillo, attempting to get their cannon in a position to breach its walls. The Spanish fired constantly on the English to slow their progress.
What happened at Castillo de San Marcos?
The fort came under fire for the first time in 1702. British forces, led by General Moore, burned the city but could not penetrate the Castillo’s walls. Subsequent attacks in 1728 and 1740 yielded similar results, and the British were never able to take the city of St. Augustine by force.
How much does it cost to get into the fort at St Augustine?
Entrance Fee Adults (Age 16 and above) entrance is $15.00 – valid for 7 consecutive days. Children (age 15 and under) are admitted free of charge but must be accompanied by an adult.
What is the oldest fort in the world?
8. Citadel of Aleppo, Syria. Considered the oldest and largest fortress in existence, Aleppo’s citadel sits on a mound that has been inhabited since – incredibly – the middle of the third millennium BC.
How thick are the walls of Castillo de San Marcos?
But how well would seashells last under cannon fire? No one knew, so they built the walls an average of 12 feet (3.7m) thick. The walls on the ocean side are as thick as 19 feet (5.8 m)! The first phase of construction was completed in 1695.
How big is Castillo San Marcos?
On September 8, 1565, with much pomp and circumstance and 600 voyagers cheering, Menéndez set foot on the shores of Florida. In honor of the saint whose feast day fell on the day he first sighted land, Menéndez named the colonial settlement St. Augustine.
How long does it take to tour Castillo de San Marcos?
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Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand recently released a crypto bill seeking to change the regulatory scope for cryptocurrencies in the US. Senator Gillibrand has commented on the bill, saying that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) agree that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are commodities.
SEC & CFTC agree that BTC and ETH are commodities
Senators Lummis and Gillibrand discussed the contents of the recently introduced bill with the Washington Post. The two legislatures noted that there were clear factors differentiating between which digital assets are commodities and which ones are “ancillary assets.”
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Lummis said that ancillary assets were non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or crypto assets that could not be ranked as a means of payment and a store of value. On the other hand, securities are assets that fit within the criteria set by the Howey Test.
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Tokens that could be ranked as securities are those that bestow the holders with voting rights and dividend payments. They also allow the users to share in the profits and revenues, among a wide range of other things related to the business.
Gillibrand added that the bill would bestow powers to the SEC and the CFTC to regulate the cryptocurrency market. The SEC would oversee most cryptocurrencies, while the largest share of the crypto market would be regulated by the CFTC, including tokens like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Gillibrand added that “If you’re like Bitcoin, and creating a proof of work or a proof of stake type of token, you may well be a commodity.” The two senators also said that the SEC Chair, Gary Gensler, has yet to read the bill, but both he and the CFTC Chair agree that Bitcoin and Ethereum are commodities.
However, in his previous utterances, Gensler has only classified Bitcoin as a commodity. The SEC Chair has been hesitant to clear other cryptocurrencies, including Ether as a commodity, and in 2018, during a lecture on a blockchain course, he said that ETH passed the Howey test.
Democrat and Republican views on Bitcoin
The political scene has shown differing views about Bitcoin. Most senators that support Bitcoin are Republican, including Cynthia Lummis, Pat Toomey, and Ted Cruz. On the other hand, Democrat members have shown skepticism over the crypto sector.
Senator Gillibrand, a Democrat, has argued that the progressive political divide had many factors to love about the crypto industry because it could provide democracy to the financial sector.
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The STEM program in Cobb Schools has been quietly growing and training students in subjects and careers available in the applied sciences. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (the STEAM program also includes Arts).
STEM helps to cultivate problem-solving and critical thinking engagement within these related fields. Students create, design, build, discover, and collaborate while developing contextual connections between school, community, work, and the global environment.
Dr. Sally Creel has been the STEM Supervisor since 2014. During her tenure, the program has expanded in the number of students and educators involved.
“STEM & STEAM learning is thriving in Cobb,” Dr. Creel said. “We are excited to have certified two new STEAM Certified Schools: Mabry Middle and Dowell Elementary. These schools join the more than 40 STEM/STEAM schools already certified in Cobb.”
Cobb’s STEM/STEAM influence is now statewide, as well. Marquita Jackson, a STEM teacher at Clay-Harmony Leland ES, was recently elected to the Georgia Science Teachers Association Board as the Elementary representative. Walton science teacher Jordan Tidrick was also elected as the High School representative.
Recently, Cobb had a STEM Day with schools participating in various activities. Many schools around the District took the opportunity to have hands-on and educational activities that highlighted the STEM/STEAM program while also showcasing how fun learning can be. For example, Marquita Jackson used STEM Day to teach her students about robotics using Sphero Bots. She turned the hallway at Clay-Harmony Leland into an obstacle course for the students to navigate with their bots.
Eastvalley Elementary had a school-wide STEM day, where every class participated in some STEM activity. The day’s highlight was the Blender Bike, brought in by Cobb’s Food and Nutrition Services. Aside from making delicious smoothies, the Blender Bike teaches how force and motion combine to create the energy that makes the drinks. No electric power required!
At Ford Elementary, Scaly Adventures was invited to the school for an in-house field trip where students learned about reptiles from the famous Curren family. Kids and faculty were delighted and educated about all sorts of slithering and crawling reptiles while also gaining a new appreciation for these often misunderstood animals.
Norton Park Elementary celebrated STEM Day in the lab. The students enjoyed a live stream from the zoo, they learned about lighting and video-game design, and they learned about the many jobs available in STEM with a career presentation from Cox Enterprises. Students even decorated their own STEM Day visor that they wore all day to remind themselves and their classmates about the importance of STEM.
Tapp Middle School held a “Lunch & Learn” with Alefiya Master, CEO of app development company MAD-Learn. Students learned how to create their own apps to help solve problems. They also learned about being an entrepreneur in STEM and how Ms. Master got where she is today in a fulfilling career using creative approaches with technology.
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Feeling appreciated is the key to lowering stress, according to a new study.
Numerous studies have shown that caretaking depletes the immune system, and taxes the body both physically and mentally. It’s especially challenging caretaking a spouse. I’m thinking of a friend’s parents, for example, who have saved and saved for retirement, and now that they finally arrived that stage of life, the husband has dementia and the wife is taking care of him. So much for those golden years.
There’s some small succor in a new study from the University of Buffalo. One of the study’s authors was an expert on generosity, empathy, and stress: researcher Michael Poulin, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology. His area of interest is, according to his U.B. page, “to examine the mechanisms by which individuals overlook the costs of helping valued others and to examine phenomena that can reduce the barriers to valuing others.”
In this study, which was published in Health Psychology, Poulin and his team of looked at spouses who were taking care of their partners with chronic pain. The caretakers were asked to keep track of their activity, such as assisting with bathing, as well as their emotions, in 3-hour chunks of time. Researchers looked at how much help was given, and how much this help pleased the affected spouse, and how that pleasure made the caregiver feel. In the second study, caregivers wrote in a journal at the end of the day. The spouses who felt their help was appreciated were happier and had fewer physical complaints than those who felt their help was not appreciated.
“Spending time attempting to provide help can be beneficial for a caregiver's mental and physical well-being, but only during those times when the caregiver sees that their help has made a difference and that difference is noticed and recognized by their partner,” wrote Poulin. “These conclusions are important because we know that spousal caregiving is an enormous burden, emotionally, physically and economically,” he says. “If we can find ways for community resources to help create those conditions we might be able to make a difference in the lives of millions of people.”
As baby boomers continue to age, more and more people will be facing caretaking of a spouse. This study suggests that for them, and anyone else caretaking a partner, focusing on communication as a form of support is key. | <urn:uuid:f7490aa3-3eaa-4721-aaf1-ccb744e35dea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/articles/2017/09/06/easing-the-burden-of-spousal-caregiving | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985936 | 517 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Spiritual Approaches to Addiction Recovery
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that spirituality can have a positive effect on recovery from many diseases and disorders. It is unknown the precise source of this effect. Whether recovery does indeed originate because of a "power greater than ourselves" (aka, God), or whether it is due to the psychological benefit of hope that such a belief instills, the fact remains that many people's health is benefitted by their spiritual beliefs and practices. As God and related concepts do not lend themselves to scientific research, we are in no position to comment upon the reasons for this effect. What we can say is that research has indicated that a spiritual faith or practice can be beneficial in the recovery from many diseases and disorders.
We must also emphasize that while the most well known spiritual approach to recovery is the 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), spirituality is not limited to a belief in a power greater than oneself. Spirituality might more broadly include a belief that life has a meaning and purpose. Such a belief might provide a guideline for living according to that meaning and purpose. Restoring a meaning and purpose to life appears to be an essential ingredient to any successful recovery effort. Because many people's recovery efforts have benefited from identifying their own unique understanding of life's meaning and purpose, it is safe to conclude that spirituality can be an important component of recovery. For more information, see the section on the Spirituality of Addiction. | <urn:uuid:fedd8444-dfd1-4142-b21b-b54022c39a44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mentalhelp.net/addiction/recovery/spiritual-approaches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966723 | 291 | 2.375 | 2 |
Topic: The rapidly changing environment for business and media because of changes brought on by digital media. Will Twitter abide? Whats the future of social networking? Whats the future of news? Hosted by the Sorrento Hotel and 94.9 KUOW Radio. KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio is a service of the University of Washington. This event took place on 8/17/09 in Seattle, WA, USA. More: In its heyday, the Fireside Room at the Sorrento Hotel served as a civic hub, where thought leaders convened to exchange ideas about the arts, culture and politics, and the community gathered for music performances and poetry readings. As part of ongoing programming to celebrate its centennial, the Sorrento, Seattles oldest boutique hotel, is collaborating with Ross Reynolds, host of KUOWs The Conversation, to hold a series of monthly Fireside Chats. The public is welcome to attend the free chats, which will be taped and then excerpted for broadcast on KUOW the next day. The first Fireside welcomes Hanson Hosein, Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington in Seattle, independent filmmaker, a former NBC News war correspondent and investigative producer, and Emmy Award winner.
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Adam Huttler is founder and executive director of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists. The traditional non-profit model is under attack. Rattling our tin cup for grants is no longer enough. Funders ask us to be business-like, but what does that really mean? In this talk, Adam Huttler will discuss some emerging models for reinventing the way nonprofit cultural organizations do business. He will consider legal strategies, like the L3C and fiscal sponsorship. He will discuss structural approaches, including systems-centric cluster management. And he will consider the philosophical underpinnings of the whole conversation Who are our customers? Is professionalism really a good thing? When should infrastructure be outsourced? | <urn:uuid:c308573b-f7fe-4d46-aded-5c7d1214c941> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independentfilmmakercontracts.com/fireside-chat-with-ross-reynolds-and-hanson-hosein-the-future-of-digital-media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937066 | 417 | 1.5 | 2 |
The levee of Bayou Petit Caillou supports the long strip of houses that is Chauvin and Cocodrie, the narrowest towns I have ever seen. Way down delta in Louisiana, you are either on the levee, in the bayou, or somewhere out in the salt marsh. For exactly 100 years, Cecil Lapeyrouse’s Grocery has been on the levee. Today most of the houses are seasonal, and the store gets by with business from people coming down to shrimp or fish or have fun. We stopped by on our exit from the LUMCON Marine Center in Cocodrie where Public Lab held its annual meeting. That had fallen into the fun category. Continue reading “Gas Ice Bait Beer”
Click photos to enlargeI was really pleased to learn that the archive of my own black and white negatives includes a 1973 photo of Red Dog Lodge. But last week I found a 1967 photo for sale on eBay, and it’s much better than mine. It was taken for an article that ran in the Baltimore Sunday Sun Recreation section (page 11) on December 10, 1967. I inferred that from notes and stamps on the back of the photo, and from a citation of a Paul Wilkes article “Campaign to Save Soldiers Delight” from that date. Continue reading “Red Dog Redux”
Click to enlarge photos Land purchased by the State of Maryland for the Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area included two historic buildings: Red Dog Lodge and a log cabin said to have been built in 1848. The lore is that the cabin was used as an assay office for the Tyson chromite mining operation. It was apparently well maintained for most of its decades and was well preserved when I photographed it in the fall of 1974 before much restoration had been done. There were no windows or doors, but it had a real foundation (maybe even a cellar), intact chinking, and a mostly functioning roof. Soldiers Delight’s first ranger, E. Vernon Tracy, organized some restoration, and by the spring of 1975 the windows and doors were boarded up and it had a new roof, or at least a different roof. In 1974 there was a patched composition shingle roof, and in 1975 there appeared to be a wood shake roof, but not necessarily a brand new one. So I’m not sure what changed. Continue reading “Assay office”
The replacement for the Fled arrived in the mail today. The Levitation Delta made by Into The Wind is not as interesting as the Fled (it is a classic triangular sail with central keel), but it is half the price and collapses to 30″ instead of 43″. And it is big — nine feet between wing tips. It does not have the stability of the Fled when the wind almost stops, but neither does it buck like the Fled, jerking forward in certain conditions. Late in the afternoon I took it up to the Bread Loaf Campus at 1400′ where I hoped there would be a breeze. It was light, but the delta flew very steadily, so I put the full autoKAP rig on flew it over toward the compound of old yellow buildings which are being prepared for Tuesday’s arrival of 250 students for the Bread Loaf School of English. The wind was variable, so the KAP rig did not stay in the same place for long and it was hard to find more than a few photos that would stitch together well. There are seven photos in the Photosynth panorama below. I am not sure what to do with the other 800. Continue reading “Bread Loaf”
Galen’s Uncle and Aunt gave him a nice set of N scale model trains a few years ago, and we have added track and accessories since then. For his birthday in May, Galen got three building kits from GCLaser.com. Although there are lots of HO scale plastic model kits of buildings, N scale is too small to work well for the molded plastic kits, and the available kits are 2-4 times the price of the HO kits even though they are smaller.
The GCLaser kits are all wood. The pieces are precisely cut by laser from micro plywood. The material and quality control are excellent, and the parts fit together beautifully with almost no shaping or cleaning. They are more expensive than plastic HO kits, and much harder to assemble, but the results can be impressive. When I received the kits it was obvious that they weren’t quite appropriate for Galen, so I selflessly stepped up and assembled them myself. Continue reading “Christmas Garden” | <urn:uuid:d24bc749-9932-45c5-ae65-d5f58d9aafac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fastie.net/tag/architecture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974698 | 952 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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How are iOS and Android similar? How are they different?
The iOS is the operating system created by Apple Inc. for mobile devices. The iOS is used in many of the mobile devices for Apple such as iPhone, iPod, iPad etc. The iOS is used a lot and only lags behind Android in terms of popularity.
The iOS architecture is layered. It contains an intermediate layer between the applications and the hardware so they do not communicate directly. The lower layers in iOS provide the basic services and the higher layers provide the user interface and sophisticated graphics.
The layered architecture of iOS is given as follows −
Android is an operating system developed by Google for mobile systems. It is based on the Linux kernel and mainly designed for touchscreen devices such as tablets and smartphones.
The Android architecture is divided into four main layers and five sections. This is explained using the given diagram −
Similarities Between iOS and Android
Some of the similarities between iOS and Android are as follows −
- The basic functions in iOS and Android are alike. Both the iOS and Android phones have calling, messaging, web browsing, video chat, maps, voice commands etc.
- The user interfaces of iOS and Android have a lot of similarities. Both of these support swiping, tapping, pinch and zoom etc on their phone screens.
- There is a status bar on both the iOS and Android devices and it offers similar information such as battery life, time, app notifications, wifi etc.
- 4G cellular network can be enjoyed on both the iOS and Android devices. This is very important as cellular network is crucial for internet surfing.
- Privacy settings are paramount in both iOS and Android. Users are presented with app permissions as this lessens the risk of data leakage.
Differences Between iOS and Android
Some of the differences between iOS and Android are as follows −
- iOS is a closed system whereas Android is more open. Users have barely any system permissions in iOS but in Android, users can customize their phones easily.
- Android software is available for many manufacturers such as Samsung, LG etc. and this may lead to some quality problems in the cheaper phones. However, iOS is strictly controlled by Apple and there is no quality problem as there are few models.
- The Android applications are obtained from Google Play while iOS applications are available in the Apple app store.
- Integration with other devices is better in Apple iOS as compared to Google Android.
- There are different voice assistants for iOS and Android namely Siri and Google Assistant. Google assistant is much more powerful than Siri.
- The running speed of iOS devices remains consistent with time. In contrast to this, the performance of Android devices may decline over time.
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Magnetic Yoke is a hand held devices that induces a magnetic field between two poles. Common applications for the magnetic yoke are for outdoor use, remote locations and weld inspection. For proper inspection the yoke needs to be rotated 90 degrees for every inspection area to detect horizontal and vertical discontinuities. These systems used dry magnetic powders, wet powders, or aerosol cans.
Magnetic particle inspection (MPI) is a non-destructive testing (NDT) process for detecting surface and subsurface discontinuities in ferrous materials. The process puts a magnetic field into the part. The piece can be magnetized by direct or indirect magnetization. Direct magnetization occurs when the electrical current is passed through the test object and a magnetic field is formed in the material. Indirect magnetization occurs when no electrical current is passed through the test object, but a magnetic field is applied from an outside source (magnetic yoke). The magnetic lines of force are perpendicular to the direction of the electrical current which may be either alternating current (AC) or some form of direct current (DC) (rectified AC).
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Creating your mood board will help you focus on the initial design concepts you and your designer have narrowed down. Pulling images that may represent your brands look and feel a good start as a springboard for communication between you and your designer.
WHAT IS A MOOD BOARD
Mood boards help communicate visually how your brand might look and feel. Creating a mood board involves the collaboration between you and your designer. You can create one that is digital or handcrafted. If your working with a designer like me, I would create a digital mood board for your reference. It is a quick an fun exercise to do and helps you clarify to your designer what you think your aesthetics is for your brand.
WHEN SHOULD YOU START
Creating a mood board when embarking on a new project such as your brand identity is a good place to start. Branding mood boards can contain images, textures, patterns, typefaces and other design elements.
The process of creating a mood board is part of the foundation and communication between you and your designer; it helps both of you stay on the same page visually. It gives your designer a sense of what your aesthetics is for your brand.
The first question you may want to answer is; What do you think your brand should represent visually? Remember the three key words that sum up your brand.
To get started, the first thing you might be asked by your designer if you decide to hire one is to create a private Pinterest board that only you and your designer can view.
Start pinning your inspiration keeping in mind your brand value and audience.
You don’t have to stick to the online realm; you could also take photos outside that may convey the feel of your brand. This will help your designer get a better sense of what you gravitate towards and build the mood board from what you pinned or photos you’ve submitted.
Things to consider when making a lovely mood board, don’t set limits and don’t hold back. This is the time to explore and be creative.
The more detailed and specific you can get the better. For instance, if you are drawn to an interior layout design online that has a pattern you love, make sure you add notes that point out what you liked about the interior photo. This way your designer can zoom in on the elements that are most important to you.
Break out of the box and create a mood board that is offline. Try moving beyond what’s available to you online and consider the physical world around you and what inspires you about what you see.
The best think about mood boards is that they are fun to create and are inspiring!
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Either x or y. Solving systems of linear equations by substitution worksheet answers. This can be used for solving systems of algebra.
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Solving systems using substitution math problems with answers is like baking a cake. First find the right answer for your problem. Then, identify a constant in one of your equations and substitute it into the other. Check your solution by visualizing your result graphically on a worksheet.
A variety of functions and variables appear in linear equations systems, so it is necessary to learn how to interpret the information to get accurate results. Many people know about the functions, and variables, but not the significance of interpreting the information to get the best answer. Using a worksheet with substitution worksheet answers makes learning easier. You can easily learn how to use the information and plot your results.
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Different people have different reasons for using a worksheet of substitution math solving systems of equations by substitution worksheet answers. Some use the answers to teach students about algebra. Others use the answers to help them learn more about physics or calculus. Some people just enjoy making things as complicated as possible to see how well their answer fits into the original question and solve the equation.
The methods of solving systems of equations by substitution worksheet answers depend on the type of problem and what was asked for the solution. Students learn to apply algebra skills to real-life situations. Algebra skills improve when they are used in real life, which is why they are part of a student’s studies and homework. Homework helps to develop language skills and confidence in mathematics.
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Students who receive multiple answers for a single question often become frustrated. They may ask more questions or even change the subject if unsatisfactory answers are offered. This is a good way to keep from becoming too anxious when working on math problems. Using an alternate method for finding out the answer to a problem does not cause stress and is usually much faster than using the written form.
Using substitution methods also saves time and teaches students how to read information to help them solve math problems. Substituting answers in a worksheet can also teach students how to use formulas and algebra skills. They learn to transform an unknown variable into its corresponding values using an equation. The Substitute Solution method for solving systems of equations has a better comprehension of algebra than the traditional method of writing the answer in the place of the unknown variable.
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In many ways, students find it is more difficult to understand and to complete a problem using one of these methods. They learn more quickly by solving a problem using their own method. Students who prefer to work independently will enjoy working on worksheets that have problems that they must solve as they answer the question. Homework usually motivates students, although some become frustrated if they cannot complete it on time. Students who receive multiple answers for a single question often feel encouraged to try harder and do better. Using substitutes for traditional worksheets gives students an alternative to struggling while working on difficult problems.
Substitutions should be used for problems with multiple equations. This ensures all the needed factors are covered. When students begin solving a problem with a single equation, they sometimes do not take into account the fact that they must first find the value of the unknown variable. For example, when working on the problem of finding the value of x by multiplying y and z, the student may initially glance at the calculator to see how many zeros are being multiplied. However, when they try to multiply the first number with the second, they do not know how to multiply the third number with the first.
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Using the substitute method for problems that require more than one answer choice also allows the student to use their calculators to solve problems. They can calculate the results without using their calculators, making the process much easier on them. Solving Systems of Equations by Substitution Worksheets provide an alternative to traditional analysis methodologies. Traditional approaches tend to rely too much on the Student’s Answer Choice (SA) and totally eliminate the other answers. The substitute method actually provides answers, but based on the Student’s Response Choice (SR), a student is less likely to know that an answer is already given. Students have a greater chance to explore the answers of a problem when they have alternatives.
Solving Systems of Equations by Substitution Worksheet Answers also provides the student with a number of methods to find solutions. There are algorithms, as well as some mathematical formulations which could not be found in books or in any other course. There are even solutions presented in the form of graphic illustrations. There are also charts showing the solutions in a certain range of values. When these charts are used, students can explore many different options and can also make changes to the original formula to find better solutions.
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Students can also find more information about the methods that can be used to solve problems of this type through the internet. Different websites provide solutions for problems such as those Solving Systems of Equations by Substraction Worksheet Answers. The websites provide solutions for all types of problems. They also have resources such as online calculators that allow a student to multiply or divide numbers and solve any problems involving multiplication or division. When a student has more than one choice, he/she can explore the available choices even more and choose the method that best satisfies his/her needs.
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Duisburg zoo consists of two elongated parts connected with a bridge over the A3. It is 85% owned by the municipality, the other 12 and 3% being owned by Friends of the Zoo and private shareholders.
Duisburg animal park opens its first Blockhaus style aquarium, in 1935. Construction of the still existing aquarium House of 1000 Fishes has been completed in 1951.
1958 Inauguration of the penguin and seal exhibits. Construction of the EXPO-bridge to a completely new area east of highway A3.
This largest monkey enclosure in Europe (1962) underscores zoo Duisburg's reputation for breeding threatened primates.
1985 Launch of the new lion terraces
The Chinese garden is a contribution to the zoo from sister city Wuhan in China.
In ancient China a zoo was called Garden of Intelligence, by the way.
Elephant and giraffe enclosure
Meneki from Ceylon and Singora from Thailand are the first elephants to share the 1953 elephant house for decades with giraffes. The outdoor elephant exhibit has a pool and the public is separated from the elephants only by a pit and a small iron barrier. In 1996, the year in which the construction of a new bridge over highway A3 starts the elephant house is considered too cramped to house both giraffes and elephants. The giraffes move to Cologne and Rotterdam. The renovated elephant house is launched in 1997 including a 204.38 square feet outdoor enclosure, much larger by knocking the giraffe and elephant paddocks into one. In 2002, part of the elephant enclosure is reconstructed for a bull elephant. A new giraffe enclosure near the main entrance is inaugurated in 2000.
Open air gorilla enclosure
A well-known representation of a glass-fronted and fake-rock habitat, named Gorilla Bush.
Rio Negro 2006
From 2004 till-and-including 2006 the Amazon rain forest the Rio Negro has been set up, offering a panoramic view of two Amazon river dolphins who arrived in 1975 in Duisburg zoo. The biotope will include piranha's, giant otter as well as sirenians. The construction has been realized with the assistance of subsidies from the Sparkasse Duisburg and individuals.
1934 12th of December: foundation of the Duisburg-Hamborner Tierpark am Kaiserberg.
1939 The zoo closes down. It is significantly damaged during WWII.
1946 Reopening to public after arrival of three wagons packed with zoo animals borrowed from the Münchener Tierpark Hellabrunn.
1965 First provisional dolphin show in a tent.
1967 First dolpinarium in Europe
1969 Zoo director Gewalt brings along live belugas captured in the Canadian waters, which arouses critical comments.
1970 Duisburg Animal Park becomes a real zoo.
1973 ZOO-Terrassen at Mülheimer Straße
1984 On the 50th anniversary of the zoo, Friends of the Zoo donate the giant otter enclosure. Also improvement of the road network.
1993 The society to promote the Duisburg zoo has an outdoor cage bult for holding and captive breeding of threatened macaques.
2001 Construction giant tortoise enclosure (island biotope), a new pygmy hippo enclosure, a wolverine enclosure, and a walk-thru ring-tailed lemur area (island biotope) near the main entrance.
Although everything is visually fine - the bridge is green - you can’t get away from the traffic noise. Duisburg offers a great variety of old and modern enclosures. Animal lovers will have fun to check out this Waldzoo for its original collection of animals in a wooded, hilly area. Zoo keepers are taking a walk with former circus elephant Daisy. The map did not always correspond to what we saw and like in many zoos the second section seems hastily mounted. In 2005, Faszination Tiger, a 94 feet campaign sign by artist Reinhard Frese, has been placed here.
Zoo maps Duisburg and video
Zoo keepers taking a walk with former circus elephant.
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Foreign citizens who want to move to Bahrain
must comply with various requirements. These depend on the reason they relocate here and the duration of stay. There is also the possibility of obtaining citizenship in Bahrain
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If you are foreign citizen and want to know more about how to become a citizen of this country and the Bahraini citizenship benefits, our lawyers can offer detailed information.
The Bahrain Citizenship Act
Foreign citizens who immigrate to Bahrain
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What should be noted is that there is no possibility to have Bahrain dual citizenship. This applies to foreign citizens seeking to obtain Bahraini passports and retain their former nationalities.
Our immigration lawyers in Bahrain
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The main ways through which Bahraini nationality can be obtained
There are several ways through which one can obtain citizenship in Bahrain. These are:
descent and birth which is the easiest to obtain in the case of foreign citizens with Bahraini origins;
naturalization which implies living in Bahrain on a long term;
marriage which implies meeting various conditions for the foreign spouse;
investment, an option that was recently enabled, however, it comes with many benefits.
Bahraini citizenship by marriage, for example, is available for foreign women marrying Bahraini citizens.
If you are interested in immigration to Bahrain
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Citizenship by descent in Bahrain
People who have origins in this country are eligible for citizenship. According to the law, the following persons can obtain citizenship in Bahrain through descent:
- they were born in Bahrain after 1937 and their fathers were citizens of this country;
- they were born outside Bahrain after 1937, their fathers or grandfathers were Bahraini citizens;
- they were born in or outside Bahrain after 1937 and their mothers were citizens of this country, while their father is unknown, without a nationality or simply fatherhood cannot be proved.
It is also possible to obtain citizenship in Bahrain by birth. In this case, the father can be a foreign citizen who has obtained permanent residence here and has given up his former citizenship.
We remind foreign citizens that Bahrain dual citizenship is not permitted.
How to obtain Bahraini citizenship by marriage
It is possible for foreign women who marry Bahraini citizens to obtain passports in this country. In this regard, the marriage certificate must be filed with the local authorities, if the marriage took place here. If the marriage was recorded in another country, the certificate must be accompanied by an affidavit issued by a Bahraini court.
In the case of divorce, the foreign spouse can still retain Bahraini citizens under certain conditions.
All Bahraini citizenship benefits
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How to obtain citizenship by naturalization in Bahrain
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In order to acquire a Bahraini passport, a foreign citizen must:
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A27: CPRE Sussex responds to Worthing/Lancing improvements consultation
CPRE Sussex has submitted its response to Highway England’s consultation on road improvements for the Worthing/Lancing stretch of the A27.
In our submission (11th September 2017) we highlighted the fact that CPRE’s The End of the Road? report reveals that road-building is failing to provide the congestion relief and economic boost promised, while devastating the environment. It directly challenges government claims that ‘the economic gains from road investment are beyond doubt’; that road-building will lead to ‘mile a minute’ journeys; and that the impact on the environment will be limited ‘as far as possible’. The report shows how road building over the past two decades has repeatedly failed to live up to similar aims. We therefore believe that any investment in the existing road needs to be part of a wider package of investment to reduce the use of motorised vehicles on our roads including smart planning for growth and investment in infrastructure for walking, cycling and use of public transport.
In 2006, Professor Phil Goodwin, in his seminal article Induced traffic again. And again. And again, pointed out that for 80 years, empirical studies and official reports had agreed on the rather inconvenient truth that more road capacity leads to more traffic. We would like to see more evidence as to why the consultation brochure claims that greater reliance on public transport, walking and cycling would be unlikely to alleviate congestion on the A27 through Worthing and Lancing? Undoubtedly this would be a better way of meeting the scheme objectives.
Although we welcome the decision to upgrade the existing road, as opposed to creating a damaging new road through the protected South Downs National Park, we believe that the Option should be better aligned with Local Plans and planned development – particularly the emerging Arun Local Plan which potentially allocates 600 houses and an IKEA at New Monks Farm.
CPRE Sussex is currently reviewing proposals for the Arundel Bypass. We are shocked by significant omissions in data and information which have been identified by ABNC see: http://www.arundelbypass.co.uk/new-film-shows-true-impact-of-arundel-bypass | <urn:uuid:bf50d7c2-2443-40f9-8502-5ac25a157d91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cpresussex.org.uk/news/a27-cpre-sussex-responds-to-worthing-lancing-improvements-consultation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947034 | 465 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Strengthening and Enabling the Micronesia Challenge 2030
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR THE PROJECT PROPOSAL
Submitted on November 18th, 2020 (Under GEF Review)
This Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Waters (IW) project “Strengthening and enabling the 2030 Micronesia Challenge” strengthens regional- and national-level marine resource management in the Micronesian Large Ocean States of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and the Republic of Palau (Palau) with indirect benefits to the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands . In partnership with the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT), Micronesia Challenge Regional Office (MCRO),, the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA), FSM’s Department of Resources & Development (R&D). Palau’s Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment & Tourism, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions (COS), the project partnership will support strengthening of national marine resource management planning aligned with Micronesia Challenge 2020 goals and support planning for the Micronesia Challenge 2030 (see Appendix J).
The three-year GEF IW project proposes a framework approach that facilitates technical dialogues through national working groups to develop policy options for strengthened management of and optimized regional collaborations for priority marine resource issues. The project will build off key baseline activities, including the recent support for the Micronesia Challenge 2030 conservation goals by the Micronesia Island Forum (MIF), national strengthening of Protected Area Network (PAN) legislation, and a recent collaborative working group model facilitated by COS supporting implementation of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS). The project will leverage existing partnerships, momentum, and lessons learned to engage all three Micronesia governments and will build coordination and cooperation for the next phase of the Micronesia Challenge—leveraging experience sharing and capacity building to ensure success for future shared regional and national resource management goals.
The project is designed with three components aimed at national and regional support, combined with knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation. The first project component will achieve national-level goals through national working group meetings that will develop science-based recommendations to support advancing integrated management of marine resources aligned under Micronesia Challenge 2020 and 2030 goals. The second project component aims to strengthen the Micronesia Challenge Regional Office (MCRO) through capacity building and significantly raising local, regional, and global awareness to of the Micronesia Challenge, and the coordination role of MCRO by taking advantage of major ocean-related events. A third project component aims to capture the wealth of knowledge generated from the Micronesia Challenge over the past decade, to disseminate nationally, regionally, and also internationally through IW:LEARN.
This GEF IW project also leverages recent intergovernmental momentum, including the 2016 Call to Action by the three Micronesia presidents at the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium Leaders’ Summit, the 2017 Pacific Judicial Council Environmental Law and Science Conference, and a 2018 Association of Pacific Island Legislatures resolution. Collectively these recent actions assist progress towards important 2020 milestones, including the Sustainable Development Goals, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Aichi Targets, and the Micronesia Challenge. The project also aims to support country needs at key ocean events, including the Our Oceans Conference, United Nations Ocean Conference, and the CBD Conference of Parties 15 (to be confirmed based on national policies and post-pandemic realities).
For more information about the project's Stakeholder Engagement Plan, please download the document here >
2020 Micronesia Challenge Evaluation
To prepare for 2020, the MC Steering Committee initiated an evaluation of the Micronesia Challenge in December 2019. The evaluation provided a valuable opportunity to review and reflect on collective accomplishments, examine the challenges faced, capture lessons learned, and identify strategic opportunities for moving forward that build on existing strengths. The evaluation was designed to capture input from many stakeholders who have engaged in the MC on various levels.
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This is the last in our series of common problems with common tests pertaining to adhesive materials. In this post, we will look at common problems associated with the ASTM D 1876 test method.
ASTM D 1876 is the Standard Test Method for Peel Resistance of Adhesives (T Peel Test). This test method is used to determine the relative peel resistance of adhesive bonds between flexible substrates utilizing a T-type specimen. The test specimen is loaded into a tensile tester with the bent, un-bonded ends clamped in the grips. The specimen is then pulled apart, and the peak and average peel forces are measured.
As with ASTM D 1004, the main challenge when testing to this method is sample preparation. Though no specific parameters or procedures for preparation are provided, it is important to follow all manufacturer instructions. Accordingly, it is essential that the adhesive manufacturer provides all relevant specifications for the application of the adhesive. These include surface preparation, mixing directions, application rate, and thickness and curing conditions.
If one or more of these specifications is not provided, it is important to document the parameters used so that the test can be repeated or used for comparison. Altering any of the sample preparation or test specifications can cause changes in the recorded properties. Because this method is generally used to compare the relative peel resistances of multiple adhesives, all specifications must be identical in order for the comparison to be valid.
Another important variable to consider is the backing material of the test panel. The backing material must be strong enough not to yield but also flexible enough to bend through the 90° angle of the test. If the backing material is too weak or too inflexible, undesirable failure modes may be observed. The presence of multiple failure modes adds difficulty when comparing the results of one test to another.
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As millions of refugees flee war-torn Syria, the European Union has come under scrutiny for its handling of the migrant crisis. At the Hauser Global Law School Program’s Annual Dinner on March 7, David O’Sullivan, ambassador of the EU to the United States, sought to quiet some of that criticism by illustrating the immensity of what the EU is confronting.
In 2015, 1.8 million migrants entered the EU—six times the number from the previous year. “The pace and scale of this unabating humanitarian emergency has been challenging, both fiscally and politically, for the European Union and for its member states, some of which, like Greece, are just emerging from an economic crisis,” said O’Sullivan in his keynote, “The Refugee Crisis: Europe’s Response?”
For those living in the United States, which can take a leisurely two years to process a Syrian’s request for asylum, O’Sullivan put the crisis in perspective. Over the past year, Germany received 1 million refugees—the equivalent, he said, of 4.5 million people entering the United States. Greece, in turn, processed 850,000 refugees—equivalent to 28 million arriving at the US border. Despite the strain, overburdened countries like Greece have shown “enormous compassion” in welcoming migrants, he said. “You’ll forgive me for saying that I think the people of Europe deserve some credit for how they have reacted to the situation.”
Meanwhile, EU residents are dealing with unease and fear, O’Sullivan said, since the crisis has come at a time when many find themselves economically vulnerable. “This is not necessarily a question of racism or xenophobia. They’re just concerned what this will mean for their economic future, what this will mean for the shape of their society.” Many parts of Europe have yet to recover from the economic recession: “People are just beginning to see the shoots of economic growth, and then there’s a new problem.”
With Syria’s civil war showing no signs of resolution, O’Sullivan emphasized creating a clear point of entry at the frontier to process migrants in an orderly fashion; enabling relocation across the EU; and working with the countries that migrants pass through to reach the EU, particularly Turkey. (The EU-Turkey plan was unveiled the morning after O’Sullivan’s keynote.) He also suggested reforming the Dublin Regulation, which requires migrants to file for asylum in the country of entry, and envisioning new forms of legal migration.
O’Sullivan underscored the importance of rallying all 28 EU member states. “The pressure for continued migration is not going to go away, and we better figure out a way of how we’re going to deal with this in the most equitable and the most honest and just way possible while at the same time—yes—looking out for our own self-interest,” he said. “Because we cannot allow our society to be completely upturned by a disorderly process of this kind.” For the EU, negotiating that balance between self-preservation and extending humanitarian support remains a challenge.
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Fish in the
Proper nutrition plays, together with an active lifestyle, a fundamental role in the prevention of a number of diseases, which are very common nowadays, the so-called “diseases of well-being” and can be illustrated by means of the Food Pyramide.
Foods such as cereal, fruit, vegetables, olive oil, dairy products and yogurt are at the base of a healthy diet and they should be consumed on a daily basis, or even twice a day.
The foods in the central portion of the pyramide (white meats, legumes, fresh chees and fish) should be eaten two or more times a week. Finally, at the top of the pyramid we find red meat and sweets which are to be consumed once a week.
Fish plays a fundamental role in the Mediterranean diet. Scientific evidence shows that, if consumed in right quantities in a balanced diet, fish can help you keep healthy.
In fact, fish (both fresh and preserved), provides precious nutrients such as proteins of high biological value, mineral salts and omega-3 acids.
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With the start of the new year many will be setting New Year’s Resolutions. To be honest I’m not a fan. More often than not I notice people making resolutions but when asked what action are they taking this week to accomplish it they look surprised.
It’s almost as if they are thinking, “I have a whole year to get this done, why would I work on it today?” It seems resolutions are a way of making us feel good about a final goal without making any effort towards that goal.
Results are accomplished through actions. Here are ten actions you can take today to make progress towards your financial objectives.
1) Create a Budget
I have a free spreadsheet which will create a budget for you in 3 easy steps.
2) Pick one category and track how much you spend in a month.
3) Create a very simple budget, just for the week.
4) Schedule a free 30 minute coaching call with me. Ask me any financial question you’d like.
5) Call one (or all) of your credit cards and ask to have the rate reduced.
6) Find out what you really think about money. Download the worksheet on this page to help you.
7) Ask for a raise.
8) Sell something – find something in your house that has value but that you no longer use. Sell it online using one of the many free apps.
9) Start a side job.
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SAN FRANCISCO — In the search for rogue nukes, researchers have discovered an unlikely tool: astronomical radio telescopes.
Ohio State University researchers previously demonstrated another unlikely tool, when they showed that South Korean GPS stations detected telltale atmospheric disturbances from North Korea’s 2009 nuclear test.
Both techniques were born out of the discovery that underground nuclear explosions leave their mark—on the outer reaches of Earth’s atmosphere.
Now, working with astronomers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), they have analyzed historical data from the Very Large Array (VLA), a constellation of 27 radio telescopes near Socorro, New Mexico—and discovered that the VLA recorded a very similar pattern of disturbances during the last two American underground nuclear tests, which took place in Nevada in 1992.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, professor of geodetic and geoinformation engineering at Ohio State, said that the new findings help support the notion that GPS systems—and their technological successors, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)—are viable tools for detecting clandestine nuclear tests around the globe. She added that now is a good time to begin developing the concept.
“With a global availability of permanently tracking GPS networks now extending to GNSS, tremendous amounts of information are becoming available, and the infrastructure is growing,” she said. “We have a great opportunity to develop these ideas, and make a tool that will aid the global community.”
Grejner-Brzezinska presented the findings in a press conference at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting on Dec. 4 with study co-authors Jihye Park, a postdoctoral researcher in geodetic and geoinformation engineering at Ohio State, and Joseph Helmboldt, a radio astronomer at NRL. Park presented the research in a lecture at AGU on Dec. 3.
While radio telescopes don’t cover the entire globe as GPS systems do, Helmboldt said that the two technologies complement each other, with telescopes offering higher-resolution measurements over a smaller area.
“The observations we make as radio astronomers are not so different from GPS,” he said. “We may be looking up at a distant galaxy instead of down to the Earth, but either way, we’re all looking at radio waves traveling through the ionosphere.”
The ionosphere is the outermost layer of the atmosphere, which begins approximately 50 miles above the Earth’s surface. It contains charged particles that can interfere with radio waves and cause measurement errors in GPS and radio telescopes.
For that reason, both radio astronomers and geodetic scientists routinely monitor the ionosphere in order to detect these errors and compensate for them.
“We’re talking about taking the error patterns—basically, the stuff we usually try to get rid of—and making something useful out of it,” Grejner-Brzezinska said.
Park, who developed this analysis method to earn her doctoral degree at Ohio State, cited key similarities and differences between the GPS data from the 2009 North Korean nuclear test and the VLA data from the 1992 American tests: one on Sept. 18 named Hunters Trophy, and the other on Sept. 23, named Divider.
The North Korean bomb is believed to have had a yield of about five kilotons. According to the GPS data, the wave front of atmospheric disturbance spread outward from the test site in the village of P’unggye at approximately 540 miles per hour. It reached 11 GPS stations in South Korea, China, Japan, and Russia in that first hour. In contrast, Hunters Trophy and Divider each had yields of 20 kilotons. Each blast created a wave front that quickly covered the 700 miles from the Nevada Test Site to the VLA, with a top speed of approximately 1,500 miles per hour.
“Clearly, the U.S. explosions were much bigger than the North Korean explosion,” Park said. “The wave fronts traveled faster, and the amplitudes were higher. There are still details missing from the North Korean test, but we can learn a lot by comparing the two events.”
Park will continue this work while she takes a new position at the University of Nottingham starting in January. She’s already found that GPS stations in the North Pacific recorded ionospheric disturbances during the deadly Japanese earthquake of 2011, and she will focus on how to differentiate between earthquake signals and nuclear test signals.
Collaborators on this work include Ralph R. von Frese, professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State; Yu “Jade” Morton, professor in electrical engineering at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; and Thomas Wilson, an astronomer at NRL.
– Written by Pam Frost Gorder
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With the Urban Planning Development Authority (UPDA) announcing its decision to develop Al Wakra as a model city, the heritage structures in this city is all set to get a facelift.
The multi-billion dollar project has a special focus on the restoration of Wakra's historic core which, with its traditional architecture, retains a distinctive identity. Considering the city's heritage history, a separate area will be developed as a heritage zone. The master plan also proposes the restoration of Wakra's old forts and its famous cultural museum. It also proposes to set up a state of the art marine museum that would replicate the marine life of Wakra's yesteryears.
The Al Wakra Museum, which was closed down recently, has a rich collection of artifacts that give a glimpse into the lives of people in the country in earlier days.
Right up until the 1940's, the majority of the population in Qatar, in one way or the other, was involved in the pearling trade. More than a job, it was a way of life for them. Pearling dhows could be at sea for weeks. Qatar's modern history has it that Wakra had a fleet of 150 pearl fishing boats during the early 20th century. The proposed marine museum will depict the pre-oil era social life of Wakra. An overview of Al Wakra city and fishing boats moored at the port. Wakra is to be developed as a model city in a multi-billion project that promises to transform it into a vibrant urban centre. (ABDUL BASIT)
The UPDA has plans to create a special zone for upmarket commercial complexes, exclusive zones for nationals, mixed residential areas for nationals and residents; and a special zone for single residents. The master plan has conceptualized special zones for educational institutions, public offices, commercial complexes and a marina.
Wakra's new downtown regional centre will be divided into different segments. They include Wakra Gateway, Wakra South Square, Wakra Festival Bay, Wakra Sands, Wakra Residence, Wakra College and Wakra Trade Center. The Wakra Gateway will be an exclusive zone for major government and public offices. The South Square will be a mix of office complexes, residential apartments and middle and small retail outlets. The Festival Bay will be marked by resort hotels, business investment hotels, a maritime museum on the waterfront, and a marine, arts and cultural centre.
The master plan envisages Wakra to be developed as a preferred waterfront destination and a vibrant city which people would really want to visit and stay over.
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A tree is protected if it is covered by a Tree Preservation Order (TPO), or if it is located within a Conservation Area. If you are intending to carry out work on a tree, you should contact Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) to see if it is protected.
Trees can be protected in several ways:
- Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) are made by MVDC to protect one or more trees in an area. There are currently about 1000 TPOs in force in Mole Valley (see 'Related Pages')
- Conservation Areas provide statutory protection for most trees, and you must give MVDC six weeks' written notice if you intend to carry out any work (see 'Related Pages')
- Planning conditions requiring trees to be retained for up to 5 years may be attached to a planning permission
- The Forestry Act controls the removal of trees from woodlands if the total amounts to more than 5 cubic metres
Before carrying out work on a tree, you should first check to see whether the tree is protected and, if it is, an application for permission will need to be made to MVDC. Further details about making an application can be found by visiting the Tree Preservation Orders page (see 'Related Pages').
If permission is granted, you are advised to use a fully qualified and insured tree contractor. A list of known local tree contractors is available to view (see 'Downloads'). Please note that this information is provided for your assistance, and MVDC is not in a position to recommend any one particular contractor.
Carrying out work on a protected tree
Everyone, apart from statutory undertakers, is required to inform MVDC if they plan to remove protected trees or parts that are dead or dangerous.
It is a criminal offence to cut down, prune or wilfully damage or destroy a tree covered by a TPO unless MVDC has permitted the work (see also 'Related Pages' - Conservation Areas). Before commencing work on any tree, it is strongly recommended that you check the status by emailing details, including the site location and a description of the work you wish to carry out, to firstname.lastname@example.org.
If you wish to carry out works on a tree protected by a TPO, you can make an electronic application via the Planning Portal website (see 'Internet links'). Alternatively, you can download an Application for Tree Works form (see 'Internet Links') and email it as an attachment to email@example.com or send it to Planning Department, MVDC, Pippbrook, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1SJ. Two documents, 'check list' and 'help', are also available for reference (See 'Internet Links'). No fee is payable when applying for work on trees.
Once issued, MVDC cannot vary or revoke any consent, so both the applicant and MVDC need to ensure that any decision is right first time.
Dead and Dangerous Protected Trees (Trees covered by a Tree Preservation Order and/or within a Conservation Area)
The Dead and Dangerous exemptions to the Tree Preservation and Conservation Area Regulations are contained in Section 14 of the Town and Country (Tree Preservation) (England) Regulations 2012 (See 'Internet links')
Section 14 states that nothing shall prevent the removal of hazardous parts or the felling of a protected tree that is dead or immediately dangerous. The only requirement is that at least 5 days notice is served on the Council in writing prior to carrying out necessary works to make the trees safe; unless it is an emergency, in which case notice should be given as soon as the works become necessary. It is acceptable to serve such notices by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org. Please note that a Tree Felling Consent application is still required for dying trees.
A TREE EXEMPTION NOTICE should contain:
a) the notice subject - TREE EXEMPTION NOTICE
b) the full address
c) a description of the dangerous parts and condition, what works are intended to make the trees safe, the species in plain english
d) photos of the tree and problems
e) a clear simple plan showing the trees location in relation to buildings, roads, boundaries and north point.
The Council may take the opportunity to inspect the trees or may acknowledge your notice sooner to say go ahead. Please be mindful that there is a legal duty to replace trees removed under the exemptions unless the Council waivers the requirement.
If you have any questions please contact the Council on 01306 885001.
In woodlands, even if a TPO is in force, you must first apply to the Forestry Commission for a felling licence if you want to cut down trees containing more than five cubic metres of wood in any calendar quarter (see 'Internet Links'). However, there are exceptions to this rule. For example, you do not need a licence to felling trees in parks or enclosed gardens.
If a licence is required and the trees are covered by a TPO, the Forestry Commission will deal with your application in consultation with MVDC. Where the Commission proposes to grant a licence, it will first give notice to MVDC, which then has the right to comment on or object to the proposal. In that instance, the application will be referred to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, who will make a final decision. The Forestry Commission usually requires felled trees to be restocked, and does not normally grant licences to change woodland to agricultural use. | <urn:uuid:bad79775-6529-412c-b933-f8d0c2795c63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.molevalley.gov.uk/home/building-planning/trees-hedges/tree-works-and-felling-licences | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.91609 | 1,149 | 2.171875 | 2 |
- The Willows is more academic than I thought it would be
- The Willows has more of an emphasis on sports that I envisioned
- The Willows’ curriculum is integrated and amazing
- The technology resources at The Willows are cutting-edge
- The Willows is great for both my kids (who are very different)
- The Willows has a some great families we’ve become friends with (I didn’t expect this)
- The Willows has inspired my kids to love learning, even if they don’t always love every subject (like drama)
- The Willows is small enough so that the head of school, Lisa Rosenstein, knows every child and every family
- The Willows’ teachers are fabulous (patient, enthusiastic, nurturing and inspiring). There are two teachers per class.
- The Willows does not emphasize standardized testing i.e. ERB or ISEE
- The Willows’ practice of looping (keeping the same class and teachers for 2 years) worked extremely well for both my kids
- The Willows has bullies just like every other school. It’s how the school deals with them that matters and The Willows teachers are adept at handling this issue.
- The Willows’ curriculum is smart and well thought-out ( I am constantly amazed!) | <urn:uuid:77daf85e-c09a-4fe6-8fac-b9f9c4daedcc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beyondthebrochurela.com/how-could-choosing-a-school-be-so-hard-what-i-did-and-did-not-expect-about-the-willows-school/?replytocom=302 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956234 | 288 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Short Arm Syndrome!
Sooner or later, everyone will probably experience trouble reading. Most people will begin to notice some blurring of smaller print between the ages of 40 to 50. This condition is called presbyopia and is related to aging. As we all grow older, the lenses in our eyes become less flexible and lose the ability to accomodate reading of smaller print. Thus we have to hold things farther out to see them clearly. Most people will be able to use over the counter reading glasses but need to see their eye doctor first to be sure that is the problem. Their doctor can tell them what strength is needed . If the wrong strength is used, the wearer can end up with eye strain and headaches. So before you head to the store for some “cheaters”, please schedule an appointment with us to make sure your eyes are healthy!
Lynn Peavy, Ophthalmic Technician | <urn:uuid:436b8559-ea0f-4ffa-b078-e8ed26a55639> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://southgeorgiaeye.com/short-arm-syndrome/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958632 | 187 | 2.0625 | 2 |
5 Ways You Can Help Kenya and These East African Countries Facing Starvation
Millions of people in East Africa are on the brink of famine, but you can help change that.
Food insecurity is undoubtedly increasing around the world as most global resources have been put towards dealing with the pandemic, and climate change continues to wreak havoc.
The African continent is the worst affected by food insecurity and the situation is only deteriorating due to conflict in some regions and coping with the global pandemic in others.
According to a recent study by World Vision East Africa Hunger Emergency Response, two million people in Kenya are on the brink of starvation and in dire need of immediate food aid. These conditions have come as a result of droughts, as well as the economic knock of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kenya is not the only country in the east African region that is experiencing dire hunger conditions. According to the same study, more than seven million people in East Africa have edged closer to the brink of starvation because of conflict and the pandemic’s economic impacts. It also stated that over 108,000 people in the region are currently experiencing catastrophic famine-like conditions.
“Between June and December 2020 rising conflicts in countries such as Ethiopia worsened the food insecurity situation, coupled with economic impact of lockdown which affected livelihoods and pushed millions to desperation,” the report said.
Most recently, Ethiopia’s Tigray region was officially classed as suffering from famine as a result of ongoing civil unrest, with United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, explaining that the region is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises globally.
“The number of people in famine conditions ... is higher than anywhere in the world, at any moment since a quarter million Somalis lost their lives in 2011,” he said in June 2021. #blueskye #blueskyefoundation #greentechexchange #zerocarbon #climatenews
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2022 加拿大 克朗代克淘金熱-探礦 .99999金幣 1盎司 (卡裝)
Crafted in 99.999 pure gold, this 1oz format is the second release from the Royal Canadian Mint's Klondike Gold Rush series.
- The SECOND coin in the new Klondike Gold Rush series in 1-ounce 99.999% pure gold
- Rendered in exquisite detail by Royal Canadian Mint engravers
- Crafted in the Royal Canadian Mint’s exacting standard of 99.999% pure gold, the highest standard of pure gold available in the world
- Features a micro-engraved maple leaf laser mark in the coin’s field. In the centre of the mark, visible under magnification, is the numeral “22”, denoting the coin’s year of issue
- Unique credit-card sized packaging ideal for easy handling and storing
- Signed by the RCM’s Chief Assayer, the assay certificate on the back of the card certifies the authenticity and purity of the coin
- Highest face value ($200 CAN) of any legal tender 1 oz. gold bullion coin
In the Klondike, the prospector’s pan was the simplest way of prospecting for gold, one pan at a time. Bonanza (formerly Rabbit) and Eldorado Creeks were the richest gold-bearing creeks, where most of the gold lay buried near the bedrock. To reach it, prospectors needed to dig a shaft through permanently frozen gravels (permafrost) down to bedrock, and then tunnel horizontally, a process known as drift mining.
Miners used this method in the winter when the “paydirt” was hauled up to the surface and piled up until the spring. After the spring thaw, trough-like sluice boxes were filled with paydirt, where the muck and gravel were washed away. The much denser gold (gold is 19 times heavier than water) was captured in the riffles in the bottom of the sluice boxes. The rocker box was another popular choice for operations where water was not available in sufficient quantities, for example, on the bench claims on the hills overlooking Bonanza and Eldorado Creeks. Water was poured into the top, and a rocking movement helped separate the gravel from the gold, which was caught by riffles that lined the bottom of the box. The water was typically captured and recycled many times.
These methods helped form the popular image of Yukon as a mining frontier during the Klondike Gold Rush and put Canada on the map as a leading gold producer. As a result of the gold rush, the Yukon joined Confederation in 1898. They also altered the landscape, and changed the environment. The influx of settlers had profound impacts on the Indigenous communities whose territories overlapped with what became the Yukon territory, irreversibly disrupting their traditional way of life. The effects of the gold rush, for better and for worse, are still felt in Canada today.
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Zac has been playing music his whole life, including multiple different instruments before discovering his love for DJing and production. What he likes the most about his musical journey is that he’s been able to use a variety of instruments and didn’t have to focus on just one. In the same way he likes to explore various genres of music and takes a holistic approach to listening to and learning music.
He says that enrolling in the Foundations course was a gut reaction for him. He had been a member of Musical U prior to enrolling and said he has really came to love this approach to learning music. So when he heard about Foundations he was immediately excited and says didn’t need to give the decision much thought.
Since going through the material, he’s discovered that this has created a new way for him to fully internalize music and the music is able to flow more naturally from him. Music theory became fun, and learning all the various techniques and exercises was “fun, easy, and amazing”.
One of the biggest breakthroughs was that musical ideas began to make more sense and connect. He was able to take musical activities that seemed to be separate before, and incorporate them all into his musicality.
Zac notes that other courses tend to separate composing, improvising, rhythm, singing, etc… but this course combined them in a way that he had never experienced before.
Going forward he’s learning ways that he can be more productive in his music practice. While it may seem counterintuitive to do more steps when learning music, or slow it down, he says these extra steps to learning music get a musician to their end point much faster than the way he had been learning.
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by Noble A-W Maseru, PhD, MPH
In 2008, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health released a report. In it, the commission examined reasons for differences in people having good and bad health—in essence, a long or short life. The commission’s principal finding for the differences in people’s health was the social conditions in which people are born, live and work. For this article, we see the place where one lives as tantamount to social conditions. These social conditions are largely determined by what are commonly called “bread and butter” issues. Researchers call them social determinants of health.
So how do bread and butter issues like food, transportation, housing, education and a living wage affect life expectancy? In the United States in 1900, life expectancy averaged 47 years. In 2000, life expectancy increased to 77 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined 25 of the 30-year improvement was attributed to bread and butter factors. The other five years were due to health care. Native Pittsburgher Andre Perry of the Brookings Institute determined that obtaining a high school diploma added 10 years to life expectancy. Education is a bread and butter issue.
In June 2019, Pitt Public Health Center for Health Equity, in collaboration with the Community Empowerment Association, launched the project Live Longer: Empowering and Engaging Pittsburgh Communities. The project’s overarching goal was to use the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s USALEEP database to determine whether there was evidence of disparities in life expectancy within its base community of Homewood (zip codes 15208 and 15209). Using USALEEP data, the Live Longer project has calculated the life expectancy in 63 Pittsburgh-area neighborhoods and determined longevity ranged from 62-84 years. That is a difference of 22 years in some neighborhoods.
The Live Longer project’s Pittsburgh life expectancy findings affirmed the WHO report—that where people live and, more sobering, their zip code can be an indicator of how long they will live. Zip codes draw attention to the social environment. We know from our research and practice in public health the effect that bread and butter issues have on population health (which, for this article, we will call zip code neighborhood health).
Today, Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh, not unlike the nation, are experiencing unprecedented health and human services crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is affecting local zip code neighborhoods differently. Communities and populations currently experiencing economic, environmental, social and public health challenges are suffering the most. Just as the county and city declared racism a public health crisis, it is anticipated that Black, Brown and low-income communities will experience disproportionate COVID-19 mortality and morbidity.
The Live Longer project analyzed COVID-19’s effect on the life expectancy of residents in the majority-African American Homewood and other distressed and marginalized zip code neighborhoods. Researchers determined that the life expectancy in these neighborhoods were 11-15 years shorter than the median select neighborhood in USALEEP data—and are worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using CDC data, Lisa Cooper MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, found that COVID-19 has lowered life expectancy 1.2 years and 3.2 years for whites and African Americans, respectively. Data below further shows the effect COVID-19 has on the Homewood zip code (African Americans in Pittsburgh are located in zip codes that Jerry Dickinson describes in his essay “Pittsburgh Is America’s Apartheid City.” https://www.publicsource.org/commentary-jerry-dickinson-pittsburgh-is-americas-apartheid-city/)
Homewood Zip Codes Full and Partial Vaccination Percentages as of June 23 and July 7
AA White Total
15206 30% 73% 66% June 23
31% 73% 67%
15208 29% 73 % 56% July 7
30% 73% 56%
Source: Allegheny County Health DepartmentThe Allegheny County Health Department also reports that 3 out of 5 African American residents are eligible for the vaccine: In African Americans, 35% are fully vaccinated, and 58% of Whites are fully vaccinated.
What Action or Actions Can Improve Life Expectancy
When inequality is too great, the idea of community cannot be realized. When linking decision making to the resources that flow from policies formulated, we must ask: Do those decisions lead to better health and advancing health equity or to worse health and greater health inequity? This article affirms that until mechanisms are in place to hold public decision makers accountable for policy that both advances and achieves social equity, organizations like the Black Equity Coalition, Urban Kind, the Human Rights Working Group, The Pittsburgh Study and The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Project are essential to assure social justice is advanced.
Pittsburghers in zip code neighborhoods plagued by poor social conditions (economic, environmental, social, education and health) live shorter lives and have greater illness than people in more affluent zip code neighborhoods. The marked differences in these neighborhoods will remain until we have social justice and institutional racism is eradicated.
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Even further, Dr. Gianaros and colleagues are trying to better understand what census measures are actually indicating about communities. Census data like median house or property values do not provide a complete picture of a neighborhood. So they are digging into the measures to determine whether they reflect information about green space, pollution, proximity to highways, easy access to health care or overall safety. More research may eventually provide evidence to help support policy changes that could break the link between zip code and unwanted health outcomes.
If where we live causes stress, that can affect health, too.
“Stress is not just in your head,” says Dr. Gianaros. “It’s in your body—an actual physical effect we can measure. It can powerfully shape physical health and how well we grow and age. We are learning more every day about how stress can ‘rewire’ the brain to affect how it functions. Our biggest challenge is to better understand all the factors that might contribute to stress, as well as how we can change them for the better. We’re learning that many of these factors are more or less present across different neighborhoods.”
This scientific understanding about the connection between our neighborhoods and our health may also lead to preventative health measures that people and policy makers could act on in the future.
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Special to RenewableEnergyAccess.com China is likely to be of paramount importance to the solar industry because of its low-cost manufacturing capabilities and potentially enormous domestic demand driven by new government programs. This was made abundantly clear in a recent visit to the country.
We hosted a solar panel discussion at the Piper Jaffray Internet and Technology Conference in Beijing, China, on March 3, and later met with senior management and toured five of the top six solar companies in China. We also met with wafer suppliers in Eastern Europe that supply Chinese solar cell OEMs.
We anticipate that many global solar OEMs are likely to pursue China strategies following the lead of Ersol Solar Energy AG (which appeared at the Piper Jaffray Solar conference in NYC on 2/21) with its JV investment in Shanghai Electric Solar Energy, Ltd. (a module supplier). Conversely, many of the Chinese solar OEMs may forward integrate by acquiring installers/ integrators in Europe and the U.S. Despite the blossoming low cost and integrated solar food chain in China, and several polysilicon feedstock plants that are under construction, there is no panacea to the current polysilicon shortage. Furthermore, we found little next-gen (thin film) technology other than a small 5 MW line in Tianjin.
How has our thesis changed? Our thesis remains that investors should focus on solar companies that offer the promise of lower cost per watt. To that end, solar companies operating in China will play an important role. However given that polysilicon, the major cost driver of solar today (raw poly is 40% of cost), is in short supply with rising prices, we prefer companies that possess technology that reduces (Evergreen Solar) or eliminates (Energy Conversion Devices) the need for polysilicon. Also we view polysilicon suppliers as lower risk solar investments (WFR).
Enormous solar capacity ramp under way in China: Chinese-based manufacturing will help lower the cost of solar. China has enormous (>1,000 MW) low-cost manufacturing capacity coming online over three years, and the entire solar food chain can now be found within China, including polysilicon feedstock, wafer, cell, and module production in addition to domestic wet-chemistry and equipment suppliers. In aggregate, the solar companies in China have focused on module capacity serving historically as an outsourced module- manufacturing partner. Module capacity of 450 MW will rise to 1200 MW by 2008. The 200 MW of domestic solar cell making capacity will rise to 1200 MW exiting 2008 with the ramp of three large cell makers and as certain wafer suppliers forward integrate. Wafer capacity of 100 MW in 2005 will grow to circa 800 MW by 2008 thanks to the production ramp of domestic polysilicon supply as well as large poly supply contracts beginning in 2008.
Chinese manufacturing cost advantages: In addition to labor costs that can be less than $200/month per worker, Chinese solar companies also benefit from lower SG&A (Sales, General and Administration or ‘cost of doing business’) Research & Development, peripheral costs, and tax rate. There is also an expanding solar manufacturing equipment industry that provides equipment at a fraction of the cost of equipment made overseas. The current generation of Chinese manufactured solar equipment includes module lamination, wafer etch/bath, and mono-crystalline wafer pullers (~$150,000 each). Also there is a growing list of lower cost wet-chemistry suppliers for slurry and aluminum paste. Chinese manufacturing lines tend to be more labor intensive and use more domestic equipment, requiring substantially lower capital expenditure. In particular, the Chinese module lines we toured do not run automated assembly equipment and instead favor an all-labor approach; the only equipment required are laminators and module testers.
No Chinese panacea to polysilicon shortage: Three Chinese polysilicon manufacturers dominate the domestic landscape. Sichuan Xinguang is still under construction with initial production in 2007, and 2008 planned capacity of 1,250 metric tons. LSCS now has capacity of ~300 ton, and plans 2007 capacity of 1,000 metric ton. ESM currently has annual polysilicon production of ~100 tons. Domestic poly production will not address near-term poly needs, as most production will not come online until 2008. Spot virgin poly prices are now as high as $200/kg, and many Chinese solar OEMs will happily pay $170/kg to secure poly. High-grade scrap (ingot tops and tails) command >$150/kg, while lower end scrap (pot scrap) can command $50-$70/kg. All solar companies are using a mix of scrap and virgin poly to keep their blended poly cost at ~$130/kg. Several Chinese solar companies, in anticipation of a future capital market transaction, have been stockpiling poly to the order of hundreds of metric tons. Additionally, we toured a major wafer reclaim facility that uses low-cost labor to sort and recycle broken/ rejected wafers from the semiconductor and solar industry.
Large domestic demand anticipated beginning in mid-2006: Solar demand in China is expected to increase significantly over the next several years driven by the Chinese renewable energy program enacted in February. Although the government has not communicated the details, the law is expected to generate 500 MW of annual capacity by 2010 ($3.5B USD), 3 GW by 2020, and 60 GW by 2050. Western China is an ideal location for solar given its 9 to 11 hours of sun per day (greatest in Tibet). Furthermore, many areas in Western China are off-grid and the government has an aggressive rural electrification initiative of ~300 MW. While details on the amount of subsidy have not been communicated, we learned of three large 30 MW solar power station projects planned for 2H06-2007. The prospect of large solar demand in China is likely to only benefit OEMs in China or global players with a manufacturing presence/JV in China. We believe that as funding for Chinese projects are finalized we may see more global OEMs partner or acquire suppliers in China.
Higher module prices and leading edge wafer thickness: Across industry, we find that spot module prices are now at $4.20 per watt. Contract prices remain circa $3.50 and below. In terms of wafer thickness, 240 um thickness is the norm in China and as a result, some manufacturers can now slice 45 wafers per kg of silicon (~100W at 10g/W), up from ~40 wafers (~88 W, 11.5 g/W) just six months ago — a ~15% energy output improvement per kg. Although wafers can be sliced About the author
Jesse W. Pichel, is Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray & Co., a full-service brokerage firm based in Minneapolis, member NYSE and SIPC.
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Bar students are struggling to understand ethical values because of the “massive memory test” awaiting them in the examination room, a senior lecturer has claimed.
William Ralston, a former barrister based at Northumbria University, also questioned why anti-money laundering training does not feature in the Bar professional training course (BPTC) exam.
Mr Ralston said “urgent work” was needed so that Bar schools and students had the “time and space” on the course to understand the ethical values underpinning the code and guidance.
“I’m afraid that what is going on at Bar schools today is that the students are so concerned about anxiously concentrating on recollecting the letters of the code and guidance that they are not concentrating on the spirit of it.”
Mr Ralston said the advocate and the student needed to understand their own personal values, but that was being “crowded out” by putting students through “a massive memory test.”
Speaking at a Bar Standards Board (BSB) Future Bar Training event this week, Mr Ralston said the current assessment method for the ethics element of the BPTC course was short answer questions.
These were designed to test knowledge and understanding of the professional conduct rules and were a “great improvement” on the old Bar vocational course.
However, he said this approach had “significant shortcomings” and whatever model was adopted in the future should aim to ameliorate or eradicate some of them. Mr Ralston attacked the existing “closed book” approach to the exam.
“I do not see the need to deny students access to the codes and guidance in an assessment.
“If the students do not know the codes and guidance relatively closely in a closed book examination, they will fail it, but I think we should get students used to the idea of referring to the documents actively when they need to in practice.
“They shouldn’t be simply learning to pass the exam and clutching for something from the reaches of their memory when an ethical issue arises.”
Mr Ralston said the syllabus also needed to be considered urgently. He said the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) was examinable, but money laundering was not, although students needed to know about it.
“QASA has not come in, and I’m not aware of proposals to bring it in. Money laundering is something you can come across quite quickly in practice and in very innocuous circumstances.
“It is important to give students the task of learning about that in detail for an assessment.”
Mr Ralston said there was a lack of clear guidance on what students were expected to include in their answers to pick up marks. He said a mark could be awarded for each core duty mentioned, or it could only be awarded when two or three core duties were given.
“Students write screeds and screeds, instead of targeted answers, because they don’t know what is expected of them to collect the marks.”
Mr Ralston suggested that one way forward would be an “open book” version of the ethics exam or an assessment where students were put through ethical situations similar to the ones they would face in practice, so they would not be “blind-sided”, through use of a viva voce or some other way.
Meanwhile, new figures from the BSB have shown that the proportion of students failing the BPTC has fallen sharply in the last two years, from 20% to only 11%.
The figures also show that the proportion of students judged ‘outstanding’ on last year’s course rose in the same period from 7% to 13.5%.
A clue may be found in the fact that the number enrolled on the course fell in 2015 by 7%, despite an increase of 9% in the total number of applications.
The diverse nature of those on the BPTC course is reflected in a further sharp fall in the number of white students, who are now easily outnumbered by Asian students (479 to 640). This is partly a result of the growing number of overseas students, which rose to 43% of the total last year.
When UK and European students are separated from their colleagues, around 63% are white, 20% Asian and 8.5% from black backgrounds.
However, less than 20% of the pupillages awarded to European BPTC students went to BAME candidates (19.7%), while almost half (48.2%) went to women.
In all, only 37% of BPTC students who enrolled between 2011 and 2015 secured pupillages.
Ewen MacLeod, director of strategy and policy at the BSB, said the data would “provide a benchmark to help us measure the future success of the limited number of alternative approaches” authorised in the future.
Andrew Langdon QC, chairman of the Bar Council, said that while competition at the Bar was as tough as ever, the profession was becoming increasingly diverse.
In a separate development, the BSB has launched a consultation on the information barristers are required to give when applying for their practising certificate.
They include which areas of law they practise in, what proportion of their income is derived from each area and how much, if any, is derived from public access work.
The BSB is also seeking views on the method for compulsory registration of barristers involved in proceedings at the Youth Court. The regulator said this would allow it “to take steps to ensure that they have the specialist skills, knowledge and attributes necessary to work with young people”.
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A relatively minor point, though not trivial, has been the issue of the biological relatedness of the Jewish people, and their relatedness to the nations among whom they were resident. This particular point became more starkly relevant with a scientific understanding of human genealogy and genetic relationship in the 18th and especially 19th centuries, but its root can be traced back to antiquity. Jews are not simply a set of individuals who espouse a belief in the God of the Jews, or hold to the laws of the God of the Jews. Rather, one aspect of Jewish identity is its collective component whereby the adherents of the Jewish religion also conceive of themselves as a particular nation or tribe, and therefore bound together by a chain of biological descent.
South African categorization of Cultural and Creative Industries …………. Characteristics of a Cohesive and Unified Society ……………………………… 37 Figure 2: Cultural and Creative Industries Cycle of Activities ………………………….
Example of the structure of a National Institution ……………………………. We believe that arts, culture and heritage play a pivotal role in the economic empowerment and skills Personal cultural assessment paper of a people. The vision has emerged and is informed by various intensive consultative processes and meetings with role-players involved in ACH and the Cultural and Creative Industries from late to date.
Role-players from the ACH sector also participated in consultative sessions, and provided verbal and written input, on draft versions of the White Paper. In building up to revising the White Paper, the DAC, guided by the political and strategic leadership of its Minister and Deputy Minister, held two 2 significant national consultative processes; i.
The attendance of representatives of the ACH sector and the Cultural and Creative Industries exceeded expectations and collectively a minimum of sector representatives participated in charting the way forward for ACH and the Creative and Cultural Industries to successfully perform its dual socio-economic development role.
The policy related contributions of representatives at both national consultative conferences form the substance of this revised White Paper.
Similarly, policy contributions from specific ACH sub-sectors communicated in meetings held with the Minister and Deputy Minister have been incorporated, as well as policy content reflected within various reports of engagements with the sector and policy review reports — some of which date back to Some of these were policy specific, some focused on implementation and others drilled down to specific sub-sectors of ACH.
Implementation focused proposals have been incorporated into the implementation plan of the White Paper and the sector-specific information will be included in sector specific strategies to be developed after the adoption of this White Paper which will provide the policy framework for all strategies.
Part 1 of the White Paper provides the context for the Revision. It includes chapters that provide a background and historical overview of ACH; describes the current status quo of ACH and the Cultural and Creative Industries in the country; and lists the existing policies and legislation that inform the White Paper.
Arts, Culture and Heritage as a human right and a key element of socio-economic development are reflected in Part 2, and the Purpose, Scope and Key Principles of the revised White Paper is contained in Part 3. Part 4 reflects the Vision and Outcomes. The Strategic Approach that will be applied to advancing ACH and the Cultural and Creative Industries, and the Strategic Levers that will be used to drive this is contained in Parts 5 and 6 respectively.
Revised White Paper on Arts, Culture and Heritage Final Version October 11 P a g e Part 7 highlights the main roles and responsibilities of various role-players from all sectors of society.
Monitoring and evaluating the implementation of this revised White Paper is addressed in Part 8. Annexure A is a high level implementation Plan that gives effect to this White Paper. These divides appear to be rooted in differences in opinion rather than as fundamentally opposed paradigms; and more often than not the various definitions for a single term overlaps and fuses.
Despite these definitional difficulties inherent in the ACH landscape this revised White Paper attempts to be as exhaustive as possible in terms of stating policy positions on all elements that impact on ACH and the Cultural and Creative Industries, the development of the sector and their ability to play the socio-economic role contained herein.
The definitional placement of a specific area of work in this revised White Paper does not pretend or claim to be absolute in its placement but rather errs on the side of ensuring inclusivity.
It serves as means of individual and collective creativity and expression and can be conveyed through performance, execution, presentation, exhibition, transmission and study. It includes arts and heritage, as well as modes of life, ideas, worldviews, fundamental rights of human beings, value systems, traditions and beliefs.
It finds expression in the behavior, relationships and other forms of social, political and economic interaction of individuals and social groups.
Culture is developed over time and subject to change. Some of the sub-sectors of Culture are drama, dance, language and indigenous art. It is an expression of the traditions, customs, rituals, practices, beliefs and legacies that is practiced by and transferred from generation to generation.
Sometimes a distinction is made between the creative and the cultural industries; at other times the two terms are used interchangeably.
According to the afore-mentioned Report: For example, the United Kingdom UK uses both terms, i.Guidelines to help psychologists make their practices more accessible and disability-sensitive, enhancing their working relationships with clients with disabilities, and more.
Example 2: The information handling practices of a telecommunications company and its internet service provider (ISP) were considered in an investigation following media reports that a server holding the telecommunications company’s customer personal information had .
Heritage Assessment Cheri Montoro Grand Canyon University NRSV Linda Gobin August 06, Heritage Assessment This paper will assess and discuss the usefulness of applying the Heritage Assessment tool to evaluate three different families each one from different cultural backgrounds consisting of Greek, Italian, and Hispanic ethnicities.
Cultural Identity and Ethnicity For appropriate assessment, it is critical that culturally and linguistically competent staff are available. The assessor must be aware of the importance of the client’s cultural identity and the extent of his or her acculturation into the dominant culture.
An ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions involving ideas (cognitive skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills).
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The Legal Genealogist has said it before and will say it again… and again… and again…
The hallmark of ethical genealogy is the utmost respect for the privacy of living people and the disclosure of information about living people only with their consent.1
And — as stressed in last week’s DNA Sunday blog post — the hallmark of ethical DNA testing is informed consent2 — by definition, “an agreement to do something or to allow something to happen, made with complete knowledge of all relevant facts, such as the risks involved or any available alternatives.”3
So when we sit here, a week before the holidays, and think about giving a DNA kit as a gift, that means we’re going to have to make sure the person we give it to gives informed consent to the test.
These days we’re all pretty clear — or we should be — that we need to make sure the recipient understands that the test can produce a whole host of unexpected results, from finding close relatives whose existence wasn’t previously known to discovering that a person believed to be a parent or grandparent has no biological relationship to the test taker at all, and everything in between.
But we also need to make sure the recipient gives informed consent to a whole host of things we often don’t think about asking in advance.
A few examples:
• Does the recipient of the kit to letting us access the results? Or even manage the test?
• If the recipient agrees to let us manage the test, does that include downloading the raw data and uploading it elsewhere, to another company’s or service’s database?
• If we are managing the test, do we have permission in advance to add on other services or tests that are or become available? For example, if our recipient is being tested at Family Tree DNA with a 67-marker YDNA test, do we have the right to go on and upgrade that test to 111 markers or more?
• How are we going to handle the situation if our recipient later changes his mind and wants the test results and sample destroyed? Do we expect him to pay us back for the cost of the test?
• Who has the right to manage the test and make decisions about it after the recipient dies?
These are all critical aspects of informed consent — and they need to be discussed and resolved before the recipient sends in that sample. Otherwise, the least we can expect is hurt feelings; the worst, well … let’s just say nobody wants to talk about lawsuits over the holidays.
So… how do we know we’ve covered all the important bases? How can we be sure our recipient has actually given informed consent on all these bits and pieces?
We borrow — with permission, of course — from the experts.
Two of the leading experts in the use of genetic evidence in genealogy have made informed consent templates available under what’s called Creative Commons licensing — in this case, the CC Attribution 4.0 International License. Under that license, we’re all allowed to freely use and share and even change the templates, even if we use them commercially, but we have to give attribution, link to the license and indicate if we made any changes.
Blaine T. Bettinger, who blogs as The Genetic Genealogist and is the author of The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy,4 and Debbie Parker Wayne, another blogger (Deb’s Delvings in Genealogy), editor of Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies5 and co-author with Blaine of Genetic Genealogy in Practice,6 have kindly made sample templates available to us.
These are on an as-is basis. They’re not legal advice. If you use them, you need to carefully consider whether they meet all your needs. For example, they were all prepared before the issue of law enforcement access to genealogical databases blew up, and so there should be a check-box added for whether the test taker wishes to opt into or opt out from law enforcement access to their results as matches. That being said, the following are a great place to start:
• Informed Consent Agreement (Bettinger)
• Beneficiary Designation Form (Bettinger)
• Consent Form for a Project (Wayne)
• Consent Form for a Family Member (Wayne)
Each of these asks, specifically, that the test taker read, review and agree to the Genetic Genealogy Standards put forth by some of the best and brightest in this field.
We all know that getting consent is something we need to do if we’re to maintain the ethical standards of our field.
It isn’t always easy, and making sure we have informed consent can be off-putting.
But forming consent — having a form to review and document the process with our test takers and even for ourselves — is a lot easier thanks to Blaine and Debbie.
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Forming consent,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 15 Dec 2019).
- See e.g. Judy G. Russell, “The rights of the living,” The Legal Genealogist, posted 19 Nov 2018 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 15 Dec 2019). ↩
- Ibid., “Before we buy that kit…,” The Legal Genealogist, posted 8 Dec 2019. ↩
- Wex, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex : accessed 8 Dec 2019), “informed consent.” ↩
- Blaine T. Bettinger, The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy, 2d ed. (Blue Ash OH: Family Tree Books, 2019). ↩
- Debbie Parker Wayne, ed., Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies (Cushing, TX: Wayne Research, 2019). ↩
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Scholarships provide the scholars to fulfill their dreams who are not having finance for education as expected. Public and private organizations have come forward to present monetary assistance to capable students. Scholarship is an incentive and encouragement for weaker students to pursue education. Education isn’t solely meant for students, even ground level workers to professionals need additional education to become more self capable for future. Here we are showcasing scholarships available for students.
There are a number of scholarships available offered by state and central government, public and private organizations and Indian and International companies to provide education. Scholarship is given to the meritorious students of any age group. Scholarships are available for from 1st standard student to postgraduate student and from differently-abled students to young women. And some of them are:
1.For higher education:
(1)Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship
82000 scholarships are given to meritorious students in the age group of 18-25 years to pursue higher studies, whose family income is less than 6 lakh per annum. Portal name is http://www.scholarships.gov.in
(2)Scholarship for Post-Metric Studies in Hindi
The scholarship is available for students from non-Hindi speaking states to learn Hindi. 2500 scholarships are given for full-time courses in Hindi for the scholars from post-metric class to post graduation level. The exam is conducted by education boards, university or voluntary Hindi organizations in different states and union territories. One can find details of the scheme on the state’s education portal.
(3)Prime Minister Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS)
Scholarship scheme is to encourage J & K youth to educate themselves from institutions of other states and know the different caste and creeds people of the country. 5000 scholarships are available for 12th students to require engineering and medical graduation degree. Link is http://www.aicte-jk-scholarship-gov.in/
(4)Narottam Sekhsaria Foundation PG scholarship
Mr. Narotam Sekhsaria, an entrepreneur of Ambuja Cements sets up Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, a non-profit organization. Foundation offer scholarship to the students who need to pursue post graduation in pure sciences, applied sciences, social sciences and humanities, law, architecture or management from Indian institutes or abroad. PG scholarship is for students of graduation degree in their interest field and awards Rs. 20 lakh. Link is http://pg.nsfoundation.co.in
2. For meritorious students:
National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarships (NMMS)
The centrally governed by School Education and Literacy, the scholarship scheme offered to 9th standard to 12th standard, i.e. it is a four-year scheme given on a quarterly basis. 100000 scholarships are given to the students whose family financial gain comes under Rs. 1.5 Lac per annum.
3. For girl/women:
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) offers Pragati scholarship for a single girl in the family with an annual income less than Rs. 6 Lakhs. It encourages 4000 girl education in technical fields to become professional workforce in the industry.
(2)Maulana Azad National Scholarship
The Maulana Azad Educational Foundation (MAEF), funded by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, a non-political non-profit voluntary organization promotes education for scholar girls of weaker sections (Muslim, Christian, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh and Parsees). The scholarship covers expenses of girl in 12th standard with family income less than Rs 1 Lac from school expenses for boarding and lodging expenses and provided in two installments of Rs. 12000. For more details visit the official website: www.maef.nic.in
(3)INSPIRE SHE Scholarships 2017
The Department of Science & Technology (DST) of the Ministry of Science & Technology offers the Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) for Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE). 10,000 scholarships are given every year to attract talents to pursue higher education in science stream. Scholarship is about Rs. 80,000 inspire Class XII students to undertake research project in research centers of India every year with their three-year or five-year integrated bachelor or master degree science course. The student will get scholar if he can rank himself under 10000 in JEE (mains), JEE (advanced), NEET (medical) or IISERS. Details are available at www.inspire-dst.gov.in
(4)Fair and Lovely Scholarship for Women
The Fair & Lovely Foundation offer a scholarship of Rs. 1 lakh to the talented girls and women every year. It provides scholarship for higher education, career development and startup business. Eligibility criteria vary with one’s selected scholarship. For more details visit its official website.
4. For minorities:
Merit cum Means Scholarship:
60,000 Merit-cum-Means Scholarships are award for the students belonging to minority communities to pursue undergraduate and post-graduation courses. Out of them 30 percent stake has put aside for girl students. One can get a scholarship for the course like engineering and technology, management, pharmacy, architecture, hotel management, arts, design, medical, paramedical, veterinary, accounts, ICWA, company secretary and law.
5.For differently-abled students:
AICTE offers Saksham scholarship for specially-abled students of families with annual financial gain less than Rs. 6 lakh. It encourages specially-abled students to acquire technical education to become skilled workforce. It provides complete 1000 free of cost scholarships to differently-abled students. For more details, visit AICTE website.
6.For J & K students:
Prime Minister Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS):
Scholarship scheme is to encourage J & K youth to educate themselves from institutions of other states and know the different caste and creeds people of the country. 5000 scholarships are available for 12th students to get engineering and medical graduation degree. Link is http://www.aicte-jk-scholarship-gov.in/
7.For technical education:
AICTE offers Pragati scholarship for a single girl child in the family with an annual income less than Rs. 6 lakh. It encourages 4000 girl education in technical fields to become professional workforce within the technical industry.
AICTE offers Saksham scholarship for specially-abled students of families with annual income less than Rs. 6 Lac. It encourages specially-abled students to take technical education to become skilled workforce. It provides complete 1000 free of cost scholarship to differently-abled students. For more details, visit AICTE website.
c)IITB-Monash Research Academy Ph.D. Scholarships
IITB-Monash Research Academy is a partnership with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Monash University to provide research education in technology and engineering and technology. It provides Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) scholarship of Rs. 2.8 lakh per annum for student having a bachelor or master degree in the field.
8.For management education:
OP Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarships (OPJEMS)
OP Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarships (OPJEMS) are for engineering and management students to provide leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The OPJEMS Scholarship awards 100 students from premier institutions such as IIT, IIM, NIT etc. It provides Rs. 65000 for engineering students and Rs. 1.25 lakh for management students with medal and certificate. Website link is: www.opjems.com
Some more organizations, universities and foundations with their scholarship schemes are: University Grants Commission, IOCL, SBI, Sarojini Damodaran Foundation, Mahabir Prasad Singh Foundation Scholarship, Gaurav Foundation, Jindal foundation, The Sanskriti Foundation, L’Oréal India, Colgate, MICA Ahmedabad, VIT University, Osmania university, NIIT University, IITM Pune, FAEA scholarship, NHFDC, Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship, National fellowship, Swami Viveckanand scholarship, Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships, SICI fellowships and OPJEMS scholarship. Numbers of scholarships are available for scholar students from different public and private organizations. As per education field of interest, one can get access to the official website of the organization. Scholarship is a helpful for proficient students to pursue higher education and dreams higher within the restricted financial condition. | <urn:uuid:52fe5346-8cde-40de-875a-0c80e99e5064> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.parentsassembly.com/scholarships-for-education-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.924997 | 1,797 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Tree Canopy Bus Shelter
Support this interdisciplinary design project that could revolutionize the way we address climate change through the design and production of street infrastructure.
An important approach to mitigating climate change in urban areas is the development of adaptable green infrastructure in cities. Students in film, engineering, landscape architecture and urban forestry have worked collaboratively to develop prototype green bus shelters; these shelters will be used to research the value of small, replicable structures that can retain and release stormwater with lower impact. The concept was inspired by the architecture of the forest, which can have layered canopies that delay stormwater from reaching the forest floor. This is important because part of the problem with stormwater management in cities now is that high volumes of water reach their drainage outfalls too fast, dismantling natural waterflow systems that are central to BC’s ecosystem.
The prototype is valuable is several ways. It will not only help quantify the validity of using forest architecture to address the challenge of managing stormwater more sustainably, but also address UBC’s own sustainability-based strategies such as the Public Realm Plan Evaluation and ISMP, as well as emerging plans such as the Green Building Action Plan, and the emerging Biodiversity Strategy. In order to proceed with constructing the prototype, we must raise all the funds possible. Building the prototype will also enable the development of qualitative research into how biophilic green infrastructure will impact student wellbeing (“biophilia” is the innate tendency for humans to connect with nature).
Challenges & Impact of your Support
The greatest support we have received at UBC is from the SEEDS Sustainability Program, a program that connects students, faculty and staff to further the momentum of high value projects such as ours. This learning environment has enabled collaborative interdisciplinary work that has not only developed solid research, data loggers and bus shelter designs, but has actively done so by producing opportunities for students to hone their skills from project management to website development. Such progress demonstrates the impact we have already had on our campus, and the impact we can guarantee to have beyond construction.
Nonetheless, the challenge of funding our project can only be surmounted by support from the wider campus community and beyond. The construction milestone of this project sums to $110,000, but the value of this project goes beyond that price; by funding the construction of our project, donors will effectively be enabling research in design that could revolutionize the way we address climate change through the design and production of everyday infrastructure.
About Tree Canopy Bus Shelter
A team of approximately 25 students, faculty and operational staff have worked together to achieve 2 out of the 3 milestones we set up at the project’s beginning: to obtain development permits and develop data loggers for data collection upon construction. The last milestone is to construct the bus shelters, and that’s where your support will make the difference!
Professor Daniel Roehr: Project Supervisor, Professor at UBC SALA
Tabinda Shah: Project Manager of Tree Canopy, B. Urban Forestry, recipient of the International Leader of Tomorrow Award.
Karianne Howarth: M. Landscape Architecture, Project Landscape Architect
Roger Luo, Albert Yu, Ruth Negash, Stewart Pearson: Project Electrical Engineers
Bruno Martin del Campo: Film producer of Crowdfunding video
Krista Falkner, UBC Transportation Sustainability and Engineering
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Since the past few decades, technology has not only developed itself at an exponential rate, it is also revolutionizing other aspects of our life. Food, communication, health, businesses; many industries have gone through disruptive innovation because of technological advancement. Interestingly, tech didn’t take much long to revolutionize the education industry, that too at a major scale. With this massive recent influx of technology inside education, educators are worried if this trend would prove to be fatal to the traditional pre-determined learning track.
Will MOOCs promote education or worsen it?
It hasn’t been too long since Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) started reaching out to us in the form of platforms like Coursera, edX, Udacity and more. While MOOCs is relatively a newer concept, ICTs resources required in classrooms are at a rather smaller scale as online discussion forums, tutorials, lecture videos, and collaborative online projects substitute the traditional learning environment. It is not until recently, though, that the prestigious names of the educational world have joined the race and their offerings have attracted eyeballs worldwide. Enrollments in these free online courses are ballooning by thousands with each new offering.
Educationists worldwide are discussing if MOOCs will disrupt the way education has been since past many decades; having a strict track to be followed by each student. It is also been debated if these course offerings will drive students away from traditional education system and in fact make them slack off the education track.
Courses are free, open to everyone and hence students don’t feel obliged to finish a course. Many people also take these courses to enhance their knowledge or to learn about something new without the intention to complete it by taking the exam. Hence we can hardly know how many enrolled students actually benefit from these offerings depending merely on the passing statistics.
Babson Survey Research Group found that enrollment in online college courses of all kinds increased by 29 percent between 2010 and 2012. It also reported that the number of students in conventional universities and colleges has started to decline. If students fail to focus on online learning because it’s offered for free after already abandoning the traditional educational system, are we going towards a non-educational or non-serious educational era?
Why MOOCs won’t disrupt Pakistan’s educational system?
In contrast, the same concerns cannot be portrayed about Pakistan’s education sector. Locally, it is more about the ability to reach and have access to the very latest content offered by any course than how it would affect the traditional education system. Majority of curriculum being taught in Pakistan is decades old.
“I took a Computer Networking MOOC from University of Washington’s department of Computer Science. It boosted my knowledge to nowhere comparable to the courses offered by my university. That course was more advanced and gave me latest in-depth insight.” – Astronomer Bilal, a final year student of Telecommunications told me.
Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) is considered to offer a “wholesome” alternative method of education and is reckoned to attract better careers and societal validation in our part of the world. CIE, though, has its own flaws of perpetuating Eurocentric colonial history, promoting mushrooming tutoring culture and also the native infatuation with grades.
International Baccalaureate (IB) is yet another alternative nonconventional, learning-based mode of education. However, unlike CIE it hasn’t been successful to attract many proponents since its inception in Pakistan in 1996 due to financial and security constraints.
“IB offers online courses for Diploma program. A student can opt for any course outside school through Pamoja. This allows students to opt for courses of their interest which are not offered at TIS”, commented Registrar, The International School, Karachi.
Although MOOCs may not attract many students in Pakistan considering the electricity outages and Internet connectivity problems that Pakistan’s rural regions face, it is a growing trend in urban areas helping students be up-to-date about their desired subject. These international courses offer students with latest curriculum, industry happenings and a way to collaborate with students globally enhancing their knowledge and opening their minds to newer fields.
Internationally, educationists are worried if students actually learn in an MOOC; locally these courses provide better opportunities for students to learn about varied courses, not traditionally offered in Pakistani colleges. Even if, for now, it benefits the urban residents only, it should still be promoted and not relegated. While CIE and IB present the choices for affluent class considering the higher fee structures, MOOCs naturally benefit everyone with a good internet connection demoting hegemonic class divide. | <urn:uuid:72d944e7-d144-45c2-8665-729426ab4357> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.futurechallenges.org/local/moocs-and-their-impact-on-pakistans-traditional-education-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955939 | 977 | 2.75 | 3 |
JONESPORT, Maine – KEAN Energy LLC, a Turner-based renewable power company, is proposing two small-scale wind farms Down East, one in Jonesport and the other in Lubec. Both are getting lots of local support. Residents have been promised at least a 10 percent reduction in their electricity bills and a major infusion of tax dollars.
Both communities held a hearing on the proposal Tuesday night.
Kirk Nadeau, one of the principals in KEAN Energy, said Wednesday that the company is guided by transparency and even though no building permit is required in Lubec, the presentation Tuesday night to the town’s planning board was well-received.
“There was a very high level of support,” Nadeau said. “We agreed to provide a draft scope of the work and the planning board and selectmen will supply us with letters of endorsement.”
Nadeau said the letters would help in securing state permits for the project.
Lubec Town Manager John Southern said Wednesday that he is not sensing any local opposition to the turbines.
“People go from either being interested to being excited,” he said.
Dwight Alley, a Jonesport selectman, said Tuesday night’s meeting there went very well, and the project has wide support in the community. One person did register some concerns about sound issues, but Alley said those were allayed when it was explained that these are small turbines and noise should not be a problem.
“Overall, the town is quite happy,” Alley said.
Support has been high all through the Jonesport process, Peter Whitney of KEAN Energy said Wednesday.
“At the town vote last November more than 80 percent approved our project,” he said.
According to Nadeau and documents filed by KEAN Energy, the projects are nearly identical. Each would consist of three wind turbines that will be connected to the Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. power grid by an underground service. Each tower will be 260 feet tall with three 130-foot-long blades. When the base, tower and blades are combined, each turbine will be 400 feet high. Each tower will include aircraft lighting.
Each three-turbine project is estimated to cost $10.5 million.
According to company information, each of the farms will be designed for 4.5 megawatts, equal to three utility-grade wind turbines, with an estimated annual energy production of 13,849 megawatts per hour, equivalent to powering 1,776 homes based on an annual average electrical use of 7,800 kilowatt-hours per household.
In Jonesport, town officials approved the placement of the turbines last fall just off Mason Bay Road, and KEAN Energy is now in the process of completing wind tests to determine the effectiveness of the project site.
“So far it is looking perfect,” Nadeau said.
The Jonesport farm will be on 345 acres owned by David and Priscilla Look.
In Lubec, the turbines would be placed on property owned by Ricky Wilcox. The 313-acre property will be accessed by a private road from Route 191, and the closest property is 4,000 feet away.
At a Lubec selectmen’s meeting last week, officials were very receptive of the project presentation, particularly when it was learned that taxes on the turbine farm could generate $160,000 annually.
“We are welcoming people who come in here and invest in the community and create jobs,” said William Daye, the chairman of the selectmen.
Lubec officials also were told that 70 temporary and five permanent jobs would be created by both projects combined.
Billy Milliken, the company’s developer, said the project in Jonesport, which has been under way for about a year, “is in my backyard. We have been very well-received in Jonesport. These are local guys who are reinvesting in the community.”
Nadeau said that each project must file for three permits from the state – Certification for Small-Scale Wind Energy Developments, Natural Resources Protection Act Permit and Stormwater Management Law Permit.
KEAN Energy LLC was founded in 2007 by Nadeau, a Maine Maritime Academy graduate. The company’s initial focus was project engineering but shifted to renewable power in 2009.
The company also has proposed a similar project at Streaked Mountain in Buckfield.
Nadeau said other locations are on the company’s radar for expansion but no announcements are being made at this time.
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LG Neon 300N1C
300 Watt Solar Module Black Frame
- Black frame/white backsheet
- Very high area efficiency module with LG’s newly developed “Cello Technology” which increases power output and improves appearance
- Extremely low LID (Light Induced Degradation)
- Double sided cell structure produces energy from both the front and back. By absorbing light from the backside of the panel as well, the cells are more efficient, particularly when the sun’s angle is lower
- LG Neon2 modules with Enhanced Performance Warranty
The LG Neon2 300N1C-G4 is what is known as an “N” panel instead of the more usual “P” module. The “P” panels use boron to dope the panels but boron unites with free oxygen molecules in the silicon module causing cloudiness in the cell, or Light Induced Degradation (LED).
The “N” panel, however, uses phosphorous instead of boron which does not cause Light Induced Degradation, and makes the panels more powerful. This is why a 60-celled “N” panel has as much power as a 72-celled “P” module. In addition, LG’s new Cello Technology uses round wires instead of square and this scatters the light thus giving the panel a higher output. The Cello Technology also uses many more wires, creating less resistance and less internal heat.
Some manufacturers have produced “N” panels with a copper backing on the cell but this can create a problem where the cell attracts dust (just like an old CRT). This is not an issue with the LG Neon; in addition the panel is backed by LG, one of the most favored electronic manufacturers.
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The entire startup community has taken MVP app development by storm ever since Eric Ries first introduced the phrase in 2008. In this week’s article, we will dive into how exactly business wins you may gain by using an MVP app development approach for your next brilliant idea.
In case you miss our previous post: A Guide to benefit MVP app development
When starting up a new business, with limited funding and scarce resources, it is always wiser and safer to start out with something small then gradually upgrade it day by day than push all your effort into something big which doesn’t guarantee results. That’s why MVP app development is often a great start.
Eric Ries, entrepreneur, and author of Lean Startup put great emphasis on: “We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.”
Unless you have a really big budget and lots of resources on hand to spend on professional customer research, it is wiser to start small and see how customers respond to your product.
The concept of MVP app development emphasizes the strongest features of your app that respond well to your target audience (TA)’s needs. At the same, it can save you time and money.
Through this approach, you can gain continuous feedback from customers. Meanwhile, it allows you to add more features and functionality gradually. This is a much more effective way than launching a complete set of features.
In our previous post, we demonstrated a step-by-step guide on how to start MVP app development and highlighted some successful examples. We understand there are many things at risk when starting out. That’s why we keep providing you new insights on this topic to help your MVP app development journey as smoothly as it can get.
Check out our post: Step-by-step guide
Here are the most common barriers and challenges your firms can easily overcome by building MVP software.
Top 5 common problems of tech startups (with tips!)
Problem 1. Trying to answer everyone’s needs
It is a common mistake when you’re trying to develop an application to serve everybody. Same as selling a soda can, your application should focus on a certain TA. Understanding their needs, behavior, likes, and dislikes is important when building an app that meets their needs.
By narrowing your customer segmentation down, you have a much higher chance to gain their attention. Eventually, succeed.
If your TA sees the need to use your app, and the reasons to keep using it constantly, they are more likely to tell their friends and family. Ultimately, they will spread the word to their communities (a similar TA!).
Problem 2. Being overwhelmed with too many checklists and unnecessary features
Startups often failed to distinguish between important and nice-to-have features. Thus killing a good product with way too many unnecessary features. 42% of cases cited the number 1 reason for failure was tackling problems that are interesting to solve rather than those that meet a market need.
Launching a full-packed software from the very start can be very appealing. But exhausting and overwhelming.
With your limited resources, it can overwhelm your team with hundreds of high-priority tasks. In addition, it also affects you as an owner with how big and impractical your dream is… More importantly, it overwhelms users with the complexity of the solutions you put out to the market.
Lack of usability is among 20 reasons why a new product/service fails when reaching the market, CB Insights.
Try to make your product as simple and user-friendly as possible.
In Apple’s very first marketing brochure, the tagline was “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. Steve Jobs also supported this statement by having said: “It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges, and come up with elegant solutions.”
So, look back to where you are, thinking where in your project can you turn it down a notch and take some pressure off?
Problem 3. Being uncertain of your app primary purpose
Back in 2014, serial entrepreneurs Chris Koch and Chad Stephens invested $4 million to launch Pop!, whose initial purpose was unclear for their users. Pop! was something like a “personal data wallet”. It allows users to store, manage the personal data they provided online and auto-fill forms over various pages in just one click.
Not long after the product turned out to be a recipe for disaster due to its complicated functions. However, one outstanding feature was well received by the public. It was the auto-fill function for mobile that made online shopping much easier and faster. And Fillr was born.
Koch and Stephens did not have a clear understanding of their app’s primary function, therefore, they had to suffer significant loss both from a financial and productivity standpoint. As a result, they were forced to rethink and rebrand their product.
Making investments in fuzzy ideas leads to adding new features that have little in common with the existing ones. That reduces product value.
Problem 4. Facing funding issues
There are over 500,000 startups were born in the United States each year. Just a small minority of them actually receive funding support from venture capitalists or Angel investors: around 30,000 were supported by Angel investors, and only 1,000 of them were by venture capitalists.
The remaining had to use the savings of themselves or friends and family for developing their new entrants.
Josh Lerner from Harvard Business School stated that 90% of startups fail to find financial support after they had invested their money, thus suffering in defeat.
Problem 5. Undermining the role of smart marketing
In order to appeal to and retain customers, you as a business owner need to understand the value of marketing. If you still believe that the app is able to popularize by itself, don’t bother asking why people don’t use it.
Find out a core group of early users from your TA and make effort to engage with them and convince them to try out your product.
Though it may take some time, this promotion strategy (known as direct sales) will get you early feedback and open more new insights for a future marketing plan.
A popular example is Airbnb, run by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia. The early users of this vacation rental were hosts and guests in New York City. Chesky and Gebbia flew all the way to New York to meet with hosts every week. Their goals were to attract more customers and help hosts make more deals.
To help with that, they arranged training sessions for hosts like how to price listings better, take more high-quality photos, and much more.
Additionally, they also asked hosts to give recommendations of their products to those who might be fascinated. Only after their client base grew, they proceeded to more advanced features and tactics.
Because there are limitations in resources, from time, money to talent, you may see yourself postpone all marketing activities. If you still believe doing marketing alongside your project is difficult, try to consider how difficult it is to grow your business without it.
Let’s face today’s harsh reality: you should always be marketing, even before you have a completed product.
In case you miss our previous post, we talk about 5 mistakes you might face when starting your MVP app development journey. Read it here!
Why MVP app development is the name of the solution?
Seeing the challenges faced by startups, the good news is that MVP app development is here to help. If you are still unsure what we mean by MVP app development, check out our previous article where we explain what this term is and how it looks in practice.
Read our previous article: Explanation of MVP app development
MVP app development can be the antidote for your problems and leverage for you to accelerate because:
Reason 1. It helps you to focus on a niche market
After you’ve defined your TA, MVP app development will give you many chances to test your product with real adopters. Consequently, you can get an in-depth understanding of if users really enjoy your idea or not. It also can check if your products respond to market demand or not.
The collected feedback from users helps you to:
- Validate your core value proposition
- Prepare the revenue model
- Segment your target audience based on requirements
Well-thought-out MVP app development can give you more useful information and feedback than any kind of stand-alone survey or business plan.
Reason 2. It lets your focus your competencies on what’s most important
In our previous article on MVP app development, the important point of every MVP is that it includes a minimum set of features making it viable and allowing launching as soon as possible.
This limited scope of work is more achievable and creates less stress tension for your team.
Additionally, you do not need to build every single nice-to-have feature, MVP app development saves you costs in design as well as implementation. By doing this, you can relieve some tension on your budget and focus on features your TA really wants and needs.
Reason 3. It helps in validating the primary function
There is no internal teasing that can show you how the end-user will work with your product. Real user testing can only be experienced by bringing the product to market as soon as possible and measuring whether its key functionality matches TA expectations.
Here it is, product validation with minimum risks!
Reason 4. It helps to attract venture capitalists and Investors
Attracting investors is something startups will tend to look for. It is important to understand what investors usually consider when deciding to invest. Let’s hear what TA Ventures, a Top 10 Venture Capitalist fund in Germany, take into account:
- Investment opportunities (namely market size, growth potential, and competitors)
As a general rule, investors measure the potential revenue for the following 5 years. They need to decide how much money the company needs at an early stage of development. Also, if the market can settle the money back as revenue.
The founders tend to be the very first thing most investors evaluate. A team, particularly founders, should be experts in their respective fields and work like a well-oiled machine.
Daniel Gennaoui and Francesco Facca, founders of collaborative blogging platform Niume, advise startups: “First, you need a strong founding team with complementary skills that can actually deliver on their promises. Second, you need an MVP app, showing that there is traction and interest for the product and people willing to use and pay for it.”
- The product itself (with a clear understanding of how it can win sales)
Project pitch presentation usually lasts for 10-15 minutes.
So you need to express your ideas as concisely and informatively as possible. Having a working MVP app right by your side increases chances multiply when gaining trust with your potential business angels.
Investors don’t have a tendency to pour cash into the abstract idea of a successful app. It is the reality that your idea isn’t that important to them, but a validated and well-thought-out idea is the best thing you can offer.
Therefore, timing is of the essence. The quicker you have a working product to pitch to stakeholders, the better. With our new approach, you can have a demo product just within 3 weeks! If you are currently unsure, please keep on reading.
If you are interested to learn more, check out how we do it!
So make your product work with the MVP app development approach and give investors more reasons to feel like they are really missing out (FOMO) or losing a chance to make money if they don’t take a glance at your company and your pitch.
Reason 5. It saves time and money for marketing
Eric Ries stated that the only way to win now is to learn faster than anyone else in the market.
Releasing your app quickly to the market can benefit you significantly when building relationships with customers and expanding the client base later on.
Thanks to MVP app development, companies can become more agile and resilient throughout their operations that include marketing. Each new product development iteration allows your startup to gain great insight. Above all, it helps you seamlessly adapt to constantly changing market needs.
The tech market is turbulent. Therefore, you need to bear in mind that your marketing effort is not a one and done.
Right when you have polished your idea, and gather a diverse team with different and relevant sets of skills, it’s high time you build your product.
MVP app development lets you overcome obstacles, gain primary feedback from early adopters, and make wiser decisions on future investments.
Only focus on what really matters most and do it one step at a time.
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While a man was polishing his car, his 6 year old son picked a stone and scratched lines on the side of the car.
In anger, the man took the child’s hand and hit it many times, not realizing he was using a wrench.
At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple fractures. When the child saw his father with painful eyes, he asked, ‘Dad when will my fingers grow back?’
The man was so hurt and speechless; he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times.
Devastated by his own action and sitting in front of the car he looked at the scratches; the child had written ‘LOVE YOU DAD’.
The next day that man committed suicide.
Love and anger have no limits; choose the first to have a beautiful and lovely life.
Things are to be used and people are to be beloved. But the problem in today’s world is that, people are used and things are loved.
As this year is going to an end let’s be careful to keep this thought in mind in the coming year: Things are to be used, but people are to be loved.
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also – Matthew 6 : 19 – 21.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things – 1 Corinthians 13 : 4 -7.
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- The open source developer tool GitHub has released its annual ranking of programming languages.
- Most languages have remained stagnant, with exceptions like C which have fallen one place below Shell.
GitHub grew to host over 73 million developers since its launch thirteen years ago, because users see the value of an open source platform for collaborating and distributing code, in part because of the pandemic.
The pandemic and the resulting shift to a more remote world meant developers spent more time coding, whether for work or during their downtime. When the lockdowns began in March 2020, the number of new open source projects increased by 40% year over year, GitHub had already discovered. It also meant more earnings for GitHub.
Microsoft-owned GitHub welcomed 16 million new users to its platform this year and announced a new CEO, former product manager Thomas Dohmke, to support the growth. GitHub documented its year of growth in its annual report, State of the Octoverse, released earlier this week.
Given the scope of GitHub – this is the largest open source platform in space – the company’s annual report is considered one of the most important trend insights among developer communities. GitHub has compiled data from a survey of over 12,000 developers to track which programming languages are most popular among developers and better understand how the popularity of the languages has changed over time. | <urn:uuid:2a6f3caa-a9a8-47d6-8080-05533ddedb89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astoundingweb.org/the-10-most-popular-programming-languages-according-to-github/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954364 | 290 | 2.25 | 2 |
Survival of the City is a work of stunning brilliance. I learned something on every page, and these are topics I thought I understood. This book is a must read for anyone who hopes to talk intelligently about a postCOVID world.
This fascinating book is about everything- the plague, COVID-19, obesity, robots, schools, and more-all seen through the lens of the city, its past and future. It's a gripping read for anyone, but especially those who are wondering just what is the place of the city in their post-pandemic lives.
Over the past three decades, David Cutler has done pathbreaking work on the determinants of health, while Ed Glaeser has done pathbreaking work on cities and economic growth. Now they've teamed up to write a book that focuses on the intersection between these two areas: how cities shape our health and livelihoods amidst a global pandemic. A fascinating read that helps us understand how we got to where we are today and design policies to build healthier, opportunity-rich cities in the future, Survival of the City will be a terrific resource for the public and policymakers for years to come.
This is a must read for anyone interested in the health of cities and their residents. Glaeser and Cutler sift through the evidence to offer an incisive, engaging analysis of the real challenges posed by pandemics and other threats to urban life. Their clear and balanced policy prescriptions will protect cities from long COVID and help them emerge from the pandemic as resilient and vital as ever.
Survival of the City is a smart and surprising account of how the modern metropolis can bounce back from the current crisis, and a compelling argument for sweeping policy change. The authors-one liberal, one conservative-are not ideologically aligned, but their differences yield fresh ideas and bursts of insight. I found myself learning from, arguing with, and thoroughly enjoying every part of this totally necessary book.
In this readable yet rigorous book, two brilliant economists tackle the question of our time: How can the people and places whose energies drive our economy thrive in a postCOVID world? Their answer: put health improvement above medical care, striving outsiders before privileged insiders, and cities at the heart of a revitalized American dream.
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It was April 12, 2017. My friend Kirk shared with me a book he has been reading titled ‘Sapiens, a Brief History of Humankind’ on Audible by Yuval Harari. Kirk had mentioned interesting statistics on mortality rates of children/infants in the royal bloodlines in the 15th and 16th centuries. I thought it sounded interesting. My mindset as I began was an expectation of finding novel facts without much substance, but I found the book to be very interesting, exciting, and refreshing. I begin to listen and consume. After one day I had surpassed 7 hours of listening. I could not get enough. His writing style really spoke to me with its simplicity and frankness.
The author, Harari, attempts to provide a reason as to why the species sapien from the genus homo (homo sapien means wise man) prevailed over the 14 other species (definitive numbers vary, however it’s safe to say there are more than 10 distinct species that come from the genus homo). The sapien’s ability to think critically about abstract matters, gossip with it’s newly formed language, and cooperate in large numbers are main reason they (we) not only survived but thrived. As population density began to increase and societies became more complex there was a need for a collective belief system in order to cooperate effectively. This necessitated the use of myths and fictions.
I distinctly remember where I was during a walk I went on while listening to the book on my headphones. I was rounding the corner of the cul-de-sac near my home. The corner that faces the junior high. The grass was still in pre-spring yellow and the sky was cloudy overhead. That moment changed the course of my life.
This large-scale cooperation that sapiens were pioneering sometime between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago can be described through an example from the book. Peugeot is a European car manufacturer founded in 1810. It began as a bicycle builder in the city of Sochaux France. Peugeot was officially a company when a lawyer drafted papers and submitted them to the French government to be recognized as a company. Today they employ close to 200,000 people and recently posted $14 billion in revenue in 2017. If Peugeot stopped producing cars would they still be a company? If they fired all their employees, would they still be a company? If they had no money, were not manufacturing cars, and didn’t have any employees, would they still be a company? Yes. Yes, because we hold the idea that the government still recognizes it as an entity because it was filed by the agreed upon lawyer with the agreed upon paperwork back in 1810. It is a myth, collectively believed in, that maintains order.
This idea of shared fiction is what led the sapiens out of the isolated hunter gatherer groups and into larger villages and beyond. The introduction of fiction propelled them. We are able to take imagined things, that is, things that are made up in our minds, things without physical substance, and motivate large groups of people to believe in that imagined reality.
Think about the US dollar. Money is imagination, governments are imagination, companies are imagination, America is imagination, religion is imagination. They exist because large groups of people believe collectively, and in this unique way they are real. Why? Because my neighbor believes in it, and I believe because my neighbor believes that I believe. These aren’t just imaginations, these have very real life consequences. Simply think of the consequences that followed from the belief in the ideal of the constitution of the United States. These imaginations led large numbers of strangers to, “cooperate successfully by believing in common myths.” (Harari, 27)
I ask myself, “Is religion made up?” I begin this inner dialogue with myself. Certainly many of earth’s religions are made up. On one end of the religious spectrum there are many cults started by eccentric leaders that were able to build a following of devout followers that gave time, money, and important relationships to their respective cult leader. Moving to more mainstream religions, Islam was started by a professed prophet that was trying to make sense of the world, had visions, wrote scripture, and had the luck of starting hundreds of years ago giving it space to grow uninterrupted by reason, science, or other religions. It also had the benefit of being blessed by the state which allowed it to spread by conquer. Judaism and Christianity (with the exception of Mormonism, or so I told myself) each had pieces of a shared myth or fiction and benefited from conquer, oppression, and lack of science. Mormonism is quick to point out that truth (spiritual truth) is found in all religions throughout the world, Mormonism just has the fullness of all truth. Then I ask myself, “Is my religion imagination?”
Over the course of the next couple weeks I start to really spend time thinking about this idea. I begin to point my focus inward to my deeply held beliefs. I then direct my thoughts to the leaders of the church. The top leaders of the church, the apostles and general authorities, had to have a rock solid belief, a belief cusping on objective truth (in my estimation). If this is not true it would be an insane deception on the part of so many people. Joseph Smith, and many of people around him, would have to be in on the deception. That can’t be, can it? Those thoughts really had me losing it. It didn’t make sense that the deception would run that deep. Orthodox Mormons would have to fully believe in it all, even the seemingly ‘prophets seers and revelators’ would not have any doubts. They would be 100% sure of their calling. They wouldn’t let doubt seep in as that would be sign of lack of faith and stumbling into Satan’s temptations. What about the angelic visitations, the visions, the speaking in tongues, the miraculous healings, the Book of Mormon, the Witnesses, the heritage of so many generations? The possibility that the Mormon church was not the professed only true church was now fixated in my mind.
The book Sapiens goes deep into evolutionary biology and brings history to near modernity. Religion is then put on the altar of history. When did Adam and Eve appear? Did Jesus die for all the genus homo? What if there were multiple species of humans at the time of Jesus? Would he have died for them too? Or would he die for just the sapiens and not the neanderthals? What happens when we colonize Mars? Will Jesus save those people too? I try to reconcile my cognitive dissonance.
At what point did God say, “alrighty… everything before this point doesn’t matter until right NOW, poof, Adam and Eve you’re here. All the death before doesn’t matter. Now my spirit children can get bodies, let the Plan of Salvation begin!” How does the church reconcile evolutionary biology with Adam and Eve and Jesus dying for all mankind when there is clearly tens of thousands of years of human evolution to account for? Also, church doctrine is clear that there was no death before the Garden of Eden. That the Garden of Eden was in Missouri not northern Africa where scientist have proven the earliest sapiens came from. How do we reconcile enormous scientific evidence with conflicting religious doctrine? Cognitive dissonance seems to be the winner in this confusion.
Mormon cognitive dissonance is usually described as a shelf that is filled with unanswered questions that will have to wait until the afterlife to get clarity. I like to think of it as a box. Once the lid to that box is opened, once the idea that the church of your childhood may not be true, once the subtle thought that your entire world-view could be imagined, it is almost impossible to close without significant inquiry.
Wishing to investigate the church’s stance on evolution I went to a trusted source, lds.org. I knew at some level there would not be a great answer, but I wanted to at least read something like, “The church does not have an official stance on evolutionary biology. We believe that a loving heavenly father created a plan for his children to return to his presence that included a beginning of his earthly children Adam and Eve.” That is not what I found. As I dug deeper into what prophets and apostles of the church had commented in reference to evolutionary biology I was profoundly disturbed.
There were things as soft as:
“I remember when I was a college student there were great discussions on the question of organic evolution. I took classes in geology and biology and heard the whole story of Darwinism as it was then taught. I wondered about it. I thought much about it. But I did not let it throw me, for I read what the scriptures said about our origins and our relationship to God. Since then I have become acquainted with what to me is a far more important and wonderful kind of evolution. It is the evolution of men and women as the sons and daughters of God, and of our marvelous potential for growth as children of our Creator.” —President Gordon B. Hinckley, “God Hath Not Given Us the Spirit of Fear,” Ensign, Oct. 1984
But others were so very opposed to the idea like this one:
I will state frankly and positively that I am opposed to the present biological theories and the doctrine that man has been of the earth for millions of years. I am opposed to the present teachings in relation to the age of the earth which declare that the earth is millions of years old. Naturally, since I believe in modern revelation, I cannot accept these so-called scientific teachings, for I believe them to be in conflict with the simple and direct word of the Lord that has come to us by divine revelation.
I regret that modern education in this country and largely in other countries, is dominated today by men holding these views. Having said this, permit me to say that I am not going to engage in a controversy over these so-called scientific views. I think it must be admitted, after all is said, that they are only theories. It is my purpose merely to call your attention to some of the revelations from the Lord and ask you to carefully consider them, to give me your explanation and show me how you can harmonize them with your evolutionary theories. I will quote a few passages that have been accepted as doctrine by the body of the Church.
Moses 3:7 And I, the Lord God, formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul, the first flesh upon the earth, the first man also…
Doctrine & Covenants 77:6 Q. What are we to understand by the book which John saw, which was sealed on the back with seven seals?A. We are to understand that it contains the revealed will, mysteries, and the works of God; the hidden things of his economy concerning this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence.
2nd Nephi 2: 22-23 And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end. And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
According to this [2 Ne 2:22-23]–and it must have been approved by the Lord or it would not be in the Book of Mormon–there was no death of any living creature before the fall of Adam! Adam’s mission was to bring to pass the fall and it came upon the earth and living things throughout all nature. Anything contrary to this doctrine is diametrically opposed to the doctrines revealed to the Church! If there was any creature increasing by propagation before the fall, then throw away the Book of Mormon, deny your faith, the Book of Abraham and the revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants! -President Joseph Fielding Smith Answers to Gospel Questions 5:7.
As I read quote after quote from past church leaders there grew a pattern. The theory of evolution is just that, a theory and any ‘so-called’ scientist is categorically wrong. Science was further discredited with lines like these:
added doctrines (in reference to the sealed part of the Book of Mormon that is yet to be revealed) will completely destroy the whole theory of organic evolution as it is now almost universally taught in the halls of academia. (Bruce R. McConkie “The Bible: A Sealed Book” CES Symposium publication, c. 1981.
Do not take a scientific principle, so-called, and try to make the gospel conform to it. Take the gospel for what it is, and, insofar as you can, make other things conform to it, and if they do not conform to it, forget them. Forget them; do not worry. They will vanish away eventually. (Bruce R. McConkie, “Foolishness of Teaching,” BYU, 1981).
Time has only proven the reconciliation of Mormon theology with current scientific knowledge of evolution to be a menace. A prophet of god says that if there were any species that existed (died) before Adam and Eve then “throw away your faith.” The Doctrine and Covenants explicitly describes the earth as being 7,000 temporal years old. The only way out of this predicament is for the church to create a subset of Mormon Science or allow faithful theories to percolate. It would be like having Muslim Calculus or Jewish Physics. Or they could say, “we were wrong, sometimes we get it wrong.” But, from my experience, they do not do those things.
I have noticed in recent years Mormon theology crawling toward mainstream evangelical Christianity in an attempt to minimize any doctrines that could potentially be problematic. However, on some of these major doctrines they cannot stand to budge without denouncing the teachings of past prophets. Prophets that are the mouthpiece of the Lord. The prophet Wilford Woodruff taught “the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray.” (General Conference address 1890)
At this point, I was not really beginning to struggle with the idea that the church may be a fraud. I had faced lots and lots of opposition both in discussions with people of various religions (for 2 years in the belt buckle of the Bible belt, Dallas Texas, as a missionary) and in my countless hours studying the history of the church. This time, for whatever reason, it just didn’t add up. At this point there was the convenient conditioned response waiting to be uttered. However, I was no longer satisfied with:
- Just have faith
- God’s ways are not man’s ways
- We will know in the end
- Some things are not pertinent to our salvation, focus on Jesus
- Even prophets can make mistakes, they are just men
- The reason it’s confusing is because Satan is tricking you
- You have not prayed enough, or are not righteous enough, haven’t gone to the temple enough to receive a spiritual witness that would satisfy your inquiry
- What about your heritage?
- Jim, the accountant down the street believes, I respect him, so it must be true
- You are not reading the Book of Mormon closely enough
- If you could just sit down with an apostle all these questions would be resolved
These are the surface rebuttals to challenges of faith. Most of these responses have been said to me. The mindset of those that respond in this manner above remind me of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 and its description of the word crimestop. A word used by the controlling party to exercise dominion over its people’s minds:
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical (cause harm) to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity… orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one’s own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body.
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August 31, 2021 at 1:13 pm #48146
Hi Rock Class 101 Community!
We are back with site member challenge #54! WOW, there has now been over 2,500+ members participating in our challenges! If you’ve sat on the sidelines, please join us for this month’s challenge! Challenges are a fun way to stay motivated and a great way to meet fellow ukulele players who are passionate about learning and becoming better players. 🙂
And I offer feedback on ALL submissions!
Please watch the video above and read instructions below carefully for details/instructions on this month’s challenge.
Pick 1 from the following 5 RC101 Lessons:
1) “Chopsticks” – The iconic piano duet arranged for solo ukulele!
2) 2 Bluegrass Tunes for Banjolele – You have 2 songs to choose from:
Option 1: “Cornbread and Butterbeans”
Option 2: “Shortnin’ Bread”
Both songs have 2 versions: beginner and advanced. You can choose to perform either, BUT you must perform these songs using clawhammer technique. Which you can learn for FREE in our clawhammer course!
3) “Green Tea” * – Learn a relaxing, bluesy chord melody which you can jam along to with a bass and cajon backing track (or play as a stand alone piece).
* Taught in its entirety for FREE!
4) “Pineapple Uke Blues” – Learn a relaxing and melodic blues song that is perfect for the advanced fingerstyle player.
** If you need assistance with how to record yourself check out our FREE course on recording audio/video and/or private message me and I will be happy to help you out. **
GOALS FOR MEMBER CHALLENGE:
1. Beginner Level: Be able to play one of the lessons as shown by Andrew smoothly and in time. Do not worry about trying to play fast; slow and steady wins the race.
Recommended Piece: “Chopsticks” OR “Green Tea”
2. Intermediate to Advanced Level: Be able to play the lesson as shown by Andrew smoothly, in time, and at or close to the original piece’s tempo.
Recommended Pieces: 2 Bluegrass Tunes for Banjolele OR “Pineapple Uke Blues”
3. Participation Goal: 35 Rock Class 101 Member Participant Videos/MP3 posted.
GROUND RULES FOR PARTICIPATION:
1. Post your Youtube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud links of you playing 1 of the 5 RC101 pieces anytime between Wednesday, September 1st until Thursday, September 30th, 11:59pm EST.
The upload feature on the site only supports file sizes up to 5 MB. Members must host their own files. Creating an account is easy and free 🙂 Here are the links to create an account:
YouTube (For Video) – https://www.youtube.com/create_channel
SoundCloud (For Audio) – https://soundcloud.com/signin
2. Submit individually, as a reply, IN THIS POST.
3. Feel free to submit more than one video for the challenge, but additional videos will not count as extra entries into the raffle for the prize.
4. Have fun and don’t be intimidated by this challenge!!! Use this challenge to help you set goals and complete them by a deadline. You can also use this as an opportunity to chat with your fellow Rock Class 101 members and share tips or tricks on this challenge that you think are useful.
5. You must perform the entire piece to receive an entry into the prize raffle. Performance must be submitted by the deadline listed (in #1) above to gain an entry in the raffle, as well as, to receive feedback.
* Note: In my opinion, it is better to show progress versus perfection with these challenges. So if you are a beginner and can only play the first couple of measures. That is completely ok. If you play two more measures of the next challenge piece than you did the previous one, you are on track to getting better. This is what these challenges are about… you learning ukulele and getting better. Remember we are all here to support you no matter what your current playing level is.
1) The prize and the challenge is open to the entire world!
2) Premium membership is NOT required to participate, but will make participation easier as it gains you complete access to the full video lessons, tabs, and the on-screen tab viewer.
3) Basic membership (free) is required to submit a reply on this forum post. You can sign up for Basic Membership HERE.
4) To post YouTube video links (in which they appear embedded on the forum), simply copy and past the video URL in its own line. For example:
5) If you live in the Continental U.S., we will ship the giveaway ukulele to you for FREE! If you live outside of the Continental U.S., there will be a shipping fee ranging between $40 USD to $80 USD. This fee will be collected by Uke Republic. You are also responsible for any custom fees or duties.
There will be 1 winner, selected by random drawing on October 5th. To qualify to win, you must submit your audio and/or video links of your playing by the deadline listed above.
1) $75 Grand Prize! Includes:
THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR!
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Let’s crush this challenge!September 1, 2021 at 6:40 am #48177santaiParticipant
Cornbread and Butterbeans it is!
For two reasons actually:
1) This was up for a challenge one and a half years back. Got it down and practiced – but missed the deadline. So this is my chance to review what’s left and relearn the rest. 😉
2) While playing back the videos now, this was the tune that immediately got my 11-month-old daughter dancing. 😀September 2, 2021 at 2:55 pm #48188smokealotParticipant
“Songs About Food” is a fantastic theme! 😀 Makes me wanna think of more foodsongs.September 2, 2021 at 7:28 pm #48193September 9, 2021 at 9:08 am #48246henri0Participant
Pineapple Uke Blues.
Love this piece. I’ve been a bit loose in my interpretation in the latter part. But very much enjoying playing this.September 9, 2021 at 2:00 pm #48247
Fantastic playing, Rhian! You nailed the vibe of the tune! My only critique is to not rush the first 2 bars of Melody B. It’s a really cool lick with tricky timing! Here’s a video I made last year to help another member with the rhythm/timing of those bars.September 11, 2021 at 5:44 am #48272bibileleParticipant
I chose “Green tea”. Such a relaxing tune. 🙂 And now I need to do the lesson about the 12 bar blues so that I can write one by myself. 😀September 11, 2021 at 7:56 am #48273johanna2509Participant
I chose Chopsticks because I grew up with it on the piano. I also wanted to include a piano part, but I didn’t like the outcome of it… that’s why the video is cut where the piano part was.
I started learning Moon River this morning, it’s such a beautiful melody and arrangement. Thanks again RC101!September 13, 2021 at 1:02 pm #48288September 16, 2021 at 8:20 am #48301September 17, 2021 at 4:43 pm #48307September 17, 2021 at 4:51 pm #48308shmu88Participant
I enjoyed learning the clawhammer technique, not easy! I still have to work on it but here is my entry for this month’s challenge
Cornbread and butterbeans 🙂
September 19, 2021 at 1:06 pm #48310
@shmu88 – Sounds great, Sam! I asked Chris to review your video and he had a couple tips:
“I’d have him move his hand up over the fingerboard, which will seem a bit weird at first, but stop him from attacking the strings too hard on the first stoke. He’s digging into that a bit too much and wants to bounce off the string a bit more.”September 19, 2021 at 5:30 pm #48313katazumiriParticipant
Here is my “Shortnin’ Bread”
Have a nice day!September 19, 2021 at 6:32 pm #48315biancakParticipant
Hi, I’ve been practicing Green Tea and struggling with having my picking fingers in place when there are the 2 individual notes at the end of a bar after strumming. When I do the last strum my hand swings towards string G so no finger is left to pick on string A, at least not within such a short time… Should I reduce the last strum before picking just to the 2 upper strings or just almost to a picking on A? Any tips? Thanks
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Babe Ruth died 71 years ago, played his last game 84 years ago, and was born 124 years ago. Despite such irrefutable inactivity, “The Sultan of Swat” recently set another record. His New York Yankees road jersey, dated between 1928 and 1930, sold at auction for $5.64 million, the highest price ever for a memorabilia item. Alas, Babe Ruth is still the king.
The sale was conducted by Hunt Auctions at Yankee Stadium in June. The intact, light grey flannel shirt bears its original drawstrings at the back, all of its buttons, and the name “Ruth” stitched into the collar. “Yankees” is bannered across the chest.
“The only time anyone wore such a uniform was between 1928 and 1930,” explained David Hunt, president of Hunt Auctions. The auction house partnered with Ruth’s family and had access to “elite third-party collections.”
“We’ve known of the uniform’s existence for some time,” Hunt said. “Babe’s collection has remained largely unknown to the general public, and we thought it was time to bring these amazing pieces of his life to light,” said Linda Ruth Tosetti, Ruth’s granddaughter, in a news release. The seller and buyer chose to remain anonymous.
The jersey itself is pristine, if unadorned. “There’s never been a time before or after when they had that iconic nickname ‘Yankees’ on the jersey,” Hunt continues. “It was also in their monster wheelhouse days of the [world championship] 1927 and 1928 teams. There is no doubt that Ruth is the driving factor behind it, but if you were going to want a Ruth jersey that is one of the top jerseys, this is the one you would want.”
The previous record sale was also for a Ruth road jersey; a 1920 item with “New York” across the chest that sold for $4.4 million in May 2012. Prior to that sale, the record for any piece of sports memorabilia was the 1909 T-206 Honus Wagner baseball card, which sold in October 2016 for $3.12 million. In sum, Ruth’s road jersey sold for $2.52 million more—nearly double—the next most expensive item.
The story possesses a fitting symmetry. The successive record-breaking prices for Ruth memorabilia mirrors his repeated shattering of records—his own records. He was the first to hit 30 home runs in a year, the first to hit 40, then 50, and finally 60 in 1927. Those marks came after he won 20 games in a season twice and hurled a record 29 and 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play for Boston, helping them to three world championships in four years.
Ruth plied his trade amid a sea of sporting personalities competing for newspaper column inches in the 1920s. The notables included lithe Bill Tilden in tennis and Bobby Jones in golf, football’s “galloping ghost” Red Grange and boxing’s Jack Dempsey, the “Manassa Mauler.” Yet Ruth outdistanced them all. In the Roaring Twenties he roared the loudest, belting 467 home runs.
But how does Ruth draw such a high value? “It’s a phenomenal question for which there is no scientific answer,” Hunt opines. “One thinks first about the athlete on the field causing fans to throng to the stadium. You have to think that he came at the right time—in that Roaring Twenties era where baseball was the most popular sport. Not just here but in the world. During the Great Depression Ruth was a figure that people could turn their attention to. And then all the different marketing pieces: appearing in movies, on Broadway, on the Vaudeville circuit. In the midst, he never forgot who he was. He would famously stop the car on the side of the road and be pictured in the throng of 300 kids.”
The Ruth legend also owes to his degree of dominance. Two examples: when Ruth hit 54 home runs in 1920, the runner-up George Sisler hit 19. The following year he led by 35 again, hitting 59 home runs to Ken Williams’ 24. No professional team athlete ever outdistanced the field to such a preternatural degree. The Bambino’s inhuman achievements, coupled with an outsized lifestyle of eating, drinking and carousing, fueled a mythic reputation. He was baseball’s Zeus and anything his life touched was heightened in importance. Like cigars.
Ruth became synonymous with cigars from the time he was depicted as a young man rolling torpedoes at a work bench. Then there was a Boston firm that Ruth had invested in that produced a Babe Ruth nickel cigar, complete with his picture on every wrapper.
His Yankee roommate, and future Hall of Fame pitcher, Waite Hoyt marveled, recalling how Ruth lit up “a long 60-cent cigar” in his hotel suite. Later, he and his second wife, Claire, gave a dual endorsement to White Owls, which the Bambino touted as a “mild cigar” which his wife favored because “they’re kind to kisses.”
“He was a generational player,” Hunt concludes. But that description doesn’t quite do him justice. Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner, Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron—these immortals are all generational players by definition, since they each dominated the game for the roughly two decades they played. By that measure Ruth is intergenerational. He dominates all time. He remains the “Colossus of Clout,” “The Wali of Wham,” and the “Maharaj of Mash,” the very tags applied to him by newspaper scribes of the 1920s trying to outdo each other with their baroque flourishes.
How fitting that the greatest player ever should have the highest priced uniform.
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There has been a big increase in the number of people installing CCTV and security systems in their homes over the last few years. This is due to the increasing cost of crime, as well as the peace of mind that comes with knowing your home is protected.
When it comes to protecting your home, there is no such thing as being too safe. Installing a home CCTV system is one of the best ways to deter burglars and keep your family safe.
If you’re thinking about installing a home CCTV system, this guide will walk you through everything you need to know, from choosing the right equipment to installation tips and tricks.
Home CCTV systems can be used for many different purposes, including deterring burglars, monitoring kids or elderly family members, and keeping an eye on your property while you’re away. No matter what your needs are, there is a home CCTV system that’s perfect for you.
Installing a home CCTV system can be a daunting task, but with our step-by-step guide you’ll be up and running in no time. We’ll take you through everything you need to know, from choosing the right components to setting up your system.
The first thing you need to do is decide what type of system you want. There are two main types of home security systems: wired and wireless.
Wired systems are more difficult to install, but they are also more reliable and tend to have better image quality. Wireless systems are much easier to install, but they can be less reliable and the image quality is often not as good.
Once you’ve decided on the type of system you want, you need to choose the components. The most important part of any CCTV system is the camera. There are a wide variety of cameras available, so it’s important to choose one that will meet your needs.
If you want a basic system for monitoring your home, then a simple web cam will suffice. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive security solution, then you’ll need to choose a camera with more features.
Choosing the right home CCTV system can be overwhelming, but we’re here to help. In this guide, we’ll discuss everything you need to know in order to choose and install the perfect home CCTV system for your needs.
One of the most important things to look for in a camera is night vision. This is essential if you want to be able to see what’s going on outside your home at night.
Another important consideration is the field of view. This is the angle that the camera can see, and it’s measured in degrees. The wider the field of view, the more area the camera will be able to cover.
Once you’ve chosen your camera, you need to decide how you’re going to power it. Most cameras come with a 12V power adapter, but if you’re not using a wired system, then you’ll need to choose a battery-powered camera.
The next thing you need to do is choose a monitor for your system. If you’re just using a webcam, then your computer’s monitor will suffice. However, if you’re using a more sophisticated camera, then you’ll need to choose a dedicated CCTV monitor.
These monitors come in a variety of sizes, so it’s important to choose one that will fit in the space you have available.
The last thing you need to do is connect your camera to your monitor. If you’re using a wired system, then this is simply a matter of plugging the right cables into the right ports.
If you’re using a wireless system, then you’ll need to follow the instructions that came with your camera to connect it to your wireless network.
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Only two days remain until the scheduled launch of NASA’s newest addition to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. The TDRS-M satellite is in place atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and final prelaunch milestones are being checked off in preparation for liftoff Friday morning at 8:03 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41.
The U.S. Air Force 45th Weather Squadron has issued today’s launch weather forecast. Meteorologists continue to predict a 70 percent chance of “go” weather at liftoff time, with thick clouds and cumulus clouds the primary concerns.
The Atlas V rocket is on the move this morning, making the short trek from the launch complex’s Vertical Integration Facility, where it was stacked and tested ahead of the flight, to the launch pad. The rollout is the final preflight move for the rocket and spacecraft, which will finish out the day in position for launch on Friday morning. | <urn:uuid:c73115b5-984d-4e69-9341-59fa54f218ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2017/08/16/tdrs-m-launch-weather-remains-favorable-for-friday-atlas-v-moves-to-pad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.911206 | 208 | 1.929688 | 2 |
ABOUT THERAPEUTIC ALTERNATIVES
Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc. has been a family-owned and operated service provider since its inception in 1958. Our company began at the county home in Randolph County, North Carolina. County Commissioners were seeking a couple with whom they could invest their confidence to efficiently operate Randolph Rest Home in Asheboro. Arthur Vernon “Cap” Burrow and Mabel Burrow were chosen for the responsibility of overseeing the daily lives of 31 persons with developmental disabilities and mental illness.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Burrow grew up in the home and developed relationships with the residents. All of the children became adept at communicating with residents with behavioral issues or who needed medical attention. As the children matured, they became responsible for primary health or mental health appointments with the residents. They sat up during the night with people who were ill as well as cooked, cleaned and provided personal care. It was only natural that the children of Mr. and Mrs. Burrow would later assume the full responsibility of the business.
Leading Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc. today are second generation administrator Kenny Burrow and third generation Administrator Dean Wilson. Over fifty years after the company’s founding, our leadership team continues to guide the company in providing services that are comprehensive and person centered.
Therapeutic Alternatives has been assertive and unwavering in complying with the North Carolina mental health systems expectations and while doing so, has concluded that the mental health profession has come full circle and back to the foundation upon which Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc. was built: individual choices, homelike atmospheres and community involvement.
Therapeutic Alternatives is nationally accredited by The Council on Quality and Leadership.
AGENCY BACKGROUND AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY MISSION STATEMENT
Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc. is a health care agency that provides services for people with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and/or substance abuse problems. The following cultural competency and diversity plan includes the steps to be taken to promote and ensure the equal, charitable and judicious administration of human services by a culturally competent workforce. This plan shall be reviewed annually and revised as needed.
Since its beginning in 1958 with the licensing of Randolph Rest Home, the founders of Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc. have actively promoted and ensured services that respect each individual as a valued member of the community. From the beginning, every effort has been made to acquire and maintain the skills and knowledge essential to assure the wellbeing and satisfaction of diverse people. We define diversity as the respectful inclusion of race, color, age, physical and mental ability, nationality, ethnicity, class, religion, and gender identity. To assure a well-informed and culturally respectful environment throughout this agency, Therapeutic Alternatives, Inc. will do the following:
1. By hiring people of diverse backgrounds to administer services for people of diverse backgrounds, this agency will continue to maintain an equitable environment of trust and respect by integrating varied social, cultural and intellectual perspectives in our interactions with personnel and with the people we support.
2. Since language is the foundation upon which communication is dependent, we will provide an interpreter for people we support who do not speak English.
3. In order to promote understanding cross culturally, this agency will provide diversity training for employees by a person who has a degree and qualifications in the field of social studies.
4. A cultural competency and diversity plan will be written and communicated annually to staff, people supported and community partners.
A tradition of equitable practices is at the heart of our thoughts and actions as we continue to do our part in helping to create a better world through acknowledgement of and respect for diverse beliefs and customs. Therefore, discrimination will not be condoned by this agency. Any harassment or intimidation directed toward clients or employees because of their diversity will be considered grounds for disciplinary procedures.
We strive daily to fulfill our mission: to deliver comprehensive human services that empower people to achieve their goals in life.
THE CAP AND MABEL BURROW FOUNDATION
The Cap and Mabel Burrow Foundation is a non-profit agency that works throughout the year to provide support to meet the medical and social needs of people with developmental disabilities, mental illness and addictive diseases.
Cap and Mabel Burrow founded Therapeutic Alternatives in 1958 when they began operation of the Randolph County Home at the request of the county commissioners. The Foundation was created in an effort to help meet the unmet needs of people receiving services.
The Foundation is supported by private donations. The Foundation partners with local agencies throughout the year to help meet unmet needs.
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WASHINGTON D.C. - President Donald Trump's proposed budget would cut $193 billion from food stamps over the coming decade -- a cut of more than 25 percent, according to the Associated Press.
The blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday and is expected to include a wave of cuts to benefit programs such as Medicaid, federal employee pensions, welfare benefits and farm subsidies.
Food stamp cuts specifically would be implemented by cutting back eligibility and imposing additional work requirements, according to AP, which cites talking points circulated by the White House. The food stamp program presently serves about 42 million people.
AP reports that the food stamp cuts are several times larger than those attempted by House Republicans a few years back and comprise the bulk of a 10-year, $274 billion proposal that's labeled as welfare reform.
The proposal is receiving significant pushback from lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill.
"We think it's wrongheaded," said Rep. Mike Conaway, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, when asked about looming cuts to farm programs. "Production agriculture is in the worst slump since the depression -- 50 percent drop in the net income for producers. They need this safety net."
Full details of Trump's 2018 budget will be released on Tuesday. AP reports that it will also include proposals such as paid leave for parents after the birth or adoption of a child and a $200 billion infrastructure plan that includes funding for Trump's long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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- In damages phase of copyright infringement case against distributors of peer-to-peer file sharing system, court grants plaintiff record companies’ motion to preclude defendants from arguing or offering expert testimony to show that other illegal services would have induced infringement even had defendants not.
Plaintiffs moved to preclude defendants from arguing or offering expert testimony to show that other illegal services would have induced infringement of plaintiffs’ copyrights had Lime Wire had not done so. The courted granted the plaintiffs’ motion.
The court noted that there is a dearth of case law on this precise question and looked to a few older patent cases as “the closest guidance” for the proposition that a court should not allow an infringer to escape liability (or reduce his liability) on the theory that even if he had not infringed, someone else would have done so. Acknowledging that the patent decisions are not binding, the court reasoned that the principle underlying them – “essentially a deterrence principle” – nonetheless applied with equal force in a copyright case. “In copyright, as in patent, an infringer should not be able to escape or reduce his liability based on a theory that, had he not infringed, others would have caused similar losses by purveying infringing works.”
The court acknowledged that the application of the principle in both the patent and the copyright context requires a departure from “reality.” In the patent cases, the patent holders would have faced competition from other infringers, had the defendants not infringed. The lost profits – the measure of damages in patent cases – would have been adjusted to reflect that reality. The courts in patent cases have held, however, that public policy outweighs the value of recognizing the presence of other infringers in the market. In the copyright context, the court held that, regardless of the fact that other infringing services did exist that could have caused losses to plaintiffs, defendants should be accountable for losses traceable to their own infringement.
The court stressed that its order did not entirely preclude the admission of evidence regarding other illegal services for all purposes. Evidence of other illegal services may be admissible to show that a diminution in plaintiffs’ profits over time was only partially attributable to defendants, because others caused some of plaintiffs’ actual losses, as well as to counter plaintiffs’ argument that a large award would likely deter other infringers.
With respect to lost revenue, defendants may introduce the historical fact that other illegal services existed to show that not all illegal downloading took place through LimeWire, but they may not argue that they are not responsible for the actual infringement that did take place through their program because that same infringement could have taken place through another system.
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iPhone users have been freaking out over emails they appear to have received from the past.
When we say past, we mean the 1970s - before email was invented.
According to recipients, who tweeted about the strange occurrence, the emails were "all greyed out" and when clicked on, "it disappeared."
The message pops up when users are checking their email in different timezones.
Computers use UNIX time to make sense of times and dates and in this system January 1, 1970 represents 0, the Telegraph reports.
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A homeless man wearing gloves and a protective mask sits with a sign that reads “Seeking Human Kindness” amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 19, 2020 in New York City, United States.
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The Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccination break It may not slow the overall pace of US vaccine adoption much, but it will make it harder for hard-to-reach populations to get a chance.
In response to the Food and Drug Administration’s request on Tuesday that states temporarily suspend use of the J&J vaccine “out of caution” after six women developed a bleeding disorder, White House Tsar Covid Jeff Zients said the Announcement would have no impact on the US vaccination program.
“We have more than enough supplies of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to continue the current pace of around 3 million shots a day,” Zients told reporters at a news conference.
So far, this has been the case. The country reports an average of 3.3 million daily vaccine doses given in the past week, and 3 million if only Pfizer and Moderna are counted. Only about 7.8 million of the total of 202 million recordings in the US are from J&J, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However, Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine makes up about 10% of all fully vaccinated people in the United States, a percentage that has been on the rise for weeks, and it has proven valuable in certain situations and communities.
“Because of the nature of the J&J vaccine, it is often used for specific circumstances and populations who have been more difficult to obtain vaccines for,” said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health at Kaiser Family Foundation.
Bulky vaccination centers and mobile vans that deliver doses to be administered on the go are likely to have an easier time with Johnson & Johnson’s storage requirements, Michaud said. This vaccine only needs to be kept in a standard refrigerator, while the requirements for Pfizer and Moderna are stricter.
And for certain population groups, such as B. Administering a two-dose regimen can be challenging for prisoners moving to another facility or homeless people who are not permanent residents. Many states have used the J&J vaccine on these groups because Michaud says it is difficult to find people to give a second dose.
The one-shot option may also be more appealing to those who are more reluctant to get a vaccine. A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation in March found that among those who say they’d like to wait and see how the vaccines work before being self-vaccinated, a greater proportion took the J&J single-dose vaccine compared to either dose option would receive.
One in six people in the “wait and see” group said they would “definitely get” the J&J vaccine, while roughly one in ten said the same thing about the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
“We know there is a significant section of the people on the fence who are concerned with vaccines in general,” said Michaud. “And I think the J&J vaccine is actually a plus for this group. It’s a big selling point for people on the fence.”
Add all of these factors together and the J&J hiatus could “have a major negative impact on US vaccination rates,” he said.
It is not yet clear how long it will take to end the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The Chief Medical Officer of the White House, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the break could last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.
Vaccinate homeless people
Shelly Nortz, assistant executive director of politics at New York City-based advocacy group Coalition for the Homeless, said Johnson & Johnson’s vaccination break will make it harder to get pictures of the populations she works with.
The coronavirus has hit the homeless in New York hard, especially in community housing. An analysis by the Coalition for the Homeless and New York University found that the age-adjusted mortality rate for homeless homeless New Yorkers was 49% higher than the citywide rate as of February.
And while the New York homeless vaccination campaign is off to a solid start – Nortz said the city’s latest announcement showed about 4,500 fully vaccinated single homeless adults out of a total of 21,000, a pace not far below the nationwide rate – the J & J-stop will be a hurdle.
“Everyone was very excited about the unique situation with J & J,” she said, “especially for people who are unprotected and therefore not predictably in the same place.”
The Coalition for the Homeless recently partnered with the Center for Urban Community Services, which provides mobile medical care across New York, to deliver the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to one of its emergency food locations. This program is now on hold, as are discussions about offering the J&J vaccine at the group’s headquarters, where many customers come to collect their mail.
Dr. Van Yu, chief medical officer at CUCS, agrees that a Pfizer or Moderna two-dose schedule makes things a lot more complicated.
“If you live outside, how will I find you in four weeks?” he said.
Yu said the protection system can make it easier to keep track of people, but there’s still a lot of churn as people come and go or are assigned to one of the hundreds of protected areas in New York City.
Nortz said the ease of keeping the J&J recordings is another benefit of vaccinating the homeless.
“The fact that the other two approved vaccines require freezer storage in one case makes it very difficult to do anything mobile or pop-up or with an unknown number of people,” she said.
Zients announced Tuesday that all vaccine delivery channels, including mobile delivery units, are equipped to deliver all three vaccines. Yu said the Moderna vaccine was easy to use in his group’s mobile locations, but due to the extremely cold refrigeration requirements of the Pfizer vaccine, it wasn’t an option.
He currently sits on 185 unused J&J doses and has no access to Moderna vaccines.
Some homeless people in the South Bronx, where Noel Concepcion works as the adult homeless service director for the nonprofit group BronxWorks, have preferred the J&J vaccine because only one dose is required. However, the hiatus and associated misinformation makes it harder to tell a group already skeptical of the government the importance of vaccination, Concepcion said, and this could lead to some reluctance to all three vaccine options.
According to Concepcion, BronxWorks had to cancel a vaccination event in order to take advantage of the existing range of J&J recordings due to the break.
J&J is more convenient for many working professionals
Other barriers to getting a Covid vaccine, such as an inflexible work schedule or responsibility for childcare, have made Johnson & Johnson’s single vaccine an essential option for some.
Liz Schwandt, who leads a volunteer group called Get Out the Shot designed to help people book vaccination appointments in Los Angeles, said many of the callers on her team’s hotline don’t have traditional work benefits or protections like work interruptions. Many of them are domestic servants such as house cleaners, private nannies or gardeners who are paid in cash from the books. Some are employees who don’t have a 9-to-5 job, like the group of night shift administrators that Get Out the Shot recently booked appointments for.
Elizabeth Raygoza receives her Pfizer vaccine from nurse-certified Alyssa Hernandez on March 17, 2021 when the City of Vernon Health Department staff used the city’s new mobile health unit clinic to help nearly 250 food processing workers at COVID-19 To give vaccinations Rose & Shore, a major local convenience food manufacturer serving supermarkets, schools, restaurants, airlines and others.
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“We hear stories all the time like hey, my employer lets me get the vaccine but doesn’t give me any free time,” she said, adding, “for a working family that misses a four-hour shift [for a vaccination appointment] can be a huge loss of wages. ”
According to Schwandt, the responsibility for childcare and the dependence on public transport make it difficult to attend multiple appointments.
While Get Out the Shot is booking appointments for all three vaccines, Schwandt said the FDA’s first approval of the J&J vaccine in February was welcome news.
“We were so excited,” she said. “We loved having the one and done option for people.”
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Since the launch of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY) on September 23 last year, more than 39 lakh people save Rs. 12,000 crore as the government offering free-of-cost treatment, the health minister said on Wednesday. To generate awareness about the scheme September 23 will be celebrated as ‘Ayushman Bharat Diwas’ on the grounds several events are being planned across the country to celebrate the first anniversary of the scheme.
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The go-ahead to the preparations for the first anniversary of the scheme had been given by Vardhan.
Reviewing the implementation of the scheme Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said, “I am pleased to know that more than 39 lakh people have availed cashless treatment worth over Rs 6,100 crore for serious illnesses since the launch of AB-PMJAY. This has resulted in savings of Rs 12,000 crore to the beneficiary families.”
Vardhan, while appreciating the progress ( More than 39 lakh people save Rs 12,000 crore under Ayushman Bharat) of the scheme so far stressed upon maintaining the momentum in its implementation across the country and recommend states to put in greater strength and efficiency in boosting up its reach and providing seamless health services to the last mile.
He accentuated, “The Prime Minister has envisioned the scheme for the health and wellness of the poorest and most vulnerable of the people. We have to ensure that the vision of our beloved and inspirational Prime Minister is fulfilled.”
At the review meeting, newly designed online system to help members of the general public to register their grievances and get assisted support was also launched by Vardhan. The newly designed grievance management portal of AB-PMJAY
The time period of 15-30 September will be marked as the ‘Ayushman Bharat Pakhwara’ accompanied by several activities in the states and celebrate this gift of health to the nation.
In addition to it, the mega national event ‘Gyan Sangam’ will be organized from September 29-30 to highlight the progress (like more than 39 lakh people save Rs 12,000 crore and other) and achievements of the scheme.
The Union Health Minister also evaluated the cybersecurity and privacy mechanisms set up at the National Health Authority, the apex body implementing the scheme to protect the beneficiary data.
Vardhan stressed on the highest standards of security and privacy, and zero tolerance for corruption and fraud to be the foundation of the culture of AB-PMJAY.
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SEATTLE — Optimum Energy has released OptimumEDGE™, a patented, quick-start HVAC optimization solution designed to shave chiller plant energy use by 13 percent on average — and cut water use as well — without affecting building operations or occupant comfort, said the company.
OptimumEDGE gives commercial building operators affordable access to patented technology in OptimumLOOP™, the company’s advanced chiller plant optimization solution for large commercial facilities. OptimumEDGE is engineered for buildings that have up to three chillers with a combined cooling capacity of 400 to 2,000 tons.
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Does Biden Have a Problem With African American Voters?Daniel A. Cox, Robert Griffin May 28, 2020
In a recent interview, former vice president Joe Biden said black voters who would not support his candidacy “ain’t black.” After a wave of criticism, Biden apologized for his remarks later in the day. Will he still be able to rely on this core constituency of the Democratic Party in the fall?
The Biden campaign may well feel confident it has African American support. As Biden mentions often, he served as Barack Obama’s vice president for eight years, and Obama remains incredibly popular among African Americans. What’s more, black voters powered Biden’s political comeback in the Democratic primary, giving him a much-needed win in South Carolina.
But new data from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape project, which has conducted large surveys of more than 6,000 people each week since July 2019, suggests Biden may be underperforming with black voters when compared with recent Democratic presidential candidates. If that is happening, it may be because younger black Americans don’t support him as strongly as their elders.
In polls, Biden is getting less support among blacks than Hillary Clinton did
Data collected between April 2 and May 13 indicates 79 percent of black registered voters said they would vote for Biden over President Trump. Eleven percent said they would vote for Trump, and 11 percent report being unsure of how they will vote.
Hillary Clinton’s final margin among black voters was noticeably higher. According to the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, which is fielded by YouGov, 88 percent supported Clinton while 8 percent reported voting for Trump.
One possible explanation for this difference is that we’re comparing candidates at two different points in the race. Averaging together three weekly surveys fielded by Economist/YouGov in May, 78 percent of African Americans supported Biden while 10 percent reported they intended to vote for Trump. By contrast, averaging together the results from two surveys conducted in May 2016 suggests 80 percent of African Americans supported Clinton while 6 percent reported that they intended to vote for Trump. While hardly conclusive, these results are slightly worse for Biden and slightly better for Trump.
If Biden’s support is, in fact, lower than Clinton’s, it would appear to be driven by younger black Americans. Only 68 percent of black registered voters ages 18 to 29 say they intend to vote for Biden; 13 percent say they will vote for Trump, and 18 percent say they don’t know. By contrast, in 2016, 85 percent of young black voters reported voting for Clinton.
This gap disappears among black registered voters ages 65 and up. Ninety-one percent of black seniors intend to vote for Biden, which is similar to the 93 percent who reported voting for Clinton in 2016.
Trump is slightly more popular among younger black Americans
That’s not just because younger voters tend to be indecisive this many months out from the election. Trump is somewhat more popular with younger black Americans than with their elders. Just 9 percent of black seniors and 14 percent of those ages 45 to 64 who are registered to vote have a favorable opinion of Trump. By contrast, 21 percent of black voters ages 18 to 29 and 29 percent of black voters ages 30 to 44 have a favorable view of the president.
In addition, there is also a notable age gap in feelings toward Biden. Only 57 percent of black registered voters ages 18 to 29 say they have a favorable opinion of Biden. By contrast, 88 percent of black seniors say they view the former vice president favorably, including 72 percent who have a very favorable perception of him.
These attitudes could still change
With six months left in the campaign, these levels of support may change as the two presidential campaigns make their 2020 pitch.
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April 30, 2014, Trinidad, Cuba
Waking up early, I listened carefully from my guest room which faced the street to the sounds of Trinidad waking up. I heard no traffic, only the slow clop-clopping of the horse’s hooves on the cobblestones. Farmers called out what they carried in their carts.
“Plantanos, plantanos,” one old man yelled, his voice trailing off as he headed to the edge of town. He had no takers for his bunches of plantains.
Magaly prepared a lovely breakfast for my first full day in Trinidad. The variety of ripe papayas, watermelon, guavas, even pineapple made for a luxurious breakfast.
“We are lucky to have mangoes, papayas, and bananas grow so well here,” Magaly said. “They travel only a few kilometers to our doorstep.”
The need for hyperlocal food sources was not a reflection of a farm-to-table movement taking hold in Cuba. It was out of sheer necessity.
Cuba imports more than two-thirds of its food. Even if Cuba could produce enough food to feed its entire population, getting it shipped domestically is a major challenge as fuel, trucks, and vans to ship produce are lacking. In a country with a centrally controlled economy that is poorly run, the food supply chain is broken in so many ways.
I tried and decided to leave most of the mystery meat from my breakfast. Let’s just say it made me miss how good Spam could be in a pinch. I saw little meat in Trinidad, but fresh fish and fruit seemed to be in ample supply, at least for tourists.
After breakfast I met the two other travelers staying at Casa Magaly—Wade and Camille, a young American couple. They live and work in a U.S. ski resort area and travel during the skiing offseason. This year they decided to backpack in Cuba and had arrived in Trinidad by bus.
Like reactive elements, we decided to join forces and set out to explore the colonial town. Trinidad has quite a few museums. We peeked inside the National Museum of the Fight Against Bandits. The museum focuses on the counter revolutionaries who continued their defiance of the Castro regime in the nearby Escambray Mountains in the immediate years after General Batista had fled Cuba in 1959. Opened in 1984, the museum is housed in an old convent. Exhibits include a number of maps showing battles against the rebels and various military artifacts.
Trinidad’s main museum is its History Museum, housed in a grand Neoclassical mansion just off the Plaza Mayor. The home belonged to the Borrell family from 1827 to 1830 and serves as a showcase of how the rich elite used to live in colonial Cuba. The museum is divided in four rooms, the first one decorated as the mansion appeared in the 1800s. The other rooms have displays on local history, its sugar industry, and a weapons room featuring canyons used to protect the city from pirates.
The main reason to visit, however, is to enjoy the views from the highest point in Trindad. Climbing the mansion’s bell tower rewards the viewer with 360 degree panoramas from the foothills of the Escambray Mountains to Ancon beach and the ocean.
The path to those priceless views from the mansion’s belltower is via a series of rigged Jenga-like wooden stairs. Many of the steps had holes or rotted slats and there was no handrail. The final approach to the rooftop included a claustrophic spiral staircase plunged in darkness despite the noon hour and a final ladder so steep and tight one could not climb it while wearing a backpack of any kind.
The views and fresh air at the top were most welcome. Going back down required passing the first timers coming up, wearing incredulous looks on their faces.
What warning can you give? I kept quiet and shuffled past the innocent pilgrims.
The tower climb is the most ADA adverse feature in historic architecture I’ve ever experienced.
The museum also provided me another personal worst. Their restroom is my second worst public bathroom ever visited.
A bathroom in the former Soviet Union—a long wait to use a stall with walls that only came up to my waist in which I squatted over a deep hellhole while I avoided the multiple “misses” and eye contact with Russians waiting in line—is still my No. 1 Worst Public Bathroom Experience.
The Trinidad, Cuba bathroom in the former mansion was in a stuffy former utility closet for the maids. As soon as I squeezed into the single stall, I started to sweat so badly the perspiration stung my eyes. The washroom attendant stood immediately outside the flimsy door, as did those who waited in line.
My bathroom fee paid for the attendant to pour a bucket of water into the toilet. There was no running water in the bathroom.
Having survived the Tower Climb of Death and obligatory Communist bathroom experience, we were ready for some lunch. And wipes, many, many antibacterial wipes.
Featured image is of a guajiro, or a rural man driving a horse drawn carriage past the Plaza Mayor in Trinidad, Cuba. Photo credit: Iris Gonzalez
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(Bloomberg) — Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is consulting with the U.K.’s most senior legal officer on the position of British judges in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, as he condemned China’s “chilling” national security law for suppressing legal freedoms in the former British colony.
Hong Kong’s independent judiciary is a key to its success as a global financial hub, and its constitution, known as the Basic Law, states that judges may come from other common law jurisdictions. Senior judges from the U.K., Australia and New Zealand occasionally hear cases in Hong Kong based on their expertise on points of public and constitutional importance.
But Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has argued there is no separation of legal and political powers under the Basic Law, and international observers have expressed concern about the future impartiality of the court under China’s new national security law and other efforts to quell dissent.
China Warns U.K. it Will ‘Pay the Price’ For Poisoned Relations
Lam on Monday night wrote on Facebook that the U.K.’s “double standards are on full display.”
By considering the status of Britain’s judges, Raab is using another tool to protest the implementation by China of national security laws that criminalize a broad range of acts, such as sedition, secession, foreign collusion and terrorism. He has already offered U.K. visas to Hong Kong citizens and banned the export of weapons to the region.
The U.K. will “monitor” the use of the National Security Law that allows “the mainland authorities to take jurisdiction over certain cases without any independent oversight” and “its implications for the role of U.K. judges in the Hong Kong justice system,” Raab said in a written report to Parliament Monday.
Last month, Hong Kong’s Lam pointed to the appointment of the deputy president of the U.K. Supreme Court, Lord Patrick Stewart Hodge, to the roster of foreign judges, as evidence of judicial independence.
Hong Kong authorities said Tuesday that they “strongly object to sweeping attacks and groundless accusations on several recent developments” by the U.K.
“It is time for the U.K. government to respect law-abiding Hong Kong people’s aspirations for stability and prosperity and appreciate her well-positioned status to flourish under ‘One Country, Two Systems’ with the full and unreserved support of the Central People’s Government,” Hong Kong’s government said in a statement.
(Corrects to show Raab wrote to Parliament on Monday in sixth paragraph)
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ON TUESDAY, Nov. 4, Americans go to the polls for midterm elections that will decide control of the US Senate, as well as a number of closely watched governor’s races. Voter turnout, which can be lower in nonpresidential election years, is critically important. So there’s ample reason for concern as Republican lawmakers aggressively expand their push to require identification at the polls. While Republicans contend that voter ID laws prevent fraud, a new nonpartisan governmental report offers stinging, unambiguous evidence that such laws suppress turnout.
The report, issued by the Government Accountability Office, compared Kansas and Tennessee, which enacted more restrictive laws between the 2008 and 2012 elections, with states that made no substantive changes in registration — Maine, Alabama, Arkansas, and Delaware. The GAO, in its scholarly caution, said that its study is not necessarily generalizable to the experience of other states. Yet the results shown in even this limited study are dismaying.
Kansas and Tennessee experienced significantly steeper drops in the number of voters who went to the polls than the four comparison states, the GAO found. The groups where turnout dropped the most came as no surprise: African-Americans, young voters, and recently registered voters. The GAO also noted drops in Hispanic and Asian-American turnout. In the 2012 presidential election, voting for Barack Obama dropped in the control states, as it did nationally, but nowhere by as steep a percentage as in Kansas and Tennessee.
Guidance coming from the courts has been confusing, and recent decisions by the US Supreme Court have been mixed. The justices allowed North Carolina and Ohio to go ahead with a ban on same-day registration and a curb on early voting, but recently blocked Wisconsin from implementing a voter ID law. The issue deserves a full airing in the nation’s highest court, to avoid a state-by-state effort to implement election laws that interfere with the right to vote. | <urn:uuid:3352365a-1fc0-4fbe-8dc8-cf22dc5cb8b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/10/17/voter-laws-suppress-turnout-course-they/B4MKc4Xmq2PMYmi1JaZhDL/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956444 | 396 | 2.359375 | 2 |
A section of Canadian Biodiversity: Ecosystem Status and Trends 2010. Full report
Focus is on fire and insects, wind not cited at national level. Regional perspectives available under Atlantic Maritime Ecozone evidence for key findings summary
Natural disturbance regimes in northeastern North America—evaluating silvicultural systems using natural scales and frequencies
Robert S. Seymour et al., 2002.Forest Ecology and Management 155 (2002) 357–367 “Many scientists and foresters have begun to embrace an ecological, natural disturbance paradigm for management, but lack specific guidance on how to design systems in ways that are in harmony with natural patterns. To provide such guidance, we conducted a comprehensive literature survey of northeastern disturbances, emphasizing papers that studied late-successional, undisturbed, or presettlement forests. Evidence demonstrates convincingly that such forests were dominated by relatively frequent, partial disturbances that produced a finely patterned, diverse mosaic dominated by late-successional species and structures. In contrast, large-scale, catastrophic stand-replacing disturbances were rare, returning at intervals of at least one order of magnitude longer than gap-producing events. Graphing the contiguous areas disturbed against their corresponding return intervals shows that these important disturbance parameters are positively related; area disturbed increases exponentially as the return interval lengthens. This graph provides a convenient metric, termed the natural disturbance comparability index, against which to evaluate both single and multi-cohort silvicultural systems based on their rotations or cutting-cycles and stand or gap sizes. We review implications of these findings for silvicultural practice in the region, and offer recommendations for emulating natural disturbance regimes.
Natural disturbance in an old-growth landscape of northern Maine, USA
Shawn Fraver*†, Alan S. White and Robert S. Seymour Journal of Ecology 2009, 97, 289–298 From the abstract: ….2. We investigated the frequency and severity of natural disturbance in a 2000-ha old-growth landscape (Big Reed Forest Reserve) in northern Maine, USA. Given its size, the Reserve provides an ideal opportunity to study, at multiple scales, natural forest processes in a region that has otherwise been dramatically altered by human activities. Using dendrochronological methods, we reconstructed disturbance histories for 37 randomly located plots stratified by five forest types (hardwood forests, mixed woods forests, red spruce forests, northern white-cedar seepage forests and northern white-cedar swamps). 3. We found no evidence of stand replacing disturbance on any plot during the last 120280 years (depending on plot). The overall mean disturbance rate was 9.6% canopy loss per decade (median 6.5%, maximum 55%, plots pooled), yet the distribution was strongly skewed toward the lower rates. 4. We found little differences in disturbance rates between forest types, save a slightly lower rate in the northern white-cedar swamps. However, if we ignore forest-type classifications, we see that disturbance rates are clearly influenced by gradients in the relative abundance of component tree species, owing to species’ relative susceptibilities to particular disturbance agents. 5. Synthesis. Relatively low rates of canopy disturbance allow the accrual of shade-tolerant saplings. The abundance of this advance regeneration…
The Presettlement Forest and Natural Disturbance Cycle of Northeastern Maine
Craig G. Lorimer Ecology Volume58, Issue1 January 1977 Pages 139-148 “Land survey records of 1793—1827 containing forest data for 1.65 x 106 ha of northern Maine were analyzed for species composition, successional status, and frequency of large—scale disturbance…If the amount of disturbed forest at this time was typical of the natural disturbance regime, then the average recurrence interval of fire and large—scale windthrow for a given site would be 800 and 1,150 years, respectively. Data on the structure of remnant virgin stands in the region likewise suggest that the time interval between severe disturbances was much longer than that needed to attain a climax, all—aged structure.
The Changing Disturbance Regime in Eastern Canadian Mixed Forests During the 20th Century
Tasneem Elzein1*, Dominique Arseneault1, Luc Sirois1 and Yan Boucher Front. Ecol. Evol., 09 June 2020
Stand-landscape integration in natural disturbance-based management of the southern boreal forest
Brian D.Harvey et al. 2002 The concept of cohorts is used to integrate stand age, composition and structure into broad successional or stand development phases. Mean forest age (MFA), because it partly incorporates historic variability of the regional fire cycle, is used as a target fire cycle. At the landscape level, forest composition and cohort objectives are derived from regional natural disturbance history, ecosystem classification, stand dynamics and a negative exponential age distribution based on a 140 year fire cycle. The resulting multi-cohort structure provides a framework for maintaining the landscape in a semi-natural age structure and composition. At the stand level, the approach relies on diversifying interventions, using both even-aged and uneven-aged silviculture to reflect natural stand dynamics, control the passage (“fluxes”) between forest types of different cohorts and maintain forest-level objectives. | <urn:uuid:09a5eb64-4aa0-4c4a-9fd0-20f0fffbbe34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://nsforestnotes.ca/natural-history/forest-vegetation/forest-dynamics/ndr-litlinks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.897776 | 1,078 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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William C. Roemer
David Marshall Williams
- "Keep firing on that window!"
- ―Miles to the American Soldiers
The M1 carbine (formally the United States Carbine, Caliber .30, M1) is a lightweight .30 caliber semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was produced in several variants. Easy-to-use, it was widely used by U.S. and foreign military, paramilitary and police forces, and has also been a popular civilian firearm.
In selective-fire versions capable of fully automatic firing, the carbine is designated the M2 carbine. The M3 carbine was an M2 with an active infrared scope system. Unlike conventional carbines, which are generally shorter-barreled versions of a longer parent rifle (like the earlier .30-40 U.S. Krag rifle and carbine and the later M16 rifle and M4 carbine), the M1 carbine has only one minor part in common with the unrelated larger M1 Garand, a short buttplate screw, and fires a different cartridge.
Sergeant Miles carried an M1 Carbine.
The M1 carbine's bolt mechanism is similar to that of the M1 rifle, though the carbine has a different gas system and trigger mechanism design. The gas system is a lightweight tappet-and-slide gas system. Initially fed from a 15-round magazine, a 30-round magazine was introduced for the M2. The very first carbines, those made before mid-1943, were originally equipped with an extractor with a "V-cut" plunger for removal of the fired cartridge case from the chamber. The "V-cut" design was found to be flawed and unreliable. In the field "V-cut" extractor plungers were reground to a straight configuration, which enhanced reliability, until factory production was able to supply the better design. The .30 Carbine cartridge was intermediate in both muzzle energy (ME) and muzzle velocity (MV). It is essentially a rimless version of the obsolete .32 Winchester Self-Loading cartridge. The .30 Carbine had a round-nose 110 gr (7.1 g) bullet, in contrast to the spitzer bullet designs found in most full-power rifle cartridges of the day. From the M1 carbine's 18 in (460 mm) barrel, the .30 Carbine cartridge produced a muzzle velocity of approximately 1,970 ft/s (600 m/s), a velocity between that of contemporary submachine guns (approximately 900 to 1,600 ft/s (300–500 m/s)) and full-power rifles and light machine guns (approximately 2,400 to 2,800 ft/s (700–900 m/s)). At the M1 carbine's maximum effective combat range of 300 yards (270 m), its bullet has about the same energy as pistol rounds such as the 8mm Nambu at the muzzle. Bullet drop is significant past 200 yards (180 m). One characteristic of .30 Carbine ammunition is that from the beginning of production, non-corrosive primers were specified. This was the first major use of this type of primer in a military firearm. Because the rifle had a closed gas system, not normally disassembled, corrosive primers would have led to a rapid deterioration of the gas system. The use of non-corrosive primers was a novelty in service ammunition at this time. Some failures to fire were reported in early lots of .30 Carbine ammunition, attributed to moisture ingress of the non-corrosive primer compound.
Categorizing the M1 carbine series has been the subject of much debate. The M1 is sufficiently accurate at short ranges. At 100 yards (91 m), it can deliver groups of between 3 and 5 minutes of angle, sufficient for its intended purpose as a close-range defensive weapon. Its muzzle energy and range are beyond those of any submachine gun of the period, though its bullet is much lighter in weight and smaller in diameter than that of .45 caliber weapons, and much less powerful than those of other service rifles of the period. The M1 and later M2 carbines were never designed to be assault rifles, such as the later German StG 44 and Russian AK-47, and the .30 Carbine cartridge gives up significant muzzle velocity (roughly 350 ft/s (110 m/s)) to both. Additionally, the bullets used in the cartridges of the AK-47 and StG44 are spitzer designs, and suffer less energy loss and trajectory drop at distances beyond 100 yards (91 m). Most authorities list the effective combat range of the M1 carbine at around 200 yards (180 m), compared to 250-300 yards (230–270 m) for the AK-47 and StG44. The M1 carbine entered service with a standard 15-round magazine. The introduction of the select-fire M2 carbine in October 1944 also brought into service the 30-round magazine or "Banana Clip". Perhaps the most common accessory used on the M1 Carbine was a standard magazine belt pouch that was mounted to the right side of the stock and held two extra 15-round magazines. After the introduction of the 30-round magazine, it was common for the troops to tape two 30-round magazines together. This led the military to introduce the "Holder, Magazine T3-A1" also called the "Jungle Clip", which was a metal clamp that would hold two magazines together without the need for tape. Due to requests from the field, the carbine was modified to incorporate a bayonet lug starting in 1945. However, very few carbines with bayonet lugs reached the front lines before the end of World War II. A folding stock version of the Carbine (the M1A1) was also developed after a request was made in small numbers for a compact and light infantry arm for airborne troops. After World War II, the M1 carbine became a popular plinking and ranch rifle. It is still popular with civilian shooters around the world and is prized as a historically significant collector's item. The Carbine continues to be used in military marksmanship training and competitive target matches conducted by rifle clubs affiliated with the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP.) | <urn:uuid:40d8ff9a-7840-49e8-ada9-92be69ddab82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://furymovie.fandom.com/wiki/M1_Carbine?veaction=edit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960547 | 1,380 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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Posted on April 15th, 2019 by Nicki Catchpole in The Hive
Co-developing drug candidates to license to big pharma
Elsevier’s R&D solutions help 4P-Pharma move drug candidates forward to early-phase human trials
Elsevier launched The Hive program in 2016 to help boost early-stage drug discovery and development. In 2018, 4P-Pharma was welcomed into this innovative program due to its intriguing approach to drug development and dedication to creating an ecosystem of innovation. 4P’s strategy is to evaluate drugs in the areas of oncology, neurology and inflammation already under development at academic institutions, small biotechs, and French technology transfer acceleration companies and then among these, select projects for co-development partnerships.
Drug development programs at small biotechs and academic labs often depend on investments from larger pharma companies to succeed. However, these smaller players often lack funds and expertise to develop drugs to the critical stage needed to secure investments. 4P-Pharma works closely with the researchers of the projects it pursues. 4P-Pharma independently confirms a drug’s therapeutic potential and in vitro results, finding potential funders and investors, and assisting with early-phase clinical trials. In this way, 4P supports bridging the gap between early-stage drug development and clinical trials. Thereby they de-risk drug candidates for larger pharmaceutical companies, so they are more likely to license and fund large-scale clinical trials.
As a small biotech with limited resources, 4P-Pharma’s success hinges on the ability to be precise about the decisions it makes regarding the drug candidates it selects for co-development and the exact experiments its staff performs to determine drug suitability. To help meet these challenges, 4P’s team uses PharmaPendium to make well-informed risk-benefit analyses decisions quickly, which is further detailed in the link.
4P also uses Embase, a highly versatile and multipurpose biomedical research data base to design clinical studies, for example, for a stimulant abuse deterrent that they are co-developing using the solution.
From here, we dive deeper into how 4P has leveraged the Elsevier solutions in two separate case studies that highlight the importance of sophisticated technology in the acceleration of the R&D process.
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Nicki manages Elsevier’s “The Hive,” which is a marketing and partnership consortium of biotech companies, enabling companies like 4P to leverage Elsevier solutions to further their efforts in groundbreaking drug development discoveries.
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two places to walk that are close by and I’ll be visiting regularly – Tentsmuir and Kemback. both are have woodland, but at Kemback it’s about giving me a workout – there are Jenny’s steps – something like a hundred shallow steps – to climb, and from where we park the car in front of the little church one climbs from 50 to 120 metres very quickly, mostly by the steps, but then there is more incline to the top of the woods near Blebo Crags, 150 metres above sea level. as soon as you are in the woods there are cliffs, quarries and caves in the horizontally bedded sandstones. there was some lead-mining here in the 1700’s, but mostly the sandstone was quarried. on Boxing Day we went higher up than before and found a dry path with birch trees and moss and ferns. leaf litter and peat underfoot, and cliffs on each side in places. we may have got as high as 156 metres above sea level. then gradually down, and through open birch woods, with fern and woodrush very green denser pinewoods receiving the worst gusts. we had deliberately come to Kemback in search of shelter from Storm Bella. and it was only when we arrived at the bottom of the great steep valley edge that these woods clothe, that we felt icy gusts of it the green pasture glowed through the trees waterfalls running down through the wood fill this pond above Kemback House. there is much more to see along the Ceres burn and the back road to Pitscottie, evidence of the flax spinning industry so widespread in Fife in the 19th Century, and geology particularly evident in cliffs and rockfaces in Dura Den, a gorge the river runs through upstream of Kemback. we went to Tentsmuir on Sunday, a cold but blue and bright day, and caught these sanderlings along the beach flying up as a flock turning and twisting and flashing from silver to grey over the waves. we had been there earlier in the week on a completely different day the sand seemed so dark, just the shells flecking it with some lightness. this place continues to inspire paintings liquid watery gouache and the white of the paper showing through. even though it was the Sunday after Christmas, and the car park entrance was backing up and the tide quite high it gave, and always gives, the impression of great emptiness. Yesterday we could see this forest and beach, and both of the estuaries, the Tay and the Eden, from a walk up to the other side of the Kemback woods, from Strathkiness to Blebo. at its highest the path passes a trig point of 168 metres above sea level on Clatto Hill, and we could see the Cairngorms, all covered in snow, except one great rampart of dark hill which must be the Angus glens. here the hills undulate away south in parallel, bright green with winter wheat. always visible across the fields from Strathkiness is Drumcarrow, 218 metres above sea level, with its crags, ruined broch and hut circles, and just below it a fort at Denork Craig. back in St Andrews, in Lucy and Scott’s garden the late-ripening apples attract blackbirds. I haven’t seen any thrushes here, perhaps it’s just too close to the window (a huge “picture window” of the profligate late sixties) although bullfinches and siskins accompany greenfinch, and blue, great and coaltits. Post navigation more walking and painting, under tier threemoving in One Comment Beautiful photos, as ever, and so lovely to follow your walks and feel that I am accompanying you, and to see the paintings that they inspire you with. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. | <urn:uuid:87fb1913-3c99-46d6-9578-fef5a76ec8cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://janewheeler.co.uk/blog/blog/2020/12/28/two-places/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965225 | 823 | 1.5625 | 2 |
He motokā kiwikiwi - A grey car
Te Reo Māori in English-medium schools
2.5 Communicate about physical characteristics.
- use descriptive words/adjectives in a sentence to name things.
At the end of this lesson, students can:
Pānui – reading: Recognise and understand simple, familiar, written words, phrases, and sentences.
Kōrero – speaking: Begin to use pronunciation, intonation, stress, and rhythm for emphasis and to distinguish meaning.
Explain to the students that this activity is based on the popular ‘car cricket’ game.
Divide the class into teams of five. Ask each team to choose a colour from the list below. Make sure that each team has a different colour.
The class will need to be taken out of the school grounds to do this activity. They will need to be located in a safe position where they are able to observe passing traffic.
A team receives one ‘run’ or ‘point’ if a car of their nominated colour drives past, for example: a grey car will represent one ‘run’ for the grey group.
In order to get a ‘run’ the group must call in Māori as their car drives past. “He motokā kiwikiwi!” “A grey car!”
The students can only get a ‘run’ from a car that drives past. A car that turns off before passing them can not be counted. Other vehicles such as buses, trucks, and vans cannot be counted.
Use Resource Sheet 2C: He motokā (Cars), to keep a tally of the group scores. The final scores for each team can be announced back in the class when the game is finished.
Language to use
|He motokā kiwikiwi!||A grey car!|
|He motokā mā!||A white car!|
If the ‘car cricket’ activity is impractical, ask the students to ‘spot’ items that can be seen while walking around the school, for example school bags on hooks, jerseys worn by students, etc:
|He pēke whero.||A red bag.|
|He poraka waiporoporo.||A purple jersey.|
Use an extension of this sentence structure to label or name items and colours in the classroom:
|He pene whero tēnei.||This is a red pen.|
|He papa mā tēnei.||This is a white board.|
|He paoro whero tēnei.||This is a red ball.|
Another way to extend this sentence structure is to ask questions about colour, using the following examples:
|He aha te tae o tēnei motokā?||What is the colour of this car?|
|He kahurangi.||(It is) blue.|
|He aha te tae o tēnei tūru?||What is the colour of this seat?|
|He kākāriki.||(It is) green.|
‘Tēnei’ refers to an object close to the speaker. for example:
|Tēnei panana kōwhai||This yellow banana.|
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Australians love their sport, but in a crowded market dominated by the likes of footy, soccer, netball and rugby, is there room for one more?
How about pickleball?
In the US, where it is often described as the fastest-growing sport, there are reportedly more than 3 million pickleball players.
In Australia, the 2007 census found 3.8 million Aussies played organised sport.
Since pickleball came to Australia just three and a half years ago, the sport has been picked up by about 1,500 people and is growing fast.
But what is pickleball?
Described as a cross between tennis, badminton and table tennis, the sport was created in 1965 by a group of friends in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Eager to play badminton one afternoon, but unable to find a shuttlecock, they improvised by grabbing some table tennis paddles and a wiffle ball (a plastic perforated baseball), and lowering the net on the badminton court.
The key to the sport's growing success can be found in that afternoon.
While the inventors — Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum — initially thought it would predominantly keep the kids entertained, it proved ideal for young and not-so-young players alike.
Since then it has taken off in the US, with part of its success coming from its all-ages appeal, with its small court and slow-moving ball making it particularly popular in retirement villages.
There is also a growing elite level of the game.
Pickleball Down Under
The sport came to Australia via Gabi Plumm, president of the Pickleball Association of Australia.
She learnt the sport while visiting her son Morgan Evans in the US three-and-a-half years ago.
Evans won the 2016 US Open Pickleball Championships.
"[He] said 'I think you should do this because it will be easier for you to play than tennis' which is very true," Ms Plumm said.
"My first comment was 'we should be playing this in Australia'."
Since returning to her home in Cairns, the game has steadily grown as Ms Plumm has spread the word of pickleball.
"It's not gone crazy but it's growing quite dramatically," she said.
"We now have several locations around the country where the game is being played.
"There are two very large groups in Western Australia. There's a tennis coach who teaches pickleball in Melbourne.
"[There's] another lot that are just starting up in Warrnambool. In Sydney we have seven groups so they've got hundreds of players down there.
"In Brisbane there are I think five different groups playing at least five times a week, likewise on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, and then we've got several retirement homes that have got purpose-built pickleball courts for their people."
Ms Plumm said the simplicity of the game probably explained part of its appeal.
"It's such an easy game to learn," she said.
"It is possibly one of the easiest games in the world to learn.
"Within 10 minutes you're on a court playing with people who have been playing for some time."
A growing game
Warrnambool sports enthusiast Val Bertrand is helping to spread the word.
Ms Bertrand was so taken by the sport that she has been hosting come-and-try sessions in the sports stadium named in her honour.
"I went visiting to California last year and my friends there were playing pickleball … and I joined in and I loved it right from the start," she said.
"I thought I was the only one that knew about it [in Australia], but we have an Australian pickleball association.
"I think it's got a great future [in Australia] because it's good for kids, it's good for hand-eye co-ordination [and] I think it's good for older people."
Ms Plumm said more and more of her time was being taken up by pickleball, thanks to growing interest from people like Ms Bertrand.
"Two years ago [I got] maybe one [call] a month or an email," Ms Plumm said.
"Now I'm getting an email about it or a call about it every other day.
"As long as that goes on happening, it will go on expanding."
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Adam Savage is more than “from Mythbusters”. He’s an intelligent man and a champion for science. He’s also a very good speaker.
This TED video (technically TED Ed and enhanced with animations) has Adam walk the audience through how ideas can lead to scientific discoveries. Example include how Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth around 2000 BC and how Hippolyte Fizeau was able to measure the speed of light in 1849 using just basic equipment. | <urn:uuid:778601bb-62f6-465f-a00c-c65190e4a252> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geeknative.com/26821/adam-savage-on-how-ideas-lead-to-discoveries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933774 | 110 | 2.625 | 3 |
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Nebraska lawmakers like to ridicule Washington for its gridlock and partisan bickering. They often insist that East Coast politicians should learn the “Nebraska way” of finding pragmatic, common-sense solutions.
But not this year. Despite having a single, nonpartisan chamber, state senators have become so engrossed in an argument about debate rules that they have passed just two bills in a month, and there”s no compromise in sight.
The deliberations in Lincoln are part of an effort to make it easier to overcome filibusters. But all the talk has eaten up more than a third of the 90-day legislative session that began in January.
Speaker Jim Scheer implored lawmakers to work together.
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I’d be lying if I said the act of decluttering my home isn’t one of my favorite pastimes. (I know, it’s a weird hobby but here we are.) Some people like video games, some like cooking, and I get a kick out of clearing out the junk from my house. It’s relaxing for me to clear away clutter; it makes me feel more organized and at peace. If you’re anything like me in this respect, read on…
Not everything in your home has to be useful.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: if it’s not useful, it’s not worth keeping. If you’re storing your grandma’s old wedding china in the attic or your husband’s favorite baseball hat from when he was 8 years old, then maybe you should consider getting rid of them. You don’t need to keep an ugly painting that was given to you as a gift from a distant relative who passed away years ago just because “it has sentimental value.”
If everything in your home has some kind of utility—whether that utility is practical or aesthetic—then throwing something away won’t be as painful for those around you later on down the road. (And if they do get upset about this decision, well…you were doing everyone else a favor.)
It’s okay to throw things away.
You are not a bad person for throwing things out. You are not a bad person for tossing that pair of jeans that has been sitting in your closet since the year 2000 and never fit you quite right.
You don’t have to feel guilty about getting rid of things. Your items don’t have feelings or emotions, so why let them bother you? It’s okay to get rid of something if it no longer serves a purpose, regardless of how much money you spent on it or who gave it to you in the first place!
The only thing we should feel guilty about when getting rid of stuff is wasting more natural resources by throwing away something that could be recycled or reused by someone else instead.
You need a place for everything, and everything in its place.
- Clutter can cause stress and anxiety.
- Clutter can be a fire hazard.
- Clutter makes it hard to find things you need.
- Clutter makes it hard to sell your home.
- Cluttering up your home with too many things can make it difficult to find new items when they’re needed, like when moving or starting a new job where you need different clothes or accessories than the ones at home right now.
Put things where you use them.
- Put things where you use them.
- Put things where you can find them.
- Put things where they are easy to reach.
- Put things where they won’t get lost.
- Put things where they won’t get damaged or ruined by moisture, heat, dust or other environmental hazards (such as cats).
Keep what sparks joy.
The KonMari method has four categories:
- Keep: keep what sparks joy.
- Discard: discard what doesn’t spark joy.
- Repair: repair items that can be repaired and use them until they break again (and then repair again).
- Organize: organize the things you want to keep in ways that make sense for you and your lifestyle.
Allow time for sentimental items when decluttering.
So, you have a lot of stuff. But, what if it’s not the right stuff? Don’t be too quick to throw out things that are sentimental.
For example, when I was younger my grandmother and grandfather gave me a collection of Christmas cards from their travels around the world. I don’t know why they had these cards or why they decided to give them to me but that’s not important now because I still have them! They’re currently sitting in a drawer in my house somewhere and no one knows where they are except for me and maybe two other people who could tell us where those cards are after having seen them last week at Thanksgiving Dinner. If we ever need those cards again (and let’s face it—we probably won’t), we can find them easily by looking through all their old pictures on Facebook or Google Image Searching “Christmas Cards.”
So how do we make sure this doesn’t happen? How do we ensure that sentimental items stay with us forever so that when one day we look back at our lives and wonder “what if…?” We can answer “yes! Yes there were wonderful moments spent together.”
Use a one-in, one-out rule.
A one-in, one-out rule is a simple strategy for reducing clutter. It means that if you bring something new into your home, it has to be paired with something that goes.
Let’s say you buy a new pair of shoes and find yourself with an additional pair in your closet. Now, instead of having two pairs of shoes and no place to store them all, you have three pairs of shoes but only two places to store them. That means something else has to go—and this happens with everything. If you buy some books at the bookstore or download a new app on your phone or even get a haircut at the barber shop this weekend—all those things bring more things into your home than what they leave behind when they leave (which are usually just crumbs).
Get the family on board–they live here too!
- Get the family on board–they live here too!
- Let everyone in your household know that you’re starting a clutter-reduction process. The more people involved, the better chance of success. If you’re married or living with someone, make sure they help you select what to keep and donate as well as what to throw away.
Take before and after photos of your progress.
Take before and after photos of your progress.
This is a great way to keep track of your progress, and also look back at how far you’ve come. You can take photos at different stages throughout the process, or just have one photo that shows the final result.
Share these photos with friends and family if you want to show off! They’re going to be impressed with what they see when they come over later on (which will happen more often than not).
When it comes time for another cleaning session down the road, compare your before and after shots so that you know where improvements can be made next time around. Make sure that all of your clutter was removed; otherwise there might be areas in your home that need attention!
It’s worth taking the time to get rid of most of the clutter in your home so that you can enjoy the things you really love and actually use in life.
It’s worth taking the time to get rid of most of the clutter in your home so that you can enjoy the things you really love and actually use in life. You can’t use things you don’t see, enjoy them when they are hidden away or lose them under a pile of other stuff. Your happiness depends on having access to what matters most to you, not what is hidden behind or disguised by all of your junk!
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As New Hampshire Enters Extreme Drought, Officials Urge Water Conservation
Part of New Hampshire has entered an extreme drought for only the second time in 20 years.
The extreme conditions center on the Dover area and extend in a circle from Great Bay, to near Concord, up to the Lakes Region.
The rest of the state is in severe drought, with moderate conditions in the Upper Valley and Monadnock Valley.
State water division director Tom O’Donovan says residents – especially well users – should prepare for a long haul, with little substantial rain in the forecast for at least the next few weeks.
“Go into conservation measures now,” he says. “Stop washing your car, find your leaks, reduce your loads of laundry to the minimum required, those kinds of things.”
The state recommends replacing older appliances and fixtures that can waste water, and offers other tips for residential well users.
O’Donovan also recommends letting lawns go dormant for winter now and limiting gardening to essential needs only. And he says things could get more serious. In the state’s drought of record, more than 50 years ago, residents were advised to take shorter showers.
New Hampshire’s only other extreme drought since 2000, when the current classification system took effect, was in 2016. That was also the hottest year ever recorded on Earth.
The Northeast is seeing heavier precipitation due to climate change, but also warmer temperatures, more sporadic rain patterns and less winter snow – all factors that cause drought.
In other climate impacts, the region could see some rain soon from tropical storms passing through the Atlantic -- but any apparent clouds may also be mixed with wildfire smoke from ongoing, deadly blazes in Western states.
O’Donovan says New Hampshire's well drilling companies, as they did in 2016, are now reporting huge demand and weeks-long delays installing new water sources for residents with shallow wells.
“Many of our residential owners and other well owners deepened their wells after the 2016 drought, so we are more resilient,” he says. “But still, a lot of people didn’t. So we have wells going dry already, and we expect that to increase.”
Residents can report well impacts to the state voluntarily through this survey. Private wells serve at least 40% of the state, but public water utility customers are also affected.
One hundred and sixty local water systems now have outdoor water use restrictions in place, covering about a quarter of the state’s population or 400,000 people.
If the drought extends into winter, O’Donovan says, the ground may be too dry when it freezes over, making it harder for the snowpack to recharge already depleted groundwater levels.
Right now, O’Donovan says most of the state’s rivers and streams are at 10% of their normal flows. It’s leading to irrigation difficulties and crop losses for farmers, especially in corn and wheat. Officials said earlier this month that they expect a federal disaster declaration soon to help affected growers.
O’Donovan says the low surface water levels and dry landscape also hurt wildlife, leading to illness, death and movement in search of water, meaning more animals may be killed on roads in developed areas.
The parched topsoil, leaf litter and vegetation in New Hampshire’s forests also create prime conditions for wildfires. Crews have contained several small fires in recent days. Some were started by improperly extinguished campfires, including in the White Mountain National Forest.
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Three behavioral patterns that help kids eat healthier emerged from an editorial by two physician-scientists at the University of Pennsylvania.
- It's logical to choose food that tastes better; take the time to find healthy foods and recipes kids enjoy.
- Keeping healthy snacks visible and available (eg.fruit bowl on kitchen table) increases their consumption.
- Incentives work. One study found even $0.25 reward doubled fruit & vegetable consumption, even after the testing period.
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overview of the timing and frequency synchronization required for
the successful use of OFDM, orthogonal frequency division multiplex.
While OFDM has been successfully deployed in many different radio
communications systems, one of the main problems that needs to be
overcome is that if OFDM synchronization.
Effective OFDM synchronization enables the data error rates to be
kept to a minimum, whereas if the system is not accurately synchronized,
then errors will result and the system will become less effective.
The need for OFDM synchronization
OFDM offers many advantages in terms of resilience to fading,
reflections and the like. OFDM also offers a high level of spectrum
efficiency. However to reap the rewards, it is necessary that the OFDM
system operates correctly, and to achieve this, it is necessary for the
OFDM synchronization to be effective.
There are a number of areas in which the OFDM synchronisation is critical to the operation of the system:
- OFDM synchronization in terms of frequency offset: It is necessary that the frequencies are accurately tracked to ensure that orthogonality is maintained.
- OFDM synchronisation in terms of clock accuracy:
It is necessary that the sampling occurs at the correct time interval to
ensure that the samples are synchronized and data errors are minimised.
In order to ensure that the OFDM system works to its optimum, it is
necessary to ensure that there are schemes in place to ensure the OFDM
synchronization is within the required limits.
Frequency offset OFDM synchronization
It is particularly important that the demodulator in an OFDM receiver
is able to synchronize accurately with the carriers within the OFDM
signal. Offsets may arise for a number of reasons including any
frequency errors between the transmitter and the receiver and also as a
result of Doppler shifts if there is movement between the transmitter
If the frequency synchronisation is impaired, then the orthogonality
of the carriers is reduced within the demodulation process and error
rates increase. Accordingly it is essential to maintain orthogonality to
reduce errors and maintain the performance of the link.
First look at the way that sampling should occur. With the
demodulator in synchronisation, all the contributions from the other
carriers sum to zero as shown. On this way all the carriers are
orthogonal and the error rate is at its minimum.
An OFDM signal where demodulation is in synchronisation
If a situation is encountered where the OFDM synchronisation for the
frequency aspects are poor, then the demodulator will centre its samples
away from the peak of the signal, and also at a point where the
contributions from the other signals do not sum to zero. This will lead
to a degradation of the signal which could in turn lead to an increase
in the number of bit errors.
An OFDM signal where demodulation has poor synchronisation
Clock offset OFDM synchronization
It is also necessary to maintain OFDM synchronization in terms of the
clock. Gain if the clock synchronisation is not accurate, sampling will
be offset and again orthogonality will be reduced, and data errors will
When looking at OFDM synchronization with regard to the clock offset,
the carrier spacing used within the receiver for sampling the received
signal will be based upon the internal clock rate. If this differs from
that used within the transmitter, it will be found that even if the
first carrier within the multiplex is correct, then there will be a
growing discrepancy with each carrier away from the first one. Even
small levels of discrepancy will cause the error rate to increase.
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Technology - New Atlas for Beginners
This use of sleek stone axes increased greatly in the Neolithic, but were initially utilized in the preceding Mesolithic in some locations such as Ireland. Farming fed bigger populations, and the transition to sedentism permitted at the same time raising more children, as infants no longer needed to be brought, as nomadic ones must.
With this boost in population and schedule of labor came a boost in labor specialization. What set off the progression from early Neolithic villages to the very first cities, such as Uruk, and the very first civilizations, such as Sumer, is not particularly known; however, the introduction of increasingly hierarchical social structures and specialized labor, of trade and war amongst nearby cultures, and the need for cumulative action to overcome environmental difficulties such as irrigation, are all believed to have actually contributed.
The advantages of copper tools over stone, bone, and wood tools were rapidly evident to early human beings, and native copper was most likely utilized from near the start of Neolithic times (about 10 ka). Native copper does not naturally happen in large amounts, however copper ores are quite common and a few of them produce metal easily when burned in wood or charcoal fires.
The Best Strategy To Use For Technology - The New York Times
The first uses of iron alloys such as steel dates to around 1800 BCE. Energy and transport The wheel was developed circa 4000 BCE. Meanwhile, human beings were discovering to harness other kinds of energy. The earliest recognized use of wind power is the cruising ship; the earliest record of a ship under sail is that of a Nile boat dating to the 8th-millennium BCE.
The ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia used a complicated system of canals and levees to divert water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for watering. According to archaeologists, the wheel was created around 4000 BCE most likely individually and almost simultaneously in Mesopotamia (in contemporary Iraq), the Northern Caucasus (Maykop culture) and Central Europe.
The oldest artifacts with drawings depicting wheeled carts date from about 3500 BCE; however, the wheel might have remained in use for millennia prior to these illustrations were made. More just recently, the oldest-known wooden wheel on the planet was found in the Ljubljana marshes of Slovenia. The innovation of the wheel reinvented trade and war. | <urn:uuid:77961176-1280-4e7c-b914-43f6dff3fb50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://louisroskosch.com/10-simple-techniques-for-technology-financial-times | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967238 | 484 | 3.359375 | 3 |
The Cypress house ranges in price from $57,000 to $66,000, and monthly payments can be as low as $433 a month. One bed apartment rentals in New York City average about 750 square feet and cost $2,700 per month.” – Business Insider
The Apples to Onions comparison aside, the Tumbleweed Cypress is one of the most expensive tiny houses you can buy. But most folks seem to prefer to build their own tiny homes from savings and live debt-free. Others argue that financing a tiny house can be a path to financial freedom too.
What do you think? Is financing a tiny house a viable path to financial freedom for you?
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The Boxcar Children
Written by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Illustrated by Likate Deal
Reviewed by Meghan T. (age 9)
Would you like to get to know four orphan kids named Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny? If you would, you are up for an adventure! This story is about four kids called The Boxcar Children and the story of how they survive in a boxcar on their own without any adults. They are named The Boxcar Children because they live in a boxcar. Henry is the oldest and he works for Dr. Moore. Henry gets paid a dollar every time he works for Dr. Moore. He uses the money he makes to buy food. The children live in a boxcar because their parents and grandma died. Their grandpa is mean and the children refuse to live with him. They know he wouldn't treat them right. The grandpa's name is Mr. James Alden. He is the richest man in Silver City. Will The Boxcar Children ever live with their grandpa? Will the grandpa end up being nice or will he always be mean? Read this adventure to find out!
I think this book is very interesting because it is intriguing how the four children survived on their own with no adults. My favorite part was when Violet, Jessie, and Benny went exploring in the dump because I never thought you could use things from the dump to survive. I like the author's style because I think it is creative how Henry meets his grandpa, but doesn't know it. This book reminds me of four lost mice. They lived in a chess box in Ms. Mayer's attic in the book, Four Lost Mice because they lost their mom and dad.
I recommend this book to people who like mysteries. I also recommend this book to readers who like to read stories about kids and how they can survive without adults. I hope you take my advice and read this heartwarming story of survival and family. | <urn:uuid:1db1dd18-e3a7-4dc6-bc24-a9b8f19f2bbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spaghettibookclub.org/review.php?reviewId=2026 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979478 | 403 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Antone Melton-Meaux, Ilhan Omar’s challenger, calls her a ‘divider’
Early in her brief tenure as a member of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota received some advice on how not to sound like an anti-Semite. Local Jewish leaders met with the Democrat to provide a crash course in what’s so offensive about suggesting that for Jews “it’s all about the Benjamins” or that Jewish-American advocates have an “allegiance to a foreign country.”
Omar apologized and has, since then, largely avoided muttering or tweeting any alarming tropes about Jews or Israel. But a few months later, despite promising during a synagogue appearance in 2018 to oppose the boycott, disinvestment and sanctions policy aimed at crippling Israel’s economy, Omar was one of just 17 members of Congress to vote not to condemn BDS.
All of this propelled Antone Melton-Meaux, a 47-year-old Lutheran with a master’s degree in the study of the Hebrew Bible and ties to the Minneapolis area’s Jewish community, to abandon his previous support for Omar and launch his bid to unseat her in the Aug. 11 Democratic primary. The district is among the most Democratic in the nation, so winning the primary is tantamount to winning the seat.
“I’ve been sorely saddened and disappointed by the words and the rhetoric of Congresswoman Omar,” Melton-Meaux said in a Zoom interview. “Her tropes, which have been well-documented now, were hurtful to the Jewish community and I know this because I’ve spoken with them. There’s still a deep sense of betrayal and frustration with the use of those words and the sentiments. We don’t have the time for someone to be in this role whose principal vision towards Jewish community, Israel and many others, is that of a division.”
To be sure, Melton-Meaux has a significant uphill battle against Omar, who along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit was one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress and is among the most famous House members. She’s raised more than $3.3 million and had $1.3 million on hand as of April. Melton-Meaux raised $470,000 and had about $199,000 left in the same period.
“I’m not saying he can’t win, because we have seen candidates who have been able to do that, but I would say he doesn’t have a dynamic, visible campaign of shaking things up,” said Larry Jacobs, political science professor at University of Minnesota. “His candidacy is practically invisible. Ilhan Omar already has the name recognition, she already has a bloc of voters, she has a campaign structure and is able to mobilize her supporters. He has none of those things.”
Yet the political newcomer’s decidedly calmer and less confrontational tone has earned him important endorsements from a wide range of African-American and Jewish figures in a sprawling Minneapolis-area district, the same one where 46-year-old George Floyd died at the hands of police in May. Both Omar and Melton-Meaux are black.
“Antone is a very impressive person who will work hard and won’t be involved in so much controversy,” said longtime Minnesota State Sen. Richard Cohen, who is Jewish. “Ilhan Omar likes speaking around the country. It’s my understanding that she’s not engaged with the district. You hear any number of complaints from folks in the 5th District that they don’t get the kind of attention they deserve.”
Indeed, the rap on Omar, beyond her controversial remarks and disagreements with her foreign policy views, is that she seems more interested in indulging her considerable fame than serving her constituents. She skipped 42 of 820 roll call votes in Congress in her 18 months in office, a 5.1 percent absentee rate that is more than twice the average for a House member.
“For that to be more than double is concerning to me and many members of the district,” said Rabbi Avi Olitzky of Beth El Synagogue, a Conservative synagogue in the district. “There is a significant amount of disappointment in members of the district feeling that they have not been heard, they have not been responded to and they have not been dialogued with.”
Omar campaign spokesman Jeremy Slevin rejected that critique, noting that the congresswoman has held more than 30 town hall events during her tenure and, “leads the entire Minnesota delegation in amendments passed in the House, and in total number of bills and amendments introduced.” Among those, Slevin said, are measures to ensure students receive meals while out of school because of the pandemic and to enhance transparency around lobbyists who work for foreign governments.
Still, Melton-Meaux, a professional conflict mediator, sees that as an opening. His crossover appeal is to the district’s small but politically active Jewish community, as well as its substantial black population.
He’s the descendant of slaves whose owner emancipated them and gave them land on his Kentucky farm upon his death in 1828. His forefathers took the slaveowner’s last name.
Melton-Meaux’s father integrated the high school built on the former plantation property and became the first black man to earn an electrical engineering degree at the University of Kentucky.
Melton-Meaux earned a law degree at the University of Virginia before heading to New York to pursue a master’s at Union Theological Seminary in 2005. His focus at the seminary was the Hebrew Bible, which he learned to translate into English. He used that skill to teach the language in Harlem at the Abyssinian Baptist Church while also serving as a chaplain at New York’s New Jewish Home and Hospital. He practiced employment law in Washington D.C. until 2008, when he and his wife, a colorectal surgeon, moved to Minnesota for her job.
“I read the entire Bible as a young boy from Genesis to Revelations, and I found myself always coming back mostly to the Old Testament,” he said. “There’s something about the richness of the narrative and the stories about the struggle that people went through, the Exodus from the hands of Pharaoh and being delivered to a promised land. Those are very powerful narratives. And I think they resonate actually quite strongly with the African-American community and our struggle through slavery and Jim Crow and Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement and perhaps even now to George Floyd.”
Steve Hunegs, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, is pleased that Melton-Meaux opposes BDS and regards Israel as a key ally – and appreciates his interest in the faith.
“He has genuinely impressed people with the depth of his understanding of Judaism and the connections between Judaism and Christianity,” Hunegs said. “The touchstones of his life, his family story and his philosophy are compelling.”
The twin crises of the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter demonstrations have complicated the campaign in different ways. COVID-19 forced most normal campaign activities to stop, depriving the challenger of the sort of face-to-face efforts that build name identification and support.
But since May 25 when Floyd was killed and the video of that incident ignited racial unrest across the nation, Melton-Meaux has tried to place himself at the forefront of local BLM protests and to draw that as a negative comparison to Omar.
“I’ve not seen her at any of the protests that I’ve been a part of, and I’ve been out on the streets since Day One making sure that people not just see me but have a chance to talk and hear how they’re feeling, especially when the murder just occurred,” he said. “I can’t speak for the Congresswoman, but I’m going to remain vigilant being on the streets and talking to the people and making sure that we are working together for the systemic change that has to be.”
Slevin said Omar has, in fact, been a prominent presence at BLM marches and events.
“Amidst threats on her life, a pandemic, the George Floyd murder, and even the death of her own father, she has been out nearly every night protesting with her fellow Minnesotans,” Slevin said. Referring to an opinion piece in the Star Tribune that Melton-Meaux wrote in 2015 critiquing some aspects of BLM, Slevin said, “Corporate donors are going to extreme lengths to support candidates who oppose and now conveniently support the Black Lives Matter movement in an effort to smear, discredit and quash a multi-racial grassroots movement. They failed this week and they will fail again.”
Still, Omar already had some challenges within the black before the George Floyd crisis hit. Former local NAACP president Nekima Levy Armstrong endorsed Melton-Meaux in April over Omar, writing about her disappointment with Omar in a Star-Tribune column.
“I have waited in vain for Rep. Ilhan Omar to rise to the occasion of prioritizing the needs of the Fifth Congressional District above many of her distractions,” she wrote. “I see every day the lingering effects of benign neglect upon our community as well as a desire for real change and access to opportunity.”
Jacobs pointed to the Armstrong endorsement to suggest Omar is “facing more opposition of a serious nature than I ever would have predicted,” even as he finds Melton-Meaux’s campaign ineffective. The disaffection of black voters and the intense anger among Jewish constituents do not bode well for Omar, he said.
“Candidate Omar made a concerted effort to reassure the Jewish community that she would be supportive of Israel, that she would be a friend of Jews, but once she was elected, we had the series of comments that were interpreted as anti-Semitic and hostile to Israel and that shock to the Jewish community in Minnesota lit a flame that I haven’t seen frankly in my 30-plus years here,” he said. “Does it mean Ilhan Omar is going to lose? No. But she has a real battle on her hand, and I would have thought she would be coasting to re-election.”
There has been no polling published thus far assessing the race, but Melton-Meaux claims his data indicates he is “on track.”
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Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, Governor, ladies and gentlemen:
I am sensible of the honor you do me in inviting me to give this memorial lecture. May I thank you, Governor, your kind and generous welcome.
When my distinguished predecessor delivered his Fulton speech, exactly fifty years ago, he journeyed hither by train in the company of the President of the United States. On the way, they played poker to pass the time. And the President won 75 dollars -- quite a sum in those non-inflationary times for an unemployed former Prime Minister. But in view of the historic impact of his speech on American opinion and subsequently on United States foreign policy, Sir Winston Churchill later recorded that his loss was one of the best investments he had ever made.
I did not travel here by train; nor in the company of the President of the United States; nor did I play poker. I don't have the right kind of face for it. But there is some similarity in the circumstances of fifty years ago and today.
Mr. Churchill spoke not long after the second world war. Towards the end of that great conflict, the wartime allies had forged new international institutions for post-war co-operation. There was in those days great optimism, not least in the United States, about a world without conflict presided over benevolently by bodies like the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT. But the high hopes reposed in them were increasingly disappointed as Stalin lowered the Iron Curtain over Eastern Europe, made no secret of his global ambitions and became antagonist rather than ally. Churchill's speech here was the first serious warning of what was afoot, and it helped to wake up the entire West.
In due course, that speech bore rich fruit in the new institutions forged to strengthen the West against Stalin's assault. The Marshall Plan laid the foundations for Europe's postwar economic recovery. The Truman Doctrine made plain that America would resist communist subversion of democracy. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization mobilized America's allies for mutual defense against the Soviet steamroller. And the European Coal and Steel Community, devised to help reconcile the former European enemies, evolved over time into the European Community.
Stalin had overplayed his hand. By attempting to destroy international cooperation, he succeeded in stimulating it along more realistic lines -- and not just through Western "Cold War" institutions like NATO. As the West recovered and united, growing in prosperity and confidence, so it also breathed new life into some of the first set of post-war institutions like the GATT and the IMF. Without the Russians to obstruct them, these bodies helped to usher in what the Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, has ruefully christened the "Golden Age of Capitalism". The standard of living of ordinary people rose to levels that would have astonished our grandparents; there were regional wars, but no direct clash between the superpowers; and the economic, technological and military superiority of the West eventually reached such a peak that the communist system was forced into, first reform, then surrender, and finally liquidation.
None of this, however, was pre-ordained. It happened in large part because of what Churchill said here fifty years ago. He spoke at a watershed: one set of international institutions had shown themselves to be wanting; another had yet to be born. And it was his speech, not the "force" celebrated by Marx, which turned out to be the midwife of history.
Today we are at what could be a similar watershed. The long twilight struggle of the Cold War ended five years ago with complete victory for the West and for subject peoples of the communist empire -- and I very much include the Russian people in that description. It ended amid high hopes of a New World Order. But those hopes have been grievously disappointed. Bosnia, Somalia, and the rise of Islamic militancy all point to instability and conflict rather than co-operation and harmony.
The international bodies, in which our hopes were reposed anew after 1989 and 1991, have given us neither prosperity nor security. There is a pervasive anxiety about the drift of events. It remains to be seen whether this generation will respond to these threats with imagination and courage of Sir Winston, President Truman, and the wise men of those years.
But, first, how did we get to our present straits? Like the break-up of all empires, the break-up of the Soviet empire wrought enormous changes way beyond its borders. Many of these were indisputably for the good:
- a more co-operative superpower relationship between the United States and Russia;
- the spread of democracy and civil society in Eastern Europe and the Baltics;
- better prospects for resolving regional conflicts like those in South Africa and the Middle East, once Soviet mischief-making had been removed;
- the discrediting of socialist economic planning by the exposure of its disastrous consequences in Russia and Eastern Europe;
- and the removal of Soviet obstruction from the United Nations and its agencies.
These were -- and still are -- real benefits for which we should be grateful.
But in the euphoria which accompanied the Cold War's end -- just as in what Churchill's private secretary called "the fatal hiatus" of 1944 to 1946 -- we failed to notice other, less appealing, consequences of the peace. Like a giant refrigerator that had finally broken down after years of poor maintenance, the Soviet empire in its collapse released all the ills of ethnic, social and political backwardness which it had frozen in suspended animation for so long:
- Suddenly, border disputes between the successor states erupted into small wars in, for instance, Armenia and Georgia.
- Within these new countries the ethnic divisions aggravated by Soviet policies of Russification and forced population transfer produced violence, instability, and quarrels over citizenship.
- The absence of the legal and customary foundations of a free economy led to a distorted "robber capitalism," one dominated by the combined forces of the mafia and the old communist nomenklatura, with little appeal to ordinary people.
- The moral vacuum created by communism in everyday life was filled for some by a revived Orthodox Church, but for others by the rise in crime, corruption, gambling, and drug addiction -- all contributing to a spreading ethic of luck, a belief that economic life is a zero-sum game, and an irrational nostalgia for a totalitarian order without totalitarian methods.
- And, in these Hobbesian conditions, primitive political ideologies, which have been extinct in Western Europe and America for two generations, surfaced and flourished, all peddling fantasies of imperial glory to compensate for domestic squalor.
No one can forecast with confidence where this will lead. I believe that it will take long years of civic experience and patient institution-building for Russia to become a normal society. Neo-communists may well return to power in the immediate future, postponing normality; but whoever wins the forthcoming Russian elections will almost certainly institute a more assertive foreign policy, one less friendly to the United States.
A revival of Russian power will create new problems -- just when the world is struggling to cope with problems which the Soviet collapse has itself created outside the old borders of the USSR. When Soviet power broke down, so did the control it exercised, however fitfully and irresponsibly, over rogue states like Syria, Iraq, and Gaddafi's Libya. They have in effect been released to commit whatever mischief they wish without bothering to check with their arms supplier and bank manager. Note that Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Kuwait took place after the USSR was gravely weakened and had ceased to be Iraq's protector.
The Soviet collapse has also aggravated the single most awesome threat of modern times: the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These weapons, and the ability to develop and deliver them, are today acquired by middle-income countries with modest populations such as Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Syria -- acquired sometimes from other powers like China and North Korea, but most ominously from former Soviet arsenals, or unemployed scientists, or from organized criminal rings, all by way of a growing international black market.
According to Stephen Hadley, formerly President Bush's assistant secretary for international security policy (and I quote): "By the end of the decade, we could see over 20 countries with ballistic missiles, 9 with nuclear weapons, 10 with biological weapons, and up to 30 with chemical weapons."
According to other official United States sources, all of northeast Asia, southeast Asia, much of the Pacific and most of Russia could soon be threatened by the latest North Korean missiles. Once they are available in the Middle East and North Africa, all the capitals of Europe will be within target range; and on present trends a direct threat to American shores is likely to mature -- if that is the right word -- early in the next century.
Add weapons of mass destruction to rogue states, and you have a highly toxic compound. As the CIA has pointed out: "Of the nations that have or are acquiring weapons of mass destruction, many are led by megalomaniacs and strongmen of proven inhumanity or by weak, unstable or illegitimate governments." In some instances, the potential capabilities at the command of these unpredictable figures is either equal to -- or even more destructive than -- the Soviet threat to the West in the 1960s. It is that serious.
Indeed, it is even more serious than that. We in the West may have to deal with a number of possible adversaries, each with different characteristics. In some cases their mentalities differ from ours even more than did those of our old Cold War enemy. So the potential for misunderstanding is great and we must therefore be very clear in our own minds about our strategic intentions, and just as clear in signaling these to potential aggressors.
And that is only the gravest threat. There are others.
Within the Islamic world the Soviet collapse undermined the legitimacy of radical secular regimes and gave an impetus to the rise of radical Islam. Radical Islamist movements now constitute a major revolutionary threat not only to the Saddams and Assads but also to conservative Arab regimes, who are allies of the West. Indeed they challenge the very idea of Western economic presence. Hence, the random acts of violence designed to drive American companies and tourists out of the Islamic world.
In short my friends, the world remains a very dangerous place, indeed one menaced by more unstable and complex threats than a decade ago. But because the risk of total nuclear annihilation has been removed, we in the West have lapsed into an alarming complacency about the risks that remain. We have run down our defenses and relaxed our guard. And to comfort ourselves that we were doing the right thing, we have increasingly placed our trust in international institutions to safeguard our future. But international bodies have not generally performed well. Indeed, we have learned that they can't perform well unless we refrain from utopian aims, give them practical tasks, and provide them with the means and backing to carry them out.
Now let's have a look at some of these institutional bodies and their failure.
Perhaps the best example of utopian aims is what is called "multilateralism." This is the doctrine that international actions are most justified when they are untainted by the national interests of the countries which are called upon to carry them out. Multilateralism briefly became the doctrine of several Western powers in the early nineties, when the United Nations Security Council was no longer hamstrung by the Soviet veto. It seemed to promise a new age in which the United Nations would act as world policeman to settle regional conflicts.
Of course, there was always a fair amount of hypocrisy embedded in the multilateralist doctrine. The Haiti intervention by United States forces acting under a United Nations mandate, for instance, was defended as an exercise in restoring a Haitian democracy that had really never existed; but it might be better described in the language of Clausewitz as the continuation of American immigration control by other means. But honest multilateralism without the spur of national interest has led to intervention without clear aims.
No one could criticize the humane impulse to step in and relieve the suffering created by the civil war in Somalia. But it soon became clear that the humanitarian effort could not enjoy long-term success without a return to civil order. And no internal force was available to supply this. Hence, the intervention created a painful choice: either the United Nations would make Somalia into a colony and spend decades engaged in "nation-building," or the United Nations forces would eventually withdraw and Somalia revert to its prior anarchy. Since America and the United Nations were unwilling to govern Somalia for thirty years, it followed that the job of feeding the hungry and helping the sick must be left to civilian aid agencies and private charities.
Conclusion: Military intervention without an attainable purpose creates as many problems as it solves.
This was further demonstrated in the former Yugoslavia, where early action to arm the victims of aggression, so that they could defend themselves, would have been far more effective than the United Nations' half-hearted, multilateral intervention. A neutral peacekeeping operation, lightly-armed, in an area where there was no peace to keep, served mainly to consolidate the gains from aggression. Eventually, the United Nations peacekeepers became hostages, used by the aggressor to deter more effective action against him. All in all, a sorry and tragic episode, ended by the Croatian army, NATO air power, and American diplomacy.
The combined effect of interventions in Bosnia, Somalia and, indeed, Rwanda has been to shake the self-confidence of key Western powers and to tarnish the reputation of the United Nations. And now a dangerous trend is evident: as the Haiti case shows, the Security Council seems increasingly prepared to widen the legal basis for intervention. We are seeing, in fact, that classically dangerous combination -- a growing disproportion between theoretical claims and practical means.
Compare this hubris with the failure to act effectively against the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and the means to deliver them. As I have already argued, these are falling into dangerous hands.
Given the intellectual climate in the West today, it's probably unrealistic to expect military intervention to remove the source of the threat, as for example against North Korea -- except perhaps when the offender invites us to do so by invading a small neighboring country. Even then, as we now know, our success in destroying Saddam's nuclear and chemical weapons capability was limited.
And we cannot be sure that the efforts by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Authority to prevent Saddam putting civil nuclear power to military uses have been any more successful. We may reasonably suspect that they have not.
What then can we do? There is no mysterious diplomatic means to disarm a state which is not willing to be disarmed. As Frederick the Great mordantly observed: "Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." Arms control and non-proliferation measures have a role in restraining rogue states, but only when combined with other measures.
If America and its allies can't deal with the problem directly by pre-emptive military means, they must at least diminish the incentive for the Saddams, the Gaddafis, and others to acquire new weapons in the first place. That means, my friends, the West must install effective ballistic missile defense which would protect us and our armed forces, reduce or even nullify the rogue state's arsenal, and enable us to retaliate.
So the potential contribution of ballistic missile defense to peace and stability seems to me to be very great. First, and most obviously, it promises the possibility of protection if deterrence fails; or if there is a limited and unauthorized use of nuclear missiles. Second, it would also preserve the capability of the West to project its power overseas. Third, it would diminish the dangers of one country overturning the regional balance of power by acquiring these weapons. Fourth, it would strengthen our existing deterrent against a hostile nuclear super-power by preserving the West's powers of retaliation. And fifth, it would enhance diplomacy's power to restrain proliferation by diminishing the utility of offensive systems.
Acquiring an effective global defense against ballistic missiles is therefore a matter of the greatest importance and urgency. But the risk is that thousands of people may be killed by an attack which forethought and wise preparation might have prevented.
It is, of course, often the case in foreign affairs that statesmen are dealing with problems for which there is no ready solution. They must manage them as best they can.
That might be true of nuclear proliferation, but no such excuses can be made for the European Union's activities at the end of the Cold War. It faced a task so obvious and achievable as to count as an almost explicit duty laid down by History: namely, the speedy incorporation of the new Central European democracies -- Poland, Hungary, and what was then Czechoslovakia -- within the European Union's economic and political structures.
Early entry into Europe was the wish of the new democracies; it would help to stabilize them politically and smooth their transition to market economies; it would ratify the post-Cold-War settlement in Europe. Given the stormy past of that region -- the inhabitants are said to produce more history than they can consume locally -- everyone should have wished to see it settled economically and politically inside a stable European structure.
Why was this not done? Why was every obstacle put in the way of the new market democracies? Why were their exports subject to the kind of absurd quotas that have until now been reserved for Japan? And why is there still no room at the Inn?
The answer is that the European Union was too busy contemplating its own navel. Both the Commission and a majority -- Both the commission and the majority of member-governments were committed to an early "deepening" of the European Union -- that is, centralizing more power in the European Union's supranational institutions; and they felt that a "widening" of it -- that is, admitting new members -- would complicate, obstruct, or even prevent this process.
So, while the "deepening" went ahead, they arranged to keep the Central Europeans out by the diplomats' favorite tactic: negotiations to admit them. In making this decision, the European Union put extravagant and abstract schemes ahead of practical necessities in the manner of doctrinaire "projectors" from Jonathan Swift down to the present -- and with the usual disastrous results. The "visionary" schemes of "deepening" either have failed or are failing.
The "fixed" exchange rates of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism have made the yo-yo seem like a symbol of rigidity; they crashed in and out of it in September 1992 and have shown no signs of obeying the diktats of Brussels since then.
The next stage of monetary union agreed at Maastricht -- the single currency -- is due in 1999 when member-states will have to achieve strict budgetary criteria. With three weeks -- three years to go, only Luxembourg fully meets these tests; the attempts by other countries to meet them on time have pushed up unemployment, hiked interest rates, depressed economic activity, and created civil unrest.
And for what? Across the continent businessmen and bankers increasingly question the economic need for a single currency at all. It is essentially a political symbol -- the currency of a European state and people which don't actually exist, except perhaps in the mind of a Brussels bureaucrat.
Yet these symbols were pursued at a real political cost in Central Europe. The early enthusiasm for the West and Western institutions began to wane. Facing tariff barriers and quotas in Western Europe, the Central Europeans began to erect their own. And those politicians there who had bravely pursued tough-minded policies of economic reform, believing that they were following the advice of European leaders, found themselves left in the lurch when the going got rough. Only the Czech Republic under the very able leadership of Vaclav Klaus has remained on course to a normal society.
In the last few years, the democratic reformers have fallen one by one in the former communist satellites, to be replaced by neo-communist governments promising the impossible: transition to a market economy without tears. This is a tragedy in itself, and an avoidable one. But with Russia lurching politically into a more authoritarian nationalist course, and the question of Central -- Central Europe's membership of NATO still unsettled, it has more than merely economic implications.
Which brings me to my last example of institutional failure, mercifully only a partial one counterbalanced by some successes, namely NATO. NATO is a very fine military instrument; it won the Cold War when it had a clear military doctrine. But an instrument can't define its own purposes, and since the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, Western statesmen have found it difficult to give NATO a clear one.
Indeed, they have shilly-shallied on the four major questions facing the Alliance:
Should Russia be regarded as a potential threat or a partner? (Russia may be about to answer that in clearer fashion than we would like.)
Should NATO turn its attention to "out of area" where most of the post-Cold War threats, such as nuclear proliferation, now lie?
Should NATO admit the new democracies of Central Europe as full members with full responsibilities as quickly as prudently possible?
Should Europe develop its own "defense identity" in NATO, even though this is a concept driven entirely by politics and has damaging military implications?
Such questions tend to be decided not in the abstract, not at inter-governmental conferences convened to look into the crystal ball, but on the anvil of necessity and in the heat of crisis. And that is exactly what happened in the long-running crisis over Bosnia.
At first, the supporters of a European foreign policy and a European defense identity declared the former Yugoslavia "Europe's crisis" and asked the United States to keep out. The United States was glad to do so. But the European Union's farcical involvement only made matters worse and, after a while, was effectively abandoned. Then the United Nations became involved, and asked NATO to be its military agent in its peacekeeping operations. Finally, when the United Nations-NATO personnel were taken hostage, the United States intervened, employed NATO air-power with real effect, forced the combatants to the conference table, for better or worse imposed an agreement on them, and now heads a large NATO contingent that is enforcing it.
In the course of stamping its authority on events, the United States also stamped its authority on the European members of NATO. And since the logistical supply chain goes through Hungary, it drew the Central Europeans into NATO operations in a small way. Whether NATO will apply the logic of this crisis in future strategic planning remains to be seen; but for the armchair theorists of a closed, passive, and divided NATO, Bosnia has been no end of a lesson.
These various institutional failures are worrying enough in their own terms and in our own times. If we look ahead still further to the end of the twenty first century, however, an alarming and unstable future is on the cards.
Consider the number of medium-to-large states in the world that have now embarked on a free-market revolution: India, China, Brazil, possibly Russia. Add to these the present economic great powers: the United States and Japan, and, if the federalists get their way, a European superstate with its own independent foreign and defense policy separate from, and perhaps inimical to, the United States. What we see here in year 2096 is an unstable world in which there are more than half a dozen "great powers," all with their own clients, all vulnerable if they stand alone, all capable of increasing their power and influence if they form the right kind of alliance, and all engaged willy-nilly in perpetual diplomatic maneuvers to ensure that their relative positions improve rather than deteriorate. In other words, 2096 might look like 1914 played on a somewhat larger stage.
This need not come to pass if the Atlantic Alliance remains as it is today: in essence, America as the dominant power surrounded by allies which generally follow her lead. Such are the realities of population, resources, technology and capital that if America remains the dominant partner in a united West, and militarily engaged in Europe, then the West can continue to be the dominant power in the world as a whole.
What is to be done? I believe that what is now required is a new and imaginative Atlantic initiative. Its purpose must be to redefine Atlanticism in the light of the challenges I have been describing. There are rare moments when history is open and its course changed by means such as these. We may be at just such a moment now.
First, security. As my discussion of the Bosnian crisis demonstrated, the key lies in two reforms: opening NATO membership to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, and extending NATO's role so that it is able to operate out of area.
Both reforms will require a change in NATO's existing procedures. An attack on the territory of one member must, of course, continue to be regarded unambiguously as an attack on that of all; but that principle of universality need not apply to out-of-area activities. Indeed, it needs to be recognized that a wider role for NATO can't be achieved if every member-state has to participate in an out-of-area operation before it can go ahead. What is required are flexible arrangements which, to use a fashionable phrase, permit the creation of "coalitions of the willing."
Would NATO expansion mark a new division of Europe and give Russia the right to intervene in states outside the fold? Not in the least. Among other reasons, we could hold out the possibility of admitting those countries which subsequently demonstrate a commitment to democratic values and which have trained military forces up to an acceptable standard. That would be a powerful incentive for such states to pursue the path of democratic reform and defense preparedness.
NATO also provides the best available mechanism for co-coordinating the contribution of America's allies to a global system of ballistic -- ballistic missile defense: that is, one providing protection against missile attack from whatever source it comes.
If, however, the United States is to build this global ballistic defense system with its allies, it needs the assurance that the Alliance is a permanent one resting on solid foundations of American leadership. That raises, in my view, very serious doubts about the currently fashionable idea of a separate European "defense identity" within the Alliance.
Essentially, this is another piece of political symbolism, associated among European federalists with long-term aspirations for a European state with its own foreign and defense policy. It would create the armed forces of a country which does not exist. But, like the single currency, it would have damaging practical consequences in the here and now.
In the first place, it contains the germs of a major future Trans-Atlantic rift. And in the second, it has no military rationale or benefits. Indeed, it has potentially severe military drawbacks. Even a French general admitted that during the Gulf War the United States forces were "the eyes and ears" of the French troops. Without America, NATO is a political talking shop, not a military force.
Nor is that likely to be changed in any reasonably foreseeable circumstances. Defense expenditure has been falling sharply in almost all European states in recent years. Even if this process were now halted and reversed, it would take many years before Europe could hope to replace what America presently makes available to the Alliance by way of command and control facilities, airlift capacity, surveillance, and sheer fire-power. Defense policy can't be built upon political symbolism and utopian projects of nation-building which ignore or even defy military logic and fiscal prudence.
But even a vigorous and successful NATO would not survive indefinitely in a West divided along the lines of trade and economics. One of the great threats to Atlantic unity in recent years has been a succession of trade wars, ranging from steel to pasta, which have strained relations across the Atlantic. So the second element of a New Atlantic Initiative must take the form of a concerted program to liberalize trade, thereby stimulating growth and creating badly needed new jobs. More specifically, we need to move towards a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Area, uniting the North American Free Trade Area with a European Union enlarged to incorporate the Central European countries.
I realize this may not seem the most propitious moment in American politics to advocate a new trade agreement. But the arguments against free trade between advanced industrial countries and poor Third World ones -- even if I accepted them, which I do not -- certainly do not apply to a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade deal.
Such a trade bloc would unite countries with similar incomes and levels of regulation. It would therefore involve much less disruption and temporary job loss -- while still bringing significant gains in efficiency and prosperity. This has been recognized by American labor unions, notably by Mr. Lane Kirkland in a series of important speeches. And it would create a trade bloc of unparalleled wealth (and therefore influence) in world trade negotiations.
Of course, economic gains are only half of the argument for a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade area. It would also provide, my friends, solid economic underpinning to America's continued military commitment to Europe, while strengthening the still fragile economies and political countries of Central Europe. It would be, in effect, the economic equivalent of NATO and, as such, the second pillar of Atlantic unity -- the first, security; the second, trade -- under American leadership.
Yet, let us never forget that there is a third pillar -- the political one. The West is not just some Cold War construct, devoid of significance in today's freer, more fluid world. It rests upon distinctive values and virtues, ideas and ideals, and above all on a common experience of liberty. True, the Asia-Pacific may be fast becoming the new center of global economic power. Quite rightly, both the United States and Britain take an ever closer interest in developments there. But it is the West -- above all perhaps, the English-speaking peoples of the West -- that has formed that system of liberal democracy which is politically dominant and which we all know offers the best hope of global peace and prosperity. In order to uphold these things, the Atlantic political relationship must be constantly nurtured and renewed.
So we must breathe new life into the consultative political institutions of the West such as the Atlantic Council and the North Atlantic Assembly. All too often, my friends, they lack influence and presence in public debate. Above all, however -- loathe as I am to suggest another gathering of international leaders -- I would propose an annual summit of the heads of government of all the North Atlantic countries, under the chairmanship of the President of the United States.
What all this adds up to is not another supra-national entity. That would be unwieldy and unworkable. It is something more subtle, but I hope more durable: a form of Atlantic partnership which attempts to solve common problems while respecting the sovereignty of the member States. In the course of identifying those problems and co-operating to solve them, governments would gradually discover that they were shaping an Atlantic public opinion and political consciousness.
The reaction, fifty years ago, to that earlier Fulton speech was swift, dramatic and, at first, highly critical. Indeed, to judge from the critics you would have imagined that it was not Stalin but Churchill who had drawn down the Iron Curtain. But for all the immediate disharmony, it soon became evident that Fulton had struck a deeper chord. It resulted in a decisive shift in opinion: by May, the opinion polls recorded that 83 percent of Americans now favored the idea of a permanent alliance between the United States and Britain, which was subsequently broadened into NATO.
By speaking as and when he did, Churchill guarded against a repetition of the withdrawal of America from Europe which, after 1919, allowed the instability to emerge that plunged the whole world -- including America -- into a second war.
Like my uniquely distinguished predecessor, I too may be accused of alarmism in pointing to new dangers to which present institutions -- and attitudes -- are proving unequal. But, also like him, I have every confidence in the resources and the values of the Western civilization we are defending.
In particular, I believe -- to use Churchill's words, for there are no better -- that: "If all British moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own in fraternal association, the highroads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time, but for a century to come."
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New work could provide sustainable ways to make chemicals, medicines, and biomaterials. Single-pot Glycoprotein Biosynthesis Using a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System Enriched with Glycosylation Machinery, the study was published in Nature Communications.
Cell-Free Protein Synthesis
Engineering cellular biology, minus the actual cell, is a growing area of interest in biotechnology and synthetic biology. It's known as cell-free protein synthesis or CFPS, and it has the potential to provide sustainable ways to make chemicals, medicines, and biomaterials.
Unfortunately, a long-standing gap in cell-free systems is the ability to manufacture glycosylated proteins with a carbohydrate attachment. Glycosylation is crucial for a wide range of important biological processes, and the ability to understand and control this mechanism is vital for disease treatment and prevention.
They have teamed up on a novel approach that bridges this gap. Their system, the first of its kind, capitalizes on the recent advances in CFPS while adding the crucial glycosylation component in a simplified, "one-pot" reaction. The protein of choice could then be freeze-dried and reactivated for point-of-use synthesis by simply adding water.
This work could impact the development of decentralized manufacturing strategies. Rapid access to protein-based medicines in remote settings could change lives; new biomanufacturing paradigms suitable for use in low-resource settings might promote better access to costly drugs through local, small-batch production.
For their new method, the team prepared cell extracts from an optimized laboratory strain of E. coli, CLM24, that were selectively enriched with key glycosylation components. The resulting extracts enabled a simplified reaction scheme, which the team has dubbed cell-free glycoprotein synthesis (CFGpS).
A major advance of this work is that our cell-free extracts contain all of the molecular machinery for protein synthesis and protein glycosylation. What that means is you only need to add DNA instructions for your protein of interest to make a glycoprotein in CFGpS. This is a drastic simplification from cell-based methods and allows us to make sophisticated glycoprotein molecules in less than a day.
And the CFGpS method is highly modular, allowing for the use of distinct and diverse extracts to be mixed for the production of a variety of glycoproteins. Because we chose E. coli, which lacks its glycosylation machinery, to build our CFGpS platform, it gave us a blank slate for bottom-up engineering of any desired glycosylation system.
This gives us the unique ability to control carbohydrate structures and purities of the glycoproteins at levels that are not currently achievable in other cell-based expression systems. Even in developed countries like the U.S., the move toward personalized medicine makes this type of on-demand drug production protocol attractive. | <urn:uuid:330b6b3d-5c6e-4991-a152-991edd204b3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.medsbla.com/medical-news/anaesthesiology/protein-biosynthesis-using-cell-free-transcription-translation-system-with-glycosylation12101/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928497 | 638 | 2.984375 | 3 |
What should we do after we buy the glass lined reactor? Naturally, check the equipment to ensure that it can be used normally. How should we check it? Let’s have a look.
1、 Internal and external inspection
Check the inner and outer surfaces of the glass lined reactor for corrosion, wear and other phenomena. Use the naked eye or magnifying glass to check whether there are cracks in all welds, head transition areas and other stress concentration areas. If necessary, use ultrasonic or radiographic inspection to check the internal quality of welds and measure the wall thickness. If the measured wall thickness is less than the smaller wall thickness of the vessel, metallographic examination shall be carried out again.
2、 External inspection
The external inspection of glass lined reactor is mainly to check whether there are cracks, deformation, leakage, local overheating and other abnormal phenomena on the external surface of the reactor. Whether the accessories are complete, sensitive and reliable, whether the fastening bolts are intact and fully tightened, whether the foundation sinks and tilts, and whether the anti-corrosion coating is damaged. The inspector is mainly responsible for the external inspection of glass lined reactor, which is also part of the patrol inspection and daily inspection of operators. The container inspector shall conduct external inspection at least once a year.
3、 All inspections
In addition to external inspection and internal and external inspection items, pressure test shall be conducted, and nondestructive inspection of main welds or random inspection of all welds shall be determined according to the characteristics of glass lined reactor. For low-pressure, non flammable, non-toxic gas and non corrosive medium glass lined reaction vessels, if no defects are found, after certain use and inspection, non-destructive inspection shall not be carried out.
After all the above inspections and all the items are qualified, we can buy Glass lined reaction kettle, so as to avoid a series of troubles in the later stage. I hope this content can help you to buy Glass lined reaction kettle correctly | <urn:uuid:8bbb2441-bb8f-4e46-bbaa-e165b4a9fc99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chinareactor.com/inspection-for-purchasing-glass-lined-reaction-kettle/?v=715f9a16ad2c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.907921 | 418 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The Yellow Pages industry is freaking out because California is attempting to do something outrageous: Hold the yellow pages industry accountable for the talk they talk.
On Monday the 17th of May, the California Senate Appropriations Committee will give their take on SB 920. According to the head of the Yellow Pages Association, Neg Norton, this bill will hurt small businesses in California:
It’s clear that any effort to limit local businesses from reaching consumers not only hurts businesses, but negatively impacts the state economy. In times like these, we can’t afford to place an undue burden on local business owners trying to make ends meet.
That, of course, makes me wonder how this would hurt small businesses. Let’s take a look at the language of the bill:
This bill would require a telephone corporation or 3rd-party vendor, as defined, to allow any telephone service subscriber to opt out of receiving a telephone directory published by a telephone corporation or 3rd-party vendor. The bill would prohibit telephone corporations and 3rd-party vendors from delivering directories to subscribers who opt out of receiving a directory, require that a telephone corporation or 3rd party vendor to demonstrate compliance with a specified law relative to recycled-content newsprint, and require that a directory contain clear and conspicuous language regarding opting out of receiving future directories and recycling of the directory.
It sounds to me like that’s saying that people who don’t want printed phone directories will have the ability to opt-out of receiving them.
Correct me if I’m wrong in this assumption, but it doesn’t seem like the type of person who doesn’t want phone directories plans to use phone directories to look up local business information, so how, exactly, would this hurt small businesses in California?
Since the yellow pages industry has professed support for opt-out systems, legislation that holds the industry accountable for their own words seems pretty benign to me. | <urn:uuid:38e47223-2e96-4bb4-92d7-50938e0f2a71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedeets.com/2010/05/13/california-yellow-pages-bill-freaks-out-yp-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.92695 | 397 | 1.625 | 2 |
Flor O’Mahony visited the school for a workshop on hearing and sign language. We learned about how we hear by playing a game. We role-played the different parts of the ear. Some children were the hairs in our ears which catch the sounds, another pupil was the cochlea and finally a pupil pretended to be the brain! The hairs caught the sound, who then passed it to the cochlea and then sent it to the brain. We used a ball to represent the sounds. Sometimes the hairs didn’t catch the sound!
Next we learned about deafness and how people can use sign-language to communicate. Flor taught us all the letters of the alphabet in sign language and then we signed our own names.
We also learned that sometimes a sign is for a whole word. We got really handy pocket size cards with all the sign language signs so we can continue practicing.
Flor also used an app on the ipad to test the sound levels in the classroom and what range sound levels are safe for our ears. So we’ve discovered that it might be better to turn down the sound levels on our i-pods etc. to be kind to our hearing in future. Flor showed us a video called 4 schools 1 language which was amazing. There are two boys at the front of the group who are completely deaf and watch the rhythm they have and they way they can dance. The two boys are currently sitting their leaving cert exams.
Thank you Flor for a great workshop. Take a look at photos from our hearing & sign language workshop. | <urn:uuid:71ca1147-fdf1-4156-af84-188abc372a76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.glinskns.ie/sign-language-workshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967328 | 323 | 3.21875 | 3 |
GDP growth in the UK will be just 1.2 per cent in 2011, according to the Institute of Directors’ latest economic outlook. This is unchanged from the institute’s previous quarterly forecast in November 2010.
In its latest UK economic outlook published today, the Institute of Directors forecasts UK GDP growth will be just 1.2 per cent in 2011.
The IoD lists five economic influences that combined will weaken GDP growth prospects. These factors are falling household real income, a flat savings ratio, upward interest rate expectations, the fiscal squeeze and anaemic broad money supply growth.
A spokesman for the IoD, said: “In 2011-12 we think there is more of a risk to the economy from a mistake in monetary than fiscal policy. Raising interest rates when the money supply is so weak could undermine recovery and risks a double-dip.
“The spending squeeze should proceed as planned and the MPC should avoid raising interest rates. In fact, broad money supply statistics suggest there is a case for an extension in quantitative easing if anaemic monetary growth continues.” | <urn:uuid:4381031c-4f4c-4027-b241-071eed7a7ec3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.managedrecruitmentsolutions.co.uk/blog/2011/03/08/uk-economy-will-remain-sluggish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933282 | 224 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Howard Koplowitz, a journalist with AL.com, was arrested while filming protests in front of Birmingham City Hall, in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 3, 2020. After being taken to the city jail for processing, Koplowitz was released without charges.
Koplowitz was reporting that day with colleague Jonece Starr Dunigan, who was also arrested. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has documented her arrest here. Both journalists declined to comment.
The protest was held in response to a video showing a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a Black man, for more than eight minutes during an arrest on May 25. Floyd was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The incident sparked anti-police brutality and Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the country.
Koplowitz had been tweeting during the evening, including just after the city’s 7 p.m. curfew. He told AL.com that he was recording video of Birmingham Police Department officers walking out of City Hall at around 7:30 p.m., when two officers approached him. An officer told Koplowitz he was under arrest, ignoring Koplowitz’s press pass and his verbal protestations that he was a journalist.
AL.com reported that Koplowitz was also carrying letters showing proof of employment for both himself and Dunigan, as required by the city in order for journalists to be exempt from the curfew order. However, the BPD officers who arrested him didn’t allow him to show them the letters.
Within seconds of approaching Koplowitz, officers also arrested Dunigan, who also was wearing media credentials and standing nearby.
Koplowitz told AL.com that he and Dunigan were zip-tied and put into a van, which transported them to the city jail. At the jail, he said they were photographed and chained to a bench for 10 minutes before BPD Public Information Officer Sergeant Rod Mauldin intervened and had them released. Neither Koplowitz nor Dunigan are facing criminal charges.
Koplowitz said he was later told by officers that they had been detained for their safety.
Mauldin advised the Tracker to direct all questions to the mayor’s office, which did not respond to emails requesting comment.
AL.com editors condemned the journalists’ arrests.
“Unacceptable,” tweeted Kelly Ann Scott, AL.com editor and vice president of content. “I’m so sorry that @HowardKoplowitz and @StarrDunigan had to endure this while just doing their jobs as journalists.”
“Watching video of a zip-tied reporter cry for someone to call me was agonizing,” tweeted Jeremy Gray, AL.com managing producer of breaking news. “I hired @StarrDunigan and have worked with @HowardKoplowitz ever since he joined our team. They were standing on a sidewalk when they were loaded into a van.”
On June 5, after another reporter was arrested by BPD officers, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin apologized for the BPD’s treatment of journalists.
“Our curfew was not intended to stifle the voices of our people or our press,” he wrote on Twitter. “We need them more now than ever.”
On June 6, Alabama Media Group, the publisher of AL.com and the Birmingham News, asked for an apology and investigation into the arrests, AL.com reported.
“Clearly, the police overstepped their legal authority in arresting, assaulting and otherwise mistreating members of the press with no inclination to use any but the most extreme measures,” said James Pewitt, attorney for Alabama Media Group, in a letter sent to Woodfin and others. Pewitt added that the explanations provided by the police “are, in our view, wholly inadequate, plainly false and pretextual.”
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is documenting several hundred incidents of journalists assaulted, arrested, struck by crowd-control ammunition or tear gas, or had their equipment damaged while covering protests across the country. Find these incidents here. | <urn:uuid:904366de-4968-4165-9cd2-bb16f48582d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/alcom-journalist-arrested-while-covering-birmingham-protests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979881 | 864 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Assessment the Knowledge and Attitude of Breast Self Examination among Secondary School Female Students in Mosul City
Kirkuk Journal of Medical Sciences,
2020, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 98-104
AbstractBackground: the examination of the Breast is regarded as the secondary method of breast cancer protection which must be done by all females during the age 20 years and above. Aim: To assess knowledge and attitude level of females secondary school student’s towards breast self examination (BSE). Subject and method: Cross-sectional study design involved 1000 female student in secondary school in Mosul city .The study started from (1st March till 1st June) 2019, lasting for about (3 months ) by using a self-administer standardized questionnaire include knowledge and attitudes toward , source of knowledge Result: the study revealed that grand mean assessment value regarding BSE general information was 2.09 just above the (cut – off point = 2). The main source of knowledge was health professional (32.3%), followed by TV and social media (27.6%). Nearly two third of study sample had positive attitude to consult doctor and period of consultation within one week with mean score 2.3 and 2.4 respectively. In general the mean score assessment value of attitude toward BSE among study sample was below the cut of point 1.7. Recommendation: Provision of intensive educational program to secondary school students by health professional and encourage school teachers to teach and complete educational curriculum which focus to BSE and take attention to the subject to increase awareness and improve attitude toward it.
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