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Ready to find out what the mystery seed of week 7 was?
It was the seed of the northern catalpa, Catalpa speciosa.
These trees have big, heart-shaped leaves.
They are often grown for their big showy flowers.
Here’s a better look:
I believe there are a few southern catalpas (Catalpa bignonioides) in Arizona, but the northern catalpas from the photographs above are from upstate New York and Pennsylvania.
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Top 5 Ways For Boosting Your Credit Score
Your credit score is affected by lots of different things, and it can be tricky to boost it back up once it drops. You might not even know that your credit score has dropped until you applied for a payday loan online and got rejected. However, there are ways you can easily build your credit score back up to enable to be approved for the finance you need. It will take a little bit of work and time, but with some effort, you find your credit score have climbed back up in no time! So, to help you get back in control of your credit, here are the top 5 ways you can boost your credit score.
Don't Miss Any Payments
If you regularly miss bill payments, not only can you be charged a late fee, but it can actually drastically reduce your credit score. Your payment history actually affects about 35% of your score, making it the highest contributing factor so it's easy to see why it's necessary to pay on time. Once you've paid off your debt, you might think it's a good idea to remove it from your score. But, in reality it's better to leave your paid off debt where it is. Having proof that you can not only pay off a debt, but make your payments on time, will do wonders for your score, and demonstrates to lenders that you're a safe borrower. If you struggle to make your payments on time, try automating them or setting up reminders on your phone or calendar. This way, you're not only paying your bills on time, but you're also boosting your credit score.
Use Less Of Your Credit Card
Having a credit card and paying it off regularly is a good way to build your credit score. But did you know that using too much of your credit can actually be a bad thing? If your credit card limit is £1000 and you use £900 of it, this works out at about 90% credit utilisation. Really, you want to aim for around 30% or less to help keep your credit score high. If you find that you use most of the limit on your card, but you can regularly pay it off, it might be a good idea to ask for an increased limit. This means that you can use the same amount, but it will lower your credit utilisation.
Moving home a lot can be something you can't help, and your circumstances may have made it necessary at the time. However, moving a lot can sometimes show instability to a lender, making them more likely to reject your application. This can in turn cause problems for your credit score as their credit check and rejection will cause it to decrease. You should also make sure that you're registered on the electoral roll for your current address as this can help improve your credit score and it takes barely any time at all to do.
Review Your Credit Score Report
You can request your credit report free of charge once a year. It's important to keep an eye on it as it can also be a good indicator of any fraudulent activity that's happening under your name and affecting your score. You should also check the little details like your address. If you've moved a few times, your credit score might not have caught up with you yet. Or there could be a small typo which won't match any finance application forms you complete. This can then reduce your credit score as you keep getting rejected by different lenders. Checking your credit report once a year will allow you to keep on top of it and helps you catch any abnormalities. If you spot something that's wrong and has impacted your credit score, you can request that it's removed, thus helping increase your score.
Don't Apply For New Credit
If you want to improve your credit score, then you shouldn't keep applying for new finance. When you apply for any type of loan or credit card, most lenders will complete a hard credit check. This is where they do a full check on your credit report and each time a lender does a hard check, it's added to your current report. Other companies will then be able to see every hard check you have on your account and if you have too many, it can lower your credit score. Similarly, if you keep applying for finance and getting rejected, this will also show on your credit report and affect your score. Generally, hard credit checks stay on your report for a year so applying for too many loans or credit cards can be a bad sign to lenders. If you're being refused finance or your application is denied, this will signal to other lenders that you're risky to lend too as you'll have lots of hard credit searches and rejected applications. Sometimes you might have to apply for finance, so if you do, make sure you only apply for ones you're likely to be approved for. This will limit the amount of credit searches on your account and help keep your score high. There are soft credit searches that don't appear on your report and don't impact your credit rating, so if you're looking at other types of finance, make sure you know what kind of search will be performed.
If your credit score isn't the best, you don't have to accept it and struggle because there are things you can do about it. It may take a little bit of time and dedication, but it will definitely be worth it in the end. Improving your credit score may seem impossible when it's at an all time low, but it can be brought back to life by utilising these 5 tips above. You'll soon be able to see the difference and feel confident when you apply for finance. | <urn:uuid:d129fcf6-afd6-4933-bf2e-a02297e43112> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://infolific.com/money-management/top-5-ways-for-boosting-your-credit-score/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969984 | 1,149 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Today’s guest is Joel Hornberger, the Chief Strategy Officer and National Training Director at Cherokee Health Systems, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. I had the good fortune to hear Joel speak last fall at an event sponsored by the New Hampshire-Vermont Chapter of HFMA and invited him to be on the podcast, and I’m really pleased that he did. Cherokee Health Systems is a combined Federally Qualified Health Center and Community Mental Health Center, which is kind of unique. Cherokee provides care for more than 70,000 patients through it’s 23 brick and mortar locations and 23 additional telemedicine sites.
Cherokee has been an innovator in the area of integrating behavioral health and primary care, which is the focus of my conversation with Joel today. In the interview we talk about how Cherokee uses embedded behavioral health consultants (BHCs) to collaborate with primary care providers as well as the Clinic developed a unique rating system called the BPSA to quantify the needs of individual patients, among other things. I really enjoyed talking with Joel because his passion for integrated care and the FQHC mission is so apparent. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
During the podcast I make reference to a presentation that includes a floor plan used for integrating primary care and behavioral health, as well as the BPSA. You can find that presentation here.
Links to Podcast:
0:01:58 education, VISTA volunteer
0:04:38 transition to healthcare administration
0:05:35 lessons from working in managed care in the 80's
0:08:05 Cherokee Health Systems - history
0:10:18 "going where the grass is brownest"
0:11:55 CMHC and FQHC - explaining what they are
0:16:21 growing from behavioral health to an integrated system
0:18:15 growing the system from 4 to 23 clinics
0:19:26 integrating behavioral health and primary care - treating the whole person
0:24:39 moving from co-location to integration
0:27:33 integrating beahvioral health consultants (BHCs)
0:29:38 an example of BHC treatment
0:32:26 the role of the BHC and behavioral treatment
0:33:56 training for BHC role
0:36:08 staffing ratios for BHCs vs primary providers
0:36:29 Services offered - Dental services
0:38:25 Services offered - addiction services
0:40:33 Grants and other funding for FQHCs
0:43:45 telemedicine to support school-based clinics
0:48:32 telemedicine in support of psychiatry
0:49:23 telemedicine - the aesthetics
0:50:22 telemedicine and licensing
0:51:49 Value-based contracts and the Bio-psycho-social Assessment (BPSA)
0:56:56 zip-code trumps genetic code
0:57:56 working with claims data
0:59:19 using the BPSA score to manage patients
0:59:59 using BPSA to guide preventive care, community health coordinator role
1:03:39 role as chief operating officer and now, chief strategy officer
1:08:03 what makes a good leader?
1:10:18 what do you look for when hiring a leader? Importance of fit
1:12:21 a difficult leadership lesson you learned the hard way? Making promises you can keep
1:17:28 why should early careerists look to FQHCs?
Links to topics discussed:
Cherokee Health Systems
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The Yorkshire Film Archive collects, preserves, and shows film made in, or about Yorkshire. Our collections are non-fiction, dating from the 1890s to the present day, and providing a rich and visually compelling record of all aspects of lives, cultures, landscape, industries, major events and everyday activities, many of which are available to watch, free of charge, on our website.
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Where There's Brass
“If there’s music in yer, it has to come out”. But northern brass bands, as this film testifies, reveal so much more about working class life than its innate creativity.
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Members of Scapegoat Hill Brass Band trudge up a steep road in West Yorkshire in the snow, and we glimpse a whole other world as workers learn to play instruments suited to their “rough hands”. As Michael Parkinson explains, although starting out as a plan by factory owners to keep the workers happy, northern brass bands have formed a whole culture around them which took on added significance in the late 1960s, just as the jobs that supported them were disappearing.
This is a Yorkshire Television documentary, written and presented by Michael Parkinson. Although many of the factories and pits that once supported the numerous brass bands of Yorkshire have closed, most of those featured in the film have survived, although unfortunately not Scapegoat Hill Band which folded around 1980. Yet there are still 600 registered brass bands, the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain is still going strong, and the adjudicator still has to keep his anonymity by sitting in the adjudicator's box for hours on end. And there have been advances, including more women members of brass bands, perhaps inspired by the character of Gloria in the 1996 film Brassed Off. | <urn:uuid:81a5ce13-69ef-46b9-91d6-e3b5379fc67b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-where-theres-brass-1969-online | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974872 | 369 | 2.25 | 2 |
A patent in the field of computer and communication technology, search engines, internet security, and website verification has issued as U.S. Patent 7,809,709 for “Search engine system, method and device”.
A patent in the field of barcodes, automatic identification (“auto ID”), and data capture has issued as U.S. Patent 7,710,598 for “Polychromatic encoding system, method and device”.
A patent in the field of postal mail, shipping, fulfillment, delivery, and courier services has issued as U.S. Patent 7,617,112 for “Postal system, method and device”.
A patent in the field of social media has issued as U.S. Patent 7,599,938 for “Social news gathering, prioritizing, tagging, searching, and syndication method”.
A patent in the field of time, horology, clocks, and watches has issued as U.S. Patent 7,525,877 for “Time display system, method and device”.
Technology and Social Change
Technological breakthroughs can pave the way to major social changes—some good, some bad, some mixed. The internal combustion engine and other automobile advances, for instance, enabled numerous positive services, such as ambulances and fire engines. But the automobile also gave rise to city designs and lifestyle choices that are inefficient to the point of being almost bizarre, as in the now-common case of a freeway commuter who drives an hour or more—each way—to and from work.
In more recent years, the World Wide Web has again demonstrated that technological advances can precipitate fundamental changes in the ways that people work, play, shop, and socialize: the telecommuter is gradually replacing the freeway commuter, and MySpace and Facebook have emerged as primary ways to “hang out”.
The Impervious Dinner Plate
While computers and mobile electronics continue to revolutionize many other aspects of life, people’s eating habits have been very slow to change. Folks who ate bacon and eggs for breakfast, hamburger and fries for lunch, and pizza and beer for dinner 30 years ago are still eating those same items today. Aside from some packaging updates, the menus of restaurants that were in business 30 years ago, such as McDonald’s or Pizza Hut, remain little changed today.
Perhaps dietary habits are so deeply rooted in a person’s consciousness that they become a part of one’s identity. Certainly many community and religious events and holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, revolve around food. But whatever the reason, dietary choices have remained relatively impervious to the wave of change that has swept over many other personal choices in recent decades.
The Cost of Consistency
Unfortunately, the dominant eating habits of Western culture have proven to be wildly destructive at the environmental level. Meat, in particular, extracts a devastating toll, as it is a profoundly inefficient food item. Specifically, it generally takes approximately 10 to 25 times—that’s 2500% —more resources to produce a pound of meat than to produce a pound of vegetable food. After all, animals must either eat other animals or eat plants, whereas plants simply get their sustenance from the sun and the soil. Animals also require medicine, lodging and other upkeep, whereas plants are relatively very low maintenance. Finally, animals used for meat production expel a great deal of polluting gases, such as methane, whereas plants generally had an unequivocally beneficial effect on the environment.
The net effect of consistency in the dominant Western diet has therefore been highly negative. Indeed, many environmental scientists now consider meat to be the single most environmentally harmful modern lifestyle choice—yes, even worse than driving a gas guzzler.
And that’s not even to mention the well-documented health effects, from heart disease to obesity, of the Western and particularly American diet.
Meat Substitutes: a Good Start
Soy burgers and other vegetable-based meat substitutes (sometimes called “meat analogues”) have taken root in many households. Tofu has proven to be a sort of “miracle meat” in that it can take on so many flavors that even discriminating meat lovers can be fooled by tofu products masquerading as meat. These culinary advances have been applauded by environmentalists, nutritionists and animal rights activists alike.
But, while the personal health and environmental benefits of a vegetarian diet have been thoroughly demonstrated, whether meat substitutes can ever overtake the Whopper and the Quarter Pounder with Cheese remains to be seen.
Enter Artificial Meat
Perhaps meat substitutes do not have to replace real meat in order for many of the detrimental effects of meat production to be avoided. Scientists have now demonstrated the ability to produce actual meat—not a vegetable substitute—using cell cultures rather than cows, pigs, or sheep. Specifically, certain cell samples originally taken from an animal are then nourished and cultivated to proliferate into large quantities of such cells, thereby producing artificial meat (also “in vitro”, “synthetic” or “test tube” meat) that is at the cellular level essentially identical to meat that comes from the muscles of slaughtered animals.
Implications, Pro and Con
Many hurdles are yet to be overcome before artificial meat can fully replace slaughter-based meat. First, the in vitro technique is still too costly to compete with slaughter for meat production in the mass market. However, over time, these costs may come down, especially if a handful of early adopters are willing to pay a premium for cruelty-free meat.
Second, cell cultivation may not sound particularly appealing to a society that is accustomed to the use of farm animals to produce food. Test-tube meat may sound very “sci-fi”, mysterious, and perhaps even dangerous to the average consumer. Of course, such a perception is just that, a perception, and can probably be changed when met head-on with informational measures, such as those suggested by M. Renee Orth in her article on legislation for public surveillance of the slaughter industry.
Third, even in vitro meat is likely to prove highly wasteful of resources compared to vegetable food. While not as wasteful as traditional meat production, the new technique will still have significant, inherent overhead costs, and the conversion of organic material to meat will probably always be less efficient than a food production system that requires no such conversion.
Fourth, to the degree that synthetic meat fully replicates slaughter-produced meat, the massive health benefits of a vegetarian diet are lost.
Fifth, purists in the fields of environmentalism and animal rights activism may view artificial meat as a way of actually prolonging the meat addiction of modern culture and thereby undermining efforts to bring about true sustainability and cruelty-free living. Under this view, switching from slaughter-based meat to artificial meat is the equivalent of switching an alcoholic from wine to beer. However, if artificial meat does in fact significantly reduce the demand for slaughter-based meat, the purist argument will probably fail, at least in the animal rights field. Net environmental impact will be more difficult to resolve.
Opportunity for Long-Overdue Dietary Shifts
Notwithstanding the above reasons for caution, artificial meat has at least the potential to be a disruptive technology, one that could bring about fundamental changes in a sphere that has heretofore remained relatively impervious to change: what’s for dinner. Executed properly, artificial meat production could (i) dramatically curtail the practice of animal slaughter and thereby (ii) bring about a significant reduction of the environmental harms inherent in raising animals for slaughter. These two effects make the technology highly desirable and worthy of pursuit.
(Original pub date: March 30th, 2009 (Cruelty-Free))
A patent in the field of health care, physical therapy devices, braces, and splints related to carpal tunnel syndrome has issued as U.S. Patent 7,470,244 for “Flexion-discouraging splint system, method and device”.
Snapshot: Uncommon Law™ Universal Judicial Opinion Entry Software Forces Judges to Be Logical
(Original article publication date: July 15, 2008 (Inventerprise))
Common law judicial opinions have no set form or style (except that they be in English), and they are required to meet no minimum standards for quality—or even validity. This free-form, free-wheeling approach to law evolved hundreds of years ago as an expedient measure in less-enlightened times. And it’s time for it to go.
Uncommon Law™ software eliminates the possibility of long-winded, unnecessary rambling (the lawyers tell us they call that “dicta”) and of fallacious reasoning as follows: a judge logs into the Uncommon Law website and enters the case number and other identifying information. He then enters conclusion and premise data that go to make up his argument into the proper field. As many fields as necessary can be used, but each entry should include only one premise or conclusion.
In this way, the logical validity of a judicial opinion can be relatively easily reviewed for errors—perhaps even automatically reviewed for certain simple errors.
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What is incentive? In simple words, incentive is anything that attracts a worker and stimulates him to work. The incentives can be financial and non-financial. Both types of incentives play important role under different conditions. For example, financial incentives are considered to be more valued under the work conditions where wages are at low levels.
On the contrary, non-financial incentives are more preferable where wage levels are high and the rate of tax is progressive. However, a review of research evidences indicates that there is a shift in emphasis in the demands of employees and their unions from financial to non-financial benefits.
Here, our discussion relates to financial incentives also known as ‘wage incentives’. The term incentive has been defined differently by different authors. We produce here a few of these definitions. According to the National Commission on Labour, “Wage incentives are extra financial motivation. They are designed to stimulate human effort by rewarding the person, over and above the time rated remuneration, for improvements in the present or targeted results”.
Burak and Smith have defined incentive as, “An incentive scheme is a plan or programme to motivate individuals for good performance. An incentive is most frequently built on monetary rewards (incentive pay or a monetary bonus), but also may include a variety of non-monetary rewards or prizes”.
According to Venkata Ratnam and Srivastava, “A wage incentive scheme is a method of payment for work of an acceptable quality produced over and above a specified quantity or standard”.
Now, we can define incentive as a system of payment under which payable to a person is linked with his output. Such a payment is also called ‘payment by results (PBR). Thus PBR refers to a method which provides for the “direct linking of workers earnings to a measure of their performance”.
The main features of incentives gleaned from the above definitions can be listed as follows:
1. Incentives are based on a standard of performance for the job.
2. Incentives are measurable in monetary terms.
3. Incentives are meant to motivate workers for better and more performance.
4. Incentives have direct linking to performance.
5. Incentives vary from person to person and from time to time for the same person.
An incentive scheme is usually based on three assumptions:
1. The belief that money is a strong motivator.
2 That the relationship between effort and reward can be systematically established. The relationship so based leaves no doubts in the minds of the concerned employees.
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Vegetable Cheese Dosa is a famous South Indian recipe. It is made with fresh vegetables and cheese. This is a easy dinner/lunch recipe, loved by kids and adults too.
Dosa batter: 100 grams
Slice capsicum: 35 grams
Slice onion: 25 grams
Carrot julienne: 35 grams
Flavored cheese: 50 grams
Take dosa batter and spread the dosa in a circular motion on a hot griddle.
Saute capsicum, carrot, onion cut in shreds on the side of hot griddle and spread in the center of dosa.
Now, add creamy cheese spread-on top of vegetables.
Roll it and cut in two piece for appearance and place in a platter.
Serve hot with tasty coconut, red, green chutney & sambar.
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Idaho Ambulance Services Insurance Policy Information
Idaho Ambulance Services Insurance. If you operate an ambulance service, the community you serve literally relies on you in life-and-death situations. That's a pretty major task and one that has to be handled properly and responsibly.
Despite making sure that everything is running smoothly and that your services are benefiting the community, there is always a chance that something could go wrong.
Ambulance services provide medical assistance and transportation services to ill or injured persons. The service may be part of an emergency response unit, such as a firefighting team, that provides immediate first aid at the site of an incident in addition to transportation. Other ambulance services provide patient transport between hospitals or other medical or convalescent facilities for non-urgent care.
Ambulances are equipped with sirens and flashing lights to alert other drivers of their presence on the road. Services may be municipally owned and funded through taxes, nonprofit organizations staffed by volunteers, or for-profit operations. The crew generally includes a driver and one or more emergency medical technicians (EMT) or paramedics.
Private services may provide a registered nurse (RN) or a doctor during patient transport. While ID ambulance services primarily transport patients by motor vehicles, some will have boats or helicopters available for situations that cannot be handled using public roads.
As the owner and operate as an ambulance service, you are responsible for any issues that may arise; be it an employee injury, a slip and fall accident, equipment breakdown, or an accident with one of your ambulances. In order to protect yourself from the unexpected, you need to invest in the right type of Idaho ambulance services insurance coverage.
Below, you'll find out why it's crucial for ambulance services to be insured - and what type of coverage you'll need to carry.
Idaho ambulance services insurance protects your medical transport business from lawsuits with rates as low as $67/mo. Get a fast quote and your certificate of insurance now.
Why Do Ambulance Services Need Insurance?
ID ambulance services work around the clock and are always ready to jump into action when a dire situation arises. A car accident, an injury, or any other type of medical emergency can happen at a moment's notice and your service needs to be ready to respond fast.
While you are tasked with saving lives and providing the medical assistance that the ID community you serve needs, there is always a chance that something could go wrong. An ambulance could be involved in an accident on the way back from the hospital for example, a pipe could burst and damage your commercial facility, or a member of your staff could slip and fall on the job and need medical care.
The above are just a few examples of the types of situations that could arise, and if they do, you are financially responsible. The cost of repairs, medical care, and anything else that you're liable for can be exorbitant. If you're properly insured, however, instead of paying these expenses yourself, your Idaho ambulance services insurance carrier will cover them for you.
In addition to helping you avoid serious financial hardship, by having the right coverage, it ensures that you are complying with the law. Ambulance services are legally required to carry certain types of insurance coverage, and if they fail to, they could face stiff monetary penalties or worse, lose their license to operate.
What Type Of Insurance Do Ambulance Services Need?
Where you're located, the size of your operation, and the size of your staff are just a few of the factors that will dictate what type of coverage you need; however, there are some key types of insurance that all ambulance services should carry. Examples include:
- Commercial General Liability - If someone were to slip and fall on your commercial property, suffer an injury, and file a lawsuit against you, commercial general liability insurance would help to pay for the related expenses. That's because this policy covers third-party property damage and liability claims.
- Commercial Auto - If your ambulance is involved in an accident - it rear-ends another driver or damages a sidewalk, for example - ID commercial auto insurance will come to the rescue. This policy covers the cost of any damages to a third-party's vehicle if you're responsible for an accident, as well as injuries that anyone in the other vehicle or on the road may suffer as a result of the accident.
- Workers' Compensation - If you employ a crew, you'll also need to have a workers' compensation policy in place. This type of coverage pays for any work-related injuries or illnesses that your employees may face, including their medical care and any wages that they may lose if they are unable to work while they're recovering.
- Commercial Property - To protect the facility that your ambulance service operates out of - as well as the contents it contains - you will also need to have a commercial property insurance policy. This coverage will help to pay for any repair or replacement expenses that your building the property within it may need in the event of a fire, a pipe burst, an act of vandalism, or theft, for example.
The above-mentioned policies are just a few examples of the type of Idaho ambulance services insurance coverage you should carry as an medical transport provider.
ID Ambulance Service's Risks & Exposures
Premises liability exposure is limited due to the lack of public access to the office and garage. If fundraisers or other special events are held on premises, visitors may slip and fall. Visiting children should be supervised by parents or teachers. The off-premises exposure in working with patients is more severe but would normally be covered under professional or automobile liability.
Property damage claims may arise from patients or family members accusing workers of damaging property or stealing money, jewelry or other valuables, either at their homes or during transport. Workers should document all items found with a patient and obtain a signature from the patient or relative to verify its accuracy.
Personal injury exposures may include allegations of assault or battery, discrimination, and invasion of privacy.
Professional liability exposures are high for medical malpractice due to the services provided at the site of an emergency and during transport of patients to medical facilities. The exposure increases if the ambulance service fails to conduct thorough background checks to verify employees' credentials, education, and licensing. Certifications must be kept current.
Employees must treat patients only within the constraints of their training and certification. There must be regular training on the proper use of all medical equipment. Needles and other equipment must be sterilized and sanitized between uses to prevent the spread of blood-borne infectious diseases.
There should be a clear-cut chain of command in responding to emergencies. Response times should be monitored as the ambulance service may be sued for failing to administer emergency care in a timely manner.
Workers compensation exposure can be severe due to interactions with patients. Gloves and masks should be worn at all times when working around any bodily fluids to prevent the possible transmission of disease from a patient. Vaccinations should be current. Injuries from lifting patients are common.
Backup assistance should be required when lifting and transporting, particularly when patients are obese. Unruly or unpredictable patients can cause harm including strains, back injuries, and contusions. Cuts and puncture wounds may be caused by the use of sharp equipment such as scalpels or needles. Responding to emergency situations may expose workers to violence or toxic chemicals.
Workers should be trained to deal with uncooperative patients, relatives, and other bystanders. Workers may slip or fall on slick or icy surfaces. Safety equipment should be provided, and procedures in place for decontaminating soiled equipment and supplies.
Driving at high speeds through congested areas or on rugged terrains increases the exposure to injuries from accidents. Repair facilities can result in cuts from auto repair tools, burns from welding, and respiratory ailments from inhalation of fuels and other contaminants.
Proper safety equipment should be provided. Due to the high physical and emotional demands of the job, all workers should be examined periodically. Pre-employment physicals, including psychological evaluation, should be required.
Property exposures are limited to electrical, heating and cooling systems at the dispatching office. Garages used for storing ambulances increase the exposure, particularly if the vehicles are serviced and fueled on premises.
Oxygen tanks stored on premises or in vehicles must be regularly checked for leaks, and stored upright away from any heat source, such as heating or cooking equipment or the sun. Smoking should be prohibited.
Inland marine exposures include accounts receivables for billings to insurers and other guarantors, computers, mobile medical equipment, communication devices, and supplies needed to care for patients during transport, and valuable papers and records for patient and supplier information.
All data must be duplicated and kept off site for easy replication in the event of a loss. There may be a bailees exposure for property belonging to patients.
Crime exposure is from burglary, robbery, and employee dishonesty. Pharmaceuticals and other medical equipment are in high demand. If the ambulance service is not attended 24 hours each day, there must be appropriate protective systems including physical barriers to prevent entrance to the premises after hours and an alarm system that reports directly to a central station or the police department.
Background checks, including criminal history, should be performed on all employees handling medical supply inventories or money. There must be a separation of duties between persons handling deposits, billing, ordering, disbursements, and reconciling bank statements. Outside audits should be conducted on a regular basis.
Commercial auto exposure is very high as a timely response is critical in an emergency situation. Ambulance runs may require travel on congested streets to residential areas with children present. While drivers may legally exceed speed limits or drive through red lights in an effort to get an ill or injured patient to a hospital quickly, all vehicles should be equipped with proper signage, flashing lights, and sirens to warn other drivers of their presence.
Drivers must verify that other vehicles are stopped before driving through an intersection. Patients should be properly secured to prevent additional injury during transport. All drivers must have valid licenses for the vehicles being driven. MVRs must be checked on a regular basis. Drivers must participate in regular training activities in order to maintain skills.
Vehicles must be maintained, and records kept of the maintenance. Should a vehicle be damaged in an accident, obtaining a replacement vehicle outfitted with the proper medical equipment is expensive.
Ambulance Services Insurance - The Bottom Line
To find out more about the specific types of Idaho ambulance services insurance policies you'll need, how much coverage your business should carry - speak with a reputable commercial insurance broker.
Idaho Economic Data, Regulations And Limits On Commercial Insurance
If you are an entrepreneur, you need to have more than just high-quality products, great services, and a well-designed business model in order to achieve success. You also need to set up your operations in the right location.
It doesn't matter how high-quality your goods and services are, if your business is situated in a region that lacks the market you are trying to reach and doesn't have a strong workforce, chances are your company isn't going to succeed. Therefore, it's crucial to familiarize yourself with the economy of the state that you are thinking about starting a business in.
Whether you are considering establishing a startup in Idaho or you want to expand your existing operation by opening a subsidiary in the state, read on to learn more about Idaho's economic data.
Additionally we also provide a brief introduction to the commercial insurance policies you'll need to invest in.
Economic Trends For Business Owners In Idaho
The unemployment rate of a state is a good indicator of a state's economy. It indicates whether or not businesses are flourishing and if there are enough jobs to support the state.
As of December, 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics stated that the unemployment rate of Idaho was 2.9%, which was 0.6% lower than the national average, which was 3.5% at the same time. Throughout the course of 2019, the unemployment rate remained steady. According to economists, the rate of employment is expected to remain the steady in the upcoming years.
There are numerous locations in the state of Idaho that prove to offer a healthy environment for businesses. These locations include major cities and the suburban regions that surrounded them, such as:
- Couer d'Alene
- Idaho Falls
- Twin Falls
While businesses of all sizes and in various industries do well in Idaho, there are certain sectors that tend to do better. The top industries in this state include:
- Agriculture, with some of the top products being dairy, trout, lamb, wool, craps, seeds, potatoes, and several other types of livestock.
- Food and beverage processing, including canning and freezing plants.
- Healthcare and Biosciences, including nursing, dental hygiene, and physical therapy.
- Hospitality and tourism, thanks to the numerous tourist attractions, including annual concerts, festivals, whitewater rafting, and skiing.
- Manufacturing, specifically of electrical equipment, computer equipment, fabricate metals, and chemicals.
Commercial Insurance Requirements In Idaho
The Idaho Department of Insurance regulates insurance in ID. Idaho mandates very few forms of insurance coverage by law. They enforce worker's compensation.
Idaho requires you to have worker's compensation insurance if you hire even one employee on a regular basis - unless you are specifically exempt from the law. This includes part-time employees, family members, minors, and immigrant employees. It is not required for independent contractors or domestic employees, though you should check to make sure any contractors you have are true contractors, and not employees.
Idaho also requires all business-owned vehicles to be covered by commercial auto insurance. Other types of business insurance that business owners should carry depend on the specific industry.
Additional Resources For Commercial Auto Insurance
Learn about small business commercial auto insurance which includes liability and physical damage protection for vehicles that are used for business purposes.
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The person injured in an vehicle accident may be a child, a wage earning single parent, a brain surgeon, or even a homeless person. The costs of the accident may be relatively small or run into the millions of dollars, depending on the victim and his or her injuries. Do you have the assets to handle such costs?
Trucking operations in this chapter are among the most heavily regulated in the country. All are subject to multiple types of regulation including municipal, state and federal. The regulations are necessary because potential for severe property damage and/or bodily injury is extremely high.
All carry cargo that if not handled appropriately could have serious consequences to the cargo owner and/or the public at large. Those that carry people must prove that they keep their equipment in good condition and that employees operate in a safe, sober manner.
The insurance company pays amounts an insured is legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury or property damage and certain types of pollution events covered by this insurance caused by an accident and resulting from ownership, maintenance or use of covered vehicles.
The obligation to pay is triggered only by accidental occurrences involving vehicles covered under the Business Auto Coverage Form. An eligible pollution event is covered only if it is connected to a covered bodily injury or property damage loss.
It is important that you have the proper Limit of Insurance to protect your operations. This limit is the most the insurance company pays for the total of all damages, including any covered pollution cost or expense resulting from any one covered accident, is the Covered Auto liability limit of insurance on the declarations.
This limit applies regardless of the number of insureds, autos covered, vehicles involved in an accident, premium paid, or number of claims made.
Minimum recommended small business insurance coverage: Building, Business Personal Property, Business Income and Extra Expense, Accounts Receivables, Computers, Motor Truck Cargo, Valuable Papers and Records, Employee Dishonesty, Money and Securities, General Liability, Employee Benefits, Umbrella, Motor Carriers Liability and Physical Damage, Hired and Non-owned Auto & Workers Compensation.
Other commercial insurance policies to consider: Earthquake, Flood, Mobile Equipment, Signs, Warehouse Operators' Legal Liability, Cyber Liability, Employment-related Practices, Environmental Impairment, Underground Storage Tank, Stop Gap Liability and International Coverages.
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This community opinion was contributed by Steve Kinsella, former president and superintendent of Gavilan College. The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent BenitoLink or other affiliated contributors.
Gavilan College accumulated deficits of $6 million in three years and it expects another $5 million next year. Fortunately for taxpayers the money ran out. Hard for me to imagine, $11 million in deficits in 4 years for a college with an annual budget of $35 million. There are three reasons for the deficits: inaccurate and late financial information, ineffective governance, and denying public input before making decisions. My purpose for writing is to raise public awareness and increase public oversight of the Gavilan College Board of Trustees.
The accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting has been questioned by Gavilan’s auditors for the past two years. The FY 17/18 Annual Audit stated the college had not closed its accounting records until February 2019; 8 months after the close of the year. At no time over the course of that year did the college report anticipated deficits or make adjustments to contain spending. Gavilan’s current practice results in the discovery of its deficit spending long after the close of the fiscal year.
Early year deficits were explained away as being the result of the state taking money away. From 2016 -2019 Gavilan experienced wide fluctuations in enrollment, was in a revenue hold-harmless status preventing any decline in revenue, and in fact received an 8% increase in revenue. Gavilan claimed the state reduced its revenue; an inaccurate and recurring comment. Even today, Gavilan’s reported $7 million deficit is shown in part to be the result of lost state revenue. Actually, it will receive an increase from COVID 19 federal funds and will have higher, not lower state revenue. Uncontrolled spending is the problem.
In my opinion, the Board did not apply reasonable due diligence in its stewardship of public resources. For example, the Board approved a Supplemental Early Retirement Program (SERP) and a reorganization plan in June 2019. The college claimed it saved millions over future budget years depending how many and who retired. It paid $1 million to retire out 11 employees, replaced them, and then added three new employees. Instead of saving millions as it claims, the Board cost taxpayers an extra $430,000 in year 1. Unrealistic assumptions such as keeping vacated positions empty for two years were used to demonstrate savings. Gavilan was hiring replacements before the SERP was even finished. The assumptions were meaningless other than to show paper savings. Despite evidence showing the costs of the SERP in August 2019 were $430,000, on June 15, 2020 the college again stated it saved $1.4 million from the prior year SERP. This time in order to demonstrate savings, the college left out the cost of at least three employees in its analysis.
I asked for public records to assess the validity of the reported savings used when the Board approved the SERP in June 2019. An attorney responded, denying my request for public expense records. Using my now dated skills in college finance and special knowledge in all things Gavilan College from 2003-2016, I researched web pages and found the information needed to complete a close cost analysis of the SERP. My Public Member Comments, including the analysis of the SERP, were offered in writing on August 18, 2019. I requested the letter be included on the Board Agenda in accordance with its policy on public input. Distribution of my letter was limited, and it did not appear on a Board Agenda.
On June 15, 2020 I sent a second letter to address two areas on the agenda; SERP and OPEB. I requested the College include my written comments to the Board and the Public. Only two Board members received my letter in time for its meeting. The public had to wait until the minutes of the June 15 meeting were published in time for the June 22 Board meeting to learn about the concerns I expressed.
Gavilan has moved from playing shell games with documents related to public resources to denying 1st Amendment Rights and protections for veterans with disabilities to prevent my voice from being heard. These are my only two encounters with Gavilan over the past four years. Perhaps others have had similar experiences. Twice my right to address the Board in public was forfeited and voice rendered mute. With 42 years in active and reserve duty including combat with the Marines, I will not allow my voice to be shut out by a handful of locally elected governing board trustees. It is time to hold this Board to account for its actions.
Only San Benito Trustee Irma Gonzalez has critically reviewed Gavilan’s management of public resources. In my experience this is when Trustee Gonzalez would be awarded the title ‘rogue’ trustee for her good efforts. In my opinion there are six rogue trustees. They are the ones that cost taxpayers $6 million ($1 million each) and can no longer be trusted with public resources.
I have two requests of readers. First, provide encouragement to Trustee Gonzalez. She is alone and out voted by the rogue trustees. My second request is that you write to the Gavilan College Board of Trustees to express any concerns you may have about Gavilan College. The Board has already acted to close the Gavilan site in Morgan Hill, eliminate the $2 million in new positions it was planning to fill during FY 20/21 and is proposing an 8.5% pay cut for administrators. Having missed a legal March 15 notice to faculty, the college is likely under contract with full-time faculty through June 2021. The college has all but exhausted its reserves and is searching for loose change. It will insist it will not close the Briggs Building. If the money is gone how exactly will it pay to ensure continuation of satellite services? Morgan Hill is already gone. Is San Benito next? Now is the time to provide public oversight of the board before it starts selling the assets to satisfy its appetite for tax dollars. | <urn:uuid:c2097e98-f3d4-4a77-9ed3-058c456b541b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://benitolink.com/community-opinion-gavilan-colleges-deficits-are-a-result-of-overspending/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96978 | 1,230 | 1.648438 | 2 |
If I'm a CEO, I need my employees to draw the same conclusion I do about "what's important." And I want them to behave in a way that reflects that understanding and commitment. Would you agree?
Stewardship of results, however, does not just occur because employees come to understand better what the company's CEO wants to achieve. This is an assumption too many business leaders make. "I have told my employees about my vision and what I expect of them, so why are they not more focused? Why am I not seeing the results I anticipated?" Why indeed? Let's explore the reasons.
Employees invest their talents in helping a business achieve its growth goals because the following factors have been properly aligned in their engagement with that company:
- "I understand the company's goals." This means employees understand all of the implications of that vision and its potential fulfillment in much the same way described above. They understand "what's important."
- "Achievement of the company's goals is important to me." This now turns understanding into importance. Until this occurs, there is no engagement on the part of the employee and, therefore, no ownership mentality develops.
- "I see how I can make a contribution to the goals of the company." At this stage, an employee's passion begins to be unleashed because he sees the relationship between what he understands, why it's important to him and how he can contribute to the targeted outcomes. This occurs when an employee recognizes the unique abilities he has and is given the opportunity to have them not just utilized by the business but magnified.
- "I see the connection between the company's goals and the achievement of my own goals." When this occurs, an employee finds meaning in what he is doing. Because that application of his time, effort and talents is fulfilling ends he wants to achieve, he is willing to commit and engage. The more meaning he finds, the more passion he applies to his work.
Understanding, importance, contribution and connection. When these four things are at work in an employee's mind and heart, there is a different thought process in which he engages as he comes to work each day. His daily decision making and performance are rooted in the answers to these questions:
- "What has to happen?"
- "What can be enhanced?"
- "What might be hindered?"
- "What impact can I have on each of those?"
In other words, an employee that is engaged in this way has developed an ownership mentality; he's become a steward of the results shareholders deem most important.
The question, then, to be considered next is: "How should a company's rewards strategies be engineered to create the link to stewardship just described?"
For an ownership thought process to be cultivated, employees must be able to draw a straight line in their minds between the vision of the company (goals and outcomes), the strategy for its achievement (key performance initiatives and indicators), their role in that strategy (expectations) and how the will be rewarded for achieving those expectations (meaning). When this "line of sight" is achieved, certain passion measures have been met and engagement occurs. An employee then moves from commitment to engagement to accountability - with the latter ultimately becoming self imposed.
These outcomes are not achieved because a company pays a salary, has a group medical plan and allows its employees to contribute to a 401(k) plan. Rather, they are achieved when an employee feels "invested" in the results the company seeks to fulfill. Being invested means the employee recognizes he will be devoting his mind, heart and talent to the business in anticipation of a return on that commitment - and that the return is measurable, attainable and meaningful.
Many of VisionLink's clients have some kind of incentive plan when they engage us to work with them. However, those programs do not typically match the return criteria just mentioned - measurable, attainable and meaningful. In many cases, none of the three criteria are met.
If the incentive is regularly and universally attainable, often it's because it has become an entitlement, in which case it doesn't pass the "ownership" test. For an employee to be invested, he must also be at risk. And he is willing to take that risk if the payoff is measurable, attainable and meaningful.
Incentive plans by their very nature create a direct correlation between performance and results--if constructed right. We believe incentive plans should be "value-sharing" in nature. You share value with those who help create it. Just as a business will not receive a payoff from the market unless it creates sufficient value, an employee participating in an incentive plan should only realize that part of his remuneration if he has helped create value through his performance.
Value-sharing is a systematic way of paying an employee for having met certain performance criteria. That criteria is determined by the role he has in the organization and the key performance initiatives, indicators and factors for which he has stewardship. Incentive payments may be short-term or long-term - again depending on the focus and outcomes needed. They may be made in cash, stock or phantom equity. They may be fixed (e.g. percent of salary) or undetermined (e.g. percent of profits).
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Be the nosey neighbour.
Walking the dogs gives us a rhythm to our day and a purpose that we sometimes, in dreadful weather, would rather not have. In Lockdown our walks have become much more home centric. In particular our late evening walk follows a pattern . There is a pattern for the dogs who like to sniff which other dogs have passed that way and a pattern for us which involves graveyards, patches of grass, the backs of a few houses and never other humans.
Yesterday a neighbour came to.see us concerned about another neighbour who had not drawn their curtains.
We immediately knew that all had been fine the night before because the pattern of lights had been quite normal on the last dog walk.
With some trepidation we did nosey neighbour things, realised there was a serious problem and called the emergency services.
I’m writing this because of the trivial things we thought about that might have stopped us doing the right thing.
Fear of doing the wrong thing.
We had previously offered help to these neighbours and were politely declined.
We were not afraid of finding the worst possible outcome. It’s what we used to do in our day jobs and it doesn’t bother us.
What we were, for a moment, concerned about was upsetting people who had politely declined help a year or so ago. We were concerned that someone might be cross with us or upset about us invading their privacy. Thankfully our brains defaulted to working heads and we got on and did the right thing.
Covid 19 is shrinking all our worlds to something more like the 17 th Century except we don’t know our neighbours as we would have done then. All the technology in the world would not have sorted out yesterday’s situation. It just needed us to be nosey, however awkward and worrying that felt at the time. | <urn:uuid:ad2904a0-5bd1-41c4-878b-bd92c08189fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theoldmortuary.design/2020/04/18/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982094 | 385 | 1.625 | 2 |
X-Men now live on the island nation of Krakoa, a sovereign nation separated from humanity. Thanks to the powers of the five and the technology of Cerebro, they’ve virtually erased death from their culture.However a surprise attack launched by enemies of mutant-kind nearly brought the entire Krakoa experiment to an end. X-Force #3 reveals that all the worry was for naught. The fail safe in place worked, and the new golden age of mutants will be brought alive. In X-Force #1, a group of Reavers attacked Krakoa. Courtesy of the luck manufactured by grafting Domino’s skin to their bodies, the Reavers were successful in assassinating Professor X. This was a problem for the X-Men. Professor X’s ability to use Cerebro is the conjunction to the resurrection protocols. By using Cerebro, he stores backup consciousnesses of all mutants on earth. Then, after the five create a new body, Professor X mentally uploads the memories of the resurrected mutant, restoring them as they were. However with Professor X gone, and his Cerebro helmet broken, the future of that resurrection process was in tatters. Backup Cerebro helmets were kept cloistered away for Marvel Girl to use to try to bring Professor X back, but there was no guarantee that the process would work. In X-Force #3, the process does indeed go well. Professor X is again among the living. Now that he’s come on board, Professor X is less optimistic about the relations between humans and mutants than ever before. As such, he officially forms X-Force to conduct off-the-books operations to keep mutants safe. | <urn:uuid:e88dd9e9-f36d-4f95-9e2b-846e9b44d429> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.animationxpress.com/latest-news/marvel-brings-back-a-major-x-men-character/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963883 | 348 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Identification Process Overview
The gifted identification process is undertaken each year, and involves the evaluation of data for students already in our gifted education programs as well as those who have not yet received services. As noted on the Gifted & Talented Homepage, we use multiple measures such as gifted behavior checklists, standardized screening tests (CogAt) and student performance within their normal coursework. Parents may also complete a nomination packet on behalf of their child that will be examined by gifted education faculty. This data is then used to score the child on a rubric (teacher jargon for a scoring table) in order to create a composite score for each child. Next, each child in the grade is compared by their composite score and the top 10% (approximately) are eligible to receive gifted and talented services.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can NJSLA (PARCC) scores be used for gifted identification?
They can. Beginning in the 17-18 school year, PARCC scores for ELA and Math will be used as part of our identification process. Jefferson Township utilizes NJSLA (PARCC) scores to increase the number of criteria on an identification rubric which already includes multiple measures. These scores help provide a more comprehensive understanding of a student's academic ability.
My son or daughter received straight A's but they did not get into the gifted program. How is this possible?
Report card grades make up only one category used for the identification process. It is possible that your child may not have faired as well in the other areas.
My child's teacher told me that they would recommend them for the gifted program. Why were they not admitted?
Teachers can fill out a gifted behavior checklist when they feel it is warranted. The checklist asks them to rate the child with a score of 1-4 based on a series of questions. In the end, a composite score from the checklist is used with the identification rubric. Even though a teacher may choose to fill out the form, your child might not have scored high enough in comparison to their grade level peers. It is important to note that it is not appropriate to contact your child's classroom teacher with the intent of interrogating them about scores given on the gifted behavior checklist as this undermines the integrity of the process.
How can I get my child into the gifted program?
As parents, we all want what is best for our child and it can hurt when we see them not attain something they wanted, or we wanted. It is important to understand what being gifted means in order to grapple with this. You cannot necessarily study or work your way to becoming gifted, nor should you or your child agonize over not being labeled as such. Academically gifted and talented students in this country make up approximately six to ten percent of the total student population, so by its very nature, only a small portion of students will be eligible for services.
Being labeled as gifted is the equivalent of saying that the normal curriculum your child experiences is not meeting their needs. Just as special education students receive accommodations and modifications to meet their needs, so to will gifted students. For non-gifted students, the normal level of differentiation in the classroom is appropriate and challenging.
How can I learn more about the rubric format, my child's scores and the gifted behavior checklist?
Our gifted education faculty in your child's school will be happy to explain and assist you in understanding the process and the outcome. Should you reach an impasse, please contact the department supervisor, whose information is found at the top right side of this web page.
I have a friend whose child... I know someone who... How come...?
By law we cannot and will not discuss other students. Moreover, it is counterproductive. Please trust that our identification process has been thoroughly vetted, evaluated and revised as needed. Our gifted faculty has the utmost professionalism and holds high standards of integrity and confidentiality.
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Is it Fair Trade?
These days I see Fair-Trade certification logo on a lot on packaging. As a consumer I immediately have a warm and fuzzy feeling about a company that cares about its practices and its sourcing. What would a brand owner who does her own sourcing say?
Let’s ask her.
Hello, I am Kate and I am the founder of Katari Beauty. I source my own ingredients because I trust no one and no certification is enough for me to give you the information you can only get when you see it for yourself.
I was asked before if Katari is Fair Trade certified and I said no. Not because I do not support the concept but because I believe that impact is more meaningful when it is direct. For some companies having this certification makes total sense, as they are not traveling around the globe scouting villages and working with artisans. They buy from suppliers. I do not buy from suppliers. I buy direct. What does it mean? And is it Fair Trade?
I have my own definition of Fair Trade.
When I was looking for the best in flower waters, (rose water, for instance), I searched high and low, on streets, local souks, artisan markets, through word of mouth, simply driving the roads and stopping by road side stalls in the villages famous for making rose water, taking down info, talking, discussing prices, and buying samples.
When you do not bargain with a vendor at a market, does it mean you paid them a fair price? I think so. They name the price. I pay it. I call it fair.
I have no idea what organizations who support fair trade really do, but do they do anything specifically to support artisans that I work with? Unlikely. You know what supports my artisans? My orders. SUSTAINABLE earnings. Earnings that grow from the orders I place because you support me and trust me to buy Katari products.
We do get into discussions about inflation in Tunisia or prices of utilities in Egypt and how they affect cost of living and subsequent adjustments to costs and ultimately the price of products I buy. It is an open conversation. I welcome it, because I cannot have products without artisans. Artisans cannot create if they are strapped for cash and cannot function.
It is a symbiotic relationship and one of a direct nature. I chose to go to direct sourcing because I wanted to pay the full price directly to the artisan, bypassing a distributor, who can bargain with them and cut profits for artisans to below the level of sustainable earnings.
Another reason I wanted to source products directly is because then I can tell you the entire story of the product or ingredient. When you read articles about a certain product and you do not know anything about how it is made, you can nod and think yep, this is how it is made. And website after website, restates the same facts, until you go to the field yourself and realize that it is not in fact how it works. It is more complex, more involved, or sometimes just not accurate.
There is nothing easy about doing your own sourcing. You are subject to enormous amount of work and variables. Let me just list a few:
- Traveling far to remote places where ingredients can be sourced
- Finding a trusted source
- Doing product comparisons and testing
- Narrowing down the best one:
- Learning from the maker about the process
- Going to their village, field, etc to see the process for yourself
- Liking or disliking what you saw (if you did not like it, you go back up and start from scratch)
- If you liked it, looking at prices, volumes, ability to increase volume, how long does it take to make, and a bunch of other variables that will make it feasible or not feasible to work with this artisan
- And then the fun part – personal relationships. Sometimes it just does not work, because a lot of people (artisans), entire communities have been taken advantage of previously and they do not trust you or do not trust you completely. You can earn their trust, but sometimes it is just not working because you are used to doing things one way and they are doing it another way and you cannot find a way to work well together to accomplish a common mission – sustainable earnings for the artisan and delivering ever-growing supply of their product to the market allowing them to grow.
- And for last – the super fun part – logistics. I am going to skip the details of duties and tariffs and a total nightmare of figuring out international logistics, complex international relationships between countries and hoops you have to jump though to get products to you. I will write a separate article about international logistics for a small business. That will be more like a 3-volume War and Peace, where War part took 2.5 volumes. Stay tuned for this one.
So why do I do it when I can get a Fair Trade certification, buy from a reputable supplier and spare myself agony, stress, expense and aggravation of doing it all myself?
My mission is to bring pure, timeless and elemental beauty staples from Mediterranean artisans. I had to find them for myself. No one can find them for me and tell the story of how each is made, who are the people behind the process, how they live and what motivates them to make most incredible ingredients for countless generations. When you fall in love the people, the process no matter how stressful, becomes a part of the beautiful story that I want you all to know.
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Truly a museum grade display fossil CRINOID slab of impressively large proportions, this is an amazing ENORMOUS natural association of a concentrated group of large and complete prehistoric SEA LILIES of the species Scyphocrinus elegans. The massive slab was formerly the bottom of the Silurian sea where a number of these creatures died and became buried still in their original articulated positions as they were when once alive. The relief and detail of this amazing specimen must be seen in person as it looks so much more impressive than the photos convey. While still alive today, sea lilies were much more prevalent in the ocean in prehistoric times. Whether destined for a prime spot in a major museum, educational exhibition or private interior, this is one piece that will most definitely leave its viewers with an incredible impression of how bizarre ocean life was and still is today! How much more impressive would this three dimensional ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC giant slab of prehistoric marine life be compared to a painting? It is as flat as a painting and can easily be mounted to a wall with metal brackets as it averages only 1.5 to 2 inches thick. | <urn:uuid:9258c096-7f89-48c6-a640-30c6feb38112> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://magpieaesthetic.com/bookmark-tag/fossil/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962296 | 282 | 2.640625 | 3 |
La Mesa is a hamlet in San Diego County, California, situated 9 miles east of Downtown San Diego. La Mesa, California has a population of 58,969. La Mesa has an average household income of $83,669 and a poverty rate of 12.61 percent. La Mesa has a 1% lower standard of living than the rest of California. It is, nevertheless, 48% more costly to live in than the national median.
Taking steps To provide financial assistance to residents of La Mesa who are in desperate need of funds. The three easy procedures to receive a cash advance are to apply, approve, and credit. Auto-debit payments are convenient, but funds must be present at the time of deduction; otherwise, extra fees, such as NSF fees, will be charged. As a result, state law limits the duration of these loans to 31 days. Each $100 borrowed is subject to a maximum financing cost of 15%, with a 460 percent annual percentage rate. Aside from that, interest charges of up to $15 may be added to the APR. You just need to hand them all of your paperwork, including evidence of citizenship and authorization. | <urn:uuid:01bf07db-da27-477f-b71c-70ba46172117> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.plnearme.com/states/california/la-mesa-ca | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94894 | 235 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Humans may be brilliant, with opposable thumbs and large brains, but at the end of the day they are still animals. Important abstractions (such as personality and logic) are wonderful ideas, and, while they help people for the most part, they can sometimes prevent people from fully understanding life.
In fact, sometimes the way we view people and the mind can cause us to judge unnecessarily. People often forget that illness can afflict the mind the same way it can afflict the body, and addiction is such an illness.
Addiction Is an Illness
Although you may not see a break in an arm or any kind of physical disfigurement, they can still exist—the same idea is true of addiction. It affects the brain’s neurotransmitters, often those that deal with reward and motivation.
Other addiction can affect neurotransmitters that deal with inhibition, as those that deal with alcohol and benzodiazepines. These drugs can change a user’s behavior in different ways.
Addiction begins as a result of many factors, so no single issue determines whether or not you will become addicted to drugs. The environment contributes significantly to drug abuse patterns, and genetic influences have been confirmed. A different genetic composition, which governs all of your attributes, can also play a role. The reason to elaborate on these causes is not to blame one problem or another nor to make excuses, but to ensure that people see addiction as an illness. It may have unique causes from other illnesses, but it still leads people to need help.
Addiction Impacts the Mind
Because addiction affects the brain, it can have troubling effects. Because you know a person through her personality, it can be upsetting when people who would otherwise avoid aggression and dishonesty to change their ways.
Addicts can be unhelpful, uncommunicative and even cruel, because drugs’ acute effects affect people greatly. Many addicts lack the support to achieve a full recovery, because people around them do not see addiction as a medical problem.
Family, friends, co-workers, bosses, law enforcers and even addicts themselves may believe that addiction is a selfish, destructive behavior from horrible people, but it is actually an illness. People lose their jobs, go to jail and lose ties with children, spouses and friends all because of this illness. Rather than judgment, addicts need support, nurturing and permission to reintegrate into society without scorn. With the right help, anyone can get and stay clean from drug abuse. | <urn:uuid:6a171d68-5da6-44ef-8c50-e31a1620b5a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bipolardisorderscenters.com/why-its-important-to-realize-that-addicted-people-are-wounded-people/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953343 | 512 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Digital advertising has been powered by consumers’ personal data for more than a decade, and as privacy reshapes the way media is bought and sold, the industry needs to reset and rebuild.
There are three privacy shifts impacting digital advertising: increased interest from regulators across the globe; internet browsers moving away from third-party cookies and identifiers; consumers being more informed than ever about how their data is used. As a result, the third-party data that advertisers rely on for targeting and insights are disappearing and they need to get into discovery mode today.
With third-party cookies already blocked on Safari and Firefox, and Google removing third-party cookies from Chrome by 2023, advertisers will need to look to first-party data. This includes accessing publishers’ first-party data and leveraging their own first-party data too — no matter how much they have available.
While there is no shortage of cookieless solutions available on the market today, what advertisers and their agencies need is a solution that is privacy-safe and sustainable. By testing and activating campaigns using the power of publishers’ and their own first-party data — combined with the right adtech to scale it — advertisers can safeguard their businesses, protect privacy and take control of their fate.
The first-party data gold rush
Every marketer knows that first-party data from consumers is like gold dust. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands have a huge advantage by virtue of a business model built on direct relationships with their customers. This opens up a treasure trove of first-party data available at their fingertips. For more traditional brands and retailers, investments in loyalty programs or other owned digital platforms and a greater focus on the customer experience (CX) means that many will have more first-party data than they might think.
But advertisers, wherever they are on their data journey, cannot rely on their first-party data alone as it won’t have scale. It needs to be combined with insight on how and where customers interact across the web. This insight sits with publishers because they have a first-party relationship with everyone who comes to their site.
“The reality of a brand’s first-party data is that it won’t be enough, it certainly won’t be enough to build a scalable marketing activity,” said Elizabeth Brennan, head of advertiser strategy at Permutive. “It’s really important for advertisers to work with tech players and infrastructure vendors who can access 100% of a population rather than those who just have an identifier. Publishers are going to become the guardians of targetable, scalable data in the new privacy-first way of working.”
Publishers have been preparing for this cookieless world since Apple and Mozilla blocked third-party cookies from their browsers. Today, advertisers cannot reach audiences on Safari and Firefox, and when third-party cookies on Chrome disappear, so too does the understanding of all audiences online.
Publishers can tell advertisers a lot more about their audiences, behavioral insights they can’t get elsewhere – all without invading their privacy. This is made possible by using first-party data to build publisher Cohorts, which are groups of consumers with shared characteristics built directly at the source and proven to outperform campaigns that use third-party cookies.
In an advertising ecosystem that’s being disrupted by privacy, publishers are the ones that have customer proximity, and they are using technology as an enabler to capture every on-site interaction in a privacy-safe way that safeguards data. Plus, they have access to the real-time insights required to build valuable cohorts for advertisers to use for targeting and insights.
Performance and privacy – with no trade-offs
Permutive’s Audience Platform for Advertisers has been designed to help strengthen and act the valuable data that publishers and advertisers hold while keeping it safe. It enables advertisers to connect with other data owners, such as publishers, to reach their audiences online by harnessing the power of both’ first-party data parties via one privacy-safe streamlined point of access.
What’s more, it is powered by privacy-preserving edge or on-device technology, which means that data is processed on a user’s device. This ensures that personal data and identifiers stay on the device, doesn’t leak into the advertising ecosystem and makes it possible for data processing to happen in real-time.
Data never exits the platform, so publishers and advertisers maintain full data control all the way from insights through to activation. It gives advertisers the choice to bring in their own data to match and model – without exposing that data to the other party – or tap into publishers’ first-party data, or use both sources.
“It’s really an infrastructure for advertisers to understand their first-party data, upload it securely and get insights on how those people are spread across different devices, their interests and affinities,” explained Brennan. “Insights are very powerful but it’s the activation of that data that becomes incredibly important. We do that by scaling existing audiences through the access of first-party data to publishers and using that to reflect the audience definitions being built in third-party data today. To manage multiple publisher relationships in one place is a huge efficiency saving. What’s more, the technology is proven and it’s ready and waiting to be used today.”
In the age of the data reset, advertisers should be embracing first-party data more than ever before. And, by tapping into the treasure trove of data and insight that publishers hold about how and where customers interact across the web, advertisers can access the privacy-safe, sustainable cookieless solution they have all been waiting for. | <urn:uuid:a99981c2-4d40-40d7-82fb-9ff8bbd8b822> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://robertlkruse.com/index-2270.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951423 | 1,188 | 1.5 | 2 |
Prussia's recent gains had been hard-won.
Reportedly, he wagged his finger at the man, as if to say, do not do that.
She and Joseph were surprised to find that the small territory had 120,000 inhabitants. On the death of Charlemagne in 814, Louis inherited the entire Frankish kingdom and all its possessions (the concept of successional representation was not yet well-established). The assessment of earlier research that assumed William had originally supported the contingent enfeoffment of Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg, is regarded as unfounded in more recent research. Frederick could not secure Bohemia for Charles, but he did manage to push the Austrians out of Bavaria. Despite the poor numerical odds, Nauendorf and his 50 Hussars sallied out to engage Wunsch's men.
, The validity of the renunciations were not debated in public until the French Revolution, when the National Assembly first addressed this issue in a three-day session beginning on 15 September 1789. Indeed, it is evident that the issue of the rights of the Spanish line to the French crown remained an important constitutional issue. Knowing its poor legal grounds, Joseph negotiated a secret agreement with Charles Theodore shortly after Max Joseph's death. The Carolingians followed the Frankish custom of dividing inheritances among the surviving sons, though the concept of the indivisibility of the Empire was also accepted.
He was formally received into the Catholic Church in 1593, and was crowned at Chartres in 1594 as League members maintained control of the Cathedral of Rheims, and, skeptical of Henry's sincerity, continued to oppose him.
However, no one thought of nominating one of the daughters of three kings; to do so would recognize the right of women to the throne, and would be de facto considering the reigns of Philip V the Tall and Charles IV the Fair as nothing but a theft at the expense of Joan of France, daughter Louis X the Stubborn. Jeanne was crowned queen in 1326, in one of the better recorded French coronation ceremonies. , Joseph married Max Joseph's sister, Maria Josepha, in 1765, hoping he could claim the Bavarian Electorate for his offspring. When his small force encountered Wunsch's, which was more than triple its size, Nauendorf greeted the Prussians as friends; by the time the Prussians were close enough to realize the allegiance of the Hussars, Nauendorf and his small band had acquired the upper hand.
This state of affairs lasted over three hundred years, spanning 13 generations. In the event that the queen gave birth to a daughter, Philip undertook to renounce Navarre and Champagne in favor of the princesses, if they renounced the crown of France at the age of consent.
Valois a déjà pris le titre de régent, et en usait déjà alors que son cousin agonisait. , Prussia also expressed interest in the disposition of the duchy.
Paris' capitulation encouraged the same of many other towns, while others returned to support the crown after Pope Clement VIII absolved Henry, revoking his excommunication in return for the publishing of the Tridentine Decrees, the restoration of Catholicism in Béarn, and appointing only Catholics to high office. The French Vexin was granted away to the duke of Normandy, the duchy of Burgundy, a substantial part of the royal demesne, was given away to Robert, the king's younger brother. In this letter, Isabella claimed the crown of France for her young son Edward III, King of England, and he would be regarded as the third contender: The peers and the lawyers were studying this question: can Isabella of France transmit a right she did not have? Since Henry was a Protestant, most of Catholic France found him unacceptable. The Orléanist stand is that the laws of succession could be altered, and that among those customs and precedents is the requirement that the heir must be French. Charles August was the presumptive heir of Charles Theodore's domains and titles. The Salic Law was reformulated under Charlemagne and still applied in the 9th century, but it slowly disappeared as it became incorporated into local common laws.
In 1389, an inheritance agreement between the Welfs and the Ascanians was concluded, the treaty of 1374 was abolished, and the Principality was finally secured for the Welfs.. Maria Beatrice of Savoy “Mary II/III” (1792 – 1840). According to the inheritance rules of the House of Welf to which William belonged, the Duke of Brunswick, Magnus II Torquatus, was entitled to succeed. This girl was suspected of illegitimacy, because of her mother's adultery with Gauthier d'Aunay, which could be dangerous for the crown of France, given the risk of particularly serious political crises because of suspicions of illegitimacy.
With Henry III's death, custody of the Cardinal fell to Navarre (now Henry IV of France), the Cardinal's nephew. King Henry formed an alliance with the powerful duke of Normandy, Robert, by granting him the French Vexin, or the lands between the rivers Epte and Oise. In keeping with Salic law, he named Navarre as his heir. In these instances, the French court had shown themselves ready to recognize that the Capetian blood right overcame the law of aubain. In a letter to her son, the Empress Maria Theresa wrote: "They say you were so pleased with Nauendorf, a rookie from Carlstadt or Hungary, who killed seven men, that you gave him 12 ducats. Maria Theresa had sent Kaunitz on a secret mission to Berlin to offer a truce.
Modern scholarship has largely imputed to Hugh the motive of establishing a dynasty against the claims of electoral power on the part of the aristocracy, but this is not the typical view of his contemporaries and even some modern scholars have been less skeptical of Hugh's "plan" to campaign in Spain. In the Treaty of Teschen (May 1779), Maria Theresa returned Lower Bavaria to Charles Theodore, but kept the so-called Innviertel, a 2,200-square-kilometer (850 sq mi) strip of land in the drainage basin of the Inn River. He preferred living in the Palatinate, with its salubrious climate and compatible social scene. If women were going to inherit, he claimed, then he should be first in line: his wife, Maria Amalia, was the daughter of Joseph I. The Juristic Basis of Dynastic Right to the French Throne. Isabella of France had a horrible reputation.
He laid plans to cross the Elbe and approach the Austrian force from the rear, but the more he examined the conditions of Joseph's entrenchments, the more he realized the campaign was already lost. But his younger brother Henry did not agree with this ruling, and after vain attempts to reach an agreement, the fight flared up again in the spring of 1388. The only remaining Bonapartist claimants since 1879, and today, have been descendants of Jérôme Bonaparte and Catherina of Württemberg in the male line.
The death of the Count of Chambord split the Legitimists in two camps. https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/charles-ii-and-issue-succession. He wished nothing more than to rid himself of a powerful foe and troublesome neighbour.
For Frederick, the preservation of Charles August's inheritance was not worth a war.
On 3 January, a few days after Max Joseph's death, the ducal Equerry proclaimed Charles Theodore as Duke. Despite the campaigns between 1590 and 1592, Henry IV was "no closer to capturing Paris".
One claimant was Philip of Valois who was the son of King Philip IV’s brother Charles, count of Valois and therefore a nephew of Philip IV. , The Electress had provided him with a son, who had immediately died, but Charles Theodore's particular penchant for secret liaisons, most of whom were French actresses that he had raised to the status of countess, had produced several natural children. His cousin, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, therefore had a legitimate legal claim as Charles Theodore's heir presumptive.
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B.C. data-sharing system worries privacy watchdogs
Privacy watchdogs are raising concerns about a B.C. government decision to develop a new computer system that will allow social ministries to share client data and manage case files.
The government says the Integrated Case Management System replaces outdated technology and will enable it to provide better services to the public, while improving security.
On Friday it announce it had signed a six-year, $180-million agreement with Deloitte Inc. to develop the system.
But the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association has written the premier warning that the new system is a wholesale invasion of privacy.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 2.7 million of the 9.2 million jobless Americans in April have been unemployed for at least a year. The Bureau released its report for April last week. The statistics show that almost 29 percent of America’s jobless workers have been without work for 52 weeks or more.
Most experts believe the numbers of unemployed workers are probably underrepresented in the count. Workers who left work because of the risks associated with the pandemic or those who had to stay home to care for children at home as schools shuttered their doors are not included in the count.
In April, unemployment jumped to 6.1 percent, while 266,000 jobs were added to the economy. Long-term unemployment has been pervasive throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic and has steadily risen. Economists also say that long-term unemployed workers are likely overrepresented in the hospitality and leisure industries, which have been hard-hit during the pandemic.
There are believed to be nearly 3 million less jobs in the hospitality sector compared to pre-pandemic times. In April, hospitality hiring grew by more than 300,000 positions last month, mostly in restaurants, hotels, and bars.
Most economists consider long-term employment to be unemployment that lasts at least six months. During April, 4.2 million unemployed people were considered to be long-term unemployed, or 43 percent of jobless Americans. The figure is reminiscent of a record peak experienced after the Great Recession, which had 45.5 percent unemployed workers during April 2010.
Statistics show that the longer a worker is unemployed, the harder it is to find new work, and even if they do, they’re more likely to lose a job. It also impacts their earning potential.
Many families have received aid from the government through the American Rescue Plan, which extended and raised unemployment benefits through Labor Day. Some states, however, are cutting off unemployment benefits ahead of schedule, including South Carolina and Montana.
Economists don’t expect long-term unemployment to continue, thanks to vaccination efforts and businesses reopening their doors. But, the weak April job report was a surprise for many, including Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
Walsh acknowledged, “Labor force participation is at its highest point since last August, and the number of people expressing hesitancy about returning to work due to the coronavirus is at its lowest point in the pandemic. However, the numbers also show we have a steep climb ahead of us.” | <urn:uuid:4725c266-870d-4af2-8f3e-008ef0b88f72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marketnewsmonitor.com/news-report/29-of-americas-jobless-have-been-without-work-for-over-a-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97861 | 518 | 2.421875 | 2 |
On Thursday morning March 31, 2011, the day that would eventually conclude the second wettest March in Newport since instruments have measured depressing records of this kind, I peered out the window of my Newport High School classroom, saw rain falling for the 31st day in a row, and immediately thought of one Ken Kesey's immortal riffs about rain from Sometimes a Great Notion, set on the Oregon Coast, undoubtedly the greatest novel about rain in the history of world literature:
...there is solace and certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.
Amen! Has any writer ever written a truer sentence about the rain than that? For those of us who have lived on the Pacific Northwest Coast for several years, and "made it through a winter to understand" to paraphrase Kesey in Sometimes a Great Notion, we know how to use the rain for our own excuses, machinations, and narratives. If you don't, you end up defeated by the rain, desperate to leave. And leaving is what so many newcomers to the coast eventually do, back to the Willamette Valley and other far flung drier places. They couldn't hack it, but maybe they didn't know how.
That morning in the classroom, my patience with the rain hung by the thinnest of cobwebs. As I stared out the window, I schemed how to motivate my listless and intellectually waterlogged students. Soon, they would start streaming in, with pale, vacant faces resembling prisoners of war and moisture visibly evaporating from their clothing.
I was particularly concerned with the photography class. They hadn't gone outside in a month to shoot photographs and were sick of learning new Photoshop tricks. I suspected they were going insane in precisely the same tortuously languid way Meriwether Lewis went insane on his winter visit to the Pacific Northwest a little over 200 years ago. It rained practically every day during his damp residence in Fort Clatsop and the formerly prolific writer wrote barely a word in his journal. Stasis had gripped him tight and threatened to do the same to us at Newport High. I thought to myself: We've got to move. So we did, into the deluge.
In my 14 years residing at the Oregon Coast, which means I've endured roughly 720 inches of rain, I've learned a thing or two about the rain and how to master it for my own unique purposes, ranging from the romantic to the creative to the curricular to the spiritual. What follows is my survival guide. Feel free to tweak as you see fit to preserve your sanity. I used a combination of number one and five on that wet day in March.
Matt Love's Rules for Surviving a Winter of Pacific Northwest Coast Rain
1. Get out into it! Take it on! And never use an umbrella because who doesn't want to feel rain on your face, or better yet, see it run down the face of someone you love.
2. When a big storm hits and the hard rain slants in six different directions, go to the beach with the dog and watch the collisions into ocean. I find it one of the most primal scenes a person can experience and typically never encounter another human whom might taint the awesome privacy of the moment. Bringing a partner or date along is acceptable.
3. During a rainy day, make a mix tape, CD, or playlist of your favorite rain songs (my number one is Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain"). According to a fantastic web site called Rain Songs, there are "almost 800 song titles relating to rain and rainy things, including over 50 named just 'Rain.'" Then open a bottle of decent red wine, turn up the music, and watch the rain fall.
4. Read Sometimes a Great Notion and memorize all the great rain lines. For example, "He hears the rain on the roof, like soft nails being driven into the rotten wood. It has commenced, all right. And it'll go on now for six months." Read any of Don Berry's wonderful trio of novels set in Pioneer Oregon, Trask, Moontrap, or To Build a Ship, and marvel at some of his wonderful sentences about rain, such as, "In Oregon after two days of rain it seems as though it has been raining since the world began, and you cannot remember the last time you saw the sun." Read the lost Pacific Northwest literary classic Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter set in seedy Portland in the late 1940s, and observe how this neglected author magically weaves rain into the milieu of the novel.
5. Grab a waterproof camera or wrap one in plastic and make art. Rain has an astonishingly simple and moving beauty that truly comes alive when captured on film. I never really considered gray a beautiful color until I started photographing rain. You don't even have to go outside and get wet to do this. I love shooting photographs of rain smashing onto my skylights.
6. Run naked in the rain down the beach and dive in the ocean. I guarantee it will rate as the best ablution you've ever had. No guilt either.
Fourth period rolled around and in trudged the photography students. I told them to gather around the whiteboard where I wrote the fatal statistics: 14 inches of rain during the last 30 days, double the average amount, a record for March. Four inches had fallen in the last several days. They groaned and looked not so discreetly to their cell phones for deliverance.
"We are going to war against the rain," I said. "We are hard core Oregonians, so get me the best rain shots in the history of photography. I've got 20 bucks for the best image. I want spouts, gutters, puddles, drops, hair, windows, dogs, feet. I don't care. I want to see rain like I've never seen before. Teach me about it!"
"Now get your cameras and hit the rain!" I yelled. The students roared in delight and geared up in seconds. I probably should have cranked up Eric Clapton's "Let it Rain" to send us into battle, but I was the first one out the door, with two cameras slung around my neck and one stuffed in my pocket.
Thirty minutes later, we sat soaked in my darkened musty classroom, watching a slide show of stunning and wholly original black and white photographs taken around campus. Lily earned first prize with a self portrait shot of rain drops dangling off her fingers. I'll never forget this image as long as I live.
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2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. We're commemorating the anniversary by highlighting its five rallying themes: Scripture Alone (Sola Scriptura), Faith Alone (Sola Fide), Christ Alone (Solo Christo), Grace Alone (Sola Gratia), and Glory to God Alone (Soli Deo Gloria).
“Ya gotta believe.” These are the immortal words of Frank Edwin “Tug” McGraw, relief pitcher for the 1973 New York Mets. In last place on the last day in August, the Mets went on an improbable run to the pennant, past the heavily favored Cincinnati Reds and into the World Series.
It’s a quintessentially American motto, praising the ability of the individual to “bootstrap” him- or herself into or out of any situation. It stands behind not only more secular entrepreneurial ventures, but also forms of Christianity that reinvent faith as a means to (or a sign of) financial success.
“Confidence in confidence alone” (to quote Rodgers and Hammerstein) presumes too much—and too little.
It presumes too much on the ability of the “rugged” individual who is able, through naked will, to succeed. All the belief in the world wouldn’t have helped “the miracle Mets” had they not been able to put the bat on the ball. It also presumes too little on the importance of background conditions. Some people face invisible barriers to participation in the grand cultural dream: barriers of race, gender, or class. Others are born into security and prosperity, the proverbial silver spoon. Some teams are just plain lucky; their rivals are having a bad season.
The dictum “faith alone” (sola fide in church-speak) is not “faith in faith.” Faith is never truly alone. Faith must be nurtured and nourished in a community of faithful proclamation and sacramental participation.
But even more than this: faith depends on its object. If the object of faith is the ability of the sovereign individual, faith will certainly fail. Faith will become merely another “work.” If the object of faith is the sovereign God, faith will unite an understanding of personal inability to God’s ability. Faith will look not to itself, but to the covenant faithfulness of God made flesh and blood in Jesus. “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in my body, I live by faith, indeed, by the faithfulness of God’s Son, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Gal 2:20, CEB)
This was the underlying concern of the Protestant reformers. Opposing any insinuation that individual ability or social station could make one acceptable to God, they insisted that becoming right with God was dependent on an act of prior divine grace, to which faith was a response. In other words, grace was a divine invasion into despair at failure to establish oneself, a sense that the very coherence of the world was at stake unless God acted, and had acted, in Jesus Christ.
This reliance on grace liberated the Reformers to remake their societies. They didn’t always see the challenge to political power implied in sola fide, and their tenets would soon degenerate into the dialectic of bookish Protestant scholasticism (“the faith” as a system of beliefs) versus non-dogmatic, inward pietism (the seed of “faith in faith”) the following century.
But that’s to cast a shadow on the celebrations. For the genuine insight of the Reformers was that radical trust in a God on whose faithfulness the world depended was the center from which all personal and social transformation proceeded. And the faithful church, that is, the church that lives from the faithfulness of God, is always reforming, never settled. Reformation is not mere “innovation,” for it has a Model. At its best, such a church constantly reforms not only itself, but its members, and indeed its world in faithful conformity with its Lord.
Web Discussion Questions
- In what setting have you come across the idea of “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps”? How does this fit (or not fit) within the context of Christian faith?
- How would you define faith? What are some of the various shades of meaning it might have?
- If faith must be nourished in a faithful community, how should that make us understand the role of the church and our involvement in church?
- How does radical trust (faith) in God’s faithfulness and grace motivate our own personal transformations as well as social transformation?
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by T. Apiryon
English antiquarian, philologist, numismatist, free-thinking Deist philosopher, expert on Greek literature, member of the Radical (Whig) Party of Parliament and the Society of Dilletanti, friend of Lord Byron, patron of art and learning, and country gentleman.
Knight was born at Wormsley Grange in Herefordshire to a parson, Thomas Knight, and his servant girl, Ursula Nash. He later fell heir to the fortunes of his grandfather, a wealthy ironmaster. He was sickly as a child and was educated largely by tutors and by himself. His wealth enabled him to travel extensively around the world, especially in Italy, and he developed a keen interest in ancient art. He was elected to Parliament in 1780 and was elected to the Society of Dilletanti in 1781. This Society, although founded as a club for cultured travellers (by Sir Francis Dashwood in 1732), became a prominent amateur archeological organization, and financed a number of archeological expeditions. It was under the auspices of the Society of Dilletanti that Knight’s Discourse on the Worship of Priapus was published in 1786.
This book, also published as Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus, is included in Section 1 of the A:. A:. reading list. By “the Worship of Priapus,” Knight did not mean specifically the cult of the Greek god discussed earlier, but phallic worship in general; including fertility cults. The book demonstrates in a scholarly manner the extensive and significant role phallic worship played in many and various parts of the ancient world, East as well as West, as told in the symbolic language of ancient mythology and art.
The metaphysical system set forth in the book is one of emanation. The Supreme God is a Quintessential, Male-Female Principle, embodying the principles of creation, destruction and renovation. The process of emanation takes place through a division of this “Intellectual Being” or “Fire” into two principles: active and passive, male and female, formative and solvent: the Divine Essence, or life force; and Universal Matter. All living beings are a result of the invigoration of the Universal Matter by the Divine Essence. Sexual intercourse could, then, be viewed as a sacred reflection of the divine Mystery of Emanation. Knight theorized that such a viewpoint was, indeed, that expressed in the sexual imagery and symbolism of the ancients– elements of which have survived and can still be seen even in the sacred art and architecture of modern times.
Knight’s other works include Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet (1791), Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805), Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology (1818), two didactic poems: “The Landscape” (1794), and “The Progress of Civil Society” (1796), and “Alfred, a Romance in Rhyme” (1823). Knight’s extensive collection of ancient coins, medals, stone carvings and bronzes is now in the British Museum, of which he served as Trustee.
Allibone, S. Austin; Allibone’s Dictionary of English Literature and British & American Authors, J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia 1871
Clarke, Michael and Nicholas Penny, eds.,; The Arrogant Connoiseur: Richard Payne Knight, Manchester University Press, Manchester 1982
Godwin, Joscelyn; The Theosophical Enlightenment, SUNY Press, Albany 1994
Knight, Richard Payne; “A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus” in Sexual Symbolism, a History of Phallic Worship, with an introduction by Ashley Montagu, Julian Press, NY 1957
Original Publication Date: 1995
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The field of Somatics has been growing exponentially in the four decades I’ve been a therapist. Somatics is defined as the integration of mind, body, and spirit. As humans, multiple complex feedback loops define our experience.
To become better therapists, we must be as much a generalist as a specialist.This means we need to have an understanding of how psychology is interacting with physiology at any given moment. We also need to be competent in working from both the top-down and the bottom-up world view.
The nervous system follows the mind. Structure follows the nervous system.
Structure informs the nervous system. The mind interprets the relevance of those afferent inputs.
This is not an either/or scenario. This is the bi-directional feedback loop that defines our perceived experience. There are three main categories that relate to our lens of experience.
These are the neurological inputs that are both conscious and non-conscious. The conscious inputs are recognized as sensations.
This is the emotional context that results from stimulus from the structure and/or thoughts.
The mind is interpreting and responding to the environment. This interpretation is a combination of the field of awareness plus past experiences.
As therapists, how we work with this bi-directional feedback loop defines the outcome of any interaction. Somatics generally starts with the bottom-up approach. We first calibrate a benchmark based on a client’s movement capacity. Some of the capacity metrics we can use are joint mobility and integration, kinetic chain integration, and coordination. Volume and work production metrics can only be evaluated after assessing the foundation. The most foundational element is the breathing apparatus.
Tip: With clients that have chronic symptoms, start with the breathing apparatus. With clients that have acute symptoms, start with assessment of the involved structure and evaluate how the breathing apparatus is tied into the coping strategies.
As human beings we all have experienced varying degrees of trauma, both physical and emotional. The autonomic nervous system responds the same to both variants. Often, both occur simultaneously as the mind interprets the occurrence of an event.
Let’s unpack the concept of an event. There are generally three phases to an event. The first being before the event occurs. These are neurological markers that are registered by the nervous system. Thoughts and emotions often take precedence over sensations. The emotional context of a person’s thoughts prior to the event will be embedded in the neurological inputs at the occurrence of the event. This phase is defined by what is about to happen.
Next, is the occurrence of the event. Here, the primary neurological markers are based on physical sensations and structural receptor inputs. The physical body affected by the event. This phase is defined by what is happening.
The third phase is after the event has occurred. This is the phase of evaluation. The mind is interpreting the context of the two previous phases. This phase is defined by what just happened.
Let’s simplify the physiological process of how the nervous system registers and records neurological inputs. It’s a challenge to adequately qualify the complexity of how the autonomic nervous system is communicating with the different feedback loops of the brain centers. We can generally say that the neurological inputs are received in the limbic system to create a memory and association. These memories and associations will have both conscious and non-conscious attributes. As a survival strategy and depending on the severity of the event, the nervous system may deem it necessary to compartmentalize and repress the memory.
In addition to the neurological inputs that are received during the three phases of an event, the nervous system also creates a coping strategy to respond to those neurological inputs. That coping strategy is what leads to nervous system dysregulation. Dysregulation is when the stimulus from those neurological inputs creates a sympathetic response in the autonomic nervous system and the nervous system has lost the capacity to down regulate and restore a parasympathetic response. Here, the nervous system responds as if the event is still occurring.
Nervous system dysregulation is a result from both real and perceived trauma. Trauma, both conscious and non-conscious, repressed and compartmentalized, can be accessed through the breathing apparatus. Trauma, both physical and emotional, has a specific relationship to the breathing apparatus.
The fundamental signature of trauma is a paradox to a normal parasympathetic breath. Under a normal parasympathetic breath the four main diaphragms are moving in sync. On the inhalation the diaphragms are moving downward, and on the exhalation the diaphragms are moving upward.
During paradoxical breathing, the pelvic and thoracic diaphragms are either moving apart or they are moving towards one another. During a cough or a sneeze, the diaphragms are moving apart. If you have experienced sneezing while driving, you may have noticed that the eyes involuntarily close and there is temporary tunnel vision. These are autonomic responses.
At the occurrence of the paradoxical sympathetic fear or trauma response, the autonomic responses are more profound for the nervous system. Here, the diaphragms are moving towards one another to create additional intra-abdominal pressurization to protect the organs. There is more occurring than the physical function, there are chemical signatures that relate to the somatic context of the event. Those signatures are encoded in memories and associations. Even if we do not have conscious awareness of those somatic inputs, our nervous system is responding to them.
When a similar stimulus to a past event is encountered, the limbic system is looking for a reference to keep us safe. The past events and the coping strategies that were utilized at the time of that previous event come forward as a in the now real time solution for responding to the stimulus. This is how we are unconsciously hijacked from the present moment to our past. This is also why the mechanics of a properly responsive breathing apparatus is altered. The nervous system is seeking safety by moving away from the input that would stimulate the memory and association to a previous event.
Somatic inputs to the nervous system is one potent method of asking the nervous system if it has capacity to appropriately respond to those inputs.
We must use caution when we evaluate breath and breathing. If we overstimulate an individual’s nervous system, they may experience a limbic system response that is akin to re-experiencing a past trauma. The way we keep our client safe is a specific progression of breathing apparatus stimulus. This progression starts with qualifying the capacity to have a non-binary conversation with the nervous system. Then we evaluate the Intrinsic subsystem in both feedback and feedforward movement assessment strategies. It is important to note that we must be incremental and have a priority to the first tenet of DNA, Keeping the Container Safe.
This process is the first step in learning how to utilize and apply the DNA template. There are multiple layers of understanding that occur when we learn to apply The 5 Tenets, The 5 Essential Skills, and The 5 Primary Kinetic Chains.
DNA helps to develop better Somatic Therapists because the integration of the template allows the therapist to access unresolved trauma in a safe container for their client’s nervous system.
This video demonstrates a Top Down approach to nervous system dysregulation. A few things to consider. Movement is the most tangible benchmark. While a person’s experience is the most important, that subjective experience is not tangible. When we create a tangible experience we are also creating a more complete experience for the individual. Another important aspect to consider is that It is important to follow up with structural reinforcement after restoring appropriate nervous system response. This reinforcement needs to be incremental so as not to overstimulate the ANS which in turn would potentially undue the benefits of the initial nervous system tone down. | <urn:uuid:ad1981ec-45da-4f57-a6dd-ed19b45647b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dna-assessment.com/category/dynamic-neuromuscular-assessment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.927729 | 1,620 | 2.515625 | 3 |
In this article, we compiled surprising statistics for property managers that offer interesting industry insights. We've also included several infographics to make it easy for you to share these statistics with your network. We'll continue to update this list with new statistics over time. Check back to see the latest insights for property managers and owners.
Table of Contents
- One in Three Americans Considering Relocation Because of COVID-19
- 50% of Residential Home Fires Are Started In The Kitchen
- 31% of Homebuyers Desire Nicer Homes That Need Less Upgrades or Renovation, Even If Budgets Are Strained
- 1 in 3 Boomers Are Helping Their Adult Children To Buy Their Own Homes
One in Three Americans Considering Relocation Because of COVID-19
Westerners, younger Americans, and higher earners are more likely to consider relocating because of COVID-19. The reasons for moving vary, but they include workplace flexibility and increased opportunities for remote work. Below, we summarize the findings from a nationwide survey from Fast, and included an infographic to make it easier for you to share these statistics with your network.
- 35% of American workers are considering relocation to a new city or town because of COVID-19
- 40% of American workers say that they are most often considering a move to a less populated area
- 36% say there are more opportunities to work remotely than before the pandemic
- 31% are looking for a lower cost of living
50% of Residential Home Fires Are Started In The Kitchen
Home fires are devastating, and most of them are caused by cooking. Property managers should advise tenants on fire safety best practices, in order to reduce the chance of home fires from starting. The NFPA states that home fires are relatively easy to prevent. They recommend that tenants should be attentive while cooking, keep flammable items away from the oven, and have a fire extinguisher close. Below, we summarize their findings, and include an infographic you can share with your tenants.
- U.S. fire departments reported an estimated of 358,500 residential home fires every year between 2011 and 2015
- There were about 2,695 deaths, 12,000 injuries and property damage averaging of $7 billion
- Residential home fires usually start from open flames, accidents, and cooking
- Cooking is the number one cause of fires at home. 50% of all reported fire cases started in the kitchen
- Most house fires occur between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m which are the usual times when one is cooking dinner
31% of Homebuyers Desire Nicer Homes That Need Less Upgrades or Renovation, Even If Budgets Are Strained
Homebuyers are often willing to make compromises when searching for a new home, in order to save money. However, there are several home attributes that many are less willing to give. Below, we summarize the findings from a survey by ValueInsured.
- 31% of first-time and upgrade homebuyers want a nicer home that needs less upgrade or renovation
- 18% are least willing to compromise on a bigger home with more rooms or more space
- 17% of all homebuyers are least willing to give up a nicer outdoor area or more land
- 13% are least willing to give up a more prestigious or popular neighborhood
- 10% are least willing to give up a shorter commute to work
1 in 3 Boomers Are Helping Their Adult Children To Buy Their Own Homes
A survey by ValueInsured found Baby Boomers are more likely to target lower-priced homes for their next purchase than millennials. Below is a breakdown of how the different generations plan to spend their money.
|Plan to Spend||Baby Boomers||Millennials|
|$150,000 to $249,000||30%||17%|
|$250,000 to $499,999||15%||21%|
|$500,000 to $999,999||5%||27%|
|$1,000,000 or more||2%||14%|
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Insulting and threatening someone is no way to go about winning over their heart let alone their mind, especially when they suspect that their own health and the environment may be at risk and that you, the supplicant, are motivated purely by commercial considerations.
Yet, bizarrely, America seems to think that just such behaviour is exactly what is needed to persuade a sceptical Europe that genetically modified (GM) food is 100% safe and that Europe should rescind a four-year ban on new GM products.
This week Robert Zoellick, the US administration's top trade official, lashed out at a "luddite" and "immoral" Europe. European "antiscientific" policies were, he claimed, spreading to the developing world and convincing famine-hit countries to refuse GM food aid.
Pushing his own country ever closer towards a trade dispute with the EU that would dwarf all past spats, he called for the nth time for Europe's ban on new GM product approvals to be lifted and said he favoured legal action against the EU in the World Trade Organisation to force Europe to do the right thing.
The response from the EU was withering. Pascal Lamy, the EU's shaven-headed trade supremo and a personal friend of Zoellick's, offered his US counterpart a reality check. Legal action to force open Europe's markets would complicate and possibly even scupper the EU's own moves to lift the ban (something which could happen sometime later this year), and any legal challenge would be fiercely challenged and probably quashed.
Nor, he added, has the EU ever advised an African state to refuse GM aid - it has only shared its own sermon-free risk analyses and knowledge.
Mr Zoellick should listen to his old friend. Whatever the rights and wrongs of GM technology, the subject remains acutely controversial in Europe and GM products continue to be viewed with deep suspicion.
While allegations that GM food may harm human health remain unsubstantiated, warnings about the dangers of cross-pollination and playing with nature are taken seriously.
Fed a steady diet of Frankenstein food stories and still reeling from a slew of health scares ranging from mad cow disease to dioxin poisoning, Europeans are certainly not crying out for GM food, and if and when they are offered new products they will want to know their origin.
The public's scepticism, which shows no signs of abating, is reflected in their governments' policies. At least seven EU member states including France and Italy want the current moratorium on new GM products, which has been in place since 1998, to be maintained.
They have suggested, however, that they may be willing to lift the ban when the EU's own ultra-strict labelling and traceability rules enter into force - something which should happen later this year.
New rules to ensure that all GM food and crops undergo a series of rigorous risk assessment tests before they are authorised for sale, marketing, or even planting anywhere in the EU have already entered into force.
Whether the doubting member states actually do agree to lift the ban when the rest of the EU's GM legislation takes effect remains to be seen of course, but in the meantime Washington should pipe down.
Mr Zoellick's comments don't help. Taking such a heavy-handed approach will only alienate countries such as France where anti-Americanism needs little encouragement and will cause resentment and ill-feeling. It certainly won't engender a spirit of cooperation.
Instead America should concentrate on trying to win the ongoing ethical and scientific debate about GM technology which remains wide open.
Biotechnology firms' sensational claims about the life-changing nature of their products may well all be true - perhaps GM technology will one day vanquish hunger and transform the developing world. But maybe it won't.
The fact is that anything new needs to be tried and tested, and that takes time. People should also have the right to know what they're eating, which means labelling and until the debate about GM food is settled once and for all African countries should be offered non-GM food aid.
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City of Split through the EU project CitiEnGov set Green smart public lighting
The CitiEnGov project has enabled the City of Split to set up modern and energy-efficient, Green smart public lighting in Split, in the streets: Šetalište Petra Preradovića, Put Firula, Spinčićeva and Šetalište Kalafata. A total of 82 new LED lamps have been installed with the built-in control module for remote control of each lamp individually. The module communicates via a GSM network with a computer system that is available to city administration employees in charge of public lighting. The system is available through a computer, tablet or mobile phone 24 hours a day. It is also possible to display the state of the lights and the lighting position of the lights. The system allows centralized continuous remote and lighting control, group and individually, with unlimited number of changes overnight, light intensity control ranging from 0% to 100%, it has two-way communication on the status of a particular lamp, consumption information in the selected period for one or for the group of lamps and the current status of each lamp.
The value of the installed equipment and works are in total 72.500,00 €, with 85% of which is financed by the European Regional Development Fund, 9% by the Ministry of Regional Development and European Union funds and 6% by the City of Split. It is estimated that the annual savings by this project for 82 lamps will be about 8.000,00 €. There will also be a reduction of 11.5 tons of CO₂ per year in terms of the previous state, which is also very important in the environmental terms.
Built-in lamps conform to Croatian and European road lighting standards and have IP66 protection against atmospheric influences. They are also in compliance with the Law on light pollution protection, and the color temperature of the light is 3000K. Contracted service provider delivered 10-Year Warranty for delivered equipment, which also leads to reduced maintenance costs.
This project enables the City of Split to use energy efficiency and renewable energy sources as a step towards more efficient management of energy resources that Split has, as well as achieving energy savings through energy efficiency measures. It is also a new element added to the overall image of Split as a Smart City.
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Who are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae, and what do they have to do with home loans?
Fannie Mae is the more personalized name for The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), Freddie Mac is a similar name for The Federal National Mortgage Loan Corporation (FHLMC), and Ginnie Mae refers to the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA). Fannie and Freddie are quasi-governmental agencies which serve as a conduit between the capital markets of Wall Street and home lending across the United States. Ginnie Mae performs a similar function for government FHA and VA home loans. | <urn:uuid:b3de8ffd-1d2b-4cfc-b711-1d112637c60f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://nationalfundingnetwork.com/faq_29.php?pagename=FAQ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.908317 | 126 | 2.625 | 3 |
At the beginning of June 2021, the TRIMET in Voerde commissioned a newly installed casting plant for aluminum sows. The aluminum smelter with attached anode factory is thus able to produce ingot metal itself. Until now, the site supplied its 99.9% pure electrolytic aluminum exclusively in liquid form to customers and to the foundry at TRIMET's Essen site.
"The casting plant allows greater flexibility, enabling us to meet changing market requirements and customer demands even better," says Dr. Andreas Lützerath, member of the management board of TRIMET Aluminium SE. "The high metal purity of the cast aluminum also meets an increasing demand from the processing industry."
The new plant, which is designed as a casting carousel, can cast 20 aluminum sows of 780 kilograms each in an hourly cycle. All steps in the process, from casting, skimming, labeling and weighing to depositing the sows on a conveyor belt, are automated, setting a new technical standard. These measures ensure consistently high product quality. The new plant also further optimizes and ensures occupational health and safety for employees. | <urn:uuid:93a1394a-5dab-40a0-9e28-15d9c3e7284b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foundry-planet.com/de/d/de-trimet-standort-voerde-nimmt-giessanlage-in-betrieb/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933522 | 239 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Trademark Office refines criteria for registration of colour marks
Although trademarks consisting of colours within an outline have been regulated for a very long time in Colombia under Andean Community decisions, before 2010 colour trademark applications were granted by the Colombian Trademark Office as graphic or combined trademarks (ie, graphic marks claiming a particular colour). It was only in 2012 that the Trademark Office granted its first colour trademark as such.
This development led companies to apply for colour trademarks to protect their very recognisable goods - that is, the colour of the goods or of their packaging or labels, with which consumers were familiar.
The first colour trademark granted in Colombia belongs to Owens Corning Intellectual Capital LLC, which applied for registration of the mark depicted below in 2010 to identify insulation material of a pink colour.
File No 10 101482
Certificate No 455467
As with other trademarks, the distinctiveness of a colour mark is based on the fact that:
the colour is not usual or required for the goods identified by the mark; and
the mark is not confusingly similar to other trademarks already registered for identical or related goods.
In the present case, a pink dye was added during the manufacturing process, as the usual colour of insulation material goes from white to grey, or even light green, depending on the kind of bottles recycled to produce fiberglass (the raw material used to make insulation).
This trademark application assisted the Trademark Office in determining how the requirement of graphical representation should be met, since Colombia is not party to the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, which sets out a multilateral framework for the definition of the criteria governing the representation of hologram, motion, colour, position and other non-traditional trademarks. Colour trademarks must be able to be represented graphically and, as such, the colour should be duly delimited and the application should contain a description of the colour using an international standard, such as Pantone, Focoltone, RGB or any other.
Following the registration of Owens Corning’s colour mark, another company, Colombian soda manufacturer Postobon, faced more difficulties when it sought to register a pink colour trademark to identify non-alcoholic beverages, as there were several other sodas of a pink colour on the Colombian market (all of them for the same flavour, apple). The opponent, based on the fact that there were few decisions regarding colour trademarks, requested that the application be refused based on all imaginable grounds (eg, the colour could not constitute a trademark, lacked distinctiveness, was usual, descriptive and generic, and would confer a functional advantage on the applicant).
The main concern was that the colour pink was used by other manufacturers. Thus, Postobon had to overcome that issue by demonstrating that, in fact, the colour pink was not a common colour for apple beverages.
File No 09 090473
Apple beverages all over the world have an amber to brownish colour due to the oxidation of the fruit. The use of the colour pink was part of a marketing strategy by Postobon, which was so successful that other manufacturers of apple beverages in Colombia, in order to compete, had to mimic Postobon’s strategy and colour.
Given that there were in fact so many other pink beverages on the market, Postobon decided to prove acquired distinctiveness; nonetheless, the colour pink trademark application passed the registration exam with ‘flying colours’ based on the quality of the evidence filed. First, Postobon proved that it had used the colour pink for apple beverages since 1954, long before any other apple or pink sodas were put on the market in Colombia. Second, it demonstrated that at least 77% of the general population recognised pink beverages as Postobon’s apple beverages. Finally, it established considerably high sales during the period from 2003 to 2009.
Considering the above, the Trademark Office deemed that the colour pink was distinctive for apple beverages, given that consumers made a connection between the products and their manufacturer. In addition, it ascertained that:
the specific shade of pink used by Postobon was not a natural colour either for apples or for their juice or extract; therefore, the trademark could not be found to be descriptive;
the trademark was not considered to be generic as it did not refer to the nature, category or type of non-alcoholic beverages; and
the bottle was not being claimed in the mark, since the bottle was merely used to limit the colour.
Consequently, the colour pink mark was granted to Postobon to identify non-alcoholic beverages. This decision completed the list of administrative requirements necessary for the registration of colour trademarks in Colombia, which had been initially determined in the case concerning the colour pink for insulation material.
As with other trademarks, whether traditional and non-traditional, the main issue was the nature of the trademark. Despite all the arguments used by the opponent, none of them was duly supported.
The latest decision regarding colour trademarks in Colombia concerned the colour green to identify cocoa-based preparations. In this case, Nestlé obtained the registration of the following trademark:
File No 13 015116
The colour green is usually related to ecology; however, for cocoa-based preparations, it was found that the colour green brought Nestlé’s MILO product to mind.
Thus, the path is open for more colour trademarks and other non-traditional trademarks.
Sandra Ávila and Fernando Triana, Triana Uribe & Michelsen, Bogota
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As of May 25, there will be 568 polling stations in 67 foreign countries for Bulgaria’s July early parliamentary elections, the Foreign Ministry said.
According to the analysis of the ministry, voting machines will be used at about 300 of these polling stations, in 24 countries.
A decision by the Central Election Commission in regard to this is awaited.
The short-lived 45th National Assembly voted amendments to the Electoral Code, including that at polling stations where more than 300 voters are registered, there must be machine voting. These amendments, as The Sofia Globe reported on April 29, also make it easier to request opening of a polling station abroad.
On May 20, Bulgarian National Radio reported the Central Election Commission as saying that it estimated that more than 1000 additional voting machines would be needed, and assistance from the state administration and the government would be sought. This estimate covered meeting the legislative requirement in the country and abroad.
The Foreign Ministry said on May 25 that consent had been requested from 128 countries with which Bulgaria has diplomatic relations, for the holding of voting in those countries.
Nineteen countries already have consented: Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Belgium, Austria, Spain, the Republic of North Macedonia, Turkey, Costa Rica, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Nigeria, Luxembourg, Georgia, Belarus, the Netherlands, Finland, New Zealand and the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic did not want Bulgaria to open polling stations outside the embassy premises, the Foreign Ministry said.
On May 24, the Central Election Commission published a list of embassies and consulates abroad where voting is proposed to be held. Earlier, on May 18, it published a proposal for polling stations abroad, without giving addresses at this stage.
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry is working on logistical plans for sending ballot papers to the polling stations abroad as well as, where necessary, the voting machines.
The Foreign Ministry said that the budget for the election process abroad was 6.7 million leva (about 3.42 million euro).
Earlier, it emerged that the largest number of polling stations in a foreign country that will have machine voting would be in the UK, 61 out of 91 polling stations, followed by Turkey, 46 out of 57.
(Screenshot: Bulgarian National Television)
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President Donald Trump is under enormous pressure to respond militarily to the latest provocation by the Assad regime, but he would do so against all of his instincts and earlier pronouncements to end US military involvement in the Syrian war.
Just days before the chemical attacks in Douma, Trump announced he wanted US troops out of Syria within months, and that the fight against the Islamic State was largely completed.
Some claim that Trump’s public announcement of US withdrawal in Syria emboldened Assad to conduct these attacks. But the fact is that there have been at least eight alleged chemical attacks by the Assad regime since Trump took office.
Assad has continually tested the boundaries of what the international community and his allies are willing to accept, and has gotten away with it.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – After COVID-19 outbreaks forced meat packing plants throughout the midwest to shut down, many pig farmers were left with too many animals, forcing them to put some pigs down.
However the dilemma brought together a pig farmer in northwestern Iowa and Kelly Tope, founder of Farmaste Animal Sanctuary in Lindstrom, Minnesota.
After hearing about the potential euthanasia of pigs, Tope reached out to pig farmers in the area to see how her sanctuary could help. She spoke to the Iowa farmer, who had not yet euthanized any animals, but was watching the grim reality impact others.
He then decided to proactively surrender two pigs – Charlotte and Phoebe – to Farmaste.
“They have already started to grow into a routine here,” said Tope. “They have fond their home here already.”
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Financial health is a difficult thing to define. Like with physical and mental health, though, it’s easy to know when something isn’t quite right. Furthermore, there are plenty of studies that have shown poor financial health can actually lead to worse mental and physical well-being. This is why it’s important to recognize when something is off with your relationship to money.
When it comes to identifying the key components of financial health, there are a few concepts that stand out from the rest:
- – Your debt levels
- – Your debt mix
- – Your cash flow and income
- – Your debt-to-income ratio
- – Your savings
- – Your ability to generate passive income
These ideas are integral to any person’s financial health and security. When several of these are out of balance, you’re going to feel the effects throughout your life. Let’s take a look at how to manage these key components of financial health.
Balancing Your Debt and Income
Debt and income are arguably the most critical aspects of financial health. When you have too much debt for your income level, it can quickly lead to serious money problems. Having a lot of debt but no, or even negative, cash flow means you’re not going to be able to make any progress on paying down what you owe. And saving or investing your money will be completely out of the question.
This is why debt, income, cash flow, and debt-to-income are such key elements of your financial health. While you can take on greater amounts of debt when you’re bringing in more money, it’s also wise to remember that income can be cut off for a variety of reasons. You might lose your job; the economy could enter into a recession, or you might have to make drastic changes to your lifestyle due to unforeseen circumstances. No matter the cause, the effects of being stuck with too much debt can ruin you. Therefore, you need to take special care to not overextend yourself with debt.
Finding Ways Out of Debt
Those who have bitten off more than they can chew when it comes to debt will probably be looking for ways out of their situation. There are many options available to consumers regardless of their current financial health.
One option that can be popular is paying off debt with different forms of debt. Debt consolidation is one way many people have been able to get a handle on finances. But what if you’ve already been unsuccessful with this? If you have too much debt and need to find a way out, a bad credit home equity loan might work for you.
Those who have too much debt tend to have credit struggles as well. This is because your ability to pay your bills is the most important factor in determining your credit score. People who own their homes can utilize a bad credit home equity loan to utilize the equity on their house to get a loan at a lower interest rate.
This can help pay down some of your higher-interest debt and potentially get your financial health back to a better place. The risk of this is that if you’re unable to repay your home equity loan, it could result in the loss of your house. Therefore, you need to be confident in your ability to repay the loan before taking this route.
For pretty much all people, speaking with a credit counseling service is one of the smartest ideas for figuring out how to regain your financial health. These are organizations that specialize in helping people get a handle on their debt. Additionally, much of what they offer is completely free; so there’s no harm in simply speaking to an agent.
Your financial health is critical to your general wellbeing. When your relationship with money is out of whack, it can have dire consequences on your whole life. Knowing the key elements of financial health is the first step to making positive changes toward a better financial future.
Masab Farooque is a Tech Geek, Writer, and Founder at The Panther Tech. He is also a lead game developer at 10StaticStudios.
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How to Go Grocery Shopping When You Have Osteoarthritis
When you have arthritis of the foot, knee or hip, it’s a bit difficult to go grocery shopping. All the walking through the store can be enough to start a big problem with pain and inflammation that lasts for days. But don't worry - there are some tips for osteoarthritis that will make grocery shopping a simpler event.
One of the first things to know is that if you are going to a big superstore, you might ask for a motorized chair – or bring your own. If neither of these options is available to you, then by all means, ask someone to go for you. If you can make a very clear list of what you want, it’s possible to make it quite easy for your hired help or friends to help you with the shopping.
Another option is to ask if the grocery store can select your items, reserve them for you and then you can simply pick them up. Unfortunately many big grocery chain stores won’t do this for you, but if you live in a smaller town, the management might be more understanding and more human about helping you. (After all, they are the ones that benefit from your business.)
Let’s say you don’t get any help at all and still have to do it yourself. Before you go to the store, take your anti-inflammatory nutrients and herbs. This preventative action could help out a lot and prevent the inflammation from occurring in the first place. The worst thing to happen is always that you get home and you’re so tired and hurt so much that all you can do is put the groceries away – and then have to go to bed. But with the anti-inflammatory herbs, such as cat’s claw, your trip to the grocery store could be your best yet. (Two capsules, each 500 mg are enough.)
When you do get to the store, your goal will be to prevent any unnecessary steps. Thus, make a list and don’t leave a section of the store unless you know you have everything you need. Since you know the layout of the store, carefully plan out your sequence of departments:
- produce department
- nuts section
- frozen food department
- meats department
- breads and crackers (if you eat these)
When you have arthritis, your best foods are from the produce and meats/eggs/dairy sections of the store, so make these your first places visited. This way you’ll have most of the room in the cart already taken up with the most important food, plus if you get tired, you’ll at least be insured that you have all the basics.
After you do get back home, take your anti-inflammatory herbs once again so that if any inflammation developed with all the extra activity at the store, it may be neutralized.
You might also try some cold packs on your feet or on your knee if you’re noticing some pain.
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Web scraping. Monitoring user behavior. Monitoring competitor behavior. You’ll often find yourself needing to take automated website screenshots. The problem is, we’re using old solutions for new challenges.
Today, we’ll look at the traditional way to take screenshots using Python and a much simpler alternative with ScreenshotAPI.
Let’s take a look!
If you want to take screenshots the traditional Python way, you’ll first need to import the pyautogui module:
pip install pyautogui
Once you’ve imported the package, decide where you want the screenshot to be saved.
For example, let’s use the following location:
You’ll call the screenshot function to take a screenshot, save it as a variable, and then use the save function to save the screenshot in the location mentioned earlier:
exampleScreenshot = pyautogui.screenshot()
The problem with this method is that you’ll need to navigate every webpage you want a screenshot of manually. This is quite a hassle, so ScreenshotAPI takes a different approach.
With ScreenshotAPI, you can fully automate taking screenshots. Regardless of the format (from PNG to PDF) or the volume, you’ll get high-quality screenshots every time.
When taking screenshots with ScreenshotAPI, just import the parse and request modules of Python’s urllib package. Use the following code:
Then, import Python’s ssl module that gives you access to Transport Layer Security (also known as TLS, Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL) encryption and peer authentication facilities for network sockets. Here, you’ll use:
Next, create an unverified SSLContext object with the ssl._create_unverified_context() function:
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
Set the variables that you’ll use to construct your query parameters, including:
● The string containing your URL key
token = "Your ScreenshotAPI API Key"
● The encoded URL string containing the URL you’re targeting.
url = urllib.parse.quote_plus("https://google.com")
● The integer indicating the width of your target render.
width = 1920
● The integer indicating the height of your target render.
height = 1080
● The string specifying the output format, “image” or “json”.
output = "image"
Once you’ve set the variables, you can construct your query parameters and URL with the following code:
query = "https://shot.screenshotapi.net/screenshot"
query += "?token=%s&url=%s&width=%d&height=%d&output=%s" % (token, url, width, height, output)
Using the query parameters above, you can then call the API:
For every screenshot you want to take, you’ll then only need to change the URL variable to get screenshots of different web pages.
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Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced and bonded labor or for the extraction
Incorporated in Ghana, Right To Be Free's (RTBF) mission is to directly support the rescue, rehabilitation, reunification and reintegration of victims of human
Right to Be Free director Eric Peasah, is an internationally respected authority on child trafficking and child bonded labor.
Every child has a Right To Be Free
Rescuing just one precious child from a life of bondage is cause for celebration. Liberating fourteen is an absolute joy!
It took several trips in early March through difficult weather and skeptical villagers to pull all of the children out. Finally after weeks of negotiations, the persistence of Eric and his team paid off.
WE WERE NOT FINISHED and finally pulled out the last five children in early June. The work of RTBF will continue until ALL children are free from exploitative labor.
©Right to be Free 2012: Right to be Free is a Non Governmental Organization incorporated
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Introduce your littlest rocker to early concepts through the creativity of Janis Joplin in this fun and entertaining book that is perfect for the next generation of music lovers.Featuring eleven spreads pairing elements of Janis Joplin with simple words, this is the book for any Janis fan, young or old. Baby Janis teaches babies and toddlers a variety of nouns (heart, baby, half moon, pearl, tattoo, guitar, etc.).
About the Author
Running Press Kids is the children's imprint of Running Press, a book publisher based in Philadelphia, PA.
Pintachan has been an illustrator for more than a decade, working with a variety of clients all over the world. He loves doo-wop, psych-pop, 70s disco, 50s rock 'n roll, and Motown. He lives in Gijon, Spain, with his family. | <urn:uuid:e9a0c0b1-d868-40db-9659-1a6c0cec9564> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.villagesquarebooks.com/book/9780762473533 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929484 | 190 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Tea should not be microwaved. Microwaving your tea can make your tea to hot and take away from it's properties. Tea should be made with water from an electric tea pot or tea kettle placed on the stove. Tea should be made with filtered or distilled water. Other types of water including tap and some spring water adds flavor to your tea.
Tea should only seep 4 to 9 minuets. Over seeping your tea can result in a bitter cup of tea. For black tea it's 4 to 5 minutes. For green tea it's for 3 to 4 minutes. For white tea it's for 4 minutes. As for herbal and fruit teas it's a little longer, but no longer than 7 to 9 minutes.
Warming your tea cup before you adding your tea and hot water will help keep your tea warm. Also adding cream or milk at room temperature will help to keep your tea warm. Cold milk or cream will give you a cold cup of tea. When warming your tea it is best to add hot water . Microwaving your tea can take way from the taste of your tea or burn the tea. Cover your tea cup with a cozy or small plate.
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A blend of black tea, ginger, cardamon, cinnamon, clove, and black pepper.
Helps boost heart health, reduce blood sugar, aid in digestion and helps with weight loss.
Organic peppermint leaves
Aids in weight loss, good for digestion, boost immune system, fights bad breath, makes you stress free, great for upper respiratory issues.
What a refreshing cup of tea. Love the lemon and ginger note in this tea.
Blend of lemongrass, olive leaf, ginger root,turmeric, lemon myrtle, lemon peel, and sweet black berry leaf.
Boosts your immune system, improves you skin, helps with digestion, helps remove unwanted chemicals from the body, suppress your appetite, works as a detox.
Contains honeybush, turmeric, cinnamon, black tea, and ginger.
Great for lowering blood sugar, can treat coughs, lower blood pressure, anti-inflammatory, and has a great taste.
A unique blend of dried fruits.
Containing orange peel, apples, rosehips, hibiscus, cranberries, and rooibos
Good for helping to fight inflammation, helps with skin and lower blood pressure.
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Can help with digestive issues such as vomiting, nausea, intestinal gas, upset stomach and abdominal swelling. Can helps relieve pain from headaches, sprains, toothaches, and sores. Also helps with anxiety, insomnia, depression, and relaxing. Great for a nap cap to help you sleep.
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A little goes a long way.
This is a great addition to tea. Can be added to hot or cold tea.
This honey is infused with cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, nutmeg and star anise.
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Hi, I need help with essay on Briefly explain Socrates view of justice, as found in The Republic. In your explanation, make sure to include his views on the State and the individual soul. Do you agree or disagree with Socrates’ view. Paper must be at least 750 words. Please, no plagiarized work!
In short, Socrates argument with regards to justice can be condensed into the following dictum – justice necessarily includes helping friends and protecting them from evil. however, this cannot take place at the expense of another. As a means of building upon this concept, Socrates states that payment of debt in and of itself is a form of justice as is helping a close friend or ally. This discussion of help and aid with regards to a close friend or ally is unique due to the fact that it instantly conjures a situation in the mind of the reader or listener in which a friend is threatened by a third party and it is the responsibility of the other friend, according to Socrates’ understanding of justice, to intervene on his behalf as a means of providing justice to the situation. The issue that arises with this particular understanding of justice is the fact that Socrates goes on to state that violence is not permissible as a means of conflict resolution under any case. This of course leads the reader to question how justice is to be applied under Socrates’ definition if one seeks to rigidly uphold the determinants that he has lain out in his argument. For instance, if one understands that the primal motivator of justice is seeking to the do the right thing and if therefore seeking to do the right thing must necessarily include protecting a friend from the meddlesome or violent threats of a third party/individual, what then is the responsible friend to do in such a situation which is likely to culminate in violence. stand idly by or ignore the first dictates of Socrates’ argument.
Socrates’ definition of justice further can be broken down into the wide dictum that if merely everyone showed attention to the way things ought to be, the ideal society, full of justice, would at last be realized. Although one can of course state that such an interpretation is utopian, the fact of the matter is that this definition of what justice entails is also a | <urn:uuid:c95705e4-22b9-489e-9cee-de09fd4c9ae7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prominentessays.com/hi-i-need-help-with-essay-on-briefly-explain-socrates-view-of-justice-as-found-i-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960035 | 455 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Congress gives us $305 Billion
Well, by “us” we don’t mean “Mellott Company”, we mean “USA”. For the first time in a long time, Congress has passed, and the President has signed into law, a multi-year surface transportation act, worth $305B. As a member of the construction materials industry, Mellott Company looks forward to what this federal spending will mean.
We are pleased to see that safety gets a sizable consideration in the bill as this touches on one of our core values.
Most of the bill is concerned with highway funding. Because we service the quarry industry, which provides materials to build roads, we think this will mean that our customers can now commit to higher levels of spending to upgrade their plants and systems to meet the demand of this bill.
The bill also contains provisions for autonomous cars, bike paths, and walking trails. We think this will requires wider roads that can include more modes of transportation and, therefore, will require more materials to build.
Amtrak gets more funding and this could mean more ballast needed to add track capacity.
We are also interested in seeing what will become of the Acts grants for “advanced transportation and congestion management technologies deployment.” More often than not, we are affected by transportation problems and congestion when we deliver machines and components. We think we will be able to serve our customers better if traffic is managed more efficiently.
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How Family Portraits Can Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem
How Family Portraits Can Boost Your Child's Self-esteem
Children with good self-esteem can recognise the great qualities they have and they believe in their own abilities. They feel loved and know how to deal with and move past mistakes when they come along. Children with low self-esteem might not feel like they fit in, with their family or peers. They might think other children dislike them or that they’re not as attractive/clever/funny etc, the list goes on. Children with low self-esteem can be very tough on themselves. A child’s self-esteem is established as early as five years old, but develops as they grow. Having family photos printed and on the wall can offer long term benefits to your child’s self-esteem.
Licensed psychologist and co-author of “Photo Therapy and Mental Health” David Krauss says:
“I think it is really important to show a family as a family unit. It is so helpful for children to see themselves as a valued and important part of that family unit.”
Krauss is one of the founders of using people’s personal photography and family albums to assist in mental health counselling and therapy.
I’ll give you a good example. When your child draws or paints a picture they are proud of they will be so excited to show it to you. The first thing we do is stick it on our fridge or hang it on the wall for all to see. It sends your child a subconscious message that you are proud of them and that they are loved and important. The same goes for hanging a family portrait on the wall. When a child feels a strong sense of belonging they feel more confident and secure.
“For children, in particular, looking at photographs is part of the socialising process; learning who you are and where you fit into the family. By displaying photographs of our children at different stages of their lives, we are making a very public statement that we are proud of them,” says Professor Geoff Beattie, Head of School and Dean of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester.
“It lets children learn who they are and where they fit,” says Judy Weiser. a psychologist, art therapist and author based in Vancouver. “They learn their genealogy and the the uniqueness of their own family and its story. When a child sees a family portrait with them included in the photograph they say to themselves: These people have me as part of what they are, that’s why I belong here. This is where I come from.”
Weiser has spent more than 20 years using all manner of personal photography to assist in the treatment process of her clients. She is considered by many to be the foremost authority on these treatment techniques, called PhotoTherapy.
The Importance of Print
I’ll bet you take hundreds of photographs of your children and family with your mobile phone, and these are fantastic and I urge you to continue, especially photos of you with your children as these little moments can really document the everyday. Why not print these photos into a photobook so you can build up a library for your children to look back on.
However, having something on the wall where your child can see it everyday without having to turn on a device and scroll through hundreds of other shots can really give them a sense of certainty and reassurance.
“My bias is very simple. I think they (family photographs) should be on the wall,” says Krauss.
Additionally, he recommends having photographs of that child with their family placed in the child’s bedroom so it can be among the last things they see before sleep and the first thing they may see before beginning their day. “It says we love you and care about you. You’re important.”
As well as having the power to boost your child’s self-esteem, family portraits can also strengthen the bond of your entire family. They are a wonderful way to demonstrate that your family is a unit, one that love and support each other no matter what. So what are you waiting for, choose your favourite family photo and get it on the wall! If you don’t have one or you’d like any help with printing please have a look at my investment page or get in touch.
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"It got wind in the forecastle that something wild, unearthly, hellish, was aloft, and the watch below turned out, too restless to sleep, and all through those hours of darkness the sailors walked the decks in groups, again and again staring up at the foretopmast cross-trees, where the mysterious bulk of blackness sate, squatted, or hung motionless, like some brooding fiend, or incarnation of ill-luck, sinking by force of meditation its curses not loud, but deep, into the bottom of the very hold itself.
And now there came an episode which lives in history two centuries after that scene of carnage on the decks of the stranded brig. It has preserved the name of a humble lieutenant of the Royal Navy and saved it from the oblivion which is the common lot of most brave men who do and dare when duty beckons. Blackbeard was bleeding from a dozen wounds and yet his activity was unabated.
Once more the hoarse Semitic war-shout, the dark-faced Asiatics dropping upon the decks, the whir of javelins, the scream of dying men, the clash of steel on steel. A frantic charge, but stoutly met. Themistocles was in the thickest mêlée. With his own spear he dashed two Tyrians overboard, as they sprang upon the poop.
He used to find his way into the midshipmen's berth and to make himself quite at home, occupying the space which, as Hemming observed, a better man might fill. Various devices were made to get clear of him. One of the officers had a horn with which he now and then startled the silence of the decks a practice, by-the-bye, rather subversive of discipline.
The British forces, eight hundred in number, dashed forward to capture the two vessels. The "Atlas" fell an easy prey; but the thirteen men of the "Anaconda" fought stoutly until all hope was gone, then, turning their cannon down upon the decks of their own vessel, blew great holes in her bottom, and escaped to the shore.
They rowed down in the midst of moored boats, whose long oblique cables grazed lightly against the bottom of the boat. The din of the town gradually grew distant; the rolling of carriages, the tumult of voices, the yelping of dogs on the decks of vessels. She took off her bonnet, and they landed on their island. They sat down in the low-ceilinged room of a tavern, at whose door hung black nets.
It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan. Nippers. Strictly this word is not indigenous to the whale's vocabulary. But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so.
This can't be anything else." The yacht glided under the bows of two huge warships, with officers in white, on awninged decks, and steamed into a long canal-like stretch of water, only to wind out again presently into a second mountain-ringed bay.
The huge breakers had kept on steadily thundering at the side of the steamer, rising over her and crashing down on her decks with the greatest regularity; but now, as the old sailor spoke and turned towards the insensible boy, it seemed as if a billow greater than any which had come before rolled up and broke short on the reef, with the result that the immense bank of water seemed to plunge under the broad side of the steamer, lifting her, and once more they were borne on the summit of the wave with a rush onward.
There was no moon, and a velvety blackness stretched about the ship on every side, broken here and there by a faint phosphorescent gleam as a wave reared and broke. The schooner still rose and plunged from the aftermath of the storm, and the slipperiness of the wet decks made the footing insecure. The captain was fearful that Ruth might have a fall, and after a while urged her to go below. | <urn:uuid:9361b725-62db-462b-9ff0-5ac0ff0365fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wordincontext.com/en/decks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971263 | 873 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a complication of mechanical ventilation in individuals with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) may not be related to the etiology or mortality, according to a study published by the European Respiratory Journal.
Researchers conducted a prospective single-center observational cohort study of 125 individuals hospitalized during the course of 20 years (1996-2016) diagnosed with CAP, who underwent mechanical ventilation, and who met the Berlin criteria for ARDS. The purpose of the study was to determine the 30-day mortality, etiology, clinical characteristics, incidence, and risk factors in patients who underwent mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU) and had severe CAP and ARDS compared with individuals who underwent mechanical ventilation and did not have ARDS.
Researchers hypothesized that there would be a higher mortality in individuals with severe CAP and ARDS compared with individuals without ARDS who required mechanical ventilation.
The results showed, and confirmed by propensity-adjusted multivariate analysis, that the 30-day mortality rate was similar in patients with and without ARDS (25% vs 30%, P =.25), even after adjusting for potential confounders (area under the curve, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.75-0.84).
Based on the baseline arterial oxygen tension to inspired oxygen fraction ratios, patients’ clinical severity of ARDS was classified as mild (n=60; 48%), moderate (n=49; 40%), or severe (n=15; 12%), with 30-day mortality rates of 32%, 33%, and 60%, respectively. The most frequent pathogen identified was Streptococcus pneumoniae, with no significant difference in etiology noted among the severity groups. The variables associated with a higher risk for ARDS were a higher Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment score and previous antibiotic treatment. The only variable associated with a lower risk for ARDS was prior treatment with inhaled corticosteroids.
Overall mortality and hospital length of stay was not significantly different between groups; however, ICU mortality was higher in individuals with pneumococcal CAP and ARDS (P =.026). It is important to note that a previous episode of pneumonia and receipt of the pneumococcal vaccine were independently associated with reducing 30-day mortality rates.
Researchers concluded that ARDS occurs in individuals who undergo mechanical ventilation and have CAP as a complication, but that it is not related to the etiology, and there was no difference in 30-day mortality rates between individuals with or without ARDS who underwent mechanical ventilation and had CAP. Clinicians should continue to provide appropriate respiratory support and encourage individuals of appropriate age to receive the pneumococcal vaccine because it was independently associated with reducing 30-day mortality rates.
Cilloniz C, Ferrer M, Liapikou A, et al. Acute respiratory distress syndrome in mechanically-ventilated patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Eur Respir J. 2018;51:1702481.
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“As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. … This is my commandment: Love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (Gospel for May 9, Jn 15:9-10, 12-13)
Christ tells us we will remain in his love if we keep his commandments. Saying you love someone can be easy, but it is really our deeds that reveal our love — or lack of it. Christ showed us how to love by his example and by sacrificing his very life for us. To love as Christ commands us to love demands action. The Letter of James says, “Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves” (1:22). May each of us commit to keeping the commandments and offering our very selves in service and sacrifice for others.
Challenge by Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William E. Lori:
This month, I challenge you to meditate on the meaning of the Ten Commandments in your life by picking one on 10 different days and praying about it for at least 10 minutes. Second, during this month devoted to our Blessed Mother, I challenge you to assist your council in implementing the Faith in Action Rosary program — showing your love of Christ by showing your love of Mary.
Questions for Reflection:
Are you willing to proclaim to others that you love Christ? Does your life show this love by your obedience to Christ and the teachings of the Church, or are there areas of your life where you seem not to heed the Gospel? Are there times when you find it hard to love as Christ commands, and if so, how can you seek to grow in love? | <urn:uuid:f2a06571-eb6b-4ebc-b106-e7004201e6a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kofc.org/en/who-we-are/our-faith/may-2021.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968762 | 399 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Conditionals and Reported Speech - The Third Conditional
The third conditional is used when speaking about regrets and excuses. This video is specifically aimed at teaching the third conditional in an ESL setting.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
I had a very difficult time with this one after seeing my results for the last test.
I must say, I do tend to get a little stumped on the patchwork ESA, boomerang ESA, straight arrow ESA, etc...
However; in this lesson we went over the speaking and writing sections (and others such as: pronunciation, hand writing, layout, spelling, etc...)This unit reflects on a different methodology, mistakes, and corrections.Even though no method specifically proves the best but I learned many techniques through different methodologies and various practical examples of each methodology made me more confident to implement different techniques among students. Ideas for each phase made it easy. | <urn:uuid:8a1472a6-f45e-4375-b42b-06cd0905933c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tefl-tesol.net/tefl-videos-tesol-videos/tefl-tesol-teaching-videos/third-conditional/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941339 | 241 | 3.265625 | 3 |
The missing debate over schools and accountability
ON MARCH 18th Margaret Spellings, the secretary of education, announced a pilot reform to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), George Bush's education law, which was passed in 2002. Up to ten states, she said, would be allowed to target their resources at the most severely struggling schools, rather than at the vast number needing improvement. The change drew a predictable mix of praise and censure. Above all, though, it was a reminder of utter inaction elsewhere.
Congress, which was supposed to re-authorise the law last year, has made little progress. On the campaign trail, concerns over Iraq and the economy have made education a minor issue. Contrary to appearances, the law's main tenets are unlikely to be abandoned completely. But for the Democratic candidates in particular, a proper debate on NCLB is to be avoided like political quicksand.
Most politicians agree that the law has the right goals—to raise educational standards and hold schools accountable for meeting them. NCLB requires states to test pupils on maths and reading from third to eighth grade (that is, from the ages of eight to 13), and once in high school. Some science testing is being added. Schools that do not make “adequate yearly progress” towards meeting state standards face sanctions. Pupils in failing schools can supposedly transfer to a better one or get tutoring.
Most also agree that NCLB has big flaws that must be fixed. Few pupils in bad schools actually transfer—less than 1% of those eligible did so in the 2003-04 school year. Teachers' unions say the tests are focused too narrowly on maths and reading, fail to measure progress over time and encourage “teaching to the test”. They also complain that the law lacks proper funding. The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative policy group, has exposed wide gaps in state standards. Test-data reflect this. In Mississippi 90% of fourth-graders were labelled “proficient” or better in the state reading test in 2006-07. Only 19% reached that level in a national test.
John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, offers NCLB tepid support but fails to elaborate. At Democratic rallies, NCLB is little more than a whipping-boy. Hillary Clinton proclaims that she will “end the unfunded mandate known as No Child Left Behind”. But though she and Barack Obama deride NCLB publicly, each endorses the idea of accountability. They favour using more sophisticated “assessments” in place of tests, want to value a broader range of skills, punish schools less and support them more. How these ideas would be implemented remains unclear.
Not surprisingly, more controversial proposals can be found among those not running for president. Chester Finn of Fordham thinks the federal government needs greater power to set standards, while states should have more leeway in meeting them. A bipartisan commission on NCLB has issued a slew of proposals. Particularly contentious is a plan to use pupils' test scores to help identify ineffective teachers as in need of retraining.
Of course, standards alone do not improve education. Both Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama propose a host of new programmes for schools, described on their websites if rarely on campaign. But accountability is likely to remain a big part of school reform. Last April a group of philanthropists announced a $60m effort to make education the top domestic issue of 2008. So far, it looks like money ill spent.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Left behind"
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Social Emotional Learning:
To best develop social and emotional skills and abilities, students should be explicitly taught. Our social and emotional curriculum teaches students how to identify their own emotions, manage their own emotions, engage in and understand various social situations, and empathize and build relationships with others. These skills and abilities are taught through activities, role-plays, and lessons. These lessons are taught during a daily structure known as Circle, and teachers are coached and supported with Circle the same way they are any other class.
Restorative justice is based on the ideal that “because crime hurts, justice should heal” (Braithwaite). The harm should be matched not by further harm but by restorative effort. Restorative justice is a theory of justice that involves repairing harm by inviting all impacted by harm to work collaboratively while taking into consideration the needs of the community and the afflicted while also considering the accountability and the growth of the offender. At Caliber, harm is restored through Circles, conversations, and group mediations depending on the incident.
Inquiry and Research-Backed Practices:
Many classrooms use what is known as the transmission model of learning. The teacher possesses information that is transferred to the student. While this works for remembering facts or dates, it does not result in meaning making. For students to learn something deeply, they must construct their understanding through connecting new experiences to prior knowledge. This style of learning, exemplified by inquiry, gives students opportunities to explore ideas and topics, discuss them, and draw their own conclusions. At Caliber, units and lessons are designed on research-backed theories rooted
Implementing these model elements requires supporting our teachers to do so — and coaching is the number one way of supporting teachers to develop their craft. We are committed, not just to continuing to support weekly or biweekly coaching for our teachers, but also to training our coaches around our model and their coaching effectiveness.
Caliber believes we live in a society that is unjust and built on power structures that are inequitable, that those inequities are discriminatory and directly stand in the way of many of our students and staff, and that we must be actively anti-discriminatory (anti racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, etc.) to build an equitable community. That belief must be held, validated, and acted upon.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya’s first woman foreign minister, Najla el-Mangoush, will be sworn in next week as part of a new unity government, a rare female voice at the top table whose appointment many Libyan women welcomed on Thursday.
Mangoush, a lawyer who had a role in the transitional council that briefly governed Libya after its 2011 uprising, will be joined by four other women in the cabinet, including Halima Abdulrahman as justice minister.
“I think this is a win for all of us women in Libya. I hope it’s a first step to going further: a woman reaching head of government,” said Afia Mohammed, 34, a pastry maker in Tripoli, adding it would encourage more women to enter politics.
Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh’s interim government emerged through a United Nations talks process and is mandated to unify Libya’s divided state institutions and oversee national elections in December.
The 75 Libyan delegates selected by the U.N. to take part in those talks laid out a commitment for the new government to include women in 30% of senior government roles, including in top cabinet posts.
Women represent only 15% of the posts in Dbeibeh’s cabinet but the proportion will rise when deputy ministers are appointed, he has said.
Elham Saudi, a lawyer and talks delegate, said: “It’s a stepping stone towards fuller representation.”
She said the quota was a result of women in the forum being “absolutely relentless on this point” despite having big differences on other political issues.
As the first meeting took place in Tunis, where Saudi said women delegates faced a barrage of sexist online abuse, Hanan al-Barassi, a female lawyer and critic of rights violations, was shot dead on a busy Benghazi street.
When the Libyan state crumbled after 2011 and myriad warring factions seized territory, women suffered a wave of violence and those in official positions were nearly all men - until now.
“This will give an opportunity for other women to join the work in sovereign positions. The five ministers will be role models,” said Lamees BenSaad, a women’s rights activist and another member of the U.N. talks forum. “We have been fighting a long time for this gain.”
Opposition to women having a big public role is not only held by men. Tahani Qarouq, who makes wedding delicacies in Tripoli, said she did not agree with women running cabinet ministries or state institutions.
But Hanan Malouda, selling beauty products in the market, said women in government would be good for Libya. “Hopefully they will have more compassion for us,” she said.
Reporting by Reuters Tripoli newsroom, Ayman al-Sahely and Angus McDowall; Editing by Janet Lawrence
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Table of Contents:
- What major games use Unity?
- What AAA games use Unity?
- Is fall guys made with Unity?
- Is PUBG made in unity?
- What's MVP in PUBG?
- Is PUBG a AAA game?
- Is Minecraft a AAA game?
- What does AAA mean in gaming?
- What is an example of a AAA game?
- Is Cyberpunk 2077 a AAA game?
- Is Destiny 2 a AAA game?
- Why are AAA games so expensive?
- Why do games cost $60?
- Can one person make a AAA game?
- Are AAA games dying?
- Why are AAA games so bad?
- Why does EA hate single player?
- What age is Roblox for?
- Is Roblox safe for 9 year olds?
What major games use Unity?
Top 10 Unity Games Ever Made
- #10: Deus Ex: The Fall. Published: 2013. ...
- #9: Assassin's Creed: Identity. Published: 2014 (beta) ...
- #8: Satellite Reign. Published: 2014. ...
- #7: Escape plan. Published: 2012. ...
- #6: Temple Run Trilogy. Published: 2011. ...
- #5: Rust. Published: 2013. ...
- #4: Battlestar Galactica Online. Published: 2011. ...
- #3: Wasteland 2.
What AAA games use Unity?
Unity Technologies I think the AAA concept is a bit floaty, just like Indie is, so you might object to some of these. Pillars of Eternity and the upcoming Torment, too. Max & the Magic Marker by the late PressPlay. Hitman GO, Deus Ex GO and Lara Croft GO also.
Is fall guys made with Unity?
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a platform battle royale game developed by Mediatonic and published by Devolver Digital. It released for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4 on 4 August 2020....Fall Guys.
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Is PUBG made in unity?
SAN FRANCISCO, J -- Unity Technologies (https://unity3d.com/), creator of the world's most widely used real-time 3D development platform, announced that it has signed an agreement with PUBG Corporation (PUBG Corp.), creators of the worldwide cultural phenomenon, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), to host ...
What's MVP in PUBG?
MVP is an acronym which stands for the Most Valuable Player. PUBG Mobile basically picks out the best-performing player from a team- duo or squad- and awards him/her with the title. A common misconception is that you will be handed the MVP title if you have the most number of kills.
Is PUBG a AAA game?
No, PUBG is not considered a Triple-A game. This is because it was not created by a large, globally-renowned development studio like Rockstar, Ubisoft, EA, Nintendo, Valve, BioWare, Activision, Sony, Bungie, Microsoft, etc etc. ... Thus, PUBG is not a Triple-A title.
Is Minecraft a AAA game?
Usually, we define triple A titles as those games made by large publishers and large studios. ... Time: Minecraft started out as being developed by only one person, Markus Persson, making it an indie game. Now it's made by a team of developers under Microsoft, making it a AAA game.
What does AAA mean in gaming?
What is an example of a AAA game?
Examples of AAA series include Halo, Zelda, Call of Duty, and Grand Theft Auto. Many of these games are quite violent, drawing criticism from citizen groups concerned with their impact on youth.
Is Cyberpunk 2077 a AAA game?
Cyberpunk 2077 or The Problem That Is the AAA Industry. So, at the time of writing this, Cyberpunk 2077 has been out for about a week, to much accolade, distraught, joy, hate, and pretty much every emotion that exists.
Is Destiny 2 a AAA game?
Destiny 2 is an AAA Activision-published game.
Why are AAA games so expensive?
Why are AAA games so expensive to develop? ... The raise in cost of production in AAA video games is mainly due to the disparity (distance) between the quality and the tools being used to produce that quality and due to the disparity in the revenues rate between roles and responsibilities.
Why do games cost $60?
That's the base level price. ... The $60 price is mostly due to consumer expectation, so if you're Nintendo or you're Sony or Microsoft or any of the other game publishers out there, if you released your game the base level price being $70, $80, more than that, it's a strong possibility people just won't buy it.
Can one person make a AAA game?
If you're trying to make a AAA console game, you'll likely be less successful. Publishers oftentimes do not work with just an individual; they want to work with a studio. ... All things considered, one person can indeed make a game of AAA caliber.
Are AAA games dying?
From my perspective the age of AAA games is not dying, but it is stagnating. While profits may be up, innovation is basically no where to be found in the AAA industry. I say that because most AAA developers simply re-release the same game with updated graphics to pad their pockets.
Why are AAA games so bad?
No matter how perfect publishers try to make games, they always seem to end up making big mistakes. ... High-quality graphics and top-notch voice acting might be there, but they don't matter anymore because AAA games are missing the creative heart that makes video games worth playing.
Why does EA hate single player?
Because EA only create multiplayer games. So they say that single player is old news, people don't like it, and try make it sound terrible, in the hopes that people will believe it and not want to be alone in the crowd and they follow the people who don't play single player.
What age is Roblox for?
Is Roblox safe for 9 year olds?
Is Roblox Content Suitable for All Ages? Available on smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, the Xbox One, and some VR headsets, Roblox has an ESRB rating of E10+ for Everyone 10 and up for Fantasy Violence, which means that typical gameplay should be suitable for most kids.
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Detroit’s MedCerts, an education provider of online career and certification training, has launched a Patient Care Technician program offering a self-paced online curriculum, on-the-job training, and certification exam preparation that meet the National Healthcareer Association’s standards.
The 27-week program includes 12 learning components that use 3-D virtual simulations and virtual interactions. The games provide final knowledge checks. Training also incorporates videos, and subjects include anatomy and physiology, medical law and ethics, medical communications, medical records, patient preparation, medical terminology, safety and compliance, and basic laboratory procedures and tests.
“The product team at MedCerts continuously pushes the standards for e-learning career certification programs, and the content developed as part of this program raises the bar,” says Jason Aubrey, CEO of MedCerts. “The 3-D elements, interactive learning, and gamification give students training that pushes beyond what they would get in most traditional classroom settings.”
Participants are provided with a team of student success specialists, advisers, and coordinators throughout the program, which also includes a 160-hour clinical externship to gain real-world experience. Upon completion, participants will meet the training requirements for the Certified Patient Care Technician exam sponsored by the National Healthcareer Association.
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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to recognize same-sex marriages on death and birth certificates by Aug. 24, according to the Texas Tribune.
Paxton, along with another state official, was ordered last week to appear at a contempt of court hearing over the state’s refusal to amend the death certificate of a Texas resident’s spouse. According to John Stone-Hoskins, the state would not change the document following the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage to note that his late husband had been married.
The state announced last week that they had amended the death certificate of Hoskin’s spouse to reflect the marriage after U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ordered Texas officials to do so. And in a Monday conference call, Paxton said that officials would change state policies regarding death and birth certificates by the end of this week, according to the Texas Tribune.
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How do you write a good creative brief?
How to Write a Creative Brief
- Decide on a name for the project.
- Write about the brand and summarize the project’s background.
- Highlight the project objective.
- Describe the target audience.
- Interpret the competitive landscape.
- Prepare the key message.
- Choose the key consumer benefit.
- Select an attitude.
Who prepares the creative brief?
A creative brief could be written by the creative director, designer, project manager, strategist, planner, producer or account executive. Whoever has the most client and project knowledge is the best person to write the brief.
What are the most important elements of a creative brief?
10 Key Elements of a Successful Creative Brief
- Describe your company.
- Summarize the project.
- Explain your objectives.
- Define your target audience.
- Outline the deliverables you need.
- Identify your competition.
- Include details on the tone, message, and style.
- Provide the timing.
What makes a great brief?
Keep it short and sweet – be as brief as you can be. With that in mind, a brief doesn’t have to include all of the available information. The document should be clear, easy to scan, and actionable – it should take no more than 5 minutes to understand the project and its objectives.
How do you pitch a creative idea?
How to Pitch Creative Ideas to your Clients
- Test out the engagement of your ideas.
- Work out what the client’s fears might be and how to manage them.
- Understand how they like to receive information.
- Create a middle option.
- Plan for the worst case scenario.
- Happy pitching!
How do you take client briefs?
How to write a client brief
- Add a description of the client. This client description section is important because it documents information about the client.
- Write a summary of the project.
- Discover target audience.
- Inquire about competitors.
- Make a budget.
- Define project specifics.
- Assess the problem.
- Create solutions.
How long is a creative brief?
A creative brief is a short 1-2 page document outlining the strategy for a creative project. Think of it as a map that guides its target audience – the creative team – on how to best reach the campaign’s stated goals. The creative brief is usually created by the account manager in close consultation with the client. | <urn:uuid:15231069-041f-4376-906b-b6e67a3b17b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hotels-in-budapest-hungary.com/how-do-you-write-a-good-creative-brief/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.832388 | 538 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Press Release/25 September 2019
The Department of Health (DOH) urges parents to ensure that their children receive the complete dose of all recommended vaccines in their first year of life.
Apart from the measles and poliomyelitis outbreaks that have been declared by the DOH, we must equally protect our infants and young children from other vaccine preventable diseases, namely, diphtheria, pertussis (or whooping cough), and tetanus through immunization.
Cases of diphtheria and other infectious diseases are being monitored by the Epidemiology Bureau regularly. From January 2019 – September 2019, there have been 167 cases and 40 deaths compared to 122 cases and 30 deaths cases in the same period in 2018. The reasons for the trend are being investigated.
Aside from heightened immunization, the anti-toxin for diphtheria is available in the country, through the assistance of the World Health Organization.
Antibiotics for diphtheria, namely penicillin, erythromycin, clarithromycin, and azithromycin, are locally and commercially available.
Now more than ever, the importance of protecting our infants and children from vaccine preventable diseases remains paramount. With our campaign, Back to bakUna, Una sa Lahat ang Bakuna, DOH calls on our local chief executives, local government health workers, other health professionals, and civil society groups to work together to reach every child and ensure that they receive the vaccines on time. | <urn:uuid:06827200-efef-4995-896c-c171e44cc0a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://doh.gov.ph/node/18020 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936171 | 309 | 2.671875 | 3 |
In this "frightening and fascinating masterpiece" (Walter Isaacson), David Quammen explores the true origins of HIV/AIDS.
The real story of AIDS—how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people—is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Excerpted and adapted from the book Spillover, with a new introduction by the author, Quammen's hair-raising investigation tracks the virus from chimp populations in the jungles of southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where, and under what circumstances such a consequential "spillover" can happen. An audacious search for answers amid more than a century of data, The Chimp and the River tells the haunting tale of one of the most devastating pandemics of our time.
About the Author
David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award in the art of the essay from PEN, and (three times) the National Magazine Award. Quammen is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Compelling…[an] utterly gripping story.
— Abigail Zuger - The New York Times
To call David Quammen one of our greatest science writers is to belittle him. He is one of our greatest writers, period.
— Hampton Sides, best-selling narrative historian and editor at large at Outside magazine
[An] intense study of the origins of AIDS. With Sherlockian verve… Quammen’s portrait of the real ‘Patient Zero’… is a masterful summing-up of the evidence.
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DEER LODGE — The first COVID-19 cases have been reported at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge.
COVID-19 testing conducted at MSP late last week identified eight cases of the virus in the facility’s inmate population. According to a news release, staff cases totaled 23 as of Thursday.
“We hoped we would be fortunate enough to avoid any inmate cases by implementing stringent precautions to protect against COVID-19 at all our secure facilities in the early stages of this pandemic,” DOC Director Reginald D. Michael said Thursday.
“However, we also prepared for this possibility. We have educated our workforce and inmate population to make sound choices related to the virus to help prevent spread within the facility, and we have knowledgeable health care staff to provide the best medical services possible to the people in our care.”
Prison officials that the department’s Clinical Services staff is ensuring proper quarantine and isolation of infected inmates, and conducting contact tracing within the facility. The department’s health care staff also has been talking with inmates to answer questions, monitor offender health status, and provide medical care.
Safety measures implemented at DOC secure facilities early in the pandemic, and which remain in effect, include:
- Education of staff and inmates about how to recognize the symptoms of COVID-19, and how to prevent the spread of the virus though good personal hygiene, social distancing, use of personal protective equipment.
- Increased cleaning and disinfection efforts.
- Provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) for inmates and staff members to wear — mask use is mandatory for DOC employees inside secure facilities. The DOC’s Montana Correctional Enterprises produces an assortment of PPE including cloth face masks, medical masks, face shields, N95 masks, shoe covers and more.
- Daily screening and temperature checks of staff members as they arrive at work.
- Suspended in-person visitation.
- Sentinel testing for COVID-19.
New arrivals at the Montana State Prison are quarantined for 14 days and offered COVID-19 testing at intake. Prison officials note that testing is conducted on a weekly basis, and will continue for the foreseeable future, to identify cases and help direct resources most effectively.
“We know this is a difficult time for inmates in our facilities, along with their family and friends,” Connie Winner, administrator of the DOC’s Clinical Services Division, said. “We want to assure everyone that the medical needs of our offender population will be met with professionalism and compassion.”
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Outbreaks contribute heavily to local case totals
Published 9:43 pm Friday, May 1, 2020
More than 65 percent of COVID-19 cases in the Western Tidewater Health District are associated with six outbreaks — five at long-term care facilities and one at a correctional facility.
The Virginia Department of Health began reporting more detailed statistics in its Friday update, which lists a total of 422 cases in the Western Tidewater Health District.
One of the new statistics being reported is the number of cases associated with outbreaks. In Western Tidewater, there are 275 cases associated with outbreaks, the website states.
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The Virginia Department of Corrections has confirmed one of the outbreaks is at the Deerfield Correctional Center in Southampton County. There are 77 cases associated with that outbreak.
That means there is an average of nearly 40 cases at each of the five affected long-term care facilities.
State health officials have repeatedly refused to release the names of long-term care facilities experiencing outbreaks, though they say they have encouraged the facilities themselves to release that information.
“This is not a decision that was made by the health department,” Dr. Norman Oliver, the state health commissioner, stated in the May 1 briefing by the office of Gov. Ralph Northam. “It is actually something that’s incorporated into the Virginia code. … Unless the code changes, I don’t see how we could do that.”
Also in Western Tidewater, there are 19 cases in health care workers, the website states.
In the local health district, 179 cases are among African Americans, with 125 cases in whites and 14 cases among other races. The race is not reported in 104 cases.
There are 27 African-Americans hospitalized, with 17 whites hospitalized and two others. The race is not reported in one case.
All of the hospitalizations are in people age 30 or over, with 80 percent in those 60 or over.
Among the 17 deaths in the district, nine have been white; six, African-American; and one of another race. The race was not reported in one case.
More than half of the deaths have been in people over the age of 80, and all of them have been in people over 60.
The 422 cases in the district include 175 in Suffolk, 125 in Southampton County, 99 in Isle of Wight County and 23 in Franklin. There are 47 people hospitalized in the district.
Health officials also announced at the May 1 briefing they have changed their methodology for reporting how many tests have been conducted. Previously, the number of tests counted the number of people tested; now, it reflects the number of tests conducted, counting multiple tests on the same patient individually. The change led to a large spike in the numbers of tests reported.
Dr. Laurie Forlano, state epidemiologist, said Virginia’s case counts are continuing to rise in part because of increased testing. A larger number of daily tests, so that positive cases can be isolated and their contacts traced, is considered essential to allow businesses to reopen.
Northam stated during the May 1 briefing that the state’s measures are working.
“These actions have flattened the curve,” he said. “Our case counts continue to climb, but so does our testing. We have slowed the spread, but we are not out of the woods yet. We must continue to move forward carefully.” | <urn:uuid:602e8d05-a13b-4069-8c21-ee0fc3e63a73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2020/05/01/outbreaks-contribute-heavily-to-local-case-totals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968746 | 705 | 1.84375 | 2 |
On July 2, 2021, the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (“DOE/FE”) issued a Notice of Intent (“Notice”) to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (“SEIS”) for the Alaska LNG Project (“Project”). DOE/FE will evaluate potential environmental impacts of upstream natural gas production on the North Slope of Alaska, and will conduct a life cycle analysis to calculate greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions for liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) exported from the Project.
The $38.7 billion Project includes a proposed gas treatment plant on the North Slope of Alaska, 800-mile pipeline, and a liquefaction facility with a planned liquefaction capacity of 20 million metric tons per year. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) has issued an order approving the construction and operation of the Project. On August 20, 2020, DOE/FE authorized Alaska LNG Project LLC’s (“Alaska LNG”) request to export LNG to any country with which the United States has not entered into a free trade agreement (“FTA”) requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas (“Non-FTA countries”) in a volume equal to the Project’s planned liquefaction capacity (equivalent to roughly 929 Bcf per year or 2.55 Bcf per day).
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On February 19, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) upheld a decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) cutting transmission incentives previously granted to three electric transmission companies.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 amended the Federal Power Act to require FERC to promulgate a rule creating incentive-based rate treatment for electric transmission. The rule was intended to “promote reliable and economically efficient transmission and generation of electricity by promoting capital investment in the enlargement, improvement, maintenance, and operation of all [transmission] facilities, . . . provide a return on equity that attracts new investment in transmission facilities, . . . [and] encourage deployment of transmission technologies and other measures to increase the capacity and efficiency of existing transmission facilities and improve the operation of the facilities . . . .” FERC promulgated such a rule, which is codified in the Commission’s regulations. One incentive available to a stand-alone transmission company (a “Transco”) is “[a] return on equity [“ROE”] that both encourages Transco formation and is sufficient to attract investment.”
Because FERC has traditionally viewed independence as a hallmark of a Transco, it considers the ownership and business structure of the Transco to ensure that the Transco operates independently of other market participants when deciding whether to grant such incentives. FERC has declined to establish a particular methodology for reflecting the degree of a Transco’s independence or specific incentive levels. However, the Commission has made clear that it “will consider the level of independence of a Transco as part of our analysis when we determine the proper ROE for the Transco, and evaluate the specific attributes of a particular proposal, including the level of independence, to determine appropriate incentives.”Continue reading “D.C. Circuit Upholds Cutting of Transmission Incentives by FERC”
On September 3, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”) issued an Order on Remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, providing a more robust explanation regarding how the NEXUS Gas Transmission, LLC (“NEXUS”) pipeline project, which relied in part on precedent agreements that would export natural gas to Canada, merits authorization under section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (“NGA”), thus giving NEXUS eminent domain authority.
On August 25, 2017, the Commission had issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7(c) to NEXUS. The Certificate Order approved the Project, which allowed for the use of eminent domain to build an approximately 250-mile-long pipeline in Ohio and Michigan. NEXUS had executed eight precedent agreements, accounting for 59 percent of the capacity of the Project, and the Commission found that these agreements demonstrated a need for the Project. Two of the eight precedent agreements were with Canadian companies.
Protesters argued that NEXUS should not be permitted to use eminent domain because some of the project’s capacity would be used to export gas and exports are subject to NGA section 3 authorization, rather than section 7, which does not allow for eminent domain. The Commission affirmed its underlying decision on rehearing and stated that Commission policy did not require FERC to look beyond precedent or service agreements to make judgments about the needs of individual shippers.
Protesters appealed to the D.C. Circuit. In September 2019, the D.C. Circuit, in City of Oberlin v. FERC, 937 F.3d 599, remanded the case to FERC and directed the Commission to supply an explanation for why it allowed the crediting of export precedent agreements with foreign shippers when analyzing market need for a domestic pipeline project. The D.C. Circuit also asked FERC for more robust explanation for why eminent domain was needed or appropriate.
On June 30, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) struck down the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC” or “Commission”) practice of issuing tolling orders that extend the time FERC may take to consider applications for rehearing of its orders under the Natural Gas Act (“NGA”). In a recent decision on en banc rehearing in Allegheny Defense Project v. FERC,1 the D.C. Circuit ultimately denied landowners’ and environmental groups’ challenges to FERC’s approval of the Atlantic Sunrise interstate natural gas pipeline on the merits. However, the court’s rejection of FERC’s tolling order practice—which breaks with longstanding precedent and creates a circuit split—significantly affects proceedings under the NGA and likely implicates FERC’s rehearing procedures under the Federal Power Act (“FPA”).
The NGA requires natural gas companies to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity from FERC in order to construct and operate an interstate natural gas pipeline.2 Once such a certificate is issued, the NGA confers upon certificate holders eminent domain authority to obtain necessary rights-of-way.3
The NGA further provides that before a party can seek judicial review of a FERC order, it must apply for rehearing of the order.4 Upon receiving such an application, the NGA provides FERC the “power to grant or deny rehearing or to abrogate or modify its order without further hearing.”5 If FERC does not act on the application for rehearing within 30 days, the application “may be deemed to have been denied.”6 Given the complexities inherent in its proceedings, FERC’s practice has often been to issue tolling orders intended to “act upon” the rehearing requests within the 30-day timeframe (i.e., to avoid the requests from being deemed denied), without making a substantive merits decision on such requests. Petitioners in Allegheny Defense Project argued that FERC’s tolling order process unfairly stalls judicial review of FERC’s pipeline approvals, while pipelines are permitted by FERC and district courts to proceed with construction and exercise eminent domain authority, respectively, in the interim.
Stakeholders in the U.S. infrastructure industry should note that ongoing litigation and new court decisions issued in the first half of 2020 are reshaping the development of energy projects.
Energy developers should carefully review the impact of new rulings that have interpreted environmental analyses required for Clean Water Act (“CWA”) permitting as greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”) on the complex regulation of infrastructure projects. At the same time, several other recent proceedings have raised questions about practices and procedures of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) regarding natural gas infrastructure.
Status of Nationwide Permit 12. In Northern Plans Resource Council v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Montana District Court vacated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Nationwide (“Corps”) Permit 12 disrupting permitting and enforcement under the CWA. The court later clarified that the ruling applies to new projects and not existing pipeline projects and the Ninth Circuit recently denied a request to stay the implementation of the order pending appeal.
Navigable Waters Protection Rule. Significant litigation is expected to challenge a new restrictive rule of what constitutes “waters of the United States” under the CWA. Infrastructure projects will also be impacted by the Supreme Court’s recent decision in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.
National Environmental Policy Act GHG Review. The District of Montana ruled in Wildearth Guardians et al. v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, that the Bureau of Land Management must consider cumulative GHG impacts of oil and gas lease sales. Litigation is expected to challenge whether the Corps has adequately considered GHG for Section 404 permits.
Climate Change Litigation. Many state and local governments continue to file common law lawsuits against oil and gas companies seeking damages for climate change mitigation measures. The 9th and 4th Circuits have rejected arguments that federal law applies to these disputes and similar cases are pending in the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Circuits. Also, in v. Exxon, the District of Massachusetts ruled that a suit alleging Exxon violated state fraud statutes should be litigated in state court.
Precedent Agreements as Evidence of Market Need. In a 2019 case, City of Oberlin v. FERC, the D.C. Circuit held that FERC failed to adequately explain why it is lawful to consider a proposed pipeline’s precedent agreements with foreign shippers serving foreign customers as evidence of market need for the pipeline. FERC recently addressed City of Oberlin and explained why precedent agreements between a proposed pipeline and LNG terminal were lawfully credited as evidence of market need for the pipeline.
FERC’s Tolling Order Practice. In Allegheny Defense Project v. FERC, the D.C. Circuit granted en banc rehearing over whether FERC violated the Natural Gas Act (“NGA”) and landowners’ due process by issuing tolling orders to extend the time to consider rehearing requests of FERC’s pipeline approval, while allowing a pipeline to begin construction and exercise eminent domain. On June 9, FERC issued a final rule to preclude natural gas projects under sections 3 and 7 of the NGA from proceeding with construction until FERC issues a decision on the merits of any request for rehearing.
Pipeline Right-of-Ways (“ROWs”) through the Appalachian Trail. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument over a 4th Circuit ruling that the U.S. Forest Service lacks authority to grant a pipeline ROW across the Appalachian Trail. On June 15, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Forest Service had authority to issue the pipeline ROW through the Appalachian Trail.
FERC Authority over Pipeline Transportation Service Agreements (“TSAs”) in Bankruptcy. Several pipelines recently have filed petitions for declaratory orders, requesting FERC to declare it has concurrent jurisdiction with bankruptcy courts over natural gas pipeline TSAs and that FERC approval is required to in order to modify or reject such contracts in bankruptcy. We are continuing to follow this area for developments.
We invite you to read, watch, and share the below resources from our recent webinar for further details. Contact any of us if you have questions about the impact of recent cases, decisions, and regulations on your energy project(s).
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On May 21, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued two orders addressing methodologies for analyzing the base return on equity (“ROE”) components of rates of FERC-regulated entities. In Opinion No. 569-A, FERC revised the methodology used under section 206 of the Federal Power Act (“FPA”) to evaluate the base ROEs of public utilities.1 In a separate Policy Statement, FERC clarified that the methodology established in Opinion No. 569-A applies, with certain exceptions, to natural gas and oil pipelines.2
To change a public utility’s rates, including ROE, in a complaint proceeding under section 206 of the FPA, FERC must (i) make a finding that an existing rate is unjust and unreasonable; and (ii) determine a just and reasonable rate.3
FERC’s recent order arose from two complaint proceedings challenging the base ROE of Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (“MISO”) transmission owners.4 In November 2019, FERC issued Opinion No. 569, establishing a revised methodology to determine whether the existing base ROE was unjust and unreasonable under the first prong of FPA section 206, and if so, to establish a new just and reasonable replacement ROE under the second prong.5
Among other things, Opinion No. 569 relied on the discounted cash flow model (“DCF”)6 and capital-asset pricing model (“CAPM”)7 in the first prong of its FPA section 206 analysis, and declined to use two other models—i.e., the Expected Earnings8 and Risk Premium9 models. FERC adopted the use of ranges of presumptively just and reasonable ROEs that would be based on the risk profile of a utility or group of utilities. FERC gave equal weight to the DCF and CAPM models to establish composite zones of reasonableness. Absent evidence to the contrary, an ROE within the zone of reasonableness would be presumptively just and reasonable while an ROE outside this range would be presumptively unjust and unreasonable. FERC also relied on the DCF and CAPM models (and declined to use the Expected Earnings and Risk Premium models) in the second prong of its section 206 analysis in order to establish a new just and reasonable ROE.10
Two recent cases have the potential to dramatically alter the state of permitting and enforcement under the federal Clean Water Act (“CWA”) with far reaching implications to energy infrastructure project proponents and the regulated community.
In the first case, Northern Plans Resource Council v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 4:19-cv-00044-BMM (D. Mont), the Montana District Court last month vacated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit 12 (“NWP 12”) for the Keystone XL Pipeline Project, concluding that the Corps failed to consult under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) Section 7 when it reissued NWP 12 in 2017. Although that case involved only the Keystone XL Pipeline Project, the Order enjoined the Corps from authorizing any work under NWP 12 until an ESA consultation is completed, effectively resulting in a nationwide injunction of work permitted under NWP 12. NWP 12 provides a streamlined CWA permitting process for thousands of linear “utility line activities” (i.e., pipelines and electrical or communication transmission lines) that would otherwise be forced to apply for numerous individual CWA permits to complete a single project. The nationwide vacatur of NWP 12 created significant uncertainty for project proponents who were left with three options: 1) apply for other potentially applicable nationwide permits, 2) apply for individual CWA Section 404 permits, or 3) redesign a project to avoid impacts to regulated waters.
Just last week, however, the court clarified and slightly narrowed the scope of the April Order. Specifically, the court clarified that NWP 12 cannot be used for new oil and gas pipelines, but the permit remains otherwise valid for 1) maintenance, inspection, and repair activities on existing pipelines, and 2) non-pipeline constructive activities (i.e., electric, Internet, and other cable lines; certain renewable energy projects). The court reasoned that large-scale oil and gas pipeline projects pose the greatest threat to ESA-listed species, and the public interest in ensuring that the Corps complies with ESA trumps the tax and energy benefits of the new pipelines. The court further reasoned that the potential disruption to pipeline projects is overblown in light of the continued availability of the more cumbersome individual Section 404 permit process.
The court’s clarification provides relief to proponents of linear projects that do not involve the construction of new oil and gas lines. The wind industry, for example, which is heavily reliant on the installation of utility transmission lines, is no longer impacted by the ruling. Thousands of other oil and natural gas pipeline projects, however, remain impacted by the decision.
The second case involves the Supreme Court decision of County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, No. 18–260, __ S. Ct. ____, 2020 WL 1941966 (Apr. 23, 2020), where the Supreme Court created a “functional equivalent test” to analyze when discharges to groundwater require a CWA permit. Only weeks after that decision, we are starting to see the “functional equivalent test” in practice. Last week, in a case where a party was attempting to settle Clean Water Act violations with the United States and the State of Indiana, an intervening party argued that the County of Maui decision renders the current settlement insufficient because the settlement did not include penalties for discharges to groundwater. See U.S. et al. v. U.S. Steel Corp., 2:18-cv-00127 (N.D. Ind., Dkt. No. 74).
The important takeaway here is that parties looking to settle Clean Water Act violations should expand their focus beyond just a “direct” discharge to surface water violation (i.e., from a pipe or trench, etc.), but also ensure that a settlement would include violations for “functionally equivalent” direct discharges (i.e., discharges that may have been to soil or groundwater that eventually travelled to surface water). In practice, this will ensure that settlements attempt to resolve as much liability as possible for a site on the front-end. If these “functional equivalent” discharges are not included, then a party could instead possibly face additional CWA liability—perhaps years later—if groundwater, arguably contaminated by a point source, migrates to a CWA navigable water.
As discussed, both Northern Plans Resource Council and County of Maui cases are going to have immediate impacts on the regulated community, but the full story is far from over. For Northern Plans Resource Council, an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is already underway. Last week, the government filed an emergency motion for stay pending appeal and requested an immediate administrative stay while the motion was being decided. The Ninth Circuit rejected the government’s request for an immediate administrative stay during the pendency of the motion, but granted an expedited briefing schedule requiring all briefs to be submitted by the end of this week. If granted, the district court’s partial injunction and vacatur of NWP 12 will be stayed while the Ninth Circuit resolves the appeal. On the current briefing schedule, we expect a decision from the Ninth Circuit on the emergency motion on or before May 29. And as we previously wrote about, we anticipate that the EPA may issue guidance to address the “functional equivalent discharge” test. Stay tuned for further developments.
The saga for regulating mercury and air toxics from coal- and oil-fired power plants continues with a final rule promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on April 16, 2020. EPA initially determined that it was “appropriate and necessary” under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act to regulate hazardous air pollutants (“HAPs”)—including mercury—for these types of power plants, commonly referred to as electric utility steam generating units (“EGUs”). In a change of policy, EPA has now decided that the “appropriate and necessary” determination to regulate HAPs for these power plants—after two decades of additional EPA rules, and corresponding litigation—is no longer correct.
A significant part of the backstory here is related to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2015 in Michigan v. EPA. Briefly, the Court held that the EPA needed to consider costs in evaluating whether it was “appropriate and necessary” to regulate HAP emissions from coal- and oil-fired EGUs, especially the costs associated with compliance. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, EPA, under the Obama Administration, conducted a study in 2016 to evaluate these costs and concluded that it was still “appropriate and necessary” to regulate HAPs emitted from these sources. The Trump Administration has now reversed course in issuing the April 16 final rule, effectively concluding that the EPA’s decision in 2016 was wrong. Continue reading “EPA Reverses Course with the Mercury and Air Toxics Regulations for Power Plants”
On April 2, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) announced several measures intended to provide relief to regulated entities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. A summary of FERC’s previous COVID-19-related relief and guidance can be found here.
In a Policy Statement, the Commission indicated it will prioritize and expeditiously act on requests for relief filed by regulated entities in connection with ensuring business continuity of their energy infrastructure. In a series of notices and orders, the Commission also extended or clarified the relief available to regulated entities that are unable to meet certain deadlines or regulatory requirements as a result of their COVID-19 response. This relief includes:
Extension to June 1, 2020 for the following deadlines:
Form Nos. 60 (Annual Report of Centralized Service Companies) and 61 (Narrative Description of Service Company Functions);
Form No. 552 (Annual Report of Natural Gas Transactions); and
Electric Quarterly Report Form 920.
Extensions to May 1, 2020 for the following deadlines for categories of filings that would otherwise be due on or before May 1, 2020:
interventions, protests, or comments to a complaint;
briefs on and opposing exceptions to an initial decision;
answers to complaints and orders to show cause; and
initial and reply briefs in paper hearings.
Waiver of FERC regulations governing the form of filings submitted to the Commission (e.g., provision of sworn declarations) through May 1, 2020.
Shortening of the answer period to three business days for motions for extensions of time due to COVID-19 emergency conditions. The Commission indicated it will also consider requests to shorten the comment period for motions seeking waiver of requirements in Commission orders, regulations, tariffs, rate schedules, and service agreements to as short as five days.
Temporary blanket waivers from document notarization and in-person meeting requirements established under open access transmission tariffs, or other tariffs, rate schedules, service agreements, or contracts subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction. These waivers are effective through September 1, 2020.
Extension of time for filing regional transmission organization (“RTO”)/independent system operator (“ISO”) Uplift Reports and Operator Initiated Commitment Reports required pursuant to Order No. 844 that were originally due between April and September 2020. These reports are now due to be posted on the RTOs/ISOs websites by October 20, 2020.
On March 19, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) announced several regulatory responses to the coronavirus pandemic and FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee held a press conference to discuss the agency’s initiatives. The Chairman emphasized the capabilities of the Commission and its staff to work in a timely manner throughout the pandemic response, while striving to provide necessary flexibility to regulated entities.
The Chairman named Caroline Wozniak, a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Energy Market Regulation, as the point of contact for all energy industry inquiries related to the impacts of COVID-19. Members of the regulated community may e-mail email@example.com with questions for Commission staff.
Chairman Chatterjee clarified that the Commission will provide regulated entities with flexibility when needed, but emphasized the Commission is fully functioning and will try not to delay decisions. Chairman Chatterjee also stated his goal is to issue certain rehearing orders involving pipeline certificate projects challenged by affected landowners within 30 days, consistent with guidance from the Chairman issued on January 31, 2020. | <urn:uuid:543cbdad-0a7e-4436-bef2-6f3829ff74a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://energytrendswatch.com/category/energy-infrastructurepipelines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933738 | 5,327 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Ex-C.I.A. Aides Say Iraq Leader Helped Agency in 90's Attacks
WASHINGTON, June 8 Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization intent on deposing Saddam Hussein that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990's to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities under the direction of the C.I.A., several former intelligence officials say.
Dr. Allawi's group, the Iraqi National Accord, used car bombs and other explosive devices smuggled into Baghdad from northern Iraq, the officials said. Evaluations of the effectiveness of the bombing campaign varied, although the former officials interviewed agreed that it never threatened Saddam Hussein's rule.
No public records of the bombing campaign exist, and the former officials said their recollections were in many cases sketchy, and in some cases contradictory. They could not even recall exactly when it occurred, though the interviews made it clear it was between 1992 and 1995.
The Iraqi government at the time claimed that the bombs, including one it said exploded in a movie theater, resulted in many civilian casualties. But whether the bombings actually killed any civilians could not be confirmed because, as a former C.I.A. official said, the United States had no significant intelligence sources in Iraq then.
One former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was based in the region, Robert Baer, recalled that a bombing during that period "blew up a school bus; schoolchildren were killed." Mr. Baer, a critic of the Iraq war, said he did not recall which resistance group might have set off that bomb.
Other former intelligence officials said Dr. Allawi's organization was the only resistance group involved in bombings and sabotage at that time.
But one former senior intelligence official recalled that "bombs were going off to no great effect."
"I don't recall very much killing of anyone," the official said.
When Dr. Allawi was picked as interim prime minister last week, he said his first priority would be to improve the security situation by stopping bombings and other insurgent attacks in Iraq an idea several former officials familiar with his past said they found "ironic."
"Send a thief to catch a thief," said Kenneth Pollack, who was an Iran-Iraq military analyst for the C.I.A. during the early 1990's and recalled the sabotage campaign.
Dr. Allawi declined to respond to repeated requests for comment, made Monday and Tuesday through his Washington representative, Patrick N. Theros. The former intelligence officials, while confirming C.I.A. involvement in the bombing campaign, would not say how, exactly, the agency had supported it.
An American intelligence officer who worked with Dr. Allawi in the early 1990's noted that "no one had any problem with sabotage in Baghdad back then," adding, "I don't think anyone could have known how things would turn out today."
Dr. Allawi was a favorite of the C.I.A. and other government agencies 10 years ago, largely because he served as a counterpoint to Ahmad Chalabi, a more prominent exile leader.
He "was highly regarded by those involved in Iraqi operations," Samuel R. Berger, who was national security adviser in the Clinton administration, said in an interview. "Unlike Chalabi, he was someone who was trusted by the regional governments. He was less flamboyant, less promotional."
The C.I.A. recruited Dr. Allawi in 1992, former intelligence officials said. At that time, the former senior intelligence official said, "what we were doing was dealing with anyone" in the Iraqi opposition "we could get our hands on." Mr. Chalabi began working with the agency in 1991, and the idea, the official added, was to "decrease the proportion of Chalabi's role in what we were doing by finding others to work with."
In 1991, Dr. Allawi was associated with a former Iraqi official, Salih Omar Ali al-Tikriti, whom the United States viewed as unsavory. He and Dr. Allawi founded the Iraqi National Accord in 1990. Both were former supporters of the Iraqi government.
Some intelligence officials have also suggested that Dr. Allawi, while he was still a member of the ruling Baath Party in the early 1970's, may have spied on Iraqi students studying in London. Mr. Tikriti was said to have supervised public hangings in Baghdad. The former officials said the C.I.A. would not work with Dr. Allawi until he severed his relationship with Mr. Tikriti, which he did in 1992.
Several intelligence officials said the agency's broad goal immediately after the Persian Gulf war in 1991 was to recruit opposition leaders who had senior contacts inside Iraq, something Dr. Allawi claimed. The Iraqi National Accord was made up of former senior Iraqi military and political leaders who had fled the country and were said to retain connections to colleagues inside the government.
"Iyad had contact with people the agency thought would be useful to us in the future," Mr. Pollack said. "He seemed to have ties to respected Sunni figures that no one else had." The Hussein government was dominated by Sunni Muslims.
The bombing and sabotage campaign, the former senior intelligence official said, "was a test more than anything else, to demonstrate capability."
Another former intelligence officer who was involved in Iraqi affairs recalled that the bombings "were an option we considered and used." Dr. Allawi's group was used, he added, "because Chalabi never had any sort of internal organization that could carry it out," adding, "We would never have asked him to carry out sabotage."
The varied assessments of the bombing campaign's effectiveness are understandable, the former senior intelligence official said, because "I would not attribute to the U.S. sufficient intelligence resources then so that we could perceive if an effective bombing campaign was under way."
Dr. Allawi is not believed to have ever spoken in public about the bombing campaign. But one Iraqi National Accord officer did. In 1996, Amneh al-Khadami, who described himself as the chief bomb maker for the Iraqi National Accord and as being based in Sulaimaniya, in northern Iraq, recorded a videotape in which he talked of the bombing campaign and complained that he was being shortchanged money and supplies. Two former intelligence officers confirmed the existence of the videotape.
Mr. Khadami said that "we blew up a car, and we were supposed to get $2,000" but got only $1,000, according to an account in the British newspaper The Independent in 1997. The newspaper had obtained a copy of the tape.
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“Why are so many items out of stock?” “Why do lead times keep getting pushed back?” These are the questions customers are asking more than ever these days. Around the planet, the pandemic has disrupted trade to an extraordinary degree, disrupting the shipping of goods and adding a fresh challenge to the global economic recovery. The virus has thrown off the choreography of moving cargo from one continent to another. At the center of the storm is the shipping container, the workhorse of globalization.
Americans stuck in their homes have set off a surge of orders from factories in China, much of it carried across the Pacific in containers, the metal boxes that move goods in towering stacks atop enormous vessels. As households in the United States have filled bedrooms with office furniture and basements with treadmills, the demand for shipping has outstripped the availability of containers in Asia, yielding shortages there just as the boxes pile up at American ports.
Shipping vessels bearing goods to unload are frequently stuck for days in floating traffic jams. The pandemic and its restrictions have limited the availability of dockworkers and truck drivers, causing delays in handling cargo from Southern California to Singapore. Every container that cannot be unloaded in one place is a container that cannot be loaded somewhere else.
Just when we thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse, the 1,300-foot Ever Given container ship got wedged in the Suez Canal blocking traffic in both directions for almost a week. Now the backup in the canal is expected to reverberate through supply chains for months. The traffic jam making headlines across the globe blocked hundreds of ships from the waterway, a critical lane in Asia-Europe shipping that accounts for some 13% of global maritime trade, and sent some vessels on a longer path around Africa to avoid the backup. Logistics operators are bracing for a cascade of sea containers that bring new congestion to supply chains as shipping networks work through backlogs from the Suez Canal blockage.
The Suez blockage raises important questions for manufacturers and other exporters who will have to pay closer attention to the availability of equipment and transportation when they seek overseas sales. Companies need to weigh such factors in the same way they consider production or raw materials constraints. When containers and ships aren’t in the right place, finished goods can stack up at factories designed to hold inventory for short periods while retailers risk missing out on key selling seasons. | <urn:uuid:0b891713-f58a-4342-aaf5-e273e96e68b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bronsondesign.com/blog/whats-the-holdup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942146 | 493 | 1.882813 | 2 |
From smartifying the idiot box to ensuring quality eye care, these 6 Indian startups are using IoT to improve lives
- A handheld, portable, retinal camera with an in-built telemedicine feature that aims to make ophthalmology more accessible, affordable and reliable.
- An Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) enabled dashcam that provides better data and actionable insights into driving behaviour for fleet owners and drivers.
- A product that could redefine how people interact with their televisions by merging the notion of Linear TV and On Demand TV into one seamless experience.
These are just some of the futuristic ideas that six Indian companies that made it to Cycle 2 of the Qualcomm Design in India - Challenge 2017 (QDI-C 2017) are working on. The second cycle of the challenge launched in August this year saw a flood of applications from Indian product design and development startups working in the areas of Smart Infrastructure, Biometric Devices, Payment Terminals, Agricultural Technology, Medical Technology and Rural IoT. Of these, six made the cut.
Here’s a quick look at the awesome work that these six shortlisted startups are doing, before you read about their work in detail (coming soon).
The startup is among the few Indian companies providing a single-roof solution for IoT products related to wearables, payments, and consumer electronics, and is also working in niche areas such as compliance and certifications in Near Field Communication (NFC). As part of QDIC II, the startup is working on developing a Smart L1 certified device for Aadhaar-based PoS, Aadhaar-based PoV, recording attendance, subsidy and scholarship grants, and public distribution systems.
Founded in 2014, Bengaluru-based Intuvision Labs has quickly established itself as a highly innovative company in the area of ophthalmology. Through their products and by partnering with a network of ophthalmologists, hospitals, clinics and NGOs, their goal is to ensure that quality and affordable eye care is available even at the grassroots level. So far, the startup has launched three flagship, affordable, high-quality and portable fundus cameras – IntuCam 45 for general ophthalmologists, IntuCam Prime for general physicians and diagnostic centres, and IntuCam FFA for teaching and super-specialty hospitals. The startup is now working on launching IntuCAM-Nano – a handheld retinal camera that is tele-medicine enabled.
Gaia Smart Cities Solutions
Gaia is an IoT and automation company providing end-to-end solutions to enable smart transformation of enterprises and cities. Their enterprise solutions bring together sensing, computing, machine learning and analytics technologies to enable businesses to monitor performance, improve operations, manage costs, strengthen loyalty, and increase velocity of business. Their suite of smart city solutions allows businesses and cities to automate and improve processes such as water metering, utilities metering, e-governance, and sentiment management. They are now working on a Smart Waste Management System to analyse the amount of garbage in or out of bins, detect foul odours, optimise the pick-up process, etc.
Launched in 2015, Lightmetrics Technologies uses computer vision and machine learning to collect and analyse data on driving quality using mobile devices, while also providing real-time alerts for drivers on parameters such as traffic signs, distance, lane departure, etc. Their flagship Android, iOS, and custom SDK called RideView offers real-time, on-device visual analytics. The startup also offers a cross-platform ADAS-enabled dashcam solution called RideCam, which pairs automatically with mobile devices in the vicinity, streams 720p video in real-time, and brings a host of other advantages for vehicle fleet owners, while making driving more safer.
Through its AI and ML-powered products, this startup is looking at redefining how people interact with television and improving their experience. Its home-grown product, the Sensy TV guide and remote, allows the mobile to command the TV and, in turn, the TV to command the mobile, truly pairing them together. Sensara is also the startup running Adbreaks.in – India's first real time, open, semantic search engine for TV ads. The team is now prototyping a product called Sensy Fusion. This product does everything that the EPG app and remote combination can do. Be it switching to your favourite channel, finding shows or setting reminders, all users need to do is just pick up the remote and talk into the mic. Sensy Fusion also recommends shows and channels based on your viewing habits.
Ayasta digitises the electrical grid within a facility and focuses on the maintenance of electrical grids using sensors, computer vision, and machine learning. Through its proprietary technology platform called CEGMA (Converged Electrical Grid Monitoring and Analysis), customers are alerted in time to avoid any potential failure of equipment. This helps a company reduce the system downtime, better manage its maintenance process, reduce maintenance cost and increase productivity. | <urn:uuid:ce840cd2-5e44-4ce0-8b2b-11012d18dd61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yourstory.com/2017/12/qualcomm-design-in-india-challenge-2-winners/amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922707 | 1,046 | 1.695313 | 2 |
As we tread water in the flood of information being written into the Network through real-time interfaces, we see the word ‘curation‘ on the lips the VCs and the entrepreneurial classes. The problem was succinctly stated by Clay Shirky as: not one of information overload, but rather of filter failure. The filter of the moment is some form of curation. The firehose of information will be reduced to a rational and manageable collection through a semantic algorithm or a collaborative group filter. The search for the perfect curatorial tool is on– we want the thing that turns our infinite reading list into a prioritized, relevant, manageable collection of consumables.
Collections can take a number of forms. For instance, varieties of butterflies can be put into a frame. Here we don’t look for a rational taxonomy, instead we desire beauty, rarity and narrative in each member of the collection.
The cabinet of curiosity was an encyclopedic collection of items on the boundary of scientific classification systems. The criteria for inclusion included the rarity, the utterly foreign, and especially the example that broke the rules of classification.
Joseph Cornell made an art form of creating collections that embodied contradiction and the irrational. Where scientists worked diligently in creating a rational taxonomy of the natural world, Cornell created an organized presentation of the unconscious.
That filtering tool that we’re searching for seems to produce a rational collection of items based on relevance and similarity. A firehose of items is categorized and prioritized, similar items are reduced to their exemplars, placed on a tray, and made ready for consumption as a collection of hors d’oeuvrers. The items in a cabinet of curiosity, as they are not easily categorized, would probably slip through the cracks of these collections.
The most common filtering tool is popularity. The best tools of this kind attempt to find popularity before it is too popular. Malcolm Gladwell exposed this pattern of meme acceleration through taste-making nodes of a social network. The tools currently available in online social networks, the retweet and the like are the most common accelerants. Discovery of early signs of velocity is the bread and butter of the news business. Once something is truly popular, we become like Yogi Berra, and quip that “nobody goes there anymore, because it’s too crowded.” In the financial world, this might be called selling on valuation. A stock that reaches its potential and now lacks upside, is sold in favor of a new stock showing signs of velocity to the upside.
Sometimes what you want to locate isn’t what’s the most popular, but rather the edge of the debate. The point where the categories break down and the subject of the discussion hasn’t been decided one way or the other. The purpose here isn’t to read what other people disagree about, it’s to be given an interface into the fray itself. Here we aren’t looking for content about some topic, instead we’re looking for a bi-directional connection to the organic thing itself.
The topology of the Network can be expressed in a variety of lexicons. Popularity follows a focused reading model. But as we begin to think of a real-time, read/write, two-way interface on to the Network, we look for a map of argument, the swarm of attention around an undecided direction, the political discourse of everyday life. | <urn:uuid:5511ba0f-caae-4dbe-942d-a323e47548e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.echovar.com/archives/1955 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936187 | 709 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Yale law professor Daniel Markovits says the system that values hard work and promotes the American dream is in itself a sham. He is taking aim at the very structure that made him a success in his latest book, “The Meritocracy Trap.” He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.
The average ivy lead student receives a $100,000 subsidy (through tax advantages).
If you change the boards of a ship one plank at a time, and replace all boards, is it the same ship?
- Ship of Theseus, described by Plutarch
- meriological: identity is sum of its parts
- Spacial Temporal Continuity: the ship moves smoothly through time. There is no point in time when you can say you have a new ship
- but what if you steal the ship piecemeal?
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We have just reached the season of lent which may not be a calendar season but for all Christians has exceptional resonance as the build up to the most important date in the Christian calendar.
The marketing man has woken up to yet another money making way of draining me out of my hard earned cash. Shrove Tuesday has always existed, the night before 40 days of abstinence. History tells us; everyday folk like you and me would clear out the larder and use up all the fat, milk, eggs before the onset of the family abstinence which did not allow such extravagances during the period of lent; hence the birth of pancakes. It is a funny concept as in those days fat, milk and other perishables probably wouldn’t last that long out of the fridge anyway.
The name Shrove Tuesday is English, derived from the word shrive meaning confess. When this country was still religious; people would attend confession on the Tuesday in order to be cleansed of sin before the onset of their abstinence. Other cultures have taken the name fat Tuesday; Mardi Gras (French), Fettisdagen (Sweeden) and in Iceland they call it bursting day, Sprengidagur which conjours up all kinds of wonderful images of Icelanders rolling round the floor so full of pancakes they want to burst.
Whatever we choose to call it, popularity has grown with all the ingredients displayed together at the end of the aisle. We are tempted to pick ingredients cleverly displayed together off the shelf and decide which fillings we want, also arranged temptingly close. Maybe it is time to treat yourself to a new pan. In the back of your mind you can nearly justify it, you have thought about replacing the old one before; last time you passed this display. Go on when did you last treat yourself. Well done, but what about the old jug at home although perfect for measuring the water needed last week; it is a little tired and faded. A nice new shiny clean one can read the measurements exactly and cause your pancakes to be such a success. Fantastic, your pancakes will be the best this year.
I do have my own shriven to confess; I cheated and we bought readymade ones. Sacrilege! When you consider I also claim to write a food blog: https://tiggy-tea.blogspot.com/.
Shop bought did not detract from the taste, nor from the array of different toppings but it did leave my kitchen ceiling unmarked with greasy stains and the old rickety pancake pan with the lop sided handle still in one piece, maybe next year it will be necessity rather than temptation that makes me buy another. It also left a relative calm around the table because although there was still fighting over who put whose pancake in the microwave, the resulting mess was negligible. Previously when everyone has to make their own pancakes; I will leave you trying to imagine the state of my kitchen.
Lent itself is a time of fasting and abstinence; traditionally; going without the luxuries of fat, eggs, milk and abstaining from meat for 40 days. Modern times bring modern adaptations; people casually give up chocolate, alcohol and smoking which is challenging and stressful. I wonder though if the hardship it brings is comparable to previous generations or is restraint cultural rather than an understanding of the symbolism.
I personally have given up giving up. There are many things I enjoy but nothing that would give me hardship or cause me to question my reasons by giving up for 40 days. I could give up wine, as I don’t really drink anything else. I realised that since my birthday in January I had only had one night of drinking when we were with friends celebrating the half term so I wouldn’t even notice I had given up. Chocolate seems to be a popular one and maybe I could consider this. I however don’t like chocolate, I buy it for the children and the husband but rarely eat it myself. I don’t smoke, and rarely eat bread unless I have made it myself.
For the fourth or even fifth year I have taken on something and this year I am going to try and do an act of random kindness each day. Added to my kindness I am going to only see the good in people. This may not be the most obvious sacrifice and there will be no one to share with but it will bring me a lot of hardship; trying to see any good in some selfish acts. The act of kindness may be more visible to the person on the receiving end, but it will be seeing the opportunity and taking the courage to step out of my comfort zone to help a stranger or animal or even a friend in some tiny way. Already I am struggling with these particularly as my neighbour continues to drill right next door to me while I try to work..
No 1 Son has again given up milk although I am not sure for the right reasons. He is going through a completely atheistic phase of non-belief at the moment, as he is the only teenager in the whole world whose mother makes him go to church. His mother although hasn’t given up on him, has stopped nagging him, he now has to make his own choices. It does make me smile that he is so keen to give up something for lent, the Christian season of waiting and preparing. Maybe an act of kindness towards his siblings once in a while would be appreciated but I am probably expecting too much and acts of kindness should be left to me. At least I can see the goodness in his heart at trying to give up something for lent which I believe he will succeed at.
I have been remiss again this week and not written much at all. The homework from the writing club was to take a break from the taboo relationship story then review it again with new fresh eyes. This is good advice and important but I do need to keep writing as well. I also need to chase up my other reviewers and amend memories accordingly before sending it out again. | <urn:uuid:59367753-4dec-42ae-8e45-883c13999068> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tiggyhayes.co.uk/shriven/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975463 | 1,233 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The first cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States were reported in June 1981. Since then, the global HIV/AIDS epidemic has continued to grow, and an estimated 36.7 million people were living with HIV infection in 2016. Despite decades of research and billions of dollars spent in funding research, neither a vaccine nor a cure exists.
Current strategies to combat the spread of HIV focus on prevention through behavioral and biomedical intervention. Those living with HIV/AIDS are treated by antiretroviral therapy (ART), a combination of medicines that inhibit the ability of the virus to replicate, reducing the amount of virus in the body and allowing the immune system to fight the infection. It is estimated that more than 20 million people living with HIV are treated with ART. The implementation of ART has led to a significant reduction in death rates and infections, but it requires daily use for an individual’s entire life. Other approaches to treating those living with HIV/AIDS include cell-based treatments based on the success of the “Berlin Patient”.
The Berlin Patient
Timothy Ray Brown, known as the “Berlin Patient” was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 and treated with ART for 10 years. He then developed acute myeloid leukemia, another deadly disease, at which point his doctors decided to use radiation therapy and chemotherapy to ablate his immune system followed by repopulation with a donor’s immune cells. His doctors chose stem cells from a donor who was immune to HIV infection, a trait that is present in only 1 percent of Caucasian people. These individuals have a mutation in the gene that encodes CCR5, a receptor on the surface of T cells that is used by HIV to enter the cells. The treatment was successful, and Timothy Ray Brown was the first person to be cured of AIDS.
Steps to a safer cure for HIV
The use of allogeneic stem cells, those derived from a donor, can result in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) where the donor immune cells recognize the recipient as foreign. This disease can result in the donor immune cells attacking the recipient’s organs, leading to potentially fatal complications. One third to one half of allogeneic transplant patients develop GVHD.
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center sought to test a safer method of cell-based HIV treatment using an individual’s own stem cells. The project, led by Hans-Peter Kiem, was recently described in PLOS Pathogens.
The researchers began by collecting hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) from non-human primates, pigtail macaques, and gene editing the HSPCs to delete CCR5 or leaving the HSPCs unedited. The macaques were separated into four experimental groups. The first group of healthy macaques underwent autologous transplantation with the gene-edited HSPCs and were subsequently infected with simian/human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV). A second group of macaques were infected with SHIV, treated with ART, and then transplanted with autologous CCR5-deleted HSPCs. A third group were infected with SHIV, treated with ART, but did not receive an HSPC transplant. The final group were infected with SHIV, treated with ART, and then were transplanted with autologous unedited HSPCs.
The researchers found that the transplanted CCR5-deleted HSPCs were able to traffic to and engraft in the lymph nodes, thymus, and tonsils, tissue sites of viral persistence. Additionally, T cells derived from the CCR5-deleted HSPCs were able to persist in vivo and appear to be resistant to infection. These findings provide evidence that autologous transplantation in infected and uninfected patients may be an effective cell-based therapy that can be combined with current treatments. | <urn:uuid:01405ab0-ec8d-4b40-a178-362797e90480> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.kerafast.com/2018/05/15/autologous-transplantation-gene-edited-stem-cells-treat-hiv/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970763 | 810 | 3.703125 | 4 |
The Westcott Area Cultural Coalition (WACC) was established in 2008 to continue the Westcott Street Cultural Fair and to develop and support other projects in the neighborhood.
The Westcott Street Cultural Fair is an annual event begun in 1992 to create a festival that would bring the neighborhood together to celebrate its resources and strengths. The Fair’s mission is to promote a strong sense of community among diverse groups and individuals who make up the Westcott neighborhood and to increase the awareness of the neighborhood and business district as a great place to live, work, shop and recreate. The WSCF is held on a Sunday in September.
The purpose of the WACC is to promote and develop arts and cultural activities in the Westcott Neighborhood. The Westcott neighborhood has a mix of students, families, employees, businesses, community groups and artists that create a great place to live and work.
The Westcott Area Cultural Coalition (WACC) showcases the neighborhood and its diversity, enhancing the desirability to live, work and socialize in the neighborhood. The organization sponsors special events featuring arts and cultural activities. The organization’s Board members are all members of the community and are all volunteers that plan and organize the events. | <urn:uuid:ea2a741a-4d42-4e20-b590-fa6d26324e2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thewacc.org/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968244 | 247 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Negotiation is a two way communication where in the dealing parties always have some issues on which the settlement is sought. All such issues provide the subject matter for the negotiation. It should also be noted that negotiation is possible only for those issues which are subject to settlement under various alternative sources. There cannot be any negotiation for an issue which has only one solution.
The two parties can be purchaser/buyer and marketer/seller. Both parties are interested in clinching the deal so that the transactions can take place. It is a win-win situation for both of them even after the negotiation.
The areas of negotiation can be Price, Quality, Quantity, discount, loyalty discount and after sale Service.
Price is the key as well as an important consideration in the negotiation. The buyer strives to prove that there exists a keen competition in the market and so the supplier should offer the most competitive price. The buyer also expresses his intention of buying over a period of time and therefore intends to buy from the same supplier.
The supplier would try to prove his hold in the market through quality and thus will try to strengthen his bargaining position. While negotiating on the price, each break up of the price should be negotiated separately. In case of conditional price (e.g. f. o. b price) the incidence of each condition on price should be measured accurately. Sometimes instead of price negotiations, cost negotiations are carried on. Under such negotiations, discussions on cost are made on each element of cost. The usual break up of the price along with the elements of the cost is as under:
Material cost + Labor Cost + Overheads = Cost of production
Cost of Production + Profit = Price
The arrival at each element of cost is a technical matter and is subject to substantial deliberations. Especially the overheads part of the cost is most debatable. However agreement is possible on all these issues.
Quality: The quality considerations are also subject to debate and deliberations. The quality will be largely affected by factors such as the dimensions of raw materials, material mix, quality control, processing method and even primary and secondary packing. All these issues should be deliberated and agreed upon respectively.
Quantity: The quantity considerations involve the negotiation on issues such as quantity discount, commitment of the supplier to meet the future requirements, the guarantee from the buyer to place orders in future etc.
Discount: As mentioned above is for quantity.
Loyalty Discount: This additional discount is passed on to the buyer at the end of the contracted period (loyalty discount) in cash or kind. Most suppliers prefer this discount. It is passed on in the form of free supplies.
After Sales Service: The service aspect of the negotiation involves considerations such as timely delivery, after-sales services, treatment of defectives and rejections etc.
As settlement between buyer and seller is a composite deal, the impact of all these factors should be weighed individually before finalizing the final deal.
There are some principles of successful negotiation. Negotiation requires a specialized skill. The essential element in negotiation is the bargaining between the individuals or groups of individuals, so the negotiation process involves personalities, their motives, their strengths and weaknesses and above all a great deal of psychology. The following rules should be observed in carrying a successful negotiation:
*The issues of the negotiations should be organized properly
*The buyer should carry on the negotiation on his home ground and as per mutually convenient arrangements. The buyer should be reasonable and his arguments should enable the supplier to accept majority of the points.
*The buyer should allow the supplier to do most of the talking
*Only one point must be taken up at a time.
*The talk should be directed towards the proper person.
*The discussion issues resulting in disagreements should be postponed for the next meeting (if possible).
*Both buyer and seller must have correct knowledge of facts and figures.
*One should try to avoid the emotional reactions to the presentations of the other, at the same time emotional touch to the presentation should also be eliminated.
*If any party has to retreat on a point, allow it to be done gracefully
*The objective of any negotiation is to come to a conclusion, so try to avoid any preliminary and impossible closures.
The buyer and group, the seller and group must not be adopting ‘Business at any cost’ policy. The organizations they represent must not be put to any loss because of the negotiations. | <urn:uuid:efaba57e-1e46-4aea-816c-9635496cd451> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.citeman.com/14837-negotiation-in-purchasing-and-marketing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957661 | 904 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Every number has a specific meaning as they served as the language of nature. For example, one is associated with the Sun; it means energy or beginnings. A science of number is called numerology and it is occult’s way of reflecting certain aptitude and characteristics as an integral part of the cosmic plan. Numbers are therefore a reflection of one’s abilities, motives, character and purpose in life.
Triskaidekaphobia: the fear of number 13
Superstitious folks are afflicted with triskaidekaphobia or the fear of number 13. They opt to stay home on Friday the 13th and this day as the most difficult time to manage inside the 362 days of the year. Thirteen is the twin of bad luck and considered unlucky. You should not have 13 guests in your dinner party, many buildings do not have a 13th floor and many people never plan a wedding or transact business on a day marked by this fearful number.
Why13 is unlucky
- Thirteen is considered an irregular number.
Some say the root of 13 being considered unlucky is found in the Norse legend that there were 12 gods sitting down to a banquet when the 13th uninvited god, Loki, showed up. After Loki killed one of the other gods that eventually resulted in Ragnarok or Doom of the Gods. A bunch of gods were killed, a slew of natural disasters engulfed the earth and the eradication of all living things except for two human survivors.
- A biblical reference of 13 people in the Last Supper.
Judas Iscariot was the 13th guest to sit down at the last supper. After a while, he left the company and betrayed Jesus Christ to the enemies who paid him 40 pieces of silver.
- The 13th statue of Alexander the Great.
Since he considered himself as a God, Alexander ordered a 13th statue made of his image on his capital. He eventually died and people believed that he angered the gods since there are only 12 gods for each month. For the people, this desecration was the cause of his death. After his death, 13 were considered as unlucky.
- The gallows had 13 steps.
Traditionally, way back when executions were public and the last one was in 1936. People would crowd around the gallows to watch. Bootlegger and murderer, Charlie Birger was hanging on the gallows as he climbed the 13 steps to his death. Thirteen steps led to the gallows at it was a good average drop distance and the height resulted to a cleanly broken neck, as well as facilitates body removal for it was suspended close to the ground. Legend tells that traditionally, the noose of a hangman had 13 turns.
- Apollo 13 was the only mission that failed.
Considered as the seventh trip to the moon, Apollo 13 was the only mission considered unsuccessful. After two days, an oxygen tank exploded that they decided to abort the lunar landing. Although the Service Module was maimed, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17.
- Analysis of traffic flow.
In 1993, a research made by the British Medical Journal showed an analysis of the flow of traffic that was causing injuries from road accidents. It covered the traffic of five months from 1990-1995 falling on the 13th of a Friday at a section south of London’s motorway M25. Although, there were less vehicles on the road during the 13th, transport accident increased by as much as 52% compared with other days.
- Thirteen numbers in your name is bad luck.
You are in for a ride with devil’s luck if there are 13 letters to your name. Consider the names of Albert De Salvo, Charles Manson, Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer and Theodore Bundy. They all contain 13 letters.
There are also people and culture that look at 13 as a lucky number. But whether it is one or the other, numbers play an important role in people’s lives. | <urn:uuid:fd1b0ed2-55b4-45f2-816d-fd5616c1401f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knowswhy.com/why-is-number-13-unlucky/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976504 | 827 | 2.5 | 2 |
Christopher Wirtzung was a prominent German physician of the late 16th century. Wirtzung’s medical guide, The General Practice of Physicke, was written in 1598. It was translated into English in 1619 and subsequently became popular in Britain.
Much of Wirtzung’s medical advice is standard for its time. For example, Wirtzung attributes earache and deafness to “worms, fleas and little creeping things” that hatch and grow in the ears. To conceive a male child, Wirtzung suggests sprinkling one’s meat with a powder, made by drying and grinding:
“…the stone [testicle] of a bore hog being two years old, and the pizzle [penis] of a shag, shaven… two pairs of fox stones and 50 or threescore sparrow brains… the pizzle of a bull and… cloves, saffron, nutmeg and rosemary.”
For women struggling with unwanted hair on the face or body, Wurtzel suggests the following homemade depilatory:
“Take a pint of wine, drown 20 green frogs therein, or as many as can be drowned therein, then set the pot 40 days in the warm sun… Afterwards, strain it hard through a cloth, anoint the place therewith where you take away the hair…” | <urn:uuid:9b6d63b6-48cf-41bf-8c72-c7c125d5840f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1598-get-rid-of-unwanted-hair-with-drowned-frogs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.911116 | 350 | 2.84375 | 3 |
By JOE SCHIAFFINO
Special to Forgotten New York
The Harriet Onderdonk Building at South Street and Peck Slip, later known as Meyer’s Hotel, was built in 1873 at a cost of $30,000. It was designed by architect John B. Snook, who among his many notable projects designed the original Grand Central Depot on 42nd Street in 1871 (the one the present Grand Central Terminal replaced in 1913), as well as many buildings in the Soho Cast-Iron District. Originally, the first floor housed stores while the second, third, fourth and fifth floors were loft space. Up until its present use as apartments, hoistways had been present which could have been used to lift inventory up to the lofts.
Henry L. Meyer, a liquor merchant, purchased the building and stores from Harriet Onderdonk in 1883 and immediately converted the corner store into a bar to add to the two he already owned on Front Street and Pearl Street. The spectacular original polished wood bar with its sparkling mirrors survived Hurricane Sandy and you can still enjoy a drink there today. It wasn’t until 1903 when Meyer converted the upper floors to include offices on the second floor, and forty-one hotel rooms, nine on the third floor and sixteen each on the fourth and fifth floors, that the building became known as Meyer’s Hotel.
At some point his bar expanded and became known as Meyer’s Restaurant. Famous guests reputed to have stayed at Meyer’s Hotel include Thomas Edison, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill Cody, and outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Teddy Roosevelt was known to drop in at the bar on occasion for a pint while serving as the head of the New York City Police Department, supposedly looking for officers who indulged themselves while on duty.
In 1951, the building/hotel was purchased by Silvio (Steve) Schiaffino and his South Front Realty Corp. from the estate of Henriette Meyers. He made extensive renovations to the hotel, including the addition of bathrooms on the first, third, fourth and fifth floors, installation of a sprinkler system, and repair of the fire escapes. In 1952 he purchased Meyer’s Restaurant and after renovating the kitchen and dining area renamed it the Paris Bar and Restaurant, after his original Paris which opened in 1934 at 164 South Street, but was taken by the City of New York under eminent domain around 1950. Today, its name is carried on by the Paris Café, and remains one of NYC’s oldest restaurants.
The diagonal corner entrance we see today with its signature beveled, etched and frosted glass paneled doors was not original to the building, and was likely added either in 1883 when Meyer opened his bar, or in 1903 when the conversion to a hotel took place. Also, the canopy that shelters the corner entrance was added some years after the original construction. The current owner purchased the building in the early 1980’s from Mr. Schiaffino and converted the top four floors into twenty-eight apartments with seven per floor. Occupancy began in 1985. | <urn:uuid:18e2cb2e-7fa5-4375-8a20-c6a8528534c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forgotten-ny.com/2014/07/meyers-hotel-south-street-seaport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979257 | 652 | 2.390625 | 2 |
While most of the attention on processors goes to desktop and server CPUs, a huge portion of the market is geared around embedded systems. That is exclusively true for devices like phones and media players, where companies like Intel and AMD are also competing with other less known companies like ARM.
Recently, ARM has introduced their plans for new processors in their Cortex line, which was initially brought to the market in 2005. The ARM is an immensely popular processor among embedded manufacturers, and odds are if you have a PDA there's an ARM CPU powering it. Last month, Intel made suggestions that they were going to aggressively move into this territory. Currently, ARM has a huge advantage over Intel with power consumption - and likely their newer CPUs over the next few years will seek to retain that advantage.
Intel is already trying to thief away some of ARM's customers, such as Apple, who rely on ARM cpus for the iPhone. That could change, with rumors of Apple considering Intel's newer mobile units for use in iPhones at the end of this decade. | <urn:uuid:d20ce4cb-3be6-4dcb-af3c-2c4b5058129a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techspot.com/news/27313-arm-introduces-new-cortex-cpus-to-challenge-intel.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980451 | 209 | 2 | 2 |
See most unsuspecting people never read any other the laws that we think we are following. We have never been told otherwise so we presume ourselves to be law abiding so long as the boogiemen doesn’t come harrass or arrest us.
However, like with most things I’ve researched, the truth is were we are most likely to NOT look. It’s right in the definitions of the “laws” we simply haven’t read.
Paying property tax is one of those things which most people have accepted as if it was a way of life. However, most people are unaware as to why they pay property tax in the first place. If you knew why you pay this tax, you could then choose whether or not to pay it, because like all taxes in this country, the property tax is not a mandatory tax. If you knew the truth, would you continue to pay? That’s for each of us to decide after knowing the facts!
Some of us will assume that property tax goes to support education, and if we don´t pay the property tax then you don´t care anything about educating our children. This is the cry of all good socialists, the enemies of America and the principles of limited government and natural rights.
Money is the fuel for tyrannical bureaucracies. When a system (like education) is failing to properly educate our children, but rather is making them into mindless, unthinking, docile, obedient servants of government, effective slaves for the work force, then by fueling the system you are simply guaranteeing that it will continue to do what it is doing. If the results of the current system are undesirable, then stop giving it fuel and it will cease to operate.
Lawfully Stopping AdValorem Tax is Easy.
America was established so that the People need not ever pay any tax, unless he wished to do so.
There are only two kinds of taxes – direct and indirect. Direct taxes are prohibited by the Constitution – not once but twice. Direct taxes are taxes on that which you already own, and there may be no direct taxes under any circumstances short of a state of war, and then only if the taxes are equally apportioned among the Union states.
So what is the Ad Valorem “property tax”?
It is an indirect tax, levied because you have voluntarily used government services, and also because your property has been classified as a piece of commercialproperty.
There is no law requiring a real property owner to record his property with the County Recorder. Don´t believe me. Go ask a Realtor, the Recorder County or County Counsel. Therefore, when you do record your property, you are VOLUNTEERING to use government services which you are not required to use. Your property tax goes to pay for those services.
When you record your property, you enter into a Trustor/Trustee relationship, in which your real property has been transferred into a government trust, and you are given authorized permission to use their property.
Further, your property tax is based on a commercial classification which has been assigned to your real property. I guarantee you that your property has been classified as either agricultural, industrial, or residential. Each of these is commercial in nature (the legal definition of “resident” is a class of government official; residential is a house in which a government official lives).
Law Maxim: Entity can only control what it creates.
Here’s someofwhat I put together for the research I’ve done on the Ad Valorem Property Tax hoax in Washington state:
Ad Valorem Tax is found under Title 35A RCW OPTIONAL MUNICIPAL CODE; Chapter 35A.84 RCW TAXATION—PROPERTY; RCW 35A.84.010 Procedure and rules relating to ad valorem taxes which points to Title 84.
Title 84 [RCW 84.04.010] “Unless otherwise expressly provided or unless the context indicates otherwise, terms used in this title shall have the meaning given to them in this chapter.”
“The meaning of a “person” subject to this chapter is, “Person” shall be construed to include firm, company, association or corporation.[ RCW 84.04.075]
RCW 84.09.070 Authority of operating agencies to levy taxes. Nothing in this title may be deemed to grant to any operating agency organized under chapter 43.52 RCW, or a project of any such operating agency, the authority to levy any tax or assessment not otherwise authorized by law.
The Supreme Court has made it clear that, “It is axiomatic that the statutory definition of the term excludes unstated meanings of that term. Colautti v. Franklin, 439 U. S. 379, 392, and n. 10 (1979).
As judges it is our duty to construe legislation as it is written, not as it might be read by a layman, or as it might be understood by someone who has not even read it.” Meese v. Keene, 481 U.S. 465, 484-485 (1987). Further, “The term ‘includes’ and ‘including’ do not exclude things not enumerated which are in the same general class.” –27 CFR 72.11.
Therefore the man or woman assessing the AD VALOREM TAX LEVY is unauthorize, and with all of its consequences, becomes fully personally liable for the unconstitutional collection of taxes resulting in harm, infringement upon and deprivation of rights [18 U.S.C. § 242; Deprivation of rights under color of law].
“The County is liable for any employee violating the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment by trespassing.” [Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes, 526 US 687 (1999), 143 L.Ed. 2d 882 S.Ct. (1998)].
“Private property is owned and controlled by private individuals. There is no monetary or proprietary interest that a government at any level has in controlling property belonging to a private individual. The property owner decides with whom he/she wishes to negotiate, procure a contract, dispose of or improve property.” [Jones v. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968)].
Similar wording in tax statutues and codes exist in every state in the union. Just grab the most recent ad valorem property tax “statement” (notice they don’t call it a BILL?) and research the code numbers on it. Same federal case law and costitutions are applicable to stop the corruption.
The terms “natural person/individual” do not and cannot be lawfully construed in a manner that allows a statutory (codes and rules) definition’s interpretation to “include” We the People to the same legal classification as that of a “legal entity” when we are acting privately on our own behalf. We must actually be acting as an authorized officer, agent, employee, fiduciary, or trustee of one or more of the specific types of legal entities specifically listed in the same definition that we are inferentially being alleged/alleging to represent. It is imperative we realize that most public servant don’teven read these code much less apply of this kind of logical reasoning when it comes to the statutory interpretations and applications ofcodes. We the People are being unlawfully subjected to on a daily basisby our “servants” who sware to prevent this type of enfringment.
[read this article about how to comprehend the legalese terms “include and including” by Eddie Craig.]
I suggest it’s time to start having open dialog with these public servants of ours. Time to start asking some clarifying qustions about how to correctly list our noncommercial, nonresidential, property as PRIVATE, which is immune from levy OR remove it from the County tax roll completely. Not to mention refunds for any previously paid taxes and damages for violation of rights!
Since our property has been re-classified, without our permission, for the sole purpose of taxation. This is the firm basis for a lawsuit.
Let’s get these folks off our back for good. Below is a sample letter to send to the Tax assessor, tax collector and their boss at the Department of Revenue of the state. Although it is unlikely the heathens willbe brought to heel afterinitial contact it serves another purpose. One is to get signatures for liability to the lies and or incompetence they will respond with:
“Greetings John (tax assossor/taxcollector name),
I; a [wo]man; one name; believe there is an error with the tax assessment on my nonprofit, noncommercial private property. I am a nonresident, nonperson, not a taxpayer, nor exercising a taxable privilege. Therefore i am not liable for Ad Valorem property tax pursuant to ___[Washington]___ State constitution, County Situs and [STATE CODES; Title; Tax Chapter found on tax statement] (see attachment).
I wish to remove my noncommercial, nonprofit property from the __________ County Tax Roll.
Are you the man who can correct this problem?
I require your rely in 10 days to settle this matter.
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Rock ‘n’ roll is still a cornerstone of British culture – here’s why
You’ve just aced the last exam of the year, the gym hall doors burst open spontaneously and glorious sunshine covers you like something from a biblical passage. You pull out your imaginary electric guitar, majestically whip your hair round and do a power slide through the school flowerbeds.
Remember doing this? No? Only me then.
What’s up, rock?
There’s an ongoing debate about the current state of music in Britain, which has created a bit of a national panic; people seem to think rock and roll is ‘dead’. So let’s put our brain chords together and take a look at the rock genre, starting with a bit of historical context.
Rock ’n’ roll has its roots in the African American experience of the 1940s and ‘50s – in gospel, blues, jazz, boogie, swing, and even country music. The primary instruments were piano and saxophone, before the guitar became the iconic symbol of the genre with the arrival of the legendary Chuck Berry.
Chuck was quickly followed by revolutionaries such as Elvis and Hendrix, who went on to redefine both music and culture in America. Their music was reactionary – explosive! In a society ruled by the conservative white elite, people believed this new form of blues-based rock, which layered powerful backbeat drums over wandering guitar riffs, was the work of ‘the Devil’. It made people move differently; throwing their feet and hips around, sweating and shouting like ‘something possessed’.
US to UK
Across the pond, the music landscape in Britain changed radically. From the ‘60s onwards, we were graced with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, then Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Queen, The Smiths, and eventually Oasis in the ‘90s. Manchester and London were bouncing.
The music had a gritty emotional resonance that elevated people from humdrum life, glorifying the struggle against unemployment and rising inequality with reactionary lyrics and illuminating rhythms.
In an interview with TIME a few years ago, Noel Gallagher claimed that Oasis was the last true rock ’n’ roll band. They were ‘pre-YouTube’, he said. He meant that the actual experience is now lost, because everything is available at the touch of a screen. No need to make the effort to be somewhere anymore.
Is he right?
Well, the leading genre in Britain today is processed pop. Maybe that’s because there’s less need for profound lyrics and original musicians – people just want to hear catchy songs. One view is that music plays a supportive role to teenagers now, rather than a liberating one. Everyone has access to everything on their phones, so there’s less need to make the effort.
Some might say technology has made us passive. And music now is less about the art and more about the money-making. Take a look at how many recent pop songs have been written behind the scenes, not by the artists themselves, but by talented writer/ producers like Max Martin, Ester Dean, and Stargate Production.
“Is there hope?”, I hear you cry!
It all depends on if you’re an optimist or a pessimist. I’m strictly the former – there is certainly hope! London, Oxford, Manchester and Brighton are thriving with alternative, indie and classic rock music, proving that the genre is still a pillar of British culture. It might not be traditional rock and roll, but there’s variations of the rock genre that still have a beating heart and soul. Think The Courteeners and The Blossoms from Manchester; The Foals from Oxford; Wolf Alice, VANT, The Hunna, and The Amazons from London or nearby.
Get their music in your ears and then tell me there’s no original musicians and no thoughtful lyrics. Rock isn’t dead you might just have to look a little harder.
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Panelists answer questions from Glasgow Youth Councillors
Jo joined the panel at a British Youth Council Convention last week, to debate issues affecting the younger generation.
The BYC invited Youth Councillors from around the Glasgow area to attend the one-day Convention, giving young people the opportunity to get together to share ideas, learn how to run their organisations more effectively, and discuss strategies, with a panel of local politicians.
Jo joined Bob Doris MSP, Johann Lamont MSP and Councillor David Meikle on the debating panel, and answered questions ranging from “Are children growing up too quickly?” to “Should the voting age be lowered to sixteen?”.
Commenting, Jo said:
“I was delighted to take part in the Convention. It is always good to see young people get involved in politics, and the British Youth Council provides great opportunities for the younger generation not only to get together and discuss their opinions and ideas, but to be heard. I would love to see even more people take part in these sorts of events in the future and would encourage young people to visit the British Youth Council’s website for more information on how to get involved.” | <urn:uuid:46a3d2f8-09b6-41dd-a292-7d87d6c5d925> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edlibdems.org.uk/jo_debates_with_youth_councillors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955408 | 265 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Read this carefully! Wanted: Landscape Maintenance worker, Operate a lawn mower and power blower. Need a person who can work with out supervision. Experience required. Call 515-7743.
Read this carefully! Vet Assistant needed. Mayflower Animal Hospital needs an experienced individual to work 20 hours a week. Duties including bathing animals, grooming and feeding of animals. Apply in person at 316 Walnut Street.
Read this carefully! Wanted: Dependable person to handle over the counter sales in a busy garden center. Pay is $7.50 an hour. Neat appearance important along with the ability to work with people. Experience in working with plants a must. Call 515-2396 for an interview.
What was the same in all 3 ads? • Each advertisement wanted the person to be experienced. People who have experience have the edge in landing a job. But: • How do you get experience without first having a job? • How do you get a job without first having experience? Job Experience
Gaining Experience!! • Question: • How can you gain experience to get a job (or prepare for college)? • Answer: • Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)
What is SAE? • Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Programs consist of planned practical activities conducted outside of class time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills.
What is SAE • Project that deals with any division of agriculture. • Plants • Animals • Agriculture Business • Agriculture Based Science Experiments
How Does a SAE Help Me? • Develop skills that can be used in getting a job • Provides the opportunity to make money • Develops skills that can be used in starting you own business • Helps development managementskills
How Does a SAE Help Me...? • Learn record keeping skills • Improves analytical and decision making skills • Teaches responsibility • Provides the opportunity to explore possible careers
How Does a SAE Help Me...? • Develops knowledge and skills that could be helpful in college, as a hobby or for recreation. • Provides the opportunity to win awards: FFA proficiency awards are based on the SAE program. In addition to winning awards, money can be won at regional, state and national levels
How Does a SAE Help Me...? • FFA degrees are partially based on the SAE. You must have a SAE program to advance. • In order to be a state or national officer, you first must have an advanced FFA degree which is partially based on SAE. • Will affect your grade in Agriculture class.
Types of SAE • Entrepreneurship • Research • Experimental • Analytical (non-Experimental) • Placement • Exploratory • Improvement • Supplemental
Entrepreneurship • The student plans, implements, operates and assumes financial risks in a farming activity or agricultural business. In Entrepreneurship programs, the student owns the materials and other required inputs and keeps financial records to determine return to investments.
Entrepreneurship examples: • Growing an acre of corn • Operating a Christmas tree farm • Raising a litter of pigs • Running a pay-to-fish operation • Growing bedding plants in the school greenhouse • Owning and operating a lawn care service • A group of students growing a crop of poinsettias
Research... • There are two major types of Research Projects - Experimental and Analytical (Non-Experimental).
Experimental • An extensive activity where the student plans and conducts a major agricultural experiment using the scientific process. The purpose of the experiment is to provide students "hands-on" experience in: • 1. Verifying, learning or demonstrating scientific principles in agriculture. • 2. Discovering new knowledge. • 3. Using the scientific process.
Experimental Examples • Comparing the effect of various planting media on plant growth • Determining the impact of different levels of protein on fish growth • Comparing three rooting hormones on root development • Determining if phases of the moon have an effect on plant growth
Examples, continued • Analyzing the effectiveness of different display methods on plant sales in a garden center • Demonstrating the impact of different levels of soil acidity on plant growth • Determining the strength of welds using different welding methods
Analytical Research • Students choose an agricultural problem that is not amenable to experimentation and design a plan to investigate and analyze the problem. The students gather and evaluate data from a variety of sources and then produce some type of finished product.
AnalyticalExamples: • A marketing plan for an agricultural commodity • A series of newspaper articles about the environment • A land use plan for a farm • A landscape design for a community facility • An advertising campaign for an agribusiness
Placement • Placement programs involve the placement of students on farms and ranches, in agricultural businesses, in school laboratories or in community facilities to provide a "learning by doing" environment. This is done outside of normal classroom hours and may be paidor non-paid.
Placement Examples • Placement in a florist shop • Working after school at a farm supply store. • Working on Saturdays at a riding stable • Working in the school greenhouse after school and on weekends and holidays • Placement on a general livestock farm
Exploratory • Exploratory SAE activities are designed primarily to help students become literate in agriculture and/or become aware of possible careers in agriculture. Exploratory SAE activities are appropriate for beginning agricultural students but is not restricted to beginning students.
Exploratory Examples: • Observing and/or assisting a florist • Growing plants in a milk jug "greenhouse" • Assisting on a horse farm for a day • Interviewing an agricultural loan officer in a bank • Preparing a scrapbook on the work of a veterinarian • Attending an agricultural career day
Improvement • Improvement activities include a series of learning activities that improves the value or appearance of the place of employment, home, school or community; the efficiency of an enterprise or business, or the living conditions of the family. An improvement activity involves a series of steps and generally requires a number of days for completion.
Improvement Examples: • Landscaping the home • Building a fence • Remodeling and painting a room • Overhauling a piece of equipment • Building or reorganizing a farm shop • Renovating and restocking a pond • Computerizing the records of an agricultural business
Supplementary (Minor) • A supplementary activity is one where the student performs one specific agricultural skill outside of normal class time. This skill is not related to the major SAE but is normally taught in an agricultural program, involves experiential learning and does contribute to the development of agricultural skills and knowledge on the part of the student. The activity is accomplished in less than a day and does not require a series of steps.
Supplementary Examples: • Pruning a fruit tree • Changing oil in a sod cutter • Balling & burlaping a tree • Helping a neighbor castrate pigs • Cutting firewood with a chain saw • Staking tomatoes
Terms • Asset – something tangible of value that a person owns. • Current – Items quickly converted to cash or that will be sold within 12 months. Ex: cash, checking, savings, stocks, livestock. • Non-Current – Items that have a useful life of more than one year. Ex: land, machinery, breeding livestock, etc.
Terms • Liability – Debts. • Current – Debts that are due to be paid this year. Ex: fertilizer, feed bills, tractor and building payments, etc. • Non-Current – Debts not due this year. Ex: mortgages not including this years payment.
Terms • Net worth - • Total assets minus Total liabilities • Current Assets + Non Current Assets = Total Assets • Current Liabilities + Non Current Liabilities = Total Liabilities.
Terms • Inventory – an itemized list of things owned by a business with the beginning value and depreciated value. • Non depreciable – items that will be used or sold within a year. • Ex: feed, supplies, etc. • Depreciable – items that have a useful life of more than one year and lose value because of age, wear or becoming out of date because of technology advancements. Land is NOT depreciable property. • Ex: computers, tractors, cars, etc. | <urn:uuid:8aad8acd-e539-43ba-9467-e150395ffba3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fr.slideserve.com/daniel_millan/animal-science-i-public-speaking-powerpoint-ppt-presentation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.904544 | 1,722 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Salter brook trout tend to be heavy for their length. (Jeff Reardon photo.)
By Jeff Reardon
I recently returned from five days in eastern Maine with a group of volunteers from TU, Maine Audubon and the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition (SRBTC), along with staff from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW).
Washington and Hancock Counties are as far east as you can get in the United States. Visiting down there is like stepping back in time about 50 years, with an economy still dominated by commercial fishing (especially lobsters, clams and scallops), agriculture (“wild” blueberries) and forestry. It’s also full of fabulous habitat for brook trout, with a network of small streams and rivers running into tidal bays with tides of up to 20 feet. That makes for lots of salt marsh and estuary habitat — prime spots to look for sea-run or “salter” brook trout, an effort recently covered in a great article by Deirdre Fleming at the Portland Press Herald.
Armed with local knowledge from anglers at the Downeast Salmon Federation, who provided lodging and treated us to a lobster and clam feast on our first night, our group included as many as 16 volunteers and three MDIFW staff for some parts of the trip. Collectively, we surveyed (fished) 35 streams and caught wild brook trout in 28 of them.
Many of those trout came from tidal waters and are undoubtedly “salters” with an anadromous life history.
Onile Legasse has been active in the remote brook trout pond survey in Maine, and is now helping with the effort to survey coastal streams. (Photo by Jeff Reardon.)
On Thursday night I joined two volunteers from the SRBTC to dip sea-run smelts under a full moon from one of our survey streams. Working in the dark with head lamps, we found the smelts we wanted, and also saw fingerling brook trout feeding the gravel in a tidal section of stream. Juvenile brookies in the salt marsh? Who knew?
Volunteer Steve Hirshberg, Vice President of the George’s River Chapter of TU, caught three beautiful salters out of a tiny brook you could step across before it hit tidewater. One of the trout was just 11 inches long, but it had the belly and weight of a much larger trout — classic salter, straight from the marsh.
This fish and four others were sacrificed to be used for a University of Maine study hoping to find a way to analyze scale samples or fin clips to determine anadromous status without having to kill the fish. All the rest of the trout caught during the trip were released.
Volunteer Onile Legasse and I fished three spots on one of the prettiest Maine streams I’ve ever been on. We caught brook trout near the headwaters and about 5 miles downstream, where a homeowner came out to talk to us as we were fishing and reported that in the last two years he’s seen anglers take brook trout of 18 inches, 19 inches and 20 inches, all from the same pool. Sure enough, I hooked my best trout of the trip from under the same overhanging bank — but it was only about a foot long.
This stream looked like a Pennsylvania spring creek, and in addition to brook trout, we watched huge schools of sea-run alewives swimming to an upstream pond to spawn.
Information from the volunteer surveys is used by the MDIFW to prioritize their formal electrofishing surveys. On Friday, the MDIFW crew (above) was off to electrofish in several watersheds where volunteer anglers found brook trout last year. Our goal is to make sure they have plenty of work to do next year if they want to keep up with our volunteers!
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Almost 40% of people have experienced a panic attack at least once in their life. Panic attacks and panic disorder are separate definitions. Not every person experiencing a panic attack actually has a panic disorder.
panic disorder; It is the fear of having a panic attack and the repetition of this fear. A person who focuses too much on his body considers the slightest changes in his body as a heart attack. This wrong evaluation causes a very intense fear and anxiety in the person. As a result of this misjudgment, the person feels as if they are going to die because they have strong evidence that it happened. In the meantime, his heart beats, pain occurs in his body, chest tightness occurs, his hands are trembling, his head is dizzy, he sweats, etc. The person who realizes these symptoms believes more in the thought that he will die.
People with panic disorder tend to avoid places where they experience panic attacks. If he experiences his attacks in crowded environments, he does not enter crowded environments, may not take the elevator, escape from the subway, cannot travel by subway, cannot go out at night, cannot go to a different place without someone he trusts, he always carries pills with him, he wants to feel safe all the time.
These intense fears make a person’s life miserable and create a great obstacle in front of the person to live a quality life. He feels helpless and helpless because of this problem of both himself and his close circle.
The alarm systems in the body of people experiencing panic attacks work incorrectly. It misinterprets the slightest difference in size and sends a warning to the person. You are in danger, do something, you will die.. loses control and the person shows the same reactions as a person who is experiencing a trauma at that time. WAR or MANY.
In order to understand better that the alarm systems in the body of people with panic disorder are malfunctioning, I always tell the following story: imagine a person who puts a very sensitive alarm in his house. But since this alarm system is very sensitive, it can beep at the slightest movement and warns the host. The owner safely sets the alarm for the house and goes to bed. At a deep stage of sleep, the alarm begins to sound. At that time, the person thinks that a thief has entered the house and falls into a very intense fear. Shake hands with fear. Heart pounding, dizzy, sweating etc. He calls the cops immediately. He tells her that a thief broke into her house and they should help her. The cops come, but the thief did not break into the man’s house. There is no evidence around. They watch the camera recordings. It turns out that the alarm went off because what they saw was actually a cat coming to the door of the house. The actual situation was that the alarm was sensitive so it was actually a cat chirping, not the thief. The cat, on the other hand, does no harm….
Here is the problem you are experiencing is just like this. Since your alarm system is sensitive, when it encounters the slightest stress, it interprets it as a disaster and sends you an order. Fight or ESCAPE.. the activated brain tries to escape. In other words, he throws himself in the hospital, calls his relatives, screams, asks for help because he thinks he is having a heart attack.
The person applies to the hospital emergency department, but what his doctor says is that he has nothing. Indicates that there is no problem with his heart.
The people around the person blame and think that he is lying, that he is actually pretending or even that they want to draw attention to him, and they do not want to have panic disorder … they may act as if they do not exist. The person with panic disorder who experiences this thinks that he is not understood by the people around him, and may be isolated by his close circle at a time when he needs support.
Panic disorder is a psychological problem. Here are some of our recommendations to overcome this problem:
Use relaxation and relaxation exercises to control your attacks.
Pay attention to your sleep pattern, take care to get quality sleep.
Do not consume excessive caffeine, alcohol, substances because these substances harm the way a person copes with anxiety, taking away how one should manage one’s own anxiety. The use of these substances causes increased anxiety. By triggering your panic attacks, the probability of experiencing an attack increases.
Take deep and calm breaths during the attack.
Before and during the panic attack, turn your attention elsewhere, tell what is happening around you, or count 7 out of 100.
Tell yourself this isn’t a heart attack. accept this situation and think that it will pass soon.
Don’t try to push the fear away from you right away. Remember that the harder he struggles, the more attacks he will have.
Saying things that reassure you and make you feel good
Build faith that you can overcome panic attacks
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hi i have many problems in the installation of VTK with visual studio 2005 i can not execute the example of vtk
First you need to know whether VS 2005 is installed correctly or not.
So, develop a simple command line code with VS 2005.
Good luck Foruzan
PV 3.10 built from git trunk: gcc and glibcxx 3.4.14 referenced from separate directories
In attempting to build ParaView 3.10.0 from git trunk I ran into the problem of finding glibcxx 3.4.14. Apparently, when setting CMAKE options, CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER and CMAKE_C_COMPILER were both pointing to /usr/local/bin... while the required standard libraries were located in /usr/lib64/bin...
Does make or cmake determine where the standard libraries are? This is a problem with cmake, or was I supposed to know where the standard libraries were? While it did properly locate the preferred compiler, this standard library discrepancy was a challenge to figure out. Does anyone have any feedback regarding what exactly is going on | <urn:uuid:a58c5423-008c-4cb4-8983-ee5c4cdb2556> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://public.kitware.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&oldid=41817 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949287 | 247 | 1.765625 | 2 |
I worked in a library during high school, but left for college. I was hired back as a clerk at the library and was assigned to help with our teen programming events. This was my first real foray into the teen world at a library and I was terrified of having to plan my first activity. I decided that I wanted to do a Humans vs. Zombies night at the library, so I bought the dart guns, put the word out, and crossed my fingers.
When I went to Library School, my career goals involved working in large academic libraries behind the scenes, so it was with great trepidation that I moved into the public library sphere. I now work for a small rural library that asks me to wear multiple professional hats – one of which was to become … Read more
By Hanna I.
While I was a college student working as a library clerk, I found a way to combine my work with two of my passions: art and teaching children. During that time, I was studying to become an elementary school teacher. As I spent time in elementary schools as part of my education, I noticed that there is a trend in our nation towards high stakes testing in math, reading, and science, which has an unfortunate consequence of squeezing the arts out of the curriculum.
By Adam W.
The love of reading happens over the Summer, after you shut the text book for the year and chart your own reading course. Kids are going to read in November because they read what they wanted in the Summer. The Summer Reading Party is just an extension of reading, it is one chapter to spark a lifelong love.
The 2014 theme is Spark a Reaction and that is exactly what we do with the Library Kick-Off Party. We kickstart the rest of the Summer. We have rides, bounce houses, authors, prize giveaways, Kindles, GoPros, Boat Rentals, even a PS4. | <urn:uuid:f6702f2f-9f23-4d7c-80a0-ab8878b8bfe3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.gale.com/tag/north-logan-city-library/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.986217 | 386 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Best investment choices for geothermal energy companies
The key components to examine when considering geothermal energy company investment. Cost analysis and return on investment concepts.
The key components to examine when considering a geothermal energy company investment. Cost analysis and return on investment concepts.
The best geothermal companies to invest in all have some things in common, and one of these is their vicinity to geothermal hot spots. The cost of geothermal energy can be brought down in areas with large amounts of geothermal activity. Geothermal energy offers many benefits, and is significantly more environmentally friendly than many other energy sources. Renewable energy stocks can be a great way to invest in geothermal energy, as well as other renewable environmentally friendly energy sources like solar, wind and ocean power. Geothermal energy production shows the greatest promise in the western United States, especially around Nevada and the southwest US. This is because geothermal energy in these areas is very high, making the energy conversion process more effective at a lower cost.
The geothermal energy future is predicted to grow, especially as more people reduce or eliminate the use of foreign oil and fossil fuels, and turn to more environmentally friendly alternative energy options. Geothermal energy comes from areas where there are large amounts of heat in the earth, such as where the plates of the earth’s crust come together. Geothermal energy production has little to no harmful greenhouse gas emissions, no fuel purchasing is required, and is an energy source that is both renewable and sustainable. Geothermal energy companies and renewable energy stocks offer a terrific investment opportunity for many investors. Public geothermal companies have become more numerous, so there are more investing options available. Look for geothermal companies that have either access to geothermal areas or that have agreements with utility companies that do have access.
Geothermal energy cost can decrease with proximity of the place utilizing the energy, so look for geothermal companies who have access to the spot with the most underground heat that can be tapped, known as ground zero. Investing in alternative energy companies does carry some risks, just like any other investment type, but a future that is not dependent on foreign oil means a future of domestically produced alternative and renewable energy sources such as geothermal energy. Geothermal companies that are in place to meet these needs will see large growth, which means better returns for investors.
Do the research when it comes to investing in renewable energy stocks. Know the company and understand the technology before ever parting with any of your investment capital. Check out the company history and earnings for the past, to see what kind of financial shape the geothermal company is in. Only invest in a solid company that has knowledgeable and experienced staff. This will assure you that the geothermal company is being properly managed, which has a direct effect on your investment. Geothermal energy production will be one of the major energy sources of the future, especially in high geothermal areas. Investors who understand this can get in on the ground floor, before the geothermal energy future starts rising.
Some possible geothermal companies and alternative energy stocks to invest in can include US Geothermal Inc., AMEX ticker HTM, which is based in Idaho and was started in the year 2002. There is also Calpine Corp., NYSE ticker CPN, a geothermal company located in San Jose, California and Ormat Technologies, Inc., NYSE ticker ORA, and this geothermal company is based in Reno, Nevada. These alternative energy stocks are not picks or recommendations, simply some geothermal companies that may interest you enough to do further research.
The information supplied in this article is not to be considered as medical advice and is for educational purposes only.
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Taylor said a famous quote, Management's first goal is to make higher wages and lower labor costs combined.As far as I am concerned, Funny man movie is of great significance to me.Although this sentence is very short, it makes me think about it.
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Billingsky said a famous quote, Love needs a reasonable content, just as the fire to the oil to maintain the same; love is the two similar nature in the infinite sense of harmony.Everyone has to face these problems. How should we deal with this kind of problem?This seems to answer my doubts.
Sue Home Linsky Inadvertently said such a sentence, Educators should be a profound understanding of the minds of the people who are growing up in their entire education career to continue to study the psychology of students, deepen their psychological knowledge, to become a real expert in education.As we all know, as long as it is meaningful, it must be carefully considered.This makes us think deeply.
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Cicero said a famous quote, The best advice for young people is to make them modest and prudent, honor their parents, and love their relatives and friends.I think about this question day and night after careful consideration.This seems to answer my doubts.
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By Irish America Staff
To fans of jazz and swing, the Dorsey brothers need no introduction. As musicians, composers and dance band leaders, they are inextricably linked with the swing craze during the big-band era of the 1930s and 1940s. Their numerous hits include “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You,” “I’ll Never Smile Again,” and “Boogie-Woogie.” In all, they sold a combined total of 110 million records in their forty-year careers.
Born to Thomas Frances Dorsey and Theresa Langton, the two brothers grew up in an Irish mining community in Pennsylvania. A self-taught musician himself, Thomas Dorsey resolved to keep his boys out of the mines, and instead ignited in them his own love of music. He even formed a band with them, the Way Back When Dorsey Brothers Orchestra. After Thomas Sr. quit the band, they became Dorsey’s Novelty Six, later to be renamed Dorsey’s Wild Canaries. The band performed throughout Shenandoah until they broke up in 1922 and Tommy and Jimmy joined the Scranton Sirens.
As boys, Jimmy (B. February 29, 1904) and Tommy (B. November 19, 1905) started out playing the cornet. Later they branched out to include other instruments. After two years with the Scranton Sirens, the brothers moved to the Jean Goldkette jazz band in Detroit, Michigan where they performed with jazz talents Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang. Jimmy began playing the saxophone and clarinet, becoming one of the finest players of his day, while Tommy took up the trombone, coaxing from it a velvety tone that would become his trademark.
The Dorseys’ big break came in 1927 when the entire Goldkette band was hired by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra of New York City, bringing the Dorseys radio and recording jobs and performances with singers like Bing Crosby and the Boswell Sisters.
In 1934, Tommy and Jimmy formed their own band, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, with Glenn Miller on second trombone. However, the band broke up only one year later, after a dispute broke out between the two brothers over tempo during a Memorial Day weekend performance. The more exacting and temperamental of the two, Tommy is generally blamed for the band’s demise.
Over the next eighteen years, the two went their separate ways. Jimmy led the original Dorsey Brothers Band, renamed the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, while Tommy took over a band from Joe Haymes, turning it into the Tommy Dorsey Band, a more jazz-oriented band that featured Frank Sinatra from 1940-’42.
Over the next eighteen years, Tommy and Jimmy enjoyed tremendous success with their respective bands. Both brothers compiled a healthy list of film and television appearances, and they reunited temporarily for the making of the The Fabulous Dorseys, a 1947 film based on their lives in which the brothers played themselves. Sara Ellen Allgood an Irish actress born in Dublin plays Ma, with a notable Irish accent, and Arthur Shields, also born in Dublin, plays the father.
In 1953, Jimmy’s band fell apart and the brothers were reconciled. Jimmy joined Tommy’s orchestra and they performed as The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Jimmy Dorsey. The brothers performed together for the next three years, and from 1955-’56, the brothers enjoyed wide national coverage with their own show on CBS called Stage Show. The two brothers died within six months of each other, Tommy on November 26, 1956 and Jimmy on June 12, 1957. Two days before Jimmy died, he received a gold record for his greatest instrumental, “So Rare.”
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Costa Rica offers many reasons to transform your trip into a dream vacation. Knowing and experiencing wildlife to the fullest is one of them, especially if you love animals. It doesn’t matter if you go to national parks, tropical rainforests, the central pacific coast, or any other spectacular spot, you will encounter a wide variety of beautiful animals that will amaze you.
From exotic mammals to colorful, unique birds, or outstanding aquatic animals, expect to be blown away. Keep reading to learn not only about some animals in Costa Rica, but also about where to see them, so that you don’t miss that chance.
Thanks to its geographical location, Costa Rica is one of the countries with the greatest variety of birds per square meter in America. According to the Ornithological Association of Costa Rica, the staggering number of recorded bird species reaches 922.
Toucans are surely one of the most beautiful birds you will ever see. Their particularly large and brightly colored beaks have made them a highly popular bird in the world. Costa Rica is home to six species of toucans, however, the most famous are:
This is the largest toucan in Costa Rica and the second largest in the world. The plumage is composed of black, deep yellow, a narrow white line, and an extensive red line. The bicolored bill can grow up to 7 inches long, it is dark yellow-brown and dark brown, while the feet and legs are blue. You can see the chestnut-mandibled toucan in Tortuguero National Park, Corcovado National Park, and Drake Bay.
The keel-billed toucan also has a body predominantly black and bright yellow, but its beak is a brilliant collage of colors, this is why it’s called “arco iris” in Spanish, meaning rainbow. This toucan can be found in locations such as Rincón de la Vieja and Monteverde Cloud Forest.
Parrots are signature birds in the tropics. Their usual loud sound and very vivid colors go hand in hand with the beautiful beaches and forests of Costa Rica. Out of the five more common parrot species in Costa Rica, these two stand out:
These are birds of bright colors and great size. Red is their more predominant color, with yellow wing coverts; and a blue tail, with two central red feathers. Their wingspan reaches 31 inches and their weight can go up to 900 grams. You can see scarlet macaws in the Osa Peninsula, the Pacific Coast, and close to the border with Nicaragua.
Great Green Macaws
These parrots are about 3 feet long and they weigh around 2.9 pounds, making them the third heaviest parrot species on the planet. Great green macaws can be spotted in Manzanillo, Maquenque National Park and Tortuguero National park.
Out of the 350 known hummingbird species on the planet, Costa Rica has over 50, distributed throughout the country. Hummingbirds are not only the smallest bird species in the world but the only ones able to flap their wings more than 70 times per second. Two of the most beautiful ones you can spot in Costa Rica are:
This hummingbird has brilliant bronze-green feathers on the back and a dark tail. Mangrove hummingbirds can only be found in Costa Rica, they measure between 3,7 and 4,3 inches and weigh approximately 4.5 grams. You can find them in Térraba-Sierpe National Wetland and La Paz Waterfall Gardens.
This is a tiny hummingbird. The male is unique and beautiful, his body is the color of red wine and he has a bright white cap. The female is less flashy, with snowy white underparts, and a short straight bill. Snowcap hummingbirds can be seen in El Tapir Reserve, Braulio Carrillo National Park, and Las Brisas Nature Reserve.
The diversity of ecosystems present in Costa Rica, allows more than 250 species of mammals to be part of the fauna of this beautiful country. Find below a few of the mammals you can see in Costa Rica.
Monkeys are highly associated with Costa Rica’s wildlife and for good reason, as there are four different species:
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These are known by their lengthy limbs and great agility, their tail is long and used skillfully to move between branches. Curiously, spider monkeys are the ones who don’t have a thumb.
Spot spider monkeys at Tortuguero National Park, Barra del Colorado, Rincón de la Vieja National Park, and Palo Verde.
Mantled Howler Monkey
Mantled howler monkeys are among the largest monkeys in the tropical forests of Latin America. Its head-body length is 22 to 36 inches. The tail is extremely long, as much or more than its body. They are black with yellowish or reddish tones.
These monkeys can be found in Monteverde Cloud Forest, Osa Peninsula, and Manuel Antonio National Park.
These are the smallest monkey species in Costa Rica. Their fur is short and yellowish olive, their back and limbs are orange, the crest of their head, snout, and eyes are black, and their cheekbones and nose are skin-colored.
They are not so easy to spot as they are in danger of extinction, but you could find them in Corcovado National Park, Manuel Antonio, and the Osa Peninsula.
White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys
Known for being quite smart, these monkeys are primarily black with creamy white on the head, chest, and shoulders. Their face is pink and their tail is larger than their body.
You can see white-faced capuchin monkeys in Arenal Volcano National Park, Carara National Park, Manuel Antonio National Park, and Corcovado National Park.
Sloths are unique-looking mammals with shaggy fur, and big claws, characterized by moving slowly. They usually spend most of their time on the top of trees to avoid predators and get food and water. Out of the six sloth species in the world, the two types that exist in Costa Rica are:
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Two-toed sloths are easy to identify, they have 3 toes on their hind feet and only 2 on their front feet. They tend to be a light brown or blonde color and have a nose that resembles that of a pig. These sloths are more difficult to find since they are usually active at night, but you might see them at Diamante Eco-Adventure Park, Corcovado National Park, and Manuel Antonio.
The best-known sloth in the world is the three-toed, called this way as they have three toes on all their feet. They are smaller in size than the two-toed sloth and they are a bit more active. Make sure to visit Manuel Antonio, Cahuita or Corcovado National Park, if you want to spot them.
Costa Rica has 6 different wild cats out of the 36 species in the world. They are imposing beautiful animals, usually nocturnal, although they can also be seen during the daytime.
Our top three Costa Rican wildcats are:
Jaguars are the only panthera species tracked down in the Americas. Being the only big cat in Costa Rica, this majestic feline’s average weight is 249 pounds and it can be up to 6,56 feet long. Jaguars are generally muscular with a yellow background fur and large black spots.
If you are lucky you can see them in Tortuguero, Monteverde, Corcovado National Park, or in la Paz Waterfall Gardens.
Pumas are the second biggest wild cats in America after jaguars. In Costa Rica, pumas can be found on both Pacific and Caribbean slopes, from primary to secondary forests, thickets, mangroves, subalpine grasslands, and open paramos. Pumas have spotless fur, it is usually either golden, gray or reddish.
You can see them in Las Pumas Rescue Center, Corcovado, Santa Rosa and Monteverde Cloud forest.
Ocelots have a medium size, a small head, and a short tail compared to the size of their body. Their short, dull gray hair has strong brown spots bordered by a black band and they have big brown eyes.
Find them in Corcovado National park, Arenal, and La Paz Waterfall Gardens.
The incredible variety of fauna found in Costa Rica includes without doubt the reptiles. Of the 225 species of reptiles that inhabit Costa Rica, we will share the most representative below.
Iguanas are commonly seen in most beaches in Costa Rica. They hang out on the sand or trees. The two different iguana species in Costa Rica are:
This is the biggest type of iguana. Males can grow up to 59 inches from head to tail, and weigh about 33 pounds. A curious fact about green iguanas is that they change color depending on their age. Juveniles are bright green while older are grayish-green, tan, or brown, usually with orange spots on the head.
Spiny-tailed iguanas are strictly diurnal, they usually hide in caves or holes in the ground or between roots and fallen trees. It is common to see them resting or basking, especially during the hottest hours of the day.
Whether you like snakes or you are afraid or repulsed by them, it is worth knowing a little about these animals that display mystique and an incredible variety of colors. Of the more than 130 species present in Costa Rica, we present the following.
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The poisonous and aggressive Fer-de-lance is quite possibly the most popular and dreaded snake in Costa Rica. Its scales range from medium brown or olive green to black on its back, and the belly is usually a lighter color. Females are larger than males, they can grow as much as 8 feet long, while males get to 6 feet long.
The bushmaster snake is the biggest kind of snake on the planet. It has a light brown color mixed with orange and black spots in a diamond shape. The antidote that comes from this snake is used to make a type of antivenom serum that helps to counteract the poisoning of 17 other snake species.
Coral snakes are very colorful and flashy. There are two types in Costa Rica, the three-color ring coral with red, black, and yellow rings all over their body, and the two-color ring coral with either black and red rings, or black and white rings.
It is recommended to see all these snakes in captivity in La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Wildlife Center Snake Garden, Zoo Ave.
There are only two species of crocodiles in Costa Rica:
The American Crocodile
It has a mighty jaw and it is considered one of the best predators. They have a long and narrow V-shaped snout, and they are very fast, especially at short distances. American crocodiles can grow up to 9-20 feet and weigh around 2,000 pounds.
Smaller than American crocodiles, caimans have a much broader and shorter U-shaped snout. They also have some sort of glasses shape on their forehead and they are about 4-8 feet long, weighing around 100-300 pounds.
You can see both crocodiles and caimans on the bridge of the Tarcoles River, and the Tortuguero canals.
Costa Rica has 6,700 marine species, which is 3.5% of the species reported in the world and 90 of them are unique to this country. Learn below about some of the most beautiful and amazing aquatic creatures you can find here.
Although Costa Rica is such a small country, it has the presence of several species of whales, the largest animals that have ever existed. Find out below some of the types you can enjoy in Costa Rica.
Measuring between 49 and 62 feet long and weighing between 30 and 48 tons, the marvelous humpback whale can be seen in Costa Rican waters in two different seasons. Either from July to the end of October or from the end of December to the end of February. Find them at Marino Ballena Park, Drake Bay, Gulf of Nicoya, and South Pacific Coast, among others.
Pilot whales have an elongated black or dark brown body of approximately 19 feet (males) and 17 feet (females). The beak is absent on the head and a short snout is seen instead. They are less commonly seen than humpback whales but could be spotted at Coco Island and near the Pacific Coast.
These spectacular giants can be 108 feet long and their hearts alone weigh about 600 kgs. The beautiful series of folds they have from the chin to beyond their navel can be seen when they allow us to see them come out of the water. Blue whales can be watched at Marino Ballena Park, Drake Bay, and Osa Peninsula.
As crazy as this may sound, Costa Rica has 5 of the 7 sea turtle species on the planet, making its beaches the perfect oasis for these prehistoric, amazing animals. Learn below about these beautiful sea turtles and where you can spot them.
Leatherback Sea Turtles
This is the largest of all sea turtle species and it is the only one without a hard shell. Their skin is typically black and mottled with white. They are between 4-5 feet long and weigh around 1,102 pounds. You can find them at Las Baulas National Marine Park, Tortuguero National park, and Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge.
Hawksbill Sea Turtles
The name of this turtle is given due to the beak shape of its upper jaw. The hawksbill sea turtle has an oval shell and is one of the smallest of all sea turtles, measuring up to 35 inches in length and reaching up to 176 pounds. They can be seen at Tortuguero National park, Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge.
Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Loggerhead sea turtles are medium-sized, they can exceed 3 feet in length and 330 pounds in body mass. They have a large head, a robust neck, and strong jaws. Their brown dorsal coloration has reddish or orange edges. You can see them on the Caribbean coast.
Green Sea Turtles
Green sea turtles are medium to large, the shell color can range from brown to olive green and the skin can be brown, gray, or black. They can be found at Barra del Colorado, Tortuguero National park, and Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge.
Olive Ridley Sea Turtles
Olive ridley sea turtles can be spotted along the Pacific coast between July and February. They are relatively small and they can lay about 110 eggs per nest. They are one of the easiest species to see, either at Ostional Beach in the Nicoya Peninsula, along the Pacific Ocean, North Pacific, Central Pacific, or the South Pacific.
As scary as sharks may be for most people, they are fascinating in their own way. Not all animals in the world have been around for more than 450 million years as sharks have. Next, read about a few of the shark species there are in Costa Rica.
Hammerhead sharks can reach up to 9 feet in length and weigh a maximum of 880 pounds. They are dark gray on the back and white on the ventral area. Their most distinctive feature is the hammer-shaped head. They can be spotted at Coco Island and Golfo Dulce in the Osa Peninsula.
The bull shark is an aggressive animal, known for being the most dangerous shark that exists. This is one of the few species capable of inhabiting fresh and salt waters. It is found in the North Pacific of Costa Rica.
White-Tip Reef Sharks
This shark species is easily recognizable by its slender and elongated shape, presenting white or silver coloration on its tips or broad areas of the fins. It is seen in the Gulf of Papagayo, the Brumel Islands, and the Bat Islands.
Whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea, measuring 39 feet long or more. Their flattened head shows a blunt snout over the mouth. Their back and sides are gray to brown, with beautiful white spots between pale vertical and horizontal stripes.
They are found on Coco Island and Cano Island.
Amphibians & Insects
Even when sometimes amphibians and insects are not as easily seen as other animal species, they are also unique and worth getting to know.
Costa Rica is home to 193 species of frogs and toads. The variety in size and color of these animals is mindblowing and seeing them in their habitat is totally worth it.
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
The little red-eyed tree frog is surely one of the most significant icons of the amazing Costa Rican wildlife. The vibrant green color of its body and the dazzling red tone of its eyes make it a favorite amongst all the 43 tree frog species found in Costa Rica. You can see it at Tortuguero, Manuel Antonio, and Monteverde.
Poison Dart Frogs
Poison dart frogs are species with toxic skin. They are easily recognized both for their bright and unique combination of colors and for their tiny size (around 1,9 inches). The 8 species found in Costa Rica are most likely seen at Tortuguero National Park, Puerto Viejo (Talamanca) or Puerto Viejo (Sarapiqui).
Costa Rican butterfly species represent around 90% of the Central American butterfly population. That being said, expect to see many butterflies around in your next visit, especially in the places recommended below.
Blue Morpho Butterfly
This is one of the most common species of butterflies in Costa Rica and the largest in the world, their wingspan is up to 8 inches long. The way their scales are arranged magically reflect light showing a unique blue color. You can be around them at La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Monteverde Butterfly Gardens, and The Butterfly Farm.
Even though this was just a quick summary of the outstanding animals you can see in Costa Rica, we hope it was good enough to entice you. So, pack your bags and embark on the unforgettable adventure of experiencing Costa Rica’s wildlife to the fullest.
FAQs About Costa Rica Animals & Wildlife
Costa Rica has all sorts of wildlife including birds, mammals, marine animals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects.
Costa Rica has over 500,000 species, which represents almost 5% of the total estimated species on the planet.
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30.6.3. Configuring the OS/400 Boot Loader
/boot/vmlinitrd-<kernel-version>file is installed when you upgrade the kernel. However, you must use the
ddcommand to configure the system to boot the new kernel.
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By Marv Klotz
Model Deck Gun
The gun is a British quick-firing six pounder. Although historical details from the magazine article were sketchy, I would imagine that this is the sort of gun that would have been used on the British Q-ships against submarines or unarmored merchant ships.
The barrel is made from a recycled .22 rifle barrel. A working interrupted screw thread, lever-operated breech action is fitted. This incorporates a removable firing pin (for safety at shows and around inquisitive children), which, when not fitted to the gun, is hidden in the dummy shell shown in the photos.
Elevation and traverse are via worm wheels actuated by the hand wheels. These drive an elevation gear and miter gears hidden in the hollow base. The recoil mechanism is fully operable.
The aimer's (elevation) sight is operable and has a range scale and working adjusting screw. The trainer's (azimuth) sight wasn't specified in the article so I winged it with a design of my own. Both sights incorporate tiny telescopes which have (plastic) objective lenses.
I haven't attempted to fire it yet. Although it's chambered for .22LR, I want to start off with something less powerful, such as .22BB/CB caps, before I begin opening fire on the gophers with something more lethal :-)
Assorted Model Engines
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Normalized cuts for single tree isolation from LiDAR
This study demonstrates a developing method for the isolation of individual trees in a canopy from 3-dimensional laser scanning data. This method is capable of delineating single trees from a storied canopy, and is effective for individual tree isolation. This research compared the Normalized Cut (NCuts) method of single tree segmentation to a more commonly applied Hierarchical Watershed Transform (HWT) within an urban setting. For this study two field sites located within the urban build-up of San Francisco, CA were selected. The results of this work demonstrated an implementation of the Normalized Cut method coded using freeware libraries, and showed significant differences between the two methods, especially in storied canopies. This study also demonstrated the effectiveness and feasibility of using freeware coding tools for research, thereby enabling a wider range of research possibilities without the expense of large software packages. | <urn:uuid:23b06bb9-4a44-4bca-a789-634494b0f766> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geog.sfsu.edu/thesis/normalized-cuts-single-tree-isolation-lidar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930074 | 186 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The favorite of the us presidential race, Democratic candidate Joe Biden has promised to press China on the issue of Tibet if he wins the election. This is reported by The Times of India.
Biden noted that his foreign policy will be based on humanitarian values. “I will work with our allies to put pressure on Beijing and bring it back to direct dialogue with representatives of Tibet,” he said. The politician also promised to impose new sanctions against China, personally meet with the Dalai Lama, and expand Voice of America’s broadcast in Tibetan.
Earlier it was reported that the United States will impose new sanctions against China because of human rights violations in Tibet. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo clarified that this will happen because the Chinese authorities refuse to allow American diplomats, politicians and journalists to enter the region. At the same time, in his opinion, “access to the Tibetan territories is becoming increasingly important for the stability of the region, given the violations of human rights by the Communist party of China (CPC).”
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Revel Eagle helps residents continue to grow through individually tailored opportunities and one-of-a-kind experiences based on the six dimensions of wellness: Physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, and social.
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Competitive advertising can be a lot of fun. Anybody above a certain age remembers the high-profile cola wars of the 1980s, in which Coke and Pepsi simultaneously ran vicious public campaigns aimed at discrediting each other and persuading the public to switch brands. Similar strategies have been undertaken in the years since by Subway, Snapple, and Macintosh. What distinguishes competitive advertising from run-of-the-mill campaigns is its willingness to call out competing brands by name, specifically claiming the target brand is somehow inferior or drawing attention to its shortcomings. Political advertisements are an obvious example of the form. Lately, competitive advertising has landed some advertisers in trouble, as regulatory agencies are starting to investigate claims.
A textbook example of how competitive advertising can get an advertiser in hot water is that of T-Mobile. T-Mobile has had its ups and downs as a cellular voice and data provider, but the company has recently positioned itself for a big push on the market share of the current leader, AT&T. In its controversial ads, T-Mobile makes the claim that its data network uses the "most advanced technology" and is "the most reliable." These claims seem to be based on a rather uncharitable analysis of AT&T's HSPA network that doesn't take the company's faster LTE network into account.
At best, this would appear to be a deliberate cherry-picking of the available data. At worst, it's deliberately misleading, which is probably what motivated the National Advertising Division (NAD), a wing of the BBB, to criticize the phone company and call for a retraction. T-Mobile CEO John Legere has responded to the charge by asserting that the statistics are accurate but promising to take the NAD's complaint "under advisement."
Another company to have recently run afoul of advertising laws is California-based automaker Tesla. Here, it's charged that the company's advertising division has made false claims on the company's website regarding potential savings in fuel relative to other leading brands such as GM. Tesla has been denied a license to sell its electric cars directly to consumers in Texas—allegedly over the competitive advertising—and is the subject of a complaint to the California DMV by its competitors.
Competitive advertising is all fun and games until someone runs afoul of regulations. While an old-fashioned competitive advertising tug-of-war can drive national media attention and result in higher sales for both brands, a clumsy or openly dishonest campaign can bring the ire of regulators. Competitive advertising has always been a high wire act, and doing it right can be tricky.
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The new vision for the Agriculture Sector framed by The World Economic Forum is Food security, Economic Opportunity & Environmental Sustainability. This can be achieved only with the inclusion of farmer inputs & understanding their real (not perceived) needs & requirements at all levels & spheres.
Many call their business their babies. Do you know what farmers call their land? – their mother, god, their breath & their soul. Will not a farmer know about his land, soil, seeds & crops better than the other stake holders involved in this sector. All these years farmers have been made to use seeds, crops, equipment’s & funds that we thought would do them good. But has it made the sector any better? No. The industries associated with agriculture have made money selling their wares to the farmers, but the latter’s plight has been the same in spite of using what we term as better products & inputs.
This article is not written to point fingers or call anyone responsible to the state of agriculture in India but a pressing NEED to LISTEN, INVOLVE & ADOPT techniques, methods & requirements that are essential to the agricultural community. A farmer buys in retail, sells in wholesale & also pays the freight both ways. The past few centuries have witnessed selling of products that aren’t good not only for the farmers soil & pocket but also for the consumers & environment.
What is that farmers & consumers are entitled as their basic right?
Food Security– As for every citizen he/she should at all times have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.
As for the farming community food security in India is unfavourably affected by several biotic and socio-political situations. Moreover, public distribution and marketing of food grains and lack of a participatory approach all are committing to check down the availability of foods. For this to change all stake holders have to collectively find ways to improve the infrastructure, credit facilities, inputs, land and water management, storage, effective marketing, and price policies.
Economic Opportunity – agriculture produce like vegetables are purchased & consumed more on a daily basis in order to complete the consumers need & nutrient requirements. Consumers spend a considerable sum on agricultural produce. The patterns and decisions in purchasing and attitudes vary among the population & understanding; this is especially important in decision making along the supply chain and in development of policies. The behaviour of consumers is affected by the price, health factors, the quality of agriculture produce and other external factors that affect the situation. Consumers prefer to purchase a variety of agriculture produce particularly vegetables including the organically produced if they are affordable & make a difference to their health & environment.
As for the agriculture sector, to attain food security -economic growth and employment generation are of paramount importance. The policies should benefit the world’s poor keeping in mind that the cost of inactions is high. Lack of economic opportunities will create civil unrest and impeded human capital development. The integration of smallholders into markets will not only improve food security and flexibility to food price volatility but also improve incomes and create jobs in farming through strong multiplier effect in the rural sector.
Environmental Sustainability – a movement has arisen where consumers feel a need to change the way food is grown. There should be a conscious connect between consumer preference to farm profitability so that new technologies are adopted.
The organic market highlights the power of this connection where the organic consumers have demonstrated a willingness to pay a premium for crops grown in a way that benefits the environment. Consumer willingness to pay a premium price directly impacts the farming decisions of growers.
As for the farming community this connect will empower them. Digital technologies will allow for a direct connect between consumer preferences and how food is produced. Virtual supply chains, food system will see a tremendous increase in transparency. The essential connection between agricultural practice and consumer preference will dramatically accelerate the adoption of new sustainable technologies in agriculture. Farmers will be able to change their management practices and sell at higher prices. They will be able to break out of their old patterns and produce a more valuable crop — one that is environmentally sustainable. The result of this rejuvenated agriculture sector will not only feed the world, but in a way that is better for farmers, consumers, & the planet. | <urn:uuid:7f437415-6355-4d19-b9fc-d0144cc36825> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.founderpassion.org/food-security-lets-listen-not-assume/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943652 | 875 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Law enforcement in New York and Los Angeles are checking whether recent gunfire scares at JFK and LAX were coordinated attempts to “test the system” and see how authorities respond to such situations.
No evidentiary link between the August 14 incident at JFK and the Sunday incident at LAX has yet been established, although the similarities between the two cases are so stark that law enforcement officials are checking whether an individual or individuals might be looking for security weaknesses.
“We don’t have any evidence that points to the incident here [at LAX] being linked to what occurred at JFK, but law enforcement is certainly looking to determine if an individual or individuals were seeing to test the system in these cases, or if the most recent incident here is the work of a copycat,” Marshall E. McLain, head of the Los Angeles Airport police union, told The Post.
Both occurred on Sunday evenings at approximately the same local time, and Each incident initially reported trouble at “Terminal 8” of the respective airports
Airline passengers in both incidents “self-evacuated” onto restricted tarmac areas.
Both false alarms led to mass confusion and delays, with Sunday’s incident in Los Angeles resulting in 281 flights being delayed 120 arrivals and 161 departures and two flights being cancelled.
Security experts note that terrorists have been known to stage phony incidents to provoke a police response as a means of gathering intelligence.
A New York law enforcement official involved in counter-terrorism did not discount the possibility that is what had taken place.
“It’s too early to tell,” insisted the official, who said further analysis was underway to examine 911 calls and to security footage.
One New York law enforcement official noted that the most troubling aspect of both incidents was that the false alarms led to airline passengers rushing past TSA screeners and spilling out onto tarmacs, in close proximity to waiting aircraft.
“The enemies of this country have never given up their desire to use American aviation as their air force and everyone in law enforcement at the upper levels knows this, but is afraid to talk about it,” said the source.
In response to the recent JFK and LAX incidents, the American Alliance of Airport Police Officers (AAAPO), an organization that represents airport police in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas Fort Worth, renewed its demand that airport cops nationwide be dispatched within 300 feet of every TSA checkpoint and airport police be granted real-time access to airport security surveillance feeds. | <urn:uuid:d3e61c9f-1c0e-4a93-95b9-0f7af6eccabf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.totpi.com/police-search-possible-link-false-shooting-reports-jfk-lax-airports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960611 | 517 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Prior to all of the news surrounding Facebook’s metaverse rebrand and $10 billion investment into the metaverse, the CEO of Ourobionics John Zandbergen and the CEO of blockchain company Cartallum Wynand Oschmann were establishing a partnership in the Netherlands to initiate the development of the first global 3D Biofabrication & Biomanufacturing Metaverse.
This new network that they envisioned will use blockchain technology to directly reward researchers and developers in cryptocurrency for their designs, protocols, & inventions using any existing 3D biofabrication or biomanufacturing hardware, software, 3D model database, biomaterial database, or any open-sourced technology database. The start-ups have also developed a roadmap to work together with others and implement blockchain technology platform solutions for supply chain management in the 3D biofabrication & biomanufacturing industry, stimulating a more circular economy.
Prior to the release of the independent and decentralized blockchain platform technology solutions by 2022, they will have the ability to be connected to all files, databases, and other metaverse platform technologies such as augmented reality, artificial intelligence systems, & gamification networks. The technologies will enable cryptocurrency & metaverse network rewards systems for all researchers and developers that want to open-source their designs, protocols, materials, data, technologies, & for publishing in open science journals.
A secondary blockchain system will be developed to repeatedly reward the original inventors and creators further if and when their open-sourced technologies, 3D files, protocols, data, or open science publications are used by a collaborator for extended research purposes or a start-up/scale-up for commercial purposes. This “3D Biofabrication and Biomanufacturing Metaverse” has the potential to spur innovation, unique collaborations, and stimulate potential future biotechnology start-up formation. The concept is inspired by how the RepRap project open-sourced low-cost 3D printers to the public domain and this ultimately led to what we see now in the majority of the desktop 3D printing & 3D bioprinting start-up industry. Basic extrusion 3D bioprinting was originally open-sourced in 2016 to allow others to build a bioprinter with a RepRap.
If the proposed scientific advances are made in open-sourced technology, 3D bioprinting, regenerative medicine, blockchain, cyborganics, human-machine interfaces, & metaverse technologies it will enhance the strong biotechnology and deep technology ecosystem that currently exists in Utrecht Science Park, Utrecht Region, and start-ups located in other parts of the Netherlands. It has the potential to connect, build, and reward at a global level. Upon hearing about the news, Tech Leap Envoy Prince Constantijn van Oranje, reacted enthusiastically: “This sounds like cutting edge technology development, supported by a solution to fairly rewarding innovators”.
Together with other start-ups in the industry, they hope that developing these types of independent & decentralized blockchain technology rewards systems interconnected with existing and emerging metaverse network technologies that will encourage academics, entrepreneurs, institutes, and industry professionals to publicly release and share more innovative open-sourced technologies, 3D designs, 3D biomaterials, cyborganics, organ on a chip, or regenerative medicine protocols and increase rewards for open science publications.
Companies in alliance with Ourobionics on the vision behind the need for the development of an open & global “3D Bioprinting & Biomanufacturing Metaverse” to enhance the fourth industrial revolution include the world’s first human 3D bioink and biomaterial company Humabiologics; an early stage biofabrication and biomanufacturing company InvicTech LLC (previously released microfluidic design NFTs); the open metaverse company Beemup paving the way forward in true metaverse interoperability, accessibility and economics, thereby directly providing new revenue models for businesses, brands and creators; and CadChain, a company that has released blockchain technology that provides an integrated and secure software to register authorship, and or ownership of design data, and trust certification for protection of CAD Files, thereby allowing engineers and designers to safely share their design data with stakeholders.
The blockchain and metaverse technologies that have been developed by CadChain and Beemup will be crucial for implementing and enhancing aspects needed for the 3d biofabrication and biomanufacturing metaverse. CadChain has made some very important steps in using blockchain technology to protect intellectual property. The start-ups will explore forming consortia in the NL, EU, and the USA for non-dilutive funding opportunities to advance the progress of the blockchain-driven 3D biofabrication and biomanufacturing metaverse. It will be important to ensure that the platforms are decentralized, independent of any one company, allow for new forms of virtual & augmented reality collaborations, and directly reward original inventors, engineers, designers and researchers. These future technologies must be fully open to the public to ensure the future success and growth of the metaverse.
“After a decade developing new biofabrication technologies and biomaterials and the creation from the scratch of a new industry, now the focus is on getting scientific results and procedures that can lead to tissues that can be transferred to the specific applications. Any intention to connect the persons working in the field, reward the effort of them using crypto and blockchain and facilitating more resources to speed up the developments is crucial for the success of the field and the impact on the people´s quality of life” said José Manuel Baena, Ph.D. in biomedicine with 10 years of experience in 3D biofabrication.
This month a news article was published on the future role of neural interfaces in the metaverse. This directly coincides with the specific focus of the technologies under development at Ourobionics who were recently selected as “Deep Tech Pioneers” for 2021 out of 4,000 applications to the global deep technology organization Hello Tomorrow. Ourobionics are starting the process to raise seed funding alongside multiple funding applications to the Horizon Europe Program (budget of €95.5 billion) on the merging of their advanced 3D biofabrication and cyborganic technologies to create novel cyborganic & opti-genetic stem cell neural stimulation devices with electronically conductive nanomaterials, bioinks, and biomarker skin sensor technologies for the detection and treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
The main goal of Ourobionics is to develop these advanced 3D biofabrication technologies and applications with the potential to transform the industry of regenerative medicine. Cyborganics itself was published as an emerging industry in 2019 spawned from 3D biofabrication & biomaterial technologies by the Chief Technology Officer of Ourobionics Dr. Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz. Any advancements made in cyberorganic biosensor and implantation devices could have future alternate uses when interconnected with blockchain technologies and the metaverse as it evolves in parallel with the human-machine interfacing technology industry.
One important factor to make this a success is the abundance of the metaverse, blockchain, augmented/virtual reality, A.I. platform technology, & 3D biofabrication or biomanufacturing resources and start-ups within this sector that surround Ourobionics, Cartallum, Beemup in Utrecht Science Park, and the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Utrecht also holds the title of gaming capital of Europe which is one component of a metaverse that can increase novel types of collaboration via augmented or virtual reality technologies. Such an interconnected Metaverse could also increase the number of start-ups that would operate in Utrecht and the Netherlands in all forms of 3D biomanufacturing from health to food, textiles, and biofuels.
The Netherlands ranks 3rd globally when combining world competitiveness rankings, world innovation rankings, human development index, and world happiness report. Utrecht was once voted the 4th happiest city in the world. It is also one of the most interconnected countries, ranked first in English proficiency and has the highest density of cycle lanes. All of which is important for international entrepreneurs within the 3d biofabrication and biomanufacturing & deep technology industries that need to build, connect, and grow outside of the metaverse.
The secondary component of this partnership will result in Cartallum being able to work with Ourobionics and others in the industry to further develop their own sustainable blockchain technology into a platform with the ability to track, trace, and secure all aspects of the supply chain from hardware, biomaterials, reagents, cells, & accessories to final applications in the 3D biofabrication, organ on a chip, regenerative medicine, in silico, medical device, or future human-machine interface industries. Working together the companies can decentralize the 3D biofabrication supply chain and promote a more circular economy by refining the management of the entire supply chain.
These alternative supply chain systems have the potential to provide solutions to future supply chain disruptions whilst boosting a more circular and sustainable economy. The start-ups are realistic in what can be done in the near future but that it will be a long-term project with many combined efforts, milestones and deliverables. However, it is important to make a start now that all of the technologies are available and in alignment, as it is simply a matter of connecting the dots, releasing & connecting more platforms, whilst strengthening connections with those in the industry.
Overall a 3D biofabrication & biomanufacturing metaverse with novel supply chain solutions could potentially increase the level of global interdisciplinary collaborations, global technology sharing, rewarding of researchers & inventors, and enhance future start-up or academic spin-out formation. This is an important step for all sectors of deep technology and demonstrates the utility of metaverse and blockchain technologies outside of the hype.
By 2023 the plan of the start-ups is to expand this roadmap into all sectors that require the use of 3D biofabrication and biomanufacturing technology in food, textiles, biofuels etc. This is one step on the roadmap originally set out by Ourobionics in early 2021 to take the industry beyond bioprinting & empower all researchers and developers at a global level.
The blockchain platform technologies under development by Cartallum for the “3D Biofabrication and Biomanufacturing Metaverse” will be tested and connected with other metaverse technologies such as augmented reality (like what is seen here with the hololens), artificial intelligence, & social network or gamification systems creating a new evolution in 3D biofabrication and biomanufacturing collaboration and networking rewards. Platform technology solutions like the will be used to tag digital files (like NFTs) that can then be uploaded to any existing database, alongside an artificial intelligence 3D biofabrication database created to optimize the use of different 3D biofabrication and biomaterial technologies needed for final applications in regenerative medicine and human-machine interfaces.
The “3D biofabrication & biomanufacturing metaverse” will be decentralized and open to the public with the potential to strengthen the interconnection amongst the 3d biofabrication community, enhance the level of collaboration, and utilize a cryptocurrency reward system for researchers, industry professionals, clinicians and other start-ups or stakeholders working with 3D biofabrication, organ on a chip, tissue engineering, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, and human-machine interface technologies.
An important step of their partnership will be in the development of an independent and decentralized sustainable “OuroCoin” in a collaboration that will connect & reward 3D biofabrication and biomanufacturing researchers in cryptocurrency that can work with any online database, hardware or software to tag, trace, and reward the original researchers that created the digital 3D printable designs, 3D in vitro models, novel 3D biomaterials, custom 3D biofabrication or biomanufacturing protocols, open-sourced technology, or publications in open science.
The future blockchain platform technologies that extend from the OuroCoin will be released and also be independent decentralized platforms or entirely new start-ups open to the public domain & interconnected with other metaverse platforms and start-ups to enhance the level of new forms of collaboration between academic institutes, start-ups, scale-ups, citizen scientists, clinicians, and industry professionals. The second step is to work with other institutes and companies in alliance to further enhance the global 3D biofabrication and biomanufacturing metaverse platform. By strengthening the consortia of global partnerships over time they aim to drive the full potential of what would be the future of “3D Bioprinting & Biomanufacturing Metaverse” to further enhance what is now known as the fourth industrial revolution “Industry 4.0”. | <urn:uuid:f1545e91-511c-44a7-8b84-e27f85f8e2aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/the-dawn-of-a-3d-biofabrication-biomanufacturing-metaverse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.907015 | 2,709 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Economic Burden of CMT Treatment Increases with Disease Severity, Age, German Study Reports
Treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease represents a substantial economic burden, which increases with age, disease severity, comorbidities, obesity and perceived impairments, according to a German study.
The study, “Cost of illness in Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy: Results from Germany,” was published in the journal Neurology.
The team intended to assess the cost of CMT treatment in German patients, identified via a national patient registry. A total of 480 patients completed a questionnaire in 2015 regarding health status, consumption of healthcare resources, other CMT-related expenses, and perceived impairments. Of these, 397 had genetically confirmed diagnosis and were included in the analysis.
Among study participants (age range 3–95, median age 47 years), the most frequent CMT subtype was CMT type 1A (62%). Assessment of the CMT Neuropathy Score in 274 patients revealed that most patients self-reported impairments in daily or work activities. One-third lived in a household where at least one more person had CMT, most often children of the patient (54.9%) or parents (49.6%).
Also, 71.5% of the patients reported CMT-associated comorbidities, such as scoliosis (11.3%), foot or toe deformities (6.5%), restless legs syndrome and hip dysplasia (4.3% each) or hearing loss (4.0%).
As for medical and non-medical resources associated with CMT, medical aids (84.6%), outpatient visits (83.6%) and physiotherapy (67.6%) were frequently used. The participants had a median of six physician visits per year.
Mobility aids were used by 81.5%, while those supporting daily living or care were used by 44.5% and 7.7%, respectively. Overall, the patients used four different types of aids. Of those reporting further use, physiotherapy was the most frequent type of aid, used by 91.7% of participants, followed by foot care (33.0%) and occupational therapy (30.8%). In contrast, inpatient treatment (11.2%) and psychological assistance (11.1%), were among the least used.
Almost half of the patients (47.0%) received care by relatives or friends, most frequently partners and spouses (39.9%). Also, 35.9% needed changes in their workplace, house, or car. Other reported resources included fitness classes (28.6%) and legal advice (7.4%).
In total, this led to a calculated annual per-person cost of €17,427 euros ($22,362 US), which is lower than those reported in Germany for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD, €78,913, or $88,936) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA, €70,566, or $79,528), the team wrote.
Two-thirds of this was direct costs — €11,735, or $15,059 — mainly related to physiotherapy, foot care, and occupational therapy. Direct non-medical costs represented 40.5% of the total.
In turn, indirect costs due to missing days at work and other factors were estimated at €5.931, or $ 7,610.
Patients unable to work due to CMT, those married or living in a partnership, with CMT-associated or other comorbidities, reporting impairments in daily or school/work activities and needing permanent attendance, had higher total costs.
As for CMT subtypes, patients with CMT2 (mean €17,664, $19,907) and CMT4 (€24,235, $27,313) had the highest costs. Also, those aged 46-60, patients overweight or obese, and patients with a medium educational level had higher costs compared to younger patients, those with normal weight, and patients with high educational level, respectively.
The data further revealed that costs were higher with greater disease severity, but tended to be lower with each year after symptoms onset. According to the researchers, this may be due to better coping strategies along disease duration.
Taken together, the annual total cost of CMT in Germany was estimated at €572.8 million ($644.8 million), which, due to its higher prevalence, is higher than that of DMD and SMA in the country, the scientists added.
Of note, 15 patients (age 13-71, diverse CMT subtypes) reported no costs. All were slightly or moderately affected by the disease.
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History, scenery, art and atmosphere come together in one of the most captivating cities, where light, air and colour create a gamut of sensations on the banks of the Guadalquivir, -big river in Arabic-. It flourished in the times of Tartessos and Rome and achieved the rank of what might be termed metropolis in the course of the nearly 550 years of Arab-Muslim history.
Capital of the city of al-Andalus for a very short time, under the name of Isbiliya, still treasures today various monuments from the Umayyad period. Of the ancient mosque of Umar Ibn Adabbas (now the collegiate church of San Salvador), which received the faithful from 829 to 1182, we can still see part of its minaret, possibly the oldest in al-Andalus, and two galleries of the Orange-Tree Courtyard, though greatly transformed, as well as being able to deduce to some extent its size and orientation.
Seville ranked among the most important cities in Europe. The decline of the brilliant Muslim period of Isbiliya occurred in 1248, upon its surrender to Ferdinand III. The whole Lower Guadalquivir river fell together with Seville. It therefore, once again, became the seat of Princes and its history and legend associated in a special way with the figure of Pedro I, who formed a happy synthesis in his Sevillian court by assimilating the influences of Muslim Spain. With the discovery of America, the city reached its zenith, a new Babel, a melting pot of peoples from all over the World. Golden decades, which ones in decline, led to the century of Romanticism, to the traditional city which delighted travelers with its customs and friendly nature. | <urn:uuid:490fa9e7-840f-40c3-a66f-7ddd06c4ad97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.umayyad.eu/?q=content/sevilla | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950009 | 361 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Coercive control is a strategic pattern of behaviour designed to exploit, control, create dependency and dominate. The victim’s every day existence is micro managed and her space for action as well as potential as a human being is limited and controlled by the abuser.
Initially lovebombing and charm may occur to get the victim into the relationship. Gaslighting, isolation, economic control and financial abuse and rules and regulations are gradually introduced over time once the victim is emotionally invested as well as a consequence if they are broken. The rules apply to the victim rather the perpetrator creating a double standard and the victim fears the consequence if she breaks a rule.
Over time, coercively controlling behaviour erodes the victim’s sense of self, their confidence and self-esteem, agency and autonomy.
The abuser creates an unreal world of contradiction, confusion and fear. Moreover 51% of victims do not even know that they are being abused, manipulated and controlled.
Coercive control correlates significantly to serious harm and homicide.
Where did the term ‘coercive control’ originate from?
A number of feminist psychologists in the 1970s identified the domestic abuse victims that they worked with as living like hostages and coined the term ‘coercive control.’
This dangerous form of abuse relies on a range of behaviours or actions that can be very subtle and nuanced. The intention is to exploit and dominate and to ultimately deprive the victim of their most basic rights and needs. Over time, the victim may lose the very essence of being, the sense of who they are, their likes and dislikes, rendering their needs and desires irrelevant – hence hostage taking and living under an enforced regime.
At first the perpetrator may be charming and put the victim on a pedestal by the effective tactic of love bombing. Once under their spell, love bombed and intoxicated with love, their behaviour will change. The victim might wonder where the person they fell in love with went. They may not even recall when the change took place or how it happened.
Coercive Control is Akin to Brainwashing
The art of brainwashing is sophisticated. The abuser replaces the victim’s inner narrative and thoughts with their own. Gradually, the victim’s voice is eroded and replaced with the abuser’s narrative – their views, needs, desires, wants which is placed above all else.
The behaviours can be very different in each case because it depends on the victimology. It’s very idiosyncratic to the victim and tailor-made as a plan to target them. And it can happen to anyone.
These behaviours can include strategies such as pseudo-caring tactics that appear to be attentive and thoughtful, while in reality the perpetrator is actually just micro managing the victim and limiting their space for action. They may appear super attentive and into the victim in the beginning, but all the while they may be social engineering and data mining and storing up information about the intended victim or creating an atmosphere of co-dependence.
When we understand coercive control, it’s really about utter domination.
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Blogs can assist you produce earnings. Regardless of being an on-line company, it is a popular way to advertise a product or service. While it can aid you to boost your exposure as well as trustworthiness, you will certainly have to purchase an internet site. It is a fantastic means to make money from blogging, and also it can likewise be an excellent means to develop a home-based service. The initial prices to begin a blog are reduced and also the process is straightforward.
Some sorts of blog sites are totally personal. They are usually geared in the direction of a certain subject. Some are used as on-line journals. As an example, a political blogger may connect to an artist. A blog can also connect to a service’s website. Some kinds of blog sites are mostly used for advertising. This can aid people find valuable details. It can additionally help them build partnerships. In addition to being an on-line business, it can aid a company.
A blog site is a conversational activity. The main function of a blog is to share details. Making use of a blog site, a person can share their thoughts with others. It can be a method to connect with others. It can likewise be utilized as a way to market an item. For additional information, check out the Wikipedia short article concerning blogging.BIZ.org. There are lots of advantages to blog writing. You can obtain recognition for your business.
Blog writing is a terrific way to promote a product and services. Producing a blog is a fantastic way to market. By advertising your product, you can get direct exposure and also sales. When done right, blogging can assist your service. This will certainly allow you to reach a bigger target market than ever. The more people you reach, the more traffic you’ll have. And the more you share your content, the more probable your viewers will end up being faithful to your organization.
Many individuals utilize blog sites to establish brand-new partnerships. By checking out other people’s blogs, you can learn about their lives and rate of interests. You can learn more about different societies and also nations via their very own experiences. And also since the internet has made it so simple to share info as well as point of views, blogging has actually ended up being a fantastic means to construct your business. It’s not only a fantastic method to promote your products and services, it can additionally assist you connect with other individuals.
In the past, blog sites have actually become a prominent method to share thoughts and ideas. Despite its popularity, the term still has several pitfalls as well as is frequently utilized incorrectly. It is very important to recognize the benefits and drawbacks of blogging before you begin writing or releasing. You’re more probable to bring in fans and earn money than you ever visualized. It’s additionally a great way to construct relationships with others. There are various type of blog site platforms, as well as Blogging is among the most effective choices for producing a lucrative online company.
A blog is a web site where you blog post and also connect with others. It allows you to share info with individuals you meet as well as learn more about different societies. It can be a terrific means to make brand-new pals. And also if you’re not an expert in the field, you can still earn money to do it. You can also make money by blogging. It’s a fantastic way to advertise your service. When you begin a blog, you’re developing an opportunity for your brand. Visit this link
There are many advantages to blog writing. It permits organizations to communicate with their clients. It enhances consumer contentment, promotes brand name loyalty, as well as assists businesses get in touch with a huge audience. You can even outsource your contacting other people to target a niche audience. Along with maintaining a blog site approximately date, you can post material related to your firm or your passions. If you’re serious about your company, blogging is a superb means to engage with your target market. | <urn:uuid:1016d5cb-3088-45fb-a91d-3a0e34429fdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foothillathletic.com/2021/12/23/the-ultimate-discovery-of-blog-writing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96436 | 1,469 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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