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Blockchain technology continues infiltrating diverse industries, opening up new opportunities for businesses. With blockchain, banks and financial institutions can quickly verify client identities, speed-up global transactions exchange, and better protect their data. Logistics businesses can improve the transparency of their supply chains. Governments successfully implement the technology for enhancing data exchange in the public sector. Even the energy industry started discovering how to utilize distributed ledgers to make their services better.
Real estate has also found many cases on how to gain an advantage from blockchain technology. In this article, we’ll look into the ways blockchain has a positive impact on the real estate sector and how the technology can improve real estate transactions.
Why Blockchain Is in Demand in Real Estate Market
Buying a house or a mansion using cryptocurrency is becoming a common practice today. Crypto traders were closing real estate deals starting from 2014, though they happened quite rarely back then. Since 2017 the news of selling expensive real estate began to appear more often in the press:
But why do more and more real estate buyers and sellers opt for crypto when trading property? There are several reasons for that – increased demand for decentralization in payments, speed of transactions, enhanced safety and fraud risk mitigation, greater transparency of property history and its status. All these parameters are simple to attain by implementing blockchain technology and Smart Contracts in the real estate industry. Let’s have a closer look at how Smart Contracts can be applied in this sphere.
Ways Blockchain and Smart Contracts Have Changed Real Estate
Here are the ways how blockchain and Smart Contracts are disrupting the real estate industry.
Accessible Property Listing Services
Blockchain makes the real estate market more available for buyers and sellers. Traditionally, real estate has been sold through privately owned listings that connect buyers and sellers. Blockchain, in its turn, gives the opportunity to trade property on online trading platforms and marketplaces, supporting transactions in real-time and providing data to a wider audience.
To trade their real estate, sellers tokenize their property assets and sell them as stocks online. It means that they convert the property into tokens and can trade it as a single entity or in parts on a blockchain.
Elimination of Intermediaries
The property market has a complex ecosystem, consisting of broker, legal, financial, and other services. All of them require the participation of intermediaries that facilitate the property trading process, yet making it longer and much more expensive.
In its recent report on Blockchain in Commercial Real Estate, Deloitte states that blockchain and Smart Contracts will replace the intermediary roles and provide listing, payment, and legal document management services. As a result, buyers and sellers won’t have to pay commissions and fees to third parties, receiving consistent and fast service in one blockchain-based app or platform.
Traditionally, real estate is considered to be a low liquidity asset as it takes time for sales to conclude. With blockchain, sellers can significantly enhance the liquidity of their property.
Property tokens can be quickly exchanged to fiat currencies or traded in parts. Therefore, a seller doesn’t have to wait for the day when a buyer will be able to afford to purchase an entire house. Now, several buyers can invest in one building, sharing ownership with other investors. This way, parties can sell and buy assets much faster or obtain only fractions of tokens, carefully developing their investing strategies.
Transparency and Security
Blockchain creates a transparent and secure network accessible to everyone. This becomes possible as every participant owes a copy of an unchangeable transaction ledger where each transaction recording can be traced to its initiation. This way, the ledger contains all the property data buyers can access at any time. Moreover, the data is trackable in real-time, meaning that sellers and buyers can learn anytime at what stage of the deal they are and quickly verify the data, excluding any fraud or mistake.
How Does Blockchain Streamline Asset Management?
In the real estate sector, one of the major issues is to unambiguously determine the owner of the traded property. Blockchain uses programmable Smart Contracts and non-fungible tokens (NFT) for granting digital rights. Therefore, the technology has the full potential to change the way the real estate market operates.
Apart from defining property ownership, blockchain can impact the entire value chain of assent management, starting from client interaction to asset tracking and reporting. Here are the ways how it can be implemented for asset management:
- client onboarding – client onboarding can be a time-consuming process, especially when it comes to customer identification or KYC (Know your customer); blockchain can significantly alleviate the effort required for the KYC as it makes every transaction transparent and traceable for other participants of the network; as a result, the onboarding process can occur much quicker and smoother;
- trade settlement – using Smart Contracts sellers and buyers can ensure unbiased fulfillment of each condition included in the contract; this is achieved through the autonomy of Smart Contracts as neither of the parties can interfere with the contract execution process once the rules are settled and agreed upon;
- regulatory compliance – blockchain technology guarantees that Smart Contracts comply with the regulatory standards of a particular industry, location, or international laws; it provides a single source of credibility for blockchain participants and updates its base with the recent changes taken in the sphere; apart from the legal base, a distributed ledger can faster process the news and data that could influence the trades and traders’ decisions, providing them with the latest information on the underlying transactions.
Blockchain is bringing radical changes to the real estate sector so that it’s becoming more open and accessible for a wider number of people. Now, even those buyers who can’t afford to purchase a house in one payment gain an opportunity to invest into their property in tokens. Meanwhile, the services related to real estate are becoming cheaper, more transparent, and secure.
The shift to the blockchain is happening rapidly and many of those companies that operate in the property sphere are already seeking blockchain development services to enhance their platforms with this innovation. Soon, real estate services empowered by decentralized ledgers will become a casual peer-to-peer activity performed on blockchain platforms doing most of the work swiftly and in one place. | <urn:uuid:682e4468-4af6-42fa-b645-9bb7c0c6c248> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://comnobug.com/the-future-of-real-estate-transactions-on-the-blockchain-technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938339 | 1,271 | 2.421875 | 2 |
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has indicated President Donald Trump intends to maintain U.S. sanctions against Russia until Ukraine's independence is fully restored, including control over the Crimea. Mike Opelka calls for these sanctions to not only be maintained but increased.
In Mike's view, the Budapest Memorandum signed by Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. in 1994 — which guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity in exchange for their nuclear disarmament — contributed to Russia's willingness to invade Crimea, as Putin didn't believe that America would respond in force to an invasion of their former Eastern Bloc neighbor. Therefore, as Mike argues, the U.S. bears a large share of the responsibility for restoring the Crimea to Ukraine. | <urn:uuid:e02239ea-d3c0-4306-ae75-d1422bb20df1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theblaze.com/podcasts/ukraine-gave-up-its-nukes-at-americas-urging-leaving-them-powerless-to-stop-russia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953405 | 152 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The cast iron and glass structure opened with an impressive horticultural show in May 1874 and has remained the core of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood for 145 years. Now, the ground floor of Florence’s central market is changing things up a gear.
“After 145 years, we decided to change the name to reinforce our history and identity,” commented Massimo Manetti, president of the Historic Central Market Consortium. “It’s a way of best communicating the philosophy that we have always stood for: being a market for Florentines as well as a place brimming with experiences. In addition to the new name, we decided to introduce several initiatives, such as a discount card for residents living in the San Lorenzo area and a home delivery service—that agreement is still being defined—in an effort to encourage locals to stay in the city centre. San Lorenzo is a vibrant, multiethnic neighbourhood; it’s popular among tourists but the Florentine identity remains intact. The SLoWrenzo Storico Mercato Centrale is the hub of San Lorenzo, which is why a revitalization plan for the entire neighbourhood must begin here.”
SLoWrenzo Storico Mercato Centrale is the epithet recently acquired by the stallholders on the ground floor of the historic central market. The rebranding has been emblazoned on taxis around the city centre and has been accompanied with publicity in the local press.
“For years as an administration, we have worked to protect the city’s social fabric and the figures regarding businesses safeguarded by the UNESCO regulations and the resident figures are gradually proving us right,” explained Maurizio Sguanci, president of Florence’s Quartiere 1. “With SLoWrenzo, we want to offer families the option to do their grocery shopping and buy genuine produce in the heart of the city, in the San Lorenzo neighbourhood. It’s a way of supporting tradition and quality at the same time.”
As from December 9, the nearly 70,000 residents living in Florence’s historic centre will be able to collect a card, which entitles them to 10 percent off shopping from designated stalls in the ground floor market between January 2 and June 30. The card can be picked up from the Historic Central Market Consortium stand by the entrance in piazza del Mercato Centrale from Monday to Saturday, between 10am and 2pm. Additional actions have included discounted parking beneath the building, which now costs 1.50 euro for the first two hours on showing your grocery receipt, and a drive to go plastic-free—shoppers are urged to buy the market’s hard-wearing canvas bag.
The market’s role as a cultural hub continues to be fulfilled through regular events, such as the recent Palio della Trippa with home cooks showcasing their tripe recipes in front of a panel of chefs and journalists, and solidarity for the International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women and a “pink” fundraising aperitivo after Corri la Vita. See the Facebook page to stay updated.
It doesn’t stop there. Upcoming measures by the consortium are likely to include a repurposing of the market’s layout to emphasize the building’s importance as a community hub.
For the Christmas table
Dine out on discounts on the ground floor at Mercato Centrale to select culinary treats for the Christmas table. From quality cheeses to fine wines and homemade cakes, the goose won’t be the only one getting fat this holiday season.
CHEESE / Perhaps the most eclectic cheesemonger in Florence, I defy anyone to walk by Baroni Alimentari and not succumb to a wedge (or three). From fromages like Gruyère and unpasteurized Comté to northern Italy Raschera and Asiago, Alessandro and Paola wax lyrical about their astonishing stock. There’s also a fabulous range of salt and pepper—Himalayan pink, Persian blue and Hawaii red—from all around the world.
PASTA / Truffle ravioli, gnocchi, tiny pasta shapes for soup: the list is almost endless at FN Pasta Fresca. Order your tortellini for a traditional Christmas Day lunch or stock up on homemade wild boar sauce to pair perfectly with the rough-to-the-touch pappardelle. Shop like a Florentine and make the most of the daily discounts: 30 percent off ravioli and tortelli on Tuesdays and tortellini on Thursdays.
FUNGHI / You smell them before you see them. Simone Calugi’s Selektia Funghi stall is piled high with mushrooms, primarily porcini whose cost rightly varies according to quality: 10 euro will buy you 100 grams of favolosi, while 15 euro will bag bellissimi! Calugi’s pedigree says it all: his father Renato was a renowned Tuscan truffle hunter and fresh tubers from San Miniato and Creti Senesi are available (for a price) from this humble market stall. | <urn:uuid:e3509107-f57e-4559-8388-8050ed39f5b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theflorentine.net/2019/12/04/florence-central-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937718 | 1,080 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Put the Gloves on and Fight Honest & Hard
for a Great Education
Why Education is Important
Education gives people the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in this world.
Examples of Successful Educated People
From Shaq to Angela Basset, to Carrie Underwood to Michael Bloomberg, people that relied on their education and have kept their wealth.
Powerful Learning Strategies to apply in everyday life.
Pastor Timothy Williams is the Founder and CEO of Golden Gloves EDU. He was born with a learning disorder and was unable to read and spell until his mid 20's. At age 18, he went astray and lost his way for several years looking for a father figure. Despite him being an optimistic teenager working two after school part-time jobs with high hopes of being a pro football player and pro boxer, he abandoned his Christian faith and stopped attending the Christian Church services with his devoted Christian grandmother Mazell and brother Massai. Pastor Timothy will admit that Satan took him hostage for several years into his early 20's. Today, education has become a pillar in his life and helped him overcome obstacles on his road to success. In 2012, he earned a 4.0 GPA in college majoring in criminal justice, a major achievement. He loves helping others find their way in the Christian faith, and he takes pride in the fact that his past wrong doings did not involve the elderly, children or abusing women. Like the 1983 movie Scarface, he also lives by a code, do not harm children, do not harm the elderly, and do not harm and disrespect a woman. He preaches to abusive men, "our beloved grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters, and aunts are women. We must protect women." This is one of the many reasons why he volunteers his time going into prisons around the world sharing his amazing testimony and how the gospel of peace rescued him from being a sinful man. Back then when he decided to rededicate his life to Christianity, a drug-lord asked him to do a deal for 1.5 million dollars. Pastor Timothy instead walked away from all that money and chose the Lord Jesus! Many of his peers have always admired him for dating beautiful looking women while other insecure and ugly looking men have despised him for being a handsome and dapper man of God. However, he prays that his best quality is his heart, not his looks or the way that he dresses. He was a single man throughout his six years of studying to become an ordained evangelist/pastor, in which he vowed to the Lord Jesus, not to date a woman while in seminary. His six years of celibacy put him on a faith level beyond many other Christians. Pastor Timothy has zero tolerance for men who commit crimes against children and women. He is an advocate for abused women, he has volunteered as a motivational speaker for abused women at Access Capabilities in Pahoa, Hawaii. He understands that women who have experienced sexual abuse are at a significantly higher risk of experiencing a range of mental health conditions. His prayers are not in vain for the healing of all abused children, the elderly, and women, and he hopes that they call on the name of Jesus Christ to be healed.
Pastor Timothy preaches to men how all men should respect women, and see women as sisters in Christ Jesus, (1 Timothy 5:2). He has a serious demeanor, but his fruits/good works clearly shows that the genuine LOVE of the Lord Jesus lives within his heart. Satan hates him and would try to falsely accuse him of any and everything. He teaches, if you are being falsely accused, leap/jump for joy and say, "For it is written, Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for behold, your reward is great in Heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets," (LUKE 6: 22 & 23). Amen! Amen! Clearly, anyone who cannot see the amazing light of this man of God, is either a baby Christian or jealous. "It's not worth losing your Salvation and burning in Hell, bearing false witness against the Lord Jesus' anointed, which is the ninth Commandment," a quote spoken by Pastor Timothy regarding Satan deceiving the simple.
Pastor Timothy is an executive director and producer of the CROSSING THE STREETS TO JESUS TV show airing on NaLeo.tv and a motivational speaker encouraging the lives of many, such as Lawrence Taylor/"L.T." (NFL Hall of Fame 1999), Pastor Massai Z. Dorsey (Actor, Business Owner), Chad Thomas/aka "Brahma Bull" the former MMA Champion, Prophetess Carol James and Yolanda James. Pastor Timothy is a well-known and highly acclaimed motivational speaker, specializes in providing insights, guidance and enthusiasm tailored to fit the unique needs of each audience. People call Pastor Timothy Williams, a lightning bolt, the equalizer and TRD (the real deal). He humbly accepts their praise and gives all the glory to the Lord Jesus, for working through him.
L.A. California, ghetto neighborhoods were once known as being the wickedest place on the earth. Pastor Timothy led not one but seven of the most notorious gangsters to the Cross of Jesus Christ; namely, Garry Floyd/aka "big-forehead" a notorious crip, Thomas/aka "big-hotdog" a notorious crip, Dwayne Capers/aka "big-hawk" a notorious crip, Ronald/aka "black-ron" a notorious blood, Alfred Fobbs/aka "big-bam" a notorious crip, Joseph Gonzalez/aka "j-j" a notorious Mexican gangster, and Tommy/aka "big-tom" a notorious skinhead. He spoke boldly to these ruthless men that the Holy Bible, commands us Christians, to be fishermen of men; however, the Lord Jesus, has made Pastor Timothy a fisherman of catching whales/ruthless men. His fruit clearly shows that he is a Kingdom builder and devil chaser, he has purpose and principles that he lives by, eternal hope, and a prophet. His sister Carol James admits the best gospel song that describes Pastor Timothy is "The Best In Me" by Marvin Sapp. Please feel free to contact this amazing Christian king/bishop. | <urn:uuid:993405cc-da6c-4652-b6fb-583baf276604> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.goldenglovesedu.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969673 | 1,343 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The main objectives of the study were to (1) see whether the household circumstances of people aged 50 years and over with cancer, and trends in these, differ from those of the rest of the population and (2) whether living arrangements and presence and health status of a primary coresident are associated with place of death among older people dying of cancer and those dying from other causes. The design included prospective record linkage study of people aged 50 years and over included in a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales (the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study). The main outcome measures comprised family and household type, and death at home. The household circumstances of older people with cancer were very similar to those of the rest of the population of the same age and both showed a large increase in living alone, and decrease in living with relatives, between 1981 and 1991. The primary coresident of cancer sufferers who did not live alone was in most cases a spouse, with much smaller proportions living with a child, sibling or other person. In all, 30% of spouse, and 23% of other, primary coresidents had a limiting long-term illness. Compared with people who lived alone in 1991, odds of a home death among those dying of cancer between 1991 and 1995 were highest for those who lived with a spouse who had no limiting long-term illness (odds ratio (OR) 2.52, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.15-2.97) and raised for those living with a spouse with a long-term illness (OR 2.14, CI 1.79-2.56) and those living with someone else who was free of long-term illness (OR 2.13, CI 1.69-2.68). Higher socioeconomic status, both individual and area, was positively associated with increased chance of a home death, while older age reduced the chance of dying at home. The changing living arrangements of older people have important implications for planning and provision of care and treatment for cancer sufferers. | <urn:uuid:e5e6d2d6-3cb8-43de-8340-3de46144599d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15266318/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972964 | 410 | 2.125 | 2 |
Risk and ambiguity are inherent in virtually all human decision-making. Risk refers to a situation in which we know the precise probability of potential outcomes of each option, whereas ambiguity refers to a situation in which outcome probabilities are not known. A large body of research has shown that individuals prefer known risks to ambiguity, a phenomenon known as ambiguity aversion. One heated debate concerns whether risky and ambiguous decisions rely on the same or distinct neural circuits. In the current meta-analyses, we integrated the results of neuroimaging research on decision-making under risk (n = 69) and ambiguity (n = 31). Our results showed that both processing of risk and ambiguity showed convergence in anterior insula, indicating a key role of anterior insula in encoding uncertainty. Risk additionally engaged dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) and ventral striatum, whereas ambiguity specifically recruited the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and right anterior insula. Our findings demonstrate overlapping and distinct neural substrates underlying different types of uncertainty, guiding future neuroimaging research on risk-taking and ambiguity aversion.
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A recent May 1 article in Health Data Management “High Tech = High Touch”, authored by Elizabeth Gardner, discusses the importance of technology for the senior population throughout the continuum of care and to help mitigate hospital readmissions.
She uses a few flagship technologies to exemplify how information technologies are helping individuals to stay healthy.
In a section titled “GRANDCARE: STAYING CONNECTED AT HOME“, Gardner interviews Evergreen, a Silicon Valley-based Long Term Care Provider utilizing the GrandCare solution, GrandCare’s VP of Business Development, Laura Mitchell and GrandCare’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Erick Eiting.
Excerpt of the article:
A profusion of technologies can help people stay in their homes as they age, despite physical and mental disabilities: monitors and sensors to track vital signs and movement, the Internet for communication and entertainment, smart home features to control lights and temperature. However, tying them all together is a challenge beyond most elderly people and even the younger family members who may be caring for them.
That’s where GrandCare Systems, West Bend, Wisc., comes in. Started nine years ago, its goal is “to keep individuals safe, happy and independent at home, whatever that means,” says Laura Mitchell, vice president of business development.
“I have a 95-year-old resident who reads bedtime stories every night to her great grandchild in Florida,” he says. “She just has to press the button with his picture and they’re connected. No turning anything on, logging in or memorizing phone numbers.”
GrandCare Chief Medical Officer Erick Eiting, M.D., who’s also assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Southern California, thinks the system’s monitoring capabilities will be invaluable for improving communication between patients and their medical team.
“We can look at whether you’re taking your meds when you should be, and if not, why not,” he says. Problems with side effects can be headed off without requiring an office visit.
“We had one CHF patient who thought he was taking his meds, but we could see he wasn’t taking the evening dose of his diuretic,” Eiting says. “When we asked him why, he said it made him have to get up and go to the bathroom during the night. We increased his morning dose and that fixed it.”
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About The SchoolIt is committed to providing an outstanding quality English/Chinese bilingual international program. Learn more about this school
The role of the teacher is to provide quality, differentiated learning experiences for students in a socially, educationally and physically safe environment allowing them to learn, contribute and interact with their peers.
- Undertakes such teaching duties as stipulated in the contract of employment.
- Carry out such other related duties and responsibilities as may reasonably be requested by the Principal within the limitations of the teacher’s contract.
- Understands and adheres to the Teachers Essential Agreements
Teaching and Classroom Environment
- Creates a positive, stimulating, academic and risk free environment in which students can thrive educationally and socially.
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- Creates a learning environment which recognizes the individual learning styles of the students.
- Ensures that all students are aware of and follow behavioral agreements.
Addresses all issues with positivity
Ensures that classrooms, furnishings, resources and equipment are respected and valued by students
Planning and Organization
Follows all prescribed teaching strategies and curriculum delivery in line with the
school’s curriculum direction
Maintains all planning and record keeping as requested by the school
Demonstrates a collaborative model to all planning requirements
- Attends all regular departmental or team meetings
- Carries out teaching-related tasks as requested by the Administration.
- Prepares for and contributes to all Parent/Teacher events
- Participates in year-level or subject-based field trips as requested.
- Supports the school and its programs in a professional and collegial manner.
- Helps create a united and effective professional team by exhibiting qualities of loyalty, tact, confidentiality, reliability, enthusiasm, efficiency and work ethic.
- Provides a good personal example to students in terms of attitudes, dress, deportment, manners, language and punctuality.
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1. Provides the framework for students being able to work in a risk free environment. (Code of Conduct)
2. Is proactive with issues of student misbehavior.
3. Maintains a positive approach to aspects of behavior management.
4. Ensures the health, welfare and safety of students is paramount.
5. Involves other colleagues with incidents of student’s poor behavior or choices.
Undertakes school supervision duties in a professional manner providing a duty of care over all students.
1. Completes registers, forms and records according to specified deadlines.
2. Takes and monitors student attendance.
3. Plays a full part in ensuring that students pay attention to official communications from the school.
4. Ensures that students obey uniform regulations.
5. Participates in all professional meetings
6. Is fully professional in all areas of the school’s operations.
- Start date: As soon as possible
- Learners age: GK to G8 students
- Class Size: 30
- Teaching hours: FTE (0800 – 1630 Mon – Fri), 15 class per week
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- Professional teaching license/PGCE/QTS/SACE are needed
- At least 2 years teaching experience, homeroom teacher experience needed
- Experience in IB PYP curriculum strongly preferred
- Must be willing to commit to a 2-year contract
- Monthly salary (After China income tax) based on experience and qualification: 12,600 - 21,420/month
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Watch: Tom Hollander on playing three roles in The King's Man
The high intensity of a Matthew Vaughn set is always a challenge for an actor, but that's even more acute when you're playing three different characters.
That was the challenge faced by British actor Tom Hollander in The King's Man. He portrays King George V of England, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany in the movie.
Nicholas and Wilhelm were both first cousins of King George and the trio were close as children, before they found themselves on various sides of conflict during the First World War.
Hollander told Yahoo he relished getting his teeth into the three characters and, for the most part, was able to separate the roles across different days of filming.
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"I don't think they were ever on exactly the same day because the make-up took so long," said Hollander.
He added: "Possibly towards the end I had to swap in one day. But the make-up was three or four hours. All that hair and the lenses and the noses and whatnot.
"So you couldn't actually have both of them on the same day. There were not enough hours in the day really, given how much else there was going on in the film.
"I think there was one day where I was the Kaiser and the Tsar on the same day, which was difficult because I was putting on accents for both of those and they sometimes got a bit muddy.
"Matthew would shout 'you sound like the Kaiser!' and I'd go 'oh dear, it's going very badly'."
Hollander added that having to maintain the different accents often presented a serious difficulty for him, despite how well he thought he was doing at times.
He said: "In my mind, I thought I sounded completely different, but honestly the mouth shapes of some of the Russian and German were just too similar. So it was harder than I thought.
"I was in no doubt in my own mind which character was playing, but that was not what was coming out and then you know you're in trouble."
Hollander previously played King George V in 2003 TV drama The Lost Prince and suggested casting directors are swayed because he "slightly looks like him".
The star revealed he had some misgivings about the story's strange twists on history, but said the tone of the film has "a unique, Matthew Vaughn bravura thing" which helps it to fly.
"Where I might have been rather squeamish reading a historical bit of confabulation in a script, when you see the film you go 'oh, it's brilliant'," he said.
Hollander added: "It's a whimsical notion but it's a wonderful one and it sort of almost could be true. Stranger things have happened and so on.
"So it doesn't have any trouble or problem taking you with it when you watch it. You're delighted by the invention of it, I think."
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The movie follows Ralph Fiennes as Orlando Oxford, who forms the Kingsman organisation in order to fight the shadowy conflict hiding behind the Great War.
He's joined in the cast by Gemma Arterton, Djimon Hounsou and Harris Dickinson, with Rhys Ifans delivering a colourful take on Russian mystic Rasputin.
The King's Man is due to be released into UK cinemas on Boxing Day.
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When we begin to draw, we focus on conquering the line. Often we are driven by popular artistic influences in our youthful lives to draw the strong contours of comic book heroes, Japanese anime or maybe our favorite computer game warrior. If you are older, maybe you struggled to copy the works of science fiction artists like Frank Franzetta or Boris Vallejo. While these images appeal to a young mind, it’s really hard to ever consider that there would be other options or even a method to improve an artists skill set. Very few of us have received or even knew about proper classical drawing practices especially while at a public school. If you are past high school, the first solution would be to find the closest Drawing Atelier and get started learning correctly. Even if you are still in school some ateliers offer programs for youths. You may even be fortunate to find a life drawing class at a local art school or community college. Regardless, what if you don’t have the luxury of having an atelier or any art school that teaches classical drawing and painting methods close to you?
As I mentioned in the previous post, it’s time to become disciplined and really start looking for opportunities to grow even on your own. How can you do that? Draw! Draw every day. Draw even when you are on your lunch, on a break or on vacation. If you haven’t trained yourself to do that yet, maybe make yourself a daily schedule and try to stick to it until its intuitive. As I’ve mentioned before, when you are on the go, make sure you carry a sketchbook with you. When you are at home draw anything you can get your hands on. At first stick to simple objects like an apple or an orange. Then move on to vases, coffee cups, lamps, etc.
Now that you are drawing, it’s important to start to go beyond your comfort zone, that warm fuzzy outline, and look deeper at what is in front of you. Try not to draw from photographs at first. For me personally, I like to concentrate on small objects that i can really observe the subtle changes in the values that model an image. I really enjoy leaves, but how about a simple egg to start? Before you even begin though, don’t think about the outline of that object. Really look at it. Look at where the highlight is and then allow you eyes to explore how that light indicates the subtle changes in the form as it turns away from the light. Almost allow your mind to feel that object for you with those clues. Look at the shadow. Look at how dark it is where the object rests on a surface. As you follow the shadow you can see how the shadow becomes lighter as it moves further away from the covering of the object and into the light. At the edges of the shadow it softens till it gives way to the light. Now that you’ve looked at it maybe try to sketch the values first before you ever even make a line. You practice of these observations can be the portal to your success. You are the master of your fate.
Regardless of where you think you are in your abilities, constantly challenge yourself to grow and improve your skills. This is a study I’ve been working on to try to recreate the values of a portion of this famous sculpture. I did use a photograph as a reference in this situation only due to not being able to study it in person. Regardless, I alternate between studies of life and photographs. I would only do this when you are beginning to become more advanced in your drawing skills. Happy drawing everyone! | <urn:uuid:6efc194f-9293-4a51-999b-db40af4de151> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reeseosborne.wordpress.com/2019/06/06/looking-deeper/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965318 | 744 | 2.296875 | 2 |
There has been plenty of discussion in recent years about the safety of using common ride-sharing services in your community. In fact, ride-sharing service safety concerns have now inspired a number of legislative efforts to double down on screening and safety checks for ride-sharing drivers, and with good reason. It turns out that the companies behind your favorite ride-sharing apps may be overlooking some important safety indicators.
Gaps in Background Checks
Most ride-sharing services now use a multi-tier screening process. This includes an initial screening where the service does a surface-level background check for recent criminal convictions, driving incidents and more. If all of these come back clear, the driver is sent through a state-level background check where required. This process has uncovered a number of red flags among candidates who were otherwise approved by the company. Most notably, it discovered that some approved candidates were underage or had previous convictions for violent behavior outside the scope of their initial search. As a rider, this is information you would want to know before you get into the back of a car.
Ongoing Ride-Sharing Safety Monitoring
Aside from the initial background checks, ride-sharing services have had trouble keeping up with the status of their already-active drivers. For instance, if a driver is convicted of a crime or involved in a serious motor vehicle incident after they have been approved, it could be a while before the ride-sharing service flags them or disqualifies them. In the meantime, you could be riding with someone who has had their license suspended or is no longer eligible to provide ride-sharing services.
There is also the crucial matter of vehicle safety. When it comes to ride-sharing services and safety, there are currently no checkpoints or other steps during which the vehicle is inspected and deemed safe. All other taxi and livery services operating for profit must undergo these inspections on a routine basis to protect consumers. Rideshare services have put that responsibility entirely on drivers, who are often driving because they are short on cash and can’t afford a repair in the first place. This raises serious questions about the potential for accidents, and whether the driver’s insurance coverage would protect riders in the event of equipment failure.
Legislative bodies across the nation are currently looking at options for improving ride-sharing services safety, but until we have uniform laws to protect consumers, these three safety concerns should be at the top of your mind when you are planning your travel. When you need to get where you are going without having to stress over safety, make sure you call a professional car service and reserve your ride.
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This Sunday 25 March come along to Maribyrnong’s Family Bike Day and hear all about the council's current…
We recently moved house and office and along with it all our bicycles – a kids balance bike, single speed, ladies step-through, fold up and cargo bike (if that sounds like a lot we got rid of another three before we moved!). Instead of hauling the lot of them to our local bike shop, and being without our mode of transport for days, we called Good Cycles.
Good Cycles are mobile bike mechanics whose workshop is based out of Docklands. They ride around the CBD and inner city with their 30+ kg Yuba impressively laden with tools, parts and accessories, servicing bikes in people’s offices, universities and at your home.
That means you don’t need to be without your bike on your commute and your errands and don’t have to spend your lunch hour or weekends getting your bike fixed. How often do you put off getting your bike serviced because it’s too much hassle? (Guilty as charged).
Good Cycles rode their cargo bike over to my house and set up in their mobile workshop in my backyard. For almost three hours Mike the mechanic checked, greased, aligned and pumped our bikes, giving them the kind of attention that they hadn’t received in a long time. A standard service costs $77 or you can upgrade to higher levels of service for $120 and $170. Their prices are commensurate with the prices for most local bike shops and they offer discounts for group bookings too.
Not only is getting your bike serviced by Good Cycles more convenient than taking your bike to a bike shop, the business is also a social enterprise. They teach people in need, such as long term unemployed and homeless, to be bike mechanics (an in-demand job). They work with Melbourne City Mission, job agencies, and the Youth Support and Advocacy to recruit trainees into the program then during the 18 month program, participants are employed as trainees, completing on-and-off the job training in Certificate III in Bicycles and teamed with qualified bike mechanics. The traineeship includes accredited training, employment, personal support and assistance with transition into the open labour market with an option to complete an apprenticeship if they opportunity arises.
Good Cycles also run workshops and classes in bike maintenance and help local governments and community organisations deliver bicycle-based programs. All the profits from the business go back to supporting, training and engaging the people they help.
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Germany is located in the heart of Europe, and for a long time, it has held the place as one of the top destinations for travelers. The Country offers old-fashioned architecture and is one of the strongest economies in the world.
A German Tourist Visa is for a Short Stay Schengen Visa for Germany. It is granted for a period of 90 days to 180 days. Currently, there are 62 countries that are exempted from the German Tourist Visa requirements. You will need a German Tourist visa if your country has not reached a Visa Liberalization Agreement with the Schengen Countries.
The best time to apply for a Germany Visitor visa is one month before the intended date of Travel to Germany. You can also apply six months earlier, but the latest would be two weeks before your intended trip.
The ideal fee for the Germany Visitor Visa is EUR 80. For children between the age of 6 – 12 years, the fee is EUR 40, and it is free of cost for children aged 0 – 6 years. The fee will also depend on your nationality as the application fee is less for some countries. Do keep the exchange rate in mind when doing calculations for the Visa fee.
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Laminate flooring is versatile and low-maintenance. These sheets are made from wood particles that have been compressed under high stress. The sheets are then coated in a photorealistic image. A wear layer is also added to the top to protect against external elements and provide durability. The layers are then protected by a transparent, hard plastic layer. This layer is made from melamine. It has two layers: one to protect design and one to protect wear.
Laminate flooring’s wear layer protects the decorative layer from daily wear and tear. A backing layer protects the top layer from fading and is necessary for allowing the flooring to float. These three layers are crucial to the flooring’s durability. These layers create a durable and attractive floor that can be used in any room of the house. Each one can last many years if installed properly. When you’re ready to install laminate flooring, keep these three important layers in mind.
Laminate floors protect the wear layer and the decorative paper layer from ultraviolet rays. Laminate floors provide protection because long exposure to sunlight can cause chemical bonds to break down and cause the floor to fade. Your floors could look tired before you even finish them. Laminate flooring is a great choice because it is scratch-resistant and abrasion resistant. Moreover, the appearance of your home will improve when you choose the right type.
The wear layer protects decorative paper layers from everyday wear and tear during installation. The wear layer protects the decorative paper layer from damaging ultraviolet rays. Photodegradation occurs when the decorative paper layer is left exposed to the sun for too long. This results in a dull color. Laminate flooring has UV protection which protects against this. Your laminate flooring will last many years if you choose the right type of UV protection.
Laminate flooring comes in many styles. The type of laminate flooring you choose will depend on the area where it will be installed. You should choose a laminate flooring that is more durable and scratch-resistant if you plan to place it in high-traffic areas. AC ratings indicate the product’s durability, abrasion resistance, and other characteristics. Laminate floors with lower AC ratings can only be used in areas that are less frequented, while laminate floors with higher AC ratings may be used on many surfaces.
There are several benefits of laminate flooring. Laminate flooring is durable and easy-to-clean. It also comes in a variety colors, styles, textures, and is eco-friendly. In addition to being environmentally-friendly, laminate flooring is also available in environmentally-friendly products. You can choose from either engineered wood laminate or polypropylene depending on your preference. Plastic is more affordable than melamine. Both types of laminate flooring can give you the authentic wood look you want.
As opposed to hardwood, laminate flooring is environmentally-friendly and is more resistant to foot and pet wear than other types of flooring. Laminate flooring is a great choice for a family home, as it is not only environmentally friendly but also very durable. If you have young children, you can safely use laminated floors in these rooms. It can be used in areas with large windows. These floors are easy to clean. They are also safer than hardwood flooring.
Laminate flooring offers many benefits. It is affordable, durable, and eco-friendly. Unlike hardwood, it is made to mimic the look of real wood without the high cost. It is also more durable than traditional wood and can still be installed at the same cost. Laminate flooring can be scratched or damaged during installation. It is best to consult professionals before you start the project.
Laminate flooring is resistant to scratching and scuffing and can withstand a lot more wear. Its hard surface makes it an ideal choice for bathrooms and kitchens, and is durable enough for all types of activities. It is available in many different styles. Some prefer a modern look while others prefer more traditional styles. No matter what style you prefer, a laminate floor can match your decor and last many years.
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Brisbane ( (listen) BRIZ-bən) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia, as well as Oceania. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of around 2.6 million, and it lies at the centre of the South East Queensland metropolitan region, which encompasses a population of around 3.8 million. The Brisbane central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about 15 km (9 mi) from its mouth at Moreton Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea. Geographically Australia's largest metropolitan area, Brisbane extends in all directions along the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor and D'Aguilar mountain ranges. It sprawls across several of Australia's most populous local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane, Australia's most populous local government area.
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
Transitions are, in my experience, great sources of inner growth, painful as they often are. This is true whether the transition is one we chose to make or whether it is forced on us by circumstance. Aside from our two greatest transitions, our birth and death, our lives are filled with transitions, including falling in and out of love, getting married or divorced, starting a family or a career, the birth of children, changing careers, changing jobs, falling seriously ill, retirement, the death of those close to us, and many others. The support of a trusted companion/mentor at these times offers us not only the warmth of a friend but also help in finding the many lessons all transitions offer us.
While there is growth in any transition, two of the most important transitions include:
Retirement. Retirement is often a time we anticipate with eagerness and/or dread; it is a time of opening to new experiences as well as a time of loss. For some it can be a time of great inner growth, a new phase of life. It is a challenging time, and it is helpful to work with a mentor to explore the remarkable possibilities retirement presents. To read more, please click here.
Career Change. There comes a time for many of us when we begin to feel restless in our current career, even one we may enjoy, where it may even begin to feel like a straightjacket. This can be a rich time to explore these feelings and where we might want to go next. To read more, please click here. | <urn:uuid:30b2cb7f-7196-4678-bf1e-b5cbe14e6945> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mcilwainmentoring.net/transitions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963962 | 347 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Do Tarot cards have special powers, or is it all in the mind? Are Tarot cards any better at producing psychic messages than any other divinatory tool? This article attempts to find out.
During the 25 years or so that I have been reading the Tarot cards, I have been asked many questions by the clients I have helped. By far the most popular, however, is “How do the cards work?”. The simple answer to this is – they don’t. There is nothing special about the Tarot cards themselves – they have no magical qualities, nothing that sets them apart from a pack of any other kind of cards. So, how do the Tarot cards produce such accurate results?
The answer, of course, is the same as the answer to the previous question – the Tarot cards themselves do not produce any results. It is not the cards that produce the results, but the combined efforts of the person who is having their cards read and the person who is reading them. If it were the Tarot cards themselves that produced the results, every reading would be the same in that it would produce results with the same level of accuracy, but this doesn’t happen.
All Tarot readers will agree that some subjects are far easier to read the cards for than others and this has nothing to do with the cards themselves. The reader doesn’t forget what the cards mean from one reading to the next. The reason some subjects are difficult to obtain results for is down to the subject themselves and how easy it is for the reader to ‘tune-in’ to their thoughts.
The Tarot, like any other psychic medium, works by providing a tool with which to interpret the telepathic messages sent from the subject to the reader. It is because of this simple fact that it is actually possible to use anything to access this information. I attend a Psychic Club locally, where we have tuned-in to our subconscious minds using everything from flower petals to the patterns produced on a sheet of paper when it is held over the flame of a candle. All these methods have produced equally accurate results. The Tarot is used more often simply because it is more widely-known and therefore more acceptable.
If you ignore what is being used to conduct the reading and look solely at how the readings actually work, you will see that it is possible to obtain psychic messages from almost anything. You can see an example of this in the article Forget Tarot Cards – Read Trivial Pursuit Cards!, which you will find on this site.
The messages come from the subconscious mind of the subject to the subconscious mind of the reader via a telepathic, or psychic link and are interpreted in the same way regardless of what items are used to assist in that interpretation. It is rather like saying that it is only possible to take part in a telephone conversation if you use a certain type of telephone – i.e., it isn’t the telephone that matters, but the connection between the two people involved in the conversation.
Having said that, it is possible to conduct a reading using no tools whatsoever, simply by tuning in direct to the subconscious of the subject, in much the same way as a medium obtains messages from the spirit world. Most subjects, however, prefer the reader to use some form of tool when giving a reading, it can apparently be quite disconcerting for the subject if the reader simply sits opposite them and starts telling them their life story!
A lot of credence is also given to the ‘vibes’ on the cards. Some sources say you should not even let the subject cut the cards, let alone shuffle them, but I have never found this to cause any problems and it doesn’t seem to affect the accuracy of the reading. Indeed, it is not actually necessary for the subject to touch the cards at all, otherwise it would not be possible to conduct perfectly accurate readings over the telephone or even by e-mail. It is simply that most clients prefer to handle the cards so they feel more personally involved with the reading and this is perfectly understandable.
No one really knows for sure how the Tarot cards work. Some readers believe that the cards can be read without any psychic forces being involved and this may well be possible if they are used purely as a psychological tool, but it is my personal belief that even in readings such as this, the subconscious mind still plays a very important part.
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Project Monitoring and Control
Effective monitoring and control are essential processes for ensuring that a project is completed on schedule and on budget while delivering a result that adds value to the organization.
In this course you will be introduced to the requirements for project monitoring and control and armed with proven techniques and skills for evaluating and reporting on project status.
It is recommended that individuals registering for this course have had prior exposure to the project management knowledge areas and process groups.
14 PMI professional development units
Register for a course at any time, with the option to apply to a program later.
- Fri, Jan 20, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Sat, Jan 21, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Fri, Jul 7, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
- Sat, Jul 8, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time (virtual class)
What you will learn
After completing this course, you’ll be able to do the following:
- Demonstrate your understanding of the concept of project monitoring
- Use proven techniques to monitor and control a project
- Demonstrate your understanding of the concepts of team acquisition and team-building
How you will learn and be evaluated
- Expect readings and other assignments
- Plan to participate in exercises, discussions, case studies and presentations
You will be evaluated on a Pass/Fail basis on:
- Individual or group projects
- Participation and attendance
To graduate with the Project Management Certificate, you will need to pass all 13 courses.
Course fees do not include textbooks. We recommend you purchase your textbook as soon as you’ve registered. We will provide additional course materials online.
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), 7th edition. Available for purchase from online or local bookstores, or through the PMI website. We will expect you to have read the textbook, as this course will reference relevant chapters.
For online courses, you will need a computer with audio and microphone that is connected to the internet. Canvas is the online system that will be used for the course. For more information and online support, visit Online Learning.
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The Federal Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, has identified certain populations that must receive priority admission to treatment when the cost of the services is covered by the Federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant. Since Aspire Health Partners is a recipient of Block Grant funding, these populations have priority status for admissions because of their impact on families and society.
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Where do you want your STEM education to take you? The AEOP Undergraduate Apprenticeship program invites you to elevate your STEM knowledge and experience and take part in the research that is shaping the future of our nation. If you are interested in pursuing a career in STEM or want to take the next step in your STEM education, an AEOP Undergraduate Apprenticeship may be right for you. As an apprentice, you will gain first hand exposure to the cutting edge research that is happening in top university labs and U.S. Army Research Laboratories and Centers across the country. Working under the mentorship of a professional scientist or engineer, you will learn about the variety of paths in your STEM field of interest and develop the tools you need to get there. Let AEOP help you achieve your STEM education and career goals!
AEOP Apprenticeship Benefits
- Stand out from your peers by making the most of your summer or the academic year. The experience of an AEOP apprenticeship looks good to graduate school admissions officers and recruiters for STEM jobs.
- Be in the room where it happens. Apply classroom knowledge and feed your curiosity by immersing yourself in the research world. Not only will you be exposed to high-tech equipment and cutting edge techniques, but you will learn the sounds, smells, and the pace of the lab. Learn the culture of STEM.
- Mentorship is the special sauce. There is so much to learn from the people in the lab. As an AEOP Apprentice you will receive formal mentorship from a professional scientist or engineer. In addition to this, there will be multiple opportunities for you to learn from the STEM practitioners, of varying levels of experience, around you. Receive guidance and coaching and start building a network that will make all the difference in your STEM journey.
- Research that matters. U.S. Army-sponsored research addresses the Nation’s biggest challenges. An AEOP apprenticeship provides the opportunity to be part of the long history of discovery and innovation for the benefit of our country.
- Ongoing support. Connect with a community of like-minded peers, other AEOP apprentices from throughout the country. Take advantage of the AEOP’s ongoing webinar series that highlights hot STEM careers, research areas, and additional opportunities with the AEOP. Or, attend a workshop to build skills required for graduate school applications and/or your job search.
- Earn a stipend. Not only is participation in the AEOP free, all AEOP apprentices receive an educational stipend in recognition of their work.
Information for Applicants
- In collaboration with universities and U.S. Army Research Laboratories and Centers, the AEOP is proud to offer summer, semester, and year-round apprenticeships for undergraduate students throughout the country.
- Apprenticeships take place onsite unless otherwise noted. (In the case of location closures due to COVID-19 restrictions, apprenticeships may be offered remotely or cancelled depending on individual location circumstances.)
- AEOP Undergraduate Apprenticeships are designed for commuters. Transportation, meals, and housing are not provided. It is important to keep this in mind when selecting locations in the application.
- Applicants must meet eligibility requirements, complete the AEOP Undergraduate Apprenticeships application, and submit recommendations (if required) by the due date in order to be considered for an apprenticeship.
- Please review the application FAQ for application tips and answers to frequently asked questions. We strongly recommend that you write the essay and gather materials (transcript, etc.) before starting the application. Information on what is included in the application is included in the FAQ here.
- Letters of recommendation are required for some apprenticeship locations. Find the recommendations form here. Extraneous recommendations will not be reviewed.
- There is no application fee and participation in AEOP Apprenticeships is free.
- All apprentices earn an educational stipend in recognition of their participation. The stipend amount varies by apprenticeship location and program duration. If selected for the apprenticeship, information about the stipend will be provided in the award letter.
- Spring 2022 Undergraduate Apprenticeships are now closed.
- Summer 2022 Undergraduate Apprenticeships are closed.
All participants must be current undergraduate students who are U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents. Additional eligibility requirements vary by location.
December 15, 2021 - February 28, 2022
Spring and Summer 2022 Undergraduate Apprenticeships applications open
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Some sites are extending application deadlines to March 21. Please check the updated location list.
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Clerk Offices in Attala County, Mississippi maintain and preserve public records for a local government, including vital documents such as death certificates. Attala County death certificates provide information on the deceased individual's name, the place and time of death, and age at death. They may also include the cause of death. Attala County Clerks often issue certified death certificates, which may be required to settle financial and legal matters such as wills, estates, or filing for life insurance. Death certificates can also be used for genealogical research, and some Clerk Offices maintain Attala County vital records that date back to the 1600s. Clerk Offices typically provide online access to death certificates.
Attala County Clerk Kosciusko MS 230 West Washington Street 39090 662-289-7272
Health Departments in Attala County, Mississippi monitor public health and keep vital records, and they operate at the state, county, or local level. As part of this job, Health Departments maintain Attala County death certificates, which include information about the deceased individual such as name, date of birth, time and place of death, and age at death. Death certificates may also include the cause of death. These records can be used to settle legal and financial matters, including wills, estates, and life insurance filings. Death certificates may be available through the Attala County Health Department website.
Attala County Health Department Kosciusko MS 999 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive 39090 662-289-2351
Hospitals in Attala County, Mississippi provide a range of medical services to patients of all ages, and they also create death records for individuals who pass away or are declared dead at a Hospital. These death certificates list the deceased individual's name, the time and place of death, and age at death, and they may also include the cause of death. Attala County Hospitals report death information to Mississippi State and local government authorities, which issue certified Attala County death certificates that act as legal proof of death. Hospital death certificates may be available online through the Hospital website.
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Living with flatmates can be expensive depending where you are, but worrying about paying rent is only one aspect of the total cost of living. Rent, utilities and food can really add up. Whilst you can’t get a discount renting, if you’re smart about the way you spend your money and have a keen eye, you can spot deals left, right and centre which can seriously help with saving.
What are the tricks of the trade? Where are the best places to find discounts?
Coupons!! People say they are just small discounts which don’t mean much in terms of saving and hey are hard to handle. No! They are just simple excuses. It’s time to get that out of your head and treat them like gold. Anyone can save a little and it will seriously add up over time. Here are some tips to gathering coupons to save;
1. Change your attitude
No more, “they never have coupons for the things I buy”, or “they get confusing and useless after a while”. This is the wrong attitude to save money.
It’s time to have an open mind. Without an open mind, it’s not going to happen. Why do you need to buy the most expensive food brand? is there anything wrong with home brand/generic products? Throw your brand loyalty out the window and start thinking about being cost-effective. At the end of the day, it’s basically the same product but different packaging. Don’t get fooled by the packaging!
2. You need to shop to stock up, not to shop for the week
Stop taking coupons out of the Sunday insert in the paper and stick it on your fridge as a reminder. You aren’t going to save money on groceries or utilities that way. You are going to start shopping smarter. Wait and save!
Let for the best sales prices and match a coupon to save on that item. But where can you find them?
- Sign up to grocery store newsletters straight your phone, such as Coles, Woolworths or Aldi.
- Sign up to comparison sites like the two above finder.com.au or comparethemakret.com
- There’s even Facebook groups dedicated to coupon people – connect with them!
- Couponic.com.au (life saver!)
There are many options out there. Buy 4 or 6 of the item so you have enough until the next time the price drops low. This simple money saving technique is referred to as stockpiling and it is the key to saving money.
3. You won’t become the coupon King or Queen overnight
If you start to save all these coupons and look at all the various optins out there, you are just goign to burn out. Focus on three main things you want to save on, for example; food, phone bill and medicine. Now, focus on two main sites each which focus on covering the savings you want to discover.
- Phone Bill = Comparethemarket.com or finder.com.au
- Medicine = getprice.com.au
4. Organise everything into one place
Soon as you sign up and explore all of them, check out the best products you like, write a list and check once a week for when specials for those products are on.
How easy is that?
5. Understand more about Sales Cycles
Now, this is seriously a nifty life hack once you beat the stores at their own game. Understanding sales cycles of shopping will certainly savr you big time in the long run. It’s not an overnight trick, but you will start to notice trends which will certainly come in handy for stocking up at the right time.
This post, “Ultimate guide to Grocery Sales Cycles” is simply incredible and well worth the read. Here is a taste of their infographic and they do it for each month.
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Do trout go after frogs?
Yes, they absolutely do. While trout feeding on frogs seems to be a mostly incidental occurrence, there are many bodies of water in which trout regularly feed on tadpoles. ... Trout living in ponds or lakes are much more likely to eat tadpoles than river-dwelling trout.
Do Pictus catfish breathe fast?
They always breathe fast when they're smaller.
What is the most expensive fish?
Pacific Bluefin Tuna Pacific Bluefin Tuna: The World's Most Expensive Fish.
What is the best time to catch bluefish?
With many species, the best times of day to head out for the best catch opportunities are generally early morning and dusk, during low light conditions, or on overcast days. But bluefish can often be caught and landed at any time, opening up nearly unlimited possibilities for scheduling your time on the water.
Do shrimps die easily?
During all the seasons but summer very cold water tends to come out of the tap. If you change too much water all at once and refill it with the ice-cold tap water, your shrimp will experience a temperature shock and many of them will die over the next few days or weeks.
How do you target a yellow tail snapper?
Cut bait such as ballyhoo, sardines, squid, or shrimp are effective. The best way to fish is to mostly bury the hook in the bait, then freeline it into the chum slick so that it drifts back with the rest of the chum. Leave the line in free spool and let the line slowly peel off as the bait drifts back.
What fish is Korean sashimi?
It's nearly impossible to replicate this cuisine without live fish, particularly the subtle and sweet Korean sashimi favorite, live flounder.
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The meat of the fish easily peels away in tender, flaky chunks as it is infused with all the flavors of sweet smoky wood. When paired with seasonings of fresh herbs and citrus aromatics, smoked fish is a tasty treat that you can feel good about indulging in. Here are our best tips for how to smoke fish in a smoker.
Randy's answer: This brown or grayish meat is a natural layer of fat that lies between the skin and flesh in salmon and other oily fish. It's rich in healthy omega-3s and perfectly fine and tasty to eat if the fish has been well cared for.
The biological oxygen demand (BOD) of the pond is the determining factor in the consequences of a rapid turnover. Ponds with large fish populations, deep organic sediment layers, high nutrients, and poor aeration are most prone to catastrophic fish kills.
For each pound of shrimp, combine 2 quarts water, 1/4 cup salt and 1/4 cup sugar in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together until the salt and sugar dissolve. STEP TWO: Soak the shrimp. Place the peeled and deveined shrimp in the brine solution, and allow them to sit untouched for 30 minutes at room temperature.
- Heat the peanut oil in a 5-quart Dutch oven over high heat until it reaches 350 degrees F on a deep-fry thermometer. ...
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- Gently add the fillets, 2 at a time, to the hot oil and fry until golden brown, about 5 to 6 minutes.
Fresh fish Fish, appearing especially in the phrase fresh fish, is prison slang for new, first-time inmates, usually considered naive and vulnerable.
If you've bought your razor clams from the store, already cleaned and frozen or on ice, congratulations—you'll have literally no cleaning work to do. Processors flash-freeze the clams after cleaning them thoroughly. Thaw them and use them within a day or two, or keep them in your freezer for months.
It won't spoil if it sits at room temperature for 30 minutes or even an hour, but it's definitely not a healthy thing to do. Please note that some producers sell smoked salmon unrefrigerated.
You can always choose to cook these ahi tuna steaks all the way through to be well-done. But tuna steaks are usually served seared on the outside and raw on the inside. ... If you order it a restaurant, it's bound to be cooked medium-rare as well.
Definitely DO NOT REMOVE THE SHELL. He'll eat it to help build his new shell faster. This is doubly important if he's in a tank with other crayfish or larger fish... a newly molted crayfish is an easy meal for a lot of things.
Properly stored, cooked tilapia will last for 3 to 4 days in the refrigerator. To further extend the shelf life of cooked tilapia, freeze it; freeze in covered airtight containers or heavy-duty freezer bags, or wrap tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil or freezer wrap. How long does cooked tilapia last in the freezer?
Thankfully, deep sea fishing is not especially dangerous. However, anything involving boats, water, hooks, knives, wild animals and unpredictable weather will present some sort of risk. Some common concerns about deep sea fishing are: Can the boat sink?
Light rods handle lures that weigh under 1/16 ounce. Medium rods work best with lures around 1/8–3/8 ounces, and. Medium-heavy and Heavy rods handle line over 4lb Test and lures between 3/16–1 1/2 ounces.
Prawns, which are similar to shrimp, can be eaten raw or cooked. However, eating a prawn raw increases the risk of food poisoning due to bacteria and improper preparation. ... If you do decide to eat prawns raw, make sure they are cold. Stop eating raw prawns if you notice a strange smell or taste.
Fishing on the Colorado River has been good for a while. White Bass, freshwater drum, Guadalupe Bass, Largemouth Bass, and even a few Buffalo have all been caught on the Colorado in the last couple of weeks. A few folks have been lucky enough to catch some bass on top.
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Your FRA and What It Means to Your Finances
When it comes to retirement, knowing your Full Retirement Age, or FRA, is just as vital as knowing your Social Security number and your birthdate – that “magic number” determines when you can start taking your full Social Security benefits, how much you’ll receive, and ultimately, how much money you’ll have in retirement.
While Social Security likely won’t supply the bulk of your retirement income, especially for those planning a high net worth retirement, your benefits will play a crucial role in your overall retirement plan as “guaranteed” income for life.
There are a few common places where people go wrong when it comes to their Social Security benefits. Not understanding how their FRA affects the amount they receive is one of them.
Once you know your FRA, the amount you receive in Social Security benefits depends on 3 elements:
- Your age when you file your claim
- Your lifetime earnings as reflected in your work record
- The lifetime earnings of your spouse (when figuring survivor and spousal benefits)
One of the biggest retirement fears people share with me is running out of money later in life. Making a well-thought-out decision about when to start taking your Social Security benefits is part of how you ensure that doesn’t happen.
What Is Your FRA?
Your FRA is the age at which you can first claim 100 percent of your Social Security benefits. The following table, courtesy of the Social Security Administration (SSA), summarizes the FRAs of individuals born since 1943. It shows the FRA by birth year and also the number of months between age 62 (when you can first claim benefits) and your FRA.
The FRA of those born before 1955 is 66. That number gradually increases from 1955 to 1959. All those born from 1960 on, have a FRA of 67. There are a few notes to consider:
- When figuring your FRA (and your benefit), birthdays on the first of a month are treated as if it occurred in the previous month.
- With that said, if your birthday was January 1, your FRA and benefit are figured as if it occurred in December of the previous year.
- If you start taking benefits at age 62, you must be 62 for the full month before you start receiving benefits.
For more on Social Security benefits, check out our new guide: Understanding Social Security.
Don’t make a rash decision on when you should start claiming Social Security benefits. Contact Heritage Capital and let us run different scenarios for you so you fully understand your options.
How Much Will You Get If You Claim Social Security Benefits AT Your FRA?
You are eligible for 100 percent of your Social Security benefits if you file your claim at your FRA. How much that represents depends on your employment history.
The SSA looks at the 35 years in which you earned the most money, indexes it for inflation and calculates your Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME). The SSA then uses your AIME to compute the basic benefit (or “primary insurance amount”) you would receive at your FRA. You can visit the SSA website to review your FRA and benefits by age, but to fully understand what it means for your specific situation, talk with your financial advisor about different scenarios. At Heritage Capital, we can run all kinds of Social Security analysis, from breakeven on different ages to claiming strategies for spouses.
This is important, because the actual monthly benefit you’ll receive can be modified by certain factors. The most important of these is when you file your claim. Your earnings must have been subject to Social Security taxes for them to count in your benefit calculation. If you were a government worker, for example, who didn’t pay Social Security taxes on your income (because you were enrolled in an exempt retirement or disability pension), the SSA will apply a different formula to calculate your AIME. The SSA publishes these arcane calculations if you’re interested.
How Much Will You Get If You Claim BEFORE Your FRA?
Your benefit will be smaller than 100 percent if you claim benefits before reaching your FRA. The benefit is reduced for each month between your age at claiming and your FRA.
The amount of benefit reduction is as follows:
- For each of the first 36 months before your FRA: 5/9 of 1% (or 0.5556%).
- For each subsequent month before your FRA: 5/12 of 1% (or 0.4167%).
On an annualized basis, your benefit is reduced by 6.7 percent per year for the first three years of early retirement and an additional 5 percent for each following year before your FRA.
Note that your benefits will be withheld by the IRS until you reach your FRA if you earn more than certain threshold amounts. Once you attain your FRA, you can receive your full benefit (including previously withheld amounts) without any further withholding.
How Much Will You Get If You Claim AFTER Your FRA?
Claiming your benefit at ages above your FRA will result in larger payments. Benefits increase by 2/3 of 1 percent for each month (or 8 percent per year) you wait, up to the maximum claiming age of 70.
Thus, if your benefit at your FRA of 66 was $2,000/month, waiting until age 70 would give you a benefit of $2,640/month.
These calculations do not include cost-of-living adjustments.
How Much Will You Need in Retirement?
Probably the most common question I’m asked as a financial advisor is, “How much will I need to save to have enough income when I quit working to have the retirement lifestyle I want?”
There are 5 steps to answering this question:
- Calculate how much money you will need to live the lifestyle you want in retirement. Include items like housing, basic living expenses, education, entertainment and charity.
- Adjust the above number for anticipated post-retirement lifestyle changes.
- Subtract expected cashflows, such as Social Security benefits and Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from your retirement accounts.
- Estimate your rate of return on your savings and investments.
- Calculate this number divided by anticipated rate of return.
As you can see, the longer you wait to take your Social Security benefits, the less you’ll have to save on your own. Keep this in mind when you decide when to file your claim for Social Security benefits.
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Tourists vs. travellers – two words that used to mean the same thing, but have taken on two very different identities in recent years. So where do you fall? Time to find out...
Experiencing vs. Seeing
If you’re a tourist, we can probably tell by your Instagram feed – most likely it’s full of selfies in front of the iconic sites, and little else. Chances are your trip needs little explanation and your photos say it all; you saw all the things and photographed them as well.
Travellers have stories, adventures, revelations and feelings that just can’t be conveyed in a photo or two, post photos that warrant a praise-hands emoji comment, and will be able to talk your ear off when they return.
Sure, you saw the Eiffel Tower, but did you climb it? Did you pack a picnic lunch to eat in the Champ de Mars, and marvel at its gorgeous iron curves and angles? That’s the difference.
Blending in vs. Standing out
If you dress and act like a tourist, you’re probably gonna get treated like one, plain and simple. The only result of sticking out like a sore thumb is attracting attention, and when you’re abroad that’s not always a good thing.
That v-neck tank that you love so dearly may look great in your vacation photos, but if it’s insensitive to the cultural norms of your destination it’s a bad choice.
Trying to blend in as a traveller will generally garner you more respect and authenticity from the locals. Tourists are a bull’s eye for being overcharged, pickpocketed and mislead.
Tasting vs. Eating
If your culinary experiences start and end at the hotel buffet, you’re missing out on a true traveller’s experience. A tourist focuses more on practicality, price, and popularity when it comes to food, and to say they’re missing out is an understatement.
Sure, you’ve gotta try pasteis de nata in Portugal, but venture out of the Starbucks and taste test every bakery until you’ve found the best one in town. Eating should be more than a necessary evil when you’re abroad, and tasting the authentic dishes on offer will only enhance your experience.
Taking risks vs. playing it safe
Guidebooks can only take you so far. If you plan your whole vacation based on the recommendations of others, are you even really travelling, or are you just reliving someone else’s trip and recreating someone else’s memories?
A traveller understands that some risks are worth taking; a tourist checks the suggested boxes and comes home without ever experiencing the adrenaline rush of leaving your comfort zone behind.
"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see" - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Trinkets vs. Treasures
Sure, collecting shot glasses is fun, but what do they really tell you about the places you’ve been? Souvenir shops are often targeted at tourists, searching for a cute momento that was most likely made in China and will collect dust for the duration of its life.
Travellers focus more on taking home memories and authentic treasures that are unique to the area. We’ll take a cozy alpaca sweater over a cheesy Peru t-shirt any day.
Wandering vs. following
So much of the joy of travelling is found in the unknown, and if you’re constantly standing in a queue, you’re wasting so much time. Just because everyone else in cargo shorts in standing in line all afternoon doesn’t mean you should.
Direct routes and queuing in line are go-tos for tourists. Travellers get lost; not in a panic when their map flies away, but intentionally, while they duck down the side streets to discover the Gelato shops the locals rave about.
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The Fourth Crusade (1202–04) was a Western European armed expedition originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. A sequence of events culminated in the Crusaders sacking of Constantinople, the capital of the Christian-controlled Byzantine Empire.
In January 1203, en route to Jerusalem, the majority of the crusader leadership entered into an agreement with the Byzantine prince Alexios Angelos to divert to Constantinople and restore his deposed father as emperor. The intention of the crusaders was then to continue to the Holy Land with promised Byzantine financial and military assistance. On 23 June 1203 the main crusader fleet reached Constantinople. Smaller contingents continued to Acre.
In August 1203, following clashes outside Constantinople, Alexios Angelos was crowned as co-Emperor (Alexios IV Angelos) with crusader support. However, in January 1204, he was deposed by a popular uprising in Constantinople. The Western crusaders were no longer able to receive their promised payments, and when Alexios IV was murdered on 8 February 1204, the crusaders and Venetians decided on the outright conquest of Constantinople. In April 1204, they captured and brutally sacked the city, and set up a new Latin Empire as well as partitioning other Byzantine territories between themselves.
Byzantine resistance based on unconquered sections of the empire such as Nicaea, Trebizond, and Epirus ultimately recovered Constantinople.
The Fourth Crusade is considered to be one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, and a key turning point in the decline of the Byzantine Empire.
== Background ==
Ayyubid Sultan Saladin had conquered most of the Frankish, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, including the ancient city itself, in 1187. The Kingdom had been established 88 years before, after the capture and sack of Jerusalem in the First Crusade. The city was sacred to Christians, Muslims and Jews, and returning it to Christian hands had been a primary purpose of the First Crusade. Saladin led a Muslim dynasty, and his incorporation of Jerusalem into his domains shocked and dismayed the Catholic countries of Western Europe. Legend has it that Pope Urban III literally died of the shock, but the timing of his death makes that impossible.〔John Julius Norwich, ''Byzantium: The Decline and Fall'', (1995; repr., London: Folio Society, 2003), 169〕 The crusader states had been reduced to three cities along the sea coast: Tyre, Tripoli, and Antioch.
The Third Crusade (1189–1192) reclaimed much territory for the Kingdom of Jerusalem, including the key towns of Acre and Jaffa, but had failed to retake Jerusalem. The crusade had also been marked by a significant escalation in long standing tensions between the feudal states of western Europe and the Byzantine Empire, centered in Constantinople. The experiences of the first two crusades had thrown into stark relief the vast cultural differences between the two Christian civilizations. The Latins (as the Byzantines referred to them because of their adherence to the Latin Rite) viewed the Byzantine preference for diplomacy and trade over war as duplicitous and degenerate, and their policy of tolerance and assimilation towards Muslims as a corrupt betrayal of the faith. For their part, the educated and wealthy Byzantines maintained a strong sense of cultural, organizational, and social superiority over the Latins.
Constantinople had been in existence for 874 years at the time of the Fourth Crusade and was the largest and most sophisticated city in Christendom. Almost alone amongst major medieval urban centers, it had retained the civic structures, public baths, forums, monuments, and aqueducts of classical Rome in working form. At its height, the city held an estimated population of about half a million people behind thirteen miles of triple walls. Its planned location made Constantinople not only the capital of the surviving eastern part of the Roman Empire but also a commercial centre that dominated trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, China, India and Persia.
As a result, it was both a rival and a tempting target for the aggressive new states of the west, notably the Republic of Venice.
One of the leaders of the Third Crusade, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, openly plotted with the Serbs, Bulgars, Byzantine traitors, and even the Muslim Seljuks against the Eastern Empire and at one point sought Papal support for a crusade against the Orthodox Byzantines.〔John Julius Norwich, ''Byzantium: The Decline and Fall'', (1995; repr., London: Folio Society, 2003), 169-170〕 Crusaders also seized the breakaway Byzantine province of Cyprus; rather than return it to the Empire, Richard I of England sold the island to the Knights Templar. Barbarossa died on crusade, and his army quickly disintegrated, leaving the English and French, who had come by sea, to fight Saladin. In 1195 Henry VI, son and heir of Barbarossa, sought to efface this humiliation by declaring a new crusade, and in the summer of 1197 a large number of German knights and nobles, headed by two archbishops, nine bishops, and five dukes, sailed for Palestine. There they captured Sidon and Beirut, but at the news of Henry's death in Messina along the way, many of the nobles and clerics returned to Europe. Deserted by much of their leadership, the rank and file crusaders panicked before an Egyptian army and fled to their ships in Tyre.
Also in 1195 the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos was deposed in favor of his brother by a palace coup. Ascending as Alexios III Angelos, the new emperor had his brother blinded (a traditional punishment for treason, considered more humane than execution) and exiled. Ineffectual on the battlefield, Isaac had also proven to be an incompetent ruler who had let the treasury dwindle and outsourced the navy to the Venetians. His actions in wastefully distributing military weapons and supplies as gifts to his supporters had undermined the empire's defenses.〔John Julius Norwich, ''Byzantium: The Decline and Fall'', (1995; repr., London: Folio Society, 2003)〕 The new emperor was to prove no better. Anxious to shore up his position, Alexios bankrupted the treasury. His attempts to secure the support of semi-autonomous border commanders undermined central authority. He neglected his crucial responsibilities for defense and diplomacy. The emperor's chief admiral (his wife's brother-in-law), Michael Stryphnos, reportedly sold the fleet's equipment down to the very nails to enrich himself.
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New York [US], September 26 (ANI): Bhutan has long supported the aspirations of the G4 countries-- India, Japan, Germany and Brazil -- to serve as permanent members to an expanded United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Prime Minister Lotay Tshering said on Friday (local time).
Addressing the virtual 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Tshering called for reform in the UN saying the world body must evolve and match the changing realities.
"At the same time, the UN must also evolve and match the changing realities, in particular, the existing structure and composition of the UN Security Council to not reflect the current realities and circumstances of the world. Bhutan has also long supported the aspirations of the G4 countries to serve as permanent members to an expanded Security Council. Of course, Africa also appropriately represented," Tshering said.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of the G4 countries held a virtual meeting coinciding with the 75th session of the UNGA during which they held extensive discussion on the need for urgent reform of the UNSC.
The G4 countries reiterated their support for each other's candidature as aspiring new permanent members in a reformed UNSC.
A joint press statement said the ministers highlighted the urgency of reforming the UN and updating its main decision-making bodies, to better reflect contemporary realities.
Asserting that COVID-19 knows 'no border', the Bhutan PM on Friday called on the international community to share all the critical resources, including vaccines, with developing countries for the successful fight against the pandemic.
"Like climate change, COVID-19 also knows no border and similarly affects developing countries disproportionately. We do not know what is coming next and we do not know SARS COVID III will hit us. In that sense are we not interconnected. Is there a second option to multilateralism?" he asked.
"Peaceful co-existence among ourselves and with the nature around us is the best vaccine for humanity to thrive on this planet In a small and intricate world while fighting a highly infectious disease, it will be a big blunder if you do not help the developing world to have access to the all the resources including a vaccine," he added. (ANI) | <urn:uuid:0b41f313-391d-45b1-860f-78868e0e9b56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aninews.in/news/world/us/unga75-bhutan-backs-g4-nations-candidature-as-permanent-members-to-expanded-unsc20200926060914/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930103 | 461 | 1.640625 | 2 |
With this in mind, the common agricultural policy (CAP) combines social, economic, and environmental approaches on the path towards achieving a sustainable system of agriculture in the EU.
ZPP-om se pruža podrška ruralnim zajednicama te se naglašava društveno važna uloga poljoprivrede i šumarstva.
U okviru ZPP-a utvrđene su mjere za borbu protiv klimatskih promjena, zaštitu prirodnih resursa i povećanje biološke raznolikosti u EU-u.
The CAP sets out to safeguard biodiversity through sustainable farming practices.
The CAP ensures that soil, water and air are managed responsibly across the EU.
This mission will lead the transition towards healthier soils in the EU.
Making the EU food supply chain from farm to fork more sustainable: for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system.
The plans will allow EU countries to address their specific agricultural needs and deliver results relating to EU objectives under the new CAP.
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Croatia Wants to Enter the Eurozone in 7-8 Years
Croatia has set itself the goal of joining the eurozone in the next 7-8 years, Prime Minister Andrei Plenkovic said, quoted by local media.
"Our government is geared towards Europe. We want to achieve this goal, this is crucial. The most important things for us are employment, regional and economic development. Croatia has two important steps - one to become a part of the Schengen area and the other to join the eurozone, "he said at a conference organized by the Croatian National Bank.
Andrei Plenkovic stressed that he does not want an exact date, but he hopes the country will "become a member of the eurozone within two government mandates."
"What will the euro bring us? Global, political and economic trust. This is one of the most recognizable and specific symbols. I see the euro as an instrument that is useful for boosting economic growth, "the prime minister added.
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The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has affirmed its willingness to reopen the Lee Memorial Wading Pool on the Charles River Esplanade, but more than 15 years after the facility’s closure, the timeline for this remains uncertain.
“DCR has been meeting with various groups and associations dedicated to promoting use and beautification of the Charlesbank area at their request to listen to their potential ideas for the Lee Pool area,” DCR Acting Press Secretary Bill Hickey wrote in an e-mail to the Times. “As a matter of practice with large-scale, impactful projects, DCR engages in a full public process.”
According to State Rep. Jay Livingstone, the minimum preliminary estimates for the rehabilitation of the pool and the building located on site range between $10 million and $15 million, but the facility doesn’t currently appear in DCR’s five-year capital plan.
“I think it’s a great idea to make better use of the Esplanade and offer more resources for the enjoyment of the community,” Livingstone said. “I look forward to seeing DCR’s plans and engaging in a community discussion regarding the pool.”
Meanwhile, Esplanade 2020 – a long-term vision for the state park spearheaded by The Esplanade Association (TEA) in conjunction with DCR – suggests the revitalization of the pool as a short-term measure to improve accessibility and reclaim parkland on the Esplanade.
And Margo Newman, chair of TEA board of directors, encourages DCR to explore implanting this recommendation in a timely manner.
“The Lee Pool is a prime site in park, and we need to start a conversation about what it should be and what activities and programs should be offered there,” Newman said. “It’s going to require funding and design, as well as consensus from the community, so we need to start the process.” | <urn:uuid:002209dd-4237-4bd3-a928-b4f55db8681f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beaconhilltimes.com/2014/02/10/dcr-to-explore-reopening-of-lee-pool/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951805 | 416 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Only around half the Philippine population are fully vaccinated, though the rate in the capital is much higher. AFP/STR
MANILA - The Philippine government defended a controversial ban on unvaccinated people using public transport in the capital Manila where Omicron is fuelling a record surge in cases.
The rule, announced by the Department of Transportation this week and expected to take effect Monday, comes after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to arrest people not vaccinated against Covid-19 who refused to stay at home.
Passengers will have to show proof of vaccination before boarding public buses, jeepneys, trains, boats or planes in Metro Manila where infections are soaring, causing widespread disruption for businesses and straining hospitals.
Exceptions will be made for unvaccinated people who have official permission to travel to buy food, seek medical treatment or get jabbed.
Only around half the Philippine population are fully vaccinated, though the rate in the capital is much higher.
The Department of Transportation said the temporary "no vaccination, no ride" policy was designed to protect everyone and avoid an economically damaging shutdown of the public transport system during the latest spike.
"We believe that it is more anti-poor and anti-life if we will not impose interventions that will prevent loss of life due to non-vaccinations," it said.
But rights groups, including Amnesty International, slammed the policy.
"The way out of this pandemic is not to impose unacceptably disproportionate restrictions and punishment on those who are unvaccinated," Butch Olano of Amnesty International Philippines said.
He warned the rule would unfairly target the poor who cannot work from home and "further erode trust in the government".
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September 27, 2021
Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Shots Now Being Administered to Eligible Missourians
Lisa Cox, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
JEFFERSON CITY, MO -- Following federal guidance issued from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has amended the state’s standing order for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administration for those who are eligible for a booster shot.
Missourians who received the Pfizer vaccine can receive a booster shot at least six months after their initial series based on CDC guidance:
- people 65 years and older and residents in long-term care settings should receive a booster;
- people aged 50–64 years with underlying medical conditions should receive a booster;
- people aged 18–49 years with underlying medical conditions may receive a booster; and
- people aged 18-64 years who are at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure and transmission because of occupational or institutional setting (e.g. frontline medical workers, teachers, and first responders) may receive a booster.
The list of medical conditions categorized as high-risk by the CDC is available here. Missourians with an underlying medical condition are encouraged to speak with their healthcare provider about whether a booster shot is right for them.
Federal health experts are still reviewing data from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) and will decide when recipients may be eligible for a booster shot. Missouri providers will be ready to administer Moderna and Johnson & Johnson booster shots when they are recommended.
Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots will be administered anywhere the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is available. Individuals do not need to get their booster shot at the same location they received their initial series. Those seeking a booster shot can visit MOStopsCovid.com to find a nearby provider and schedule an appointment or locate a walk-in clinic.
Providers operating under the state’s standing orders should follow the guidance as written for COVID-19 booster shot administration. For providers who are operating under their own order, it is recommended that CDC guidance also be followed.
Individuals can also get the flu shot at the same time they receive the COVID-19 booster shot. Flu vaccines are now becoming available through various providers throughout the state, and it is recommended annually for everyone 6 months and older.
Research shows that all COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States continue to be highly effective at preventing severe illness and death. Individuals should only get a booster shot when it is recommended, not earlier. Learn more about COVID-19 booster doses from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
How Missourians can get a free COVID-19 vaccine:
- Check for vaccine appointments at Vaccines.gov, where you can search for availability by vaccine type (e.g., Pfizer).
- Call the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine hotline at 1-800-232-0233 (or TTY 1-888-720-7489). Help is available in multiple languages.
- Locate local vaccination events in Missouri at MOStopsCovid.com.
- Seniors and homebound adults can make arrangements using information at MOStopsCovid.com/seniors
- Missouri DHSS COVID-19 Public Hotline
- Mon.-Fri., 7:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
- Missouri DHSS COVID-19 Public Hotline
How Missourians can get a free COVID-19 test:
- Walk in or schedule an appointment for a test at one of the state’s free community testing sites: COVID-19 Community Testing Sites.
- Order a test through the state’s free at-home COVID-19 testing program.
- Find a free testing option near you through the federal pharmacy locations.
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Ukraine says one of its soldiers has been killed and eight others wounded in clashes with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on April 12 that separatist fighters fired machine guns, anti-tank missiles, and grenade launchers, violating a cease-fire 20 times in a 24-hour period.
Heavy weapons, including anti-tank missiles, are banned under the Minsk peace agreements.
The ministry also said that Ukrainian armed forces killed nine separatists and wounded eight others.
Meanwhile, the separatists in the Luhansk region accused Ukrainian government forces of violating the cease-fire seven times in the same period.
Since April 2014, some 13,000 people have been killed in fighting between Kyiv's forces and Russia-backed separatists who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Cease-fire deals announced as part of the Minsk accords -- September 2014 and February 2015 pacts aimed at resolving the conflict -- have contributed to a decrease in fighting but have failed to hold.
A new cease-fire agreement was reached on March 8, but both sides have accused each other of repeated violations since then.
Kyiv Says One Ukrainian Soldier Killed, Eight Wounded In Conflict In East
Heavy Shelling Reported In Donetsk Region As Ukrainian Forces Make Gains In Kherson2
Tank Warfare Plays Crucial Role In Battle For The Donbas3
Bulgaria's Underground Truffle Trade4
Kherson Clampdown: Russian Authorities Going Door-To-Door, Mandating Russian Passports, Official Says5
Defending Bakhmut: How Ukraine Is Countering The Russian Offensive In The Donbas6
Estonia's Contentious Soviet Monuments7
Russians Blame 'Sabotage' For Blasts At Crimean Ammo Depot; Kyiv Hints At Role8
Interview: With The 2008 Georgia War, 'We Knew What Was Coming, But We Were Slow To Believe It'9
No Cash, No Medicine: Evacuees From Ukraine's South Recount Life Under Russian Control10
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Company: Westland Technologies, Inc.
Posted on: August 5, 2022
JOB REQUIREMENTS: To perform this position successfully, the
individual must be able to complete all areas outlined for this
position in a satisfactory manner. The requirements listed below
are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities
necessary to meet the minimum job requirements. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform these essential functions. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (Master's
- Must have experience in tooling design, mechanical design or
test equipment design using Solidworks and CNC Machine.
- Preferred experience includes:
- Experience integrating mechanical designs into production or
- Experience with processing of composite structures or
- 3 plus years of direct related experience preferred.
- Experience in Systems Engineering a plus.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of blueprints reading and Geometric Dimensioning &
Tolerancing (GD&T) and associated tolerancing.
- Excellent math skills: ability to apply advanced mathematical
principles and statistics to solve problems.
- Firm grasp of engineering concepts, and experience designing
mechanical systems and products.
- Exceptional technical and problem-solving skills and reasoning
- Ability to communicate effectively and clearly.
- Must be self-motivated and a great team worker.
- Quality focus
- Strong interpersonal skills
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops designs for tooling, test equipment and machinery
related to both production and developmental products. Includes
development of specifications, design criteria and drawings.
Proficiency in Solidworks is a requirement.
- Works with vendors to produce tooling and associated hardware.
Integrates hardware into production & research/development
- Develops design and integrates machinery and material
processing equipment to support prototyping and production
- Work with customers and technical personnel to ensure
requirements are met in production. Sets up prototype equipment and
uses experimental materials to test theories/designs
- Discusses progress and interim findings at monthly technical
review meetings. Continues with project in original concept, or
modifies direction based on commentary and decision of technical
- Performs specialized programming, design, or analysis of tasks
under indirect supervision.
- Follows detailed instructions as to working plans and
- Knowledgeable of applicable concepts, principles, and
procedures in task area.
- Supports preparation of research and analysis reports.
- Plans, conducts, technically directs, and evaluates projects or
tasks, requiring coordination of the efforts of engineers and
technical support staff.
- Prepares product reports by collecting, analyzing, and
summarizing information and trends.
- Provides engineering information by answering questions and
- Maintains product and company reputation by complying with
- Responsible for formulation of the opinions, decisions, and
ultimate performance of the task specified in the statement of work
contained in the task order.
- Clearly demonstrate the capability for providing in-depth,
professional review of the various sophisticated
computer/electronics related problems that are encompassed by the
scope of the contract.
- Shall be competent in providing top-level assessment reviews
involving the resolution of complex problems.
- Applies engineering experience to perform functions such as
systems integration, configuration management, quality assurance,
testing and analysis.
- Must be capable of independently performing high-level
assessment and review functions for problems called out in the
individual delivery orders and shall be required to provide
definitive written and oral results/recommendations for tests that
have been conducted.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:The physical demands described here are
representative of those that must be met by the employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
- BODY POSITIONS: While performing the duties of this job, the
employee is regularly required to stand for prolonged periods of
time. There are also occasions when the employee will be required
- BODY MOVEMENTS: The employee must have a full range of body
movements including use of hands to finger, handle, or feel
objects, computer equipment and peripherals, and the ability to
bend, reach, and crouch.
- BODY SENSES: Must have command of all five senses: sight,
hearing, touch, smell and taste. Specific vision abilities required
include close vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust
focus. These vision requirements in each area must be sufficient to
shift in focus from equipment to close small parts.
- STRENGTH: Must have the ability to lift 30-40 pounds. WORKING
- This position will be working indoors in an office environment
but also requires the employee to work in production areas on a
regular basis. From this movement, the employee will encounter
varying temperatures, lighting conditions, and air quality from one
area to the next.
- The noise level in the work environment is at acceptable levels
but can be higher from time to time in some areas. Westland
Technologies, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and
all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a
Keywords: Westland Technologies, Inc., Modesto , Mechanical Engineer, Engineering , Modesto, California
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Victoria: David Eby, Attorney General, delivered a keynote address to Transparency International for a second time to present the government’s approach in tackling money laundering in British Columbia.
Eby detailed the suite of tools and initiatives that the government continues to implement following Peter German’s report titled Dirty Money earlier this year. German has since been asked by the government to conduct a second review focused on the real estate, luxury car and horse racing sectors.
“As Transparency International knows, money laundering has been ignored for too long and it is hurting our communities,” said Eby. “Our government is fighting money laundering on several fronts, including casinos and real estate, and its ties to organized crime, gang activity and violence.”
The speech was part of Transparency International’s Day of Dialogue in Vancouver. Among other initiatives, B.C.’s attorney general highlighted recent amendments to the Gaming Control Act passed during the fall legislative session. The changes strengthen the role of the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch (GPEB) – B.C.’s gambling regulator – by giving it more authority and greater independence to be more responsive and effective in its anti-money laundering actions.
“This added independence for the gaming regulator means more transparency, nimble responses to the ever-shifting efforts of organized crime and removing any potential of future political interference,” said Eby. “Our government is committed to ending B.C.’s reputation as a safe haven for the proceeds of crime.”
- The Gaming Control Act was enacted in 2002 and governs how gambling is regulated and operated in B.C.
- GPEB ensures the integrity of gambling industry companies, people and equipment, and ensures compliance with policies and standards under the Gaming Control Act and Gaming Control Regulation.
- The amendments will empower GPEB to independently issue directives to the BC Lottery Corporation without ministerial approval, ban people who may have ties to organized crime from casinos and use new enforcement tools to ensure compliance with reporting requirements for all industry participants.
- In 2017-18, commercial gambling returned $1.4 billion in revenue to government. This revenue supported local communities, responsible and problem gambling treatment programs, provincial health programs, other government programs and GPEB operations. | <urn:uuid:3e7fa587-2918-4dec-be4a-b6e01a16a047> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asianjournal.ca/attorney-general-delivers-update-on-b-c-s-fight-against-money-laundering/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934502 | 475 | 1.648438 | 2 |
AN elected Liberal Nationals government will recognise volunteers’ contribution by implementing a coordinated, whole of government media campaign to celebrate and recognise the volunteers who play such an important role in our communities.
The campaign will run through television, online and print media in the week leading up to and during National Volunteers week held in May every year.
It is estimated more than 1.5 million Victorians participate in volunteering work across a wide range of areas including sporting clubs, charities, environmental groups, healthcare and emergency services.
The campaign will promote respect for volunteers and highlight their important work for the community.
Despite this important work, Daniel Andrews and Labor has run a campaign against our CFA volunteers for the last 4 years, seeing many of our hard working volunteers walk away.
A Liberal Nationals government will always value and respect those who serve others.
Comments Shadow Assistant Minister for Volunteers, Cindy McLeish:
“Volunteers make a vital contribution to the strength of our communities as well as providing a huge economic and social benefit.
“Volunteering is good for everyone. Not only do volunteers help the people around them, but research has proven volunteers are happier and healthier than those who don’t volunteer.
“The Liberal Nationals will help encourage everyone to get out and volunteer and serve the community.”
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What can a 5kva generator power?
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OK, I admit. That’s just a fun, “grab-your-attention” kind of headline.
But it’s not far from the real truth. At least for many of us U. S. Americans.
The first amendment protection of free speech, and more specifically the part about freedom of religion was the central part of an interesting discussion the other day.
It began innocently enough with me overhearing a conversation about how the Constitution might be applied in a case regarding State versus Federal powers. The Constitution was written to limit the Federal government’s power over the People, and also over the individual States’ governments.
That’s not very well understood today, by my reckoning.
Back to the scenario that was unfolding. One party was trying to suppose what outlandish bill might be passed by a state legislation, which, in context might have had something to do with religious activities, perhaps in schools. The other party suggested that perhaps the bill might try to instate mandatory school prayer. At this, the first party scoffed, rigidly stating that the Constitution would clearly prohibit such a thing. To which the second party responded—though backing off, slightly—that it might be possible at the state level. Party One maintained his unyielding stance that it was a definite violation of the Constitution to require prayer in a public school.
So, I thought, Actually, the second guy is kind of right—though, no state would ever require such a thing—that the states are free to pass such bills and laws, if they so choose. The federal government can not interfere with this if a state would choose to do so.
This is where I decided to join the conversation.
At first, Party One stuck to the, uh, “party line” of zero allowance for anything which could be seen as religious being mandated by the states, because the Constitution prohibits such a possibility. I maintained that while I thought that was an awful idea that would never even be attempted, it was not unconstitutional.
Let’s examine the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
That’s it. Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof. The only other mention of religion in the Constitution is that there would be no “religious test” for becoming a congressman.
Today we interpret that one sentence above to mean that any public institution, office, official, or representative—any entity with any connection to any level of government—can not in any way espouse, promote, endorse, or engage in any activity which might be construed as “religious”.
But that’s not what it says at all, really.
I’m getting off track here. We can revisit the First Amendment in tomorrow’s post. Let’s stick to the topic: Federal vs. State powers.
Specifically, can the Federal government overrule a State government’s law or proclamation, or any such legislation intended for its citizens?
Thomas Jefferson is an interesting example here. When he was Governor of the State of Virginia, he called for a day of thanksgiving and prayer on December 9, 1779, saying:
“I do therefore by authority from the General Assembly issue this my proclamation, hereby appointing Thursday the 9th of December next, a day of publick and solemn Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God, earnestly recommending that all the good people of this commonwealth, to set apart the day for those said purposes… (signed) Thomas Jefferson” [ref]
But as the third President of the United States, he said the following on the same (similar) subject:
“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises…Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the general government. …But it is only proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe a day of fasting and prayer. That is, that I should indirectly assume to the United States an authority over religious exercises, which the Constitution has directly precluded them from…civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.” [ref]
Fascinating, huh? Doesn’t this seem to be two different ideas? Was Jefferson under duress when, as Governor, he wrote and signed that very religious-sounding proclamation of a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer for his state (the Commonwealth of Virginia)? Or did he just change his mind? I should think not the latter because he was the author of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, which is one of the three lifetime achievements he wanted inscribed on his gravestone at Monticello. (A list which conspicuously does not include being President of the United States.)
Well, as it turns out, that’s not all there was to it.
I dug a bit more, and read a bit more, and found the full text for that response to Samuel Miller, quoted incompletely on the Monticello website (and above). It would seem that context would give us a much more clear picture of why Mr. Jefferson did not think it was his place (nor that of the “General Government”) to be “intermeddling with religious institutions”.
I know this is a bit long already, but I’d really like for you to read the following in its entirety.
Washington, Jan. 23, 08
—I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with. I consider the government of the US. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment, or free exercise, of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the U. S. Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the general government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority. But it is only proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe a day of fasting & prayer. That is, that I should indirectly assume to the U. S. an authority over religious exercises which the Constitution has directly precluded them from. It must be meant too that this recommendation is to carry some authority, and to be sanctioned by some penalty on those who disregard it; not indeed of fine and imprisonment, but of some degree of proscription perhaps in public opinion. And does the change in the nature of the penalty make the recommendation the less a law of conduct for those to whom it is directed? I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct it’s exercises, it’s discipline, or it’s doctrines; nor of the religious societies that the general government should be invested with the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them. Fasting & prayer are religious exercises. The enjoining them an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times for these exercises, & the objects proper for them, according to their own particular tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands, where the constitution has deposited it.
I am aware that the practice of my predecessors may be quoted. But I have ever believed that the example of state executives led to the assumption of that authority by the general government, without due examination, which would have discovered that what might be a right in a state government, was a violation of that right when assumed by another. Be this as it may, every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, & mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the US. and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.
I again express my satisfaction that you have been so good as to give me an opportunity of explaining myself in a private letter, in which I could give my reasons more in detail than might have been done in a public answer: and I pray you to accept the assurances of my high esteem & respect. (Emphasis mine.)
Jefferson very clearly stated that (1) religious freedom, and the power to hold that, belonged with the people (and religious institutions) and the Constitution “deposited it” there, (2) that states “might” have the right to declare a public day of thanksgiving and prayer, but that (3) the general (federal) government, most certainly does not. So says the Constitution. (As well as one of the most ardent supporters of religious liberty.)
The main point for this first installment of Constitutionally Speaking is that the Constitution does not grant the Federal government supreme power. That is not and never was the intent. The intent of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was to grant some limited power to a federal governement that represented all the individual States as the United States of America. It was a compact created by the People, and the authority remained with the People and their State governments and representatives.
We have lost that today, in my opinion. It seems more that we view the power residing in Washington, and doled out as those in charge from there see fit.
That’s not how our government is supposed to function, however:
James Madison said as much in Federalist No. 45:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” [ref]
That does not sound like a government over the People, does it?
No. And that’s where we came from, and who we still are.
It’s essential that we have a proper understanding of our founding documents, but too often we just think we do. It is more common to find that someone has a second- or third-hand understanding of American governement, learned through a long-ago high school history course, or perhaps (and far worse) learned from some partisan commentator on talk radio or the internet. (And even worse than that… on TV!)
Original sources are the only way we can truly know history. Thankfully, we have those original sources very readily available to us. It may take more time and effort, but it’s definitely worth it, and will preserve the freedoms we have going forward, generation to generation.
Tomorrow I want to explore the First Amendment more in-depth. I hope you’ll join me! And please do add your thoughts in the comments below.
AND, lastly, and paramount: please find, purchase, own, and read the original documents! (Many of them are free in digital version!)
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Bio-Botanical Research | Biocidin LSF Liposomal Formula Liquid 1.7 oz (50 milliliters)
Lyme disease is on the rise, more than 300,000 new cases are reported each year. In chronic Lyme disease and other neurological conditions treatment is often more challenging, as pathogens can hide in the central nervous system, fatty tissues, or intra-cellularly, and are often part of a biofilm matrix. In Lyme, not only are Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes present, other co-infections such as Babesia are also common.
Bio-Botainical Research is very excited to be able to offer Liposomal delivery of our broad-spectrum Biocidin combination as specialized nutritional support. Physicians’ reports of reduction in pain and other symptoms in as little as 4-6 weeks of use have been very encouraging.
- Assists in delivery of broad-spectrum botanicals to the central nervous system, a key benefit as nutritional support in Lyme disease or other microbial challenges.*
- Promotes intracellular absorption of ingredients.*
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- Unilamellar Vesicles encapsulating Biocidin have optimal particle size of 100 nanometers.
- Immediate bioavailability from the oral cavity.
- Assists in removal of biofilms.*
- To decrease possibly die-off or detoxification reactions we always recommend concurrent usage of G.I. Detox with Biocidin.
Excellent support for oral health care, use with Dentalcidin.
1-3 pumps daily. Begin with 1 pump, gradually increase to 3 pumps per day as directed. Hold under tongue 30 seconds before swallowing. May be added to water. Best taken on an empty stomach 10 minutes before meals.
As with regular Biocidin®, begin slowly and gradually increasing per tolerance to avoid Herxheimer reactions.
BEGINNING USAGE FOR SENSITIVE CLIENTS: Mix 1 pump with 5 oz of water. Each oz of mixture contains 1 drop of Biocidin®. Start with 1 tsp of diluted mixture the first dose, hold under the tongue for 30 seconds. If no strong reaction is felt, take another tsp in 3 hours, for a total of 3 tsp the first day. The following day repeat the same way, gradually increasing the amount of mixture taken per tolerance. Work up to using the entire 5 oz of mixture in one day. Very sensitive persons use 10 oz of water for a greater dilution.
Usage for Dental Care
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How to Install 3rd Party Software in Ubuntu 16.4?
Have you faced with such a nasty error in Ubuntu 16.4 “This software comes from a 3rd party and may contain non-free components” while you need to install a downloaded .deb package or third party software? This is simple bug with Ubuntu software center that will not allow a user to install 3rd party software on a system. But don’t worry, the update for Ubuntu fix this problem.
Install 3rd Party Software in Ubuntu 16.4
If you already not installed the latest update for Ubuntu Linux which has a fix pack for Ubuntu software center. So try to install 3rd party software or apps with this simple tip on your Ubuntu systems.
1. Open the Terminal and type “Sudo apt-get install gdebi” and press enter to install the Gdebi alternative Ubuntu software installer.
Let the GDebi package installer installation finished successfully and finally close the terminal. Now you have an alternative software installer for installing .deb packages on Ubuntu Linux.
2. Navigate to download software directory and right click on the software package then select Open with and select GDebi Package Installer instead of builtin Ubuntu software installer.
3. When the package get ready, click Install Package on GDebi package installer to get start installing third-party software on Ubuntu 16.4.
Let the installation process has complete. Then try to open the installed app or software.
4. Here is the installed Teamviewer on Linux Ubuntu. If you need more information about Teamviewer remote controller, read the article “Teach and support online with Teamviewer“.
That’s all, the GDebi package installer installed the 3rd party software successfully on Linux Ubuntu. Remember that this error is only on Ubuntu 16.4 builtin software installer. On the update Ubuntu you will now see “This software comes from a 3rd party and may contain non-free components” error.
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Growing trend: peer-to-peer investment
We all remember our childhood days when a friend would ask if they could borrow some money – some of them may even still ask now. This type of lending is typical amongst friends and family members, but for investors, the standard has always been to lend through a financial intermediary such as a bank in order to stipulate payback rules, timelines and other necessary requirements. But now, an increasing number of investors are exploring peer-to-peer investment networks and permitting consumers to borrow directly from them in order to obtain generous returns.
This peer-to-peer lending process bypasses banks and puts investors and borrowers in direct contact with one another. Why the change? Returns on investments are not as strong as in years past, and many investors are looking for opportunities to receive the biggest gains possible on the money that they lend out.
Investment funds are taking notice
By lending directly to consumers, the individual investor gets to have a say in how much interest they want to charge or what length of time they want to receive payback and other, which gives them a greater amount of say so than is typically given by going through a bank. Investment funds are also taking notice of how lucrative of a market this can be and are throwing their hats into the peer-to-peer investment ring as well.
Companies like Prosper and Club Corp. are estimated to lend close to $2 billion this year, which is huge for borrowers who are looking for potential investors. Banks are inundated with loan application and some cannot even get to them all in a timely manner – Bank of America was actually sued for denying and dumping large volumes of loan applications because it could not deal with the number of incoming applications.
Risky, but potentially mutually beneficial
Peer-to-peer lending ultimately allows consumers to bypass some of the stricter rules that come with borrowing from a bank and allow them to converse directly with an individual investor that wants to invest in a high growth opportunity.
There is still some liability for both parties involved – investors have to trust that consumers will obey the contract and terms set forth and consumers may need to consult legal advice before agreeing and signing to investment terms in order to forgo being bound to something that they don’t agree with – but numbers show that peer-to-peer lending is mutually beneficial and can be worth the risk of these cautions. | <urn:uuid:c2cee8ae-1890-4f81-bb70-e2cb1c8023e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theamericangenius.com/economic-news/the-important-trend-of-peer-to-peer-investment-sites/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972354 | 486 | 1.5625 | 2 |
As the auto loans market changes and becomes more competitive, it is important to have a strong auto loan blog. Whether you are looking for an auto loan in the coming months or if you need to update your current auto loan agreement, this article will help you find reliable sources of information.
What is an auto loan?
Auto loans are usually short-term loans taken out to purchase a new or used car. An auto loan is primarily comprised of two main components: the cost and the interest rate. The cost of an auto loan can vary based on several factors including the vehicle’s age, location, and features. The interest rate is affected by various factors such as your credit score, income, assets, and more.
Auto loans are very useful for people who want to purchase a car. It is a loan from a bank that provides the borrower with cash in exchange for the use of their car until it is paid back.
How to Find the Best Auto Loan
The purchase of a car can be an exciting time. It is also a big financial decision that requires careful consideration and planning. The best way to ensure that you get the right car loan for you is to speak with someone who has experience in the auto loan industry.
However, it is important to note that you can’t just walk into any car dealership to buy a new or used car from them. You will need to obtain a loan from at least one institution before you are able to buy your car. There are several places within the auto industry in which people can obtain loans for their vehicle purchase. The best place for you to start looking for information about auto loans is on our blog, where we provide advice and information on ways to find the best auto loan solutions.
The Auto Finance Expert has created a list of the top recommended automakers based on our experience helping people get financed and find the right car.
Some of the best car loan offers can be found at our recommended auto manufacturers. If a specific manufacturer is not on our list, we still have some good recommendations for you to choose from.
What are the Most Popular Vehicle Types?
The most popular vehicle types are cars, SUVs, and trucks. In general, cars are the most popular type of vehicle. They make up nearly half of all vehicles purchased in the US.
When it comes to cars, there are plenty of choices. This is true for both the type of car you drive and the type of financing you choose to receive. For example, personal loans are popular for people who trade in their vehicle and purchase a new one. In general, people tend to buy vehicles that they will use 10-15 years but they do not always buy insurance when they buy a new vehicle.
Quotes and other Helpful Resources
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Animal & Brands
By Avani Thakkar
If you think that the design of Hermès design with Birkin bags and silk scarves alone, consider also because a family home has valuable resources to find not only your ensembles but also your home. This season, the Hermès home collection is a way to connect between the exciting art of quilting and cashmere.
Well-known American designer Carson Converse also translated white cashmere through a Hermès-esque lens, and he encountered the problem by decorating the cashmere bed coverings with shiny gold thread. Known for his extraordinary talent for changing the look of the fabric, Converse hand-painted three soft cotton cashmere blankets borrowed from Italian designer and collaborator with former Hermès colleague Gianpaolo Pagni. These creatures are called New Haven, Fall River and Williamstown, after the cities in North America that are closely associated with quilt production.
Verve speaks to Florence Lafarge, director of the house of textiles in Hermès, to find out more about the Converse partnership and the artistry that has made Pagni art come to life….
Photo courtesy: Carole Bellaïche
Can you share the inspiration that Hermès decided to include in the collection?
The idea came from a series of harnesses that were placed under the saddlebags to move the riders’ bodies. In Hermès, horse and cavalier comfort is very important, and for a long time we were looking for a way to bring a new language of fabric home. Mainly because horseback riding has been connected to the house.
Photo courtesy: Studio des Fleurs
Quilting is made of two fabrics with padding in the middle. His goal is to isolate himself [the user] cold, heat and shaking. Originally from India, these scholars came to England and then to America in the 19th century.
With Converse, we made these bed sheets with natural white cashmere. They are woven with gold and white thread. Their measurements and the number of hand-finished bonds demonstrate a real technical skill.
What about a Converse project that was personally affected and forced you to go to the manufacturer for a co-operation?
Converse is a young American artist, and we recognize the precision and consistency of its design in textile design. She lives in Massachusetts, near Boston, and seems to have adopted local customs as well as an interest in art and family. Converse depicts the clearest fiction on his page – he writes, collects, stacks and sews the fabric very carefully and demonstrates the ingenuity of the creator, whose creations and technical skills are inseparable. We first connected via FaceTime! He immediately teamed up with this white quilt project with no gold in cashmere for Hermès.
Three Pagni statues were created in accordance with three solid principles: large, square, and triangular, of which they were originally multicolored. Before sending the artwork to Carson, we removed the colors and redesigned all the edges to create a variety of shapes and pieces. Wool fabrics, defined according to the function of the bed cover, are made of soft and light cotton.
Photos courtesy: Studio des Fleurs
The three types are flexible; they fold well, the sewing work shows its size, and with light, all the secrets of geometric drawings are fully integrated into the shape. Each drawing has its base: quadrilateral, chevron and diagonal. Born in the first few months of development and recognition, monochrome pieces are larger enough to make them simpler, more stable and more efficient.
How do Pagni designs relate to home and Converse styles? Take the work of translating them into fabric like cashmere through jewelry.
Pagni’s paintings are always amazing, and I always find her new ideas and excitement. I really like his works of art; the simple and straightforward form resembles a temporary form. I also appreciate its themes, typography, architecture and the use of colors.
Photo courtesy: Studio des Fleurs
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Journal of Positive Psychology
Self-forgiveness and forgiveness-seeking are important and understudied aspects of forgiveness. We examined the cardiac and emotional patterns of healthy young adults (40 women, 40 men) who recalled an unresolved offense they had caused another person. Participants engaged in four imagery conditions: ruminating about the offense, being humbly repentant and engaging in self-forgiveness, seeking forgiveness from the victim and receiving forgiveness, and seeking forgiveness from the victim and being begrudged. Being repentant and begrudged forgiveness by one’s victim was associated with the same level of guilt as when ruminating, but significantly more negative emotion, less control, and less empathy than when ruminating, self-forgiving, and receiving forgiveness from the victim. Compared to ruminating about one’s wrongdoing, self-forgiving alleviated guilt and negative emotion, increased perceived control, decreased heart rate, and increased parasympathetic activation. Imagery of receiving forgiveness from the victim resulted in these same patterns and was equivalent to self-forgiveness across variables.
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Sexually transferred infections (STIs), usually called sexually transmitted diseases are very usual. How Expensive To Get Std Testing
According to the Centers for Disease Control and also Prevention (CDC), 68 million people were dealing with STIs in the USA as of 2018. It’s most likely that many STIs go unlisted, to ensure that number is likely bigger since this year.
However, many individuals don’t obtain prompt medication for STIs. Many STIs have no symptoms or really nonspecific symptoms, which can make them very difficult to find. The stigma around STDs also prevents some people from getting evaluated.
If left untreated, STIs can bring about unpleasant illness, including cancer and inability to conceive. Testing is the only means to recognize for sure if you have an STI. In this article, we’ll review who need to obtain checked, where you can get checked, as well as various other frequently asked questions.
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STDcheck.com provide private service as well as precise testing, with an overwhelmingly positive reputation. This business ticks all the right boxes. Their rates are reasonable, deliver superfast results, a very simple screening process and also most notably deliver best personal privacy.
Why You Required to Know How Expensive To Get Std Testing
STDs are common. There have to do with 20 million new cases of STDs in the U.S. annually. Over half of adults will have one in their lifetime. You can pass a Sexually Transmitted Disease on to somebody else if you have not been inspected. Even though you do not have signs, it can be harmful to your health and also the health and wellness of your partner.
Some STDs, including chlamydia and also gonorrhea, can create inability to conceive. This is particularly true for ladies. These diseases can result in pelvic inflammatory illness (PID), an infection of the womb and various other reproductive body organs. PID can jack up a woman’s danger for ectopic pregnancy, a maternity outside the womb.
Various other sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and HIV, can be lethal. Left without treatment for many years, syphilis can likewise seriously damage your brain, nerve system, as well as heart.
Particular stress of HPV can bring about cervical cancer in females, cancer of the penis in men, as well as cancer of the rectum in both males and females.
1. Due To The Fact That Even Virgins Can Have Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Even if your companion has actually never ever made love, they can have a condition that might be sexually spread.
A number of STDs are spread out by skin-to-skin call without sexual intercourse.
A substantial portion of individuals with cold sores (fever blister) obtains them throughout childhood years without sex-related call. And also while it can be gone by informal love in between relative, it can be spread sexually during oral sex.
2. Your Partner Might Be Cheating
Because they’re in mutually virginal connections, individuals who are in fully commited relationships commonly claim that they don’t need STD checking.
That is commonly true, but only if every person involved in the relationship was STD-free before they got together.
Occasionally individuals with STDs have no concept that they are infected, which can cause partnership issues when symptoms show up after a couple has been together for years or when a female uncovers she’s been infected with chlamydia just after she has problem getting pregnant.
Evaluating before a relationship begins can allow every person involved understand where they stand and assist avoid needless accusations of trying to cheat.
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STDcheck.com offers private solution and also precise screening, with an overwhelmingly positive track record. This firm ticks all the right boxes. Their rates are reasonable, furnish superfast end results, a very simple screening procedure as well as most importantly offer utmost privacy.
3. Due To The Fact That Despairing Is Scarier Than Understanding How Expensive To Get Std Testing
There’s no doubt about it being diagnosed with a Sexually Transmitted Disease isn’t any type of fun. Nevertheless, even much less fun than recognizing you have a Sexually Transmitted Disease is hesitating that you could have a STD.
Lots of people that have prevented STD screening for several years discover that it’s really a relief to know for certain what is taking place in their bodies. Once they know, they can do something concerning it.
Many Sexually transmitted diseases, consisting of HIV, are simpler to treat when they’re captured early. When HIV treatment plan is begun early enough, it’s even feasible to accomplish a practical treatment.
4. Several STDs/STIs Are Easily Treatable
Some people avoided obtaining inspected because they are afraid of what their results may consist of. The majority of as well as infections are treatable with medicine as well as tracking, allowing you to preserve your normal life.
We will be able to recommend specialists as well as medicine to manage your signs if a more severe illness or infection is identified. However, not every physical consists of testing. How Expensive To Get Std Testing
If you think you are at risk, visit your neighborhood walk-in immediate care for screening and also therapy.
5. Respect Yourself and also Your Erotic Partners
Still, the very best reason to get inspected for Sexually transmitted diseases is that doing so assists you to have open, sincere, and precise discussions with sex-related companions about your STD danger.
It is essential that you understand your risk and also STI status as you are making a decision which approaches you should utilize to have secure sex. How Expensive To Get Std Testing
You can not figure out whether a person has a sexually transmitted infection simply by taking a look at them or based upon what they do. The only means to know what’s taking place is to choose assessments.
Whether it’s a STD screening or among the multitudes of various other screening packages that myLAB Box uses, you can rest assured that the company’s tests are precise, private, as well as of excellent worth. You can easily administer the screening from the convenience of home. We do not believe you can go wrong in selecting any type of among the tests from myLAB Box. Very strongly recommended!
STDcheck.com give private service as well as exact examination, with an extremely positive track record. This firm ticks all the right boxes. Their rates are low, provide superfast end results, a very straightforward screening procedure and also most importantly deliver best privacy.
6. Keep You And Your Companion Safeguarded
Without signs and symptoms, you may not recognize that you have a Sexually Transmitted Disease. This makes it simpler to unknowingly pass it on your companion, who can continue to pass it on.
When changing companions or having sex with numerous companions, it’s essential to obtain examined. Obtaining inspected a minimum of once annually is important to recognizing your standing and also the only means you will certainly have the ability to allow previous companions understand they ought to get evaluated.
Exactly How Does Sexually Transmitted Infection Inspecting Work?
Sexually Transmitted Disease examining can be quick, pain-free, and also fuss-free. STD assessing isn’t typically consisted of in normal medical examinations you have to ask for it. Learn more here.
What STD Test Do I Required?
Your registered nurse or medical professional will certainly aid you find out which examines you require. You’ll talk about:
- Any signs and symptoms you’re having
- , if you or your partner has ever before had a STD prior to
- The number of people you have actually made love with
- The kind of sex-related call you’ve had like dental, rectal, or genital sex, or anything that involves skin-to-skin genital get in touch with or passing sexual liquids
- Just how typically you utilize defense, like condoms and also oral dams
- Other things you do that boost your opportunities of getting certain infections (like sharing needles).
What If You Take place To Have STD? How Expensive To Get Std Testing
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RAWALPINDI, Oct 24 (DNA): Pakistan armed forces have extended best
wishes to the United Nations (UN) on its 75th anniversary,
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday.
The military’s media wing said on Twitter that Pakistan has contributed
over 200,000 troops in 46 UN missions in 28 countries, whereas, 158
Pakistani peacekeepers sacrificed their lives for global peace.
Pakistan had joined the UN peacekeeping mission on September 30, 1947,
and the first batch of Pakistani soldiers had been deployed in Congo.
The country has taken part in joint missions in 28 countries and its
peacekeepers including military officers sacrificed their lives.
Earlier in the year, the United Nations (UN) had honoured the Dag
Hammarskjold medal to a Pakistani soldier in May, Naik Muhammad Naeem
Raza, who embraced martyrdom while serving in the UN mission in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many global and UN leaders have
admitted the performance of the armed forces of Pakistan.
Moreover, 83 female soldiers of the Pakistani military troops are
currently part of the UN peacekeeping mission, whereas, Pakistan became
the first country for deploying its women military officers in Congo on
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E. Mara Green
deaf anthropology, disability, interaction, linguistic anthropology, Nepal, semiotics, South Asia
International Deaf Spaces; South Asia; Nepal
Green is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist interested in everyday interaction as a locus for both the reproduction and transformation of sociality and relationality. Fundamentally, her work asks what it means, and what it takes, to understand, and be understood by, others.
This question has emerged through fieldwork both in international deaf spaces and, for more sustained periods of time, in Nepal. With regards to the former, she has argued that International Sign as a mode of signed communication is characterized as much by the affordances of the signed modality as by participants’ moral orientation toward linguistic commensuration across difference. In Nepal, she works in urban and rural spaces with deaf people who use Nepali Sign Language - NSL, a young, conventional language - as well as with deaf and hearing people who use natural sign, which she analyzes as emergent signed communicative practices that draw on a small repertoire of conventional forms and strategies and on the immanence of signs in the convergence of bodies and the socio-material world. In calling this phenomenon natural sign, a term translated from NSL, and in her writing more generally, Green seeks to acknowledge her indebtedness to deaf NSL signers’ own theories of language and sociality.
Drawing together approaches from the study of communicative practice and ordinary ethics, Green’s articles and in-progress book manuscript, Making Sense, collectively argue that making meaning together depends as much on mutual willingness to do so as on shared linguistic and other semiotic resources. Her work draws attention to the creativity and vulnerability of deaf signers who are not part of robust signing networks, and argues that conventional grammar performs ethical labor on its users’ behalf.
Green's research incorporates short- and long-term participant observation, video recordings of interactions, and (on occasion) linguistic elicitation. She is inspired by queer, trans, and disability studies as well as by young adult fiction.
University of California, Berkeley, PhD in Anthropology, 2014
2022. "Thinking with Signs: Caste, Ethnicity, and the Dual Body in Contemporary Eastern Nepal.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
2017. “Performing Gesture: The Pragmatic Functions of Pantomimic and Lexical Repertoires in a Natural Sign Narrative.” Gesture 16, no. 2: 328-362.
2016. Coauthor with M. Friedner and A Kusters. “Deaf Community: Southern Asia.” In The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, edited by G. Gertz and P. Boudreault, 55-58. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc.
2016. Coauthor with M. Morgan. “Sign Language: Southern Asia.” In The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, edited by G. Gertz and P. Boudreault, 815-817. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc.
2015. “One Language, or Maybe Two: Direct Communication, Understanding, and Informal Interpreting in International Deaf Encounters.” In It’s a Small World: International Deaf Spaces and Encounters, edited by M. Friedner and A. Kusters, 70-82. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
2014. “Building the Tower of Babel: International Sign, Linguistic Commensuration, and Moral Orientation.” Language in Society 43, no. 4: 445-465.
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Cox Communications President Pat Esser said the cable company will roll out gigabit broadband to residential customers this year.
During an interview with Bloomberg yesterday, Esser said:
Delivering gigabit speeds to business service customers has always been a high priority to us, and for years we've delivered gigabit broadband to commercial customers across the country. We're working on our roadmap now around the residential side of the business to bring gigabit speeds to customers this year.
I'm talking about plans over time for all of our customers in all of our markets having residential gigabit broadband speeds available to them, and we're excited about it. Over the next two to three weeks we'll be announcing which markets we're starting in.
Esser didn't mention whether this would be a fiber-to-the-home service, but at another point he noted, "We have this very robust network, fiber very deep in the network." Cox offers fiber-to-the-premises for business customers needing 1Gbps or 10Gbps throughput.
Building out gigabit service across the company's entire residential footprint will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in the long term, he said. "We have to spend capital wisely, in ways that we can get the kind of products out on the schedule we're committed to so we can get a return on that capital in the ground," he said.
Cable industry officials have said that DOCSIS 3.0 gear can support gigabit speeds and that forthcoming gear based on the DOCSIS 3.1 specification will be able to provide multiple-gigabit speeds. However, no gigabit cable products have been offered.Cable companies already use a mix of fiber and coaxial cable, with fiber being built out to regional nodes, and cable serving the last stretch to customers' homes. Funnily enough, Cox's website calls it a "myth" that fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is the best technology for delivering Internet service.
"Cox uses a proven, reliable technology that is currently available to all Cox customers," Cox's website says. "Conversely, FTTH is a new service that will most likely be unavailable to the majority of consumers for a while. And FTTH Internet service also requires special wiring (CAT-5, a.k.a. Ethernet wiring) which many homes do not have."
This statement is apparently a bit outdated, as Cox started a fiber-to-the-home trial in Orange County, California, last year.
On another topic, Esser was asked if newer technology will drive down customer prices. Probably not, it turns out. "I think these technological [changes] are being done not necessarily to drive down costs, but to give customers more," he said.
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Hopes are fading for the people feared buried by Friday's devastating landslide on Leyte island.
Vitto Tomol says the rescue effort is hampered by rain and bad light
The BBC News website spoke to Vitto Tomol, a local government worker at the heart of efforts to co-ordinate the rescue from the provincial capital.
The mayor of St Bernard is getting desperate because it has been more than a day since the tragedy.
We are working non-stop and co-ordinating the rescue remotely, from the provincial capital, Maasin city.
But the rescue effort has been hampered by rain and darkness because the power in the area is out.
We have been accepting donations from all over the place. Different mountaineering groups from all over the country have been sent to help the recovery efforts. But we still need more help.
We estimate that around 3,000 people will be displaced as a result of this landslide and our first priority is to make sure they survive. Our most immediate need is bottled water, 32,000 litres for now, as well as canned food for evacuees and survivors.
St Bernard, the town closest to the disaster site, is a rice granary so there is no shortage of grain.
We have three evacuation centres ready but we are preparing a list that also includes basic items such as soap and clothing. Many of these people will have nothing left.
Many of the survivors are in the hospital and they are being provided with counselling. Since we are in the process of recovering bodies, our social welfare is co-ordinating the distribution of goods to ensure nobody goes hungry for the duration of this tragedy.
The figures are not encouraging. Guinsaugon village had 321 families which made up a population of 1,593. From the area around the landslide there are 635 confirmed survivors but these were people who lived at the edges of the area.
So far, there are only 57 people rescued from the landside. Twenty of those are hospitalised.
Because of the body count everyone is quite subdued here at the co-ordination centre. We don't want to talk about things. We just want to get on with work.
The hospital ran out of some medical supplies so I went downtown to buy some more, and even there, people were shaking their heads, deeply saddened. This could be one of our worst tragedies.
Many people have volunteered to help with rescue co-ordination. We work quietly hoping there are more survivors to help.
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A new wind farm to be built by Energia at a cost of €145m will aim to generate 255GW/hr of renewable energy each year, which is capable of powering as many as 70,000 homes in Donegal.
The energy supplier has reached financial closure on the Meenadreen Extension wind farm, which will see 38 Nordex N90 turbines provide much-needed energy assurance to the country’s most northerly county.
The deal will also see the construction of a new €11m substation that will further strengthen the local network’s ability to handle large increases in demand during the year.
Energia’s operational wind-farm portfolio includes both its own wind farms and those from third-party wind farms contracted to the energy supplier under power purchase agreements creating a total energy output of 795MWs of renewable power.
This new addition is expected to increase this by a further 300MWs, with future expansions also expected.
Peter Baillie, managing director of Energia Renewables, said of the completion of the deal: “We are delighted to reach this significant milestone in the development of our flagship 95MW Meenadreen Extension wind farm project. The development of this new wind farm is a very positive step forward for renewable energy in Ireland and this is something that is very important to us.
“We’ve received a lot of support from the local community and we’re very grateful for this.”
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Biolink Diatom 220g
Can be added to animal bedding or used as a general supplement added to feed. Used to control both internal and external parasites.
Diatomaceous Earth is a fine white powder made of the ground up fossilized remains of diatoms (a type of algae).
100% natural, it works because at a microscopic level the powder is very absorbent and effectively dehydrates parasites it comes into contact with causing them to shrivel up and die.
It can be added to animal bedding or used as a general supplement added to feed. It can be used to control both internal and external parasites.
Suitable for poultry, cats, dogs and horses. Please use according to the instructions on the bottle.
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has positioned itself as one of the most important additions to sustainable transport in the world, significantly improving urban mobility and lowering the cost of public transit. During the last ten years, 97 cities have implemented BRT corridors, many of them located in Latin America. In the region, BRT has become easy to implement, safe, environmentally friendly and efficient, and has been successfully deployed in cities like Curitiba, Bogotá, Mexico City. Often regarded as a second-best option vis-à-vis rail alternatives, the successful implementation of BRT requires concerted efforts to enhance its image, funding and planning. Valuable lessons can be extracted from Latin America’s experience with bus rapid transit, lessons that can serve as a point of departure to discuss the applicability of BRT in the United States.
On Tuesday, March 8, the Latin American Initiative at Brookings will host a panel discussion of lessons learned from Latin America and the applicability of BRT in the United States. Panelists include Marc Elrich, councilmember of Montgomery County, Maryland; Darío Hidalgo, director of research and practice at EMBARQ, WRI Center for Sustainable Transport; Sam Zimmerman, urban transport adviser at the World Bank; and Robert Puentes, senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program. Mauricio Cárdenas, senior fellow and director of the Latin America Initiative, will moderate the discussion.
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How do you eat Ramphal?
Here Are Some Health Benefits Of Ramphal
- One of the best ways to load up on ramphal is to make a delicious milkshake by blending milk, nuts, cinnamon and the fruit.
- Add the fruit to the custard and add dry fruits and nuts.
- Simply make ramphal ice-cream and enjoy summertime!
How do you know when a Ramphal is ripe?
Checking for Ripeness in Ramphal
In their unripe state, ramphals are hard to the touch and have shiny, pale green skin. As they ripen, the fruits feel heavy for their size and grow soft. The exterior color of ripe ramphals varies considerably: Some are pale yellowish brown, while others are a dusky purple.
Is Ramphal good for weight loss?
This fruit is abundant with Vitamins, iron, and calcium is beneficial in terms of health for diabetic people, building immunity, anaemia and even fighting acne. Ramphal helpful in reducing weight: Ramphal can also be an excellent companion to your weightloss journey.
What is english name of Ramphal fruit?
rare fruit from India names upon Lord Rama called Ramphal or Ram Phal or Ramfal or Ram fal also called as Annona reticulate or Soursop in english.
What is Lakshman Phal?
Commonly known as soursop or Lakshman Phal in India, this fruit is a native of Brazil. Known to be god’s gift to humanity, it is a miracle food for cancer patients. It is a rich antioxidant and has a very high nutritional value. Clinically, it is known to have helped patients with TB, Cancer, AIDS, etc.
What is the difference between sitaphal and Ramphal?
The white insides of sitaphal and ramphal are segmented, with a buttery-smooth sweet pulp and a delightful aroma. “Sitaphal is rounder and the brown or yellowish Ramphal has red highlights and tends to be heart-shaped, hence the ‘bull’s heart’ moniker,” explains Kochhar, admittedly partial to sitaphal.
What can I do with unripe custard apple?
You can leave the unripe custard apple in a fruit bowl on the kitchen countertop to ripen over a few days at room temperature. This time can be sped up by placing the custard apple into a paper bag with a banana, with this method, usually it’ll be ripe enough to eat within 24 hours or even earlier.
Can you eat unripe custard apple?
Custard apples should be eaten as soon as possible after buying but can be kept in the bottom of the fridge for a day or two. Unripe fruit should be kept in a brown bag at room temperature until they are ready to eat.
How can you tell if an anona is ripe?
Eating an Annona
A ripe Annona should feel slightly soft under your thumb if you press on the skin. If it feels hard, then it is not ripe. The skin should not show too many signs of bruises or ooze juice. This means that the fruit is over ripe.
Is ramphal same as persimmon?
Sourced from Himachal Pradesh but also grown in Uttarakhand as well as the northeastern reaches of the Himalayas, it comes in two varieties at the stalls where it’s locally known as Japani phal and ramphal. … Yes, fellow fruit lover, it is the delectable persimmon that’s on my mind.
Can a pregnant woman eat ramphal?
Hi dear yes surely u can have. It is rich in vlaivum iron vitamin.
What is the price of ramphal?
Ramphal Fruit, Packaging Size: 2kg, Rs 500 /kilogram Cancer Fruit Shop | ID: 15979085788.
What are the side effects of soursop?
Some of the common side effects of soursop, which have come up during the research are discussed below in brief:
- Low Blood Pressure Level.
- Avoid Soursop With Coq10.
- Movement Disorder.
- Parkinson Disease.
- Affects The Cardiovascular System.
What is Seetha pazham in English?
English : Custard Apple. Tamil : Seema Atha / Seetha-Phalam. Malayalam : Seema Atha / Seetha Pazham.
How do you store sugar apple seeds?
Break open the sugar apple and pick through the flesh to find the seeds (it’s easy, they’re quite large). Any flesh that clings to the seeds needs to be washed off to avoid rot. After washing them, place them on several layers of paper towels and then store them in a glass jar until you want to plant them.
How do you take Lakshman Phal?
Exotic Fruit with Miraculous Benefits | Lakshman Phal | SahiJeeth
How do you eat Lakshman fruit?
How to Eat Soursop – Graviola – YouTube
What does soursop taste like?
What Does Soursop taste like? Its name only describes part of this evolving flavor profile. Soursop in your mouth, moves through tastes, from tangy to sour to sweet, similar to pineapple. All the while, the strawberry-esqe aroma floods your nostrils.
Is Ramphal sweet?
Ramphal is very similar in look to Sitaphal which is also known as Custard Apple. Ramphal is a sweet fruit which is much larger in size than Sitphal and grown in Maharashtra region close to Mahabaleshwar and also in Khed near Satara.
Is soursop and Ramphal same?
Soursop is a green coloured fruit that is also known as Graviola or Ramphal in India.
Is Ramphal and custard apple same?
Outside India ‘Custard Apple’ is commonly used for Annona reticulata, which is what we call Ramphal, but which is also known in Spanish countries as Cherimoya. … cherimola is also grown in a few places in Assam and South India, and is now called Lakshmanphal.
What happens if we swallow custard apple seeds?
Apple seeds contain amygdalin, a substance which releases cyanide when it comes in contact with human digestive enzymes. Amygdalin contains cyanide and sugar which when ingested by the body gets converted into hydrogen cyanide (HCN). This cyanide can make you sick and can even kill you.
How do I know when a custard apple is ripe?
A custard apple is ripe if it gives slightly when gently pressed. Custard apples can be bought ready to eat, or still hard to the touch. If so, allow to ripen over several days before eating. To speed ripening, put the fruit into a brown paper bag with a banana and leave it on the kitchen bench.
How do I know when my Attis are ripe?
Sugar apples are ripe when the flesh is creamy and soft. To check ripeness, give it a gentle squeeze with your fingers. The outside should be springy without being mushy. If it’s quite firm, the fruit is likely unripe.
Are custard apples expensive?
Custard apples sell for around $10 per kilogram, and given a single piece of fruit can weigh up to two kilograms, they can be expensive for the average consumer.
Why do custard apples go black?
Infection begins at blossom-end of the fruit and later spreads on entire fruit surface, affected fruits shrivel and they may cling to the tree or fall down. Necrotic spots of 2-10 mm in diameter appear on unripe fruits which turn into dark brown to black spots. These spots coalesce later and cover entire fruit.
How long does it take for a custard apple to ripen?
The Fruit takes between 20 and 25 weeks to reach maturity in sub-tropical climates where the days are not too warm and the nights not too cool. There are two main varieties of Custard Apples, the Pinks Mammoth (or Hillary White) and the African Pride. Both are sweet, juicy and full of flavour.
How do you eat anona?
But no need to peel it – to get to the yummy pulp, just take the fruit into your both hands holding it with the tips of your fingers in the middle and then split it into two parts by pushing each half to a different direction. Then, you have to halves of the fruit ready to eat.
How long does it take for soursop to mature from flower to edible fruits?
Soursop fruit will take between four to five days to ripen once picked. Trees will produce at least two dozen fruit per year.
Is cherimoya the same as anona?
Cherimoya, ANNONA CHERIMOLA. People here call that an Anona, and books refer to it as a Cherimoya. It’s ANNONA CHERIMOLA. Up north Papaws are members of the same Annona Family and display something of the same texture, same sweet taste, and same big, black, hard seeds embedded in succulent flesh.
Can you eat the skin of a persimmon?
The peel is edible — so take a bite! If you prefer to wait until your persimmon is more ripe (which you always should when dealing with Hachiyas), simply cut into it and eat the custard-like flesh with a spoon.
Are unripe persimmons poisonous?
An unripe American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) will cause your mouth to pucker so bad, that the average person will not eat enough of this fruit to cause a bezoar. … These substances are called bezoar stones. For hundreds of years, they were thought to have the ability to heal poison related diseases.
Are persimmons poisonous to humans?
There is nothing poisonous about a persimmon (Diospyros kaki), a fruit that originated in China. … That unpleasant feeling in the mouth occurs only when eating under-ripe persimmons. Even a slightly underripe one can be mouth puckering, since the fruit contains a good amount of tannins.
Is ramphal good for health?
Ramphal is one hyper local fruit that can be beneficial for diabetes as it has blood glucose lowering properties. It contains minerals that make them just right for pre-diabetes and diabetes. It also has anti-cancer properties, mentions Diwekar in her post.
How do you peel a ramphal?
How to cut and store persimmons with Poh Ling Yeow – YouTube
What is the benefits of dragon fruit?
Dragon fruit is high in vitamin C and other antioxidants, which are good for your immune system. It can boost your iron levels. Iron is important for moving oxygen through your body and giving you energy, and dragon fruit has iron. And the vitamin C in dragon fruit helps your body take in and use the iron.
How do you store ramphal fruit?
- Store them in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
- The fruit can are eaten fresh. The juice can be used as a flavoring in various desserts, especially ice cream (ice cream) and pudding.
Where do we get ramphal?
She then went on to list some of the crucial reasons the fruit, which is mostly found in Assam, Gujarat, Maharashtra and West Bengal, is a must-have. The fruit, which belongs to the same family of Annona as custard apple, is known for its creamy texture and mildly sweet taste.
What is ramphal fruit?
What is Ramphal? Ramphal is a seasonal fruit which is also known as the as bullock’s heart. It usually grows in the regions of Assam, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and West Bengal. This fruit is the must-have fruit. It belongs to the same family of the Annona just like custard apple (Sitaphal).
How do you eat soursop?
If you want to eat it raw, it’s best to simply cut your soursop in half and scoop out the flesh with a spoon (you’ll have to work around the seeds or spit them out as you go). Because of its stringy texture, soursop is going to be difficult to cut up into cubes, hence the need to scoop it out with a spoon.
Can you eat soursop everyday?
Soursop is not safe for humans as a supplement or as a food or drink in large amounts. I recommend you avoid soursop supplements and tea. If you eat soursop pulp, desserts, or drink the juice, try limiting it to ½ cup a few days a week.
Does soursop need to be refrigerated?
Fresh soursop fruit is very sensitive and ripens fairly quickly. … The fruit should be kept at 60 F or 15-16 C until it is soft to the touch, then refrigerated. It can be kept in the refrigerator after ripening for up to 4 days. After that time it will start to go brown or spoil.
Why is Sita Phal?
Sitaphal is good for digestion
But the reality is that sitaphal is good for digesion and can reduce bloating, informs Rujuta. It can also prevent acidity and heal ulcers. Sitaphal is a good source of Vitamin B complex, especially Vitamin B6.
Why it is called Seetha pazham?
Even though some people say that it gets its origin from being the fruit that Godess Sita had during her Vanvaas, another explanation, which I found more reliable is that it comes from to Sanskrit words “Sheet” meaning cold and “phal” which ofcourse means fruit, as it is known to cool the body.
Is sugar apple poisonous?
Its fruit is known as the custard apple, sugar apple, or fruta do conde. Its seeds are poisonous, and have multiple, mainly traditional, uses. They contain high amounts of annonaceous acetogenins (ACGs), for which a phytochemical update is proposed.
Can you eat sugar apple seeds?
Share on Pinterest Eating apple seeds is only unsafe if a person does so in large quantities. Apples contain plenty of healthful compounds, including antioxidants, vitamins, and dietary fiber. Apple seeds, however, contain a plant compound called amygdalin, which can have a toxic effect.
Is custard apple seeds poisonous?
Are Custard apple seeds poisonous? Custard apple seed has toxic effects on the skin and especially eyes. Studies state that application of Custard apple seed powder cause severe pain and redness in the skin. It might also cause extreme eye injury leading to blindness.
How long does it take for sugar apples to bear fruit?
long, black to dark brown seed, of which there may be up to 40 per sugar apple. Most sugar apples have green skins, but a dark red variety is attaining some popularity. Fruit ripens 3-4 months after flowering in the spring. | <urn:uuid:a6dbcb6f-0f5b-4324-8e10-c0b4cb918855> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://12onions.com/how-to-eat-ramphal-fruit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941072 | 3,236 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Porsall, the port of Ploudalmézeau, attracts many tourists still looking for traces of the Amoco Cadiz which sank in 1978 a few hundred meters offshore. From the imposing anchor of the giant tanker at the end of the wharf, a promontory dominated by a large cross can be seen towards the bottom of the harbour. It is on this height that are a menhir and especially a very original portal tomb. From this natural balcony, the panorama over the entrance to the port of Portsall is absolutely magnificent.
From Ploudalmézeau by the D168, Landunvez by the D27 or by the coastal road, you reach a roundabout before going down towards the port of Portsall. A car park is on the left of a second roundabout at the bottom of the hill. It is bordered by a pancake house, a restaurant and a fish shop. To the left of the restaurant, the GR-34 hiking trail leads to the megaliths 600 m away.
Access to the dolmen is not possible for people with reduced mobility because of the rock outcrops they would have to climb to get there.
The standing stone
The Guilliguy menhir is 2.20 m high, 1.40 m wide and 0.70 m thick. Composed of Landunvez migmatic granite, it has not always been in this position: leaning west at 45° following, no doubt, an old clandestine excavation, it was straightened in 1992. On this occasion, flint and Neolithic pottery shards were found at its base.
The covered passageway
Near the menhir, a sign describes the covered passageway excavated in 1992 by M. Le Goffic, departmental archaeologist :
This Neolithic burial is based on the rock outcrop supporting the cross. All the stones are from this outcrop. The monument has several particularities :
- Its cover first. Only two slabs partially cover the long sepulchral chamber. At the western end of the monument, the cella is in the open air.
- The monument, 10.40 m long, forms a right-angled bend. That's where the entrance was made. The small access passage is separated from the chamber by a vertical slab with a very small opening on the edge, a 40 cm diameter cat flap. It is probable that it was blocked by the round slab of the same diameter that was found nearby.
The cat flap seen from inside the chamber
South of the monument, 5 stones still in place, in an arc of circle, were to retain those of the cairn which covered all the burial.
A carbon-14 dating was performed on carbonaceous traces taken from the walls of the entrance. The date range obtained is 3585 - 3161 BC.
Excavations also revealed that later, in the Bronze Age, the entrance to the access passage was degraded by the excavation of a burial vault 2 m long.
The panel near the menhir shows the drawings of several pottery shards as well as important lithic furniture, blades, scrapers, flint knives etc... discovered during excavations.
It should be noted that the large cross overlooking the promontory was erected there at the end of the 19th century. It comes from a chapel below. | <urn:uuid:8dc14fe0-4d98-40e9-a5ca-c6e30aa5bc2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://patrimoine-iroise.fr/culturel/archeo/prehistorique/Guilliguy.php?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962938 | 697 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Crypto Savvy — Trading Safely and Securely
The exponential rise to popularity that cryptocurrency has experienced over the few years has greatly benefitted people from all walks of life around the world, providing an opportunity to learn, grow and earn in an exciting, easily accessible online environment.
Unfortunately, this has also given rise to all-to-popular crypto scams, including industry ‘figures’ and ‘opinion leaders’ who are often sponsored by brands to push their individual agendas as opposed to transparently educating their eager audiences with much need, unbiased trading tips, tricks and information.
Ever heard the saying: “If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is”? Thought so.
This term, often used when it comes to promised ‘lucrative’ investments or ‘get rich quick’ schemes, is something to keep top of mind in the opportunistic by nature cryptocurrency space. Arm yourself with information to avoid misleading websites or people who offer:
· Guaranteed returns
· Setups that require you to invest large sums of money with the promise of greater returns
· Phishing emails from unknown sources that entice you to send cryptocurrency, provide wallet details or even ask you to click-through to other vague or unrecognisable websites — all in an attempt to acquire your crypto wallet private keys
· Crypto ‘fake news’ sources and sites that are not well known and trusted by the community
· Crypto ‘influencers’ who post sponsored content aimed at providing biased trading advice in their favour (especially when they do not CLEARLY disclaim the paid or even unpaid partnership)
In almost all cases, this approach can lead to disappointment when eager traders try to get their money out, only to discover that they can’t.
It’s crucial to always do your homework and background checks. Arm yourself with knowledge and surround yourself with people who can be trusted and do not make over-the-top promises.
Completely new to the crypto world? Take a paid for training course (free courses are almost always sponsored and contain biased material). As an example, the Bitcoin Trend & Forecast brand exclusively provides training & educational content to help all experience levels navigate their personal, unique journeys. None of these self-developed courses include financial advice and is developed to teach you how to do it yourself and do not buy, sell or invest cryptocurrencies on your behalf. | <urn:uuid:e373d13a-c67a-4dab-8671-65a3fa3f249b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bitcointaf.medium.com/crypto-savvy-trading-safely-and-securely-75738d8fd8b1?source=post_internal_links---------7---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945864 | 500 | 1.585938 | 2 |
CAMPBELL, Sir ALEXANDER, lawyer, politician, educator, businessman, and office holder; baptized 9 March 1822 in Hedon, England, son of James Campbell and Lavinia Scatcherd; m. 17 Jan. 1855 Georgina Fredrica Locke Sandwith in Beverley, England, and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 24 May 1892 in Toronto.
James Campbell, a physician of Scottish origin, moved to the Canadas with his family in 1823. They lived initially in Montreal, relocated in Lachine ten years later, and settled in Kingston, Upper Canada, in 1836. Alexander Campbell received an unusually good education by the standards of early-19th-century Canada. His first teacher was a Presbyterian clergyman. Though his family was Anglican, he was then sent, along with his brother Charles James, to the Roman Catholic Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in Lower Canada, where he acquired a sufficient knowledge of French to use the language publicly in later life. He next attended the Midland District Grammar School in Kingston. From there he went to the office of Henry Cassady as a law student. Following Cassady’s death in September 1839, he then, at the age of 17, transferred his articles to John A. Macdonald. Macdonald’s first student had been Oliver Mowat*, Campbell was his second. For a brief period the three young men, all destined for illustrious careers, worked together in Macdonald’s office in Kingston. In 1843 Campbell was admitted to the bar and became Macdonald’s partner. The partnership, which in itself was not particularly important, was dissolved in 1849. What was important was the political alliance formed by these two young men in the 1840s. They would remain intimate associates until Campbell abandoned politics in 1887.
Campbell’s public career began on Kingston’s city council: from 1850 to 1852 he was an alderman, representing Victoria Ward. In 1858, and again in 1864, he was elected to the province’s Legislative Council for the Cataraqui division, a large constituency that included Kingston and all of Frontenac and Addington counties; he served as speaker of the council from February to May 1863. In late 1861, when Macdonald, now attorney general for Upper Canada, was desperately attempting to form a cabinet, he asked Campbell to take office. Campbell agreed to do so only if Thomas Clark Street* and John Hillyard Cameron*, from the old guard of tories, were included, but Macdonald did not comply. The incident would appear to indicate that Campbell’s contacts with tory factions in Toronto and western Upper Canada were better than Macdonald’s.
Perhaps the high point of Campbell’s pre-confederation career came during the crisis precipitated by the resignation on 21 March 1864 of the coalition government of John Sandfield Macdonald* and Antoine-Aimé Dorion. After Adam Johnston Fergusson* Blair failed to form a government, Governor General Lord Monck asked Campbell to try. He also failed, and with that failure went his only real opportunity to become a major political leader. On 30 March he secured ministerial rank as commissioner of crown lands in the government of Macdonald and Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché*, a position he held until 30 June 1867. As a member of this coalition cabinet, he was a delegate to the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences of 1864, and is thus a father of confederation.
Campbell never ran for public office after 1867. He was called to the Senate on 23 October of that year and he remained in the upper chamber until 7 Feb. 1887, when he resigned. He held a wide variety of cabinet posts during those years: postmaster general on four occasions (1867–73, 1879–80, 1880–81, 1885–87), superintendent general of Indian affairs and minister of the interior (1873), receiver general (1878–79), minister of militia and defence (1880), and minister of justice and attorney general (1881–85). In addition, he was acting minister of inland revenue (1868–69) and government leader in the Senate (1867–73, 1878–87). During the Liberal government of Alexander Mackenzie (1873–78), Campbell led the Conservative party in the upper chamber. He had become a qc in 1856 and was created a kcmg in 1879. He represented Canada in 1887 in London at the first colonial conference, largely a ceremonial affair. On 1 June of that year he was appointed lieutenant governor of Ontario, a post he still held when he died five years later. For a brief period after his appointment, the three young men who had worked together in Kingston in 1839 constituted an amazing political constellation: Macdonald was Conservative prime minister of Canada; Mowat, who in spite of a long-time feud with Macdonald remained a friend of Campbell, was Liberal premier of Ontario; and Campbell was its lieutenant governor.
Campbell was heavily involved in activities other than politics and the practice of law. In 1861–64 he served as dean of the faculty of law at Queen’s College in Kingston. He had extensive business interests, which in the 1850s had included various railway companies, the Kingston Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and the Cataraqui Cemetery Company. Much of his business activity dates from 1873, when the first Macdonald government fell. This event placed Campbell in opposition and, until he joined Macdonald’s second government in 1878, he had substantial amounts of free time. During the 1870s he was president of the Intercolonial Express Company, which had been organized when the Intercolonial Railway was opened; vice-president of the Isolated Risk Fire Insurance Company of Canada; chairman of the board of the Toronto branch of the Consolidated Bank of Canada; and a director of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway and of the London and Canadian Loan and Agency Company. As well, he owned shares in both the Ives Mining Company and the Maritime Bank of the Dominion of Canada and was active in the Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company and in the Canadian Express Company. Early in the decade he purchased coal properties from Charles Tupper*, and in 1873, with John Beverley Robinson and Richard John Cartwright*, he bought a coal area in Nova Scotia that proved unsuccessful. During the 1880s he speculated in western Canadian land. When Campbell died he was president of two firms: the Imperial Loan and Investment Company of Canada Limited and the Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.
Campbell had no difficulty in maintaining close business ties with such prominent Kingston Liberals as Cartwright and Charles Fuller Gildersleeve. Perhaps more dramatic was his business association with leading federal Liberals who had little to do with Kingston. As vice-president of the Isolated Risk Fire Insurance Company, Campbell was involved with prominent tories such as Matthew Crooks Cameron* but in essence the company was a Liberal operation. Alexander Mackenzie was president and the board included such other Liberal luminaries as Edward Blake*, George Brown*, Adam Crooks*, William McMaster*, and Robert Wilkes*. Kingston nevertheless remained important in all Campbell’s undertakings. Through business and politics, and through social activity and marriage, he was at the centre of a web of interrelationships among various prominent Kingston families – the Campbells, Macdonalds, Stranges, Kirkpatricks, Gildersleeves, and Cartwrights.
Campbell’s achievements as a cabinet minister were minor, but some of his administrative decisions had wide ramifications. He was minister of justice when Louis Riel* was captured in 1885. Under no circumstances did Campbell want the Métis leader tried in Winnipeg. As he explained to Macdonald, Riel “should be sent under safe guard to Regina, and there be tried before [Hugh Richardson*] and a jury of six, under the North West Territories Act,” by which a prisoner was not entitled to a mixed anglophone and francophone jury. A trial in Winnipeg, especially with some French-speaking jurymen, could easily have led to a verdict other than guilty, an outcome regarded by Campbell as a possible “miscarriage of justice.” With such a verdict Canada might have been spared the crisis surrounding Riel’s execution or experienced a quite different one.
Campbell’s decision to ensure that Riel be showed no favour exemplified his administrative style. He was cool, conscientious, conservative, legalistic, narrow, paternalistic, and frugal. In 1885 advice he gave to Macdonald pointed out the difficulties caused by “constant giving way to truculent demands[,] and our delays and the irritation and mischiefs which they produce are in everybody’s mouth, and are evils of which you and I may well take note. . . . I hope that we shall take a fresh start.”
What made Campbell an important figure was not his lengthy tenure as a cabinet minister, but his roles as a confidant who advised the prime minister in a wide variety of areas and as a political manager within the Conservative party. The latter role was central to his career: Campbell was a tory fixer who often acted as Macdonald’s legate. This was especially true during the first Macdonald government (1867–73). In those years, Campbell’s most active as a party manager, he was postmaster general for all but four months. He used the patronage component of his portfolio assiduously and in the interests of his party. Pay raises for postal workers, leaves of absence, and appointments were manipulated for partisan purposes. Consequently, though Campbell was never a major political figure, he was occasionally seen as such. In 1887 the Toronto Week noted that his appointment as postmaster general in 1867 had been a major achievement: “The new position did not call, to the same extent as the previous one [commissioner of crown lands], for the exercise of legal acumen, but it involved dealing with large public interests and a very extended patronage.”
Campbell held Macdonald responsible for the fall of the government in 1873, noting in early November that the administration could have held power had “Sir John A kept straight during the last fortnight.” His participation in the management of the 1874 general election was less than had been the case in 1872 and after the massive Conservative defeat, he became less and less involved in party management. His successor in eastern Ontario was John Graham Haggart*. During the mid 1870s Campbell was heavily involved in business activity, and after 1878 his focus was on departmental work. His managerial role can best be understood by illustrating the scope and nature of his activities around the time of the 1872 election. The illustration will also reveal much about the nature of 19th-century politics.
One of his numerous responsibilities in the election period was looking into the situation in various parts of the country. Thus early in the campaign he asked Alexander Morris*, administrator of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, for a “paper on Manitoba,” informed Macdonald that John George Bourinot* had prepared a study of the relations between Nova Scotia and Canada, and asked the prime minister to dictate a paper on the “general achievements of the government.” After consulting Henry Nathan (mp for Victoria) and Donald Alexander Smith* (mp for Selkirk), Campbell advised Macdonald to call the elections in British Columbia for the “earliest possible period” and those in Manitoba for “the last half of August or the first week of September.” Campbell assisted in securing Sir George-Étienne Cartier*’s by-election victory in September 1872 in Provencher, and, after Cartier died in May 1873, he was involved in the fight for the seat, which was won by Riel. In December 1872 Campbell had advised the prime minister on the sensitive problem of Riel and the Métis: “What do you say to my proposition to pay the loyal French half breeds the £500 recommended by Donald Smith out of the secret service fund?” In July 1873 Campbell became minister of the interior and therefore administratively concerned about Manitoba.
The raising of funds for the 1872 election became in 1873 a matter for a royal commission of inquiry into the Pacific Scandal. Called to testify, Campbell claimed only a dim knowledge of Sir Hugh Allan*’s massive campaign contributions of the previous year. Regardless of this disclaimer, and most tories suffered serious memory loss in 1873, Campbell knew much about campaign funds. In July 1872 William Cleghorn at the office in Toronto of the commissioners of the Trust and Loan Company of Canada told him that he and his staff would contribute to the election fund. Later in the campaign Campbell dealt with a remarkable incident in which Macdonald borrowed $10,000 for electoral purposes on a banknote co-signed by John Shedden* and Campbell’s brother Charles. The security, Charles told Alexander, was “‘Sir John’s undertaking in writing as a member of the Government to recoup us the amount loaned him.’” How Campbell handled the situation is uncertain, but fortunately he understood Macdonald and was able to solve the money problems, caused, in Campbell’s opinion, by the prime minister’s frequent intoxication between his election in 1872 and the defeat of his government in November 1873.
Though a senator after 1867, Campbell helped to manage the Conservative party within the House of Commons. For example, he offered Dr James Alexander Grant (mp for Russell) a senatorship in return for his loyalty during the parliamentary crisis of 1873. He was also heavily involved in the manœuvres designed to prevent the defection of D. A. Smith immediately prior to the fall of the government.
Controlling newspapers was another of the senator’s key interests. This was an important and difficult problem because in Ontario the Conservative party faced the powerful Toronto Globe, owned by George Brown. Repeated attempts were made to counter its influence, but the Conservatives were routinely unsuccessful [see James Beaty]. None the less, a press war was waged and Campbell, as long as he was postmaster general, was a central combatant. He used advertising about post-office matters to keep fractious editors loyal and insolvent newspapers alive. To obtain advertising or printing contracts from the government, a newspaper had to be on what F. Munro, an Orangeville newspaper proprietor, called in 1871 the “List.” Moreover, Campbell received numerous requests for help from newspapermen. Occasionally he acted rapidly. During the 1872 campaign James George Moylan* of the Canadian Freeman in Toronto asked for an advance on a “few thousand dollars worth of printing.” The request was granted within five days, doubtless because Moylan threatened to suspend publication in the midst of the campaign. The Ontario Workman, Ontario’s first important labour newspaper, was on Campbell’s “List”: during the 1872 campaign the tories obtained labour support and Macdonald and Campbell both provided revenue for the journal.
From all these activities it is clear how crucial a role Campbell played in the election of 1872. Macdonald left his own re-election in Kingston to Campbell, who evidently had charge as well of the other ridings in the old Midland District. Macdonald had found his power base here prior to confederation, but, active now on a larger stage, he delegated to Campbell much of the management of the party in the district. Of all the ridings he managed in 1872, the most important was Kingston, where he directed the prime minister’s re-election in detail. He kept Macdonald informed about what happened and he arranged his nomination. On 11 July he gloated over his manipulation of the Roman Catholic bishop of Kingston, Edward John Horan*: “The Bishop promised me today that he would speak to his people tomorrow – he is much pained at the disaffection particularly at this moment when half a dozen Catholics are running by your instrumentality – he says that he does not adopt the course of speaking in church but on the most important crises but he feels this to be one and will do it.” Nine days later, however, Campbell urged Macdonald to come to Kingston, for he felt that the seat was in danger from “some of the Catholics, some of your former friends and a lot of younger men.” He arranged for the return to Kingston of voters employed out of town and was able to keep Liberal voters on the job if they worked away from Kingston. Loyal supporters were looked after: some were paid, and unusually useful service could result in a patronage post. All the while Campbell was also active in constituencies from Toronto to the Ottawa River. He encouraged candidates and offered advice, found campaign funds, disciplined insufficiently friendly civil servants, persuaded men to continue to work for the party, appealed to religious leaders, and strove to minimize the disintegrating effects of factionalism. It is clear why Senator John Hamilton*, in a letter to Campbell in August, referred to elections “which you manipulate in Kingston.”
Campbell’s political career fits one standard 19th-century pattern. Through politics he rose to the highest level of Ontario’s social structure and joined the province’s élite. But his rise in politics was accomplished by his political utility, and did not depend on personal friendship with Macdonald. They were not close friends. The breakup of their law partnership in 1849 had been extremely unpleasant. Sir Joseph Pope*, Macdonald’s private secretary, would later comment, “Sir John and Sir Alexander were not kindred spirits, but any want of cordiality between them was on personal grounds, and politically they were always . . . closely united.” This political union was exceedingly useful to Macdonald; the very able Campbell performed a host of invaluable functions. In Senator Hamilton, the important Montreal business leader, Campbell had friend and confidant, and his own brother Charles linked him to Toronto’s business community. Sir Richard Cartwright and Oliver Mowat, men hated by Macdonald, remained lifelong friends of Campbell; at the very least they kept him informed in areas in which Macdonald had little contact. Despite his usefulness to Macdonald, however, Campbell represented no threat to his leader. He could not compete with Sir John at the personal level: Campbell was an aloof man, contemptuous of the masses and somewhat scornful of popular politics. He was more suited to the Senate than to the House of Commons, but he knew full well that a successful government must be based on politicians with strong electoral abilities and popularity throughout the country. Hence his comment to Macdonald in December 1872, “No appointment [to the cabinet] from the Senate can add anything to the strength of the Government with the Commons or the Country but the reverse.”
Campbell’s most serious political weakness was his lack of an independent power base: he operated from Kingston, the centre of Macdonald’s strength. During the last years of the union era he did have a base of electoral power, albeit a weak one, as an elected legislative councillor, but even then his constituency was shared with Macdonald. More important was his pre-1864 alliance with some elements of the tory old guard. Within the delicately balanced politics of the union, where governments and leaders were used up quickly, this strength was almost sufficient to obtain for him the leadership of the Upper Canadian Conservatives. After 1867 there was no elected federal upper house and it was impossible for small groups to wield the tremendous power they possessed before 1864. Campbell accepted the change, and, during Macdonald’s first federal government, he acted as a loyal and important lieutenant. His very inclusion in the first cabinet proves Macdonald’s esteem. Ontario had only five ministers in that cabinet, and the Ontario wing was a coalition, with three of the ministers (Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair, William Pearce Howland*, and William McDougall*) being Liberals, the two Conservatives being from Kingston, and only Macdonald having a seat in the Commons. That politically dangerous combination indicates how strongly Macdonald wanted Campbell’s assistance. Campbell was useful, safe, and able; he could not threaten Macdonald’s leadership, but he could further it. Sir Alexander Campbell was the ideal political lieutenant.
Alexander Campbell is the author of Speeches on divers occasions ([Ottawa?], 1885).
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Culture Change and Shifting Populations in Central Northern Mexico
AuthorGriffen, William B.
KeywordsNueva Vizcaya (New Spain) -- History.
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Nueva Vizcaya (New Spain)
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PublisherUniversity of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ)
DescriptionHistorical investigation of culture contact between raiding aboriginal Indian groups and Spanish colonists. Significant insights concerning conflicting concepts of ownership and property.
Table of ContentsPreface / Abstract / Introduction / The Parras Missions and Early Bolsón History / The 1644 Revolt / The 1650s / From 1660 to 1690 / The 1690s / The Early Eighteenth Century / The Major Deportations / Extinction of the Aborigines and Arrival of the Apaches / Tribal and Band History and General Distribution / Dress and Decoration / Dwellings / Stolen and Traded Goods / Subsistence / Gathering / Agriculture / Hunting / Bands / Marriage / Chieftains / Warfare / Dances / War Ceremonies / Other Ceremonies / Shamans, Curing, and Supernatural Power / Death and Burial / Games / Language / Summary of Band Distribution and History / Greater Bolsón Culture Change: Analysis and Interpretation / Summary and Conclusions / Appendix 1. Tribal and Band Groups / Band and Group Names / Appendix 2. Hints on Band Composition from the Parras Archives / Appendix 3. Ethnic Composition of the Cabeza "Nation" at Parras, 1693-1722 / Appendix 4. The Marin 1693 Report of Neuva Vizcaya Indians and Comparison with Retana's 1693 List / Appendix 5. Chiefs' Names / Bibliography | <urn:uuid:154f8ab9-d4ee-472f-a253-b80ada443b4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/595454 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.70152 | 440 | 3.5 | 4 |
Chamber celebrates Small Business Week
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cranbrook, October 20, 2014 – As B.C. marks Small Business Week (Oct. 20 – 24), the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce is celebrating the vital role small businesses play in Cranbrook “Small businesses make up a major part of Cranbrook’s business community and play a critical role in driving our local economy and creating jobs,” said Dave Butler, President , of the Cranbrook & District Chamber of Commerce. “Small Business Week is a great opportunity for our community to celebrate these hard-working businesses that bring great ideas and entrepreneurial spirit to our Cranbrook.” As a member of the BC Chamber of Commerce, the Cranbrook & District Chamber of Commerce is part of active advocacy to support small businesses, including:
- The creation of and implementation of B.C.’s Small Business Accord;
- The removal of thousands of B.C. businesses from recycling costs and red tape under Multi Material BC’s packaging and printed paper program; and
- Continued advocacy for lower municipal business taxes.
As well, the Cranbrook Chamber is a dedicated advocate for Cranbrook’ s small businesses at the local level. Some of our recent work includes:
- Working with the City of Cranbrook on Barriers to Business
- Participating with the Community Recruitment Plan for new Doctors to the City
- Continuing efforts to establish a DMO for the City of Cranbrook
The Chamber encourages Cranbrook residents to demonstrate their support for small businesses this week by making an extra effort to shop local. “Celebrate local small businesses this week by purchasing goods from local shops, eating out at a local restaurant or café, or paying for a local service such as a haircut,” said Butler.
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Once we reach retirement, we are apprehensive about investing in stocks. Our goal then is not to worry about growing savings but ensuring whether the accumulated fund is good to last for the next 30 years or so. So, the question arises: Should we invest in retirement stocks? If yes, then how much risk is too much?
Whether you should own stocks or not depends on these three criteria:
Can you take the risk?
First, you will need to calculate the minimum return your investments need to earn for you to ensure that you sustain your lifestyle goals in retirement. If you are fine with no cash in your account when you die, and your saved amount is enough to meet your expenses for the next 30 years you should not take the risk. On the other hand, if you are left with extra funds after securing your lifestyle goals for the next 30 years, you can afford to take the risk by investing in stocks.
Can you use risk as your holistic plan?
Another approach you can employ is investing in laddered CDs or bonds that matures each year for the amount you need to meet your lifestyle goals for the next 20 years. The remaining fund can be invested in stocks. During the 20-year period, if your stocks do well, you would have reasonable profit that could ensure additional years of cash flow.
Do you have an action plan if the risk materializes?
If your stocks don’t do well, you need to understand the consequences and have an action plan ready.
There are two things to keep in mind here:
Do not own stocks if you do not have the flexibility to keep them when the market is down.
If your stocks aren’t doing well for a prolonged time, you may have to think of cutting down on your expenses.
The good and the bad of having stocks as part of your retirement portfolio
All that is good
Stocks are good retirement investments that help your investment portfolio and retirement income withstand inflation.
Stocks give you higher returns and thus higher income and the chance to live a better and secured retired life.
All that is bad
The stock market is volatile. If your stock delivers lower returns, you may have to spend less than what you had in mind.
It causes emotional stress because of constant anxiety about fluctuating stock prices. If you are not careful enough, you may end up selling at the wrong time and thus lose out on the money which could be used to live well during your retirement.
DISCLAIMER: This article expresses my own ideas and opinions. Any information I have shared are from sources that I believe to be reliable and accurate. I did not receive any financial compensation for writing this post, nor do I own any shares in any company I’ve mentioned. I encourage any reader to do their own diligent research first before making any investment decisions.
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What are irreversible changes?
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Mixing substances can cause an irreversible change. For example, when vinegar and bicarbonate of soda are mixed, the mixture changes and lots of bubbles of carbon dioxide are made. These bubbles and the liquid mixture left behind, cannot be turned back into vinegar and bicarbonate of soda again.
Burning is an example of an irreversible change. When you burn wood you get ash and smoke. You cannot change the ash and smoke back to wood again.
Reversible and irreversible reactions are different.
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Semiconductor manufacturing involves many “chemicals of concern,” or compounds that are hazardous to human health and the environment. The hazardous compounds fall into several categories:
- Solvents—etchants, cleaners, and similar substances that are rinsed off the wafer
- Process chemicals—solids, liquids, or gases that undergo chemical reactions to form either sacrificial or permanent layers
- Solid materials—solders, polymers, and other materials that are part of the final product
Some of these compounds are hazardous during production but pose no danger once incorporated into a chip or circuit board. In this case, issues include limiting worker exposure and ensuring safe disposal or on-site recycling and reuse.
For hazardous substances that remain in electronic devices, proper e-waste handling is critical. A later blog post in this series will delve more deeply into e-waste.
Regulations and Restrictions
You are probably aware of the Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive even if you aren’t familiar with the details. RoHS applies to certain elements and compounds used in electronics manufacturing and has been enforced for approximately 15 years. The original list of six restricted substances (heavy metals and flame retardants) has increased to ten with the addition of several phthalates used as plasticizers.
Replacing the restricted materials with safer alternatives is not simple. Sometimes the replacements come with unintended consequences. Other times no workable alternative exists. The 2011 update that replaced the original RoHS legislation states,
“Exemptions from the substitution requirement should be permitted if substitution is not possible from the scientific and technical point of view, taking specific account of the situation of SMEs [small and medium enterprises] or if the negative environmental, health and consumer safety impacts caused by substitution are likely to outweigh the environmental, health and consumer safety benefits of the substitution or the reliability of substitutes is not ensured.”
The statement above gives the industry a fair amount of leeway in deciding how to approach substitution. It opens the door to multiple exemptions, including those that might not be in the best interest of health and safety or the environment.
Solders are one example of the challenges of eliminating restricted materials. The initial replacements for Sn-Pb solders were alloys of Sn with additions of silver (Ag) and copper (Cu). Engineers struggled for years to improve the reliability of solder joints made from these SAC alloys.
SAC alloys melt at a higher temperature than Sn-Pb. That means that they require more time and energy to melt, which increases greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) during manufacturing. Does this drawback outweigh the benefits of removing Pb from solders? It might.
I am fascinated that the industry is now considering lower melting Pb-free alloys, including some that include bismuth (Bi) or indium (In). Back in the early 1990s, when a ban on Pb in solder in electronics was first being proposed, my PhD research focused on Sn-Bi and Sn-In.
RoHS and other regulations, however, extend far beyond solder alloys.
Understand the Hazards
Safety Data Sheets (SDS) spell out appropriate handling and disposal procedures for materials that are toxic, flammable, or otherwise hazardous. They often include ratings from the National Fire Protection Association regarding the level of health hazard, risks of fire and chemical instability, and other concerns.
As an example, sulfuric acid has a health hazard rating of 3 out of 4 and an instability rating of 2. The SDS for sulfuric acid states that contact causes severe eye burns and skin damage. It warns against breathing fumes or vapors and requires workers to wear protective clothing. The SDS further advises against release into the environment including keeping the chemical away from drains, sewers, and waterways.
Many substances used in semiconductor manufacturing are much more hazardous than sulfuric acid. Some are endocrine disruptors, chemicals that mimic hormones and affect brain function and reproductive health. These chemicals are linked to multiple health problems, from infertility to neurological conditions.
Exposure to endocrine disruptors comes from many sources, including the food we eat, so eliminating them from the semiconductor supply chain will not solve the problem. But the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs, not to be confused with printed circuit boards) used in fluids and lubricants are endocrine disruptors.
Toward Safer Alternatives
Awareness of hazardous chemicals in your manufacturing process is the first step. The next step is mitigation. Here are some questions to consider:
- Is it possible to eliminate the hazardous chemical by replacing it with a safer one?
- If not, how can you reduce the quantity of the chemical in your process?
- Are workers being adequately protected from exposure?
- How is your facility handling waste disposal of the chemical?
The answers to these questions will point to possible solutions. These may involve training employees on safe handling or installing better filtration systems or monitoring devices. Or you may propose changes that take more time to implement, such as redesigning your process to accommodate a change in solvent type or concentration.
Changing a process requires investments of time and money. But there are payoffs in both the short and long run. You can:
- Protect your employees, customers, and the local community from health hazards
- Reduce hazardous waste disposal costs
- Differentiate your product in the marketplace
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Very soon after fertilization, the control of embryonic development shifts from pre-existing maternal gene products to the products of genes encoded by the early embryo (or zygote). This passing of the genetic baton, called the maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT), is poorly understood because existing technologies have generally been too insensitive to capture the full scale of the epigenetic changes it entails across the zygotic genome.
The improved sensitivity of μChIP-seq, developed jointly by Klugland, Ren and John Arne Dahl of Oslo University, led to “some remarkable discoveries that have completely changed our view of epigenetic inheritance mechanisms,” says Ren.
In the current paper, Ren and his colleagues describe their use of μChIP-seq to investigate how epigenetic information is passed from one generation to the next to orchestrate the MZT. To that end, they examined in mouse embryos the global distribution of an epigenetic mark known to play a critical role in regulating the activity of genes. This mark (H3K4me3) modifies chromatin — the complex of DNA and its protein packaging — by adding three identical molecules known as methyl groups at a specific place on a packaging protein known as histone 3.
Dahl, a visiting scholar in Ren’s lab and co-first author on the Nature paper, fine-tuned the technique for mapping such epigenetic tags to where only a few hundred embryos or cells were needed for each experiment. Previous methods required up to 10,000 cells to conduct similar analyses. The other first author, Inkyung Jung, a Ludwig postdoc in Ren’s lab, contributed significantly to the computational analysis of the resulting data.
When the scientists compared H3K4me3 distribution in immature mouse egg cells they found something unexpected: broad but distinct domains of the immature egg cell’s genome, representing some 22% of the whole, are heavily marked by H3K4me3. These domains rapidly decrease in size in 2-cell embryos and eventually shrink to about 1% to 2% of the genome.
“The key lesson we learned was that the genes that are destined to be turned on specifically in the fertilized egg are covered by this unique chromatin domain structure,” says Ren. Those marks have to be removed by specialized enzymes to activate the zygotic genome. “This mark is a mechanism for the oocyte to influence which genes in the zygote are activated. It is an epigenetic mechanism for the passage of information from the maternal oocyte to the zygote.”
The ability to map “epigenomes” using such a small number of cells will be valuable to cancer research, since the epigenetic landscape is dramatically rearranged in cancer and contributes to phenomena driven by small subpopulations of cells, such as drug resistance and metastasis.
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Determining a diagnosis and seeking treatment are important steps in the process of healing, but support from friends and loved ones can have the biggest impact on a patient’s quality of life.
Local cancer patients can receive and give support through a number of events and offerings with The Cancer Support Community of Central Ohio, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support and education to cancer patients and their families. The organization is a combination of The Wellness Community and Gilda’s Club and is one of 62 Cancer Support Community chapters around the U.S. Their goal is to provide support, hope and a sense of control to patients.
CSC hosts various routine wellness programs including cancer-smart cooking, exercise classes and caregiver support groups. A licensed facilitator hosts each support group or program to encourage a caring and uplifting environment. The organization also recently launched a survivorship program in central Ohio. Proceeds from events benefit cancer wellness programs, which are provided at no cost to patients.
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What is a Mid Day Meal Programme?
The Mid Day Meal scheme is one of its kind and the biggest feeding program launched by the government of India. Under this scheme, all the students enrolled between the class 1st to 8th in government or government-aided schools and Madrasas are eligible to enjoy a one-time meal for at least 200 days a year.
- The main purpose of launching such a scheme was to increase the number of admissions to the school.
- States like Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have actively participated in this scheme and have implemented small initiatives like the introduction of the Kitchen Gardens, where the vegetables and fruits to be served to children are cultivated within the premises of the school.
Mid Day Meal Scheme in India
The history of the Mid Day Meal scheme in India dates back to 1925 by the Madras Municipal Corporation to fulfil the hunger demands of the disadvantaged children in the corporation.
- Gradually, by the late 1970s, the scheme was enacted in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Pondicherry. Slowly it started spreading to many other states too.
- Considering the benefits and outcomes, the Government of India decided to implement this scheme nationwide. With this, the scheme was launched as the National Program for Nutritional Support to Primary Students, in the schools, in 1995. Later it was renamed the National Programme of Mid Day Meal.
- In 2001 the Supreme Court of India passed an order for all the states to provide a properly cooked meal to all the students in school under Mid Day Meal Scheme
Objectives of Mid Day Meal Scheme
Following are some important objectives of Mid Day Meal scheme-
- To increase the number of admissions in the schools and their retention, at least for primary education.
- To increase the nutrition level in the economically backward students by providing them with a nutritional meal.
- To abolish the existing nutritional gap between girls and boys.
- To reduce the system of casteism among the students and bring them on one common platform for education.
- To eliminate classroom hunger.
Features of Mid Day Meal Scheme
- The Mid Day Meal program is the largest program in India that came to achieve the goal of a literate India.
- The Mid Day Meal Scheme was launched by the Ministry of Education, formerly known as the Ministry of Human Resources and Development.
- It is a centrally launched scheme where the budget is divided between the center and state, and the center holds 60% of the total budget.
- Tamil Nadu became the first state to implement the Mid Day Meal scheme in its schools.
- In 2001, the Mid Day Meal scheme was reformed as a cooked Mid Day Meal scheme where the children were eligible to get a fully prepared meal for 200 days in a year. The nutritional chart for this mail included an energy intake of 200 calories and a protein intake of about 8 grams.
- Primarily this scheme was launched for the Government and government-aided schools. Gradually, this concept was adopted for the children studying in the education guarantee system and alternative and innovative education.
- In 2004 the Mid Day Meal Scheme was revised for the following provisions -
- The central government provides the cooking cost.
- Transportation subsidy was imposed on states, where it was 100 rs. For the special states and 75 rs. For the other states.
- Monitoring, evaluation, and management of schemes started by the government.
- Providing the Mid Day Meal to the students during the summer vacations in the drought-prone areas of the country.
- This scheme was again revised in 2006, with certain provisions-
- The cooking costs were upgraded to rs .1.80 in the northeast regional schools and 1.50 in all other regional schools.
- The calorie chart was revised, where the energy intake was increased to 400 calories, and the protein intake was increased to 12 grams.
- In 2007, another category of students was added to the scheme. The students coming from the educationally backward classes became part of the scheme.
- In 2009, the madrasas were included in the list of Mid Day Meal schemes.
- A very important and interesting part here is that the students are provided with the additional funds and the meals, under the National Rural Health Mission.
PM-POSHAN (Revamped Mid Day Meal Scheme)
The Mid Day Meal Scheme has been renamed many times, and currently, it is called the PM Poshan Shakti Mission.
- Under the PM Poshan Shakti mission, the team successfully delivers meals to about 11 lakh Government schools.
- In terms of finances, there is no major change as compared to the formerly existing Mid-Day Meal scheme.
- The PM Poshan Shakti Nirman scheme will be implemented after every 5 years, ie, 2021-22 to 2025-26.
- The finance distribution among the state and Centre remains the same as the Mid Day Meal scheme, which is in the ratio of 60:40 in the case of general States and 90:10 in the case of special States
Implementation of Mid Day Meal Scheme
The implementation of Mid Day Meal took place in three models-
- The decentralized model is where meals are prepared on-site by the self-help groups and the local cooks.
- Centralized model in which the preparation of meals is done by external organizations and delivered the food to the schools.
- The international assistant under which the charity organizations run internationally at the Government schools.
Mid Day Meal Rules 2015
The Mid Day Meal rules were published under the national food security act 2013 on 30 September, 2015. The Mid Day Meal rules of 2015 are-
- Under the Mid Day Meal rules the schools are eligible to utilize other funds for Mid Day Meal in case the fund allotted for this scheme gets exhausted.
- If the school and external organizations fail to provide food to the children, then they are eligible for the food allowances.
- The food served to the children in schools needs to be checked by the accredited labs monthly, which can be a random check.
- Suppose the students in a school don't get food for three consecutive days or 5 days a month. In that case, it becomes the responsibility of the state government to fix the issue immediately through a person or any agency.
Features of MDM
- All the children who come in the bandwidth of age 1 to 8 years, are eligible and entitled to get a healthy lunch packet daily excluding the holidays.
- The schools need to purchase the AGMARK grade commodities to prepare meals.
- The Mid Day Meals are to be served to the students on the school ground only.
- Every school needs to have a mandatory cooking facility to prepare meals.
- The principal of the government school is entitled to use the other funds for a Mid Day Meal in case it gets exhausted. However, once they are refunded with the MDM budget, they need to return it to the government.
- The state food and drug administration are entitled to collect the samples of the food provided to the children randomly to check the quality of the meal.
- In case the food cannot be delivered to the schools due to unavoidable circumstances the food allowances will be provided to the children which is the number of food grains spent on one child's entitlement.
Issues and Malpractices related to Mid Day Meal Scheme
- Corruption: Corruption has been at the roots of the government system and Mid Day Meals are also a part of it. There have been several cases where students were served plain chapati with salt and milk mixed with water.
- Caste-Based Discrimination: the concept was initiated to bring the ones among all the students still, they are cases of caste-based discrimination where children are made to sit separately according to their castes.
- Menace of Malnutrition: the scheme was launched to curb the problem of malnutrition among children below the age of 10, but according to the national family health survey, many states have been seen to record the rivers course and decreasing level of child nutrition.
- Global Hunger Index: India has fallen back to the 101st position in the Global hunger index from 94 in 2020.
- Global Nutrition Report: according to the Global nutrition report, there are no significant changes in the cases of anaemia and childhood wasting in India.
Mid-Day Meal Scheme UPSC
The Mid Day Meal scheme UPSC is part of the government scheme and current affairs. Since there are amendments, changes, and updates in the government schemes now and then, it becomes necessary for UPSC aspirants to learn about such schemes repeatedly in preparing for the IAS exam.
You can get the current affairs notes and the UPSC Study materials for the preparation for the UPSC Prelims exams. Also, here you are facilitated with the UPSC previous year's question papers that will help you to cover the topics more comprehensively.
Mid-Day Meal Scheme UPSC Prelims Sample Question
Question - Consider the following options and choose the correct option given below-
What are the major indicators used for mapping the Global hunger index?
- Child Stunting
- Child Mortality
Choose the correct option-
- 1 only
- 2 only
- All are correct
- 1 and 3 only
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There comes a technology once in several decades that redefines the very fundamentals of how we live our lives. More importantly, it allows new ideas and technology to emerge from it as a consequence. One such technology, the Internet, changed the way humanity as a whole functioned.
Let’s face it – the internet was one of the greatest inventions in all of human history. While giants like IBM ignored its existence for a while; companies like Yahoo, Google and Amazon thrived. It was a brand new playground, ripe for disruption.
Imagine How Amazing Would It Be for Us to Witness Once More the Birth of such Technology
Well, there’s no need for imagination – that technology is already here. Touted the “Internet 2.0”, the Blockchain and more specifically, Smart Contracts, are as powerful as the original internet – if used to their full potential. We truly live in miraculous times.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In 2017, over $5.6 Billion USD was raised by Initial Cryptocurrency Offerings (ICOs) across the world. It seemed like most of these ICOs were using the Ethereum platform to raise money to run a non-blockchain business, rather than actually making native use of the Blockchain or Smart Contracts. For a while, it was hard to tell which startups were at the verge of true disruption, and which ones were in to make a quick buck.
Out of this fog comes one startup that’s disrupting a concept that has largely been left undisrupted over the last century. Enkidu wants to revolutionize how the entire world creates and runs companies.
When Varun Mayya, the CEO of Enkidu tells you what the platform does, the implications hit you right in the face. "We want to merge the payment gateway, the cap table (revenue sharing table) and the log of business decisions taken by a team". If you’ve ever started a company before, you know the pain. Enkidu claims to make starting and running a business a walk in the park.
He goes on to explain that Enkidu makes running a small business easy, without the necessity of registering or auditing a company entity at all. "Imagine a team of 3 people sitting in Ireland, India and the United States; who want to get together to build and sell a 3D game online".
With Enkidu, they can decide what percentage of the business each person owns. This split of revenues is stored in what is called a cap table. When an inbound payment comes in via that project’s payment gateway (provided by Enkidu), that payment is automatically split according to the cap table. The team can also decide to reserve some percentage of revenues in a treasury, which can be utilized via a virtual visa to pay vendors and buy tools the company might need.
What’s more, the company can make certain business decisions that influence how the payment gateway works. Each Enkidu project has a handy dashboard that allows team members to pass resolutions, which are business decisions. One example is adding another partner into the business. Simply heading over to the resolutions dashboard and clicking the “Add Collaborator” automatically opens a simple majority poll where team members can decide whether to add a new partner or not. If the resolution passes (i.e, at least 51% of the team decides to vote yes), then the cap table causes proportional dilution of each member’s share holding by a percentage required to accommodate the new member. For example, adding a new member who requests a 10% revenue share causes all other members’ shareholding to dilute by 10% if the resolution passes. Every new payment on the gateway now accommodates this change in the cap table. Vesting is handled via smart contracts too.
Because resolutions prevent disputes (everything is transparent) and the business runs like an automaton (a machine that follows some rules), there’s no requirement for lawyers or legal counsel. The entire purpose of the legal system was dispute deterrence, rather than dispute resolution, which is what it has become today. Issues crop up in structures like LLCs and Private Limited companies because some members are not transparent with their financials, or there is some misinterpretation of contracts. Such cases don’t exist on Enkidu, because all resolutions are transparent and pre-emptive!
"Enkidu projects have flow-through taxation, similar to an LLC" says Shashank, COO at the company. While we don’t protect the liabilities of individual partners, we handle tax for partners like they would income tax. Enkidu is simply an automaton that helps people trust each other and seamlessly split payments – which is what company structure for small businesses should’ve been doing all along.
Varun advises that Enkidu can’t be used for large companies just yet. “In the eyes of the government, a Private Limited Company is a legal person. It can be ‘birthed’, it can die, it pays tax, and it can be sued – all of this protects the liabilities of its partners, who can’t be directly accountable for what happens to the company itself. We need a jurisdiction to piggyback off; one that offers us the ability to give Enkidu projects legal status.”
Setting up an Enkidu project is free. The company makes money by taking a 0.5% fee on every Transaction. They’ve recently partnered with Asia’s largest freelancing platform, Truelancer, who will backfill 400,000 users from their database right into Enkidu’s platform.
Imagine making 0.5% of every transaction on all the Delaware C-Corps out there. That’s the trillion dollar market Enkidu hopes to disrupt.
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In English, a ‘prick’ can mean making a hole with a sharp point – like when someone with diabetes uses a needle to test blood. It is also an insult. ‘Prick’ is something you call an obnoxious, unpleasant and annoying person. In the UK, where these ads ran, it’s a word with strong, divisive impact. In fact, it is banned by mainstream radio stations – which is why we found alternative outlets for our work: Spotify and digital radio stations.
"RYAN & SUZIE"
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America cannot take any action against Iranian ships currently heading to Venezuela, even if they are carrying shipments that violate US sanctions on Caracas, and the costs of any direct US action against them will be heavy.
This was stated in an article published by the website by American “Foreign Policy” analyst Cornell Overfield, commenting on the movement of two Iranian warships and a frigate to the Atlantic Ocean on their way to Venezuela. Read also For the first time, two Iranian warships enter the Atlantic Ocean Politico: Washington monitors the movement of two Iranian warships, their final destination may be Venezuela Iranian Navy: A warship sank after a fire broke out Iranian nuclear .. America expects a sixth round of talks and Khamenei: We want Washington’s actions, not its promises
Danger to American ships
The writer said that any US action against these ships would be illegal and would undermine one of the basic principles of the international system: sovereign immunity, and its costs would be prohibitive, exposing the United States to accusations of hypocrisy toward the rules-based system and possibly exposing US naval vessels to similar treatment by adversaries.
Overfield explained that Washington had intercepted several cargo ships suspected of transporting Iranian oil in violation of US and European Union sanctions, noting that the matter was different this time. The current ships are part of the Iranian Navy. Under international law, the law of the sea, customary or traditional, grants warships and other government ships sovereign immunity. https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.464.0_en.html#goog_454787022
Failed states and weapons of mass destruction
In times of peace, sovereign immunity is in practice a powerful guard against the jurisdiction of a foreign state. Exceptions may apply in extreme circumstances involving failed states, counterfeit warships, or weapons of mass destruction.
The writer added that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defines warships as ships “of the armed forces” under the command of an officer on the service list and manned by a crew in good condition, saying that it is clear that both the Iranian ships and the frigate – which was not named – clearly correspond to Definition of warship under the United Nations Convention.
Sovereign immunity is absolute
He explained that sovereign immunity on the high seas is absolute, as Article 95 simply states: “Warships on the high seas enjoy complete immunity from the jurisdiction of any state other than the flag state,” and Article 96 provides for the same absolute immunity for government-owned or operated vessels. in the high seas. This right also applies in the exclusive economic zones, where nothing in this section invalidates the provisions.
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Even though winter is still a long way off, snow may occur at any time of year, even in summer, particularly at higher altitudes. With it comes a range of new and diverse ways for youngsters to play.
How many other outdoor adventures can you explore with your children besides scooping, using a snowball maker to make ducks, sledding, and chewing snow?
Toddlers and preschoolers have an insatiable interest and enthusiasm for the outdoors that no other age group can match. So, if you’re going to be outside for several hours, keeping a few snow games for toddlers available will come in handy.
Isn’t it true that this one shouldn’t even be stated? Don’t stop at a snowman, though. Inspire your child’s imagination, and they could wish to make a Dino group, a palace, a baby tortoise, or sculptures of their own parents!
Allow your child to pick out outfits and natural items to use to embellish their snow sculptures, which will add to the fun.
Paint the Snow
Now, this requires a little more planning, but it still is quick and easy. Filling an irrigation can, a spray container, or even a champagne bottle (with a hole drilled into the cap) with colored water is the fundamental concept.
Piece of advice: use a container with a small hole to drain the water slowly. That will allow the activity to last longer.
To avoid the kids’ clothes becoming dyed in the process, add just 1 drop or 2 of food dye to the solution. Add extra artificial flavoring to your solution if you want the colors to pop more on the ice.
Make a fort
If you spent any time in the snow, you’ve probably built a few forts. Remember that kids aren’t particularly large. And this doesn’t have to be a complicated business. Toddlers will still be thrilled to sneak behind and climb over a tiny snow barrier made for them.
Go out on a track search.
Walking through the snowfall, playing with their own footsteps, and following other prints are all activities that little children enjoy. Imagine you’re spies and go to the field or around the neighborhood to see how many distinct footprints you can locate, then investigate them to see where they take you.
Become a winter wildlife investigator.
Visit a natural region to discover how the animals cope with the snow. Make a winter treasure hunt before heading out. Or simply pretend to be environmental investigators and watch, hear, and experience with awe. What exactly are the animals communicating by doing? Is there any trace of them in the snow? Which tracks belong to whom?
Kids love interacting with the wild. But remember that they are very small and tend to get tired easily. That’s why you need to plan it before actually going out. Also, avoid areas that might have big or even dangerous animals. You can even invite the kids to simply watch birds if the kid doesn’t feel like going far from the house. | <urn:uuid:156abbe6-4f82-4dd0-98b0-3877f9d1bff9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manitouyacht.com/outdoor-activities-for-kids-on-snowy-days/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946821 | 639 | 2.875 | 3 |
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The triceps tendons are strong, flexible bands of tissue that connect the powerful triceps muscle to the shoulder blade (scapula) and the bony prominence of the elbow (olecranon). Together with the triceps muscle, the triceps tendons extend the shoulder and elbow, allowing the arm to lift, bend, and straighten.
Triceps tendon ruptures are relatively uncommon injuries that usually occur during a “pushing” movement, such as a bench press, push up, or football block, or a fall onto an outstretched arm. If the elbow is suddenly forced to bend while the triceps muscle is simultaneously attempting to straighten it, the triceps tendon may completely tear away from its attachment point on the olecranon.
What Are the Symptoms of a Torn Triceps Tendon?
When a triceps tendon ruptures, it may produce a sharp tearing sensation in the elbow as well as an audible “popping” sound. A torn triceps tendon may be unable to hold the triceps muscle firmly in place, making it difficult or impossible to bend or straighten the arm. Other symptoms can include:
- Swelling and bruising around the elbow
- Tenderness at the back of the upper arm
- Weakness and muscle spasms in the arm
Triceps tendon ruptures can be challenging to diagnose and treat. Therefore, if that type of injury is suspected, it is important to seek professional medical attention from an experienced orthopedic specialist within 48 hours. In the meantime, it is essential to control swelling, which can interfere with the healing process. RICE therapy, which involves rest, ice applications, compression, and elevation, can be effective for reducing inflammation in the injured arm.
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This is the next is our series of guest blog postings…
Living in Syracuse for three years has taught me a few lessons about having your car prepared for the winter. Many of my friends have gotten in accidents related to ice or have had to call AAA to come tow their trapped car. I have had a few small but annoying winter driving experiences of my own in the frozen tundra.
Some of the winter tips I have are as follows:
1. Always be stocked with enough washer fluid and refill frequently. Running out of washer fluid while on the road can be dangerous and can inhibit your clear front window view. It’s also very cheap, sometimes less than a gallon of milk.
2. Don’t forget to turn off your windshield wipers before you turn off your car. This seems really obvious, but this past winter I left them on, turned on my car, spent the next ten minutes getting snow off my car, and it fried my wipers. It’s also good to replace them in the winter.
3. Get snow tires or all-weather tires.
4. Avoid parking in the street during a storm if possible. Snow plows push the snow up to the sides of the road, and if there’s a large accumulation it can block your car and cause you to get stuck.
5. Make sure the battery is in good condition. Check to make sure if you need a new one.
6. Test out your front and rear defrosters.
7. Consider having an emergency kit in your car containing things such as: a blanket, flashlight, washer fluid, first-aid kit, jumper cables, shovel, ice scraper, cell-phone backup charger, etc.
8. Don’t drive if the weather is bad and you don’t have to.
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- By Dana Sparks
In the Loop: Many Caring Hands Make Compassionate Work
This story appeared November 10, 2015 In the Loop.
The patient was scheduled for surgery at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus the next day. Her nurse, noticing the woman seemed "very anxious" about her procedure, contacted Mayo's Volunteer Services department and suggested a hand massage might help calm her nerves. "The woman indicated she was at a tipping point after dealing with cancer since 1984 in many parts of her body," volunteer Jeri Zimmerman says. "She mentioned she believed God doesn't give you more than you can handle, but she felt she was there."
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Finance (No. 2) Bill — New Clause 7 — Reporting on provisions relating to publication of information about tax avoidance schemes — 1 Dec 2021 at 17:15
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Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
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As we watch closely the events in Ferguson and greater St. Louis County, Missouri, we are disturbed to hear Democrats and Republicans say it is somehow related to the threat to America’s national security, as if Ferguson represents the beginning of an invasion from otherwise uninvolved Black communities.
As threats are made by real terrorists to fly their flag over the White House, we appreciate the personal and nationalist threats but not the suggestion it represents Black Americans. The sense of foreboding from the realness of the threats is being used as an excuse to tighten security for greater control of neighborhoods of color unrelated to the national security issues, as Ferguson demonstrates regarding the new debate over the militarization of urban police.
The Black community is keenly aware that not since the roundup of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, and the creation of internment camps, and the expression of fear during the urban riots of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, has the Negro population been as unfairly painted as a threat to our national security. Let’s cut to the chase: We in the Twin Cities are at the epicenter of the call for a reexamination of constitutional guarantees. We as Black Americans have a front-row seat watching how we are painted as scapegoats in dealing with this foreign threat to America, resulting in desired added layers of control on our neighborhoods by Homeland Security.
Just because three young men of American birth were killed fighting in Syria and Somalia under the flag of the newly declared Islamic State, does not mean that because they are Black the same position is held by Black America. Thhis kind of thinking is repeating the injustice to the Japanese in the 1940s and Black Americans in the 1960s. There is a difference between “Somali American” and “Black American.” It is very chilling as media and government officials discuss our Somali community as why America should fear its Black citizens. Novels and movies have romanticized the thousands of Whites who joined foreign wars on both sides. It is not a Black thing.
Don’t be fooled. This is real. The attorney for the U.S. district of Minnesota was summoned prior to these events to forge plans to deal with ISIS recruiting Somali Americans who are first-generation Americans born and raised here. In England there are more natural-born English citizens of Middle Eastern immigrants fighting for the Islamic State (IS) than serving in the British military.
We are concerned about this intensified examination and discussion regarding Black Americans, both male and female, as threats to our national security. The early warning sign in Ferguson of the militarization of predominantly White law enforcement agencies in the St. Louis area could be an excuse to do the same in the Twin Cities.
The Japanese Americans in the 1940s and African Americans in the 1960s were surprised, shocked and caught off guard by how swiftly their civil liberties and civil rights were taken away en masse, entire communities, not just individuals, despite many times their number of Whites being actively supporting the Japanese, German, and Russian causes.
We will not be surprised if Ferguson events regarding Officer Wilson are treated as business as usual, just as the same anger and frustration after the death of Trayvon Martin is just another forgotten American tragedy.
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India's Rough Choice: An Import Moratorium?April 22, 20
By Chaim Even-Zohar
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Stuart Brown, the ex-joint managing director of De Beers, and current CEO of Canadian miner Mountain Province Diamonds, made an amazing statement in a Financial Times article, stating the very obvious: "We need India to open up. Until the manufacturing opens up there, there will be no demand for rough diamonds."
It seems as if miners have suddenly realized that they need India far more than India needs them. Mines are deeply indebted. Dominion Mining, which also owns parts of Canada's Diavik and Ekati mines, has seen its Fitch Rating reduced to Triple C, which is a junk bond status. South Africa's Petra Diamonds has scaled down operations in South Africa for a mandatory lockdown aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. It is deeply indebted. We could expand this list - but that's not the purpose of this Memo. Let it suffice to note that corona has caused some mines to be put on care and maintenance. Many are overly leveraged. A few producers may even face bankruptcy or closure unless India opens up quickly.
And if it doesn't? Then producers may literally choke on their diamonds. But talking about choking, looking at the total diamond pipeline, still the most uncomfortable place to be is in the midstream. India alone has somewhere between $1.5-2 billion worth of rough diamond inventories. Add to this some $5 billion polished and you are getting the picture. And to say that bank debt can be settled out of future earnings is to believe in fairy tales - unless of course, India uses the corona moment to seize the initiative and become the game changer everyone has been waiting for.
The government of India can assist the industry in a tremendous manner if, after the corona lockdown has been rescinded, it simply puts a three-month moratorium on rough diamond imports. Whether the moratorium would be for two, three or four months is something it could discuss with the industry. It certainly depends on how long it takes for the diamond market not just to stabilize, but also to pick up.
The Indian banks have literally "given up" on the diamond sector. They shy away from diamond financing with the same resolve as we run away from the corona virus! If sightholders remain addicted, with a monthly rush to De Beers, Alrosa and other producers, falling over each other to get rough, they will ruin any prospects for India to clear up its inventories.
Main diamond producers such as Botswana, Russia, Canada and others, are now facing a typical Saudi Arabian oil dilemma: Either reduce or stockpile output or risk a freefall of prices. True, there will always be some huge Indian companies that will happily accept diamonds at a 30-50 per cent discount, provided they can find the cash. But today there are fewer bona fide tycoons that can play this game. The unscrupulous players have by now largely eliminated themselves - probably much to the regret of some producers.
But if some major conglomerates get heavily discounted rough, that doesn't do much for the Indian industry as a whole. In order to regain trust and confidence from their banks, India needs to sell for a couple of months only from inventory. This will reduce their banking debts, bankers may warm up to the novel idea that the industry is bankable, and the overall health of the industry will certainly improve dramatically. Business becomes more manageable when one can calibrate current rough purchases with expected polished demand.
No Euphoria about Fast Demand Pick-Ups!
Assuming that trillions of dollars worldwide have simply evaporated, that tens of millions of people will be added to the ranks of the unemployed and that salaries will be reduced everywhere, it is unavoidable that the consumers' excess net disposable income will take a severe hit. The luxury wallet will shrink. In some places it might even disappear. Diamond jewelry will certainly not be the first item consumers will buy in the post-corona era.
Moreover, the diamond manufacturers and traders of polished also may have to compete with the liquidation sales of bankrupt high street jewelry retailers, including some retail chains. Stuart Brown talks about the producers need for manufacturers. Even after the corona is over, there will only be cutters and polishers of natural rough if manufacturing margins are assured.
Both the industry and the producers must be very cautious about interpreting price information from incidental sales. Some say the market is "dead". I rather would characterize it as an illiquid (or "thin") market. Those who need to sell for whatever reasons (mostly debt reductions) will need to reduce price. However, those who need specific items in a market without ready sellers may have to pay more than they would have paid if there were plenty of willing buyers and sellers. Thus, the current spread between selling and buying prices is considerable - and neither price accurately represents the price that would have been achieved in a liquid market. Sophisticated speculators may find opportunities, but they also take considerable risks. As long as the consumer markets don't improve, traders will primarily trade amongst each other and uncertainties will prevail.
In absence of willing midstream lenders, the producers may have no choice and start to behave no different than any other pipeline player and provide supplier's credit. This will make the pipeline a much healthier place for everyone. If the producer extends credit, it must double-check or even triple-check the financial strength of its clients. They will need to mitigate the lending risks. That's almost like going back to the "old days", where one knew that sightholders were solid and dependable, trustworthy companies. That disappeared when producers changed the system and basically sold to almost anyone that can produce the cash. When several sightholders subsequently filed for bankruptcy, or got in trouble with the law, the producers incurred no losses. I actually like the idea of mining companies assisting in sharing the financing burden of their customers - like any other pipeline player. They have undoubtedly more access to financing sources than their clients.
Restoring Price Stability
True. In the last few years, we have learned to live with a certain price volatility within acceptable bands. But none of us can survive a protracted downward price curve or, God forbid, a freefall. Unlike coronavirus, a "flattening of the curve" will not do it! Above everything else, what the industry needs is some measure of price stability and to enjoy the resultant price certainty or predictability. If some wealthy Indians in Belgium were to circumvent an Indian rough import moratorium (if there is a moratorium) and were successful in purchasing rough at heavy discounts outside of India, that is quite alright, provided they fight to preserve polished prices and don't use their power to corner the polished market at even more discounted prices. At the end of the day stability in polished prices is needed by every player in the pipeline.
But stability in rough prices is no less crucial. Stability in conjunction with profit margins. One should not go without the other! There are plenty of bankruptcies that provide evidence of this. India should use its market power to try to curb producer greediness in which some players perennially are trying to outperform others… Greedy, greedier, greediest! Producers will protest that they operate in a competitive market. They do not. From being a cartel, the supply side now represents an oligopolistic market characterized by few sellers, giving the hundreds of potential buyers few choices. But, in an odd way, that is changing now.
The Synthetics Factor
The rough producers should know, as De Beers itself knows very well, that every diamond manufacturer in Surat, big or small, has alternatives - alternatives he did not have a few years ago. They can buy, manufacture and sell synthetics. The advantage of synthetics is not just their lower price, but the risk of not having a worthwhile margin in the resultant polished seems considerably smaller than in natural rough. It is really becoming a vicious cycle, because this gets us back to the natural diamond miners. They must restore profitability to the manufacturing center if they want to have any realistic opportunity to improve their own financial plight. It won't help the miners if the diamond cutters come back to Surat, just to manufacture synthetics. Have no illusions - if the added value and profits are higher on the man-made product, they will walk away from naturals. Retailers will do likewise.
Stuart Brown was absolutely right. They need the Indian cutters, and, unfortunately for the miners, there is no alternative to India.
Over the years the Indian industry has produced enormous wealth for the producers. Going back even to the last century, the Indians showed their skill in turning near-worthless industrial diamonds into the so-called near-gem category that has over time produced tens of billions in profits for the producers. Billions they never dreamt to get for a product where demand had been dwindling. Now the shoe is on the other foot. The demise of the natural diamond mining sector is far from imminent. There still will be some dozen or so mines operating 30 or 40 years from now, and beyond. But that should not be taken for granted - certainly not by the producers and explorers. This is, however, largely in their own hands.
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Jean RobertsParticipantMay 1, 2021 at 7:06 pmPost count: 29
A combined effort from 20 of us led to 71 species being seen in the Heysham and Middleton area today.
Sandwich Tern 6 – mainly blogging
Arctic Tern – 23 low over the water then rising high in the sky to go overland
Guillemot – 1 whirring in quickly seen only by PJM
Gannet -1 distantly, seen only by PJM
Common Scoter – 10 seen distantly only by PJM
Whimbrel – at least one
Whooper Swan – 6 late ones heading north.
Eider – not counted but plentiful around the skear
Red-breasted Merganser – 3 pairs
Great-crested Grebe – 2 pairs
Rock Pipit on the cliffs
A surprise Grasshopper Warbler moved through, heard but not seen
Whitethroats galore on Middleton NR
Lesser Whitethroats not quite as galore on MNR
Reed Warbler – 2 at MNR
Sedge Warbler – several at MNR
Cetti’s Warbler – heard by a few
Willow Warblers,Chiffchaff and Blackcaps singing.
Just Garden Warbler missing from the Middleton warbler-fest.
A vivid red male Bullfinch was a joy to behold even if its song was a bit pathetic!
SKY highlights aka “vis”:
Pink-footed Goose – 35
Tree Pipit – at least 2 heard by those with exceptional hearing
Lesser Redpoll – at least 5
Siskin – at least 2
Swallow – 53 (if we count the 40 seen by PJM from the North Wall)
House Martin – at least 2
Sand Martin – at least 1
Meadow Pipit – 2
Others may have different highlights.
Let’s see if tomorrow’s watchers manage to do better……You know the target to beat!Dan HaywoodParticipantMay 1, 2021 at 7:27 pmPost count: 420
A good summing up Jean! I think we can do better tomorrow. Went to delete my posting but don’t know how!
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Last week, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee set up an oversight hearing to discuss “waste, fraud, and abuse in U.S. government contracting in Iraq.” Notably absent were any Republicans or, for that matter, the administration officials who are actually supposed to oversee this issue. The hearings touched on a variety of outrages, including: Halliburton charging the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) for 42,000 daily meals for soldiers while only serving 14,000; the CPA’s Inspector General finding that the Iraqi ministry could account for only 602 of the 8,206 guards on payroll; and a truck driver for one company describing a policy of abandoning or torching $85,000 trucks if they had a flat tire or minor mechanical problem.
Also testifying at the hearing was Attorney Alan Grayson, who represents two former employees of Custer Battles, a private firm hired to provide security in Iraq. Grayson’s clients have charged that the company defrauded the CPA of millions of dollars during its time in Iraq. Custer Battles has been accused of, among other things, charging the CPA for security detail at airports that weren’t even running flights. Former employees also allege that members of the firm have fired on Iraqi civilians.
Grayson and his colleagues have unearthed so much dirt on Custer Battles that it’s hard to believe the case is still pending. The company’s own documents reveal that Custer Battles forged invoices. (The documents are available online at Taxpayers against Fraud.) One of the former employees Grayson is defending is a former FBI agent who refused to take part in a scam. Grayson claims his client was then held at gunpoint by other employees, stripped of his weapons and security ID, and left on the streets of Baghdad. Originally, both of Grayson’s clients planned to testify before the Senate, but then sent e-mails to the Committee explaining that they could not. When questioned as to why his clients did not appear, Grayson explained that they are both receiving death threats—one of the employees recently discovered that there is a $50,000 bounty on his head.
The employees also reportedly fear retaliation from the Bush administration, as they are still both government contractors and worry that the White House may cut off contracts for their current employers. That may sound odd—why would the administration retaliate against anyone who exposed fraud against the U.S. government?—but there may be more to the story here. As it turns out, one of the cofounders of Custer Battles, Mike Battles, is pretty well known in Republican circles (he ran for Congress back in 2002, where he managed to get fined by the FEC for “misstatement of financial activities”). His partner, Scott Custer once stated, in an interview with two federal agents, “Battles is very active in the Republican Party and speaks to individuals he knows at the White House almost daily.”
Battles’ connections have come in handy. In October of 2003, Custer and Battles had a meeting with U.S. military staff responsible for a currency exchange program in Iraq. The two accidentally left behind a spreadsheet revealing that Custer Battles had overcharged the U.S. government by at least $6.5 million. Yet the administration continued to award contracts to Custer Battles for almost a year after the incident. It wasn’t until September of 2004—when Air Force officials declared that they had adequate evidence that Custer Battles had defrauded the government—that contracts were finally cut off.
Despite all the evidence, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has declined to take sides in the suit. As Grayson told Mother Jones, “This is the strongest cases of fraud, in terms of proving it to a jury, that I’ve seen in my entire life. We have e-mails, we have order reports, we have spreadsheets, we have witnesses, we have whistle-blowers, we have every conceivable kind of evidence that these people have committed fraud, and still the Justice Department does nothing.” (The court proceedings have been held up in a Virginia federal court, with the judge still waiting for the DOJ to submit a brief—something the department has promised to do by April 1st.)
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Sponseller had told Grayson that the DoJ declined to get involved because the White House had decided that cheating the CPA was not the same as cheating the U.S. government. This seems to be pretty bizarre reasoning considering that, back in November 2003, President Bush signed an “executive order declaring the CPA “an entity of the United States government.” Still, Custer Battles is taking full advantage of the administration’s reticence, claiming that the company is not subject to U.S. law because the CPA was effectively a sovereign entity. Grayson countered, “In the law, nobody could argue that the CPA was a sovereign state. All they’ve done is basically concoct this argument so that they can change the subject.” He added, “The only thing that makes it possible for them to do that and get away with it is the fact that the government hasn’t weighed in to try and get the money back.”
If Custer Battles’ claim wins out, it would imply that the company is not subject to any legal recourse for the funds they bilked—especially since the CPA was outside the jurisdiction of Iraqi law. For its part, Custer Battles has also claimed that any money it spent or obtained was Iraqi money, not U.S. money. But Grayson notes that Custer Battles was paid in brand new U.S. $100 bills, straight from the U.S. Treasury and still wrapped in plastic. Frank Willis, a former senior official of the CPA, backed Grayson’s claim in the Senate hearings supplying pictures of the transfer of cash from the CPA to Custer Battles, remarking, “Yes. $100 bills in plastic wrap. We played football with the plastic wrapped bricks for a little while.”
Custer Battles isn’t even the biggest fish to fry. Allegations of fraud by contractors like Halliburton and Bechtel are also being looked into by the Pentagon. But Grayson’s case against Custer Battles is the first case involving contractor fraud that has been unsealed by a U.S. court. A ruling on this case will set a precedent for any other investigations that are unsealed in the future.
Unfortunately, these cases won’t move along until the U.S. government starts to take action. The Democratic Policy Committee has been virtually alone in hammering on the issue, and it has no subpoena power and no ability to enforce oversight. As Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) remarked at the hearing, “The sad part about all this [is that] we shouldn’t be holding this hearing. This should be done by committees having jurisdiction to do oversight of these government operations. Indeed, one person who should be doing something is Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform. Recently Davis claimed promised to hold more hearings on the use of reconstruction funds in Iraq, saying, “If there’s something wrong, we will go after it vigorously.” Yet his committee has yet to take action, and Davis has actually sponsored legislation to prevent controls on oversight and accounting for private contractors.
Towards the end of the DPC hearing, U.S. Representative Henry Waxman asked Grayson, “So, if the government doesn’t pursue recovery of the money, and they block the lawsuits and tell their friends who run the Congress not to do any oversight, you’re really talking about a no fraud zone in Iraq and no fraud zone wherever this administration is involved. Is this the case?” To which Grayson replied, “That is 100 percent true.” | <urn:uuid:8b2a5011-4ec9-4316-a906-6e921af3f8f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fullsite.motherjones.com/politics/2005/02/blind-oversight-and-custer-battles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973335 | 1,660 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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The latest attendance data is a shocker. Some lowlights:
- Regular attendance rate in Term 1 was a record low of 46%
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Are you ready to pursue a career in cosmetology? Ok, great! But what exactly is cosmetology? Cosmetology is defined as the study and application of beauty treatments, including hair styling, skin care, cosmetics, manicures/pedicures, and permanent or non-permanent hair removal. Understand it’s not just about the above or passing a state board exam; it’s also about innovation, knowledge of business, and training in customer service.
When you enroll in a program, you will have the opportunity to receive instruction in several vital areas of cosmetology. After successfully completing the program, you will be able to earn a Certificate of Achievement from a program like one from KZ Academy and/or Associate in Science degree if you attended a college that offered a program like San Jose City College does in the Silicon Valley. Once you’ve completed a program, you’re now a licensed cosmetologist!
Be aware a cosmetologist is not only proficient in hair treatments, facials, and other skin and nail treatments. They are also versed in business and marketing skills that will be used to grow their personal brand and increase their earning potential. They will have gained product knowledge and consultation techniques for client home care as well as the utilization of modern technology for learning; including the integration of mobile devices and social media for the modern salon promotion.
Cosmetologists can specialize in one of the beauty treatments they’ve learned or any of the sub-categories of cosmetology. This included becoming a hair stylist, hair colorist, manicurist, esthetician, or an electrologist. However, most specialize in more than one of these categories, that will allow them to offer a variety of services to a larger clientele. Here are some available opportunities once licensed.
- Hair Stylist – This is definitely one of the most common careers that a newly licensed cosmetologist will go after.
- Barber – Barbering has become a sought-after, fashionable and in-demand livelihood and continues to be the perfect career option for men and women alike.
- Nail Technician – Since nails are a big focus in most programs, many often find themselves pursing a nail tech position after graduation. If you’re creative and unique with nail designs, you can often be offered amazing opportunities to create wild designs in an ever-changing industry.
- Makeup Artist – A small percentage of grads can end up working behind the scenes on television shows, in theaters, and on movie sets if they are good enough to earn that opportunity. It’s a fast-paced job that requires a high tolerance for stress, but the rewards make it exciting, fulfilling and worthwhile.
- Barbershop or Salon Owner – After working as a hairstylist at a salon or as a barber at a barbershop, some grads become entrepreneurs and work for themselves. It takes some additional business acumen, but the freedom of working for yourself can be very fulfilling.
- Esthetician – Estheticians skilled are at helping people look their best. Whether is from skincare to waxing, this career is great for those who are looking for something outside of the norm. This position specializes in facials, light cosmetic enhancements, chemical peels, full-body treatments, and more. | <urn:uuid:bfad63d8-e3c0-4bd7-a8c5-e4fd12fddaa1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kzacademy.com/pursuing-a-career-in-cosmetology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957321 | 691 | 2.65625 | 3 |
- $15,000 to $175,000 is the average cost for pontoon boats. However, these prices will differ significantly based on various factors. In today’s article, we shall break down everything that affects the pricing of pontoon boats. (Source).
- According to Boatsetter, the cost of pontoon boats is between $18,000 and $60,000. However, this will highly depend on features, engine capacity, size of the boat along with its quality. Popular pontoon boats that you often come across will cost roughly $35,000. (Source)
- On the other hand, Decide Outside states that the average cost of a brand new pontoon is approximately $41,000, with a median cost of about $35,600. The base price varies significantly between $19,000 and $100,000, with most famous boats going for around $20,000 to $40,000. (Soure)
There are several factors that affect pontoon boat pricing. Learning these aspects will be wise if you plan to purchase a new pontoon boat. With that in mind, let’s review price factors for pontoon boats.
If you are working on a tight budget, purchasing a used or second-hand pontoon boat is always tempting. The most affordable pontoon boat is roughly $5,000 or even less.
However, pontoon boats of this price range are often in bad shape, and you will not use them for an extended period before undergoing a major repair. You can never tell when its engine will fail, leading to an expensive repair or overall engine replacement.
Unlike used pontoon boats, buying a new one can be relatively expensive. The cost of a small pontoon will set you back around $20,000 to $30,000. Although it’s relatively costly compared to a second-hand pontoon, a brand new one is long-lasting and more sensible.
Length is another significant price factor when purchasing a pontoon boat. Generally, 18 to 25 feet is the length for leisure pontoon boats in the United States. You might come across a 27-footer; however, 22 feet is the average length for pontoon boats in the States.
The bigger the pontoon, the more expensive it is. A bigger pontoon boat offers room for more fishing gear, passengers, and other vital stuff.
The engine is always a significant price factor for most vehicles, and pontoon boats are no different. The more powerful a pontoon boat engine is, the more expensive it is. Powerful engines are often mounted on big pontoon boats.
Like an engine, a floor plan is another major price factor for pontoon boats. Most pontoon owners look at their boats as a floating living area. This means that manufacturers design pontoon boats differently. Some come equipped with fishing chairs, bar tops, and other social amenities on board.
Other companies offer versatile seats allowing you as the owner to modify the floor plan easily. The better the versatility and advance your floor plan, the more expensive the pontoon boat is. Therefore, you should settle for a pontoon boat within your price range.
For instance, a brand new pontoon boat with 150 horsepower will add an extra $12,000 for engine capacity. A 25-horse power will add approximately $6,000 to the original price of your boat. On the other hand, 450 horsepower will add an extra $80,000 to the initial cost of your boat.
More Pricing considerations
When pricing a pontoon boat, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, be aware of the size of the boat. Larger boats will naturally be more expensive than smaller boats.
Also be aware of the features that the boat has. Pontoon boats with more features, such as fish finders or live wells, will be more expensive than those without these features.
Finally, be sure to factor in the cost of upkeep when pricing a pontoon boat. As mentioned before, pontoon boats can be expensive to maintain. Be sure to factor in the cost of boat waxing, fuel, and covers when budgeting for your pontoon boat.
What to know before buying
When looking to buy a pontoon boat, there are a few things you should keep in mind. First, you’ll want to decide how big of a boat you need. Pontoon boats come in all shapes and sizes, so make sure to pick one that’s right for your needs.
You’ll also need to think about how you’re going to use your pontoon boat. Are you looking to fish off of it? Or do you just want to use it for leisurely trips around the lake? Knowing how you’ll use your pontoon boat will help you narrow down your choices.
Finally, be sure to consider your budget when shopping for a pontoon boat. Pontoon boats can be quite expensive, so it’s important to set a budget before you start shopping. By keeping these things in mind, you’ll be able to find the perfect pontoon boat for your needs.
Maintenance cost considerations
Pontoon boats can be expensive to maintain. Be sure to factor in the cost of upkeep when deciding whether or not to buy a pontoon boat. Some things you’ll need to consider include:
- Boat waxing: Pontoon boats require frequent waxing in order to protect them from the elements. Waxing your boat every few months can add up quickly.
- Boat covers: Pontoon boats should always be covered when not in use. This will help protect them from the sun and other weather conditions. Boat covers can be costly, so be sure to factor that into your budget.
- Fuel costs: Pontoon boats are gas guzzlers. Be sure to factor in the cost of fuel when budgeting for your pontoon boat.
By keeping these things in mind, you can be sure that you’ll be able to afford the cost of owning a pontoon boat.
Pontoon boats can be a great addition to any lake house. They’re perfect for leisurely days on the water and can even be used for fishing. If you’re in the market for a pontoon boat, be sure to keep these things in mind. With a little bit of research, you’ll be able to find the perfect pontoon boat for your needs.
There are many different types of pontoon boats on the market. Some of the most popular types include:
- Fishing pontoon boats: These boats are designed for fishing and usually come equipped with features like live wells and fish finders.
- Party pontoon boats: These boats are designed for socializing and usually come equipped with features like coolers and stereos.
- Sporting pontoon boats: These boats are designed for water sports and usually come equipped with features like ski tow bars and wakeboard towers.
- Luxury pontoon boats: These boats are designed for luxury and usually come equipped with features like air conditioning and full kitchens.
When choosing a pontoon boat, be sure to consider what you’ll be using it for. This will help you narrow down your choices and find the perfect boat for your needs.
Pontoon boats are a great way to enjoy the water. Whether you’re looking to fish, ski, or just relax, there’s a pontoon boat out there that’s perfect for you. Be sure to do your research before buying a pontoon boat, and you’ll be sure to find the perfect one for your needs.
If you are working on a tight budget, you can always factor in the aspects discussed in this article. With these aspects in mind, you will be able to find a product that will best suit your needs. So, how much does a pontoon boat cost?
The low end of a pontoon boat will cost you $20,000, while the high end can reach as high as $200,000. You should always factor in additional expenses when purchasing a pontoon boat. With that said, we hope you have found this article beneficial.
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The EPA Fire & Smoke Map displays the most current and comprehensive information on wildfires, smoke and air quality -- all in one map. You'll see air quality readings from around the region from both regulatory air monitoring stations and the most accurate readings from crowd-sourced, portable air quality sensors.
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Currently, Sacramento County is not experiencing impacts from wildfire smoke.
Effects of Wildfire Smoke
Wildfires are now a regular occurrence in California and can happen at any time of the year. Smoke from these wildfires often impacts the Sacramento Region. The amount of smoke and which areas are impacted is largely dependent on wind direction and can change throughout the day. Smoke is unhealthy to breathe. If you smell smoke, you are advised to remove yourself from the area or go indoors. For more information on the health effects of wildfire smoke, visit the
From the Spare The Air website
Wildfire Smoke Information and PM 2.5 Monitor Map
The PM 2.5 Monitor Map is activated on SpareTheAir.com when a wildfire smoke episode is anticipated or occurs. This map provides EPA's NowCast PM 2.5 levels at all regional monitors, including any temporary monitors placed and brought online by Sac Metro Air District, another air district or CARB.
Real-time Air Quality Readings
Real-time air quality readings are derived using EPA's NowCast algorithm, which uses longer averages during periods of stable air quality and shorter averages when air quality is changing rapidly, such as during a fire. NowCast allows current conditions maps to align more closely with what people are actually seeing or experiencing.
Free Air Quality Mobile App
Choose a link below to download the free Sacramento Region Air Quality app. The app displays EPA's NowCast for each monitoring site in the Sacramento Region. Push notifications for wildfire smoke alerts are also available through the app.
If you are a school, business or public agency, follow the 5-Step Plan along with the Air Quality Action Charts below to help you make decisions that will help keep students, employees and residents as safe as possible during smoky days.
FOR SCHOOLS, BUSINESSES and PUBLIC AGENCIES:
5 Steps to Take During a Wildfire Smoke Event
Quick Reference Contact Guide
Air Quality Action Chart
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When wildfire smoke impacts us, we can all help by not adding more pollution into our air (link).
Visit Spare The Air.com to sign up for Air Alerts and find other tips and actions you can take to reduce air pollution.
After the devastating wildfire season in 2018, Assembly Bill 661 (K. McCarty, 2019) was signed into state law. The legislation mandates the Sac Metro Air District develop a Wildfire Smoke Air Pollution Emergency Plan in full collaboration with the Sacramento County Health Officer and in consultation with other agencies - local emergency services offices, school districts, the Sacramento Planning agency and the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The plan will serve as an information resource for Sacramento schools, local agencies, businesses and the public during wildfire smoke air pollution emergencies. The plan specifically addresses these main elements:
The plan will be finalized and brought before the Sac Metro Air District Board for adoption in Summer 2022. Tools available now for use include Air Quality Action Charts and other helpful outreach flyers (see above). Annual summaries of Emergency Plan efforts submitted to AB 661 author, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, are also available:
2020 Status Update2021 Status Update
2020 Status Update
2021 Status Update
As part of the Emergency Plan development process, the Sac Metro Air District performed a survey of business, public agency and non-profit sectors in Sacramento County to find out how wildfire smoke events impact them and how they respond to protect their employees from excess exposure to smoke. To see the results of this survey, click here.
Social media is a great way to stay informed during a wildfire smoke episode. Here are some resources to follow.
During a wildfire smoke episode, the National Weather Service typically includes information on smoke in its robust daily forecast discussions. These forecasts incorporate wind direction and strength in addition to other atmospheric conditions that impact smoke transport.
Sac Metro Air District's daily air quality forecast also takes smoke modeling into consideration during episodes. This includes forecasting PM 2.5 levels during periods of concern in addition to factoring in wildfire smoke's impact on ground-level ozone formation.
Wildfire smoke includes particulate matter (PM). PM can be
directly emitted, as with fires, or it can form in the atmosphere
from reactions of gases such as nitrogen oxides. PM from wildfire smoke can cause serious health impacts.
The size of particles is directly linked to their potential
for causing health problems. Small particles (known as PM 2.5 or fine
particulate matter) pose the greatest problems because they bypass the body’s
natural defenses and can get deep into your lungs and potentially your
bloodstream. Exposure to such particles can affect both your lungs and your
Sac Metro Air District monitors PM 2.5 concentrations at several sites throughout Sacramento County.
Long-term exposure to particulate pollution can result in
significant health problems including:
Short-term exposure to particulate pollution can:
Even if you are healthy, you may experience temporary
symptoms, such as:
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While the peace process remains stymied, and all focus is on whether parties will return to talks or not, suffering does not stand still in the Holy Land, especially for those in the occupied Palestinian territories dealing with discrimination and inequities.
A recent report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinians territory (UNOCHA) makes this conclusion:
Israeli civil law is de facto applied to all settlers and settlements across the occupied West Bank, while Israeli military law is applied to Palestinians, except in East Jerusalem, which was officially annexed to Israel (which hasn’t been recognized under international law). As a result, two separate legal systems and sets of rights are applied by the same authority in the same area, depending on the national origin of the persons, discriminating against Palestinians.
These separate systems are the basis of many inequalities:
THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
ROADS AND PERMIT SYSTEMS:
In the West Bank, normal life for Palestinians is virtually impossible because of separate roads for Israelis and Palestinians; check points and roadblocks that impede Palestinian travel while facilitating that of Israelis; and a bureaucratic permit system that allows Palestinians very limited movement even within the West Bank without a permit.
East Jerusalem is home to about 270,000 Palestinians. In addition, 200,000 Israelis live in ever-expanding East Jerusalem settlements. Palestinian homes are demolished, residents are evicted, and land is threatened with confiscation for projects such as public parks. A permit regime keeps Palestinians from moving freely in and out of the city. The barrier restricts entry to Jerusalem for West Bank Palestinians while Israeli settlers can come and go freely.
THE RIGHT TO SECURE HOUSING
Palestinian homes and other buildings have been demolished at an alarming rate to make room for settlers. West Bank residential demolitions were up 80% in 2011 over 2010, causing 1,100 Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from their homes with 4,200 more affected by the demolition of “livelihood structures.”
Elaborating on these statistics, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs notes, “These demolitions occur in the context of an inadequate and discriminatory planning regime that restricts Palestinian development, while providing preferential treatment to Israeli settlements.”
Meanwhile, Israeli settlements in the West Bank continue to expand. Peace Now reported a 20% rise in settlement construction starts for 2011 with East Jerusalem seeing a 10-year high for settlement plans.
THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE ONE’S OWN FAMILY
In the West Bank and Israel, Israeli laws deny the right of people to choose their own spouse and live with him/her. Within the West Bank, family reunification permits have been frozen for years, which means a Palestinian with a Jerusalem ID cannot legally live with a West Bank spouse in Jerusalem without special dispensation. Within Israel, a law was recently upheld which disallows a spouse from the West Bank to live with his or her partner in Israel.
THE RIGHT TO CONTROL AND BENEFIT FROM ONE’S OWN RESOURCES
Land inequities lead to unequal distribution of other natural resources, water in particular. 80% of the water from the West Bank mountain aquifer, which Israel controls, goes to Israelis – including setters – leaving only 20% for Palestinians. Israelis consume four times more water than West Bank Palestinians, 300 liters/day compared to 70 liters/day, according to a report by Amnesty International..
The Palestinians are also denied the benefit of other resources that by law should be theirs to control, such as the quarries that Israel operates in theWest Bank that recently were allowed to continue.
THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION
In Gaza, high school students are often unable to leave the territory for university opportunities, while their Israeli counterparts in Sderot experience no such limitations.
The shortage of classrooms in Jerusalem for Palestinians is notorious, making for extremely crowded conditions. Many students are hindered or prohibited from entering their schools on a daily basis by the checkpoint system or the barrier. In Hebron, school children must be walked to school by international peaceworkers to protect them from settler violence.
THE RIGHT OF PEOPLE TO RETURN HOME
Palestinian refugees are not allowed to return to their homes while Jews from anywhere in the world are free to immigrate to Israel. Many Palestinians who have passports from other countries have had their residency rights revoked and are being issued entry permits only for the West Bank and have trouble entering Jerusalem.
“More than 500 internal checkpoints, roadblocks and other physical obstacles impede Palestinian movement inside the West Bank, including access of children to schools; they exist primarily to protect settlers and facilitate their movement, including to and fromIsrael.” “The Humanitarian Impact of Israeli Settlement Policies,” January 2012, UN OCHA oPt.
“The Monthly Humanitarian Monitor,” December 2011. UN OCHA oPt.
Torpedoing theTwoState Solution: Summary of 2011 in the Settlements, January 2012, Peace Now.
“Obstacles to Arab-Israeli peace: Water,” September 2, 2010, Martin Asser, BBC.
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Medical Marijuana and Chronic Pain
Can Medical Marijuana Help To Reduce Chronic Pain?
The medical marijuana industry is growing across the world. More than twenty-six countries and thirty-six American states have already legalized medical marijuana. As this trend continues, questions regarding its efficacy as a medicine arise.
As legalization for medicinal use continues to spread, researchers are also expanding their research on the cannabis plant. Clinical evidence has revealed chemicals naturally found in marijuana such as cannabidiol (CBD), and the psychoactive cannabinoid tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), can provide relief to patients suffering from chronic pain. In fact, the most common medicinal use of medical marijuana in the United States is for chronic pain. Globally, it is estimated that chronic pain currently affects more than 1.5 billion people. Every single year ten percent of the population are newly diagnosed with chronic pain
Globally, it is estimated that chronic pain currently affects more than 1.5 billion people. Every single year ten percent of the population are newly diagnosed with chronic pain.
A survey carried out between 1990 and 2013 by the Global Burden of Disease Study placed conditions associated with chronic pain among the top contributors to years lived with disability globally.
What Is Chronic Pain?
In retrospect to acute pain which simply warns us of disease or injury, chronic or persistent pain serves no adaptive purpose. The International Association for the Study of Pain states there is no biological purpose to chronic pain, as it will persist past normal tissue healing .
Typical Treatment for Chronic Pain
Mild chronic pain is usually treated with over the counter medications such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Patients with more severe chronic pain are prescribed opiates.
While this medication is effective at providing those suffering from chronic pain with relief, stronger medications such as opioids are also highly addictive and come with many negative side effects including dependence, an increased risk of heart disease, overdose risk and liver damage .
It’s no wonder that patients and medical professionals are turning to medical marijuana as a solution. Not only is medical marijuana effective, but it is also far safer for patients.
The Endocannabinoid System And Chronic Pain Relief
Medical marijuana’s efficacy as a pain killer is due to how it affects the endocannabinoid system, which plays a direct role in the regulation of pain.
The endocannabinoid system is comprised of endocannabinoids, and the receptors these chemicals bind to. These receptors are found throughout the body, in our organs, brain, connective tissues, glands, and immune cells. The endocannabinoid system works on regulating homeostasis, or in simple terms, maintaining a stable internal environment.
Endocannabinoids are at the intersection of the human body’s various systems, allowing the coordination and communication between different cell types. As an example, at the site of injury, endocannabinoids and cannabinoids are found stabilizing the nerve by decreasing sensitizers and activators from the injured tissue to prevent excessive firing (which would cause pain). Endocannabinoids also calm nearby immune cells which prevent inflammatory compounds from being released.
These mechanisms could help explain why ingesting medical grade marijuana helps to alleviate chronic pain. During pain, nerves are firing unnecessarily, coupled with excessive inflammation which damages healthy cells. The cannabinoids found in medical marijuana resemble those produced by our body, and so may help the body maintain homeostasis and thereby relieve pain .
Clinical Evidence for Medical Marijuana Relieving Chronic Pain
Current evidence for medical marijuana decreasing chronic pain is strong. A study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association reviewed 28 randomized clinical trials. The researchers discovered patients experienced significant improvements in every pain-related study, and stated that the “use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence”. A research paper exploring the effects of medical marijuana on cancer pain discovered a 64 percent reduction in the use of opioids for pain .
Despite the plethora of evidence supporting marijuana for chronic pain, there is limited research surrounding strain specific recommendation for chronic pain. But we do have anecdotal evidence from surveys.
Best Marijuana Strains for Chronic Pain
There are three classifications of marijuana strains:
- Cannabis indica
- Cannabis sativa
An online survey featured in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicines found participants opted for indica strains for the management of pain, primary due to its sedentary effects which aided in promoting sleep .
In regards to pain management, those who completed the survey reported significant improvements when using indica varieties for:
- Joint pain
- Non-migraine headaches
One of the two primary cannabinoids in marijuana – cannabidiol (CBD) – is non-psychoactive, meaning there is no euphoria or “high” after ingestion. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the psychoactive cannabinoid) – attaches to receptors of the endocannabinoid system in the brain, producing a psychoactive effect. CBD instead affects CB2 receptors throughout the body, which helps to decrease inflammation and inflammatory-related pain .
Medical marijuana is clearly beneficial for people suffering from chronic pain. Which type of medical marijuana product is best for pain is subjective to the individual. However, based on the evidence, surveys indicate that CBD is likely best for inflammatory pain, as well as indica strains of cannabis which tend to be more sedative and beneficial for pain relief.
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Board of Educationwhich outlawed segregated education, or the Montgomery Bus Boycott and culminated in the late s or early s. Despite the fact that they were not always united around strategy and tactics and drew members from different classes and backgrounds, the movement nevertheless cohered around the aim of eliminating the system of Jim Crow segregation and the reform of some of the worst aspects of racism in American institutions and life.
Much of our memory of the Civil Rights Movement of the s and s is embodied in dramatic photographs, newsreels, and recorded speeches, which America encountered in daily papers and the nightly news. As the movement rolled across the nation, Americans absorbed images of hopeful, disciplined, and dedicated young people shaping their destinies.
African Americans fought back with direct action protests and keen political organizing, such as voter registration drives and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The images are alternately angering and inspiring, powerful, iconic even. However, by themselves they cannot tell the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
They need to be contextualized. The drama of the mid-twentieth century emerged on a foundation of earlier struggles.
Rock 'n' Roll in the s: Rockin' for Civil Rights by Eric Vaillancourt January A thesis submitted to the Department of Education and Human Development of the State. Protest music encompasses many artistic forms, such as poetry, music, or satire with a dose of politics. Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs. Smithsonian Folkways, This example Protest Music Essay is published for . The Help, based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett, is a film about race and class relations in Jackson, Mississippi in the early s. A century after the American Civil War, the work.
Two are particularly notable: Parker for his white supremacist and anti-union views and then defeat senators who voted for confirmation, and a skillful effort to lobby Congress and the Roosevelt administration to pass a federal anti-lynching law.
Southern senators filibustered, but they could not prevent the formation of a national consensus against lynching; by the number of lynchings declined steeply. Other organizations, such as the left-wing National Negro Congress, fought lynching, too, but the NAACP emerged from the campaign as the most influential civil rights organization in national politics and maintained that position through the mids.
Charles Hamilton Houston The campaign for desegregated education was part of a larger struggle to reshape the contours of America—in terms of race, but also in the ways political and economic power is exercised in this country.
Plans for the legal campaign that culminated with Brown were sketched in by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charles Hamilton Houstonthe black attorney most responsible for developing the legal theory underpinning Brown, focused on segregated education because he believed that it was the concentrated expression of all the inequalities blacks endured.
He desired equal access to education, but he also was concerned with the type of society blacks were trying to integrate. He was among those who surveyed American society and saw racial inequality and the ruling powers that promoted racism to divide black workers from white workers.
Because he believed that racial violence in Depression-era America was so pervasive as to make mass direct action untenable, he emphasized the redress of grievances through the courts.
The designers of the Brown strategy developed a potent combination of gradualism in legal matters and advocacy of far-reaching change in other political arenas. Through the s and much of the s, the NAACP initiated suits that dismantled aspects of the edifice of segregated education, each building on the precedent of the previous one.
Concurrently, civil rights organizations backed efforts to radically alter the balance of power between employers and workers in the United States. They paid special attention to forming an alliance with organized labor, whose history of racial exclusion angered blacks.
In the s, the National Negro Congress brought blacks into the newly formed United Steel Workers, and the union paid attention to the particular demands of African Americans. In the post-war years blacks supported the decolonization of Africa and Asia. White southern resistance to Brown was formidable and the slow pace of change stimulated impatience especially among younger African Americans as the s began.
They concluded that they could not wait for change—they had to make it. And the Montgomery Bus Boycottwhich lasted the entire year ofhad demonstrated that mass direct action could indeed work.
The four college students from Greensboro who sat at the Woolworth lunch counter set off a decade of activity and organizing that would kill Jim Crow. The March on Washington, most often remembered as the event at which Dr. King called for a guaranteed annual income, redistribution of the national wealth to meet human needs, and an end to a war to colonize the Vietnamese.
Malcolm X proposed to internationalize the black American freedom struggle and to link it with liberation movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Thus the Civil Rights Movement of the s and s was not concerned exclusively with interracial cooperation or segregation and discrimination as a character issue.
Rather, as in earlier decades, the prize was a redefinition of American society and a redistribution of social and economic power.Music of the Civil Rights Era Words | 5 Pages. feelings that flowed from its veins. That expression of power and revolt was music.
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“Is Pakistan safe?” – these were the words I was to hear again and again as I made my way across Europe, hitchhiking up through Turkey, into Georgia and then Iran. Tourism in Pakistan seemed to be almost none-existent… for me, this was perfect. For years, I had dreamed of travelling in Pakistan, this is a country with towering peaks, stunning rivers, impenetrable fortresses and just enough danger to keep you on your toes…
Travelling in Pakistan offers a rare opportunity to visit a country that has not yet opened up to mainstream tourism, this is adventure backpacking at its finest and, if you have the right connections, Pakistan is an extremely exciting, extremely cheap, country to travel in.
Ultimately, to get the most out of your Pakistan backpacking adventure, you are going to need some Pakistani friends. Luckily, Pakistanis are some of the friendliest people you will ever meet.
And so dear friends, pull up a chair, crack open a beer, light up a bowl and prepare to meet Rehman…
The mini-bus sped away from Karimabad, taking to the polished roads of The Karakoram Highway and passing row after row of pink cherry blossoms guarding the foothills of the Himalayas.
The jewel of Hunza Valley, Karimabad is an ancient crossroads in times gone by for conquerers and explorers, merchants and artisans – this is the heart of the Silk Road.
The cobble-stone town is dominated by the 13th century Baltit Fort, solid and immovable despite the frozen winter winds that howl from the north and the mountain gods who cause the earth to shake and stir as earthquakes rock the land.
Today, the land is still, Baltit Fort stands strong, a silent sentinel watching over the mountains.
There’s only two backpackers in all of Pakistan, or that is how it seems; myself and my French friend, Arthur; a slightly crazy ex-military lad filled with a youthful exuberance that I met whilst trekking in Colombia to the legendary lost city.
We sit chatting to Rehman, our guide and new friend as we depart the small town and head deeper into the mountains.
Rehman is tall, well over six foot and just a little bit shy. He lives in a small village called Gulkin, a place I had never heard of which he describes as “Very basic Sir, but we have one of the best views in all of Pakistan”.
This is the first time Rehman has met a backpacker in over a year. He used to work in Pakistan’s tourism industry and speaks good English but tourism in Pakistan was hit hard in 9/11, a fateful day which shook many countries.
Just as tourism in Pakistan had started to improve, the country was hit again.
In 2014, a Taliban insurgent group killed nine foreign climbers and one Pakistani guide at Nanga Parbat, an incredible mountain which I had visited just a week before meeting Rehman.
The resulting backlash in the media had bought tourism in Pakistan to it’s knees and many had lost jobs.
Rehman, scrabbling to find a job to provide for his young family had journeyed to China and, with a couple of Pakistani friends, opened up a small restaurant close to the border.
We had chatted upon Facebook and, hearing I was in the area, Rehman had raced down from China especially to show me around.
I looked out the window as we chatted, the mountains marching into the horizon…
Once, The Hunza Valley was a place frequented by many tourists in Pakistan, the halfway point for the ancient silk road leading from China to Europe, this is a place where time stands still and traditions remain strong.
Small towns and snapshots of rural life whizz past the window as our driver tackles sharp curves at jolting speeds.
An old man leading a young donkey, laden high with supplies.
A youth with an impossibly perfect hairstyle, talking excitedly into his phone.
Psychedelic trucks, bells tinkling and paint jobs swirling, chugging up the road.
A drive in Pakistan is never a dull affair…
I jump out of the minibus and, shouldering my pack, follow Rehman away from the road and up into the hills, the scent of rosemary and other herbs, wild marijuana and the crisp mountain air mingling in my nostrils and refreshing me instantly.
We trek past rows of apricot trees, passing a diminutive man hunched over with age as if the very mountains themselves were pressing down upon him. He stops, startled and then smiling. Moving towards me, he shakes my hand and invite me into his home for a cup of chai.
Slowly but surely we make our way closer to Rehman’s village, passing a small gurgling river, an abandoned watermill, and a few more of Rehman’s neighbours.
Everybody who meets us smiles shyly and then, as is slightly unsure of what to do, invites us in for chai.
Unfortunately there isn’t time for chai with everybody but, after three cups nonetheless, we arrive at Rehman’s house and I am instantly attacked by his wonderfully boisterous kids who want to use me as a climbing frame.
I dump my pack and follow Rehman into his house, a striking women in a cardigan rushes to meet me, insisting I take the prime spot by the fire whilst she starts to make chai.
From the corner of the room, an older lady, Rehman’s mother in law, proudly sporting a painted conical hat, watches us from beneath a heavy blanket, the first cold of the night beginning to creep in as the last rays of the sun disappeared.
Content that me and Artur are conformable and have plenty of chai, Rehman’s wife introduced herself as Sitara and, in perfect English, asked us questions about our journey, our feelings on Pakistan, our travels around the world.
The night lengthened as plate after plate of food was produced by Sitara, a skilled cook and font of information on life in Northern Pakistan.
One of Rehman’s friends arrived, with an instrument similar to a sitar except this had been crafted by hand using a lump of rough wood and a gasoline can; the music was hauntingly beautiful
The generator was not working and we had no electricity so Rehman set out candles which cast flickering patterns across the room.
I played with the kids; rock, paper, scissors at first and then a Hunza counting game which I did not understand but which involved me and Arthur being jumped on a lot.
Tired of these games, we then taught the five children crowding us a new game; slapsies…
Rehman approached me and rescued me from a small mound of children, bringing out his most prized possession; photos from his adventures in the mountains.
Ice axes, Germans, Glaciers…. Each of the creased and aged photos, carefully preserved in a binder of plastic wallets, told a story.
Rehman pointed out his father, a world-renowned mountain climber who had helped dozens of European explores conquer the peaks of Northern Pakistan, back in the day’s when tourism in Pakistan was booming.
Once upon a time, this promised land of jagged peaks and perfect lakes had been one of the world’s most popular climbing destinations; this is still true, in the summer groups of hard-core climbers make the pilgrimage here and tourism in Pakistan is slowly recovering, in the winter however; it is dead.
Seeing we were tired, Rehman showed us to a guest room and provided me with half a dozen blankets, I zipped into my sleeping bag, dived under the mound of blankets and drifted off to dreams of adventure.
Rehman took to the slope, marching forwards with confident, calculated strides as the scree slipped and slid like a living thing, a mountain serpent ready at any moment to fling a careless soul to their demise.
I looked behind me once more, the quaint calmness of Rehman’s home still just about visible; the promise of warm food and endless chai pulled me back momentarily before I turned, committing to adventure (oh the challenges I must overcome!), and following Rehman.
I stepped out, using the handle of my ice-axe to dig into the ground and stepping forwards, an abyss of jagged rocks and fatal tumbles stretching out to my right.
Ahead, the glacier seemed to sense our presence, groaning gently in the midday sun, the clouds swirling about the mountains in an ethereal haze.
We had crossed a jagged and tarnished cliff of black ice and cold stone to reach this place and, up ahead, I could make out a ridge of crushed rock, a moraine marking the edge of the glaciers territory.
I slipped and slid down the side of the mountain, following Rehman as he jumped nimbly from rock to boulder to loose gravel; the man was like a god-damn mountain goat. I was not quite so nimble and struggled to keep up but he urged me on, expertly picking out the best route across the rough terrain.
When I next looked away from my feet I had hit solid ground and, just a couple of hundred meters away, I could make out a rough building of stone and wood.
A shepherds hut in the mountains; no electricity, no running water, no worries…
This is what I had come for.
We part ways, Rehman and Artur trekking further up the valley whilst I pause for a cheeky smoke. The clouds dance over the mountains, I sit upon a boulder, surrounded by a soft breeze and the warming ray’s of the sun. The glacier creaks and moans, snaking down from between two colossal mountains, their peaks scraping the sky, in a blinding display of dazzling white.
The shepherds hut, a pair of Ibex horns proudly displayed above the front door, is owned by a friend of Rehman’s and we all spend the night, soaking in the night skies, smoking, passing a bottle of coca cola around, chatting, joking, eating.
The cold of the night creeps further into the hut but we periodically feed the fire to keep it at bay, it’s kind of like a game; ‘keep the fire alive or freeze to death’.
I awake the next day with a well-deserved headache and, blinking, emerge to sit atop my rock once more.
The views are simply stunning. Snow-capped peaks peeking from behind veils of dancing mist, the first rays of sunlight falling across the patchwork quilt of greens that cover the fertile lands in the distance.
I am surrounded by giants, huge rocky faces, carved with lines, watching me as they join the mountains in a frozen embrace… It occurs to me that I might be slightly mad but then again; this landscape is nuts.
Shattered piles of ice and Tolkien-esque rock formations cast in shadow, a dozen eagles floating upon the wind, an Ibex, perhaps, in the distance, his horns curled tightly to the wind.
The jagged teeth of the mountains smile at me and silver alluvial sands swirl around my feet, caught upon the breeze.
I soak it in.
This is Pakistan, it is filled with wonderful, generous and kind people. It is home to some of the world’s mightiest peaks, it’s clearest lakes, it’s brightest glaciers…
This is real adventure, and this is why I am here.
Tourism in Pakistan
Tourism in Pakistan is making a slow comeback, this is an incredible country with a warm and generous people and I strongly recommend that those visiting Hunza get in touch with Rehman.
I spent a wonderful five days hiking across glaciers, camping under the stars, hanging out with his family and getting to grips with the realities of a more relaxed pace of life.
Rehman is a skilled guide and knows all of the best places in the Hunza valley.
If you choose to visit they will make you feel incredibly welcome and will provide you with food, a place to sleep, and take you on adventures. They will not ask for money but please, if visiting, make a donation of at least $20 per day per person. if you want to go on a real adventure; Rehman is your man! The best way to contact him is over Facebook, tell him you found him through The Broke Backpacker and please only get in touch with him if you can definitely meet up.
This is a genuine, word of mouth, recommendation and I hope that, in some small way, it helps to grow tourism in Pakistan.
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However, the news regarding CarPlay has been rather scarce in comparison. CarPlay didn't get much play during the opening ceremony of the WWDC, or Worldwide Developer's Conference, either. And in the developer sessions, they didn't really dig into the announced changes. Instead, they offered a few sessions dedicated to the inner workings of CarPlay, which is rare for Apple. But given the opportunity, we'll go over the current state of CarPlay with some details of its inner workings and then see what changes the bitten apple brand is preparing.
Starting with the concept, it's worth asking "what is CarPlay?" It's a method devised by Apple to extend the operating system of its mobile devices, iOS, to the infotainment system of our cars. Its premise is very similar to that of Android Auto; not for nothing was CarPlay introduced 11 months earlier (June 2013). The true origins of CarPlay date back to 2010, when Apple and BMW announced a collaboration agreement whose fruit was "iPod Out", a feature that allowed certain cars of the Bavarian brand to display the interface of an iPhone or iPod in its infotainment system. Through it, BMW drivers could access their iOS device's music library and browse it from their car's screen using the vehicle's own controls. iPod Out would be released in 2011, and when it was extended to Mini vehicles, it would be called "PlugIn".
Today in CarPlay is available in more than 100 models from 40 different manufacturers, including Ferrari, due to the fact that Eddie Cue, Executive Vice President of Software and Internet Services for Apple, belongs to the board of directors of the brand of the Prancing Horse since 2012. In any case, the growing availability of CarPlay in new vehicles, like that of Android Auto, is supported by the fact that most manufacturers are opting to have both systems available in their cars, lest someone not buy a Honda NSX because they have a Samsung instead of an iPhone. Ferrari, due to its management ties, is an example of a manufacturer that has opted for only one system.
How does it work?
When we get into our car and sit down, if we connect our iPhone via a USB cable we will see the CarPlay interface take control of our vehicle's infotainment system. This doesn't mean that every time we connect our iPhone we necessarily have to use CarPlay; if we exit CarPlay with our phone connected and don't come back, the next time we connect our iPhone CarPlay will respect our preference to use our car's infotainment system. If, on the other hand, the last time our iPhone was connected CarPlay had control of our infotainment system's screen, it will return when we re-connect the iPhone.
This behavior also extends to the use of the speakers; if the last time our iPhone was connected we listened to music through CarPlay, when we connect it, the playback is resumed. If, on the other hand, even with the iPhone connected we were listening to music through the car's infotainment system, connecting the iPhone again will not affect playback. Therefore, CarPlay shares with the infotainment system of our car the control of the screen, speakers and microphone, respecting at all times our preferences for use. That is, we can listen to music from CarPlay but keep the infotainment system of our car on screen, and vice versa.
In terms of applications, CarPlay meets the basic needs: calls, calendar access, messaging through Apple's iMessage service, turn-by-turn navigation with Apple Maps and music through Apple Music or third-party applications. Through its voice recognition system, we'll be able to type messages without taking our eyes off the road, and Apple's own voice assistant will take care of reading incoming messages to us. When it comes to basic functionality, CarPlay and Android Auto are on par.
The curious thing happens when we decide to pull back the curtain that is the user interface, and look at what's behind it. I've been a professional programmer of both Android and iPhone applications, so my vision of both systems goes beyond the simple differences at user level. And from this point of view, both mobile operating systems have a lot in common: they implement the same concepts, which means that practically everything you can do with one can be done on the other. When one gets ahead of the curve with a better implementation or a new feature, within a year or two at the latest, it appears in the other. CarPlay and Android Auto are examples of this: first Apple announced it, a year later Google did it.
And why am I telling you this? Because the internal differences I see between CarPlay and Android Auto are even smaller. As with Android Auto, in CarPlay all video and audio emanates from the iPhone, so the premise remains that to update CarPlay you don't need to update your car, you need to update your phone's iOS operating system. And regarding third-party apps, it turns out that Apple and Google have decided to restrict them in the same way: no third-party app can design its own user interface. And the only apps that are allowed for now, are audio players like the ones we would use for music, radio and podcasts.
What does this mean? That an audio player that wants to appear on the CarPlay screen simply sends you the list of possible content to play, and once the user chooses a song, CarPlay will ask that app to play that content, but no specific UI designs. The result? Increased security, as we discussed in the case of Android Auto, but for the user all apps end up looking the same.
The manufacturers' own apps, which are built into CarPlay, get a separate mention, but they're not third-party apps, so we'll discuss them below.
Apple declares a series of minimum requirements that must be met by the infotainment system in cars that any manufacturer wants to make compatible with CarPlay. Those requirements fall into five categories: display, speakers and microphones, user interaction methods, sensors, and connection to an iPhone. The first two categories are very logical; in order to display the CarPlay interface, the car needs to have a touchscreen with a good resolution (the minimum supported is 800×480 and the maximum 1920×1080 or Full HD).
Regarding the speakers, it is also necessary that the vehicle has at least two audio channels, one main and one for notifications, so that for example the user can listen to music and at the same time receive instructions from the navigator to follow the desired route. The microphone is essential to be able to perform tasks using voice recognition. And since the physical connection to the iPhone is obvious, we will focus on the most interesting: the methods of user interaction and sensors.
CarPlay supports three methods of user interaction: the touchscreen, the car's own built-in knobs and controls, and voice recognition. Voice recognition, of course, is performed by Apple's Siri assistant. Siri, like any good digital assistant in 2016, is not only limited to reading our incoming messages and helping us respond by voice while driving, but can also perform actions such as changing the radio station, playing music by a particular artist, finding routes to our destination, calling a contact, showing us the day's agenda and so on.
Apple requires Siri to have a physical button on the steering wheel so that the user can access this assistant at any time, explaining that access to Siri is the equivalent in the car of the button that takes us to the home screen on our smartphones. In the event that the car's infotainment system has its own voice recognition system, Siri can be activated by a long press of the button (about 600 milliseconds), so the user can access the two systems when an iPhone is connected to the car.
Regarding the sensors, CarPlay needs to know the speed of the car at all times; why and what uses this information is put to is not specified. It's not hard to imagine that CarPlay could use it to send an SOS message if it detects a collision by abruptly slowing down, but we don't have any more information on this. If the car has satellite positioning systems such as GPS, it is a requirement that CarPlay has access to this information. Furthermore, if there are in-car positioning systems, CarPlay requires the use of both GPS (American system) and GLONASS (Russian system), and also recommends the use of the Galileo positioning system (European system).
The first significant change that Apple will introduce in CarPlay will be the possibility of using this system wirelessly. That is, we will be able to leave our iPhone in our pocket or in the glove compartment of the car and see how CarPlay is enabled in our car after unlocking it and sit in it without doing absolutely nothing. Regardless of whether we connect the iPhone wirelessly or wired, CarPlay will respect our decision to control the infotainment system's display and sound source. However, it will probably take longer for the car to detect the presence of the iPhone wirelessly than when connected via a cable.
How do you make the connection? If you remember our extensive article on Android Auto, we explained why we opted for Google to implement Android Auto's wireless mode via Wi-Fi and not Bluetooth. In that case Google didn't detail how the feature would be implemented. Apple, on the other hand, has explained how it will do it: it's through a combination of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Bluetooth will be used to initiate communications between the car and the phone, and once these are established, it will switch to a Wi-Fi based connection to transmit the data itself, severing the Bluetooth link.
Recall that the iPhone must transmit to the car's infotainment system all video and audio, where video requires a large amount of data to display each and every pixel on screen. In addition, it is essential that the latency or delay between the user interaction, either through the screen or one of the controls, with the car is as low as possible, because otherwise the user will immediately notice this wait. And as we all know, if there's one thing that frustrates us all when using any kind of computer system, it's entering a command and seeing that it's not executed immediately.
In addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Apple points out that a prerequisite for wireless mode is that the car must have its own satellite tracking system. This is because, according to Apple, in wireless mode the chances of the iPhone being in a pocket or bag are very high, so the phone will have trouble detecting its position. In order for the user to always be able to count on the correct functioning of the maps, it is necessary that the car meets this requirement. In the case of a wired connection, CarPlay will use the iPhone's geolocation sensors if the car does not have them.
Given this requirement, it is possible that despite having CarPlay in our car, if we don't have the navigation kit we won't be able to enjoy the wireless mode. And even if we do have it, it remains to be seen if the requirement for satellite geolocation systems applies retroactively to all cars on the market with CarPlay; if an incompatibility for cars already on the road comes to light in a few months, I won't be surprised at all.
Turn-by-turn navigation in the instrument cluster
This is one point where Apple has barely wanted to give any details. Since CarPlay is part of the iOS operating system and this improvement has been introduced alongside the new iOS 10 version, it's possible that we'll have more details come its release around September. But for now, what we do know is that Apple is improving the navigation mode in its Apple Maps app for iOS and that these changes will be reflected in CarPlay.
In iOS 10, the navigation offers a better view of the route ahead, "zooming in" when we approach a turn and zooming out when we reach a straight or a road/highway that we don't have to leave soon. We can also move along the route to get an idea of this and at the same time see what are the areas of greater and lesser traffic density. Finally, CarPlay will offer us alternative routes (faster) if after choosing one the system finds a more optimal one.
In the car, and as seen in the photo above, it is added that CarPlay will be able to display the instructions of the route to follow on the auxiliary screen of the instrument panel. We understand that this new feature may not be possible on existing models after the update, unless the use of such a car resource was planned from the first version of CarPlay. Accessing a new in-car resource involves using communication protocols with the car to decide who gets to use that screen, similar to how the infotainment system and iPhone communicate to decide who gets control of the screen in the middle of the dashboard.
In any case, it seems that Apple, unlike Google, is not yet ready to take full control of the dashboard, or that it has decided not to go down that route, so CarPlay will be limited, according to what we've seen, to helping us follow our route without looking at the dashboard but at the instrument cluster.
Messaging via Siri and Manufacturer's Apps
In the "Software" section of the "Current Status" section we mentioned that CarPlay only allows third-party apps that are audio players, while Android Auto adds the ability to have third-party messaging apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram. Apart from that, in our extensive article on Android Auto we also mentioned that Google is working on incorporating apps tailored for each vehicle.
The problem with allowing third-party messaging apps in CarPlay lies with Siri, which handles both voice recognition and transcribing the user's message for delivery without the need for the user to take their hands off the wheel. Siri is a problem because until the developer conference held recently, there was no API or programming interface so that other applications could teach Siri to perform actions with them. For example: if we tell Siri to "text Javier," it will always use Apple's messaging app, iMessage. Now, with the API just announced for the next version of iOS, an app like Telegram can teach Siri so that we can say "send a message to Javier via Telegram" and have the command recognized correctly.
This API now makes it possible for third-party messaging apps for CarPlay. Remember that both Apple and Google control the user interface at all times, both for preinstalled apps and third-party apps, so the glue that allows us to use other applications to send messages while maintaining the standard interface is voice recognition, a problem that Apple has just solved for the next version of CarPlay. Therefore, Apple has announced that third-party messaging apps will officially be supported in the next version.
As for the applications made by the vehicle manufacturer, these have been allowed by Apple since the launch of CarPlay, and are published by manufacturers as apps for the iPhone in the App Store and after being installed on our phone appear as one more on the main screen of CarPlay. It is likely, although we do not know for sure, that they have privileges within the operating system to access APIs not allowed for third-party applications. Why do I think this? Because for starters these apps will be able to draw their own user interfaces on the screen, something third-party apps can't do. So it's also feasible that these apps will have access to all the car data that CarPlay knows, such as vehicle speed and location information.
What I can tell you is that from now on manufacturer apps will have access to Siri, opening up the possibility of asking her to perform car-related tasks. For example, if such information is accessible to CarPlay (because the car's corresponding control unit sends it to it), we could ask Siri about the state of our tire pressure, or to tell us the average fuel consumption during the trip. These are small details that, once again, can keep our eyes off the road, even if only for a few seconds. And if the interface between the car and CarPlay allows it, maybe in the future we'll be able to ask Siri to lower all the windows in the car, or to raise them and turn on the climate control at a certain temperature, to give examples.
Of course, the more integration, the more careful manufacturers and developers (in this case Apple and Google) must be with security. And if we have learned anything so far, is that anyone can have an oversight (or two), and therefore, we will always have hackers to discover them.
For those of you reading this, CarPlay doesn't work with an iPad, so you can stop thinking about how you're going to connect your iPad to your car and leave it there so you don't have to use your iPhone. You also won't be able to dock your iPad Mini or iPhone 6/6s Plus to the dashboard and have CarPlay next to the instrument cluster because there is no such functionality; this is something I don't see Apple adding, but who knows?
Personally, the message I'm taking away from this Apple developer conference is that CarPlay hasn't been given much attention. There's been a lot of talk in recent years that Apple has a very limited software development team compared to other Silicon Valley giants, and that these teams are sometimes plucked from their day-to-day work to support another, more important team. I highly doubt that CarPlay has its own team; rather, I think it's an extra feature of iOS that was very important at launch, and that they're now focusing on other things.
Who knows if they're busy working more on their car's infotainment system. It's also true that Apple doesn't usually talk about their plans until they're finished, so maybe we'll be talking in a few months about changes that weren't announced at the developer conference but have made it to the final version. Until then, we'll be watching until these announced changes see the light of day with the release of iOS 10 and the new iPhone around September. | <urn:uuid:d8cad8c6-6de0-4be3-bfa6-34fa9c574b36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pistonudos.com/en/apple-carplay-in-depth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956646 | 3,741 | 1.578125 | 2 |
More than 40 percent of Russians would be willing to forgo the right to free speech and the freedom to travel abroad if Russian authorities would guarantee "decent" salaries and pensions, a poll released Tuesday by independent pollster the Levada Center revealed.
Forty-two percent of Russians said they preferred "decent" wages and pension payments over the freedom of speech and the opportunity to travel abroad.
But it was a close race, with 49 percent of respondents voicing the opposite preference.
The poll produced similar results to one conducted in 2013, when 43 percent of Russians said they preferred financial stability over the opportunity to travel abroad and the right to freely express their views. At the time, 46 percent leaned in the opposite direction.
In 2008, as the world grappled with a large-scale economic crisis, 54 percent of Russians preferred freedom of speech and travel to salaries, and only 35 percent cared more about their income.
Meanwhile, 44 percent of respondents thought the government should play a more active role in cracking down on free speech, by banning books and films deemed "immoral." Thirty-five percent said the distribution of explicit materials should be restricted. A meager 17 percent expressed the view that any form of censorship is intolerable.
The poll also showed that the majority of Russians prefer to take a passive approach when it comes to fighting for their rights.
Sixty-nine percent of Russians, according to the poll, would prefer to avoid any and all dealings with the authorities. Only 23 percent said they were determined to fight for what the government has promised to do or provide.
This may owe to the fact that 60 percent of Russians don't believe the general population can hold the authorities accountable for their actions. Only 22 percent stated the opposite.
Nearly half of the respondents who lacked faith in government accountability attributed their opinion to the view that the authorities do not let ordinary people have a say in important issues.
Only 18 percent of Russians consider massive protests likely, and even fewer — 14 percent — would be willing to participate, should they occur, the pollster revealed.
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Kropsforankret læring ved Søværnets Officersskole - et kandidatspeciale
Den 27. juni 2022 blev jeg færdiguddannet cand.mag. i læring og forandringsprocesser ved Institut for kultur og læring på Aalborg Universitet.
Mit afsluttende speciale er skrevet i samarbejde med Søværnets Officersskole. Specialet er et kvalitativt og eksplorativt studie af planlægning og udvikling af ledelsesundervising på modulet Grundlæggende Militær Ledelse på Søværnets diplomuddannelse. Formålet er at belyse, hvordan kropsforankret læring kan integreres i teoriundervisningen gennem empiri i form af interviews og deltagerobservation.
Interoceptitvitet - i et kropsfænomenologisk studie ved Søværnets Officersskole
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In the literature on managerial training, there is a tendency to place the bodily side of learning as an addition to true learning of a mental and rational nature rather than a prerequisite and basis for learning. Since the brain and central nervous system are specialized parts of the body, we must cross the line between the embodied and the mental; learning is conditioned by the body as a whole.
The aim of this thesis is to study how activates based one embodied learning can be integrated into existing leadership teaching. This is done in a qualitative and exploratory study of planning and development of the leadership training at the Royal Danish Naval Academy in the module Basic Military Leadership.
How can acitivities based on embodied learning be integratet into existing theory teaching at the Royal Danish Naval Academy in the module Basic Military Leadership?
The thesis applies a body-phenomenological perspective presented by Merleau-Ponty, which sees the body as ubiquitous, and the prerequisite for human perception, movement, and cognition. In continuation of this, embodied learning has been defined as specific, bodily processes that lead to new 'habits'. Specific bodily processes refer to processes in which sensuality, movement, and emotion play a crucial role. By habit, I follow Merleau-Ponty's understand, where habit is the sum of what is learned such as knowledge, attitude, and skills.
Using the methods from design thinking and considering the planning of the upcoming (now ongoing) theory teaching in Basic Military Leadership, I find that activities based on embodied learning can be integrated into the existing theory teaching by complying with three organizational frameworks and conditions: First, the activities must enable the acquisition of (new) bodily actions, as the body is the bearer of tacit knowledge. Secondly, the activities must be used as an intervention method to support the teaching's current learning goals, and should possible to carry out within a realistic time frame, to accommodate an already tightly packed teaching program. Third, the activities must allow the cadets to sense their bodily state (interoceptivity), and thus create a basis for reflections on the leadership.
As a result of this, six basic principles have been developed: intervention method, purpose, continuity, sensing, breeding ground, and reflection. By integrating these six principles in the design of the activities, it is possible to integrate activities based on embodied learning in the existing teaching. How exactly this can be done is operationalized in the activity catalog The Bodily Compass, which offers 10 concrete activities based on embodied learning, specifically targeted at the Royal Danish Naval Academy in the module Basic Military Leadership.
I discuss whether the final design of the activity catalog is an expression of pragmatic solutions that compromise some qualitative criteria or whether the final choices despite compromises add a significant boost to the training. Butler's theory of performativity as repetitive and reproductive practices (speech and deed) has been incorporated and provides an opportunity to comprehend the peculiarities of the Armed Forces' institutional use of the body, where power structures for correct behavior are embedded and where actions are a reproduction of cultural norms. | <urn:uuid:470092f1-9681-43d9-bdc8-8f5c675091bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.well-being.dk/l/kropslig-laering-ved-sovaernets-officersskole/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.839858 | 923 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Put on your creative hat this spring and join an art class at the Campbell River Art Gallery.
With a wide range of classes and workshops offered for children, teens, and adults there is definitely something for everyone. Kids can create paper lanterns, explore collage portraiture, or try their hand at watercolours. Manga, Chibi, & Fantasy drawing classes and a glass etching workshop are available for artistic teens. Classes and workshops in a variety of skill levels, ranging from jewellery making and felting to beginner drawing and portraiture painting, are on tap for adults. Class registration is now open. For more information or to register for classes & workshops contact the Gallery at 250-287-2261, via e-mail at email@example.com or in person at 1235 Shoppers Row. | <urn:uuid:168f6dfc-4f16-4519-a409-b0f68781024c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/entertainment/wanna-get-creative/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917179 | 169 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Britain’s 90-year-old Queen Elizabeth II marked 65 years on the throne this week, her Sapphire Jubilee. It’s not as big a deal as her 50th or 60th jubilees, but it gives me an excuse to write a blog post about her. You see, I am completely nuts about QE2. To the point that some of my friends think I’m just plain nuts.
I’m an unapologetic, certified Anglophile. Living in London for most of one summer a few years back sealed my admiration for my British cousins and my fascination with all things British. I’m convinced that everything we do, they do better.
Their public mass transportation system, the Tube, is more efficient than any in America while carrying more bodies every day than Chicago or New York. I believe the British to be the most civilized people on earth (notwithstanding the rare riot or soccer brawl), in all their various ethnicities and colors. Nearly everyone I encountered there was just brilliant, to borrow a favorite British term.
I’m also not in the least embarrassed to reveal that I revere the royal family, and none of them more than their matriarch, the nonagenarian queen and longest reigning monarch in British history. But my respect for this lady is not purely royalist in nature, or for the simple fact that she occupies the throne. It’s because she has earned that respect every day of her nearly 91 years.
There isn’t enough space here to cover the woman’s awesomeness. When her reign began, Winston Churchill was prime minister. She lived through the Nazi Blitzkrieg and lived to become the first monarch to send a Tweet. She reigned over the Beatles era when London was the fashion and music capital of the world. She has met every U.S. president since Truman. She has seen regimes topple around the world. She probably has more accumulated political wisdom and knowledge than every current head of state combined.
The Sex Pistols put a safety pin through her nose and Princess Diana tried to raise a rival court. They’re long gone; she’s still here.
Assuming the throne at the young age of 25, Elizabeth’s life has never been her own. From the age of about ten when she became heir presumptive, she would never know the personal freedoms we all take for granted. She may divide her time among four palaces and have her own fleet of planes and yacht and command her own regiments, but she can’t go wherever she wants whenever she wants, do whatever she wants, and she certainly can’t say whatever she wants.
Think of all the things she would probably like to say. Imagine 65 years of making small talk with people you find dull as dirt, and pretending they fascinate you. She can never do what I’m doing now, publishing my opinions in an Internet blog.
Over the past decades numerous observations have been made about her, some critical, even impugning her qualities as a mother. She has never answered back. She can’t. And she certainly must have her own side to things. Unlike former first ladies and even her ex-daughters-in-law, she can’t write books and set the record straight.
I came of age with Princess Di as a pop culture icon, not realizing that the real deal was there all along. The queen weathered with grace the tabloid dramas of the wildly popular but immature Diana, remaining above the fray while watching her own image take a drubbing in the press. She emerged from it with an awareness that the royals needed to appear a little more human and open, and we have seen that change play out.
In her tenth decade, she keeps a schedule that would exhaust one half her age. She could have retired or semi-retired decades ago, as Queen Victoria did, kicking back at one of her country estates with a toddy and leaving the public appearances, travels and duties to the kids and grandkids. I certainly would have. Come out once a year and wave from the Buckingham Palace balcony on her birthday. No one would have faulted her for it. But she’s still out there, still representing. When she told her subjects as a young girl that her entire life would be dedicated to their service, she was not kidding around.
And she never chose this life. Unlike our presidential families who do choose it, there’s no eight intensive years in the fishbowl and then a long and luxurious retirement from daily public life. It’s all fishbowl, all the time.
Many people think the very idea of royalty is silly in the 21st century. Some of the queen’s subjects want to do away with the royals and make the U.K. a republic like the U.S. Reportedly, it costs each U.K. citizen 64 pence a year to support the royal family. I would happily write them a check for their share. Because QE2 has also dedicated her life to justifying and preserving the thousand-year-old institution that is the monarchy and done a better job than anyone could.
My mom had the privilege of seeing the queen riding in a car when she visited New York in the 1950s. She said the queen was radiantly beautiful. If I was ever in the presence of Queen Elizabeth, I would probably dissolve into simpering mush. I fret when she gets a heavy cold. I will weep when she dies. Generations have become so used to her just being there that when she is no longer, they won’t be able to handle it. And the republicans will cry too, in spite of themselves.
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there is nothing i can say that is good about this plant. sorry; no “good news/bad news” this time. it is one of the most difficult weeds to eradicate, because it reproduces via underground rhizomes, so if you leave just a teensy little bit of the roots in the ground, before you know it you’ve got another whole crop.
and boy, do i have a crop. it’s my best crop.
fortunately, it’s another indicator weed, and it grows best in low fertility soil. so basically, it’s just growing in the border of my vegetable garden, where i’ve mulched with wood chips. that’s not to say it hasn’t tried to creep out into the middle… but it doesn’t really thrive in very fertile soil.
its latin name is Artemisia vulgaris, and it is native to europe. according to my research, it was originally used to flavor beer until hops became more commonly used. probably why we have it now; it was likely imported by the colonists. it also has quite a few medicinal uses, and was even believed to ward off evil spirits. it can also cause contact dermatitis. lovely plant.
your best bet to get it out of your garden is to pull, pull, pull, until you’ve exhausted the root system. to that end, don’t let it leaf out and replenish those roots.
for more information, see this info from ohio state, or this pdf file from the virginia cooperative extension service.
additionally, from HerbDoc:
The dried leaves of mugwort were used as a tea replacement by the early colonists and by the working class in England about 75 years ago; it has a combination acrid and sweet taste. The leaves and large root minus the rootlets were used medicinally for their tonic and slightly stimulant properties. It was used for stomachaches, palsy, epilepsy, and other similar affectations. I wouldn’t use it as a tea or a medicinal, but readers might like to know that it repels insects and could be used in a bouquet along with tansy and wormwood on the picnic table! It is said the word “mugwort” comes not from the word mug but from “moughte,” which means a moth or maggot. It was often used to repel moths in larders and on clothes. I have also found that woodchucks tend to keep their distance from any stands of this herb, but that’s just my observation and not a scientific theory.
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