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zinc with calcium and magnesium.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that the protein was able to bind to the DNA of the bacteria and prevent them from replicating. The researchers also found the proteins could be used to treat cancer.
Can you take zinc and calcium at the same time?
Yes, you can. and, but, the zinc is absorbed more slowly than the calcium. The zinc in the diet is not absorbed as quickly as the magnesium. This is why the body needs more zinc to maintain proper calcium balance. If you are taking zinc supplements, it is important to take them in a balanced way. You should not take more than 1,000 mg of zinc per day. It is also important that you do not overdo it. Take the recommended amount of calcium and magnesium, not more.
Does calcium stop zinc absorption?
Calcium is a mineral that is absorbed from the diet. It is also absorbed through the skin. The absorption of calcium is dependent on the amount of zinc in the food. the absorption rate of the zinc is about 1.5 times that of vitamin D. This means that if you eat a diet high in zinc, you will absorb more zinc than if the same amount is eaten with calcium. In addition, zinc deficiency can cause skin problems such as acne, rashes, and skin discoloration. If you are taking zinc supplements, it is important to take them with a calcium supplement.
Does zinc and calcium compete for absorption?
Zinc and vitamin D are both essential nutrients for healthy bones and teeth. They are also important for the development of healthy skin and hair. which is found in the skin, is also essential for proper bone health. Zinc is a mineral that is essential to the body’s metabolism and helps to maintain healthy blood pressure. It also helps in maintaining healthy immune function. Vitamin D is an important nutrient for bone growth and development. The vitamin is important in helping to protect the bones from damage caused by UV rays. In addition, vitamin d helps protect against osteoporosis.
What should you not take with zinc?
Zinc is a mineral that is used in many foods, including some foods that are high in zinc. Zinc can cause a condition called zinc deficiency, which can lead to a variety of health problems. a type of zinc that’s found in the body. It’s also found naturally in some plants, such as broccoli, spinach, and kale. The amount of zinc in your diet is important, but it’s not the only factor. Your body also needs zinc to make your cells work properly. If you’re taking zinc supplements, you should also take a zinc-rich food supplement called Zn-Zn. This supplement contains zinc, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, selenium, zinc sulfate, vitamin B12, folate and vitamin D3. | <urn:uuid:dbf9fe27-c6e6-4552-a6ff-e71a980ec030> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thefitnessmanual.com/zinc-with-calcium/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958803 | 599 | 2.8125 | 3 |
A busy intersection on the formerly unfashionable side of a major global city river languishes, un(der)developed, until it becomes an eyesore, a blight on the city’s reputation as a world capital. It’s clear that the real estate is worth money, that the location has vast potential, and that the neighborhood could do with the beautification. Does the city/borough:
a) Survey the community as to its needs and desires, garner 80% local support for its plans, and then set about spending public and private funds turning the eyesore into a thoroughly 21st Century community, stating publicly that it wishes to create a place that (among other things):
“supports a successful and diverse mix of affordable homes, shops, businesses and high quality recreation and cultural activities
“creates opportunities for all local residents, and ensures that they are a key part of the transformation of the area
“shifts the emphasis, and gives priority to, pedestrians, public transport and cycling, rather than cars
“has an integrated network of high quality green spaces that draws people into and through the area by improving its appearance and encouraging activity.”
b) Negotiate use for the land with a private developer behind closed doors; present that deal to the public as a fait accomplis whereby the space will be filled by a 20-000-seater sports arena, along with 17 skyscrapers full of office space, retail stores and housing entirely at odds with the local communities; award the land to the private developer despite lack of an open bidding process and the existence of a higher offer; give the private developer publicly-funded tax breaks; encourage the developer to exercise use of ‘eminent domain’ whereby long-term residents can be bought out of their homes over their objects; refuse to canvas public opinion; promote a strategy of divide-and-conquer among local communities, creeds and colors; offer no plans for new schools, fire stations, or police departments to cope with the proposed new residents; initially offer use of public green space and then retract it; boast of 10,000 new jobs and then admit there might be less than 1,000; ignore the impact of these skyscrapers, office workers, new residents and sports fans on the city’s most choked intersection, and offer no plans for improving public transport or promoting alternative means of transport?
The answer is: It depends what city you live in.
If you’re in South London, you might recognize option a) as representing Southwark Council’s plans for the Elephant and Castle – an area which, having just stayed in the region for two weeks this January and after using the underground station and subway walkways almost every single day, I can vouch is a decaying eyesore badly in need of such rejuvenation.
If you’re in South Brooklyn, you will certainly recognize option b) as the plans for Atlantic Yards, above the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, near what I used to call my home in Park Slope. It’s a vast section of prize real estate above train yards surrounded by thriving local communities.
The differences between the two city’s approaches are staggering in their scope. Spend some time traveling around elephantandcastle.org.uk’s web site, download the regularly published newsletters, read the sections marked ‘Our Vision’ and ‘Developers Area,’ check the photo and media sections and fill out a feedback form if you desire; you might not like every aspect of the plan (and I could have done with clearer pictures of the proposed finishes results), but you’ll be hard put to come away feeling less than properly informed.
Then do a Google Search for ‘Atlantic Yards Brooklyn’ and see what you come up with. Top of the returns is a site financed by the private developer in question, Forest City Ratner, entitled Bring Basketball To Brooklyn. (I’m sure that FCR are paying Google for this placement.) Dated 2005, it says that it is “under construction” though I assure you it was previously up and running as a propaganda site for Ratner’s purchase of the New Jersey Nets basketball team. (The bait by which Ratner hooked the local urban community was the promise of professional basketball in Brooklyn; the switch was the small city that came with it.)
Check the official Forest City Ratner site – a logical move – and you will find nothing about Atlantic Yards under the ‘Projects’ section; you’ll find the most recent posting on the News pages dates back to May 2005; and the Press Releases section is full of fluff (“Nets Announce Kids Souvenir Giveaways Series”). There are no architects’ designs, no floor plans, no policy statement, no artists impressions. Then go check the official Brooklyn-USA web site, home of Borough President Marty Markowitz, the man who brokered the original deal with Forest City Ratner, and you will find nothing whatsoever about Atlantic Yards; at least not on the front page or among the recent press releases. You will instead need to visit sites like developdontdestroy, nolandgrab, timesratnerreport.blogspot.com, brooklynviews, naparstek.com and the excellent coverage from the brooklynpapers staff to understand what’s being “railroaded” through in this hub of thriving neighborhoods, and why the local community should so strongly object to being excluded from the process.
The Atlantic Yards project is an insult to Brooklyn but, fortunately, at least one aspect of the deal is under nationwide challenge. After the United States Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 decision last June in a landmark property rights case from Connecticut, Tuesday’s New York Times reports that “Lawmakers from Maine to California have introduced dozens of bills in reaction to the ruling, most of them saying that government should never seize private homes or businesses solely to benefit a private developer.” In New York State, it has taken a Republican, State Senator John A. DeFrancisco, to table “a measure … that would remove the right to exercise condemnation power from unelected bodies like an urban redevelopment authority or an industrial development agency.” Or, presumably, a private developer like Forest City Ratner.
These legislators would do well to look at the elephant and castle redvelopment to see how it’s possible to work with a community, rather than in opposition to it. In the meantime, this is one occasion on which London trumps – make that, slam dunks – New York.
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Older people are not the only people in need of long-term care (LTC), but in terms of numbers, they represent the greatest need. As more people live longer, the demand for LTC in Europe is expected to increase significantly. Paying for and providing quality care will be important challenges as the proportion of the population over 80 years old more than doubles in the EU over the next 50 years.
In the European Union, Member States have different models for providing LTC. However all are committed to universal access and the provision of high quality LTC. Each of them faces many similar challenges in financing and providing equitable access to LTC.
Making use of informal care, favouring home-based over institutional care where possible, and ensuring adequate numbers of qualified care-givers are all significant challenges. Prevention and rehabilitation programmes, the use of information and communication technologies and better service coordination between different health and social programmes and providers can also help to reduce costs and ensure quality care in the future.
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Benefits of drama in education: Why kids should have access to the arts
As children grow, many of them are encouraged to build their creativity and independence. This is how they become an individual. By exploring the world and becoming more in tune with themselves, they gain their personality – learning every day how to express themselves in a way that feels comfortable. Drama in education is one way they can begin to do so.
While drama plays a small part in many children’s school lives – we think there is much more it could be doing for them. The curriculum gives children an insight into how drama works as an art form, and how it is intertwined with different cultures. While we believe the theoretical and practical application in schools is important, there is a lack of opportunity for certain children to expand on their love of the arts in extracurricular activities.
How does drama benefit children?
When you think of actors, actresses and performers, you probably think of people like Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford or Harvey Fierstein. What do all of these people have in common? They’re adults. At least, they are now and were for the majority of their careers. However, the arts also had a part to play in all of their childhoods. While some people find their love for performing later on in life, many find their feet young. And it’s those that don’t have the opportunities that may never realise their potential.
Develops imagination and creativity
When we are young, our imagination runs wild. We are constantly learning about new and exciting things to make life even better. Children have the natural talent for making up stories and creating imaginary worlds. That’s why the arts are so great – we can help them build on the creativity that’s already there. We can open up their minds and let them develop their ideas even further than they thought.
This newfound creativity stays with them. Exploring new worlds, new characters and new ways of thinking in childhood leads to adults who have unique ideas and are able to think on their feet. It can also lead to a great amount of empathy. After all, classes in the arts include a lot of pretending to be someone else!
As we mentioned before, drama includes a lot of pretending. We experiment with new characters, imagining how they would think, feel and act in certain situations. Some experiences will also bring the children to discover new cultures and ways of life. Empathy is an amazing trait for any individual to possess, it gives them the ability to put themselves in other people’s shoes.
This is often the literal case in drama! So presenting the opportunity to do so will begin shaping their adult lives, giving them new things to look out for and new ways of being the best person they can be. We advocate for accessibility because less privileged children and families still deserve the time to develop and work on themselves as people. Drama isn’t just pretending, it’s learning who you actually are in real life too.
Enhance concentration and discipline
Another one of the benefits of drama in education is the discipline it teaches. Now we’re not talking about how to be good and eating your vegetables when you’re told. But the skill and willingness it takes to perform. It is difficult to get into another mindset, constantly changing from your natural state, to that of the character you’re playing. Focussing on multiple things at once is hard for anyone, let alone a child, and that is a big part of what drama teaches.
Before anything else, when it comes to performing, you have to learn your lines. Then to get these right, there’s a lot of brainpower and muscle memory that goes into it. Not only do you have to remember what to say; you have to remember when, how and to whom you say it. This shows the discipline within yourself to practise over and over until you get it right. Just like running is an exercise for your muscles – drama and learning is an exercise for your brain – helping it grow and get stronger.
This is key for people to learn as soon as possible. The whole world relies on communication in one way or another. We speak different languages, but that doesn’t mean we can’t communicate with people from other cultures. How do we do it? Nonverbal communication is just as important in life as verbal. In the same way that our body language and gestures make the world of difference in drama.
The arts give children the knowledge of interactions and how to respond to other people. When we are acting or performing, we aren’t just reciting lines. We’re interacting with other characters, our surroundings and sometimes the audience’s reactions too. As a result, people learn how to use their body language to portray emotions or messages, in a way that words can’t. If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation at a really loud concert – you’ll know what we mean.
Teamwork and relationship building
The benefits of drama in education include developing the crucial ability to work as a team. This goes hand in hand with our communication skills as it relies on children noticing other people and acting appropriately. Theatre companies and drama schools focus heavily on team building exercises because performing requires a lot of trust and mutual respect between cast members. Just like we learn in school – it’s beneficial to be able to work collaboratively because there will be times when you can’t do something by yourself.
Not only this, but teamwork benefits us in conjunction with building relationships. To have trusting, lasting relationships, we first need to have that ability to work and live alongside other people. All kinds of relationships rely on trust, without it we would be working alone a lot of the time. The beginning of this is when we start to teach children how to share. It takes time for them to understand the concept, but when they do – they form the ability to make friends quickly.
It goes without saying that any performer has to have a certain level of self-confidence to get up on stage in front of any amount of people. It takes courage to express yourself in such a unique way, and there are plenty of people that could never bring themselves to do so. But even if drama doesn’t lead a child to perform, it will teach them to have more confidence in everything else they do.
The arts are platforms for creative expression – there’s nothing you can do wrong. You’re learning new skills and taking the opportunity to understand the world in a different way. If children can become comfortable in themselves this way, they are well on their way to achieving whatever they want to. Because they believe in themselves enough to share their ideas and take risks.
This is arguably one of the biggest benefits of drama in education and the most important reason why we believe it should be available to anyone and everyone. When you’re taking part in elements of play, humour and creativity, it acts as a fantastic stress reliever. We always see people laughing when our teams are performing or rehearsing. It allows you to relax and just enjoy the experience. While some children don’t enjoy school or find it stressful – drama can help improve that.
Many people find it a useful place to leave everything else at the door, and just live in the moment. Childhoods are all about fun. We play, make messes and laugh when we’re children because that’s all we know. So drama gives everyone the opportunity to make the most of that. And if we learn that having fun is a good thing that brings us joy – we will take that with us to adulthood. We want every child to be happy and know that you can have fun in anything you do.
Drama in education should be accessible to all
We’ve now seen how many ways children can benefit from drama. That list isn’t exhaustive either. Everyone will take something different out of the arts and performing because it’s all about expressing yourself. How you choose to do that is up to you. We teach children to be themselves and learn about the world in different ways. Why do we do this? Because it allows them to be better people and to enjoy everything they do.
Just because you can’t afford drama school, or don’t have access to education in the same way as other people – it shouldn’t mean you can’t enjoy those benefits too. That’s why, at the Wysch Foundation, we work to make the arts accessible to everybody. Whether that means paying for trips to the theatre or organising bursaries for those who can’t pay the fees to join a club in the arts, we want everyone to be given a chance.
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Title: Real Men Fantasy: Explore The Media Representation of Effeminate Males in China
Stream: Chinese Studies
Presentation Type: Virtual Presentation
Yanjun He, BNU-HKBU United International College, China
Liming Liu, BNU-HKBU United International College, China
“Men should not shed tears” has been a deep-rooted motto for Chinese males. In Chinese culture, masculine men are honorable while effeminate males are abnormal. With the release of reality shows, like Idol Producer, exquisite and effeminate male images gain attention in public, challenging the conventional images of men of steel. Those exquisite male idols are criticized as effeminate and being lack of masculinity by Chinese mainstream media. This study investigates how mainstream media in China portrays effeminate males and how the media representation of effeminate males influences the self-understanding of this group of people. This study will employ discourse analysis as the research method. Interviews will be conducted to investigate how effeminate males constitute a self-understanding under the media representation constructed by mainstream media. In this article, the researcher contends that the mainstream media tends to create a narrow identity for men with effeminate quality and such identity imposes a negative influence on effeminate males'lives.
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The paper gives a theoretical explanation and empirical verification of a conceptual emotion-regulating model, developed in the theoretical methodological context of cultural-active paradigm. A universal hypothesis concerning emotion regulation as a system including psychological and physiological levels has been verified empirically. The psychological level may be subdivided on motivational thinking level and operational-technical ones, ruled by such psychological mechanisms as reflection and symbolical mediation. It has been figured out that motivational peculiarities determine the manifestation of other analyzed components of the system of emotion regulation. This is true not only for healthy patients, but also for patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP). The significance of reflection and symbolical mediation in the system of cultural-active paradigm and emotion regulation has been determined. It has been proved that emotion regulation among patients with MVP differs from that of healthy people, highlighted by a very strong conflict of goal-achieving and fail-avoiding motives, lack of personal reflection and distortion of symbolical mediation, and very limited emotion-regulative resources. It has been shown that patients with MVP differ from the control group, suffering from far more strong emotional stress. It distributes an overall negative impact, reducing the ability to use emotion-regulating resource in emotionally meaningful situations effectively.
Available Online: 08/30/2016
The objectives of this paper are as follows: argumentation feasibility of developing structural dynamic model of emotion regulation within the theoretical and methodological framework of cultural activity paradigm of the development of human mind and promoting a psychologically-based typology of emotion regulation strategies in health and disease (Part 1), the description of the model of emotion regulation (Part 2). The paper introduces the author’s definition of emotion regulation as a set of mental processes, psychological mechanisms and regulatory strategies that are used to preserve human capacity to induce productive activity in a situation of emotional stress, to ensure optimal impulse control and emotions, to maintain the excitement at the optimum level.
In the first part, the paper summarizes the concepts and paradigms in which the problem of emotion regulation is viewed: psychoanalytic and cognitive approaches, concepts and emotional development of emotional intelligence, cultural activity approach. The paper considers the procedure model of regulating emotions by J. Gross with the release of emotion regulation strategies and efficacy assessment, analyzes its capabilities and limitations. Based on a review of the today research, the conclusion is as follows: within the existing labels on a wide range of regulatory strategies the issue of the psychological mechanisms of their use still remains open.
In the second part, the author suggests the possibilities to address this issue on the basis of the construction of structural and dynamic models of emotion regulation in the methodology of cultural activity approach to the study of the mind and capacity of this theoretical paradigm of integrated methodological approach to the experimental study of the regulation of emotions.
Keywords: emotion regulation;
procedure model of emotion regulation;
structural dynamic model of emotion regulation;
emotion regulation strategies;
cognitive strategy reassessment;
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Since the pandemic began, many have felt the effects on their mental health. The CDC reported in June that over 40% of Americans suffered an adverse mental or behavioral health condition, with anxiety and depressive disorders topping the list. By mid-July, 53% of U.S. adults said their mental health was negatively impacted by stress and worry due to the pandemic, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. As the pandemic continues, these stressors are likely to impact more people every day.
Are you or your family members likely to suffer from anxiety, depression or other mental health issues? If so, what can you do to support your — or your loved one’s — mental health?
First, it helps to uncover your predisposition toward certain traits or mental conditions. Just as you might seek information about your genetic predisposition for illnesses to guide your lifestyle choices, discovering your genetic traits related to mental health can help support your emotional well-being.
Thanks to a breakthrough in the translation of genetic mechanisms and traits that can influence a person’s behavioral predispositions, the Genomind Mental Health Map provides a springboard anyone can use to take action toward better mental wellness. Mental health is a function of genetics, environment, lifestyle and experiences. This is called “Mental Health 360.”
Dr. Scott Wiener, a board-certified psychiatrist focused on a biological based holistic approach, uses genetic information as a vital tool. “For far too long the practice of psychiatry has only utilized symptoms in the assessment of someone’s mental health. Evolving science has now given us the opportunity to assess the biological causes underlying those symptoms,” says Wiener. “Genomind is an essential tool in this advanced process of creating a more complete picture of mental health.”
Unlike some ancestry tests that have a spit tube for collection, you only supply a cheek swab sample for Genomind’s test. They then analyze 38 genetic variants and influences on 29 mental health traits, resulting in a report detailing 59 possible behavioral predispositions specific to your genetic profile. Genomind provides resources and recommended actions from trusted advocacy groups to help improve your wellness and quality of life.
The Genomind Mental Health Map identifies 7 Core Genetic Mental Health Capabilities:
1. Stress and anxiety
3. Focus and memory
5. Eating behavior
6. Social behavior
7. Habits and substance use
Exploring your genetic predispositions in these seven crucial areas increases your self-awareness and empowers you to take steps toward better self-care.
Stress and anxiety
If you are one of many who have the variant of the gene involved in stress hormone regulation (FKBP5), you may experience a heightened stress response.
Knowing that this variant may contribute to your stress response allows you to target this biological mechanism to help regulate it. For example, supplements such as magnesium and/or rhodiola rosea have been shown to help. You can also try mindfulness techniques like grounding exercises and meditation.
Sleep and focus
Or you may find you have a variant of the gene associated with excessive brain cell signaling (CACNA1C), which can result in traits such as:
- Trouble falling asleep
You can target this mechanism with supplements shown to stabilize it, like omega-3 fatty acids and magnesium. You could also make changes in your behavior or environment, such as reevaluating your sleep habits and schedule.
A variant of a gene that encodes for a protein critical to brain cell growth and repair (BDNF) is associated with predispositions involving memory and stress response, which may affect your working memory and stress levels.
Fortunately, BDNF levels can be boosted through exercise. People with this variant are even more likely to benefit from the brain-enhancing effects of exercise than people without it. Knowing you have this predisposition may help jump-start your exercise routine.
Knowledge is power
Discovering your genetic predispositions and their potential impact on your mental wellness can help you prevent problems before they develop, or reduce them if they already exist.
“At Potomac Psychiatry, we have used genetic testing to evaluate over 2000 patients, and have found it to be a highly effective tool to provide a patient with critically important information,” says award-winning psychiatrist and author Dr. Bruce Kehr. “Understanding genetic predispositions and implementing associated epigenetic recommendations will likely result in better mental health outcomes.”
Knowledge of your genetic predispositions is a vital tool for boosting your overall mental health and well-being — especially during challenging times.
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Here's a real letter Shirley Temple wrote to Santa in 1936
Sing along! "Yes, that's what I want for Christmas."
Shirley Temple is perhaps the most famous child actor of all time, charming audiences of all ages from the 1930s on with her bouncy curls, adorable costumes and delightful talents. She's practically as timeless as our favorite Christmas traditions.
As a young kid who we must assume easily always landed on Santa's "nice" list, it makes sense that the pint-sized star would honor that time-honored tradition of writing a letter to Saint Nick. Today, we came across one of her actual letters, and we have to say her Christmas wish that she shared with the jolly old elf is as precious as you likely imagined. Read the letter she wrote in 1936 below.
On that note, here's an extra special Christmas bonus for Shirley Temple fans. Below is a clip from a Shirley Temple movie that came out the same year she wrote this letter and perhaps even taught Shirley the lesson she shares in her note to Santa. In The Stowaway, Shirley sings that humble Christmas classic "That's What I Want for Christmas."
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This stag is standing in the forest scanning the surrounding area for any potential danger. It is easy to tell that this is a buck, not a doe, because it is rare for female deer to grow antlers. Deer are the only group of animals to have antlers. Each year, they shed them and regrow new antlers next year. The antlers function primarily as objects of sexual attraction and as weapons in fights between males. Any hunter can easily bag this trophy to add to their collection. It measures 6.5″ high and 5.25″ wide. The hand painting on this figurine has been done with great care to capture as much detail as possible. | <urn:uuid:4aae8537-abe2-43b7-a0fd-4df6a627b026> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sunburstreflections.com/product/deer-standing-figurine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973568 | 146 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Trumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19 )
Never lose faith in the future.
One of the basic necessities for any successful building project is quality raw materials. A building will only be as strong as the materials used to construct it, although a stable foundation, thoughtful and thorough design plans and capable artisans are other necessary components for a solid structure. The building of the Mishkan, of a house designed for and dedicated to the worship of God, presented some very unique challenges. First and foremost: How are the requisite raw materials to be procured in the wilderness? While the plans for the Mishkan were drawn up by God Himself, and the artisans who were entrusted with bringing the plans to fruition were divinely inspired, the materials seem to pose a challenge.
The Torah explains that the precious metals and textiles used to construct the Mishkan were among the possessions, the "great wealth," that the Israelites took with them when they departed Egypt. However, some of the other materials called for in Parashat Terumah must have been quite difficult to obtain. Where, for example, would they obtain the wood to create the main beam that held the Mishkan together?
Midrashic literature provides a fascinating answer to this question: Long before the Jewish People were given the instructions for building the Mishkan, their forefather Avraham began the process. Avraham, who had been promised by God that he would father a great nation, was also told that this nation would be exiled, abused, and eventually redeemed. How did Avraham respond to this prophecy, this promise? He planted:
Avraham planted an eishel in Beersheva, and there he called out in the name of God the Eternal Master. (Bereishit 21:33)
There is a difference of opinion regarding the nature of this eishel. Some understand the word eishel as an acronym for the Hebrew words for food, drink and lodging, and opine that Avraham built an inn at the edge of the desert, where he received parched and travel-weary guests and encouraged them to thank God for the food and drink he shared with them. Other opinions have a more straightforward understanding of this singular word, and explain that Avraham planted an orchard (eishel being a type of tree). We should note that when he planted this eishel, whatever it may have been, Avraham focused on the aspect of God the Eternal, rather than other aspect that we might have imagined Avraham connecting with, such as God the Merciful, or God the Creator.
The act of planting is an expression of belief in the future. In planting the eishel, Avraham gives expression to his own faith in a God who is Eternal, his own belief in the God who created and planted the very first tree, his belief in the God who will keep His promises to Avraham's descendants. Avraham believes in a God who is "Eternal, Master of the Universe."
On the other hand, the idea that Avraham built an inn, a place where he taught travellers about God, is no less intrinsically connected to our current discussion. Avraham's eishel may be seen as the first "House of God." Avraham built it as a house dedicated to the service of God, as a place in which men and women might access God. Avraham used this eishel to share his understanding of God with others. In fact, Avraham's grandson Yaakov also had a very strong connection to a "House of God:" As he lay on the ground in a holy place, Yaakov had a vision of a ladder reaching up to the heavens, and he vowed to build a House of God on that very spot. Unfortunately, his promise remained unfulfilled in his own lifetime.
There is a fascinating rabbinic teaching that draws a more direct line between the two visions, of Avraham and Yaakov, of the House of God: When Yaakov went down to Egypt, he collected the wood from the trees Avraham had planted years before, and made massive beams out of the eishel of Avraham. His grandfather Avraham believed in the future; he had faith that God would fulfill his promises - and Yaakov was fully aware that he was living the first step, the beginning of the exile. But Yaakov, too, had faith. He knew the day of redemption would come as well, and in anticipation of that day, Yaakov brought the long beams, formed from the eishel planted by Avraham, down to the Egyptian exile. Before his death, Yaakov revealed to his own descendants that these beams, planted long ago by Avraham, would one day be used in a Temple, a Mishkan, a House of Worship to the Eternal God, a place perhaps imagined by Avraham long ago. In this way, Yaakov's vow was fulfilled: Yaakov "donated" the beams that stood at the very center of the Mishkan.
The idea expressed in this poignant midrash, the process is describes, reminds us that we are the beneficiaries of the saplings planted by our ancestors. They, too, had hopes and dreams. They believed in the future; they believed that God's Word is true, and they never ceased to call out in the name of the Eternal God, the God of Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. Some of our ancestors carried their belief through almost unfathomable times of darkness, exile, enslavement and pain, like heavy wooden beams, in the belief that one day their children, or their children's children, would use them to build a House of God they themselves could only dream of. They had faith that their descendants would one day serve God, Eternal God, in a place founded on their own beliefs, constructed from the beams of their ancestors' hopes and dreams. As their descendants, we, too, must never lose faith in the future. We must craft and carry the beams that will allow our children, and their children, to continue to call out in the name of the Eternal.
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This building is named for Father Thomas Copley S.J. who arrived in St. Mary’s City in 1636. His background was different from the other Jesuits, in that he was of noble birth. He was able to claim credit for 48 men in the building of the colony and this entitled him to 10,000 acres of land. In 1645 a Puritan buccaneer plundered St. Inigoes and St. Mary City carrying off Father Copley to England where he spent two years in prison, but upon failure to be convicted was banished and somehow made his way back to Maryland. Father Copley is believed to have drafted the Act of Toleration, the first granting of religious freedom in North America. This Act contained many of the same sentiments and expressions set forth by his grandfather, Sir Thomas Copley, more than sixty years earlier.
- Date: Begun in 1930, completed in 1932
- Area: 99,286 gst
- Architect: Emile G. Perrot
October, 2005 February, 2006
- Area: Copely Crypt And Crypt Flooring
- Architect: Saurabh Gupta, MEP Solutions, Inc.
- Summary: Steam leaks were repaired under the Copley Crypt; replaced steam piping as well as traps in this area. Repaired Crypt flooring.
Copley Hall (along with White-Gravenor) has been referred to as a “Sermon in Stone” It bears the Latin inscription across the main gable which when translated reads:
“Loyola’s fortune still may hope to thrive
If men and mould like those of old survive”.
The tower to the north of that gable carries aloft the Cross and the Seal of United States. The upper part of the gable has a large seal of Georgetown. The three story bay window over the entrance has four major seals, (1) Sodality, (2) Athletics (for physical education on which are carved six emblems for baseball, football, track, tennis, golf and basketball), (3) The Philodemic (for the Debating Society, the oldest in the U.S.), and (4) The Journal (for Writers).
The south gable bears three historic emblems: (1) the family crest for the family of St. Ignatius, “Onaz y Loyola” the founder of the Jesuits, (2) the Lily of the seal of the University of Paris where Ignatius was educated and founded the Jesuits and (3) the seal of the Society of Jesus –IHS– surrounded by a crown of thorns. The large bay window to the extreme north commemorates in stone twelve eminent Georgetown men, leaders in their professions. Those best known are:
- JUSTICE carrying the name of Edward Douglas White, of the class of 1862 who became Chief Justice of the United States in 1910. He presided at the dedication of the John Carroll Statue.
- LAW carrying the name of Gaston who was an associate justice in North Carolina and served in Congress. He is probably best known on campus as Georgetown’s first student.
- POETRY is represented by James Ryder Randall, the author of “Maryland, My Maryland” who was admitted in 1848.
- ART is represented by William W. Corcoran, who was attending in 1811, who founded in 1869 the Corcoran Gallery of Art and also was the first president of the Georgetown Alumni Association.
On the first floor of the north wing there is the Reading Lounge for the Senior Class. At the west end of the room there is a spacious fireplace above which for a time was mounted the head of a buffalo shot in 1872 by Colonel William Cody (Buffalo Bill) given by him to General Sheridan and finally made its way to an alumnus who donated it to Georgetown.
On January 23, 1946 Copley Hall was the scene of a most unique event, the reception honoring Navy Chaplain, Father Joseph Timothy O’Callahan S.J. following his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Truman at the White House earlier that day. The affair was attended by the highest levels of dignitaries of Church and State. Father O’Callahan’s citation read:
“For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Chaplain on board the U.S.S. Franklin when that vessel was fiercely attacked by enemy Japanese aircraft during offensive operations near Kobe, Japan on 19 March 1945. A valiant and forceful leader, calmly braving the perilous barriers of flame and twisted metal to aid his men and his ship, Lieutenant Commander O’Callahan groped his way through smoke-filled corridors to the open flight deck and into the mist of violently exploding bombs, shells, rockets and other armament. men of all faiths; he With the ship rocked by incessant explosions, with debris and fragments raining down and fires ranging in ever increasing fury, he ministered to the wounded and dying, comforting and encouraging men of all faiths; he organized and led fire-fighting crews into the blazing inferno on the flight deck; he directed the jettisoning of live ammunition and the flooding of the magazine; he manned a hose to cool hot, armed bombs rolling dangerously on the listing deck, continuing his efforts, despite searing, suffocating smoke which forced men to fall back gasping and imperiled others who replaced them. Serving with courage, fortitude and deep spiritual strength, Lieutenant Commander O’Callahan inspired the gallant officers and men of the Franklin to fight heroically and with profound faith in the face of almost certain death and to return their stricken ship to port.”
He also received the Purple Heart for wounds received from shrapnel during this incident. A 1956 movie, “Battle Stations”, based on the life of Father O’Callahan was released.
Father O’Callahan had received a Masters of Arts Degree, and a licentiate in Sacred Theology from Georgetown University. He was the first military chaplain of any faith ever to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. The Captain of the ship characterized him as, “The bravest man I ever saw.” This great feat was accomplished without the use of arms. Thus, Georgetown, honoring one of its sons, continues its rendezvous with history!
During the school year ’64 – 65 Bill Clinton (FS ’68) lived in Room 225 Loyola Hall; in ’65 – ’66 he lived in Room 505 Harbin; in ’66 – ’67 he lived in Room 410 Copley. During ’67 – ’68 he ventured into off campus housing at 4513 Potomac Avenue. On January 20, 1993 he resumed using off campus housing by moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.
In 1971 an additional fire escape was added by Copley Lounge. In 1981 a new heating system (along with New North) was installed and a window replacement took place as well as air-conditioning of St. William’s Chapel and Copley Lounge. The fire alarm system was replaced in 1987, the emergency power system was updated and a ground floor renovation along with asbestos removal took place in 1988. A fire stair addition was constructed in 1993 under the 1992 deferred maintenance program.
This building is part of the western hub of the Cambridge type quadrangle (also referred by some sources as the Andrew White Quadrangle) of the Campus. Anchored along with Healy Hall they form the western side, while White-Gravenor to the North and Lauinger Library to the South with the fourth side open to express outreach to the community.
Copley Hall is primarily a residence hall containing 324 dorm beds. Steam tunnels connect Copley with Healy and Dahlgren Chapel. It houses the Copley Lounge, St. Williams Chapel and the Crypt of North American Martyrs. This building underwent a $12.5 million dollar renovation during 1994 and 1995. | <urn:uuid:d4a3cc4b-2a9d-4e49-8969-b0fbf0b3cf40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://facilities.georgetown.edu/copley-hall-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.96725 | 1,705 | 2.609375 | 3 |
1． The allegedly never withering flower Crassulaceae (a very ancient species evolving from an aquatic plant), are now gradually entering the Chinese garden.
2． Succulents are grown in Liao Garden 1 because of its resemblance to the ancient lotus seat, or the unnameable flowers from the extra dimensions depicted in Thangka backgrounds.
3． Besides the observation on the neural curves of the ancient wisemen, I also observe the entire inner energy construction of the human body, and I surprisingly found out that inside every one of us there’s a tree of life within an optoelectronic system, where nameable and unnameable flowers grow, all that there is there, blossoming at the same time.
4．I believe that everything differs from one to another, and every one of us can find their own way to be with the succulents.
1 Liao Garden is an ongoing land/garden project initiated by Zheng Guogu in 2000.
Zheng Guogu, Succulent Shanshui, View at Mirrored Gardens, Autumn 2020.
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Time: Autumn 2020
Venue: Mirrored Gardens ( Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu District, Guangzhou )
Wednesday through Sunday, 11am – 5pm,
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Publications in this list were generated from GLOBEC work done along the Seward Line and in the northern Gulf of Alaska and were published 2000–2015. In addition, these publications are limited to those with official GLOBEC contribution numbers and/or those archived as publications of U.S. GLOBEC. As a matter of fact, many other publications are based on data collected by GLOBEC funded projects or on research done on GLOBEC funded cruises, but are not included in this list.
This is not a complete list of all GLOBEC publications – or even of the Northeast (NEP) or coastal Gulf of Alaska (CGOA) study areas. Instead, it focuses on work done by current LTER researchers and work that supports the current studies. As a set, these GLOBEC studies establish the seasonal biological cycles and rate processes for the region, important background for NGA LTER. | <urn:uuid:9d4629e4-f44b-41b0-9d06-780bdbbddbf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nga.lternet.edu/research/publications/globec/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963766 | 189 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Simply put, the world today runs on energy. Whether it is electricity, generators or solar panels, the bottom line is that having power is an important part of our society today. We have come to a point where we depend on power to run just about everything we have. And just to prove this point, think about the number of people that make a fuss out of power outages and complain anytime you goes out. The reason for this is the fact that our reliance on power goes from running our homes to our businesses and even for entertainment purposes. It is almost as if anytime there is a power outage the world comes to a standstill. When our phone batteries die, we lament about the fact that were not able to call, chat or Instagram anyone. In short, without power even our social lives and communication is affected. When the cabling has a problem, we order services as soon as possible to have them fixed. While it is easy to maintain electricity our homes, it’s important to realize that there are alternative power sources that exist such as solar panels that can serve as in cases of power outages. There also people whose preference is to use solar panels as their main source of power in their homes. Regardless of the reason why you may need solar panels, it’s important to learn how to maintain them so that they are more durable. There are tips and ways that exist to help you maintain your solar panel.
One way of maintaining it is by monitoring the power output. There is a mobile app that connects to your power inverter which enables you to keep tabs on how much output your solar panel is producing. In case you notice any fluctuations, you’re able to tell whether it has a problem. For example, your solar panel may have a defect in case you notice a decline in the output. Removing any dirt buildup on the panel is another tip of maintaining solar panels that may prove handy in solving such a defect. Maintaining your solar panel also requires that you visually and physically inspect the solar panel hardware. The good thing about the hardware is that it comes up a warranty and so just in case there’s a problem you can bring it up before the expiry date. In cases where snow is involved, it’s important to avoid moving it and instead to let it melt away. | <urn:uuid:1c2a97fe-2c9f-4a44-9f36-0530edb1cac4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.valentinopattaya.com/resources-tips-for-the-average-joe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.960801 | 474 | 2.65625 | 3 |
By Joe Koehl, BWC Loss Prevention Supervisor
Does it irritate you when you’re trying to be an upstanding, law-abiding, defensive driver, keeping a safe three-second following distance from the car in front of you, and somebody changes lanes and cuts you off? And then another car and another car and another car? It can irk me to no end!
So, really, how much time do we save by being an aggressive driver? How much time do we save by staying in the fast lane on the bumper of the car in front of us and letting nobody, I mean nobody, not even our own grandmother cut in front of us. Let’s do the math.
If your following distance is one second versus three seconds and you follow that car for 10 miles, you’ll save about two seconds. And if you prevented one car from cutting in front of you, you saved about five whole seconds. Heck, if you are really aggressive and prevented 10 cars from cutting in front of you, you saved about 30 whole seconds off a 10- to 20-minute trip.
On the other hand, you most likely increased your stress, increased your risk of a ticket (yes, it is illegal to follow too closely/tailgate) and increased your chance of being in an accident, all for 30 seconds. Although probably less than 30 seconds, because as soon as a car cuts in front of you, another cuts out into a “faster” lane.
If you were unlucky enough to be “that” car in an accident or pulled over, you just increased not only your stress but the stress level of about a thousand other commuters who are now affected by your decision. And your own grandmother, who you would not let in front of you, is ready to box your ears! That is a lot of bad karma – bad juju – coming back on you.
So, next time you start getting irritated, just smile, turn on some music, keep that safe following distance and get safely to your destination a few seconds later. And if someone is tailgating you, increase your following distance a little bit more (not to irritate) but to make sure you both will be able to stop in an emergency. | <urn:uuid:d71fee92-0f87-46f6-bf39-d529280e1930> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ohiobwcblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/aggressive-driving-how-much-time-do-you-really-save/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970291 | 467 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Earth & Space Science & Engineering Graduate Student Wins Award for Research Paper
Third-year Earth and Space Science and Engineering PhD student Athina Peidou has been awarded the International Association of Geodesy Young Authors Award for her work on the paper titled On the feasibility of using satellite gravity observations for detecting large-scale solid mass transfer events published in the Journal of Geodesy.
Prior to joining Lassonde, Athina, who is from Katerini, Greece, received her Bachelor’s in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece and later her MASc in Geological Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
The main focus of her research paper involved assessing whether satellite gravity measurements can detect large-scale landslides, with emphasis on submarine landslides.
Satellite gravity measurements provide an excellent source of information for mass movements and her research uses this information to better understand the Earth’s processes.
“While most people are aware of the 2011 earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in Tohoku, Japan, it took a couple of years to detect the massive submarine landslide offshore Japan that was induced by the earthquake,” remarks Peidou.
Due to limited information on oceanic environments, most submarine landslides still remain unknown. With satellite gravity measurements’ continuous availability, submarine events can be detected practically.
We have all seen the detrimental effects of landslides on societies where in some cases, the events have taken human lives. This research is an important contribution toward understanding Earth’s mechanisms.
“The more we know about the dynamic Earth system, the more prepared we can be as a society to deal with certain phenomena,” says Athina.
This award recognizes the value of satellite gravity missions and Athina is honoured to have made such an important contribution to the field.
“Lassonde School of Engineering is definitely a big supporter of my research. The school not only provides the proper resources but also gives me spirit to advance my research.”
Peidou also mentions the exposure to different ways of thinking as key to her success, with the School offering an interdisciplinary approach to research, allowing her to explore a variety of engineering disciplines.
“She is a true influential leader, a go-getter, a congenial personality, a creative and positive thinker, solution-oriented visionary and an amazing communicator,” raves Athina’s supervisor, Professor Spiros Pagiatakis of her analytical and enthusiastic character both in and out of the research lab.
In addition to her academic responsibilities, she is active in professional associations. She serves as a student member in the Canadian Geophysical Union Executive and is the President of the Earth & Space Science & Engineering Department’s Graduate Student Association. Athina’s aspirations are to advance her research and never stop learning and sharing her joy of knowledge with those that share similar passions.
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Dear Graduating Senior,
I must beg your pardon for a somber reflection amidst the joy of your accomplishment: not to be a wet rag on the festivities of graduation, but to shine a light on the realities of post-secondary education.
If you are going on to a state university, your GPA is a 3.5 or better, your ACT or SAT score is at the 70th percentile – placing you in the top 30% of current test takers – and you enter the University this year, about 56% of students with similar qualifications will graduate in 4 years. What’s surprising about this number is that it’s not higher, closer to 85 or 90%. But college is tough. That is what you pay for.
On the other hand, if you’re going to a university with a more typical 2.8 GPA and are at the 45th percentile on the ACT or SAT, the likelihood of finishing in 6 years drops to well below 50%. These are not great odds. These aren’t like the odds that you had in high school, when graduation was nearly guaranteed. Passing your classes takes more than showing up. Access does not automatically equal success.
It’s not surprising that if you are well-prepared for college study – a good GPA, ACT/SAT score, and class rank in the top 50% – you are more likely to succeed.
Nearly two out of three students on the way to a baccalaureate degree borrow money. This has not always been the case, and this new norm is troubling. While the high school experience is funded by the community, the university experience is not. Furthermore, the drop-out rate for those who take loans is nearly 23%. Imagine taking out a loan for a car, only to find out on delivery that the price you agreed to didn’t include an engine. Now imagine you were still on the hook for monthly payments.
If you haven’t achieved solid academic performance in high school, don’t believe a university, its leadership, advertisements, or admissions officers when they tell you not to worry about going into debt for your degree. They have no responsibility for making the payments, and they have different interests than you do.
They need paying students.
Stoking a deceitful dream of a life of middle-class ease – an over-financed, media-hyped charade – is the real deception, and the weight will fall on your back, not theirs, and it’s a shameful, elaborate sham when one out of two college graduates this year are unemployable in their chosen field.
Look carefully at the costs and benefits of university education.
University officials may not tell you the truth: enrollments could drop.
Bankers will not tell you the truth: interest income will fall off.
Government officials will not tell you the truth: votes might be lost.
Talk to family, friends, and educators for counsel, and listen carefully to the people who are really concerned for you.
If you choose to attend a “second best” university, you may be lulled into thinking that your chances for graduation will improve significantly. Not true. You will find, at good mid-major institutions and many teachers colleges, that high-quality faculty demand energy, interest, intellectual acuity and classroom performance; and, if you haven’t exhibited these in high school, the likelihood that you will spontaneously develop them amid the distractions of university life is nearly nil. Very few break this curve.
Maybe you think you can find a low-stress major and eek by with little work. Of course, you probably won’t find a job – remember half don’t. Econ 101 tells it like it is –YGWYPF. And if you’re borrowing, you’ll be paying for a long time.
A degree with a major in a low-demand field, with salary prospects near minimum wage and $25,000 to $50,000 in debt – is less valuable than a good high school diploma with four years of life experience.
Unenlightened? Call me a caveman. Cruel? I think of it as honest.
Here is the substance of my advice as you graduate.
One: If you have to borrow money to enter a university straight away, don’t. Go to a community college. Pick rigorous courses that you know will transfer and get them at an 80% discount off the cost of state university prices. Prove yourself and become eligible for scholarships and grants.
Don’t borrow a dime.
If you need a hand finishing up after demonstrating ability at a community college, borrow sparingly in the last two years, but never in the first two.
Two: If your life circumstance requires you to work and study simultaneously, do it. There is no law of the universe that says a college education must take four years. If it takes more, and you can do it for cash, do it. Don’t borrow money.
Three: Consider carefully with your family and counselors you trust, the dollar value of your career path choice. Find a way to graduate from college with useful skills and little or no debt. I applaud volunteers and humanitarians. I support the desire to do noble work. Just don’t go into ignoble debt to do it.
Four: If you are taking out loans so that you can walk to class in C-note Nikes, checking a Diesel watch to see if you’re late, you are acting foolishly. Sorry for my insensitive straightforwardness. When every friend you have heads to Acapulco on spring break, don’t go. Go do something noble, create capital, work, study. But, don’t spend and don’t export borrowed capital.
Five: Lastly, if you think you worked hard in high school, know that any university worth going to will have you working at levels 4 to 5 times more challenging for a good GPA.
If you think this sounds crazy, please, just show this to someone unbiased that you respect and ask them for their honest opinion.
When you find your path, study hard, work diligently, and challenge yourself intellectually.
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Gordon's Notes: Systemic failure and financial firewallsGlass-Steagall separated commercial and investment banking. One effect was to reduce the risk of contagion, but I think the intent was to reduce conflicts of interest.
... even if there are deeper economic and cultural failures, there are also more straightforward firewall failures in our current crisis. These are usually called "regulatory failures" but regulation can come in many forms. I think the most interesting forms are those that are designed to stop the spread of contagions.
Fires, seizures, epidemics, hurricanes and financial crises are all, famously, "chaotic". They have non-linear perturbation sensitivities, and they can roar up and die down in ways that are only loosely predictable.
Excepting hurricanes, we have firewalls for these things. In our brains are systems to dampen seizures should they arise, and, we think, to limit where they spread. In our buildings we have, well, firewalls. In public health we find immunization rings, targeted interventions, quarantine and the like...
... Firewalls don't show up, to my knowledge, in classical economics. I'm sure they show up in modern economic models of regulation and in studies of "complex adaptive systems" . Maybe this latest crisis will bring models of financial system firewalls, like the mourned Glass-Steagall act, to the level of popular economics.
Managing systemic conflicts of interest is one reason America's political system separates power between Congress, the Executive and the Courts. (One of the reasons Bush was able to fully leverage his incompetence was that the GOP controlled all three, and had near-control of the media as well.)
Conflict of interest is one reason, for example, that it's a very bad idea for orthopedic surgeons to own imaging facilities.
Speaking of which, there's yet another separation of powers that's waned over the past tweny years.
At one time American physicians dispensed medications and pharmacists prescribed. That's still true in many nations. Shockingly, the result was very high use of very inappropriate medications. The cure was separation of powers. Physicians would prescribe and pharmacists would dispense.
Time passed. Lessons were forgotten. Market deism and libertarian ideals joined forces. Now we have minute clinics owned by dispensing organizations, and oncologists who make a large share of their revenue by the margin on dispensed drugs.
I am very confident that we will rediscover that there was a good reason to separate prescribing and dispensing. We'll find, for example, that minute clinics dramatically increase the cost of "treating" self-limited conditions -- not to mention the sale of diet pills, supplements, and candy.
Firewalls to contain epidemic chaos. Separation of powers to manage fundamental conflicts of interest in an imperfect world of imperfect communication and incomplete knowledge. They both reduce efficiency. They are both essential. Sometimes they're the same thing.
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Tree Condition Surveys for Devon
Tree Condition Surveys & Tree Risk Assessments (QTRA)
We have been asked to carry out Professional Tree Inspections, surveys and reports for a number of large national utility clients and organisations throughout the country.
Our local clients include a number of Academy and Trust Schools, Town Councils, Land owners, Government Bodies, utility companies and domestic land owners. We can offer a sensible approach to tree management and assess the risks that a tree may pose to persons or property.
Licensed Users of the QTRA System
Our assessors are licensed users of the Quantified Tree Risk Assessment (QTRA) system which is a particularly effective system that assesses the trees size, the target area (a road, a footpath, a property etc.) and the probability of the tree or parts of the tree failing.
Calculating these three components will give the tree owner or manager a risk rating which can be applied to the tree or trees and in doing so can help determine what tree works, if any, are needed in order to ensure the risks of tree failure are reduced to an acceptable level.
Tree Condition Surveys
Tree Condition Surveys in Plymouth, Exeter, Dartmoor, Bovey Tracey, Newton Abbot, Torbay, South Hams and surrounding areas are carried out frequently by our Tree Consultancy team.
It is important to not just assess trees for risks they pose to others but certain sites such as woodlands, historic and environmental sites need pro-active management of their trees.
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As governments and medical officials across Canada ramp up their public communication regarding COVID-19, many of their messages are not getting through to those who rely on sign language interpreters.
Advocates for Canada’s Deaf community say they are missing out on up-to-date information about COVID-19 due to a dearth of interpretative services both on-site at multiplying news conferences and in media broadcasts of those events.
It’s meant Sarah Stadnicki has had to step in to make sense of events for family members overwhelmed by closed captioning and unable to either see or understand the interpreter when they are provided.
“Without proper language access, Deaf people are relying on their knowledge of the English vocabulary and then try to puzzle it together,” Stadnicki said. “That in itself is harmful.”
“In stressful situations, the mind does not have the luxury to process the true meaning of the information,” she added. “It’s all collecting and then becomes overwhelming. Then swoosh it’s all gone.”
She said that it was difficult to understand the interpreters at a recent federal government event because they were placed at the ends of a long table of officials and were therefore too small for viewers to make out their hand motions. She added that many Deaf people had also struggled to understand a City of Toronto ASL interpreter.
The problem prompted the Ontario Association of Sign Language Interpreters to send a letter to broadcasters on Tuesday offering the services of their interpreters.
“There has been a lack of real-time ASL and Deaf Interpreters throughout all media,” the group’s president, Georgia Whalen, told National Observer.
“It’s very important that all media, especially on COVID-19, have communications available to all Canadian citizens and that includes Deaf citizens,” she said. “Deaf citizens want full information equivalent to their hearing peers.”
She said some municipal governments had so far been accommodating, noting the efforts of Belleville and Hamilton municipalities in Ontario and the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia. But she added that pressure needed to be applied so all levels of government and all broadcasters include ASL (American Sign Language) and Deaf Interpretation at all times.
Advocates for Canada’s deaf community say they are missing out on up-to-date information about COVID-19 due to a dearth of interpretative services both on-site at multiplying news conferences and in media broadcasts of those events.
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It's walking a tightrope, or anyway a delicate business. . .
What kind of hand have we been dealt as women today and how can we best play it? It's a large question that's always lurking in the background and since the answers aren't obvious, I find women's lives to immediately be suspenseful and interesting, don't you?
Wait a minute? Who am I? I am Abigail L. Rosenthal, Professor of Philosophy emerita of the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and while my advice has always been not to take my advice, I do write a weekly blog I call Dear-Abbie the Non-Advice Column.
And so, dear listener, I invite you to pull up a chair at this virtual cafe table no matter your gender, age, convictions, or style of life.
James Baldwin wrote a novel, Giovanni's Room, ostensibly about the coming out of a gay man and how he disappoints the woman in his life. Baldwin said the book was really about "the crucial lack of sexual authority in the American male." The character cannot line up his erotic nature and harness it to his identity and the tasks of his life. To encounter that implosion is profoundly frustrating for a woman. If, on the other hand, she finds herself wanting and able--in conscience and with trust--to support his sexual authority, this is a blessing, for a man.
At the same time, her acceptance of him is really an activity, not a passivity. So it has to come from a woman who lives from her own center of authority.
It's walking a tightrope, or anyway a delicate business. If it comes down to a power struggle, men have advantages (aggression, freedom from childbirth and menstruation, physical strength) that allow them to seize the upper hand without appeal, if the culture permits. One saw this happen overnight in Iran, and there submission entailed a massive surrender of feminine authority. With the coercive demand to "cover," with FGM (female genital mutilation), the feminine itself is erased. The woman enters The Land of Invisible Women (to quote the title of a book by Qanta A. Ahmed, a female doctor reporting from Saudi Arabia).
To submit to a male bully is useless and hopeless. But bullying comes in many guises and genders. For example, about party-line-femininst-ideologues, I have said to my students, "If I want to get pushed around, I can find a man to do it."
Thanks so much dear listener, if this added value to your life, I'd be happy if you subscribed. You can find me at www.abigailrosenthal.com. I've written a book called a Good Look at Evil. and if that's not too scary for you, you can buy it on Amazon. Another book is called Confessions of a Young Philosopher, and this is forthcoming soon, with Illustrations. | <urn:uuid:9ec4cf9f-f5cf-4a4b-a601-cea00a084e3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dearabbiethenonadvicepodcast.buzzsprout.com/1825459/9099910-submission | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96429 | 610 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Problem: Recently, a waste management company in Texas experienced issues with the temperature control loop of their thermal oxidizer—resulting in an oxidizer shutdown. Thermal oxidizers are heated by natural gas to an operating temperature of 1400 ºF for oxidizing the waste gases. The temperature must be carefully controlled during startup, because rapid temperature changes can damage the unit’s firebrick; normal procedure calls for the temperature to be ramped up by 100 ºF per hour in steps.
However, as the loop was not tuned correctly, the oxidizer temperature was fluctuating by 125 to 150 ºF. Not only did this affect the oxidation process, but the uncontrollable 150 ºF swings prohibited proper startup of the oxidizer itself which caused thermal oxidizer shut down.
Solution: Installing an EnTech toolkit in on the customer’s DeltaV system, which uses lambda tuning techniques to recommend effective non-oscillatory tuning strategies, provided us with information to analyze the issue. Using this data, I was able to stabilize the oxidizer’s temperature control so that it held at 1400 ±8 ºF, thus enabling the thermal oxidizer to resume full operation.
Learning: It is common for a plant manager to become accustomed to a loop or valve not working “properly”. This type of myopia can prohibit the manager from investigating a solution or a better way to run things. Even, in this case, when the malfunction is cutting directly into the plant’s noncompliance to emission limits.
It took a major shutdown for the operation to reach out for assistance. However, our experts happily provide proactive guidance on how to properly tune loops, valves and more. Utilizing Emerson’s consulting expertise and technology, this plant is now equipped to properly tune other loops in advance of such incidents and resume profitable operations.
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16,000 WordPress Sites Have Been Hacked
At least 15,769 WordPress websites have been compromised so far this year by cyber-attackers, and most are serving up malware, unflagged by Google's Safe Browsing checks.
WordPress is a popular target because the majority of the web uses it to manage and publish their content. That’s according to the 2016 Sucuri report on compromised web properties, which noted that out of 21,821 sites studied, the majority of them (78%) are using WordPress.
WordPress continues to lead the number of infected websites as well, at 74%.
The report focuses on four open-source content management systems (CMS). In addition to WordPress, it covers Joomla! (14%), Magento (5%) and Drupal (2%). About 3,099 Joomla! sites were hacked this year too.
When it comes to out-of-date software, a common vector for hackers, the report found that WordPress installations were out-of-date 55% of the time, while Joomla! (86%), Drupal (84%) and Magento (96%) continue to lead the way with out-of-date software. Year-over-year, WordPress saw a 1% decrease in out-of-date core software and infected websites, while Drupal had a 3% increase. Joomla! and Magento website deployments continue to show the most out of date instances of any platform.
Poorly secured extensions give hackers initial access much of the time. Sucuri found that on average, WordPress installations had 12 plugins installed at any given time. The top three plugin vulnerabilities contributed to 22% of WordPress site hacks: Gravity Forms, TimThumb and RevSlider.
Worryingly, only 18% of the infected websites were blacklisted by search engine and web protection services, leaving 82% of the infected websites out there unflagged and posing a danger to unwitting surfers. The most successful blacklisting effort was Google Safe Browsing, with 52% of blacklisted sites. Norton Safeweb managed to find 38%, while McAfee SiteAdvisor found only 11% of the hacked sites.
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Interoperability and standards in a museum/library collaborative: The Colorado digitization project
Abstract) is a collaborative initiative involving Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. The Project's goal is to increase access to the special collections and unique resources of the cultural heritage institutions through digitization. The CDP received a two-year IMLS grant, with the goal of further developing the collaborative, increasing the amount of digital resources linked through the CDP Web site, testing the guidelines and standards developed by the CDP and creating a model for statewide library/museum collaboration that can be adopted by other states. To meet the objective of increasing access, development and adoption of standards or best practices for the description of digital objects was critical. The presentation identifies the key Project assumptions, the approach the CDP has taken to achieve the goal of increased access, as well as barriers. The second key area of standards for the Project is scanning. Establishing minimum scan standards, identifying quality control guidelines, and options for scanning all are needed to assure a degree of consistency and quality across these multi-institution projects.
How to Cite
Bishoff, L. (2000). Interoperability and standards in a museum/library collaborative: The Colorado digitization project. First Monday, 5(6). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v5i6.764
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In recent years, President Donald Trump has used his Twitter account @realDonalTrump to share his thoughts on climate change – for example, in December 2013 he tweeted: “…global warming is a total, and very expensive hoax.” And in January 2014, Trump asks: “Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?”
In September 2016, Kellyanne Conway clarified the administration’s position, suggesting that climate change exists but is “naturally occurring.” The administration’s official position, however, does not avoid the epistemic and moral pitfalls in adopting a hypothesis which the evidence overwhelmingly points against.
Epistemology (or the theory of knowledge) is concerned with, among other things, what right we have to the beliefs we hold – in other words, it is a normative enterprise: it asks not merely the descriptive-psychological question of how people happen to come to acquire their beliefs, but rather how they should do so.
The mathematician and philosopher William Clifford in “The Ethics of Belief”, famously argued that it is morally wrong to believe anything, anywhere, at any time on insufficient evidence. To make his point, Clifford uses the example of a ship-owner who allows himself to believe that his vessel is seaworthy without giving it the proper inspection – thereby dooming all the passengers aboard.
“He knew that she was old and not over-well built at the first; that she had seen many seas and climes, and often had needed repairs. Doubts had been suggested to him that possibly she was not seaworthy… Before the ship sailed, however he succeeded in overcoming these melancholy reflections … he acquired a sincere and comfortable conviction that his vessel was thoroughly safe and seaworthy. He watched her departure with a light heart and benevolent wishes for the exiles and their strange new home which was to-be. And he got his insurance money when she went down in mid-ocean and told no tales.”
First and foremost, Clifford contends that if a person is aware of evidence against a hypothesis and aware of no good evidence in support of it, and nevertheless allows himself to believe it because it provides him private satisfaction, he has done an epistemic and moral wrong. It is often pointed out that the philosopher William James attacked Clifford’s view (in his essay “The Will to Believe”), yet he agreed with this fundamental principle. What he rejected was Clifford’s secondary claim – namely, that if an individual has evidence neither for nor against a belief, it is wrong for him to either accept or reject it. Rather, his ‘epistemic duty’, so to speak, is to withhold judgment on the matter until further evidence comes to light; that is, to remain agnostic. In the second case James thought that with respect to religious belief, it was permissible to allow the passions (the will) to guide or determine belief.
Clifford’s ship-owner serves as an illustration for this administration’s attitude to our current environmental situation. Whether man-made climate change is occurring is no longer an object of serious scientific contention. The IPCC reports that: “Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reduction in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes… It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.”
We must begin to ask ourselves whether we have any epistemic right to the belief that anthropogenic global warming is not a reality when virtually all the scientific evidence points to the fact that this is a reality which has already begun to exact a devastating toll – in terms of climate refugees, desertification, and the rapid loss of biodiversity. The bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef reveals the far-reaching impacts of climate change, which has led to rising ocean temperatures and an increase in its acidity.
Last month, Trump pledged to break financial commitments to the United Nations Green Climate Fund (GCF) as pledged by former President Barack Obama in accordance with the multinational Paris Climate Agreement. Newly-appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, has rolled back former President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired plants, ending the former administration’s so-called “war on coal” – an industry which provides far fewer jobs than in tourism or renewable energy.
The Executive Order President Trump signed on March 28th, 2017 rolls back agreed-upon emission standards and repeals the initiatives outlined in The Clean Power Plan in several critical ways, including a reversal of its goal to replace coal- and gas-fire power plants with renewable energy power plants. This expresses not only a dogmatic faith that anthropogenic climate change is not real, but also a self-interested and tunnel-like vision of the world which repositions fiction as facts.
The essence of Trumpism lies in its tendency to create the conditions under which we recklessly fail to give due weight to things like justification, evidence and warrant — we enable ourselves to act in ways that are epistemically wrong. Nowhere is this more evident than in Trump’s disregard for man-made climate change.
Presently, Trump is behaving like Clifford’s ship-owner – he permits himself to believe whatever he wants, that which he finds most-convenient, expedient and desirable. The ultimate critique of Trumpism is not simply whether we still value basic principles including what defines truth, but whether we are able to perceive objective reality at all.
Trumpism, with its readiness to cling to unsubstantiated claims, hearsay, rumors, and conspiracies is in turn making it easier for all of us to behave – epistemically speaking – like Clifford’s ship-owner; we are becoming credulous for the sake of short-term economic self-interest. In the context of climate change, we should see Clifford’s doomed émigrés not simply as ourselves, but also our posterity. By not responding effectively and rapidly enough to address the looming threat of climate change, we may fail to prevent a geological tipping point, on the other side of which lies a vast unknown.
The real tragedy is not simply that Trump is not doing anything to combat climate change; the fact is that little was accomplished in this respect under the Obama administration as well. In speaking to the Guardian on December 12th, 2015, James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who did much to popularize the dangers of climate changes, dismissed the Paris talks as a “fraud” and “just worthless words.” Those were strong statements from someone who believes passionately in imposing carbon taxes. (“As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned,” Hansen added.)
Trump has avoided the prevalent hypocrisy of saying that we believe that man-made climate change exists while doing next to nothing to significantly address it; but he falls into a much graver error – namely in allowing himself to be persuaded that man-made climate change is not real – as this is a belief to which neither he, nor anyone, is epistemically entitled, given the massive evidence against it. And, as Clifford shows, to convince ourselves of propositions in a such an irresponsibly self-serving manner is also a moral wrong.
To really address Trumpism and the denial of man-made climate change, we have to assume moral responsibility, not only for our actions but for our beliefs themselves. Philosophy has a crucial role to play today in addressing the moral challenge we face in terms of the weakening of our normative commitments. The antidote to Trumpism must involve recommitting ourselves to epistemic values, including especially the universality and value of truth. With its outright disdain for objective reality and its repeated assertion of “alternative facts”, Trumpism represents the dismissal of self-critical thought; which is not only extremely dangerous, given the precarious situation that is enfolding daily before our eyes, but the first fateful step towards a crude mental barbarism.
Sam Ben-Meir, PhD is an adjunct professor at Mercy College. His current research focuses on environmental ethics and animal studies.
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The world-class Assuta Medical Center uses RapidArc radiotherapy as part of treatment for a wide array of oncological diseases. Also known as VMAT (Volumetric Arc Therapy) it is an advanced form of IMRT (intensity-modulated radiation therapy), used to deliver radiation therapy with a 360° rotation.
The technology has been developed by US’s Varian Medical Systems, which is considered amongst the leaders in radiotherapy technologies. Its main advantage is its ability to rotate. While most other radiotherapy devices are capable of delivering beams at a 10° angle, RapidArc has a 360° range (so rather than having to stop the treatment when readjustments are needed the tumour can be irradiated from all sides, taking into account its shape). It also allows to modulate the intensity during the treatment, and minimize damage to tissues around the tumour. This means that a RapidArc treatment session takes only 1/5th of the time a conventional radiotherapy session does and causes fewer side effects.
RapidArc Radiotherapy can be used to treat all types of oncological diseases. It is most effective in treating renal, intestinal, bladder, lung, spinal cord and prostate malignancies. It should be noted that the RapidArc technology gains in efficacy when used as part of a combined therapy (i.e. radiochemotherapy).
The efficacy of RapidArc therapy in prostate cancer treatment depends on the radiation dose. As the disease predominantly affects older patients, excessive irradiation of normal tissues surrounding the tumorous growth can lead to unwanted side effects. RapidArc allows hitting the tumour with optimal levels of radiation (74-76 Gy); these levels are virtually impossible to achieve with other technologies.
RapidArc is also effective for treatment of brain and neck tumours. The head and neck house radiosensitive organs: brain and spinal cord structures, parotid glands, and mucosa of the larynx. Even small amount of radiation to these can lead to sever side effects, so precise targeting is required. RapidArc is perfect for this kind of treatment, thanks to its design, which allows adjusting the dose of radiation mid-treatment and rotational capabilities. It also negates the need for the patients to use a special, uncomfortable mask during the sessions.
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The Robotics Team of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has scooped nine awards this year – including the world championship of the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) International Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) competition in Long Beach, California – the first Asian team who gained this honor since the game began in 2002.
In the MATE contest, the ROV division of HKUST’s Robotics Team Beluga beat 24 competitors from regions across Europe, US, Canada, Asia and Middle East – all champions from their own countries, to gain the world championship and the Safety Conscious Award. This came after another division of the team Fiery Dragon won the Hong Kong Robocon Competition for the 8th time in June.
The team’s supervisor and Director of Center for Global and Community Engagement Prof Woo Kam Tim said the teams have been very devoted to achieving such great outcome. “All the teams consist of members from diverse origins,” he said. “They may speak different languages and come from different cultures and backgrounds, but they all resolve to this common language of facts and statistics while solving problems – a good demonstration of the spirit of STEM education.”
Comprising 15 students from 10 jurisdictions, Beluga utilizes the advantages posed by its members’ diverse backgrounds – those from Hong Kong frequented Sham Shui Po in search for tips that made the robot more competitive; a mainland member hunt for treasures on Taobao that made valuable components to their machine; an Indonesian member helped drew reference from similar ROV contests in his home country, while representatives from Canada and the United States presented the team’s ideas in their native tongues before the adjudicators.
Contestants of the MATE competition are required to complete four tasks with their robots on hyperloop construction, light and water show maintenance, environmental cleanup and risk mitigation under the water within 15 minutes. They also have to formulate strategies and prepare relevant collaterals in promoting their ROVs, including compilation of reports to show that the machine fulfills all technical and safety requirements.
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Need plans for Spring Break 2013? Get involved with painting a community mural and planting a garden.
We’re giving away a spot in “A Mural and Garden For Our Community” – a one week Spring Break camp at Christianne’s Lyceum in Kitsilano.
To win, comment on the blog and tell us what you (and/or your kiddo) loves about the Kits community. We’ll draw a winner Friday, March 8.
PRIZE: A Mural and Garden For Our Community
Monday, March 18 to Friday, March 22, 2013
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Ages: 5 to 10
Value: $450 + HST
The Lyceum has been asked by the strata council of Highbury Towers (Highbury between W. 4th and 5th) to create a mural for a lane way wall bordering an empty lot near their property. During this week we?ll see this project through from beginning to end with the help of a dedicated group of young artists.
We’ll work together on a design and meet with the strata to get ?nal approval. We?ll prep the wall, gather our supplies and paint our designs into reality. We?ll also condition the soil in a small garden that is part of the wall and plant indigenous, drought resistant plants to add to the wild?owers that have been sown by other community members. Even if you live in a different community, this project is an opportunity to leave your mark on this one, and take away the tools and techniques you?d need to produce a similar work of art where you live.
Through our connections to community, we get in touch with other
experiences, and other ways of thinking. Students at the Lyceum have always valued opportunities to reach out to people in our community to collect their thoughts and stories and represent them in writing and art.
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MARCH 17, 2015
LAST NOVEMBER, archaeologists made an astonishing find. Working in the backcountry of Great Basin National Park in Nevada, they came across a rifle leaning against a juniper tree. This was not just any rifle — it was a Winchester Model 1873, a repeating rifle known as “the gun that won the West.” When checked with Winchester archives at the Cody Firearms Museum in Cody, Wyoming, it turned out that this rifle was manufactured and shipped in 1882, selling at about $25, one of 25,000 made that year, and one of 720,610 made between 1873 and 1916 when production stopped. In 1882, that particular gun or those among the 25,000 might have been deployed by the United States army against Native Americans who were being purged from their homelands, by Native Americans who had acquired it in trades, or by settlers, trappers, miners, hunters, homesteaders, cowboys, travelers, and anyone else who had a need.
The discovery of the old rifle in the park is important not just because of the role that Winchesters played in American history, but because people didn’t generally leave rifles behind in 1882, or in the years after that, nor do they do so today. And it wasn’t lying on the ground or buried in a cache; it was propped against a tree — a fact that makes its story all the more intriguing, as if it were starting a conversation. Pick me up — I dare you! I’ve been here for a long time, or have I? Where’s my owner? According to a press release from the National Park Service, “The cracked wood stock, weathered to grey, and the brown rusted barrel blended into the colors of the old juniper tree in a remote rocky outcrop, keeping the rifle hidden for many years.”
This Winchester may have avoided detection for a long time, but there is much evidence of our desire to be armed and use firearms in plain sight across the West. Left behind every day and year after year across the byways of the outback are countless bullet shells. As I write, I’m sure that there is more than one person traversing, say, the Little Bighorn battlefield or any number of others in search of overlooked remnants of metal that may have once ripped through someone’s body. In my travels across the marked and unmarked trails of our wide-open spaces, I have come across spent cartridges everywhere — and evidence of their use. In fact, one cannot walk certain paths or drive down a desert two-lane without spotting a bullet-riddled sign or pockmarked carcass of an abandoned vehicle. And there is more than physical evidence. One cannot hike in many areas without gunfire going off in the distance or even nearby, or traverse remote highways without seeing bar-joke bumper stickers that say “I carry a handgun because my AR-15 won’t fit in my purse.”
Alas, I have witnessed the results of fatal — and illegal — gunfire in wilderness regions, not so far away from Great Basin National Park. In 1998, 34 wild horses were gunned down at Christmastime in the Virginia Range outside Reno, Nevada. Upon learning of this incident, I visited the sanctuary where a horse that survived the massacre was living. Just a few months old, she was discovered by a hiker as she foundered in a gully while being watched over by a band of bachelor stallions. Her rescuers named her Bugz.
I visited the site of the massacre several times. Anyone who has visited a battlefield knows what it’s like to experience a scene where many have been felled by bullets in service of a cause; battlefields are lonely and silent, yet screaming with ghosts and stories and histories that have not yet been reconciled. This site — the one in the Virginia Range — is not an official battlefield. And there was not a fair fight going on here; wild horses are hardly armed. Yet some view them as an enemy, animals that are varmints, unwanted, unnecessary, stealing food and water from cows and sheep, in the way of development, gas and mineral extraction, and all manner of other infractions, all of which boil down to getting away with something. This is why rodeo horses came to be referred to as outlaws.
My first visit to the place where the 34 horses were killed was shattering. Subsequent visits were as well, in some ways, even worse. As the investigation into what happened was completed, I learned from forensic reports the exact manner of each horse’s death — entry and exit wounds and the damage that had been done. In one case, a horse’s heart had been shredded. In another, organs had ruptured, and in another, the lungs had collapsed. Over the years I visited the site several times. I was guided by one of the first persons on the scene at the time of the incident, Betty Lee Kelly, who, along with Bobbi Royle, took in the filly that had survived the massacre and gave her a home along with other injured and ailing mustangs. Each time that we were there, wending our way up the rutted road to Lagomarsino Canyon where the horses were felled, I was overcome with feelings that I could never shake, and haven’t tried to. I can only describe them as the truth — or a truth. Here is an account of my last pilgrimage; it came to mind when I read about the discovery of the Winchester Model 1873 in Great Basin National Park, for here, at the end of this trail, in the Great Basin itself, there was a message from Winchester, which came through loud and clear during that final visit. (It is from my book Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West):
We had arrived, and we parked near the site and walked up a rise. It was springtime and the stands of sage were puffy with rain and fragrant. Except for our footsteps, it was quiet. The horse skulls and cages of ribs and shins and intact hooves and manes and tails were still there, forever preserved in the dry Mojave air. There was a pair of leg bones and they were crossed, as if running in repose. They were as pure a white as you will ever see, polished and caressed and battered by the winds of the Great Basin, radiating almost, a reverse silhouette of wildness paralyzed in movement and time. Betty knew exactly which horse this was, and had told me about her on our first visit to the site. She was horse #1 in the court record, or Hope, as she and Bobbi had named her — the one who had prompted the phone call from Animal Control.
“She had probably been here for a day or two,” Betty recalled, and as she continued, it was like a prayer. “She was lying in the sand. She had dug a small hole with her front legs, intermittently trying to get up.” I knew the story well, and in bearing witness there was comfort and then Betty’s voice trailed off and we walked on. After a while, we came across the horse known in the Nevada court system as #4.
Like the others, Bobbi and Betty gave him a name. It was Alvin. He was the one who was shot in the chest and whose eye was mutilated with a fire extinguisher. His carcass — the barrel of his chest — was picked and blown clean by time, wind, and critters, rooted always in the great wide open. His spine was vanishing but still flush against the sand, and his ribs curved toward the sky. “There was a stallion watching us that day,” Betty had told me long ago, now reciting the rest of the prayer. “Just standing at the perimeter as we found each dead horse. When the sun went down and we got in our cars, he trotted on down the road. His family had been wiped out, but we still didn’t know how bad it was.”
As I walked the site this time, I saw that someone or something, maybe a coyote or perhaps the weather, had moved a few of the large stones in the cross under a juniper tree that Betty had made on the one-year anniversary. But it was still very much a cross, and I decided that a natural force had disturbed the stones — a person who wanted to vandalize the scene would have done more damage. And then I discovered something new: an empty box of Winchester cartridges, lodged between the branches of another juniper tree.
Winchester — the gun that won the West, the ammo that brought it to its knees — now back as a reminder, probably placed intentionally and maybe by the people who killed the horses. Did someone have us in his sights? I wondered as I sat on a rock and looked out across the range. The latest nothing down subdivisions of Reno were just beyond the peaks on the horizon, but no one would know if someone decided to take us out that day; maybe someone would hear the gunfire — others who came out here to shoot, perhaps — but gunshots in the desert outside Reno, in the desert outside any American town or city, would not be a surprise and no one would rush to our aid.
“I think it’s time to go,” I said, but as we walked back to the pickup there came a wonderful sight — a few horses, down from a rise. Since the massacre, Betty rarely saw them in the canyon, and she had visited it several times a year, as a kind of a groundskeeper for the kill site. On my visits, I had not seen any horses either, nor had I seen any hoofprints, which made me think that they had been avoiding the area, because in the desert, tracks last for a very long time. The horses that approached were brown with black manes — the scruffy and beautiful Nevada horses that nobody asks for at the adoption centers. We stopped in our tracks and watched them, and they watched us back.
After a while, we bid them farewell. As we headed down the mountain, I turned for one more look. They were walking across the boneyard toward the stone cross, reclaiming their home.
A few hours later, at the Southwest Airlines lounge in the Reno airport, I overheard one of those conversations that explained a lot of things, a refrain really, the chorus of a song that we all know. It had to do with the civic religion of the country, our gleeful worship of personal rights. Someone was talking loudly, in the way that only certain big people do in case you should happen to miss them, a big man with a big gut, well over six feet, in a cowboy hat and cowboy boots, on his cell phone. “Oh man,” he says, “I can’t believe this. They confiscated my ammo, I had a clip inside the steel toe of my belt and they actually made me leave it at the security gate.” He’s two seats over and in a cell phone trance, the Second Amendment with a boarding pass. “I told them I was working security at one of the casinos but they made me leave it anyway,” he says. “Can you believe that? But hey I applied for a concealed carry and I should have it next week. Hey, did you hear Al is in trouble? Yeah, lawyers have been called and a grand jury is in session. Looks like indictments are coming … Hey, I almost had me some last night. It was just there waiting for me. It’ll be there when I get back. You know, I like Reno. I like this whole friggin’ state.”
During my travels across the West, I sometimes meet people who carry a copy of the Constitution in their cars or pockets (I myself carry one in my purse), who can discuss search and seizure law as well as recognized legal scholars, who quote the Second Amendment like scripture. “Don’t tread on me” is a mantra of theirs, and often, that flag is flying in their front yards or is posted near fences at the edge of their property. I have written about some of these people; some have become my friends — and others will never make that cut.
I think for instance of a Gulf War veteran who was called to testify in the murder trial of a fellow Marine who was accused of raping and killing two girls. It was apparent that being on the witness stand was an ordeal; he had flown across the country to deliver bad news, recount his small and unwitting part in a damaging timeline and harrowing tale. When it was over, he was spent. The color was gone from his face and he had the shakes. But there was something he wanted to tell me, he said when we met in the hallway outside the courtroom. “I have Gulf War syndrome,” he confided. “They won’t admit that it exists. Please tell people what happened over there.”
I think of the mother of one of the murdered girls, whose legacy was one of poverty and violence that went back for generations, to the Donner Party, in fact, to the moment when some of her ancestors turned right at Hastings Cutoff instead of the other way, the one that turned out to be fatal, although their path lead to a different kind of deadly conclusion decades later in the California desert. Here was this mother of three, a bartender, ex-girlfriend of bikers, having recently volunteered to go to jail in place of the family pit bull who had angered a neighbor. And here she was again, organizing a scholarship in honor of her daughter, trying to raise $1,000 to help an average girl get out of town, the thing that her daughter almost accomplished until she was stopped in her tracks. I think of the people who came to the fundraiser at a local bar, donated food stamps and matchbook collections and coins and other trinkets, deposited ever so hopefully in the tip jar on a counter, and I think of how the funds were indeed raised, and I wonder what has happened to the average girl who wrote the winning essay about what she would do with the funds once she got out of town. Did she go to a community college and then return to help her sisters in need, as said she would do, or did she, like so many other average girls in her town, succumb to the legacy of poverty and violence that haunts them?
I think of the old mustangers who occasionally show up at my book talks. When everyone is gone, they approach me and want to talk. Now in their 80s and 90s, they regret living the life that was mandated by the grade-school mantra that we all learned, “It’s a free country and I can do what I want.” They apologize for their role in the decimation of wild horse herds, for going out into the wilderness and whacking mustangs for a price, or for participating in brutal “Misfits”- style roundups in which horses were taken from the land and sent to slaughterhouses at a meagre per-pound rate that led to the confiscation of millions. When they look across a plain, they see a Wal-Mart or a string of fast-food establishments and they know that they have been a part of what got us to this moment and they wonder about where is the reckoning and what, if anything, they can do.
There are many in this country who are looking over their shoulders, haunted by a shadow that seems to be there always. Perhaps it is the shadow that haunts us all as a nation, the ghost of the body politic, a demon of past sins right here in the homeland (let us say the names: Washita, Sand Creek, Wounded Knee) — how else to explain the never-ending parade of zombies and werewolves and vampires in our books and movies? Those who feel this shadow so keenly are often on the frontlines of America’s dirty work, going to war when asked, heading into mines and driving trucks, sweeping the floors after our conventions and parties, stoking the fires down below, becoming sick from the smoke, pouring drinks for each other in bars where the liquor is cheap, and making sure to have a cache of weapons because you never know.
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The world celebrates the survival of the fittest and rightly so, since we need inspiration. If you are looking for one of the greatest survival stories in the history of the world, you are at the right page on the internet.
If you think you are going through difficult times, this is a story that will give you a perspective that you could never have imaged even possible.
Keep reading till the end.
Who was Hiro Onoda and why does his survival story matter?
Hiro Onoda was a Japanese soldier and he represented the country in the Second World War. He was 22 when he was sent to Lubang Island in Philippines in 1944. Part of his mission was to destroy the air field so Americans couldn’t land there.
However, when he reached there, he was prevented from carrying out his mission by his seniors there and since he was only an apprentice when he went there, he couldn’t override them.
Over a period of time (1944-45), most of the Japanese soldiers on the island died fighting the American soldiers. Hiro was left in the company of 3-4 of his colleagues by the time the Americans left. Their names were Shimada, Akatsu and Kozuka.
Hiro Onoda with his survival squad created one of the the greatest survival stories of history
The war was over on 15th August 1945 after America dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrendered.
However, when the war was over and only the four of them were left on Lubang Island, the Japanese air force sent leaflets announcing that the war was over. Hiro and his colleagues got the leaflets but he didn’t believe them. He felt that the war was on and this was enemy conspiracy to get them to come out.
Therefore, they stayed inside the jungle.
Hiro Onoda walked out of the Island only in 1974 after thirty years of a war that got over in 1945. This is his story.
I know, this is a happiness blog, and so you may be right in asking, what has Hiro’s story got to do with happiness?
I have always said that happiness is the only output of life, and this story is about resilience and purpose. One cannot be happy without resilience and purpose. Therefore, I am sharing this story with you.
Let us get into it.
So what happened to Hiro Onoda and what did he do for thirty years when the war was over in 1945? Who did he fight for 29 years?
This is the essence of one of the most incredible survival stories of human history. He fought a series of imaginary enemies and stayed in ‘war’ mode throughout those 29 years. During the time, he fought the islanders on Lubang Island, and the Philippines police whenever they entered the jungle. He kept moving from one hideout to another hideout.
When the leaflets were delivered inside the jungle, Akatsu, one of their colleagues left and surrendered to the Philippines army. The three of them were left post Akatsu left-Shimada, Kozuka and Hiro Onoda.
They decided that they will not surrender till the war is over. For them, the war wasn’t over.
How did they spend so many years on the island?
The stories of survival are great because they teach us how little man can live with and in the worst of circumstances.
What did they eat?
They ate bananas, apples and whatever fruits they had access to, on the Island. Also, islanders raised cows. Hiro and his team of two would kill cows and eat beef.
In the words of Hiro from his book No Surrender, ‘our principal staple food was bananas. We cut off only the stem, sliced the bananas, skin and all, into rings about a quarter of an inch thick, then washed them thoroughly in water. That way the green bananas lost much of their bitterness. Then we boiled them with dried meat in coconut milk. The result tasted like overcooked sweet potatoes. It was not good. But we ate it most of the time.’ They also ate water buffaloes and horses. They tried whatever they could find in the jungle.
The food that they ate wasn’t fit for human consumption but they had to survive. So, they ate what they could. I am convinced not many survival stories in the world resemble this one.
Another problem was sleep. Where would you sleep in the jungle? There were rats, insects, Scorpios in the jungle and getting undisturbed sleep was always a challenge. Hiro mentions in the book that he did not sleep sound for even one night in his entire thirty year stay at Lubang.
Always on guard-the survival stories of the Japanese soldiers at Lubang
They were always on guard because anybody who entered the jungle was enemy to them. Many times during the stay, the Japanese came to look for them. Philippines police came and looked for them. They were constantly searched for throughout the period at different intervals.
Even his family could not get him to surrender
There were two incidents where his brothers came to the jungle to look for Hiro Onoda. Hiro did not come out. The first time it happened, he wasn’t sure if the person was his brother, even though his brother sang a song from his school days. The second incident happened when his brother and sister came to look for him. He still didn’t go even though this time he was sure that they were his siblings. Every time people came to search for him, he felt that it was enemy agenda and they were being framed to catch him and his colleagues.
Two of the three survival stories came to a tragic end
At some point, Shimada was shot at by the police and only he and Kozuka were left in the jungle. They had vowed to fight till the end. In 1972, even Kozuka was shot in an encounter with the cops when they were on a mission which they conducted on a regular basis.
After that Hiro Onoda was left alone in the jungle and he only had himself to fall back on. Search parties were sent out for him, and he still believed that the war was on. He kept fighting the Second World War, while the war was over in 1945.
The beginning of the end of one of the greatest survival stories in history
In 1974, a traveler from Japan called Norio Suzuki reached Lubang in search of Onoda. Onoda found him by the river and was extremely suspicious of him. However, Suzuki spoke to him in Japanese and that disarmed Onoda. He was always suspicious of him but he asked Suzuki a number of questions to convince himself that it wasn’t a trap.
Suzuki on the other hand wanted Onoda to come back to Japan. He knew that Onoda had resisted several attempts to get him out of the Jungle. He knew Onoda had been suspicious since his colleagues Shimada and Kozuka had been killed.
No surrender without orders to the contrary
Onoda told him that he could only come out if he got orders from his immediate superior in the army. He had been told to fight and not surrender. He couldn’t surrender without orders.
Norio Suzuki told him he would come back. He also took a few pictures of Onoda to convince the Japanese that he had indeed met him. In Japan, they found Onoda’s superior who had now become a bookseller, after the war was over. He was issued orders by the army for him to carry to Lubang Island. They were both sent to fetch Onoda back to the country.
Even after meeting Norio Suzuki, Hiro Onoda was thinking that he may fall into a trap since Suzukicould be an enemy agent. In his mind, the war was still on. It had been thirty years since he had been on the Island. He was at war, still.
Suzuki- the savior
True to his promise, Suzuki came back with Major Taniguchi. Onoda saluted his senior and received his orders. He finally surrendered and agreed to return back to Japan. After thirty years, he returned back to Japan and received as a hero.
That is the story of Hiro Onoda- one of the finest and unbelievable survival stories in the history of the world.
Now, there are several interpretations one can have to the story of Hiro Onoda. When I came across this story, I ordered his autobiography and read through it. I shared on social media. A lot of people said that he was deluded and he should have come out way back. A few people said it was a waste of life.
Yes, if he had trusted the information that he was being given, he would have surrendered. That’s fine. There are multiple interpretations but I am interested in understanding what we can learn from Hiro’s story.
Here are the lessons we can derive from the life of Hiro Onoda.
I am writing this piece in 2020, which is one of the most difficult years in the history of human life. Coronavirus has killed over a million people globally and there have been 35 million reported cases. The entire humanity has been confined at home and millions of people have lost their livelihood since many industries have been rendered irrelevant.
However, is this more difficult than spending thirty years in a jungle believing you are at war?
If a man can spend thirty years inside a jungle with nothing suitable for human consumption to eat, sleep with insects and in a perpetual state of war, we can all face this. We are capable of bearing a lot of pain and adversity. Yes, this is difficult but Hiro Onoda can figure out how to exist in a jungle for 3 decades, we can try and sustain this. Let the memory of Hiro Onoda inspire you to fight your difficulties.
2. The importance of purpose
Hiro did not spend thirty years for nothing. He was at war. In his mind, he was at war. His days at Lubang Island had purpose. A lot of people may say he wasted 29 years of his fighting for nothing. But, to his mind, he wasn’t fighting for nothing. He was fighting for something. His fight for 29 years after the war was over, meant something to him.
This means that if you think your days have purpose, you can learn to survive through the chaos.
He had no material goods while he fought a thirty year war. For 29 years, after his Japanese colleagues died or surrendered, he was left to fend for himself without any food supply, no television or radio (although he stole one from villagers in the later years), no bed, no car, and no roof. He literally had nothing. He and his two colleagues killed cow for beef, lived on bananas and other fruits available in the jungle and literally lived in inhuman conditions.
In the city life that we live in, we need big homes, big cars to believe that we are living the good life. But, if God forbid, adversity falls upon us, the thought of Hiro Onoda is enough to convince us that we can live on far than we believe we need.
4. We need friends and company
For the majority of the 29 years on the Island, Hiro had Shimada and Kozuka for company. Kozuka only died in 1972. He mentioned in the book that Shimada taught them how to survive. We cannot live lives on our own. We need friends and human support who can complement us and make up for our weaknesses.
It is highly unlikely that he would have survived so long had he been alone on the island.
Hiro Onoda did not give up. Even when he felt that the war was on, he had been told not to surrender. He did not surrender to the enemy. In his mind, Japan would win the war some day since the Japanese were told not to give up till the last man. He would not give up even he was to die fighting a war that he believed in. That’s more persistence than most of us have on any given day. If Hiro Onoda can persist for thirty years for a war he believed in, we must also persist in trying to achieve our goals, till we have any life left in us.
6. Food, water and sleep
Onoda drank boiled water all throughout those thirty years. Although the water was clean in the jungle but animals pissed inside it and therefore, he had to boil it. He survived on food which a city dweller would not touch and therefore, the body is capable of living on a lot less, as long as there is nutrition. One can really survive on bananas, beef and coconuts. I hope you and I don’t have to.
He didn’t sleep sound for one night and that would make one believe that sleep is overrated. But then, most of us can’t do without sleep for long. Apparently, when your life is in danger, you learn to make do without sleep.
7. 29 years is a really long time
I truly consider the story of Hiro Onoda as one of the greatest survival stories in human history. If you are a regular reader of the blog, you would know that I consider the lives of Nelson Mandela, Helen Keller, and Nick Vujicic as inspirational.
The story of Hiro Onoda is an addition to my inspirations.
Onoda lived on till 2014, 40 more years after he returned back to civilization. He was fit after having spent 3 decades in the jungle, on a war he assumed.
This is it. This is the end of this story.
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World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign for diabetes, celebrated each year on November 14.
What is a Google Doodle?
Google Doodles are the festive logos that appear on the popular search engine’s homepage on special days, including mainstream holidays and more uncommon events.
How can you join the effort?
Add your digital signature at www.diabetesdoodle.com. Help spread the word by forwarding the link to this webpage!
Before you sign the petition on DiabetesDoodle, uncheck the box to receive information from iPetitions, which is checked by default. If you do not uncheck the box, a donation page appears after you sign. At this point, your signature has been counted, and you can choose to close the donation page without clicking “Next.” The money being collected does not support a diabetes cause. | <urn:uuid:44c8bf34-ca60-4189-8207-82d718724a0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://diabetesresearch.org/drif-supports-world-diabetes-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.899869 | 241 | 2.125 | 2 |
People who have never battled addiction have a hard time understanding why an addict keeps using in the face of overwhelming evidence that cessation is the only answer. The first and clearest answer comes in a quick summary of drug withdrawal, a state of body and mind that an addict enters when he attempts to quit using drugs. Many addicts themselves don’t understand what drug withdrawal is until they first decide to quit and find they can’t. The reason they often run back to drugs is that once your body and mind are addicted to a substance, a state of panic comes about when the drug is stop. The body and mind think the person needs the drug to survive and goes into overhaul to let the addict know it’s time to go get more. There are some drugs that are harder to quit than others, known as the most difficult drugs to quit. In most cases, the drugs are the ones with the most severe withdrawal symptoms.
Benzos are used to treat anxiety disorders. Xanax is one of the most commonly abused benzodiazepines and it can be extremely dangerous to withdrawal from. Seizures are one of the typical withdrawal symptoms for someone who is addicted to these types of drugs, making them not only difficult to emotionally disconnect from but also physically dangerous to withdrawal from without help. Often times to safely come off of these drugs, it’s necessary to come off of them slowly with a reduction in dose over a period of time. Recovery from benzo addiction is complicated by this fact.
Many people don’t know it but alcohol can be an extremely dangerous drug to withdrawal from. If alcohol use is suddenly stopped for someone who has been drinking for a very long period of time, it’s possible that they might also have seizures or go into delirium tremons, a condition that can be fatal if left untreated. To withdraw successfully from long-term alcohol use, people often need to go into a medical facility that can monitor their cessation and give them medications as needed to help them.
Opiates cause horrible withdrawal symptoms as well. The physical symptoms are as pronounced as the emotional symptoms which can include terrible depression and a general inability to enjoy anything in life. Because opiates provide the good feelings that opiate addicts have, when the opiates are taken away, the brain no longer naturally makes the chemicals that contribute to happiness. This leaves the addict unable to experience any joy at all without the drugs. Add that to wrenching physical symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and shivers, and opiate withdrawal is too much for many addicts to take. They rush back out to get more of the drug that keeps them happy.
If an addict is to be saved and his life back on track, at some point he must go through drug withdrawal. It’s something that no addict wants to go through but nothing can happen until a medical detox occurs and they’re able to think remotely clearly about their situation. This process occurs slowly over time. A week or two won’t do it if an addict has been using drugs for year. The best bet an addict has for success is to enter a medical detox and withdrawal physically from drugs and then he or she can begin to cope with the emotional and spiritual devastation of addiction. While withdrawal is never a pleasant process, it can be a healing one for addicts to see just what kind of symptoms drugs cause. So often addicts overlook the fact that it is the drug that caused the withdrawal in the first place and if they can abstain from the drug successfully, the withdrawal will go away and they can begin the healing process in earnest.
Anyone who is interested in drug treatment will find an abundant amount of resources in today’s world. They can turn to inpatient treatment centers for more severe cases or outpatient facilities that feature group meetings and individual counseling. For addicts hooked on the most addictive drugs, medical detox is almost always the first step. Only by living through the horrible first week or two with the loving support of professionals can these addicts rid themselves of the poison of drugs. Once free of that physical and emotional hell, they can benefit from extensive counseling services and loving guidance. | <urn:uuid:fa98c765-0f31-4eb5-88f5-5b8464454d03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.secondtimes.net/difficult-drug-withdrawals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.970509 | 857 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Headline: De’VIA 28 Days February Art Challenge: Digging Deaf Memories!
by Carlos Batres
(For picture please see: http://www.nancyrourke.com/paintings/deaf/identitystruggle.jpg )
Which Identity by Nancy Rourke
18x24inch oil on canvas
Recently, the 28 days of February became a challenge for the art movement known as De’VIA. De’VIA stands for Deaf View/Image Art, and is a community of artists who convey the Deaf experience and Deaf culture through their works. This recent challenge, initiated by expressionist artist Nancy Rourke, was designed to engage De’VIA artists to express, through works of resistance and affirmation, their solidarity and activism through art (ARTivism).
For each of the 28 days of the month of February, artists were charged to create a unique work of art based in their own Deaf experiences, and to incorporate the motif assigned by Rourke to each day. Fifty-four participants worked on the challenge project, and produced a total of 661 artworks in only one month! Many members of the community posted their art to the De’VIA Central Facebook page in order to share them.
The challenge elicited from participants new ways to understand their own Deaf culture in space and time, and also facilitated teaching and learning experiences infused with color and excitement, and interconnected with the visual languages of art and ASL (American Sign Language). Such acts of art making, especially painting wherein the images are layered onto one another (in whole or in part) and then peeled back again to result in a beautiful and unique work, are similar in process to archaeology.
And, like an archeologist of the mind, through this process of painting, the artist also delves into the depths of his or her own subconscious, in a Freudian-like manner, becoming in many ways his or her own psychotherapist. Thus, I will employ these metaphors to describe how the artists participating in this De’VIA 28 day February challenge came to express Deaf culture, framed through learning experiences as well as space and time.
Time is used here as a historical chronology to remember eras in which Deaf culture was marginalized by teachings known as oralism and audism, which educate Deaf children trying to assimilate them into the hearing world by banning the use of sign language. The ongoing Deaf struggle for civil liberties, and the triumph of visual signed language (ASL) mark the passage of time in the works of many artists who participated in this challenge, and in the motifs (such as chains and puppets) chosen to signify the historical oppression of Deaf culture. In contrast, the affirmation of ASL in this art (through motifs such as hands), celebrates this unique language, and marks the time through which those in the Deaf culture express their history and experience in their own, native voice.
(for picture please see: http://www.nancyrourke.com/paintings/deaf/artvisual.jpg )
Visualizing by Nancy Rourke
11x14inch oil on canvas
Personal and social spaces appear in the art of this challenge through themes in which technology, such as cochlear implants (CIs) and hearing aids, along with ASL, create semi-permeable boundaries which define spaces of identity and places of belonging. Artists participating in this 28 day challenge, employing motifs like a mirror, a round table, and a door, expressed the way in which individuals often must negotiate between the hearing world and their Deaf identity.
In these artworks, spaces became critical themes representing consciousness about the way an individual identifies as a part of Deaf culture. Rather than viewing deafness as something to be cured or negotiated through technology, the art created during this challenge embraces the concept of “Deafhood” (as coined by Dr. Paddy Ladd) and defines it to include both the personal and social spaces in which being Deaf is an affirmative and positive experience.
In addition, one of the most important goals of this 28 day challenge was to encourage the experience of creating art, and make it available to everyone. Through this process, advanced and novice artists alike learned more about themselves and the Deaf experience. Artists involved in this movement used their art to show not the only the ideas of Deafhood, but also participated in keeping Deaf culture alive and passing it to the next generation.
By creating these new works of art, an interactive relationship of shared ideas through art making facilitated collectiveness through sharing individual works (an inductive process of being true to oneself). And, from the opposite direction, the project fostered a sense of collectiveness through which individual emancipation could then occur (a deductive process of discovering ourselves communally).
Thus, the De’VIA 28 day February challenge acted therapeutically to recover individual and collective memories (in space and time) to reconstruct the Deaf past through individual artworks, communally created in the present. Just as archeologists reconstruct the past to understand its implications in the present and how this present will affect the future, this 28 day challenge reconstructed Deaf history through artistic learning experiences in order to guarantee that the Deaf, ASL voice will always be seen (and heard).
Through the affirmation of this challenge, the Deaf future came to be propelled through different points of view and through different media created by different artists, adding to the Deaf art landscape on which future Deaf communities can continue to build. Congratulations to the talented artists involved in the 28 day February challenge, especially the inspiration for this challenge, Nancy Rourke. And, all of the artists who participated in this challenge are encouraged to continue to be involved in the next De’VIA event, in order to build upon these artistic reconstructions of past experiences, and challenge themselves to further express what it continues to mean to be Deaf in this current, globalized and connected world. And, finally, the reader is challenged to visit the De’VIA Central Facebook page online, and view these incredible works of art first hand. Here you can get a sense of Deaf artists’ experiences, and see their expressions of how deprivation from ASL (sign language) is unnecessary cultural censorship.
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This report from the US-based Breakthrough Institute suggests that increasing the productivity of grazing systems, particularly in lower-income countries, can help to shrink the area of land used as pasture.
While an area of land the size of North America has been converted to pasture since the 1700s, the extent of pasture has fallen since a peak in around 2000. The report attributes this decrease to increased productivity in beef and dairy farming, i.e. producing more from the same area of land. However, the report does not examine what happens to the land no longer used as pasture, e.g. whether it is returned to nature. Nor does it discuss the impacts of increased demand for feed from the pig and poultry sectors.
The report notes that growing populations and economies in some lower-income areas (particularly sub-Saharan Africa) could, in combination with low yields, lead to the re-expansion of pastureland. The report suggests that demand-side mitigation measures, i.e. reducing meat consumption and food waste, are unlikely to offset the projected increase in demand for ruminant products.
However, it argues, improvements in productivity could offset the increase in demand. Such productivity gains might be achieved through better feed, optimised livestock breeds, and improved animal health. For example, it argues that feeding crops such as corn and grain to ruminants can increase productivity through increasing the amount of feed produced per unit area (compared to forage grasses) and through the higher digestibility of such feedstuffs. The report states that feeding crops to livestock typically reduces the net amount of land used. However, it does not discuss the carbon emissions or biodiversity impacts associated with converting land to cropland, or the issue of competition between using crops for feeding people and feeding livestock.
Read the full report, Achieving Peak Pasture: Shrinking Pasture's Footprint by Spreading the Livestock Revolution, here. See also the Foodsource chapter Focus: the difficult livestock issue and the FCRN report Grazed and Confused? | <urn:uuid:46eca3f2-1600-450b-aafa-4164dcd670e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tabledebates.org/research-library/shrinking-pastures-footprint-through-intensification | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.937732 | 420 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Article sponsored by PayPal
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is the grown-up, digital model of installment plans of the previous. BNPL permits shoppers to break up giant purchases into a number of month-to-month funds, interest-free. The trade is rising quick, with 37.7 percent of US consumers selecting the choice as of July 2020.
Customers don’t identical to BNPL; it additionally encourages them to handle their funds in a means that helps them pay for higher-priced gadgets. In truth, 44 percent of consumers say using BNPL is considerably or essential to figuring out how a lot they spend.
The explanation for the recognition is fairly easy. Buy Now, Pay Later choices permit shoppers to break up up giant purchases over a number of months. In occasions of financial uncertainty, it’s a comparatively pain-free means for shoppers to enhance monetary flexibility and entry credit score—–with out paying curiosity or making use of for a bank card.
BNPL helps on-line retailers entice clients and enhance income, which is why enterprise leaders are taking be aware. In the event you’re contemplating BNPL on your group, right here’s how to get began.
1. Choose a Buy Now, Pay Later Supplier You Belief
Step one is to choose a BNPL supplier. A number of instruments and apps provide this characteristic, together with PayPal with their Pay in 4 possibility. Every instrument might provide comparable options and integrations, however there are a number of variations to be aware.
PayPal’s providing integrates with the PayPal pockets, permitting customers to simply handle funds.
When evaluating totally different BNPL choices, you’ll need to contemplate platforms shoppers belief. Acquainted choices like PayPal might enhance client belief, which can enhance gross sales. For instance, a recent IPSOS study discovered shoppers are 54 % extra seemingly to buy from on-line retailers that provide PayPal, and a recent Morning Consult survey discovered PayPal is the #2 trusted model on the planet.
2. Spotlight Your BNPL Fee Choice
BNPL permits shoppers to make bigger purchases they could not in any other case have had the funds to pay for in a single go. This will help drive gross sales, particularly for on-line shops. Nevertheless, to successfully encourage these conversions, companies want to spotlight the choice early within the buy cycle — earlier than shoppers resolve an merchandise is simply too pricey and exit the funnel.
For instance, CMOs might have their advertising and marketing workforce check messaging on their product pages or add a program brand and a brief description subsequent to the add to cart button.
To find out the most effective placement, find the place clients drop off and add BNPL language beforehand. For instance, if a big portion of site visitors drops off from the product description web page, contemplate including BNPL info close to the search bar or on the class or product web page.
3. Embrace a Transient Description of Your BNPL Choice On Your Checkout Web page
As shoppers add gadgets to their buying cart, the price can rapidly add up. They might abandon their cart after they see the ultimate quantity — however the BNPL messaging alongside different trusted cost choices might encourage them to full the acquisition.
To make the BNPL possibility stand out, have design and UX groups check totally different placements, for instance above and under different cost choices. Exit-intent popups mentioning the provision of BNPL may encourage conversions.
Testing is the one means to know what format will drive your viewers to convert.
4. Observe the Success of Your BNPL Technique and Make Changes as Wanted
Like each different advertising and marketing and gross sales technique, testing is integral to a profitable BNPL technique. Understanding what works — and what doesn’t— helps permit your advertising and marketing groups to pivot as wanted. For instance, you may edit your direct advertising and marketing or change the design to check totally different copy options, placement of BNPL mentions, and advert marketing campaign concentrating on.
Notice that BNPL isn’t simply efficient at serving to drive gross sales. It might additionally drive larger common order values as customers could also be extra prepared to purchase that further shirt or strive a brand new cologne after they can break up up funds. Primarily based on an evaluation of PayPal inside knowledge from October 2020 via January 2021, Pay in 4 common order worth is 39% larger than customary PayPal transactions.
Right here’s a couple of KPIs your workforce ought to monitor to gauge the success of your BNPL technique:
- General conversion charges
- Complete gross sales
- Cart abandonment charges
- Common order worth
- Buyer lifetime worth
What do you do if BNPL isn’t producing the outcomes you’d hoped for? Begin by testing every step within the course of. The place are customers discovering out in regards to the BNPL possibility? Ought to or not it’s earlier within the course of? What portion of your viewers are you concentrating on? Bear in mind, BNPL is extremely well-liked with youthful customers.
Buy Now, Pay Later Continuously Requested Questions
What’s Buy Now, Pay Later?
Buy now, pay later (typically shortened to BNPL) is a financing possibility that enables shoppers to break up purchases into a number of, typically interest-free, funds.
What are the advantages of BNPL for ecommerce corporations?
BNPL might encourage shoppers to make purchases and infrequently permits them to spend extra. Providing a trusted BNPL possibility can enhance income, particularly as extra shoppers use BNPL choices.
What’s PayPal's Pay in 4?
Pay in 4 is PayPal’s purchase now, pay later possibility that enables shoppers to break purchases into 4 interest-free funds, one each two weeks, beginning the day of buy. Pay in 4 can be utilized for eligible purchases between $30 to $1,500. Learn more here.
“name”: “What is Buy Now, Pay Later? “,
Buy now, pay later (often shortened to BNPL) is a financing option that allows consumers to split purchases into several, often interest-free, payments.
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BNPL may encourage consumers to make purchases and often enables them to spend more. Offering a trusted BNPL option can increase revenue, especially as more consumers use BNPL options.
“name”: “What is PayPal's Pay in 4? “,
Pay in 4 is PayPal’s buy now, pay later option that allows consumers to break purchases into four interest-free payments, one every two weeks, starting the day of purchase. Pay in 4 can be used for eligible purchases between $30 to $1,500. Learn more here.
Buy Now, Pay Later Conclusion
Do you know Millennials and GenZ shoppers are 28 percent extra seemingly to store with retailers that provide a purchase now pay later possibility? Is your corporation shying away from providing this handy new cost possibility?
Your opponents aren’t, they usually could also be reaping the advantages of elevated loyalty and rising gross sales.
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Thin as an atom, with amazing strength and electrical properties, graphene is the scientific find of the century. But it all came about from mucking about in a lab in Manchester, England
The creation of graphene, a wonder material that promises to transform the future, is already the stuff of scientific legend. As a piece of brilliant serendipity it stands alongside the accidental discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming – and it might prove just as valuable.
The path to graphene, the wonder material? Keep peeling graphite till you are left with one atomic layer
Two Russian-émigré scientists at the University of Manchester, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, were playing about with flakes of carbon graphite in an attempt to investigate its electrical properties when they decided to see if they could make thinner flakes with the help of sticky Scotch tape.
They used the tape to peel off a layer of graphite from its block and then repeatedly peeled off further layers from the original cleaved flake until they managed to get down to flakes that were only a few atoms thick.
They soon realised that by repeatedly sticking and peeling back the Scotch tape they could get down to the thinnest of all possible layers, one atom thick – a material with unique and immensely interesting properties.
When the two scientists won their joint Nobel prize in physics in 2010 for their ground-breaking experiments, the Nobel committee made a point of citing the “playfulness” that was one of the hallmarks of the way they have worked together. | <urn:uuid:dbe773c9-a7e9-43e2-8a1f-34a341b77ad4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fetfx.eu/story/recipe-graphene-revolution-sticky-tape-playful-scientists/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956239 | 321 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Eclipse uses four main game locales. Station Prime, Gate Town, Iron Town, and the Floating Vagabond.
This is the location at which it was all said to have gone down when the robot armies of XII tried to wrest control of the planet and end all human existence. Considered a major hub of communications and now a historical landmark, this Station makes for an active waypoint in most journeys be they diplomatic or adventurous in nature.
Gate Town is considered the first colony of Eclipse. It was the touch-down point for first contact with the planet, hosting an MK III sized Gate of unusual properties never before seen on a Gate previously. The colony consists of two large residential barracks, a mess hall, a medical quarter, and a research station. A few hours outside of town lies the settlement known as The Compound.
A second Gate mysteriously appeared on the planet’s surface the year before the robot invasion, creating a never before seen Gate duality on the planet. No planet has ever hosted more than one Gate before and the anomaly has not gone unnoticed. However, it is said that the town is uninhabitable due to the strong empathic vibrations that echo throughout the abandoned structures.
A popular bar seated on a solitary asteroid. At the end of the year 162 AGW, the asteroid began to come to life, and the deep underbelly of the bar’s structure began to resonate with technological energies long forgotten. The Floating Vagabond would come to seemingly pilot itself across space to where it now rests, orbiting around the atmosphere of Eclipse. It hosts a crew of around 50 – 200 at any time including technicians, barmaids, and a few squatters as well as the “owner” of the bar – a popular retired Pit Fighter by the name Turk the Tiger.
There are times when the PCs will find themselves traveling to other less-visited areas with infrequency based on the actions of the characters themselves. This could include way stations, other planets, or even technological hubs. Because they are not commonly reoccurring, they will not be listed here. If the characters will be visiting one of these uncommon places for a game gathering location, it will be announced on the Forums in the weeks prior to game. | <urn:uuid:d845e5b1-a552-462d-9018-c85e119275ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ruleof3.net/eclipse/setting/game-locales/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.959363 | 482 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Before the American Revolution, the lottery was a common source of revenue for many colonial nations. Throughout colonial America, more than 200 lotteries were held, financing infrastructure such as roads, colleges, canals, and bridges. The Academy Lottery and Princeton and Columbia University were funded in part by lottery funds. During the French and Indian War, several colonies used lotteries to fund projects. In 1758, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts used a lottery to fund its “Expedition against Canada.”
New York Lottery
The New York Lottery is a state-operated lotto that began in 1967. The lottery is a part of the New York State Gaming Commission, which provides revenue to support public education. Its headquarters are in Schenectady. Read on to learn more about the lottery. And if you’re feeling lucky, you might win a big prize! Here are some tips for playing. We’ll give you the scoop on the jackpot.
You can purchase subscriptions for a group by visiting the Lottery Subscription Center. You’ll need the name of the group leader and the subscription number. Groups can purchase subscriptions together and split the cost, which can help them spread the winnings. Groups can have at least two members, and a maximum of 25. Groups must be organized through a representative that accesses the subscription center via a computer or an electronic device. Mobile phones and dial-up connections are automatically blocked.
George Washington’s Lottery
A history of the first American lottery is an interesting one, but why was it created? The lottery funded colleges and universities, as well as churches, iconic buildings, and more. In 1761, after a fire in Boston, Faneuil Hall needed a complete rebuilding. But critics claim the lottery is a tax that falls on the poorest citizens. Fortunately, this myth has been dispelled. In this article, I’ll discuss the financial reasons for the lottery’s success.
The Louisiana Lottery Corporation is a government-run lottery in Louisiana. The purpose of the lottery is to raise money for public education in Louisiana without increasing taxes. Proceeds from the lottery go to the Minimum Foundation Program to support public education. In Louisiana, the minimum foundation fund is called the “Foundation Program.”
The Louisiana Lottery Corporation pays $228 million to lottery winners each year, $179 million to the state treasury, and $26 million to retailers and lottery operations. The lottery has generated $3.9 billion in revenue since 1991, or 35% of the state’s total revenue. Additionally, lottery winners have earned $550 million through the lottery in Louisiana. The app has many benefits, including the ability to prepare virtual playslips that can be saved for later purchase.
New York State’s Mega Millions Lottery
Subscribe to New York’s Mega Millions Lotterly today! Subscribers can now buy their tickets online, and never miss another drawing, despite the inflated jackpots! You can pick subscription periods of two weeks to one year, and manage as many subscriptions as you want. You can even play more than one set of numbers! Here’s how to get started! To get started, click here!
The New York State Lottery is divided into two rough categories: draw games and instant game results. The latter are specific to New York state. Tickets bought through retailers and online have a “quick pick” option, which automatically selects random numbers. The games are broadcast throughout the state. The date under “latest numbers” indicates the date of the most recent draw. In addition, players can scan their tickets to get bonuses. | <urn:uuid:0c056bce-d7b9-43b5-bd85-73d044b1f721> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bishiecon.com/index.php/2022/07/05/new-york-lottery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.954157 | 764 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Four claim blocks located within 70km to the south-west of Dawson City, YT, adjacent to the Yukon River.
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Four claim blocks located within 70km to the south-west of Dawson City, YT, adjacent to the Yukon River
Airstrip, barge, road and helicopter access
The claims border numerous historic mineral occurrences and placer gold bearing creeks. Mineralization appears to be dominantly associated with E-W oriented faults and associated plays within a similar structural setting as the White Gold and Coffee deposits to the south. Additional potential for intrusion-related Au and/or Cu-Au porphyry style mineralization.
+400m gold in soil anomaly associated with an E-NE oriented shear zone. Mineralization consists of quartz-sericite altered felsic gneiss with brecciation, quartz veining, disseminated pyrite, and, locally, visible gold. Grab samples from the area assay up to 110 g/t Au and historic trench results include intercepts up to 13.3 g/t Au over 10m.
Three large (up to 1.8km x 900m), easterly trending, gold in soil anomalies with anomalous As, Pb, & Sb. Gold in soil values range from trace up to 6.1 g/t Au and are associated with zones of silicification, brecciation, and quartz vein development along E-W structural corridors. Highlights from historic exploration include 1.01 g/t Au over 20m from trench 11-10 and 8.32 g/t Au over 1.45m from drill hole DDH 11-6. | <urn:uuid:f8b4e049-72d5-432c-9458-f79e5b39c65d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://whitegoldcorp.ca/projects/exploration-properties/money/snapshot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.881132 | 415 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Like with anything, starting a new business venture can be tricky, especially if it’s your first time doing it! It takes a lot of time and energy to get things started and even more, to maintain your brand in hopes of reaching success… Needless to say, starting a business is not for everyone! But if you indeed have a vision there are certain things you need to consider before jumping into it.
Naturally, before you consider anything else you need to have a good business plan to determine key factors in this kind of business. In order to have a successful detergent production, you need to set certain expectations and goals in stone – are you going to make the ingredients and formula yourself? And what about the packaging? Having a good business plan is vital if you want to succeed, so it has to be well taught out in advance! An idea alone won’t lead you anywhere if you don’t have a stable plan to follow through, so before anything else is done, you need to write and plan out everything!
When it comes to detergents it’s safe to say that the main thing you need to worry about is the ingredients! It all depends on what your plans are, you can outsource the mixing of the detergent or make it yourself. Regardless, a lot of businesses such as STTP Group agree that the ingredients truly make or break the product at the end of the day. The product itself will further impact your brand and the image you’ll need to create around it, so make sure you know in what direction you want to go with your products!
It can be tricky to start something such as a detergent production if you don’t have the right equipment, but it certainly isn’t impossible! You can outsource a lot of things, before making the big purchase yourself – it might cost you a lot when starting the business to gather all the needed machinery! The needed tools go from mixers and blenders to compressors and reactors amongst other things. Make sure you don’t overblow your budget and see what option suits your situation the best!
Running a business means a lot more than inventing products and marketing them, it also contains a lot of legal things you need to consider before starting anything. So the basics include naming and registering your business’s name and on top of that deciding what type of business you want to go with – an LLC, a partnership? It’s up to you to decide! Getting your business licensed and ready to go is extremely important and it is necessary to be done in the beginning stages of business planning. Also, since you are dealing with detergent production, you need to consider the consequences of running such a business and apply to legally run your production!
Branding is extremely important when it comes to every type of business out there, just think about the oversaturated market and know that branding usually makes people opt for one product over the other. So building a brand image is key in order to attract customers, are your products going to be non-toxic and environmentally friendly? Try marketing the products around the message you want to put out to your customers, as people like to associate themselves with brands they believe in! It doesn’t matter that you have an awesome product if you don’t have the customers, so make sure you are ready to heavily invest in marketing as it will pay off in the long run!
Regardless if you randomly picked to make a detergent company or you truly wanted to make one – you still need to do a lot of research in the field of detergents in order to be successful. This will help avoid any mistakes and errors you may encounter and it will prepare you for the detergent market! Just like with anything else at the moment, the market is filled with all sorts and kinds of products, so you want to be sure that your product is going to outshine the competition!
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The societates publicanorum which arose in Rome in the third century BC is arguably the earliest form of limited partnership and the legislation governing UK limited partnerships ("LPs") can sometimes seem almost as ancient. Enacted in 1907 the Limited Partnerships Act (the "Act") has remained largely unchanged whilst in the 1980s LPs have developed as the standard vehicle for establishing private equity and venture capital funds, exploiting their tax transparent status. The UK private equity and venture capital industry continues to be the largest in Europe with around 35% of all assets managed in Europe managed out of the UK.
Whereas other major funds jurisdictions have implemented or sought reform of their legislation to ensure that they are attractive jurisdictions for fund managers, the UK has not. Following much industry lobbying, the government published a consultation in July 2015 setting out proposals to amend UK limited partnership law (the "Consultation") with a draft legislation reform order (the "LRO"). The Consultation was published with the aim of ensuring that LPs remain the market standard structure for European private equity and venture capital funds in an increasingly global market and was met with an overwhelmingly positive reception. March 2016 saw the long awaited publication of the responses to the Consultation and the final decision on policy design (the "Response"). Below is a quick round up of the most important changes to look out for.
Designation as Private Fund Limited Partnership ("PFLP")
It is important to note that the reforms will apply only to those LPs which are private fund vehicles. An LP will be capable of becoming a PFLP if it is subject to a written agreement and it qualifies as a collective investment scheme ("CIS") for the purposes of the Financial Securities and Markets Act 2000 ("FSMA") or would do so but for the fact that the LP falls within an exception under section 235(5) of FSMA. This allows funds which might fall within one of the exceptions and not be categorised as a CIS for FSMA purposes to benefit from being a PFLP. Although a number of respondents to the Consultation criticised this distinction between LPs and PFLPs on the grounds that some of the changes would be beneficial to all LPs the Response confirmed that the legislation will currently only apply to funds designated as PFLPs.
In order to register as a PFLP the general partner will be required to confirm that the LP fulfils the necessary requirements. The government had initially proposed that confirmation would be provided by way of a solicitor's certificate. However, the government acknowledged in the Response that this would serve only to create further administration and that the general partner would be best placed to make this confirmation.
Currently, an application for registration must contain certain details about the LP, including the general nature of the LP's business and the term of the LP. The Response confirmed the government's intention to remove these details from the registration requirements which is another welcome reduction in administration and a move to protect investors' privacy.
The government also conceded on a proposed twelve-month window for LPs to apply for PFLP status meaning LPs will now always have the option of converting to a PFLP. It should however be noted that once an LP becomes a PFLP it will not be able to switch back.
Under the Act there is no procedure for dissolved partnerships to be removed from the register at Companies House. This is highly unsatisfactory, private equity and venture capital funds often have fixed life cycles but even after being wound down remain on the register indefinitely. The Consultation outlined a proposal for the strike off of PFLPs, but the government has concluded that further consultation should be taken following concerns raised that limited partners may unknowingly lose their limited liability status.
The White List
Under the Act a limited partner may not take part in the management of the partnership business. There is much confusion as to exactly what this means. Nervousness around this point is understandable given that a limited partner "crossing this line" will be liable for all debts and obligations of the LP incurred while it takes part in the management as though it were a general partner.
A welcomed reform, bringing much clarity, is the creation of a non-exhaustive list of permitted activities (the "White List"). Permitted activities include taking part in a decision about whether to dispose of the partnership business or to acquire another business or enforcing rights under the partnership and the concept is consistent with legislation introduced in other popular investment funds jurisdictions.
Limited partners are required to contribute an unstipulated amount of capital to a partnership upon entry. They cannot draw out or receive back any portion of their contribution (directly or indirectly) during the lifetime of the partnership. If a withdrawal is made the limited partner will be liable for debts and obligations up to the amount drawn out or received. In practice this has meant that limited partners contribute a nominal amount on admission along with an interest free loan. The arbitrary nature of this arrangement has led to the decision to do away with these requirements allowing for an optional contribution which can be withdrawn. The Response makes it clear that contributions made to LPs prior to the implementation of the LRO will still be treated as if under the old regime even after the LP has transferred to the PLFP regime.
The dissolution of LPs is currently administratively burdensome and plagued with delays. Following the removal of a sole general partner the remaining limited partners must apply for a court order for the partnership to be dissolved. The LRO will remove this requirement. The Response addressed the concern that winding up an LP could cause limited partners to lose their limited liability status as it requires management decisions. The Response clarified that limited partners in PFLPs would be able to appoint a third party to wind up the LP on their behalf and that this would be expressly provided for in the White List.
At present, if a general partner becomes a limited partner or a limited partner assigns its interest in an LP to another person this will only become effective once advertised in the Gazette. The government acknowledged that this was an archaic requirement as the publication is scarcely consulted. The new regime will no longer require a limited partner to advertise in the Gazette when they assign their interest in an LP to a third person but the requirement to advertise when a general partner becomes a limited partner will remain, albeit, without the stipulation that the change will not be effective until advertised.
Exemption from Statutory Duties
The new regime will exempt limited partners in a PFLP from their duties under section 28 (to render accounts and information to other partners) and 30 (account for profits made in competing businesses) of the Partnership Act 1890, both of which were considered inconsistent with the position of a largely passive investor.
The proposals for the new regime have gone some way to ensure that PFLPs are able to compete with LPS in other popular private funds jurisdictions creating a more modern and efficient form of a UK LP. It remains to be seen if the government takes the step to consult more widely and apply similar changes across all LPs. The proposals are due to be fully operational within a year and although some may criticise the reforms for not going far enough, they are definitely a step in the right direction.
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Spell writing handbook
This is a technical reference document.
The first part describes all of the files that are checked for in a spell, their purpose, and documented attributes.
The second part describes the standards we use in the grimoire.
These are the files used during a cast, in their execution order:
- PREPARE – Useful for those rare times when the DETAILS file needs to be modified or the spell or package needs to be configured before the DETAILS file is executed.
- DETAILS – Informational file, required for all spells.
- CONFIGURE – Used to select and modify a package's compile time options.
- DEPENDS – Lists all other spells that are required or optionally required to be cast.
- UP_TRIGGERS – Provides the opportunity to use runtime registration of
- SUB_DEPENDS – Used to make a spell depend on another spell with certain features enabled.
- PRE_SUB_DEPENDS – Tells Sorcery whether or not the sub-dependee is providing the given sub-depends.
- TRIGGER_CHECK – Used to inspect each trigger in a spell.
(…Processing of the depended on spells…)
(…DETAILS is run again…)
— Build API begin —
— Build API end —
(…The triggered spells are cast now…)
These are the files used during the download, in their execution order:
These are the files used during a dispel, in their execution order:
These are the files used during a resurrect, in their execution order:
These files are processed during a
cleanse --tablet, or
cleanse --tablet_spell, in their execution order:
These files are known as spell filters:
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When Britain was coated in smog back in April, prime minister David Cameron blamed the problem on Saharan dust. He was clearly trying to shift attention away from his government’s failure to deliver clean air. But he was right about one thing: air pollution does not stop at national frontiers. Even the English Channel cannot protect us from foreign pollution. That is why international and continental measures are a necessary part of clean air policy. Surely even Eurosceptics accept this, right? Wrong.
Cameron’s “vote blue, go green” phase seems to be ancient history. In his January 2013 speech promising an EU referendum for 2017, Cameron extolled the merits of the European single market, but went on to argue that environmental standards should be set by national governments. This may have been politically sensible – given the tide of Euroscepticism within his own party and the objection of many Conservatives to green regulations – but it was intellectually incoherent. Setting environmental standards at national level would undermine the single market. Companies could be faced with 28 sets of regulation. Laxer rules in one country could give its firms a competitive advantage. Regulation at national level could also lead to a ‘race to the bottom’ as firms lobbied to restore a level playing field.
EU environmental rules are necessary for the single market. They are also consistent with subsidiarity: pollution and wildlife do not respect national frontiers. London’s ‘great smog’ in 1952 killed at least 10,000 people. The Conservative government responded by banning the burning of coal in domestic fires and requiring new power stations to be built away from cities. This greatly improved urban air quality. But the enormous expansion of car ownership over the next half century made it worse again.
British governments have done little to regulate the problem. Since Britain’s accession to the European Community in 1973, policies to protect or improve air quality have emanated from Brussels, not London. The EU introduced a number of rules on air quality in the 1980s and 1990s. These set limits on the permissible concentrations of pollutants, including sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, particulates, lead, benzene, carbon monoxide, ground-level ozone, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. The EU has rules on how much pollution industrial facilities, including power stations, are allowed to emit. And Brussels regulates pollution from vehicles. Catalytic converters, which reduce carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, have been mandatory on petrol vehicles since 1992 (20 years after they became compulsory in California), and on diesel vehicles since 2008. The sale of leaded petrol has been banned since 2005.
As a result, air quality in Britain has improved. Emissions of sulphur dioxide fell by 89% between 1990 and 2010, nitrogen oxides by 62%. But the air in most British cities is not clean enough to meet EU standards or, more importantly, to protect human health. In 2010, 40 out of Britain’s 43 air quality zones (all in major cities) exceeded nitrogen dioxide (NO2) limits. London has the highest levels of NO2 of any European capital city. The growth in air transport has added to the problem – some of the worst air quality in the UK is around Heathrow. Air pollution causes 29,000 premature deaths in the UK each year, according to government statistics. Many more people are killed by vehicle pollution than die in road accidents. Nevertheless, the government has adopted the strategy of arguing for more time to meet EU rules, rather than improving air quality. In September 2011, the government published plans for 23 of the 40 zones to meet the standards by 2015 and a further 16 by 2020. But under these plans, air in London would only meet existing EU standards in 2025.
Meanwhile, in December 2013 the European Commission published proposals for improving air quality by setting stricter standards. These are sensible proposals, based on the advice of the World Health Organization. Continued EU membership would mean continued pressure on UK national and local politicians for cleaner air. London mayor, Boris Johnson, should know this well. His father was head of the pollution division of the commission in the 1970s, a Conservative MEP from 1979 to 1983 and was central to the creation of European environmental policy.
However, staying in the EU should not mean leaving all air quality policy to Brussels. Berlin has the cleanest air of any European capital, in part because the council has used low-emission zones and banned high-emitting vehicles from problem areas. British local councils should follow Berlin’s lead – and overcome the common perception among politicians that the UK has little to learn from overseas. They could also learn from Paris, where the council has successfully promoted electric car sharing. Replacing petrol or diesel cars and vans with electric ones would dramatically improve air quality. It could also reduce climate pollution, if the electricity was generated by renewables, nuclear power or fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage. Buses and HGVs should run on gas. It produces lower emissions than petrol or diesel and much lower toxic emissions. All buses in Delhi have to run on gas. Some European cities (including Madrid) use gas buses. Local councils should introduce gas buses, though government cuts will make this much more difficult.
It is, of course, possible to promote non-oil transport without being an EU member state. Norway, which is not short of oil, is currently experiencing an electric-vehicle boom. But green issues are almost always high on the political agenda in Norway. In the UK they are not. Without the meddling of Brussels bureaucrats, air pollution would kill even more people every year in Britain than it does now.
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Looking up at the night sky creates magical moments for many people. Even though there are around 5,000 stars visible to the naked eye, at any given time we can see only about half of those from where we stand. Observing the light from stars we know are millions of light-years away is remarkable and is a miracle that humankind had nothing to do with.
However, what humanity has achieved is harnessing the idea of transmitting light signals across great distances to communicate with others. The concept of optical fiber communication allows us to send information anywhere in the world at the speed of light. It’s not our only feat, though—we’ve also got cellular communication under our belt, which allows us to communicate in other ways.
Which of these technologies is the best choice for your company's purposes? We’ve unpacked the issue for you below.
Understanding the Options
Optical fiber technology uses long, narrow strands of pure glass the size of a human hair to transmit information. Grouped into bundles and encased in a layer of cladding surrounded by a buffer tube and an outer jacket layer, these cables convert electronic signals into light pulses. The signals then transport data over long distances using high-performance networking. This data transfer method is used in industries like telecommunications to transmit telephone signals, internet communications, and cable television programs.
Cellular communication, on the other hand, comprises wireless mobile systems that segment large geographical areas into smaller divisions to optimize the use of radio frequencies. This technology converts voice, text, images, and data into frequencies and uses radio waves to transport them as electromagnetic fields.
Antennae at each end of a network transmit the data wirelessly to other cellular nodes within their range until it reaches the destination point. Wireless networks enable users to communicate via mobile while on the go and use location services for precise positioning.
Dissecting the Differences
To help you choose which of these options is best for you, we’ve provided a detailed comparison of how the two methods compare in terms of cost, distance, convenience, and other important considerations.
1. Comparing Cost Considerations
Fiber optic networking technology requires a more significant upfront investment for firms. Estimates put the cost of laying the cables at between $8,500 and $30,000 per mile, depending on the number of strands. Add in the cost of the conduits and trenching, professional labor, and the equipment needed to operate the network, and the cost becomes significant. In fact, according to EC Mag, fiber optic electronics cost between $50 and $300 more per link.
Cellular communication networks are clearly cheaper. This fact is partly due to the technology being established for a longer time and partly to having more users, which helps with economies of scale. A wireless communication service only requires a few base stations and workers to install them, which keeps costs down. As for the hardware, wireless devices might not be two a penny yet, but the cost is undoubtedly lower than it was a few years ago.
How to Choose:
Choosing between the two options shouldn’t be determined by cost but by your long-term needs and the potential return on investment (ROI). Consider your company’s five-year growth strategy and answer questions such as:
- What plans are in place for additional users?
- How is data usage likely to grow over the period?
- What is your depreciation timeframe for the different types of equipment?
And, of course, the kicker is: what sort of difference will the type of communications network you implement make to your annual revenue and profitability?
These are the criteria you should be looking at, rather than the cost.
2. Determining Distance Requirements
As small as the planet is compared with space, some distances are still big enough to defeat us. With cellular communications, distance issues definitely deserve consideration. The further a user travels from a wireless broadcast station, the weaker the signal becomes. Optical fiber communication can reliably transmit a clear, unadulterated signal for much longer distances, making it ideal for international and intercontinental communications. However, cellular communications are often still the best way to reach remote and rural areas, simply because installing fiber optic cabling in some regions is almost impossible and cost-prohibitive.
How to Choose:
Once again, take your long-term strategy into account. After all, you don’t want to invest in a communications network optimized for urban use and then, two years later, expand your operations to a distant edge like Outer Mongolia or the Russian Steppes. While those destinations are probably unlikely, future work trends clearly indicate remote and hybrid work options are here to stay. Who knows where your next CEO might want to work from?
3. Picking a Speed Preference
When it comes to business communications, connection and transfer speeds are critical for several reasons. Theoretically, cellular networks can transmit at the same speed as fiber optics, but in practice, users typically find them slower. The number of users sharing a network rises and falls, causing congestion during peak periods that compromises bandwidth and impacts the transfer of data packets. This issue affects the length of time data is in transit, during which it’s more vulnerable to corruption, hacking, and other forms of data loss. Speed also impacts the company’s access to insights generated by data, e-commerce transactions, and decision-making capabilities.
How to Choose:
Identify the maximum number of users likely to access a network during peak times. Evaluate how much information the company typically sends across the network daily, and think about how this will likely increase over time.
Data growth is currently a huge concern, with Statista projecting the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally could grow from 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 to more than 180 zettabytes by 2025. Take this into consideration when you’re choosing between optical fiber communication and cellular options. If you choose fiber optic, you will also need to upgrade your other equipment to reap full benefits.
4. Calculating the Convenience Factor
Convenience might not sound like a particularly decisive factor in a business environment. Still, the loss of productivity caused by slow data transfers, delayed access to insights, and communication latency adds up to more than a simple inconvenience. This speaks in favor of fiber optics, but when it comes to installation, a cellular communications network takes a couple of days and requires minimal resources.
Fiber optics, on the other hand, can be time-consuming and complex, and installing a fiber network can take several months.
How to Choose:
CIOs will have to balance cost factors and the company’s future requirements against the need for quick installation and minimal downtime. The best-case scenario could be a hybrid system that provides a cellular network for day-to-day communications and short-term usage, while installing a fiber optic network for long-term use. Having both also delivers the best redundancy against future network outages and natural disasters, but it is undoubtedly an expensive option.
The Final Analysis
Overall, there’s no “one size fits all” communications network, and choosing between optical fiber communications and cellular communications requires serious consideration and evaluation of options. A wired connection offers greater reliability, more robust security, and less opportunity for outside interference. Wireless gives you more flexibility and a faster, easier way to add devices and equipment to the network.
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SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO PEOPLE (Murnau, 1927)
Watched this movie the other night on a beautifully restored blu-ray transfer. For its time, the visuals in this film must have been startling and arresting. In fact, it won an Oscar at the first Academy Awards, for “Unique and Artistic Production.” The layering of images, possibly the most notable part of this film’s place in cinema history, perhaps inspired the lush visual tapestry of Coppola’s Dracula (for proof, check out what happens in the Dracula video, second youtube below, at 2:35.) Sunrise‘s sub-title uses the word “song” within it, but it easily could have used instead: “poem.” The visual beats of the story so boldly evocative in their imagery.
Check out this gorgeous tracking shot, with the studio feel of German expressionism, which suggests a fable or fairytale is unspooling before us.
I particularly liked this first shot (first on the above youtube, but about 10 minutes into the movie), when the man walks heavy-hearted through a moral (and literal) quagmire, through thick and craggy branches, over a fence, into uncharted territory, into real DANGER, only to end up at its source when the “other woman” is revealed – cloaked in trees, darkness, and that sinister hat, as to appear a lurking spider in the moonlight, indeed a black window. This is Great visual storytelling; the images vividly portray the inner life of this man, his state of mind. It reminds me of the opening of David Lean’s Oliver Twist, very similar states of despair, visually communicated.
She’s so creepily cloying. Later, when they’re apart, she appears again as phantoms of the trapped man’s longing, in this ground-breaking optical shot (which gets referenced by Coppola about 70 years later, see below):
Compare to clip below at 2:35 –
This type of superimposition of images is what’s spoken about most in regards to Sunrise, but I was surprised just how infrequently it’s actually used in the film (it’s certainly not throughout), which speaks to just how powerful an impression these moments must have made. In another use of the technique, earlier, the Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston), and the Man (George O’Brien) dream of the gay times they’ll have in the big city as the images swirl around them (you can see it in the above video at 3:33) –
Murnau’s influence on Coppola’s Dracula
Back then, it must have felt like a whole new kind of storytelling. This type of poetic and visually dense style isn’t used all that frequently, and it got me wondering why. Do we lack the artists with appropriate boldness, or is this style simply out of style, passé? Perhaps because of the influence of ‘minimalist” story telling, or increasingly drab and pervasive ‘Hollywood Realism’ that requires only a master shot, single and reverse and forbids anything that steps anywhere near the realms of poetic delirium. (“Mustn’t challenge or confuse the viewer in this television-dominated age that must adhere to the restraints of running time and intellect.”)
One contemporary example that feels the closest to me, would be the above-mentioned Coppola film, Dracula, which heaps on layer upon layer of lush visual poetry, perfectly reflecting the theme of the characters’ struggles with mortal decadence and existentialism. Plus it just looks so cool. You’ll see a really strong reference to Sunrise at 2:30!
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ABOUT THE “DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER APPLICATION” SYLLABUS
This is a revised and updated version of TECHINAUT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY syllabus of DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER APPLICATION. This DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER APPLICATION syllabus is designed to facilitate students in the development of a concept-based approach for problem-solving using IT as a tool.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE
The goal of this course is to present an overview of basic IT tools used in day to day of computers operations. The Course has been designed to provide knowledge on various software components of the computer, operating system, Ms Office packages and other applications, concepts & operations and various issues related to IT and application of IT.
TABLE OF CONTENT
SECTION 1: BASIC OF COMPUTER (10 HRS)
a. Fundamentals of Computer: History of Computer, Generation of Computer, I/O Devices, Number System. b. Operating System: DOS, Windows, Paint, Notepad, WordPad.
SECTION 2: COMPUTER ORGANIZATION (10 HRS)
a. Central Processing Unit: Processor Speed, Cache, Memory, RAM, ROM, Booting.
b. Memory: Secondary Storage Devices: Floppy and Hard Disks, Optical Disks CD-ROM, DVD.
c. Mass Storage Devices: USB thumb drive. Managing disk Partitions, File System Input. Devices: Keyboard, Mouse, joystick, scanner, webcam.
d. Printers: Dot matrix, inkjet, laser.
e. Multimedia: What is Multimedia, Text, Graphics, Animation, Audio, Images, Video; Multimedia Application in Education, Entertainment, Marketing. Names of common multimedia file formats.
f. Computer Software: Relationship between Hardware and Software; System Software, Application Software, Compiler, names of some high-level languages, free domain software.
SECTION 3: OPERATING SYSTEM (10 HRS)
a. Microsoft Windows: An overview of different versions of Windows, Basic Windows elements, File management through Windows. b. Using essential accessories. c. System tools: Disk cleanup, Disk defragmenter, Entertainment, Games, Calculator. d. Imaging: Fax, Notepad, Paint, WordPad. e. Command Prompt: Directory navigation, path setting, creating and using batch files. Drives, files, directories, directory structure. f. Application Management: Installing, uninstalling, Running applications. g. Linux: An overview of Linux. h. Basic Linux elements: System Features, Software Features, File Structure. i. File handling in Linux: H/W, S/W requirements, Preliminary steps before installation, specifics on Hard drive repartitioning and booting a Linux system.
SECTION 4: WORD PROCESSING (20 HRS)
a. Word processing concepts: Saving, Closing, Opening an existing document, Selecting text, Editing text, Finding and Replacing text, Printing Documents, Creating and Printing Merged Documents, Character and Paragraph Formatting, Page Design and Layout. b. Editing and Profiling Tools: Checking and correcting spellings. Handling Graphics, Creating Tables and Charts, Document Templates and Wizards.
SECTION 5: SPREADSHEET PACKAGE (30 HRS)
a. Spreadsheet Concepts, Creating, Saving and Editing a Workbook, Inserting, Deleting Work Sheets, entering data in a cell/formula Copying and Moving from selected cells, handling operators in Formulae. b. Functions: Mathematical, Logical, statistical, text, financial, Date and Time functions, Using Function Wizard. c. Exploring Microsoft Excel: Creating Workbook Files, Getting Help While You Work. d. Viewing Navigating and Managing Worksheets and Workbooks: Viewing Worksheets, Navigating Worksheets and Workbooks, Managing Worksheets and Workbook Files. e. Editing Worksheets: Creating Basic Formulas, Editing Text and Values, Clearing, Moving, and Copying Cell Content, Modifying Worksheet Structure. f. Using Functions in Formulas: Understanding Functions, Using Functions, Using Statistical Functions, Using Date and Time Functions. g. Formatting Worksheets: Formatting Cells and Cell Content, Formatting Worksheets. changing data alignment, changing the date, number, character or currency format, changing the font, adding borders and colors, Printing worksheets, Charts, and Graphs Creating, Previewing, Modifying Charts.Integrating word processor, spreadsheets, web pages. h. Preparing and Printing Worksheets: Preparing Worksheets for Printing, Using Find and Replace, Previewing and Printing Worksheets.
SECTION 6: PRESENTATION PACKAGE (20 HRS)
a. Creating, Opening and Saving Presentations, Creating the Look of Your Presentation, Working in Different Views, Working with Slides, Adding and Formatting Text, Formatting Paragraphs, Checking Spelling and Correcting Typing Mistakes, Making Notes Pages and Handouts, Drawing and Working with Objects, Adding Clip Art and other pictures, Designing Slide Shows, Running and Controlling a Slide Show, Printing Presentations.
SECTION 7: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET (10 HRS)
a. Internet, Growth of the Internet, Owners of the Internet, Anatomy of the Internet, ARPANET and Internet history of the World Wide Web, basic Internet Terminology, Net etiquette. b. Internet Applications: Commerce on the Internet, Governance on the Internet. c. Impact of the Internet on Society: Crime on/through the Internet.
SECTION 8: ELECTRONIC MAIL (10 HRS)
a. Email Networks and Servers b. Email protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAp4, MIME6, Structure of an Email – Email Address, Email Header, Body and Attachments. c. Email Clients: Netscape mail Clients, Outlook Express, Web-based E-mail. d. Email encryption: Address Book, Signature File.
Lectures = 130 HRS Practical/Tutorials = 130 HRS Total = 260 HRS
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The main historical cities are Poitiers (historical capital city), Châtellerault (France's kings' establishment in Poitou), Niort, La Roche-sur-Yon, Thouars, and Parthenay. History [ edit ] The region of Poitou was called Thifalia (or Theiphalia) in the sixth century. France – Poitiers – Poitou-Charentes. Futuroscope, a different kind of leisure park experience for all the family! France – Poitiers – Poitou-Charentes. Park open every day from June 27, 2020. Sanitary measures and advance booking required. More info.. Site map; Offers
Welcome to the Poitiers google satellite map! This place is situated in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France, its geographical coordinates are 46° 35' 0" North, 0° 20' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Poitiers.
France map poitiers. People and economic activity are increasingly concentrated in four main areas: in the Charente valley between Angoulême and Rochefort, along the Châtelleraut-Poitiers-Niort corridor, in the coastal belt, and in the northern area of Bressuire-Thouars in Deux-Sèvres. Two of these towns— Niort and Thouars—rank among the oldest towns in France. Here are the street map of Poitiers, the satellite map of Poitiers and the terrain map of Poitiers. The city of Poitiers is located in the department of Vienne of the french region Poitou-Charentes. Find streets, town hall, tourist office or any other place / activity of Poitiers, using the mini search bar at the bottom left of the map of Poitiers below. Map of Poitiers and travel information about Poitiers brought to you by Lonely Planet.
Poitiers–Biard Airport is an airport located at Biard, 2.4 kilometres west of Poitiers, in the Vienne department of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France. Poitiers-Biard is situated 3 km west of Poitiers. Poitiers (UK: / ˈ p w ɑː t i eɪ /, also UK: / ˈ p w ʌ t i eɪ /, US: / ˌ p w ɑː t i ˈ eɪ,-ˈ t j eɪ /, French: ()) is a city on the Clain river in west-central France.It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou.Poitiers is a significant university centre. The centre of town is picturesque and its streets include predominantly. With its Romanesque architecture and cobbled lanes, hilltop Poitiers is a city steeped in history. Nonetheless, its lively student population and steady influx of theme park visitors ensure a thriving cultural scene and a center brimming with galleries, restaurants, and terrace cafés.
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. Poitiers is located in: France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Vienne, Poitiers. Find detailed maps for France , Nouvelle-Aquitaine , Vienne , Poitiers on ViaMichelin, along with road traffic and weather information, the option to book accommodation and view information on MICHELIN restaurants and MICHELIN Green Guide listed tourist sites for – Poitiers. Online Map of Poitiers – street map and satellite map Poitiers, France on Googlemap. Travelling to Poitiers, France? Its geographical coordinates are 46° 34′ 60″ N, 000° 19′ 60″ E. Find out more with this detailed interactive online map of Poitiers provided by Google Maps.
To find the map for the driving distance from Poitiers to Bergerac, please enter the source and destination and then select the driving mode. Depending on the vehicle you choose, you can also calculate the amount of CO2 emissions from your vehicle and assess the environment impact. Poitou Charente is located in west-central France, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Angouleme, Niort, Poitiers, and the port city of La Rochelle are its most important economic engines. The economy in the region revolves primarily around agriculture, with corn, cattle, dairy, and wheat the major. About Poitiers: The Facts: Region: Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Department: Vienne. Population: ~ 299,000.
The city of Poitiers is a big french city located west of France. The city of Poitiers is located in the department of Vienne of the french region Poitou-Charentes.The city of Poitiers is located in the district of Poitiers. The area code for Poitiers is 86194 (also known as code INSEE), and the Poitiers zip code is 86000. Poitiers is located in: France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Vienne, Poitiers. Find detailed maps for France , Nouvelle-Aquitaine , Vienne , Poitiers on ViaMichelin, along with road traffic and weather information, the option to book accommodation and view information on MICHELIN restaurants and MICHELIN Green Guide listed tourist sites for – Poitiers. Poitiers' main museum is the Musée Sainte Croix, close to the town centre. Housed in a modern building from the 1970s, the museum has a collection of historic and archaeological artefacts, as well as an art gallery with a collection of mostly French paintings and sculpture from the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Rodin, Bonnard and.
Poitiers, city, capital of Vienne département, Nouvelle-Aquitaine région, west-central France, southwest of Paris. Situated on high ground at the confluence of the Clain and Boivre rivers, the city commands the so-called Gate of Poitou, a gap 44 miles (71 km) wide between the mountains south of the Loire River and the Massif Central that. Poitiers interactive, modern google map. If you are looking for Poitiers map, then this Google map Poitiers will give you the precise imaging that you need. Using Google satellite imaging of Poitiers, you can view entire streets or buildings in exact detail. This Poitiers interactive, modern google map are easy to use and set up in a practical way. | <urn:uuid:f04a4543-b97a-4ec1-8909-3382170a390b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tutramite.co/france-map-poitiers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.89869 | 1,416 | 2.203125 | 2 |
How many solutions do the system of equations #2x-3y=4# and #4x-6y =-7# have?
Each equation in your system represents a straight line...the only thing is that the two lines in your case are parallel!!!! So your system doesn't have solutions (basically the two lines never meet!!!).
You can see this because the second equation has the
Basically it means that your two lines have the same slope (inclination) and cross the
Rearranging you get:
You can see that the slope of your two lines (the coeficient of
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Fororid larvae were first described in 1846 - ten years before scientists discovered adults.
However, the larvae are very different from adults, and the species has a great variety.
Researchers have collected over 50 larvae inPanama Bay and the Caribbean and tried to match their DNA with the DNA of adults stored in a gene bank. As a result, they found one larva whose DNA does not coincide with any of the known phoronid species.
Previously, scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute discovered parasitic wasps that gain control of spiders, turning them into zombies. | <urn:uuid:1e865aff-bfb4-43a4-8d4a-fce389431b7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geektech.me/biologists-have-discovered-a-previously-unknown-species-of-larvae-in-the-ocean-in-whom-they-grow-up-not-installed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.972013 | 118 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Richard Ekkebus is not feeling well. The combination of a late night of whisky, an all-too-hastily eaten convenience store sandwich and the churn of the swelling seas threatens to turn his stomach inside out. We’re zipping through the chilly, rocky waters of the Genkai-nada sea off the northern coast of Fukuoka prefecture, swaddled in winter gear and bright orange lifejackets, eager to see the fishermen who are about to haul in the day’s harvest of Spanish mackerel by hand.
The workers appear in the distance, small figures clothed in bright yellow, green, blue and purple—vital pops of colour to easily identify them should they topple into the deep and unforgiving indigo waters. Our speedboat stops about 80 meters away; the engine switches off, and all that’s left is the sound of the waves and the anticipatory squawking of seagulls hungry for their morning meal. And then, of a nauseated Ekkebus succumbing to “feed the fish”. | <urn:uuid:33da36f3-a125-4ee8-8fce-1e1f8c28bd14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tatlerasia.com/dining/journeys/episode-four-spanish-mackerel-hyuganatsu-richard-ekkebus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917462 | 223 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Designers know that design is more than good looks. Design also covers how users engage with a product, whether it’s a website or app. It’s like a conversation. Navigation is a conversation. Because it doesn’t matter how good your site or app is if users can’t find their way around it.
Why Bottom Navigation is so Important?
Steven Hoober in his research of mobile devices usage, found that 49% of people rely on a one thumb to get things done on their phones. In figure below, the diagram that appears on the mobile phones’ screens are approximate reach charts, in which the colors indicate what areas a user can reach with the thumb to interact with the screen. Green indicates the area a user can reach easily; yellow, an area that requires a stretch; and red, an area that requires users to shift the way in which they’re holding a device.
3 Crucial Moments for Bottom Navigation Design
Navigation is generally the vehicle that takes users where they want to go. And bottom navigation should be used for the top-level destinations of similar importance. These destinations requiring direct access from anywhere in the app.
Good bottom navigation design follows these three rules.
1. Show Only the Most Important Destinations
Use three to five top-level destinations in bottom navigation. If there are fewer than three destinations, consider using tabs instead.
Avoid using more than five destinations in bottom navigation as tap targets will be situated too close to one another. Putting too many tabs in a tab bar can make it physically difficult for people to tap the one they want. And with each additional tab you display, you increase the complexity of your app.
If your top-level navigation has more than five destinations, provide access to destinations not covered in bottom navigation through alternative locations.
Avoid Scrollable Content
Partially hidden navigation is a pretty obvious solution for small screens — you don’t have to worry about the limited screen estate, just place your navigation options into a scrollable tab. But scrollable content is less efficient, since you have to scroll once before you’re even allowed to see the option you want.
Users should know how to go from point A to point B based on their first glance and without any guidance from the outside. You should use the proper visual cues (icons, labels and colors) so that the navigation doesn’t require any explanation.
Because bottom navigation actions are presented as icons, they should be used for content that can be suitably communicated with icons. There are a universal icons that users know well, mostly those representing functionality like search, email, print and so on. Unfortunately “universal” icons are rare. And app designers often hide functionality behind icons that are actually pretty hard to recognize.
Android guideline suggest following dimensions for the bottom navigation bar on mobile.
Each bottom navigation icon must lead to a target destination, and may not open menus or other pop-ups. Tapping on a bottom navigation icon should guide user directly to the associated view, or refreshes the currently active view.
Don’t use a tab bar to give users controls that act on elements in the current screen or app mode. If you need to provide controls use a toolbar instead.
Don’t remove a tab when its function is unavailable. If you remove a tab in some cases but not in others, you make your app’s UI unstable and unpredictable. The best solution is to ensure that all tabs are enabled, but explain why a tab’s content is unavailable. For example, if the user doesn’t have offline files, the Offline tab in the Dropbox app displays a screen that explains how to have them. This feature called Empty state.
- Visible and Well-Structured (Use three to five top-level destinations and avoid scrollable content in bottom navigation).
- Clear (Bar elements should be easy to scan and targets should be big enough to be easily tapped).
- Simple (Make sure that each navigation icon lead to the proper destination and use all elements, including bottom navigation, across your application consistently).
Helping users navigate should be a high priority for almost every site and app. The goal behind this moments is to create an interaction system that naturally aligns with the user’s mental models.
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Tammy and Mike Barnes met through Future Farmers of America while they were in high school. Several decades, one farm, three kids and five grandkids later, they maintain an enduring love for the outdoors and a firm belief that a farm is “the best place to a raise a child,” as Tammy puts it.
Mike’s father was a cattle dealer in central New York not far from where he helped his son begin dairy farming in 1978. “I started with seven cows and worked my way up from there,” says Mike. The couple was married right after Tammy graduated from high school and they’ve been committed to the farming life since. “I just knew I could never work inside,” Tammy says. Raising their daughter and two sons on the farm played an integral role in their appreciation of agriculture. “They learned a work ethic and the value of money,” Tammy explains. “Sometimes it was more of a learning experience than going to school.”
The couple did not necessarily expect that the next generation would take over. “We always said that if they did want to come back, they had to go somewhere else first,” Tammy says. Jacob became a diesel mechanic and Jed decided he wanted to be an architect. But then Jed switched to dairy science, finished up his degree at Cornell and went to work as a manager for a 13,000-cow dairy in Idaho.
Then one day, Tammy recalls, “He said, ‘Pops, what do you think? Is there room for me to come home?’” Once he decided to come back, Jacob wanted to join him and the brothers formed a partnership with their parents. This is reflected in the farm’s name, which changed from Barnes Farm to CoBar Dairy, short for “the cooperation of the Barnes family.” Although Jessica, the eldest of the three, works at a local school, her mom says, “She can be found on the [hay and corn] chopper whenever she can get out there.”
With the addition of Jacob and Jed and their families, the Barnes grew the herd to 400 milking cows. They’ve also installed solar panels that provide hot water for the calf barn and main barn. The Barnes use cover crops on about 100 acres each year and carefully manage their crop rotation and nutrient applications.
“Every day’s a new challenge working outside with the animals and the crops,” says Mike, who is also vice-chair of the co-op board. From that broader view, he adds, “We’re all in this together. It’s a team effort from the farm to the [processing] plants to the sales team. Everyone’s working for one common effort and that’s the profitability of our family farms here in the Northeast.”
Back home, family has always been important to the Barnes, but having the third generation running around in the fields, getting rides on the tractors and starting to show cows in 4-H is extra-special. “It’s just great to watch them grow,” Tammy says.
The extended family gets together about every other month to catch up over a hearty meal. Mike’s sister usually hosts the gatherings of about 30 family members. There is always mac and cheese and cheesy crab casserole (recipe below), a family favorite that Mike’s mom always brought and Tammy has inherited responsibility for. “I have to make two pans of it,” Tammy says with a chuckle. “I don’t think I’m allowed in the door if I don’t bring it.”
Hear what farmer and co-op board vice-chair Mike Barnes has to say about the future of farming, here.
CoBar Farm Crabmeat Casserole
½ cup (1 stick) Cabot butter
½ cup flour
2 cups milk
2/3 cup cooking sherry
1 teaspoon salt
3 English muffins
4 cups shredded Cabot sharp cheddar
1 pound crabmeat, or imitation “crab” sticks, torn into pieces
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a medium saucepan set over medium heat, melt butter until foamy. Whisk in flour and cook, 30 seconds, until golden, then whisk in milk and sherry and cook, whisking constantly, until mixture thickens. Season with salt and pepper. (Alternately, stir together all sauce ingredients in a microwave-proof bowl and microwave in one-minute bursts until mixture thickens to a cream sauce consistency, whisking between each minute.) Butter a 9 by 13 casserole dish and tear muffins into bite-size pieces. Add crabmeat and shredded cheese, pour cream sauce over it all and stir gently to combine. Bake about 30 minutes until golden and bubbly. Makes about 10-12 servings as a side dish.
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Estimating mobility using sparse data: Application to human genetic variation.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Loog, L., Mirazón Lahr, M., Kovacevic, M., Manica, A., Eriksson, A., & Thomas, M. G. (2017). Estimating mobility using sparse data: Application to human genetic variation.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114 (46), 12213-12218. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703642114
Mobility is one of the most important processes shaping spatiotemporal patterns of variation in genetic, morphological, and cultural traits. However, current approaches for inferring past migration episodes in the fields of archaeology and population genetics lack either temporal resolution or formal quantification of the underlying mobility, are poorly suited to spatially and temporally sparsely sampled data, and permit only limited systematic comparison between different time periods or geographic regions. Here we present an estimator of past mobility that addresses these issues by explicitly linking trait differentiation in space and time. We demonstrate the efficacy of this estimator using spatiotemporally explicit simulations and apply it to a large set of ancient genomic data from Western Eurasia. We identify a sequence of changes in human mobility from the Late Pleistocene to the Iron Age. We find that mobility among European Holocene farmers was significantly higher than among European hunter-gatherers both pre- and postdating the Last Glacial Maximum. We also infer that this Holocene rise in mobility occurred in at least three distinct stages: the first centering on the well-known population expansion at the beginning of the Neolithic, and the second and third centering on the beginning of the Bronze Age and the late Iron Age, respectively. These findings suggest a strong link between technological change and human mobility in Holocene Western Eurasia and demonstrate the utility of this framework for exploring changes in mobility through space and time.
Humans, DNA, Mitochondrial, Models, Statistical, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Genetics, Population, Archaeology, History, Ancient, Europe, Spatio-Temporal Analysis, Human Migration, DNA, Ancient
L.L. was supported by Natural Environment Research Council, UK Grants NE/K005243/1 and NE/K003259/1 and European Research Council Grant 339941-ADAPT. M.G.T. was supported by Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Grant 100719/Z/12/Z and Leverhulme Trust Grant RP2011-R-045. A.M. and A.E. were supported by European Research Council Consolidator Grant 647787-LocalAdaptation. M.M.L. was supported by European Research Council Advanced Grant 295907, In-Africa. M.K. was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology.
European Research Council (647787)
European Research Council (295907)
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703642114
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Cardio is an assessment tool that can be used to characterize the level of handling research data.
The model is divided into three main aspects – known as the three legged stool. These are; organization, technology and resources. This way of thinking can be used to divide the questions about RDM into categories, and can be used to control a discussion. Each of the three legs is divided into multiple questions, each covering a certain part of that leg of the stool.
For each question of the 30 there is a scale of maturity levels that can be used to characterize the organisations level.
Politics: Identifies a number of focal points where politics could or should be applied.
Infrastructure: Helps identifying the needed infrastructures, by clarifying the needs through the assessment of current data handling. However, it does not identify infrastructure that is needed for new research projects, unless you perform the assessment as part of the planning phase.
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Eoin Treacy's view -
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), which seeks to keep inflation around the midpoint of a 1 per cent to 3 per cent target band, raised its official cash rate on Oct 6 and signalled more increases are coming. That is despite a coronavirus outbreak that has kept largest city Auckland in lockdown for two months, curbing economic growth.
"We can now see annual CPI (consumer price index) inflation exceeding 5 per cent by the end of this year," said Mr Mark Smith, senior economist at ASB Bank in Auckland. "The widespread nature of price increases seen today was not a comforting sign. If it were not for the Delta variant outbreak, the pace of OCR (official cash rate) hikes being implemented by the RBNZ would potentially be quicker than 25 basis point increments."
Investors ratcheted up bets on further RBNZ rate hikes. Another increase is now fully priced in for the Nov 24 policy decision and there is a chance the bank will deliver a 50-point move, swaps data shows.
- I received this account from a New Zealand-based subscriber last week which may be of interest:
I hope life is going well for you and your family in your new abode.
Life is very good on a personal level although we are sad at our present inability to visit our son and his family in Portugal. They moved from the UK to the Algarve in early 2019 just before Covid hit. Luckily, we have a daughter and her family here and we are helping them to build a new house next door to ours.
Auckland is struggling with an outbreak of Delta but, so far, the rest of the country is Covid-free, as we have been all the way through. There is a big race to get 90%+ of the nation fully vaccinated before Christmas. That looks achievable and we all hope we won't stumble at the last hurdle. NZ has coped with the pandemic very well to date but Delta is a tricky challenge.
The economy has surprised everyone with its strength, even through lockdown periods. Our government debt levels were low by world standards going into the pandemic (thanks to years of sound economic management by successive administrations) and even with the generous support measures over the past 18 months, net Government debt is still only around 30% of GDP. Apart from tourism and some parts of hospitality, businesses are thriving, with the recent tax- take far above expectations.
As in many countries, Covid has highlighted the wealth disparities in our society, exacerbated by the recent house price boom. The disadvantaged communities (Maori and Pacific Islanders in our case) are at greatest risk of severe Covid with unlucky genetics, poor housing and little financial flexibility. Lockdowns have shown the absurdity that most of the truly essential workers in societies are often also the lowest paid and least appreciated. The social fabric is a precious, fragile thing and history shows that prolonged injustice and disparity will sooner or later cause it to rend.
As the fortunate son of Estonian WW2 refugees from totalitarianism, it troubles me that surveys all over the Western world show younger people losing faith in democracy and market economies and, unfortunately, it's not hard to see why in many places today.
I want to thank you for the great job you are doing in taking over from the late, great David. As a long-time subscriber (and Chart Seminar attendee), I can't think of a year where your service hasn't helped me make up my subscription several times over.
Thank you for this generous email. New Zealand has fared better than most during the pandemic and not least because demand for its primary exports has sustained the economy despite the challenges of losing tourist revenue.
I totally agree on the challenge of young people losing faith in free markets and democracy. Unfortunately, they have grown up in an environment where markets have not been free and where democracy has been overridden by special interest groups (both public and private) and much of what passes for legislation is the product of focus groups.
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Most plastic toys produced worldwide are made from only a few plastic materials, including high and low density polyethylene (LDPE, HDPE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polystyrene (PS, ABS), polycarbonate (PC) and polyester (PET).
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What do manufacturers produce?
A producer is a person or company that produces finished goods from raw materials using various tools, equipment and processes, and then sells the goods to consumers. To see also : How to make fidget toys easy.
What do manufacturers do? A producer is a person or a registered company that makes finished products from raw materials in an attempt to make money. The goods are later distributed to wholesalers and retailers who then sell to customers.
What are the common products produced? MADE IN USA: Top 10 manufactured products in the US export industry of 2 trillion dollars
- Electrical equipment. Flickr / Kyknoord. …
- Manufactured metal products. sevenke / Shutterstock.com. …
- Medical equipment, sports equipment and miscellaneous. …
- Primary metal. …
- Food. …
- Petroleum and coal products. …
- Computers and electronic products. …
What are plastics from in toys?
Top 5 toys at home are mainly made of plastic (PE or PP) The most commonly used plastic materials in toys were polyethylene and polypropylene. See the article : What chew toys are best for puppies.
Why are toys made of plastic? Plastic toys are far more durable and can be bent, twisted and quite often stamped on before serious damage occurs to them. … This makes plastic toys even more durable, but of course minimizes the risk of transferring dirt and bacteria from washable toys to children’s hands, or around the house!
What are some patches made of? Plastics are high molecular weight organic polymers composed of various elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and chlorine. They can also be produced from silicon atom (known as silicon) along with carbon; A common example is silicone breast implants or silicone hydrogels for optical lenses.
Are toys made of plastic? This survey confirmed that 90% of the most popular toys are made entirely of plastic. The most commonly used plastic materials in toys were polyethylene and polypropylene. The majority of the parents answered that they did not know what to do with the plastic toys at the end of the product’s lifetime.
What is polyolefin plastic?
Polyolefins are high molecular weight hydrocarbons. They include low density and high density polyethylene and polypropylene. To see also : What cat toys are best. All are fracture resistant, non-toxic and non-polluting. This is the only plastic lighter than water.
What is the difference between polyolefin and polypropylene? Polyethylene is used to make products such as shrink film and a variety of plastic film products. Polypropylene is a hard resin used in carpets, food packaging and electronics. Do not be confused if a plastic film product is referred to as a “polyolefin”.
Is polyolefin environmentally friendly? Polyolefin polymers are environmentally friendly. Unlike other plastic films, polymers such as polypropylene do not contain plasticizers, acids or heavy metal compounds. These materials are physically harmless and non-irritating to the skin. Profol films have a neutral taste and smell response in food packaging.
What causes zinc pest?
While impurities in the alloy are the main cause of the problem, environmental conditions such as high humidity (greater than 65%) can accelerate the process. On the same subject : What toys do guinea pigs like. It was first discovered to be a problem in 1923, and primarily affects cast zinc articles that were produced in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Why is zinc alloy? The main reason why zinc is used in so many alloys is because it is naturally resistant to corrosion. With the exception of aluminum, most metals are subject to corrosion. However, the addition of zinc can transform a metal into a corrosion-resistant alloy.
Is zinc rot contagious? necrophorum a chance to enter the tissue of the hoof. Mineral deficiency in zinc, selenium and copper are also known causes of foot rot (NRC, 2017). Because foot rot can be caused by a ubiquitous bacterium, it is not considered contagious.
What causes zinc rot? Zinc rot is a well-known and well-known process in which the zinc used to make cast models deteriorates over time due to intercrystalline corrosion caused by lead impurities in it. … Similarly, depending on the levels of zinc impurities, some models are worse affected than others.
How much does it cost to design a toy?
The test fees vary according to the size, type of toy and number of test designs you have made. For plush toys, this is usually around $ 400 for an average size of up to 12 inches, and a little more for larger plush toys. See the article : How to crochet toys. Prototypes for plastic, vinyl or resin figures usually cost $ 500 or more.
How much does it cost to make a designer toy? The cost of sculpture ranges from $ 600 to $ 800 to $ 1200, depending on size, details, realism, engineering, celebrity likeness (so tough!), Props, number of heads, etc. The cost of quick prototyping ranges from $ 400 to $ 600 to $ 800 depending on size, size, size, material, resolution and size.
How do you make plushies?
What materials do you need to make a plush? As a minimum, you need a type of fabric (felt works well, but you can also use household items, such as an old t-shirt or pillowcase), filling material (such as cotton wool or polyester fiber filling) and something to help the parts of your stuffed animal to stick together (such as fabric glue or needle and thread). To see also : How toys.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s undeniable; technology has become intricately integrated into our everyday lives. But it’s not all bad news like the headlines tend to claim.
You might hear about how technology is disrupting your sleep and adding stress to your life. It grabs your attention, distracting you from reality, and it provides almost constant stimuli. And this is why the idea of a ‘digital detox’ is becoming ever more popular. A digital detox offers a break for the mind and body, helping you find balance once again.
Yet, when biometric data from technology is used correctly, it can guide you toward better health and actually lower your stress levels. Usually, it comes down to your ability to properly interpret the data given to you by this biotechnology. And this requires a little bit of a learning curve, especially if you’re not fully fluent in your body’s physiology.
In this article, I dive into exactly how you can use the information offered by new biotechnology to manage stress relating to your health and your life.
…We’ll discuss relationship stress, occupational stress, your menstrual cycle, and how you can maximize your workouts.
….So, without further delay, let’s get straight into how you – the Future Female – can come out on top, decrease your stress, and use technology to the best of its and your capabilities.
Just as much as relationships can lift you up, they can also seriously drag you down.
Studies indicate that increased stress causes a lack of sleep. Meanwhile, the current state of your relationship can also impact your sleep (1).
If you or your partner are stressed, it can also impact the quality of your relationship. In turn, this may also disrupt your sleep. These aspects all play off of one another.
And it can turn into a vicious cycle. You’re stressed. You don’t sleep, so you get more stressed. Then, you snap at your partner or kids. It affects your productivity and performance at your job. Your relationships get worse, and so on.
It’s not ideal, nor is it fun for either partner.
But where the heck does biotechnology fall in all of this?
Stress has undeniable physiological responses. Your heart rate speeding up is a key indicator that you’re stressed or anxious. By monitoring your heart rate variability (HRV) in set situations, you may be able to reign in your emotions and manage them better.
Most biotechnology smartwatches and wrist monitors do this easily and in real-time. You can tell when you’re getting rallied up by paying attention to that little screen on your wrist or finger. From there, you can determine if you need a time-out to calm down or you can check yourself and act accordingly.
Some biotechnology pieces also track your sleep, which can help determine whether your stress coping mechanisms are working or not. For instance, OuraRing has one of the best technologies for tracking sleep patterns and recovery. The daily Readiness score gauges activity related to your trend of overall stress responses. Fitbit shows you how much of each sleep stage you get throughout the night. It also gives you a quality score so you can compare over time how well you’re sleeping.
And sleep is a great indicator of your stress levels. When the stress hormones are high in the body, you will wake up many times throughout the night or have difficulty even falling asleep. The good news is that you don’t need to go off of just how you feel about your sleep the night before. You can wear an Oura Ring, Garmin, Fitbit, or Whoop and get some real data analyzing how well you’re sleeping.
During times of stress, you can communicate how you feel with your partner based on this data. In a way, it can prevent things from getting out of control during stressful times. If you or your partner is stressed, you can know when you need to pull your weight more or when you need a little help on your end. It helps you better understand yourself and how you’re feeling and helps you better align yourself with your partner.
Another big stressor is work stress. Alongside this comes financial stress.
Interestingly, research shows that marital quality can significantly decline when financial stress is present (2).
There’s also the other side where many of us tend to take on many responsibilities when working. It’s hard to say ‘no.’
But it’s so important to learn how to say no, especially when your stress levels are already too high. There is power in this word – as much as we don’t want to say it. In turn, learning to decline projects or tasks politely can help improve your already existing projects or tasks. You can pay more attention to them and truly excel.
Biotechnology can help you determine when saying ‘no’ is appropriate. If your heart rate has been particularly variable and your sleep has been all over the place, you may want to consider lightening up your workload.
But you won’t necessarily know these things unless you track it with a biotechnology tools, such as Oura Ring, Whoop, Fitbit, Garmin, or Apple Watch. You can make guesses. But do you really want to guess when it comes to your health and your life? Probably not. Thus, biotechnology takes another win here. It can really help you learn more about yourself, as well as what you can do to adjust your life and reduce your stress.
Your Menstrual Cycle
Biotechnology also has begun to incorporate critical female biological aspects. As such, your menstrual cycle has become easier and easier to track and understand all thanks to biotechnology. Fem tech is helping us better understand our cycle! This is wonderful news for the Future Female.
The truth is that hormonal issues are driven partially by stress. And stress can have a significant impact on your menstrual cycle. This gives you another variable to assess for stress, but also a variable to analyze your hormonal health.
Research has shown how high levels of stress contribute to menstrual irregularities (3). If your cycle is usually fairly predictable, this can offer an obvious clue as to how your stress levels change over time.
Generally, most biotech devices require you to input information regarding your menstrual cycle. It won’t simply track it by itself. Most of these devices, like the Fitbit, learn as time goes on when menstruation will take place or when perhaps you’re more likely to experience certain PMS symptoms or not.
For many, this can provide a ton of relief and comfort. You can expect certain changes throughout your cycle, which may help you understand your emotions, feelings, and body better.
From there, you can determine how best to treat yourself through self-care or even through your gym routine (which we’ll discuss in the next section!).
Maximizing Your Workout
These biotechnology devices must be worn every day to receive accurate information and readings. The most important guides are the trends over time. But the good news is that you can use it in all aspects of your life, including your workout sessions.
These devices can help you determine whether or not your workout is going to be effective or not. For instance, you can answer questions such as: Did you sleep well? How is your heart rate variability? Will this workout add more stress to your life? How do I need to adjust my activity today to get ready for my next deadline?
Exercise is a stressor!
It can add more stress to your already stressed-out life. But luckily, these wearable devices can indicate to you if exercise is a good idea or not. Furthermore, exercise, YES, but what would be the best routine for the day: cardio, HIIT, resistance training, or yoga. You can determine based on several factors whether you require more recovery and whether rest is best or not.
Do this by:
- Measuring HRV (Heart Rate Variability – high HRV indicates resilience to stress whereas low HRV may indicate that you are in the flight-or-fight stress state.)
- Understanding your sleep.
- Tracking your menstrual cycle, if you don’t have menstrual cycles adjust for different times of day when at work or at home.
By keeping tabs on these data points, you can recognize when a recovery day is a good idea, as well as focus on improving factors that are lacking. This means you will make better gains when you do hit the gym. When it comes to exercise, it’s all about balancing your stressors and not adding too much all at once.
You can also view the efficacy of your workout based on calories burned. Devices, like the Fitbit, clearly indicate how many calories were burned during each workout and how hard you were actually working.
Biotechnology For the Win!
These biotechnology devices provide true KPIs (key performance indicators). You can’t ignore the data. But you can take action based on the data you see rolling in.
You can use it to manage your stress, especially as you take on this new year. It’s time to close the door on the stressors from this past year and make room for more positive emotions and experiences. This is all possible by using technology to drive you to do life better.
Shed those layers from last year. It’s time to welcome a new one! There’s no point dragging past stress into the future. Take back control.
If you want to learn more about how you can use these data points to decrease stress and improve your health and life, book a Discovery Call with me today. Together, we can help you achieve your full potential and make this your best year yet.
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Fundamental Non-Surgical Cosmetic Procedures One Can Choose For Body Treatment.
Science and technology is advancing on the daily basis and people not only using technology for other natural activities such as farming but also in beautifying their bodies and removing any available body scars through treatments. Different body treatment procedures have raised self-esteems among the individual as many will want to feel their age, class, wealth, and price and conducting either surgical or non-surgical cosmetic procedures on their bodies.
Surgical treatment procedures may have bad side effects especially when the treatment decides to bounce back to the individual who has decided to undergo this type of treatment and an individual should be prepared for any consequences either positive or negative. Other than surgical cosmetic treatment procedures, non-surgical cosmetic procedures do not involve plastic surgery and experts have termed it non-invasive and more appropriate cosmetic procedure.
Many surgery clinics offer both non-surgical cosmetic procedures and surgical cosmetic procedures services and people who want to undergo either of the above need to seek an advice from a surgeon or dermatologist to be sure which cosmetic procedure to take depending on beauty desires and medical condition of their bodies.
The famous procedures for reducing unwanted facial features and making you look young than your age, non-surgical procedures are the best treatments for these complications.
One of the most famous non-surgical cosmetic procedure which involve the injection of the botulism toxin to smooth soft lines on the face of an individual. This non-surgical procedure involves a simple injection of botulism toxin which is recommended for ladies who are experiencing premature aging problems and helps to smooth over the wrinkles on the lady’s forehead, between eyes with the effects being noticed immediately after injection with most women preferring to undergo this treatment regularly.
Cellulite removal is also a popular non-surgical cosmetic treatment procedure which touches other body parts excluding the face such as Lipodissolve injection which contains active ingredients in high concentration to dissolve fat problem on parts and doctors recommend several injections to enhance removal for all the cellulite. Removing cellulite from body parts can also be simplified into a simple process of dissolving the salts through velasmooth process which is less painful and effective non-surgical cosmetic procedure.
Laser hair removal is also another most preferred non-surgical cosmetic procedure that practically removes all the hair on all virtual body parts such as legs, arms, chest, upper lip and all other body parts that need to be hairless through a simple procedure where numbing cream is applied on any hairy part and then unwanted hair is heated by directing laser light with its growth being no longer possible as scar tissue has been blocked.
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Understand the Jurisdictions Setup Requirement Before Proceed Your Register Company in Montenegro
Who would have known that a small country such as Montenegro is rich with dazzling tourist spot and loaded with Europe’s most exceptional natural landscape? From deep canyons to mountainous regions and appealing coastline, Montenegro is a natural host. Visitors and tourist alike will get to experience something new every other time. For a millennial independent country, Montenegro has vast possibilities waiting to explore. Finding your footing in the country may begin through register a company in Montenegro.
Just like any newly independent country, a fresh and young Balkan state has plenty to offer. But then again, its offering dates way back in the 1970s. This was when the elite always had frequent Montenegro as it is opposite Italy. Although new to the entire world, this millennial country is stable in its economy and politics. The official currency is the Euro; thus, business dealing with next-door neighbours are even more practical. Montenegro may be small, but it is brimming with diversity. All in all, it is established in structures and culture, yet reformed in the economy and business opportunities.
Business as Usual in Montenegro
What makes Montenegro a chosen place to do business is probably its flat tax rate. The nine per cent flat rate applies to corporate income tax, withholding tax on dividend, interest and royalties. Moreover, Montenegro has signed more than 40 double tax treaties so that foreign investors can avoid double taxations. For such a place, this is an appeal to entrepreneurs. Tourism is the mainstay for the country. Hence, the government is highly supportive of business possibilities in this sector. The Montenegrins are a bunch of well-trained workforces and hiring them will not be a problem.
The Company for Registration
Company registration or business registration as they are commonly popular is a straightforward process in Montenegro. All business entities now can register at the Central Registry of Business Entities (CBRE), and businesses are automatically registered with the Department of Statistics and the register of applicable taxpayers. Anyone who wishes to register a company in Montenegro has equal rights as Montenegrins. There are six types of companies that you can register.
- Limited Liability Company
- Joint Stock Company
- General Partnership
- Limited Partnership
- Part of a foreign company
The most common company registration is the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and Joint Stock Company (JSC). The following will address the steps involved for LLC registration.
- Prepare the following documents before registering your company in Montenegro.
- Articles of incorporation
- The decision on the establishment of the entity
- Incorporation agreement
- A copy of ID or Passport (for foreign founders)
- Fee payment for registration of LLC and publishing decision in the official gazette of Montenegro
- Get the extract from the Central Depository Agency
*** documents a – d must be certified and stamped by a notary
- Once all of these are ready, you may fill up the registration application form and submit it to the CBRE.
- You can also submit for VAT or excise duty.
- After receiving the certification of registration, you or the company now need to create a company seal, open a bank account and register employees at the Tax Administration Office.
- The minimum share capital is 1 Euro.
Get Acquainted and Get Registered
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How to Access Facebook Using A Proxy Server: Bypassing
If your Facebook access has been blocked, you could try to be in the good graces of an IT staff so you get access to Facebook and other social media platforms from your computer. It obviously isn’t easy and may not even work. A much easier way is to use a proxy server for Facebook access. This way, your Facebook access won’t be discovered because a proxy lets you go access the internet without leaving a trail behind. Going online anonymously prevents your IP from being blocked and your boss won’t find out what you are doing in your spare time.
Of course, your boss is a smart person and you are sure he will find out and you will get fired. The feeling is normal but you will see things differently if you understand how Facebook proxies actually work. It is a simple solution that makes you doubt its efficiency but life doesn’t have to be difficult does it?
HOW FACEBOOK PROXIES WORK?
Normally, computers access the internet via servers. The computer servers exchange information with the internet and that information determine if you can move forward. If the site isn’t blocked on your server, you can access it without difficulty. But if your boss blocks a site, say Facebook, you will be denied access to the site.
To bypass this, you will need a good proxy server like limeproxies. What proxies do is that they act as intermediaries between your computer and the internet. So instead of accessing the internet directly, your proxy takes your data and passes it on. This masks your IP address and allows you access to sites that have been blocked for your IP address.
For example, you work at an automobile company, located in Mumbai. If your IP has been blocked by your employer for Facebook and you try to access it using the company’s servers, your IP address will come based on your company’s location and you won’t be able to go around the Facebook block. But if you try accessing Facebook from a Facebook proxy, it will look like you are logging in from a different location and your IP address won’t be recognized, giving you unrestricted access. The proxy server not only gives you anonymity, it covers your tracks so that your boss can’t tell what you were doing in your free time even if your computer is monitored.
Having good knowledge on the use of proxies to access Facebook, you have to make your choice of type of proxy. There are shared semi-dedicated, and private proxies. All these proxies for Facebook can get you onto any social network site anonymously, but only one will have exactly what you need for safe and reliable browsing at work.
1. SHARED FACEBOOK PROXY
Shared proxies are public proxies. Some sites that offer public proxies offer you free access to Facebook and other sites. It is enticing but will it give you what you need? No. these proxies are a gamble and the majority of them do not work. And even if you are lucky to find a public Facebook proxy that works, you have another major concern to worry about. Security.
With public proxies, you will need to input your Facebook username and password into an unknown and easily accessible proxy server. The chances that your account will get hacked are high and if you are thinking it is not a big deal, think again. If your Facebook account gets hacked, criminals can get enough information from your profile to open up new credit card accounts and steal your identity. Imagine the havoc that can be caused by your identity while you are asleep.
Getting free proxy isn’t good enough reason to risk identity theft. So obviously shared proxies are not right for you.
2. SEMI-DEDICATED FACEBOOK PROXY
Semi-dedicated proxies are also shared, but the difference is that they are not open to the public. This means your Facebook username and password are safe and away from the reach of criminals. With a semi-dedicated proxy, you share with two other users. For standard browsing, it isn’t a problem, but when it comes to social media, it poses a problem. Since Facebook is popular and highly visited, chances are the other users will also log into Facebook at the same time as you. The problem is that your IP could get banned if you all are on Facebook at the same time.
3. PRIVATE FACEBOOK PROXY
Unlike the public and semi-dedicated proxies, the private proxy is all yours and you will be the only one using it. Being private means you can access Facebook and other sites without having to input your login details to public servers. Being the only one using it, you can browse faster too and it is important if you are worried about being caught. Fast internet speed allows you to do more in the short time that you have.
Another significance of using a private proxy is that you can configure it to your liking since you are the only one using it. This makes it easier to bypass any kind of restrictions your boss has put in place on the network.
Private proxies are the perfect Facebook proxies as they are fast, secure and reliable. If you want to unblock Facebook at work easily, there is no better choice than with a private proxy. Limeproxies are highly recommended. Now go through these simple steps to be able to access Facebook through a proxy.
SETTING UP YOUR PROXY SERVER FOR FACEBOOK ACCESS
If you are worried about the complexity of setting up a proxy at work, then you are worrying about something that isn’t there. The setup is without a trace and will not be detected by your boss or IT staff. What you have to do is purchase your proxy then add some settings to the browser you use. Then you can access Facebook and other social media network of your choice.
As there are different browsers, the steps to set up your proxy for Facebook access are different and depend on the browser you use. Below are some popular browsers and the steps to access Facebook.
SETTING UP PROXY SERVER FOR FACEBOOK ACCESS IN FIREFOX
Firefox is a very popular web browser so chances are you are making use of this. To set up your proxy in Firefox;
1. Click on the Firefox button at the top left-hand of your browser
Click on advanced and select network
From there go to settings and a connection settings window will open
Go to the manual proxy configuration
Input your proxy settings
After this, you should be able to have Facebook access.
SETTING UP PROXY SERVER FOR FACEBOOK ACCESS IN GOOGLE CHROME
Google Chrome has its own settings for proxy. To set up your proxy in google chrome;
1. On the right-hand side of the browser’s toolbar, click chrome menu
Click on “Show advanced settings”
Navigate to network and select “change proxy settings”
For windows, “internet properties” will pop up. For mac computer, the “network” dialogue window will pop up.
1. Enter your proxy settings in the dialogue window and save
SETTING UP PROXY SERVER FOR FACEBOOK ACCESS IN MICROSOFT EDGE
As Microsoft edge is still new, a lot of people are still not used to their way around it. To set up a proxy for Facebook, follow the steps.
1. Click on the three dots on the right-hand side of the page
Select “settings” and click on “View advanced settings”
Click on “open proxy settings”
Select use a proxy server
Input your information and save changes
SETTING UP PROXY SERVER FOR FACEBOOK ACCESS IN INTERNET EXPLORER
For internet explorer, the following steps are required to set up your proxy;
1. Click on tools and select “Internet options”
Select “connections tab”
Select “LAN settings”
Click on “use a proxy server for your LAN”
Input proxy information and save changes
If you paid close attention to the way other browsers were set up, you will find out that they all share basically the same setup process. If your browser wasn’t mentioned among these, go to your browser’s settings and look for advanced settings. Proxy settings are found here and what you have to do is input your proxy information and save the changes. If this is not the case with your browser, just play around the settings and look out for proxy settings. Once you find it, just input your proxy settings and save changes.
The use of Facebook proxies will help you stay in touch with the world and as long as you do it on your own time, your boss wouldn’t find out. Ensure you get the job done and only go to Facebook and other social media websites when you are done with your work else your boss will monitor you to find out why your output dropped.
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How to use Facebook through a proxy
You can visit Facebook anonymously using a proxy server. You can also use it to unblock access to this social network by changing your real IP address with other data. Facebook does not support the use of proxy servers, so you cannot connect an intermediary server on the site itself. You need to configure the whole thing in a browser, proxy, or computer system parameters. Below we will provide you with detailed instructions on how to configure the proxy setting for Facebook.
Connecting a proxy server for Facebook through computer settings
The peculiarity of this solution is that the proxy will be active not only when visiting Facebook, but also when performing any other network connections. Let’s consider the principle of proxy server activation based on the Windows 10 operating system.
To configure a proxy server through the system parameters, follow all the steps outlined in the instructions below:
In the search engine for the operating system, enter the word “Proxy”.
In the options that appear, select the action “Manually change proxy server settings”.
In the “Manual proxy settings” section, there is a toggle switch next to the “Use proxy server” parameter. Turn it to the “On” position.
In the “Address” and “Port” fields, enter the corresponding data of your proxy server.
In the free field located below, you can enter sites that will not use the specified proxy server.
Click “Save” to update the network connection settings.
The principle of connecting proxy servers on other versions of the Windows operating system will be approximately the same, but taking into account the individual characteristics of the interface.
Configuring a proxy for FB through a browser
For example, consider activating a proxy in Google Chrome. How to connect working proxy for Facebook through this browser:
Open Chrome settings (3 dots icon on top of each other).
Select the sub-item “Settings”.
In the line “Search in the settings, ” write “proxy”.
Select the point farthest from the bottom.
The browser will redirect you to the section of the system parameters of the computer, where you will need to select the proxy mode and specify the data of the new server.
On Windows 10, to do this, in the “Manual proxy settings” section, move the toggle switch next to the “Use a proxy server” item to the “On” position and enter the proxy data below: IP address and port. Then you need to click the “Save” button.
On other browsers, the proxy server is connected in approximately the same way, but with individual features of the interfaces.
Setting up a proxy for Facebook through a proxifier
Another way to unblock FB with proxy is to use a proxifier. With this unique program, you can set up a proxy server exclusively for Facebook.
There are different types of proxifiers. Let’s consider, for example, setting up a proxy for Facebook through the Proxifier program:
Download this program by finding its official website on the Internet.
Install Proxifier on your computer and launch it.
Go to the following path: “Profile” – “Proxy Servers… ” – “Add”.
Enter the IP address, the port of the proxy server.
Select a proxy protocol.
If you are using an intermediary server, access to which is limited by username and password, then check the box next to “Enable” and enter the requested data.
Click “Check” to test the added proxy.
If testing was successful, then click “OK”. In case of failure, the replacement of the proxy server will be required.
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We recommend using a separate proxy server for each Facebook account. This will help avoid blocking by the social network.
Facebook Proxies: A Guide To Bans, Accounts, and Scraping
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Natural Prosperity and the Wellbeing Economy
- Extra Reading
What does Natural Prosperity look like? In this lecture we envision a new, more equitable future where wellbeing and nature-based solutions take the place of growth at any cost. Growth has almost vanished in industrialised countries since the global financial crisis of 2008.
By breaking free from growth, a new economy based on natural prosperity can contribute to our survival and success in future.
Natural Prosperity and the Wellbeing Economy
Professor Jacqueline McGlade
25th May 2022
This will be my last Gresham Lecture as the Frank Jackson Professor of the Environment. Over four years and 23 lectures I have had the chance to build a story around the concepts and ideas that I now call Natural Prosperity. Whether or not it can or will be considered a philosophy or theory has yet to be seen, but as an academic and interpreter of our planet, it seem that the time has come to integrate these ideas into a succinct thesis. It may not be mature enough to be considered a full theory, standing on its own but it feels sufficiently relevant to me to be thought of as a philosophy or motivation for how we might survive and thrive in the future on our changeable planet. In simple terms, I would like to present it through the lens of humans and nature, bringing out the ontology, underlying theory of change and assumptions, causal mechanisms and methods of analysis.
No matter how challenging, learning how to value our planet in ways that can move people and governments alike to act in the best interests of both humanity and the planet’s myriad ecosystems is the underpinning tenet of Natural Prosperity. As a philosophy it couples the original precepts of natural philosophy i.e., of reasoning and explanations about nature (after Galileo) with a conceptual model of prosperity that combines community, trust, power of voice, life opportunities and nature. It draws on Ostrom’s principles for the stable collective use of natural resources as well as the ontology of reflectivists, that emphasizes the importance of intersubjective meanings and human reflections about both institutional activities and individuals in shaping power and decisions. This is in contrast to rationalists (otherwise referred to as realists, neo-realists, liberal, neo-liberals and scholars using game-theoretic or expected utility models) who adopt the broad theoretical and ontological commitments of rational choice and positivism. Rationalist ideas are rooted in exchange theory which assumes that scarcity and competition are the root of people’s decision-making.
In Natural Prosperity, the words used to describe something are not neutral, and the choice of one term over another has social and political implications. Things do not have an objective meaning independently of how we constitute them in language. For example, use of the word reparation or restitution in the dialogue of land tenure or genocide versus ethnic conflict. Events become “real” not only because they occurred but because they are remembered and have assumed a place in a narrative that can be documented and explained.
Understanding What Matters
However, ideas about prosperity that I have put forward do not just hang on the words we use. To prosper is to understand the meaningfulness of our lives in terms of the quality of our lives and relationships, the resilience of our communities and a sense of individual and collective meaning. It is about hope for us and the next generations’ future. As HRH Prince Charles has said prosperity is about tackling the impact of consumerism which currently depends upon the unfettered exploitation of the “extraordinary bounty of Nature”, and the limits that we have failed to respect.
The original prosperity indices of the World Bank were narrowly focused on poverty reduction, income inequality and shared prosperity as “the growth in the income or consumption of the bottom 40% of the population in a country”.
Even today, the majority of studies of prosperity are overshadowed by reference to a nation’s economic productivity, employment and household income, using a universal definition of wellbeing as a state of individual happiness, life satisfaction, absence of anxiety and feeling that life is worthwhile. The focus has been on cross-cultural studies looking to measure equivalence of wellbeing, happiness and life satisfaction in different contexts, rather than understanding the differences in the meaning, value and relevance of these concepts in different communities.
Often prosperity is represented as the polar opposite of poverty such that designing pathways to prosperity is simply a matter of poverty reduction – i.e., wealth, assets and enhanced livelihoods. This framing limits prosperity to material concerns, overlooking the idea that categorising people as ‘poor’ or ‘living in poverty’ can misrepresent their lived experience, which is not always one of lack, deficit or deprivation in other domains of life.
The core of Natural Prosperity rests on a set of underlying principles captured in words including:
Dignity: Everyone has enough to live in comfort, safety and happiness.
Nature: A restored and safe natural world for all life.
Connection: A sense of belonging and institutions that serve the common good.
Fairness: Justice in all its dimension is at the heart of economic systems, and the gap between the richest and poorest is greatly reduced.
Participation: Citizens are actively engaged in their communities and locally rooted economies.
Natural Prosperity is about our quality of life as individuals, communities and societies and how sustainable that will be in the future.
It is about living al locally abundance life as part of globally frugal society.
It encompasses our personal and collective wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of planets, animals and our environment and it involves:
- Identifying trusted community institutions or leaders who can facilitate discussions on wellbeing priorities.
- Training policy makers to undertake open, co-creative policy design processes.
- Asking powerful questions that support communities to identify their positive vision for the future, rather than focusing only on existing problems or challenges.
- Allowing people to express their wellbeing priorities in images or stories.
- Ensuring consideration of both current and long-term wellbeing priorities. What is required for the wellbeing of future generations?
- Encouraging reflection on what matters for personal wellbeing, community wellbeing, humanity’s wellbeing, and the wellbeing of plants, animals, and the environment.
- Asking additional ‘why?’ follow-up questions to better understand the key outcomes and values underpinning the stated priorities.
- Identifying core values that relate to these wellbeing priorities and that can act as guiding principles in the policy design process.
With these aspects built into our lives, I believe we will gain a greater ability to deal with the rapid changes in the world and still ensure prosperity for all.
Making Decisions in an Uncertain World
What we know is that deliberative processes are important for some decisions, but that in uncertain environments, it is also our basal ganglia that are vital. Based on evidence from the learning circuit of worker bees, we now know that buried in our ancient mid-brain system is a small collection of neurons called the basal ganglia, which release dopamine - powerful influencers on our behaviour.
This is the area in our brains where temporal-difference learning, and dopamine gratification take place. Temporal difference learning “explores and discovers” the value of intermediate decisions in reaching goals by creating internal value functions based on dopamine neurons evaluating the state of the entire cortex and informing the brain about the best course of action. This might be a guess but over time these can develop into a “gut feeling” the - an especially important process when there are many variables and unknowns, and rational decision making is difficult.
The other part of our brains that are crucial to decision making is the hippocampus. People who suffer from poor nutrition, disease or other nutritional stresses do not grow to their full potential. In the Maasai village where I live, it is possible to tell who suffered from the conditions of drought and starvation in the childhood from their height.
We know that from studies of malnutrition in children that the hippocampus can be damaged in such a way that effective decision-making or executive thinking can be impaired. There is a putative feedback loop from the basal ganglia to hippocampus, probably underlying co-participation of the two subcortical structures in the control of motor behaviour and decision making.
In the past decade, the upsizing of portions has become widespread; levels of obesity are at epidemic levels. In addition, food waste from households, retail establishments and the food service industry now totals 931 million tonnes each year. Nearly 570 million tonnes of this waste occurs at the household level, and the global average of 74 kg per capita of food wasted each year is remarkably similar from lower-middle income to high-income countries. Overall, 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions comes from food waste.
Our consumption patterns are addictive; but worse is the fact that our bodies are not inadequately adapted to cope with relentless supplies of excess energy. These contribute to serious mismatch diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis and cancers. From a primate’s perspective, all humans – even very thin people – are fat. A typical primate averages 6 percent; hunter-gatherers such as the Maasai about 15 percent at birth and 10 percent in males and 20 percent in females. The Maasai benefit from this extra energy to forage and feed children during times of drought and food scarcity; women also benefit from fat for pregnancy and child rearing. In the wider populations, nearly 40 percent of adults are overweight or obese (> 24 percent fat male and female). However, many low- and middle-income countries are now facing a "double burden" of malnutrition with the problems of undernutrition and obesity co-existing in the same household.
Living at the Frontier of Change
When unknowns combine exponentially, our attention and working memory enable us to focus on the key parts of a problem. This is where our education systems are vital because they enable us to increase our memory capacity about a range of situations. However, when the uncertainty comes from the planet itself, the growing distance between millions of people and nature make it very difficult for temporal-difference learning and the system of dopamine rewards to take place. This is a powerful driver of our behaviour as this is how we combine information about value along many different dimensions, in effect combining apples and oranges to achieve distant goals.
In my first series of lectures called Frontiers, I spoke about antimicrobial resistance, malnutrition, climate change and droughts, plant toxicity and the impacts of pollution on our food and environment. In selecting these topics, I wanted to underline that our future is highly uncertain and that despite a rich and complex history, culture alone would not allow us to transcend our biology.
Clever as we are, we still have our bodies to live with: simply put we are furless, slightly fat, bipedal primates who crave salt, sugar, fat and starch, but are adapted to eating diverse diets of fibrous fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, tubers and meat. We still have bodies of endurance, able to walk many miles a day, and can climb, dig and carry. We are not well-adapted to live indoors and when we do we suffer from diseases of affluence, novelty and disuse. We then perpetuate a pernicious feedback loop between culture and biology. Our bodies in the past were molded by nature; given the uncertainty and extremes of environmental conditions that we are likely to face from climate change, we may have greater need of these ancestral, endurance bodies than ever before. Cultural innovations will only take us so far.
Danger surrounds us, yet billions of people suspend belief about the harm that hazardous chemicals and addictions such as tobacco and sugar can do to us. There are no simple answers why we do this, but extensive numbers of studies show that we habitually value costs and benefits more highly in the near term then in the future. Economists call this behaviour hyperbolic discounting. We take pleasure in potentially harmful activities because they enhance our lives now more than we judge the eventual risks or costs. Having a certain percentage of the population die from air pollution or car accidents is a price that modern societies are willing to pay to have the convenience of cars. Yet there are signs that the assemblage of norms designed to tackle climate change – for example taking public transport, sharing cars and purchase of e-vehicles – is beginning to shift the dial.
There is also an assumption that anything east and comfortable is good for us. Shoes, easy to access foods, medicines to stop a headache or colds, heat and cooling of our houses, clothes that fit, or taking the lift. Comfort overrides our instincts for better judgement. The acceptance of comfort can lead to wastage as well as evolutionary mismatches – glasses, spinal surgery, orthotics – and an assumption that maladies are normal and inevitable.
We do this in the unrealistic thought that others will deal with the problems of wastage and harm. Plastics are just such a case.
There is no doubt that an important consideration in learning how to live on an uncertain planet is how we will feed ourselves. Agriculture has been both a boon and bane to our world and the human body.
In general, it was thought that populations of early farmers initially benefited from their new access to food. However, with few exceptions, people shrank over millennia as agriculture intensified, because even though farmers produced more food overall, the energy available to each child diminished as they were fighting infections, starvation when crops failed and working long hours in the fields. Farming led to many mismatch diseases and the spread of genes to combat parasites such as such the sickle cell to combat malaria or to digest foods such as milk. Farmers in particular have come to rely on a few staple foods that decreases their nutritional diversity and quality. Pellagra, a terrible illness from a lack of vitamin B, is common amongst farmers who eat mostly maize because the B3 is bound to proteins making it unavailable to the human digestive system.
Stress caused by extreme climatic conditions can also reduce crop yields, increase postharvest losses, and threaten animal and human health as a result of changes in physiological and biochemical processes. Worldwide, over 80 plant species are known to cause poisoning from accumulation of nitrates under drought conditions: crop plants most susceptible include barley, maize, millet, sorghum, soybean, Sudan grass, and wheat. When cattle, sheep, and goats consume large quantities of high nitrate plants, their ruminant digestive processes cannot break down the nitrate fast enough to avoid poisoning. Acute nitrate poisoning in animals can lead to miscarriage, asphyxiation, and death. Nitrate poisoning in livestock can ruin the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and herders. Rain can help revitalise the plants and reduce the nitrate accumulation, but rapid growth in water-stressed plants can result in the dangerous accumulation of compounds that give rise to toxic hydrogen cyanide (also called prussic acid).22 Examples of plants that can accumulate prussic acid to toxic levels under extreme conditions are cassava, flax, sunflower, pigweed, maize, sorghum, Sudan grass, arrow grass and velvet grass.
Now we are also seeing the effects of climate change on pollination and reproduction, and fertility in crops. This is happening through changes in the morphology of pollen and stigma, pollen biochemical and lipid composition, sensitivity of floral reproductive organs and different heat stress thresholds. Even rapid increase in night-time temperatures, can affect productivity through a narrowing of the diurnal temperature amplitude. However, information on mechanisms leading to heat stress induced sterility is heavily biased towards rice, wheat and sorghum; across other field crops information is limited.
Along with changes to the plants themselves are the mycotoxins associated with climate change that can colonise crops. Mycotoxin-producing fungi infect many crops such as coffee, groundnut, maize, oilseeds, peanut, sorghum, tree nuts, and wheat. An estimate in 1998, backed up more recently by FAO, suggests that mycotoxins contaminated at least 25 per cent of cereals worldwide. One particular mycotoxin of concern is Aflatoxin, produced by certain species of Aspergillus fungi and particularly during drought conditions. About 4.5 billion people in developing countries are exposed to uncontrolled and unmonitored amounts of aflatoxins; in Africa studies in Ethiopia have shown how resource poor farmers have helped to spread the fungus by feeding livestock moldy feed.26 More recently, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) showed a large amount of milk and grains consumed by Kenyans in 2018 had aflatoxin levels exceeding internationally accepted limit. Concerns about Aflatoxin contamination need to be taken seriously: ILRI have estimated that 26,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa alone die annually of liver cancer associated with aflatoxin exposure. Evidence further suggests it may also stunt foetal and infant development, block nutrient uptake, and suppress immunity
It is no wonder that today we are seeing an upsurge in regenerative and conservation farming. Climate change, droughts and floods and Covid are bringing many smallholder farmers up short. Unable to afford fertlisers, seeds and water, some are returning to traditional foods and interestingly these often have a much wider range of nutrients in them.
Nature and Health
The underlying mechanisms of the positive effects of biodiversity, nature and especially green spaces on human health are not entirely clear but there is a basic idea that natural environments and green spaces improve mental health, mitigate allergies and reduce all-cause, respiratory, cardiovascular and cancer mortality. We see that presence, accessibility, proximity and greenness of green spaces determines the magnitude of positive health effects, but that the role of biodiversity itself is still not properly understood.
What evidence there is shows positive associations between species diversity and psychological and physical well-being and between ecosystem diversity and immune system regulation, although high species diversity has been associated with both reduced and increased vector-borne disease risk. However, few relate measured biodiversity to well defined and measured clinical outcomes; rather there is more evidence for self-reported psychological well-being.
Although the actual biophysical causality is not understood in most instances, there is evidence that the physical and mental health benefits related to human interactions with natural and man-made green environments, depend on the duration and timing of the exposure.6–8 Short-term exposure to forests, urban parks, gardens and other (semi-) natural environments reduces stress and depressive symptoms, restores attention fatigue, increases self-reported positive emotions and improves self-esteem, mood, and perceived mental and physical health.9–14 Access to natural environments also tends to enhance outdoor physical activity, improving physical health, for example by reducing prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Long-term exposure to natural environments, such as residing in areas with high greenness or in diverse landscapes, is associated with reduced all-cause, respiratory, cardiovascular and cancer mortality and to improved respiratory and mental health.22,23 Such positive effects of green spaces have been demonstrated over distances varying between 150 m and 5 km.
There is evidence that exposure to green or natural environments is particularly important during prenatal development and early life. The greenness of mother’s neighbourhoods has a positive effect on the birth weight of their infants.4,28,29 Childhood exposure to natural environments reduces the risk of developing schizophrenia.30 Residential greenness has been associated to reductions in obesity prevalence and atopic sensitization in children and has a positive effect on blood pressure in adolescents. Early life exposure to natural environments also has a number of important long-term effects. The exposure to beneficial microbiota in the environment during the early life also has profound effects on the development of the immune system and on the prevalence of chronic inflammatory diseases.33–37 In addition, early exposure to nature amplifies the potential beneficial effects of green spaces in later life, including the stress-reducing effects of therapeutic immersion in nature. Conversely, the lack of interaction with nature during early life, for instance, due to the limited time spent in nature or green space in urbanized environments, has been associated to a number of emotional, cognitive and physical difficulties in children. The set of mental disorders linked to this disconnection with nature has been described as ‘nature deficit disorder’ (NDD)
The short- and long-term benefits that natural and man-made green spaces provide, in terms of human health, can be classified in terms of different ecosystem services. A growing body of evidence shows that many observed associations between exposure to green environments and human health and well-being benefits are mediated by these ecosystem services. They include those that reduce harmful environmental exposures such as air pollution, extreme heat, urban heat and noise. Biodiversity as a service delivers a variety of species (animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms) and their gene pools plus the variety of ecosystems in which the species reside. And there is some evidence of cascading links between green environments, biodiversity, ecosystem services and human health and well-being. For example, high plant diversity can result in high structural and functional variation which determines the potential of green spaces to mitigate air pollution.63 Also, biodiverse green spaces may host a high diversity of environmental microbiota,64 which may mediate biodiversity effects on human health through their impact on the immune system. Thus, plant diversity may have direct and indirect impacts on the potential of green spaces to reduce the acute and chronic health effects of air pollution, including allergies, asthma, cardiovascular diseases and premature death.
Redesigning Our World to be More Aligned with Natural Prosperity
Natural prosperity is a way for industrialised societies to achieve equity and wellbeing based on a lifestyle of planetary stewardship which delivers local abundance within a new context of global frugality that enables us to stay within the planet’s limits. It is also a solution for the root causes of rising levels of ill health and stress associated with inequality, exposed during the current Covid pandemic.
Natural Prosperity thinking requires a shift in the way that we develop our policies, beginning with the goals we set. The goal of policy making shifts from promoting just economic growth, to promoting the wellbeing of people and planet. Such policy design would aim to support the areas of society, the economy and nature that contribute to collective wellbeing, while shrinking those areas of the economy that damage it.
Natural Prosperity moves the government beyond just correcting ‘market failures’ to proactively fostering the activities and behaviours important for our wellbeing. This is no small shift, as you will have to move from focusing on problems or deficits (e.g., a lack of skills, tech or finance) to focusing on your priorities and strengths. This will require entering into new territory, to understand the existing actors, actions, behaviours, and institutions in communities that are aligned with Natural Prosperity’s goals. New evidence will need to be gathered in areas that have not been previously considered or valued as part of the ‘economy’, in order to develop a holistic compass to help guide decision making.
This requires experimentation and co-creation to find the strategies and policies that can support communities and align economies with this vision for a better world.
Natural Prosperity living is about using participatory and holistic principles and methods.
Goal-oriented: the economy is not a means-and-ends in and of itself. It is a system to promote human and ecological wellbeing. Policy makers consistently reflect and align policies and processes to achieve the priority objective(s) determined by citizens.
Participatory/Co-creative: Policy is developed through open, co-creative and transparent processes. citizens are able to meaningfully engage and contribute throughout the policy design process.
Context-Appropriate: here are no “one-size-fits-all” solutions. Economic strategies and policies are based on local values, context and objectives.
Iterative: Processes encourage continuous learning and experimentation to find innovative policy solutions that suit the context.
Holistic: The economy is interconnected with other policy areas and integral to social, environmental and spiritual dimensions of life.
Evidence-based: Processes are informed through the systematic use of qualitative and quantitative evidence.
Positive framing/Strength-based: Policy is focused on achieving the aspirations of society rather than addressing negative outcomes. Positive framing is used to focus on the strengths and aspirations of the community.
Multi-dimensional: We live in complex systems and therefore must consider negative and positive inter-relationships between dimensions at every step of the process.
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The Periodic Table is one of the most familiar creations in the world of chemistry. Since Dmitry Mendeleev first proposed that different elements could be related together in rows and columns according to similarities in their properties in 1869, the Periodic Table has grown to include various stable elements that were unknown in Mendeleev’s time, as well as a kaleidoscope of exotic short-lived nuclides produced in particle accelerator experiments.
As the Periodic Table has evolved, so have techniques for measuring the elements within it. From the early days of atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) in the 1950s to the present generation of sensitive and fast inductively coupled plasma optical emission and mass spectrometers (ICP-OES and ICP-MS), detection and quantification of metals and semi-metals has expanded to encompass every area of analytical science, from geology and environmental analysis to clinical and life science research.
With this increase in the utilization of elemental analysis, instrumentation has come a demand for ever higher sensitivity and ever lower detection limits. Leading the charge to meet these requirements has been ICP-MS, but the pursuit of these goals has uncovered a number of challenges for this technique, including interference, contamination, and sample to sample washout issues. I have previously discussed these issues in detail in my blog post series ‘How to Improve Your ICP-MS Analysis’ parts 1, 2 and 3.
Building on these earlier articles, in this blog post series, I will take you on a journey of exploration through the Periodic Table, from the perspective of ICP-MS. I’ll discuss how this technique can be applied to the members of the various Periodic Table groups in terms of what parameters work best for them, what pitfalls you need to watch out for and how you can avoid these problems and successfully achieve good quality elemental analysis in your laboratory.
Our expedition starts with the elements of Group 1 – the alkali metals.
The stable alkali metals (Group 1 of the Periodic Table) consist of lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb) and caesium (Cs), with the unstable francium (Fr) completing the group.
The first member of the group to be identified was potassium, discovered by the English chemist, Sir Humphrey Davy, in 1807. Davy extracted the element from caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) using electrolysis - potassium was actually the first metal to be isolated using this technique. This element derives its name from the Arabic word ‘al-qali’ meaning alkali, with the symbol K coming from the Latin word, ‘kalium.’
It was also Davy who discovered sodium later in 1807, again using electrolysis, but this time of molten sodium hydroxide. The origin of the name comes from the Latin word for sodium carbonate, ‘natrium.’
Lithium was detected by the Swedish chemist Johan August Arfvedson in 1817, but actually first isolated by William Thomas Brande and Sir Humphrey Davy through the electrolysis of lithium oxide (Li2O) in 1821. The element derives its name from the Greek word ‘lithos’ meaning ‘stone’ because it was found in the mineral petalite (LiAlSi4O10).
Caesium (US, cesium) was discovered by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1860 during their analysis of mineral water samples from Durkheim using flame spectroscopy. Their identification was based upon two distinctive bright blue lines in the spectrum of Cs, leading them to coin the name caesium, from the Latin ‘caesius’ meaning ‘heavenly blue.’
It was also Bunsen and Kirchhoff who discovered rubidium in 1861 during their analysis of the mineral lepidolite using flame spectroscopy. The bright red lines in its emission spectrum led them to choose a name derived from the Latin word ‘rubidus’, meaning ‘deep red.’
The last member of Group 1 is the unstable element francium (Fr), discovered by Marguerite Perey at the Curie Institute in Paris in 1939 when she was researching the radioactive decay of actinium-227. This element takes its name from the country where it was discovered, France. Francium's most stable isotope, 223Fr, has a half-life of around 22 minutes. It decays into radium-223 through beta decay or into astatine-219 through alpha decay.
These elements are all easily ionized in an argon ICP and generate large populations of singly charged ions.
Table 1 shows some key properties of these elements with regard to their analysis by ICP-MS.
|Element||Natural isotopes (abundance, in %)||First ionization potential (eV)|
|Li||6Li (7.6), 7Li (92.4)||5.4|
|K||39K (93.3), 40K (0.01), 41K (6.7)||4.3|
|Rb||85Rb (72.2), 87Rb (27.8)||4.2|
Table 1. Key properties for the Group 1 elements for ICP-MS analysis
(preferred isotope for analysis in bold).
Although the Group 1 elements are easily ionized in the ICP-MS plasma, their relative sensitivity varies because despite the fact that the amount of available atoms to ionize per gram of each element decreases with increasing mass of the element (1 g of Li contains more atoms than 1 g of caesium) the effect of space charge repulsion in the region between the sampler and skimmer cone and to an extent behind the skimmer cone reduces the signal transmission of lighter ions relative to heavier ones. The result is that the sensitivity (in counts per second per ng mL-1) for Li is actually considerably lower than the sensitivity for Cs. Despite this, parts per trillion detection (ppt or μg L-1) limits can still easily be achieved for Li, mainly because, in almost all analyses, it isn’t affected by interferences. This brings us neatly to the subject of interferences, together with some other concerns to take into account when analyzing the alkali metals.
As mentioned above, lithium, at masses 6 and 7, is not generally affected by interferences in ICP-MS, mainly because being a light element, it doesn’t suffer from polyatomic species overlap. The more abundant 7Li is generally selected for analysis, but 6Li has value as a low mass internal standard (enriched 6Li standards are available for this purpose). Lithium is quite a sticky element and can cause sample-to-sample washout memory effects, so if you encounter samples with higher than expected Li concentrations you may need to increase the rinse time between samples or use mixed acid wash solutions (e.g. 2% (v/v) HNO3 plus 2% (v/v) HCl). Finally, Li deposited on the interface cone surfaces can increase the background of this element. If you need to measure Li at ultralow concentrations in low matrix samples, using cool plasma operation (operating the plasma at lower power) dramatically reduces the background enabling sub-ppt detection limits.
Sodium, mono-isotopic at mass 23, can be affected by 7Li16O+ interference in the presence of high amounts of Li, such as are encountered in Li metaborate fusion samples, but in these samples, the Na concentration is usually much higher than the LiO+ interference, so this isn’t generally a problem. Doubly charged 46Ti and 47Ti isotopes generate interference on mass 23 and mass 23.5 respectively and can cause trouble for Na if the Ti concentration is high. In this case, with single quadrupole ICP-MS (such as the Thermo Scientific iCAP RQ ICP-MS), mathematical interference correction would be required. With triple quadrupole ICP-MS (such as the Thermo Scientific iCAP TQ ICP-MS), the selection of oxygen or ammonia collision/reaction cell gas will attenuate Ti2+ while reacting far less (if at all) with Na. High resolution, magnetic sector (HR-ICP-MS) instruments, such as the Thermo Scientific Element 2, can easily spatially resolve Ti2+ interference from Na. Sodium washes out well between samples so memory effects are not usually an issue. However, as Na is ubiquitous in the environment, contamination is one of the biggest problems when measuring it. For low-level Na determination, rigorous cleaning procedures (as described in this blog post are required. Like Li, Na also adheres to the surface of the interface cones and elevates the instrument background. Also like Li, cool plasma operation reduces the Na background to levels that allow sub-ppt detection limits.
Potassium, at masses 39, 40 and 41, lies right in the heart of the mass range of the biggest source of interference in ICP – argon. Argon has three natural isotopes, 36Ar (0.3%), 38Ar (0.06%) and 40Ar (99.6%) and interference from Ar+ in the plasma is huge, especially for mass 40. In addition, the presence of water and acids in the plasma (from the samples being analyzed) leads to the formation of ArH+ which interferes with both 39K and 41K. The intensity of ArH+ is much higher on mass 41 than on mass 39, whereas the abundance of 39K is much higher than 41K, so in practice 39K is the preferred isotope to measure. In environmental, food/beverage and geological analysis, the presence of ArH+ interference on 39K is not a problem as this interference causes a false blank in the low ppb range whereas the samples contain K in the ppm range (even after sample dilution). For those sample types, quadrupole instruments can be operated in standard mode (i.e. without the collision cell activated) when analyzing K. When this element must be quantified at ultra-trace levels, such as in semiconductor analysis applications, cool plasma operation again dramatically reduces the Ar+ and ArH+ signals. Triple quadrupole systems operated with H2 cell gas also reduce Ar+ and ArH+, enabling low ppt detection limits. HR-ICP-MS, while able to resolve 39K from 38Ar1H+, also provides enhanced detection of K when its resolving power is combined with cool plasma operation. Like Na, K is easy to rinse out between samples but it can adhere to the interface cones as well. As with Li and Na, this source of background for K can be alleviated using cool plasma operation.
Rubidium, at masses 85 and 87 is fairly straightforward to measure. The 87Rb isotope is less abundant and is interfered by 87Sr, so for direct quantitation purposes, 85Rb is preferred. There is potential for GaO+ and SrH+ interference on both Rb isotopes in the presence of high concentrations of Ga and Sr, but this is generally not a concern. However, if these interferences are present, use of triple quadrupole ICP-MS with O2 as the collision/reaction cell gas certainly helps alleviate the SrH+ problem (by mass shifting the interference away from the Rb isotopes as SrOH+) problem and may also help with GaO+ interference (I have not tested this approach at the time of writing this article).
If you need to measure Rb isotope ratios, using triple quadrupole ICP-MS with O2 as the cell gas is also an elegant way of resolving the 87Sr interference. Using O2, Sr can be mass-shifted away from 87Rb as 87Sr16O+. This approach also allows Sr isotope ratios to be measured free of Rb interference, via the mass-shifted SrO+ signals. HR-ICP-MS can resolve GaO+ and SrO+ interferences but cannot resolve 87Rb from 87Sr. The presence of Kr as an impurity in the Ar plasma gas supply can potentially produce KrH+ interference on both Rb isotopes, but this interference is usually negligible.
Caesium, mono-isotopic at mass 133, lies in the mass region of xenon (Xe) which, like krypton, can be present in the argon supply as a trace contaminant. Xenon has isotopes at mass 132 and 134 but not at 133 so it doesn’t directly interfere with 133Cs. However, Xe can, like Kr, generate a hydride interference (XeH+) on mass 133, but as Xe contamination in the argon plasma gas is usually very low, this interference can generally be disregarded. There is the potential for 117Sn16O+ interference to appear on 133Cs but this is only a consideration in samples that are very high in Sn. In this case, the mathematical correction would be required for single quadrupole instruments. With triple quadrupole ICP-MS, there is the option to test different reaction gases (e.g. O2, NH3, N2O, etc.) to evaluate if the SnO+ interference can be removed. As powerful a technique as it is, the resolving power of HR-ICP-MS is not high enough to separate 117Sn16O+ or 116Sn17O+ interference from 133Cs, so mathematical interference correction would be required.
Well, that concludes our first expedition through the elements. I look forward to you joining me on my next excursion which will take us on an ICP-MS journey through Group 2 of the Periodic Table, the alkaline earth elements.
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A rebirth out of adversity causes us to become new creatures
— James E. Faust
Why does change feel uncomfortable?
It often stems from fear. 👈
We fear changing our familiar routines because of preconceived beliefs about ourselves. Yet when we stop underestimating ourselves and let go of fear, change can help us grow. 🌱 🦋
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Pulchrana picturata — Spotted Stream Frog
Also known as:
Malaysian Fire Frog
This species is placed in genus Hylarana by some authorities.
These frogs were once considered to be the same species as the very similar-looking Striped Stream Frog, but differences in their calls gave them away. Then the frogologists realized that the stripeys were found at lower elevation and in different habitats than the potties. Then they realized that they do have a visual distinction: the stripeys have a continuous light stripe starting at the snout, going over the eye, and extending to the rear, whereas the spotties have a broken stripe or none at all.
- Inger, R. F., Stuebing, R. B., Grafe, T. U., Dehling, J. M. 2017. A Field Guide to the Frogs of Borneo, Third Edition
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Victoria: Moody’s has affirmed British Columbia’s Aaa (stable) long-term credit rating, citing the Province’s prudent fiscal management and planning, and strong and diversified economy, Finance Minister Carole James said.
“Moody’s affirmation of our Aaa rating is further validation that our plan to make life more affordable, improve services and create good jobs for people is prudent and fiscally sustainable,” James said. “Moody’s rating signals confidence in our province, and in the future of our strong economy.”
Moody’s states that “British Columbia’s economic strength including strong GDP growth and low unemployment, along with a level of taxation that is at the lower end of Canadian provinces, represent important credit positive elements of the Aaa rating.”
The report also states that British Columbia’s “… wide diversification of sectors and markets reduces the vulnerability of the provincial economy from sector-specific or trading partner-specific shocks, including uncertainty with U.S. trade policies and NAFTA re-negotiations.”
British Columbia is the only province rated triple-A with all three international credit rating agencies: Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch.
The domestic rating agency Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) affirmed B.C.’s AA (high) credit rating in April 2018. British Columbia is DBRS’ highest-rated province in Canada.
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The Words is a movie about writers and writing. Not a very good one, alas. The basic plot is straightforward: an unsuccessful writer comes across a manuscript in an old briefcase he buys in Paris. The manuscript is brilliant. He passes it off as his own and becomes famous. Then the real author confronts him, and complications ensue.
Except they don’t, really. The complications are actually in the narrative structure. The unsuccessful writer (played by Bradley Cooper, of all people) is just a character in a novel written by a successful novelist (played by Dennis Quaid, of all people), who is narrating the story to a rapt audience. By the end we are made to wonder if the successful novelist is really writing about an episode in his own writing career–did he, too, get his start by stealing someone else’s work? The writers seem to think it’s sufficient to hint at this possibility without resolving the question. I guess they deserve some credit for not going in for cheap melodrama. But the plot is filled with so many holes and absurdities that it doesn’t really matter. I lost interest early on.
Part of the problem is that it’s really difficult to dramatize a writer on screen. Writers, and the writing life, are just too boring. The only interesting portrayal I can recall is in The Wonder Boys. Let me know if I’ve missed any.
But I did find the movie’s central premise poignant. In this post I pondered Oliver Sacks’s self-threat to commit suicide if he didn’t finish a book in ten days, and I felt a twinge of sympathy. Here I pondered a young writer who evidently plagiarized parts of her first novel, and I felt a twinge of sympathy. In the movie, the unsuccessful writer has poured three years of his life into a novel that is supposedly pretty good but completely unsaleable. Now he risks his career, his self-respect and, ultimately, his marriage to achieve what he has always dreamed of–to win the awards, to be on the front page of the Times book review, to be something more than just another unsuccessful writer with a boring job at a publishing house, his nose pressed up against the window as he gazed in at the powerful and the talented and the just plain lucky. And I suppose yet again I felt a twinge of sympathy. If only the movie had made more of that . . . | <urn:uuid:9e92cd3f-ec53-490e-a062-da32f6ffb02e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://richardbowker.com/2013/01/03/the-words-what-would-you-do-to-become-a-successful-novelist/?like_comment=2126&_wpnonce=76cf59bd55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.982584 | 513 | 1.5625 | 2 |
A concussion is a form of traumatic brain injury that alters the way your brain functions. They are most often caused by a blow to the head but can happen when the head or upper body are violently shaken. Concussions are very common, especially with participation in contact sports. Every concussion causes injury to the brain and this injury needs time, rest and often rehabilitation to heal properly. Most concussions are mild traumatic injuries and patients can recovery fully if guided appropriately.
One reason why people don’t realize they have had a concussion is because they don’t always cause loss of consciousness. In fact many patients don’t experience symptoms from a concussion right away. However, it’s important not to take a head injury lightly or overlook a concussion because it can effect you well into the future. Did you know that some issues like post-traumatic seizures can manifest up to 5 years after an accident? It’s also good to be aware that once you sustain a concussion, you’re at a much higher risk of future injury and impairment.
The standard of care immediately after receiving a concussion is to be removed from play and to rest. Many people will improve greatly without doing anything but active therapy will help accelerate the process. Active rehab is best because your body responds to active rehab. The old methods of keeping a concussed person in a dark room for weeks on end has actually been shown to increase disability over time. The brain and nervous system respond robustly to active recovery in response to an injury.
Because there are no well-established guidelines about the specific application of certain therapies when it comes to concussions and other head injuries, it is at the discretion of the doctor helping you and is guided by his or her clinical experience and training from those with experience. This is why it’s important to work with a practitioner who understands brain function and can offer therapies that will help a patient improve their condition. Functional neurologists are well trained in brain function and they utilize brain-based therapies.
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One World in Brussels
One World in Brussels is organized by People in Need in cooperation with the Czech Centre Brussels, the European Parliament, and the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU.
One World in Brussels takes place on April 20 – 28, 2022.
The audience in Brussels has the opportunity to watch a selection of the most important documentaries on human rights screened at One World in the Czech Republic. The screenings are followed by discussions with human rights defenders, filmmakers, politicians, and representatives of the international community of non-profit organizations. This way, One World in Brussels goes to the heart of major European institutions in order to draw attention to serious cases of human rights violations.
Main partners of the festival in Brussels include the Delegation of Prague to the EU, Representation of the South Moravian Region to the EU, Human Rights and Democracy Network, Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway, United Nations Regional Information Centre, European Partnership for Democracy, European Endowment for Democracy, and EUROPEUM.
Other partners from non-governmental and international organizations part in individual screenings and Q&As.
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New Zealanders have many things to be proud of: good living standards, increasing tolerance and diversity, and a relaxed, ‘can do’ attitude to life.
But as the American billionaire John Paul DeJoria said, “Success unshared is failure.” To be able to take part in the things that make New Zealand a great country, people need a reasonable income; but in the last 30 years, most of the income growth has gone to our richest people.
The Equality Network has established links with the Fight Inequality Alliance, which is based in the United Kingdom with a global focus.The Fight Inequality Alliance aims to bring together activists and organisations to tackle inequality globally and in countries across the world. We want to help shift power to the people to challenge the people with power. Through an inclusive consultation process, the alliance is building a Shared Vision that will articulate what we seek to achieve. Read more…
Inequality key facts:
- New Zealand has become a much more unequal place – in terms of income and wealth – over the last 30 years.
- Income is what people earn on a weekly or monthly basis, and helps them meet day-to-day needs, whereas wealth is what people own, such as houses and cars and money in the bank, and helps people plan for the future and ride out rough patches.
- From the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, New Zealand had the developed world’s biggest increase in income inequality, according to the OECD.
- Since 1984, the after-tax income of the typical person in the richest 10th of the country has doubled, increasing by around $60,000, from $59,600 to $120,500. Meanwhile the income of the typical person in the poorest 10th of the country has only risen by around 25% or $2,500, from $10,300 to $12,900. In other words, someone in the richest 10% used to earn 5-6 times as much as someone in the poorest 10%, but now they earn nine times as much.
- When it comes to wealth, according to Statistics New Zealand, the wealthiest 1% of individuals own 22% of the country’s net wealth, the wealthiest tenth own 60%, and the poorest half of the country has less than 5%.
Has inequality increased recently?
It is sometimes argued that income inequality has been stable for the last 15 years. And it is true that the biggest increase came in the 1980s and 1990s. But official reports show that inequality only fell in the 2000s because of specific policy changes, largely Working for Families; that is, it did not fall of its own accord.
In addition, virtually all the measures of inequality show a slight increase in income inequality since the global financial crisis. Consequently, while income inequality is at roughly the same level now as it was in the early 2000s, it has not been “stable” but has risen and fallen in line with policy changes. And it appears that the progress of the early 2000s is being reversed.
In terms of wealth inequality, things like the housing price boom – concentrated among the half of the population who are home-owners, and within that the quarter of the national population who are Auckland-based home-owners – appear to be worsening already large wealth imbalances.
Analysis provided to the Equality Network by Max Rashbrooke, author of Wealth and New Zealand.
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On June 30, 2022, the Leasehold Reform Act of 2022, which repealed ground rent for new leasehold properties, went into force. There has been debate over what was regarded as unjust ground rent costs on residential homes in the UK for many years.
Letting agents in Winchester talk about the implications of this act on new and existing property buyers.
What is a leasehold property?
The right to use and occupy a flat for an extended length of time, or the “term” of the lease, constitutes leasehold possession of a flat. The typical duration of this is 125 years or 99 years, during which time the property may be purchased and sold. Since the duration of the term is predetermined from the beginning, it gets shorter every year.
What does the Act mean?
New purchasers of residential leasehold property in Wales or England are exempt from paying ground rent under the Act. Leaseholders are no longer required to pay hundreds of pounds each year on newly purchased properties without any promised services. It was in conjunction with a service fee for maintaining leasehold properties and paying for items like building insurance.
What kind of properties fall under the Act’s purview?
The Act may be applied to property leases that were issued on or after 30 June.
It is rather typical for buyers to have a leasehold rather than a freehold stake in a property. Leasehold refers to the ownership of a building for a predetermined period without buying the land on which it is located. This time frame for the lease can last for up to 999 years.
Owners of leasehold properties are required to pay a variety of fees to the freeholder or landlord, including service fees and ground rent. Restrictions can also be included in leases, such as the need for authorisation before making repairs or renovations to the property.
According to the conditions of the lease, the owner is responsible for paying the service fees and ground rent on time. On failure to do this, the landlord may start forfeiture proceedings by serving the homeowner with notice and giving them a reasonable amount of time to undo the breach. The leaseholder may move to the County Court for the surrender of the lease if the homeowner does not abide by this notification. The formal notification of violation is not necessary in the case of ground rent.
The ground rent controversy
An issue with escalating ground rent expenses has emerged in recent years. It appears that freeholders discovered the possibility of a second source of income. This is often an issue for new constructions since ground rents are frequently rising in price. It might seriously affect your budget while paying the mortgage and other home expenses. Over the course of the lease, ground rent can rise over time (in certain situations, double) several times.
Although in general, leasehold residences do not cause many problems, the increase in new leasehold property transactions in 2017 was viewed as a major issue. Homeowners were forced to pay ever-increasing sums because they were trapped with houses with growing ground rents. Some ground rentals even doubled once every 10 years or more. With these restrictions, ground rent would cost a fortune. Forecasts made in 2017 indicated that by 2060, ground rent for certain homes may exceed £10,000. Homeowners are severely impacted by these expenditures and may be bound by contracts with excessive ground rentals.
Additionally, they frequently have difficulty selling their properties. This was a significant burden for many homeowners, and potential purchasers would be discouraged from purchasing such properties by attorneys. This made the properties unsellable. This also made mortgage lenders reluctant to provide financing for such leasehold properties.
To promote a sale, sellers frequently need to reduce the price of the property. Understandably, these homeowners were dissatisfied with their situation.
How will this impact my current property?
Existing leasehold property owners won’t see any changes as a result of the Act. In other words, the ground rent that was agreed upon when the property was purchased must be continued by the current leaseholders.
All leaseholders are eligible for a 50-year lease extension with no additional cost.
The new portion of the lease that extends beyond the contractual period may only charge peppercorn ground rent for non-statutory or voluntary extensions. It is usually advisable to consult a professional before extending your lease.
What can we expect from the Act?
The Act neither addresses any potential future advantages nor offers relief to individuals who are now confined to buildings with increasing ground rents.
However, owing to the government’s management of the issue, the Act is being welcomed by the industry.
Many consider this a crucial turning point in the efforts to improve the system and level the playing field for house ownership. The next era of homeowners will be able to finance their dream of buying a home more easily if these charges are eliminated.
Properties with existing ground rents will prove to be difficult to sell because purchasers can now choose to buy a rent-free ground property. Many homeowners will also have trouble remortgaging their homes or prolonging or changing their current leaseholds.
For consumers and professionals to comprehend the ramifications for real estate transactions, these radical changes to the industry must be executed in tandem with outreach and awareness-raising campaigns. A persistent reform drive is required that supports entrants to the real estate market without impeding or restricting those currently using the more traditional procedures. More steps should be requested to target residential leasehold properties, and the ground rent for all presently leased structures should be limited.
As long as you are aware of and understand your rights and duties, owning a leasehold apartment shouldn’t cause you any stress. When buying, you must ensure that your attorney thoroughly explains the lease’s terms and verifies any limitations, such as those that apply if you want to rent out the home or make changes. | <urn:uuid:ef48f9eb-fde6-499c-8d1d-e16959901293> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://feedsportal.net/does-my-leasehold-apartment-still-need-me-to-pay-ground-rent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.968864 | 1,192 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Reverse NS Lookup: Security Against DNS-Based AttacksDownload PDF
Given today’s threat landscape, known threats or those that get publicized are quite hard to protect against. However, risks that come from unknown sources are even harder to detect and block. Domain Name System (DNS)-based attacks fall into the second category for a variety of reasons, the topmost of which is that once domains are up and running, their owners put their security in the background.
There are ways to avoid becoming the next victim of a DNS-based attack, though. One of them is using a reliable reverse name server (NS) solution such as Reverse NS Lookup. But before we delve into further details, let us first discern why attackers take advantage of inherent DNS weaknesses to get to their targets.
Why Attack DNS Servers?
There are several reasons why attackers choose to go after the DNS servers of their chosen targets, which include:
Traditional Firewall Use
Traditional firewalls typically leave port 53 open. This port takes care of all DNS queries. That said, even if companies use the best firewalls money can buy, they may not always be effective in thwarting DNS-based attacks.
Securing networks against DNS-based attacks requires extremely high computing performance. As such, deep inspection may be an impractical approach as the number of distribution points will definitely rack up costs.
Any company whose DNS infrastructure gets attacked is likely to lose network connection. In that case, any attacker whose primary goal is to effectively render its target inoperational can easily do so with a successful denial-of-service (DoS) attack. The victim is sure to lose Internet connectivity, which leads to revenue loss, customer defection, and brand damage.
What Can Companies Do and How Can Reverse NS Lookup Help?
The best way to secure one’s domain against attacks is through proper DNS hygiene. Here are a few tips that can help:
Audit DNS Zones
The first thing a company has to review apart from its DNS server’s main configuration is its DNS zone, the portion of the DNS that it manages. Sadly, over time, we tend to forget about test domain names or subdomains that may run outdated software or is unsecured against attacks or has an exposed A record. An A record maps a domain name to its host’s IP address.
Reverse NS Lookup can help with this dilemma. Just run all your name servers on it to see if all of the domains and subdomains that they point to (and belong to you) are active. Some of these may no longer be in use and are thus no longer secure. Keep in mind that attackers can take control of forgotten and insufficiently protected subdomains to infiltrate your network. That said, it may be a good practice to regularly check for inactive domains and subdomains and disconnect these from your infrastructure.
Keep DNS Servers Up-to-Date
The great thing about running your own name servers is that you can configure, test, and try things that you may not be able to do when you use the name servers given by your hosting provider.
If you decide to run your own DNS servers, however, make sure that you always patch its operating system (OS) and other software to prevent attackers from exploiting gaping vulnerabilities. Also, make sure that connected domains don’t have security bugs that can negatively impact your DNS server’s performance. As has been said, Reverse NS Lookup reveals all of the domains that run on your name servers.
Get Rid of Ill-Reputed Domains
One bad apple in a basket can sadly turn all others rotten, too. When your website shares a host with a malicious domain, malware infection on one site can spread to the others. Such an instance is what security experts call a “cross-site contamination.” Cross-site contamination occurs when a site is negatively affected by neighboring sites within the same server due to poor isolation or account configuration.
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Your name servers are the key to your website’s visibility on the Internet. Without them, potential customers and site visitors in general will never be able to find you online. That’s why they’re such a tempting target for attackers who wish to cause your business or its customers harm. But just like any other part of your infrastructure, there is a way to safeguard them and, ultimately, your company from threats. The trick is to submit your DNS to a regular hygiene check with the help of solutions which include Reverse NS Lookup. | <urn:uuid:9f2cb033-b67b-4b85-81d1-ed05e0fecaca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.whoisxmlapi.com/blog/reverse-ns-lookup-security-against-dns-based-attacks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938978 | 1,019 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Despite the sun, there’s a bitter chill wind blowing on Pevensey Marshes. I asked my ewes: “How are you doing this morning?” A resounding silence followed as they warily watched my progress.
Their gaze clearly said: “If you’ve no plans to move us to fresh pasture, go away!” Just then a snipe darted out from the rushes, and in the distance a sleek looking fox decided to make himself scarce. On the Sussex Wildlife Trust ground that we graze there’s two pairs of swans that have started preparing for a new family. I have some sympathy for the teenage cygnet cruising on the river, it hasn’t clued up yet that it’s time to move on. Observing the sights and sounds of nature is one of farming’s perks.
Although I didn’t exactly apply for the job, checking livestock is my responsibility. This is at times a mixed blessing depending on the weather, my mood and what I find or should I say, can’t find. If my counting is up to scratch and all is looking good I derive much pleasure from this task. Animals abide by Sod’s Law, generally misbehaving when time is in short supply.
It’s good news when you don’t find a body, but frustrating if you can’t find missing animals. You can always console yourself by thinking that wherever they are at least they’ve got their mouths with them. There’s often a plausible reason such as gates left open; high jumpers; good swimmers; or cows cleverly hiding up their calves. Sheep are well known for their intrepid exploring skills, and we all know the grass is often greener elsewhere.
Farmers are often described as custodians of the land, but we’re not always responsible for all activities on it. A few years back I was fascinated to find a herd of 16 red deer join our marsh sheep who resolutely ignored them. A novelty, such regal magnificent creatures, but from the grazing aspect I wasn’t sorry when they moved on.
Another time we had a night visitor in a Range Rover who left his vehicle with its bonnet submerged in the dyke. We discovered later that the driver came from Essex and had been illegally removing BT copper cabling, by towing it out from ducting. Other visitors include bulls and rams, we’ve experienced both. Once I found a burnt out car in the middle of the field: if only animals could talk! Not to mention fly tipping in gateways; old tyres, mattresses, cupboards, fridges etc. Who said life in the countryside is dull?
Recent dog attacks have highlighted the catastrophic consequences caused by out of control dogs combined with irresponsible owners. Three years ago when we were busy lambing at home I dashed off to supplement feed our early lambers. These were well established, but due to lack of grass were grazing extensively on another farm. I thought it strange that the mob didn’t come running to greet me as usual. Not hungry today? They normally attempted to knock me over in their enthusiasm.
Initially I muttered, thinking they’d got out, but then I spotted the horrific carnage. Some of my biggest lambs lay dead, half mauled. I followed the trail and eventually discovered the flock still bunched, looking terrified. Not even the sight of food pacified them. The dogs were obviously long gone. Apart from the five killed there were four with puncture wounds over their shoulder and around their neck. These had to be treated and one died later from infection. Two more had been driven into the pond and drowned.
One ewe in particular was heartbroken. She’d had a bad lambing herself but with a bountiful milk supply we’d fostered a lamb onto her. She was extremely proud of this lamb which now lay dead. Her bleating was upsetting. I felt like I’d let her down by not being there to protect her from this ordeal. I was angry and disgusted by the dog owner’s ignorance.
This week I had an unexpected surprise while shifting sheep between farms. I was bringing up the stragglers when someone in a 4×4 lowered his window and leaned out to speak. I braced myself to receive some abuse. The gentleman however asked my name and then insisted upon shaking my hand, saying: “I want to thank you for your good attitude and understanding.” I was astonished as I’d no idea what he was talking about until he explained.
“We spoke on the ‘phone early on new year’s day. My daughter had put her car through your hedge!” This was an unplanned detour onto the land during the early hours. The girl miraculously escaped injury but the car and hedge didn’t look so healthy. However these can be replaced and in the past I’ve helped those who have not got off so lightly. I asked if his daughter had learnt a valuable lesson: he assured me that she had, adding that he’d taken the precaution of placing her on a plane heading for Australia. This made me smile as I hurried after my sheep. Well I’m not so old that I can’t remember being young myself.
We’re calving at the moment. We’ve put back our lambing until mid April. These days it’s difficult to predict the market: there’s little monetary reward for having early lambs while their production incurs greater costs. Fingers crossed that the sun shines and grass grows. I’m optimistically hoping to be lambing in my shirt sleeves and ditching those wellies.
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Allium is a common garden plant and wildflower plant. There are lots of varieties that can be grown easily and add a certain flair to any green environment.
Whether it is a garden, meadow, allotment, or greenhouse, there will be a sort of allium to suit.
Allium grows in all shapes and all sizes. Most types of allium yield flowers, and some even bloom vegetables, such as the onion. They are easy to look after, grow and cultivate.
As long as you are armed with the proper information regarding the subspecies, you will be able to grow your allium with little effort and lots of gains.
The Allium List
The Allium Cepa originated in Asia. It is the most common type of Allium plant grown across the world. The Allium Cepa is also known as an onion, which we are all familiar with.
This is a very common vegetable, widely used by many people. The Allium Cepa is a botanical form of this vegetable and is edible once fully matured.
When ready to pick, it will have a flower head that is green and white and bulbous.
The Allium Giganteum originated in Asia. It is one of the biggest types of Allium as reflected in its name. You may also know it as the giant onion vegetable.
You can find these commonplace in most food stores, as they have proven to be a popular and well-loved ingredient. It can grow to over a meter tall and, at its peak, has a large purple flower head that is a welcome addition to any garden patch.
The Allium Giganteum is easy to grow and can even take on a life of its own force when it takes root somewhere.
The Allium Satvium originated in Asia, as lots of different Allium types. It is now grown in large quantities all over the world.
It also goes by the name garlic and is a common ingredient in many dishes. Garlic is one of the most well known Allium plants and most grown and cultivated.
It actually has a lot of health benefits, including being a positive factor for high blood pressure and heart health.
The Allium Porum originated in Asia. It is a common plant in Asia and parts of Iran but also grown in all the Western Hemisphere as a popular food source.
You may know it by the common name, leek or wild leek. It grows in bunches in small concentrations and prefers a denser soil in order to grow to its full potential. It is considered as a scallion allium.
It does not flower in the way that other types of allium do, instead, you will find a bulb at the end of a thicker leaf formation and a thick stalk.
The Allium Schoenoprasum originated in Africa and Asia. It can now be found in many parts of the world, including all over Europe. It also goes by the more common name of Chives.
It grows in clumps and produces edible bulbs that can grow to a medium height. Chives are used in a number of common recipes and are a popular food.
It can sometimes be mistaken for its close connection, the Allium sphraerocephalon as it looks and grows similarly.
The Allium Hollandicum originated in Persia and Iran. It has spread out across Europe and can be found as far as, the Netherlands.
It has beautiful and bright purple flowers that grow their best when they have lots of access to sunshine. They prefer a dryer soil and, while they grow in clusters, don’t spread too easily.
They are not well suited to the cold and are better kept as ornamental rather than edible additions to the household.
The Allium Sphaerocephalon originated in the Northern parts of Africa. Though, it also has roots in Iran and other parts of Western Asia.
It is also known as round headed garlic or round headed leek, but it is generally agreed to be a garlic type allium. It has stunning purple flowers that are shaped, as you’d expect, as a round headed bulb.
It is safe to eat the bulb of this allium, but not the other parts. It has even been used as an insect repellent in years gone by.
The Allium Ursinum originated in Europe and also Asia. It also goes by the name of ‘ramsons’ or ‘wild garlic’, cowlick, and wild cow leek. It is widely considered to be a garlic type allium.
It grows in woodlands, where it is dark, and the soil is moist and rich. They grow best when the soil has a slight clay content.
You can spot a patch of ramsons by their white flower. It can grow rapidly and spread to a large area with little effort.
The Allium Fistulosum originated in China. It is also known as the Welsh Onion or the Japanese Bunching Onion. They are not too complicated to grow and can be eaten raw or cooked.
They are very long plants and predominantly green in their coloring. They like to grow in big clusters. You could also call this type of allium a scallion, which has a less strong taste than other types of allium.
The Allium Moly originated in the Mediterranean. It is also known as the Lily Leek and has a distinctive golden flower. It is completely edible and is even used in some types of herbal medicinal remedies.
Unlike some types of allium, the Lily Leek thrives on sunlight. They prefer warmer climates and soil with high sand content.
The Allium Cristophii originated in Persia. That is why it is also known as the Persian Star. It is now found throughout Turkey and Iran as well.
It is somewhat of a wild plant that spreads fast in the areas where it appears. You can notice the Persian Star thanks to its pale pink, and large flowering head.
This type of allium is safe to eat fresh from the ground and cooked as well.
The Allium Tricoccum originated in Northern America. It spread out across America to find a home in most states and even made its way to Canada.
It is also known colloquially as ‘Ramp’. You can eat the leaves of this allium, which is an onion variety.
The Allium Victorialis originated in Asia and Europe. It now exists all over Europe and some Asian countries. This allium is an onion variety with white, purple, or yellow flowers.
You will find it mainly in higher regions, and it does tend to spread quite rapidly once it has taken root somewhere.
These types are generally fine for human consumption but toxic to domestic pets such as cats and dogs.
The Allium Ramosum originated in the North of Asia, and Russia. It spread out to cover lots of areas in China, Siberia and even Eastern Europe.
This allium has thin leaves and white flowers and prefers to grow in higher elevations such as mountains. It is a chive variety of allium and grows in big clusters close together.
This type of allium is edible for humans.
The Allium Amplectens originated in the United States, specifically along the Western Coast. It spread out all over America and can now be found in many states, and Canada too.
This onion plant has thin leaves and is suited to wooded, dark conditions. It favors soil with high clay content and grows fast and strong.
This allium is completely safe for human consumption.
The Allium Geyeri originated in Northern America. As a species, it has spread out and now reaches the majority of the US, and even goes as far as West Canada.
This onion type blooms with a large pink flower and is suited to the rocky, dense conditions found in states such as Idaho and Texas. It spreads fast and clusters together in large formations.
Allium Geyeri can be eaten.
The Allium Validum originated in California. It is a mountain plant, that needs high elevations and rocky soil to properly grow.
You can find it in the parts of America and Canada where there are high mountain concentrations, such as British Columbia and Nevada. The Allium Validum also goes by swamp onion or wild onion.
It has a spiky looking, light purple flower head with hints of pink. This is complemented by a medium-sized green stalk. The bulb is edible.
The Allium Paradoxum originated in Asian mountain regions. It can now be found in Europe as well, and has stayed loyal to Asia. It is also known as a few flowered leek or a few flowered garlic.
It is mainly a wild plant, but can be sowed in a garden if you choose. It has thin, flimsy leaves with a white flower head. You are able to eat the leaves, the bulb, and the flower as well.
These are the most common types of allium around the world. The allium plant has many appearances. Some types have big bright flowers, some types with edible bulbs.
Overall, you will find that the majority of alliums are edible from stalk to flower, with special attention to the bulbs.
The most popular form is, of course, the common onion and garlic plants that you can find in so many popular dishes and store shelves.
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Environmental factors interact with spatial processes to determine herbaceous species richness in woody field margins
The species richness of hedges in an agricultural landscape may be determined by the environment and by the spatial processes which occur in that landscape. Here, we divided the environmental predictors into three groups: site conditions, hedge stand and landscape structure. We determined their independent and joint effects on the richness of four guilds of herbaceous species in 92 hedge stands in a north-Mediterranean intensive agricultural landscape. The fine-(at < 250 m) and broad-(> 550 m) spatial patterns of the key environmental predictors and the pure spatial effects on species richness were measured using a computation of the principal coordinates of a matrix of geographical neighbours integrated into a variation partitioning. The total explained variation of species richness among hedgerows was highest for wetland herbs (62 %), with increasing rates for rare plants (33 %), forest herbs (43 %) and arable weeds (47 %). 43-11 % of that variation was spatially structured and mostly explained by some of the key environmental predictors, such as proportion of a given landuse, presence of woody species and dead trees. This indicates that complex relationships between herbaceous species distribution and spatial processes exist in woody field margins and much of that is related to key factors which are spatially structured, both at fine or broad-scales, with implications for management and landuse planning.
Author(s): Sitzia, T; Dainese, M; McCollin, D
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The deadline is looming for organisations who want a share of £165,000 to help make Liverpool City Region a cleaner and greener place.
The funding has been made available for community and voluntary groups, schools and not-for-profit organisations, who can reduce household waste, encourage recycling and resource reuse and prevent carbon emissions. The projects will also have to demonstrate wider positive impacts on the environment, health and education.
The money is coming from the Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority and Veolia Community Fund 2021/22, which has been running annually since 2006.
The deadline for applications is Sunday 14th March 2021.
Chairperson of Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA), Councillor Tony Concepcion, said: “Giving local groups the opportunity to get involved in looking after their environment can only bring benefits to all and can help us appreciate items as valuable resources rather than something which otherwise might be just thrown away.”
Successful applicants can be awarded up to £30,000 for schemes which operate across all six districts in Merseyside and Halton, and between £1000 and £8,000 for projects which work solely at one local authority level.
Bids must tackle one or more of the four priority household waste materials which have been identified by MRWA as key, namely Food, Plastics, Textiles and Furniture. An analysis of waste in the region highlighted that a greater amount of these materials could be re-used or recycled. Projects can also include other household waste materials, for example paper, card, metals.
Previous Community Fund projects have included local recycling guidebooks, cookery clubs to improve people’s diet and reduce food waste, restoring old furniture to sell for charity and refurbishing unwanted rugs for resale.
Interested groups can download the application pack via the MRWA website www.merseysidewda.gov.uk. The deadline for submissions is 11.59pm on Sunday 14th March.
Successful projects should receive the funding by mid May 2021 and will have ten months to deliver their schemes by 31st March 2022. Organisations interested in this year’s Community Fund can:
Download the application pack – https://www.merseysidewda.gov.uk/waste-strategy/mrwa-and-veoila-community-fund-2021-2022-launches/
Contact the Authority:
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS:
Sunday 14th March 2021, 11.59pm.
Note to editors
Image caption: Previous Fund recipients at an event in Gillmoss Recycling Discovery Centre, Liverpool
The impact of the 2019/20 Fund saw 11 projects divert 324 tonnes of material from disposal, 17,910 people directly engaged, participation of 34,490 volunteer hours, 409 events held, 388 training sessions take place, and a 324 tonne reduction in CO2 equivalent emissions.
The Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority and Veolia Community Fund is open to community and voluntary sector groups, faith groups, not for profit social enterprises and schools in Merseyside and Halton.
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Governor Newsom has been outspokenly critical of Christians and politicians who advocate for pro-family policies, to the point of banning state-funded travel to certain states. However, his rules are so absurd that he isn’t even willing to follow them himself.
California’s AB 1887 states that “California must take action to avoid supporting or financing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.”
It prohibits California tax-payer travel to a list of states with laws that “discriminate” against gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender residents.
The travel ban applies to one-third of America, and four states were recently added due to their laws protecting women’s sports.
Despite this law and his grandiose declarations that paint Christians in red states as homophobic, Newsom vacationed in one of the states listed in the travel ban.
Newsom and his family traveled to Montana on July 1. The governor’s office announced that he would be out of state, but did not initially disclose his location. While there are seven exceptions outlined in the mandate, none of them apply to Newsom’s situation.
Montana was added to California’s travel ban as a result of two bills. The first prevents transgender women from competing in school sports against biological women and the second protects religious liberty and allows businesses to refuse to provide services that run contrary to their deeply held beliefs, including services for same-sex weddings.
According to the California Attorney General’s office, the ban “is about aligning our dollars with our values.” Newsom’s actions, however, tell a different story.
Newsom has supported this travel ban since it was implemented in 2016, but that didn’t stop him from taking his taxpayer-funded security detail with him on vacation to a banned state.
Several Republican leaders took note of Newsom’s hypocrisy and rightfully called him out.
“Running off to Montana and not telling anyone just proves that he has no regard for his own rules,” said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Hallie Balch.
Newsom’s rules are so absurd that he can’t even follow them. This was clear when he violated his own COVID-19 protocols, appeared maskless for photos at a sporting event while enforcing mask mandates, or sent his children to private school while the public ones remained closed.
Californians deserve better than a hypocritical leader who restricts freedoms while he enjoys them.
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Endurance athletes always go the extra mile—whether it’s adding that extra scoop of protein powder to their morning smoothie or pushing themselves to hold a plank for an additional interval. But, one place where athletes often slack is when it comes to getting adequate sleep.
While an early morning run will certainly refresh your mind and prime your muscles for the day to come, getting that extra hour of sleep might be exactly what you need to propel yourself through workday and workout activities with ease.
To that end, without high-quality sleep, nearly every aspect of athletic performance (and your overall health) may suffer. To revitalize your sleep plan, follow this guide as we explore the connection between sleep and athletic performance and how you can set yourself up for success on and off the field.
- Poor sleep negatively impacts athletic performance, affecting endurance, accuracy, and reaction time.
- A lack of quality sleep may also make you more prone to injuries and illness.
- Adding CBD oil to your bedtime routine may help support healthy, restful sleep for improved health and athletic performance.
#1 Poor Sleep Can Lead to Less Stamina
Have you ever gone out for a run after a week of poor sleep? You’ll meet your pace and distance goals, but you may find yourself breathing extra heavily and feeling lethargic—even with the cool morning air brushing against your face.
The lack of pep in your step can often be traced back to how well you slept the night before.
According to the American College of Sports Medicine, sleep deprivation can impact your endurance, as demonstrated by a(n):
- Decreased ability to complete a certain distance in training
- Increase in perceived exertion, even during easier training
- Decrease in time to exhaustion
Interestingly, these changes in endurance were observed without a reduction in oxygen consumption or in the body’s ability to regulate its temperature. This may indicate that your brain and body connection (hindered by poor sleep) may be the culprit, rather than muscular failure.
#2 Your Accuracy and Reaction Time Suffers When You Lose Sleep
Endurance athletes aren’t the only ones who struggle when they don’t get enough sleep. Athletes who play sports where accuracy and reaction time are critical, such as tennis, basketball, and baseball, will have trouble when they don’t snooze restfully, too.
The skills needed to excel in these sports require significant hand-eye coordination. When you’re tired, your body is working hard to stay awake and perform necessary functional tasks, such as:
This can lead to cognitive impairment that slows down your reaction time. That’s why it’s so dangerous to drive a car when you’re exhausted—you can’t respond to hazards as quickly as you would if you had a restful night of sleep. The same is true of throwing a baseball with pinpoint accuracy or swinging a tennis racket to reach a match point.
While sleep deprivation slows your reaction time and throws off your accuracy, a little extra sleep can have the opposite effect. A study in the journal “Physiology and Behavior” observed that an increase of up to two hours of sleep improved the accuracy of athletes’ tennis serves by 35 to 41%. Reaching a proper sleep amount on a consistent basis is crucial for your cognitive performance.
#3 Your Nutrition Choices Are Impacted By Your Sleep
The effects of sleep deprivation extend beyond your performance to how you fuel up for your athletic pursuits—athletes need to eat a balanced diet of nutritionally dense foods for optimal performance.
However, if you’ve ever had a terrible night of sleep, you may find yourself reaching for sugar or fat-packed foods the next day to provide your body with an early morning energy boost.
There are several reasons your nutrition suffers when you don’t get adequate sleep, including:
- A lack of sleep alters your appetite-regulating hormones
- Your brain tells your body it needs high-calorie foods to counteract exhaustion
- In turn, you crave foods high in sugar and fat
If you’re consistently eating foods that don’t contain the nutrients, vitamins, and minerals your body needs for performance, you may struggle to meet your athletic goals once you hit the gym.
#4 Your Muscles Need Sleep to Recover from Hard Efforts
Poor sleep leads to poor nutrition, which can negatively impact your muscles’ ability to repair themselves after strenuous strength-training exercise, which can create small tears in your muscles.
As such, in order to build muscle, your body must repair these tears. This process typically occurs as you sleep, when your body produces growth hormones that promote recovery. If you don’t get enough rest, you’ll wake up with muscles that are:
- Sore and stiff
- Not ready for new activity
- Not completely repaired
Sleep recovery and athletic performance are intertwined—when one component suffers, it’ll be more difficult to achieve the athletic progress you desire.
#5 Not Enough Sleep May Lead to More Injuries
When you don’t get enough sleep and your body is unable to repair itself, you may be prone to more athletic injuries. For example, if you’re a cyclist who’s struggling to stay upright due to a hamstring injury, getting a few extra hours of sleep or giving yourself a rest day can help to repair your muscles and get you back on the bike.
According to the American College of Sports Medicine, athletes who get 7 hours of sleep or fewer per night for periods of 14 days or more are up to 1.7 times more likely to sustain a musculoskeletal injury. Of course, sleep isn’t the only factor that makes an athlete more likely to get injured but it can contribute to weaker muscular systems.
#6 Sleeping Too Little Impacts Your Immune System
A lack of sleep may also contribute to a weakened immune system. Your body doesn’t just repair muscle fibers when you sleep, it also refortifies your immune defense systems. When your immune system isn’t able to recuperate adequately, you’re more susceptible to:
- Bacterial and viral infections
- Muscular inflammation
- Chronic health conditions
- Memory and cognitive problems
Like your muscles, your immune system needs you to rest so that it can prepare itself for success the next day.
#7 Less Sleep Leads to Daytime Tiredness
Athletes have more than their sport to worry about each day—in addition to a sweat-producing workout, they must also manage workday responsibilities, family life, and everyday tasks. When you don’t get enough sleep, you’ll struggle to:
- Concentrate on daily work tasks
- Focus on things that require your attention, such as driving
- Remember certain important things
- Stay on track with your nutrition
As you can see, sleep deprivation impacts every aspect of your life including athletic performance. It can also be dangerous when it interferes with your ability to focus on driving and other tasks.
#8 Athletes May Need More Sleep Than Non-athletes
You’ve probably been told that 8 hours of sleep per night is the magic number. While it’s true that this is a good target for most people, it’s not universally applicable. As such, most athletes should aim for between 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night. And adolescent athletes should get at least 10 hours of sleep for optimal performance on and off the field.
However, the more training you put in, the more sleep you may need for maximum recovery. To that end, athletes who train for 4 or more hours per day should get between 10 to 12 hours of sleep per night to allow their bodies to fully recover. As an athlete, the importance of establishing healthy sleep habits can ultimately help you keep up with your physical fitness and sports performance.
Can Naps Help You Meet Your Sleep Goals?
If you struggle to meet your sleep goals at night, naps may help make up for missed sleep. However, naps should be kept to no more than 30 minutes to avoid falling into a deep sleep, which can disrupt your sleep cycle and cause you to wake up feeling groggy.
Furthermore, naps shouldn’t take the place of getting enough sleep at night—your body requires a combination of REM and deep sleep to function properly.
How to Prioritize Sleep for Peak Athletic Performance
Now that you know how important sleep is to your performance, let’s look at how you can revamp your sleep and recovery routine. There are four key habits you can adopt:
- Avoid caffeine late in the day – It can be tempting to sip a cup of coffee or black tea when you’re tired at 2 P.M. However, consuming caffeine late in the day will only disrupt your ability to sleep. This can set you up for a night of tossing and turning and a morning workout that’s tainted with feelings of fatigue. Considering the connection between CBD and cortisol, reach for a trusted CBD product for a boost in mental clarity as opposed to a latte late in the day,
- Stick to a regular sleep schedule – Humans are creatures of habit. When you go to sleep at the same time every night, your brain becomes accustomed to that schedule. You should also try to get up at the same time each morning. This helps train your body to recognize when it’s time to shut down and recover.
- Curate a relaxing sleeping environment – Your bedroom should be reserved for sleep. Keep the room dark, quiet, and cool to maximize conditions for sleep without disruptions. You shouldn’t have a television, laptop, or another device near where you sleep either, as blue light can suppress the secretion of melatonin.
- Design a relaxing pre-bed routine with CBD – The actions you take before you get into bed can also impact your sleep quality. Crafting a pre-bed routine that primes your body for relaxation is important for healthy and restful sleep. Drawing a warm bath, eating CBD gummies, and playing calming music can help you catch those Z’s and rest easy.
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After the invention of infinitesimal calculus, rational mechanics is the grand affair of eighteenth-century mathematics. As Jean Bernoulli said, armed with the differential equations of the new calculus mathematicians ventured to the explore ‘an unknown continent’. They approached and solved very difficult problems such as those of the isochrone and the brachistochrone, which are among the most well-known examples. Not only rigid body mechanics, but fluid dynamics as well were subjected to the laws of the new calculus. According to D’Alembert, the successes justified the ‘faith’ in the calculus, but at same time they posed new problems. The integration of the wave equation (that is, the vibrating string problem) raised ticklish questions that divided the opinions of mathematicians for a long time: What are the functions? How are they represented analytically? On the other hand, the calculus runs up against insurmountable problems. How is three-body motion described with respect to the universal law of gravity? Neither Euler and Lagrange went beyond the particular solutions. At the end of the century, analytical mechanics and celestial mechanics were given a systematic exposition in important treatises of Lagrange and Laplace. What meaning and the significance does the Newtonian model have for the explication of natural phenomena? How can the actions of numerous ‘fluids’ which concern the physical explanation of electrostatic or magnetic phenomena and of the propagation of heat be considered? How can they be described by the instrument of analysis? The new century opens with Fourier’s research on heat; those concerning the potential culminate in the works of Gauss and Dirichlet. What are the relationships between the new physical theories and the contemporaneous invention of new tools of geometry and real and complex analysis? Are successful descriptions of natural phenomena such as mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism which characterise the mathematical physics of the nineteenth century a guarantee of solidity of the foundations of analysis or, more generally, of mathematics? Or is it precisely because of those successes that the problem of establishing stable and rigorous foundations for mathematics is once again examined with vitality? Of course, the workshop does not aim at providing complete and exhaustive answers to the many questions which the development of mechanics and of mathematical physics raise in the period under consideration. Its aim is to give to scholars from Italy and abroad an occasion to discuss and to compare their opinions and research. In this way we hope to contribute to the clarification of some aspects of the theme from a mathematical, historical and epistemological point of view. | <urn:uuid:b157a57e-f453-43f7-bfcc-ff1ec4f4f32f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crm.sns.it/event/93/?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942127 | 528 | 3.484375 | 3 |
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A non-profit education center in North Naples has extended its hours amid the pandemic.
Gargiulo Education Center helps under-served and at-risk children in Collier County, specifically those who are in farming families and would otherwise be home alone.
Normally, kids would start to trickle in around 2 p.m. just after school gets out, but now the center opens the doors at 11:30 a.m.
Since they have 70 kids coming here for care on a daily basis, social distancing is a must.
The Gargiulo Education Center said they’ve added six-foot markings on the floors and sidewalks so students are always six feet apart.
And since there’s limited space inside, some kids are set up outside under tents and fans.
It may not be ideal, but Mary Asta, the center’s director and board member, said they are doing anything and everything to help families and students put food on the table and complete virtual assignments.
“Their parents are farmers. I mean they are working in the fields, picking the much-needed vegetables and crops that need to be picked. Without them, there wouldn’t be certain vegetables, that’s for sure. And the kids are by themselves and many of them don’t have internet,” Asta said.
She said she’s looking for more teachers since many of them are self-isolating for their own health and safety.
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The summer of volcanoes keep on going! If you have any questions about volcanoes that you would like me to address, tweet them to me (@eruptionsblog) with the hashtag #sofv or email me at the same username on gmail. Today’s question might help you figure out which late summer vacation you’re thinking of.
Today’s question comes from Dale:
We’ve heard a lot about the hotspot under Yellowstone lately. And the volcanic activity in the Cascades is well known. My question is, where are other “hotspots” in North America that have potential for eruptions that aren’t as well known or recognized?
That’s a great question! Yellowstone and the Cascades are getting a lot of attention when it comes to North American volcanoes, but they’re certainly not the only places we might find active volcanoes across the continent. Now, I can’t highlight all of the “hidden” volcanic areas in the United States, but I will mention a few gems that most people don’t realize are potentially active volcanic areas. You can check out the USGS Volcanic Hazard Program map of the volcanoes it monitors (which includes the status of many of these volcanoes – all currently green).
Valles Caldera, New Mexico
You wouldn’t think a caldera – the largest volcanic landform created by an explosive eruption – could be a “hidden gem”. However, although many people have heard of Yellowstone or Long Valley, the Valles Caldera in New Mexico is just as impressive as either of these behemoths. This caldera is part of a chain of geologically young (less than 5 million years old) volcanic rocks across the Jemez Mountains. Valles has experienced one of the largest known explosive eruptions in the past million years: the famous Bandelier Tuff, which erupted about 1.25 million years ago and spilled over 300 cubic kilometers of ash and volcanic debris in the southwest. Since this massive eruption, smaller domes have formed, some around 40,000 years ago. It’s new domes like these that are the most likely future activity (if any) at the Valles Caldera.
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The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book is the most important manual used to accomplish the goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth, a mission first set out by by President John F. Kennedy in a speech to a joint session of Congress on 25 May 1961.
The leaders of NASA, the federal agency established in October 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik satellite, had advised Kennedy that an unprecedented national programme involving billions of dollars, industrial enterprises and hundreds of thousands of people would have to be brought to bear — and fast — if the goal of the moon landing by the end of the decade was going to be met.
The Apollo programme would also be the largest non-military technological endeavour ever undertaken by the United States; only the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb was comparable.
In the summer of 1969, nearly six years after President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Commander Neil A. Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. ‘Buzz’ Aldrin made the historic landing on the Moon, setting Eagle down on the Sea of Tranquility, a large, dark, basaltic plain formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. They had landed with only around 25 seconds of fuel left.
The Timeline Book was placed precisely between the two men as Armstrong uttered his historic first words back to Mission Control after landing: ‘Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.’ Within moments, Aldrin had written Eagle’s coordinates in the Sea of Tranquility on page 10 of the book — the first writing by a human being on a celestial body other than Earth.
After checkout, Armstrong headed down the LM ladder and set foot on the Moon’s surface, telling an estimated 530 million people around the world who were watching on television or listening on radio that it was ‘one small step for [a] man — one giant leap for mankind’.
The Timeline Book narrates the entire Eagle voyage from inspection, undocking, lunar surface descent and ascent, to the rendezvous with Michael Collins aboard the Command Module in lunar orbit. The book contains nearly 150 annotations and completion checkmarks made in real-time by Aldrin and Armstrong. Traces of what appears to be lunar dust are on the transfer list pages that detail the movement of lunar rock samples and equipment from Eagle to Columbia.
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No more significant document of space exploration history is ever likely to be created, because future manned missions will be more fully digitised and not leave a comparable human trace.
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Durban - The ANC has reiterated its call for the American government to unconditionally lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed on Cuba more than 60 years ago.
The appeal comes as the ANC this week joined millions of Africans in the SADC region and people of Cuba Commemorating the 34th Anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale that took place on 23 March 1988.
The party said the 38th summit of the Southern African Development Community, held in Namibia by all the regional heads of states, declared the date as Southern Africa Liberation Day, marking the victory of the Angolan Army, Namibia’s Swapo forces and the Cuban Armed forces against South Africa’s apartheid army.
ANC International Relations Subcommittee chairperson Lindiwe Zulu said Africans, and South Africans, would forever be indebted to former Cuban president Fidel Castro and the Cuban people.
“We owe a huge debt for the decisive role he and his comrades played in liberating us from colonial oppression. The ANC therefore calls on the USA to unconditionally lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years.
“The blockade is the main obstacle to development of the Cuban nation. We call upon all progressIve organisations, and the people of South Africa in particular and Africa in general to get behind Cuba in ending this criminal blockade,” Zulu said.
She said that despite Cuba being a small Island nation with a population of some 11 million citizens, it contributed immensely to the liberation of oppressed people in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa.
Zulu said thousands of Cuban soldiers died in defence of people’s right to self-determination in those countries. Nowhere else in the world was the Cuban solidarity as well expressed and more pronounced than during the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola.
“The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale changed the course of history and is credited with ushering in the first round of trilateral negotiations, which secured the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola and Namibia.
“The Cuban attack on apartheid South Africa took the white minority government by surprise. It turned the tide of the Angolan war in favour of Angola’s liberation movement,” Zulu said.
She said the military success against apartheid South Africa led to the negotiations in London on June 4, 1988, between Angola, Cuba, South Africa and the US.
“Reading the balance of forces, the apartheid government gave up and, in December 1988, accepted Cuban demands to abandon Angola and facilitate Namibian independence.
“What motivated Cuba was not only its commitment to the liberation of Africans from colonial occupation, but the need to fight imperialism and its dominance throughout the world. By sharing their doctors with us, giving us resources and training many of our soldiers, Cuba made our liberation movement stronger than the enemy forces.”
Zulu said that for Cuba to sacrifice so much with so few was the greatest gift for humankind, and for Cuba to share its limited financial and human resources to fight a war in defence of the colonised people on another continent was by no means a small feat.
“As we salute Cuban fallen heroes whose names are now inscribed in the monument of Freedom Park in Tshwane, we must remember that early in the pandemic in April 2020, Cuba sent over 200 doctors to South Africa, Including community health and infectious disease specialists,” Zulu concluded.
Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said March 23, 1988 was a turning point in the fight against the apartheid regime.
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Contractors and project managers may use technology to make more prompt and informed choices based on labor and cost data. Users may make real-time revisions to the building model using intelligent modeling to evaluate how changes will affect cost and labor.
Similarly, How will technology change the construction industry?
Construction technology has revolutionized practically every aspect of the industry. The materials utilized are one of the most visible areas of change. Innovative procedures such as concrete recycling are now possible thanks to new technology. Scientists are also working hard to produce more environmentally friendly materials.
Also, it is asked, Which technologies are coming up in the construction industry?
Apps for data collection Apps are becoming increasingly common in the construction industry, and for good reason. Drones. The most extensively utilized new construction technology is drones. Software for BIM (Building Information Modeling). Wearables and Virtual Reality 3D printing is a technique for creating three-dimensional objects. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term that refers to a
Secondly, What is the role of technology in construction?
Construction Technology Helps You Make Better Decisions Designers, contractors, architects, and other decision-makers may realistically modify the design of a structure using intelligent modeling. This technology also provides data on the potential effects on labor and material costs, as well as time restrictions.
Also, How can the construction industry be improved?
10 helpful hints for increasing construction productivity All project teams have access to a single source of truth. Maintain a current inventory. Data and analytics should be used more effectively. Encourage people to work from home and take breaks. Create a workplace culture that is goal-oriented. Take use of mobile technologies. Pay special attention to staff training.
People also ask, What will the future of construction look like?
We may assume that the future of building will be defined by more sophisticated construction technology and improved site efficiency based on the majority of these advancements. These technological breakthroughs will drastically reduce construction casualties while also allowing for more stunning civil engineering constructions.
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What will the construction industry look like in 2030?
From 2020 to 2030, North American construction production will increase by 32%, or $580 billion, to $2.4 trillion. Western Europe is predicted to rise by 23% between 2020 and 2030, bringing total building production to US$2.5 trillion in 2030.
What is the biggest challenge facing the construction industry today?
The Construction Industry’s 5 Biggest Issues Productivity is low. This is caused by a variety of factors, including the rising cost of materials. Poor project outcomes. Shortages of skilled labor. Efficiency and sustainability.
What is digital technology in construction?
Digital technology has ushered in a cultural revolution in the construction industry, and it consists of a collection of tools that utilize and modify digital data to help develop, deliver, and run the built environment. These are some of the tools: Drones are being used to help with site surveys. Remote meeting facilitation (eg Skype).
How can leverage technology make construction project more efficient?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are utilized to increase safety and efficiency via on-site sensors, intelligent software, and robotics. Drones and other smart equipment may be used to deliver digital photographs, which are then compared to 3D models, BIM, and other data to help avoid project flaws.
Why is the construction industry so inefficient?
One of the causes for the industry’s lack of productivity, according to McKinney, is that construction now has a “inherently hostile mentality” as compared to its early days. Until “approximately 100 years ago,” the roles of architects and contractors were traditionally merged into one design company.
Why construction industry productivity is declining?
The drop in skilled labor intensity caused by a change in the mix of production from large-scale commercial, industrial, and institutional projects to single-family residences was the most significant reason in this fall.
Why is the construction industry growing?
The publisher anticipates the development of industrial spaces to rise over the next four to eight quarters, assisting the expansion of the total construction sector in the short to medium term, as demand for industrial spaces continues to grow in the United States.
What will construction look like in 2050?
In a research issued this year, the construction giant Balfour Beatty claimed that “the building site of 2050 would be human-free.” “Robots will work together in groups to construct sophisticated structures out of dynamic new materials. The build’s components will self-assemble.
How has Covid 19 changed the construction industry?
According to GlobalData, global construction production is likely to shrink by 3.1 percent in 2020, a substantial decrease from the 3.1 percent gain predicted before COVID-19. Production is expected to fall by 7.3 percent in Western Europe, 1.7 percent in North America, and 0.9 percent in North-East Asia.
Will construction stop during a recession?
There are a number of sectors that may readily weather a downturn. During challenging circumstances, some people even prosper. The building business is not normally one of them, according to history. Construction is, in fact, one of the sectors that suffers the most during economic downturns.
What are the 4 key strategic challenges facing the construction industry today?
The Construction Industry Faces Four Major Challenges There are labor shortages. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic epidemic, the construction sector lost over a million jobs from February to March 2020. Productivity Levels That Haven’t Changed in Years. Safety. Adoption of new technology.
What are the biggest issues in the construction industry?
Construction Industry Marketing Opportunities and Challenges The Pandemic of Covid-19. Adoption of technology is slow. Skills are in short supply. Worker Protection. Production Levels That Haven’t Changed.
What are the main problems in construction industry?
Everywhere, the building business encounters issues and obstacles. These obstacles and challenges, on the other hand, are evident in developing nations with a general state of socioeconomic stress, chronic resource shortages, institutional inadequacies, and a general incapacity to cope with major concerns.
Why does the construction industry need digitalisation?
Construction firms may level up their operations by avoiding inefficient methods and investing in digitalization, upgrading processes and systems to boost staff productivity, lower total costs, and, as a result, increase profitability.
How will the digital technologies shape the business of construction in the future?
Higher profit margins, lower costs, improved time efficiency, cooperation, and productivity – digital technology has an impact on the construction sector that it has never had before. It is no longer an option; it is gradually becoming a necessity.
What is digital transformation in construction?
In the construction industry, digital transformation entails using the potential of digital technology to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Digital technologies may be implemented at the management level of a construction company as well as at the field level of a project.
Why is the construction industry so corrupt?
Projects are not completed on a regular basis. Large building projects, particularly infrastructure ones, are uncommon. The stakes are enormous, and winning a project may mean big profit margins or even a contractor’s existence – which is why many contractors are motivated to use bribery to acquire their jobs.
How productive is the construction industry?
Over the last two decades, global construction worker productivity growth has averaged 1% per year, compared to 2.8 percent for the global economy and 3.6 percent for manufacturing.
What happened construction productivity?
Similarly, they discovered that productivity in the construction of industrial buildings increased by over 70% from the mid-2000s to 2015, whereas productivity in road and bridge construction decreased by 27%!
How can construction industry improve Labour productivity?
The emphasis on the essential procedures in an attempt to decrease project cost overrun and project completion delay, therefore enhancing productivity and overall project performance, requires knowledge and awareness of the numerous aspects impacting construction labor productivity.
Is construction labor productivity really declining?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), construction productivity peaked in 1968 and has been declining ever since, with the exception of a brief and minor uptick between 1974 and 1976. Between 1968 and 1978, real production (value added) per hour in construction declined by 2.4 percent each year.
Why innovation is important in construction industry?
A corporation with a standardized approach to innovation management may gain considerable benefits: Efforts to improve activity organization. In the medium and long run, the company’s competitiveness will improve. Improved alignment of the company’s management practices with its overall strategy.
Why does construction industry need innovation?
To create a difference in the final product we offer, we must utilize innovation as an accelerator of change to modify conventional traits that hinder performance and leave the end consumer disillusioned with what they have gotten.
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Beyond the silver firs I find the two-leaved pine (Pinus contorta, var. Murrayana) forms the bulk of the forest up to an elevation of ten thousand feet or more—the highest timber-belt of the Sierra. I saw a specimen nearly five[Pg 163] feet in diameter growing on deep, well-watered soil at an elevation of about nine thousand feet. The form of this species varies very much with position, exposure, soil, etc. On stream-banks, where it is closely planted, it is very slender; some specimens seventy-five feet high do not exceed five inches in diameter at the ground, but the ordinary form, as far as I have seen, is well proportioned. The average diameter when full grown at this elevation is about twelve or fourteen inches, height forty or fifty feet, the straggling branches bent up at the end, the bark thin and bedraggled with amber-colored resin. The pistillate flowers form little crimson rosettes a fourth of an inch in diameter on the ends of the branchlets, mostly hidden in the leaf-tassels; the staminate are about three eighths of an inch in diameter, sulphur-yellow, in showy clusters, giving a remarkably rich effect—a brave, hardy mountaineer pine, growing cheerily on rough beds of avalanche boulders and joints of rock pavements, as well as in fertile hollows, standing up to the waist in snow every winter for centuries, facing a thousand storms and blooming every year in colors as bright as those worn by the sun-drenched trees of the tropics.The snow on the high mountains is melting fast, and the streams are singing bank-full, swaying softly through the level meadows and bogs, quivering with sun-spangles, swirling in pot-holes, resting in deep pools, leaping, shouting in wild, exulting energy over rough boulder dams, joyful, beautiful in all their forms. No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons. This quick, inevitable interest attaching to everything seems marvelous until the hand of God becomes visible; then it seems reasonable that what interests Him may well interest us. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher[Pg 158] we go; for the mountains are fountains—beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.
The chaparral-covered hill-slope to the south of the camp, besides furnishing nesting-places for countless merry birds, is the home and hiding-place of the curious wood rat (Neotoma), a handsome, interesting animal, always attracting attention wherever seen. It is more like a squirrel than a rat, is much larger, has delicate, thick, soft fur of a bluish slate color, white on the belly; ears large, thin, and translucent; eyes soft, full, and liquid; claws slender, sharp as needles; and as his limbs are strong, he can climb about as well as a squirrel. No rat or squirrel has so innocent a look, is so easily approached, or expresses such confidence in one’s good intentions. He seems too fine for the thorny thickets he inhabits, and his hut also is as unlike himself as may be, though softly furnished inside. No other animal inhabitant of these mountains builds houses so large and striking in appearance. The traveler coming suddenly upon a group of them for the first time will not be likely to forget them. They are built of all kinds of sticks, old rotten pieces picked up anywhere, and green prickly twigs bitten from the nearest bushes, the whole mixed with miscellaneous odds and ends of everything movable, such as bits of cloddy earth, stones, bones, deerhorn, etc., piled up in a conical mass as if it were got ready for burning. Some of[Pg 72] these curious cabins are six feet high and as wide at the base, and a dozen or more of them are occasionally grouped together, less perhaps for the sake of society than for advantages of food and shelter. Coming through the dense shaggy thickets of some lonely hillside, the solitary explorer happening into one of these strange villages is startled at the sight, and may fancy himself in an Indian settlement, and begin to wonder what kind of reception he is likely to get. But no savage face will he see, perhaps not a single inhabitant, or at most two or three seated on top of their wigwams, looking at the stranger with the mildest of wild eyes, and allowing a near approach. In the centre of the rough spiky hut a soft nest is made of the inner fibres of bark chewed to tow, and lined with feathers and the down of various seeds, such as willow and milkweed. The delicate creature in its prickly, thick-walled home suggests a tender flower in a thorny involucre. Some of the nests are built in trees thirty or forty feet from the ground, and even in garrets, as if seeking the company and protection of man, like swallows and linnets, though accustomed to the wildest solitude. Among housekeepers Neotoma has the reputation of a thief, because he carries away everything transportable to his queer hut,—knives, forks, combs,[Pg 73] nails, tin cups, spectacles, etc.,—merely, however, to strengthen his fortifications, I guess. His food at home, as far as I have learned, is nearly the same as that of the squirrels,—nuts, berries, seeds, and sometimes the bark and tender shoots of the various species of ceanothus.
The lake was named for one of the chiefs of the Yosemite tribe. Old Tenaya is said to have been a good Indian to his tribe. When a company of soldiers followed his band into Yosemite to punish them for cattle-stealing and other crimes, they fled to this lake by a trail that leads out of the upper end of the valley, early in the spring, while the snow was still deep; but being pursued, they lost heart and surrendered. A fine monument the old man has in this bright lake, and likely to last a long time, though lakes die as well as Indians, being gradually filled with detritus carried in by the feeding streams, and to some extent also by snow avalanches and rain and wind. A considerable portion of the Tenaya basin is already changed into a forested flat and[Pg 166] meadow at the upper end, where the main tributary enters from Cathedral Peak. Two other tributaries come from the Hoffman Range. The outlet flows westward through Tenaya Cañon to join the Merced River in Yosemite. Scarce a handful of loose soil is to be seen on the north shore. All is bare, shining granite, suggesting the Indian name of the lake, Pywiack, meaning shining rock. The basin seems to have been slowly excavated by the ancient glaciers, a marvelous work requiring countless thousands of years. On the south side an imposing mountain rises from the water’s edge to a height of three thousand feet or more, feathered with hemlock and pine; and huge shining domes on the east, over the tops of which the grinding, wasting, molding glacier must have swept as the wind does to-day.August 7. Early this morning bade good-bye to the bears and blessed silver fir camp, and moved slowly eastward along the Mono Trail. At sundown camped for the night on one of the many small flowery meadows so greatly enjoyed on my excursion to Lake Tenaya. The dusty, noisy flock seems outrageously foreign and out of place in these nature gardens, more so than bears among sheep. The harm they do goes to the heart, but glorious hope lifts above all the dust and din and bids me look forward to a good time coming, when money enough will be earned to enable me to go walking where I like in pure wildness, with what I can carry on my back, and when the bread-sack is empty, run down to the nearest point on the bread-line for more. Nor will these run-downs be blanks, for, whether up or down, every step and jump on these blessed mountains is full of fine lessons.Azalea occidentalis, another charming shrub, grows beside cool streams hereabouts and much higher in the Yosemite region. We found it this evening in bloom a few miles above Greeley’s Mill, where we are camped for the night. It is closely related to the rhododendrons, is very showy and fragrant, and everybody must like it not only for itself but for the shady alders and willows, ferny meadows, and living water associated with it.CHAPTER III A BREAD FAMINE
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In an hour or two we came to Yosemite Creek, the stream that makes the greatest of all the Yosemite falls. It is about forty feet wide at the Mono Trail crossing, and now about four feet in average depth, flowing about three miles an hour. The distance to the verge of the Yosemite wall, where it makes its tremendous plunge, is only about two miles from here. Calm, beautiful, and nearly silent, it glides with stately gestures, a dense growth of the slender two-leaved pine along its banks, and a fringe of willow, purple spirea, sedges, daisies, lilies, and columbines. Some of the sedges and willow boughs dip into the current, and just outside of the close ranks of trees there is a sunny flat of washed gravelly sand which seems to have been deposited by some ancient flood. It is covered with millions of erethrea, eriogonum,[Pg 110] and oxytheca, with more flowers than leaves, forming an even growth, slightly dimpled and ruffled here and there by rosettes of Spraguea umbellata. Back of this flowery strip there is a wavy upsloping plain of solid granite, so smoothly ice-polished in many places that it glistens in the sun like glass. In shallow hollows there are patches of trees, mostly the rough form of the two-leaved pine, rather scrawny looking where there is little or no soil. Also a few junipers (Juniperus occidentalis), short and stout, with bright cinnamon-colored bark and gray foliage, standing alone mostly, on the sun-beaten pavement, safe from fire, clinging by slight joints,—a sturdy storm-enduring mountaineer of a tree, living on sunshine and snow, maintaining tough health on this diet for perhaps more than a thousand years.June 25. Though only a sheep camp, this grand mountain hollow is home, sweet home, every day growing sweeter, and I shall be sorry to leave it. The lily gardens are safe as[Pg 64] yet from the trampling flock. Poor, dusty, raggedy, famishing creatures, I heartily pity them. Many a mile they must go every day to gather their fifteen or twenty tons of chaparral and grass.After a short noon rest in a grove, the poor dust-choked flock was again driven ahead over the brushy hills, but the dim roadway we had been following faded away just where it was most needed, compelling us to stop to look about us and get our bearings. The Chinaman seemed to think we were lost, and chattered in pidgin English concerning the abundance of “litty stick” (chaparral), while the Indian silently scanned the billowy ridges and gulches for openings. Pushing through the thorny jungle, we at length discovered a road trending toward Coulterville, which we followed until[Pg 10] an hour before sunset, when we reached a dry ranch and camped for the night.September 7. Left camp at daybreak and made direct for Cathedral Peak, intending to strike eastward and southward from that point among the peaks and ridges at the heads of the Tuolumne, Merced, and San Joaquin Rivers. Down through the pine woods I made my way, across the Tuolumne River and meadows, and up the heavily timbered slope forming the south boundary of the upper Tuolumne basin, along the east side of Cathedral Peak, and up to its topmost spire, which I reached at noon, having loitered by the way to study the fine trees—two-leaved pine, mountain pine, albicaulis pine, silver fir, and the most charming, most graceful of all the evergreens, the mountain hemlock. High, cool, late-flowering meadows also detained me, and lakelets and avalanche tracks and huge quarries of moraine rocks above the forests.
September 18. Made a long descent on the[Pg 262] south side of the divide to Brown’s Flat, the grand forests now left above us, though the sugar pine still flourishes fairly well, and with the yellow pine, libocedrus, and Douglas spruce, makes forests that would be considered most wonderful in any other part of the world.Have been sketching a silver fir that stands on a granite ridge a few hundred yards to the eastward of camp—a fine tree with a particular snow-storm story to tell. It is about one hundred feet high, growing on bare rock, thrusting its roots into a weathered joint less than an inch wide, and bulging out to form a base to bear its weight. The storm came from the north while it was young and broke it down nearly to the ground, as is shown by the old, dead, weather-beaten top leaning out from the living trunk built up from a new shoot below the break. The annual rings of the trunk that have overgrown the dead sapling tell the year of the storm. Wonderful that a side branch forming a portion of one of the level collars that encircle the trunk of this species (Abies[Pg 144] magnifica) should bend upward, grow erect, and take the place of the lost axis to form a new tree.
June 14. The pool-basins below the falls and cascades hereabouts, formed by the heavy down-plunging currents, are kept nicely clean and clear of detritus. The heavier parts of the material swept over the falls are heaped up a short distance in front of the basins in the form of a dam, thus tending, together with erosion, to increase their size. Sudden changes, however, are effected during the spring floods, when the snow is melting and the upper tributaries are roaring loud from “bank to brae.” Then boulders that have fallen into the channels, and which the ordinary summer and winter currents were unable to move, are suddenly swept forward as by a mighty besom, hurled over the falls into these pools, and piled up in a new dam together with part of the old one, while some of the smaller boulders are carried further down stream and variously lodged according to size and shape, all seeking rest where the force of the current is less than the resistance they are able to offer. But the greatest changes made in these relations of fall, pool,[Pg 48] and dam are caused, not by the ordinary spring floods, but by extraordinary ones that occur at irregular intervals. The testimony of trees growing on flood boulder deposits shows that a century or more has passed since the last master flood came to awaken everything movable to go swirling and dancing on wonderful journeys. These floods may occur during the summer, when heavy thunder-showers, called “cloud-bursts,” fall on wide, steeply inclined stream basins furrowed by converging channels, which suddenly gather the waters together into the main trunk in booming torrents of enormous transporting power, though short lived.
The high ridges and hilltops beyond the woolly locusts are now gay with monardella, clarkia, coreopsis, and tall tufted grasses, some of them tall enough to wave like pines. The lupines, of which there are many ill-defined species, are now mostly out of flower, and many of the compositæ are beginning to fade, their radiant corollas vanishing in fluffy pappus like stars in mist.
The mountain quail (Oreortyx ricta) I often meet in my walks—a small brown partridge with a very long, slender, ornamental crest worn jauntily like a feather in a boy’s cap, giving it a very marked appearance. This species is considerably larger than the valley quail, so common on the hot foothills. They seldom alight in trees, but love to wander in flocks of from five or six to twenty through the ceanothus and manzanita thickets and over open, dry meadows and rocks of the ridges where the forest is less dense or wanting, uttering a low clucking sound to enable them to keep together. When disturbed they rise with a strong birr of wing-beats, and scatter as if exploded to a distance of a quarter of a mile or so. After the danger is past they call one another together with a loud piping note—Nature’s beautiful[Pg 175] mountain chickens. I have not yet found their nests. The young of this season are already hatched and away—new broods of happy wanderers half as large as their parents. I wonder how they live through the long winters, when the ground is snow-covered ten feet deep. They must go down towards the lower edge of the forest, like the deer, though I have not heard of them there. | <urn:uuid:5f1f2f3b-7f55-4279-9159-1c1433e99de2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dersfen.com/so/?key=online%20rummy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959989 | 3,791 | 2.640625 | 3 |
This exhibition featured our collection of portraits of women from the Eurobodalla district, While many show women in traditional roles of wives, mothers and daughters others reflect the roles that some women were taking in wider society.
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portraits taken by leading photographic studios of Eva Mylott and Marie Narelle, both renowned singers;
a portrait of Olive Constable nee Harvison, an early editor of the Moruya Examiner; and
A formidable portrait of Martha Batt, a local midwife.
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1. EXCLUSION FROM THE CAMP
The rigidness of the law which excluded lepers from the camp and afterwards from the cities had its necessity in the presumed nature of their disease. Leprosy was regarded as contagious, and practically incurable by any medical appliances, requiring to be kept in check by strenuous measures. Care for the general health meant hardship to the lepers; but this could not be avoided. From friends and home they were sent forth to live together as best they might, and spend what remained of life in almost hopeless separation. The authority of Moses is attached to the statute of exclusion, and there can be no doubt of its great antiquity. In Leviticus there are detailed enactments regarding the disease, some of which contemplate its decay and provide for the restoration to privilege of those who had been cured. The ceremonies were complicated, and among them were sacrifices to be offered by way of "atonement." The leper was alienated from God, severed from the congregation as one guilty in the eye of the law (Leviticus 14:12); and there can be no wonder that with this among other facts before him the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews speaks of the law as having a mere "shadow of the good things to come."
And yet, in view of the malignant nature of the disease and the peril it caused to the general health, we must admit the wisdom of segregating those afflicted with leprosy. That Israel might be a robust people capable of its destiny, a rule like this was needful. It anticipated our modern laws made in harmony with advanced medical science, which require segregation or isolation in cases of virulent disease.
It has been affirmed that leprosy was from the first regarded as symbolic of moral disease, and that the legislation was from this point of view. There is, however, no evidence to support the theory. Indeed the conception of moral evil would have been confused rather than helped by any such idea. For although evil habits taint the mind and vice ruins it as leprosy taints and destroys the body; although the infectious nature of sin is fitly indicated by the insidious spread of this disease-one point in which there is no resemblance would make the symbol dangerously misleading. A few here and there were attacked by leprosy, and these with their blotched disfigured bodies were easily distinguished from the healthy. But this was in contrast with the secret moral malady by which all were tainted. The teaching that leprosy is a type of sin would make, not for morality, but for hypocrisy. The symptoms of a bad nature, like the signs of leprosy, would be looked for and found by every man m his neighbour, not in his own heart. The hypocrite would be encouraged in his self-satisfaction because he escaped the judgment of his fellow men. But the disease of sin is endemic, universal. The whole congregation was by reason of that excluded from the sanctuary of God.
According to the idea which underlies the priest law, leprosy did not typify sin; it meant sin. In no single place, indeed, is this directly affirmed. Yet the belief connecting bodily afflictions and calamities with transgressions implied it, and the fact that guilt-offerings had to be made for the leper when he was cleansed. Again, in the cases of Miriam, of Gehazi, and of Uzziah, the punishment of sin was leprosy. Under the conditions of climate which often prevailed, the germs of this disease might rapidly be developed by excitement, especially by the excitement of immoral rashness. Here we may find the connection which the law assumes between leprosy and guilt, and the origin of the statute which made the intervention of the priests necessary. In their poor dwellings beyond camp and city wall the lepers lay under a double reproach. They were not only tainted in body but appeared as stoners above others, men on whom some divine judgment had fallen, as the very name of their disease implied. And not till One came who did not fear to lay His hand on the leprous flesh, whose touch brought healing and life, was the pressure of the moral condemnation taken away. Of many cases of leprosy He would have said, as of the blindness He cured: "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents."
Now is the law to be charged with creating a class of social pariahs? Is there any reason for saying that in some way the legislation should have expressed pity rather than the rigour which appears in the passage before us and other enactments regarding leprosy? It would be easy to bring arguments which would seem to prove the law defective here. But in matters of this kind civilisation and Christian culture could not be forestalled. What was possible, what in the conditions that existed could be carried into effect, this only was commanded. These old enactments sprang out of the best wisdom and religion of the age. But they do not represent the whole of the Divine will, the Divine mercy, even as they were contemporaneously revealed. Add to the statutes regarding leprosy the other, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," and those that enjoined kindness to the poor and provision for their needs, and the true tenor of the legislation will be understood. According to these laws there were to be no pariahs in Israel. It was a sad necessity if any were excluded from the congregation of God’s people. The laws of brotherhood would insure for the wretched colony outside the camp every possible consideration. Denied access to God in festival and sacrifice, the lepers appealed to the humane feelings of the people. With their pathetic cry, "Unclean, unclean!" their loose hair and rent clothes, they confessed a miserable state that touched, every heart. As time went on, the law of segregation was interpreted liberally. Even in the synagogues a place was set apart for the lepers. The kindly disposition promoted by the Mosaic institutions was shown thus, and in many other ways.
The lepers banished outside the camp remind us of those who have for no wrong-doing of their own to endure social reproach. Were sometimes good men and women among the Hebrews, men with kind hearts, good mothers and daughters, attacked by this disease and compelled to betake themselves to the squalid tents of the lepers? That decree of rigorous precaution is outdone by the strange fact that under the providence of God, in His world, the best have often had to undergo opprobrium and cruelty; that Jesus Himself was crucified as a malefactor, bore the curse of him that "hangeth upon a tree." We see great suffering which is not due to moral delinquency; and we see the sting of it taken quite away. The stern ordinances of nature have light thrown "upon them from a higher world." Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses. For our sakes He was the object of brutal mockery, the sufferer, the sacrifice.
Besides the lepers and those who had an issue, every one who was unclean by reason of touching a dead body was to be excluded from the camp. This provision appears to rest on the idea that death was no "debt of nature," but unnatural, the result of the curse of God. Associated, however, in the statute before us with leprosy, defilement from the dead may have been decreed to prevent the spread of disease. Many maladies too well known to us have an infectious character; and those who were present at a death would be most exposed to their influence. Pathological explanations do not by any means account for all the kinds and causes of defilement; but exclusion from the camp is the special point here; and the cases may be classed together as having a common origin. The notion that some demon or fallen spirit was at work both in producing leprosy and in causing death, was involved in the customs of some barbarous tribes and entered into the beliefs of the Egyptians and Assyrians. This explanation, however, is too remote and alien from Judaism to be applied to these statutes regarding uncleanness, at least in the form they have in the Mosaic books. The few hints surviving in them, as where a bird was to be allowed to fly away when the leper was pronounced clean, cannot be permitted to fix a charge of superstition on the whole code.
A singular point in the statute regarding uncleanness "by the dead" is that the word (nephesh) stands apparently for the dead body. Of this some other explanation is needed than the free transference of meanings in Hebrew. Here and elsewhere in the Book of Numbers (Numbers 6:11; Numbers 9:6-7; Numbers 9:10; Numbers 19:13), as well as in various passages in Leviticus. defilement is attributed to the nephesh. Commonly the word means soul or animal life-principle. When connected with death it corresponds to our word "ghost," Job 11:20; Jeremiah 15:9. Now the law was that not only those who touched a dead body, but all present in a house when death took place in it were unclean. The question occurs whether the nephesh, or soul escaping at death, was believed to defile. As if in doubt here a rabbi said "The body and the soul may plead successfully not guilty by charging their sinful life each upon the other. The body may say: ‘Since that guilty soul parted with me, I have been lying in the grave as harmless as a stone.’ The soul may plead: ‘Since that depraved body separated from me, I flutter about in the air like an innocent bird."’ Is it not possible that the nephesh meant the effluvium of the dead body, the active element which, springing from corruption, diffused uncleanness through the whole house of death? It seems quite in harmony with other uses of the word, and with the idea of defilement, to interpret was unclean by the nephesh, "sinned by the nephesh," as technical expressions carrying this meaning. The passage Numbers 19:13 is peculiarly instructive-"Every one coming in contact with the dead, with the nephesh of a man who has died." To translate, "with the corpse of a man who has died," would fix on the language the fault of tautology. In Psalms 17:9 nephesh has the meaning of deadly, that is to say breathing death; and the idea here points to the meaning suggested.
The reason given for the banishment of the unclean is the presence of God in the congregation-"That they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell." All that are unhealthy, and those who have been in contact with death, which is the result of irremediable disease or accident, must be withdrawn from the precincts that belong to the Holy God. Human maladies are in contrast with the Divine health, death is in contrast to the Divine life. Here the whole scope of the legislation regarding defilement has its highest range of suggestion. It was a part of moral education to realise that God was separate from all distortion, wasting, and decay. In glad and deathless power He reigned in the midst of Israel. From the living God man received life which had to be kept pure and disciplined. Among the Egyptians it was held to be sacrilege when the operator, in the process preparatory to embalming, opened a human body. He who made the incision was driven out of the room by his assistants with abuse and violence. Quite different is the idea of the Mosaic law which makes the holiness belong entirely to God, and requires of men the preservation of the clean life He has given. Every statute suggests that there is a tendency in the creature to fall away from purity and become unfit for fellowship with the Most Holy.
DEFILEMENT AND PURGATION
THE separation of Israel as a people belonging to Jehovah proceeded on ideas of holiness which excluded from privilege many of the Hebrews themselves. The law did not ordain that in cases of defilement there might be immediate purification by washing or sacrifice. So far as ceremonial uncleanness was concerned, we may think this might have been provided for, and moral offences alone might have involved the offender in continued defilement. But just as idolatry, blasphemy, and murder caused pollution which could not be removed by sacrifice, but only by the capital punishment of the guilty, so certain bodily conditions and defects, and certain diseases, chiefly leprosy and those akin to it, were held to cause a defilement which could not be purged by any ceremony. A high standard of bodily health and purity was required for the priesthood; a lower standard was to be applied to the people. And the system declaring the uncleanness of many animals, and of the person under various conditions, touched at countless points the life of society. An Israelite who was unclean for one or other of a hundred reasons could not approach the sanctuary. He had his portion in God after a sense; yet for a time, it might be for life, the peculiar blessings of holy fellowship were denied him. He could celebrate no feast. He had no share in the great atonement. The precautions and terms to be observed were of such a nature that if the law had been at any time stringently enforced a very large percentage of the people would have been denied access to the altar.
It may appear a strange thing that the precept, "Ye shall be holy; for I am holy," was affixed not only to moral duties but with almost the same force to ceremonial duties. We can understand this, however, when we trace the result of the priestly ordinances. They created religious care and feeling; and the end was gained not so much by directing attention, as we now do, to faults of conduct, defects of will, sins of injustice, impurity, intemperance, and the like, but by keeping up a scrupulous attention to matters not, properly speaking, either moral or immoral, not: ethical as we say, which were yet declared to be of moment in religion. The moral law did its part. But to make the enforcement of moral statutes, many of which bore on desire and will, the only means of urging the fear of God, would have resulted practically in a very bare and desultory cultus. Among a comparatively rude people like the Israelites it would have been absurd to institute a religion consisting of "morality touched by emotion." For the mass of people still it is equally hopeless. There must he ordinances of prayer, praise, sacrament, and the duties which reach Godward through the Church. The value of the whole ceremonial system of the Mosaic law is clear from this point of view; and we need not wonder in the least at the nature of many provisions which, without grasp of the principle, we might reckon irksome and useless. The origin of some of the statutes is apparently hygienic; others again reach back to customs and beliefs of a very primitive world.
But they are made part of the sacred law in order to enforce the conviction that the judgment of God enters into the whole of life, follows men wherever they go, decides as to their state with relation to Him hour by hour, almost moment by moment. The ceremonial law was a constant and strenuous lesson in regard to the omnipresence of God, and the oversight of human affairs by Him. It created a conscience of God’s existence, His control, His superintendence of each life. And for a certain stage of the education of Israel this could be achieved in no other way. The moral and spiritual progress of a people, depending on the recognition of the authority of One who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, depends also, of necessity, on the sense of His oversight of human life at every point.
2. ATONEMENT FOR TRESPASS
The enactment of this passage refers to the sin of theft or any other breach of the eighth commandment which involved trespass not only against man, but also against God-"When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the Lord, and that soul be guilty; then shall they confess their sin which they have done." The statute supplements one given in Leviticus 6:1-4, omitting some details, but adding the provision that if the person defrauded has died, restitution shall be made to the goel, and if there is no surviving relation, to the priest. The cases specified in Leviticus are those of false dealing in regard to a deposit or a bargain, robbery, oppression, -probably in the way of withholding hire from a labourer, -finding what was lost and denying it; but in each instance false swearing is added to the offence and constitutes it a trespass against the Lord. Restitution to man must be made by returning the amount and one-fifth in addition; to God by bringing a ram without blemish, with which the priest makes atonement.
In this statute the punishment does not seem severe. But the penalty is imposed after confession when the offence has been for some time undetected. The ordinary law required for the theft of an ox, if the animal had not been slaughtered, double restitution; and if it had been slaughtered or sold, fivefold restitution. In the case of a sheep slaughtered or sold the restitution was to be fourfold. Confession of the theft, according to the present statute, diminishes the penalty.
Noticeable particularly is the provision for atonement, which is nowhere else admitted in connection with a serious breach of the moral law. Any offence against the first four commandments was to be punished with death; so also were murder, adultery, and certain other crimes. It might have been expected that false swearing by any one in regard to theft or valuables intrusted to him would add to his guilt. Here, however, by means of the ram of atonement even that offence is apparently expiated. Possibly the confession is held to mitigate the crime. Still the nature of the statute is surprising and exceptional.
3. THE WATER OF JEALOUSY
The long and remarkable statute regarding the water of jealousy seems to have been interposed to prevent, by means of an ordeal, that cruel practice of peremptory divorce which had been in vogue at some period among the Hebrews. The position given to woman by the old customs must have been exceedingly low. Under polygamy a wife was in constant danger of suspicions and accusations she had no means of removing. The whole scope of this enactment and the means used for deciding between the husband and a suspected wife point to the frequency and general groundlessness of charges made by men in the "hardness of their hearts," or by other women in the hardness of theirs.
The ordeal to which the wife was to be subjected was twofold. One point was the imprecation of the Divine curse upon herself if she had been guilty.
This oath was administered in terms and with ceremonies fitted to produce the most profound impression. She is set "before the Lord"-probably in the court of the sanctuary. Her hair is loose. She has the offering of jealousy in her hand-the tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal. The priest holds a basin of the "water of jealousy." The terms of the curse with its frightful consequences are not only repeated in her hearing, but written on a scroll which is dropped into the water. The second thing is her drinking of the "water of jealousy," "holy water" mingled with dust from the floor of the sanctuary, and with the terms of the curse. The nature of the ordeal was such that few guilty persons would have braved it. The only thing which appears wanting is a provision for the punishment of the man whose wife had passed the terrible test. Since the punishment of this crime was death, and he made the accusation without cause, his own judgment should have followed. Here, however, deference had to be paid to the notions of the time, as our Lord clearly indicates. The absolute right, the just equality between husband and wife, could not be established. Nor indeed, with all our progress, is it yet secured.
The ordeal of the water of jealousy must have saved many an innocent life from wreck. In one sense it was part of a system designed to maintain a high standard of morality, and in that system it had a place which at the time could not be filled in any other way. The main stress lies on the oath of purgation; and to the present day in certain ecclesiastical courts this is in use for the purpose of bringing to an end processes not otherwise capable of solution. It must be noted that our marriage laws, lax as they are thought to be, do not give to a husband anything like the power or allow divorce with anything like the facility admitted by the Mosaic law as some of the Rabbis interpreted it. And this ordeal was of such a nature that if those in use throughout Europe only a century ago or thereby, in the trial of witches for instance, be compared with it, we can at once see its superiority. Those barbarous tests, not used by the vulgar alone, but by religious men and Church authorities, made escape from false accusation next to impossible. Here there is absolutely nothing required which could in any sense injure or imperil an innocent woman. She might take her oath, see it written, and drink the water without the least fear or hesitation. The beneficence of the law is strongly marked along with its wisdom. It was a wonderful provision for the time.
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The Allen Banks walk is a lovely walk along the banks of the River Allen and in the woodland and farmland surrounding it. The area that we walk in is mostly managed by The National Trust.
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We will start at the car park just off the A69. If you are a member of The National Trust and have a valid car sticker, the car park is free. Otherwise, there is a small fee for parking here that goes to the upkeep of this site.
From the car park we will follow a path along the banks of the River Allen, upstream. The paths are relatively good and the views along the river are beautiful.
Storm Desmond severely damaged the Allen Banks area a few years ago. The National Trust have reinstated the paths around the river and woodland, that were washed away. The job that they have done is wonderful and really compliments the area.
The River Allen
When we reach Plankey Mill, we will take a different path back to the start, following the river downstream.
The River Allen is a confluence of the West and East Allen rivers, that have their source in the North Pennines. The source of the East Allen is at Allenheads, where we had a walk in June 2018. The source of the West Allen is near Ninebanks.
After the walk, we will visit The Garden Station tea room for refreshments.
Hope to see you there.
Julie and Martin x
Gallery – Allen Banks
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High cholesterol is a chronic condition that is extending its claws in India gradually. Recent studies have reported that 25–30% of urban and 15–20% of rural India are affected by high cholesterol.* Cholesterol is a fat-like substance found in all body cells. However, an excess or a disbalance of cholesterol values is a major contributor to compromised heart health, heart disease, and stroke.
Want to cut your risk of heart disease? Then, it is mandatory to get tested and keep a track of your cholesterol levels.
Cholesterol travels within the body with the help of protein molecules, the combined molecule called lipoprotein (lipo: lipid or fats, in addition to protein). Majorly, cholesterol can be of two types, based on the type of protein that transports it through the bloodstream:
- Low-density lipoproteins/ LDL cholesterol: Carries cholesterol from the liver into the blood, where it can stick to the blood vessels. As this kind of cholesterol is likely to build up, people often refer to it as “bad” cholesterol.
- High-density lipoproteins/HDL cholesterol: Carries the cholesterol in the blood back to the liver, where it is broken down. For this reason, HDL cholesterol is called “good” cholesterol.
A health goal worth achieving for every individual is to elevate levels of good cholesterol and control the rise in bad cholesterol. Book a lipid profile test and know the values.
Role of diet in cholesterol
The diet, especially fats, we eat has a significant role in blood cholesterol values. Hence, it is of utmost importance to pay attention not only to what types of food we are consuming but also their quantities entering the body. Let’s learn the most important dietary dos and don’ts to follow if your cholesterol levels are high:
Watch the type of fat you consume: The dietary fats can primarily be of three types. Different types of fat impact your cholesterol levels differently:
- Saturated fats: They instruct the liver to produce more bad cholesterol, hence their intake should be limited.
- Unsaturated fats: Certain unsaturated fats can facilitate the reabsorption of bad cholesterol through your liver. Hence, it is a healthy type of fat that can help reduce bad cholesterol.
- Trans fats: These fats are produced by an artificial process called hydrogenation, and they might also harm your good cholesterol levels.
Fried and packaged foods often contain trans fats. In addition, refined oil, ghee, etc contain saturated fats. Add more sources of unsaturated fats to your diet. Foods like nuts, dry fruits, and seeds are rich in unsaturated fats. Choose healthful fats to lower bad cholesterol levels while maintaining good cholesterol levels.
Please note that a completely fat-free diet can also be harmful because it would impair normal nerve and brain function, and can cause inflammation.
Fibers for a healthy heart: Fiber can be of two main forms: soluble and insoluble. Many foods contain both forms. At large, the more natural and unprocessed the food, the higher is its fiber content. While insoluble fiber is pivotal for gut health, soluble fiber binds to cholesterol in the blood and helps remove it through feces. Fiber-rich foods have the added benefit of controlling blood sugar levels as well. Include more peas, broccoli, spinach, carrot, pear, oranges, strawberries in your diet. Eat plenty of vegetables. Note that there is no fiber in meat, milk products, or sugar.
Use healthy oils for cooking: Mustard oil is a healthier option as it remains stable at high temperatures usually used in Indian cooking. Olive oil is rich in healthy fats too. But limit its usage in salad and dressings, and avoid using it for cooking Indian recipes. Refined oils usually contain more saturated fats.
Consume healthy protein sources: Limit unprocessed red meat. Select lean meat (trimmed of fat, and poultry without skin). Including protein-rich foods like fish, eggs, legumes (such as beans and lentils) in your diet keep you full and helps you avoid munching on unhealthy fatty snacks.
Restrict takeaway foods to once a week: Fast food and readymade processed items such as pastries, bread pakodas, burgers, pizza, chips, etc are usually made of unhealthy cheese and rancid oil. Eating them too frequently can hurt your cholesterol levels drastically. Consult with your doctor about how often you can consume outside food.
Limit salt in daily food and snack: Limiting salt won’t decrease your cholesterol levels directly, but it can help maintain blood pressure levels and decrease your risk of heart diseases. Both high cholesterol and high salt intake can increase blood pressure, and predispose to heart attacks and strokes. Even if you have not been diagnosed with high blood pressure, you should eat less salt.
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The Government are considering a scheme which will allow drivers to receive a cashback reward if they pass their driving tests in one go. The scheme was introduced after it was found that many drivers take their test too early, which is wasting the £62 it costs to take a test on a weekday or £75 for the weekend.
One in five learners fail their first driving test to get a licence from the DVLA. Most drivers will usually only pass on their second or third attempts. The Government hopes that, by offering a cash incentive, which will come in the form of receiving part of your test cost back, learners will be encouraged to wait until they have taken more lessons before having a go at the test.
Learners tend to book their tests shortly after they begin learning to ensure they get a slot which is suitable for them. However, most learners will need an average of 45 hours worth of practice before they are ready. The Government hopes that by offering an incentive to wait people will no longer rush to book their test. This should free up more spaces for learners to book their exams after they have had some time to practice. It could also save people money – especially considering it will usually cost nearly £1000 to take 45 hours worth of lessons.
The Transport Minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon said: “This is a bold and ambitious approach aimed at putting the user at the heart of everything the motoring agencies do.”
Around 1.4 million driving tests are taken every single year. More people, figures revealed last year, are able to pass their test if they have been learning in suburban areas with quiet roads. Meanwhile, it is harder for people living in city centres. The highest pass rates in the country were in Kendal, Barrow In Furness and on the Isle Of Skye. Meanwhile, Birmingham, Bradford and London had the worst figures.
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Yu-Chien Hsiao is interested in the fluidity and unstable and uncertain changes in liquids. At first, she simply wanted to record the state of how it flows, so she recreated this. Because what we care about is the state formed when water is sprayed and atomized, she used a single color as the main color, which is clear and easy to identify, while she selected rice paper as its medium because the surface fibers are smoother than other papers. The reception and presentation are also relatively instant. Different shades of ink are changed in the picture, but it also avoids creating too strong contrast and a sense of space, and try to keep the picture in a flat, stable and harmonious appearance. It is slightly transparent, soft to the touch, incomplete white, and also shows a less clear and warm feeling.
Roughly speaking, regardless of the differences in the techniques used, size, and number of pieces in the work, she tries to make the images in the picture de-imaged, and the non-figurative pictures are easier to understand than the figurative patterns. It is more difficult in the art. Without the criteria that can be used as a reference with the specific images and objects visible to the naked eye in the real world, the viewer will be forced to think from the material itself or the size and other conditions, and at the same time, the atmosphere of the medium will become the composition. a major element of the work.
In the age of vision, changes in the mode of production affect the way of human life, which in turn affects the way humans understand society. Matter is interpreted as a symbol. When a symbol of human commonality is used, universality exists. In it, the uniqueness of the artist's motives for using the medium is gradually diminished at the same time. Therefore, how to deal with paper and express the atmosphere of paper is to be discussed through creation. Rice paper has long been used as a carrier for cultural dissemination, poetry, calligraphy, painting, literati popularity, etc. Under the catalysis of time, when this object deviates from the era when it was invented, and inherits the sense of the times and historical significance at that time. The rice paper has formed its own characteristics and atmosphere. Through the creator's technique, the rice paper is extracted from the existing frame as a carrier, expressed with the characteristics of the media itself, in addition to the presentation of visual beauty, it also tries to change the existing viewing mode and create new expressions other than the inherent. | <urn:uuid:bd20a201-9daf-424c-8ea8-ccf6e5e463d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yuanru.gallery/art/yu-chien-hsiao/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.953452 | 520 | 3.03125 | 3 |
To put it simply, tax accountants help clients prepare their taxes. Whether it's for a business or an individual, these experts help them prepare local, state and federal tax forms. Professional tax accountants can expect to make over $73,000 a year.
Tax accountants aid individuals and businesses in the preparation of forms for local, state and federal taxes. They need a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field, although many hold master's degrees. Although not required for tax accountants, some in this field opt to become certified public accountants (CPAs), which requires additional education beyond the bachelor's level, as well as experience and passing a comprehensive examination. Some tax accountants also earn professional certification, although it, too, is not mandatory.
|Required Education||Bachelor's degree|
|Licensing and Certification||CPA and state licensing are optional for tax accountants, but some do pursue these credentials|
|Median Salary (2020)||$73,560 (for all accountants and auditors)*|
|Projected Job Growth (2019-2029)||4% growth (for all accountants and auditors)*|
Source: *U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The minimum educational requirement for a tax accountant position is usually a bachelor's degree in accounting. Many states or employers may require additional education in the form of a master's degree. Alternate degrees include business administration with a specialization directed towards accounting. Students must look for programs and coursework directly related to tax work.
Many tax accountants earn Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designations. This licensure is available through the State Board of Accountancy. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants reports that an examination is required for this designation. This examination is taken in four parts, and the exact requirements vary from state to state.
While professional certifications are not a requirement to work in this field, they are highly recommended for tax accountants. Certification demonstrates an additional level of professionalism and talent. One of the certifications available to tax accountants is the Certified Management Accountant designation, which is offered by the Institute of Management Accountants. This designation requires students to submit proof of a bachelor's degree or scores on the entry examination for graduate school.
Tax accountants specialize in assisting customers with the filing of their federal and state taxes. While firms typically hire accountants, some are self-employed and find their own clients. Initially, a tax accountant must meet with a client to determine his or her needs. Some customers merely want a tax related question answered, while others want their taxes done for them.
In order for an accountant to file taxes for a client, they must request all their necessary information, including financial documents and pay stubs. Once all that information is collected, the tax accountant analyzes them, looks for any deductions and determines the amount of taxes owed. After this is completed, a tax accountant does a final verification before providing the documents to the client who may submit them or have them submitted on their behalf.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that accountants and auditors made a mean annual salary of $81,660 in May 2020. The BLS also shows that employment for accountants and auditors should increase 4% from 2019 through 2029, which the average rate. This increase is due to the growing economy and the need for accountants to examine financial documents and ensure greater transparency in financial reporting.
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In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960
While the term “neorealism” is primarily associated with cinema and literature, photography was also involved in the wider turn toward social and humanist themes in Italy in the 1940s and ’50s. Photography documented the war’s impact and the conditions of ordinary Italians in the postwar years—and made these visible through touring exhibitions, illustrated magazines, and photobooks.
Speakers will examine the new types of photographic images that emerged in those years, consider the relations between photography and cinema, and assess the validity of the concept of neorealism in photography.
Moderated by Ara Merjian, NYU
Co-sponsored by Grey Art Gallery.
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WASHINGTON — It was a tale of academic worlds colliding when two debate teams shared the stage before a large audience inside the Cramton Auditorium at Howard University this weekend. Perhaps the third time was the charm.
On the stage at the audience’s left was the Howard University Debate Team, representing one of America’s most prominent historically Black colleges. At the right was the Yale University Debate Association, representing the illustrious Ivy League.
The Yale Debate Association was crowned in 2011 by the American Parliamentary Debate Association as Club of the Year — a distinction it also won in 2010 and 2009.
The Howard University Debate team, by comparison, only made its debut in 2009.
It’s with those things in mind that the NAACP’s third annual Great Debate, which took place between the Howard and Yale debate teams over the weekend, should be viewed.
The first topic was whether society should create more privately-operated public charter schools. The second was whether Washington, D.C. should be granted statehood.
When it came time for Howard team member Gavette Richardson to sum up her team’s arguments on the merits of charter schools, she said the case for charter schools was no different than Brown v. Board of Education or the Little Rock Nine.
Her Yale opponents argued that charter schools actually lead to segregation — the very things that those two landmark civil rights events were meant to undo.
Which team made the stronger case is difficult to say definitively since the third annual Great Debate didn’t have a panel of judges to make that determination.
But organizers say for now, declaring a winner in the Great Debate is not as important as it is to whet the public’s appetite for such battles of wit.
“Usually, at a college debate, at the highest levels of competition, there’s usually only 10 to 20 people at the event,” said Scot X Esdaile, president and board member of the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches. “But at an NAACP college debate, it’s always over 1,000 people in attendance.”
After drawing inspiration from Denzel Washington’s critically acclaimed 2007 movie “The Great Debaters,” Esdaile’s group was instrumental in getting the Great Debate started at Yale back in 2009.
More such debates are underway. Esdaile reported Saturday that the NAACP is currently working on arranging debates between Morehouse College and Harvard University, as well as between Texas Southern University and Princeton University.
He also said eventually the debates will likely become full-fledged competitions.
“For this one, it was really just an opportunity to introduce debate on the campus and the community, and was viewed more as an exhibition than competition,” said Esdaile.
” Now that the buzz has come to D.C., to Howard, there’s going to be a real desire for the next one to be a competition. I’m pretty sure that’s what it’s going to be.”
Though Saturday’s debate wasn’t exactly a competition, the presence of a large audience managed to make it so in some ways.
One of the interesting dynamics about a college debate is that the audience may initially side with the home team, but as the debate wears on, the audience becomes less swayed by affinity for the home team and more enamored with the team that makes the most arguments that hit home. Put differently, unlike with college sports, even when the “visiting” team makes a “point,” the audience for the home team still applauds.
That’s what happened Saturday when Yale’s David Trinh, a junior majoring in economics, evoked widespread laughter when he spoke of how charter schools kick out low-performing students (he used a fictitious example of “Little Timmy”) in order to meet performance standards that are required to maintain their funding.
“They can fudge the math by kicking out the lowest-performing students,” Trinh said, “so it looks like they’re doing well, but it’s because they kicked out Little Timmy.”
It’s not hard to figure out why the point played so well with the predominantly Black audience. Research has consistently shown that Black boys get suspended or expelled from school more frequently than White boys, so statistically speaking, members of the audience were more likely to be familiar with Little Timmy’s experience.
However, the audience rose to its feet and applauded when Richardson attacked the assertion that charter schools were hurting students simply because they tend to serve members of one ethnic group instead of a diverse group of students.
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Woods v. Macrae
There was a suit in a court of law over who had the rights to a lottery ticket. Wythe does not say who sued whom in the lower court or how the case arrived in the High Court of Chancery, but it appears that Philip Woods asked the Chancery Court to require the lower court to grant a new trial.
At the Chancery Court, several jurors from the trial in the lower court voluntarily testified that they calculated their award based on their belief that Philip Macrae had the rights to one-half of the ticket, even though ample evidence had been provided to show that Macrae was entitled to one quarter of the ticket at most.
The Court's Decision
- George Wythe, Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery with Remarks upon Decrees by the Court of Appeals, Reversing Some of Those Decisions, 2nd ed., ed. B.B. Minor (Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1852): 253.
- Wythe 133. In Cochran, the plaintiff filed a motion to stay the lower court's judgment because, among other reasons, some jurors later came forward to testify that they had made a mistake when they decided the verdict. Wythe indicated that a motion for a new trial, not a motion to stay the judgment, was the appropriate filing. | <urn:uuid:0fae78b1-26a4-42d6-97c4-cfb54c32b6f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Woods_v._Macrae&oldid=72255 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.975951 | 291 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The Fourth Revolution explores the evolution and science behind lean manufacturing practices with guest Stephen Dardaris, Director of Continuous Improvement for Hillrom. From post-war factory production to modern automation, manufacturing has evolved and continues to change. Dardaris explained how Toyota’s production system fits into production history while influencing global manufacturing efficiency with groundbreaking ideas and practices.
Applicable to more than cars, the Toyota Production System can be applied to a variety of production environments, especially high-volume and low-volume production. Dardaris has gone through the holistic picture of a company, from sourcing to assembly, transportation and even accounting. By cutting out the fat and focusing on real, lean numbers, the Toyota Production System generates tangible benefits.
Lean production might seem like a no-brainer for better, more cost-effective production, but Dardaris said doing things “lean” is a delayed measure that produces results over time, not necessarily immediately after implementation. work.
For this reason, some Lean practices require a leap of faith and trust in what may seem like drastic change. Most companies, Dardaris said, are caught in the middle, fear the risk and trust the process. The Toyota Production System is not a “cost cutting process”, just a money saving initiative.
On the contrary, Dardaris said, TPS is a growth strategy, a business initiative designed to be more than just a money-saving and streamlining concept for high growth.
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Our parents have shared with us what their children have told them about their learning this year.
Our EYFS parents have shared that:
Rhys always says how much he enjoys school, and recently he has shared his arts and crafts.
David was very excited to show us at home what happens when he puts flowers, sand, paper or sugar in water.
My son enjoyed talking about odds and evens.
He liked using pluses but didn’t do minuses yet.
We enjoyed the under sea project it was fun.
Our daughter has really liked finding out about the dinosaurs.
She just seems to be really enjoying and learning lots in the dance lessons she is doing.
I asked my son what he enjoyed learning, and he said he couldn’t pick a favourite he has loved everything.
Our Year 1 parents have shared that:
Joshua is very interested in the garden boxes in particular the bugs and now the ocean topic about the animals.
My daughter has enjoyed the work on Claude Monet.
My son loves learning about the ocean and the animals.
The bees have been a favourite when we have asked about learning.
My son always says he can’t remember, but he has told us a lot about Monet and the work he has been doing related to the oceans.
She is amazed you can learn and play at the same time.
Our Year 2 parents have shared that:
My son enjoyed learning about the London fire.
She really enjoyed making a boat and then seeing if it could float.
He loved all the arts projects and learning about the history of the Queen.
The music work is her favourite work.
Amy hasn’t stopped talking about the different things that hurt the planet since you did the environment project and read Greta and the Giants.
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