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The government’s recent announcement that it is considering developing an operating system, is seen as an interesting move to break the dominance enjoyed by Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. Although it’s a step in the right direction as India’s very own OS will give a better control over content, data and privacy to the government at local level, it’s going to be not as easy as one thinks. Developing an operating system has its own set of challenges and the government’s statement leaves more questions than answers.
There is a duopoly of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS across the world, and India is definitely not an exception to this. In this context, the government’s recent announcement to come up with a policy that will facilitate an ecosystem for the industry to create an indigenous operating system, is seen as an interesting move to break the dominance enjoyed by these two tech majors. In order to shake the status quo, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar recently informed the Parliament that “the government is considering development of the operating system, as part of its efforts to create a vibrant design and innovation ecosystem in Electronics and Information Technology.”
“The government is considering development of the operating system, as part of its efforts to create a vibrant design and innovation ecosystem in Electronics and Information Technology”
– Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MoS, Electronics & IT
This development is in addition to the government’s earlier statement that it is talking with tech companies to come up with an indigenous OS. “There is no third one. Therefore, in a lot of ways there is tremendous interest in MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) and in the Government of India to even create a new handset operating system. We are talking to people. We are looking at a policy for that,” said Chandrasekhar, in an interview with a news agency.
The government is looking for capabilities within start-up and academic ecosystems for the development of the OS, said Chandrasekhar. “If there is some real capability then we will be very much interested in developing that area because that will create an alternative to iOS and Android which then an Indian brand can grow,” he stated.
As per reports, detailed discussions are presently focusing on setting up clear goals for the project, which will be followed by legislation to target specific development goals. The minister indicated that start-ups and companies working on an Indian OS may be attractive to domestic and foreign investment when raising capital. Interestingly, the project conforms to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambition to create domestic leaders across multiple industries and product categories, as well as strengthen the country’s technology industry.
OS players and breakthroughs
It must be noted that the operating system is the main software of any computer and mobile device that weaves in the entire hardware and software system for effective functioning of the OS. Android and iOS have been ruling the mobile OS market for the last many years, and Microsoft Windows is a leading player in the personal computer segment. According to majority of market estimates, iOS and Android account for nearly 99% of the world’s smartphone market.
While the Android OS rules the roost with 70 per cent market share, iOS is at a distant second with nearly 29 per cent, as per web traffic analysis platform Statcounter. They also have Chrome OS and MacOS platforms, respectively, which run on computers. Control over these platforms gives them a degree of control on how apps are made, data flows, data sharing, and more. On the device front, although India is an increasingly important market to Apple, it continues to face stiff competition from Android handsets in the country.
Remarkably, Microsoft tried to break the duopoly a couple of years back and had even purchased brand Nokia to push out Windows phones, but it failed badly. Even BlackBerry has already burned their hands in this segment. Likewise, Mozilla’s Firefox OS was discontinued after efforts to crack India’s mobile market with low-cost devices failed. The Linux Foundation’s Tizen also didn’t find any takers. According to reports, China’s government has promoted Linux-derived Kylin OS for locals, but it has not won much market share.
Following the US sanctions in 2019, Huawei’s HarmonyOS in China is another attempt by a technology player to try its hands on the operating system. Considering its cross-device communication and many other features, HarmonyOS could be a serious competitor to Android in days to come.
Back in India, we have Indus OS, created by a group of IIT graduates in 2013. However, it’s not a government-mandated or supported OS. We’ll discuss about this later in the story.
A step in the right direction
Although the government has offered no further clarity on its plans, experts believe it’s a step in the right direction. “This is a very interesting and important intent announcement considering the concerns around privacy and monopoly power of the current OS incumbents like Android and iOS in other countries. Our own OS will give a better control over content, data and privacy to the government at local level,” says Navkendar Singh, Associate Research Director, Client Devices & IPDS, IDC India.
Arushi Chawla, Research Analyst at Counterpoint, says the Indian government, by reconsidering the development of an indigenous mobile operating system, is taking forward its aim of becoming self-reliant or “atmanirbhar”. “Indian app companies have been facing obstacles from Google and Apple for the last few years. A couple of years back, Apple increased the process for apps and in-app purchases, which impacted the equalization levy. Last year, following protests, Google decided to slash the commission it charges developers selling products and services on its Play Store. Further, recently, Apple came under an antitrust investigation in India for alleged abuse of dominance,” says Arushi.
While the focus on hardware development is already on, the software and applications should not be left behind. “It is equally strategically important to have our own OS along with the complete app ecosystem. We already have companies like IndusOS which have done great progress in creating a localised mobile ecosystem. I think we need to seriously pursue it,” says Faisal Kawoosa, Founder and Chief Analyst, Techarc.
Timeframe and resources are a must
The government has neither given any timeframe nor has it talked about hardware part which complements software in the development of an operating system. It must be noted that developing an OS takes time as well as resources, which is the reason why majority of the handset makers use Android as their operating system. The government needs to give a sufficient amount of time for the OS development and execution, besides making sure there’s a market for that operating system, experts believe.
As far as hardware is concerned, a smartphone includes important components like screen, cameras, chipset, battery and microphone, which combine with software to make a smartphone work. While developing an OS is important, working towards it without specifications about the hardware is like developing a car’s engine without a body, notes Newslaundry in a report.
In terms of technicalities, there are two types of operating systems today – open source and closed source software platforms. Android works on an open source platform, which means there is a basic version of it that can be twisted by different handset manufacturers to fit and work with their hardware. Popular brands such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, Tecno, Infinix and others use Android as a base, adding skins and features on top of it to give the software a different feel and user interface for their individual devices. On the other hand, Apple’s iOS works on the closed source model, which means only an Apple device can run it. Apple, hence, offers total control over the design, hardware and software of the device which in turn ensures usability.
The government has not made anything clear on it that how it plans to provide an ecosystem, where new hardware will be designed and developed and how will a new OS be in line.
Areas of concern
Significantly, it took years for iOS, Android and KaiOS to come into being, and companies filed several patents to keep their intellectual property. Google and Android, in particular, hold patents for hardware as well as software – all of which are fiercely guarded. In such a scenario, how will the government’s policy navigate patents held by companies? Navkendar has this to say, “This has to be grounds up effort right from building hardware running an indigenous OS / software / application layer on top of it. Patents will be a roadblock, but licensing arrangements can be looked at to overcome those aspects.”
User privacy is going to be another area of concern, as an OS has access to, and control, all the data input by users into their devices. “A task as simple as sending a message requires data that is processed by the software – such as a phone number and an email address, both of which are connected to various kinds of information like bank accounts. It only gets trickier with more complex functions like making phone calls and payments,” writes tech journalist Nabeel Ahmed in an article on Newslaundry.
“With established operating systems, tech companies are under pressure to deliver on their promises of privacy and safety. This has intensified over the past couple of years, with debates and demands for companies to fix vulnerabilities in their security. It’s why Apple delayed the roll-out of its CSAM feature and jumped to fix an iOS flaw that had allegedly been exploited by the Pegasus spyware,” says Nabeel.
Besides, the government surveillance could be one of the key worries for an operating system that will be driven by the government.
Initial hurdles and way forward
According to Arushi, there are many hurdles in developing an indigenous operating system in a multi-lingual country like India. “Along with technological competencies, there is a need to ensure proper technical maintenance. Besides, competing with companies already having a strong installed base is a challenging task. From a consumer standpoint, it takes much effort and time to convince users to shift to a new technology/platform,” she emphasizes.
“Security and privacy aspects play a very important role here given the increasing digitization in daily lives. However, if India’s efforts in relation to BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) are anything to go by, the country has a long way to go in earning prospective users’ confidence,” Arushi adds. It should be noted that BOSS proved to be ineffective at a mass scale and hackers from China were able to break into the Indian government’s servers.
As discussed above, prior attempts have been made by players such as Microsoft and Blackberry in introducing a different operating system. Even the Indian government has made earlier attempts with BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solution) and Indus OS to develop its indigenous operating system but have been unable to counter and/or match the presence of tech giants. “The past attempts, however, especially with Indus OS, which is available in multiple regional languages inspires the Indian app developers to build locally relevant content, helped the Indian government realize its potential and prepare for the expected bottlenecks for the upcoming journey towards an in-house operating system,” says Arushi.
Talking about other possible bottlenecks in the development of a homegrown OS, Navkendar says the developer ecosystem in the absence of a mass user base and relevant content which can attract that mass base will go hand in hand. “This is the major challenge for any new OS,” he says.
A definitive framework required
“What needs to be explored before embarking on this idea is to find a middle ground and work with Android to solve the issues which are forcing us to look into building an indigenous OS,” suggests Navkendar.
Faisal, on the other hand, says the time in digital journey has come when we start making products that suit us rather than aligning with what’s available to us. “This might also help us solve a major challenge of not being able to bring millions of users in the smartphone ecosystem, who are using a feature phone at the moment. We are already at the threshold of 5G and seem helpless to shut down 2G networks,” he opines.
While the government’s intentions in developing an indigenous operating system may be right, the project needs to be a long-term one with proper planning. It is important to lay down a definitive framework and form strategic alliances with OEMs for the project’s implementation.
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As a European project, REPLICATE is working closely with our partner cities, Florence (Italy) and San Sebastian (Spain). These cities are testing different smart solutions and Bristol will learn from them and share our city’s experiences. This will help us understand which of the smart approaches could be used across Bristol and in other European and world cities.
In Bristol, the REPLICATE project is led by Bristol City Council working in partnership with the city’s universities and seven other local partners. The project is funded by the European Commission, with local partner organisations collectively receiving €7 million to deliver the project in Bristol.
REPLICATE – REnaissance of PLaces with Innovative Citizenship And TEchnologies – is a European research and development project that aims to deploy integrated energy, mobility and ICT solutions in city districts.
The main objectives of the REPLICATE project are energy efficiency, sustainable mobility and integrated ICT infrastructures.
The total REPLICATE budget is €29 million and the budget for the REPLICATE project consortium in Bristol is €7.8 million (including partner funding). These figures include match funding. Find out more.
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Abora, which was founded in 2017, focuses on manufacturing hybrid solar panels. What are the main differences between hybrid and conventional photovoltaic solar panels?
It is important to distinguish between solar photovoltaic energy, which generates electricity, and thermal energy, which heats water. A hybrid panel generates four to five times more energy than a photovoltaic panel. Therefore, Abora's aim is to create the most cost-effective solar panel on the market. In order to achieve this, we must improve our performance and reduce costs. To date, renewable energies have been installed on account of legal obligation to comply with regulations, or because of subsidies. However, it is crucial to put aside any kind of external support we may receive and focus on a self-sustainable project. This is the most profitable technology, and, therefore, is affordable.
What type of customers can benefit from Abora's projects?
Hybrid panels are positioned on top of buildings that consume hot water and electricity, for instance hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, swimming pools, and industrial complexes, among others. Hence, every building that consumes both electricity and hot water can benefit from installing hybrid panels by Abora, since it can benefit from solar energy and an effective cost reduction. For example, in 2008, a photovoltaic panel cost EUR4.50 per watt peak, but this is now EUR0.50 per watt peak. Therefore, it was not cost-effective to start a photovoltaic business, unless it was large-scale, and because of that, all factories were relocated overseas. Instead of reducing the price by relocating factories, Abora intends to improve performance to obtain a greater benefit and create jobs in Spain. Thus, our production line will never be relocated outside Spain.
How is Abora doing in terms of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals?
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How has Abora's internationalization process evolved?
We were finalists in the Caixa Capital Risk Entrepreneur XXI awards, so we travelled to Silicon Valley in 2016. There, we realized we had the technology to break into the US market, but we had to consolidate our industry in our own market first. Hence, we decided to focus on the Spanish market before entering the international market. Later, thanks to Innoenergy, we got a stand at Intersolar in Munich 2018. This gave us higher visibility, and we were able to expand into Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, the UK, Portugal, and Greece, among others. However, we are focused on the French market, because in 2018, we developed a project with a French customer that wanted to invest in Abora. Abora is currently 42% French, with the remainder Spanish. That said, we also formed an agreement in the Netherlands with the manufacturer Solarus. It is now our main distributor both in the Netherlands and South Africa. In exchange, we introduced its production line to the Spanish market. Abora's core business is manufacturing hybrid technology. This sets us apart from other companies and is where we can share our knowledge, especially in terms of panel manufacturing.
What projects are you currently developing in Latin America?
We are about to close a project in Mexico, which is an excellent country to carry out our activity, due to the amount of solar irradiation it receives. Moreover, there is high demand in the tertiary sector, particularly in tourism and in terms of the factories that export their products to the US. We are also developing projects in French Guiana and Colombia, where we have been offered some projects, such as hospitals. We are now creating a network of partners across these countries. As well, we have signed projects in Peru related to the hotel and industry sectors. We have an exclusivity agreement in Chile, although we have not started developing projects there yet. In Chile, there is high demand for our services, especially in the building and mining sectors. We sold 50 panels in Ecuador last year to a partner that works in the single-family house sector, and we have recently received another request.
What are Abora's objectives for the year ahead?
Abora currently has everything it needs to boost business growth: the technology, funding, and so on. In addition, we have credibility in the market thanks to our loyal customers, such as the Iberostar hotel chain, where we installed our first panels in 2019. Our second installation was in 2020, which consisted of 300 panels in a hotel in Cádiz, and we currently have four projects in our portfolio. Last year, Abora had three people working full time, and we now have 14. Therefore, 2021 is a year of growth, and we expect to keep growing over the next few years.
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AngloSverige recognises that charity funding in the form of cash hand outs to the needy & vulnerable may not solve the underlying issues and, perhaps, can even make matters worse. AngloSverige Charity Funding business was initially setup to help Swedish farmers survive the onslaught of unnecessary regulatory costs associated with the EU bureaucratic machinery. It was noted that once the small holder farms were no longer viable, involving relatively small amounts of money, they became trapped in a slow trend towards insolvency and despondency. Once they gave up, the knock-on effect to the local community was enormous and inflicted a self perpetuating decline on the surrounding area.
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In our case studies, we provide empirical proof that an innovative social welfare programme really can produce a profit, enhance the community & increase Local & Govt tax revenue all from the *Magic Money Tree* (that they claim doesn’t exist), truly *making the world a better & more efficient place*.
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It happens every fall at Penn. Corporate representatives flock like vultures to our campus, eager to take their pick of the brightest students here. From engineers to financial analysts to consultants, they search relentlessly for the students who will create the most value for their companies.
When it comes to career choice, students have many things in mind. Location, pay, prestige, and benefits are all important factors. Yet too often, students ignore the ethics of companies that they seek to join. Beyond merely setting personal passions aside in favor of alluring financial success, Penn students are joining organizations that have concerning impacts on society.
Consider some of the most prestigious firms that recruit Penn students. In the tech world, Amazon continues to underpay and mistreat its warehouse workers, while striving to develop robotic technology to permanently replace them. That’s not even to mention its anti-competitive and tax-evasive practices. Point72 Asset Management, a finance firm that recruits at Penn, is run by Steven A. Cohen, a Wharton alumnus himself who was dubbed “the most wanted man on Wall Street” by journalist Sheelah Kolhatkar for his alleged role in a massive insider trading scheme at his previous company, SAC Capital. Besides its role in the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, perhaps the crown jewel of Penn finance recruiting, has come under intense scrutiny for its actions relating to the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and several of its employees now face criminal charges.
With the climate strike just behind us, it is also worthwhile to consider the climate impacts of some of the most prestigious companies that recruit at Penn. The news is not good. Fossil fuel companies, including BP and Schlumberger, recruit at Penn, happily paying out huge sums to the next generation of petroleum engineers. While these companies likely pursue some renewable energy initiatives, their fundamental business model is to make hefty profits off of resources that are gravely threatening our planet. Furthermore, many finance and asset management companies, offering prized positions to Penn students, enable fossil fuel companies by insuring their projects and investing huge sums in them. While there is a degree of separation here, these firms have the power to seriously impede the relentless flow of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, and they have refused to do so in service of their bottom line.
We are not fully responsible for the actions of the companies we choose to work for. But we have a deeply privileged status as Penn students. No matter how insanely competitive recruitment at Penn can seem, the fact is that landing a job, for us, is not as challenging as it is for students at less prestigious universities. Being in this position, with such incredible intellectual and social capital, we have a moral imperative to avoid enabling unethical behavior by some of the most powerful people and organizations on the planet.
Admittedly, there are many students for whom pay is not nearly as negotiable as a factor: Those who come from low-income backgrounds, or who must completely support themselves, deserve to live comfortable lives and live without financial struggle. However, since nearly three-quarters of Penn's students come from families in the top 20% of incomes, it is fair to assume that pay will not affect most students’ comfort, only their level of luxury.
Suggesting we add another layer of hand-wringing onto an already stressful job recruitment process may seem outlandish, cruel even. But step back for a moment and think about the recruitment situation at Penn and other elite universities. It sure does work out well for employers to have prospective employees who are desperate to get security, prestige, and money.
But imagine if things were different. Imagine if we, the potential employees these companies covet so greatly, collectively insisted upon ethical behavior from our future employers. It is time to take a stand and demand better from those for whom we will dedicate the majority of our waking hours.
TYLER LARKWORTHY is an Engineering junior from McLean, Va. studying Computer Science. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Many laws in Manville can affect local companies. If a business operates in Manville, it must ensure that the applicable laws are followed. For a business to legally transact, it may need to obtain leases or permits for the local area. Businesses in Manville also have unique factors to consider about how the company should be structured.
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Resin encapsulated transformers applied to a wide variety of applications such as distribution systems for power production, rectification and traction, as well as for special solutions. Among the most important characteristics, we can mention:
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A whole chain approach is crucial to driving UK beef breeding forward, according to Maurice Bichard, visiting research fellow from the University of Reading.
“We need to get breeders to unite rather than compete and processors and retailers need to work with stakeholders to formulate clear goals. And please make geneticists an integral part of your team.
“At the moment we have a group of elite breeders acting independently to decide what makes the top bulls – can we not create a more efficient way?”
He said the industry would benefit from having a beef chain and someone in charge. “In effect the chain would be in charge. All players would work out priorities and communicate between each other.
“You might think I am behind the times, with processor, retailer and consumer chains like Dovecote and Waitrose, but these need to become more proactive.”
There was also a need to reduce resource use and environmental impact throughout the chain and place a greater emphasis on selecting for different traits like disease resistance.
“If elite breeders won’t use indexes, then they should be replaced by those that do – if we don’t, the UK beef industry will become less competitive,” he stressed.
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Bona-Fide Troubadour Patch
The word “Troubadour” originally referred to French poet-singers of the middle ages who would sing songs about chivalry and courtly love. Perhaps chivalry is dead, but the Troubadour has evolved to refer to anyone who is a singer, especially when it refers to a singer of folk songs. The blues, which evolved out of work songs and field hollers of black Americans and existed in performance only before it was eventually written down by people such as W.C. Handy, can therefore be looked at as a kind of folk music. All this to say that Joe Bonamassa is a troubadour. One hell of a troubadour. Honor the blues, the troubadour tradition, and Joe Bonamassa’s music with this cool new Bona-Fide Troubadour Patch today.
- Width: 3 - 7/8"
- Height: 4 - 1/16"
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How to Apply Patch:
- Set your standard iron or press to 300F/150C
- Place patch as desired
- Apply maximum pressure at heat setting for 20-30 seconds
- Allow glue to surface and cool onto garment for 1-2 minutes
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Many news reports today are suggesting that computer experts are worried that the 2016 U.S. presidential election was hacked, and are demanding a recount to see whether Hillary Clinton actually beat Donald Trump, but that's not true. What electronic-voting experts are suggesting instead is a vote audit of the kind that they think should be routine after every election.
This pervasive but mostly false story stems from a misleading report posted online yesterday (Nov. 22) by New York magazine entitled "Experts Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States." It says that "a group of prominent computer scientists ... believes they've found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked."
But in a blog posting today (Nov. 23), one of those experts cited, J. Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan, contested the accuracy of the New York magazine story. And Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, one of the country's most prominent statisticians, said there's no evidence that the presidential vote in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin was rigged.
The New York Magazine piece "incorrectly describes the reasons manually checking ballots is an essential security safeguard," Halderman wrote.
"Were this year's deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyberattack? Probably not," he added. "I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked."
However, Halderman said the ballots should be audited nonetheless, because otherwise there would be no way to know for sure. And unfortunately, the only to do that is to demand a recount — not to give Clinton another chance to beat Trump, but to make sure that the various voting systems in use across multiple states actually work properly.
Halderman admits that the election certainly could have been hacked, because many of those voting systems are not very secure. He and other verified-voting experts have argued for years that electronic voting is very risky unless each recorded vote leaves a paper trail. (Indeed, the Netherlands has abandoned electronic voting and gone back to pencil and paper.)
But a stolen election would probably be easy to spot statistically. To that effect, Silver said on Twitter yesterday that "the claim ... of rigged results in Wisconsin is probably BS," and displayed several charts to demonstrate that. (Good luck understanding them.)
"Run a regression on Wisc. counties with >=50K people, and you find that Clinton improved more in counties with only paper ballots," Silver tweeted. "HOWEVER: the effect COMPLETELY DISAPPEARS once you control for race and education levels, the key factors in predicting vote shifts this year."
"Nothing in Pennsylvania, either, whether or not you control for demographics," he added. "And Michigan has paper ballots everywhere, so not even sure what claim is being made there."
Another prominent statistician, Nate Cohn, who was hired by The New York Times after Nate Silver left the paper following the 2012 presidential election, also dismissed the New York Magazine story.
"It's hard to stress how weak this is," Cohn tweeted yesterday.
That's not to say there aren't issues with the 2016 presidential election. Many computer-security and national-security experts believe that the Russian government influenced the election by releasing compromising material about Clinton through WikiLeaks — and got the result Russia desired. In other words, a hostile foreign power may have swayed a U.S. presidential election.
There's also the continuing vote count in California, which so far has added so much to the Democratic candidate's total that she now leads by more than two million votes nationwide. But both of these are policy and legislative issues that have little to do with voting machines, and the next president will have to deal with them.
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After one of the most dismal weeks in Swiss corporate history, new economic data shows the economy is unlikely to pick up before mid-2003.This content was published on March 1, 2003 - 14:59
On Friday, the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research's quarterly barometer showed that growth would remain flat.
The grim prognosis follows days of negative financial headlines, dominated by record losses and thousands of job cuts.
Many of Switzerland's top firms, including financial giants Credit Suisse and Zurich Financial Services, alongside the engineering group ABB and the pharmaceuticals firm Roche, all announced billion franc losses.
On Tuesday came news that the national airline Swiss - a company that carries the burden of Swiss national pride alongside a dwindling number of passengers - would drastically reduce its fleet and shed hundreds of jobs.
Worst year in a decade
New government economic figures, released on Thursday, underlined the negative picture.
According to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, 2002 was the worst year for business since 1993. Last year, GDP growth was just 0.1 per cent.
Economists have warned that Switzerland's economic and corporate woes could deteriorate further if the government fails to trigger new growth by liberalising the economy.
"If you look at the past ten years, Swiss growth has been far below countries like Holland, Sweden and Denmark," says Stéphane Garelli, an economist at Lausanne's IMD business school.
"The Swiss - with their fence-sitting and [dithering] - have missed the train," Garelli told swissinfo.
"The delay has cost the country years of missed growth."
Joseph Deiss, the Swiss economics minister, expressed anger and frustration on Thursday at the seemingly endless flow of poor corporate results.
He vowed to end what he called Switzerland's decade-long "moratorium on growth", promising to liberalise Swiss markets, break-up import cartels and build more flexibility into the economy.
However, many analysts worry that this week's tranche of bad news suggests the global economic slowdown is hurting more than just the Swiss building industry - until recently the only sector visibly suffering.
The past few days have confirmed that few sectors of the Swiss economy are immune from the effects of the weak global economy.
The financial services industry has shown itself particularly vulnerable.
On Tuesday, Credit Suisse announced its worst result ever - a SFr3.3 billion loss.
Two days later, Zurich Financial Services broke records with its SFr4.6 billion net loss - the biggest in Swiss corporate history.
In the engineering sector - a long-standing source of growth for the Swiss - the embattled ABB group said it would rely on thousands of job cuts and asset sales to recover from a billion franc loss in 2002.
In the pharmaceuticals sector, Roche helped darken Switzerland's "black week" by announcing it had more than obliterated its 2001 profit (of SFr3.7 billion) with a SFr4.03 billion wipeout in 2002.
The Clariant group, with a SFr648 million loss in 2002, showed the Swiss chemicals industry has not escaped the pain.
And although though there was some positive news - notably Nestlé's SFr7.6 billion profit in 2002 - markets were in no mood to celebrate.
Nestlé stocks were pushed down slightly after the food group failed to meet its own growth target of four per cent.
On Saturday, the Bon Appétit group, which owns Usego, Pick Pay/Vis à Vis, announced that it would be shedding 300 jobs over the next three years. 150 from the group's 5,000 employees are expected to be made redundant.
The group also annouced a loss of SFr 65 million for 2002.
Call for political action
Garelli blamed the low growth and high prices on Switzerland's failure reform its economy, and called for the creation of a new federal ministry charged with fuelling wealth.
Garelli said a specialised economics ministry - charged with evaluating and directing decisions by the Swiss finance ministry - would boost Switzerland's small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).
"While multinationals can adapt to remain competitive without the intervention of political authorities, SMEs depend on the role played by politicians to boost the domestic economy," said Garelli.
swissinfo, Jacob Greber
This week, many of Switzerland's top firms announced billion franc losses and thousands of job cuts.
Hard hit were financial giants Credit Suisse and Zurich Financial Services, electrical engineering group ABB and the pharmaceuticals firm Roche.
The national airline Swiss also took a knock, saying it would lay off 700 workers and cut its fleet by 20 planes.
Finance officials said 2002 was the worst year for business since 1993, with GDP growth of just 0.1 per cent.
Experts blamed the low growth on Switzerland's failure reform its economy.
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THE MARSH KING'S DAUGHTER 623
should be lifted upon the horse ; but .the horse sank under the burden, as though its body had been a cloth fluttering in the wind. But the holy sign gave strength to the airy phantom, and then the three rode from the moss to the firm land.
Then the cock crowed in the Viking's castle, and the phantom shapes dissolved and floated away in air ; but mother and daughter stood opposite each other.
' Is it myself that I see in the deep waters ? ' asked the mother.
1 Is it myself that I see reflected on the clear mirror ? ' exclaimed the daughter.
And they approached one another and embraced. The heart of the mother beat quickest, and she understood it.
' My child ! thou flower of my own heart ! my lotos flower of the deep waters ! '
And she embraced her child anew, and wept ; and the tears were as a new baptism of life and love to Helga.
' In the swan's plumage came I hither,' said the mother, ' and threw it off. I sank through the shaking mud, far down into the black slime, which closed like a wall around me. But soon I felt a fresher stream ; a power drew me down, deeper and ever deeper. I felt the weight of sleep upon my eyelids ; I slumbered, and dreams hovered round me. It seemed to me that I was again in the pyramid in Egypt, and yet the waving alder trunk that had frightened me up in the moss was ever before me. I looked at the clefts and wrinkles in the stem, and they shone forth in colours and took the form of hieroglyphics : it was the case of the mummy at which I was gazing ; the case burst, and forth stepped the thousand-year old King, the mummied form, black as pitch, shining black as the wood snail or the fat mud of the swamp : whether it was the Marsh King or the mummy of the pyramids I knew not. He seized me in his arms, and I felt as if I must die. When I returned to consciousness a little bird was sitting on my bosom, beating with its wings, and twittering and singing. The bird flew away from me up towards the heavy, dark covering, but a long green band still fastened him to me. I heard and understood his longing tones : " Freedom ! Sunlight ! To my father ! ' Then I thought of my father
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leichte Lagerspuren, ansonsten ungebrauchtes Exemplar
This title might have been written by Mao Zedong himself. Instead, it was dictated by the revealing, intimate, never-before-published recollections of Li Yinqiao, Mao's bodyguard, and brought to light by the author Quan Yanchi. After fifteen years of devoted service, Li received this request from Mao: "If what happens in my family is a secret to others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about me while I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully when you do." For the first time, the personal, inside story of China's dynamic leader and world statesman is told-the life and thought of Mao, the husband, father, comrade-in-arms, the peasant's son.
- Herausgeber : Foreign Languages Press 2008
- Sprache : Englisch
- Taschenbuch : 213 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 7119014455
- ISBN-13 : 9787119014456
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Basil is considered the king of herbs. And for a good reason. The aroma, flavor, and range of uses are unsurpassed. But there is far more to basil than meets the eye. Learn more about your favorite herb with this collection of 50+ interesting basil facts.
During the summer, you can find prominent basil displays at your local farmers market or the produce department at any grocery store. A symbol of delicious summertime treats, sweet basil is well-known and regularly appears on dinner tables.
But, there is far more to this flavorful herb than meets the eye. In fact, you will find that an entire world of basil stretches well beyond pesto, pasta sauce, and Caprese.
You can spend a lifetime learning about basil – from its fascinating history to its many uses. Or how to cultivate countless unique varieties. With so much to uncover and explore, where do you start?
To help you begin your journey of discovery, we wanted to offer some inspiration. Explore the 50 interesting facts about basil below and see where the aromatic winds take you.
Facts About Basil (The Basics)
- There are at least 100 known varieties of basil.
- Cultivated for roughly 5000 years, the earliest written reference to basil dates back to before 206 B.C.E.
- Most varieties grow between 1-3 feet high, but some can reach up to an incredible 10 feet tall.
- Basil is a member of the mint family (Lamiaceae).
- The origin of the name “basil” is a little mysterious. It derives from either basilikon or basilicum, which are Latin words. Basilikon means king or royalty, and basilicum refers to the basilisk, a mythical serpent.
- Some delicious basil varieties to try are Genovese (sweet) basil, purple basil, cinnamon basil, lemon basil, lettuce basil, licorice basil, holy basil, Thai basil, lime basil, Greek basil, and African blue basil.
The History of Basil
- Legend has it that Alexander the Great was so smitten with basil, he brought it home to Greece after one of his conquests for the ancient Greeks to enjoy.
- Basil spread rapidly via the spice trade and became a prized herb in every country it reached.
- In the Middle Ages, basil was a treatment for scorpion stings. But there was also a belief that smelling basil would result in scorpions growing in your brain.
- Basil played a role in the embalming process in Ancient Egypt, finding its way into the tombs of pharaohs.
- It features prominently in classic literature, including poetry by John Keats and The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
- It is known as a symbol of love for multiple cultures.
- In modern times, basil has even been to space! 10,000,000 cinnamon basil seeds went to space with NASA in 2007.
Basil and Religion
- Basil takes center stage during the St. Basil feast day in Greece on January 1.
- Holy basil (Tulsi) is considered sacred in India and is associated with Tulasi and Vishnu.
- Legend has it that basil grew next to the site of Christ’s crucifixion and led St. Helena to the location when she was on pilgrimage.
- Yet another legend says basil grew next to Christ’s tomb after the resurrection, symbolizing new life.
- In the Greek Orthodox Church, priests use bundles of basil to sprinkle holy water and ward off evil.
- In Judaism, bunches of basil are part of fasting rituals. The belief is that fresh basil revives energy and increases strength while fasting.
Basil Plants as Medicine
- It is a well-known and beloved herb in traditional herbalism, including Western Herbalism, Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda.
- Hippocrates and Pliny the Elder mention medicinal uses for basil in their writings.
- Basil is rich in basil essential oil which can reduce inflammation and has mild pain-relieving properties.
- All basil varieties are nutrient-rich, boasting Vitamins A, C, K, calcium, potassium, and other minerals.
- It contains high levels of flavonoids and other antioxidant compounds, both of which help protect against cancer.
- Tulsi basil is an adaptogenic herb – a class of herbs that help the body cope better with stress and assist with recovery.
- Basil also has antimicrobial, cardioprotective, and antiseptic anti inflammatory properties.
- It plays a role in aiding the following problems: respiratory illness, headaches, and digestive trouble / stomach cramps (although, it might cause digestive upset in cats and dogs).
- In all herbal traditions, it is a remedy for boosting moods, helping fight anxiety, and treating poor concentration.
Growing Fresh Basil
- Basil is a natural insect repellent, which makes it an ideal companion plant. It regularly gets planted next to tomatoes for its pest deterrent properties and because they require similar care.
- A frost-sensitive annual, basil loves the warmth of the summer months and thrives when daytime temperatures are consistently at least 70 F. Once first frost hits, it won’t survive outdoors.
- Pinch off the flowers when you first notice them to encourage the growth of large, delicious leaves.
- In some regions, basil can be grown as a perennial.
- You can propagate basil from either cuttings or grow from seeds.
- The ideal time to harvest basil is in the early morning since this is the time of day when the essential oil content is at its highest level.
- You can grow your basil year round in containers, windowsill and kitchen counter gardens, and hydroponic gardens. When growing basil indoors, provide your basil with plenty of light and full sun (6-8 hours per day) and high-quality fertilizer to keep your plants happy.
- When grown outdoors, basil thrives in nutrient-rich, well-draining, and moist soil.
Cooking With Basil
- Basil flowers and flower buds are edible and can get added to nearly every recipe that calls for basil – either with the fresh leaves or instead of them.
- Basil is a great option to use in both savory and spicy dishes.
- It is a perfect addition to sweet treats such as ice cream, shortbread cookies, and sorbet.
- Basil pairs surprisingly well with a wide variety of fruit. Some delicious fruit and basil pairings worth a try feature stone fruit, berries, and citrus.
- You can take your salad dressing to the next level when you infuse basil in olive oil or vinegar.
- “Spice” up your salt by infusing it with basil. All you need to do is mix some dried basil into sea salt to create a taste delight.
- Feel free to eat basil in both cooked and raw forms.
- You can freeze basil to preserve it longer and quickly add the flavor of summer to meals during the coldest months. To keep your basil from turning black, this is best done in the form of pesto or blended into olive oil that you can freeze in ice cube trays.
- Store fresh basil leaves with their stems immersed in a glass jar of water after harvesting. Just be sure to keep it out of the sunlight.
- Beyond Italian cuisine, basil also features prominently in dishes across Southeast Asia.
Basil as a Beverage
- Create incredibly flavorful and refreshing summertime drinks by incorporating basil.
- Basil can be added to the second fermentation stage of kombucha, either by itself or with fruit or spices, for a refreshing and nutrition-packed drink.
- Tulsi basil is a well-known basil tea you can enjoy throughout the day, even right before bedtime, to help you relax.
- Add basil to your next cocktail for a unique flavor profile and stunning aesthetic.
- Basil is awesome in lemonade.
- You can infuse basil into wine.
- Turn basil into herbal ice cubes that you can add to tap water, sparkling water, or ice tea. Fill your ice cube tray halfway with water and partially freeze it. Add fresh basil leaves, fill the remainder of the spaces with water, and freeze fully.
- You can even drink basil seeds, and basil seed drinks are popular in India and Thailand.
What Basil Facts Do You Know?
These basil facts are just a brief glimpse into the incredible world of basil. Use them as a starting point to begin your own exploration. Whether you are a history buff, a gardener, or love to experiment in the kitchen, you will find endless ways to incorporate basil into your life. We encourage you to dive into more interesting facts, find out how to have a successful harvest, or discover new and delectable recipes to try.
(This article was originally published on July 25, 2022 and was last updated on July 26, 2022)
Jennifer is a writer, Nutritionist, and Herbalist who loves all things food. She grows basil alongside other herbs and edible flowers in her garden. Herbs also hold a prominent space in her aerogarden. She enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, finding fun and unique ways to incorporate herbs into daily life. Jennifer is passionate about helping others discover the joy of quality food. And she loves to bring her two kids along on endless food adventures!
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There are enough films about baseball and famous ballplayers in the American cinema to constitute its own subgenre but Fear Strikes Out (1957) is a special case that stands alone. Based on the autobiography by James A. Piersall, the former outfielder and shortstop for the Boston Red Sox, and Albert S. Hirshberg, the film is less about Jimmy Piersall’s brilliant though erratic career and more about his struggle against bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depressive illness).Continue reading
Here’s a rarely seen Pre-Code curiosity made during the early period of Marlene Dietrich’s career at Paramount, The Song of Songs (1933). It is usually overlooked amid the Josef von Sternberg collaborations that made her famous such as The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930) and Shanghai Express (1932), yet, it provides a fascinating look at Dietrich under a different director (Rouben Mamoulian) as well as a departure from her usual persona as a vamp or prostitute (at least in the beginning). The film is also generously seasoned with romance, decadence, melodrama, earthy humor, some musical numbers and a disaster – there is a fire in the final act.
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bi-, bin-, bino-, bis-
(Latin: two, twice, double, twofold; a number; it normally functions as a prefix)
This bi- is used before s, c, or a vowel. Don't confuse this bi- with another one which means "life".
All words except biennial referring to periods of time and prefixed by bi- are potentially ambiguous. Since bi- can be taken to mean either "twice each" or "every two", a word like "biweekly" can be understood as "twice each week" or "every two weeks".
The temporal halves are located on each side of the head, back of the eyes and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ears.
One example of a bitentacle creature is the cuttlefish that has eight arms and two tentacles that have toothless suckers with which they grab and hold their prey.
"Their enlarged gils are covered with cilia (fine hairs) and they have the additional functions of filtering microscopic food particles from the water as it flows over them."
"Bibalves life on the bottom of the sea or lakes and are sedentary or not moving around."valva, "section of a folding or revolving door"; literally, "that which turns"; related to volvere "to roll".
The meaning was extended in about 1659 to "a mechanical device that works like a valve"; and in 1661 in zoology to "halves of a hinged shell".
An oyster is a bivalve because it has a two-valved shell.
"Oysters and mussels, permanently attach themselves to hard surfaces as adults and the foot is sedge-shaped and is used for digging in the sand or mud where they secrete tough attachment threads."
2. The result of combining.
3. An alliance of people or parties for a common purpose; an association.
4. A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
5. In mathematics, one or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
2. Marked by or relating to or resulting from combination.
3. Able to or tending to combine.
2. To undertake two or more activities at the same time: Hank's mother has successfully combined a career as an medical doctor and as a hospital executive.
3. To join together, or to make substances join together, to form a chemical compound.
4. Etymology: from about 1440, from Medieval French combiner, from Late Latin combinare, "to unite, to yoke together"; from Latin com-, "together" + bini, "two by two", from bi-, "twice".
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We as human beings thrive in reference to others. We weren't created to be alone. The legendary poet John Donne mentioned it finest when he acknowledged, ”No man is an island unto himself” Primarily based on this sentiment, it turns into wildly evident that we as residing, respiratory human beings have been created to share an interdependent existence based mostly on love, mutuality, and togetherness. Normally these items are discovered inside our households and circle of associates. Those that we name our “kin” and “close knit friends” are charged with the accountability to offer the love, help, and nurture essential to develop.
However what occurs when you need to go it alone? When you haven't any household or associates you may depend on for help? What do you do when you find yourself out right here combating alone?
Very first thing’s first: you mourn. You grieve the lack of having nobody you may depend on. You cry. You write. You scream. You let loose the craze and the anger and the damage that comes from figuring out nobody is in your nook if you want them essentially the most. You cycle by the phases of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, despair, acceptance. You permit your self to really feel these feelings. You sit in these feelings and act as a curious observer to the fragile nuances of emotions that emerge throughout the course of this expertise. This can damage immensely, however you have to sit on this discomfort, as ultimately you can be granted highly effective insights and wonderful instruments you should utilize to self-soothe and pull your self out of this horrible gloom.
Sit right here, however don't make grief your residence. Don't make disappointment your everlasting handle. Enable your self the area to really feel this then stand up, bathe, gown, and make your self breakfast. You have to your power as a result of you've got work to do. You must learn how finest to help YOU. As you do that work, bear in mind you've got you. You aren't with out somebody.
As you interact within the very purposeful but terrifying work of supporting your self, bear in mind you know the way to be alone. You've got finished it so many occasions earlier than. Once you have been first being shaped in your mom’s sturdy womb, you have been alone. Once you have been resting in your crib at night time as a small youngster in the beginning phases of your life, you have been rising alone. Once you have been taking part in in your room, generally you have been within the firm of 1. Different occasions you simply had you and your creativeness to depend on. You understand how to be alone. You have already got a repertoire of flying solo. The blueprint on learn how to be alone has already been shaped.
Remember the fact that you aren't alone in being alone. Many individuals really feel the identical means you do and haven't any associates or household to depend on too. They've used the time to construct their very own empires. They've used the time to find who they're, what they take pleasure in, what they need, how finest they'll help themselves irrespective of getting household, associates or a life accomplice.
They've additionally discovered to attract on varied sources of motivation from books, nature and a significant relationship with their larger energy. They've collected concrete instruments, specifically quotes, affirmations, and sayings that maintain them repeatedly motivated. They've regarded of their mirror and engaged in what is named “power posing.” They stand tall inside themselves and maintain poses that mirror their inside power and the particular person they want to venture to the world. They change into the change they want to see and interact on this self-defining choreography and understand they've everybody they want proper inside them.
Largely they interact in radical self-care. They don't await others to validate their instinct. They honor their very own voice. They journal and meditate and let themselves breathe. They take up area and reclaim their time. They relaxation and drink water and eat nutritious well-balanced meals. They reparent and restore the wounded ego and the broken inside youngster that was created because of insufficient caretakers. They change into their very own finest good friend and learn to shield themselves from non secular exploitation.
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How to benefit from one of the most important discoveries in neuroscience in the last decade
How to benefit from utilizing Mirror Neurons.
The discovery that watching the actions of others activates similar neural circuitry, as if we were doing the action, has been called one of the greatest discoveries in neuroscience in the last decade.
How can you use this knowledge to upgrade your nervous system with new behaviors and perceptions? Surround yourself with people who are better than you in what you are trying to accomplish. Play with better guitarists, run with better runners, be around better investors, be in the company of serial entrepreneurs, hang out with philanthropists.
Is there someone who embodies multiple aspects of their professional and personal lives that you admire? Ask them to be your mentor.
We all have the basic hardware, and we build our own software by what we habitually do until it becomes effortless. If there is something you are struggling with doing on your own, or you have reached a plateau, being around someone who is better or more efficient will prime the circuitry in your system, putting you “in entrainment” for those behaviors and perceptions, thus making it easier for you to get there on your own, with practice.
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It is really gratifying to see the Government of PEI has finally accepted the concepts and goals the Official Opposition has tirelessly fought for since starting our first session in the spring of 2019.
Like a teacher pleased with a good student’s progress, I am happy to see the government has finally understood what we have proposed for three sittings of the legislature.
In fact, the government is proposing a goal of reaching Net Zero energy in just 10 years and reaching Carbon Neutrality by 2040, 10 years ahead of Canada’s national goal.
For this, as a teacher, I would definitely award an A+ grade. Bravo! Three stars!
Now, of course, I am not a teacher, I am an MLA. I am worried about whether or not government will follow up on these lofty promises with real action.
Short on action
Here I see a plan that is short on action. Unlike a student in school, where good ideas are often enough, we fully expect a government to put all their forces to work to do what they promise.
I can speak with some experience in the area of Net Zero buildings. These are buildings that combine features such as lots of insulation and triple glazed windows with on-site energy collection like solar collectors, so that the total energy use over the year is zero.
In the spring of 2019 I tabled a motion that all new government buildings be Net Zero. I had hoped this motion would pass easily, as the requirement not only would help PEI meet the goals already set for 2030, but also virtually pay for itself. Adding collectors and extra insulation does of course cost more, but the resulting savings will pay off the extra cost in 10 to 20 years and it is a better investment than putting money in the bank.
Nevertheless, government fought tooth and nail against the motion, and it was only passed in the fall of 2019 after the requirement was reduced to ONE building. It’s great the next school government builds will be Net Zero, but it will only be finished in 2024. What about all the other new buildings being funded by government? Not to mention all the private ones and the upgrades needed for all the existing buildings.
In my area of expertise, buildings, there are lots of areas we can improve immediately. Why not proclaim ALL new government funded builds be Net Zero? Why not fix mistakes such as the nine story residence going up at UPEI? Such buildings are the easiest to make Net Zero. Pause the construction for a month or two and upgrade it to Net Zero, or the building will have to be renovated at great expense in just a few years.
This is why I give only a C- for action.
So, dear student: Great work on concept. Lots of work needed on action. If you start immediately, you could get a much better grade at the end of the term.
Ole Hammarlund is the MLA for Charlottetown-Brighton and the Official Opposition Net Zero Critic
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Multithread Affinity Scheduling Using a Decision Maker
Keywords:Affinity, cache memory, multiprocessor scheduling, operating systems, priority, throughput
AbstractIn a multiprocessor-multithread Operating System (OS), scheduling has two dimensions. The operating system has to decide which thread to run and which Central Processing Unit (CPU) to run it on. Assume the threads are independent and each thread has a priority, the operating system selects a thread with the highest priority and assigns it to the first free CPU. Usually, each CPU has its private cache. To increase the throughput of the system, it is preferred to use affinity scheduling. The affinity scheduling concept is to make an effort to have a thread run on the same CPU it ran on the last time. The existing affinity scheduling is implemented by using a two-level scheduling algorithm. In this paper a new approach is designed to implement independent multithread scheduling on a multiprocessor system. The design approach uses a decision maker to compute a new priority for each ready thread according to the thread pre-priority and affinity. The results show that by using the new priority, the goal of having affinity is satisfied in addition to taking the pre-priority of the thread in consideration. Also, the design approach reduces the scheduling time because it implements affinity scheduling and priority scheduling by employing a one level scheduling algorithm.
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Torrellas, J., Tucker, A., Gupta. A., “Evaluating the Performance of Cache-Affinity Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessorsâ€. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Volume 24, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 139-151.
Bashir, Alam, Doja, M. N. and Biswas, R., “Improving the Performance of Fair Share Scheduling Algorithm using Fuzzy Logicâ€, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Control, 2009.
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Lim, Sungsoo and Sung-Bae, “Intelligent OS Process Scheduling Using Fuzzy Inference with User Modelsâ€, IEA/AIE 2007, LNAI 4570, pp. 725–734, 2007.
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Only hours after Judy Bailey completed the Tongariro Crossing, the volcano awoke from its century-long slumber, suddenly flinging boulders and ash into the night sky.
There's something about climbing a volcano that produces a true frisson of fear and anticipation. Fear of what's going on beneath your feet and anticipation at the possibility you will see nature at her most primal. I was, of course, blissfully unaware of what was to come.
Tongariro had been unusually active in the weeks preceding my visit. It usually has about two earthquakes a year but had experienced nearly 100 in the space of just two weeks. Still, geologists seemed to think it safe to venture onto the mountain.
The day began like many others on Tongariro. My guide, Stew Barclay from Adrift Outdoors, made sure I was well kitted out. This is essential if you are going to take on this most fickle of environments. The weather changes wildly here from minute to minute.
I'm wrapped in multiple layers of wool and polar fleece, feeling not unlike Michelin Woman, complete with ice axe and crampons. I am not an experienced tramper. In fact this was my first attempt at a mountain.
Nor am I exceedingly fit; regular pilates and walking the dogs hadn't quite prepared me for the aerobic demands of mountain climbing, but more on that later.
Tongariro National Park is a World Heritage site, the crossing, one of the top 10 alpine walks in the world. What makes it top 10? The volcanic landscape, the diversity of the climb, the fact you can do it in one day.
There's no doubt about it, this is a challenging walk and we're about to tackle it in challenging conditions. Stew tells me the winter crossings are his favourite. I can see what he means. The snow and mist give the mountains a mystical, ethereal quality and there are no crowds. We seem to have Tongariro to ourselves.
We enter from the Mangatepopo Valley, following the stream up hill. No snow at this level. It's easy to see why Sir Peter Jackson chose this place to represent the evil kingdom of Mordor in his Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is barren, unforgiving, forsaken even by the birds.
I marvel at Soda Springs, a waterfall that magically appears from the rock, no stream above it, just one of the thermal wonders we'll pass today. It's a relatively easy walk for the first three or four kilometres and then we hit the notorious Devil's Staircase. A 45-minute haul, pretty much straight up. And it literally is a staircase. DoC has put a lot of work in here and the steps certainly make it easier, but even so I'm gasping and needing frequent stops to "admire the view".
Stew assures me I'm fitter than I think and that I'll manage the climb. I wonder if that's what he tells all his clients.
No sooner have we reached the top of the staircase and levelled off than we are climbing again along the ridge that links Ngauruhoe and Tongariro. It's a narrow ledge between the south and red craters, a steep drop down one side. I'm trying not to look.
There's snow here, and the wind has come up. It is suddenly icy cold and the view has gone, replaced by swirling mist and cloud. I'm struggling to stay upright and Stew gets me to grab on to his strapping with one hand while I use my ice axe for support in the other.
Just when I'm beginning to think this wasn't such a great idea, Stew points out the summit. I summon up the last ounces of my strength and we strike out for the top. I can't tell you how exhilarating it is standing at the top of a mountain, we'd climbed to over 1800m.
That, I think, is the really special thing about this walk - the sense of achievement for an ordinary person, one who is not used to great physical challenges, to get to the top, it's miraculous.
We slide in the snow down the steep sides of the central crater on our backsides, whooping and hollering like a couple of kids. We lunch beside the exquisite, steaming Emerald Lake, before heading up through the notch, along the face of the silent north crater and down another DoC masterpiece of stair work, zigzagging to the Ketetahi Hut where we rest at last, taking in the stunning view of the hot springs, steaming away and Lake Rotoaira in the valley below.
We leave the mountain as easily as we arrived, with a stroll down through the bush, on this southern side, alive with the sound of birdsong and the rushing waters of the Ketetahi stream. The crossing had taken us seven and a half hours.
Just hours later, the hut would fall victim to the Te Maari crater's eruption. Huge boulders would be hurled through the windows. We were lucky.
The next morning I was woken from my slumbers at the Hilton in Taupo by a text from Stew: "We timed it to perfection," he said, "Tongariro erupted at 10 to midnight. I'm up the mountain waiting for the sun to come up!"
The last eruption happened more than 100 years ago.
I celebrate my close call and triumph on the mountain with a mirimiri or Maori massage. The Wairakei Terraces thermal spa is a family business. Raewyn and Jim Hill have recreated Tarawera's famed pink and white terraces here and they are truly remarkable.
Thermal water cascades over the natural silica, ending in a series of pools where I soak away the strains of my mountaineering exploits before my massage. The mirimiri takes place in a tiny, old, wooden whare. This massage tends not only to your muscles but also to your mind and spirit.
The masseuse prays quietly over me as she works, ancient karakia handed down over generations. There is a particular karakia, she tells me, for each part of the body.
It works wonders. I am truly unwound. Bliss.
Bigger blast fear keeps track closed
Researchers from GNS Science are still studying the mountain after last week's eruption, so travellers will have to cool their heels before the popular Tongariro crossing track is reopened.
Mike Rosenberg, of GNS Science, was yesterday hoping to put together much of the evidence and get a better idea of what had happened.
"I'm hoping that today there will be some consensus and a clear and consistent message about what's caused the eruption and what's likely to happen in the future."
Department of Conservation staff say they are working to reopen the tracks and huts on Mt Tongariro as soon as conditions are safe. But it is not known when trampers will be allowed on the Tongariro Crossing.
Tongariro Crossing: Adrift Guided Outdoor Adventures offers a winter guided Tongariro alpine crossing for $155 a person.
Further details: See greatlaketaupo.com/grabit or call 0800 Lake Taupo or 0800 Turangi.
* For more on the region, see our Tongariro National Park travel section.
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Introducing the topsy-turvy tale of Tilda Whirl. Inspired by author Julie Kraft's own mental health journey with bipolar disorder, this book explores the many feelings and fears of a girl named Tilda. Throughout this tale, Tilda struggles with swirling 'tilt-a-whirl' emotions that she keeps bottled up and hidden behind a smile. It isn't until she decides to open up and share her feelings that she discovers she isn't alone, weird, or weak. It is Julie's greatest hope that Tilda's story will spark the most powerful of conversations- ones that make masks fall off and walls come down. Talking has the power to bring healing and offer hope. Everyone is like Tilda in some small way and her story lets us all know we're more than okay! Yes, we're all absolutely lovable just the way we are!
bad,"Everybody has good days and
Everyone feels happy and sad.
Moods go up, down, and every which way,
It's part of life and it's more than okay!"
- Tilda Whirl
"This is a beautifully written and illustrated book. It tells the story and struggles of a young girl living her life feeling different from others and not knowing why. Once she accepts who she is and opens up to others, Tilda grows in confidence & understanding and accepts that everyone is different and that is OK! It has such a great and positive message and a good reminder to kids and adults that we can all struggle or feel alone but there is always support if we need it.."
- Jen D.
"This book is a perfect resource for parents and teachers helping children understand that it's always okay to be true to who they are! This book offers countless opportunities for important discussions with children about feelings and emotions. This book is also an excellent resource to complement any social-emotional learning program. The hand painted illustrations are a true work of art in themselves! The story is well-written, engaging and perfect for children. Tilda has an important lesson to teach us all about being unique and honouring our range of emotions!"
- Jamie R.
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On January 12, 2022, Federal Decree No. 10,936/2022 came into force, regulating Brazil's Solid Waste National Policy, which was established by Federal Law No. 12,305/2010, and bringing important provisions such as (i) the creation of the National Reverse Logistics Program, an instrument to coordinate and integrate reverse logistics systems by means of the National Information System on Solid Waste Management and the National Plan on Solid Waste; (ii) the reinforcement of equitable supervision of the fulfillment of obligations related to segments in which reverse logistics system(s) already exist (absorbing provisions of Federal Decree No. 9,177/2017); (iii) the obligation to dispose of inflammable hazardous waste via the energy recovery industry, following Brazilian law regarding solid waste management (i.e., non-generation, reduction, reuse, recycling, treatment of solid waste and environmentally appropriate final disposal of waste); (iv) the establishment of the waste transport manifest, a self-declaratory document valid throughout the national territory; and (v) the provision of specific solid waste management plans to micro and small-sized companies, as well as cases of exemption.
The new decree also revoked Federal Decree No. 5,940/2006, which required that federal public administrative bodies separate their recyclable waste before sending solid recyclable waste to recycling associations and recyclable material collectors; Federal Decree No. 7,404/2010, which regulated the Solid Waste National Policy and had created the Solid Waste National Policy Joint Ministerial Committee and the Guiding Committee for the Implementation of Reverse Logistics Systems; the previously mentioned Federal Decree No. 9,177/2017, known as the Isonomy Decree, which established the equitable supervision of reverse logistics obligations compliance; and item IV of Article 5 of Federal Decree No. 10,240/2020, which excluded electronic components not attached to electronic products from reverse logistics obligations.
To summarize, the new decree harmonizes and unifies legal provisions that had been scattered and, at the same time, ratifies concepts and obligations already provided by the Solid Waste National Policy, aiming at properly manage solid waste in the national territory.
The Environmental Team of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown is available for further clarification.
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People in Cheshire are living longer, with a growing proportion of people aged 65 or over.
However, more people than ever are also living with multiple health conditions with many health conditions linked to people’s lifestyle choices and personal circumstances:
- Smoking – Smoking prevalence is higher than the national average in Cheshire East.
- Alcohol – The number of Cheshire 15-year-olds that have tried alcohol, are regular drinkers or have been drunk in the last four weeks is comparable to the national figures. Rates of alcohol-related admissions among under 18s are higher in Cheshire East.
- Inactivity – 30% of adults across Cheshire are classed as physically inactive and 1 in 4 as overweight or obese. 1 in 5 children are classed as overweight or obese when they start primary school, 1 in 3 when they leave.
- Loneliness – Feeling lonely is often linked to early deaths and increased risk of heart disease, stroke, depression, cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.
Pockets of deprivation mean there are also areas of significant health inequalities. Life expectancy is 11 years lower for men and 13 years lower for women in the most deprived areas of Cheshire East and 10 years lower for men and 8 years lower for women in the most deprived areas of Cheshire West.
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PHOENIX — The Valley's popularity with out-of-towners continues to soar, with Maricopa County growing at a record-setting pace.
According to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, Maricopa topped the list of counties across the country for population growth between 2017 and 2018.
The Maricopa County population grew 81,244, bringing the total number of residents to 4,410,824 as of July 1, 2018, according to the Census Bureau.
Clark County, Nevada, and Harris County, Texas, took the second and third spots, respectively.
One city that's trying to keep up with the surge in population is Buckeye.
The city is technically larger geographically than Phoenix, coming in around 642 square miles. But the city says only 5% of that land is developed.
With the population surge, the city says that's expected to change. Buckeye says last year they issued about 2,200 new single-family permits.
At this point they're expected to beat that number by issuing 200 single-family permits a month. Real estate experts tell ABC15 the average price of a home in Buckeye is up 10% from last year.
Across the Valley in Queen Creek, the price is up 16%.
Take a look at the top 10 list of U.S. counties for numeric population growth from 2017 to 2018 below.
|Rank||State||County||July 1, 2017||July 1, 2018||Numeric Growth|
Comparing populations from 2010 to 2018 placed Maricopa County in second place, with Harris County, Texas, ranking number one.
See how top counties compared between 2010 and 2018 in the ranking below.
|Rank||State||County||April 1, 2010 (Estimates base)||July 1, 2018||Numeric Growth|
|4||California||Los Angeles County||9,818,672||10,105,518||286,846|
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It’s not just countries that take part in the Olympics.
The games have a long tradition of politically uncertain groups participating ‘under the Olympic flag’ – newly independent countries which haven’t had time to set up a formal team, nationals of states under UN sanctions, and others.
But in Rio 2016, for the first time, there is a second group competing under the Olympic flag: the inaugural Refugee Olympic Team.
In June, organisers of the games announced that, to “act as a symbol of hope for refugees worldwide and bring global attention to the magnitude of the refugee crisis”, ten refugees would be nominated by the UN, get trained by their countries of residence, and take part, marching in the opening ceremony ahead of the host nation Brazil.
One Ethiopian, two Congolese, two Syrians and five South Sudanese are out there right now, competing – in swimming, judo and athletics.
These ten refugees, representatives of millions of refugees worldwide, were selected for their sporting abilities. The opportunity that they and the 33 others on the shortlist have had – to train in top athletic facilities around the world and tell their stories to the world at the Olympics – is extraordinary.
The opportunity to fulfill their potential is life changing for any refugee. And, as in the Olympics, The Bike Project believes being physically active can help achieve this potential – in our case by cycling to a more independent, fulfilling life.
Because the bicycles and cycling classes we deliver are life-changing. With them, refugees living in London form part of a community, can travel cheaply and effectively to legal appointments for their asylum case, to college and to friends, and gain new skills to help them settle in to their new homes.
The Refugee Olympic Team is the big picture happening in Brazil.
The Bike Project is the hands-on, oil and grease work happening on the streets of London.
If you’d like to be a part of it, we’d love you to donate a bike, sponsor a bike or donate your time.
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By Yi Ying Teh, moderator of the governance discussion at the youth session. Share your thoughts by commenting at the end of this blogpost!
What is good governance? Because the words ‘government’ and ‘governance’ sound similar, I used to think that forest governance was the task of the government only, and that good governance was the government doing its job well.
[For Indonesians, I don’t suppose you come across the same problem. ‘Pemerintah’ (government) and ‘tata kelola’ (governance) are quite different!]
After all, many of the laws passed by Southeast Asian governments have impacted the protection of forests.
However, such reforms have not always translated into good governance, or sustainable management of forest landscapes.
For example, the decentralization reforms of the Habibie Administration in Indonesia transferred power away from the central government to more local governments. As fiscal laws allowed local governments to retain 80% of forestry revenues, there was less incentive to protect the forests.
Similarly, the Royal Government of Cambodia passed some authority of the forests over to communities in Community Forestry sub-decree of 2003. However many communities claim that they were only given rights to low-value forests, and for only 15 years. As the communities have to wait 5 years before they can harvest anything other than non-timber forest products (NTFP), there is a likelihood that they maychoose to exploit the forests in the short 10 years that they have rights to them.
Transboundary issues – where the effects are felt beyond the borders of a particular country – pose a particular challenge for both governance and governments.
In 1997-98, forest fires in Indonesia reached intense proportions, covering 9.7 million hectares and resulting in the spread of haze across Southeast Asia. Blame was laid at the feet of many different actors, all the way from companies responsible for clearing forest land for plantations, down to local ‘slash and burn’ farmers.
The crisis prompted Southeast Asian countries to negotiate a transboundary agreement- The ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution of 2002. As haze is a transboundary issue, it is important for governments to come together at meetings like the annual ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment and to take collective action.
Yet, as I’ve realized, governance does not just include governments. When I am at the supermarket, the paper and palm oil products that I choose to buy impact a different form of governance- market-based forest certification schemes.
Certification systems tap into the market (including us, as consumers) to provide incentives for companies to protect forests. However, certification schemes such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) have faced difficulties in helping companies to fetch a higher price for sustainable palm oil that fulfills RSPO requirements.
Maybe like me, you used to think that governance only involves governments? Or maybe you firmly believe in certification schemes, and the power and role of us, as youth and consumers, in encouraging good governance of our forest resources? Whatever it is, let us hear your thoughts!
- What do you think are the major forest governance issues in your country or within ASEAN?
- What do you think are some of the challenges and opportunities of managing these issues?
- What can we, as young people, do to encourage good governance of our forests in Southeast Asia?
- Are there any models of governance (certification, transboundary government agreements) that you think we should focus on?
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In as little as two weeks, a daily dose of a sugary beverage can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in healthy young subjects. That was the riveting conclusion from a clinical trial that is the first to show a direct dose-response relationship between sugary beverage consumption and risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
For this two-week study, researchers assigned 85 healthy young adults to a daily quota of sugary beverage consumption equivalent to either 0 percent, 10 percent, 17.5 percent, or 25 percent of their daily calorie requirements. Those assigned to the 0 percent group consumed a beverage sweetened artificially. All study subjects had their blood levels for several markers of cardiovascular disease monitored repeatedly both before and after the study. For study subjects consuming the sugary beverages, there were noted increases in their blood markers for heart disease across the board, with greater daily sugary beverage intakes translating to higher numbers.
Even study subjects consuming the lowest dose of sugary beverages experienced significant changes in their cardiovascular risk markers, including an increase in LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides. The study’s lead researcher commented, “These findings clearly indicate that humans are acutely sensitive to the harmful effects of excess sugar over a broad range of consumption levels.”
Drinking sugary beverages is arguably the most fattening and body-damaging, yet under-recognized of all high risk dietary practices. 50 percent of Americans still consume sugary beverages on a daily basis. Help spread the word on how bad they are for health. (Am J Clin Nutr, April 2015 DOI: 10.3945/ajcn. 114.100461)
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PTAB Sheds Light on Video Game Patent
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently upheld the patentability of a video game-related patent, ruling the computer graphics features were not obvious over the prior art. The patent (US Patent 7,061,488) address techniques for rendering lighting and shadows in computer graphic simulations where there are at least 2 virtual light sources. The claims were alleged to be obvious because the high level concepts were allegedly known in the art as evidenced by various prior art references. However, the PTAB disagreed stating that there was no evidence that it would have been obvious to combine the prior art features. This case shows that even if general concepts are known, improvements to those concepts and/or a unique combination of concepts can be patentable.
In part, the alleged obviousness was based on the characterization of some of the claim features as mere design choices. However, the PTAB found that the specific algorithm, which is alleged to be the design choice(s), is exactly the problem the invention alleges to solve, and the motivation for the purported design choices, i.e., that the choices were made in service of specifically improving upon the prior art algorithm, militates against those choices being considered mere design choices. Additionally, it noted that the design choice concept was not intended to encompass making extensive modifications to a reference. Given that the PTAB found the features recited in claim 1 would result in a difference in function as compared to the structural configuration of the prior art.
The PTAB also address the overall test for obviousness. It stated: “an invention composed of several elements is not proved obvious merely by demonstrating that each of its elements was, independently, known in the prior art…. Instead, a determination of unpatentability on a ground of obviousness must include articulated reasoning with some rational underpinning to support the legal conclusion of obviousness.” It added that the obviousness evaluation “should be made explicit,” and it “can be important to identify a reason that would have prompted a person of ordinary skill in the relevant field to combine the elements in the way the claimed new invention does.” Here, the PTAB found that the Petitioner’s contentions were deficient, in particular, because Petitioner did not explain persuasively how or why one having ordinary skill in the art would have made each of the combinations and modifications set forth in its particular alleged design choice.
Despite some of the recent uncertainty on the scope of eligible patents, many video game patents are being granted and upheld when enforced.
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A year ago, we gathered together in Paris for the OECD Forum at a testing time for international co-operation. Following a series of political events that shook our foundations, we set ourselves the challenging task of bridging divides, and exploring solutions to the deepening divisions fragmenting our economies and, more profoundly, our societies.
A year on, and we have had to adapt to the new normal of political turbulence and unpredictability, reflecting public disquiet at what the current model of economic globalisation has been seen to deliver or not, in countries that are at the very heart of fashioning the international system and the OECD itself. While we can draw on an evidence base that stretches back decades to point to the significant benefits that sustained international co-operation has offered, for too many people, multilateralism has come to represent a rather distant, self-serving and technocratic “system”, removed from their everyday aspirations and concerns. The backlash that has ensued, fuelled and facilitated by new modes of digital communication together with not so new political platforms and recipes, is leading to serious concerns about the potential unravelling of the culture, norms, standards and institutions that were born in response to the tragedy of World War II.
With the future of international co-operation very much in question, the time is ripe for OECD Forum 2018 to focus on a core question that is intrinsically linked to Bridging Divides and the future for international co-operation: What Brings Us Together? We will address the central underpinnings of international co-operation: the values aspirations, hopes, concerns, anxieties and spaces that can, or cannot, bring us together. Aspirations for better jobs, health, education and opportunities transcend borders, cultures, and identities, as do values such as equity, respect, solidarity and trust. At a time when much of the discourse is centred on division and disconnection, how much do we share and what is to be gained by working together to make these aspirations a reality? Re-connecting with these fundamentals can help us as we seek to make the dispassionate case for the benefits of international co-operation that have been often so hard to achieve, and can help orientate us in “rebooting” our approach in the era of digitalisation, to reimagine the process and manner of co-operation that must evolve and transform to reflect today’s reality, project into the future and learn from the past.
For the 2018 Forum we have convened some of the leading voices in the global policy-shaping community, who will help us to pose questions and seek answers to the existential question of what brings us together, through the prism of three central and interconnected themes: Inclusive Growth, Digitalisation and International Co-operation.
Inclusive Growth: Building on our exploration last year of the “geography of discontent”, we are placing a special emphasis on listening to and reflecting the concerns of people who feel their voice has not been heard, or perhaps not until the political upheavals that began in 2016 (Left Out & Left Behind). We will be seeking tangible ways to address inequalities, through the built environment, (Panel with lunch on Housing), through access to quality education and lifelong learning (Reskilling: How Difficult Is It?), and navigating employment in a disruptive digital environment (Recruiting in a Digital Age). We will welcome real world actors who experience the very issues we are talking about, and will listen to them as we craft solutions, including migrants and refugees (Integrating Migrants), entrepreneurs from all walks of life (Vers l’entrepreneuriat inclusif), and patients who call for a more human form of healthcare (Health: High Tech, High Touch). In true OECD Forum tradition, we will venture down less trodden paths, looking at the implications of loneliness for people’s health and the fabric of our societies (Loneliness), and what robots and humans can learn from each other in the age of ‘singularity’ (Singularity). In so doing, we will seek to bring to bear the relevant elements of OECD work including a Framework for Policy Action on Inclusive Growth.
Digitalisation: As we experience more and more tangibly and acutely the societal transformation that digitalisation represents, we will explore the extraordinary and uplifting potential and realisations of companies, start-ups, and individuals (Start-Up Ecosystem), while examining the actions needed to promote quality jobs and well-being in a new world of work (The Future of Work: How?). As policy makers and shapers around the world look to develop the new cognitive and regulatory frameworks to accompany the shift from analogue to digital, we will consider the ethical ramifications, (Universal Digital Rights & Digital Inclusion), the implications for the security, society and the economy (Cybersecurity) and the importance of a civic debate on the rise of artificial intelligencebuilding on the substantive discussions that took place during theIdeaFactoryat Forum 2017.
International co-operation: President Macron will address the Forum on 30 May to set out his vision of how re-shaping the foundations of the international co-operation embodied by multilateralism, necessitates a broader conversation and far greater involvement of new global actors. With this in mind we have convened sessions to explore new forms of global leadership (New Global Leadership,) and multi-stakeholder “coalitions of the willing” (Firms, Civil Society & Government with Purpose: The Global Deal). Only by government and civil society working together hand in hand can we address issues inherently global in nature, such as climate (Safeguarding Our Oceans), making a success of openness and interconnection for the benefit of people and exiting our collective comfort zone by examining how those on the ground really feel rather, than how we think they should feel (The Faces of Trade).
The spatial dimensions of the Forum itself have been conceived in order to Bring Us Together in an innovative and, hopefully, productive manner: conversations will take place in a variety of formats and spaces, to facilitate maximum engagement for you, our Forum community. We will use our IdeaFactories as labs to spark new thinking and potential avenues for our work. Our ambitious aim is to imagine new visions for international co-operation and to explore if and how they can be translated into reality (Rebooting International Co-operation: Transforming Today’s Reality to a Vision for the Future), crowdsourcing ideas to create the conditions for a re-energised public debate, where silent majorities become vocal majorities and contribute to healthier democracies with the energy and intensity most often attributed to “protest” movements (High-Intensity Democracy). This is a important response to the discussions on post truth that took place at OECD Forum 2017.
Every year, we take inspiration from new concepts, ideas, knowledge and stories to enrich the Forum agenda and enlighten your and our thinking. We are very lucky to be welcoming a whole host of authors who will share the insights of their work over the two days through a series of “Meet the Author” sessions. We encourage you to attend these sessions, ask them questions and contribute to the debate.
The Forum has grown exponentially in the last decade, which is reflected in the breadth, diversity, quality and quantity of participants, speakers, partners and issues involved. In recent years we have also felt that the effort, energy and plethora of creative ideas and connections developed over the two days in Paris deserved a conduit to capture, channel and harness them over time. This has led us to explore What Brings Us Together as a Forum community in the “spatial” sense. As with all communities convened at OECD they were born in physical, tangible and human form. This remains the bedrock of our community. But we would not be true to the challenges we pose each year if we did not seek to apply lessons to ourselves and innovate. It is with this in mind that we decided to create together the Forum Network, a “live virtual space” for the Forum community to engage in on a constant basis. The Network is made up and energised by you. After an initial impetus from us, I’m glad to report that the initiative has really taken off: to date you are over 1500 to have become members, many making original contributions to thought and action around the themes identified in the Forum. For the first time we have also been able to harness the “collective wisdom” of the Forum Network crowd in defining the theme for Forum 2018 and in putting together the topics and programme. Although the priority is and should be offline engagement for those lucky enough to attend the event in Paris, we count on those at a physical distance to join us and participate virtually. Most importantly, we call on all of you to take full advantage of the potential and the positive energy the Network offers us to come together in a powerful form of international co-operation. Beyond that, I hope the physical Forum and Forum Network provide not only food for thought in the form of knowledge, ideas, concepts and thoughts, but the collective energy, courage and inspiration to harness the power and influence of our collective minds to move from worthy talk to actions that deliver tangible benefits for the lives we have a shared desire and responsibility to help make better.
A très bientôt
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The more background the exchange requires, the safer your account will be. Bittrex Global is a separate platform from Bittrex US based in Seattle. Bittrex Global operates outside the US and has no US customers. For lack of a better idea, there’s nothing wrong with a buy-and-hold strategy. Timing the stock market is tricky, and by comparison, bitcoin’s behavior is less predictable than a pig on LSD. So “timing” a bitcoin trade just right can be extremely difficult — even a lesson in futility. You may simply want to hold until you need to sell for a large cash purchase, like a home down payment or emergency bill.
Beginners may find the software a little intimidating, however. Let’s take a look at the program and see what its advantages and disadvantages are. Please note that virtual currency is a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value, but it does not have legal tender status. Virtual currencies are sometimes exchanged for U.S. dollars or other currencies around the world, but they are not currently backed nor supported by any government or central bank.
Buying Bitcoin Isn’t The Only Way To Invest In Bitcoin
But there’s an upside to the big gains in Bitcoin and other currencies–you can donate your profitable crypto as you would any asset that’s grown in value. If you’re comfortable purchasing crypto such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others, an exchange is the most direct way. It’s getting easier to buy ETFs, for example, although fees can be high. Chris helps people under 30 prosper – both financially and emotionally. In addition to publishing personal finance advice, Chris speaks on the topics of positive psychology and leadership.
What’s the cheapest cryptocurrency to buy?
DOGE, the coin that has risen to prominence earlier this year, thanks to Elon Musk, is the cheapest cryptocurrency to purchase in 2021. Dogecoin is currently one of the cryptocurrencies that many analysts consider to be a viable investment option.
And if they have a balance of less than $10,000, they’ll pay nothing in annual fees or expenses. Bitcoin holds fundamental differences from publicly traded stocks, many of which might matter an awful lot to those betting on the coin as a currency of the future. But to retail investors who aren’t hardcore proponents, I’d imagine FOMO was one of the most intriguing pulls into the cryptocurrency space. But if Bitcoin’s purpose for the time being is merely a “store of value,” I think there’s a world where individual investors might be evolving their interests elsewhere. Additionally, similar to managed portfolios on TD Ameritrade, eToro offers CopyPortfolios, where you can invest in a preselected basket of assets. In other words, no matter which of these two brokers you choose, you will be able to benefit from passive investment options. Remember that if you want to fund your account using a fiat currency other than the USD, it is possible only by making an international wire transfer. TD Ameritrade automatically exchanges this to USD while processing the payment. Although this does not result in any additional fees from the broker, you might be charged by your bank. For research resources, TD Ameritrade provides technical analysis tools and screeners for you to find the assets that are best suited for your goals.
You’ll pay $0 trades and commissions, you won’t need any minimum to get started investing, and you don’t have to worry about pesky management fees. Simply choose from stocks, options, mutual funds, ETFs, and fixed income and you can get started growing your portfolio. Brokers have a duty to deliver the best possible execution price to you for your trade, for instance. We also looked into the fees charged for bond and options trading, as well as the interest rates on margin loans. Tastyworks, which launched in 2016, says it features “super-fast speed” and nimble analysis tools for active options traders. About 90% of transactions at the firm are tied to options, and the typical Tastyworks investor makes 10 to 20 trades a week. Charts are supercharged—you can display up to eight charts on a single monitor.
The TD Ameritrade investment platform comes equipped with all the necessary features that any investor would need. You can stay on top of all market events that may have an impact on your assets. You can set up watchlists and alerts to be notified about any market changes. There is also a GainsKeeper tool that tracks your capital gains and losses, along with a calculator that can be beneficial during the tax season. When it comes to creating a portfolio, our TD Ameritrade review found that this broker offers a range of investment management options.
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Is it OK to buy Bitcoin on Robinhood?
The short answer is that it depends why you want to buy Bitcoin. If your goal is to pay for purchases using Bitcoin, or if you want to send Bitcoin to friends or to an external Bitcoin wallet, Robinhood is not the best choice for you.
TD Ameritrade has one of the largest branch networks among discount brokers, making it a good pick for people who want in-person customer service. Brokers have long fee disclosures that you should read before opening an account. Because TD Ameritrade has eliminated stock trading commissions, all ETFs can be traded for free on the company’s platform. It’s also worth noting that the $0 commissions are for online stock trades. TD Ameritrade still charges for automated phone trades ($5) and broker-assisted trades ($25).
And PayPal has also gotten in on the act, allowing U.S. users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. We offer the ability to trade bitcoin futures contracts, much like we offer futures contracts for gold, corn, crude oil, etc. TD Ameritrade offers the range of account types that you might expect from a more established brokerage firm. You can open standard investing accounts, traditional, Roth, or SEP IRAs, education savings accounts, individual pensions, trusts, corporate accounts, and more. TD Ameritrade also offers managed accounts through a robo advisor, although these can have steep fees and high minimum deposits. Price sensitive buy and hold investors and traders should consider DEGIRO with its very low fees and wide market access. Even beginners can handle its trading platform, however, research and education are not provided. Bitcoin exchanges claim that all client funds are in separated accounts, and they do not do margin trade. Margin trade means if you buy Bitcoin at an exchange the exchange simply tells you they changed your money to Bitcoin, but in reality they changed only part of it.
How much is ethereum worth in 2030?
Although many financial experts predict that ETH may cost up to 100 000 dollars in 2030, other crypto specialists disagree with this totally. The agiotage can decrease soon, and the price will also fall. New crypto assets may be invented by this time, and traders will switch attention to them.
However, the platform charges you other fees, depending on which services you use. As such, if you want a regulated platform that gives you access to cryptocurrencies along with all the other assets, it will be best to use a broker like eToro. The platform offers dozens of tokens on a spread-only basis and from a minimum investment of just $25. Cryptoassets are highly volatile unregulated investment products. 67% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. TD Ameritrade offers a variety of tradable securities, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, options, futures, forex, etc. TD Ameritrade offers users a commission-free investing experience, which means $0 commissions on online stock, ETF, and options trades for new and existing customers. The TD Ameritrade Mobile App is a basic app that allows account-holders to trade stocks, ETFs, and options, explore TD resources and set up price alerts.
This creates a new company with $6 trillion in assets and 28 million brokerage accounts. The foray into Ethereum futures isn’t the company’s first foray into cryptocurrency futures having launched bitcoin futures in December. Notably, though, its bitcoin futures have not found an audience with little trading in the product. Read more about Dragonchain to Bitcoin here. Trade volume on the ErisX bitcoin futures was a total of two for the day.
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Smart cities are often hailed as an approach for overcoming the problems of today. Whether it be public transport, energy or tackling problems such as climate change, smart technology and interconnectedness need to be at the heart of our solutions.
The water industry is no exception. As populations grow, our water resources become even more valuable as demand increases. On top of that, the water industry faces ageing infrastructure and sustainability issues.
Smart water cities
The industry is looking towards smart water cities. According to a smart cities services manager at Nexus Integra, Salvador Herrando, the quality and performance of water supply as well as all the distribution stages can be improved with the right digital strategy.
In a smart water article Herrando explained how we understand energy and water challenges,
“The first step is to have information on the infrastructure, including both static data and dynamic data,” he said. “Digital transformation is not an end in itself. The benefits it brings about are clear, but above all, it builds the basis for implementing fast coming technological solutions.”
In short, the main objective of a smart city is to optimise city functions and promote healthy economic growth whilst improving quality of life by utilising smart technologies and data analysis. Connectivity and data are key components needed to innovate around some of the challenges we face, including energy and environmental issues along with mobility.
Paul Green, IOTICS co-inventor champions the importance of cooperation and an approach that recognises the diversity of cities,
“Cities are creative, vibrant places and I want all of the data in a city or space to be part of that creative melting pot, not stuck in a bunch of silos for people to control,” he said.
Where to start
A recent article from Hitachi argues that making water smart is a must before looking at the bigger picture of smart cities, but where do we start?
“In order to make this first step towards smart water, ageing water infrastructures, some of which have been in place for over a hundred years, need to be updated and upgraded with IoT technologies, allowing them to come online and communicate with other parts of the system and city,” the article states.
Similarly to smart energy systems, smart water systems use IoT sensors to collect real-time data. This enables water operators to detect leaks, water quality issues including pH, dissolved oxygen and turbidity in the network, or monitor how water is being distributed across the network. It allows them to have actionable insights, make more informed decisions about water management and optimise water facilities.
The end user
The end user should be the focal point of developing smart places and fulfilling the brief of improving quality of life. What it comes down to in the case of the water industry is smart metres that deliver value to people.
Customers need to know their water consumption which will help reduce waste and cost. As well as conservation tips, customers can learn how to look out for leaks.
It’s real and it’s happening now. Cities like Singapore are already investing in smart utility infrastructure and companies are starting to work towards solving the challenges such as water sustainability. Working towards smart places is no longer optional. It’s essential for the survival of all utility companies. Contact us to find out how IOTICS can enable you to flourish.
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Electronic components with major thermal loss such as IGBT, SSR and other performance elements require suitable heating concepts, particularly when a heat sink must be used. Regular extrusion heat sinks are often no longer sufficient due to their heat conduction. Fischer Elektronik is expanding its extensive product range with a high-performance heat sink with a flow-optimised hollow rib geometry particularly to conduct large amounts of heat losses. They are particularly suitable for forced convection, preferable for radial and tangential fan motors.
The universal modular system consists of different types of basic profiles in widths from 200 mm to 500 mm with a gradation of 50mm. Particularly in the imprint zones in the 20 mm basic profiles, this allows the pressure of hollow ribs into different height variations. Rib heights of 43/52/62/70/81.5 and 112 mm are available.
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When the United States pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and later rolled back over 100 environmental regulations, President Trump established his administration’s apathetic stance on the environment. As reported by The New York Times, “President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will use the next four years to try to restore the environmental policies that his predecessor has methodically blown up, but the damage done by the greenhouse gas pollution unleashed by President Trump’s rollbacks may prove to be one of the most profound legacies of his single term.”
President-elect Biden has already signaled that the U.S. will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, but his administration faces a tough journey across choppy waters to rectify, restore and improve the country’s energy and climate policies. If Democrats are able to gain a majority in the Senate, Biden’s $2 trillion green stimulus package — whose goal is to put the country on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050 — will move forward. However, as Morgan Stanley predicts, in “a divided government, legislative options to constrain the oil and gas industry could be effectively ‘off the table.’”
Even if the stimulus package fails to pass, President-elect Biden will be assembling a ‘climate world summit’ with global leaders to establish protocols for reducing greenhouse emissions. Biden will assuredly reverse President Trump’s dismantling of climate policies by championing a national imperative to reduce greenhouse gases. We can look to him to sign executive orders to fortify fuel economy standards, enforcement of efficiency standards for appliances and buildings and establish methane limits for oil and gas wells.
The environmental policies adopted by President-elect Biden’s administration will overwhelmingly influence global economic investments and geopolitical affairs. This, in large measure, will determine the speed of the development of new high paying sustainable jobs in America’s new green economy. Biden’s team’s ‘green growth’ agenda emphasizes environment-friendly regulations, zero or low carbon energy production and green sector manufacturing.
While renewable energy companies look forward to Biden’s leadership opening new doors for government research grants and expanded staff, America’s environmental boosts will likely first be seen on a state-by-state basis. For example, Governor Cuomo is steering New York to realise 70% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and zero greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 2040. New York state is making considerable advancement toward these goals with major investments in energy storage, energy efficiency, solar energy and wind energy. Cuomo’s $33 billion five-year climate plan has New York’s environmental energy power players — NYSERDA, NYPA, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and New York Green Bank — in charge of building the necessary infrastructure needed to drive down carbon emissions.
An executive order for the state of California mandates that the state achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 and maintain net negative emissions thereafter.
Until significant environmental legislation is able to move forward on the federal level, the United States’ adoption of green policies will be a state-by-state affair, and NEPA could be a model to follow. The National Environmental Act (NEPA) is a federal law that requires all federal agencies to submit environmental impact statements for all activity that could affect the environment.
Post pandemic, there is no doubt that our collective future requires clean air and our pathway to that environmentally sound planet demands a global support of economically sound alternative energy plans. A ‘bet’ on clean energy through investments in renewable energy and energy storage is a wager that will deliver a cleaner planet that will thrive for current and future generations.
Ron MacDonald is president and CEO of Zinc8 Energy Solutions. The Zinc-Air Flow Battery from Zinc8 Energy Solutions is an energy storage solution designed to serve a wide range of long duration applications for microgrids and utilities. He can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.org and on LinkedIn.
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November’s weather may have been gloomy – by some reports it might have had the least sun in 30 years – but the politics was far from dull. The Löfven government is beset by multiple crises that are not proving easy to shake off.
Domestic politics is being torn asunder by the emergence of SD as a serious political force. In addition to the gangland wars, the Social Democrats have another crisis on their hands – the challenge of restructuring the Public Employment Service is proving to be a huge political headache, which may even bring the government down. Meanwhile, Sweden faces very challenging negotiations in Brussels over the post-Brexit EU budget, and now Sweden is embroiled in a diplomatic dispute with China.
The Sweden Democrats are reshaping Swedish politics
In the November Monthly Policy Review we wrote that the last time that Sweden witnessed a major political power emerging was when the Social Democrats formed 100 years ago. The results of that political transformation are now modern history. Can the Sweden Democrats be as successful? They are giving it their best shot. In November, SD revamped their policies, ditching issues that could halt their progress, such as a ban on abortion. At the party’s national meeting a new generation of leadership was put in place, with the effort positioned as building the team for “the 2022 election of fate” And there is now an open dialogue between SD, KD and M, which is heading towards the creation of a new right-wing block, positioned much further to the right of the spectrum than Reinfeldt’s Alliance with liberals.
PM Löfven is caught flat-footed. In an interview on SVT Agenda, Löfven argued that segregation was to blame for gangland executions, and said that it was difficult to anticipate this happening. Aftonbladet, typically a paper that backs S to the hilt called the interview “a disaster”. M leader Ulf Kristersson went on the attack, accepting that the origins of the gang crisis were already in place in the 1990s, and apologising for the reality that his party had ignored the problem. But he said that they were now ready to tackle the issue, given the chance. This sounded like an invitation to Jimmy Åkesson to work together in government.
It appears that these challenges are too much for the current generation of social democrats. LO’s President, (the union movement) Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, announced that he would be retiring, and Löfven also signalled that he was going to step down as S Chairman in 2021. Within S, the party appears to be in turmoil, with Party Secretary, Lena Rådström Baastad being blamed, and with the party looking to reboot its public image. What is being argued is that S needs to be clear what it would be doing if it could govern by itself, without being entangled by the January Agreement (JA). Apparently the Prime Minister and other ministers should be articulating how their S ideas would be better than the actual policies that they are implementing as a government. That would be an unusual way to lead a country!
The extent to which S’ hands are tied is highlighted by the reform of the Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), which is proving politically costly for the government. Reform of the Employment Service was a key platform of JA, to which Löfven signed up to a year ago. But, the politics has gone badly wrong for the government, who is implementing a C policy proposal that they probably don’t believe in, but which impacts a large proportion of the community at a time of rising unemployment.
The political cost is especially high in rural areas. Earlier this year, the Service announced that it was closing 132 of its offices throughout Sweden, which would enable it to deliver services via digitalisation. This left communities without any offices or advisors to talk to, and the government has now backed down giving the Service an additional SEK 900 million next year to keep rural offices open. It was too good an opportunity for the government’s enemies to resist. The Left Party (V), which was locked out of power under JA has said it wants to push a vote of no confidence in the Minister of Employment, Eva Nordmark, and with M, KD and SD all suggesting that they will back such a motion, it would be likely to pass. But as Nordmark has only been Minister for 3 months, the vote can not be interpreted as a personal criticism of her – but rather a vote against the government. PM Löfven is indignant, and S says that if opposition parties go that way then the government may call new elections.
Foreign affairs is not much easier
Political wins are no easier to come by in international affairs either. The biggest headache for the government is that it has a significant issue with how to manage value conflicts with China. Tensions with China are rising in a number of western countries, but Sweden seems for some reason to have a particular challenge in a fight that it would rather not pick. Issues are coming up on an almost weekly basis – most recently when Gui Minhai was awarded the Swedish PEN award, which was presented by Amanda Lind, the Minister of Culture, at a ceremony also attended by Ulf Kristersson. The Chinese Ambassador expressed his country’s displeasure, and two Swedish films were immediately banned from being shown in China. With the community clearly expecting Löfven to stand up for freedom of opinion, the diplomatic dispute risks spilling over into trade, something which the government and Swedish companies are very keen to avoid. Policy gurus might wish to review our November Monthly Policy Reviestory on Sweden’s new China policy.
This month also sees Sweden celebrate 25 years of happy marriage to the European Union. Our December Monthly Policy Review reviews the history of the relationship and looks at what happens next as its closest ally, the UK leaves, and with security an ever increasing concern. But right now there are no parties and presents – as European capitals shape up for a protracted fight over the total size and country shares for the EU budget.
COP25 Climate Convention begins
Sweden makes much of its transition to a green economy, and long-time Mundus readers will be aware that this is a subject that we like to track. In the December Monthly Policy Review we interview Sweden’s chief negotiator at COP25, Mattias Frumerie to understand Sweden’s negotiating objectives ad learn his expectations of progress at the summit.
Economic outlook still quiet
Although the economy is doing OK, growth is not spectacular. The stock market has performed well, and the Krona has rebounded somewhat from its lows. But forecast after forecast comes in saying that low growth is here to stay. Part of the reason for that is that Sweden’s export engine has run out of steam. With trade wars all around, it is not an easy economic outlook in any region. But, Swedish goods exports are particularly concentrated to Germany, whose car industry is in a slump. Is this a time when the trend to services – such as fintech and music streaming will come to the rescue? That is the topic we investigate in our final story of the December Monthly Policy Review.
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This short article is about the treatment of feedwater in boilers and steam generating systems and how it should be dealt with to ensure good performance. The term feedwater is usually associated with the operation of larger, industrial sized boilers or steam generators and is an important part of the steam generating process.
The water feeding a steam boiler is fed in to the steam drum from a feed pump. Inside the steam drum the feedwater is then converted in to steam from the heat generated by the boiler itself. After the steam is used it is then returned to the main condenser system. From the steam condenser the feedwater is then pumped to the deaerated feed tank. From this tank the feedwater is then returned to the steam drum which completes the cycle.
It is important to understand that steam feedwater is not open to the atmosphere. This feedwater recycling system is commonly referred to as a closed system or Rankine cycle, where losses in to the feed water are typically very minor but can occur.
Industrial boilers are typically treated with the application of speciality chemical additives which are used to prevent scaling, control alkalinity, maintain correct pH levels, and to control conductivity.
It is important to note that the water used in a steam system needs to be carefully monitored and controlled, alkaline and not acidic, so that it does not destroy the boiler tubes. Often there can also be too much conductivity in the feedwater when dissolved solids build up in the water.
Optimum boiler conditions can be achieved by an experienced boiler operator and the use of the correct boiler treatment chemicals. The main objectives in the management of a steam boiler system is to treat and condition the boiler water to ensure efficient heat exchange is achieved, avoiding boiler scaling, protecting the steam system against unwanted scaling, and the production of the best quality steam output.
Treating Boiler Systems
The treatment of any boiler system should be considered in two parts, and these are the internal and external treatment of the boiler system.
The internal treatments focus on the treatment of the feedwater, while the external treatment considers the boiler make-up water and the condensate components of the steam generating system.
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- 1 How many games will MLB Play 2021?
- 2 How many baseball games are there in a season?
- 3 Why did MLB go to 162 games?
- 4 What months do you play baseball?
- 5 Why do baseball teams play 3 games in a row?
- 6 How long is a game of baseball?
- 7 What is the average MLB salary?
- 8 Did the Yankees win the World Series in 1961?
- 9 Is baseball boring to watch?
- 10 Will MLB allow fans 2021?
- 11 Will MLB have fans 2021?
- 12 What season is baseball played in high school?
How many games will MLB Play 2021?
Schedule. Major League Baseball announced the 2021 regular season schedule on July 9, 2020. A full 162-game season is planned.
How many baseball games are there in a season?
The typical 162-game scheduled ultimately was shortened to 60 games, and teams played in empty ballparks due to health and safety protocols.
Why did MLB go to 162 games?
In order to keep its schedule balanced, the American League season was extended by eight games. Previously, teams had played 154 games (22 games per opponent), but from 1961 AL teams would play opponents 18 times each for a total of 162 games.
What months do you play baseball?
The regular season runs from late March/early April to late September/early October, followed by the postseason which can run to early November.
Why do baseball teams play 3 games in a row?
Playing teams in a three-game series allows for the players and all team members to enjoy more days off during the regular season. Major League Baseball agreed to extend the length of their regular season to 187 total days back in 2018.
How long is a game of baseball?
How long is a game of baseball? The duration of a baseball game varies, but the average Major League Baseball game lasts for just over three hours. MLB, minor league and college baseball games all consist of nine innings, although minor league and collegiate games don’t take as long in general.
What is the average MLB salary?
Average MLB salary at $4.17 million, down 4.8% from 2019.
Did the Yankees win the World Series in 1961?
New York Yankees over Cincinnati Reds (4-1)
Is baseball boring to watch?
One major issue facing Major League Baseball right now is many sports fans consider baseball to be slow and boring compared to other sports. This has caused fan engagement to suffer. In a 2018 Gallup poll, only 9 percent of Americans said baseball was their favorite sport to watch.
Will MLB allow fans 2021?
Major League Baseball 2021 Opening Day is here. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred informed teams that they could permit fans to attend games, beginning for the spring training exhibition games. However, to start the regular season, fan attendance for the 2021 MLB regular season won’t be the same at each ballpark.
Will MLB have fans 2021?
As Opening Day of the 2021 MLB season approaches on Thursday, April 1, fans across the country will soon return to their home teams’ ballparks — in most cases for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
What season is baseball played in high school?
The high school baseball season will now officially begin in mid-March in those eligible counties, with the exact date differing from region to region. The California high school baseball season typically begins at the end of February.
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The SEED brings accessible meals to Guelph Farmers’ Market
The SEED will be selling produce, baked goods and bulk foods on a pay-what-you-choose sliding scale at the Guelph Farmers’ Market
The Guelph Farmers’ Market is becoming a little more accessible this weekend, thanks to one local organization.
The SEED, a not-for-profit food project that aims to provide the community with access to healthy food, will be selling produce, bulk foods and baked goods at the farmers’ market on a sliding pay-what-you-can scale starting Saturday.
Currently, they only plan on being there every Saturday for the next two months as a pilot project. But if it proves successful, community engagement coordinator Madeline Barber hopes it will become permanent.
“We’re really excited,” she said.
Items will be available on a sliding scale, ranging from standard retail prices to 30 to 50 per cent off.
“You pick the price, whatever feels right for you. No questions asked,” she said.
According to farmers market lead Leanne McGray, this is the first time the market will have a vendor with such flexible pricing.
“We wanted to support the goals of The SEED by making affordable and nutritious food accessible to all. As a community, we should all be playing a role in ensuring that everyone has enough to eat,” she said.
“The SEED’s enterprising work in bringing solutions to food insecurity and food access is innovative and is making a difference. We are pleased to have them at the market.”
Prior to the pandemic, the SEED was running pop-up markets in neighborhoods around the city, with the same sliding scale concept, so it’s one they are well acquainted with.
“Fifteen per cent of households can’t access the foods that they need,” Barber said. “So that’s why we’re selling food at a sliding scale, to improve access.”
But they’re also offering flexible prices so that people of all incomes can shop together.
“Food is universal. A part of food health is sharing the same (shopping) space and everyone having access to the same food quality,” she said. “So it’s really important to have dignified, welcoming spaces with high-quality food that people can come to, stigma free. No one has to know where you’re paying on the sliding scale,” she said.
Plus, if you pay full price, it subsidizes the cost for those who can’t.
Produce will be sourced from local distributors, although they will have some non-local items as well, like citrus fruits.
The baked goods will be from their upcycle kitchen, made with ingredients that would otherwise be going to waste.
While they could have continued selling these items at their pop-up markets in various neighborhoods, Barber said they wanted to try operating out of the market because it’s such a great space.
“It’s open to the public, people of various incomes can access it. There’s a lot of foot traffic. So we expect there to be a welcoming environment, and look forward to having conversations with the community,” she said.
McGray added that if other non-profits and charities want to get involved in this way with the Market, she encourages them to reach out.
You can learn more about the SEED and their various projects here.
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Livia Global, Inc., a health and wellness company that offers BioLifePet Liquid Probiotics and LiviaOne Liquid Probiotics announced it is voluntarily recalling two lots of its liquid probiotics due to possible contamination with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a microorganism found in the environment that can cause life-threatening infection in immunocompromised humans if ingested.
The company discovered the potential issue during routine third-party laboratory testing, which is part of their quality assurance procedures and safety protocols. The company has not received any direct consumer complaints related to this recall.
These products are distributed nationwide through Amazon, wholesale, and direct sales from the company’s website. Lot numbers are located on the side of the bottle and on the bottom of the outer container in which the product is sold.
The recall includes two pet products and six human products, but only affects products with the specific lot numbers and ship dates listed below:
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The company is asking consumers who have product from the above-mentioned list to dispose of products and contact Livia Global Customer Care to request a full refund (please have order # available). Customer service is available Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM PST, or via email at email@example.com. No other lots or any other LiviaOne products are affected by this recall.
Click here to see the full FDA recall alert.
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Virginia ranks 9th in U. S. in local foods sales
In 2015, Virginia’s 3,415 farms reported direct farm sales of food, including value-added products, of $217.3 million, making Virginia No. 9 in the U. S. for local foods sales.
So says the first-ever nationwide Local Food Marketing Practices Survey done by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
The survey, released Tuesday, was designed to collect data related to the marketing of foods directly from farms and produce official benchmark data on the local food sector in the U. S.
Sandy Adams, commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, says Virginia’s high ranking is good news. “We have known for years that local food is an important segment of Virginia agriculture; we just haven’t known how important it was statistically. This USDA survey has closed that gap and quantified the power of food and beverages made or grown in Virginia,” she said in a statement.
Herman Ellison, a Virginia state statistician, said the survey shows that farmers have taken advantage of nearby market opportunities. “Population centers in the state allow a majority of sales, 71 percent, direct to consumers. The benefit of this practice is that these farmers are capturing the full share of the food dollar. This information can help develop the local foods market and increase the available food for consumers.”
Nationwide, 167,009 U.S. farms reported selling $8.7 billion last year in edible food directly to consumers, retailers, institutions and local distributors.
Sales categories include both fresh food and value-added products (edible processed foods) such as bottled milk, cheese, meat, jam, cider, and wine.
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OPEC+ is set to raise oil output by a tiny 100,000 barrels per day after weeks of speculation following US President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East.
An OPEC+ document showed the group was set to raise output by 100,000 bpd from September and two sources said it has been effectively rubber-stamped by a close-door meeting.
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“That is so little as to be meaningless. From a physical standpoint it is a marginal blip,” said Raad Alkadiri, managing director for energy, climate, and sustainability at Eurasia Group.
OPEC and its allies led by Russia have been previously increasing production by about 430,000-650,000 bpd a month although they have struggled to meet full targets as most members have already exhausted their output potential.
US and Western sanctions on Russia have caused prices of all types of energy to soar, resulting in inflation at multi-decade highs and central bank interest rate hikes.
US inflation hit 40-year highs this year and threatens Biden’s approval ratings unless gasoline prices fall.
OPEC has refused to switch to bigger output increases as group sources have cited a lack of spare capacity among members to add more barrels as well as the need for further cooperation with Russia as part of the wider OPEC+ group.
Benchmark Brent oil futures jumped by around $3 per barrel on OPEC’s decision on Wednesday, trading close to $102 per barrel.
By September, OPEC+ was meant to have wound down all of the record production cuts it implemented in 2020 after the pandemic slashed demand.
By June, however, OPEC+ was almost 3 million barrels per day below its quotas as sanctions on some members and low investment by others crippled its ability to boost output.
Only Saudi Arabia and the UAE are believed to have some spare capacity left to increase production.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he had been told that Saudi Arabia and the UAE had very limited ability to increase oil production.
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Women who are using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have an increased risk of breast cancer - and the risk is much higher for some types of HRT than others. Women who have worked night shifts, on the other hand, do not have any increase in risk of breast cancer. How do we know this? - because we use the NHS to support high-quality medical research.
These are two major findings from long-term studies carried out or analysed in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit in the last 25 years. The Million Women Study needed very large numbers to look at HRT and breast cancer risk and so we recruited over 1.3 million women in the late 1990s to the study, by including a questionnaire with the invitation to routine NHS breast screening. Women reported their use of HRT and agreed that we could follow their health using routinely-collected NHS data on deaths and cancer registrations. We were therefore able to compare the risk of breast cancer in women using HRT with the risk of breast cancer in women who were not using HRT, in the largest such study in the world. Our findings on HRT helped to change prescribing guidelines, thus avoiding unnecessary use. HRT use in the UK and around the world fell markedly, followed by a fall in breast cancer rates. It is thought that tens of thousands of breast cancers have been prevented worldwide. Without the NHS, the study would have been both prohibitively expensive and scientifically less reliable. Without routine NHS follow-up, knowing what had happened to the health of all women in the study over many years would not have been possible.
The question of night shift work and breast cancer risk has been a long-standing concern. We were able to combine information from the Million Women Study with information from another study run from the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, EPIC-Oxford, and with information from the nationwide UKBiobank, all of which use NHS data for follow-up. We could then give a more reliable answer than previous studies, and were able to demonstrate clearly that night shift work does not increase the risk of breast cancer.
Research that uses information about the nation’s health to learn about disease and to improve health-care has been part of the NHS since 1948. In 2018, with electronic health records and vast computing power, the opportunity for NHS research is greater than ever. With a nationwide and universal health system, the UK is one of the best countries in the world to conduct reliable, cost-effective research.
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On a yellow-tinged, hazy day last summer, Bowen volunteers braved wildfire smoke and a pandemic to prepare eelgrass shoots on Pebbly Beach for divers to plant on the sea floor of Mannion Bay. They were taking part in SeaChange Marine Conservation Society’s Salish Sea Nearshore Habitat Recovery Project, an initiative that has delivered educational programs, marine riparian restoration and underwater debris removal on top of the thousands of square metres of eelgrass planted.
The importance of eelgrass meadows should not be understated. More than 400 species use this fast-declining ecosystem for habitat and refuge. Eelgrass meadows are where plankton thrive, seabirds feed, Pacific herring lay eggs and Dungeness crab seek shelter. Even orcas benefit by feeding on the salmon that were reared in eelgrass meadows.
Eelgrass also mitigates climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and helps combat ocean acidification. It protects coastlines by absorbing wave energy of coastal storms and cleans water by trapping sediments and pollutants. Even the bacteria in eelgrass meadows have been shown to help prevent algae blooms.
And for the fiscally minded who still needed convincing, not only do eelgrass meadows support healthy commercial and recreational fishing industries, studies also estimate that each hectare of seagrass in the Salish Sea provides $87,000 in ecosystem services.
The Mannion Bay eelgrass planting has shown more than 100 per cent growth since September 2020 but human activities threaten its survival. That is why Bowen Island Municipality has collaborated with SeaChange to install informational buoys delineating a voluntary no-anchoring zone. You can help by spreading the word about this voluntary and grassroots stewardship initiative and by keeping boats away from the eelgrass habitat and anchoring in deeper waters.
This voluntary no-anchor zone is the first of its kind on the Canadian side of the Salish Sea and designed based of successful initiatives in Puget Sound. If successful, this stewardship model may spread throughout other bays along British Columbia’s coastline and contribute to greater holistic protection for this critically important marine plant.
For more information, or to learn more about eelgrass friendly moorings visit the SeaChange website: seachangesociety.com/ and watch Bob Turner’s video “Restoring our Eelgrass” on YouTube.
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That’s a kind of ledger that records and verifies transactions made on it. All transactions made on these so-called decentralized networks are public and not controlled by one governing entity. Every effort is employed to ensure accuracy of exchange rates and information relating to money transfers. However, we do not offer any financial advice or recommendations. We will not be held liable for inaccurate exchange rates or any data at exchange-rates.com. Before you make a foreign currency transaction seek the professional advice of a Bank, Bureau de Change or Forex Broker. Once you buy and invest in ethereum , it’s a good idea to pull your crypto off the exchange and store it in your own cryptocurrency wallet that you control. There’s several reasons for this, and there are some cons as well. It’s important to remember that Ether is a currency, and should be treated as such by investors.
Diversification is necessary for any investor to reduce risk — invest in more than one cryptocurrency. Not everyone agreed with the proposed changes, so the Ethereum blockchain split into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. Ethereum Classic kept the old blockchain — along with the hacked funds. The new Ethereum blockchain reversed the hack and refunded everyone their money. A new era of computer programming, digital ownership, and other innovations are being introduced thanks to the smart contract capabilities of Ethereum.
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In the derivatives example, using CFDs offered by advanced cryptocurrency trading platforms like PrimeXBT, the same $4,000 profit with leverage could have resulted in $400,000 earned instead. It is quite clear why relying on CFDs beats holding or spot trading any day in terms of total capital gained. Trading, however, comes with risks, so risk management strategies are a must. DeFi has since exploded to a milestone more than $90 billion in total value locked at the peak, most of it in Ethereum or ERC20 tokens built on Ethereum. The boom in DeFi and NFTs built on Ethereum, have caused demand for ETH to pay for ultra high gas fees to rise and send prices soaring.
The ETC block reward decreases as time passes, and the next drop due at block 15,000,000, roughly in April 2022 — from 3.2 ETC to 2.56 ETC per block. Ethereum may have been the first blockchain to run smart contracts — but now it is not the only one. Its upward march was underpinned by a spike in interest by big Wall Street and tech firms into the cryptocurrency. According to Coindesk, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and a number of other firms joined forces in February to create the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. The collaborative venture aims to use the Ethereum platform to integrate blockchain solutions into their infrastructures. In June 2017, Ethereum was positioned to surpass bitcoin as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, according to Coindesk. With Bitcoin being 50% of the value of all cryptocurrencies combined, this takes the total crypto market to $40 trillion. First, we need to calculate the size of the total crypto market when bitcoin reaches $1,000,000. This is easy, as the total crypto market will be twice that of Bitcoin.
When evaluating offers, please review the financial institution’s Terms and Conditions. If you find discrepancies with your credit score or information from your credit report, please contact TransUnion® directly. One way to determine the right amount of ETH for your portfolio is to think of it as any other risky alternative asset. From this lens, you could decide to allocate a small portion of your portfolio — some experts might refer to this as a “casino fund” — toward cryptocurrencies.
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Throughout her career, she has written and edited content for numerous consumer magazines and websites, crafted resumes and social media content for business owners, and created collateral for academia and nonprofits. Kirsten is also the founder and director of Your Best Edit; find her on LinkedIn and Facebook. Ethan Vera’s expertise in cryptocurrency mining stems from four years of operational experience. He is an entrepreneur in the cryptocurrency mining ecosystem, co-founding Luxor Technology and Viridi Funds. Luxor is a mining software and services company that works with institutional mining farms. Viridi Funds is an investment manager, that manages a crypto-mining ETF.
According to crypto analyst Altcoin Sherpa, the Ethereum price could soon soar past $1,000 if the cryptocurrency’s market action mirrors the previous three years’ December months’ rally. The gas limit is called the limit because it’s the maximum amount of units of gas you are willing to spend on a transaction. This avoids situations where there is an error somewhere in a contract, and you end up spending 1 ETH, then 10 ETH, and then 1000 ETH, going in circles but arriving no where. Sending tokens will typically take a bit more gas than sending ETH, so we generally recommend having 0.1 ETH for token transactions. You are paying for the computation, regardless of whether your transaction succeeds or fails.
When miners mine a block, they have to decide which transactions to include. They can choose to include no transactions, or they can choose to randomly select transactions. Read more about Btcoin to Dollar here. In order to encourage miners to include transactions in blocks you want to set a ‘gas price’ that is high enough to make them want to include it . With a verified account and money deposited into that account, you’ll be able to begin purchasing ethereum and other cryptocurrencies via the exchange. Each exchange has an interface that works somewhat differently, but be prepared to confirm transactions and then allow for processing time, which can also depend on the total number of transactions requested. Buying Ethereum involves converting your U.S. dollars into “ether,” or ETH, which is the currency of the Ethereum blockchain. People who own Ethereum can use it as payment for goods and services, or to cover fees for the processing power used to carry out complex transactions in fields such as finance, art and computer science. Founded in 2017, Chainlink is an“oracle network”that focuses on smart contracts and connects blockchains with data from the real world.
Price data is calculated using a volume weighted average formula. This formula takes real-time data from numerous Ethereum exchanges and weights the price based on each market’s 24 hour trading volume. A market with a relatively high trading volume will have its price reflected more visibly in the overall average. Ethereum was first conceived in 2013 by its founder, Vitalik Buterin. The Ethereum whitepaper described the blockchain as an evolution of Bitcoin’s, enabling not only payments but “smart contracts” too.
An Ethereum 2.0 update is being rolled out in phases to help with scalability, and ensuring long-term investment success. And while the ICO boom has since fizzled out, Ethereum is once again skyrocketing due to the decentralized finance craze, the growth of decentralized exchanges and liquidity swap platforms, and the emergence of the NFT market. Today, Ethereum has broken that former all-time high on the back of DeFi, and trading at more than $4,000 per token at the new peak in Q2 2021. Polkadot is the ninth largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization as of July 16 at $12 billion. Polkadot was started in late 2016 by Gavin Wood, who was also a co-founder of Ethereum.
A $1,000 bitcoin purchase would be worth $1,984.13 at Wednesday’s price of $58,359.98. Our money converter uses the average data from International Currency Rates. Day trading crypto can be extremely profitable when utilizing CFDs, long and short positions, and leverage to amplify profits and earn from both directions the market heads. Ethereum makes an excellent investment due both to its easy accessibility for retail traders and its long term growth potential. Fees have been rising and discouraging investors from transacting in the token. For example, Simon Dedic, Co-Founder of Blockfyre and Managing Partner at Moonrock Capital, estimates Ethereum could someday be worth as much as $9,000 per coin. Even with the recent selloff, Dedic says the bear trap will still result in $9K Ethereum. This guide will walk you through all the reasons why Ethereum is a good investment, how to invest in it, explain all the pros and cons of Ethereum investing, and much more. Simon Dedic – He is the Co-founder of Blockyre who shares the same thought as James Todaro and feels that Ethereum has the potential to reach $9000 someday.
This is not financial advice – just check my past posts to see how accurate they are. Will there be one final and unstable push to the upside that ends in a blow off top and ends this current cycle? My Observations on the ETHUSD Weekly Chart + The price is currently ranging in a very similar ascending triangle to the one in 2017. EthGasStation’s Calculator will let you estimate how long it will be before your transaction is accepted at a specific gas price. You can think of the gas price as the cost of that liter/gallon/unit of gas.
- It gets a bit complicated, but currently, one pressing issue is that gas — that transaction fee that keeps the system up and running — is more expensive than it used to be.
- Keep in mind though that thorough research is the thing that you should have on your mind for more successful trading.
- It focuses on backward compatibility, decentralization, and state immutability.
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Record the USD value of 1000 ether, calculated by querying the data feed contract, in storage, say this is $x. Subtract 10 more ether from the sender’s account, and add it to the contract’s account. Note that the gas allowance assigned by a transaction or contract applies to the total gas consumed by that transaction and all sub-executions. Value-blindness – there is no way for a UTXO script to provide fine-grained control over the amount that can be withdrawn. For example, one powerful use case of an oracle contract would be a hedging contract, where A and B put in $1000 worth of BTC and after 30 days the script sends $1000 worth of BTC to A and the rest to B. This would require an oracle to determine the value of 1 BTC in USD, but even then it is a massive improvement in terms of trust and infrastructure requirement over the fully centralized solutions that are available now.
Centralized exchanges such as Coinbase act as middlemen in the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, and tend to have larger selections than platforms that primarily deal in conventional assets such as stock. These can be a good choice if you’re somewhat familiar with cryptocurrency, but are looking for a user-friendly experience. Some people, on the other hand, might feel that a centralized broker is contrary to the spirit of blockchain technology, which is supposed to be decentralized. The price of ETH will likely be a rollercoaster for the foreseeable future. Several factors can push the price up or down, and how the psychology of humans will react to factor changes will exacerbate these movements. As we have seen, the consensus of experts says that ETH will continue to climb, certainly faster than the stock market rate.
While there are a lot of emerging cryptocurrencies, Ethereum classic is still relatively new and has little to no data to back it. Browse other questions tagged transactions ether gas-price fees or ask your own question. Ethereum might be the future as it is the first one to come with “smart contracts” or documentation without human intervention. As per his prediction, Ethereum will spike up and reach a price point of $9000 eventually. He also has confidence that ETH will potentially scale up to a $1 trillion market cap as a result of the rise in demand for DeFi tokens in the years to come. One of the key features of Ethereum is that it is programmable which means that on top of using it as decentralized digital money, it can also be used as a marketplace for financial services, apps, games etc that can be built on the platform. And according to the index, node count is the third major on-chain metric where Ethereum has surpassed Bitcoin, the other two being transaction count and transaction fees. With the rise in DeFi transactions, Ethereum has been processing 2X the daily transaction volume of BTC.
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Dan Palotta's latest book "Charity Case" has rocked my idea of what could be done if giving to humanitarian organizations could be improved by just 1% nationwide. He also offers cogent ideas about doing that, and reasons for why we incorrectly evaluate the impact of charity by how money is spent on everything other than measurable progress towards a humanitarian goal. I recommend it highly, but that's not the point of this blog.
It turns out that, the more people have, the more they feel free to give. I know homeless folks who knowingly give away anything extra they have just to benefit their friends. A homeless buddy of mine bought a six-pack of beer and gave away most of it. Yes, being homeless puts my friend closer to the need, but which of us, if we had $60,000, for example, would give away all but $20,000?
I wish we could talk generosity on that level. I don't mean calculating all the costs of earning $60,000 and the tax benefits of giving most of it away -- it's the ratio of giving two thirds of every dollar to those in need that interests me. That's real giving. And impractical under the circumstances. But do you see why that matters? My homeless friend is giving at a level -- a rate, if you will -- that is far more munificent than the level -- or rate -- of all of the funds donated to humanitarian causes.
Somewhere around 2% of gross domestic production is given to charity each year, not 66%. It's been that way for almost half a century. During that same period of time, the government has been taking more and more control of more and more humanitarian organizations, which of course costs taxpayers more and more each year. For example, America's ability to vote for more and more government programs that cost more and more each year is offset by America's need for the many humanitarian organizations which fill the holes in the government programs. It's obviously a self-defeating zero-sum game when viewed that way: earn, be taxed and fund an OK government program; give to charitable programs that augment the government program. As government's needs increase, so do taxes, which are paid first. Less is left over for generous giving as the earner/taxpayer/giver feels the economic squeeze and therefore gives less.
I believe there's another answer, more in line with giving 66%: Let's become more prosperous.
America, for example, could elect a government that was all about inspiring new entrepreneurial businesses and making it simple for them to start and sustain themselves. This is the start of prosperity: unleashing aspiring creators to launch sustainable enterprises. Enterprises that can be sustained employ people. There's a huge opportunity right now for entrepreneurs to solve the environmental and social problems of the world and America just isn't the financially attractive or regulatory low-impact place to start a business to do that. But that could be changed by Americans.
More prosperous people means fewer poor people. We know this from American economic history. Adjusted for inflation and measured in constant dollars, American incomes have done nothing but rise over the long term. America's poor are still wealthier than most the the world's poor.
Instead of demonizing them, the world could learn some lessons from the mega-wealthy about how to be prosperous. We might learn that the creation of real wealth involves hard teamwork and compassion. We might be able to correct the misdirection that there's not enough wealth to go around so those at the top must have stolen it. Prosperity rests on the assumption that someone is willing and able to make an exchange with you for something you offer. Offer the world enough and you can be quite prosperous. Build a large and willing team to do that and many people can prosper along with you.
My hope is that more people who are more prosperous will give us a shot at raising the bar on giving. Maybe by more than 1%. Imagine if we could raise it to 5%.
With that kind of charitable giving, humanitarian organizations in medical and therapeutic fields, educational institutions, environmental causes, social entrepreneurism, the arts, research -- nearly every giving-based organization -- used to raising $1 could potentially raise $5. That would change the game. Government humanitarian programs might become obsolete as well-funded NGOs surpass them in excellence, innovation and value.
To me, creating this kind of prosperity sounds like a real solution to the humanitarian ills that ail us. This can't be done by printing more money. Instead, let's enable our best and brightest to create organizations that address humanitarian issues through innovative ideas valuable enough to export profitably. Let's clear the way for investors rather than donors to back low-profit social-venture businesses so that they can scale big enough to have meaningful positive impact.
Clawing at the ultra-wealthy won't create more wealth.
Unlike natural resources, wealth-producing ideas are not zero sum. They are all around us ready to be put to work. Let's get great ideas working, exchange them for what we need, and help raise everyone's wealth just a bit. Then let's encourage everyone to become a donor to their own favorite charities in a way that will truly make a difference.
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Those looking for the infinite or transcendence are unlikely to find it during bus journeys or football matches, at the Pier Head ferry terminal of the Mersey River, or in the shipyard changing rooms. As for those looking for a deterministic logic, a sociological and political statement about England, they will find here and there visual information about a specific period and place. Tom Wood enables us to escape the stereotypes that a certain British documentary photography has accustomed us to.
The body of work consisting of several series that are now “historical”, draws us deep into the atmosphere of Thatcher and post-Thatcher England. An ill wind had long since begun to blow in Liverpool.
And when Tom Wood arrived on the scene, it was still blowing, harshly. A succession of events, such as the closing of the shipyards, added together and repeatedly paint a coherent picture of a particular universe, of a period, a class war, of which soon only a few traces, and some remaining portraits of a rare nobility, cleared of any heroic pathos,. It has never been easy for photography to escape heroization. In its keenness to construct allegorical, hence unreal, attitudes of the human condition, photography has sometimes instrumentalised suffering and misery.
It has, in fact, underestimated the often more meaningful singularities. In the desire to affirm photographic standards, wanting to contract a “moral” alliance with a community of “modest folk”, with the “little people”, is a challenge, even a provocation. Tom Wood has risen tirelessly to this challenge, liberating photographic empathy from the purgatory in which it was vegetating.
Tom Wood, the Irishman born in 1951 (County Mayo), takes photographs almost every day. After studying fine arts at the Leicester Polytechnic from 1973 to 1976, he moved with his family to Merseyside in 1978. Fascinated by experimental cinema, he then turned to photography, learning about the medium on his own. Self-taught, he remained faithful to chemistry, paper, and the darkroom. He experimented relentlessly with technique, from the simplest to the most elaborate (from expired film to panoramic photography).
Between 1978 and 2001, he roamed the city of Liverpool and the banks of the Mersey, with his Leica 35, and painted a portrait of the city and its residents: streets, pubs, clubs, markets, building sites, parks and football stadiums. This candid portrait of the working-class populations in industrial wastelands and abandoned places form a body of work without equal in contemporary photography.
Tom Wood’s work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions around the world. In France, he has been shown in festivals, as part of the Sit Down Gallery or at the Centre photographique GwinZegal in Guingamp (2012) and the Château d’Eau in Toulouse (2005). His photographs have been included in the collections of MoMA and ICP in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In 2002, Tom Wood received the “Humanity Dialogue Prize” at the Rencontres d’Arles.
Tom Wood : Every day is Saturday: portraits anglais
18.06. / 16.10. 2022
Exhibition curators : Jérôme Sother, François Cheval et Yasmine Chemali
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A Honda Civic coupe has 9003 headlight bulbs
The headlights on a 1998 Honda Civic use adjustment screws which are located on the side of each headlight in the engine bay. Tightening it will raise the light and loosening it will lower it.
Honda Civic headlights on a 1997 model use adjustment screws. Tightening or loosening these screws allow the light to either be aimed up or down.
There are screws to adjust them just above the light assy.
The 1995 Honda Civic Coupe has six and a half inch speakers. Some models in the Civic Coupe series do not have rear speakers.
Two of the features of the 2013 Honda Civic Coupe are power windows and heated seats. The 2013 Honda Civic Coupe is a very good car for your growing family.
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No, it is a different model. The Honda Civic Si is a coupe but the Honda Coupe is not an Si. The Si is an upscale version of the coupe. It has more H.P. better suspension and cost allot more than the standard coupe.
How do you adjust the kickdown cable on a Honda Civic 2000 ex
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Beinart's point of the article is to compare what is happening today to the Republican Party to what happened to Democrats between 1968 and 1972. Here's how he described the later:
The clearest example is the Democrats in the late 1960s and early 1970s. By the time Humphrey lost in 1968, Democratic presidents had been in power for eight years, and by passing civil-rights laws and the Great Society measures, had moved American politics substantially to the left. But liberal activists were unimpressed. For them, the Kennedy-Johnson years mostly constituted a betrayal: Government efforts on behalf of minorities and the poor had been paltry, and Democratic presidents had taken the country into Vietnam. Freed from the excruciating compromises required to keep the Democratic Party’s big tent aloft, liberals were now free to act on principle.
So between 1968 and 1972, grassroots activists—many of them incubated in the anti-war movement—took over the Democratic Party, state by state... “The old Liberal Idea,” wrote the famed campaign chronicler Theodore White, “held that the job of a politician was to be a craftsman… as long as the politician moved the state or the majority in the right direction… they [activists] left the pace of change to him… In 1970, the Liberal Theology drew new lines—men of morality must take over the party and operate it; politics was too important to be left to the craftsmen of accommodation.” In 1972, several of those craftsmen of accommodation—Edmund Muskie, Scoop Jackson, and Humphrey himself—sought the Democratic presidential nomination and were stunned by a purist, George McGovern, the darling of the party’s newly dominant liberal activists.
And we all know how that one turned out.
Here's how he summarizes the process:
When parties lose power, activists ascribe the loss to the ideological impurity of their incumbent president. In so doing, they vent the frustrations they kept bottled up while their side was in power. Since defeat frees them from the messy business of governing, ideological purity suddenly becomes easier. And since defeat usually hits party moderates disproportionately hard, the opponents of purity usually hold less sway.
Beinart sees the same thing happening to Republicans following the defeat of George W. Bush.
Something similar is happening in today’s GOP. Between 2000 and 2008, George W. Bush pushed American politics sharply to the right: cutting taxes, appointing highly conservative judges, and shredding government regulation. But the Tea Partiers aren’t inclined toward gratitude. In their minds, Bush was an accomodationist, a big spender. Like the McGovernites in the Vietnam-era Democratic Party, the Tea Partiers are taking over the GOP, state by state. And in all likelihood, they will select a party nominee who runs substantially to the right of both Bush in 2000 and 2004 and John McCain in 2008.
Barring some major intervention related to a bad economy, he predicts a similar loss for the Republican Party in 2012 as a result of their embrace of purity.
Historically, it is only after a party loses two or three times that its activists come to terms with the reality that retaking power will require not ideological purity, but ideological compromise of the most wrenching kind.
Who can doubt that we're watching the tea partiers bring down the Republican Party when even their financial backers on Wall Street get nervous about their commitment to purity? I was still pretty politically naive when the purists on the left scared the whole country and brought us Nixon in 1972. But I can sure read history to see it play out and we all know the results.
Anyone who's read President Obama's book The Audacity of Hope knows that he also learned from that history. I'd suggest that the entire book is a cautionary tale against purity/polarization and an attempt to plot a new way forward for progressive ideals.
In the poutragers of today, we see the same seeds of discontent with the pace of change that led us to defeat in 1972. And its why addressing them RIGHT NOW is so important. The tea party purists have ensured the defeat of the Republican brand for the next few elections I'd suspect. We can learn from their mistakes as well as our own history...progress is slow and, in a democracy, requires compromise. When we fail to recognize that, we set the stage for blowback and our future defeat.
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TOC Thinking Processes Tools
In my previous post, I wrote about the basic premise of inherent simplicity underlying TOC Thinking Processes (TOC TP). Dr. Goldratt was a thinker who provoked others to think. He introduced simple, practical TOC TP tools in Its Not Luck, the sequel to THE GOAL.
The starting point in using TOC TP tools is articulating pains or undesirable effects (UDEs – pronounced as “oodies” in TOC terminology). The UDE has to be articulated in such a way that it brings out the pain that we’re trying to eliminate clearly, without implying plausible cause for its existence or suggesting a solution. Most practitioners find that this seemingly simple task of articulating the pain is not so easy. it is not uncommon to take 5-6 iterations to articulate the pain in a simple, succinct manner. There is a very strong reason for it. When dealing with a difficult situation that we are neck deep in, we find it difficult to take a step back and answer some basic questions:
- What is it about this negative situation that is bothering me?
- SO WHAT? What does it jeopardize?
- How does it affect my company’s goal?
The moment you are able to answer these questions, you will get a clearer picture of the current situation. UDEs are the apparent symptoms of deeper, underlying root cause or core conflict. While attempting this for the first time, take your time to articulate the UDE, don’t rush through the process.
The Evaporating Cloud (cloud) is the most commonly used TOC TP tool. It is a necessity-based logic diagram that helps in (a) communication or articulation of the conflict and (b) resolving the conflict in a win-win manner, without making a compromise.
The cloud is primarily a conflict resolution tool, one of its key benefits is that it facilitates clear articulation of the conflict and enables staying focused on the issue. It is a versatile problem-solving tool that can be used for resolving inner dilemmas, interpersonal issues or complex organizational issues.
A conflict is a clash of wants or actions. This cloud demonstrates Alex’s dilemma, it represents the two opposing actions that he is caught between. D and D’ are in direct conflict. The needs underlying D and D’ are written in B and C respectively. While the actions required to achieve needs B and C in conflict, there is no conflict between needs B and C. Both are valid needs, necessary to achieve the goal outlined in entity A.
The cloud is read from left to right in the following way:
“In order to have [A] – I/we must have [B]”
“In order to have [B] – I/we must have [D]”
The cloud is helpful in articulating the problem. Underlying each arrow, there are assumptions. The next step is to challenge assumptions. Sometimes the assumptions are so deep rooted that we are not even aware about them.
In the cloud above, one of the underlying assumptions can be stated as: In order to increase profits we must close the wrapper department because there is no way the wrapper department can be made profitable. Clearly articulating the assumption also forces you to think of a way to challenge this assumption.
Challenging assumptions takes practice. Invalidating assumptions requires a mindset of questioning the obvious. We need to identify conditions under which our assumption is not valid. If we can find the flawed assumptions and break the conflict, the cloud evaporates!
These tools are excellent for change management and problem solving in organizations growing at a rapid pace. Companies have used these in groups to redesign processes, improve project delivery and increase performance manifold in these areas. Even if teams cannot come up with solutions immediately, the use of TOC TP tools enables them to look at the big picture and be open to the possibility of an alternate solution. It leads to better communication, clarity of thought, and improved collaboration among team members.
Have you used the TOC Thinking Processes individually or in a group? Which TOC TP tool are you most comfortable using?
Authored by – Ira Gilani, Director, Goldratt India
Download PDF – TOC Thinking Processes Tools
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Videos footage from RuCCS Colloquium Talks can be found on the RuCCS YouTube Channel. For all other events, please check the sponsor's website for more detail.
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What Does the World Think? Learning From and About Humans with Social Media
Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:00pm - 07:00pm
Rutgers University, Department of Library and Information Science
Social media -- online services that encourage content sharing through individual participation -- have encouraged and enabled people to share various types of information in social and public settings. Data available from social media service may therefore provide opportunities to learn about humans, and humanity. For example, many of the social media services allow their users to annotate any piece of content with location (and time) metadata. Taken in aggregate, this content can get a spatio-temporal representation of the world's interests, and even attitudes and intentions. In my talk, I will show how these social media resources can help us understand and explore the world, as well as derive information that is not otherwise attainable. I will discuss the growing opportunity in new "social awareness systems" to dive even further into our collective cognition.
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If the warnings of several capitals, including Paris and Berlin, show the growing isolation of Turkey, they will have little effect on the offensive in northeastern Syria.
This is a blow to the Turkish authorities as the operation against the Syrian Kurds intensifies. Paris decided "To suspend any plans for the export to Turkey of war material likely to be used as part of the offensive in Turkey". The announcement was made Saturday, October 12 by the French ministries of armies and foreign affairs.
Norway – not a member of the EU – was the first to announce such an embargo, followed by the Netherlands and then Germany. Receiving Sunday evening at the Elysee, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, recalled that the Turkish offensive could create "An unsustainable humanitarian situation" and D'"Help" the Islamic State group "To re-emerge in the region".
"Our common desire is that this offensive cease. Our conviction to one and the other is that this offensive takes the risk, on the one hand, and we already see it on the ground, to create unsustainable humanitarian situations and on the other hand to help Daesh to re-emerge in the region ", said the head of state, which will meet Sunday at 10 pm a small defense council.
These measures of suspension of the contracts of armament are above all symbolic. In both senses of the word. They sound like a warning sign of the growing isolation – including among its allies – of Turkey, a pillar since 1952 of the southeastern flank of NATO. However, they will have little effect on the current offensive. "The operation was obviously well-prepared for a long time and the Turkish armed forces like President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have obviously taken their precautions and have all the necessary stocks", says Marc Pierini, former EU representative in Ankara and researcher at Carnegie Europe, noting that "Paris, like Berlin, could not remain without reacting".
According to the latest report to the Parliament of the Ministry of Arms on arms exports, Turkey has ordered 45.1 million euros of French military equipment in 2018. It is a relatively marginal customer. On the other hand, Ankara remains the largest purchaser of German weapons in NATO, with some € 242.8 million in 2018, or nearly a third of all German arms exports. war (770.8 million euros). Hence the reaction of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavusoglu, who tried to explain to German radio Deutsche Welle that this offensive in northern Syria was a "Vital question" and "A question of national security, a question of survival".
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Mining Waste Management & Recycling Services
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Mining waste commonly accumulates during the extraction of both metal and non-metal. There are many types of supporting infrastructure such as plastics pipe and steel that are used in mining operations.
In 2019 alone, 95% of metal mining-related waste was disposed of onto land on the mining site. Unfortunately, this method of disposal has been known to cause environmental damage to the surrounding land. At GMR, we’re able to properly dispose of this waste and handle all your mining non hazardous waste management needs.
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We know that the attitude and actions of fathers influences breastfeeding. We also know that fathers often lack preparation and confidence to support breastfeeding, and that this is one factor leading to earlier cessation of breastfeeding. On this basis, researchers in Toronto have created and tested a measure of fathers’ confidence and looked at how scores on this measure correlate with breastfeeding outcomes. When fathers are more self-confident about supporting breastfeeding 6 weeks after the birth, mothers are more likely to be breastfeeding exclusively at 12 weeks, 6 weeks later.
The researchers used an existing measure of mothers’ self-confidence in breastfeeding and changed it slightly to measure the confidence of fathers to support breastfeeding.
A father’s ability to support breastfeeding is influenced by similar factors that influence the mother’s ability to breastfeed: (1) previous experience of success/failure, (2) seeing others do it, in this case seeing other men assisting their own partners, (3) encouragement from others in the family and from professionals, and (4) positive/negative feelings while providing support to the mother.
The study involved 214 fathers in Toronto.
The self-confidence of fathers (called “self-efficacy”) was measured in the hospital just after the birth and again six weeks after the birth.
Fathers reporting greater self-confidence immediately after the birth were more positive about breastfeeding 6 weeks later. These fathers also scored more highly on the self-confidence measure at the 6-week point and this, in turn, predicted more likelihood of exclusive breastfeeding at 6 weeks later.
More confidence on the part of fathers just after the birth did not predict exclusive breastfeeding later. Perhaps at this early stage, when the mother is surrounded by professional support, the father’s influence is less. This changes, however, when the couple returns home; then the father’s behaviour and attitudes become more influential.
The test showed that in some areas fathers were less confident. Just after the birth, the thing they were least confident about was knowing when the baby had finished breastfeeding. At six weeks, the issue they were least confident about was “helping mom comfortably breastfeed with our family members present”. In this way, the test showed what information and support for fathers might be most relevant.
Dennis C-L, Brennenstuhl S, Abbass-Dick J (2018), Measuring parental breastfeeding self-efficacy: A psychometric evaluation on the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form among fathers, Midwifery 64
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Lucerne and chicory have the potential to loosen compacted subsoil
Using a medical CT scanner in a laboratory experiment, researchers have assessed the ability of five crops to loosen heavily compacted soil caused by heavy machinery. Long-term cultivation of lucerne and chicory show great potential for mitigating subsoil compaction.
Heavy machines in the fields compact the soil. And the crops have a hard time growing in heavily compacted soil. When the soil is compacted, the number and size of the pores are reduced, and this hinders the transport of water and oxygen in the soil.
"Compaction of the soil below normal ploughing depth is therefore a serious problem because it inhibits agricultural production and affects the environment, but also because the natural recovery rate is slow," says researcher Mansonia Pulido-Moncada from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, who along with researchers from Aarhus, Arkansas and Ghent University have investigated whether certain crops can help loosen and restore the subsoil structure after compaction.
According to the researchers behind the study, one can improve a compacted soil in several ways.
“You can do different things to avoid compaction of the soil, but once the damage is done, you have to resort to other methods to improve the soil and rebuild the pore structure. This can be done, for example, by means of a mechanical deep soil loosening. Nature can also help with drought, rain, frost, and thaw. Or as a third you can use plants and their roots. And it is the latter that has been the focus of this study, ”says Professor Lars J. Munkholm from the Department of Agroecology.
However, according to the researchers, it is not without challenges to use plants to improve the pore structure in a heavily compacted soil. The poor conditions in the soil help to limit the root development of the plants.
“However, how much a plant's root growth is affected by poor soil conditions differs from species to species. And we have chosen crops are able to grow in compacted soil,” says Lars J. Munkholm.
CT scan of the soil
In this study, the researchers evaluated whether different plant species can affect and improve the pore network in heavily compacted subsoil under northern European agricultural conditions.
In the two-year trial, the researchers used chicory, lucerne, fodder radish, tall fescue, and kernza as test crops, while spring barley was used as a reference. The purpose was, among other things, to assess how these five crops can help to loosen compacted soil, as well as improve pore functionality at three different depths with main focus on compacted subsoil layers (0.25-0.35 cm depth).
"We have assessed and quantified the pore properties at three different soil depths using a CT scanner, which is commonly used in medical science," says Mansonia Pulido-Moncada. Who explains that with the help of the scanner they could clearly see how the roots from the different crops affected the soil.
In the experiment, the researchers grew the five crops as well as the reference crop in undisturbed soil columns taken from a soil that was heavily packed due to driving with heavy machinery. Each soil column was scanned both before and after the two years of growing the potential ‘bio-subsoilers’had elapsed. And the CT pore properties were qualified using image analysis.
CT images show potential
"Our experiments showed the potential to use crops as a potential restoration strategy for soil structure, but it very much depends on which crop one chooses to use," explains Mansonia Pulido-Moncada. "It was clear already after the first year that lucerne and chicory had a significantly better ability to increase pore volume and porosity to a depth of 0.25-0.35 m."
However, after the first year, the compacted layer further down (0.35-0.50 m) showed only small changes in the pore system of all the crops examined, which according to the researchers indicates that the soil was still very compacted after one year of cultivation.
After the second year, the researchers found that lucerne and chicory had a greater positive impact on the pore system, while fodder radish, kernza and tall fescue did no differently than spring barley.
The roots of the plants can help to some extent
In the attempt to use crops as a treatment for the porosity of the soil, the plants showed different results. Where fodder radish, tall fescue and kernza showed no significant impact in any of the three scanned depths relative to the spring barley reference, the amount of macropores and complexity of the pore system was greater for chicory and lucerne compared to spring barley.
“Chicory and lucerne seem to contribute to the development of a large number of complex pores, with improved functionality, and this indicates that the two crops perform better than the other three when used as a crop treatment. They create a larger, more connected, and complex pore network. But there is a need to cultivate a mixture of species with potential as “sub-soilers” should be a further topic of investigation,” explains Lars Juhl Munkholm.
“Lucerne clearly has the greatest underground potential for loosening compacted soil below normal ploughing depth, our experiments show. And investigation is ongoing with two papers in review status at the moment,” says Mansonia Pulido-Moncada.
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|Collaborators:||Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, University of Arkansas and Ghent University. DLF has provided seeds and expertise regarding the cultivation of the tested species|
|Read more:||The articles "Effects of bio-subsoilers on subsoil pore-system functionality: Case study with intact soil columns" and "Impact of potential bio-subsoilers on pore network of a severely compacted subsoil" are both published in the journal Geoderma. The first is written by Mansonia Pulido-Moncada, Sheela Katuwal, Jens Bjerggård Kristensen and Lars Munkholm. The other is written by Mansonia Pulido-Moncada, Sheela Katuwal, Lidong Ren, Wim Cornelis and Lars Munkholm|
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I plan to create an alternative Introduction to Computer Science class that focuses on mobile app development using the new Swift programming language. Unlike other introduction classes that we teach, this class will be self-paced, exclusively online, and will not count for course credit.
The class itself will consist of a series of recorded lectures and assignments that I plan to produce over the summer. These lectures are going to consist of recorded screencasts (slides and programming examples) and video (solving problems at a whiteboard). The assignments will be similar to our normal introduction class but with two major differences. First, the problems will focus on creating mobile apps. Second, the assignment will not be graded. Instead answer keys will be provided to the students. (To reiterate, because this class will not count for course credit, students will not have tests, will have no grades, and will receive no formal feedback on assignments.)
There are two learning objectives of this class:
- Teach students the same level of knowledge of computer science that they would receive in our normal introduction class.
- Teach students enough Swift programming that they can make their own mobile app.
Additionally, there are four strategic goals of this class.
- Many AC students have shown an interest in making mobile apps, but do not have time in their schedule to take the years of prerequisite classes that are required by our department. This would provide a way for those motivated students to learn just the knowledge they require.
- Swift, a relatively new language, could possibly be a better first language for students to learn than Python and Java (our current first languages). This would allow us to see how well students learn Swift before we commit to changing our curriculum from Java/Python to Swift.
- This class would enable students who discover computer science late (i.e. second semester sophomore year or first semester junior year) a chance to learn introduction concepts, catch up, and possibly major or minor in computer science.
- Since this class would be accessible online to anyone (AC student or otherwise), it could help serve as a recruiting tool for potential students. While it would not provide students with a real AC experience, it would help give them of a better taste of what it’s like to take a class here than sitting in just one class.
Because this class would be online only I can’t actually “teach” it three times. That being said, I plan on keeping the content updated based on changes in Computer Science and Swift for three years.
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Avocado is high in healthy fats, whereas most fruit is mostly carbohydrate. It has been shown in numerous studies to have significant health benefits. Here are seven health benefits of avocado.
1. Avocado is nutrient rich
Avocados are high in riboflavin, niacin, folate, pantothenic acid, magnesium, and potassium, as well as vitamins C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, B-6, and Omega-3.
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Supplementary Materials Supplemental Materials supp_211_2_407__index. we’ve identified a tension-sensitive upstream regulator of -actinin-4 as synaptopodin. Synaptopodin forms a complex made up of -actinin-4 and -catenin and interacts with myosin II, indicating that it can physically link adhesion molecules to the cellular contractile apparatus. Synaptopodin depletion prevents junctional accumulation of -actinin-4, vinculin, and actin. Knockdown of synaptopodin and -actinin-4 decreases the strength of cellCcell adhesion, reduces the monolayer permeability barrier, and compromises cellular contractility. Our findings underscore the complexity of junction development and implicate a control process via tension-induced sequential incorporation of junctional components. Introduction The epithelial junction experiences mechanical force from an array of mobile processes such as for example tugging power from mobile contractions (Ganz et al., 2006; Ladoux et al., 2010; Borghi et al., 2012), hydrostatic power from intracellular osmotic pressure (Papakonstanti et al., 2000; Di Ciano et al., 2002; Thirone et al., 2009; Stewart et al., 2011; Sun and Jiang, 2013), and shear tension from cytoplasmic loading (Iwasaki and Wang, 2008; Keren et al., Tofogliflozin 2009). CellCcell adhesion also encounters mechanical tension from extrinsic stimuli such as for example shear tension from extracellular liquid movement (Tzima et al., 2005; Duan et al., 2008) and hydrostatic pressure from the encompassing tissues (Lorentz et al., 1972; Knight et al., 2006). Fluctuation of intercellular stress can be developed by adjustments of intracellular and extracellular osmotic stresses in disease expresses such as for example diabetes (Hsueh and Anderson, 1992; Goel et al., 2007). Furthermore, inhibition or excitement from the mobile contractile system can transform the stress put on cellCcell adhesions (Smutny et al., 2010; Engl et al., 2014; Hoj et al., 2014). Hence, the degrees of tension exerted on epithelial junction vary with regards to the physiological states from the physical body. The power of epithelial junction to endure mechanical stress depends upon Tofogliflozin many factors, like the adhesiveness of cellCcell adhesion protein (Harrison et al., 2012; Sivasankar and Leckband, 2012; Rikitake et al., 2012; Samanta et al., 2012; Sivasankar, 2013) as well as the stability from the junctional complicated (Sato et al., 2006; Ishiyama et al., 2010; Brieher and Tang, 2013), which is certainly intimately coupled towards the attachment from the junctional complicated towards the actin cytoskeleton (Abe and Takeichi, 2008; Ting et al., Tofogliflozin 2012; Desai et al., 2013; Hong et al., 2013; De and Huveneers Rooij, 2013; De and Twiss Rooij, 2013; Buckley et al., 2014). Furthermore, the epithelial junction can react to adjustments of mechanical tension and adapt its features (Gomez et al., 2011; Ma?heisenberg and tre, 2011; Leerberg et al., 2014). For instance, cellCcell adhesion must become more powerful when confronted with elevated mechanical stress such as for example elevated blood circulation pressure in hypertension (Preston et al., 2002; Falqui et al., 2007) or during workout (Goel et al., 2007). Dissecting the complicated relationships between mechanised power and cellCcell adhesion is now needed for understanding epithelial physiology as well as the legislation of cell junction in health insurance and disease. The apical junctional complicated in epithelial cells, described using EM originally, includes morphologically specific cellCcell connections (Farquhar and Palade, 1963), like the restricted junction, described morphologically to include intermittent kisses through the external leaflets of apposing plasma membranes, as well as the adherens junction, described morphologically to include extracellular spacers of 15C40 nm shaped between apposing cells (Hirokawa, 1980; Heuser and Hirokawa, 1981; Miyaguchi, 2000; Franke, 2009; Takeichi and Meng, 2009). The small and adherens junctions are seen as a cytoplasmic membrane-associated electron densities of 150 nm and connection to cytoskeletal buildings (Farquhar and Palade, 1963; Hirokawa and Heuser, 1981; Tilney and Hirokawa, 1982; Hirokawa et al., 1982, 1983; Hirokawa, 1986; Madara et Rabbit Polyclonal to ANKK1 al., 1986). In differentiated epithelial cells, the restricted and adherens junctions sit next to one another but can reorganize in powerful mobile processes such as for example disassembly and reassembly of junctions during wound curing, intercellular neighbor exchanges during morphogenetic movement, and lateral mixing of junctional components in cell extrusion (Boyer et al., 1989; Madara, 1990; Collares-Buzato et al., 1998; Tamada et al., 2007; Ebnet, 2008; McGill et al., 2009; Collinet and Lecuit, 2013). The tight and adherens junctions in cells of epithelial lineage such as endothelial cells and kidney podocytes are positioned in close proximity and frequently intermingled (Schnabel et al., 1990; Wolburg et al., 1994; Adamson Tofogliflozin et al., 1998; Underwood et al., 1999; Reiser et.
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On December 11, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving Ohio’s “special counsel” law under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1692-1692p, a case that is likely to have much wider implications involving the standard for determining whether a debt-collection method is “false, deceptive, or misleading.”
According to Ohio Rev. Code § 109.08, the state’s Attorney General may contract with private attorneys to collect on debts owed to the state. This law requires that these special counsel use the Attorney General’s office letterhead when collecting on tax debts, and the Attorney General has since construed the law as affording him discretion over whether special counsel may use the letterhead when collecting other debts owed to the state.
The FDCPA bars “debt collectors” from “us[ing] any false, deceptive, or misleading representation or means,” as set forth in 15 U.S.C. § 1692e. However, the statute does not apply to “any officer or employee” of a “State to the extent that collecting or attempting to collect any debt is in the performance of his official duties,” as stated in 15 U.S.C. § 1692a(6)(C).
In the case at hand, Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine contracted with the defendants – two attorneys and their law firm – to act as special counsel in collecting certain student loan debts owed by the plaintiffs to the University of Akron. The defendants sent the plaintiffs separate letters related to their debts, each of which used the Attorney General’s letterhead. The plaintiffs brought a putative class action against the defendants, alleging that the use of state letterhead was misleading in a way that violated 15 U.S.C. § 1692e.
This case presents two important questions: “Are special counsel-lawyers appointed by the Attorney General to undertake his duty to collect debts owed to the State-state ‘officers’ within the meaning of [the FDCPA]?” and “Is it materially misleading under [the FDCPA] for special counsel to use Attorney General letterhead to convey that they are collecting debts owed to the State on behalf of the Attorney General?”
Although the district court granted summary judgment to the defendants, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit reversed on appeal. The appeals court first concluded that special counsel did not qualify for “officer” status under § 1692(a)(6)(C). While state law authorized the Attorney General to appoint special counsel, the court found that special counsel were not “authorized by law” because they obtained their authority from a contract (rather than a law) and also because they “cannot perform all duties of the Attorney General’s office” nor any other office. With respect to the second question, under the so-called “least sophisticated consumer” standard, the court concluded that a jury could reasonably find that special counsel’s use of Attorney General letterhead is misleading.
Following the Sixth Circuit’s denial of rehearing en banc, the defendants filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court. The petition noted that a circuit split exists over the general test courts should use in analyzing whether a debt-collection method is “false, deceptive, or misleading.” The majority of circuits use the “least sophisticated consumer” standard described above, while the First, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits employ a more rigorous test that is not as debtor-friendly. A Supreme Court ruling on this question could have wide-ranging implications.
In granting the defendants’ petition for review, the Supreme Court, per its custom, did not comment on its decision to hear the case. The case is Sheriff v. Gillie, No. 15-338.
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This article is about the Top 10 Best Ajwa Dates Brands in India. But first, let us learn about Date Palm.
Date or the date palm is a flowering plant species popular for its sweet fruit. Growing from a single root system, the date trees grow either separately or crowd together with numerous stems reaching a height of about 20 meters. The date fruits are oval-cylindrical in shape and depending upon the variety, the colour may vary from a pastel yellow to deep brown.
Date fruits hold a considerable amount of essential nutrients and are richly filled with dietary potassium. About 80 % of ripe dates contain sugar whereas the remaining 20 % consist of protein, fiber, and residue elements like cobalt, boron, copper, fluorine, magnesium, manganese, selenium and zinc. The caffeic acid glucoside and its isomers are enzyme browning substrates found in dates.
Eaten at an overwhelming rate, dates may either be pitted and stuffed with fillings like almonds, walnuts, lemon peel or chopped to be used in sweet and piquant dishes. They are suitable for many recipe ideas as well. You can add them to your smoothies, desserts, trail mixes, granola’s or for a sugar-free experience, use them as a substitute for sugar in recipes!
Date palms demand well-drained, deep sandy loam soil with a pH of 8-11. The soil should preserve the moisture pertinently and the absence of calcium carbonate in the soil will duly encourage excellent yield. The date palm can take roughly over 4 to 8 years after planting before they actually start to bear fruit. They produce significant yields for commercial harvest between 7 to 10 years.
Dates have a distinctive agricultural past in the Middle East and have been cultivated over there for thousands of years. The total annual production of dates amounts to 8.5 million metric tons and the nations of the Middle East and North Africa are its largest producers.
In Saudi Arabia alone, there are more than 300 varieties of dates grown and they come with inimitable flavours and textures. Amongst them all, Ajwa dates are the finest in quality and value. The King of Dates and known as Holy date, Ajwa dates are a soft, succulent and fruity date variety, black or brown in colour cultivated in the holy city of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. They have a huge scope in imparting health upturn and apart from being consumed as per the Islamic tradition, the luscious fruit is an enjoyable experience for everyone.
With its prices floating around ₹ 2000 a kg, Ajwa is the most expensive variant in the market not only because it’s the fruit of a typical arid land but also because it is of a high religious consequence among Muslims.
Here is the list of the top 10 best Ajwa dates brands in India.
1. Kashmir Online Store Original Ajwa Dates- 1kg
Costing you ₹177 per 100 grams, the Kashmir Online Store Ajwa dates are purely organic without a trace of artificial colours or preservatives. A proud 5-star rating has been conferred by the Amazon team on this Ajwa brand.
Having a high content of essential vitamins like Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folate, Vitamins A and K, minerals like calcium, iron phosphorus, sodium, potassium, magnesium and zinc, these dates have substantial health benefits.
These dates are selected with caution without any application of chemical washing. They come in clean packaging in an ECO Box container and are imported directly from Madina of Saudi Arabia and thus the natural nutrition is not lost.
The quality of dates is ensured by Kashmir Online Store with their customers hailing the taste and goodness of the product. Once you try this product of Kashmir Online Store , ajwa dates will become your health-promoting obsession.
2. Markstor Ajwa Al-Saudi- 500g
Here comes the second one on our list, Markstor Ajwa Al-Saudi, known for their rich flavour and aroma. This ajwa date brand enjoys #30 in Dried Dates on Amazon with around 4.1 stars out of 5.
Packed with nature’s goodness, these dates come in with zero additives and preservatives. Loaded with all the essential nutrients, these dates are a source of freshness and quality. They are packed in an elegant box, with a tamper-proof break-tab design; food-grade, a reusable, freezer-safe container that comes in a non-industrial handmade gift bag.
Markstor believes in highly engaging and active customer service. So, these dates bear Markstor’s promising guarantee of replacement. For an acceptable and gratifying experience with Markstor dates, Markstor offers a replacement policy if any unpleasant issue occurred during the shipping of the product.
With genuine attention to quality, Markstor Ajwa Al-Saudi passes through multiple checks of size, colour and grade to ensure that you can have the best experience of snacking on the holy date.
3. La Casa Premium Ajwa Al Madinah Dates- 400g
Sold at a price of ₹899 for the net weight of 0.4 kg, the La Casa dates occupy third place in this list. With over 500 ratings and at #57 on Amazon. This allergen-free, organic and vegetarian product is extra nutritious, pure and fresh with a delightful tenderness in each of its dates.
These dates are bite-sized making it easier for you to control how much to pack and gobble up. They are easy to store and when refrigerated in sealed vessels, stay fresh for a longer period of time without any taste or colour degradation.
Rich in minerals and vitamins, these dates contain soluble fiber which draws water into the digestive tract and helps relieve constipation issues. A source of iron, these dates are a remedy for anaemia.
These are grown and packed at source in Madina and the authenticity of the Ajwa date is not interfered with at the time of import.
4. Markstor Ajwa Prime, Blessed Fruit from Al Madina Al Munawwara- 1kg
In a pack of 4, Markstor Ajwa Prime costs ₹999. Given 4 out of 5 stars with #50 in Dried Dates on Amazon, the dates of this brand are unprocessed and original ajwa dates of Madinah. Fresh and juicy, these dates are a treasury of nutrition, free of artificial colours, flavours or preservatives.
The dates of this brand have a distinctive black colour and rich texture. Small to medium in size, they may potentially contain some specks of tree dust as there is no chemical wash or artificial preservation that these dates have received. The packing is particularly elegant which is Freezer-safe and Food-safe.
With more than 50 % 5 star ratings, the Markstor Ajwa Prime dates are of seemingly high quality. They taste amazing and are so soft that a single bite gets them melting on your tongue. So, if you want to snack on some of the finest ajwa dates, the Markstor Ajwa Prime is the accurate choice.
5. Arsh Ajwa Al-Madina Dates- 1kg, pack of 1
The price of this product is about ₹2000 for a kilo. With 4 star ratings and #56 on Amazon, these dates rule our list at number 5. Sold by Hag Corporation Prop and fulfilled by Amazon, these dates are great energy boosters as they contain natural sugar like glucose, sucrose and fructose.
Without the use of any artificial flavours, these dates are a vegetarian product with low-fat content. They are rich in fibre, minerals and vitamins and have enormous health benefits.
The product is original and tastes refreshing with a soft texture that the dates simply melt in your mouth. They are hygienically packed and have one of the best Ajwa dates available in the market.
Once you order these dates, you will fall in love as soon as you open the seal. They fit your taste by being neither too sweet nor too bland. We recommend that you try these dates once and see for yourself.
6. Al Qusai Ajwa dates- 500 g Tin Pack
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars and #68 in Dried Dates on Amazon, the Al Qusai ajwa dates are high in potassium, fibre; completely organic with no additives and preservatives.
The fresh, hand-picked Al Qusai dates are one of the best. Soft and fruity with a fine texture, these dates are naturally sourced from the farms of Saudi Arabia and they taste delicious. Apart from their sweet taste, these dates are high in polyphenols, fibre and potassium providing you with a fulfilling experience of good heart health.
The ajwa dates of this particular brand bear a 5-star rating by over 54% of happy customers on Amazon. The customers have their say on the product by recommending it to all who want freshness and goodness of nature. These dates are soft as butter and dissolve in your mouth and are a must-buy for date lovers.
This product comes in a beautiful tin box and is sold at ₹240 per 100 g.
7. Lagom Gourmet Seedless Saudi Madina Ajwa dates- 500g
At #125 in dried dates on Amazon, this GMO-free, gluten-free ajwa brand contains no added sugar and preservatives. This vegan diet type, premium seedless ajwa product costs ₹825 for a 500 g package.
With a shelf life of about 240 days, the tender, considerably sweet product is a handpicked item coming in a pet can with an impermeable seal. Lagom ensures that its product is well protected and fresh by thoroughly testing against the industry’s highest quality standards.
Lagom’s ajwa dates are a soft, semi-dried date variety identified by their characteristic black colour. They are mildly sweet and mushy, becoming a natural treat for everyone. These dates are directly sourced from the best orchards of Madina and after being imported into India, they are sorted and packed in an FSSAI Food Safety Standards meeting facility.
8. Highfields Ajwa Dates Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah- 400 g
With a #314 rank in Dried Dates, Highfield Ajwa dates come at the eighth place in our list. These dates make a great healthy snack for natural energy-boosting nutrition. Perfectly organic with no added sugar, these dates are handpicked from the fields of Madinah and preserved in a hygienic package facility meeting food safety standards.
The ajwa dates of this brand are impressively rich in healthy fats, fiber and protein, with essential vitamins and minerals. The contents are 100% natural. These dates bear the sweetness of candies with the benefits of multivitamins like Calcium, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folate, Vitamins A, E and K, Phosphorus, Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium and Zinc.
The product is manufactured by Highfields, sold by Kings Of Online and delivered by Amazon.
9. Spicy Carte Holy Ajwa Al Madina Dates- 1kg, pack of two
At #405 on Amazon, the Spicy Carte ajwa dates are luscious and pulpy with a soft texture. They are 100% original ajwa dates of Madina coming in a cleaned and hygienic package to ensure that the natural nutrition of the item sustains while shipping and importing.
The dates have glossy and unbruised skin given to you by Spicy Carte with utmost care. Normally ajwa dates are expensive but this brand offers you high-quality ajwa dates at an affordable price.
These dates are gluten-free, FSSAI certified, highly nutritious with rich taste and aroma. If you want to satisfy your sweet tooth, you won’t regret this choice of Spicy Carte Ajwa dates.
The item is sold by Spicy Cart which is a registered brand of Sahana Spices exclusively for Spices, Nuts and Dryfruits. Sahana spices is women-owned entrepreneurship striving to be your online source for rich and exotic ingredients for cooking and baking.
10. Flyberry Gourmet Ajwa Dates- 400 g
The Flyberry Gourmet Ajwa dates rank #105 in Dried Dates on Amazon. The high-quality dates are a result of the careful labour of those concerned about its harvest and packaging.
This healthy snack high in soluble fiber, vitamins and minerals; is chewy and bite-sized. They are easy to store and when refrigerated in airtight containers, stay fresh for months together. The Flyberry ajwa dates contain many flavonoid glycosides which have antioxidant properties to help boost and strengthen your immunity. These dates encourage easy digestion.
Customers all over the world recommend these dates to you since they have tried their rich authentic flavour. They say that the ajwa dates of Flyberry have no added sugar and are not sticky. You will never forget the delight once you have your order.
What are the health benefits of Ajwa?
As a rich source of magnesium and vitamin B, regular intake of ajwa strengthens your heart by maintaining its rhythm and removing harmful levels of homocysteine in the blood. Not just that, this variety of dates has an efficient amount of calcium and phosphorus which are helpful in keeping the bones and teeth in sound health. Ajwa dates are also a rich source of antioxidants. Selenium in them may as well be able to prevent deadly diseases like cancer. The intake of Ajwa dates during pregnancy activates womb muscles and helps in easy womb movement at the time of delivery.
Should I avoid ajwa dates because I am diabetic?
There are huge amounts of natural sugars present in dates that help boost energy levels. Ajwa dates are particularly harmless for diabetic patients because they have a low glycemic index, which will not result in a considerable increase in blood sugar.
How many Ajwa dates should I eat a day?
Intake of 2-3 dates on a regular basis early in the morning or in between the meals is fine.
What are the benefits of Ajwa date seed powder and how do I include it in my diet?
Ajwa seed powder is sufficiently good to lower the total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein LDL and triglyceride TG levels and raise high-density lipoprotein HDL levels and exhibit good tolerability in humans.
Take out seeds from Ajwa dates and put them in water for 15 days. After 15 days, they must be soft. Let them dry for about 10 minutes. Then, put these seeds in a grinder. After you get a smooth brownish powder, your ajwa paste is ready. Take out the powder and keep it in an airtight jar. Take one teaspoon daily in the morning.
How to store your Ajwa dates?
If you plan to consume your dates in a week, storing them in an airtight container is appropriate. However, you can refrigerate them in an airtight vessel for over a year.
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We are publishing here a lecture delivered by David North on December 13 at the Friends Meeting House in London. North is the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US). The lecture develops North’s critique of Service’s falsifications, initially discussed in the review, “In the Service of Historical Falsification: A Review of Robert Service’s Trotsky: A Biography”.
It has been reported in the Evening Standard that at the public launching of his new biography of Leon Trotsky at Daunt Books in London’s Holland Park, on October 22, Professor Robert Service declared: “There’s life in the old boy Trotsky yet—but if the ice pick didn’t quite do its job killing him off, I hope I’ve managed it.”
One might reasonably wonder what type of historian—indeed, what type of man—would describe his own work, and with evident satisfaction, in such a manner. Is it really the aim of a serious biographer to carry out the literary equivalent of an assassination? Every possible interpretation of this statement speaks against Mr. Service. Leon Trotsky was murdered, and in a particularly gruesome and horrible manner. The blunt side of an alpenstock was driven by the assassin into Trotsky’s cranium. His wife, Natalia, was nearby when it happened. She heard the scream of her companion of 38 years and, when she ran into his study, saw blood streaming down over his forehead and eyes. “Look what they have done to me,” Trotsky cried out to Natalia.
The death of Trotsky was felt by many as an almost unendurable loss. In Mexico City, 300,000 people paid tribute to him as his funeral cortège made its way through the streets of the capital. A private letter written by the American novelist, James T. Farrell, provides a sense of the traumatic impact of Trotsky’s assassination. “The crime is unspeakable. There are no words to describe it. I feel stunned, hurt, bitter, impotently in a rage. He was the greatest living man, and they murdered him, and the government of the United States is even afraid of his ashes. God!”
A serious biographer of Trotsky would not joke about the “ice pick.” It is a despicable icon of political reaction. Mr. Service would, perhaps, protest that his biography has “assassinated” Trotsky only in the sense of bringing an end to all interest in and discussion of this particular individual. But is this a legitimate ambition? A genuine scholar hopes that his work contributes to, rather than stifles, the development of the historical discussion. But this was clearly not the intention of Mr. Service. As he told the Evening Standard, he hopes that he will achieve with his biography what Stalin failed to accomplish through murder—that is, to “kill off” Trotsky as a significant historical figure. With this aim in mind, one can only imagine how Service approached the writing of this biography.
Service’s remark at his book launch seems to reflect a state of mind that is fairly widespread in the reactionary milieu within which he circulates. A review of the biography written by the right-wing British historian Norman Stone, an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet, is entitled “The Ice Pick Cometh.” Another glowing review, written by the writer Robert Harris and published in the London Sunday Times, congratulates Service for having “effectively, assassinated Trotsky all over again.”
This is the language of people who are very troubled—both personally and politically. Seventy years after Trotsky’s death, they are still terrified by the spectre of the great revolutionary. The very thought of the man evokes homicidal images. But do they really believe that Mr. Service’s book can accomplish what was beyond the power of Stalin’s totalitarian police state? That Mr. Service and his admirers can even entertain such a thought exposes how little they understand of Trotsky and the ideas to which he devoted his life.
Leon Trotsky—the co-leader of the October Revolution, opponent of Stalinism, and founder of the Fourth International—was assassinated by an agent of the Soviet secret police, the GPU, in August 1940. The last 11 years of his life had been spent in exile. Living on what he called “a planet without a visa,” Trotsky moved from Turkey, to France, to Norway and finally, in 1937, to Mexico. The years between his expulsion from the USSR and his arrival in Mexico had witnessed a ferocious growth of international political reaction: the coming to power of Hitler in Germany, the strangulation of the revolutionary movements of the working class in France and Spain by the Stalinist and social-democratic bureaucracies under the banner of the “Popular Front,” and the orchestration of the Moscow Trials and ensuing Great Terror that physically exterminated virtually all the representatives of Marxist politics and socialist culture in the USSR.
The first of the Moscow Trials, whose 16 defendants included historic leaders of the Bolshevik Party such as Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, was held in August 1936. The defendants were accused of plotting assassinations and various acts of terrorism. Not a single piece of evidence was produced at the trial, other than the confessions of the accused. All were sentenced to death by the tribunal. The defendants’ appeals were denied within a few hours of the trial’s conclusion, and they were executed on August 25, 1936. Though not present, the chief accused were Leon Trotsky and his son, Leon Sedov. From his exile in Norway, Trotsky vehemently denounced the trial as “one of the biggest, clumsiest and most criminal plots of the secret police against world opinion.”
Under pressure from the Soviet regime, the social-democratic government of Norway interned Trotsky in order to prevent him from continuing his public exposure of Stalin’s murderous frame-up of the Bolshevik leaders. For nearly four months he was held incommunicado, virtually cut off from any contact with the outside world, while the Stalinist regime broadcast its lying denunciations of him. The Norwegian confinement did not end until December 19, 1936 when Trotsky was placed aboard a freighter bound for Mexico, whose government had granted him asylum.
The last message that Trotsky wrote before his departure was to his eldest son, Lev Sedov. Not knowing what awaited him on the voyage to Mexico, Trotsky informed Lev that he and his younger brother, Sergei, were his heirs, entitled to whatever royalties accrued from his writings. Trotsky noted that he had no other possessions. His letter ended with a poignant request to Lev Sedov: “If you ever meet Sergei,” wrote Trotsky, “tell him that we have never forgotten him and never will forget him for a single moment.” But Lev Sedov was never to see or speak with his younger brother again. Sergei was executed, on Stalin’s orders, on October 29, 1937. Nor was Lev ever to be reunited with his father and mother. He died on February 16, 1938, the victim of an assassination carried out by agents of the Soviet secret police.
Trotsky and Natalia Sedova arrived in Mexico on January 9, 1937. They lived as guests of Diego Rivera in his famous “Blue House” in Coyoacán, a suburb of Mexico City. Trotsky immediately threw himself into the struggle to expose Stalin’s frame-ups. The second trial of Old Bolsheviks was about to begin. This time there were to be 21 defendants, including Yuri Pyatakov and Karl Radek. In a speech filmed on January 30, 1937, which is easily viewed today on the internet, Trotsky declared:
Stalin’s trial against me is built on false confessions, extorted by modern Inquisitorial methods, in the interests of the ruling clique. There are no crimes in history more terrible in intention or execution than the Moscow trials of Zinoviev-Kamenev and of Pyatakov-Radek. These trials develop not from communism, not from socialism, but from Stalinism, that is, from the irresponsible despotism of the bureaucracy over the people!
What is now my principal task? To reveal the truth. To show and to demonstrate that the true criminals hide under the cloak of the accusers.
Trotsky issued a call for the establishment of an international commission of inquiry to investigate and pass judgment on the charges made by the Soviet regime. He pledged to present to this commission “all my files, thousands of personal and open letters in which the development of my thought and my action is reflected day by day, without any gaps. I have nothing to hide!” Trotsky declared that there was not a stain on his honor, either personal or political.
Within less than three months, on April 10, 1937, the commission was convened in Coyoacán under the chairmanship of the renowned American philosopher, John Dewey. Immense pressure had been brought to bear by the Stalinists and their legions of liberal friends—including luminaries such as Lillian Hellman, Malcolm Cowley and Corliss Lamont—to prevent the formation of the commission, and, when those efforts failed, to sabotage the proceedings. For one week, Trotsky testified before the commission, answering scores of questions relating to the allegations made by the Stalinist regime. No one who witnessed him testify, hour after hour, ever forgot the experience. James T. Farrell, who observed the proceedings, recalled in later writings the overwhelming moral force of Trotsky’s presence.
His final oration, delivered in English and lasting more than four hours, left the commissioners deeply moved. “Anything I can say will be an anti-climax,” Dewey remarked upon the conclusion of Trotsky’s speech. In December 1937, the Dewey Commission issued its findings. Trotsky was declared “Not Guilty” and the proceedings in Moscow were found to be a “frame-up.”
The findings of the Dewey Commission represented a great moral victory for Trotsky. But the powerful momentum of political reaction had not been exhausted. Within the Soviet Union, Stalin’s police were murdering more than 1,000 people every day. In Spain, the victory of Franco was being assured by the counter-revolutionary politics of the Communist Party and the homicidal frenzy of Stalin’s secret police. Paralyzed by the betrayals of the Stalinists, the European working class was unable to stop the spread of fascism and the movement toward war. Trotsky concentrated his energies on the founding of the Fourth International. “The world political situation as a whole,” he wrote in early 1938, “is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat.”
The Stalinists countered Trotsky’s efforts by escalating their violence against his closest co-thinkers and supporters. In July 1937, Erwin Wolf, one of Trotsky’s political secretaries, was murdered in Spain. Two months later, Ignace Reiss—who had defected from the GPU, publicly denounced Stalin and declared his allegiance to the Fourth International—was assassinated in Switzerland. In February 1938, the GPU killed Sedov. And in July 1938, Rudolf Klement, the secretary of the Fourth International, was kidnapped in Paris and murdered.
Despite this reign of Stalinist terror, the Fourth International held its founding conference in September 1938. In a speech recorded one month later, Trotsky declared that the aim of the Fourth International “is the full material and spiritual liberation of the toilers and exploited through the socialist revolution.” He scoffed at the terror of the Soviet bureaucracy. “The hangmen think in their obtuseness and cynicism that it is possible to frighten us. They err! Under blows we become stronger. The bestial politics of Stalin are only the politics of despair.”
Less than two years of life remained for Trotsky after the founding of the Fourth International. His intellectual creativity and political far-sightedness were undiminished. Not only did he recognize the inevitability of a second world war, Trotsky predicted that Stalin would attempt to extricate himself from the disastrous consequences of his international policies by seeking an alliance with Hitler. Trotsky’s analysis was confirmed with the signing of the Stalin-Hitler Non-Aggression Pact in August 1939. But Trotsky also warned that Stalin’s treachery would not spare the Soviet Union from the horrors of war. It would be only a matter of time before Hitler hurled his military forces against the USSR.
During the final months of his life, with war already raging in Western Europe, Trotsky defended the historical perspective of socialism in the face of widespread skepticism and despair. He did not seek to reassure wavering followers with predictions of imminent revolution.
Rather than offering a prediction, Trotsky posed a question: “Will objective historical necessity in the long run cut a path for itself in the consciousness of the vanguard of the working class; that is, in the process of this war and those profound shocks which it must engender, will a genuine revolutionary leadership be formed capable of leading the proletariat to the conquest of power?”
He recognized that the many defeats suffered by the working class had created widespread skepticism as to its revolutionary capacities. There were many who shifted blame for these defeats away from the political leaders and onto the shoulders of the working class itself. For those who believed that past defeats “proved” that the working class was incapable of taking and holding state power, the historical condition of mankind could only appear hopeless. But against that perspective of despair and demoralization, Trotsky advanced another: “Altogether differently does the case present itself to him who has clarified in his mind the profound antagonism between the organic, deep-going, insurmountable urge of the masses to tear themselves free from the bloody capitalist chaos, and the conservative, patriotic, utterly bourgeois character of the outlived labor leadership.”
Trotsky did not expect to survive the war. He assumed that Stalin would spare no effort to kill him before the Soviet Union was drawn into open conflict with Nazi Germany. In the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, a Stalinist assassination squad, led by the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, penetrated the villa in which Trotsky and Natalia were living. Sheldon Harte, a Stalinist agent working inside the compound, had unlocked the gates of the villa. The Stalinist hit men made their way into the bedroom of Trotsky and Natalia and unleashed a barrage of machine gun fire. Almost miraculously, the two survived the assault. But Trotsky knew that the May attack would not be the last. He understood better than anyone else the danger that he confronted. “In a reactionary epoch such as ours,” he stated, “a revolutionist is compelled to swim against the stream. I am doing this to the best of my ability. The pressure of world reaction has expressed itself perhaps most implacably in my personal fate and the fate of those close to me. I do not see in this any merit of mine: this is the result of the interlacing of historical circumstances.”
On August 20, 1940, Trotsky was assaulted by a GPU agent, and died the next day of the injuries that he had suffered. He was 60 years old.
Several months after the assassination, Max Eastman wrote a final tribute to Trotsky. It was published in, of all places, the prestigious bourgeois journal, Foreign Affairs. Eastman had known Trotsky very well for almost 20 years. He had written Trotsky’s biography and translated into English many of his most important works, including The History of the Russian Revolution. Eastman was not an uncritical admirer of Trotsky. Their relationship had been marked by periods of sharp conflict. During the last years of Trotsky’s life, Eastman repudiated his radical inclinations, definitively rejected Marxism and moved ever more sharply to the right. When Trotsky and Eastman met in Mexico for the last time, in February 1940, it was not as comrades but as old friends who had become somewhat estranged. At this point, neither man was interested in attempting to persuade the other of the correctness of his own position.
The fact that Eastman was no longer politically connected to Trotsky endows his final tribute with exceptional probative value. His memorial essay, entitled “The Character and Fate of Leon Trotsky,” began as follows:
Trotsky stood up gloriously against the blows of fate these last fifteen years—demotion, rejection, exile, systematized slanderous misrepresentation, betrayal by those who had understood him, repeated attempts upon his life by those who had not, the certainty of ultimate assassination. His associates, his secretaries, his relatives, his own children were hounded to death by a sneering and sadistic enemy. He suffered privately beyond description but he never relaxed his monumental discipline. He never lost his grip for one visible second, never permitted any blow to blunt the edge of his wit, his logic or his literary style. Under afflictions that would have sent almost any creative artist to a hospital for neurotics and thence to the grave, Trotsky steadily developed and improved his art. His unfinished life of Lenin, which I had partially translated, would have been his masterpiece. He gave us, in a time when our race is woefully in need of such restoratives, the vision of a man.
Of that there is no more doubt than of his great place in history. His name will live, with that of Spartacus and the Gracchi, Robespierre and Marat, as a supreme revolutionist, an audacious captain of the masses in revolt.
These words provided a sense of the enduring significance of Trotsky’s life. Eastman was telling his readers that Trotsky would still be remembered, in 2,000 years, as one of the great fighters for human freedom.
But here we are, 70 years after Trotsky’s assassination, in the midst of a politically reactionary and intellectually dishonest campaign to deprive him of “his great place in history.” The publication of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky is a milestone in this campaign of historical distortion and falsification, whose stated aim is the discrediting of the actions and ideas of this key figure in modern history.
Before proceeding to a review of Service’s Trotsky, it is necessary to make a few preliminary remarks about the treatment of Trotsky by historians both within and outside the USSR. Of course, within the USSR during Stalin’s dictatorship, Trotsky was totally anathematized. From the early 1920s, the political struggle waged by the rising Soviet bureaucracy against Trotsky proceeded first and foremost on the basis of the falsification of history—of the history of the development of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, the protracted conflict between its Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, the role of different tendencies and individuals in that generally heated struggle, and, finally, of the October Revolution. Trotsky’s role in the latter event, and in the civil war that followed, was so immense that the campaign to discredit him, which began in earnest in 1923, required the systematic falsification of history.
The campaign of lies began in 1923-24 with the charge that Trotsky “underestimated the peasantry.” This absurd allegation, which reflected pre-1917 programmatic differences as well as emerging disputes within the Soviet state over economic and foreign policy, set the stage for a generalized attack on Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution, which had provided the strategic foundation for the Bolshevik conquest of state power and its goal of world socialist revolution. The fight against Trotsky reflected the repudiation of the internationalist program of the October Revolution by a bureaucracy increasingly focused on the defense of its social privileges within a national framework. Thus, there existed a symbiotic relationship between the ever more vindictive denunciation of Trotsky’s supposed heresies—supported by the misrepresentation of pre-1917 factional conflicts between Trotsky and Lenin—and the promulgation of the program of “socialism in one country.” The lies that began in 1923 led to tragic consequences. As Trotsky wrote in 1937, the judicial frame-ups of the Moscow Trials had their source in supposedly “minor” historical distortions.
Even after the exposure of Stalin’s crimes in 1956, the Soviet bureaucracy desperately resisted Trotsky’s historical and political rehabilitation. Even if it no longer claimed, officially, that he had been in league with the Gestapo, the Soviet regime and its allies defended and supported the struggle against “Trotskyism” that had been waged by Stalin in the 1920s. The systematic falsification of Trotsky’s role in the history of Russian socialism, in the leadership of the October Revolution, in the creation of the Red Army and its victory in the Civil War, and, above all, in the fight against the Soviet bureaucracy, continued—even up until the dissolution of the USSR. Mr. Service claims that Gorbachev ordered Trotsky’s posthumous rehabilitation in 1988. [p. 2] This is just one of Professor Service’s innumerable errors. Trotsky was never officially rehabilitated by the Soviet government.
Outside the USSR, the treatment of Trotsky was very different. The role played by Isaac Deutscher’s trilogy—The Prophet Armed, Unarmed and Outcast—in reawakening interest in Trotsky is well known. But it must be noted that Deutscher’s recounting of Trotsky’s extraordinary life found a receptive audience within a broad spectrum of scholars who, though usually hostile to Marxism, accepted as an indisputable fact his gigantic role in the history of the 20th century. Thus, even an historian as unfriendly to Trotsky’s ideas as Richard Pipes, could bring himself to admit, in a review of Deutscher’s “magnificent” second volume: “Personal courage and intellectual honesty Trotsky undoubtedly possessed, in sharp contrast to the other contenders for Lenin’s mantle who were cowardly and deceitful to a remarkable degree.”
The growing appreciation of Trotsky’s role in Soviet history was not, by any means, attributable solely to Deutscher’s biography. The work of other important historians writing in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s contributed to a significant deepening of the understanding of Russian revolutionary history and Trotsky’s role within it. Of particular significance was the work of scholars such as E. H. Carr, Leopold Haimson, Moshe Lewin, Alexander Rabinowitch, Richard Day, Pierre Broué, Robert V. Daniels, Marcel Liebman and Baruch Knei-Paz.
Significantly, a fundamental change in the treatment of Trotsky became apparent in the last years of the USSR and in the aftermath of its dissolution. First, within the USSR, as the crisis of the Stalinist regime mounted, it was inevitable that the old historical falsifications would lose credibility. This process, one might have expected, would work to the advantage of Trotsky’s historical reputation. Certainly, in the aftermath of 1956, dissident elements hungered for whatever information they could find about him. However, from the 1970s on, the movement of the Soviet intelligentsia was to the right. Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, which paid little attention to the left-wing opposition to Stalinism, became the leading text of the dissident movement. This opposition did not reject Stalinism as a perversion of Marxism; rather, it rejected Marxism and the entire revolutionary project. Thus, within the “dissident” literature of the 1970s and early 1980s, the treatment of Trotsky was markedly hostile.
Emphasis was generally placed not on his opposition to Stalinism, but rather on the alleged continuity between Trotsky’s policies and those implemented by Stalin after Trotsky had been expelled from the Communist Party and exiled from the USSR. This tendency became particularly pronounced during the era of Gorbachev, when, for the first time, genuine historical documents relating to Trotsky’s role, including some of his books, became available. As if to counter the favorable impression these documents and books would make on a public that was asking whether an alternative had existed to Stalin and Stalinism, the new opposition to Trotsky assumed the form of unfavorable commentaries on his personality. Another increasingly common form taken by anti-Trotskyism in the last years of the USSR, and in the immediate aftermath of its dissolution, was a heavy-handed and overtly anti-Semitic emphasis on Trotsky’s Jewish origins.
The reactionary environment of political triumphalism that followed the collapse of the Stalinist regime was reflected no less sharply in the treatment of Trotsky outside the former USSR. A campaign was initiated to undermine and even destroy the historical image of Trotsky as the representative of an historical alternative to Stalinism. In the early 1990s, the University of Glasgow sponsored the publication of the Journal of Trotsky Studies. As soon became clear, the purpose of this journal was to discredit Trotsky by claiming that his historical reputation was undeserved, that it was based on an all-too-uncritical acceptance of a narrative based on Trotsky’s writings. These writings, it was claimed, were self-serving and even false. The chief target of this attack was Trotsky’s autobiography, My Life, which had achieved, over many decades, recognition as a masterpiece of twentieth century literature.
Every facet of Trotsky’s career—as it had been presented in his autobiography and in the works of other historians—was challenged. Trotsky led the October insurrection? No, he spent the crucial night of the Bolshevik seizure of power attending to insignificant secretarial functions. Trotsky led the Red Army to victory? No, he was a vainglorious poseur, who liked to strut around in military dress. Trotsky opposed the bureaucracy? No, he was an inveterate factionalist and trouble-maker who simply loved to argue.
The principal specialist in this sort of rewriting of history was Ian Thatcher, who served as co-editor of the Journal of Trotsky Studies at the University of Glasgow, before moving on to Leicester University and then to Brunel University in West London. Thatcher’s career has been almost entirely based on creating a new school of anti-Trotskyist falsification. The climax of his efforts in this sphere was his writing of a biography of Trotsky that was published by Routledge in 2003. There is no need for me to spend time on Thatcher’s work today, as I have already written an extensive analysis of this miserable compendium of distortions and lies. He is relevant to today’s discussion only as the precursor and principal inspirer of Robert Service’s biography. Mr. Service pays special tribute to Thatcher in his preface. “Ian,” he writes, “has spent his career writing about Trotsky; I appreciate his generosity of spirit in scrutinizing my draft and making suggestions.” [p. xx] Indeed, Ian Thatcher’s “spirit” pervades Service’s biography. Claiming that his work exposes Trotsky’s “evasive and self-aggrandizing” autobiography, Service’s basic approach is borrowed entirely from Thatcher.
In introducing his book, Service describes it as “the first full-length biography of Trotsky written by someone outside of Russia who is not a Trotskyist.” [p. xxi]
What is meant by the term “full-length”? Merely that it is long? Generally, the term “full-length biography” implies not merely the length of a book, but, rather, its breadth and depth. Every important biography examines its subject in the context of the epoch in which he or she lived. It not only recounts the actions of the individual, but also examines the origins and development of his or her thought. It strives to uncover and explain the influences, objective and subjective, that shaped the subject’s emotional and intellectual characteristics. The Service biography does none of these things—and not merely because its author is pathologically hostile to his subject (though that is, indeed, a serious handicap). The fact is that Mr. Service simply does not know enough about the life and thoughts of Trotsky. Far too little time and intellectual effort went into the preparation of this book for it to be anything else than a piece of hack-work.
The genuine scholar who possesses the necessary knowledge, audacity and even, perhaps, foolhardiness to attempt a “full-length” biography of a major historical figure imposes immense demands upon himself. The biographer must be prepared, to the extent that it is possible, to recreate in his or her own mind the life of the subject. To undertake such a project is, more often than not, extremely taxing on the biographer, often requiring years of study, research and writing. It is both intellectually and emotionally demanding—both for the author and for those with whom he lives and works. That is why so many historians include in their prefaces or forewords expressions of gratitude to their wives or husbands, children, friends and colleagues who provided intellectual, moral and emotional support.
One might cite as an example of this process the writing of the biography of G. V. Plekhanov by Professor Samuel Baron. Many years after the publication of this book in 1963, Baron wrote an essay in which he described the ordeal through which he had passed. The project had begun in 1948, when Baron chose to make an aspect of Plekhanov’s work the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Its completion required four years. But Baron decided that this dissertation was too narrowly focused to be worthy of publication; and so
with scant appreciation of the implications I resolved to write a full-scale biography. Because the sources were so voluminous, the subject so complex, and my free time so limited, it required eleven years to see the plan through. During these years, although I was burdened with a heavy teaching load and had a home and family to care for, Plekhanov was rarely out of my mind. I spent many an evening during the teaching year, as well as weekends, holidays and vacations, in research and writing… My sleeping as well as my waking hours were often filled with reflections and refractions of my subject. The task I had set myself seemed so interminable that sometimes I wondered out loud whether it would finish me before I finished it. Yet there could be no thought of quitting, for I had too much invested, and so I continued doggedly at my Sisyphean labor.
How long did it take Professor Service to research and write his biography of Trotsky? His previous large volume, a rambling and inchoate work entitled Comrades: A History of World Communism, was published in 2007. Before that, Service brought out, in 2004, a biography of Stalin. I will not discuss the quality of either work, other than to state, quite briefly, that both were abysmally bad. But let us leave that problem for some other time. What interests us here is that Service has brought out his “full length” biography of Trotsky only two years after the publication of his History of World Communism. At that point, judging from the content of the earlier volume, Service’s knowledge of Trotsky’s life was very limited. The references to Trotsky are of a desultory character and include a number of glaring factual errors. He gets the date of the first attempt on Trotsky’s life by David Alfaro Siqueiros wrong. It occurred in May 1940; but Service writes that it took place in June. Even more astonishingly, he gets the date of Trotsky’s death wrong.
But only two years after the publication of Comrades, Service’s Trotsky has hit the bookstores. Consider what is involved in writing a biography of Trotsky. His political career spanned 43 years. He played a major role, as chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, in the 1905 Revolution. In 1917, after returning to Russia and joining the Bolshevik Party, Trotsky again became the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. He also became the chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee, which, under Trotsky’s direction, organized and led the October 1917 insurrection that brought the working class to power. He became, in 1918, the Commissar for Military Affairs, and, in that position, played the leading role in the organization and command of the Red Army. Between 1919 and 1922, Trotsky was, alongside Lenin, the most influential political figure in the Communist International. Beginning in late 1923, with the formation of the Left Opposition, he emerged as the central figure in the struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, Trotsky inspired the formation of the International Left Opposition and, between 1933 and 1938, elaborated the theoretical and programmatic foundations of the Fourth International.
In addition to the immense scope of his political and practical activities, Trotsky was among the most prolific writers of the 20th century. It has been estimated that a complete collection of his published writings would run well over 100 volumes. Even today, a substantial portion of his writings, including letters and diaries, has not been published or translated into English. The point is that the writing of a serious, full-length, biography of Trotsky is a task that would require years of rigorous work by a conscientious scholar.
Moreover, the biographer would have to be deeply knowledgeable of the historical and social environment within which his subject lived, and with the political and theoretical premises that formed the foundations of his outlook. Professor Service makes a major point of the fact that his biography has not been written by a Trotskyist, and refers disparagingly to the late Pierre Broué, who was politically affiliated to the Trotskyist movement, as an “idolater.” Aside from the fact that Broué was, quite apart from his political commitments, an outstanding historian, there is a very good reason why his personal involvement with socialist politics, like that of Deutscher (who was not a Trotskyist) was a significant advantage in the writing of a biography of Trotsky. Both Broué and Deutscher possessed, even before they set to work, a genuine familiarity with Marxist and socialist culture, acquired over many decades of political involvement.
Service possesses none of the qualifications required to write a biography of Trotsky. One must allow that the lack of personal involvement in the Marxist movement need not be an absolute barrier to the writing of such a biography. Indeed, it may allow a degree of scholarly “detachment,” which a politically committed historian might find more difficult to attain. But Professor Service is neither detached nor politically uncommitted. Since he has chosen to describe the late Broué as an “idolater,” Service can be described, with far greater justification, as a “hater.” And hate, particularly of the subjective and vindictive character that so obviously motivates Service, is incompatible with genuine scholarship. Moreover, there is still one more failing that disqualifies Mr. Service as a biographer and historian—and that is an utter lack of intellectual integrity and curiosity.
I have already written a lengthy critique of Professor Service’s biography that was circulated widely in November at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). Several thousand specialists in the field of Russian history were in attendance. A significant number of historians received and read my critique. In subsequent discussions, a few of these historians have expressed some degree of disapproval of its harsh tone. But no one has challenged or contradicted me on a single issue of fact.
This published critique, “In the Service of Historical Falsification,” ran well over 10,000 words. One might ask oneself: what more is there to say about Service’s book? The truth is, my initial critique barely scratched the surface of Professor Service’s falsifications, distortions, half-truths and outright lies.
I do not intend today to simply repeat the points that I have already raised. But I will resume my enumeration of Professor Service’s distortions by returning to the issue that plays so central a role in his biography of Trotsky—that is, Trotsky’s Jewish origins. As I stated in my earlier review: “There is, to be blunt, something unpleasant and suspect about Service’s preoccupation with this matter. The fact that Trotsky was a Jew occupies a central place in Service’s biography. It is never far from Service’s mind. He is constantly reminding his readers of this fact, as if he were worried that it might slip from their attention.” As I noted, his descriptions of Trotsky are rife with ethnic stereotyping (e.g., Trotsky “was brash in his cleverness, outspoken in his opinions. No one could intimidate him. Trotsky had these characteristics to a higher degree than most other Jews…” “…he was far from being the only Jew who visibly enjoyed the opportunities for public self-advancement…” “his real nose was neither long nor bent” and so on).
Among Service’s favorite techniques is to present openly anti-Semitic attitudes without citation, such as, “Jews indeed were widely alleged to dominate the Bolshevik Party.” Alleged by whom? The deliberate use of the passive voice to present a position without a citation that properly identifies the source allows Service to introduce an anti-Semitic slur without assuming any responsibility for it. This is not an innocent mistake. There are definite rules that govern scholarly work. Service, who has worked for decades as a professional historian, violates these rules deliberately and repeatedly.
I would like to call attention to another example of Service’s efforts to emphasize Trotsky’s Jewish origins to which I have not previously referred. And that is his persistent reference to the young person as “Leiba Bronstein.” Service writes that “Trotsky was Leiba Bronstein until the age of twenty-three when he adopted his renowned pseudonym.” [p.11] And, so, for the first 40 pages of Service’s biography, he refers to the young man only as “Leiba.” Finally, on page 41, Service announces a major turning point. “Leiba,” already eighteen and increasingly involved in revolutionary activity, has made new acquaintances in the provincial town of Nikolaev: Ilya Sokolovski, Alexandra Sokolvskaya and Grigory Ziv. They were Jews, Service writes, “but they did not talk, read or write in Yiddish. Moreover, they had Russian first names and liked to be called by very Russian diminutives: Ilya as Ilyusha, Alexandra as Sasha, Shura or Suruchka and Grigori as Grisha. Leiba, wanting to be like them, decided that he wanted to be known as Lëva [Lyova]. Semantically it had nothing to do with the Yiddish name Leiba; but it was a common first-name and helpfully it sounded a little the same.” [pp. 41-42]
This story of the transformation of Leiba into Lëva reinforces a central theme of Service’s argument: that Trotsky was ashamed of his Jewish origins and even sought to downplay them in his autobiography (one of the examples of its “serious inaccuracies”). So Service would have his readers believe that he has uncovered the real story whereby little “Leiba Bronstein” —the son of the “plucky Jew” David Bronstein—became Lyova Bronstein, and, somewhat later, Lev Trotsky.
An interesting story, but is there any truth in it? In his autobiography, Trotsky remembers that he was called, from his earliest childhood, Lyova. In My Life, a footnote written by the translator, Max Eastman, states: “Trotsky’s full and original name was Lev Davydovich Bronstein, his father’s name being Davyd Leontiyevich Bronstein. ‘Lyova’ is one of the many similar diminutives of Lev, which literally means ‘Lion.’ In English and French usage, Trotsky has become known as Leon, in German as Leo.”
Service offers no documentary evidence that the young boy was ever called anything other than Lyova, or related diminutives, such as “Lyovochka.” The Bronstein family did not speak Yiddish—the language used at home was a mixture of Russian and Ukrainian—so there is no apparent reason why he would have been called Leiba.
Alexandra Sokolovskaya, who became his first wife
So what about Service’s story of the young “Leiba’s” adoption of the name Lëva so that he could have a Russian-sounding first name like his friends? For this story Service does provide a footnoted reference to two items: 1) a bitterly hostile memoir written by Grigory Ziv, who had been one of the young Trotsky’s earliest associates in the revolutionary movement; and 2) a letter written by the young Trotsky in November 1898 to his love, Alexandra Sokolovskaya.
A reader would reasonably assume that these documents provide the factual substantiation of Service’s story. Most readers, however, would have neither the time nor means to access the original documents. Neither document exists in English. Ziv’s book, published in 1921, is available in a few libraries in the original Russian. The letter to Sokolovskaya, which is also in Russian, exists on microfiche in the archives of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.
However, an examination of these documents has yielded the not entirely surprising discovery that they include absolutely no information that corroborates Service’s story. The first chapter of the Ziv memoir, in which his initial contacts with the young Trotsky are recounted, is entitled “Lëva.” It says nothing at all about Trotsky changing his first name from “Leiba” to “Lëva” or Lev. The young man he met was known as Lëva. The name “Leiba” does not appear, even once, in the memoir. Inasmuch as Ziv discusses at length the change in his former comrade’s last name—from Bronstein to Trotsky (which occurred when the young revolutionary escaped from exile and apparently took the name of a former jailer)—there is no reason to believe that Ziv simply forgot the name Leiba. Ziv did not write about it because he had never heard Lëva referred to by that name.
What about the second document cited by Service, the letter of November 1898 from Trotsky to Alexandra Sokolovskaya? This is an intensely personal and intimate letter, from a young man to a woman with whom he is deeply in love. This letter is an important document, to which Service refers on several occasions. Does the young Trotsky, in this very personal letter, explain to his love how he came to adopt the name Lëva? The answer is: No! There is nothing at all about such a transformation. The letter, by the way, is signed “Lëva,” the name by which he had been known his entire youth.
So until Professor Service is able to produce proper documentation for his story about the transformation of “Leiba” into “Lëva,” we are entitled to assume that he simply, and quite dishonestly, made the whole thing up.
The issue of Trotsky’s original name is of both historical and political significance. It is well known that references to Trotsky as Bronstein, a name that he had not used since 1902, became increasingly common in the mid-1920s as the Stalinist bureaucracy intensified its campaign against the Left Opposition. References to Trotsky as Bronstein (and to Zinoviev as Radomyslsky and Kamenev as Rosenfeld) became part of the stock-in-trade of the Stalinists. During the Moscow Trials, Trotsky drew attention to the anti-Semitic sub-text of the proceedings, in which so many Jews were among the defendants. Curiously, many bourgeois liberals of Jewish origin in the United States, including the politically prominent Rabbi Stephen Wise, denounced Trotsky for calling attention to this aspect of the trials. This willingness to maintain a polite silence on the anti-Semitic stench emanating from the Kremlin reflected the indulgent attitude of liberals toward Stalinism during the era of Popular Frontism.
Decades later, during glasnost in the 1980s, and continuing after the dissolution of the USSR, Trotsky’s Jewish origins assumed obsessive dimensions among a wide variety of Russian anti-Semites. As the eminent historian Walter Lacqueur has pointed out: “…it would be wrong to underrate the real hatred for Trotsky among sections of the Russian Right and neo-Stalinists. He was the personification of all evil, and he was doubly vulnerable as a Communist and a Jew; his ‘original name,’ Leiba Bronstein, was always stressed with loving care by his enemies, a practice that had once been the monopoly of the Nazis. No one would have dreamed of referring to Lenin as Ulyanov, to Gorky as Peshkov, or to Kirov as Kostrikov.” In a footnote, Lacqueur writes that Trotsky’s childhood name was Lyova.
In a number of meetings related to the book launch of the biography, Professor Service has been questioned about his treatment of Trotsky’s Jewish background. Rather than explain his approach in a professional manner, Service has replied aggressively, as if threatening a lawsuit: “Are you calling me an anti-Semite?” Only Service and, perhaps, his closest associates know what his innermost feelings about Jews are. But that is not the issue. An individual who, for whatever reasons, appeals to, arouses, and exploits anti-Jewish prejudice is practicing anti-Semitism. That Service may include Jews among his personal friends is beside the point. It is a well known historical fact that Karl Lüger—the founder of the anti-Semitic Christian Socialist Party and mayor of Vienna in fin-de-siècle Austria—had a number of Jewish friends. For Lüger, anti-Semitism was merely a political device to rally the embittered Viennese petty bourgeoisie to his politically reactionary banner. When asked to explain how he reconciled his anti-Semitic demagogy with his genial dining engagements with Jews, Lüger replied cynically: “In Vienna, I decide who is a Jew.” Professor Service practices similar moral double bookkeeping.
One final point on this matter. In his 2004 biography of Stalin, Professor Service made a point of absolving Stalin of the charge of anti-Semitism. He cites a comment that Stalin made at the conclusion of an early congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party. Stalin, noting that a higher percentage of Jews was to be found among the Mensheviks than among the Bolsheviks, remarked that “It would do no harm if we, the Bolsheviks, carried out a small pogrom in the party.” Service, with remarkable indulgence, observes that Stalin’s remarks “were later used against him as proof of anti-Semitism. They were crude and insensitive. But they scarcely betokened hatred of all Jews… For many years into the future he would be a friend, associate and leader of countless Jews.” [p. 77, Emphasis added] What an extraordinarily generous explanation of Stalin’s attitude toward Jews! Inasmuch as he did not hate all Jews, and even included Jews among his friends, Stalin was not an anti-Semite! By the way, it should be noted that Service’s citation of Stalin’s remarks at the RSDLP conference left out the following passage: “Lenin is outraged that God sent him such comrades as the Mensheviks. What kind of people are they, really? Martov, Dan, Axelrod—circumcised Jews… Do Georgian workers really not know that the Jewish people are cowardly and no good for fighting?”
The central purpose of Service’s biography—and in this he is continuing where his mentor, Ian Thatcher, left off—is to discredit Trotsky not only as a political figure, but as a man. To some extent, Service’s concentration on Trotsky’s personality is dictated by the fact that the biographer has sufficient sense to realize that he lacks the intellectual equipment to deal with Trotsky’s ideas. It is easier to attack Trotsky personally, to misrepresent his actions and his motives.
Service’s portrayal of Trotsky has been welcomed by innumerable right-wing critics. For example, Robert Harris has written in the London Times: “If one can imagine the most obnoxious middle-class student radical one has ever met—bitter, sneering, arrogant, selfish, cocky, callous, callow, blinkered and condescending—and if one freezes that image, applies a pair of pince-nez and transports it back to the beginning of the last century, then one has Trotsky.”
I would imagine that most of the adjectives employed by the overheated Mr. Harris would serve very well as a description of his own person.
The real purpose of Service’s grotesque portrayal of Trotsky—which reverberates throughout the bourgeois press and will eventually be echoed in subsequent pseudo-historical works that dutifully cite Professor Service’s “authoritative” and “magisterial” volume—is the concoction of an entirely new historical persona. All traces of the real Trotsky—as he was described and remembered by comrades and friends, and, above all, as found expression in his words and his deeds—are to be effaced, obliterated and replaced with something monstrous and grotesque that bears no resemblance to the real human being. The historical persona of the great revolutionary, political genius, military leader and master of the written word is to be replaced with something abominable and contemptible. Trotsky, á la Service, as one of the political monsters of the twentieth century! This is what Service and his friends have in mind when they talk of his book as a second assassination of Trotsky!
But because the concoction grossly falsifies reality, the author loses himself in countless contradictions. The book begins, oddly enough, with a fairly honest and objective summary of Trotsky’s role in the Russian Revolution. Service writes, in the opening paragraph:
Trotsky moved like a bright comet across the political sky. He was the finest orator of the Russian Revolution. He led the Military-Revolutionary Committee which carried out the overthrow of the Provisional Government in October. He did more than anyone to found the Red Army. He belonged to the Party Politburo and had a deep impact on its political, economic and military strategy. He was a principal figure in the early years of the Communist International. The whole world attributed the impact of the October Revolution to his partnership with Lenin. [p.1]
Within little more than a page, however, Service sets to work repudiating his opening paragraph. Trotsky, he tells us, “exaggerated his personal importance. His ideas before 1917 were nowhere near to being as original and wide-ranging as he liked to believe. His contribution to the Bolshevik advance on power was important but not to the degree that he asserted.”
The two assessments are not compatible with each other. If Trotsky did all that Service states that he did in the first paragraph of the biography, then how could Trotsky have “exaggerated his personal importance”?
After the first paragraph, Service piles insult upon insult, indifferent to the accumulation of obvious absurdities and contradictions. There are times when he even manages to make a declaration in one sentence that he proceeds to contradict in the same paragraph! “Leiba,” he writes, “had no compunction about living at his father’s expense while despising his hopes and values.” The two sentences that follow immediately after read: “The son, furthermore, was as stubborn as his father. He would no longer be told what to do, and rather than submit to the paternal will he fled his comfortable apartment and took up residence in Shvigovski’s house.” [p. 41] Thus, contrary to what Service declared in the first sentence—that “Leiba had no compunction about living at his father’s expense”—the reader learns in the third sentence that the young man gave up the comforts of home in order to pursue his ideals!
Service claims repeatedly that Trotsky edited drafts of his autobiography in order to remove material that might prove embarrassing to him. In fact, he does not provide a single example of such an excision. Quite the opposite. Service notes that in an early draft of the autobiography, Trotsky recounts a story in which he displayed exceptional personal and physical courage in defying a cruel and sadistic prison warden. Trotsky told the warden to his face that he would not tolerate his abusive comments. It was the warden who retreated. In the published version of My Life, this story—for which there were witnesses—was not included.
Service comments: “As with several such episodes of daring in his life, Trotsky did not include this information in his published memoirs. It had to be dragged out of him by admiring writers. Although he liked to cut a dash in public, he disliked boasting: he preferred others to do the job for him. He was noisy and full of himself. People did not have to wait long before discovering how vain and self-centered he really was.” [p. 56, Emphasis added]
Through a rather clumsy sleight of hand, Service finds a way of insulting Trotsky for his modesty and dislike of boasting!
Service devotes an enormous amount of space to blackguarding Trotsky as a faithless husband who cruelly abandoned his first wife and their two children. “As a husband,” writes Service, “he [Trotsky] treated his first wife shabbily. He ignored the needs of his children especially when his political interests intervened. This had catastrophic consequences even for those who were inactive in Soviet public life—and his son Lev, who followed him into exile, possibly paid with his life for collaborating with his father.” [p. 4]
One would hardly guess, based on Service’s telling of the story, that either the oppressive conditions of Tsarist Russia or, later, the persecutions of Stalin had anything to do with the tragic fate of Trotsky’s family and loved ones. In fact, Service actually criticizes Trotsky for assigning responsibility to the Soviet regime for the death of his daughter Zina in 1933.
But the circumstances of the deaths of his children and his first wife are of little interest to Service. What interests him is portraying Trotsky as some sort of irresponsible and callous philanderer, who thoughtlessly and egotistically abandoned his first wife, Alexandra Sokolovskaya.
Service treats the relationship between Trotsky and Alexandra Sokolovskaya with a truly offensive crudeness. Repeatedly, he attempts to drag both the young Lyova and Alexandra down to his own level.
In this regard, Service’s use of the letter of November 1898—to which I have already referred—is especially significant. This letter was written by the 19-year-old Lyova to Alexandra while they were both imprisoned in Odessa. They could not communicate with each other in person. When Lyova wrote this letter, he was ill and depressed. Nearly a year had passed since they had been arrested. Trotsky had spent several months of imprisonment in solitary confinement.
Citing a brief passage from this letter, in which Trotsky admits that he had thought of, and rejected, suicide, Service comments:
There was showiness and immaturity in these sentiments. He was a self-centered young man. Unconsciously he was trying to induce Alexandra to do more than love him: he wanted her to understand and look after him and perhaps this could be achieved by admissions of weakness. He was never genuinely suicidal: his comment was designed to make her want to protect him. He saw that he had been haughty and unfeeling towards her. What better, then, than to own up to possessing a stony exterior and to say that he was ‘shedding tears’ about this. [p. 52]
This sort of facile psychologizing is, even when offered with the best of intentions, of rather dubious value. But it assumes a maliciously absurd character when the passage upon which the analysis hinges has been falsified. Trotsky, Service tells us, is slyly attempting to appeal to Alexandra’s vulnerability by insincerely confessing that he was “shedding tears” about his “stony exterior.”
The problem with this “interpretation” is that Service has misrepresented the text of Lyova’s letter. The exposure of this falsification requires that the relevant passage be fully and correctly quoted. The young revolutionary wrote:
Sasha [Alexandra] is so good, and when I feel like kissing and caressing her so much…. And all that is beyond reach: instead, there is loneliness, insomnia, repulsive thoughts about death … brrr .. The hour of redemption will arrive, ‘The people will sing their hymn, They will remember us with tears. They will visit our graves.’ Our graves, Sasha: our g-r-a-v-e-s. – O, with what horror will they speak at some time about today’s social order … beyond my doors right now at this very moment I can hear the familiar clang of so many chains: after all they are on people. Sasha, how much we have become used to this, and yet how terrible it is. Chains on people … And this is all according to the law. Are you surprised by my burst of ‘Weltschmerz’? An unusual sensitivity is developing in me: I have become capable of ‘shedding tears’ while reading the civil poems of P. Ya /in ‘Mir B.’/ or while reading works of fiction … It’s simply that my nerves are extremely strained, that’s all. The Siberian taiga will temper this tender civic sensitivity. On the other hand, how happy we will be there. Like Olympian gods. We will always, always be inseparably together.—How many times I have always repeated this, and yet I feel like repeating it over and over again … You and I have gone through so much together, we have suffered so much that, to be sure, we deserve our hour of happiness.
This letter is, in its own right, an extraordinary and deeply moving document. That its author was the future leader of the October Revolution imparts to it immense significance. To interpret this letter as an expression of “showiness” and “immaturity” speaks to Service’s cynicism and insensitivity. However, from a professional standpoint, Service’s treatment of this letter is dishonest and misleading.
First of all, Trotsky’s admission to “shedding tears,” which he places in quotation marks, does not refer to his weeping about his efforts to conceal his “stony exterior.” Rather, it refers directly to his response to the poetry of Pyotr Yakubovich. Were Service a serious historian, he would—after having carefully reflected on this matter—explain to his readers the significance of this reference. Yakubovich (1860-1911) was an important poet and revolutionary, active in the populist People’s Will. His poems, which evoked the heroism and tragedy of the doomed struggle of the revolutionary terrorists against tsarism, made a deep moral impact upon the youth of the 1890s. The images employed by Yakubovich in his poetry, particularly those of death and sacrifice, are evoked by Trotsky in his letter to Alexandra. She, of course, would have understood these references very well. A conscientious historian would find in this complex letter—from which I have cited only a small section—valuable material for developing an understanding of his subject and his times. But Service is simply not interested.
An odor of indifference and laziness pervades the entire volume. The author shows no curiosity at all about the sources of Trotsky’s intellectual and artistic creativity. Service’s comments on Trotsky’s early literary efforts, written during his first Siberian exile, are generally so banal and perfunctory that it seems that their only purpose is to provide the author with the page count he requires in order to advertise his biography as “full-length.” A typical example of Service’s talent for producing penetrating intellectual commentary is his remark that Trotsky “adored French novels, was an admirer of Ibsen and was impressed by Nietzsche. He treated them all as examples of contemporary world culture.” [p. 207, emphasis added] Did he really? Who would have imagined? But there is something here that does not seem quite right. The reference to Nietzsche raises doubts. The reader may be tempted to wonder: what was it about Nietzsche that impressed Trotsky?
If the critical reader is in a position to investigate the issue, he might discover an essay, written by Trotsky shortly after the death of Nietzsche in 1900, entitled “Something about the Philosophy of the ‘Overman.’” Upon reviewing this essay, the reader will quickly learn that “impressed” is hardly the word that describes the young Trotsky’s response to Nietzsche. Trotsky saw in the latter’s philosophy of the “overman” a justification for a new and ever more powerful social type: the
financial adventurists, ‘overmen’ of the stock exchange, political and newspaper blackmailers sans scruple, in short, that entire mass of parasitical proletariat which has tightly attached itself to the bourgeois organism and in one way or another lives—and usually lives quite well—at society’s expense without giving back anything in return. … But the entire group (rather numerous and ever growing) still needed a theory which would give the intellectually superior the right to ‘dare.’ It awaited its apostle and found him in Nietzsche.
Trotsky concludes his essay with the observation that the social soil from which Nietzscheanism emerged “has turned out to be decayed, malignant and infected…”
Does it still appear that Trotsky was “impressed” with Nietzsche? Or is it not more likely that Service did not bother to read Trotsky’s essay, and simply does not know what he is talking about. With Service, as with others of his type, intellectual dishonesty goes hand in hand with ignorance and charlatanry.
As I have previously noted, an exhaustive review of all the errors and false statements that appear in this volume would require a “full-length” book at least as long as Service’s biography. It is not an exaggeration to state that there is hardly a page in which an informed reader will not find passages that are objectionable from the standpoint of the basic standards of historical scholarship. It is not even possible to accept, without direct investigation, the author’s references and citations. Again and again it emerges that the source material cited by Service does not support his claims.
In bringing this review to a conclusion, it is appropriate to return to Service’s treatment of the relationship between Trotsky and Alexandra Sokolovskaya. The distortion of the circumstances of their separation plays a major role in Service’s effort to discredit Trotsky—as a husband, a father, and as a man. All the reviewers in the right-wing British press have picked up the theme with enthusiasm.
In discussing the circumstances of his first escape from Siberian exile in 1902, Trotsky wrote in My Life:
At that time we already had two daughters. The younger was four months old. Life under conditions in Siberia was not easy, and my escape would place a double burden on the shoulders of Alexandra Lvovna. But she met this objection with the two words: “You must.” Duty to the revolution overshadowed everything else for her, personal considerations especially. She was the first to broach the idea of my escape when we realized the great new tasks. She brushed away my doubts.
For several days after I had escaped, she concealed my absence from the police. From abroad, I could hardly keep up a correspondence with her. Then she was exiled for a second time; after this we met only occasionally. Life separated us, but nothing could destroy our friendship and our intellectual kinship.
Service, who does not actually quote Trotsky’s statement, writes:
He [Trotsky] later made the claim that Alexandra had wholeheartedly blessed his departure. This is hard to take at face value. [p. 67]
On what basis is this statement made? Service does not produce a single piece of evidence—documents, letters, personal testimony—that contradicts Trotsky’s account, which, it should be stressed, was written in 1929 when Alexandra was still alive. She did not contradict it, even though—given the fact that Trotsky had been exiled from the Soviet Union and was publicly reviled as the greatest enemy of the Soviet people—the Stalinist regime would have welcomed her personal denunciation of her former husband.
Service employs a series of loaded phrases to cast Trotsky’s actions in the worst possible light: “Bronstein was planning to abandon her in the wilds of Siberia… No sooner had he fathered a couple of children than he decided to run off.” [p. 67] Service, however, proceeds to discredit his own unsubstantiated claims by acknowledging that Trotsky “was acting within the revolutionary code of behavior. The ‘cause’ was everything for the revolutionaries. Marital and parental responsibilities had an importance but never to the point of preventing young militants from doing what their political conscience bade them to do.” [p. 67] If that were the case, as Service acknowledges explicitly, then on what grounds can he claim that Trotsky’s statement that Alexandra supported, and even proposed, his escape from exile “is hard to take at face value”?
The fact is that Service’s condemnation of Trotsky’s action is not based on an honest appraisal of the historical context within which the two young revolutionaries lived. One must add that Service’s reference to Alexandra being “abandoned” is maliciously motivated conjecture. As a matter of historical fact, there is good reason to believe that efforts were made to provide assistance for Alexandra and the children. Indeed, in a later chapter, Service includes material that indicates that the Bronstein family played a significant role in providing support for Trotsky’s children. During a trip to Western Europe to visit Trotsky in 1907, Trotsky’s parents brought his daughter Zina with them. Service notes that Trotsky’s family “lived a complicated existence. Zina at that time lived with his [Trotsky’s] sister Elizaveta and her husband in their family home on Gryaznaya Street in Kherson. Alexandra wrote regularly to them.” [p. 108]
So it seems that Trotsky did not “abandon” his family. As revolutionaries, both Lev Davidovitch and Alexandra Lvovna coped as best as they could in exceedingly difficult circumstances. At some point in the future, as more documents are discovered, it may be possible to reconstruct accurately the details of their complicated personal arrangements. But Robert Service will not be the man who undertakes that assignment.
Finally, with regard to the personal relation between Trotsky and Alexandra, there is a document that testifies to their deep and enduring bond of comradeship and friendship. It is a letter written by Alexandra to Trotsky on August 8, 1935. The final act of the terrible human tragedy is about to begin. Alexandra addresses the letter to “Dear Lyova.” She tells Trotsky of the difficult conditions that confront different members of their family. Alexandra includes, in a reference to efforts by Trotsky to provide material support for her, “I am very touched, as always, by your thoughtful attitude toward me.” And she closes the letter, “Love and Embraces, Yours, Alexandra.”
Lev Davidovitch Trotsky and Alexandra Lvovna Sokolovskaya were extraordinary human beings, the representatives of a revolutionary generation whose capacity for self-sacrifice, in the interest of the betterment of mankind, seemed to know no limits. How pathetic it is for Professor Service and his ilk to believe that he will succeed, with insults, falsifications and slanders, in dragging these titans down to his miserable level.
1. Quoted in James T. Farrell: The Revolutionary Socialist Years, by Alan M. Wald (New York University Press, 1978), p. 87. [return]
2. Ibid, p. 413. [return]
3. Ibid, p. 502. [return]
4. Writings of Leon Trotsky 1936-37 (New York, Pathfinder, 1978), p. 179. [return]
5. The Case of Leon Trotsky, Report of Hearings on the Charges Made Against Him in the Moscow Trials, by the Preliminary Commission of Inquiry (Merit Publishers, New York, 1968) p. 585. [return]
6. The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution, (New York, Pathfinder, 1977) p. 137. [return]
7. Writings of Leon Trotsky 1938-39, (New York, Pathfinder, 1974) pp. 93-94. [return]
8. In Defense of Marxism, (London, New Park, 1971) p. 15. [return]
9. Writings of Leon Trotsky 1939-40, (New York, Pathfinder, 1973) p. 299. [return]
10. Foreign Affairs, Volume 19, No. 2 (January 1941, p. 332). [return]
11. The American Historical Review, Vol. 54, No. 4 (July 1960), p. 904. [return]
12. My Life With G.V. Plekhanov, p. 188. [return]
13. “In the Service of Historical Falsification: A Review of Robert Service’s Trotsky: A Biography,” Mehring Books (Oak Park, 2009), p. 15. [return]
14. My Life, (New York, Pathfinder, 1970) p. 3. [return]
15. Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990), pp. 59-60. [return]
16. Cited in Stalin, by Hiroaki Kuromiya (London: Longman, 2005), p. 12. [return]
17. L. Trotskii, Works, Series 6, Volume 20, Culture of the Old World, M.-L., State Publishing House, 1926. 147-162. (New translation from the original Russian text) [return]
18. My Life, p. 132-133. [return]
19. Trotsky’s Diary in Exile 1935, (New York, Atheneum, 1963) pp. 159-160. [return]
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I know. What the hell is a real adult?
To be real with you, this title is a bit clickbait. Because the concept of a “real adult” is a bit bullshit.
If you’re an adult, you’re an adult.
I guess what I want you to get out of this post is how to get your life together and be responsible, and what you need to do to make that happen.
Because I want the best for you.
But the fact of the matter is that school doesn’t prepare you for real adult life. And in the case of most of us, our parents don’t either.
Look. As a kid, my parents and home life didn’t set me up for success. I wasn’t given the tools or knowledge or even the examples to have success in my adulthood.
That being said, at 25-years-old, I’ve got my shit (mostly) together. I had to figure that stuff out by myself and in some situations, I had to learn the hard way.
Which is what I want to help you avoid.
Because going into credit card debt? Having a shitty credit score? Not having any savings at all? Not knowing what to look for in a home?
^ That shit will ruin your life. In full.
And we don’t want that, now do we?
Nah. Not at all.
So, I’m here to help you know what stuff you should have in order as an adult in order to set yourself up for success in your adult life.
1. GET A BLOOD WORK PANEL
Lol I know this is a very weird first step for “getting your shit together” to be an adult but honestly, it’s important.
You need to have a reference point of young, healthy (hopefully, at least) you in order to know when shit goes south with your health when you’re older.
And if you don’t get this, because it’s not really something they just do at the doctor’s, you won’t really know what’s off in your bloodwork.
Obviously there’s a “base” they can compare your results to, but even that isn’t completely accurate because people have varying levels of what’s healthy for them.
My blood pressure, for example, is naturally very low. It’s about 95/60 on average.
To some, that would be alarming. But to me, if I go in with a blood pressure of 120/80, which is the standard “average” for healthy, it’s actually high blood pressure for me.
See what I mean? You need a baseline and that should be done sooner rather than later.
Medical talk is super boring, but it’s also one of the most neglected areas of our lives when we’re young and that makes our health even more of an issue when we get older.
Do yourself a favor and get ahead of this curve.
2. START SAVING
I know, I know! You’ve probably heard this too many times to count but the fact that you’re here, clearly still trying to get your life together, means you likely didn’t listen to this advice the first time around.
Savings makes a difference. Even just the emotional security, knowing that you’ll be aight if something goes sideways, is worth it.
And it’s easier to start than you think.
I honestly just have the Mint app withdraw a monthly sum. Set it and forget it.
That way I don’t even have to think about it, but I’m saving regularly. Most banks have apps that you can do the same thing (I use Mint for other things as well).
But, you know, just do it, as Nike would say. Do it. You’ll feel better. You’ll have more to fall back on, because unexpected shit happens all the time.
3. EXERCISE AND FIND A FORM YOU ACTUALLY LIKE
Human bodies are meant to move and work. I’m not telling you to work out to get buff or trim or whatever.
I want you to exercise so when you’re 50, you’re not bitching about how bad your back hurts or how you can’t stand up to watch your child/sibling/cousin do that really impressive thing they’re super proud of.
Plus, exercise is linked to all sorts of good things like better sex (heyoooo), a more elevated mood, regulated hormones, reduced stress, and a bang-worthy body.
Who wouldn’t want all of that?
But for real, your body doesn’t just stay how it is forever. You need to work it and strengthen your heart and muscles so you can enjoy a better quality of life when you’re old.
Yeah, shit will get rough when you’re like 70+ anyways, but 40, 50, 60? You can enjoy those years in full if you get into a habit of working out now.
But it’s also important to find a form of exercise you enjoy.
If you hate it, you won’t do it. It’s really that simple but since your health relies on it, and not hating yourself when you’re old also relies on it, finding a form you like matters.
And there’s more to working out than just lifting weights or running.
Here are some alternatives to the common forms of exercising:
- Spin classes
- Pole dancing classes (will get you RIPPED)
- Yoga (though you should also do a form of more intense cardio)
- Hip hop dancing (can be in your living room with a Youtube video!)
- Rock climbing
- Sex (heyoooo)
- Tennis / other court sports
4. LEARN TO STOP GIVING A SHIT
About what other people think, that is. Because ultimately, you should care even more about what’s important.
So this section should be called, “Learn when to care.”
It does matter. Think about the times you’ve seen an older person (often gray-and-wrinkly-aged) who was engaging in behavior that made you laugh because you couldn’t stop thinking about what other people must be thinking about them.
Because that’s what you were thinking.
But the thing is…those people have gone through life to learn a very important lesson:
Giving a shit about what people think is nearly pointless.
Specifically when it’s people you don’t know or who don’t have much to do with you and your life.
So learning to not care can help you live a much happier life while doing things you fully enjoy.
And on the flip side, you should focus on caring more about what you say you care about. Family? Friends? Your health?
Saying you care and actually caring is the difference between being a child and a real adult. If you say you care about your family, then make sure you do and are prioritizing them in your life.
Lean into your values more, which becomes so much easier when you stop giving a shit about what random people think.
5. WATER YOUR DAMN PLANTS
And give to whatever else you need to.
This can be literal or metaphorical. Literal for me because I get lazy occasionally and let my very-easy-to-maintain house plants die :/
But it can also be metaphorical in the sense that you should feed and give to what needs it for you in order to keep you alive, vibrant, and happy.
And that’s not the same as just doing things you like because let’s be real: not many people like to get up at the asscrack of dawn and hit the gym, but your body needs movement as a human being and therefore, you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do.
6. DO CREATIVE THINGS
Adults who suck have no imagination or creativity. In essence, they’ve lost their childlike wonder and outlook.
Those are not “real” adults.
Those are vessels who have been filled with societal expectations and have been drained of what makes them joyful and really, happy.
No matter your personality type, humans need creativity in some form. Even if you’re the most logical person in the world, void of imagination or a creative bone in your body, you need some form of expression.
Because that’s what creativity is, after all. It’s expression.
In school, I loved science. I was fascinated by how it worked and learning about what make our body or the world tick. Which is great, and it meant I took a ton of science classes.
What I didn’t take, were art classes. Until my senior year, that is.
I only needed a few more credits to meet graduation requirements in order to graduate a semester early, and in true senioritis fashion, I took the easiest ones I could think of: art classes.
I wish I had taken more. Maybe I wouldn’t have been so miserable in high school if I had that form of expression, of an outlet.
My point in this is to maintain some sort of childish creativity in your life. It helps deal with all the “real adultness” of your life, making it a hell of a lot more fun.
7. NURUTRE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Look. I’m not saying you have to mend all bridges with people in your life but you do have to maintain bridges that are already in place if you don’t want them to fall apart too.
Here are some relationships to think about keeping in great shape:
- Your family relationships
- Your friends
- Your coworkers
- Relationships with people you see often (think doctor, etc.)
I’ll be honest here: I haven’t been the best person when it comes to maintaining relationships, but I’m learning.
I’m the type of person who doesn’t feel like I have to “keep up” with people daily in order to be close to them. However, other people aren’t like that.
And that’s something to think about.
In relationships, you have to think about the other person’s perception too.
Just because I feel fine with my friendships going weeks without checking in with them doesn’t mean they’re feeling good or okay. Plus, it’s important to just check in to make sure everything is okay with them.
So make an effort, make goals if you have to! I have a goal to check in with two of my sisters I’m not very close with at least once a week. At least.
Just to show them I care. Because I do, and you should think about how you can show others you care about that you do too.
8. BUY SOME VEGETABLES
Spend more time in the produce section of the grocery store.
I know you don’t want a lecture on eating better because you’ve probably been blasted with that message for…ever.
It’s important. And your future you will thank you for it, just like they will for exercising, no matter how much you hate it.
The truth is that we (especially Americans) have horrible diets filled with preservatives and junk. But if you stick with the produce section and just commit to going to the store once a week (or getting grocery delivery!), you’ll be better off.
Not only will you eat better overall, but opening your fridge to colorful, real food will even be motivating, not to mention the impact it’ll have on other people just visiting.
The more you buy real foods, the more of a real adult you’ll be…instead of a preserved adult.
These are by no means the only ways in which you can be a “real” adult. These are just what I’ve found as a 25-year-old that have led me to have a happier adult life.
What are some tips you have for people looking to be a “real” adult?
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Every business owner and executive must think long and hard about cybersecurity — especially considering all the break-ins and data thefts during the last several years. Data breaches and security issues are in the headlines on a regular basis.
One good source for getting a grip on some possible solutions to the problem is AT&T’s new report, “What Every CEO Needs to Know About Cybersecurity.”
This report helps business owners and executives understand the growing challenge cybercrime represents for the e-commerce opportunity, and it suggests ways to shore up security. It focuses on important areas that every leader in every company involved with e-commerce must understand.
A Growing Threat
If e-commerce is to work for every company, there is much that people at all levels need to learn and implement. The need for stronger cybersecurity is increasing — not only for large companies and government institutions, but also for small companies and individuals.
How can companies protect their brands, their customers and their customer relationships? These are just some of the challenges businesses face today.
A threat many companies face is that if they screw up online, customers may never trust them again. That’s important. Even if customer trust is restored eventually, the loss of dollars in the meantime could be devastating.
E-commerce is a huge marketplace and a gigantic opportunity. However, it is full of landmines. The cybersecurity threat must be managed.
Large businesses and governments have been dealing with these kinds of threats for decades — but the threat level is getting worse. As today’s networked world opens up loads of new growth opportunities, corporate espionage, industrial cyberspying and cyberthefts — both of data and money — are increasing at an alarming pace.
Threats come from cybercriminals all over the world — foreign governments, competitors, hackers and more.
No Simple Solution
A few recent examples of companies and government agencies that have been attacked: Target, Home Depot, Anthem, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Staples, Sony, Adobe and Ashley Madison. These are just some of the most high-profile incidents. Countless smaller intrusions occur on a daily basis.
There is no simple solution. You can’t simply flip a switch and protect yourself. Cybersecurity is an ongoing and never-ending challenge. Cyber-risk will be with us always, and it will grow relentlessly.
Consumers have been doing business with companies like Amazon for years, without experiencing any major cybersecurity disaster. That may give them a false sense of security. Some e-commerce companies do a good job, but most don’t.
E-Commerce picks up speed every quarter. The cybersecurity problems that have become public are only a small portion of the actual threat — it’s likely many others remain undetected. Cybercrimes can be difficult to discover — there are no broken windows or busted locks. By the time the alarm is raised, the damage is done.
This is not a temporary problem. The choice is simple — all businesses either must invest in protecting customer data on an ongoing basis, or face the ever-increasing risk of being hit with a devastating loss.
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Pakistan and Sri Lanka to reactivate JWGs for redressal of trade issues.
The two countries agreed to reactivate the forum of Joint Working Groups (JWGs).
Pakistan and Sri Lanka to reactivate JWGs
It ill help in redressal of technical issues pending between the two trading partners.
Thus it will prompt trade liberalization to increase bilateral trade between both of the countries.
It was decided to conduct the next JWG meeting during the first half of 2021, said a press release issued by the Ministry of Commerce here on Saturday.
Pakistan hosted the 7th Session of Commerce Secretaries Level Talks. It held virtually in Islamabad between the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The delegates from both sides engaged in productive and meaningful discussions on strengthening trade ties and resolving issues impeding trade.
From Pakistan’s side Special Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Dr. Muhammad Sohail Rajput led the team.
Secretary, Ministry of Trade Ms. J.M. Bhadranie Jayawardhana steered the Srilankan side.
Both sides further agreed to enhance cooperation in trade related matters so that the true potential of the Free Trade Agreement could be effectively exploited.
The Secretaries of the two sides agreed to the text of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of investment and resolved that it will usher new avenues of bilateral investment.
Meanwhile, the meeting concluded with the commitment to expand and cement bilateral relationships between the two countries.
The Sri Lankan side acknowledged Pakistan a long standing trading partner and a closer ally.
They further said that Sri Lanka is eagerly looking forward to the upcoming visit of the Prime Minister of Pakistan to Colombo.
Prospects of enhancing trade through mutual cooperation and facilitation were also discussed.
The heads of the two delegations emphasized on the need to use this forum to further strengthen the existing bilateral trade and investment linkages between the two countries.
Moreover, they also expressed their commitment to enhance trade relations by removing various impediments.
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Total Ultraviolet Radiometer
The Total Ultraviolet Radiometer is a rugged, relatively simple detector for the measurement of solar UV radiation. Ease of operation combined with performance accuracy comparable with pyranometers intended for the recording of the total short-wave radiation (0.295 to 0.385 µm) make this instrument an attractive instrument for UV measurement.
This instrument utilizes a hermetically sealed selenium barrier-layer cell which is protected by a quartz window. It is operated at low light levels and under conditions of minimum electrical current drain, in order to ensure a high degree of performance stability over lengthy periods of exposure. A specially designed teflon diffuser not only reduces the radiant flux to acceptable levels but also provides close adherence to the Lambert cosine law. An encapsulated narrow bandpass (interference) filter limits the spectral response of the photocell to the wavelength interval 0.295 to 0.385 µm, with negligible secondary transmission.
The unit is of brass construction and includes adjustable leveling screws and a circular spirit level
A calibration certificate traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is included.
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The Qukin Nukiy Bursary is a new program announced by North Coal designed to support Indigenous Youth pursuing post-secondary education opportunities. The bursary is a student-focused program designed to provide financial support to Ktunaxa youth. Along with funding for educational studies, when possible, North Coal will provide co-op opportunities for recipients. There are two bursaries available—one for a student attending college or university and a second for a student completing a trade certificate. Each bursary is worth $5,000.
North Coal will work with the bands of the Ktunaxa Nation to distribute the bursary. Qukin Nukiy translates to Raven’s Rock. It is the Ktunaxa word used for coal and North Coal thanks the Ktunaxa Traditional Knowledge & Language Working Group for approving the bursary name.
The bursary was announced at the Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi ‘it Indigenous Day celebrations. Nasuʔkin (Chief) Heidi Gravelle stated that “we are very pleased to hear about the bursary opportunity offered through North Coal for a post-secondary and a trade’s student to each receive $5,000.00. We are proud of all of our students and understand the struggles that students face when it comes to funding barriers and making ends meet while attending post-secondary or trade institutions. As a previous student, I remember working part-time, while being pregnant with a young child attending school full-time to make ends meet and it still was barely enough. It is not the desired situation for our students. Any bursaries and opportunities for our students to find financial relief is always great news. The barriers that First Nations Students face are still undeniably unfortunate, and being provided this opportunity, for our students to apply for a bursary is positive and we are grateful. It is especially exciting to see trades included, you typically see Nursing student bursaries, Medical student bursaries, Law student bursaries but it is very rare you see opportunities for trade bursaries. Ensuring that all our students have equal opportunity to advance their education be it post-secondary or trades is the ultimate goal.”
Those interested in learning more are invited to contact North Coal’s Indigenous Relations and Education coordinator Jonathan Brewer for more details at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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However, if the recipe calls for whipping that cream, it won’t work. You need the fat that’s fully incorporated in heavy cream in order to get whipped volume. You can also use evaporated milk as a direct substitute for heavy cream, as long as it is simply being used as a liquid ingredient in baking or cooking.
In this way, what is light cream in a recipe?
It can’t be whipped and lacks the rich flavor of heavy whipping cream, which contains 36 to 40 percent milk fat. Light cream, also known as coffee cream, is heavier than half-and-half, but lighter than light whipping cream or whipping cream. It is similar to table cream.
What is considered light cream?
-Half and half is between 10.5 percent and 18 percent milk fat. -It is normally used in coffee or on cereal. Light Cream. -Light Cream is also known as table cream. -Light cream can contain anywhere from 18 percent to 30 percent fat, but usually has about 20 percent.
Can you substitute whole milk for light cream?
Substituting one for the other requires increasing or reducing the fat content by diluting heavy cream with milk or adding fat to milk, usually in the form of melted butter. Heavy cream, also used for whipping, can be used as a substitute for light cream by adding whole milk at a rate of half cream to half milk.
What can be substituted for heavy cream in a recipe?
In some recipes, you can substitute 3/4 cup milk plus 1/3 cup butter or margarine for 1 cup of heavy cream. If your recipe calls for whipping that cream, it won’t work. You need the fat that’s in heavy cream in order to get whipped volume.
Can you substitute evaporated milk for cream?
A: Evaporated milk can be substituted for heavy cream. According to the recipe website Allrecipes.com, a cup of heavy cream can be replaced with a cup of evaporated milk, or three-quarters of a cup of milk plus one-third of a cup of butter.
What can you substitute for heavy cream in a pasta recipe?
The 10 Best Substitutes for Heavy Cream
Milk and Butter. Combining milk and butter is an easy, foolproof way to substitute for heavy cream that’ll work for most recipes.
Soy Milk and Olive Oil.
Milk and Cornstarch.
Half-and-Half and Butter.
Silken Tofu and Soy Milk.
Greek Yogurt and Milk.
Cottage Cheese and Milk.
Can you substitute heavy cream for milk?
Direct Substitutions. If your recipe calls for milk, using heavy cream will make it substantially richer. A cup of heavy cream is roughly one-third milk fat, so you might need to reduce the butter or shortening in your recipe to compensate. The combination won’t whip like heavy cream.
What is a non dairy substitute for heavy cream?
Coconut milk can replace evaporated milk or heavy cream in soups and stews. You can also make your own heavy cream with 1/2 cup plain milk substitute and 1/2 cup canola oil. Dairy and lactose free half-and-half substitutes work well in many recipes.
Can you substitute heavy cream for half and half?
We have found that substituting an equal amount of half-and-half cream for the heavy cream called for in a recipe generally works quite well. That’s a savings of 60 calories and 8 grams of fat per 2 tablespoons…and the flavor and texture of the dish remain quite satisfactory.
Can you use yogurt instead of cream in a curry?
A Yes, you can use cream or crème fraîche in your curries. What you will get is the same delicious creamy quality to the curry as if you had used yogurt, but it will simply be a little sweeter and milder in taste. The addition of crème fraîche is not authentic, but surprisingly similar in taste to Indian yogurt.
Is heavy cream a cooking cream?
With the help of joyofbaking.com, I learned that heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are essentially the same thing: cream that contains 36 percent or more milk fat. Whipping cream is a bit lighter, with only 30 percent milk fat. Heavy cream will whip better and hold it’s shape longer than whipping cream.
Can you use half and half instead of heavy cream for Alfredo sauce?
You can use half & half instead of heavy cream in any Alfredo sauce. It’ll be somewhat thinner in consistency and not as rich as the heavy cream variety but it will work. It is, after all, nothing but olive oil, cream, butter, garlic and white wine with a dash of S&P.
What does it mean to cream in a recipe?
Creaming simply means mixing your butter and sugar(s) together until well blended, leaving you with a fluffy light yellow mix. Just do not over mix! Butter and sugars are over-mixed when the butter begins to separate.
Can heavy cream be used instead of light cream?
The simplest substitute for light cream is probably already in your refrigerator. Half-and-half, which contains 12 percent milk fat, can be used as a substitute for light cream, although it won’t taste quite as rich. Combine heavy whipping cream with milk at a ratio of 1 1/2 parts heavy cream to 1 part milk.
Is light cream the same as half and half?
-Half and half is a mixture of equal parts milk and cream. -Half and half is between 10.5 percent and 18 percent milk fat. -Light Cream is also known as table cream. -Light cream can contain anywhere from 18 percent to 30 percent fat, but usually has about 20 percent.
How do they make heavy cream?
Heavy cream, also known as whipping cream, is an ingredient that is frequently called for in recipes. Cream is the thick, fat-rich part of milk, which rises to the top when milk is fresh and is skimmed off. The type of cream is determined by its fat content. Heavy cream has a fat content between 36 and 40%.
What can I use as a substitute for light cream?
Substitute for Light cream. For one cup light cream substitute equal amounts of half and half or 1/2 cup evaporated milk plus 1/2 cup whole milk or for cooking use 7/8 cup whole milk and 3 tablespoons of butter or margerine.
Is double cream and heavy cream the same?
Double cream is the British term for heavy or whipping cream in the United States, but it is a little thicker than our whipping cream. It contains about 48% butterfat. Double cream is so rich, in fact, that it is easy to over whip it and get it too thick.
What can you use instead of half and half?
To achieve one cup of half-and-half substitute:
Mix 1/2 cup whole milk + 1/2 cup light cream.
Mix 3/4 cup whole milk + 1/4 cup heavy cream.
Mix 2/3 cup skim or low-fat milk + 1/3 cup heavy cream.
Place 4 teaspoons melted unsalted butter in a measuring cup, then add enough whole milk to equal 1 cup.
What is light cream UK?
It is equivalent to table cream in Canada and single cream or just cream in the UK. I believe it is also sometimes referred to as table cream or coffee cream in the U.S. The term is in contrast to heavy cream (also known as double cream or whipping cream in some regions) which is 36% fat.
Is light cream the same as single cream?
Single cream and light cream have around 18% butterfat. Whipping cream has 30-40%. So, if you have a US recipe that calls for heavy cream, use whipping cream if you’re in the UK. North America also has half-and-half, which has 10-12% fat.
What is the fat content of light cream?
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The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Friday called for pursuing the possibility of a digital trade deal through a forum of Pacific economies as the US could fall behind China by falling behind. initiative to draft key trade rules in the region. .
“We are writing to urge you to use and work with the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation … the committee,” said in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Photo taken on July 30, 2021, shows the United States Capitol in Washington. (Kyodo)
Among the priorities that President Joe Biden‘s administration should work on with other APEC peers, including countries like Japan and Australia, is promoting a “common set of technology standards, including the possibility of a digital trade deal, âthe two said.
The letter also called for improving the efficiency of semiconductor and cybersecurity supply chains, as well as advancing cooperation that reduces barriers to cross-border investment in emerging markets.
The senators’ appeals came as China steps up trade diplomacy in the region, asking in September to join a Pacific free trade agreement currently known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, including the United States. United withdrew in 2017.
The agreement, involving 11 countries such as Japan and Australia as well as the United States, was to act as a counterweight to China’s growing economic weight. But former President Donald Trump described it as a “job-destroying” arrangement.
The United States is also not part of a mega trade deal involving 15 Asia-Pacific countries, including China, Japan and South Korea, which was signed in November. Beijing, meanwhile, said in November it had asked to join a deal between Singapore, Chile and New Zealand to collaborate on digital trade.
While many experts in the United States believe it will be difficult to win a majority in Congress for a comprehensive free trade agreement anytime soon, concerns are growing that the United States is giving way to China in the trade rule-making efforts.
A group of Republican lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee also sent a letter in November to Biden asking the administration to begin digital trade negotiations with American allies and partners in Asia to establish “high-quality rules” in the region.
Digital rules should be crafted to reflect American values, for example by ensuring the free flow of data, promoting cybersecurity, protecting human rights and fighting censorship, they said.
APEC brings together Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan , Thailand, United States and Vietnam.
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Ford is recalling about 2 million F-150 pickup trucks — the top selling vehicle in the U.S. — after an investigation determined that a seat belt mechanism can spark and start a fire.
Why is this happening?
The announcement comes about one month after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began investigating fires in the pickups, according to The Associated Press. The recall covers Regular Cab and SuperCrew Cab F-150 pickup trucks built between March 12, 2014, and Aug. 23, 2018.
In early August, the NHTSA began investigating after receiving five fire reports, including three reports of trucks that were destroyed. No injuries have been reported.
Ford said that the trucks' seat belt pretensioners can generate excessive sparks when they tighten before a crash. In turn, it can “ignite gases inside a support pillar between the front and rear seats, causing insulation and carpet to catch fire,” the report states.
A seat belt pretensioner is a mechanism that allows seat belts to gradually restrain passengers. The device was made by ZF-TRW and Takata, a now-defunct air bag and seat belt maker that was purchased by auto parts supplier Joyson, according to the report.
To fix the problem, dealers will remove insulation and install heat-resistant tape, the report states. They also will “remove remnants of wiring tape and modify interior panels in Regular Cab trucks.” Notifications will be sent to owners starting Sept. 24.
Are there any examples?
In one of the NHTSA complaints, a truck owner in Grand Rapids, Michigan, said that a deer ran into the driver’s side of a pickup and caused minor damage on July 7. The side air bags inflated and after several minutes a fire was discovered by a passenger on the bottom side of the post between the front and rear doors, where the seat belts are located, according to the report.
“The truck went up in complete flames in a matter of minutes and is a complete loss,” the owner wrote in the complaint.
The NHTSA database does not identify consumers who file complaints, The Associated Press noted.
Ford indicated in a filing with U.S. securities regulators that the recall will cost about $140 million. The amount will be reflected in third-quarter results.
According to Ford, the problem began surfacing in the spring of 2017. The company received four reports of post-crash interior fires in the trucks from April through October.
Ford received six more reports of fires in 2015, 2017 and 2018 pickups from April through June. The problem was traced to “the potential” for excessive sparks in the pretensioners. Exhaust gases from the seat belt mechanisms were also investigated.
After about three fires were reported, the NHTSA and Ford together inspected one of the trucks on June 28, The Associated Press reported. The NHTSA launched its investigation on Aug. 3.
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Childhood for me has been the greatest expression of joy I have ever known—those endearing hugs with mama, those sweet lullabies at bedtime, those never-ending giggles with siblings all night long, that bouncing, that pouncing, that squealing, that running. Isn’t childhood the best part of one’s time on earth?
But sadly for many children, childhood turns out to be their biggest nightmares!
Listen to the song Maati ki Gudiya a song by Rashmeet Kaur[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeQNsMOy_sk[/embedyt]
A mesmerizing song for girls – Maati ki Gudiya
Of many factors affecting the wellbeing of a child, early marriage happens to be a pressing one. You may be surprised to know that the practice of child marriage is still prevalent in India in a number of villages and districts. And despite government efforts, it continues to be a recurrent social evil. Infact, India has the highest number of child brides in the world. It is estimated that 27% of girls in India are married before their 18th birthday. Does that figure ring a bell?
Studies say that girls who marry earlier in life are more susceptible to pregnancy related deaths, especially as a consequence of childbirth complications. Infants who are born to mothers under the age of 18 are 60 percent more likely to die in their first year than to mothers over the age of 19. And among those children who survive, the likelyhood of low birth weight, malnutrition and late physical and mental development are tremendously high.
Beside reproductive health concerns, domestic violence faced by young girls in marriage is yet another vexing issue. According to a study conducted in India by the International Centre for Research on Women, girls married before 18 years of age are twice as likely to be beaten, slapped, or threatened by their husbands and three times more likely to experience sexual violence. These are appalling statistics. Isn’t it time that we speak up?
In many communities girls are often considered an economic burden on society and marriage happens to be a way of passing on this responsibility to her new husband. Besides poverty, a general lack of educational opportunity also influence the statistics of child marriage in India. The answer to these issues lies in creating awareness among people so that we can together send a strong message to the policymakers to enforce stricter laws regarding child marriage, and work towards the economic upliftment of the society.
As a stepping stone towards creating awareness, I have decided to share this beautiful song with all of you called “Maati ki gudiya”which is sung by the talented Singer/songwriter Rashmeet Kaur, and written and composed by Rashmeet Kaur and Nikhil Malhotra. The music video is shot in Himachal Pradesh and the little girl “Priya” is Gudiya (Doll) in the video. Through this song, the artists are trying to express the feelings of that little, innocent girl child who has her own dreams but is not certain of her future. It is an initiative to raise awareness on Child Marriages happening in India and put this atrocious practice to an end.
Hope you like this initiative and share it with the world.
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ABB to connect offshore wind with HVDC in UK first
ABB has been selected by energy companies SSE Renewables and Equinor to use its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter systems to connect the world's largest offshore wind farms to the UK transmission network.
18th November 2019 by Networks
The contract to connect two wind farms in the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea is the first use of the HVDC technology, already deployed to connect international interconnectors to the UK grid, in the UK’s offshore wind market.
ABB will supply its patented, highly compact HVDC converter systems, while Aibel will deliver two HVDC offshore converter platforms.
The Dogger Bank development consists of three 1.2 GW wind farm projects – Creyke Beck A and B, and Teesside A (see above) – which are being developed by a 50:50 joint venture between Equinor and SSE Renewables.
ABB has been awarded contracts to connect Creyke Beck A and Creyke Beck B.
This will be the first offshore HVDC solution in the UK which opens up new markets and opportunities
Halfdan Brustad, vice president, Equinor
Dogger Bank is considered an attractive location for offshore wind farms because it is far from shore – about 130km from the Yorkshire coast – yet the water depth is shallow enough for traditional fixed foundation wind turbine designs.
The three Dogger Bank offshore wind farms are together expected to power 4.5 million homes and increase current offshore wind capacity by 3.6 GW.
The first site is expected to be operational by 2023.
ABB’s proprietary HVDC convertor system will convert alternating current (AC) at 66 kilovolts to direct current (DC), via offshore inverters platforms built by Aibel.
These are designed to be unmanned, operated from shore and accessed only by a service operations vessel
The power will then be transmitted onshore, via HVDC transmission links.
At two onshore convertor stations, built by ABB, the transmitted power will then be converted back to 400 kilovolts AC for export to two nearby National Grid substations, at Creyke Beck in east Yorkshire and Lackenby in Teesside.
Claudio Facchin, president of ABB’s power grids business, said: “Winning the contracts from SSE Renewables and Equinor for the landmark Dogger Bank project underscores ABB’s innovative offshore wind technology and expertise.
“It also highlights the success of ABB Power Grids’ customer partnerships, both on design optimization as well as on the business model level.”
“ABB is committed to delivering sustainable solutions with pioneering technologies and in the Dogger Bank project we are helping to make offshore wind competitive and thus contributing to a stronger, smarter and greener grid.”
In 2016, ABB and Aibel announced a partnership on the design, engineering and optimization of offshore wind connections.
Paul Cooley, director of capital projects at SSE Renewables, said: “Dogger Bank is truly a world-leading project, pushing new boundaries in the provision of ground-breaking technology to deliver low-carbon energy generation to help achieve the UK’s net zero ambition by 2050.
“The appointment of Aibel and ABB as project partners will ensure that the latest grid solution technology is deployed to support our successful project delivery.”
Commercial HVDC technology was pioneered by ABB more than 60 years ago. It is a highly efficient alternative to alternating current (AC) for transmitting large amounts of electricity with higher efficiency and lower electrical losses.
Halfdan Brustad, vice president for Dogger Bank at Equinor, said: “This is an important milestone for Dogger Bank with a groundbreaking HVDC technology solution enabling a competitive solution for offshore wind at a long distance from shore.
“This will be the first offshore HVDC solution in the UK which opens up new markets and opportunities. The appointment of Aibel and ABB demonstrates cross industry collaboration bringing best expertise into a successful Dogger Bank delivery.”
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The Evolutionary Narrative Towards Global Order
When enforced narratives fail, abrupt U-turns are inevitable. The global Ministry of Truth is now openly promoting the Wuhan lab leak theory when they are not savaging the darlings of yesteryear’s “coronapocalypse”.
One such fall guy is the British ‘mathematical epidemiologist’ Prof Neil Ferguson whose COVID-19 contagion model paralleled the 3.5 hour-long pandemic simulation exercise called Event 201 in October 2019. Professor Ferguson, by the way, is noted for his ridiculous models and forecasts that are way beyond far-fetched.
Up to 65 million people were projected to die from this contagion. Unsurprisingly, the common denominator between both projections was the omnipresent Microsoft which helped “tidy up” Ferguson’s code. Experts and politicians the world over naturally “listened to the scientism”, mirroring a teenager’s hysterics over another ostensibly existential issue, such as acne.
Now, however, shadow-banned links are emerging from Google’s search limbo to inform us that Ferguson’s code was a “buggy mess” that looked “more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming.” This is what our endless lockdowns and coercive vaccinations programs were based on!
The “unity through crises” model of the ruling class is backfiring; and the credibility of their political marionettes is plumbing new depths. The World Economic Forum’s prophesied “cyber pandemic”, if it ever transpires, will only serve to hardened growing public scepticism. Besides, such an event will only prove that the building blocks of the WEF’s Great Reset were built on the “pastafarian” codes of Big Tech. Blaming Russian or Chinese bogeymen may not work anymore.
It is not just our cyber-systems that are wobbling on dodgy foundations; our entire global systems are primed for a mighty fall. Instead of unity, manifold planetary crises are leading to social fissures of an unprecedented proportion. Mankind can no longer be unified through internally generated crises. The social organization of the globe is designed only for artificial disorder and conflict. If we do not have our usual bogeymen, China and Russia, what would justify every nation spending its resources on weapons. If all the ‘other’ nations do not have artificial enemies, what is the US going to do for revenues? This whole global ‘house of cards’ is built on lies and fears. All of the nations are comprised of ordinary people with the same objectives and means of achieving them. It is only by contrivance that people see each other as different and as enemies, to be feared.
The Great Reset project needs to be salvaged by something more exogenous… perhaps something extraterrestrial? Coincidentally, the mainstream narrative has been veering in that direction. There is no doubt that human existence was an extraterrestrial endeavor. The ‘creator gods’, the Anunnaki, created humans from the more primitive homo erectus, because they needed laborers. Thinking along the lines of a vast superiority of humans has got to be overcome. Superior to what?
Beliefs that humans are the top of the pyramid are patently absurd. If you can’t see that, then you need to be seriously ‘deprogrammed’. There is a reason why our true history has always been hidden and we are encouraged to believe nonsense. It is because we are under the control of a human-like species, the homo capensis, that obviously exist, IF one understands their true history. In the case where most humans could understand their origins, the control-secret would lose its power.
Two interlinked scenarios exist, that could engender global order in an elitist-induced chaos. We will now delve into that bizzaro world…
Pentagon’s Alien UFO ‘Disclosures’
The build-up to the recent unclassified US intelligence report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) – the new euphemism for extraterrestrials (ETs) and Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) – was preceded by a confusing raft of mainstream admissions over their existence. During a late-night show in May, former US President Barack Obama quipped that “when it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can’t tell you on-air” before confirming that there were indeed sightings of physics-defying objects in the sky. Of course, this is more ‘doublespeak’ coming from the mouth of Obama, the born and bred community organizer.
This admission was straddled by more bizarre claims. According to Luis Elizondo, former director of the US military’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), extraterrestrials are fascinated by earthling nuclear technologies (in spite of the Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island disasters). If it is so, that they are fascinated by human nuclear endeavors, it would only be in noting the level of extreme ignorance and stupidity. Humans, in their arrogance, are set on an annihilation course to destroy themselves and to make the planet uninhabitable. Fukushima is one prime example. Here we have a case where a man-made tsunami has caused spent radio-active piles to be spilled into the ocean, while humans can seemingly do nothing about except sit around and watch it happen.
Now, hold that thought for a second: Is it logical for aliens to waste galactic time, travel and resources to probe the secrets of our primitive nuclear capabilities? We do not even have a prototype for a nuclear-powered mission to Mars, much less resolve obstacles associated with fusion and pebble bed reactors. Elizondo estimates that current UFO technologies could be “anywhere between 50 to 1,000 million years ahead of us…” In technological terms, this is a wildly guesstimate timeline that spans aeons between the supersonic and Star Trek epochs. Besides, they seemed light years ahead of us when the first UFO sightings were documented nearly a century ago.
And, the idea that nuclear power is the solution to space travel is a highly unlikely one. It is just the best one we can come up with at the moment. Until the race can dump scientism into the trash can, where it belongs, we could not even consider the idea of going into space. We would need to take off many layers of ‘blinders’ to even get on an even keel, where we could start taking a realistic view of the problem, let alone actually go into space in any form. All this nonsense about moon landings and Mars exploration is the fabrication of the other branch of Disneyland, located at NASA. NASA is just the place where Werner VonBraun and his merry men receive vast funding to make the illusion that something ‘spacey’ is going on with hair spray and swimming pools. If any of this surprises you, this is an illustration of just how far you are from any sense of reality.
Before any humans could even entertain the idea of space travel, they would have to first accept, then learn about the dimensional aspects of reality, most of which are not even physical. They have trained you intensively that everything is physical matter, nothing more. The truth is, physical matter is a coalesced state of energy and is of slight importance in the larger truth. Until humans could learn to understand space/time/energy, they are inexorably bound to the physical matter aspect of things. This means that we are confined to ‘blowing shit up’ to send a hunk of physical matter up into ‘near-earth orbit’, from which it is going to fall back down in a short time. This means we can get to about 200 miles altitude. The moon is 169,000 miles above. 200 miles falls a little short of this distance. No one is going to the moon with present-day technology. Sorry.
Time and space are not linear. If you had to travel linearly, you would be long dead before you got anywhere. Space/Time can be folded to bring things into near proximity with each other under a controlled operation. This does not rely on black holes or time portals, as shown in the movies. This can all be described mathematically by quantum physics. Not too many scientismists have a grasp on this spectrum of mathematics. Don’t be waiting for these dupes to be bringing any breakthroughs to light. They are all very busy bringing their scientism to the medical field by making up ridiculous shit about invisible viruses. Yes, I know we have electron microscopes that can reveal miniscule little fuzzy spots. These are viruses. No one is denying the existence of viruses. They are the most numerous organic entities in existence. They are waste products of cellular replication. Its just that they are all dead molecules resulting from the replication process of new cells, that are packed up and expelled from the body. They are totally incapable of conceiving plots to sicken humans. Very convenient for the plotters that no one can see them. They can make any claims they want. Can you disprove them?
UFOs are now mainstream study. While vaxxine sceptics are viciously trolled and censored as conspiracy theorists on terra firma, no such constraints are placed on cartoonish claims that a “Space Force” is working overtime for the ultimate good of mankind. Gen. Haim Eshed, former head of Israel’s military space division, even claimed that the US and Israeli governments have been roped in for this interstellar project. According to the general, the aliens have “signed a contract with us to experiment here” but earthlings should not be worried as ETs are merely looking to enlist them as “helpers” in their quest to “understand the universe”. You know that humans have a very sought after and envied knowledge of this subject.
One is hard pressed to understand how the Israeli government can trust aliens even as it wars with its immediate neighbors. Perhaps Eshed had anticipated this question with the following rationale: “They want to make us sane and understanding first. They waited until today for humanity to evolve and reach a stage where we will understand what space and spaceships are.” If Eshed had been discerning the signs, it would have been clear that “sanity” and the “US government” no longer gelled in the same sentence. Humans have exactly zero knowledge of this subject and are not likely to be recruited to assist beings who have the ability to travel in space/time.
However, for the express purpose of scenario simulation, let us take these revelations at face value. Questions arise, beginning with those of a comedic nature. Just which Harvard legal eagle was responsible for drafting this binding contract with aliens when (s)he was not perfecting the finer points of critical race theory and the colour-coded taxonomy of mankind? Which court will act as the arbitrator? Why are ETs seeking the help of a fractured, primitive species to “understand the universe” when their own technologies are light years ahead?
The choice of the United States as a galactic partner also casts these supposed aliens in a very poor light. Why did these benevolent entities remain silent when the US was warring incessantly for the entire period of its existence against most of mankind? Did ETs concur that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in support of the ‘boy-idiot’ Bush? Did they throw their weight behind US support of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and the “Free Syrian Army” decades later? Is it essential for humans to evolve, purify and enlighten themselves through bloodletting and genocide? This is the Darwinian worldview of Adolph Hitler. There is simply no truth in any of it.
If there is an iota of truth to Eshed’s claims, then one must infer that the entities he invoked are not benign.
The genetic advance of a rapid human evolution was expedited by ET technology with bipedal ape DNA and the DNA of the creator gods themselves, giving rise to irrefutable evidence of “gods” who, in their departure, left their written works in the hands of priests that initiated various superstitious self-serving religions. COVID-19 is the idea from the minds of those left to rule homo sapiens, as a means of control, both reproductively and behaviorally.
The threat of extraterrestrial “others” is not intended to unify humans, but to get them back to a controllable population size. Traditionally, the human population has been maintained at under 500 millions. And this, during a period when human labor was of value. Today, human labor is of literally no value, despite a USA Today headline which reads: “UFOs have done what COVID-19 never has: Unite Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Can you imagine an advanced space-travelling people who would give a shit about human politics, which are nothing more than dialectics to keep humans in conflict and war.
Order out of Chaos
While the Davos crowd works towards a Great Reset or a New World Order, today this is just one more reset, in a very long string of resets, which have occurred regularly since the departure of the creator gods and the takeover of rule by the homo capensis. Hardly any of them are believed to even exist. Their very existence is not overt. They live at the top of the pyramid, with many layers of minions, of increasing visibility in the power structure. Some think their sole accomplishment thus far has been the enrichment of the top 0.001% at the expense of a growing horde of renters. These rulers do not give a shit about fake human currencies. They make these fake currencies for free, as much as they want, whenever they want. The only ones who foolishly place any value whatsoever on these currencies are the humans who have been brain washed into a system of slave labor in exchange for worthless little pieces of paper. These masters of the planet give us the clue…we are not owners of anything at the present, but by 2030, we will fully realize this, and still be happy about it. Realize now that you work, if you work, as a slave for a worthless little piece of paper that has been generated for no cost at all. You exist in a system that is virtual. You own nothing and you have no freedom. It’s just that in the near future, you are going to have to face this reality head on.
It is therefore totally logical to assume that the Great Reset will be inalienably contingent on the almost total decimation of the world population of humans, and the overt realization by the remaining few, that they are, and have always been nothing more than slaves. In the recent couple hundred years, the experiment has hinged on the premise that productivity of slaves can be increased by their belief that they, as individuals, could be increased by the belief that they are working for their own enrichment, as contrasted to the productivity of slaves working under the whip. It would be a highly placating outcome for the vast disenfranchised masses that had been reeling from years of pastafarian technological promises, lockdown regimes and woke propaganda. Since all elections are illusionary, as are all politics, they are of absolutely no consequence of any kind. Politicians are only an element of the illusion. Elections, rigged financial markets, pandemic shenanigans and literal skeletons in the closet are all only a part of the theater. Is it a coincidence that the global elite are now feverishly censoring free speech under the guise of combating “fake news”? They will need total panoptic control by 2030 and they are on schedule for the massive level of depopulation of the ‘Western World’ to bring the situation under total control.
There will be no fightback against the Great Reset as the vaxxinations have already happened and the die is cast dictating the outcome. No chorus is going to ring out from the few surviving mouths. Those who survive this carnage in the ‘Western populations’, will be living under the brutal reality of their true status as slaves.
If this scenario sounds preposterous, bear in mind that it broadly resonates with biblical end-times eschatology. The Pope is only an invention of Flavius Titus and Constantine, to unify the empire in the period of Roman hegemony during their own reset period.
A Damp Squib
The June 25 UAP report, titled Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, ultimately turned out to be a teaser for additional intelligence funding. As the Intelligencer had correctly anticipated: “Perhaps after wasting over $1.6 trillion on the disastrous F-35, spending over $2.26 trillion on the war in Afghanistan, and facing a flat budget for 2021, the Pentagon simply wants a flashy reason to demand more money.” This unlikely to work out, as the Pentagon is about to cede hegemony to China, as the new world police firce.
Aliens or no aliens, the Great Reset will require an omnipotent and omniscient military force. This will be the UN, of course, and it has been on-plan for the past 100 years. The US, with the UN on its very soil, never saw it coming.
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Yahoo finance used to be a powerhouse of great personal articles and videos. Their quality has declined as of late, but there are still some gems to be had if you're digging through the archives. Here is a quick video I like by Farnoosh Torabi. In it she details some of the habits of people making more than $150,000 annually with $3.2 million in investable assets. … [Read more...] about Daily Habits of Wealthy People
Here is a speech from the late Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedmann. Its an excellent explanation of the root causes of inflation, its effects on your income, and what can be done to combat it. This is important today as inflation is starting to reemerge (clicky). If you're interested in understanding personal finance, you should probably develop at least … [Read more...] about Understanding Inflation
Here is a brief, but insightful video on spending money by Milton Friedman. Since Friedman was one of America's most famous economists, so its worth taking a bit of time to look at. His thoughts on spending money have some political implications, but at 1.46 run length its worth a watch for the loads of common sense it contains. … [Read more...] about Milton Friedman on Spending Money
Today's posting is video of a question and answer session with Warren Buffett at the University of Florida. Warren is a clever man and a witty speaker and he provides a lot of detail on his investing philosophy in this talk. I've listened to it twice and found it even more useful the second time around. Its about an hour and twenty minutes long, so as always, you might … [Read more...] about Warren Buffett on Business
Hello All, There is ton of information out there on wealth building on the web. Unfortunately most of it isn't that good. That said, I came across this video while searching the web for tips on building wealth. Its a half hour show from The Urban Wall Street Project - a program focused on wealth building for African Americans. The great thing about this show is … [Read more...] about Wealth Building Strategies for 2010
Following up on our post from PBS News Hour on how Goldman Sachs is leveraging the bailout funds to make money off of taxpayers, we wanted to also share this video from PBS.Hear what Reagan's former budget chief defends Obama's budget reforms and pressures congress to be harder on banks.Tell us what your thoughts are.Miel … [Read more...] about Reagan’s Budget Chief on Budget Reforms
We wanted to share this short video from PBS NewsHour about how Goldman Sachs has been working the system and milking a profit from tax payers. They essentially are borrowing money from taxpayers, buying federal reserves, and making a hefty profit. If that isn't corruption then I don't know what is. Why don't more people know about this, and why does our government let this … [Read more...] about Is Taxpayer Money Behind Profits at Goldman Sachs?
Check out this video from Wall Street Journal. It just makes me glad that James and I are pretty open with our purchases and I can't really think of any examples of pissed off purchases. Certainly not to the extent of $800 lizard boots. Check out the video, I think it is worth the four minutes.Readers: We'd love to hear what your experiences are in relation to this … [Read more...] about
Hi All,Some things in life are a necessity, food, water, shelter. Some things are a luxury. One controversial luxury is pet insurance. While it might seem ridiculous, a lot of people own pet insurance. Expenditures on medicine and medical services for pets was 9.3 billion in 2007 (1).At any rate, if you're in the market for a policy for your pet, here is another informative … [Read more...] about Getting A Pet Insurance Policy?
Hi All,Kiplinger media produces a much underrated series of videos for fans of personal finance. If you've got any mutual funds, you might be interested in this one. Basically the video looks at 5 ways you can minimize taxes when investing (which you can then invest to build wealth!). In a nutshell they are:1) Sell investments only after 1 year for a lower tax rate2) Watch your … [Read more...] about Five Things About Taxes And Your Investments
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Stop the food fight and learn how you were always meant to eat!
Do you find yourself always thinking about food?
Do you feel torn between your love of eating and desire to be healthy?
Are you confused by all of the conflicting nutrition advice out there?
This book will forever change your relationship with food and your body. You will learn how to quit dieting and banish deprivation, guilt, and self-hate forever. Side effects of reading this book may include effortless weight loss and maintenance, body acceptance, and a whole new level of self-love and compassion. Furthermore, you will learn to enjoy a variety of new foods in a more satisfying and pleasurable way than ever before. Get ready for a wonderful journey.
Reinholt provides a useful and sensible approach to everyday eating, with the important and attainable goals of health and happiness, rather than some number on a scale. Read it and make peace with food once and for all.Traci Mann PhD, Professor, University of Minnesota, and author of Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again
Meant to Eat is written by Lindsay M. Reinholt, a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where she completed a cutting edge curriculum in nutrition and health coaching taught by the world’s leading experts in health and wellness. I recommend you read this book and be in touch with Lindsay to see how she can help you successfully achieve your goals.Joshua Rosenthal, MScEd, Founder/Director, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
In an age in which corporate food marketers spend billions of dollars every day convincing us to make poor food choices, Meant to Eat offers a refreshing alternative. Lindsay Reinholt cuts through the misinformation and offers practical and inspiring advice for finding a healthy relationship with food and, ultimately, with yourself.Ben Hartman, farmer and author of The Lean Farm
Meant to Eat is a down-to-earth book that will change your eating habits and outlook on food forever. Reinholt is relatable, yet reliable in her recommendations. A must-read for anyone who wants a healthy and happy future!Ben Higgins, of ABC's hit TV show The Bachelor
This book is for you if you are struggling with eating healthy or have been wondering why you can’t stop eating badly. Lindsay breaks down the struggles that people face every day by giving you step-by-step instructions on what to do right away to get results you have been looking for.
This book will change the way you look at the way you’re eating, you will have a healthy relationship with food that you never thought possible.Karen Mayo, CHHC, AADP, and author of Mindful Eating
Available on Amazon.com
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Training a puppy is an important process that will help ensure the puppy grows into a well-behaved adult dog. There are various ways to train a four-month old puppy, but the most important thing is to be consistent with the commands and rewards. One way to train a puppy is to use positive reinforcement – rewarding the puppy when it does something correctly, such as sitting or lying down. This will help the puppy learn what behaviours are desired and make training sessions more enjoyable for both you
How To Train A Four Month Old Puppy
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best way to train a four month old puppy will vary depending on the individual dog’s personality and temperament. However, some general tips on how to train a four month old puppy include establishing rules and boundaries from an early age, rewarding good behaviour with treats and positive reinforcement, and being consistent with training. It is also important to start obedience training early on, so that the puppy can learn basic commands such as
There are a few key things you will need in order to successfully train your four-month-old puppy. Rewards and positive reinforcement are essential, so make sure you have plenty of treats on hand. You will also need patience, as puppies can be quite challenging to train at this age. Additionally, you will need a sturdy collar and leash, as well as a crate or designated space for your puppy to sleep in. Lastly, make sure you have some time set aside each day to work
- Start with basic obedience commands such as sit, stay, come, and down. as your puppy masters these commands, you can then start to add in more complicated commands
- Reward your puppy with treats and plenty of positive reinforcement
– Start with basic obedience commands such as sit, stay, come, and down. As your puppy masters these commands, you can begin to add in more advanced commands. – Puppy proof your home by removing any objects or items that your pup could potentially chew on or get into trouble with. – Make sure your puppy gets plenty of exercise. A tired dog is a good dog! – Be consistent with your training and reward your pup for good behavior.
Frequently Asked Questions
At What Age Do Puppies Understand Training?
Puppies can start to understand basic obedience commands at around 8 weeks old, but they won’t be fully trained until they are around 6 months old.
Can 4 Month Old Puppy Be Trained?
Yes, 4-month-old puppies can be trained. However, they are still young and will require plenty of patience and time from their owners. Additionally, training should be consistent and positive reinforcement should be used regularly.
What Tricks Can I Teach A 4 Month Old Puppy?
There are many tricks that can be taught to a 4-month-old puppy. Simple commands such as sit, stay, come, and down can be taught relatively easily. Puppies can also be taught to fetch and retrieve objects, to roll over, and to jump through hoops. With patience and plenty of positive reinforcement, just about any trick can be taught to a young puppy.
Taking Everything Into Account
There is no one right way to train a puppy, but some basic tips include providing plenty of positive reinforcement, establishing rules and limits early on, and being consistent in your commands and expectations. Puppies also need plenty of exercise and socialization, so be sure to take your pup for walks, playtime, and trips to the park. With patience, persistence, and plenty of positive reinforcement, you can help your four-month-old puppy grow into a well-behaved and happy member of your family.
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Dynamic Stretching for Recreational Runners
Alright folks, the running season is coming up. With your local 10km charity runs, full or half marathons and recreational running clubs quickly approaching, it’s time to hit the pavement and lace up those running shoes! I am a strong believer in having both a pre and post exercise stretching routine. Stretching prepares the body for physical exertion and sports performance. There are two styles of stretching: Dynamic Stretching or Static Stretching.
Dynamic Stretching increases range of movement, blood and oxygen flow to soft tissues prior to exertion and has been proven to reduce the risk of injury.
Static Stretching used to be the standard style of stretch routine, but has shown little evidence of increasing flexibility and reducing injury when performed before a workout. Studies have actually shown that static stretching has a detrimental effect on explosive movements and strength output.
As a registered kinesiologist and experienced athletic trainer, here is a dynamic stretch routine which I regularly perform with my clients. (This routine is meant to be done after warming up with approximately 10 minutes of light cardio activity.)
Dynamic Stretches for Recreational Runners
(1) Knee Hug/Tip Toes: While walking forward, hug your right knee into your chest and rise onto the toes of your left leg. Continue to step forward, alternating legs. This stretch is an excellent way to loosen up your glutes and hips.
(2) Quad-Hip Flexor: Standing on your left leg, bend your right leg and hold your right foot behind you (with your toes pointing up). Bending forward at your waist, keeping both hips level to the ground, reach down with your left hand to touch the ground in front of your left toe. Take a step forward and repeat on the alternate side. This is an excellent movement for enhancing both hamstring and low back flexibility.
(3) Standing Pigeon: Stand on your right leg, with a slight knee bend. Bending your left leg with your knee pointed outward, grab your left foot with both hands and pull upwards until you feel the stretch in your glute. Take a step forward and repeat on the alternate side.
(4) Lunge with Trunk Rotation: Step forward with your left leg into a lunge position (ankles, knees, hips and shoulders facing forward and torso upright). While in the lunge position, rotate your torso by clasping your hands in a prayer position and placing your left elbow on the inside of your left knee. This movement stretches your hip flexors while in the lunge position, as well as strengthens and stretches your low back during trunk rotation.
(5) Axial ‘Tea-Pots’: Standing on your right foot, bend your left leg back and reach both arms overhead. Bend forward at the waist allowing your left leg to come up in order to touch your fingers to the ground. Keep both hips level to the ground, putting a slight knee bend on the right leg if necessary. This movement stretches your hamstrings.
(6) Hand Sweeps: With both arms by your sides, take a step forward with your left foot, landing heel-to-toe as you step. At the same time, bend forward at the waist, sweeping your arms down to the ground. Continue this motion, stepping with alternating legs. This is another great move for enhancing hamstring and quadriceps.
(7) Side Lunges with Oblique Stretch: Take a side step with your right leg, bending your right knee and keeping your left leg extended (side lunge). Straighten your right leg while you step your left leg across and in front of the right foot. At the same time, extend both arms overhead and lean to your right, feeling a stretch along the left side of your body. Take several steps with your right leg, then turn around and repeat with your left leg. This movement will stretch your adductors during lunge and target your obliques during side stretch.
(8) Heel and Toes: This calf stretch is nice and simple! Taking several steps each way, walk forward on your heels and then walk in the other direction on your toes.
After completing this dynamic stretch routine, you will be ready tackle any recreational or competitive activity.
Remember this as you start each day…..the biggest hurdle to beginning any activity is tying up your laces. Stay active and have fun!
By Kinesiologist Cameron Quon
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Disposable nappies – how we love ‘em!
Gone are the days of buckets of soiled nappies and big pins, happy are the days of fresh fluffy white bundles which you can just pop in the bin after use – or are they?
Because many people are decrying the mega-million dollar disposable nappy industry and calling for a come-back of cloth comfort for our babies.
The Disposable Nappy Problem
The reason is that disposable nappies are filling up our landfill sites at a staggering rate of 3 billion a year, 8 billion a day.
By the time they reach two and a half, an average child will have used approximately 6,500 nappies – which equates to over 10 tonnes of waste, 40 black sacks per child per year or if you prefer a colourful image, as many as 70,000 double-decker buses stretching end to end from Edinburgh to London.
Local councils are under pressure to reduce their tonnage of waste to landfill due to new landfill restrictions as well as a reduction of available space. The disposal of nappies alone can account for up to a million pounds of an average-sized local authority budget and so new alternatives to waste disposal are being sought by them as well as environmentalists and responsible citizens.
The Problem To The Environment
Disposable nappies are made of plastics, elastics, adhesives, paper pulp, and chemicals which do not readily degrade and could also leach toxins into the ground. In fact it’s estimated that it could take hundreds of years (some guess at more than 500 years) before nappies begin to break down.
In addition to this, the soiling in them means that as they rot, methane, a greenhouse gas about twice as bad as Co2, is released contributing to global warming. In fact the number of disposable nappies used in a child’s life accounts for as much as 630kg of methane – which is as much as a car would use over 1800 miles.
What’s The Alternative?
The best alternatives to disposable nappies and the landfill problem they cause are to turn back the clock and return to re-useable nappies.
However before you run in the opposite direction, times have changed since our grandmother’s day and they no longer mean pins and nappy rash.
Neither do you need to launder them yourself if this is one step too far. There are many specialist services available which will collect your dirty nappies and deliver a fresh supply of laundered ones for you. Local councils sometimes also offer their own laundering services and even cash incentives to try to lure you away from going down the disposable route.
Cloth nappies will also save you money (the Women’s Environmental Network has estimated it to be around £500 over the course of a child’s nappy-wearing life – a significant saving) and they will also do less harm to your babies’ health as they don’t contain the damaging chemicals of disposables.
However, if you really can’t face going the whole hog, then eco-disposables may be a good compromise route for you. Although not as environmentally sound as cloth nappies, eco-disposables do make efforts to restrict their harmful effects.
Brands variously offer unbleached nappies, nappies free from chemicals, biodegradable nappies, and nappies which use recycled material and/or packaging.
For more information on the great nappy debate, the Women’s Environmental Network offers lots of up-to-date, helpful information as well as a directory of companies which offer nappy laundering services and environmentally-friendly products.
Most local councils will also provide information on the costs and numbers involved with their disposal of nappies to landfill and any additional incentives and services they offer.
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Author: Prof Dr Muhammad Subhan Qureshi
Publisher: Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan
Preface: This textbook has been written to meet the requirements of the graduates and postgraduate students of the local universities. The available literature on the subject of reproductive physiology in domestic animals has been reviewed. Mental caliber of the local students was observed during the last two years and the materials of this monograph are made understandable for the students. The available literature in animal reproduction has been written by foreign authors, mostly covering the subject very extensively, making it difficult for the beginners. In addition no single available book can cover the whole syllabus, especially of Reproductive Physiology in DVM degree program. As the graduate students have to cover many subjects during a semester, they can not run after many books to understand a phenomenon. So availability of a comprehensive and current manuscript was considered essential for meeting requirements of the students of animal reproduction.
This manuscript has been prepared by going back to the approved syllabus contents. Systemic coverage of each topic has been made, starting from definitions and basic explanations of the topic. The succeeding paragraphs provide a revision of current state of knowledge on the respective topic, and field application of the knowledge so gained. Explanation of various biological mechanisms and processes has been made in a simple but comprehensive style using the information that are agreed by most authors and which are in use in the scientific community of the region. Graphic illustrations and tabulation are presented for explaining various biological phenomena, laboratory protocols and therapeutic intervention strategies.
Field application of the science has been reported along with all the relevant sections. Cost-effectiveness, compatibility with the international standards and adoption of various reproductive technologies relevant to the subject materials, are explained. Personal experience of the author in semen processing, factors affecting and managing reproduction under field conditions, and hormonal profiles during various reproductive states have been accommodated in the contents of this monograph.
Dr.RD Geisert, Animal Sciences Center, Columbia, MO, granted permission to use his illustrations in this manuscript which is highly acknowledged. Cooperation of the senior faculty especially of Prof. Dr. F. R. Durrani, Prof. Dr. G. Habib and Prof. Dr. N. Ahmad is acknowledged. Prof.Dr.M.Amjed has actively supported this project and Prof.Dr.S.K.Khalil has always been commending these endures. Dr.Hamayun has reviewed some portions of this manuscript. Sponsorship of the Higher Education Commission in reviewing, financing and publishing this manuscript is highly acknowledged.
I would not have been unable to do this job without the prayers of my mother, continuous untiring moral support of my wife and my children who made me comfortable whenever I got fatigued and exhausted.
Interest of the students of the BSc (Hons) AH and DVM degree at this University and their inconvenience in accessing desirable literature, has persuaded me to take and complete this task. They have been taught contents of this manuscript during the last two years with productive feedback. I wish that this manuscript prove helpful in meeting their academic needs.
M. Subhan Qureshi, PhD
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Press release from the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health:
Flu vaccine clinic open Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m.
To make it more convenient for parents and caregivers, the flu vaccine clinic at Carew Medical Park will be open Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m., or as long as supplies last.
The nasal spray vaccine is the only H1N1 vaccine available at the clinic. The vaccine is reserved for healthy children and young adults and for people who live with or provide care to infants less than 6 months of age.
A person cannot receive this vaccine if he or she has asthma or is sick with nasal congestion. No one older than 49 years of age can receive this vaccine.
More than 3,200 people have received their H1N1 nasal spray vaccine since the clinic opened on Oct. 9.
Parkview Health is providing space for the clinic at Carew Medical Park, a three-story building located at 1818 Carew Street. You can access Carew Street either from Lake Avenue or East State Boulevard. Parking is available in an attached garage.
Anyone experiencing symptoms of influenza should stay home and contact a health care provider.
For more information, go to www.FightTheFlu.org or call 2-1-1.
Vaccines available at the Carew Medical Park clinic
H1N1 FluMist vaccine (nasal spray)
For healthy children and young adults 2 to 24 years of age who do not have underlying health conditions
For persons up to age 49 who live with or provide care for infants less than six months of age (e.g., parents, siblings, and daycare providers)
No child younger than 2 years of age can get this vaccine
No adult older than 49 can get this vaccine
Children under the age of 10 will need two doses of the H1N1 vaccine, four weeks apart, to be fully protected
If a child has had any live vaccine such as the MMR, Varicella (chickenpox) or the seasonal flu mist vaccine in the last 28 days, the child cannot receive the H1N1 FluMist vaccine
Seasonal Flu vaccine (injectable)
For children 6 months up to 3 years
No child younger than 6 months can get this vaccine
Both vaccines are free to the public and can be given at the same time. Children under age 18 need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Be a Flu Fighter!
Stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing
Wash your hands often with soap and water especially after you cough or sneeze
Go to www.FightTheFlu.org
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 –The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), partnering with Bioversity International and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, has launched the Germplasm Resources Information Network-Global ( GRIN-Global), a powerful but easy-to-use, Internet-based information management system for the world's plant genebanks. Genebanks support agricultural productivity and global food security goals by ensuring access to plant genetic resources in the face of daunting challenges such as crop diseases and pests, an expanding human population, environmental deterioration, and changing climates. Gene banks also safeguard genetic resources and biodiversity that help provide farmers with access to new, more productive varieties of crops and animals.
USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics Dr. Catherine Woteki announced the launch of GRIN-Global today at a White House event on Innovation for Global Development. "Innovation in agriculture is central to global development and this Administration has recognized and remains committed to the important role of science and technological innovation in confronting the challenges of the 21st century," Woteki said. "For agricultural genebanks, researchers and producers worldwide, GRIN-Global provides a powerful information tool to safeguard and utilize invaluable crop diversity. It also expands and streamlines access to USDA's Germplasm Resources Information Network, a database of more than 540,000 different samples of plants available from the National Plant Germplasm System."
Supported by a grant from the Global Crop Diversity Trust, USDA/ARS's technical prowess in genebank information management systems, and Bioversity's expertise and strong links with genebanks worldwide, GRIN-Global was released to information management specialists in December 2011. Today, information in the genebank is being used in some of the "green revolution" centers established by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and in national genebank systems in the developing world.
"Crop diversity underpins all agriculture, everywhere," said Cary Fowler, Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which provided $1.4 million in support of this three-year project. "Plant breeders turn to genebanks for this diversity, whether they are searching for pest resistance or drought tolerance or any other characteristic. How the seeds and the associated information are managed is therefore of huge importance to that breeding effort. USDA's genebank management software is the best in the world, and GRIN-Global now makes this technology available for free to genebanks everywhere. This is real innovation for development."
ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief intramural scientific research agency. The Global Crop Diversity Trust is an independent international organization whose mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide.
Bioversity International is the world's largest international research organization dedicated solely to the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity.
For additional information on GRIN-Global, please visit http://www.grin-global.org/index.php/Main_Page.
USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write to USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, DC 20250-9410, or call (800) 795-3272 (Voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).
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Citronella Aromatherapy Oil
Botanical Name: Cymbopogon nardus
Location: It is grown mainly in India, Java and Sri Lanka.
Extraction: Steam distillation of the dried leaves.
Colour & Odour: The aromatherapy oil is pale yellow in colour having a fresh, lemony and sweet odour.
Description: A hardy grass growing to about 90cm with long slender leaves; it flowers periodically.
Background: Introduced to Europe during the nineteenth century. Known universally for its insect-repellent properties. It is used in Europe as a room freshener. Kept in linen cupboards it will keep clothes fresh and deter moths and insects. Citronella is disliked by cats and rodents.
Properties: Tonic, stimulant, antiseptic, insceticide and antidepressant.
Precaution: This oil is best used in lower concentrations as it may cause irritation in sensitive people.
Emotional: Eases feelings of depression by its clearing and uplifting effect.
Buy pure Citronella Essential Oil in our shop.
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Pfizer hopes FDA will endorse use of COVID-19 vaccine in kids as young as 2 this fall
Pfizer plans to seek approval for its COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to children ages 2 to 11 in September.
The pharmaceutical company's chairman and chief executive officer, Dr. Albert Bourla, said on a quarterly earnings call Tuesday that he expects to request emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make younger kids eligible for the vaccine this fall.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize Pfizer’s vaccine by next week for children ages 12 to 15.
"I think everybody is excited for it. They want to see that there are results, but, you know, it's your children, and you want to wait and see how it plays out," parent Tom Roach said.
Tufts Medical Center's Dr. Helen Boucher said parents need to know that no shortcuts have been taken and that external experts review the data along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA before any approval is granted.
"We can be very secure that no recommendation will be made to vaccinate any one, including children, until every safety measure has been taken," Boucher said.
President Joe Biden said once approval for the next age group is granted, the administration is prepared to ship doses to 20,000 pharmacies around the country and directly to pediatricians.
"I want American parents to know that if that announcement comes, we are ready to move immediately," Biden said.
Pfizer in March released preliminary results from a study of 2,260 U.S. volunteers ages 12 to 15, showing there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated children compared with 18 among those given dummy shots.
Officials are hoping that extending vaccinations to children will drive down the nation's caseload even further and allow schools to reopen with minimal disruption this fall.
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Your students will have a blast creating their very own valentine art project for preschoolers. This fun and interesting art technique makes it the perfect project for process-based valentine art for preschool!
Are you following Fun-A-Day’s Valentine’s Day Pinterest board?
The Valentine-s Day process art activity was inspired by Housing a Forest’s monster prints and my July 4th coffee filter prints. Ever since I came across the monster prints, I have been enamored with this process!
An Easy and Fun Valentine Art Project for Preschoolers
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1. Cut the coffee filters into a heart shape. Since my preschoolers were more into the print process, I did this part for them. In most cases, I’d encourage them to do this part themselves.
2. Place a coffee filter heart on top of a piece of white construction paper. Color in the coffee filter heart using markers. I encouraged the kiddos to fill up the heart with color. Some didn’t want to, though, and that was okay!
3. Once the heart is colored, grab a spray bottle of water. Spray the water all over the coffee filter and watch the colors bleed together. Try not to over-saturate the heart or the colors might bleed away completely.
4. Take a second piece of construction paper and place over the coffee filter heart. Press down. Remove the construction paper and admire the beautiful heart print! Be sure to check out the paper beneath the coffee filter, too. We loved how those prints turned out too!
5. Place the coffee filter heart and both pieces of construction paper out to dry. Once they’re dry, cut heart shapes out of the construction paper. Hang the coffee filter hearts in the window to act as “sun catchers.” The prints can be hung up around the house/classroom as decoration too!
6. (Optional) Decorate the heart prints with stickers and glitter glue. Surprisingly enough, my preschoolers didn’t want to do this step. They liked the hearts just as they were!
Do you have a go-to valentine art project for preschoolers? I’d love to hear about your ideas in the comments below! Do you think your kiddos would enjoy making heart prints?
Preschool Lesson Plans for Valentine’s Day
Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes book suggestions, printable plans, over 30 learning activities (both whole group and centers) related to the theme, and corresponding printables.
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Listen to the soundtracks to “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and you’ll notice something interesting. Although both soundtracks contain music written by the Sherman Brothers and Dick Van Dyke appeared in both movies, “Mary Poppins” is the far superior movie. Part of this difference is how the main characters change in “Mary Poppins.”
The heroes in “Mary Poppins” are the two children, Jane and Michael Banks. In the beginning, they’re unhappy and longing for love from their father who works as a banker. The father believes he must be strict to raise his children without any fun. By the end of the story, the father has realized life is more joyous when he’s caring for his children and his children are happier when their father finally flies a kite with them. Mary Poppins and her friend Bert simply help the family change and realize the joy of life.
Compare this to “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” where the father loves his two children but they need a wife/mother. By the end of the story, the father has found a new woman who can be both his wife and the mother to his children. Physically, life has gotten better but emotionally, nobody has changed. They’re still the sweet, loving family they always were.
Even worse, if you listen to the entire “Mary Poppins” soundtrack, you’ll notice that all the songs tell the story and documents the gradual change of the characters from beginning to end. In comparison, the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” soundtrack contains songs that don’t reflect any change of the main characters because the characters do not change. So regardless of the catchy tune of any of its songs, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” comes across as a far less engaging story without any emotional change from any major characters.
Compare the musical “Grease” to its inferior sequel, “Grease 2.” The songs of “Grease” reflect the characters’ emotional state at the moment and together, the soundtrack documents the gradual change of the main characters and the challenges they face. On the other hand, the songs of “Grease 2” aren’t catchy and don’t track the emotional change of the characters. Instead, the songs focus on silliness such as songs about reproduction in biology class. The songs of “Grease 2” aren’t worth listening to but even worse, they don’t reflect any emotional state of the main characters, just like far too many of the songs in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
In “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” there’s a song about a king and queen loving each other (although in the movie, the king keeps unsuccessfully trying to kill the queen while singing about his love to her). While interesting, this song has nothing to do with the main characters.
Now look at the songs in “Mary Poppins”:
- Sister Suffragette – Highlights the main goal of the banker’s wife
- The Life I Lead – Highlights the clueless nature of the banker who doesn’t even realize his children are missing
- The Perfect Nanny – Highlights how the children want a nanny who will be fun and caring
- A Spoonful of Sugar – Highlights Mary Poppins’ magic in teaching the children how to perform unpleasant tasks quickly and still enjoy it
- Pavement Artist – Introduces Bert and his philosophy about life that reflects the story’s theme
- Jolly Holiday – Highlights Mary Poppins and Bert further teaching the children about the magic of life
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – Further highlights the joy of life
- Stay Awake – Highlights Mary Poppins caring for the children as they absorb the day’s odd events
- I Love To Laugh – Highlights more odd experiences and the joy of life
- Feed the Birds – Highlights caring which reflects the story’s theme
- A British Bank – Re-emphasizes the banker’s cluelessness about children and what’s important in life
- Fidelity Fiduciary Bank – Further emphasizes the bankers’ cluelessness about what’s important in life
- Chim Chim Cheree – Highlights the joy of work and exploring life
- Step in Time – Further emphasizes the joy of life
- A Man Has Dreams – Shows the banker finally realizing the futility of his original dream to focus solely on his career
- Let’s Go Fly a Kite – Shows the banker’s change and how his family is much happier as a result
Just by listening to the songs of “Mary Poppins” in order, you can follow the story and emotional change of the heroes. Great musicals do this such as “The Sound of Music” or “My Fair Lady.” Poor musicals fail to have the songs emphasize the story and theme such as “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” or “Grease 2.”
Listen to soundtracks of musicals and you should be able to track the emotional state of the story. If not, then the musical likely has missed the point of having songs in the first place.
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by NoNieqa Ramos and illustrated by Paola Escobar
Beauty Woke is a powerful story of pride and community, told with bold lyricism and the heart of a fairy tale. Readers looking for a next-generation Sleeping Beauty will fall in love with the vivid art and lyrical text. For fans of Woke Baby and Dreamers.
Beauty is a Puerto Rican girl loved and admired by her family and community. At first, she’s awake to their beauty, and her own—a proud girl of Taíno, and African descent. But as she grows older, and starts to lose sight of what makes her special because of phrases she overhears meant to make people who look like her feel smaller and scared, her community bands together to help remind her of her beautiful heritage.
Listen to Beauty Woke!
Praise for Beauty Woke…
“Ramos’ poetic ode to identity and validation winds itself through evocative imagery in both English and Spanish, connecting the strength of community with self-acceptance. From one-word stanzas echoing with a mother’s heartbeat to flowing anthems of pride, each page exudes energy and passion. Escobar’s powerful panorama of diversity is a blazing exclamation point to Beauty’s triumphant journey. This bold manifesto of cultural awareness reaches out to awaken the sleepwalkers among us.” – Kirkus, starred reviews
This ode to Puerto Rican culture and Black pride opens as Beauty’s parents prepare for her birth. More than anything, they want their daughter to be safe and loved, so once she is born, they surround her with family and their rich culture. They teach her to become bilingual in English and Spanish and they participate in the Puerto Rican Day parade while Beauty is still too little to march. As Beauty grows older, the self-confidence she was raised to feel takes a hit as she becomes aware of the hate and racism in the world around her. Quickly, her family and neighbors rally, surrounding the girl with positivity, love, and stories of her Taíno and African heritage. They remind her that “Spanish is magic . . . / Black is beauty-ful. / Black is a power.” Through these experiences, Beauty’s pride and confidence in being a Boricua are restored with even greater understanding; the girl is woke. Escobar, who illustrated Anika Aldamuy Denise’s acclaimed Planting Stories (2019), uses influences from graffiti and mural art in this book’s illustrations, a perfect nod to the story’s urban landscape. Her use of color taps into the story’s emotions, and the Puerto Rican flag is woven through much of the artwork. An authentic and affirming celebration of culture, community, and self-acceptance.— Booklist, starred reviews
The remarkable power of words to hurt and to heal is echoed throughout Beauty Woke, the vibrant and uplifting picture book by author NoNieqa Ramos and illustrator Paola Escobar. Blending the genres of poetry and fairy tale, as well as incorporating both Spanish and English, Ramos retells the Sleeping Beauty tale for a modern, culturally diverse, and socially conscious world. While Beauty is still in her mother’s womb, la doctora warns Beauty’s parents of the dangers that lie ahead for their child. Instead of predicting that Beauty will fall into a deep sleep after pricking her finger on a spindle, she advises, “Keep Beauty close./The world ain’t woke./…They got spells./Words that devour./They’ll sentence her to sleep/and take her power.” Beauty’s family does everything they can to surround her with love, pride, and strength, but will it be enough to protect her from the harm that words can do? Paola Escobar’s bold and brilliant digitally rendered illustrations capture the warmth and energy of Beauty’s family and community. A versatile book for ELA, social studies, bilingual, and language classes, Beauty Woke acknowledges the capacity of words to divide and harm, but it honors the capacity of words to offer strength and hope over fear and hate. -Classroom Bookshelf
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Amazingly, the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been working diligently on the surface of the Red Planet for almost four years now. So far, Opportunity has grabbed most of the spotlight, finding evidence for past water on Mars within months after landing on the smooth plains of Meridiani Planum. While Spirit has been working just as hard, if not harder, climbing hills and traversing the rocky terrain of Gusev Crater, she hasn’t yet caused quite the stir that her twin has. But now, a recent discovery by Spirit at an area called Home Plate has researchers puzzling over a possible habitat for past microbial organisms.
What Spirit found is a patch of nearly pure silica, a main ingredient in window glass.
“This concentration of silica is probably the most significant discovery by Spirit for revealing a habitable niche that existed on Mars in the past,” said Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the rovers’ science payload.
The silica could have been produced from either a hot-spring type of environment or another type of environment called a fumarole, where acidic steam rises through cracks in the planet’s surface. On Earth, both of these types of environments teem with microbial life.
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“The evidence is pointing most strongly toward fumarolic conditions, like you might see in Hawaii and in Iceland,” said Squyres. “Compared with deposits formed at hot springs, we know less about how well fumarolic deposits can preserve microbial fossils. That’s something needing more study here on Earth.”
Squyres said the patch that Spirit has been studying is more than 90 percent silica, and that there aren’t many ways to explain such a high concentration. One way is to selectively remove silica from the native volcanic rocks and concentrate it in the deposits Spirit found. Hot springs can do that, dissolving silica at high heat and then dropping it out of solution as the water cools. Another way is to selectively remove almost everything else and leave the silica behind. Acidic steam at fumaroles can do that. Scientists are still assessing both possible origins.
One reason Squyres favors the fumarole story is that the silica-rich soil on Mars has an enhanced level of titanium. On Earth, titanium levels are relatively high in some fumarolic deposits.
Meanwhile both rovers are hunkering down for another winter season on Mars. Spirit’s solar panels are currently coated with dust from the huge dust storm the rovers endured this summer, and Spirit will need to conserve energy in order to survive the low light levels during the winter.
“The last Martian winter, we didn’t move Spirit for about seven months,” said John Callas, project manager for the rovers. “This time, the rover is likely to be stationary longer and with significantly lower available energy each Martian day.”
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for another solar panel cleaning windstorm event, which has happened previously, giving the rovers a boost in power.
Original News Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory News Release
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A glimpse behind the scenes: our new automatic warehouse and order picking system
You add your order to your online cart, finish the payment process and voila: a few days later, your new GIESSWEIN item is in your hands. In order for this to go smoothly, lots of different, important processes have to be coordinated with one another: from the production, to the maintenance of the online shop, to order picking and finally, shipping. Our warehouse—and all our hardworking employees—play a central role in all of this. In order to make the work easier on our team, and to make things even more efficient, our warehouse was converted to an automatic finished goods warehouse from AutoStore® in July 2020.
The new AutoStore warehouse makes our picking process much more effective, and makes work easier for our employees. A win for the whole team.
31 robots assist our employees
The modern AutoStore® system revolves around 31 robots and 17,500 containers, which are spread out over 9 levels. With the help of their four pairs of wheels, the robots move along the 4.6 meter (15 feet) high scaffolding. The communicate with our control system via WIFI, and carry out each individual transport order. If their battery (or the workload) is low, the robots automatically drive themselves to their charging station on the outskirts of the structure. With this system, we are able to effect 140 storages and 900 retrievals per hour.
From the order to delivery - here’s how the AutoStore® system works
First, all of our products—from our Merino Shoes to Wood Sneakers, to slippers and clothing items—need to be stored. Then, these products are placed in containers, which we call “pins,” by one of our employees. A pin contains multiple boxes of the same product, in the same size and color. For example: black Wool Sneakers in size 41.
Then, after you place your order, it’s given over to the AutoStore® System.
The robots get their assignments from the command system, collect the pins with the items that you’ve ordered, and bring them to the work stations of our employees who are order pickers.
Our employees take each individual product out of the pin, scan them, and put them into the shipping box with your delivery slip. When our employee scans each item, our warehouse stock system is automatically updated.
Then, your package makes its way to the packing station via a conveyor belt. There, your package is closed with a gluing machine, given to the post office and picked up by the logistics company that will deliver it.
Just a couple days later, your GIESSWEIN order arrives to your house…and hopefully, brings a big smile to your face! 😊
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Nature lovers and globetrotters alike find even the mere mention of this region breath-taking: Patagonia. Besides rugged mountains shaped by Pacific winds and impressive landscapes, it is above all the fjords and coasts that – Covid travel restrictions apart – attract more and more visitors to this strip of land in southern Chile every year. Michel Compagnon from Santiago de Chile is one of them. Besides the magnificent spectacles of nature, one thing in particular caught his eye: discarded fishing nets and ropes, which are a burden on the environment and can bring the life of many sea creatures to an unhappy end. When asked about this, the local fishermen simply described the carelessly discarded rigging as waste. But for Compagnon, Commercial Manager at the plastics recycling company Comberplast, the unpleasant scene became a project to save the oceans and the incomparable beauty of Patagonia. And that is how the Atando Cabos project started.
What began in 2016 with a handful of samples in a travel suitcase is now a project that transforms over 3,000 metric tons of ropes and nets into new products every year. The entire recovery process, from shredding and cleaning to the extrusion and injection moulding of new products, takes place on site at the Comberplast facility in Santiago de Chile. For more than 25 years, the company has been committed to the circular economy, even before circular concepts in plastics recycling became the latest buzzword.
The many international awards for environmental protection and innovation confirm Julio JR Compagnon, CEO of Comberplast and co-founder of Atando Cabos, that he is on the right track: ‘The global awards make me so proud. They show us that another path is possible and that doing the right thing for people and the environment can also be a profitable business. Or to put it another way: the real purpose of business should always be to solve problems in both economically and environmentally sustainable ways.’ The large amounts of old fishing nets, lines and other discarded plastic materials are recycled and converted into innovative new products, for example for the agricultural and mining industries, or also turned into green pallets for an international brewery.
Since 2020, Comberplast has relied on the shredding technology of Lindner’s Micromat 1500, equipped with an optimised cutting system from the Mono-Fix kit. Julio Compagnon explains: ‘We process plastic waste from fish farming and fishing companies. These materials were developed by very clever people not to ever break or tear. Shredding is therefore an especially big challenge. In processing, we are always looking for new solutions to tackle more difficult projects and to keep production economically viable. In Lindner, we found an experienced partner who was willing to go the extra mile with us – not many companies will do that.’
The delivered materials are usually heavily loaded with abrasive substances such as sand, stones or organic material. That is why, when selecting the shredder, the main concerns besides high energy efficiency were the costs of wear and tear. Now, after a year in operation, Compagnon is pleased: ‘We got the Micromat in January 2020 – just at the start of the pandemic. The situation required us to find new ways of commissioning and servicing despite the physical distance. Thanks to the great cooperation of the Lindner team in Austria, the Chilean sales partner Ingeniería Delta Limitada and our technicians here on site, we were able to successfully install and commission the shredder – everyone involved did an excellent job. Since then, our shredder has been running like clockwork and we look forward to many more joint projects in the future.’
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We should not take much note of years. But decades may be something else. And so I may be excused for pausing at the gate of a seventh decade to consider what course may run ahead.
Here in Europe - where populations are not growing, apart from a little migration - and in the United States, still growing apace, the talk is of people who are hanging on to life. Until recently, the tide of young baby boomers preoccupied us. But populations disturbed by a great war are returning to something closer to equilibrium, not slipping into senior imbalance.
Little creative thinking fixes on what is really only the third quarter of an individual's human existence. Health care, senior living, Social Security, retirement saving are important, but not the heart of the matter. They are the custodial side of living longer.
My early conclusion is that there is only a "now" course, not a course ahead and one behind. "Retirement years" may not exist except as they appear to others.
Age is not what it is taken to be. Even within the 30-year quarters of a 120-year life span (President Clinton himself has been musing about the growing numbers of centenarians), there is diversity. A 10- or 20-year-old is at a different stage than a 30-year-old. So from 60 to 90, the first phase of "seniorness" offers a variety of conditions.
Expectations do change. Individuals may themselves begin to back off, or organizations may begin to quit on their seniors. But adaptiveness to change has more to do with culture and personality than with age.
Horizons do widen with experience. Experience yields familiarity with paths that lead somewhere and with paths that do not. One learns what doing a job well feels like and what is a reasonable amount of time to allot for its doing.
Age groups poorly define individuals. One finds no more in common with the mass of people aged 60 than with contemporaries at 26.
I enjoy asserting to my children: "You and I are the same age. We differ on this subject not because we are of different generations but because we are different kinds of people. Age is not a factor. I am as young as you. Because we both inhabit this same moment, and there has never been a newer moment than right now, you and I are precisely the same age." They indulge this argument without reply.
Moderns reflect the seven-year cycles Joseph perceived for the agriculture of Egypt. Each 30-year quarter has itself roughly four parts. (You will read this nowhere else.) The first is from birth to the first grades of school. The second is through middle school. The third is high school and vocational training or college. The fourth is graduate school and/or what I call "first jobs."
The second quarter, ages 30 to 60, takes us in stages from journeyman jobs to master jobs, management, and senior management. In my case, after Harvard graduate school and "first jobs" in education, business, and journalism, I settled into a 30-year career of writing for this newspaper: seven years in Boston as an editorial writer, eight years in bureau work (urban affairs in Boston, Chicago/Midwest bureau chief, and Washington White House and national-affairs writer); then back to Boston as editorial page editor and editor, or senior management - all in roughly seven-year segments.
If well managed, why should not our third quarters continue the Joseph-like pattern of progressive phases? And the fourth quarter too?
* Richard J. Cattani is the Monitor's editor at large.
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s a theologian of the Church, Journet is best known for his monumental L’Eglise du Verbe Incarne which Congar called the most profound ecclesiological work of the first half of the twentieth century.
The date commonly given for the founding of Opus Dei is October 2, 1928. On that day, while praying in a Vincentian residence in the northern outskirts of Madrid, the twenty-six year old Father ]osemaria Escriva had an inspiration that would lead to the establishment of what is now called Opus Dei.
The painter Edouard Manet once said, “Concision in art is a necessity as well as an elegance; a man who is concise makes you think, a verbose man bores you.” 1 In this article we aim to give a concise account of how the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, and she who was the Immaculate Conception, have been made visible in works of Western art.
If one were to ask a typical American Catholic who lived in the United States between 1965 and 1980 what the Second Vatican Council had accomplished, one of the most common re-sponses would surely be “the Council changed the liturgy.”
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Are we helpless against the kind of asteroid impacts that wiped out the dinosaurs? Not if we DO look up! For several decades there have been multiple surveys to chart and track potentially hazardous Near-Earth Objects (NEO) which can cause significant disasters if they hit the Earth. Join our conversation with two astronomers who have already tracked many NEOs and are working on NASA's next NEO-seeking space telescope called the NEO Surveyor.
PHIL LAMARR (Host)
A Los Angeles native, Phil is an alumnus of Yale University and The Groundlings Theater and perhaps is best known as one of the original cast members of MAD TV, as “Hermes” on FUTURAMA, as "Marvin" in PULP FICTION, “Green Lantern” on JUSTICE LEAGUE and as the voice of SAMURAI JACK. For over 30 years Phil has thrilled audiences with his work on camera and behind the microphone on TV shows such as STATIC SHOCK, FAMILY GUY, STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, the CW’s THE FLASH & SUPERGIRL, GET SHORTY, LUCIFER and VEEP; feature films like MADAGASCAR 2, INCREDIBLES 2, and THE LION KING (2019) and video games including FORTNITE, SHADOW OF MORDOR, and the INJUSTICE, METAL GEAR SOLID, and the MORTAL KOMBAT series.
AMY MAINZER (Astronomer)
Prof. Mainzer's research focuses on understanding the populations of small bodies in our solar system, including characterizing their basic physical and dynamical properties and the potential impact hazards they may pose to Earth. Prof. Mainzer uses orbital and ground-based facilities for this work. She serves as the Principal Investigator for NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission, an Earth-orbiting satellite that uses infrared sensors to characterize asteroids and comets. She is also leading NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, currently in development, which will carry out a comprehensive survey for the most potentially hazardous NEOs.
JOE MASEIRO (Astronomer)
Dr. Joseph Masiero received his Bachelor's in Astronomy & Astrophysics from Penn State University in 2004, and his Doctorate in Astronomy from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, in 2009. He is currently a Solar System Scientist at Caltech/IPAC, the Deputy Principal Investigator of the NEOWISE mission, and a member of the NEO Surveyor mission team. Dr. Masiero's research focuses on the physical and dynamical properties of near-Earth asteroids and Main Belt asteroids, with a special interest in the polarization of light reflected by these bodies.
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ABOUT GOD: We believe in one God who exists in three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 8:6)
ABOUT JESUS: We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. We believe that He was born of a virgin. We believe that He lived a sinless life. We believe that His miracles were true. We also believe that He died in the place of sinners on a cross, that He was truly resurrected, and ascended back to heaven. (Colossians 1:15; Philippians 2:5-8; Matthew 1:18-25; 1 Peter 2:24-25; Luke 24; Hebrews 4:14-16; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; Matthew 25:31-46; Revelation 11:15-17; 20:4-6, 11-15)
ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT: We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit. We believe He gives life, He sanctifies, He empowers and comforts all believers. We believe that it is through the power of the Holy Spirit that we are born again, and that the work of the Spirit includes convicting us of sin and empowering us to be righteous. (Romans 8; 1 Corinthians 2:13; Matthew 28:19; Acts 2; John 3 and 16).
ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES: We believe the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God and that men were moved by the Spirit of God to write the very words of Scripture. Therefore, we believe the Bible is without error in its original manuscripts. (2 Peter 1:21; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 4:12; Psalm 119:89, 160; Isaiah 40:8)
ABOUT MANKIND: We believe that mankind was created in the image of God. God gave Adam, the first man, specific commands that were to be obeyed. Through his sinful disobedience to these commands, Adam and the whole human race were alienated from God. As a result, man is incapable of regaining a right relationship with God through his own effort (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:10, 23; 5:12-20; John 3:3; Acts 13:38-39; John 3:16; Matthew 25:46; 2 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10).
ABOUT SALVATION: We believe that man is saved only through repentance and faith in the finished work of Christ. We believe when we repent and express faith in this manner we are declared not guilty before God by His grace alone. We believe that baptism is not necessary for salvation but is an act of obedience (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 10: 9-10; Colossians 1:19-20; 1Corinthians 1:21).
ABOUT THE CHURCH: We believe the Church is the body of Jesus Christ, and it is composed of all true believers. We believe these local assemblies are also the church, for it is in these local assemblies that the work of the church is carried out. The present work of the Church is the worship of God, the loving and teaching of people, and making Him known to a lost world. We believe the purpose of the Church is to glorify God (Acts 2:41; 15:13-17; Ephesians 1:3-6; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:6-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
ABOUT CHRIST’S RETURN: We believe in the personal and bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ. His return will complete and establish the ongoing enjoyment of our salvation in His glorious Kingdom (1Thessalonians 4:13-17; Acts 1:9-11; Titus 2:11-13).
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Bursting the Bubble Tulips were the first, but they won’t be the last. What forms a “bubble” and what causes them to burst? Share | Have A Question About This Topic? Name Email Address Message Thank you! Oops! Related Content Should I Invest in Gold? Learning more about gold and its history may help you decide whether it has a place in your portfolio. Are You Ready for Your Portfolio to Make a Difference? Learn about the rise of Impact Investing and how it may benefit you. 5 Smart Investing Strategies Getting what you want out of your money may require the right game plan.
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Robotic Surgery Using The Da Vinci
Robotic surgeries are highly specialised and advanced minimal access procedures that are performed by surgeons with the help of a surgery robot like the da Vinci at Aster Medcity. These procedures require a great amount of expertise and are performed by surgeons with special training in robotics.
The da Vinci system at Aster MARS is a state-of-the-art surgery robot with three deft mechanical hands and a 3D video camera that works like a third eye for the surgeon. These are inserted into the body through very small incisions, and the surgeon, who is seated at the console that provides a highly magnified 3D view of the area, performs the surgery using the robotic hands.
The robotic hands have tiny wrists that can bend/ turn in all directions, which means unmatched dexterity and finer manipulation compared to that of the human hand. This helps the surgeon to ensure high precision results compared to conventional surgeries.
Being a minimal access procedure, robotic surgeries are safer and ensure better outcomes. The associated pain, complications, blood loss and scarring are way lesser compared to normal surgeries, which in turn translates to faster recovery. The hospital stay and post-surgery recovery period are minimal as well; and patients can get back to their normal lives in a very short time.
A centre for excellence in Minimal Access Robotic Surgery (MARS), Aster Medcity is the first facility in Kerala to offer high-precision robotic surgeries using the da Vinci surgery system. Led by a team of highly skilled robotic surgery experts, Aster MARS offers urology, hepato pancreato biliary, gastrointestinal, gynaecology and oncology robotic procedures in patients of all ages.
One of the only facilities in the country to offer highly specialised robotic liver and pancreas surgery, Aster MARS is the third centre in the world to
perform a robotic transvaginal renal transplant surgery and the first in India to perform a robotic kidney tumour removal.
Robotic Urology Surgery
- Radical Nephrectomy
- Radical Prostatectomy
- Radical Cystoprostatecomy & reconstruction
- Prostate, Bladder and Kidney Cancer
- Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction
- Vesico-Ureteric Reflux Disease
- Correction of congenital defects
Studies have proved that robotic prostatectomy offers improved cancer control and a faster return to urinary continence and sexual functions.
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Weeds are continuing a constant problem in Australian cropping system. Annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) is a ubiquitous weed of southern Australia, infesting the majority of crops. The prospects of herbicide resistance necessitate considering alternative options such as the allelopathic potential of crops for weed suppression. To assess the dose response allelopathic prospects of rice, a laboratory-based root exudates bioassay was conducted using ECAM (Equal-Compartment-Agar Method). The allelopathic effects of two different genotypes (Quest and M 205) and five different densities (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 seeds/beaker) of rice against annual ryegrass were investigated. During harvest the inhibited root, and shoot length was measured, the tissue structure of ryegrass root was also observed under electronic microscope. The experiment was designed as a randomized complete block with three replications and conducted under control conditions. Results showed that rice root exudates reduced the seedling growth of ryegrass with increasing density and genotype. Quest showed strong allelopathic potentiality than M 205 against ryegrass. The root growth of ryegrass was most infected than shoot by rice root exudates. The cellular study also suggests high density of rice increase high amount of allelochemicals in agar medium that caused damage of ryegrass root tissue system. These investigations also suggest that there are opportunities to explore dose response (hormesis) allelopathic effect of rice genotypes to control ryegrass.
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|Journal||Journal of Experimental Biosciences|
|Publication status||Published - Jul 2012|
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