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No more working hours of 9 am to-5 pm means a whole new approach to life. How to adapt to retirement, along with some valuable health habits, can turn your golden years into a high-quality period in your life.
When you first started your career, you may have dreamed of a day when you would drop your employee ID card, get rid of your alarm clock, and turn off your mobile phone. The dreams you had when sipping pine cola on the beach, aged 25, maybe are more like “what are you…” at 65 years old. When the transition to retirement happens, it can seem daunting to many workers.
Like any major transition in your life, retirement is a time of shifting priorities. Many people worry about a lot of things from finance and health to where they will live during retirement. Some of these things can be taken care of quite easily. For instance, AMI Insurance can cover your home and contents insurance worries, while some healthy eating habits and medical care can help your health over the long term. What many people find difficult to handle is the change in lifestyle. It is important to prepare for this because how you spend your new-found leisure time can make a huge difference in your health and quality of life. Here are four ways that you can prepare your mind for retirement.
Picture The Life You Want
Close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Imagine the happiest, most fulfilling retirement. What do you hope to do on a Tuesday? How will you make the most of your post-work years? Can you imagine spending your time with your grandchildren, trying new sports, seeing the dentist, coaching colleagues at your old job, or playing golf with friends? Where will you find the best quality of life? Imagine sharing your life experiences, failures, and successes with grandchildren? What experiences most impacted your lives? What were your hopes, dreams, and regrets? Prepare a life story interview questions that especially highlight what your grandchildren or loved ones may want to know. It is a valuable opportunity to get to know our relatives better.
Spending some time thinking about what brings you meaning and purpose in your life will give you a good idea of where you will find the most happiness.
Find A Routine
Health, freedom, and flexibility all sound great, but for some people, unrestricted flexibility can be a minus rather than a plus. If that’s you, develop a routine or pattern. It doesn’t have to mean being packed into a schedule. Just do a few routine things that fit in with the way you would like to spend your time. It could be picking up your grandchildren from school, weekly on Tuesday afternoons. Even if you don’t have a job that you report for every day, getting up at the same time each day and hour is a healthy regimen to follow. Sleep is the foundation of a resilient life. Life without an alarm clock may be one of your retirement dreams, but you can still keep some restrictions with your sleep habits.
Loneliness can be a part of aging. If your work is your main social outlet, retirement can come as a shock to your social life. Think about the social connections you want to maintain and the new ones you wanted to develop before you retire. Invite your neighbour over for a meal, sign up to volunteer in your community, and reinvest in your relationship with close friends, especially your spouse if possible. Faith-based communities can also be a source of social connection.
Keep On Learning
Research has shown that new ways of influencing your brain can help you continue thinking sharp. While you’re working, there’s often an opportunity to get to know new people and learn new skills. When you retire, you may need to be more proactive. You can and should continue to discover new things in your retirement life. There are many ways to do this. Sudoku and crossword puzzles are a few ways. The more you do, the better your chances of success. Take an adult education course at a community college, walk outside, or bike to the nearest park. Travel to new places with a group or solo. Whatever you choose, be sure to go offline. More screen time is associated with poor mental health in retired people, while more physical activity produces the opposite effect.
Retirement can be an exciting time in your life, with new opportunities for challenging tasks and new experiences. Find the motivation to get out there and make the most of your retirement years.
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Neurodegeneration is a slow and progressive loss of neuronal cells in specified regions of the brain. This is associated with aging and leads to cognitive or motor disfunctions, depending on which neurons are affected. The causes are unknown, but there are specific genetic loci associated with specific diseases. Examples of neurodegeneration include – Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Huntington’s disease.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of the brain and spinal cord that results in loss of muscle control. ALS affects the ability to speak, move and breathe. There are almost 6,000 new cases per year in the United States. About 10% of the cases are inherited (familial ALS) and 90% of cases are spontaneous. Typical onset occurs from the 40’s through mid-60’s. A number of genes have been identified as associated with ALS, notably mutations in SOD-1.
There are more than 5 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the United States. Amyloid plaques and tau tangles are a common feature in the brain of patients with advanced AD. The cortex and hippocampus are primarily affected resulting in memory loss and a decline in reasoning and decision making abilities. As the disease progresses, patients lose the ability to care for themselves and perform everyday tasks.
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Interior Alaskans often picture themselves as self-reliant individuals, growing huge cabbages and putting a moose in the freezer each fall. Growing produce in the long days of summer and gathering from the bounty of nature indeed can be productive, spiritually rewarding, and economical. However, the reality is our population as a whole imports a high percentage of its food from outside the state.
With only an estimated 10-day supply of food in warehouses, Alaska is vulnerable to a prolonged disruption of the long-distance transportation network on which we rely daily. Rising cost of fossil fuel will impact food production and transportation prices. Relying heavily on outside sources means we are also at risk when one of the few major producers has contamination that can manifest widespread effects on many people, even if caught relatively quickly and recalled.
U.S. policies favoring inexpensive food after World War II included price supports for commodities (foods, fuels, and fiber crops, such as cotton) and low taxation on fossil fuel, which is also a feedstock for fertilizer and pesticides. The cost of food as a percentage of annual income has steadily declined in the industrialized world during the 20th Century. Today Americans spend only about 10% of income on food. However, the “savings” come at a price to the environment (chemical loads, water use) with consequences to international policy on energy (including military engagement), immigrant labor, and trade—externalities that don’t show up on the label in a grocery store.
A local system of food production and processing for storage capability in Interior Alaska, if it (likely) does not qualify for price supports enjoyed by “industrial” agriculture Outside, would be more expensive to consumers because it would reflect more of the true costs. However, what is the value of not being so vulnerable to a disruption of transportation, such that shelves of major grocery stores begin to go bare when trucks or barges are delayed for just one day? What is the return on your dollar spent when you can see it remain in the community, providing jobs for producers, processors, and grocers? How much are you willing to pay for supporting a local food system has to be more accountable because it is composed of your neighbors, not a faceless entity thousands of miles distant with many corporate fingers taking a cut between the grower (doing the work and taking the greatest risk) and the supermarket?
The mantra of industrial process is increased efficiency, which indeed can help feed the world—if consumers can afford the shipping. But heavily mechanized production means high start-up and operational costs for younger people with the urge and skills to produce food. To quality for many of the federal cost share programs you need to have the private money or loan collateral up front–a Catch 22 for young families.
Alaska is highly unlikely in our lifetimes to produce all the food needed by our growing population approaching ¾ of a million people across a vast area, some of which is unsuitable for agriculture or livestock. However, trials a hundred years ago at various locations across the state demonstrated a high potential for growing food on relatively small areas with intensive labor—something young aspiring farmers can handle. There are incredibly resourceful producers of crops and livestock in the Interior right now, growing for personal consumption and maybe a little at the farmer’s market or customer shares. Our collective challenge is to help them scale it up!
I envision Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market as one venue that can help with food security by providing a reliable local outlet for many smaller producers. We can still buy the more exotic foods from far away, but we can buy a lot more of the basics much closer to home.
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On June 15th, brothers, Al and Joe DeCesaris, will hike 23.9 miles from the Grand Canyon’s north rim to south rim in honor of their niece Jenna. They’re taking on this challenging adventure to raise funds for the research of Sturge-Weber syndrome, the rare neurological disorder Jenna was born with.
Please support the efforts to find a cure for Jenna and all those affected by this devastating disorder by making a tax-deductible donation.
The DeCesaris brothers are also raising funds for the Harbour School, which Jenna attends. The mission of the Harbour School is to provide a supportive, caring and individualized education to students with learning disabilities, autism, speech and language impairments and other disabilities in grades one through 12.
Grand Canyon Rim-To-Rim Hike is an Adventure for Charity hosted by Difference Makers Global Community. To make a difference for those in need, participants will use the adventure to raise funds and awareness for a charitable organization dear to them. To learn more, visit www.differencemakers.org.
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This chapter focuses on management of emotions in an emergency setting. More specifically, how do emergency call takers manage double-faced emotional management – i.e., their own and the caller's emotions – simultaneously? By triangulating interviews, observations, and organizational documentation with theories on emotional management multiple strategies were identified. The range of strategies included hiving (selecting and modifying) calls, elaborating on (by deploying attention and reshaping/reappraising) content of calls, auralizing (by externalizing an emotional barrier) as well as taming emotional expression. The set of emotional management strategies are concluded in a Heat-model. The model is further discussed in terms of performance efficiency; in terms of how emotional aspects may interfere with decision-making capabilities as well as how wellbeing can be maintained for call takers.
Svensson, M.G.A. (2011), "Chapter 10 Managing Negative Emotions in Emergency Call Taking: A Heat-Model of Emotional Management", Härtel, C.E.J., Ashkanasy, N.M. and Zerbe, W.J. (Ed.) What Have We Learned? Ten Years On (Research on Emotion in Organizations, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 257-286. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1746-9791(2011)0000007015
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Maybe the electronic whiteboard has been widely used in our teaching today. It has become an important teaching tool in multimedia teaching, and should be used in many primary and secondary school classrooms. However, with the development of electronic whiteboard in our life, we find some mistakes in Teachers' use of electronic whiteboard, which will affect the life of electronic whiteboard. Therefore, we can grasp these possible misunderstandings below.
1. If you click this point on the screen of the electronic whiteboard by hand frequently, the life of the touch screen display will not be very long.
2. The power consumption of the touch screen display is relatively small, but the voltage of the transformer is very high. Therefore, special attention should be paid to safety. Do not open the back cover of the electronic whiteboard display when it is charged. Before using, we must be familiar with the operation specifications and taboos of the electronic whiteboard, in order to effectively protect the electronic whiteboard.
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Chances are, even if you have never heard the term ‘social commerce’ before, you will have landed across it in your daily lives without even being aware.
Think about the ‘TikTok water bottle’ how many times have we all had the famous 99p viral product taking over our scrolling?
East-Midlands creative agency think3, dive into exactly what social commerce is and why your business should be making the most of it.
What is social commerce and how is it different from e-commerce?
Social commerce is defined as selling products or services directly through social media channels.
In a way, social commerce and e-commerce are interlinked and used together, e.g., products shared on the Instagram shop are then redirected back to your website for the customer to complete their purchase.
Social media algorithms will make sure that your products are reaching the right audience. In other words, the process is about providing the entire buyer’s journey and making their purchase as simple as possible from the discovery of a product to the sale.
Social commerce vs e-commerce
- E-commerce is a product or service which is sold through a website or mobile app.
- There is a cart abandonment rate of 75% on desktop vs 85.65% on mobile that’s a 15.9% difference.
- Building custom apps is a great way to increase sales but isn’t an easily accessible option for all businesses.
- Mobile apps convert 43% more than desktop alternatives.
- Social commerce is buying a product/service within a social media platform.
- Taking mobile-first one step further.
- Setting up a store on Facebook or TikTok can be much more easily accessible for some businesses rather than having to develop a mobile app.
- Social media algorithms make it much easier for you to reach your audience, where they are already ‘hanging out’ online.
Basically, social commerce and e-commerce are very similar and have sales as their end goal, the main difference being the way in which they sell to their audience. Both methods will continue to work closely together moving forward as the online world expands even more.
The convenience of social commerce
Social commerce exists due to the growing number of customers making purchases via their mobile.
Providing cost-effective access to your products through social media apps provides an easy check-out process for your customers.
Reaching your target audience where they already are
Social media algorithms are a huge benefit for social commerce. If your audience can interact with your brand on their favourite social media channels, discover new products and services, and make a purchase right there and then, why wouldn’t businesses make the most of this?
Social media platforms where social commerce is already making waves
Facebook – The social media giant operates on a mammoth scale with 1.6 billion user visits to the platform each day. Facebook shop is easy to set up and sell products/services on. It has an easy sync integration with partnered e-commerce platforms, to easily sync your inventory.
You can also make use of Instagram product tags, which turn your content into a shoppable product or service.
Pinterest – Pinterest isn’t exactly what we would consider a social commerce platform however, they do have tools which can help with sales of your products. Product Pins redirect your audience to a set landing page and the pin itself includes product information and live pricing.
There is also a Shopify integration, which allows adding your product catalogue to your Pinterest page.
Most Pinterest users are looking for inspiration, so, although it isn’t exactly a social commerce platform, your customers can find what they are looking for quickly and can be easily direct to a landing page where they can complete their purchase.
TikTok – The latest addition to the social media world has created waves in the social commerce space.
Not only does TikTok have a top-notch algorithm, but they are also able to segment their user based on certain sub-communities which means your products reach the right people without having to pay additional for Ads.
Update: TikTok are dropping their plans to expand the live shopping features. Due to a lack of customer interest & internal problems.
think3’s thoughts on social commerce
The growing presence of social commerce isn’t something that your business should ignore, with an ever-expanding focus on making the buyer’s journey as simple as possible and reaching your audience where they are already online.
Platform giants are focusing more and more on expanding social commerce tools, leading us to believe that this is just the beginning.
The post East Midlands Businesses Need to Utilise Social Commerce first appeared on Connect East Midlands.
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Secretive places closed off to the world invite rumour, intrigue, and mystery. These are places where anything could be lurking within their halls, and they attract conspiracy theories like moths to a flame, fluttering about bashing up against them but never gaining access and never finding the answers they seek. One such place that has long been a wellspring of strange theories and speculation lies squarely within Vatican City, and besides being one of the most forbidden places in the world is also one of the most mysterious.
Comprised of approximately 53 miles of labyrinthine aisles of shelving harbouring rows upon countless rows of texts, books, and scrolls ranging from the more modern to fragile, time-worn manuscripts reaching back 12 centuries into the shadows of time, the Vatican Archives, officially known as the Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum, was originally constructed in 1612 by Pope Paul V and is a truly a huge treasure trove of information collected by the Church over hundreds of years. This vast repository of knowledge holds state papers, Holy See paperwork, papal correspondence and personal letters, and countless historical records, documents and texts accumulated by the Vatican from every corner of the known world that date back to the 8th century, all housed within a massive, carefully climate-controlled structure adjacent to the Vatican Library that is designed more like a fortress than a library, replete with impenetrable underground bunkers and with only one known heavily guarded entrance.
The list of known contents of the archives is far too long to completely cover here, but includes a wealth of historical documents including handwritten letters to the Pope from such important figures such as Mary Queen of Scotts asking for a pardon before her execution, King Henry VIII, Michelangelo asking to be paid for his work on the Sistine Chapel, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Grand Empress Dowager Helena Wang of China in the 17th century, one written on birch bark by the Canadian Ojibwe tribe in 1887, and many, many others. Here there are official edicts by Popes through the centuries, including excommunications such as that of German religious heretic and founder of Lutheranism Martin Luther, official papal decrees such as the one made in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI that split the entire known world among Spain and Portugal, as well as personal communications from popes throughout history. Here one can also find such gems as a nearly 200-foot long scroll containing details of the trials of the Knights Templar for heresy and blasphemy dating to 1307, as well as a handwritten transcript detailing the trial of astronomer Galileo Galilei in the 17th century, as well as the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, which states that Mary was conceived without sin, scrawled out on a piece of parchment dating to 1854.
The Vatican Archives are often referred to as the Vatican Secret Archives, mostly due to a mistranslation of the Latin words secretum, which is actually closer in meaning to “personal” or “private” rather than “secret” or “confidential” as many think, but it could also have to do with the archive’s history of strict inaccessibility and reclusiveness from the outside world. They had been for centuries practically completely forbidden and closed off from nearly everyone, even Church officials, with not even Cardinals allowed access to their treasure trove of information, and it was not until 1881 that Pope Leo XIII allowed limited access to outsiders, yet this does little to dispel the secrecy surrounding the archives and it is still no small feat to enter this inner sanctum of all of the Vatican’s knowledge.
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The draft of a joint declaration of the RS and Serbia on the survival of the Serb people is nearly completed, with come nuances remaining to be done.
This was stated by the Dean of the Faculty of Law and a member of the team working on the text of the declaration, Sima Avramovic.
“Although it will be informally called a declaration, which means a proclamation or something that is desired, the act that is being prepared will nevertheless have more of a legal than a political character,” Avramovic told.
He added that it will also have an international basis, as it relies on the agreement on special ties between the Serb Republic (RS) – the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina – and Serbia, which is in line with the Dayton Accord.
Avramovic recalled that the joint declaration will be presented on Statehood Day, February 15.
RS President Milorad Dodik said earlier that the text of the joint declaration was agreed and that both parliaments would adopt it by the feast of Sretenje, that is, Serbia’s Statehood Day.
“The formal document will be an annex to the Agreement on Special and Parallel Relations, because we want it to be adopted by the two parliaments and signed. That document has been completed. In mid February is Sretenje and Statehood Day of Serbia. Several days ahead, the parliaments will adopt the declaration , and it will be promoted on Sretenje. That is the definitive agreement,” Dodik said earlier.
The newspaper noted that the declaration should encompass the right to use the Serbian language and the Cyrillic alphabet, the right to study and cultivate Serbian culture, the right to study Serbian history and nurture Serbian freedom-loving traditions, preserve national geography, preserve and protect Serbian cultural and historical heritage, and the right to information in the Serbian language.
In addition to Avramovic, the team from Serbia that is drafting the text of the declaration includes the dean of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, Ljiljana Markovic, a professor at the Faculty of Law Mirko Vasiljevic, and the president of the Matica Srska institution Dragan Stanic, as well as linguists and linguistics experts.
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First year medical students from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), University of Vermont College of Medicine (UVM) and the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) shared a unique opportunity to connect in an intensive research-based course at the MDI Biological Laboratory in August.
“This program, where we had the opportunity to work alongside other medical students, fostered a connection between the three New England medical schools that will follow us into our careers as physicians,” shared a participant. “This program far surpassed any of our expectations.”
The goal of the course, called Molecular Mechanisms Human Disease, is to deepen students’ understanding of fundamental physiological mechanisms of human disease and to engage students in research that will give them an appreciation for the possibility of combining research with clinical practice as a career choice. Medical students used a number of techniques and animal models to study cystic fibrosis, genetic screening for human disease, and inflammation and human disease.
The course is supported by the INBRE program in Maine.
The course director, Dr. Bruce Stanton, is a professor in the department of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School. Other faculty include former Maine INBRE investigator Dr. Denry Sato and current Maine INBRE Steering Committee member and University of Maine VP for Research Dr. Carol Kim, as well as Brent Berwin, PhD, Dartmouth Medical School and Elizabeth Stanton, JD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
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Mississippi Trucking Schools
Apply for Truck Driving Schools in Mississippi and Earn Your CDL Today!
Studying trucking or diesel technology in Mississippi can help you play a role in one of the state’s largest industries. Overall, there are 18 trucking and diesel schools in the state. Tuition costs vary significantly between schools, but the average cost of tuition in Mississippi is $2,267. The average scholarship award in Mississippi is $1,478.
As a Mississippi trucking student, you may want to network with the Mississippi Trucking Association. The Mississippi Trucking Association Foundation awards many scholarships. Some of the trucking scholarships they award include the John Fayard Endowment, the Mike McLarty Endowment, and the H.Dean Cotten Endowment.
Comparing Truck Driving Schools in Mississippi
Many students thrive when they are in a small class setting, so it may be worth your while to look for a school that has this benefit! In small class sizes, you may enjoy more personalized teaching, the opportunity to ask as many questions as you want, and the freedom to complete more lab hours or driving hours. Mississippi schools that offer small class sizes include East Central CC Truck Driving Training, Holmes CC Truck Driver Training, and TDI Truck Driver Institute.
The work involved in become an ASE-certified diesel mechanic or licensed commercial driver can be substantial, so look for a school that can help you get your certification or license. For example, Hinds Community College has a truck driving program that is designed to help you at each step of the licensure process. They may help you learn the driving laws and state licensure laws.
Life as a Mississippi Trucker
As a new trucking professional, you may start in the low to middle part of the trucking salary range.
Below you can find a graph showing the Mississippi trucking and diesel mechanic salaries and how it compares to the nationwide average. All data was retrieved from Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015).
Exploring your career options after graduation can be very exciting. Consider looking for jobs with trucking companies, repair shops, and dealerships. Major employers in Mississippi include C.R. England, Beacon Transport, and A&R Transport. O*Net expects a 6% increase in demand for truck drivers between 2012 and 2022 and a 6% increase in jobs for diesel mechanics in that same time frame (O*Net, 2015).
Truck Driving Schools Near Me
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Mississippi Truck Driving Schools
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Most of the raw datasets are incapable of producing any sort of pattern recognition. Machine Learning models will be quite inefficient on these datasets.
The quality of your Machine Learning algorithm depends on the quality of the dataset. Even the most advanced algorithms won’t function properly on bad data. Data needs to additionally go through a few steps before it can be used.
In this article, I will endeavor to simplify the exercise of data preprocessing.
This is what the process developers conventionally follow before the data is ready to be utilized by machine learning models.
A large number of things in programming do not require to be indited explicitly every time they are required. There are functions for them, which can simply be invoked.
import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pandas as pd
Here, we have used the “as” keyword so as to refer to that library/modules using the given name. (Alias)
dataset = pd.read_csv("Data.csv")
Here, using a pandas method (read_csv), we were able to import the CSV file.
Note that in Machine Learning lingo, X refers to feature matrix and y refers to label matrix (output)
In the following lines, we have assigned a portion of the dataset to feature and label matrices.
X = dataset.iloc[:, :-1].values y = dataset.iloc[:, -1].values
We have used the iloc method onto the dataframe to extract the values.
The iloc method can be used in this way :
**Note: **The : in Python selects all entries and :-1 in Python selects all entries except the last.
So, for example in X, we have assigned all the rows and all the columns except the last in the dataset.
The .values method returns a Numpy representation of the DataFrame.
There is no guarantee that the dataset that you possess is clean. A lot of the raw datasets have missing values inside of them which are detrimental to the Machine Learning model.
You can choose to delete the entire row of the missing entry in the dataset but that can also potentially remove any sort of useful data entries.
There are several ways to handle this problem.
Here are 2 :
Taking the mean of all the values in the column and replacing the missing data with the mean.
Taking the median of all the values in the column and replacing the missing data with the median.
Commonly, mean is used for replacing missing data.
But, if in the dataset, a major outlier is present, the mean would render useless as the value of the outlier can potentially distort the mean and thus, the median is preferred.
We can use SimpleImputer class from sklearn.impute to do this task easily.
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer # Creating an object from SimpleImputer class. imputer = SimpleImputer(missing_values=np.nan, strategy="mean")
The SimpleImputer can take a few parameters :
missing_values : All of the specified occurrences will be imputed.
strategy : The imputation strategy. If set to mean, then it replaces missing values using the mean along each column. (Can only be used with numeric data)
We now have to train the data. It is called as fit. After training the data, we would now have to replace the missing values with the mean by using transform.
imputer.fit(X[:, 1:3]) X[:, 1:3] = imputer.transform(X[:, 1:3])
We can also do the above 2 lines in a single line like :
X[:, 1:3] = imputer.fit_transform(X[:, 1:3])
In the dataset, we might encounter entries that are not numbers like texts. Although we can figure the context of the text, the algorithms, unfortunately, can’t as they rely solely on numbers. To overcome this problem, we “encode” the data.
So, how to convert Categorical data to numerical data? There are 2 ways :
- Integer Encoding: Each unique category is assigned an integer value.
- One-Hot Encoding: Each unique category is assigned to a new column and only contain 0 or 1 corresponding to the column it has been placed.
If we use Integer Encoding for categorical data, values like 0, 1, 2, and so on are encoded to these text entries. This certainly is understandable by the algorithms but, there's a catch. Say, if the US is assigned number 0, china to 1, Japan to 2 then aren’t we indirectly saying that Japan is greater than China or the US? But clearly, that’s not the intention here. So, this is not applicable here.
Instead, we have to use One-Hot encoding.
We can import them as well. We will have to use 2 classes.
from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder
The first step is to create an object of the ColumnTransformerclass.
ct = ColumnTransformer(transformers=[("encoder", OneHotEncoder(), )] , remainder="passthrough")
In the first argument, we have to specify 3 things :
The kind of transformation. (Here, it is encoding and thus, we use encoder)
The kind of encoding we want to perform ( Here, we want One Hot encoding )
The indexes of the column we want to encode (Here, the first column this, we have mentioned 0 as in Python, indexes start from 0)
The second argument called remainder will be used to specify which columns to keep that won’t be applied. passthrough will make sure to keep all the columns that won’t be One-Hot encoded.
Now, we have to fit **and transform.**
X = ct.fit_transform(X)
Here’s a problem. The ct.fit_transform(X)does not return a NumPy array and we must have it as a NumPy array as Machine Learning models expect a matrix of NumPy array.
X = np.array(ct.fit_transform(X))
If the labels contain binary values like “yes”, “no”, go for Integer Encoding.
It will convert these strings into 1 or 0.
For this, we have to import another class.
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
We now have to create an object of this class and after creating it, we can apply the fit_transform method.
le = LabelEncoder() y = le.fit_transform(y)
We don’t have to convert it into a NumPy array as y is a dependent variable vector and there is no compulsion for it to be a NumPy array.
The entire dataset will now be divided into Training and Testing sets.
But, why do we have to split the data?
The purpose of the training data is to learn patterns from the data. The model will figure out any pattern/correlation in the training set.
The training set is used for model training and also used for parameter tuning.
The purpose of the testing set is to notice how the model would perform on data that it is not trained on. This is used for getting an estimate of the model performance.
The testing set is used neither for model training nor used for parameter tuning.
The most preferred way to split is to assign 80% of the entire dataset to the training set and the leftover 20% to the test set.
To perform this operation, we have to import test_train_split from a library in Scikit called model_selection
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
For this, we will have to create 4 variables namely :
X_train : Training portion of the matrix of features
X_test : Testing portion of the matrix of features
Y_train: Training portion of the dependent variables corresponding to the
X_train sets, and thus, they too have the same indices
Y_test: Testing portion of the dependent variables corresponding with the X_test sets, and thus, they too have the same indices.
All of the 4 variables above will be assigned to train_test_split .
Few of the parameters for train_test_split :
Arrays (Here, X and y)
test_size : If 0.2 is passed, it would assign 20% of the dataset to the testing set and the remaining 80% to the training set.
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size = 0.2)
This step is optional for a lot of machine learning models.
Why do we need to do this?
Well, this is done to avoid some features being dominated by others.
We standardize the range of independent variables (features).
Say that in the dataset, if there are large and very small values, the machine learning algorithm will most probably treat the very small values as if it does not exist as it gets dominated by the bigger values in the Dataset.
We do not want to lose valuable info even though it is of small magnitude.
That is why it is compulsory to transform all our variables into the same scale.
There are 2 most prominent methods to scale the data :
Standardization will put all the values of the feature in the range of [-3, 3].
Normalization will put all the values of the feature in the range of [0, 1].
So, which one to choose?
Well, normalization is recommended to use when you have a normal distribution in most of your features. This is very useful only for a specific case.
Standardization is more of a general case. It works all the time.
So, let's go for Standardization. To do this, we have to import the class StandardScaler from the Scikit library.
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler #creating an object of that class sc = StandardScaler()
The process is now intuitive and straightforward.
We have to fit and transform the X_train .
Note that the StandardScaler must be first fit and transform the training set but it must only transform the test set. This is done to prevent information about the distribution of the test set from leaking into the model.
X_train = sc.fit_transform(X_train) X_test = sc.transform(X_test)
Depending on the Model or the dataset that you use, you might not have to go through all of the steps outlined above.
There you go! The above steps form the general outline for preprocessing the data before it can be pushed to any Machine Learning model.
So, this is how you can convert a raw dataset into a useful dataset.
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Since the outbreak of the current pandemic, companies have been downsizing. But not a lot of job seekers are aware that in fact, other companies are hiring. Most of us will have to get a job or switch jobs at some point. With the stakes raised high, it is important that job seekers also raise their resume games higher.
Since in most cases, the first contact a recruiter will have with a job seeker is through their resume. It’s no news recruiters have no time to through the thousands of resumes they get for a particular job.
Hence, great attention must be made when crafting out a resume that stands out from the crowd.
How can this be achieved? By following strict guidelines when creating a resume that sells a job seeker’s skills making them hirable by any recruiter.
Some of these guidelines are:
- Your Personal Statement Should Be Captivating
A Personal Statement is the first thing that appears in a standard resume. Think of this as the first paragraph of an essay and like every introductory paragraph, it has to captivate the recruiter.
Start your personal statement with the skills you’ll be bringing to the table as well as what you’ll be expecting from the company.
- Use Keywords
Some organizations make use of Applicants Tracking System [ATS], a software that scans through applications and selects resumes matching specific keywords. Applications not befitting of the preset keywords are tossed out.
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In more common terms, keywords are referred to as; “Core Competencies”. A great way of guessing the core competencies or keywords for a specific role is to study the job description for the specific role closely to make out the keywords.
- Add Testimonials
Recruiters will see a thousand and one claims from applicants about the jobs they’ve done. And while this in itself isn’t a bad idea, it will not make your resume stand out.
Including a section in your resume for testimonials will give your resume weight since the recruiter has proof they can trust your skills.
- Make Use Of Action Verbs
When it comes to making your resume stand out, showing is way better than telling. Hence, the use of action verbs is important.
Avoid using verbs like, “responsible” as this does not give a recruiter a real sense of the role you played in a project or task. Instead, substitute this word with action verbs such as, “execute, supervise, facilitate, design, etc”
By using these kinds of verbs, a recruiter has a sense of the specific role you played in a project.
- Format Your Resume With Resume Generator Platforms
Regions and countries have certain officially recognized formats for resumes. These formats typically allow for the same content despite their design. And in fact, some resume designs allow for photographs while other regions don’t.
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- Include Your Personal Website
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Make sure your website has an updated bio of yourself, samples of tasks and projects you’ve executed as well as your contact details and social media handles. For better measures, you may include testimonials as well.
Apps like Wix, Disha, WordPress, and Blogspot, make it easier for anyone to create their own personal website.
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All you need to learn about payday advances, Why to prevent Them, & just how to Repay Them.
Are you currently considering a quick payday loan? In that case, be cautious. Payday advances, categorised as cash advance payday loans, check advance loans, or deferred deposit loans, have astronomical rates of interest and costs. Pay day loans ought to be your resort that is last if have to borrow funds.
These tiny loans, also called “cash advance payday loans,” “check advance loans,” or “deferred deposit check loans,” are really a regular pitfall for customers. a charge anywhere from $15-$30 per $100 lent is charged for the normal loan of $300. The debtor can give the lending company a check that is post-dated that your loan provider later makes use of to electronically move a repayment or perhaps the whole stability for the loan through the borrowers account.
An practice that is especially insidious to withdraw a partial re payment through the account as being a “customer care.” This payment that is partial a perpetual installment that continues despite the borrowers’ well efforts to prevent it.
With prices therefore high and also the term associated with the loan so short there isn’t any wonder that a tremendously high level percentage of the loans are rolled over by the debtor over and over. Remember that the accumulated costs for pay day loans might have a successful annualized rate of interest compared to 780%, or maybe more, according to the wide range of times the key is rolled over.
Payday advances and Consumer Rights
A payday loan provider itself might try to gather the total amount.
instead, the payday lender may offer your debt to a group representative, which we discuss later.
In the event that payday loan provider (or collection agency, for the matter) cannot convince one to spend through standard collection techniques, such as for instance telephone calls and letters, the payday lender might wish to register case against one to have a judgment for the total amount of this financial obligation. Then take steps to enforce the judgment as allowed by your state law in civil court if the lender sues and obtains a judgment against you, it can. The most frequent ways of enforcing a judgment are wage garnishment, bank-account levies, and home liens.
Observe that maybe not with this directory of enforcement actions are:
- Calling your company to go over your debt
- Calling your next-door next-door next-door neighbors
- Filing an arrest warrant
An essential reality: Failure to settle an online payday loan just isn’t a criminal activity! Aggressive payday lenders threaten borrowers arrest for check fraudulence:
This really is groundless unless the payday loan provider has proof to show the debtor never designed to repay the cash advance. Proving that is very hard. Keep in mind, no body happens to be arrested or imprisoned https://paydayloansnewjersey.org for financial obligation in america because the Civil War.
In the event that pay day loan company offers a group account to a group agent, the debtor happens to be obligated to settle the total amount towards the collection representative.
A federal legislation called the Fair Debt Collection techniques Act (FDCPA) states that an authorized collection representative must stop calling you in the event that you notify them on paper to take action. A few states, such as for example Ca, ny, and Texas, stretch lots of the laws within the FDCPA to pay for creditors that are original well. See information If You’re Being Harassed by an assortment Agent to master just just what actions you’ll simply just take if you think a group agent is breaking the FDCPA.
The debtor can stop the telephone calls by sending a cease communication demand letter, commonly called a cease and desist notice, to the collection representative if the cash advance business offers the account up to a collection representative. (start to see the Bills.com financial obligation self-help center for sample cease-and-desist letters.)
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Marking an important anniversary with a glimmer of hope
On Saturday the 9th of November, 30 years ago, the Berlin wall came down and unified the modern-day economic powerhouse of Europe. It began an era of strong growth and even stronger industrial production, which made Germany one of the most dominant manufacturing nations in the world. However, it’s safe to say that Germany has been a casualty of uncertainty caused by both Brexit and the ever-lasting US-China trade dispute, with evidence emerging that manufacturing weakness is spreading to other areas of the domestic economy. German consumer confidence has declined to its lowest level since November 2016, and given the importance of consumption as a growth driver, there’s a chance that we might see permanently subdued growth in the future. Forecasts are aligned in the view that German GDP released this Thursday will once again post a 0.1% contraction, meaning the German economy is in a technical recession.
There is a chance, however, that we’re seeing a bottoming out in economic indicators. Forward-looking factory orders for September swung from a 0.4% decline to a 1.3% increase, and there was also a turnaround in the prospects for carmakers following nine months of decline. This will help policymakers in the German government that have sought to characterise the slowdown as a temporary effect of the trade war. To add to this, German exports also rose 4.6% in September, surprising many economists and raising hopes that a recession might be avoided. Andreas Scheuerle of Deka Bank noted that any decline in growth should be both too small and too sector-specific to characterise it as anything more than a ‘black eye’ for the nation.
Nevertheless, one month of decent figures doesn’t change the fact that a dose of fiscal stimulus might help the nation avoid a more serious contraction down the road. Both the European Commission and the European Central Bank have called on countries to spend more, and we’ve previously written that Germany’s debt-to-GDP ratio provides it with the ideal environment to do this. Admittedly, these calls have repeatedly fallen on deaf ears back in Berlin where German Finance Minister, Olaf Sholz, has commented that the country is in a stable economic position while retaining the ability to manoeuvre in the event of a genuine economic crisis. One thing’s for sure, we won’t know the exact health of the German economy until the walls of the trade war are finally broken.
Bottom line: It’s difficult to quantify the exact damage the trade war has and continues to have on European nations as they’re essentially ‘collateral damage’ in this entire ordeal. We still think that the slowdown will manifest more deeply in other sectors of the German economy, especially as there’s the lingering threat of Brexit continuing infinitum. Soft growth into next year could force the hand of the government into finally loosening its purse strings.
The week ahead
Sterling traded in a clear downward trend last week reaching lows of 1.2769 against the US Dollar on Friday afternoon. On a trade-weighted basis, the Pound sits near the bottom of its three-week trading range and is likely to be supported by the 1.28 figure against the US Dollar and 1.1550 against the Euro. Markets are waiting for the December general election, so short-term volatility is likely to remain low for Sterling, although a busy week for UK data may push Sterling outside its recent trading range.
- On Monday morning, the UK escaped a technical recession by posting a positive quarterly GDP reading of 0.3%, missing expectations by 0.1%. Also, on Monday morning was the release of monthly manufacturing and industrial production. Both readings missed expectations and contracted 0.4% and 0.3% respectively.
- UK Average Earnings data is expected to show a strong reading of 3.8%. The measure is on a three-month moving average basis compared with the same average 12 months ago. This expectation is unchanged from last month’s reading. Unemployment is also expected to stay at 3.9%.
- Year-on-year CPI will be released Wednesday morning and is expected to tick lower to 1.6% from 1.7% previously. The deviation further below the Bank of England’s 2.0% target is noteworthy. While this single reading will not change monetary policy alone, it will add to the argument for future easing.
- On Thursday, month-on-month Retail Sales are expected to post a 0.2% expansion, up from 0.0% in October.
Last week, the US Dollar Index rebounded off two-and-a-half month lows and broke through the 50,100 and 200-daily moving averages, closing above the 50-moving average on Friday. This places the US above some key support levels that could come into play this week. Monday is a US holiday, so low liquidity should be expected. Also, various Federal Open Market Committee members will be speaking throughout the week.
- The first set of notable US data will be inflation stats out on Wednesday. Month-on-month Consumer Price Index figures will be released, and expectations are for a 0.3% reading up from 0.0% in October. Following the release, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak at 4pm.
- On Friday, US month-on-month Retail Sales for October are predicted to show an expansion of 0.1%, with the core reading growing by 0.3%. This would bring both readings out of last month’s contraction territory.
- Also released on Friday is the Empire State Manufacturing Index. A reading above 0.0 indicates improving conditions based on a survey of New York manufacturers. This month’s reading is expected to come in at 6.1, up from 4.0 in October.
The trade-weighted Euro Index fell just shy of 1.0% last week, breaking through the 50-daily moving average reaching five-week lows. This followed several attempts from EUR/USD to break through the 1.1179 resistance level. The common currency reached lows of 1.1017 on Friday afternoon and opened London trading on Monday relatively unchanged. Major European data releases may be light this week, but the focus will be on Thursday’s German quarterly Gross Domestic Product reading which may result in Germany entering a technical recession.
- The German ZEW Economic Sentiment Survey and Expectations Survey are out on Tuesday and are on track for an improvement from the last release but still remain in negative territory at -13.2.
- On Wednesday, Eurozone month-on-month Industrial Production for November is expected to post a contraction of -0.2%, down from 0.4% in October. This would mark the 8th contractionary reading in 2019.
- German quarterly GDP will be released on Thursday morning, and expectations are for a contraction of -0.1%. This reading would place Germany in a technical recession and is a highly anticipated release for the week ahead.
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You may find your baby has a longer sleep in the morning but is more wakeful in the afternoon. It’s common for 2-3 week old babies to be more wakeful and unsettled in the late afternoon and evening.
How do I get my baby to stop fighting sleep?
- Memorize drowsy signs. …
- Keep things low-key. …
- Practice separating. …
- Get to know your baby’s “wake windows,” or the amount of time baby can handle being awake at a stretch, which varies by age. …
- Make daytime for playtime. …
- Take the routine on the road. …
- Change her bedtime. …
- Plan a longer afternoon nap.
Can newborns fight their sleep?
Many babies fight sleep because they are unable to stay asleep during light sleep. Unlike adults, babies sleep in 45 minute sleep cycles and can take up to 20 minutes to reach deep sleep. So if your baby wakes 5-20 minutes after you lay him down, it’s simply because he couldn’t stay asleep during light sleep.
How do I get my 3 week old to sleep?
Keep those newborns awake for about 50 to 60 minutes (including feeding and changing time if they’re awake during the feeding), and then start to get them ready for a nap. A great routine: swaddle baby, take them to their room with darkness and white noise, and actively try to get them down for a nap.
How long should a 3 week old sleep?
Sleep. This week, your baby should still be sleeping the majority of the time, around 16-18 hours per day. You can continue to try to introduce sleep cues, such as bath time or reading baby books, but establishing a strict sleep schedule is probably not the best idea just yet.
Why does my baby keep fighting sleep?
It’s likely that they’re feeling some separation anxiety, which can show up at bedtime as well. Often seen anywhere from 8 to 18 months, your baby may fight sleep because they don’t want you to leave.
How do you break an overtired baby?
I want to share some of my top tips to help break the overtired cycle and start to get more balanced sleep.
- Set Up a Morning Wake-Up Range! …
- Don’t Keep Your Baby Awake Too Long During the Day! …
- Help Your Baby Extend Short Naps. …
- Don’t Push bedtime! …
- 37 reactions. …
- 16 shares.
Should I let my newborn sleep all day?
Newborns should get 14–17 hours of sleep over a 24-hour period, says the National Sleep Foundation. Some newborns may sleep up to 18–19 hours a day. Newborns wake every couple of hours to eat. Breastfed babies feed often, about every 2–3 hours.
Should you let newborns cry it out?
It’s absolutely fine to pick up your newborn baby when they cry. It helps your baby feel safe and know that you’re nearby. You can’t spoil a newborn. If your newborn is crying, it’s because they need you to comfort them.
How do you know when a baby is overtired?
How to spot the signs of an overtired baby
- Yawning. Like us, babies yawn more when they’re tired. …
- Touching their face. A tired infant may rub their eyes and face or tug at their ears.
- Becoming clingy. Your baby may hold on to you determinedly and insist that take care of them.
- Whimpering. …
- Lack of interest.
Should you let a 3 week old cry it out?
Babies this age often need to unwind with a good cry at the end of the day. She could also be hungry more often because she’s going through a growth spurt or for some other reason. Check with your pediatrician if you suspect hunger is the cause.
How can I play with my 3 week old?
Here are some other ideas for encouraging your newborn to learn and play:
- Put on soothing music and hold your baby, gently swaying to the tune.
- Pick a soothing song or lullaby and softly sing it often to your baby. …
- Smile, stick out your tongue, and make other expressions for your infant to study, learn, and imitate.
What can a baby see at 3 weeks?
Week 3: Stop & Stare
At this point, your baby might recognize your face, but he can still only see what’s 8-12 inches in front of him. However, his attention span might have gotten longer. Up until now, Baby might have stared at your face for only a few seconds.
Can I let my 3 week old sleep 5 hours?
Newborns will wake up and want to be fed about every three to four hours at first. Do not let your newborn sleep longer than five hours at a time in the first five to six weeks.
Why is my 3 week old restless?
#3 Newborn sleep is fidgety and noisy
Young babies are restless sleepers because they spend half the time in REM sleep (rapid eye movement) – a light phase of sleep when dreams occur. As they get older, they spend less time in active REM and more time in quiet, deep sleep.
How much milk should a 3 week old drink?
During the first few weeks: 1 to 3 ounces of formula every three to four hours (this will probably be closer to 2 to 3 ounces a feeding after the first few days or week). Wake your baby for a feeding if he sleeps longer than five hours. By the first month: At least 4 ounces every four hours.
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Bankruptcy May 13, 2020 Saving Midmarket, Closely Held Companies With Traditional Workouts
July 27, 2021 | News,
If we treat the pending aftermath of the pandemic on businesses in the standard manner, a huge number of them are going to be forever shut down.
Going back in time, in the middle market business world of insolvency practice, honest hard-working owners of companies that were over-leveraged but financially viable had tools available for restructuring the business while maintaining ownership. This was done in bankruptcy through a plan of reorganization or through an out-of-court restructuring with an agreement with the creditors.
Regardless of whether done in or out of court, the concept was to create a “restructuring plan” to enable the company to maintain operations while making payments over a period of time. Banks, which would not otherwise receive as much recovery on their loans through a sale or liquidation, were able and willing to negotiate a restructuring plan. To accomplish this, debt restructurings were based upon realistic financial projections and a subsequent plan designed to pay creditors back on a fair and equitable basis over a future timeframe of typically three to five years.
The restructuring plan accomplished these objectives by providing a realistic probability of 1). the secured creditor getting paid back in full or at least far more than it would in liquidation or sale; 2). the unsecured creditors getting a higher recovery than in liquidation or sale, where they typically get 10% or less in recovery; 3). trade creditors maintaining a profitable future customer relationship; and 4). the owner retaining ownership and control of the business with the reasonable opportunity to regain equity value over time.
These options were consistent with laudable goals of the Bankruptcy Code, enacted in 1978, to provide financially distressed companies and their honest, hard-working owners a second chance to rehabilitate their business for the overall good of their creditors and the U.S. economy, as opposed to a liquidation or a sale of assets at far reduced values.
Three primary things have changed that dramatically affected the practical ability to rehabilitate companies through a restructuring plan. The first change was that certain court cases interpreting the “absolute priority rule,” which specifies the order of payment priority to creditors of a business in bankruptcy, created significant barriers for owners to retain their ownership interests. These court decisions determined that “sweat equity” in the form of future services of the owner was not the same as new cash. This meant that to exit bankruptcy via a restructuring plan, a company had to be fully exposed to the market to determine the market value of the business.
The current owner could only use new cash at the market price to maintain ownership through a restructuring plan or sale. (See Sav. Assn. v. 203 North LaSalle Street Partnership, 526 U.S. 434 (1999)). As a practical matter, without competitive cash for the assets, the owners could not get a second chance or a fresh start through debt restructuring and business rehabilitation by using bankruptcy anymore. Instead, owners of smaller or moderate size middle-market companies, knowing that it was unlikely they could retain any owner interest, chose to (or were forced to) sell or liquidate the company’s assets. They often chose to do so out-of-court rather than go through the personal stress associated with a bankruptcy process only to exit with no ownership in the company.
Sheryl L. Toby
The second major change was that U.S. banking regulations dramatically changed, causing banks to be penalized economically for holding onto loans for financially distressed companies for longer periods of time. Bank stock prices were penalized if banks held higher levels of debt from financially distressed companies, often referred to as non-performing assets. These two forces disincentivized banks from participating in viable restructuring plans, even if the bank’s ultimate recovery on the loan would exceed the amount to be received through a liquidation or asset sale.
Therefore, today, it is rarely in a commercial bank’s best interest to participate in a multi-year loan restructuring plan, even if that loan workout program leads to a superior financial recovery for the bank. Finally, the cost of bankruptcy increased dramatically in terms of professional fees and special priority payment status given to certain kinds of creditors (who successfully lobbied Congress for changes to the bankruptcy code). As a result, today’s middle-market bankruptcy process is almost solely used to sell company assets as a going concern or to liquidate the business.
A Better Solution?
On the heels of the coronavirus pandemic, the insolvency community (bankruptcy attorneys, financial advisers, and investment bankers), commercial banks, and governmental agencies/bank regulators need to consider “going back to the future” and reimplementing restructuring plans as a means to guide these viable companies back to health. If we treat the pending aftermath of this pandemic on U.S. businesses in the standard manner, a huge number of businesses are going to be destroyed and forever shut down by the economic impact of stay-at-home orders. Even when the U.S. economy is re-opened and those orders lifted, there will be unprecedented financial distress in the process of getting businesses back up and running, as many businesses will have insufficient access to cash to rehire employees and pay for goods and services.
Many companies will need an extended period of time to repay suppliers, landlords, service providers, and other unsecured creditors, because many companies do not have access to cash despite the well-intentioned help of paycheck protection loans. They won’t be able to simply go back to business as usual. There is great uncertainty about 1). when U.S. businesses will be allowed to restart by state governments; 2). whether the pandemic will return a second time as it has in several countries and force a second government-mandated business shutdown; 3). how fast it will take for businesses to ramp up to a stable state; and 4). what stable sales volume will be compared with the sales volume when the business had to shut down. The bottom line is that until the U.S. economy has been restarted and we have a month or two of actual experience, no one can predict with any accuracy how much sales volume any business will have.
Complicating matters will be that the credit risk profiles of many of a company’s customers have now gotten a lot worse and so trade credit will likely become much tighter post-pandemic. Despite tighter credit, bad debt losses will significantly increase as many more businesses continue to fail. Finally, liquidation recoveries and going concern sale values are certain to go down as they do in every recession. So many companies: 1). are cash poor or soon will be cash poor; 2). will have a hard time mustering the cash necessary to rehire people and pay for goods and services; 3). will restart their business with no good understanding of how much sales volume they will generate; 4). will have an inclination to tighten credit terms with their customers; 5). will have reduced valuations and; 6). will expect to experience much higher bad debt losses.
The U.S. bankruptcy system has many good attributes, but no one describes the current U.S. bankruptcy system as either fast or cheap.
It sounds like an incredible mess, doesn’t it?
Many of these companies are going to need debt restructurings done fast and cheap. The U.S. bankruptcy system has many good attributes, but no one describes the current U.S. bankruptcy system as either fast or cheap.
Alternative options include having financially challenged small and midsize companies (as an example, those with under $20 million of secured debt with a relatively simple debt structure) use bankruptcy alternatives such as those identified below. The key to all of these methods is to have an objective third-party financial adviser put together realistic multi-year financial projections for the distressed business. It is critical that business owners seek outside help. An experienced skilled financial professional who is also objective adds credibility in the eyes of the creditor base.
A sample plan (albeit each case is different) would be to use, for example, 75% of free cash flow produced by the company to provide pro-rata distributions to unsecured creditors payable twice a year. Unsecured creditor debt would be frozen as a non-interest-bearing note and set aside in an unsecured creditors pool. Free cash flow would be defined as net income less capital expenditures and less “scheduled” bank debt principal payments. After the term of the plan (typically three to five years), any unpaid unsecured creditors pool balance would be forgiven. The following are venues to accomplish this tactic outside of filing bankruptcy:
- Out-of-Court Debt Composition Plan. This venue assumes that you can get at least 90%, for example, of your unsecured creditors by claim amount to consent to an unsecured creditors’ composition plan. You will need a written plan with projections and projected payments to the unsecured creditors’ pool to share with all creditors and you need to have each unsecured creditor vote and agree to be bound if the debt composition plan achieves a chosen voting threshold (90% in this example).
- State Court Receivership or State Assignment for Benefit of Creditors (ABC). This is the same as the debt composition plan, but it’s done in state court if it is a receivership. An ABC is either a state court process or a common-law process depending on the laws and practice of the specific state involved. These processes work well if all the major creditors are within the state borders of the company or consent to the process. Having a court process gives the unsecured creditors even more comfort that the debt composition process is fair and objective and not a sham.
- Federal Court Receivership. This is essentially the same as a state court receivership and ABC. The difference is that a federal process can bind parties across state borders. So, this is the most powerful tool short of a bankruptcy process. However, it requires that the company be domiciled in a different state than the secured lender to satisfy the federal diversity standard.
If we want to save U.S. businesses by restructuring their debts, then we need to use the above three bankruptcy alternatives in the middle market and not the bankruptcy process. These alternatives offer the advantages of lower cost, greater speed, and the ability of the owner to get a second chance.
However, bankruptcy alternatives can only work to provide the company and the owner a second chance if both the owner and the bank as secured lender work cooperatively for the long-term benefit of all parties.
Dan Dooley is CEO of MorrisAnderson, a financial advisory consultancy located in Chicago. Sheryl L. Toby is business services member at Dykema Gossett PLLC, located in one of the firm’s metro-Detroit offices.
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In 1861 William was living at 7 Francis Place, Poole Street, Shoreditch, MiddlesexG, in the household of his parents George and Louisa, and was recorded in the census as William Sackett, aged one and born in Hoxton, Middlesex.4
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- General Register Office, Online Index to Births, "Jun qtr 1860. Sackett, William George. Mother: Haysom. Shoreditch. 1c:144."
- General Register Office, Online Index to Deaths, "Mar qtr 1864. Sackett, William George, 3. Shoreditch. 1c:157."
- 1861 England census, digital image, Ancestry.com, RG9, piece 242, folio 82, p. 9, GSU roll 542598
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Elizth Sackett, dau, 10, scholar, b. Mdx, Hoxton
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In this section you will find information on cross-college sector/subject innovation and development projects. These projects are focused on key sector/subject areas, related to the specific skills needs across Greater Manchester.
Through these projects we are developing high quality innovative resources and approaches to curriculum delivery to meet identified gaps in technologies for learning. Focused on meeting the needs of learners across GM, our collaborative development projects include the use of real world technologies (VR/AR) and gamification,
innovative curriculum delivery models, partnership working with technology providers, employers and third sector organisations and the potential use of technology in a blended learning model.
Inclusion and accessibility is a key consideration in development of all our projects and this is particularly important in areas of the curriculum where we know student access via a handheld device. All projects consider digital inclusion and accessibility and wider consideration of the development of digital skills of teachers and students.
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Based on the experts we spoke to, overarching themes of maximalism, flexibility, self-care, Nineteen Seventies and ‘80s redux and educated consumerism will shape our homes and affect our every day lives in the months to come. It makes use of a subset of the Text Encoding Initiative ‘s commonplace for the representation of texts in digital kind and was developed initially for the publication of digital editions of historical inscriptions (e.g. Inscriptions of Aphrodisias , Vindolanda Tablets ). Its area has expanded to incorporate the publication of papyri and manuscripts (e.g. ). It addresses not only the transcription and editorial therapy of texts themselves, but also the history and materiality of the objects on which the texts appear (i.e., manuscripts, monuments, tablets, papyri, and different textual content-bearing objects).
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It shares lots of the similar options with the top-of-the-line 980—like a camera for navigation, a smartphone app with detailed cleansing reports and maps, and Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice control—but comes with only one digital wall and has a barely less highly effective motor.
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Not just computer systems and smartphones, however everything: clocks, audio system, lights, door bells, cameras, home windows, window blinds, sizzling water heaters, home equipment, cooking utensils, you identify it. And what if these units might all talk, send you information, and take your instructions?
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By University Killam Professor U. Rashid Sumaila, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia.
Harmful subsidies are a major driver of overfishing globally – they help build more boats and provide access to cheaper fuel, enabling fishers to travel farther and catch more fish. Unsurprisingly, there have been many attempts to remove these harmful subsidies, including the 2010 Aichi Biodiversity target 3 and the 2015 United Nation’s Sustainability Development Goals, target 14.6.
Since 2001, the 160 or so countries that form the World Trade Organization (WTO) have tried to negotiate an international, legally-binding agreement that eliminates harmful fishing subsidies. Yet, twenty years on, this effort continues.1
So, the question remains – what is preventing an agreement from being reached?
One of the key challenges faced by the WTO is negotiating “special and differential treatment” for developing and least developed countries (LDC). Special and differential treatments are an important component of all WTO agreements as they support developing countries and LDCs with capacity-building and ensure that the required technical support to enable the full implementation of WTO agreements is available.
Some believe that developing countries and LDCs should be exempt from any new restrictions on harmful fisheries subsidies, as they are considered necessary for alleviating poverty and enabling developing countries to compete with large fishing countries. In reality, however, harmful subsidies are not effective for competing with large fishing nations and can worsen poverty in the medium to long term.2
Additionally, WTO members continue to disagree over how to define a country’s eligibility for such exemptions. Several fishing entities, including the European Union and the United States, strongly oppose the inclusion of terms in the WTO agreement that state that any developing country is exempt from removing harmful subsidies, regardless of their contribution to global fisheries subsidies. On the other hand, China – one of the largest contributors to global fisheries subsidies – opposes this view and wishes to be included under such exemptions.
So, if the WTO is unable to come to an agreement, what are the alternatives?
One promising approach has come through regional trade agreements that include reasonably strong commitments to eliminating harmful subsidies – the 2018 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Despite being ‘simply’ trade agreements, the CPTTP and the USMCA have started to drive advances in ocean sustainability. Member nations are required to use science-based management systems to prevent overfishing and overcapacity. They must implement port controls to combat illegal fishing and prohibit the provision of subsidies for vessels engaged in illegal fishing or that further threaten overfished stocks.
At face value, trade agreements may seem like an unusual avenue for saving the planet. But they increasingly require all members to align their national environmental legislations with ‘best practice’, in exchange for market access between member states – not necessarily for the health of the planet, but because unequal policies create an unequal economic playing field, giving countries with less effective governance a competitive advantage.3 Both the CPTPP and the USMCA have extensive and binding environmental standards that countries negotiate and commit to as part of the deal.
These trade agreements also offer an enviable approach to transparency and cooperation. Both agreements outline that all laws, regulations, procedures and administrative rulings must be made publicly available, so anyone can comment on them.4 Operationalising such open transparency comes with its challenges, however it remains a core provision of both agreements. The CPTPP also places emphasis on cooperation between its members to identify areas where further support is required to ensure all its provisions are implemented successfully.
Together, the twelve countries that have signed up to the CPTTP and the USMCA – including Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and the United States – account for 22 per cent of global fishing subsidies, or almost US$4,912 million annually.5 These two agreements alone mean we are well on the way to tackling a considerable proportion of the problem.
The recently appointed Director-General of the WTO, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala – the first female and first African in the role – noted that “there is an increasing loss of confidence in the ability of the WTO to produce results,” and that there is a need for the WTO to change their approach “from debate and rounds of questions to delivering results” in order to achieve success. On July 15, 2021, Dr Okonjo-Iweala secured members commitment to a draft text as a basis for negotiations, raising hopes that a final deal can be struck this year.
The success of these agreements sends an important message to WTO negotiators ahead of the next critical Ministerial Conference from 30 November to 3 December 2021 – reaching an agreement on harmful subsidies is indeed possible. However, the twelve countries that make up these agreements recognise that without an overarching international agreement to manage the one global ocean, their efforts may not amount to much.6 Success at an international level is critical for transforming our ocean.
Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia.
Rashid Sumaila’s research focuses on bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, marine protected areas, illegal fishing, climate change, marine plastic pollution, and oil spills. Rashid has experience working in fisheries and natural resource projects in Norway, Canada and the North Atlantic region, Namibia and the Southern African region, Ghana and the West African region and Hong Kong and the South China Sea. Dr. Sumaila received his Ph.D. (Economics) from the University of Bergen and his B.Sc. (Quantity Surveying) from the Ahmadu Bello University. He won the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.
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If you encounter these annoying alerts in a self-checkout device, you are not alone.
Customers aren’t the only ones frustrated with the self-checkout experience. Stores have challenges with it, too.
Despite the headache, the self-propelled process is increasing.
In 2020, 29% of transactions at food retailers were processed through self-pay, up from 23% a year earlier, according to the latest data from the Federation of Food Industries FMI.
This raises the question: Why does this unpopular technology often take over retail?
Getting clients to do the work
Instead of the clerks behind customers’ counter-assembly products, Piggly Wiggly allowed shoppers to wander the aisles, pick items off the shelves and pay at the register. In exchange for more work, the model promised lower prices.
However, the self-propelled system was primarily designed to reduce labor expenses in stores. The system reduced cashier costs by up to 66%, According to a 1988 article in the Miami Herald.
The first modern self-propelled payment system, which was patented by CheckRobot in Florida and installed in many Kroger stores, shoppers will almost never be able to recognize today.
Customers scanned their items and placed them on a conveyor belt. An employee at the other end of the belt is packing groceries. Then customers took them to the central cashier area for payment.
But self-pay hasn’t revolutionized the grocery store. Many clients were reluctant to have to do more work for benefits that weren’t quite as obvious.
“The rationale was based on economics, not customer focused,” Charlebois said. “From the beginning, the customers hated them.”
A 2003 Nielsen survey found that 52% of shoppers considered the self-checkout aisles to be “good,” while 16% said they were “disappointed.” Thirty-two percent of shoppers described it as “awesome.”
The move to self-pay has had unintended consequences for stores, too.
Although self-pay counters have eliminated some of the functions of traditional cashiers, they still needed employees and created a need for higher-paying IT jobs, he said.
Andrews added that the self-propelled system “doesn’t deliver on anything it promises”.
In store owners’ biggest headache, self-pay leads to more losses due to error or theft than traditional cashiers.
“If you had a retail store where 50% of transactions were through self-pay, the losses would be 77% higher” than average, says Adrian Beck, professor emeritus at the University of Leicester in the UK who studies retail losses.
Customers make honest mistakes as well as deliberately steal in self-checkout machines.
Some products contain many barcodes or barcodes that are not scanned correctly. Products, including fruit and meat, usually need to be weighed and manually entered into the system using a code. Customers may write wrong code by accident. Other times, shoppers won’t hear a “beep” confirming that an item was scanned correctly.
“Consumers are not very good at scanning reliably,” Beck said. “Why should they be? They are untrained.”
Stores have tried to limit losses by tightening self-propelled safety features, such as adding weight sensors. But additional anti-theft measures also lead to more frustrating errors for “unexpected items in the packing area,” requiring store personnel to step in.
“There is a delicate balance between security and customer convenience,” Beck said.
Self-exit is to stay here
Despite the many shortcomings that customers and store owners have with the self-checkout process, the trend is growing.
Simply put, it may be too late for stores to turn their backs on self-checkout.
Today’s stores serve shoppers who see self-checkout as faster than traditional cashiers, although there is little evidence to support this. But because customers are doing the work, rather than waiting in line, the experience can feel like it’s moving more quickly.
Store owners also saw competitors installing a self-checkout feature and decided they didn’t want to miss out on it.
“It’s an arms race,” said David D’Arezzo, a former CEO at Dollar General, Wegmans and other retailers. “If everyone’s doing it, you look like an idiot if you don’t have it.” “Once you take it out of the bag, it’s very hard not to serve it anymore.”
The Covid-19 virus has also accelerated the spread of self-exit procedures.
During the pandemic, many customers have opted for self-service to avoid close interactions with cashiers and baggage handlers. Staffing and retention challenges have led stores to rely more on machines to attract customers through the door.
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Chirawa To Jaipur Distance
Distance between Chirawa and Jaipur is 148 KM
(kilometers) and 877.18 meters. Chirawa is 92.5 miles away from Jaipur.
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Chirawa is located in the India state of Rajasthan at the longitude of 75.6 and latitude of 28.3. Jaipur is located in the India state of Rajasthan at the longitude of 75.8 and latitude of 26.9.
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Time difference between Chirawa and Jaipur is 0.011333333333333 decimal hours (0 : 0 : 40.8
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P O E T I C L I C E N S E
Notes on Poetry, Poems, and Poets
P O E T I C L I C E N S E
Notes on Poetry, Poems, and Poets
No.29 - October 2018
David Graham's POETIC LICENSE 2018 October No. 29
“This Feast of Life”: In Praise of Abbie Huston Evans
“This Feast of Life”: In Praise of Abbie Huston Evans
In a couple of typically cheeky essays titled “Either Or” and “Major,” Robert Francis questions the way we tend to designate a select few poets in every generation as “major,” which necessarily consigns the rest to “minor” status. Behind any major/minor definitional squabble, Francis knew, lies a false dichotomy, as if these extremes were the only two options, with no gradations in between. When we argue over whether a given poet is major or minor, we place “all the poets into their respective hemispheres,” Francis says, “separated by a line as inexorable and as imaginary as the equator.”
Another problem with this habit, he notes, is that we never seem to agree on the defining traits, much less which poets exemplify them. A further issue, though he doesn’t focus on it, is that the canon changes over time, so that we regularly see giant reputations fade like your grandmother’s curtains, while poets like Whitman or Dickinson, considered minor oddities during their lifetimes, blossom after their deaths into splendid reputations as major figures.
Francis himself, it’s worth mentioning, was overshadowed for his entire career by his friend and sometime mentor Robert Frost, to whom he was often unfavorably and even condescendingly compared. I’m fairly sure Francis wouldn’t have enjoyed being so public a poet as Frost in any case. And I for one prefer to think of him not as a minor Frost but as wonderfully himself, a first-rate Robert Francis. As we sometimes forget, poems are always more interesting, and important, than poets, including their relative rankings.
Which brings me to a poet most readers have long since forgotten, if they ever knew of her: the quite marvelous Abbie Huston Evans. During her incredibly long life (she died in 1983 at age 101) she achieved a fair number of honors and prestigious prizes, and published several fine collections of poetry. But in her case she was far overshadowed in fame by her friend Edna St. Vincent Millay, another formalist poet with ties to Maine. (Poetry trivia: Evans was once Millay’s Sunday School instructor.) Moreover, Evans didn’t publish her first collection until she was 47 years old; her output was sparing (only three full books in that long career); and there were long gaps between books. For all these reasons and perhaps others, she’s long since fallen from notice. She was never renowned in the way Millay and Frost were, and for whatever reason, our own era has apparently decided to slot her as minor, or worse, forget her almost entirely. She’s absent from most of our major anthologies of the period, and as I write this, her books are out of print.
And that’s a shame. I’ve been a fan of Evans’s work ever since 1988, when I read an appreciation written by an old friend of mine, Carl Little, published in The Massachusetts Review. (“The Life and Poetry of Abbie Huston Evans,” Summer 1988). In it he quotes a number of Evans’s poems, and that was all it took for me to go out and hunt up some of her books. Well, actually I could only locate one at the time, her 1964 collection Fact of Crystal—which was then and still is out of print. Little asserts that it’s her best book, and I would agree. Years later I also turned up a used copy of her collected poems published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1970—out of print as well. But any of her three books would be well worth searching out in libraries or used bookshops.
It’s easy to see why Evans fell out of fashion, especially during the last decades of her life. As Carl Little speculates, in part she’s likely a victim of the rampant sexism of the poetic world during her lifetime, when as a matter of course very few women poets were admitted into that magical, imaginary realm of “major.” Also, unlike someone such as Millay, she lived a relatively quiet and retiring life, and did not put herself much in the public eye. She’s also an old-fashioned nature poet, rather formal in both tone and style, sophisticated in vocabulary and syntax, and fairly challenging intellectually.
Additionally, she is an unabashedly religious poet; and she’s a poet of praise, mostly lacking the leavening irony and agonies so common in other poets of her time. Like Richard Wilbur or her one-time pupil Millay, she never made a decisive shift, as so many 20th Century poets did, from conventional rhyme and meter to explore free verse. Even during her lifetime, then, she must have struck many readers as a bit of a throwback to an earlier era. In this regard it’s striking to realize that she was older than Williams, Pound, Eliot, Moore, and of course Millay. When she was born, Dickinson, Hardy, Kipling, Browning, Tennyson, and even old Walt Whitman were still alive. In her lifetime she travelled from the horse-and-buggy era to the age of the Apollo moon landings.
I hope that by now few readers would dismiss Evans simply because she often favors meter and religious themes (after all, no one dismisses Eliot for his faith; and Wilbur was well-honored for his metrical facility). For that matter, readers still appreciate Wordsworth, Poe, Dickinson, and the rest of our certified classics—the power of their writing erases any concerns over poetic trends. What makes Evans compelling are the same things that make any poet worth reading: her command of craft, her memorable descriptions and metaphors, her music, her powerful expression of both ideas and feelings.
Consider the opening of “Deep Down it Dwells”:
Things come plain in the middle of the night.
Roiled water clears; we see what’s at bottom,
The rock silted over, the water-logged tree.
This turns to that before us—ask not how it happens
We come back fledged with power from the great gulf entered.
This is clear, densely textured, vivid writing, with striking turns of phrase such as “roiled water clears” and “fledged with power.” The poem as a whole succeeds in the difficult task of putting words to the inexpressible. She never needs to specify what mystery the “it” in the title refers to, but see how confidently and clearly she evokes that ineffable something as she concludes the poem:
We swim up out of sleep like the diver with his pearl.
As fearless as a drawing made by the sure hand of a child,
Life assumes an outline; we have a hint to go by.
Likewise, in a poem describing a rainstorm, she evokes the timeless “old sound” and ferocious but nourishing energies of nature, and does so with a finely tuned ear:
Rain with the old sound, with the country sough
From fields and meadows overpast and trees
That strip it into whip-lash, I hear now
Beat on this hill and cut about its knees.
Throughout her work one finds marvelously evocative and musical phrasings like “strip it into whip-lash.” Yet her poems are seldom merely descriptive. Typically, she sees in the natural world the same kind of timeless spiritual meanings gleaned by the Transcendentalists, yet always with a keen alertness to the vastness of geologic time that modern science revealed. (“I hear the sounds earth knew before we men / Came on, and shall know after we pass.”) Furthermore, the ordinary processes of nature are, for Evans, always a source of wonder, even awe, in the oldest sense of something both beautiful and fearsome. All of which can be seen in the firmly assured way she concludes her sonnet:
While ancient rumor rising to a shriek
Comes in to tell of matters we forget,
I am one more of the beasts of the field in bleak
Ecstatic cover, huddled from the wet.
So stands the ox, so crouches now the mole,
So sits the dry woodpecker in his hole.
We seem to live in a time that often undervalues nature poetry, finding it quaint or simplistic, when in fact the human place in the great web of life strikes me as one of the timeless themes, and more relevant these days than ever. In any case, Evans’s poems on nature never reflect any vapid Sunday-school sentimentality. Only a hasty reader would miss the darker implications of that “ancient rumor rising to a shriek,” or fail to notice the compact and unsettling complexity built into a phrase like “bleak / Ecstatic cover.”
Carl Little astutely points out Evans’s kinship with Theodore Roethke, especially his later nature poems, which as he notes show “a special rapport with the untidy, neglected aspects” of the natural world. He cites the opening lines of Evans’s “Juniper” as example:
For some twisted reason I
Love what many men pass by,--
Lean-fingered and rock-clinging things,
Bitter-berried, far from springs
Of sweet water, wringing up
Moisture from the rock’s own cup . . . .
I can’t say if the younger Roethke read and was influenced by Evans, but in her work I can also hear echoes of two older poets both Evans and Roethke would have known. Compare these lines from later in Evans’s poem:
All things harsh and slow of root,
Pungent, racy, sparse of fruit,
Heather, gorse, and upland fir,
Lichen, moss,--and juniper!
to this famous passage from Gerard Manley Hopkins:
All things, counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim. . . .
Both the attitude and the sound here strike me as similar. Likewise, though the music is quite different, I imagine Evans would have approved of Walt Whitman’s praise of the overlooked, the shunned, the despised in section number 24 of “Song of Myself”:
And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
Of the trivial and flat and foolish and despised,
Of fog in the air and beetles rolling balls of dung.
Compare Whitman’s lines to Evans in “Weeds” declaring that “I am all for letting / The worst of all come in,” and proceeding to heap praise on “Hawkweed, that pest pernicious” as well as “blue vetch, full as vicious, / (Too beautiful to tame!)”.
Evans’s work has more variety than I have space to demonstrate here. For instance, she can write a concise, indelible portrait of a neighbor (“She had achieved a thorny continence / Like a locust tree in winter” [“Ellen”]; or capture the laconic speech of traditional New Englanders:
“You’ve had a full life, Sarah.”—“That depends;
“If you mean busy, I suppose so. Yes.”
In “All Those Hymnings-up to God” she speaks in praise of the explicitly religious music “of Bach and Cesar Franck” even in our secular age (“No man has handled God, but these men have come nearest.”) And in the uncharacteristic poem “To a Poet Yet Unborn” she can even anticipate the great Gwendolyn Brooks, dispensing quirky advice in chiseled, slightly odd language:
Attempt what’s perpendicular. Scale what’s impossible.
Try the knife edge between two voids. . . .
. . . Subdue what blasts. Dare do it.
Ride formlessness, word wordlessness. Be not aghast. Be poet.
But it is as a poet of nature—its generative mysteries, the vast time-scale of its processes, its visionary gleams as well as its here-and-now factuality—that Evans shines most brightly. As noted, her natural world is essentially religious in import. In “Hunger,” for example, she contrasts the real satisfactions and beauties of nature with a spiritual hunger that the natural world provokes without ever fulfilling:
No one of all my line has ever loved
This river so, I swear,
Or found the sun so sweet, or been so moved
By the bliss of breathing air.
This feast of life, for all it is so good,
is but an alms, and mean.
My hunger prowls afar, and stalks such food
As eyes have never seen.
She often meditates on the contrast between our human vantage point (wherein a century or so is all one person can ever know) and the unimaginably vaster perspective of cosmic or geological time. Gazing at a mountain range in “The Mountains,” for instance, she thinks not about how huge and eternal they look to humans in our “inch of time,” but rather how vulnerable they are to the “dwindling” effects of erosion and weather:
Dwindling mountains are they on a dwindling planet,
These that look so solid, these that show so fair;
Wind and rain and frost and hail set tooth to the granite,
It wastes like smoke into air.
As many have noted, she has an almost erotic love of rocks and geological action, returning again and again in wonder and fascination, as in “The Mineral Collection”:
I always knew the Ural Mountains glowed
And burned inside with emeralds and gold,
Copper in clefts, and platinum in rifts
Like tamped-in tin-foil; now my eyes have seen
Splinters from that great beam that braces Asia . . . .
So too in the title poem of Fact of Crystal, in which she marvels at the beautiful symmetry that mysteriously arises, in its “obscure, slumbrous, geologic way” from mute matter, mere dust in space somehow transforming into shapes as perfectly organized and gorgeous as a poem:
Behold the beauteous sluggards and their work--
The slothful quartz, the lazing tourmaline,
And their great tardy dazzle. Envy rock's glory.
This that hung once thinner than breath in space,
Wraith of a wraith, earth's uncreated dust,
Now signals with the flung-down fact of crystal,
Its stern-decreed geometry achieved,
Its pattern worked out to a T, its tip atom in place.
I’ll end what could easily be a much longer appreciation of this neglected lyricist by quoting in full one of my long-time favorites. In it she describes a September gale, no doubt off the coast of her beloved Maine, in terms both specific and cosmic, the storm being equally magnificent and more than a little frightening. For all her spiky language and sure-footed craft, and the clarity and power of her themes, Evans’s vision of the human place in the universe is measured, the opposite of arrogant. Perhaps the 20th Century ultimately wanted its “major” poets to be more assertive than this understated, reticent praiser of rocks, weeds, and waters, but as she puts it in a late poem, despite the greatest human ambition and achievement, “Humble is the password of the wise.” Personally I find much wisdom in her beautifully nuanced and splendid humility.
Here is “From an Offshore Island”:
Hear now the ocean trouncing off this island,
The under-roar of wind down unfenced sea,
And through chance flaws, like dim light down a tunnel,
The bell buoy spent with distance.
Orion's chill, washed, subterranean glitter
Wheels up from under, and great Rigel blazes
Between tossed oak boughs that the gale of autumn
Tears at, lifts, lets fall.
Old ocean's hoarse and implicated roaring
Brings me up sitting at the dead of night,
Its pent-in mouthless fury calling back
The wild first of creation,
The rage, the might, the rampage.
---How shall I
Up from this anchored island not make answer,
I with my bones of rock-dust hardly knitted
And my blood still salt from the sea?
©2018 David Graham
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Austin is a close-knit community of neighbors who work together and will gladly lend a helping hand to those in need. That spirit of community service is part of what makes Austin such a wonderful place to live. With so many wonderful options to give back, it’s easy to live out the Bible’s command to serve one another through love (Galatians 5:13). Here are just a few examples of ways you can get involved in serving the Austin community:
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the same animating principle calling worlds into existence, peopling them with angels and men, communicating intelligence, exercising unbounded empire ; and making himself of no reputation, in the form of a servant, in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, humbling himself to a mean estate, to the suffering of reproach and contempt, becoming “ obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. To what meanness of condition ought not we his disciples, therefore, cheerfully to submit? “For our sakes he became poor," and shall we be ashamed of honest poverty? Did he go by the name of " the car. penter's son,
and dare a christian ostentatiously to display the heraldry of his ancestors, or to blush at what the world calls low birth? “ He hath not despi. sed nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor hid his face from him when he cried," and can one called by his name, turn a deaf ear to the cry of distress, or hide his face from a poor brother? We cannot like him
say, “Let there be light;" “ Lazarus come forth ;" we cannot like him walk on water, or silence the wind; we cannot like him give eyes to the blind, or speech to the dumb.' But we may with him be “meek and lowly in heart,” merciful and compassionate, forbear; ing and forgiving: we can go about doing good, and ministering to the necessitous. We cannot attain to the height of his divine excellence and perfection, but we may with him descend to the lowliest offices of beneficence and condescension ! we may learn of him to “ overcome evil with good.”
On the other hand, to what height of elevation may not the christian aspire? Let not the idea of temporal elevation seduce you.
Think not of “ the kingdoms of this world and the glory of them,” which perish with the using
Christ's “ kingdom is not of this world.” Let not the blind ambition of the sons of Zebedee suggest a dream of right and left hand places by the side of an earthly throne. Be it your study and ambition to “ have this mind in you which also was in Christ Jesus.” Let the avarice of the worldly mind accumulate bag upon bag, add house to house, field to field, but let a nobler avarice excite you, the disciples of the blessed Jesus, to " add to your faith, virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity.” These are the titles, the stars and the ribbons in the kingdom of heaven, and “ if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Let the spirit of adventure and science discover unknown regions and nations on the globe, and new planets in the firmament of heaven; be it your concern, christian, your study, your employment to contemplate, through the glass of promise, “new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
Suffer the man of the world to enjoy his triumph; suffer him to outstrip his rival, to run down his enemy; be thine the more glorious triumph to promote a rival, to spare an adversary, as knowing that “ He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
Such, disciple of Jesus, be thy holy aspirations, such thy pride and ambition; and may such be thy blessed attainments even in time: thought is lost in contemplating “ the glory that is to follow.” The beloved disciple shall declare it, in the sublimity of his own conception and expression, or rather in the idea and diction with which the Holy Spirit supplied his pen :
« Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."
HE history of countries generally commences with a geographical account of their situation and extent; of the climate and soil; of the names and the reason of imposing such names; of the era and the means of discovery; of the original inhabitants, and of other circumstances tending either to communicate useful information or to gratify curiosity. The biographer, in like manner, in delineating the life of his prince, statesmen, hero or philosopher, usually begins with tracing his pedigree and parentage, and enables the reader to form some acquaintance with his ancestors, in order to introduce the personage himself with
greater advantage and effect. But both the general historian and the biographer quickly lose themselves in research. The origin of no nation or individual can be traced up to its source. The light becomes fainter and fainter as we proceed, the object is rendered more obscure and uncertain, till time at length spreads his sable mantle over it, and we behold it no more. Who then shall declare his generation, who “ was in the beginning with God, by whom all things were made, and without whom was not any thing made that is made.”
We are advancing, men and brethren, upon holy ground; ground sacred as Eden's blissful plains, as the region which surrounded the bush that burned with fire, as Sinai's awful summit. Borne aloft on the pinions of the celestial dove, we are aiming a bold, adventurous flight into the heaven of heavens, to expatiate
through the boundless regions of eternity, to contemplate objects which“ angels desire to look into" to search into the great mystery of godliness,” to lose ourselves in seeking “ to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge."
We are going to attempt a delineation of the life and history of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of men. My heart fails at the thought of the task which I have undertaken ; my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth. Spirit of grace, establish my heart
..........." O thou my voice inspire,
" Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire." The question of the prophet which has now been read, and which suggested the idea that we mean to pursue through this lecture, is interwoven with a variety of pointed and striking predictions which, whether taken separately or in their combination, can apply only to one person ; and who that person is, no doubt can possibly be entertained when we consider, that this is the very passage of Scripture to which Philip the evangelist was providentially directed, as a text for “ preaching Jesus,” to the Ethiopian eunuch. I shall not employ any part of your time in detailing the various opinions which have been entertained respecting the meaning of the passage in general, or the precise import of the term "generation” in particular. The question appears simply to be a bold defiance given to all created wisdom to investigate, to unfold the
generation, the origin, the essence of that wonderful person concerning whom such singular circumstances and events are predicted; it amounts to a strong and positive affirmation that it is impossible to declare Him as he is, to trace his existence through the successive periods of duration up to its commencement, as you may do that of a mere man from the moment of his birth, or through a series of ancestors. What, in this view, is the obvious doctrine of the text? That the generation of Him who the spirit of prophecy, and the cor
responding history represent as an innocent, patient, vicarious sufferer, extends beyond the sphere of created nature, eludes pursuit, spreads the glory of eternity around it, and conceals it from mortal eyes. It is worthy of remark, that the genealogy of our blessed Lord's humanity is more clear, and distinct, and extended, than that of any other person.
Two several evangelists have declared it, pursuing it through two different, but parallel channels, up to Abraham, and from him up to the common father of the human race. In this respect, therefore, “the Spirit himself helpeth our infirmity ;” and he whọ by the mouth of Isaiah, seems to forbid and defy all inquiry, by the pen of Matthew and Luke, makes a clear and full discovery, and enables us to trace the pedigree of Jesus Christ, like that of
other It is the peculiar privilege of the sacred volume to unfold the real history of human nature, of the globe, of the universe, to follow nature up to the hour of her birth, to declare.“ the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created; in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens ;” to exhibit the first man Adam in the plas tic hands of the Creator, springing out of the dust of the ground, and, inspired with the breath of life, becoming “a living soul.” The same inspired volume represents to our attention one person, and one event, as of peculiar importance; as pervading, influencing, and affecting the whole course of nature and Providence; as contemporary with every generation of men ; as looked unto, and longed for by successive ages. In order that the truth of God might be fully justified, and have its complete effect, the relation in which this illustrious person stood to those who had received the promises of his coming, is distinctly ascertained and minutely described; so that at every period of the world we can say, lo He is here, and lo He is there. But the inspired volume likewise represents him as before all and above all. If therefore this book be a Revelation VOL. IV.
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By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson
As President Donald Trump prepares to deliver his State of the Union address today, it’s a good time to take stock of how his administration has dealt with animal protection issues of interest to us at the Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society Legislative Fund.
President Trump has expressed his personal distaste for trophy hunting — to his credit — but in the past two years, we have also seen aggressive moves by the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to undo years of work done by previous administrations to save wildlife at risk of extinction globally and in Alaska. Moreover, the government has made blatant handouts to trophy hunters. The animal protection field has also had to grapple with a U.S. Department of Agriculture blackout of important information that groups like ours and the American public rely upon to ensure animals are not suffering.
On balance, it would be fair to say that the impact of federal agencies over the past two years on animal protection has been more negative than positive. Some of the areas where we saw the Trump administration fail include:
- The blackout of thousands of Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act inspection and enforcement records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture website, making it harder for Americans to learn which puppy mills, roadside zoos and research facilities, among other enterprises, are failing to comply with animal protection laws. The USDA has also cut back drastically on the number of warnings, official complaints and license revocations it applies to the worst puppy mills and other Animal Welfare Act violators.
- Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke illegally established the “International Wildlife Conservation Council,” an advisory panel stacked with people who have an interest in killing or importing rare and endangered animals from overseas. The administration also lifted the import ban on Zimbabwe elephant and lion trophies.
- Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service proposed weakening the Endangered Species Act, creating additional roadblocks to securing comprehensive protections for threatened species, and to make the process of removing species from the ESA easier.
- The Department of the Interior proposed rolling back an Obama-era regulation that banned some of the worst and most appalling hunting practices on 20 million acres of federal public lands in Alaska, including using artificial light to kill hibernating bears and their cubs, shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens, using bait to attract brown and black bears, shooting vulnerable swimming caribou and using dogs to hunt black bears. This, just after Congress revoked similar protections on 76 million acres of National Wildlife Refuge lands in Alaska in 2017.
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed Yellowstone-area grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act, and the Department of Justice committed funds for legal fights in the federal courts to make this administration action permanent.
We did see the Trump administration take some positive steps to help animals, including:
- The National Park Service began work to augment the Isle Royale, Michigan, wolf population by introducing 20 to 30 wolves over a three-year period. New wolves will restore ecological balance to Isle Royale’s ecosystem.
- The Food and Drug Administration pledged to conduct an independent, third-party investigation of the agency’s animal research programs, establishing a new Animal Welfare Council, and reaffirming its commitment to replacing, reducing and refining animal studies by creating a road map with this focus.
- The National Marine Fisheries Service designated critical habitat for the Main Hawaiian Islands insular false killer whale distinct population segment, although the area is smaller than many advocates had sought.
- The Environmental Protection Agency released its strategic plan to promote the development and implementation of non-animal test methods.
We are also grateful that the USDA decided to abandon a proposal to outsource some inspections of puppy mills, roadside zoos and research laboratories to third-party inspectors. If implemented, the proposal would have essentially allowed these industries to police themselves and severely undermined protections for millions of animals.
As we look forward to 2019, we encourage the Trump administration to take necessary steps to prioritize transparency and to advance key animal welfare reforms, such as:
- A proposed USDA rule to tighten licensing requirements for dog dealers and exhibitors, as well as strengthen requirements for dog dealers to provide basic care requirements.
- A significant increase in the use of population growth suppression tools to manage wild horse and burro populations on our public rangelands. The Department of the Interior must also abandon past proposals to send wild horses and burros to slaughter.
- Mitigating the harm being caused to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, including taking measures to reduce deadly entanglements in lobster gear and other trap/pot fisheries gear, and to reduce the risk of vessel strikes by imposing mandatory ship speed limits in additional areas of seasonal high use along the east coast.
- Prioritizing the relocation of chimpanzees currently owned and supported by the federal government to the national sanctuary, Chimp Haven. The National Institutes of Health should also prioritize approaches to replacing animals in harmful research that not only represent the best available science, but could also prevent the suffering of millions of animals in laboratories each year.
Congress recently demonstrated that animal protection is a bipartisan value, with members from both sides of the aisle coming together to introduce bills to attack horse soring, horse slaughter, shark finning and malicious animal cruelty. We hope that in the coming year, we will see more of an effort by the administration to work for, and not against, animals. Animal protection is an American value and most of us — Republicans and Democrats — do not want to see innocent creatures hurt or killed needlessly.
Sara Amundson is president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund.
- HSUS, other groups sue Trump administration for weakening Endangered Species Act
- USFWS director says federal protections for wolves will be removed by end of year
- Trump administration opens Alaska’s national preserves to cruel practices like trophy-hunting denning bears and wolves and their cubs; proposes disbanding protections on Kenai Wildlife Refuge
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In 2019, Hate Crime Awareness Week runs on 12th-19th October.
On Saturday 12th, there will be a stall in the Saturday market.
We also have a unit in the Buttermarket, behind the Town Hall, with posters and videos. There will also be art materials available so children coming along can have a go at making their own poster either to add to the display or take home.
Posters will be judged on Tuesday 15th October by Gary Headland (CEO of Lincoln College Group, which includes Newark College), Inspector Heather Sutton (Nottinghamshire Police), and John Bearpark (retired school teacher, artist and member of Newark Quaker Meeting).
On Thursday 17th October at 1pm, Newark churches, religious groups and worshipping communities have been invited to join us for discussion about how to raise awareness that bystanders can report hate incidents and intervene to stop hate crimes and support victims. We will provide soft drinks and nibbles – you are welcome to bring your lunch or food to share.
Friday 18th October sees prizes given for the winning poster entries in the Buttermarket at noon.
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Commenced in January 2007
Paper Count: 31824
Software Maintenance Severity Prediction for Object Oriented Systems
Abstract:As the majority of faults are found in a few of its modules so there is a need to investigate the modules that are affected severely as compared to other modules and proper maintenance need to be done in time especially for the critical applications. As, Neural networks, which have been already applied in software engineering applications to build reliability growth models predict the gross change or reusability metrics. Neural networks are non-linear sophisticated modeling techniques that are able to model complex functions. Neural network techniques are used when exact nature of input and outputs is not known. A key feature is that they learn the relationship between input and output through training. In this present work, various Neural Network Based techniques are explored and comparative analysis is performed for the prediction of level of need of maintenance by predicting level severity of faults present in NASA-s public domain defect dataset. The comparison of different algorithms is made on the basis of Mean Absolute Error, Root Mean Square Error and Accuracy Values. It is concluded that Generalized Regression Networks is the best algorithm for classification of the software components into different level of severity of impact of the faults. The algorithm can be used to develop model that can be used for identifying modules that are heavily affected by the faults.
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Giovanni Denaro (2000), "Estimating Software Fault-Proneness for Tuning Testing Activities" Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2000), Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.
Manasi Deodhar (2002), "Prediction Model and the Size Factor for Fault-proneness of Object Oriented Systems", MS Thesis, Michigan Tech. University, Dec. 2002.
Bellini, P. (2005), "Comparing Fault-Proneness Estimation Models", 10th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'05), vol. 0, 2005, pp. 205-214.
Khoshgoftaar, T.M., K. Gao and R. M. Szabo ( 2001), "An Application of Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression for Software Fault Prediction. Software Reliability Engineering", ISSRE 2001. Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on, 27-30 Nov. (2001), pp: 66 -73.
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When you hear the term “military aviation”, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? I’m willing to bet the first things you think of are stupidly fast fighter jets and things high tech bombers, helicopters, attack aircraft, etc. In a sense, this isn’t far from what military aviation actually entails, but it goes much deeper than that. Aside from the pilots, one of the most important jobs in the field of military aviation is aviation ordnance. But what exactly is aviation ordnance and why is it so important? Find that out and more in the article below!
What Is Aviation Ordnance?
If you’ve ever had any sort of interest in military aviation, you’ve probably seen aviation ordnancemen doing what they do best; even if you didn’t realize it. What ordnancemen do is vaguely laid out in the job title. An aviation ordnancman primarily deals with the ordnance carried by any sort of military aircraft; hence the name aviation ordnance. Simple, right? Well, not exactly. While you would be correct in thinking that aviation ordnance just deals with ordnance carried by military aircraft, it becomes much more complex the deeper you go. What ordnancemen do depends entirely on both the type of ordnance they are dealing with and the type of aircraft that the ordnance is being carried by.
Different Types Of Aviation Ordnance: Ordnance
When it comes to the different types of ordnance carried by aircraft, I like to classify them into two main groups: hot ordnance, and cold ordnance. What I mean by “hot” ordnance is anything that could be considered a weaponry; such as missiles, bombs, rockets, machine guns, etc. In regards to what I mean by “cold” ordnance, cold would be any type of aviation ordnance that could NOT be classified as a weapon. This includes things like, camera pods, electronic warfare devices, ECM pods, and anything of that sort. The vast majority of all aviation ordnance deals with “hot” ordnance. Now, this seems to be shifting as war modernizes, but I’ll go more into that in a bit. But all of that to say, ordnancemen deal with much more than just bombs and sidewinders. There is a vast array of devices that aviation ordnancemen must be familiar with.
Different Types Of Aviation Ordnance: Aircraft
Now, when it comes to all of the different types of aircraft that ordnancemen have to deal with, the list goes on and on. However for the sake of this article, I’ll break down all military aircraft into four groups: fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bomber aircraft, and reconnaissance aircraft. For each aircraft, there is an array of different weapons that ordancemen must work with. In each of the four groups of aircraft there are literally hundreds if not thousands of different aircraft that all require specialized ordnancemen to maintain their weaponry. What I’m trying to get at is that ordnancemen do so much more than just stick bombs under the wings of planes. They need to know what they are doing, be specialized in the ordnnance and aircraft that they deal with and overall have a high regard for their level of responsibility. It is a very important job.
Why Is Aviation Ordnance Important?
Aside from allowing the military to carry weapons to far off places, aviation ordnance is arguably one of the most important jobs in regards to homeland security. Without specialized aviation ordnancemen, the ability for countries to defend themselves against external threats would essentially be null. This is why I don’t think ordnancemen get the credit that they deserve. Not to say that the pilots aren’t great (because they absolutely are), but I think oftentimes ordnancemen get overlooked when it comes to military aviation as the fighter pilots tend to take the limelight. All of this to say, aviation ordnance is an extremely vital position, not only for the security of the military, but for the security of countries around the world.
What Does The Future Of Aviation Ordnance Look Like?
Like I said before, “cold” ordnance is slowly starting to become more and more common, and may even eventually overtake “hot” ordnance. This is due in part to the continual rise in cyber-warfare where information and electronically based attacks are used in place of physical, hot warfare. In regards to aviation ordnance, as the sixth generation of aircraft work their way into the world’s arsenal, ordnancemen will most likely be working with fewer, more specialized pieces of ordnance rather than lots of different kinds of general weaponry. All in all, aviation ordnance is evolving rather quickly and thus, brings with it many opportunities. If you want to learn more about aviation ordnance, you can check out the link below!
With all of this in mind, aviation ordnance is much more than just loading weapons, and I don’t believe aviation ordnancemen get the recognition that they deserve. Being that my grandfather was a Naval ordnanceman for P-3 Orions, this is a military sector that I hold near and dear to my heart. That being said, the future for aviation ordnance looks bright and I’m curious to see where it is headed in the next decade.
I hope you all enjoyed today’s article! Fly safe out there 🙂
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Ask the Expert: Space tourism takes off
Twenty years after the first tourist went to space and more than a decade after the last one, space tourism is making a comeback. In the near future, private companies Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will offer tickets to fly to suborbital heights at the edge of space, where passengers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness.
A suborbital altitude is about 60 miles from Earth, compared to the altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) at a little over 250 miles. Blue Origin has an advantage over Virgin Galactic, since it is preparing for future flights that orbit the earth and provide a few hours to a couple of days of weightlessness. For now, it seems the Virgin Galactic vehicle cannot do that.
Meanwhile, SpaceX, which has been taking crew and cargo back and forth between the Earth and the International Space Station since 2012, plans to send tourists on a 10-day trip to the ISS before 2021 ends.
The price of tickets for Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic most likely will be around $250,000, which certainly is only attainable for a small percentage of the population. To travel to the ISS with SpaceX, you will pay approximately $55 million. However, as with other luxury goods, there will be enough demand for the businesses to move forward and flourish.
With private companies at the forefront of space tourism, we will soon need to have extensive technical and environmental laws in place to avoid overpopulating space and to guarantee safe travels for the passengers. Debris even in small sizes can be fatal to space travelers. Jacob Winslow ’23 and I worked on the subject of space debris and its mitigation during the 2021 Cornell Summer Research Institute. Inspired by space debris removal methods, Winslow designed and built a net launcher to catch space debris and transfer it to a lower orbit where it eventually burns in the atmosphere.
I hope soon that by advancing space technology, space travel will be safe and affordable to the general public. After all, it was the same path the airlines took not many years ago.
Assistant Professor of Engineering Niloofar Kamran holds a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, and an M.S. in aerospace engineering from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. She joined the Cornell College faculty in 2017.
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Catholic Education | Joplin MO
Father William McCormack laid the groundwork for a Catholic school system in the city in 1882, when he converted a small frame building east of the brick church into a schoolhouse. The little building had been built a few years earlier by Father James O’Reilly, the second of three O’Reilly’s serving the parish during the early years. A Miss Roberts taught for a brief period, then was succeeded by Harriet Hardy, who undertook the task of teaching 78 pupils, ranging from 6-17 years of age. Miss Hardy resigned after one year to become Mrs. James McKenna.
Left without a teacher, Father McCormack set into motion a plan that resulted in the arrival of the band of Sisters of Mercy from Louisville, Kentucky, in 1885. There are conflicting reports on how many Sisters comprised the group that arrived here. Father Lyons’ book lists 12 nuns, while a book published in connection with the St. John’s Regional Medical Center’s centennial gives names of 13 nuns. Regardless of whether it was a dozen or a baker’s dozen, the band of angels in nuns’ habits, led by Mother Mary Ignatius, embarked upon a period of service that has had a profound influence on Joplin.
Despite the hardships and rough environment, they found themselves in, the good nuns went about establishing a convent in the Edward Zelleken home on the southwest corner of 9th Street and Pearl Avenue, which they purchased for a reported sum between $6,000-8,000 dollars. The upper floor was remodeled as a dormitory for boarding students from the area. Other rooms were converted into classrooms where the nuns operated the Academy of Our Lady of Mercy for many years.
Another milestone in Joplin Catholic history that took place during Father McCormack’s tenure was the establishment of Mt. Calvary Cemetery on a site overlooking the Shoal Creek Hills south of the city. The cemetery is the final resting place of many pioneer Catholic residents. Among them was Father Thomas Hanly, who succeeded Father McCormack and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. When developed, the cemetery was outside the city limits in a sparsely inhabited area. Today, it is flanked on the south by St. Mary’s grade school and on the west by St. Mary’s rectory, and the Shoal Creek Hills are heavily populated by homes and business buildings.
Father William Hovestadt, who became parish administrator after the death of Father Hanly, was credited with making improvements at the cemetery. According to the official parish history, he urged upon the people the necessity of making improvements at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
Historical notes state:
“Through his efforts a beautiful figure of the Crucifixion was erected, several streets in the cemetery were graded and graveled and a substantial fence built to replace the old one, which had fallen into decay.”
Joplin Area Catholic Schools
Director of Schools
Sr. Julie Brandt, SSND
St. Mary’s Elementary School
Joanne Lown, Principal
St. Peter’s Middle School
Dr. Emily Yoakam, Principal
McAuley Catholic High School
Dr. Emily Yoakam, Principal
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* Historical Evidence for the Exodus: Bob Enyart and Fred Williams continue their series on the evidence for the Exodus and they conclude a two-show mini-series on Ipuwer's papyrus which records the observations of an eyewitness to the ten plagues, the destruction of the nation, and the transfer of wealth from the rich to the slaves of Egypt. Forty times in the eight pages of the English translation Ipuwer repeats that the servants of the land now have the riches of the wealthy! The scribe describes nothing like a civil war and only blames one person for the calamity. As excerpted at rsr.org/exodus#ipuwer only once ascribes blame, and that was to the one who poured out water on the ground, when the river became blood:
Ipuwer: "Behold, Egypt is fallen to the pouring of water; and he who poured water [mocking the Nile god Hapi] on the ground, seizes the mighty in misery. ... The river is blood."
Exodus: "...you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take from the river will become blood" (Ex. 4:9). "And all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood" (Ex. 7:20).
These and other particulars, including especially the theme of the servants gaining is explicitly testifies to that same extraordinary happening as recorded in Moses' Exodus and prophesied by God in Genesis!
* Today's Resources: All available from our store.kgov.com, the guys recommend:
- Mahoney's stunningly beautiful Patterns of Evidence
- Enyart's Mount Moriah: Evidence for the Resurrection
- and Bob's Bible Tour of Israel.
Our BEL videos are far (far, far, far :) ) from the production quality of Tim's superb work. But like his Patterns, they too are chock full of important and fascinating information corroborating the historicity of the Scriptures!
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Famous Canadian Palaeontologist Plans to Track Down Troodon
Professor Phil Currie (University of Alberta) is making plans for next summer, they include an expedition to hunt for a complete skeleton of the fast-running member of the dinosaur clade Deinonychosauria. Phil Currie is hoping to hunt down Troodon.
Professor Phil Currie – Next Year Hunting for Troodon
Picture Credit: Bruce Edwards (from a video interview)
Troodontids are a group of small Theropod dinosaurs that seem to fall somewhere in the phylogeny of the Dinosauria between the ornithomimids and the fearsome dromaeosaurids. Troodon, may have been typical of this group, being fast-running, between two to three metres long (mostly tail), having a small skull with a long snout, large eyes and a big brain. Relative to its body size, the species Troodon inequalis has the largest brain of any mature dinosaur yet described. However, this genus is only known from a few specimens, and no complete skeleton of this dinosaur has ever been discovered.
An Illustration of a Troodontid (Troodon formosus)
Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur
A Typical Member of the Troodon Family of Dinosaurs (Scale Drawing)
Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur
Phil Currie, hopes to change all that and by doing so, help to assign with greater confidence, the various dinosaur genera associated with the Troodontidae family. The family tree certainly needs some revision, after all the Troodon genus was originally set up on the basis of the description of a single fossil tooth (albeit a very distinctive tooth). The famous Canadian palaeontologist, will lead a field team to the County of Grande Prairie (north-western Alberta, Canada) setting up a major dig in the Pipestone Creek area. The rocks in this area were laid down in the Late Cretaceous and a number of bedding planes contain extensive bonebeds. There have already been several important Theropod dinosaur discoveries made in this area, for example, earlier this year Everything Dinosaur published an article on the newly described, dog-sized, meat-eating dinosaur Boreonykus, which has been assigned to the Velociraptorinae sub-family of the Dromaeosaur family.
To read more about this new dinosaur discovery: Boreonykus certekorum A polar dinosaur related to Velociraptor
The teeth, which are relatively small, are easily identified thanks to their very large, hook-like serrations. Isolated broken teeth are quite frequently found in the Grande Prairie area, but articulated bones and a fully intact skeleton are what the research team will be hoping to find.
Phil Currie explained:
“We find its teeth [Troodon] all the time up in the Grande Prairie region, yet in the rest of Alberta, it’s a pretty rare dinosaur.”
The Hunt for a Complete Troodon Fossil Specimen
Bones and teeth that have been assigned to the Troodontidae family have been found across North America and also in Asia, but despite the wealth of fossil material (mainly teeth), Professor Currie estimates that 90% of the bones in a Troodon skeleton remain unknown to science.
The Grande Prairie region could be just the spot to find the rest of the skeleton. Many of the bedding planes where fossils are found represent low energy environments, which can aid the preservation of tiny bones such as those from a small, fast-running troodontid. If lizards and mammals are preserved in these sediments then a three metre long, light and fragile Troodon might have been preserved too.
The Professor commented:
“It’s a big deal, because the more fragile skeletons tend to break apart, especially if there is a river nearby with a powerful current. If you are an animal that’s falling apart because you’re rotten your big bones are not going to be washed very far by a river, but your small bones will be washed a long way. Because small animals are being preserved there, we hope to find small dinosaurs as well.”
In the summer of 2017, a field team will descend on the Pipestone Creek bonebeds with the aim of identifying small fauna. A team of Chinese palaeontologists, who have studied Asian troodontids are expected to join the researchers.
North-western Alberta in the Late Cretaceous – A Cretaceous Cross Roads
The northern part of Alberta has proved to be a happy hunting ground for vertebrate palaeontologists with a number of significant dinosaur discoveries having been made in the area. The Upper Cretaceous rocks record important aspects of the region’s Late Cretaceous biota. It seems that during this time in Earth’s history, North America was connected to Asia and a faunal interchange probably took place. Several families of Asian dinosaurs have never been found in Canada, but Professor Currie is confident that one day, palaeontologists will uncover further evidence of this faunal interchange between the linked continents of Asia and North America.
Phil Currie, optimistically concluded:
“One of these days, I think we are going to find some, the potential is definitely there.”
Team members at Everything Dinosaur look forward to reporting on the research team’s progress.
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Abstract: Formally we have arrived at the middle of the book. So you may need a pause for recovering, a pause which we want to fill up by some fixed point theorems supplementing those which you already met or which you will meet in later chapters. The first group of results centres around Banach’s fixed point theorem. The latter is certainly a nice result since it contains only one simple condition on the map F, since it is so easy to prove and since it nevertheless allows a variety of applications. Therefore it is not astonishing that many mathematicians have been attracted by the question to which extent the conditions on F and the space Ω can be changed so that one still gets the existence of a unique or of at least one fixed point. The number of results produced this way is still finite, but of a statistical magnitude, suggesting at a first glance that only a random sample can be covered by a chapter or even a book of the present size. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) most of the modifications have not found applications up to now, so that there is no reason to write a cookery book about conditions but to write at least a short outline of some ideas indicating that this field can be as interesting as other chapters. A systematic account of more recent ideas and examples in fixed point theory should however be written by one of the true experts. Strange as it is, such a book does not seem to exist though so many people are puzzling out so many results.
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What does house maintenance includes?
Gas leak detection should always be part of routine home maintenance for most homes with gas powered appliances. If you do not check for gas leaks regularly you can end up having major problems with some gas appliances or even cause a fire in your home. For example, when you have a gas leak in your home you have to look for a gas leak detector to locate the gas leak then need a gas leak repair contact a professional plumber. The gas will often escape into the air and then the gas will ignite when it comes in contact with combustible materials such as paper, cloth, wood, and paint. This can cause serious problems for you and your family if you do not take gas leak detection seriously.
Even though gas leaks can sometimes be difficult to detect, you can find out if there is any leaking by placing a simple detector around the gas leak detection area. If there is any gas leaking, this detector should let you know in relatively little time about it. Some people recommend that you test the detector after you have fixed any leaking gas appliances in order to make sure you did not miss any.
What detects gas leak at home ?
Sometimes gas leak detection is performed in homes without gas powered appliances. For example, if there are gas lines that are not connected to a gas source but there are gas appliances connected, there may be a problem with these gas lines. These types of gas lines can also become rusty or corroded and this can affect the ability to detect gas leaks. When you perform gas leak detection around any gas lines or appliances, you need to make sure you have the proper gas leak repair tools to help you with the repair.
A gas leak detection tool should smell rotten eggs or mildew before you buy it. In fact, it should smell like a gas leak. The smell will help you determine if the item is working properly or not. This is a very important step when performing gas leak detection as otherwise you may find yourself repairing something that turns out to be undamaged and safe. A gas leak detection product will usually smell like a rotten egg.
Is there a meter to detect gas leak?
Before performing gas leak detection on your home, it’s a good idea to check the meter of gas leak detectors. You should always use the exact brand of gas leak detection you purchased. There can be differences in the way various brands read. This can cause your detectors to read a reading that is incorrect for the gas leak location it was tested in. To make sure you are using the right brand, have the company you bought the gas leak detection system from test the gas leak detection products.
If you decide to hire a professional gas leak detection company, you should research the company you are planning to hire. Hiring the wrong gas line repair company could cost you more money in the long run than you will spend on gas leak detection. Look for a gas leak detection company that has been certified by an independent agency. This will ensure you that they have received training and are capable of performing gas leak detection using state of the art equipment.
What safety gear you should wear around toxic fumes?
When performing gas leak detection using carbon monoxide poisoning you should wear safety goggles and gloves. It’s also a good idea to install smoke alarms in your home. Carbon monoxide is deadly gas, and can be lethal in just minute amounts if inhaled. It is a colorless, odorless gas, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. The symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include: fatigue, depression, confusion, drowsiness, and nausea.
It is essential that if you are experiencing any of these symptoms that you consult a gas leak detection specialist right away. The longer gas leaks are left undetected, the more damage can be done. It is not only a safety concern, but also an inconvenience to have to deal with. You don’t have to suffer with the inconvenience of gas leaks, call a gas leak detection specialist to come check your gas lines.
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LGBTQ rights organization Born Perfect has released a short film called “Bobby’s Big Problem” to educate the public about the dangers of conversion therapy.
Told through puppets, “Bobby’s Big Problem” takes a comedic look at conversion therapy, satirizing the outdated ideas of gender and sexuality held by the people in charge of such programs. In the film, a young boy named Bobby (RB Butcher) is taken to a therapist (Patton Oswalt) by his mother (D’Arcy Carden), who claims she “just wants what’s best” for her son as he begins to experience same-sex attraction. Though the therapist swears he’s not practicing conversion therapy (“No, no, no, we can’t call it that anymore!”), what follows is a series of scenes where Bobby and a cute fellow patient must assert their masculinity in order to “become straight” — something the therapist achieves by beating up pillows with tennis rackets and lobbing footballs straight at Bobby’s eyes. Bobby explains the experience to his friend Renee (Jasika Nicole), who helps him realize that what he’s going through isn’t therapy at all.
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When we realized we were coming up on italki article number 1000 we knew we needed a special way to mark the occasion. What better, we thought, than to dedicate our thousandth trip to the press to all that italki Articles has become and the people who made it happen — our community of readers like you, and the italki teachers who share their passion for languages one topic at a time! It’s been a journey of years to build the diverse collection of articles our new and familiar writers continue to grow with us week by week, and crossing this milestone finds us reflecting with gratitude for all the people who have contributed along the way.
We also thought article 1000 would make a great occasion to celebrate italki itself and the larger learning concept Articles was born out of. When we launched Articles, almost exactly three years ago today, we wanted to give the people who learn with us something they wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else. True to our belief that language learning is all about connecting with people and what they have to share, we felt giving our teachers a voice in our community as writers would be a unique way for our learners to interact with our most valuable resource. More a complement than an alternative to italki lessons, Articles offered a different way of experiencing the personal wisdom and expertise italki teachers bring to helping people learn. No kind of textbook learning imaginable can give you the knowledge you gain by experiencing a language in real-life conversation, but one topic at a time we’ve managed to gather a wealth of organic perspectives to make your journey into any language richer, wherever you find yourself reading.
One of the great pleasures of learning is unearthing those diamond-like moments of understanding that only seem to come after a long struggle through confusion and guesswork. As an italki learner you can surely relate. If you’re one of the many who first started to make breakthroughs after connecting with one of our dedicated professional teachers, chances are you suffered your fair share of frustration before making the discoveries that inspired you to continue. What makes italki articles so valuable is that they are written to make those crystal moments of discovery easily accessible to you, capturing the spirit of italki lessons in print form. Just as importantly, they come from authors who have been through and mentored others in the struggle to learn languages, whose stories, perspectives, and wisdom are as valuable as the language knowledge they have to pass along.
Some articles read like mini-lessons on specific topics, while others offer encouragement for the longer journey of learning. Common to all of them are our writers’ efforts to save you valuable time you might otherwise spend wandering through a wilderness of misunderstandings with your goals for success coming in and out of focus. In this sense Articles are a lot like italki lessons and the mentorship a great teacher offers, and when combined with italki lessons they take on a new depth. On the one hand, topics centered on specific concepts in your target language can help you see ahead to ideas you might want to explore with your teacher. On the other hand, languages are as multifaceted as the people who speak them, and outside perspectives can only add to the learning experience you have with your teacher.
italki Articles is a publication dedicated to helping people access languages, created in the hope of bringing more people along in the incredible process of discovery that is learning to speak them. More than just a sigh of relief, it’s elating to be able to wake up in the middle of a moving conversation and wonder how it could ever have seemed so difficult to connect with people in your target language. When lofty goals and dreams come true, what once seemed unimaginable is suddenly impossible to imagine any other way, a theme we hear about so often in the success stories italki learners share at italki Stories.
Fabio from Brazil writes, “I stumbled upon a website that I had never heard of before: italki. The idea was simple and reasonable, but I had doubts. Would it actually work for me?... I had so many questions. Now, the answer seems crystal clear to me: italki was the best thing to happen to me in a million years. I felt like I was swimming in a sea of possibilities with a variety of teachers that maybe outnumbered the inhabitants of my small town.”
Realizing that his circumstances didn’t have to limit his access to the experiences he was seeking set Fabio free to leave his doubts behind. For others, finding out that succeeding at a language offers you new ways to connect with people is the true value of learning with italki. As Randall from the US writes, “I now have many Brazilian friends and acquaintances who are always available to share their knowledge as native speakers to help me further my knowledge. I am now able to have conversations with native speakers actually from Brazil and just talk with them about my favorite topics such as politics, sports, daily life, etc. and that experience in informal conversation has been invaluable in learning how to communicate.”
It’s no surprise that if there’s anything we’ve learned on the road to article 1000 it’s the value of sharing what you know with others who could benefit from your experience. Languages form the bonds of community, and those of us who care about learning them are a community of our own. That’s why we hope you’ll take the knowledge sharing that defines the italki experience as an inspiration to share your language journeys with the people who matter in your life, from friends and family to the network you connect with via social media. When you learn languages you become an ambassador for the good that it means in the world today and the benefits people can discover in experiences like your own. Perhaps you even have the missing insight into a problem thousands of learners are struggling with in a language you’ve mastered, in which case we hope you’ll consider becoming a contributor at Articles. If you believe in what you know, we believe in helping you give others the chance to know it too, and encourage you to learn more about writing with italki!
Wherever your learning leads you, we hope you will continue to find direction and inspiration in the myriad insights and perspectives we are able to bring you via italki Articles. It is truly rewarding to look back on at the three years of contributions our dedicated writers and teachers have made so that Articles could become the thriving part of the italki experience it is today. Here’s to the next thousand articles!
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The European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) has today issued new guidance to physicians on the diagnosis of coeliac disease in children recommending the no-biopsy approach at diagnosis for the majority of children suspected of having the disease.
Currently, around half of children with suspected celiac disease undergo a biopsy to confirm their diagnosis but rather than invasive and distressing endoscopy, experts are now recommending that children undergo a two-stage blood test to establish a diagnosis of celiac disease that would mean the majority who currently have one, would no longer require a biopsy.
The new advice for clinicians comes as an update to the 2012 guidance published by the Society and bring the original guidelines up-to-date; providing an evidenced-based guideline that, wherever possible, enables accurate serology-based diagnosis without the need for biopsy.
The new guidance, published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, could save millions of euros in direct healthcare costs each year as biopsies on children, and the required general anesthetic to perform them, cost around €1,000 per patient.
The new guidelines recommend that:
- Testing for specific antibodies should be performed as initial screening in children with suspected celiac disease
- Asymptomatic children can be diagnosed without the need for a biopsy, using the same criteria as in patients with symptoms
- The decision on whether to perform a diagnostic biopsy should be made as a shared decision between clinicians and parents, and where appropriate, with the child too
Celiac disease affects 1 in every 100 children in the majority of European countries and, in some countries, it can occur as frequently as 3 in every 100. It is a lifelong autoimmune condition, caused by an abnormal reaction to gluten – a protein found in wheat, barley and rye – grains that are very common in the European diet. It can occur at any age, including in babies when weaning once gluten has been introduced to their diet, in children and in adolescence. Currently, the only treatment for celiac disease is strict compliance to a gluten-free diet.
Celiac disease is the most common food-related chronic disease among children in Europe, yet experts now believe that up to 80% of cases are undiagnosed. With rising prevalence, undiagnosed celiac disease leaves a large population at risk of nutritional and developmental problems and long-term associated health complications. Despite being easy to detect and treat, diagnostic delays can often reach 10-13 years from the first symptoms. The new guidelines are therefore aimed at making diagnosis as easy and accurate as possible, to help enable earlier diagnosis and higher detection rates.
Commenting, Luisa Mearin, Secretary of the Celiac Disease Working Group and senior author of the new guidelines said:
These new guidelines mean that more than half of all children being investigated for celiac disease will no longer need to have an invasive biopsy. This is a big step forward in our mission to ensure that children can be diagnosed and effectively treated for celiac disease. It is scandalous that so many children go so long, often up to 10 years, without diagnosis. Removing the need for biopsy in order to achieve diagnosis will reduce the stresses associated with such an invasive procedure and mean that diagnoses are quicker and cheaper for healthcare systems.”
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DETROIT – Beginning a brand new enterprise might be each thrilling and daunting. You’re prepared to show your thought into actuality. On the identical time, it’s regular to fret about the opportunity of failure.
Main what you are promoting to success comes with many challenges. It takes endurance, planning, perseverance, and arduous work. Though there’s no single appropriate path to success, there are some helpful items of data that may make it easier to develop what you are promoting.
Under you’ll discover the highest 5 ideas each new entrepreneur ought to know when beginning their enterprise.
Create a easy marketing strategy and develop it over time
A marketing strategy is a doc that particulars what you are promoting’ objectives, how you intend to achieve these objectives, and a interval during which to achieve them. It additionally contains issues like monetary technique, advertising and marketing methods, and different related subjects.
For instance, think about you have been beginning a drywall set up enterprise. Your marketing strategy could embrace objectives like ‘Improve earnings by 10% in a single 12 months.’ The plan might also describe the way you obtain environment friendly administration, which, in flip, helps enhance your buyer satisfaction and market competitiveness. Arising with these methods might be made simpler with assist from an industry-specific utility, like Jobber.
Typically, round half of latest companies fail by their fifth 12 months. Out of the remaining companies, roughly 70% of them comply with enterprise plans. Arising with a strong plan undoubtedly will increase the chance of success. (1)
Attempt to begin with a easy marketing strategy and add to it as what you are promoting grows. If one thing doesn’t go in line with your plan, don’t let your self be discouraged. Use it as a studying alternative and adapt your plan accordingly.
Also referred to as market evaluation, that is all about analyzing and understanding your rivals and clients. It informs buyer engagement, advertising and marketing technique, and different enterprise choices. Market evaluation is important should you purpose to place your self as a powerful competitor in your market.
Making gross sales is about understanding who your clients are, what they want, and providing them a top quality service/product that satisfies that want. Figuring out the perfect audience to your companies is likely one of the most crucial steps to rising a profitable enterprise. Moreover, your rivals shall be doing every thing potential to draw clients to them as an alternative of you, so you have to uncover what’ll make you stand out.
Assume again to the drywall enterprise instance. Maybe evaluating the market revealed that almost all rivals are inclined to have inconsistent, unreliable preliminary quotes and ultimate invoices, leaving clients feeling pissed off. Your online business may keep the specified consistency together with your dependable drywall bill template.
Discover ways to handle enterprise funds
You is perhaps an knowledgeable in the case of what you are promoting’s services, however that’s solely a part of the larger entity. A lot of enterprise revolves round managing funds. Not being in charge of your accounting is likely one of the worst errors any new entrepreneur could make.
Analysis has discovered that 81% of small enterprise house owners handle funds themselves. Moreover, 40% aren’t assured of their monetary administration abilities. Managing enterprise finance your self isn’t a good suggestion should you sit inside this group as it may put you beneath a variety of stress. Plus, should you’re not comfy dealing with funds, it may pressure the enterprise and distract you from different essential duties. (2)
Poor monetary and money movement administration results in 82% of enterprise failures. If you wish to succeed, attempt to both put money into educating your self on the subject or hiring somebody to handle it for you. (3)
You’ll be able to’t entice clients in the event that they don’t know you exist. A profitable advertising and marketing technique is the way you construct your credibility, model recognition, and produce clients to your door. There are various methods you’ll be able to attempt, and also you’ll most likely attempt a couple of earlier than you discover what works greatest.
That stated, digital advertising and marketing is presently one of the crucial efficient advertising and marketing methods. It’s cost-effective, reaches a big viewers, and is straightforward to adapt. Throughout the scope of digital advertising and marketing, you may attempt social media advertising and marketing, advertising and marketing with associates, and even e mail itemizing.
Have a ardour for what you are promoting
Beginning a enterprise is tough, however maintaining it going is much more difficult. You’ll most likely have to make sacrifices, put in further hours, and work one other job to help your self earlier than the enterprise takes off.
Having a ardour for what you are promoting and what you’re doing could make it simpler to place in all that effort. It doesn’t essentially imply you have to love your product or each facet of what you are promoting. Nonetheless, true dedication and to rising your enterprise into successful will make it easier to obtain your objectives.
Seize your goals with each fingers and maintain on tight, as a result of they received’t come simply. Beginning a brand new enterprise calls for a number of effort and time. That, alongside correct planning, elaborate analysis, and a powerful ardour for what you do will make it easier to and what you are promoting alongside the trail to success.
- “A marketing strategy creates 30% larger probability of progress – Glorious Enterprise Plans”, Supply: https://excellentbusinessplans.com/a-business-plan-creates-30-greater-chance-of-growth/
- “The Reality About Monetary Literacy & Small Enterprise Homeowners | CPA Apply Advisor”, Supply: https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/small-business/information/12340810/the-truth-about-financial-literacy-small-business-owners
- “Money Circulate: The Purpose 82% of Small Companies Fail – Most well-liked CFO”, Supply: https://preferredcfo.com/cash-flow-reason-small-businesses-fail/
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David Fred became interested in knots at a young age while boating on the waters and bays of Lake Michigan. His study of the subject deepened after being given a copy of The Ashley Book of Knots in the 1990s. His research expanded significantly in the last several years while seeking out quality references in order to improve the knotting articles on Wikipedia. He joined the International Guild of Knot Tyers in 2008. He would like to note that he has no professional cable lacing experience, just some hobbyist-level experiments.
It might surprise most people to learn that multitudes of knots tied in cords and thin ribbons have probably traveled on every interplanetary mission ever flown. If human civilization ends tomorrow, interplanetary landers, orbiters, and deep space probes will preserve evidence of both the oldest and newest of human technologies for thousands, if not millions of years.
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* “Study: Decriminalizing prostitution could drastically cut HIV infections,” which is sufficiently obvious that I almost don’t want to include it.
Running teaches you about the inherent unfairness of the world. Two people can work exactly the same, in fact, one can be infinitely more devoted and train much harder and not do as well. An object lesson in how unfair life is.
The world is unfair but most people are better off treating it as if it is fair.
* A theory of where 50 Shades of Grey came from, with a strong emphasis on the word “theory.” I also think the pejorative connotations from the term “marketing” are going to fade over time, much as “sellout” was used derisively in the 1960s but by the 2000s could no longer be widely seen.
* “Another Challenge of Parenting While Poor: Wealthy Judges;” this sort of point is under-understood.
* “Without You I’m Nothing,” which has Paglian overtones for its intersection of culture and sexuality: “Rock stars are the gods of the last century.”
* “Selfie-Love,” by Clancy Martin of How to Sell fame; a friend from China told me that all Americans are hustlers, although she lives in New York, so her generalization may not be applicable to all ~300 million of us. Also, someone attempted to spit in my taxi the other day.
* Little political drama is worth attending to, but this interview between the president and The Economist is interesting throughout. A sample:
The US security presence is always a source of ambivalence everywhere in the world. If we’re not there, people think we’re neglecting them. If we’re there, then they think we’re militarising a region.
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Message of the day
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Newtown.”
Questions not answered
- Will this incident actually spark change in American gun laws?
Power & Politics first spoke with CBC’s Susan Bonner, who recounted the scene in Washington DC and President Barack Obama’s reaction to the shooting, before Hannah Thibedeau spoke with US Ambassador David Jacobson. Jacobson said that there are no easy answers to tackling gun crime in the States, but something needs to be done about these kinds of tragedies.
Immigration minister Jason Kenney told Thibedeau that he has two nephews who went to school some twenty minutes away from Newtown, and while they have since moved away, he has been through the area on numerous occasions. Kenney said that he believes in the need for tough gun control such as exists in Canada, and that they are continually working on the issue of gun smuggling into Canada.
On P&P’s Power Panel, Rob Russo said that any action that Obama takes on gun control would be extraordinary given the history of such debates in the States, but that now is the right time to have the discussion. Martin Patriquin said that it’s impossible to have a rational discussion on gun control in the States, especially when there is a group of people in the country who revere weapons like these. Jennifer Ditchburn said that it’s not a situation of stasis, but rather a move in the opposite direction with an increasing number of “stand your ground” laws being passed, and laws around assault weapons being allowed to lapse.
- Ambassador David Jacobson said that the “Beyond the Border” initiative will hopefully mean shorter wait times and enhanced security, and that it will be a smarter approach to security checks with cargo and passengers because screenings have been harmonized.
Due to ongoing coverage of the Connecticut shooting, there was no Power Play today.
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A simple viewing and logging program allowing users to view and log data from a single T24 radio telemetry acquisition module.
The module to be interrogated is chosen from a list of available T24 devices detected on the radio channel selected.
- Select the radio channel required and choose a device to view from the list of detected devices. Once viewed the data can be logged to a CSV file
- Select a required device
- View the value on a simulated LCD display
- Log the data to a CSV file
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The program also performs sleeping and waking allowing battery life to be conserved when not in use. The log file created is a simple CSV file detailing the output value and the time elapsed from the beginning of the logging cycle.
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The People Who started Slow Foot Movement
Take a man from Italy who grew up in the thriving, eclectic eight-century-old communal town centers known as the piazza. Move him to the Midwest of the United States for love and opportunity. Add a born and raised Michigander, whose first love is the outdoors. Over time and through life experiences that first love evolved into a passion for getting more people “out there” for recreation, health, and soul-soothing. Mix in a dose or two of Hoosier Hospitality and you have The Slow Foot Movement—dedicated to enabling people to enjoy their personal journey, not just the destination.
Guido Maregatti has always been a futurist. His early work included developing the Intulisten Program; teaching its concepts of the use of Classical Music to improve learning skills in children.
He then focused on the visual arts. He was the first photographer to use large format close-up photographs of nature to sooth and heal patients, family and staff at Riley Hospital for Children, in Indianapolis. His work continues to enrich the walls there today.
Moving into the digital arts; Guido designed, built and ‘filled/populated’ the most comprehensive, statewide trails website; www.indianatrails.com. Not only can one find up to date information and maps of any trail in Indiana; but the history of trail development has been documented by him in over 100 videos including interviews and trail rides.
As the Founder of Slow Foot Movement, Guido has now turned his focus to facilitating the enjoyment of one’s journey through life; whether for an hour, a day, week or lifetime.
Tina Jones, Guido’s assistant at Slow Foot Movement, is a landscape planner. She earned a Master Degree in Landscape Architecture from Ball State University. Her work and research in historic landscapes throughout the state provided an insight into the “lay of the land” in Indiana beginning with the Buffalo Trace and Wabash-Erie Canal and then transitioning to the century old historic greenways systems designed as the city plan by George Kessler for our larger cities. Adding to her knowledge base of how people re-create and their preferred uses of outdoor lands; Tina authored an Indianapolis-Marion County Comprehensive Park, Recreation and Open Space Plan, taught planting design and mentored graduate students in Urban Planning at Ball State University. On a daily basis she interacted with trail users as a city greenway planner from her office at the Depot on the Monon Rail Trail in Indianapolis/Broad Ripple.
She began her collaborations with Guido as assistant videographer, writer, and interviewer for the Indiana Trails video library. Coincidentally, they met in the Crossroads of America—Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Uber and Postmates sued the state of California to stop a new law that changes the way the state designates workers as employees or independent contractors. It could classify many drivers for companies like Uber and Postmates as employees instead of contractors, meaning they'd be entitled to benefits like employer-provided health insurance and paid time off. The companies say that could hurt their businesses financially and that the law is unconstitutional.
Class discussion: Drivers for companies like Uber, Postmates and Lyft also supply the vehicles and fuel used to carry passengers and goods. What do the drivers get in return? Is the deal good for the companies, the drivers or both? Why? Do most companies use “independent contractors” to pay workers as little as possible? Would you be willing to pay more for goods and services so everyone could get health insurance, paid time off and retirement benefits?
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Use templates in Adobe Dreamweaver to construct a flexible and easy-to-update site and to provide consistency between HTML pages.
Templates allow a Web designer to construct a site that can be flexible, easy to update, and consistent between HTML pages. Templates can enhance productivity, allowing some members of the team to focus on the format of the pages, while other members of the team create new pages and revise the content without changing the formatted layout.
Designers can make changes to the overall design of the site quickly by revising the DWT (Dreamweaver template) files directly. The pages that are linked to the template files are automatically updated allowing for site-wide modifications in minutes.
Any HTML page may be saved as a template. Simply create a new page (File > New) or open an existing one (File > Open) and make changes to the page properties, insert images, type text, generate layer and table layouts, and so forth. Once the design of your HTML page is complete, choose File > Save as Template to generate the DWT file. Dreamweaver creates a Templates folder for the template (DWT file) at the root level of the local site folder.
Note: Make sure not to move the DWT file from the Templates folder. Do not rename or move the Templates folder. As long as the DWT file remains inside the Templates folder, the links from the HTML pages to the template will not be broken.
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The N.P.D.D. of Social Solidarity & Sport “Irodoros” is a public organization, which was established in 2011 by the Municipality of Megara and aims to promote sport activity and raise public awareness of social issues.
This is achieved through a variety of sport and social programs, the continual upgrading of sports facilities and the creation of new venues offering to our citizens quality and reliable solutions, especially to the working mother, to the elderly and to the economically weaker people.
“IRODOROS” is responsible for the function of the following services:
Social Solidarity field
- The support and provision of social care for infants, children and elderly people.
- The design and implementation of projects or the participation in projects and activities for the integration of Roma, repatriates, immigrants and refugees in the social, economic and cultural life of the local society.
- The promotion and development of voluntarism and social solidarity through the creation of local social solidarity networks, voluntary organizations and groups of volunteers who are going to be active in order to achieve the objectives and support the social protection and solidarity program of the Municipality and the Community.
NPDD “IRODOROS” has four (4) kindergartens with more than 300 registered children.
“IRODOROS” offers comprehensive quality programs through child care centers and family day care, each designed to foster the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of preschoolers in a safe environment.
Services are available up to eight hours a day and they are affordable to no cost care for eligible families
Experienced, certified, and trained teachers are offering developmentally appropriate and educational instruction and access to community resources such as dental and medical screenings.
Support and Recreation centers for seniors
There are four (4) daily open centers for senior citizens with more than 2.800 registered users and they serve a gateway to the nation’s aging network—connecting older adults to vital community services that can help them stay healthy and independent.
“IRODOROS” has put together a combination of programs and services specially designed to help our older neighbors stay healthy, happy, active and fulfilled.
Activities include traveling, pursuing old hobbies and learning new ones, socializing with friends, meeting new people, increasing knowledge, educational and arts programs, becoming health, fitness, and wellness programs and staying physically fit, contributing to the community and much more!
Program “HELP AT HOME” for the elderly
The “Help at Home” support Centers operate in the municipality of Megara in three different structures for:
- Elderly in need of information on social welfare issues as well as connection with the Network of Services of the National System for Social Solidarity
- Elderly in need of emergency social aid, in great danger of being harmed and unable to protect themselves
- Elderly and their families in a crisis situation and in danger of being harmed that need emergency psychological and social support
The program is staffed with social workers and psychologists and it operates mainly in the morning
The staff makes admissions for people in need of social aid and designs special plans for social and psychological support
They also provide emergency counseling and short-term psychological support.
Sport for all
“IRODOROS” offers sports for all citizens, including disabled individuals. Its sports facilities host basketball, volleyball, handball and tennis courts, football fields, indoor gyms offering aerobics classes and body building equipment, all of which cater to Megara amateur sports clubs.
It also organizes a collection of different sport events such as:
- Track and field national championships
- Half marathon “Footsteps of Pausanias”
- Aquathlon and Triathlon at Varea Beach
- Sports for minorities and Roma population
- Grass-roots sport programs
- 3 on 3 Basketball Tournaments
Daily Care Center for Roma population and immigrants
The Daily Care Center for Roma and immigrants devotes its actions to supporting socially excluded children and their families, most of which are Romany living in the municipality of Megara in the underprivileged district. Roma population in our region is characterized by extremely poor living conditions, disadvantaged positioning in the labor market, educational and social exclusion. The goals of the Daily Care Center are:
- to help children with respect to their social and cultural characteristics by contributing to their social and educational integration,
- to support the families of these children in creating a healthy environment for their development
- To provide primary health care, especially prevention.
- to keep medical records and vaccination cards for all children
- To identify health problems, acute or chronic, and refer to medical centers when necessary
To educate about health issues and hygiene
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Using electromagnetically transmitted stimulation signals, BEMER Physical Vascular Therapy stimulates the pumping movement of the smallest blood vessels. Thus, the blood flow in the microcirculation zone can normalize. The globules are better supplied and can fulfill their various tasks. The diseases and pains can be better fought through the BEMER physical vascular therapy, the wound healing process can be accelerated, the energy for bodily and mental performance can be made available, the regeneration processes can be assisted. Even in the field of sports, for example amateur or professional athletes, BEMER physical vascular therapy can be a valuable aid. Properly irrigating the smaller vessels will shorten the warm-up and cool down phases and speed up regeneration, which means more efficient workouts. Even the process of healing micro-wounds can often be accelerated. From a total point of view, BEMER physical vascular therapy assists the body’s regulation mechanisms for prevention, as well as regeneration and rehabilitation processes.
The BEMER physical vascular therapy can be used in addition to:
a better supply of organs and tissues, and therefore a better regeneration,
decreased susceptibility to infections,
the assistance of the immune system,
an increase in physical performance,
an increase in mental performance,
relief from the consequences of stress.
BEMER Physical Vascular Therapy can also be an amazing help in the field of sports activities. It can thus contribute to an increase in the maximum intensity of stresses, improve the effects of training, shorten the regeneration phases of sports training and reduce the risk of injury.
Scientific Evidence for the Efficacy of BEMER Physical Vascular Therapy
In many studies and observations, it has been possible to scientifically prove the effectiveness of BEMER Physical Vascular Therapy. For example, it has been possible to show a 30 percent increase in oxygen utilization in tissues. This is the main effect of physical therapy, especially in cases of regeneration disorders or rehabilitation. Thus, it is not excessive to say that BEMER Physical Vascular Therapy can be considered as a breakthrough in the field of physical vascular therapy thanks to its contribution to the blood circulation and thus the regeneration and the increased performance. blood vessels.
The following pages give you even more information about BEMER effects:
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Encouraging and growing safe work practices will save you money, reduce project delays and improve the overall workplace health and safety of a construction site.
A compliant construction company will have Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) documentation and other WHS procedures implemented across their worksites. However, this doesn’t guarantee all staff and workers will adopt safe work practices.
Safety culture filters from the top down. Demonstrate your commitment and workers will follow your lead.
Here are our top tips for cultivating and nurturing a safety culture on worksites.
1. Prioritising Employee Safety
A focus on safety should be high on the priority list. Expenses, turnaround times and deadlines come after this. Employees are the highest-value business asset - without them, there is no work.
Show this to your employees by voicing your commitment to keeping them safe. This instantly drives deeper employee engagement; the key to every business’ success.
2. Safe Work Practices and Regular Training
Intensive and regular training is a sure-fire way to achieve a high safety culture. It reiterates your interest in your employees’ safety and wellbeing.
Training should be ongoing. It brings your teams closer, enables them to interact with each other, and motivates them to work together. Furthermore, it encourages long-term retention.
3. Encourage Involvement
Encourage staff to elect a multi-hierarchy committee to handle all safety matters. This committee is responsible for driving reviews, updates and site-safety plans.
Include corrective plans, as well as preventative plans, and engage with employees for input into these plans (via the committee).
The committee, and management, must ensure all employees have knowledge of, and access to these plans.
Encourage feedback on concerns relating to safety and ensure that action is taken. If employees believe that you truly take safety seriously, they will too.
Ensure all employees know that THEY are accountable for safety. Not just their team leaders, supervisors or managers. Make is clear that you view unsafe work processes as a threat to the safety of entire team.
Encourage open feedback. Including safety issues, accidents that were avoided, or anomalies found on site.
Encourage a culture where all workers feel confident to bring up safety issues and risks. Workers should never be shamed or punished for talking about safety.
5. Rewards and Discipline
Incentivise good safety behaviour across your staff pool! Acknowledged and reward practices such as:
- adhering to SWMS,
- regular attendance of safety meetings,
- consistent use of PPE,
- reporting incidents, and
- providing safety suggestions.
Avoid incentivising accident-free weeks. This can lead to a reduction in incident reporting, which is not the end-goal!
6. Inspections and Meetings
A safety inspection should occur at the beginning and end of each day. This can pick up any oversights, such as misplaced tools or damage to materials or equipment.
Start the working day with a quick safety focus meeting and list the day’s tasks and their related SWMS. Discuss any feedback received from workers. Don’t forget to give praise where it's due.
Ad hoc daily inspections should also be implemented to pick up any risks to safety.
A safety culture filters from the top down. Show your commitment to achieving this and your workers will naturally follow your lead.
Builder Assist have a number of safety resources available to building industry trades. Start implementing your safety culture today.
To find out what other documentation, procedures and checklists you need in your trade, head to Tradespeople Documentation for a full list or get in touch with the Builder Assist team today!
Accident or Incident Policy & Procedures
Various types of accident or incident documentation to assist with managing the workplace. Where an accident or incident resulting in injury has occurred, a work place is required under the act to undertake actions to reduce the risk of a similar accident or incident occurring.
Safety Management Plans (WHS)
Specifically designed for each trade starting up a business, these Work Health Safety Management Plans provide support with the management of Work Health & Safety in workplace. Also referred to as Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) the material provided in this section will assist with WH&S/OH&S management and training requirements for the workplace.
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When searching about resetting a mobile phone to fix some issues or clean up your phone memory, the terms hard reset and factory reset often come up. What is the difference between them?
Hard reset clears all the memory that is associated with hardware. It is generally done by pressing Vol+ and the power button together when your phone is turned off. In comparison, a factory reset is when you want to format the whole operating system, bringing it back to its new (factory) state.
- Is a hard reset the same as a factory reset?
- Difference between hard reset, soft reset, and master reset?
- Difference between reboot and reset?
- How to perform a hard reset or factory reset?
- What will I lose if I factory reset my phone?
- Will factory reset improve performance?
- Does factory reset remove viruses?
- Why won’t my phone let me do a factory reset?
- Should I remove my SD card before a reset?
- What do I do after a factory reset?
- Do you have to reactivate the phone after a factory reset?
- Can you restore your data after reset?
- Can I get my pictures back after a factory reset?
Is a hard reset the same as a factory reset?
The key difference among the two reset methods is that factory reset involves the resetting of the whole operating system of the device, whereas hard reset is about resetting only a certain hardware operation of the phone
Another way to put it is that factory reset is done to reset the operating system to its original state. In contrast, a hard reset is done to set as many settings as possible back to their normal state.
Is a factory reset the same as wiping /data and /cache?
No, they are not the same, when you are factory resetting your smartphone, it will delete all the applications data (Cache, Users accounts) and other data (Music files, videos, etc.) as well.
In contrast, when you wipe data and/or cache, you are only removing the temporary files and data. These files include your account details and details of your activity in a particular application like browsing history, saved passwords, etc.
Difference between hard reset, soft reset, and master reset?
Hard Reset: It is a reset method in which you turn off your smartphone and then boot the device into Recovery mode. This will delete the data that you have on your phone; all the settings and applications added by the user.
Soft Reset: It is the form of reset done by powering off your mobile and turning it on after a minute or two. This method does not delete your data; it just simply smooths the functioning of your device by cleaning the data in RAM.
Master Reset: Master Reset in another word for Factory reset, and it helps you clean the operating system of the device by deleting all the data.
Difference between reboot and reset?
Reboot is restarting your device to cycle the power state; you can reboot all types of devices when they are not functioning smoothly.
Rebooting is a one-step process that includes shutting down your device and then powering it back on.
On the other hand, reset is erasing all the data of the device and putting it back in the same state as it was first purchased, making it brand new again.
How to perform a hard reset or factory reset?
Before you hard reset your phone, you need to make sure that you know your Google or iCloud account username and password, and that you have a backup of all your data. Here is the process to hard reset or factory reset your smartphone.
How to Hard Reset An Android device
- The first step is to power off your phone
- Now, press the power and Volume up buttons ( or a slightly different combination depending on the model of the phone) at the same time and, along with them, also hold the power key for about 10 to 20 seconds
- Once you are done, you will see a menu. With the help of the volume button, select the Factory Reset option and click on It
- Your phone will probably restart, and the Android “robot in trouble” symbol may appear on the screen
- Now, press the power button and the Volume button together
- After that, you can use the volume button to find the Wipe Data/Factory Reset option
- Click on the Yes button, and your phone will start rebooting.
How to hard reset Samsung?
As Samsung is also an android device, the procedure to hard reset the Samsung device is just the same. However, the menu interface might differ slightly from other devices, so you’ll just need to select the appropriate menus.
How to factory reset an iPhone?
- First, go to the settings apps of your iPhone, then General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings
- After you have clicked on the Erase All Content button, you will be asked about your phone PIN code, your Apple ID password, and it will ask you to turn off the Find My service of the device
- Once you are done giving all the necessary information, your screen will go dark, and the reboot of your system will begin
What will I lose if I factory reset my phone?
When you choose the factory reset option on your phone, you are deleting everything on your phone, including all app information, photos, videos, messages, calendar, music, etc.
Does hard reset delete photos?
Yes, a Hard reset is just like the factory reset in this respect, it will delete all of your data, including photos, so ensure that you have a backup in place on your Google or iCloud account.
Will I lose my text messages?
Yes, you will lose all the text messages on your iPhone.
Does a factory reset remove Google accounts?
Yes, a factory reset will remove your Google account. However, when you reactivate your device, it will ask you to log into your Google account to set up your device.
Will factory reset improve performance?
After you use your phone for a long time, there is a build-up of cache and other unwanted files that take a lot of space on your device. Factory reset helps remove that unwanted data from the device.
So, in a way, it does improve the performance; however, it does not mean that this will boost your phone’s speed. It will simply bring back the original performance of your phone when you first bought it.
Does factory reset remove viruses?
As you are deleting all of the data on your phone, the viruses in your device will also be removed. In fact, the factory reset option is ideal when you are in a situation where some malware has disrupted your device’s functioning.
Why won’t my phone let me do a factory reset?
There can be many reasons that your phone will not let you do a factory reset, and the most common one is that you forget your PIN or password. In that case, you can download a third-party app to factory reset your phone.
However, if you do not want to use a third-party app, try a Hard Reset but remember to make a backup of your data.
Should I remove my SD card before a reset?
It is necessary that you take out your SD card because most phones do not have the option to factory reset only phone data.
So make sure that you remove your SD card before resetting; otherwise, in most mobiles, you will lose all the data, including the data on the SD card.
What do I do after a factory reset?
When you are done resetting your phone, you can restore all the important data such as contacts, messages, pictures, videos from the Google or iCloud account for which you have previously made a backup.
Do you have to reactivate the phone after a factory reset?
The factory reset deletes all the previous settings and accounts that you have added to your phone, but it doesn’t affect your SIM card in any way- This means that you do not have to reactivate your SIM card again, you only need to set up your phone again.
Can you restore your data after reset?
You can only restore your data after a factory reset if you have made a backup beforehand. Otherwise, the data will be lost permanently.
Can I get my pictures back after a factory reset?
The answer for this and the above question is the same; if you have made a backup of your pictures on a Google or iCloud account, you can get back your pictures.
Moreover, you can also install photo recovery software to recover your pictures like Wondershare, Fonelab, etc.
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Below is the translation to Veda Paati's story, narrated in tamil, available in below platforms:
Did I upkeep my duties like King Janaka?
Thirukolur Pen Pillai continued to pour her heart’s frustrations out to Swami Emperumanar! “Swami, have I performed my duties without expecting anything in return? Have you heard of the great King Janaka?”, and with this the little child brought Swami Ramanuja to the golden era of Treta Yuga.
The great King Janaka played a very crucial role in Ramayana. Not only was He the father of the Goddess Sita Herself, but he was also an exemplary king and Gnani – A Rajarishi! Although he was very dutiful as a King, he was detached from the results of his actions.
King Janaka ruled the region of Videha. The capital of Videha was Mithila. Although the King was very knowledgeable and educated, he always wanted to keep learning. One such time, he approached Yagnavalkya, a Mahan to learn under him. He lived in Yagnavalkya’s Ashram as part of his Gurukul.
The other students of Yagnavalkya were always jealous of the King, thinking that he would be the favourite of their Guru and would gain more importance than them. Janaka was undisturbed, as his sole purpose of attending the Gurukul was to gain knowledge and nothing else. The guru was acutely aware of this situation and decided to teach the other students a lesson. He wanted them to understand the greatness of Janaka.
One day, as lessons were going on, a guard from Mithila barged into the Ashram. “Oh Raja! The city of Mithila is on fire! Do come! Do come!”. All the other disciples of Yagnavalkya immediately got up and rushed to Mithila to salvage their belongings. However, the King sat unperturbed, continuing to focus on the lesson. Shortly the other students returned, realizing that their teacher had deliberately conducted this drama. There had been no fire in Mithila!
When the King was questioned on his inaction despite knowing that there was fire in his headquarters, the King replied “All that I possess belongs to the Lord. He would take care of my possessions for me, so why should I bother? Here, I have only one duty and that is to gain knowledge”. The disciples finally understood the greatness of their King!
Goddess Mahalakshmi wanted to attain such a great Karmayogi as Her father. Once King Janaka was conducting a Yagna, which required him to plough land. While ploughing, he saw a beautiful child who looked like a thousand petaled lotus. She was none other than Mother Mahalakshmi Herself. He took her home, named her “Sita” and brought her up with much affection. She grew to be a beautiful girl, with character and skill. Eventually, the time came to get her married and like any father, Janaka wanted the best of grooms for his precious daughter.
There was a great bow that belonged to Lord Shiva, a family heirloom! He conducted a historical Swayamvara, where princes from different cities were invited. One who had the power to break the bow would get Sita’s hand in marriage. The handsome, valiant, skilled and divine Prince of Kosala, none other than PerumaL himself, appeared for the Swayamvara. He effortlessly broke the bow, much to the joy of Sita! Who else was more deserving to have the Lord Himself as his son-in-law, than King Janaka? Lakshmana, the brother of Rama, was none other than the mighty Adisesha.
In the next Yuga, during KrishnavatAra, the Lord mentions Janaka during the Bhagavad Gita. While revealing great truths during His Upadesa to Arjuna, the Lord references Janaka as an example of an excellent Karma Yogi. This appears in the third chapter, Karma Yoga.
“Do I even have the qualification to speak about Janaka? The great Karma yogi who was the chosen parent and parent-in-law of the Lord and His consort! Am I performing my duties with such detachment?”, bemoaned the child, Thirukolur Pen Pillai.
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Make a bowl of porridge with your child. Start by looking at the dry oats and talking about their size and texture. Then add the water/milk to the oats and discuss the changes to the oats. Cook the porridge and discuss the new changes.
Don’t worry if you don’t have any porridge – you can use cereal instead and look at the changes when you add milk.
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HOUSTON – Prosecutors on Wednesday filed a charge of felony murder against the suspect in the death of Nassau Bay police Sgt. Kaila Sullivan.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg told KPRC 2 the reason for a felony murder charge rather than a capital murder charge was time.
“As soon as the incident happened, our lawyers were notified by officers on the scene," Ogg said. “With the preliminary evidence we had, we issued a warrant under felony murder because that was the fastest thing to get into the system so that all lawmen around Texas could be aware that he was a wanted fugitive.”
Felony murder vs. Capital murder
So what’s the difference between the two charges? KPRC 2 legal analyst Brian Wice provided these answers:
Type of crime
- A felony murder is committed when, in the course of committing any felony other than manslaughter or lesser form of manslaughter, death is the result. The underlying felony provides the required mental state for the commission of the crime of felony murder.
- Capital murder is committed when a murder occurs during the course of certain felonies (aggravated sexual assault, aggravated robbery, aggravated kidnapping) or when the victim is a peace officer acting in an official capacity. This charge can also be applied in murder-for-hire cases, in a case where there are multiple victims or if the victim is a child under the age of 10.
- If convicted of felony murder, a person faces between 5 and 99 years or a life sentence. It can also include a $10,000 fine, Wice said.
- Capital murder carries the possible punishments of life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
Prosecutors can upgrade a felony murder charge to a capital murder charge based on evidence and investigations, Wice said.
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PALO ALTO (KCBS) –Another PG&E gas transmission pipeline is raising eyebrows, this time in Palo Alto. The trouble spot is about 1.5 miles of pipeline 109, which runs along Arastradero Road between Middlefield Road and Alma Street.
"It was put in in 1936, and welded with a single weld, which is a less effective welding system than a double weld," said Palo Alto Councilman Pat Burt. "They have not been able to test it."
PG&E is committed to replacing the line, but not until 2013. Utility spokesman Brian Swanson said that pressure on the line has been reduced on the line while the repairs are pending.
KCBS' Mike Colgan Reports:
"It normally operates somewhere on, or below 375 pounds," said Swanson. "It's currently operating at a reduced pressure of 300 pounds, which is the equivalent of doing a strength test on that line."
Swanson said there is a two year delay because other pipeline projects are more urgent.
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SHIRLEY, Mass. (CNS) — The only chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society that is located in a prison is at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Shirley, according to the 83-year-old who started it there.
John Collins, who is a member of St. Mary Parish in Shrewsbury and writes columns about the popular Trappist monk for The Catholic Free Press, newspaper of the Worcester Diocese, said the chapter is one of 43 in the world.
In January, three prisoners are to have essays published in The Merton Seasonal, a quarterly journal with articles, book reviews and other information of interest to the society’s members.
The prison chapter is an outgrowth of a talk about Father Merton that Collins gave at the request of Catholics incarcerated there.
Prisoners said they learned about him and other speakers they’ve invited to come and talk to them through The Catholic Free Press and The Pilot, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, in whose territory the prison is located.
When they read about something of interest being offered somewhere nearby, they send the hosting parish a letter addressed to the speaker — or their chaplain makes a contact — to request a similar presentation for the Shirley prison’s Catholic community.
Collins went to talk to the prisoners, and they asked him to come back. So, he started a monthly discussion of one of Father Merton’s books and formed the chapter.
He said the essays the prisoners wrote for The Merton Seasonal include what they’ve gained from that Merton book, “New Seeds of Contemplation.” The prison bought 20 copies for the program when he started it in July 2013, he said. He may finish discussion of that book in a month and begin another Merton book with them.
“I was inspired, I’m sure, by the Holy Spirit,” he said of starting the program there. He said he led one at his parish for 11 years, and formed a Merton Society chapter there, which no longer exists.
“Somewhere around April of 2013, I said, ‘I think I’m going to let this go,'” he told the Worcester diocesan paper. He wanted to spend more time on writing, teaching religious education and participating in his Shakespeare group.
Shortly after ending the St. Mary’s Merton program, Collins said, he received a letter sent to him at the parish. In it Shawn Fisher, a prisoner and secretary for the Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel at the Shirley prison, said they’d been reading his Merton columns in The Catholic Free Press and asked him to speak about Merton there, he said.
Speaking of Collins’ program, Deacon Arthur Rogers, a Catholic chaplain at the prison, said: “The men took to it, and he took to it.” He and Collins said about 12 to 20 medium-security prisoners attend the program the third Wednesday of each month.
“What I want to do is a book that will help them in their prayer life, and I wanted to go beyond devotional prayer,” Collins said, explaining why he chose “New Seeds of Contemplation.” “I wanted them to have an appreciation of quiet, interior prayer, just waiting for the Lord.”
“It challenges the minds,” Deacon Rogers said. “Some of these guys are pretty sharp. They like to be challenged.” He said he has never seen anything like this in the prison system.
What’s different about it?
“Jack,” he responded, using Collins’ nickname. “It just focuses on one train of thought. It’s not just worship services. This is something they can continue on for life — reading and studying and practicing the spirituality they learn.”
Joseph Labriola, incarcerated for 41 years, said prisoners don’t have many things like the Merton program, and called Collins “a real special man” for giving them his time.
“I push for … programs like this,” he said, explaining that the more education people get while in prison, the less likely they are to return if they are released.
He recalled that when he was in “the hole” in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Norfolk in the mid-1970s, prisoners there were allowed only a Bible. But he found “Seeds of Contemplation” in his cell.
“I used to read passages out the window to other convicts, and I’ve been addicted to Thomas Merton ever since,” he said.
“My first introduction to Thomas Merton was two years ago” before Collins started the program, said Scott Bolton. A friend had sent him “New Seeds of Contemplation.”
“A lot of it was so deep I couldn’t understand it,” Bolton said. “I would reread a line probably three or four times and I would pace back and forth and I would think about what it meant.” With Collins’ explanations, he sees it in a new light.
“This is one of the biggest things I look forward to every month,” he said. “I haven’t been in trouble for over nine months. I made first Communion and confirmation.”
The Merton group “affords men the opportunity to change, to re-evaluate their life in God’s light,” said prisoner Timothy Muise, who is looking toward his release date in three years, after 16 years in prison.
“It gives me hope that if someone like Jack, with his pedigree, believes that I am worthy” to be part of the group, “I am worthy of the good things in life,” he added.
Collins — who has done of a lot of writing, has a doctorate in education and other degrees, and has been a school superintendent and an adjunct professor — said he is happy to do the program, that he learns as he is teaching, and doesn’t see himself “as any sort of guru.”
“I’m one of them. I’m a prodigal in a distant land trying to come home,” he added.
Connor is a staff reporter at The Catholic Free Press, newspaper of the Diocese of Worcester.
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Service innovation has been constantly emphasized domestically and internationally. The factors of globalization, changing lifestyles, and the transfer of industrial focus indirectly create business opportunities for leisure farms. To attract more customers for surpassing competitors, the cultivated service innovation capability must present uniqueness and match with customer needs. Based on statistics education, this study intends to discuss the effect of leisure farms’ service innovation on customer satisfaction. Employees of Qianjiangyue Leisure Farm, as the research samples, are distributed 330 copies of questionnaire. Total 278 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 84%. The research results conclude significant correlations between 1.service innovation and customer satisfaction, 2.statistics education and service innovation, and 3.statistics education and customer satisfaction. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to assist leisure farms in service innovation and the promotion of customer satisfaction.
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Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award 2021 awarded Louise Mary Vick
The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences for 2021 is awarded to Louise Mary Vick, Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award.
Photo/illustration: Fabio Crameri, CEED/UiO
Professor Bernd Etzelmûller, Head of Department of Geosciences, UiO, announced the award winner of the Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences for 2021, at a conference organized by CEED at Voksenåsen, Oslo, 2 December.
The award is given to a female PhD or Postdoctoral Fellow who has given a significant contribution to research in geosciences.
The award winner for 2021
In his presentation of this year's award winner and the reasons for the award, this was specially designated by Etzelmüller:
"The committee received competitive nominations also in 2021, and for 2021, the award has one winner: The nomination was very strong and convincing. Her work is important, and based on different type of observations including remote sensing and modelling. It has clear societal implications, and the winner spends a significant part of her time to serve the community.
The prize winner has received national and international recognition within the field of geohazards and engineering geology. Her work is innovative and highly relevant to advance the understanding of the behaviour of unstable mountain slopes in a changing climate."
The prizewinner is: Louise Mary Vick
Louise Mary Vick is an Associate Professor at Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award in brief
The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences holds the name of Else-Ragnhild Neumann, the first professor in geology in Norway.
The award was established in 2018, and has since then been awarded a woman which has contributed with a significant impact to the subject area geosciences in her PhD and/or postdoc research. The prize winner receives a diploma, honour and the prize money which is 50 000 NOK.
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A big thanks to Kevin from Crofter’s Organic for contributing this blog post.
At Crofter’s Organic we have a deep respect for food history when we ate simple, clean food produced in a sustainable way. Our certified organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, low sugar fruit spreads reflect this, without sacrificing flavor or nutrition. We believe the organic movement can have the greatest impact when nutritious, organic foods are accessible to a greater number of people, so we take care to craft a fruit spread that has good nutrition and cares for the well-being of our planet while being affordable.
It all starts at the source – organic farms. Every farm we source ingredients from supports a better global environment. Annually Crofter’s supports over 5000 acres of organic agriculture between the fruit, fair trade cane sugar and grape juice in our fruit spreads. Having personal, long term relationships with our suppliers allows us to continue offering high quality, affordably priced, organic fruit spreads that respect the environment and people involved at all levels of the food chain.
While researching new opportunities to increase our social responsibility we discovered Whole Planet Foundation® and were immediately impressed. Empowering the poor through microcredit aligned perfectly with our values and was something simple, yet impactful for those most in need.
We were thrilled to launch our membership with the Whole Planet Foundation® Ten Thousand Dollar Fund® with an initial $5,000 donation. Throughout the coming year we will continue to donate portions of our sales by partnering with Whole Foods Market regions across the nation. Beginning in October we will be donating 20 cents from every jar sold at select Whole Foods Market regions.
Our membership with the Whole Planet Foundation® will also enhance our current social efforts like our partnership with the Green Cane Project in Brazil. Crofter’s has been using organic fair trade (IBD EcoSocial) cane sugar from the Green Cane Project exclusively since 2008 in all of our cane sugar sweetened products. The sugar is also Rainforest Alliance certified, verifying that sustainable processes are used in the growth, harvesting, and refinement of every pound of sugar produced. Through this partnership, every jar of Crofter’s cane sugar sweetened fruit spread already helps improve the lives of rural sugarcane workers and supports biodiversity.
The Green Cane Project has gained worldwide recognition for attaining environmental gains through innovative pest control, soil preparation, and mechanized harvest methods in contrast to traditional burning of fields. Rural workers that are no longer needed in the extinct manual harvest are equipped with the needed skills to take on new positions with the company, providing higher wages, better working conditions and social support for their families.
We have had the privilege to visit The Green Cane Project and see first-hand the incredible results of these EcoSocial initiatives. It confirms that social, environmental and economic prosperity can flourish together when guided by ethical values and principles.
Crofter’s membership with the Whole Planet Foundation® Ten Thousand Dollar Fund® is a natural addition to our social efforts, and will provide our consumers the opportunity to join us in supporting a more caring world, spreading goodness with every jar.
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Today is Bloomsday, an annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Ulysses describes a single day in the life of modern Dublin, on June 16, 1904. Famously modeled on The Odyssey, its narrative is focused on two characters, Leopold Bloom, a middle-class everyman and Stephen Daedalus, a downwardly mobile intellectual. Its world, however, is populated by many other men, women, and children from all walks of life.
Ulysses is also a microcosm of the material forces that govern life: it explores everything from the colonial nation-state and the capitalist economy to matters of class, race, gender, sexuality, and belief, ultimately wondering what it might mean to be alive in the modern world. Ulysses is, for its most affectionate readers, a living picture of the infinitely complex calculus of human action and desire.
Containing this much, and that’s not to mention the meditations on Dante and Shakespeare and any number of other titanic figures, perhaps it goes without saying that Ulysses has a reputation for difficulty.
According to Joyce, Ulysses was to be a unique challenge for the reader. “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles,” he said, “that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” But thinking of Ulysses solely on these terms, as a riddle to be solved by professors, threatens to obscure what many readers find so enchanting about this book: the abundant joys to be had between its many hundreds of pages and with its places and personalities.
Though I now teach classes on Joyce to university students, my initial encounter was unique because I first read Ulysses before knowing anything about Ulysses. As a working-class lad that didn’t grow up with books, I bought a copy only because it had an interesting cover and a cool-sounding title.
Unlike anything else, the figures I encountered in this book were familiar and vital as human. My sense of them was warm and beautiful and stupid and ugly and sad and funny, and the prose from which they emerged was like an atmosphere unto itself. The time spent with a language that was both deeply familiar and profoundly alien, a world that was both mine but so concretely elsewhere and for others, made me want to spend my thinking life doing something with books — helping others feel and experience something similar, perhaps.
Despite what some might say, then, Ulysses does not belong to the cultural or social elite, and it is certainly not the property of middle-class literary sorts. Instead, Ulysses is a book that tries harder than any other work of fiction, in the substance of its language and the telling of its tale, to project a world of inalienable freedom and solidarity between all people, and especially those who must work in order to survive.
Ulysses is, without ever announcing as much, a masterpiece of socialist literature. Today we should celebrate it on these terms.
Of course, Ulysses enjoys a contentious record within historical socialism. Addressing the Soviet Writers’ Congress in 1934, Karl Radek denounced Joyce, claiming that “Ulysses is a spider’s web of allegories and mythological reminiscences … it is a dung-heap swarming with worms, photographed by a moviecamera through a microscope.”
Closer to our own day and age, Jeremy Corbyn triggered a centrist meltdown by announcing Ulysses as his favorite book. He described it accurately as consonant with his political vision:
Joyce references and richly describes what’s happening in the street. So somebody is holding forth about a big political issue and then the refuse cart goes by. Whenever there is a big political issue on, I walk around the streets in my area. We might be totally obsessed with Brexit or some other issue but many people are not. Their daily lives are more important. Politicians should never forget that people have lives to lead and they often have dreams they don’t talk about.
More than just chalking up political capital, this is also good literary criticism. In a subsequent Bloomsday interview when Corbyn was quizzed about this apparently eccentric choice in reading material, he offered some of the best advice newcomers to Ulysses should ever hope to receive: “stop trying to focus on the narrative and start just enjoying the vignettes. Read a little bit at a time and think about it and then move on, but don’t beat yourself up if you don’t understand it.”
What often goes unremarked is the extent to which Ulysses, a thoroughly anti-colonial and anti-capitalist text, repeatedly signals allegiance to the forefather of scientific socialism: namely, Karl Marx — a figure who is, in Bloom’s philosemitic genealogy, “a jew like me.” But what makes Ulysses radical is not its referential content. Far more significant is the way Ulysses reinvents literary narrative as a socialist act.
Like Joyce’s readers during the 1910s and ’20s, the kinds of narrative to which we are all still accustomed are about individuals triumphing, through will and determination, over their concrete social reality. While it is no coincidence that the bourgeois epoch begins with Robinson Crusoe in 1719, in which the individual’s mastery of the world enjoys almost scientific treatment, since then narrative art has continued acclimatizing readers to the egotistical calculation and selfish individualism on which capital thrives.
Ulysses, by contrast, categorically refuses that tendency. At the level of form, it reads less like a focused bourgeois novel than as a modern epic comprising numerous genres, modes, languages, and micro-narratives. These are all held together disjunctively as something like a cacophonous symphony, with each part engaging in different kinds of succession, imbrication, supersession, and supplement. The fragments of narrative content are only redeemed or elevated in their combination with everything else. This is the real meaning of two recurring terms, “parallax” and “metempsychosis,” which Bloom is often at pains to explain, for the benefit of the reader no less than other characters.
In Ulysses, narrative means to render life itself, or individual lives, together as one within what Marxists might describe as “the unity of a single great collective story.” Each character is in every moment numerous, one of many but also containing many within itself, so that the only way of being in this world is to be affirmatively social. Ulysses thus uses its form to destabilize the exclusionary relationship that has defined all literary characterology, a relationship between the one and the many, in which the heroic individual inevitably triumphs over all else.
But this movement away from the individual and toward the collective is rarely sensed from within the story or by the characters, because it does not and cannot belong to any one character or person; instead, it takes place within the domain of narrative presentation. The form of Ulysses — its numerous styles and modes, its genres and languages, its movement between “levels” of consciousness — ultimately belongs to a “general intellect,” a shared social knowledge, here rendered as common property.
And yet, for its many glimpses of a good life built collectively, Ulysses lives and breathes, despite its innermost desires, in a colonial city riven by dispossession, alienation, and prejudice. As we now know, in the two decades after Ulysses is set and during which it written, the majority of the world veered toward barbarism, not socialism.
What Ulysses might be, then, is something like a revolutionary time capsule: a cipher of social and historical potential — of a world that it so much better than the one on offer to its characters or to us, its readers, but which has not yet come to exist. This is not the world portrayed in the narrative, the Dublin of 1904, but the world toward and into which the narrative form guides us: of empathy and warmth and communal belonging — a never ending “perfect day.” This is what Ulysses wants to create, to build for us and for everyone, one reader at a time.
Sensing this out requires time, patience, and care on behalf of the reader, resources that are in short supply now as they were in 1904 and the 1910s and ’20s, and which must be stolen back and defended with vigilance. What Ulysses wants, by virtue of its objective existence and its social persistence, is a world in which all the Leopolds and the Stephens, as well as all the Mollys and Gertys and Purefoys and Mulligans, right down to every named and unnamed minor character — who is always going to be the hero of one story or another — will have freedom from necessity so as to share in the joy of this most joyous of all books, and the freedom for all of us to do so together.
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Real estate agents need to digitalize now to remain relevant
Digital transformation is bringing disruption to almost every industry. Many businesses are beginning to realize the need to harness technology in order to vastly improve their services and to keep up with the most forward of thinkers.
Traditionally, the real estate industry has been slow to innovate and embrace technology. But now it seems that the industry is reaching a tipping point, and digital transformation can no longer be an area to be ignored.
The search and discovery of real-estate
The use of technology in the real estate industry seems to be especially impactful in the process in which buyers are searching for and discovering property.
Today’s prospective home buyers can search for properties using various property portals, at any given time, at any place, from any device.
What used to be a process of flicking through a newspaper or starting your house-buying journey by visiting an estate-agent recommended by a friend or family member has now transformed into a process which is predominantly led by the internet.
The majority of buyers are now using internet-based portals when hunting for a property. Thus, it is crucial for businesses to adapt accordingly, ensuring their websites have detailed information about properties including interactive maps, neighborhood information, virtual tours, and photos.
Moreover, according to a survey, 58 percent of all buyers found their home on a mobile device. Ensuring the website is mobile-friendly (even better, mobile-first), is, therefore, key to engaging with customers.
The use of emerging technology
In order to really bolster engagement in the age of a more empowered, informed, and spoilt-for-choice consumer, many businesses are creating memorable and interactive experiences.
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are two technologies that can truly enable superior experience creation. And many real-estate companies who are investing in this technology are seeing a favorable return-on-investment.
Though more commonly associated with the gaming world, virtual reality (VR) is becoming more and more popular within the real estate industry.
House-hunters are able to take virtual tours of houses, in the comfort of their own homes, providing solutions to common industry issues such as inconveniences in timing and location for buyer, seller and realtor alike.
As well as VR, in recent years there has been an increase in augmented reality apps within the real estate industry.
Apps such as Realtor uses an image recognition feature where buyers can point their smartphones at a house and receive listing details such as price, number of bedrooms, real estate agent contacts in an instant.
Another use case of AR in real-estate in allowing buyers is the visualization possibilities. Last year, furniture giant Ikea released The Ikea Place App, which allows users to bring its catalog to life by using AR to see how a piece of furniture will look in their house.
Want to see if your sofa will look good in a house you’re viewing? Simply open the app, point your camera at the floor and watch it appear to scale.
Technology-enabled innovation in the real estate is still in its earliest phases. But for those forward-thinking businesses who want to stay ahead of the race and power sales, embracing technology now is vital.
12 August 2022
12 August 2022
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In this we post we are discussing about the top programming languages to be learned by Software developers.In this we post we are discussing about the top programming languages to be learned by Software developers.
'Programming language' are words most often heard from friends who are into software development or from various other sources, like while reading about an application and its creation. Just like a language lets us express our views and leads us and others to certain actions, the functionalities of computers are guided by languages of their own. Therefore programming language can be referred to as the set of instructions, codes, syntax and other commands used by programmers or designers of programme, in a particular mode, in order to convey algorithms or to transmit the signals for making a device, a computer mostly, to behave in a certain manner. The languages may be high level, low level, compiled and interpreted. The popularity of each of the examples belonging to the categories may rise or fall in popularity with release of new editions, withdrawal or obsoleteness of one product, etc.
TIOBE Programming Community index and PopularitY of Programming Language (PYPL) index are some of the most reputed ranking sources for the scripting software and the trend that exists. Also, the trends on GitHub, the development platform, as well as, on HackerEarth, the network of developers, lead us to the information on what is in use currently. Based on the various reports, let us take a look at some of the most renowned programming languages, which are expected to be in demand for creating various applications.
The Object-Oriented high-level programming language, which has been the favourite of the most of the developers for years, is also a leader at present and may continue to rule this year with upcoming Java 9. The swiftness and sturdiness in its performance is something that is unmatchable. And, the free, open-sourced platform it provides is icing on the cake. If that were not enough, the portability and dynamism adds to its credibility. The use of Java expands to around 7-10 million programmers and around 3 million devices globally, according to various claims. That is a whopping figure and speaks of the preference that it enjoys. The popular sites like Amazon, e-bay, LinkedIn, Google Plus and many other famous websites use Java, even IRCTC. The Android applications and Hadoop for Big Data analytics are other examples of its wide reach.
A general-purpose, open-source, interpreted language, Python is one of the most usable languages, for the experts and for the beginners as well. Many universities use it for the beginner courses and even the tech majors like Yahoo, Google along with PBS, NASA, etc. make use of it. The interesting combination of simple syntax and easily readable code with powerful performance and convenient debugging makes it a great choice. Not only this it is also bestowed with flexibility feature in terms of feature building and solving same problems with different methods. Some of the major areas of its professional efficiency are data analysis, scientific operations, web development (backend processes) and artificial intelligence. Moreover, Python is also used for designing games, desktop applications, productivity tools, etc. The worldwide demand for Python has grown at a decent rate and it seems that this year will only add to this rate.
Java Script (JS)
Another dynamic language, it is also a lightweight one that is used by several web pages. It is an interpreted language and is also a ‘real’ one unlike CSS and HTML (other technologies contributing majorly in WWW production), which only define the look of something. Although JS and Java sound a bit similar, they are quite different from each other since the former is a scripting language that works only on browsers and is inspired by Self and Scheme. There are some features like being object-oriented, multi-paradigm, having similar syntax and libraries, which are commonly found in them. Apart from being used for creating trendy websites and games, it forms the basis of the server technology Node.js, which functions as real-time communicator, apart from its other functions. The industry favourite JS is also to look out for in the coming year, as it finds place among the top gainers of almost all the trusted indexes. In fact, it featured at the top on GitHub list ahead of its September 2016 conferences.
The C++ is a hybrid extension of C language and possess the qualities of both being a language for low-level and high-level programming. A popular choice for designing game engines, embedded software, device drivers, audio or image processors, the very important desktop applications, web applications and many other programs. The generic and object-oriented programming features coupled with powerful performing capability is the strength of the C++. Its major component features are direct hardware mapping and zero-cost abstractions on the basis of the mappings done, which make it fit for system programming. The cross-platform language is largely used for designing desktop environments on Windows and Linux and it its demand has surged highly last year. The framework of this language has influenced many modern scripting languages, as well as, creation of useful applications and that is probably going to continue this year too.
Although a fairly old language, the value of the less-functional and less complex predecessor of C++ has not diminished even with new languages coming in with improved functionalities. So much so, that it was adjudged the most popular language in 2015, which is not far back. Succeeding the B language, which came out in early part of 1970s, the C was used to write the entire UNIX OS, as well as, the core of the Linux and has been in use for compiling on an array of computer platforms. The easy to learn, structured high-level language has the ability to create efficient programs and can very well handle low-level activities. It performs relatively well in critical situations like dealing with enormous volume and traffic of data, streaming of audios and videos and effectively runs on embedded hardware environment. The static type system of this imperative scripting software restricts many unwanted operations. The control structures and many basic features of C has been borrowed indirectly by many new frameworks and is among the leading probable top programming languages for 2017.
C# (C Sharp)
The name of the language, as evident, is inspired from musical notation and it is quite simple and easy to learn, yet very efficient. Since it is installed in combination with the .Net framework, which allows the use of various languages, it is also called the .Net Language sometimes. The language has an expressive syntax and allows special data types, where users can type the null values along with the normal range of values. Moreover, the features like enumerations, direct memory access, delegates and lambda expressions are also provided. Many secured and robust programmes can be created using this object-oriented, open-sourced and type-safe language, be it the client-server, XML web services, database applications, mobile applications or any other windows client and store applications. With gradual maturity and increase in popularity, it is expected that C# will remain a preferred programming language in 2017.
An acronym of Hypertext Pre-Processor, PHP is a widely used language for scripting server-side development and web development applications. Although it is preferred for creating web pages in HTML, the capabilities of the languages can be extended to output PDF files, text (like XML and XHTML files), images and also Flash movies (with the help of Ming and libswf). It supports a wide range of operating systems and web server and databases while also offering the liberty to make a choice between Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and procedural programming or an amalgamation of both. Being used as a CGI processor or a module, it is laden with many advanced features and helps in building dynamic and imperative web pages. Many popular websites like Wikipedia, Tumblr, Word Press and other websites use this programming language as part of their development process and the use is bound to increase in 2017.
With a great combination of fair built-in support, simplicity, efficiency and high level performance, this language created by Google has managed to amass high popularity. Many start-ups have adopted Go in for running various applications and that is probably because it fast compilation, a nice standard library, dynamic interfaces, garbage collector, a runtime, other attractive features. The language has inept ability to handle concurrency, i.e., it is suitable for writing programs that have several parts running independently. The free, open-source programming language eliminates features that cause bugs and other complexities. The inheritance and polymorphism concepts of OOP has been done away with in GO. In February Go 1.8 version was launched with important changes in the standard library and the improvements in terms of performance. Going by the reports, the projected growth of Go is quite high in this year.
There are already a great number of jobs related to R and as the trend goes it will not be a surprise, if it becomes the most sought after among the ones in the list. R is a versatile and highly analytical-friendly language that supports efficient data mining, statistical computing and modelling with its extensible features. The free to use R comes with a number of packages for various purposes and many more can be availed from Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). Thus for its coherency, it is more suitably referred to as an environment. It is a dialect of language S, is an interactive programming language and has significantly superior data storage and handling capability. The graphical facilities that the language comes with, is outstanding and hence can be used for making high-level graphical representation.
This is a relatively new entry into the probable list of the top ten programming languages of 2017, as reported by TIOBE Index, a monthly measure of the demand and acclaimed status of the software scripting languages.
The language has managed to climb above the likes of Scala, Ruby, MATLAB, etc., however, it is expected to be restricted in its growth as its application is limited to the apple frameworks - iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS. Apart from this, it is touted as being capable of functioning as server-side language. The features of the language are the compactness and expressiveness of its syntax, reciprocity, fun element and as per the name, fast-paced operation. Swift 4 which is due to be released in later part of this year, is said to be bring Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatibility for creating more buzz.
Apart from these top 10 probables in the race for most popular programming languages, there are many more which have managed to create substantial buzz. These are Perl, Ruby on Rails, MATLAB, Visual Basic.NET, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, Arduino, Scala, Jolt, Assembly Language, Delphi/Object Pascal, PL/SQL, Scratch, etc. The possibility of these new languages in upsetting the above ranking cannot be denied, given the rate with which they are used by modern developers.
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OBJECTIVES. This preliminary study examined sensory processing and its relationship to occupational performance in children with fragile X syndrome (FXS) to guide research and evidence-based practice.
METHOD. Fifteen school-aged boys with full-mutation FXS were assessed with three occupational performance measures (School Function Assessment, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, play duration) and three sensory processing measures (Sensory Profile, Tactile Defensiveness and Discrimination Test–Revised, Sensory Approach–Avoidance Rating). Data were analyzed using partial correlation procedures.
RESULTS. Several significant correlations were found, independent of effects of age and IQ. Avoidance of sensory experiences (internally controlled) was associated with lower levels of school participation, self-care, and play. Aversion to touch from externally controlled sources was associated with a trend toward greater independence in self-care—opposite of expectations.
CONCLUSION. This study links sensory processing vulnerabilities with individual differences in occupational performance and supports a dynamic view of self-organizing systems. Children’s uses of avoidant versus independent behaviors may reflect different self-regulatory or coping strategies that potentially mediate the relationship between sensory processing deficits and occupational behaviors and warrant further investigation.
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Targeting total wellbeing in education, commercial workspaces, and health and residential care
In classrooms, offices, and heath and residential care premises a fundamental requirement is a comfortable and healthy environment for staff and occupants. A key component is some form of energy efficient climate control, but the strong recent focus on energy efficiency has led to air-conditioned spaces having little or no refreshing of the air.
Health and productivity suffer with increased levels of CO2
Eminent research(#) has shown that occupied enclosed spaces can experience a rapid rise carbon dioxide levels, sufficient to begin to impair health and cognitive function; levels that result in increased error rate, a decrease in productivity, and an increase in absenteeism.
The research shows that, without the introduction of fresh air, CO2 concentration can quickly shoot up from normal (400ppm) to between 2,000 and 5,000ppm.
The analysis in these reports finds that levels as low as 1,500ppm begin to impair health and cognitive function, and lead to increased error rate, decreased productivity and an increase in absenteeism.
Solutions, simple to sophisticated
The simplest solution is to open a door or window, or install a fan, to bring outside air in when the concentration level rises to an undesirable level. To do this you just need a CO2 sensor that can provide a suitable alert. One downside is you lose a portion of the conditioned air, another is that you have a staff member distracted from normal duties.
Other solutions have been limited until the advent of Airtopia Multipoint. MultipointQ is a compact and unobtrusive controller that monitors and manages not only CO2 but also temperature and relative humidity, all the vital climate measures in one neat device. Multipoint controllers give Green, amber, red status displays as well as the ability to connect to the most common building management systems to control the climate system to exacting tolerances. Of course, the tolerances will be governed by the capacity of the system design and configuration.
(Note: not all existing systems will currently have fresh air input and heat exchange components and these may need to be added to take full advantage of Multipoint’s capability.)
The next step is to add a heat exchange and filtration system that can be turned on when the levels rise. This provides a more stable comfort level and minimises re-heating or cooling costs.
Airtopia, enhanced climate control
Airtopia have long been a key player in the sophistication of climate management. They have been leaders in making climate management more flexible, reliable, responsive, and accountable. The Multipoint Range is their latest innovation in air management controllers.
The initial launch products are:
MPQDW monitors CO2 levels, Temperature and Relative Humidity.
It provides local visual indication and control of equipment via direct connection to BMS via RTU or Wifi.
MPXDW monitors Temperature and Relative Humidity.
It provides visual indication and control of equipment via direct connection to BMS via RTU or Wifi.
MPXD monitors Temperature and Relative Humidity.
It provides visual indication and control of equipment via direct connection to BMS via RTU.
Automation functions for all models can be integrated through a simple protocol and multiple modules can be networked for global monitoring and management. Advanced remote access is available with additional equipment.
Further products in the range will be released in the near future. To keep up with innovations in the Multipoint Range
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The pipes engineer and the job of a handyman are associated with the entire structure plan of a water-based and channel plumbing frameworks. For the fire concealment framework additionally a handyman has a significant part in introducing plumbing apparatuses with utilizing altered advancements and applications. The change handyman is consequently an authorized pipes expert with having satisfactory information in utilizing the adjusted uses of plumbing strategies. The wide spread use and establishment of water supply frameworks, sewage frameworks, more secure channel tanks, water supply fire suspension framework and so forth the pipes business has developed many progressed applications. With suing new and progressed plumbing instruments and furthermore altered pipes methods a specialist of this field the adjustment handyman can play out his work in a restricted timeframe with accomplishing the nature of proposed work. Adjustment in the pipes methods like the TREK plumbing and PEX plumbing strategies assist the handyman with doing any kind of fix, upkeep or remaking in the pipes installations without making a lot of progress its essential constructions.
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Gov. Martin O’Malley, who won re-election claiming he had kept Maryland (relatively) solvent, now finds himself as the leader of those states that made him look so good by comparison.
It could be an honor of dubious value or a great opportunity.
As the newly elevated chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, O’Malley could be presiding over a second major financial meltdown. States across the nation face what experts say are, cumulatively, trillions of dollars in obvious and hidden debt.
Are states headed toward an unprecedented wave of defaults? Unmet pension obligations, dwindling revenue streams and a nationwide aversion to bailouts and tax increases have led already to deep trauma in state capitals.
Like businesses, governments need good credit to function properly. Already, though, concerns about states’ ability to pay bills have led investors to be wary about buying state bonds.
Some analysts say widespread defaulting is unlikely despite the magnitude of the budget pressures. Credit rating agencies have said, somewhat cavalierly, that tough decisions rather than default are in the offing. Many such decisions have already been made.
A new ballgame
Historically, governments have met their obligations even at the expense of services to the taxpayers. But in states like California and Illinois, thousands of teachers have been dismissed — an action unthinkable before since public education is a state service dear to most voters.
The positive assurances, moreover, are based on history — not on the deep distress caused by the recession — and by a combination of over-promising and unwillingness to raise taxes. This may be a whole new ballgame.
O’Malley said during the campaign that Maryland had survived the deepest declines in service although important services were sharply reduced. This occurred, in part, because so much of state spending — on public education, for example — is required by law. Relatively few government departments could be cut.
Other governors found themselves slicing much more deeply. According to a survey by The New York Times, food stamp services were reduced in some states even as more people qualified for them. Elsewhere, vendors were paid with IOUs, and tax refunds were delayed. In Maryland, virtually every fund has been raided repeatedly to patch holes. The Transportation Trust Fund, the source for maintaining and improving roads and highways, is seriously depleted. An increase in the gasoline tax is being discussed.
Nor did the immediate future offer much hope in terms of economic growth and a return to normal revenue flow. Worse, The Times reported, states have typically faced some of their most difficult budget years after a recession has ended.
Needed: A prudent leader
Many states, including Maryland, were able to ease pressure because federal economic stimulus funds were available. No one expects that bailout to be repeated next year, though experts quoted by The Times said the federal government may have no choice. Recent tax reductions proposed by President Barack Obama may be seen in some quarters as a stimulus.
O’Malley became head of the governors association by moving up through the chairs. It was a virtually automatic promotion. Still, his 14-percentage point victory margin in The Year of the Great (Democratic) Shellacking must have impressed his peers — even if many of them were just as happy they were not next in line for the top post.
It is probably too late for O’Malley to make much impact even if he had a trove of untried ideas. He did make $5 billion in budget cuts — and he did raise the sales tax from 5 percent to 6 percent.
The jobless rate in Maryland, below the national average, has probably been held lower by the nearness of government jobs and by the state’s status as one of the wealthiest in the nation.
Still, for this governor — a man of national leadership aspirations — the new role may have upside potential. It may seem an ironic form of reward, but it could be an opportunity to project himself as the kind of prudent leader sorely needed in these times.
C. Fraser Smith is senior news analyst for WYPR-FM. His column appears Fridays in The Daily Record. His e-mail address is email@example.com.
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Lilies is flexible, classic and you will have a variety of some other tints. These amazing vegetation would be the prime choice to not just indulge a loved one having a wedding anniversary in addition to is provided or presented at funerals or even to let you know sympathy. That isn’t most of the, brilliant lilies is actually a suitable current so you can celebrate an effective milestone eg given that an advertising of working, graduation, otherwise a new family!
Are you aware that this new lily-flower is found more dos,eight hundred years back? Usually, lilies hold a credibility for being regal flowers from inside the ancient greek language mythology, where it is thought that Zeus’ wife Hera, is the journalist away from lily plants. In reality, it was indeed the brand new falls out of her milk products you to definitely fell into crushed (immediately after declining to feed Hercules), that happen to be considered the new seed products so you can broadening lilies!
See how additional lily colour definitions makes it possible to share various attitude as opposed to saying far after all, together with other version of lilies one to symbolise those finest times in daily life.
Some other tones and sorts of lilies hold many different significance throughout the world in various cultures. Essentially, lilies portray purity, hobbies, rebirth and royalty. Although not, such meanings can change based on the along with and you will event. Thereon notice, let us read the some other lily the color significance.
The color pink means like, appreciate, compassion, femininity and you may expertise. Pink colored lilies, also, depict such emotions. Choose sweet green lilies when you wish to send their mum, sister otherwise sibling certain love. Lilies in various styles off red are suitable for this that special someone your really love. Grab a pleasant bouquet away from lilies collectively on the a date or amaze them with a shipments off fragrant red lily flowers with the a wedding anniversary.
Florist suggestion: When you want to demonstrate your like otherwise welfare, stunning red lilies would be the prime herbs so you can provide.
White is sometimes associated with purity and eden. Fresh and crisp, white lilies in addition to portray purity and modesty, leading them to the newest flower of preference to own funerals , condolence messages or a musical accompaniment so you’re able to an empathy card.
Light lilies also are the ideal way to tell that unique someone who you are on affect 9 with them as well as how far it indicate for your requirements. Additionally, they’re also a huge inclusion to almost any bride’s floral bouquet to supply the love of their fascination with their spouse and you will union in marriage.
Tones of purple prompt thoughts out of contentment, happiness and you may lightheartedness. Sunny, red lilies will definitely put a grin with the someone’s deal with! Once we need to share with a pal simply how much you worth their relationship, reddish lilies match new event because they are symbolic of friendship and you will gaiety. You may also give mum, grandma or a member of family how much you well worth its presence by having good bouquet out-of purple lilies brought to her or him.
Florist tip: If you wish to place a grin into a friend or beloved your deal with, treat her or him from the sending a bunch of fresh yellow lilies.
Lime are a robust and you will vibrant colour. They symbolises times, enthusiasm, trust, hobbies fulfillment in daily life. Exactly as bright as yellow lilies, lime lilies stay ahead of the competition. They usually symbolise honour and regard for a noteworthy person. When you need certainly to share your own appreciation so you’re able to a specific person for a career they will have complete otherwise delight in another person’s unbelievable functions, orange lilies display that.
Orange lilies are the best flowery gift for extremely important lifetime milestones. They may be able be used for funeral qualities, particularly if the people try usually bubbling with lifetime and passion.
Florist idea: In the event that stating appreciation and you may adore for an achievement or employment better done is really what you are once, a floral plan featuring smiling and you may lively orange lilies is the ideal.
Reddish means pleasure, profits, appreciate, self-respect and you may success. Associated with the royalty, red lilies are regarded as being uncommon and personal. Thanks to this, yellow lilies symbolise royalty, privilege and you can welfare.
Red-colored lilies are good so you can gift to help you someone special you honor or even to amaze because of the sending such their mum or grandmother just because!
Florist tip: In case your individual likes deluxe herbs, good lily arrangement otherwise bouquet which have a dash out-of reddish commonly brush her or him from other legs.
Over the years, lilies would be the plant life to present when remembering good 30th wedding. But with a wide variety of designs of lilies, you don’t need to expect a wedding anniversary event to deliver lilies. For each and every variety of lily possesses its own high meaning. Choosing the right method of can definitely create your bouquet or vase plans most memorable.
A popular choice with respect to lily kinds, Asiatic lilies come into selection of colors. Of the many colours you can get that have Asiatic lilies, they all hold other definitions and you can signs.
White Asiatic lilies are often of the matrimony and you will love within Western countries. Having instances like honoring brand new delivery regarding a new baby otherwise the new beginnings in daily life, tangerine and red-colored Asiatic lilies are a perfect rose to help you celebrate with. Green Asiatic lilies symbolise healing and you will relationship.
Such beautiful herbs are the primary symbol getting wedding parties. From the Virgin Mary, chinese language lilies also are symbolic of purity and resurgence. They make the perfect wedding bouquet to own a bride-to-be or even to be provided with once the good congratulatory provide so you’re able to somebody who has recently knowledgeable a different sort of milestone within existence.
Calla lilies keep more icons in various countries and you can religions. When you look at the old Greece, calla lilies was basically tend to regarding the beauty. When you look at the Christianity, it symbolises believe and pureness. In the West culture, it may be a sign of stamina given that calla lilies was in a position to rebloom when the reduce and you can regrown in a beneficial vase.
Tiger lilies has a separate seek out her or him and it’s really really most likely while they has places on the petals! These types of spotty lilies are in the riches and you will pride. For the brilliant colours, they symbolises positivity and count on. Tiger lilies have different distinctions regarding lime styles which makes they so vivacious!
Lilies try a vintage rose to provide and with so many more colour meanings and you will signs, you will find a good lily per affair otherwise that special someone. Just to buy your lily floral plans from the contacting all of our friendly team from the Fresh Plant life today!
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Some babies prefer cold milk, but if yours prefers warm, learn how to safely heat up your baby's bottle.
Get more tips on giving your baby a bottle.
Some babies prefer cold milk, but if yours prefers warm …
Here's how to warm a bottle.
Fill up the bottle.
Using frozen milk? Defrost it in the fridge first.
Fill a bowl with warm water.
Don't use boiling water.
Put the bottle in the bowl.
Don't heat up milk in the microwave.
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Is AI The Solution To The Hiring Problem That Companies Have?
In the United States, as the economy hit by the new coronavirus epidemic is recovering, urgent recruitment has become a major issue for companies. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used there. In fact, many companies are already using AI technology without knowing it. That’s because AI has been introduced to major job sites.
Sakushi Jain, engineering manager in Linked-in’s “Responsible AI” division, said, “When you search for a specific job title, for example,’ Job Manager’, Linked-in engine is not just for that job title, but also for time management and team collaboration. , Look for people with related skills such as risk assessment. ” “This gives hiring more than just people who actually have the exact same job title or role,” he said.
One of the important capabilities of AI technology is to read complex patterns from vast amounts of data. In a way, this is a reproduction of the recruiter’s abilities and is very important in finding candidates who are not actively looking for a job now.
“In our recent findings, we’ve been able to reach out to candidates who aren’t actively looking for a job,” said Hari Column, CEO of recruitment services firm Fandom. 74% of hiring managers said they had increased over the year. “
“AI technology greatly accelerates the passive recruitment process. With these recruitments, it can take 10 hours or more to find a candidate for a single position. Passive candidates typically go to a job/career site. I don’t use it, and many people only post fragmentary information on LinkedIn and other profiles. AI can index and extract information from hundreds of sources. ” It can also be used for combined “personalization”, which can be a good way to give a good first impression to a candidate.
HackerRank, CEO of HackerRank, a developer recruitment support service that uses AI, said, “It’s incredibly non-existent, such as setting interview dates and sending follow-up emails to candidates. There are many efficient hiring workflows now. “
“AI technology can save valuable time by automating scheduling and email follow-up, and solve the big pain of the coordination exchanges between candidates and recruiters,” he said.
However, the use of AI technology is not without risks. The inherent bias in the data used can lead to unfair and discriminatory consequences.
Ingrid Burton, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Quantcast, an AI-powered advertising service, said AI HR software used old data about previously hired talent as an example of a problem that the algorithm could cause. The case to use is mentioned.
“Such as software engineers, conventional man is especially true in was a mainstream role. This adoption algorithm to arbitrary, there is a fear that dropped in the examination for the majority of the people of women and minorities”
to prevent this Need to ensure the governance and accountability of the AI model. It also requires human involvement at an important stage of the review.
“It’s definitely not possible to introduce an AI process and just turn it on automatically,” said Ian Cook, vice president of human resources analysis service provider Visier. “You don’t have to see every interaction or process that AI performs, but you need to constantly review the outcomes of the steps that AI performs and make sure they meet your expectations. Any AI process. Always need confirmation/update/retraining when doing it. “
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Set Up a Quiet Space
To ensure you participate fully as an online student, it’s best to create a space that is free of distractions and remains uninterrupted for the entire duration of your session if possible. In addition, having a clear background or using a virtual one can help you control your environment.
Take off your wall poster or cover it, and make sure your dirty laundry is not visible in the video. Lock your door for privacy, or you might end up in a similar position to this guy. Let your family members and roommates know about the class timings and ask them to avoid knocking on the door during the class.
Be punctual, log in on time
As a student enrolled in online classes, attendance still matters. You’ll want to log into whatever online platform your professor is using. Make sure your computer is charged and be ready to appear on screen in a timely fashion. Being late is not acceptable, especially as your commute is (probably) from your bedroom to the couch in your living room!
Adopt Better Online Communication Habits
You should look at your email regularly – at least once a day. If you are discussing an assignment with a professor or working on a group project, see to it that you are available on a platform accessed by everyone (e.g., Slack, Discord, etc.)
Get a Reliable Internet Connection
This is perhaps the most straightforward tip, but surprisingly, most people ignore it. Your computer and internet access are your most valuable assets in an online setting, similar to how you need pens and papers in a physical space. Therefore, get a dependable internet connection with a high speed. Besides, make sure to get this done before your online classes start, or you might have to face costly interruptions during your session.
Test your tech
Glitches in your technology mean you could miss some vital part of your professor’s lecture. Make sure the camera is stable and that your audio or microphone works. Use headphones to make sure you can hear everyone. Plug in your computer and make sure it’s charged ahead of time.
Take Study Breaks
Regular study breaks can be the key to a student’s success. When you attend school or college, breaks are already planned, but you might have to create your own breaks when studying online. For starters, set smaller breaks and plan how you will utilize them. MIT, one of the top universities in the world, recommends taking a 10-minute study break after every 50 minutes. Afterward, you can create more significant breaks of 30 minutes after every two hours. These serve as an excellent goal post and help you feel energized and refreshed in every study session.
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AFRICANGLOBE – The unveiling of 50 Transnet Pipelines (TPL) tank wagons is a milestone that South Africa should be proud of, which will help the country in its quest to become an original equipment manufacturing hub on the continent.
This is according to the country’s Minister of Public Enterprises, Malusi Gigaba, who unveiled the XPRJ-23 locomotives at the Transnet Rail Engineering (TRE) Germiston plant on Friday.
The wagons will be used for the transportation of highly flammable liquids that are stored under great pressure. They are capable of carrying approximately 74,000 litres and are 17.385 metres long.
The wagons are a product of a partnership between TPL and Transnet Rail Engineering.
TRE is the owner of the design of the wagons, which has now positioned it as the leader in the manufacturing of the new high pressure tank wagons in Southern Africa, noted the minister.
“This technological progress presents a massive innovative opportunity for the South African economy. It demonstrates that TRE can act as both the original equipment manufacturer and prime contractor for the design and manufacture of complex and safety critical rolling stock,” said Gigaba.
South Africans should be proud of such a milestone, he said of the locomotives that will only need a major overhaul after a 10-year period.
“This is clearly a watershed that all South Africans can be extremely proud of, as we continue to build and demonstrate our capability in our quest to become an important technology and original equipment manufacturing hub in Africa,” he said.
The order for the tank wagons was placed in 2011, with the last six wagons handed over in October.
TPL decided to initially focus its Market Demand Strategy (MDS) on the delivery of fuel from its Tarlton terminal near Krugersdorp to Botswana. The wagons, said Transnet, will be used to ensure fuel security to the country’s landlocked neighbour Botswana.
The service began operating in earnest in October and depending on the demand from other outlying areas, the service could see an increase in demand for fuel supplies and in such a case, more wagons will be needed, said Transnet.
“The more we complete and showcase projects of this nature, the more we must increase our research and development investment so that we stay ahead of our competitors and further refine our products,” said Gigaba.
The minister said he looked forward to TRE receiving orders of the tankers from customers on the continent as well as Asia, among others.
“It is imperative that we build on this experience. We need to move TRE systematically up the value chain to become prime contractor and manufacturer of locomotives,” he said.
The demand generated by DSM should result in sustainable industrialisation.
TRE Germiston has invested over R20 million in modern technologies specific to the sophisticated wagons.
Gigaba on Friday also toured the 78-year old plant, which has a total staff complement of 800, including 250 students.
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It may have never occurred to you, but those nagging headaches you’ve been getting recently could be directly linked to a dental problem. In fact, many headaches are caused by problems that only a dentist can treat.
Even just a cavity or a minor infection can trigger a headache. But, usually tension headaches are commonly associated with dental problems. These types of headaches are caused by strained muscles that tighten up around the mouth and jaw. When the headache forms, pain can be felt on one side, or both sides of the head.
Here are a few reasons why your headache might be related to your oral health.
Also known as a bad bite, this phenomenon happens when the chewing surfaces of your teeth do not meet together properly when the jaws are shut.
When your bite is off, even by just a little bit, the muscles have to work harder to chew food or even talk. As a result, the muscles can become strained. Our jaws rarely get rest, which causes the strain to become constant and eventually causing pain.
This pain can be felt in your teeth or jaw. It can even radiate to other sites in your head. The trigeminal nerve, which controls sensation in the face and functions like biting and chewing, is often the cause of this pain.
Even though the problem might have started in your mouth, you may feel pain in your head, such as behind your eyes, in the temples or the forehead. When the muscles in your mouth or head clench, your neck muscles may also contract and may become overworked and painful.
Headache pain can come from grinding your teeth at night. When this happens, it overworks your jaw muscles. It can also be a cause of temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD). These are problems associated with the jaw joint, called TMJ, and are signaled by popping or clicking in the jaw.
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Objective: To provide recommendations for the core outcome domains that should be considered by investigators conducting clinical trials of the efficacy and effectiveness of treatments for chronic pain. Development of a core set of outcome domains would facilitate comparison and pooling of data, encourage more complete reporting of outcomes, simplify the preparation and review of research proposals and manuscripts, and allow clinicians to make informed decisions regarding the risks and benefits of treatment.
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In order to achieve high economic growth, India and Pakistan have to work towards economic interdependence
ow that Pakistan has appointed a trade minister in its high commission in New Delhi after a gap of five years, the spotlight is back on reviving bilateral trade.
Can this be a new dawn for India-Pakistan trade?
A new beginning in trade relations has huge potential for both the nations as well as for the sub-continent, which is currently reeling under high inflation, food shortages and an energy crisis. A disentanglement of trade from politics can be the basis of cooperative ties between the two neighbours which would make way for socio-economic upliftment of the people in the entire sub-continent.
The economic shutdown between the two nations has not just impacted them but the whole South Asian region. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) are just two of the many multilateral groupings that have been a dead letter and dysfunctional since diplomatic fallout between the two.
India says it gives primacy to its ‘neighbourhood first’ policy to maintain peace, promote democratic principles and address shared economic issues by allowing smooth flow of goods and services across borders. For instance, it has opened up border haats with Bangladesh. Such cooperation can lead to manufacturing zones shared between the two countries. In such zones investors and workers from both countries can work without going through border controls.
Reviving trade relations between Pakistan and India will help stabilise the economies and control inflation. The sooner the trade relations are restored, the two countries can enter into a dialogue to promote mutually beneficial supply chains that can help both become more competitive in the global market. It is in the larger interest of South Asian region that these two countries resume trade relations.
The World Bank (WB), in its report titled Glass Half Full: Promise of Regional Trade in South Asia, suggested that if non-tariff barriers are removed between India and Pakistan, the trade could go up to $37 billion. Even if this sounds overestimated or ambitious, the two can try to work out to achieve a fraction of it given their similar vision of becoming rising manufacturing hubs.
The bilateral trade had reached its highest level in 2013-14, $2.7 billion. The figure is not impressive or encouraging when compared with similar border regions like India-China where the volume of was $65.49 billion in 2013. Today, in spite of the conflicts, bilateral trade between India and China stands at $125.70 billion. India has a large trade deficit with China but makes it up with investment flows. Pakistan too has a large trade deficit with China.
Despite the diplomatic impasse, informal trade between the two nations has been going on. But this has its limitations.
In order to achieve higher economic growth, India and Pakistan have to work towards economic interdependence in the primary areas of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, construction, steel, minerals and oil industries which constitute as raw materials of the respective economies. India with its expertise in the above mentioned areas could help Pakistan’s domestic economy. In return, Pakistan could grant India the most favoured nation or non-discriminatory market status. India should not shy away from extending its hand like it has offered to other neighbours, like Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Despite the diplomatic impasse, informal trade between the two nations has gone on. But this has its limitations. The $2.4 billion informal trade despite the economic shutdown between holds the hope for formal trade revival and points to the huge potential for formal trade between the two.
Cricket and business must go on
Pakistan has had different parties in power but all, including military-led governments, have remained interested in opening trade with India. India should act sensibly towards Pakistan with whom the trade balance has always been surplus. Trade should be de-linked from political issues and India should go the extra mile to provide Pakistan cotton and fabrics it requires for its textile industry as raw materials. Pakistan, in return, can provide dates, cement and oils that in the past comprised 50 percent of its exports to India.
Sports visas should be issued and Pakistani cricketers allowed in the Indian Premier League. Business chambers and think tanks should be encouraged to promote trade relations without any prejudice. Informed dialogue about why trade should not become hostage to political situations should be encouraged and concerns relating to market access, tariff and non-tariff barriers duly addressed.
The lists of items allowed for trading via the surface and sea routes should be expanded. Furthermore, in addition to the Attari-Wagha border, the Munabao-Khokrapar border in Sindh-Rajasthan should also be explored for transit of goods. Use of emerging technologies like full body scanners and digitalising the logistics can make the trade flow fast, smooth and transparent. The security concerns can also be addressed better than before.
In the days of climate change concerns, trade among contiguous countries will be environmentally friendly, as carbon emissions on account of transportation will be much lower. This is another driver for closer trade relations between the two countries.
Trust and good governance
An immediate steps to set the stage for trade can be the reinstatement of high commissioners by the governments of both nations. Simultaneously, opening up the road, sea and rail routes for trade, promotion of people-to-people connectivity, releasing innocent fishermen and maintaining ceasefire on borders would highlight good governance and act as a confidence building measure. Restarting of trade and connectivity are the key enablers for robust regional cooperation in South Asia.
Zahra Khalid works for the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan. Purushendra Singh works for CUTS International, Jaipur, India
The views in this article do not represent the positions of their organisations Despite the diplomatic impasse, informal trade between the two nations has been going on. But this has its limitations.
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In this chapter, we provide NCERT Exemplar Problems Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 3 Fibre to Fabric for English medium students, Which will very helpful for every student in their exams. Students can download the latest NCERT Exemplar Problems Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 3 Fibre to Fabric pdf, free NCERT Exemplar Problems Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 3 Fibre to Fabric book pdf download. Now you will get step by step solution to each question.
NCERT Exemplar Class 6 Science Solutions Chapter 3 Fibre to Fabric
Multiple Choice Questions
Paheli wants to present her friend a gift made of plant-fibre. Which out of the following will she select?
(a) Jute bag
(b) Woollen shawl
(d) Nylon scarf
(a): Jute is a long, soft, shiny plant fibre that can be spun into coarse strong threads. It is obtained from the stems of jute plants Corchorus). Jute is a natural plant fibre. Wool is obtained from hair of animals like sheep, yak etc. Silk is obtained from silkworms and nylon is a man made fibre which is synthesised in factories using chemicals.
Which statement out of the following is incorrect?
(a) Use of charkha was popularised by Mahatma Gandhi as a part of the Independence Movement.
(b) In India, jute is mainly grown in Kerala and Punjab.
(c) To make fabric, the fibres are first converted into yarns.
(d) Sufi saint Kabir was a weaver.
(b): In India, jute is mainly grown in West Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Andhra Pradesh.
Question 3. Which of the following materials did people use in ancient times for making clothes?
(i) Leaves of trees
(iii) Metal foils
(iv) Animal skins and furs
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (i) and (iii)
(c) (ii) and (iii)
(d) (i) and (iv)
(d) : In ancient times people used bark and leaves of trees, skin and fur of animals to cover their bodies. Newspapers and metal foils were not available in those times.
Which of the following is not a natural fibre?
(c): Nylon is a synthetic fibre manufactured in factories using chemicals while cotton, jute and flax are natural fibres obtained from plants.
Which set of substances is not used for making fibres?
(a) Silk, chemicals
(b) Yak hair, camel hair
(c) Husk, bones
(d) Flax, wool
Boojho went to a cloth shop. There he found a fabric which was smooth to touch, had vibrant colour and shine. The fabric could be
(c): Silk fibres are natural animal fibres obtained from the cocoon of silkworm. Silk fabric is very smooth to touch and has vibrant colour and shine.
Which part of the jute plant is used for getting jute fibre?
(b): Refer to answer 7.
Yarn is woven to get fabric using
(b) spinning machines
(d) knitting needles.
(c) : The process of arranging two sets of yarns together to make a fabric is called weaving. Weaving of fabric is done on looms. Looms are either hand operated or power operated.
Beera is a farmer. His field has black soil and the climate is warm. Which fibre yielding plant should he grow in his field?
(b) : Cotton plants are usually grown at places having black soil and warm climate.
The correct sequence to get cloth is
(a) fibre → fabric → yarn
(b) fibre → yarn → fabric
(c) fabric → yarn → fibre
(d) yarn → fibre → fabric.
(b) : The process of converting fibre into fabric involves spinning and weaving or knitting. Spinning is the process of making yarn from fibres. Weaving and knitting are the two methods to convert yarn into fabric. Weaving is the process of arranging two sets of yarn together to make a fabric whereas in knitting, a single yarn is used to make a fabric.
Boojho wants to make yarn from fibre at home. Which of the following will he use to carry out the task?
(d) Knitting needles
(c): The process of making yarn from fibres is called spinning. In this process, F fibres are drawn out and twisted. This brings the fibres together to form a yarn. A simple hand operated device used for spinning is the charkha.
Very Short Answer Type Questions
Yarn, fabric and fibres are related to each other. Show the relationship by filling the blanks in the following sentence.
Fabric of cotton saree is made by weaving cotton_______which in turn is made by spinning thin cotton_____.
Some terms related to fabrics are jumbled up and given below. Write them in their correct form.
State whether the following statements are true or false. If false, correct them.
(a) Silk is a plant fibre.
(b) Jute is obtained from the leaves of a plant.
(c) Weaving is a process of arranging two sets of yarn together.
(d) Cotton yarn on burning gives an odour similar to that of a burning paper.
(a) False. Silk is an animal fibre.
(b) False. Jute is obtained from the stem of a plant.
The following is an answer given by Boojho to a question asked by his teacher Cotton, wool, silk and jute are classified as natural fibres whereas nylon and polyester are classified as synthetic fibres”. Can you tell what question the teacher has asked?
Classify the following fibres as natural and synthetic.
Polyester, Jute, Silk, Nylon, Cotton, Wool
Once, Paheli visited a tailor shop and brought home some cuttings of fabric to study their properties. She took two pieces and found that one of the pieces were shrinking when it was burnt with a candle. Flowever the other did not shrink on burning. Can you help her to find out which of the two was a cotton fabric and which a silk fabric?
Cotton fabric does not shrink but silk fabric shrinks on burning due to the presence of protein.
One way of making fabric from yarn is weaving, what is the other?
Knitting is another way of making fabric from yarn.
Short Answer Type Questions
Boojho with perfect eyesight was finding it difficult to pass a thread through the eye of a needle. What can be the possible reason for this?
The end of the thread was separated into a few thin strands or the thread was quite thick.
In ancient times stitching was not known. People used to simply drape the fabrics around different parts of their body. Even today a number of unstitched fabrics are used by both men and women. Can you give four such examples of clothes?
Saree, dhoti, lungi, turban, dupatta, etc. are unstitched fabrics used by men and women.
Match the articles given in column I with the articles of column II.
|Column 1||Column II|
(a) – (ii)
(b) – (iii)
(c) – (i)
(d) – (iv)
Fill in the blanks to complete the life story of cotton fibre.
My parents, cotton plants were grown in_______soil and ______climate. The plants bore fruits called______. I, the cotton fibre was separated from seeds in the cotton bolls by the process of _______. Other cotton fibres and myself were made into yarn by the process of _____. The yarn was ______to give beautiful colours and then to get cotton fabric.
black, warm, cotton bolls, ginning, spinning, dyed, woven
Match the terms given in column I with the statements given in column II.
|Column 1||Column II|
|(a)||Weaving||(i)||A single yarn used to make a fabric|
|(b)||Knitting||(ii)||Combing of cotton fibres to remove seeds|
|(c)||Spinning||(iii)||Yarns are made from these thin strands|
|(d)||Ginning||(iv)||These are spun from fibres and then used to make fabrics|
|(e)||Fibre||(v)||Process of arranging two sets of yarns together to make a fabric|
|(f)||Yarn||(vi)||Process of making yarn from fibres|
(a) – (v)
(b) – (i)
(c) – (vi)
(d) – (ii)
(e) – (iii)
(f) – (iv)
Fill in the names of useful items made from jute fibres in the following figure. One such example is given.
The name of the useful items made from jute fibres in the given figure.
Long Answer Type Questions
A cotton shirt, before it reaches you, completes a long journey. Elaborate this journey starting from cotton bolls.
The journey starting from cotton bolls to a cotton shirt is as follows :
- Picking: Cotton bolls burst open after maturing. The seeds covered with cotton fibres are handpicked from the cotton bolls.
- Ginning: The process of separating the seeds from fibres by combing is called ginning. These days ginning is done with the help of machines.
- Spinning: In spinning, fibres from a mass of cotton wool are drawn out and twisted. This brings the fibres together to make a strong yarn. Spinning is done with the help of hand – operated devices such as charkha or by using spinning machines.
- Weaving and knitting: Weaving and knitting are the two methods of converting cotton yam into cotton fabric. A cotton shirt is usually made by weaving. In weaving, two sets of yarns are arranged together to make a fabric.
- Stitching: The cotton fabric is then stitched into cotton shirt.
Describe the two main processes of making fabric from yarn.
Two main processes of making fabric from yarn are weaving and knitting.
- Weaving – Weaving is the process of arranging two sets of yams together to make a fabric.
- Knitting – In knitting a single yarn is used to make a piece of fabric.
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In May 2020, China officially tested the electronic RMB when some government officials received salaries in this form of currency. Many Chinese enterprises and some foreign companies in China also agreed to accept payment for their products and services in the above currency. As the second largest economy in the world and the change in thinking about digital currency, China is ready to enter the 4.0 era as soon as it is possibly acceptable.
It was the ongoing US-China trade war, the current Covid-19 pandemic, and constant clash of ideas and growing disagreement between China and the Western world that forced the country to act faster so that the economy is less dependent on other countries, and avoid being labeled as a currency manipulator. Another dubious goal of China was to minimize the influence of the US dollar. Digital RMB, with an electronic serial number, will also help regulators fight money laundering crimes, tax evasion, black credit, and many other illegal monetary means. The CBDC will help prevent illegal money transfers, create stability and limit the devaluation of the RMB.
Digital RMB also helps in curbing power of financial institutions as personal payments are out of reach of players such as Alipay and Wechat Pay, and payments can be made immediately, with fast transactions at lower costs, anywhere in the world. China can use this currency as a non-traditional channel to regulate the market, such as by asking banks for detailed information about interest rates, purpose, and subjects for cryptocurrency credits, thereby better controlling and regulating policies. The issuance of CBDC will also help China with more options for monetary policies for use in their economic activities.
Movement by countries
The Central Banks of France, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Thailand, and even Cambodia are making similar moves. Last year, Bloomberg quoted US bankers JP Morgan Chase as warning that digital currencies could threaten US power and the breakthrough of digital currency will cost the US more than any other country. This led to moves made by the US Federal Bank as well as US lawmakers towards the electronic dollar.
However, the US, Europe, and some countries are working on issuing a national cryptocurrency. Central Banks are now compelled to seek effective weapons to face the world going into the 4.0 era, so the CBDC is the likely choice. It is being seen that the national cryptocurrency is one possible solution in the current context, when economies are suffering under the pandemic, trade wars, and currency wars, making paper money increasingly redundant.
Although there have been a number of private companies issuing Stablecoin, which closely resembles the CBDC, this is the first time that digital currency will be used. Large economies like China are testing sovereign cryptocurrencies, and now both the US and Europe have national plans for cryptocurrency, showing a major shift in mindset towards the 4.0 era, as well as for facing post-pandemic challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic is turning the global economy and financial markets into a new challenging era, when businesses, people, and economic sectors will have no choice but to change their approach towards how they work, live, and consume.
Future of CBDC
Since the cryptocurrency era began almost ten years ago there have been many ups and downs in the financial markets, the digital world, and the international economy. Although the earlier phase of cryptocurrency received a lot of support, the opposition to it was also vast. Now it receives more support although the future is still rather unclear. However, this era turned the page for many Central Banks in the context of traditional economic and financial markets, revealing many weaknesses, especially as the pandemic rages on. In the post-Covid era, when the pandemic has dealt its final blows to global economy and debts will have piled like mountains, an efficient form of monetary system is what will be needed.
Therefore, the sovereign cryptocurrency issued by the Central Banks is the most likely solution, although it is still quite early to see its efficiency. The CBDC still has a long way to go with many hurdles to overcome, such as lower transaction costs, meeting commercial value, and widespread use. This shows that the Central Bank of countries is making efforts to limit negative effects of the pandemic, trade wars, prevent a deeper economic recession, and bring growth again. Many other policies will also support the effort of the world to enter the 4.0 era as smoothly as possible.
Although the approach of each country is different, they all have the same view that CBDC will help to fulfil the shortcomings of fiat money, enhance convenience and improve payment efficiency, and ensure this currency is under the management of Central Banks. As CBDC is inherently a fully digital version of fiat money, but not anchored to fiat money, it can help prevent speculation, limit the explosion of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, and bring about better control of money flow.
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WASHINGTON — Grain millers have reached out to President Joe Biden seeking a partner in the mission to alleviate massive US supply chain challenges propelling prices higher amid growing shortages of critical ingredients such as gluten, emulsifiers, and soybean oil, along with packaging.
The North American Millers’ Association, along with other key supply chain stakeholders in the agricultural, foodservice, trucking, warehousing, manufacturing, retail, construction and energy sectors, published an open letter to Mr. Biden on Nov. 3.
Five supply chain solutions outlined in the letter could be implemented immediately to ease labor and transportation shortages, the undersigned said.
“As business leaders and proud Americans, we are firmly committed to this country’s economic recovery,” the letter said. “We are working to usher in a return to normalcy and striving to help all Americans enjoy a better way of life by providing them with access to the essential products and supplies they need.”
The coalition called first for the creation of a young driver pilot program that would allow employers to create a two-stage, safety-focused apprenticeship program in which qualified drivers ages 18 to 20 who satisfy rigorous safety, training, and technology requirements could then operate in interstate commerce. The letter also asked Mr. Biden to shepherd collaboration between industry, state and local partners, and the US Departments of Transportation and Labor to promote supply chain careers generally and commercial truck driving specifically. Highlighting the stability, good benefits and higher-than-average wages long-haul drivers receive “can improve the lives of many unemployed and underemployed Americans by giving them opportunities for advancement while boosting the economy,” the letter said.
“With 49 states and the District of Columbia already allowing drivers under the age of 21 to get their commercial driver’s license and operate intrastate, this pilot program will provide a real opportunity to address current and future driver shortages by promoting a career pathway in trucking and developing a professional, qualified, and highly-trained emerging transportation workforce,” the letter said.
The coalition then addressed the backlog situation at US ports that includes dozens of cargo ships anchoring off Southern California waiting weeks to be unloaded. The White House on Oct. 13 announced that the Port of Los Angeles would operate around the clock in an effort to alleviate bottlenecks. But the immediate effects were muted, some transportation analysts said, considering many of the businesses picking up intermodal containers had no drivers in place for overnight shifts. In its Nov. 3 letter, the coalition encouraged ongoing investigation into inefficiencies at US ports and information sharing to ensure effective use of resources and equipment there.
Next, the letter addressed pandemic policies, specifically vaccine mandates, in light of the isolated nature of long-haul drivers’ work. While making it clear the undersigned groups were committed to vaccines as a tool in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, the letter asked Mr. Biden to consider increased flexibility vis-a-vis mandates.
“We are concerned a mandate will cripple an already strained supply chain,” the groups said. “We estimate companies covered by the mandate could lose 37% of drivers at a time when the nation is already short 80,000 truck drivers. We ask for flexibility for transportation and supply chain essential workers, particularly truck drivers who spend most of their time in their trucks and have minimal contact with colleagues and customers.”
Finally, the letter sought extensions to hours-of-service changes implemented last year in the early months of the pandemic, and asked Mr. Biden to consider providing additional flexibilities that may be needed for the timely delivery of essential goods and that make sense from a safety and operational standpoint. In particular, the letter noted the importance of such regulatory flexibility at ports open 24 hours.
Ninety-six associations signed the open letter to Mr. Biden. Included from the agriculture sector were the Agricultural Retailers Association, the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Feed Industry Association, the National Grain and Feed Association, the National Sorghum Producers and many others.
Along with NAMA, numerous associations of professionals in the milling, baking and ingredient sectors signed the letter, including the American Bakers Association, the Independent Bakers Association, the American Frozen Food Institute and the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils.
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Congratulations to all students who have finished their SACE Stage 2 this year. We do hope that you have completed this important qualification with a true sense of achievement and pride.
SACE is a valuable qualification
We love the holistic approach to learning embedded in this SACE description from the SACE website –
The South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) is a secondary school qualification designed to help you develop capabilities to live, learn, work, and participate successfully in an ever-changing society. It offers a lot of flexibility, allowing you to choose your subjects and complete the qualification in a timeframe that suits you.
These are powerful words. Traditionally, the primary focus of the final year of school has been to gain entry to tertiary education. Now the definition of the qualification is capturing a broader purpose. By way of example, the term “develop capabilities” isn’t just relating to subject knowledge. It’s also referencing life skills such as time management, communication, prioritisation, goal setting and resilience. As well as being necessary to achieving SACE, these skills are equally important for students to “live, learn, work and participate successfully” after secondary school.
SACE Stage 1 & 2 present very differently to the Year 12 / matriculation from a generation ago. Vocational learning, non-traditional learning (eg. community service) and a broader range of subjects are now options a student may select. This broader approach means that more students can achieve. In turn, this increased success is a great thing for our “ever-changing society”.
We would like to make special mention of our Sacred Heart College (SHC) students who completed their Certificate III in Retail through HITsa as part of their Stage 2 studies. The effort and commitment shown by these students has been exemplary. Congratulations to them for a job very well done!
HITsa looks forward to continuing our learning journey with SHC students studying Certificate III in Business Administration. These students will complete in 2018.
The endorsement received from SHC (below) acknowledges the positive relationships that are developing between SHC students and educators –
HITsa has been extremely accommodating to the needs of our students with disability and their approach professional in all aspects of the training provided. The trainers have developed a good rapport with the students and tailored the training to match the learning styles of each individual. HITsa’s regularly communicate with the relevant school personnel on student progress and liaise with workplace supervisors to ensure that the training is relevant and practical. We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with HITsa.
Meredith Jones, Learning Environment CoOrdinator
Sacred Heart College
Vocational learning and SACE
If you are now at the end of your secondary school journey, again our congratulations to you. We invite you to explore HITsa training courses on our website where you may find a course to set you up for a part time hospitality job that will support you through Uni, or you may find training and employment opportunities that can offer genuine career prospects.
Finally, if you are stepping into either SACE Stage 1 or 2 next year, why not explore the vocational qualifications available through HITsa? Up to 150 SACE credits can be recognised at Stage 1 and/or Stage 2 for successfully completed qualifications. Please contact us on 8351 5855 to find out what is available in 2018.
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Patient Rights Guide
Booklet | January 12, 2022
Your health and end-of-life care rights and options in Canada.
In Canada, health care is managed by the provincial and territorial governments. Dying With Dignity Canada’s Patient Rights Guide offers general information about patient rights in Canada, although some laws and procedures may vary by location.
Download a Patient Rights Guide
This guide is a source of information for individuals who are eligible for publicly-funded health services in Canada – including Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
As a patient in Canada, you have the right to:
- Health care services without discrimination
- Understand your health condition and the treatments available to you
- A second opinion
- Have your Advance Directive*/prior capable wishes respected
- Have the authority of your Substitute Decision-Maker recognized
- Accept, refuse, or discontinue medical treatments, and to change your mind at any time
- Decline Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in accordance with a DNR order)
- Refuse nutrition and hydration by artificial means or any other aspects of care
- Pain and symptom management
- Palliative care (including palliative sedation) if it is appropriate for your condition
- Request an assessment for medical assistance in dying (MAID)
- View, obtain, amend and limit access to your own health record
*The term Advance Directive may not be used or may be different depending on the province or territory in which you live. All of this is outlined in the Guide.
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Let’s face it – many of the concepts surrounding environmental responsibility can be quite complicated, even for those of us who have some scientific know how. All of that heavy material, combined with legitimate and not so legitimate public debate on the validity of sustainability initiatives can confuse just about anyone – especially children.
Common sense tells us that to raise an environmentally conscious child, we need to start early on in their development. But with such dense subject matter, where is a parent to begin? The answer is easier than you may think.
As with any skill or ideology parents look to instill in their children, environmental responsibility starts with a good example. Parents interested in raising green kids need to start with their own habits, and be sure that their children regularly catch them in the act of loving the earth.
For instance, if you compost, make collecting table scraps and other compostable kitchen materials part of an after meals routine. Get a kitchen composter, and be sure your children see you use it regularly. As your children grow, invite them to help and involve them in emptying the collection bin into a larger, outdoor compost bin. Be sure they understand how the raw materials break down into compost, and how it helps to improve soil and return necessary nutrients to the earth. If your children are young and you are just starting a compost regimen, think about using a worm bin – kids everywhere love the idea of feeding newspaper and banana peels to hungry worms.
Recycling is an activity almost hand-made for toddlers who are big on sorting and filling bins, so be sure to get them in the habit of helping. Set up a home recycling “center” with specified containers for aluminum, plastic, cardboard, paper and whatever else you may recycle. Once rinsed and ready, allow your toddler to place items in the proper bins – not only does the child learn to recycle, he or she learns to differentiate between like and unlike materials. Be sure to explain how recyclables are made into new products. Anytime you buy a product made of recycled material, be it cereal in a box made from recycled paperboard or rubber mulch for a under a swing set, share that information with your child, and be sure to reference how they are playing a role in “making” something new.
Energy and water conservation are also easy concepts for children to learn if they are part of how their parents and caregivers do things. Always turn off the water when you brush your teeth, and teach children to do the same. Even young children are able to help with the laundry – be sure they always see you wash full loads, and rarely, if ever, use the hot temperature setting.
Be sure children see you turn off lights and electronics when you leave a room. When they begin to show interest in turning the lights on and off (about 2, if not earlier), remind them to use electricity only when needed. Let them catch you adjusting thermostats and turning off electronics before bed, or when leaving the house. With older children who play video games or use computers for long periods of time, set limits and encourage them to engage in other activities. Better yet, hold back on introducing energy hogging toys and games when children are younger to curb their interest.
Instead of using brown and individual plastic bags, teach children to cut back on waste by using an insulated lunch box with reusable containers for sandwiches, snacks and drinks. Encourage them to use reusable drink bottles during activities and sports, instead of individually bottled beverages. Buy bulk sizes of snacks, condiments and drinks to reduce household waste and be sure children even at the youngest ages see you put litter and trash in the proper place no matter where you are.
By exposing your children to good environmental habits early on, you can provide the foundation for a lifetime of eco-responsibility and play a part in building a better and cleaner world.
Some great tools for teaching children environmentally responsible concepts:
The Lorax, Dr. Suess
Dora Saves the Mermaids, Nick Jr.
It’s A Big, Big World, PBS Kids Series
Everything Kids’ Environment Book, Sheri Amsel
Child’s Introduction to the Environment, Michael Driscoll, Dennis Driscoll and Meredith Hamilton
Planet Earth Gets Well, Madeline Kaplan
The Amazing Adventures of Annie Adair, A. Hartzell
The Tree Farmer, Chuck Laevell and Nicholas Cravotta
Happy Feet, Warner Home Video
Ferngully – The Last Rainforest, 20th Century Fox
Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series, BBC
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The Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) plans to introduce new-age renewable energy solutions across its real estate assets, both in the trade centre and Jebel Ali locations.
Under this initiative, the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) within the DWTC complex will incorporate next-generation technologies for solar power as well as the latest energy conservation methods. As part of this project, the expansive rooftops and facades of the halls of the conference and exhibition centre will be “innovatively leveraged”.
The complex will see the installation of a 1.2 MW photovoltaic solar power plant spanning around 10,500 sq m and featuring around 4,500 photovoltaic modules, to generate an estimated 1,800 MWh a year to cater for 60 one-bedroom apartment equivalent residential unit requirements annually.
DWTC also plans to build a solar-powered six-storey car-park.
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To Purchase this DVD Click Here
The National Railway Museum in York has an unparalleled collection of railway exhibits.
From the earliest days of the railway pioneers to the very latest in railway technology, there’s something for everyone.
In this hour long DVD, Lucy Adlington takes you on a privileged tour of the Museum.
Discover how the railways evolved from the building of ‘Rocket’ through to Mallard’s world speed record and the high speed running of today’s Channel Tunnel Eurostar.
The Japanese bullet train is also well worth a visit, evoking thoughts of the past, present and on to the future of rail travel.
Enjoy some of the wonderful railway posters and photographs available behind the scenes in the archives and uncover some fascinating items of railway history within the Museum’s stores.
Compare the intricacy of the London & North Eastern Railway’s Dynamometer car with the splendour of the Edwardian Pullman coach and the functional simplicity of the Travelling Post Office.
Absorb yourself in The Works, with a close up of the Museum’s own workshop, the fascinating galleries, a view of the modern working railway and the Aladdin’s cave of collection items in The Warehouse.
As a finale, savour the opulent grandeur of the world’s finest collection of Royal Coaches as we conclude this unique tour of the Museum.
Produced by – Marsden Rail
Running time – 60 Minutes
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Published online in Current Biology “Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Detect Acidic Volatiles Found in Human Odor Using the IR8a Pathway” is exciting new research out of the DeGennaro lab at FIU.
Mosquitoes use olfaction as a primary means of detecting their hosts. Previously, the functional ablation of a family of Aedes aegypti olfactory receptors, the odorant receptors (ORs), was not sufficient to reduce host seeking in the presence of carbon dioxide (CO2). This suggests the olfactory receptors that remain, such as the ionotropic receptors (IRs), could play a significant role in host detection. To test this, we disrupted the Ir8a co-receptor in Ae. aegypti using CRISPR/Cas9. We found that Ir8a mutant female mosquitoes are not attracted to lactic acid, a behaviorally active component of human sweat, and they lack odor-evoked responses to acidic volatiles. The loss of Ir8a reduces mosquito attraction to humans and their odor. We show that the CO2-detection pathway is necessary but not sufficient for IR8a to detect human odor. Our study reveals that the IR8a pathway is crucial for an anthropophilic vector mosquito to effectively seek hosts.
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401002: Bioscience 1
Assignment 2: Part A - Short answer questions
Word limit: 400 words
Due date: Spm AEDT Monday 12 October 2020 (Week 4)
This assignment is a mandatory submission, which means that in order to pass this unit of study, you must submit this assignment.
After you have read this information, head over to the Assignment 2A Q&A discussion board to ask any questions and see what your peers are saying about this assignment.
This assignment will develop your knowledge of the function and importance of healthy body systems in an adult. It focuses on homeostasis and the importance of nutrition in maintaining a healthy body. Skills being developed in this assignment include researching, writing, referencing, and presenting information in a clear and concise written format.
This assignment supports unit learning outcomes 1. 3 and 5-
Question 1: An important aspect of homeostasis is maintaining a normal body temperature. Briefly state what homeostasis is. and its importance in body temperature maintenance. Describe the series of steps in the homeostatic feedback system (i.e. stimulusreceptors- control centre- effectors- response) that would be activated in a healthy person, in response to a decreased external temperature.
Note: The reference list is not included in the word count.
Important note: No internet sources are to be used in Part A of this assignment.
View the marking guide under Assignment criteria' to see a detailed breakdown of how your work will be assessed. This is an excellent place to start your preparations for this assignment
Refer back to the marking guide frequently to make sure you are meeting the requirements.
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Building friendships in a neurotypical world
24/06/2020 - 11:00 to 13:00£16
Delivered via Zoom Webinar
Learn how to build teams around challenging pupils by drawing on a resource which is always there…. other children. Enjoy participating in a multi media workshop that will challenge, entertain and reach for your emotions. Circles of support are for us all, for life…. and they work!
This is an excellent opportunity to learn from Colin Newton and Derek Wilson the educational psychologists who brought this Department of Education endorsed approach (‘Circle of Friends’) to the UK.
The course answers the questions:
•What do you do with the child who is isolated by their aggression and anger, through being different, disabled or new to the school or community?
•Practically how do we go about including high profile children or young people?
•How can we help some children be friends?
We will cover:
•The importance of Welcome
•Inclusion values underpinning this work
•The Intentional Building of Relationships – ‘Circle of Friends’ work as an example
•Not doing it alone – The Importance of Teams in developing inclusive practice
•Practical setting up of circles of friends
•Stories of circles in primary and secondary mainstream schools
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The Koto Ryu techniques use short distancing between the two opponents, the Gyokko Ryu uses greater distance.
Both schools compliment each other and to study gyu one is to know only half of one of the two schools. Directionally speaking the Koto Ryu is straighter in and the Gyokko Ryu revolves more on a circular basis either in yourself or in your opponent when taking their balance.
Two of them have the name of the scroll partially clear and listed as such.: Notify me of new comments via email. These same kuji also appear in the Gyokko Ryu. The Koto Ryu techniques are shorter, quick, and straight to the point; the Gyokko Ryu has longer more complicated techniques, and the techniques have more movement.
What specializes the Koto-ryu techniques is that distance is created by moving along with the attack, then moving forward with a strike and then moving quickly out to a safe distance again.
This is done to come in with a strike at exactly 90 degrees against the bone structure of the attacker to do the most damage.
ooppojutsu Short distancing, and striking hard. The Koto Ryu is broken down into five levels which are as follows: Koppojutsu …… The rest is unclear.
Okuden, and Hekito are the highest levels of training with the school, and contain the secret teachings. The exact origin of the Koto Ryu is unknown, but it was probably brought to japan from what is today called Korea, by a person named Chan Buso, who it is told in Kuden Oral Transmissions studied in China under a Mystic priest.
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Wanderings in Budo musings on a journey along the warrior path. Notify me of new posts via email. The Koto-ryu is greatly complimented with the study of Gyokko-ryu and if you keep in mind they both have different strategies and methods, you should be able to mix them together to cover all possible variations for self protection survival.
Koppojutsu means to destroy the bone structure of the attacker. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here This states clearly that Koto-ryu was developed for the battlefield or out doors in general, and not inside a house or narrowed places. You are commenting using your Twitter account. There are no sources on when this happened exactly mid ‘s? The Koto Ryu has a unique form of Kenjutsu Swordsmanship.
Always making the eyes appear blank, so that no telepathic movement can be detected by the opponent Looking at the eyebrows of the opponent rather than their eyes.
They are listed as the Gassho Kuji Kiri nine symbol slashes prayers.
Koto Ryu Koppojutsu
To do this demands good timing and rhythm in the defensive attack, often done with Yoko Aruki. The Koto Ryu concentrates more on striking, and the Gyokko Ryu more on locks and koppojutzu.
Attacks to the face, in addition to metsubushi, are common in the techniques of the school. Some of the differences between Koto Ryu and Gyokko ryu are as follows: Yoko Aruki cross ruand Toki stamping on toes. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Suirin — Water ring prayer 3. Sakagami Taro Kunishige was considered as the first Soke in Koto-ryu, but Bando Kotaro Minamoto Masahide, the one that ruy to be the second Soke, died in battle in You are commenting using your Facebook account.
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The Koto Ryu also contains kuji prayer forms and they are called Sanpo Gassho 3 treasures.
Kotō Ryū Koppōjutsu – article translation | Wanderings in Budo
There after the Koto-ryu was following the same family koppojtusu as the Gyokko-ryu, the only difference being that Koto-ryu was taught only to the person that would become the Soke. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Two of them have the name of the scroll partially clear and listed as such Pin It on Pinterest. There are many similarities between the 2 schools.
The Hekito is unarmed combat against sword, but a skilled member of the school can also do the Hekito with sword against sword. Typical movement within the Koto Ryu is: The first line was particularly vexing to translate into something that made sense in English, after trying out several different versions I am currently happy with the one written above.
If both schools are studied completely, the student will know all forms ryyu fighting, including distance, striking, throws, and locks. Kongo — Cloud prayer 2.
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Don’t buy a new drive solely on speed; you should also consider performance, price, and reliability
Comparing solid-state drives (SSDs) to hard-disk drives (HDDs) is like comparing apples to oranges. They’re both popular devices for data storage, yet vastly different when it comes to design:
An SSD contains no moving parts. Instead, it uses microchips that retain data in nonvolatile memory chips.
An HDD features rotating rigid platters on a motor-driven spindle within a protective enclosure. Data is magnetically read from and written to the platters by read/write heads that float above the platters.
Naturally, these differences in design lead to separate performance issues. If you’re considering one or the other, read through the comparative details below so that you make the right addition to your computer.
SSDs are gaining in popularity because they’re perceived as being MUCH faster than the standard HDD. To a certain extent, yes, this is true. Their random access time is less than 0.1 seconds, as compared to HDDs which can take a couple of seconds to access data. This difference in time is due to the fact that the HDD is an electromechanical device, which means that everything needs to move into place before it can read files or save information to the hard drive. There are no moving parts with an SSD, so warm-up time is practically non-existent.
While this is a terrific selling point for SSD manufacturers, truth be told, the average consumer likely won’t notice that big a difference in boot-up and application launch time it’s only a few seconds difference. What is noticeable, especially for laptop users, is battery drainage. Given that an HDD has so many moving parts, it requires a lot more power: 7 W for the HDD, 2 W for SSDs. Even when idle, HDDs require approximately 95% more power than SSDs.
When it comes to storage capacity, though, HDD has SSD beat. For all their speed and ease of use, SSDs can’t handle the same large, continuous read/write rates that an HDD can. What’s more, HDDs actually surpass SSDs in terms of transfer speed during prolonged data transfers. As the reading/writing continues, the SSD slows down, while the HDD can sustain its normal speed of operation.
Despite recent cost reductions, there’s still a large difference in price between SSDs and HDDs. Approximately speaking, an SSD costs $1.80 USD/gigabyte and the HDD $0.11/gigabyte. The good news is that the trend we’re seeing with SSD prices going down is likely to continue as adoption of the technology becomes more widespread.
This does, however, bring about one of the most often-asked questions by those considering both drives: Should you buy the slower, yet higher-capacity HDD for less, or pay more for a faster, but lower-capacity SSD?
The answer comes down to personal preference. Some consumers are willing to accept limited storage in favor of a faster computing experience. Others prefer greater storage capacity for a lower price point. Best advice: First decide how you plan to use the device, THEN consider the price.
SSDs have a limited life span, with an average time between failures of 2,000,000 hours, or 228 years. Also, as mentioned earlier, SSDs have a limited amount of writes that they can perform. Generally speaking, most can sustain approximately 40 years of nonstop writing before failure (keep in mind, though, that performance is affected over time).
For HDD advocates out there, yes, these are hard numbers to swallow, but for the average consumer considering the two, having a limited lifespan of two-plus centuries is not likely to figure too heavily on the decision-making process.
That said, let’s instead take a look at the day-to-day wear on these two drives.
Given that the HDD has many moving parts, it’s likely to create noise, vibrate, and even heat up during operation. Heat, in particular, as generated by the device’s several moving parts, can cause significant wear and tear to the HDD. To address this issue, HDDs typically include some form of ventilation. These openings, however, allow for the inner workings of the device to be susceptible to such external issues as temperature fluctuation, poor air quality, and dust infiltration, all of which could lead to additional performance problems.
Furthermore, if a magnet gets too near, or if there’s a sudden knock to the device, it could result in the HDD experiencing critical drive failure and unrecoverable data loss.
SSDs, on the other hand, are airtight. Also, since there are no moving parts, you don’t have to worry about breaking it if it’s accidentally dropped (from a reasonable distance, of course). Neither magnets nor a reasonable amount of jostling will cause a risk of failure or loss of data. Also, SSDs are highly resistant to temperature fluctuation and strong power surges.
If you’re the type of computer user who prefers to leave your browser open so that you can chat with friends on Facebook, run an antivirus scanner in the background, and keep additional platforms like Microsoft Office or Adobe programs open for work purposes, then an SSD offers great advantages when it comes to reliability and speed.
If, however, you’re someone who wants to do all of those things AND constantly downloads movies, music or other huge chunks of data, you’ll find that the HDD is a safe, economical choice that meets all of your data storage needs. ■
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In press materials touting Reed’s press conference on the steps of City Hall and again in the remarks he delivered, Reed said the city was one of more than 30 across the country to take part in Red. The effort hoped to illuminate iconic landmarks across the globe to raise awareness for reducing babies born with HIV.
“World AIDS Day and our participation in it is critical because it renews focus on the subject and encourages people to get informed, to get tested, to get involved,” Reed said during the appearance.
The mayor touted five Atlanta landmarks that would be bathed in red for World AIDS Day: City Hall (second photo), the Georgia World Congress Center’s International Plaza Towers (top photo), the Georgia Dome, Centennial Olympic Park and the World of Coca-Cola.
But a post-sunset check of the Atlanta landmarks on Dec. 1 showed that only two – City Hall and the plaza towers – were turned red as the mayor pledged. There were no discernible signs that the other three buildings – the Dome, Centennial Park and World of Coca-Cola – were turned red.
A spokesperson for Reed, contacted after World AIDS Day, said the buildings reported back that they did take part in the Red effort despite an inspection that showed otherwise.
View a slideshow of landmarks across the globe that turned red for World AIDS Day.
UPDATE: A spokesperson for the World of Coca-Cola confirms that the building was not bathed in red. In fact, they don’t have that ability. But the landmark did turn its 30-foot tall Coca-Cola bottle red during the evenings of Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. An agreement with neighbors keeps the bottle icon dark after midnight.
UPDATE II: A spokesperson for the Georgia World Congress Center Authority — the group that manages the Dome, adjacent International Plaza and Centennial Olympic Park — says that eight to 12 lights around the Drum Wall on the exterior of the Dome used red gels. In the park, they used red LED lights to illuminate seating walls at Googie Burger and the Fountain of Rings. As we report above, the red lighting at the fountain was not visible to us.
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Knowing how to send a well-written email is incredibly important. If you’re just starting to apply for jobs, sending a well constructed email could put you ahead of the competition. Even if you’re well into your career; it’s never too late to make sure the way you communicate (through email) is concise and effective. Employers and employees are always looking for professionalism. Emails are a part of business. According to Inc., “email marketing is vital for business of all sizes.” There you have it, emails are necessary; and they aren’t going anywhere. So, here are 10 rules for sending a well- written email:
Don’t forget to proofread. I can’t stress this enough; make sure you read over your email before you send it. Sending an email with spelling and grammatical errors, is never a good look. Regardless of who the email is going to, make sure you read it over. No one wants to read an email riddled with errors!
Know your audience. Your friend may love when you send an email with emojis, but a future employer may not. There are some bosses who send emails with “lol” or “:)”; those bosses sound amazing! Unfortunately, not everyone is like that. Abbreviations, casual language, and emojis aren’t a good idea when emailing someone for the first time. Make sure you know your audience before you get too comfortable with the way you talk to them!
Don’t be too verbose. Cut straight to the point. Your subject needs to tell the person exactly what your email is about. Make sure you get to the purpose of your email as soon as possible. People have short attention spans, so the more useless information you include, the less likely your recipient will read the email.
Make sure you use an appropriate salutation. Avoid ending your email with “cheers” and “love” (especially when you don’t know the person). My favorite way to end an email is with “best” and then my first and last name. Don’t forget to include your name at the end of the email! I recommend already having an automatic signature at the end of your email; that will make you look even more professional.
Don’t send multiple emails, when you can send one. Before you send an email, make sure you’ve included everything. Once again, don’t say too much! But, make sure you’ve said what you needed to say. No one wants to be flooded with multiple emails, just like no one wants to be flooded with back to back texts.
Watch out for “reply all.” Too many times have I accidentally replied to everyone in an email. It’s easy to do, especially when someone sends an email and cc’s a bunch of people. Double check that you’re only replying to your intended person. You should also make sure you’re emailing the right person, in general. Accidentally emailing your boss, when you want to email your best friend can be embarrassing.
Don’t go crazy with the punctuation. Like I mentioned, knowing your audience is very important! There are some people who might appreciate a good exclamation mark. After all, it shows your excitement!!!!! But, too many exclamation marks may not make you seem like the most professional person in the world. Be careful with ellipses, dash’s, all caps, commas, and semi colons.
A good email shows that you’re professional, and able to communicate through different mediums. Make sure you don’t disappoint!
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Avocados are packed with nutrients, most notably healthy monounsaturated fat and fiber. It takes your body a while to break down both fat and fiber, so avocados can help keep you full for a long time. For this reason alone, avocados are a great food for weight loss, but that’s not where the health benefits of avocados ends!
Largely because of their healthy fat and fiber content, avocados are linked with lowering risk for heart disease, improving cholesterol levels, and reducing oxidative stress on your body. Plus, avocados can help you to better absorb and use the nutrients in other foods! You may have heard of the term “fat soluble vitamin.” Your body has a much easier time absorbing and using certain vitamins (vitamin A, D, E, and K) when they are eaten with fat. However some foods, like leafy greens and orange veggies like carrots, contain a lot of fat soluble vitamins but very little fat! If you eat avocado with these high-nutrient-low-fat foods, your body will absorb two to six times as many nutrients as if you ate those foods without avocado.
Aside from their healthy fat and fiber, avocados are packed with other nutrients (potassium, vitamin K, vitamin E, magnesium, nearly all of the B vitamins, vitamin C, phosphorus, manganese, copper, a lot of carotenoids, lutein, and zeaxanthin). This massive combination of nutrients means that avocados positively influence nearly all parts of your body, from insulin sensitivity and cholesterol levels to inflammation and even eye health. Have we mentioned how amazing avocados are yet?
How to Eat Avocados
Since avocados are high in healthy fat, they are also quite high in calories. You may not be able to just add avocado to what you’re currently eating and still stay within your calorie budget. Luckily, it’s easy to swap out other foods for avocado. Instead of spreading peanut butter, butter, or jam on toast, try avocado! Swap out the cheese in your salad or sandwich for slices of avocado. Instead of putting sour cream or butter on a baked potato, use avocado. Skip the mayo and pick avocado instead (this works great in tuna and chicken salads!). This nutrient-packed and tasty fruit can easily replace lots of other creamy or high-fat foods!
It can be challenging to know when an avocado is ripe. The simplest trick is to try to pick the stem off the top of the avocado. If the stem doesn’t come off easily, the avocado is not yet ripe. If it comes off and you see bright green fruit under it, the avocado is yours for the taking. If the fruit under the stem is brown, the avocado is too ripe. When you have a ripe avocado, use this method to safely remove the pit from an avocado.
Recipes We Love
This creative dish creates highlights an alfredo-like pasta sauce without any of the butter or cream! That’s right – the avocado replaces it. Click here to add this sauce to your Lose It! recipe box. The recipe card does not include the pasta – just the components for the sauce.
Perfect Guacamole Dip
It’s impossible to write about avocados without mentioning a good guacamole recipe! We always count on Alton Brown for the best versions of common recipes, so picked his version of guacamole. Guacamole doesn’t have to be eaten with tortilla chips. It’s great as a dip for veggies and also goes nicely with eggs, meat, salad, and sandwiches! Here are some ideas for Things to Eat with Guacamole Besides Chips.
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In a juvenile criminal case, the “disposition hearing” is basically the sentencing portion of trial. The purpose of a disposition hearing is to determine the most appropriate form of treatment or custody for juvenile offenders.
Juvenile proceedings are distinct from regular adult criminal trials. Sentencing for juvenile crimes tends to focus more on rehabilitating the minor rather than punishment. This type of outlook is reflected in the disposition hearing, which sometimes provides the juvenile with treatment, rehabilitation, or training as an alternative for jail time.
During a disposition hearing, the juvenile court will focus on several key factors to determine what the consequences of the offense will be. In general, there are three basic determinations that are made during the juvenile dispositional hearing:
- Whether the child is in serious need of rehabilitation or counseling
- Whether protection is needed for the child or for the general public
- Whether the child may be placed on probation
These determinations will vary depending on the facts of each juvenile case. Some factors that a juvenile court analyzes during dispositions include:
- The juvenile laws of that particular jurisdiction or state.
- The nature of the crime committed by the juvenile defendant
- Any history of previous crimes
- Local public polices and social standards regarding juvenile sentencing measures
Note that, if the juvenile is tried as an adult, many of these protections will not be available. They will be tried according to adult laws, which often focus more on punishment and deterrence rather than rehabilitation.
Yes. At disposition hearings, the juvenile defendant and their attorney can present evidence which will help the judge to reach their decision. Also, the victim in the case can present oral or written testimony at the disposition hearings.
After hearing both sides, the judge will then review all the relevant arguments to reach the best solution for rehabilitating the minor. The judge will also make considerations regarding the best way to correct the injuries or losses of the victim.
If you are involved in a juvenile disposition hearing, you should consult with a juvenile lawyer for assistance in court. It is important that you present the judge with the facts and details surrounding your situation. An attorney will be able to present every important and relevant piece of evidence to help secure a favorable outcome.
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This week marks the 111th anniversary of the opening of New York City's Subway, the Big Apple's famous underground rail system. Opening on Oct. 27, 1904, it cost a nickel for a ride and more than 100,000 commuters took their first subway trip that night. Though Boston and London both had running subterranean trains by 1897, the Subway in New York grew to become the largest in US.
Today the subway serves 4.5 million people daily and has a 24-hour operating schedule, making it the only rapid transit system in the world that always runs in its entirety — fitting for the city that never sleeps. Even as the largest underground transit system in the U.S., there are still proposals and works in progress to expand the reach of the subway to make it more convenient for commuters.
Unfortunately, the outlook is not bright for underground trains in coastal cities — especially in the Big Apple, which is far enough below sea level that it is already threatened whenever a tropical storm happens to travel north. As global warming causes an increase in sea level, the city will face a higher threat of flooding each year. Even as recently as 2012, the subway system was devastated by hurricane Sandy resulting in $5 billion worth of damage.
If the sea level should rise by a meter or more over the next century, New York City may find itself underwater with a waterlogged and salt corroded transit system after every storm. Of course, this is a problem for every coastal city as the U.S. falls behind in innovations to combat rising sea levels. Hopefully, progress will catch up with the problem and the many subway-dependent commuters will still have their trains for many years to come.
(Image at top: The City Hall subway station in the early 1900s. Source: Library of Congress)
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by Amy Yeatman Seekins
How did we get here? How did we get so out of touch with providing for ourselves? What can we do now, to change our future, to secure our future?
Times once again are changing. We are realizing how fragile our basic needs are. We are seeing right now, how a hiccup in time, can alter what we’ve blindly accepted as normal. We’ve now seen our dependency.
It wasn’t too long ago that the majority of our regular household foods were grown right in our own yards. The neighbors often provided what we couldn’t and barters were common amongst each other. In today’s society, we have lost the ability to provide for ourselves. We’ve become dependent on big chains to provide for our basic needs. I propose we get back to our roots…. in sorts, a resurrection of our ancestral roots.
You have the ability to provide, to grow, to change, and to touch base with the basic abilities that our grandparents & great grandparents did. You have the ability not to be dependent upon the system. Your power, is in your hands… your freedoms, are in your hands… your choice to health, is within your resolve.
Let’s grow a little something. Let’s support our local plant nurseries, farmers & ranchers. Let’s trade skills for products we may not be able to provide for ourselves. Let’s learn from those who do know how.
Where do you get started? Right in your own yard! Plant the basics… summer veggies & root vegetables that last through the winter. Familiarize yourself with how to store them. There is so much information online and neighbors that may be willing to help you learn. It is not too late to put some potatoes in the ground, plant a spring mix of lettuces, grow some zucchini or squash and if you’ve never had your own tomatoes… youre missing out! Start with something easy and get your hands dirty!
Not everyone can raise their own meat, but that doesn’t mean you can not be prepared.. Plan ahead, contact a local rancher and invest in half or a quarter of beef as well as pork. These times are tough for them too. It will save you money in the long run. Not to mention, the security you feel having a freezer full of meat that will last you the year.
Adopt a few hens…. two hens for every member of your family. In fact, you’re chickens can turn kitchen scraps & yard waste into fertile fantastic soil for next years garden! They are excellent for bug control as well. Put them to work while they produce you hours of comedy relief and delicious protein.
Start cooking at home again. We’ve strayed to the convenience of boxed foods loaded in preservatives, additives filled with sodium & sugars. It’s no wonder we have type 2 diabetes, all the metabolic & autoimmune diseases as well as the inevitable weight gain we see as our community gets sicker. You are what you eat. Every cell in your body is shaped and developed by what you put into it. Cook with fresh ingredients. The ability to know how your food is produced or raised can change your life and your immunity! There is no better time than now to have a tip top immune system!
Learn new skills! It’s so easy to come home from work and just plop down in front of the TV. Why not learn how to bake? Try to perfect some fresh breads. Learn how to can, ferment, or pickle foods! It’s easier than you think! Take advantage of Farmers Markets and buy enough to put extra food away for the year. Find friends & family with fruit trees that would love your help harvesting, while taking their extras and store some for later on. There’s nothing better than cracking open a jar of Apple pie filling topped with whipped cream on a cold winter night! Get creative… there are tons of possibilities and plenty of folks that would be happy to teach you.
Take control of your future while taking your health to the next level with home grown and prepared foods. These lost skills our ancestors used brought peace of mind and health. Resurrect your family roots!
Amy and her husband, Lincoln County residents, live among their livestock on a little piece of paradise. They’ve worked over the years to cultivate their gardens and property to restore the living land. Follow her Facebook page @ www.facebook.com/SeekinsHeritageHomestead
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Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs, especially for recovering the exact positions of surface points. Photogrammetry is as old as modern photography, dating to the mid-19th century and in the simplest example, the distance between two points that lie on a plane parallel to the photographic image plane, can be determined by measuring their distance on the image, if the scale (s) of the image is known.
Photogrammetric analysis may be applied to one photograph, or may use high-speed photography and remote sensing to detect, measure and record complex 2-D and 3-D motion fields by feeding measurements and imagery analysis into computational models in an attempt to successively estimate, with increasing accuracy, the actual, 3-D relative motions.
Submodules[edit | edit source]
OpenSource approaches to create a point cloud:
- Regard3D - Images to Point Cloud and Texture
- OpenDroneMap - From Drone Images to Point Cloud
- MeshRoom - From Images to Point Cloud
Learning Task[edit | edit source]
- Explore the options of 3D Modelling in general
- Learn to create your first 3D object with OpenSource Regard3D.
- Learn about taking Fotos for Photogrammetry by Youtube-Video 3D scanning Tutorial by Phil Nolan 2015
- Follow steps in the Regard3D tutorial to introduce you to the major process of 3D modelling with Photogrammetry.
- Place a piece of paper with a geometric pattern under the object, that you want to create a 3D model from by Photogrammetry. Explain, why does this step increase the quality and precision of the generated 3D model.
Photogrammetric methods[edit | edit source]
Photogrammetry has been defined by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) as the art, science, and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through processes of recording, measuring and interpreting photographic images and patterns of recorded radiant electromagnetic energy and other phenomena.
Photogrammetry uses methods from many disciplines, including optics and projective geometry. Digital image capturing and photogrammetric processing includes several well defined stages, which allow to generate 2D or 3D digital models of the object as an end product. The data model on the right shows what type of information can go into and come out of photogrammetric methods.
The 3-D co-ordinates define the locations of object points in the 3-D space. The image co-ordinates define the locations of the object points' images on the film or an electronic imaging device. The exterior orientation of a camera defines its location in space and its view direction. The inner orientation defines the geometric parameters of the imaging process. This is primarily the focal length of the lens, but can also include the description of lens distortions. Further additional observations play an important role: With scale bars, basically a known distance of two points in space, or known fix points, the connection to the basic measuring units is created.
Each of the four main variables can be an input or an output of a photogrammetric method.
Algorithms for photogrammetry typically attempt to minimize the sum of the squares of errors over the coordinates and relative displacements of the reference points. This minimization is known as bundle adjustment and is often performed using the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm.
Stereophotogrammetry[edit | edit source]
A special case, called stereophotogrammetry, involves estimating the three-dimensional coordinates of points on an object employing measurements made in two or more photographic images taken from different positions (see stereoscopy). Common points are identified on each image. A line of sight (or ray) can be constructed from the camera location to the point on the object. It is the intersection of these rays (triangulation) that determines the three-dimensional location of the point. More sophisticated algorithms can exploit other information about the scene that is known a priori, for example symmetries, in some cases allowing reconstructions of 3-D coordinates from only one camera position. Stereophotogrammetry is emerging as a robust non-contacting measurement technique to determine dynamic characteristics and mode shapes of non-rotating and rotating structures.
Integration[edit | edit source]
Photogrammetric data with a dense range data in which scanners complement each other. Photogrammetry is more accurate in the x and y direction while range data are generally more accurate in the z direction. This range data can be supplied by techniques like LiDAR, laser scanners (using time of flight, triangulation or interferometry), white-light digitizers and any other technique that scans an area and returns x, y, z coordinates for multiple discrete points (commonly called "point clouds"). Photos can clearly define the edges of buildings when the point cloud footprint can not. It is beneficial to incorporate the advantages of both systems and integrate them to create a better product.
A 3-D visualization can be created by georeferencing the aerial photos and LiDAR data in the same reference frame, orthorectifying the aerial photos, and then draping the orthorectified images on top of the LiDAR grid. It is also possible to create digital terrain models and thus 3-D visualisations using pairs (or multiples) of aerial photographs or satellite (e.g. SPOT satellite imagery). Techniques such as adaptive least squares stereo matching are then used to produce a dense array of correspondences which are transformed through a camera model to produce a dense array of x, y, z data which can be used to produce digital terrain model and orthoimage products. Systems which use these techniques, e.g. the ITG system, were developed in the 1980s and 1990s but have since been supplanted by LiDAR and radar-based approaches, although these techniques may still be useful in deriving elevation models from old aerial photographs or satellite images.
Applications[edit | edit source]
Photogrammetry is used in fields such as topographic mapping, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, quality control, police investigation, and geology. Archaeologists use it to quickly produce plans of large or complex sites, and meteorologists use it to determine the wind speed of tornados when objective weather data cannot be obtained.
It is also used to combine live action with computer-generated imagery in movies post-production; The Matrix is a good example of the use of photogrammetry in film (details are given in the DVD extras). Photogrammetry was used extensively to create photorealistic environmental assets for video games including The Vanishing of Ethan Carter as well as EA DICE's Star Wars Battlefront.
A somewhat similar application is the scanning of objects to automatically make 3D models of them. Some programs like 3DF Zephyr, RealityCapture, Acute3D's Smart3DCapture, now part of Bentley Systems and renamed ContextCapture, Pix4Dmapper, Photoscan, 123D Catch, Bundler toolkit, PIXDIM, and Photosketch have been made to allow people to quickly make 3D models using this photogrammetry method. It should be noted though that the produced model often still contains gaps, so additional cleanup with software like MeshLab, netfabb or MeshMixer is often still necessary.
Photogrammetry is also commonly employed in collision engineering, especially with automobiles. When litigation for accidents occurs and engineers need to determine the exact deformation present in the vehicle, it is common for several years to have passed and the only evidence that remains is accident scene photographs taken by the police. Photogrammetry is used to determine how much the car in question was deformed, which relates to the amount of energy required to produce that deformation. The energy can then be used to determine important information about the crash (such as the velocity at time of impact).
Software[edit | edit source]
- Regard3D OpenSource Photogrammetry Software for Linux, Windows, Mac -
- OpenDroneMap - Installation of Dockers CE to be installed.
- VísualSFM - currently no simple installers for Linux, Windows, Mac (Advanced Users)
- There exist many software packages for photogrammetry; see comparison of photogrammetry software.
Organisations[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Stereoscopy - Wikiversity
- 3D Modelling
- 3D data acquisition and object reconstruction
- 3D reconstruction from multiple images
- Aerial survey
- Computer vision
- DAT/EM Systems International
- Edouard Deville
- Epipolar geometry
- ERDAS IMAGINE
- Geomatics engineering
- Geographic information system
- International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Leica Photogrammetry Suite
- Mobile Mapping
- Rapid 3D Mapping
- Solid image
- SOCET SET
- Simultaneous localization and mapping
- Structure from motion
References[edit | edit source]
- Wiora, Oskar (2001). Optische 3D-Messtechnik : Präzise Gestaltvermessung mit einem erweiterten Streifenprojektionsverfahren (Doctoral dissertation). (Optical 3D-Metrology : Precise Shape Measurement with an extended Fringe Projection Method) (in German). Heidelberg: Ruprechts-Karls-Universität. p. 36. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ASPRS online - Webarchive URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20150520012943/http://www.asprs.org/About-Us.html Date: May 20, 2015 Wayback Machine.
- Sužiedelytė-Visockienė J, Bagdžiūnaitė R, Malys N, Maliene V (2015). "CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY ENABLES DOCUMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENT-INDUCED DEFORMATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE" (PDF). Environmental Engineering and Management Journal. pp. 1371–1381.
- "Ina Jarve, Natalja Liba. The Effect of Various Principles of External Orientation on the Overall Triangulation Accuracy. TECHNOLOGIJOS MOKSLAI. Estonia. #86, 2010, pp. 59-64" (PDF).
- Sužiedelytė-Visockienė, Jūratė (1 March 2013). "Accuracy analysis of measuring close-range image points using manual and stereo modes". Geodesy and Cartography 39 (1): 18–22. doi:10.3846/20296991.2013.786881. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20296991.2013.786881.
- Baqersad, Javad; Carr, Jennifer; et al. (April 26, 2012). Dynamic characteristics of a wind turbine blade using 3D digital image correlation. Proceedings of SPIE. Vol. 8348.
- Lundstrom, Troy; Baqersad, Javad; Niezrecki, Christopher; Avitabile, Peter (1 January 2012). Topics in Modal Analysis II, Volume 6. Springer, New York, NY. pp. 269–275. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-2419-2_26. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-2419-2_26.
- Lundstrom, Troy; Baqersad, Javad; Niezrecki, Christopher (1 January 2013). Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6. Springer, New York, NY. pp. 401–410. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6546-1_44. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-6546-1_44.
- A. Sechin. Digital Photogrammetric Systems: Trends and Developments. GeoInformatics. #4, 2014, pp. 32-34.
- Ahmadi, FF; Ebadi, H. "An integrated photogrammetric and spatial database management system for producing fully structured data using aerial and remote sensing images". Sensors (Basel) 9: 2320–33. doi:10.3390/s90402320. PMID 22574014. PMC 3348797. //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3348797/.
- "How we used Photogrammetry to Capture Every Last Detail for Star Wars™ Battlefront™". 19 May 2015.
- "Photo Tourism". phototour.cs.washington.edu.
- "Building Rome in a Day". grail.cs.washington.edu.
- "Why Google Doesn't NEED Sketchup Anymore - MasterSketchup.com". www.mastersketchup.com.
- MAKE:3D printing by Anna Kaziunas France
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- RSPSoc - Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society of UK
- History of Photogrammetry
- Photogrammetry overview on the Cultural Heritage Imaging web site
- Visual Revolution of the Vanishing of Ethan Carter
- Examples of photogrammetry
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