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Training: Writing content for the digital age
If you want to learn the tips and tricks to produce relevant and effective digital content, this course is for you!
In collaboration with the Société des musées du Québec, the Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec, the Conseil québécois de la musique, the Guilde des musiciens et musiciennes du Québec, the Regroupement de pairs des arts indépendants de recherche, En Piste invites you to take part in this training session on writing content for the digital age.
Designed for communications officers and web project managers, you will be able to learn different writing techniques that make texts easier to understand and that encourage reading.
Date: December 14-16, 9am-12pm
Hours: 7 hours - 6 hours of training and one hour of individual work
Registration deadline: December 3, 2021
Resource person: Érik Vigneault
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Warning signs of domestic abuse
Kathy A. Bolten
Warning signs of domestic abuse:
- You can't make decisions without your partner's approval.
- You need your partner's permission to do things.
- You can't express your opinion or feelings around your partner.
- Your partner embarrasses you and makes fun of you in front of family and friends.
- Your partner says horrible things about you, and you begin to believe they are true.
- You feel like you are nothing without your partner.
- Your partner says he/she lost control because of alcohol, drugs or something you did.
- You make excuses to family and friends for your partner.
- Nothing you do makes your partner happy.
- You often give in to your partner out of fear of what his/her reaction will be.
- You are afraid of your partner.
- Your partner has used violence in the past to get his/her way.
- You can't leave out of fear of what your partner will do.
Source: Domestic Violence Services, a program of Children & Families of Iowa
Where to get help
- Iowa Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-942-0333.
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Year 1's Nature and Growth topic
Our Year 1 pupils have been getting very creative this morning painting their sunflowers using Vincent Van Gogh's work as inspiration.
They have been enjoying their growth and nature walks around our school grounds where they have been identifying leaves and flowers and which plants they belong to.
The class have also individually planned their own Bug Hotels, and enjoyed constructing them outside. Very well done Year 1!
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Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University reviewed 28 randomized clinical trials and 14 observational studies that included more than 44,000 women. The goal was to determine the effectiveness and any harms of telehealth strategies for maternal health care.
Many of the telehealth strategies included were used to treat postpartum depression or to monitor diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy. They also served as an alternative to general maternity care for low-risk pregnancies.
Researchers found these appointments resulted in mostly similar, or sometimes better, outcomes compared with in-person care.
The authors said this may mean that telehealth can be a supplement to usual care for postpartum depression. Telehealth interventions were more likely to improve mood symptoms in the short term compared to in-person care alone, they said, though the effects might not be sustained.
What a gift to not have to go into the doctor’s office for every prenatal visit! Less time off work, or for those of us with a few kids, less taking time off work to bundle up a baby for a routine visit to check out the baby-to-be. And that’s coming from someone with only a 10 minute drive to the doctor’s office. The caveat of course is that sufficient broadband is required.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The former New Mexico assistant secretary for Native American education says she was forced out of the job earlier this month without explanation or documented reasoning.
Latifah Phillips worked her last day for the state Public Education Department’s Indian Education Division last week.
In a letter sent to the state’s tribal elders this week, Phillips says she chose to be fired when the department gave her the opportunity to resign, describing the decision as a “small act of protest to the unfairness of this action.”
The department declined to comment on Phillip’s firing, citing it as a confidential personnel matter.
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DeAlva Calabaza was named the acting assistant secretary. The department says Calabaza will “take the work of the Indian Education Division to the next level.”
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1913 Dublin Lockout Access Programme
Minister Jimmy Deenihan, TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht launches Dublin 1913 Lockout primary school access project at NCAD.
Over 160 primary school children from 7 schools in Dublin 8 participated in this year’s primary school access project entitled the 1913 Dublin Lockout.
Inspired by the 1913 Tapestry Project second year art and design education students devised an innovative art and design scheme that was relevant to the primary school Visual Art Curriculum, exploring and investigating aspects of the social history from this time. The primary school access project has been developed as a module within the BA (Hons) Art and Design Education Degree and every year students develop a project that introduces primary school children to the NCAD through participation in issue based art and design projects. Minister Deenihan praised the children’s artistic endeavours and spoke about the importance of programmes such as this that foster positive links between primary school children and higher-education in art and design.
The NCAD’s primary school access project aims to introduce young children from our community to the NCAD and the inherent possibilities in art and design as options for life. This is part of an overall Access and Outreach Programme that engages with 15 primary schools, 26 post primary schools in Dublin. Since it’s inception over 3,000 primary school children have visited the NCAD.
The following schools took part in the programme:
- Presentation Primary School, Warrenmount, Dublin 8
- Sancta Maria CBS, Synge St, Dublin 8
- Scoil na mBrather, Frances Street, Dublin 8
- St Brigid’s N.S., The Coombe, Dublin 8
- St Catherine’s N.S., Cook Street, Dublin 8
- St Audoen’s N.S., Cook Street, Dublin 8
- Scoil Treasa Naofa, Petrie Road, Dublin 8
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There are few investments better than real estate; however, all investments carry some degree of risk by nature. This risk is even more prominent in investments like real estate, which has incredibly low liquidity.
While many investors look at real estate acquisition as relatively safe, this can change drastically when buying a property that was foreclosed on from the previous owner.
In this article, we’re going to take a closer look at just what makes buying a foreclosed property risky, and if there’s anything you can do to reduce or eliminate those risks.
Types of Foreclosures
The three most common types of foreclosures in the US are:
- Power of sale foreclosure
- Judicial foreclosure
- Strict foreclosure
For a power of sale foreclosure, also known as statutory foreclosure, the mortgage contract in some states will have a power of sale clause. This makes it possible for the lender to auction the property off to fulfill the foreclosure. This does not require any judicial involvement and is allowed in a total of 29 states.
A judicial foreclosure requires the lender to file a suit to begin foreclosure proceedings. This is then communicated to the buyer, and they are usually given 30 days to become current on the loan. If that fails, the property is then auctioned off by either the county sheriff or a court.
Strict foreclosures are only allowed in Vermont and Connecticut and require a suit filed by the lender against the defaulted borrower. The court then sets a time limit to pay the mortgage, and if that fails, the property title transfers to the lender automatically.
This is the only type of foreclosure that doesn’t require a formal sale.
5 Risks of Buying Foreclosed Homes
As with any investment, buying a foreclosed property comes with certain risks that you as the buyer should be aware of.
1. Overpaying Is Easy
A common risk when buying a foreclosed property is paying more than the current market value of the home. This risk can be exacerbated if you are buying at an auction, where competing buyers may “spite bid” to drive the price higher.
You can lower this risk considerably by setting a maximum bid at an auction, or setting a firm budget for yourself when buying off-market
2. You May Need Cash
Financing can be nearly impossible if you plan to buy a foreclosed property, particularly if you plan to use conventional financing options or an FHA loan.
You may be able to find a rehab loan with decent terms, but they can take significantly more time and can make a flip uneconomical. That being said, some lenders will have options available for these types of situations.
3. Your ROI Can Take an Unexpected Hit
Many novices aren’t familiar with the potential expenses or additional costs associated with buying a foreclosure.
While most will be prepared for the property price and a standard title fee, there may be unexpected costs as well. There may be transfer taxes or even liens on the property, and you may even need to pay fees related to the original foreclosure.
4. Your Rental Plan Can Be Delayed
Buying foreclosed homes risks delays brought on by the process of buying a foreclosure.
Foreclosure sales are known to have more delays than traditional sales, particularly during the escrow phase at closing. One way to minimize these delays is to make sure you’re working with an experienced broker or real estate agent.
Your agent should not only have familiarity with foreclosure sales but also with the financial institution involved in the transaction.
5. As-Is Sales Can Be Nebulous
A huge risk when buying a foreclosed home is that the sellers are not under any legal obligation to disclose major faults.
The homes are generally sold as-is, meaning the full onus of due diligence is on the buyer, and the buyer must arrange for their licensed inspector.
It’s always wise to keep a reserve of funds in case the property needs considerable repairs or even major expenses like roofing or foundation work.
Benefits of Buying a Foreclosed Home
The primary benefit of buying a foreclosed home is that you can often pay considerably less than market value if the right circumstances exist.
While they may not necessarily have a listing price that is lower than other area homes, they are priced by the lender, who wants to sell the home and get it off of their books.
Can You Get a Mortgage to Buy a Foreclosed Home?
It’s not uncommon for a buyer to be able to obtain a mortgage for the purchase of a foreclosed home. Many lenders even specialize in loans for foreclosed properties or properties that need rehab.
The terms of the loan will vary from one lender to another, and some may require the home to be in livable condition, while others won’t.
Before you begin your property search, you may want to apply for a mortgage ahead of time to obtain a pre-approval, which can substantially increase the odds of the seller accepting your offer.
Mortgage Options for Buying Foreclosed Homes
In many cases, even when a property is foreclosed you can leverage a variety of conventional mortgage options.
As long as you aren’t buying from a cash-only auction, and provided the home is in livable condition, you may be able to get a conventional mortgage.
Government-backed loans have a major advantage of making a home more affordable, though they do come with some stipulations depending on the property.
For example, if the property you’re looking at isn’t able to qualify for a loan due to not being in “livable condition”, it may require some additional work to be performed before it meets the minimum criteria.
On the other hand, since you don’t need mortgage insurance with government-backed loans, you could use the money saved there for further work.
When it comes down to it, while buying foreclosed properties may not be a bad investment, they do have risks and benefits unique to foreclosures.
However, knowing what you’re facing when it comes to those risks can allow you to much more adequately prepare.
One of the best ways to go into a foreclosure sale is to visit a lender today and start the process of pre-approval, so you can start seriously start looking for your next investment.
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Pipeline opponents outnumber supporters at public hearing
Opponents of a natural gas pipeline told state officials Tuesday that it will harm the environment and is not needed, but supporters said the pipeline is safe and will create jobs.
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing at Fayetteville Technical Community on a water quality certification application for the proposed pipeline.
Dominion Resources plans to build the 600-mile pipeline with Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas and Southern Company Gas. The proposed route runs from West Virginia through Virginia and into North Carolina, ending in Robeson County. The pipeline is expected to go through eastern Cumberland County and the northeast corner of Sampson County.
The line is expected to cost $4.5 billion and would carry natural gas produced in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
About 35 people spoke in opposition to the pipeline at the public hearing. About 10 were in favor.
Opponents said the state should rely more on renewable energy such solar and wind power.
Supporters said the pipeline will provide a clean source of power that will lower the cost of energy.
Tom Clark, a member of Cumberland County Caring Voices, said the companies proposing the pipeline mainly want to make money. He questioned some information in the state application about the amount of streams and number of acres that would be impacted.
“What is the truth?” he said.
Stephen May, who did not say where he was from, said the pipeline will have an important economic impact. He said natural gas will provide power “when the sun isn’t shining and the wind’s not blowing.”
Jorden Revels, a student at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, said federally recognized tribes were told about the pipeline, but the state-recognized Lumbee tribe was not consulted.
Robie Goins, a member of the tribe, said the pipeline’s proposed route ends on property that is adjacent to his family’s land. He said he swam in the Lumber River when he was growing up.
“If it becomes contaminated, my kids will not get to have that same experience,” he said.
Jeffrey Long, who said he is a minister and retired from the military, said natural gas from the pipeline can provide heat in the winter if electricity is disrupted.
“I think there’s a lot of unfounded fears being raised about the pipeline,” he said.
Dominion hopes to start construction on the pipeline this fall. The company says it has made more than 300 adjustments in the proposed route to avoid wetlands, wildlife, private wells and geological formations.
Another public hearing on the pipeline is scheduled for Thursday in Rocky Mount.
State officials will be taking written comments until 5 p.m. on Aug. 19. Comments can be submitted by email to firstname.lastname@example.org, with ACP in the subject line, or by mail to 401 Permitting, 1617 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1617.
Staff writer Steve DeVane can be reached at email@example.com or 486-3572.
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Yes, it’s true the Germans are better than us. Not at football or building cars as you might be thinking but at data security.
Despite possessing a thriving IT market here in the UK we are surprisingly very poor at data security. The likes of Luxembourg, Switzerland and Germany show us up when it comes to protecting data. It’s why the European Union decided to bring in the General Data Protection Regulation, because the UK along with many other EU member countries were so poor at Data Protection and possessed out-dated legislation when it came to protecting the way that we handle sensitive data. The Germans not only have stronger compliance, regulation and legislation in this area but they also enforce it strongly; fining and public naming companies who fall foul of their expected standards.
Now the Germans, Swiss and Luxembourgers are bringing the rest of us up to their standards. The problem is that most businesses in the UK aren’t ready for this sea change in expectation and we certainly don’t realise that we are going to be publicly named and shamed if we don’t comply, not to mention the fines. We are less than nine months away from D-Day when the EU GDPR comes into play in the UK. For most businesses, if they haven’t started doing something about GDPR now then they won’t be ready in time and they will be desperately scrabbling around come the 25th May 2018, trying to tick off as many of the things as they need to, prioritising the key things to get in place and leaving the others.
There are lots of easy things people can do to get ready, loads and loads in fact but it frustrates me that people are still standing around with their hands in their pockets. What are they waiting for? A data breach and the PR disaster that it will create? Or just hoping that someone else comes along and takes ownership. So many businesses and directors I speak to say that they don’t think that they would be fined for a breach but until the law comes into force, we just don’t know how this is going to play out.
It’s time for businesses to sit up and take notice. As a country we need to start taking the protection of sensitive data more seriously and up to the standards of the German et al.
If your business needs help with GDPR compliance, we have a whole range of resources which you can explore:
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Most government and nonprofit websites get built by describing the specifications and design, getting someone to build it and then after internal review, launch! That can work, but it often produces sites (and apps) that don’t really meet the specific needs of your audience, your users, your stakeholders. Despite this being how we do things in this sector, there are better practices out there; one of the better things to come from Silicon Valley is the field of User Experience or user testing- something intimidating at first but something very much within reach of any organization or agency. Let me tell you about how we’ve started using this practice- I’m not an expert but I’ve had the privilege of working with some through OpenOakland and now we’re putting this to the test at Urban Strategies Council.
techPathways.org is a new website that’s being created in partnership with a bunch of great orgs in the East Bay- it’s bootstrapped (done on the cheap) and not yet officially launched, but it exists, so don’t consider it a secret. We had the idea formed by many stakeholders, a great design shop pro-bono’d the look and feel (Raizlabs) and another small firm built it (dStrategies). We have a fantastic marketing strategist helping put together our plan to promote and sustain the site too (thanks Carrie). What was missing in all of this expertise and thinking was the users- the people we’re really building this to help. We want to demystify tech jobs for young people of color in the east bay- to change both the technology career pipeline itself and to encourage local youth to get into jobs that pay well enough to help them stay in Oakland and the East Bay. Clearly we needed to hear directly from some of those young people about how techPathways.org could work best for them.
User Experience testing requires one hard thing- a willingness to hear from others how bad your product may be. Listening is critical, but if you’re not open to hearing a bad message, you won’t do this right.
We conducted our first UX session in partnership with Youth Radio, just across the street. They gathered six young people from one of their programs and our team planned out a session that would do these things:
- Gather feedback on the interface design- do young people find their way around the site as planned?
- Refine language on the site- is our wonk-level language use ok, or are we confusing users?
- Validating or refuting our ideas on what information young people want when seeking training opportunities.
We adapted some questions from a session I’ve helped run before and then got to work with our group. Our session was 50 minutes long and had four main segments:
- General questions about how they find jobs and training currently- and what they imagine they would want from a website like this;
- Watching them try out the site individually to assess how they navigate it, followed by general feedback as a group;
- Showing the group some planned new features using a paper prototype, to get their feedback; and
- An exercise to draw up their career pathway- on paper.
From this session we learned many important things- almost all of them easy/cheap to fix. Imagine that- launching a website knowing that many things have been already validated or improved by your users! Some UX sessions will have you throwing your head to the desk as your assumptions were wrong, or the design just wrong, but it’s such a valuable gain that I can’t imagine doing any projects on the web without doing this each time. We learned that many pieces of language were not clear- that buttons needed renaming, menus rearranged and renamed, contact forms made more prominent, linkages changing and also that they really dug the design and build of the site.
We also learned much about how to get this site used by young people- and our plan to focus on Instagram and SnapChat for promotion was altered when we heard they found out about programs from their moms a lot- so we can re-add Facebook to our list- if that’s where adults are, we can reach them there, and thereby reach their kids too. Small things.
We’ve got one more session planned with another youth development partner Soulciety. Then we’ll be launching for real. My guess is that this approach added about:
- Three hours to arrange the sessions;
- Four hours to plan them;
- One hour each to execute;
- One hour to review changes.
So when you’re building a digital tool or website- think about the value of testing your product with an audience early on- ten hours can give you critical feedback and let you adjust a product to really meet the needs of your users better. And maybe avoid some embarrassment.
Special thanks to Andrea Moed for her feedback on this post, but more importantly for teaching me so much in partnership at OpenOakland- I may have helped create this space but each one teach one is how it really works in community.
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Air Traffic Controllers Honored for Skill in the Tower
When things go wrong in an airplane cockpit, a few words from an air traffic controller can save the day.
On a clear day last July, Scott Dittamo was training at the Newark Tower when he spotted an Air India flight with 409 passengers on board making its final approach. But something didn't look right. The Boeing 747's landing gear was still up as the plane was a half-mile from landing.
"Air India 145 heavy, check gear down, gear appears up," Dittamo radioed the plane. Colleagues quickly congratulated him on the "great catch."
Michele Norris talks to Dittamo and Ken Hopf, who are among the 12 controllers being honored today for helping prevent tragedies in the nation's skies.
They will receive the National Air Traffic Controllers Association's Archie League Medal of Safety for extraordinary vigilance and skill on the job. The medal is named for the man who is widely believed to be the world's first air traffic controller.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Adversaries may send spearphishing emails with a malicious attachment in an attempt to gain access to victim systems. Spearphishing attachment is a specific variant of spearphishing. Spearphishing attachment is different from other forms of spearphishing in that it employs the use of malware attached to an email. All forms of spearphishing are electronically delivered social engineering targeted at a specific individual, company, or industry. In this scenario, adversaries attach a file to the spearphishing email and usually rely upon User Execution to gain execution. Spearphishing may also involve social engineering techniques, such as posing as a trusted source.
There are many options for the attachment such as Microsoft Office documents, executables, PDFs, or archived files. Upon opening the attachment (and potentially clicking past protections), the adversary's payload exploits a vulnerability or directly executes on the user's system. The text of the spearphishing email usually tries to give a plausible reason why the file should be opened, and may explain how to bypass system protections in order to do so. The email may also contain instructions on how to decrypt an attachment, such as a zip file password, in order to evade email boundary defenses. Adversaries frequently manipulate file extensions and icons in order to make attached executables appear to be document files, or files exploiting one application appear to be a file for a different one.
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Cobalt Group has sent spearphishing emails with various attachment types to corporate and personal email accounts of victim organizations. Attachment types have included .rtf, .doc, .xls, archives containing LNK files, and password protected archives containing .exe and .scr executables.
DarkHydrus has sent spearphishing emails with password-protected RAR archives containing malicious Excel Web Query files (.iqy). The group has also sent spearphishing emails that contained malicious Microsoft Office documents that use the "attachedTemplate" technique to load a template from a remote server.
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Anti-virus can also automatically quarantine suspicious files.
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Network intrusion prevention systems and systems designed to scan and remove malicious email attachments can be used to block activity.
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Block unknown or unused attachments by default that should not be transmitted over email as a best practice to prevent some vectors, such as .scr, .exe, .pif, .cpl, etc. Some email scanning devices can open and analyze compressed and encrypted formats, such as zip and rar that may be used to conceal malicious attachments.
Use anti-spoofing and email authentication mechanisms to filter messages based on validity checks of the sender domain (using SPF) and integrity of messages (using DKIM). Enabling these mechanisms within an organization (through policies such as DMARC) may enable recipients (intra-org and cross domain) to perform similar message filtering and validation.
Users can be trained to identify social engineering techniques and spearphishing emails.
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Network intrusion detection systems and email gateways can be used to detect spearphishing with malicious attachments in transit. Detonation chambers may also be used to identify malicious attachments. Solutions can be signature and behavior based, but adversaries may construct attachments in a way to avoid these systems.
Anti-virus can potentially detect malicious documents and attachments as they're scanned to be stored on the email server or on the user's computer. Endpoint sensing or network sensing can potentially detect malicious events once the attachment is opened (such as a Microsoft Word document or PDF reaching out to the internet or spawning Powershell.exe) for techniques such as Exploitation for Client Execution or usage of malicious scripts.
Monitor for suspicious descendant process spawning from Microsoft Office and other productivity software.
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By Doug Reynolds, Head of School
In reflecting on an increasingly partisan and negative atmosphere during this election season, I’m reminded again of the importance of training up future servant leaders who can engage our culture in a winsome way for change that glorifies God. There are many examples throughout church history of men and women who served this way. In fact, the inspiration and name for our school comes from such a group.
Clapham is today an area of southwest London. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries it was the place for worship and fellowship by a group of believers who became known as the “Clapham Saints” or the “Clapham Sect” (as they were negatively called in the London press). Their devotion to Christ helped change countless lives in London and beyond.
Perhaps the most famous member of the Clapham Saints was William Wilberforce. As a young student at Cambridge in the 1770’s, he turned away from his evangelical youth and pursued a worldly lifestyle. Socially gifted and very wealthy, Wilberforce exuded the qualities of a natural leader while still an undergraduate.
He eventually became one of the youngest and most charismatic members of Parliament. His life changed, however, after taking two trips to the Continent with a dear friend and mentor, Isaac Milner. It was on these trips that he immersed himself in his own study of the classics and Scripture, was convicted of the depth of his sin, and turned to Jesus.
Wilberforce felt compelled to retire from public life and Parliament, but after some counsel was persuaded instead to utilize his position of influence to serve Christ. He dedicated his parliamentary life to the abolition of slavery, and he and his friends in the Clapham Saints labored over twenty years until slave trade was outlawed. He lobbied another 25 years for emancipation. Three days before his death, he was sent word that the House of Commons had outlawed the institution of slavery.
Other members of the Clapham Saints included Hannah More, a well-known writer and social reformer, an advocate for the poor and for the education of women. Their meetings were often centered at the Holy Trinity Church in Clapham, London, then pastored by John Venn. Undaunted by ridicule or opposition and tireless in their cause for moral reform, this group set up numerous Christian societies and published volumes of Christian material concerning social reform. They founded the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society and led the charge for prison reform.
Wilberforce and his friends understood the calling of the Christian to stand for what is right. They understood the Scripture to be good and true and lived under the compulsion of its commands. Together they stood against the powerful tide of their culture.
With these examples it should be obvious why we chose the name “Clapham” for our school. However, one final point may be the most important. Many schools are named for individuals who achieved greatness in some way or another. Our school is named for a community of individuals. They, together, exemplified the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Through all night prayer sessions, solid biblical teaching and encouragement from each other, they made a difference in early 19th century England. We can thank God for their example and pray for more like them in our culture today.
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The Creative Industries are thriving in the UK!
- UK’s Creative Industries grew by 8.9 per cent in 2014 – almost double UK economy as a whole
- UK’s Creative Industries generate nearly £9.6million per hour
- 2016 set to be another blockbuster year for UK’s music, film, video games, TV and publishing sectors
The creative industries contributed £84.1bn to the British economy in 2014 and grew almost twice as fast as the rest of UK PLC. These figures released by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport show a rise of £7bn on the year before. They also reveal the number of jobs in the industry grew by almost 9% between 2013 and 2014 – almost double the rest of the economy as a whole (4.6%).
The creative industries economic estimates, released on Tuesday, show that creative companies now account for just over 5% of the economy.
One of the areas of strongest growth was in film, TV, video, radio and photography, which rose almost 14%, second only to architecture and graphic products and fashion design. Advertising and marketing increased by almost 11% between 2013 and 2014 but publishing went up just 2.8%. The number of jobs in the creative industries – which includes both creative and support roles – increased by 5.5% in the same time period, to 1.8 million.
The creative industries economic estimates are official government statistics used to measure the direct economic contribution of those industries to the UK economy.
Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey said:
“The creative industries are one of the UK’s greatest success stories, with British musicians, artists, fashion brands and films immediately recognisable in nations across the globe. Growing at almost twice the rate of the wider economy and worth a staggering £84 billion a year, our Creative Industries are well and truly thriving and we are determined to ensure its continued growth and success.”
A great time to be involved in creativity in the UK!
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Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi.
Portland, Oregon, is the latest city to crack down on plastic straws, voting unanimously Wednesday to introduce a straw-on-request law.
It’s not the worst straw restriction I’ve seen, but it is nonetheless a depressing reminder of how normalized this form of petty authoritarianism has become.
The new Portland ordinance forbids food retailers and institutional cafeterias (like those at schools and hospitals) from offering straws, plastic cutlery, and single-use condiment packages. They can still provide those items, but customers must first request them.
Violators of Portland’s ordinance will be hit with a $100 fine for a first offence, $200 for a second, and $500 for every violation thereafter. A business cannot be penalized more than once in a week for handing out unsolicited straws.
Read the entire article at Reason.
Image Credit: By https://pixabay.com/fr/users/Hans-2/ [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Remarks made at a seminar on Putting the
Private Sector at the Core of Sustainable Development Goals in
Pakistan, organized by the FPCCI Standing Committee on Research
and Development, December 20, 2017
During the last quarter century or so, the private sector became a substantial provider of education services in Pakistan. Data from various sources show the total number of private schools (at all levels, pre-primary, primary, higher secondary, technical and vocational and deeni madaris) began rising sharply in the early 1990s, reached around 36000 in 1999-2000, and around 80000 by 2010 and are currently at around 112000. By contrast, the total number of public schools reached 153000 in 1999-2000 and currently stand at 190000. Roughly speaking, since 2000, the number of private schools has been growing at the rate of more than 10% per annum while the number of public schools has been growing at only about 1.5 % per annum.
Similar trends apply with respect to the number of students enrolled. Private schools increased enrolment from around 6 million students in 1999-2000 to about 20 million currently while public school enrolment rose from around 17 million in 1999-2000 to about 28 million currently.
Moreover, these changes have happened at a faster rate in the rural areas and in small towns than in the urban areas and big cities.
Clearly, the private sector has been expanding access to schooling at a much faster rate than the public sector in recent years. The available evidence suggests the private sector will continue to provide the bulk of incremental enrolment and access to basic education in Pakistan in the coming years.
How has this come about? And are there any downsides to this phenomenon of private-sector led educational development in the country?
The main reason why private education supply has mushroomed in Pakistan in the last quarter century is the growth in availability of cheap female labor for teaching and administrative jobs, especially in small towns and rural areas. This labor force is available at such low wages that it makes economic sense for private schools to supply education at a cost low enough to attract low-income students. Where previously it was not possible for the private sector to provide education services profitably, the availability of pools of female labor in geographically segmented markets has made it possible to do so. Female labor remains cheap because females are, by local custom, confined to look for jobs within the villages and small towns where they live. They cannot and do not migrate freely to where the jobs pay better wages.
There is a downside to this market made possible by minimally-trained and low wage female labor and that shows up in the quality of their output. The quality provided by low-fee private schools is poor. However, these schools can survive in a low-quality competitive equilibrium because government schools, while free to attend, are no better and possibly worse in quality. Public schools are plagued by teacher absenteeism and a lack of equipment and facilities to support decent education. So low-income parents do not mind switching their kids to a low quality private school because the alternative is worse.
Regarding education quality among public and private schools, earlier studies for Pakistan had shown unclear results with some showing private schools to have superior quality results but others showing only marginal differences. More recent data, especially that produced by the ASER organization, show a distinctive quality advantage among private schools. Private schools show better results than public counterparts for English, Mathematics and local language comprehension among Grade 5 students. Where private schools have been growing, quality outcomes are also improving.
The promising potential seen for the private sector in basic education in Pakistan cannot, however, be extended to the segment of higher education. Very briefly, while private universities have been growing in number, the vast majority of them are associated with low quality output. The Pakistan Education Statistics issue for 2015-16 show 163 universities in total, broadly balanced among 91 public and 72 private units. However, enrolment is heavily skewed in favor of public universities with 1.14 million students in the public sector and only 214000 in the private sector. And teaching resources are similarly skewed with 67000 teachers in the public sector and only 17000 in private universities.
All this is consistent with a model of higher education where the private sector only goes into selected disciplines, such as business and IT education, and avoids spending the large outlays required for the establishment of science and engineering universities or general-purpose universities with multiple departments and degree programs. Higher education is not yet privately profitable in those types of higher education institutions.
Andrabi, T. et. Al., 2008, A Dime a Day: The Possibilities and Limits of Private Education in Pakistan, in Comparative Education Review, 52:3, 329-55.
Institute of Social and Policy Sciences, 2010, Private Sector Education in Pakistan: Mapping and Musing
Zubeida Mustafa, "What Aser Says", in Dawn, August 4, 2017
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Rise, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep!
Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I devour’d what the earth gave me;
Long I roam’d the woods of the north long I watch’d Niagara pouring;
I travel’d the prairies over, and slept on their breast I cross’d the Nevadas, I cross’d the plateaus;
I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail’d out to sea;
I sail’d through the storm, I was refresh’d by the storm;
I watch’d with joy the threatening maws of the waves;
I mark’d the white combs where they career’d so high, curling over;
I heard the wind piping, I saw the black clouds;
Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
Heard the continuous thunder, as it bellow’d after the lightning;
Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning, as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
These, and such as these, I, elate, saw saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful;
All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me;
Yet there with my soul I fed I fed content, supercilious.
‘Twas well, O soul! ’twas a good preparation you gave me!
Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill;
Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us;
Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities;
Something for us is pouring now, more than Niagara pouring;
Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest, are you indeed inexhaustible?)
What, to pavements and homesteads here what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
What, to passions I witness around me to-day? Was the sea risen?
Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?
Lo! from deeps more unfathomable, something more deadly and savage;
Manhattan, rising, advancing with menacing front Cincinnati, Chicago, unchain’d;
What was that swell I saw on the ocean? behold what comes here!
How it climbs with daring feet and hands! how it dashes!
How the true thunder bellows after the lightning! how bright the flashes of lightning!
How democracy, with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,
In a lull of the deafening confusion.)
Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! strike with vengeful stroke!
And do you rise higher than ever yet, O days, O cities!
Crash heavier, heavier yet, O storms! you have done me good;
My soul, prepared in the mountains, absorbs your immortal strong nutriment;
Long had I walk’d my cities, my country roads, through farms, only half-satisfied;
One doubt, nauseous, undulating like a snake, crawl’d on the ground before me,
Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low;
The cities I loved so well, I abandon’d and left I sped to the certainties suitable to me;
Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies, and Nature’s dauntlessness,
I refresh’d myself with it only, I could relish it only;
I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire on the water and air I waited long;
But now I no longer wait I am fully satisfied I am glutted;
I have witness’d the true lightning I have witness’d my cities electric;
I have lived to behold man burst forth, and warlike America rise;
Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
No more on the mountains roam, or sail the stormy sea.
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Women in Tanzania who produce commodities such as coffee and moringa are significantly driving their own families’ incomes and the country’s economic development. As part of its work to promote cooperation with the private sector around the world on behalf of the German Development Ministry (BMZ), the ExperTS programme organised workshops and delegation visits to support 116 Tanzanian businesswomen. As a result, 70-year-old coffee producer Rose Swai has been able to expand her professional network and acquire valuable market knowledge.
How did you end up working in the coffee trade?
I grew up in a coffee-farming family. Coffee has been my passion from an early age. It makes people energetic and active – just like me. I wanted to continue the tradition of my parents, who were coffee traders. That’s how it all began.
Did you encounter any resistance when you were setting up your company?
It wasn’t always easy to put my ideas into practice. I didn’t want to just trade in coffee beans; I wanted to process, that is, roast, grind, package and sell the coffee, myself. Being a woman, people often asked me why I was trying to set up a business. I didn’t have the capital for the machinery at first, but I started small and built my company, Choice Coffee Ltd., little by little. After all, anything that grows does so from the bottom up!
What are your current plans for your business?
While I may not be that young any more, I’ve got lots of ideas and plans! Right now, I’m continuing to expand the family business and trying to export our coffee to Europe. We’re ready for new markets. My sons are going to take on the company and keep making it a success. Everyone associated with the business will be paid a fair wage and be able to provide for their families.
You received support from the ExperTS Programme. What did this look like?
The ExperTS Programme really helped me to make contacts with other female entrepreneurs, potential buyers from Germany and industry associations. The programme accompanied me and a group of other female entrepreneurs from rural Tanzania involved in raw materials processing on a trip to Germany. We learned a great deal during our time there about the processing of agricultural commodities, the packaging process, marketing, eco-certification and the specific products in demand in the country. We heard that there was a market for moringa. This gave us the idea of coming together as women to form a cooperative to allow us to grow and sell moringa in the future too.
You’re the spokesperson for this group of female entrepreneurs. What’s your message?
Fairness is important to me – fair prices and working conditions for all the people involved in a value chain. Also, as women, we need to stick together and not be dependent on men. We need to seize opportunities and realise we can get things up and running.
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It’s one tiny problem.
California shelters are so crowded with Chihuahuas that they’re shipping the pint-sized pups to the New York area — but we already have too many to handle.
Chihuahuas rank second among all breeds — behind pit bulls — to be abandoned or surrendered to the Animal Care & Control of NYC rescue group, according to data obtained by The Post.
“There’s always been loads of Chihuahuas coming in,” said Linda Vetrano of Posh Pets Rescue on the Upper East Side. “People want a little 4-pound Chihuahua thinking it’s going to be so cute. Then they’re not too happy and dump it in the shelter.”
Earlier this month, hearts melted when Virgin America flew nine of the pooches from San Francisco to New York as part of its “Operation Chihuahua Airlift.” The project aims to relieve the surplus of Chihuahuas in California shelters.
West Coast advocates say the pocket pooches are in demand in New York, where apartments often require smaller pets. But city rescuers are already struggling to find homes for Chihuahuas dumped here.
From 2010 to 2012, more than 800 Chihuahuas were left at AC&C shelters by their owners. Another 363 people brought their dogs to be put down, and 1,060 of the canines were picked up as strays.
Of the total 2,276 Chihuahuas who ended up in AC&C shelters, only 1,549 were adopted, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The dogs are listed by primary and secondary breeds since many of them are mutts.
Pit-bull breeds, including the American pit bull terrier and American Staffordshire terrier, top the number of surrenders and adoptions at AC&C shelters. At least 15,546 pit bulls entered the system from 2010 to 2012 — nearly half of the 37,758 dogs at AC&C.
After pit bulls and Chihuahuas, German shepherds were the most common breed to be abandoned or seized — with 2,101 entering the shelter system in that time period. They’re followed by Shih Tzus (1,741 were dumped into AC&C) and Labrador retrievers (1,700).
AC&C collected 1,224 Rottweiler shelter dogs in the two-year period, but only 526 were adopted.
Strays — more than 60 percent of which found homes — also included 807 miniature poodles, 789 Maltese mixes and 662 cocker spaniels.
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The Friendship World Trek team work from the knowledge that there is an undeniable fragility in our planet and tourism (trekking in our case) can have an impact either as a positive force for increased awareness and change or as a contributor to cultural and environmental exploitation. Taking into consideration lessons learned from past experiences – the need for sustainable natural resources, cross-cultural exchange and, for tourist dollars to directly benefit the local economies through which they trek.
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Minecraft developer Mojang has officially taken a stance against NFTs and other blockchain technology, banning players from creating digital assets based on Minecraft or integrating blockchain technology into Minecraft servers.
The statement came in a July 20 post on Minecraft’s website that breaks down what NFTs are and why Mojang and Microsoft don’t want to associate Minecraft with the controversial technology. “To ensure that Minecraft players have a safe and inclusive experience, blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our client and server applications, nor may Minecraft in-game content such as worlds, skins, persona items, or other mods be utilized by blockchain technology to create a scarce digital asset,” the post says.
Here's an early look at our upcoming guidelines regarding Minecraft and NFTs.— Minecraft (@Minecraft) July 20, 2022
If you're a player or creator actively involved in the buying, selling, or trading of NFTs that make use of Minecraft, please read the information in the article below.https://t.co/3S4uYmiSvf pic.twitter.com/Gl0EkoKQqs
A cursory search on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea immediately exposes many unofficial Minecraft NFTs being sold without Mojang or Microsoft’s involvement. Mojang’s post also explains that blockchain technology could also potentially be used by some server owners to reward players with exclusive content for their actions (and transactions) in and outside of the game and introduce players to a wildly unstable currency marketplace.
As such, it’s understandable why Minecraft’s owners want to take action to clarify their NFT stance and crack down on blockchain initiatives that are using the IP without permission. Ultimately, the blog post also explains that the decision comes down to the fact that NFTs “can create models of scarcity and exclusion that conflict with our guidelines and the spirit of Minecraft.”
As Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world, Mojang taking a firm stance against NFTs and blockchain technology does show just how far blockchain technology is from being accepted by the gaming community, whether that be players or developers. Mojang does say that it is “paying close attention to how blockchain technology evolves over time to ensure that the above principles are withheld and determine whether it will allow for more secure experiences or other practical and inclusive applications in gaming,” so this stance may change in the future. For now though, Mojang and Microsoft are keen on keeping NFTs and blockchain technology far away from Minecraft.
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Learning from the earth
The story of Working with Anna Heringer in METTI projects
Md. Shoeb Al Rahe, Ishraq Zahra Khan, Tuesday 22 April 2008 - 14:08:58
It was while taking a Rural Architecture course in our fourth year at the Department of Architecture, BRAC University that I first realized that this was the area in our profession that most interested me. We were asked to go back to our own individual villages and study the socio-economics and architecture of the place. I discovered in my village, that illiteracy, poverty and many other social problems were becoming a hindrance to progress, taking the village and its people forward. It was the first time that the close link and interdependency between architecture and social norms and conditions was revealed to me. The men in my village were sitting at home, gambling or resigning to a life of laziness, crime and disease while the women left with no alternative were going out to work. We are taught that architecture is for everyone but it was only when I saw these conditions first hand that I realized the scope of our work went far beyond the mere arrangement of spaces and functions to give life and hope to people.
Some months later, Anna Heringer came to lecture at Chetana and Architect Ehsan Khan, who was my thesis instructor at the time and at whose office I interned the term before, called and asked me to attend. Inspired by her work and intrigued by the novelty of what she was trying to do, on an impulse I told Anna that I would like to work with her sometime. She said she would let me know if something came up. Only a few months after, student volunteers from BRAC University, under the guidance of Architect Hasibul Kabir, one of our faculty went to Rudrapur village in Dinajpur where Anna Heringer's school complex was being extended. I went as one of the group and began what would be one of the most defining experiences of my life. The first weeks
Adjusting to living and working in Rudrapur those first weeks was very difficult. Familiarizing ourselves with the people working on the project, the environment and the work itself took some time. Firstly, the work was very demanding. During the day we had to work with the laborers, cutting the earth and preparing it for construction which was backbreaking work. In the evenings, instead of resting like the laborers, we had to work on the designs for the few houses we were designing in the village in groups. Coordinating the design process and the physical work was difficult to adjust to.
Five Austrian architecture student volunteers as well as others in several related disciplines from Germany came to work with us in Rudrapur which added another dimension to our communications. They came with their own concepts and ideas about what they wanted to do and they were not always consistent with what we wanted. It took us a while to get on the same wavelength before we could all coordinate our efforts.
Once everything was organized between ourselves there were problems in dealing with the clients, the villagers for whom we were designing and building the houses. They had fixed ideas about how houses should look and be built and it took some time to explain to them what would be ideal for us to do. Sometimes, when we designed a particular feature for one of the houses, for example, circular windows, and the client agreed with us, all the other clients wanted the same thing. They began to think that that was the best option for them as well whereas our aim was to try something different at every one of the sites. The laborers working on site also needed some guidance. Most of them had worked on the METI school site with Anna Herringer and since they had more experience in this kind of work than us, they thought it gave them an upper hand on things so dealing with them required a certain amount of negotiation. Finally, when all else was settled, our work was still heavily dependent on one other all encompassing factor- the weather. Sometimes, when we had everything ready to begin work on something for instance the foundations, etc. we would be delayed by rain or a storm. This was disappointing but gave us a feel of how construction work is actually executed in the villages and the circumstances and situations that the builders have to deal with.
It was a few weeks into the project when I was finally getting the hang of things when I fractured my arm on the field and could thus no longer work on the construction sites as hands- on laborer. As I was very keen to continue working on the project and see it through to the end of construction, Anna assigned me instead certain other duties besides construction work. We sat down and formulated a new scope of work for me and I began a new journey, this time as an on- site manager. The laborers needed constant attention because otherwise we would be risking their own interventions in the work. Among the laborers themselves, one Ramesh Da, tipped me off as to the patterns followed by the laborers during a whole day's work. The work is backbreaking and could get monotonous if the same person continued doing the same thing throughout the day. The trick is to keep switching jobs every now and then, moving the laborers from task to task and talking to them and motivating them. Also, towards the end of the day, they tend to get tired and eager to finish the work and get on home or to the bazaar to buy groceries, so I learnt to give them less demanding, lighter tasks during those last hours at work. Managing labor gave me an insight into public relations and also a renewed respect for the lower strata of workers in the design process without whom, no structure can be brought to completion.
As manager on-site, my duties included not just ensuring the quality of work of the laborers, but also the quality of materials. This enhanced my understanding as well as knowledge of indigenous materials, particularly bamboo. I learnt that bamboo selection for our site depended on three factors, the thickness of the bamboo, how straight the bamboo is (we only used evenly straight bamboo on our sites) and the maturity of the bamboo (a bamboo matures in 3-4 years).
The storage and movement of the materials also had to be overseen, as well as whether or not the labor showed up on time each morning. I could thus not engage in any activities late into the night, even designing, as I had to report with the laborers early each morning. In addition to other duties, I had to oversee the smooth running of all processes on site, sometimes acting as interpreter between Anna and the workers, sometimes, finding ways to cut down the running cost of the work through time and resource management. We tried to stick to using local materials, sometimes even when they were not the best options in order to cut down on the carrying cost. For example, we opted for local bricks instead of good quality brick from Dinajpur town and local wood (Jam Kath) instead of Teak from the town. This saved a lot of time as well. At times, small problems like chemical leaks, etc delayed our work considerably and it again fell on me to come up with an inexpensive, quick solution to the problem. The experiences taught me to not just work with earth and bamboo using local technology, as I had hoped, but also to work with people in real situations where sometimes our textbooks and formal education cannot come up with any answers. We have to then rely on sheer instinct and imagination. Learning the ropes
Organizing the laborers into evenly skilled groups was a challenge throughout the project. Initially, the laborers working on the METI school were trained by the NGO Deepshikha to work with these particular materials and technology and the new laborers brought into the new projects were grouped with the old workers to train them through working together. The idea was to spread the technology throughout the area through training more and more laborers in the techniques. Noble though the idea was, it came with its own set of drawbacks. The younger workers were meticulous and could work longer hours but had relatively low skill compared to the earlier trained workers. So they had to be closely guided by the highly skilled laborers and work in close association with them. Among the laborers there was also constant rivalry and competition. Initially some bamboo laborers showed interest in earth work and when given the opportunity showed considerable finesse in handling earth, thereby making the earth laborers jealous of them. Laborers were also found to form groups on their own based on their prior alliances, etc who competed in their work against one another. As manager, I decided to use this competition to our benefit, offering to give prizes such as tea and snacks to the group whose work was most complete and neat. It proved to be a good way to motivate the laborers and manage them while Anna was away from site on a short trip to Germany. Learning from our mistakes
In the DESI site as well as the houses, all the small mistakes made during the METI school construction were consciously remedied. The METI school won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and created an image that everyone was inclined to imitate. However, our objective was to learn from the first project and create different and even better solutions in the following projects. This was not always an easy motto to follow given the impression that the METI school had already made in the minds of all laborers, villagers and others concerned. In the METI school, nylon ropes were used to tie the bamboo joints. But it was found that the sun burns the nylon off the joints. So in the following project we used nylon along with coconut threads in the interiors as much as possible and used stainless steel wires for the exterior joints. The first project also used untreated bamboo which posed many problems eventually so the bamboo for the later projects was treated with various chemicals to make it more durable. Also, in our projects we were particularly conscious about each layer of the earth wall drying completely before another layer is built on top of it as wet layers attract termites. For the first time, Ferro cement was introduced in the foundations of the houses to keep rodents from destroying it. Also, this cuts costs as it is cheaper than brick. The lime plaster used to line the borders of the openings had no pores in it which didn't allow room for changes in the earth during season change. As the earth expanded or contracted, the plaster was caused to crack in places. In the new buildings, we made pores in the plaster and also used fine jute fibers in the mix to make it a more flexible component of construction.One of the main drawbacks in the first project was that the toilet had to be kept separate from the main school building. But this time, since the toilets were incorporated in the same structure in the DESI project, we had to go into designing the plumbing as well as the water supply line. We also gave considerable thought to landscape design which was also new to Rudrapur. We involved the DESI and METI school students in the process to give them a sense of ownership. Humility, teamwork, success
Through the project, we found the people of rural Bangladesh to be very simple minded, honest and receptive in nature. Most of them have no formal education and learnt their skills through working with others in the trade and they are always open to new ideas, sometimes more so than their educated, urban counterparts who are too aware of too many trends to take risks and explore a new one. If one can truly make these villagers understand the overall impact of the work on developing the villages or taking the place forward into the future, they are willing to put everything into their work to make it successful. My work brought me in close contact with people of many walks of life, expanding my horizon of experience and knowledge beyond anything I had hoped to gain initially. I learnt from the laborers, I learnt from garment workers, I learnt from those who will someday occupy the buildings we designed. But perhaps the means of communication and learning that were revealed to me are even more important than what I have gained from the project personally. Intermingling with the villagers, listening to their problems and learning from their experiences, without trying to impose our ideas on them made them comfortable to share with us their knowledge and skills and receive what we had to offer in design and thought. It is not a coincidence that Bangladeshi rural architecture has come to survive time, natural disasters and many other hurdles to come to a state of perfection, albeit a temporary one. The laborers, wood workers, earth cutters, potters and bamboo workers of Rudrapur and Dinajpur have been working with these materials for generations on end and have gained an expertise that we can only hope to achieve someday. Their ancestors have designed the terracotta tablets of the Kantajeer Mandir. They have so far only known to work in a particular traditional manner but given the right direction and training, their skills could be developed to produce incredible results for the future.
(Written by Shoeb Al Rahe
, Edited by Ishraq Zahra Khan
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The Vermont Statutes Online
Subchapter 004 : FOREST FIRES AND FIRE PREVENTION(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 2646)
§ 2646. Proclamation by Governor prohibiting kindling of fires: Closing of woodlands
(a) Whenever it appears to the Governor that there is excessive danger of forest fires, he or she may prohibit by proclamation the kindling of a fire in or adjoining forestland or close any or all sections of woodland, or brushland, in any town for such time as the Governor may designate, to all persons except the owner and his or her household, his or her tenants, servants, or agents and persons in the public employment engaged in abating such fire-hazardous condition.
(b) Proclamations shall be published in such newspapers of the State and posted in such places and in such manner as the Governor may order in writing. A copy of such publication and order, attested by the Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs, shall be filed with the Secretary of State and a like copy shall be furnished to the Commissioner who shall attend to the publication and posting thereof. The expenses of such publication and posting shall be paid by the Department. Notice of removal of restrictions imposed by proclamation shall be in the same manner. (Added 1977, No. 253 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
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Sinai Health’s Measuring Health Equity team hosted a webinar titled: “Measuring Health Equity: Improving Data Quality in Toronto Central LHIN Hospitals and Community Health Centres”. The webinar was designed for staff working in Toronto Central LHIN hospitals and CHCs.
In this one hour webinar information and tools on how health care organizations collecting demographic data can improve their data quality is provided.
The webinar included presentations from:
• Jane Harrison, Manager, Anishnawbe Health Toronto;
• Rosa Roti, Support Services Supervisor, Sinai Health System; and
• Jennifer Uy, Health Records Manager/Privacy Officer, Toronto Grace Hospital.
Guest presenters shared strategies their organizations used to improve collection rates while maintaining high quality data.
• Demographic data collection project leads;
• Clinical leads and individuals who work in planning, quality, or strategy; and
• Leaders who are interested in learning more about data quality and strategies for improving data quality in your own organization.
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Because your pet is a member of the family, you want to ensure they are comfortable and free from unnecessary pain. Deciding whether or not to euthanize a dog with cancer is never an easy decision for owners to make. Here is some information about when it’s time to euthanize a dog with cancer and what options are available.
Should a dog with cancer be put to sleep?
There are many reasons why a dog with cancer may need to be put to sleep, including:
- They are in pain
- They have a poor quality of life
- They have aggression issues
- They cannot control their bodily functions
- There is an expense you cannot afford
What are the signs a dog needs to be put down?
The most common reason for having your dog put down is due to the poor quality of life they have if they live much longer. If your dog has lost all interest in food, water and playing, then it may be time to put them to sleep.
If they are constantly vomiting or have constant diarrhea, then euthanasia may be the only way for them to stop suffering. In such cases, it is best to talk with your veterinarian about what signs and symptoms tell you when your dog is ready for euthanasia.
It’s also important to understand that by keeping your dog alive, you could be putting them at risk for even more pain and suffering down the road. It may be better to have them put down now rather than later on so that their pain does not continue to escalate.
Is it better to put your dog down or let him die?
In general, I recommend waiting until the dog’s quality of life is poor and/or his comfort level is poor. A dog with cancer should not be euthanized simply because he has cancer.
Dogs with cancer can live a good quality of life for a long time if their tumors are not causing serious problems. There are many treatments that can help a dog with cancer feel better and live longer.
Cancer tumors can be removed surgically or destroyed by radiation or chemotherapy. Some cancers respond better to one therapy than another, but all therapies have risks as well as benefits and they can also affect the length and quality of life.
Sometimes surgery may be the best choice, but many types of surgeries are risky in senior dogs who may have other health problems. Chemotherapy drugs can have serious side effects and cause more problems than the cancer itself! The decision to undergo treatment should be based on your dog’s overall health, age, personality, and the type of tumor he has.
In some cases, however, a veterinarian may recommend euthanasia as soon as possible in order to prevent further pain and suffering. This is particularly true if the dog is older and has multiple medical issues or if the tumor is located in an area that cannot be easily treated surgically. Dogs with tumors in their lungs may have a very poor outlook for survival because it may not be possible to remove all of the lung tissue without killing the pet during surgery.
What are the final stages of cancer in dogs?
The final stages of cancer in dogs vary depending on the type and how far it has progressed before diagnosis. However, the final stages of cancer in dogs often share similar symptoms such as weight loss, lethargy, lack of appetite, anemia, increased urination and thirst, vomiting, diarrhea, or constipation.
During the final stages of cancer, you may begin to notice your dog slowing down. He may not be as energetic or playful as he once was. Tumors themselves can make dogs feel uncomfortable, and even painful, which can cause them to stop eating or drinking or to become inactive.
The final stage of cancer in dogs means that the disease has spread to other organs. At this point, there is no way to reverse the damage done by the cancerous cells.
If your dog has reached this stage, chances are he is in a lot of pain. The best thing you can do for him is to contact your veterinarian and ask about pain medications that may help your dog feel more comfortable during his last days.
How can I help my dog with cancer?
Treatment for cancer in dogs generally aims to shrink or remove tumors and ease symptoms. Dogs with cancer may benefit from radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, surgery and other treatments.
There are several ways to help your dog, including:
While traditional pain management with NSAIDs (pain killers) are still used in treating cancer patients, there are other options that can also be used to help increase comfort levels. These include massage therapy, laser therapy and acupuncture.
If your dog is experiencing pain, it’s important to talk to your veterinarian about pain relief medications that will be safe for them. For example, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as carprofen or meloxicam are commonly used in animals with cancer but should not be given to dogs who have kidney or liver disease.
A healthy diet may help support your dog’s immune system while they battle the disease and fight off side effects from medications and treatments. Your veterinarian may recommend a prescription diet or supplements.
Some dogs may refuse to eat because they associate the food bowl with previous episodes of nausea. There are many different types of diets that can help alleviate these problems. Ask your veterinarian which one is best for your dog.
Exercise and play can help strengthen your dog’s muscles and mood. Try not to change your dog’s routine too much — dogs thrive on routine and may become anxious if their lives change drastically.
Keep an eye on changes in your dog’s health, including lumps and bumps, unexplained weight loss, discharge from body openings, sores that don’t heal, persistent lethargy, difficulty eating or drinking, or other new symptoms. Early detection is key to the successful treatment of many cancers in dogs. If you notice any symptoms that concern you, have them evaluated by your veterinarian.
The ideal approach would be to consult with your veterinarian and ask them what they would do if the dog were their own. Most pet owners and veterinarians share a common goal: to maintain a good quality of life for as long as possible for their dogs.
Conclusion of euthanizing a dog with cancer
Dog cancer is a devastating disease that can take your companion in a matter of days or months. However, with the appropriate treatment, your dog can live many more years than without treatment. The key to success is to be proactive and seek veterinary care early.
The most important action you can take is to have regular visits to the vet for blood tests and physicals. The sooner cancer is detected, the better the chance for survival.
When the time comes to make this kind of decision, there is no right or wrong answer. As a pet owner, you have to decide what you think your dog would want. You are the only person who can make this decision, and you should do it based on how your dog has been acting and feeling.
If your dog is in pain, it is important that you take that into consideration. If you see that your dog is suffering or seems unhappy, the best thing you can do for them is put them out of their misery. You know your dog better than anyone else does and if you think they are suffering, then it might be time to say goodbye to them.
It is okay to feel sad about having to euthanize your dog, but remember that it might be the best thing for them.
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Five benefits of working for a startup
As you prepare to graduate from college and begin your career, it may be tempting to only apply for jobs at large, well-known companies. Although the prospect of paid vacation days and a large salary may be enticing, expanding your search to small businesses and startups could help you land a job that blossoms into an innovative and rewarding career.
According to a study conducted by the University of Missouri, the recent economic recession actually led to an increase in entrepreneurial activity. Consider the benefits of working for a startup as you begin your post-graduation job search:
Because startups have fewer employees than large corporations, it’s likely that you’ll be able to have more influence on the direction of the company, as well as your general job description. Working for a startup also means your accomplishments are more likely to be recognized.
Being part of a startup’s small team means you are likely the only person with a specific skill set at that company and therefore have greater responsibilities than you would in an entry-level position at a large company. Taking on responsibility can help you become more productive and reliable and have a greater personal investment in your career.
Startups have to be innovative in order to survive, which means their employees must learn that skill as well. Placing an emphasis on innovation will push you to think creatively and likely allow you greater freedom and flexibility in how you approach your work. Innovation also means constantly being driven to make the most out of your time in the office.
Working as a part of a small team will give you more diversity in your workday. Because every day presents new challenges, you’ll be less likely to get stuck in the 9-to-5 rut. Working for a startup also allows you to help with tasks in all different areas of the company and explore how your skills can help the business thrive.
Startups foster unique skills in their employees that are hard to come by in large companies. You will learn to be frugal, which is a skill that can be applied to all aspects of your life, and will find that hard work and creative thinking are extremely valuable when working to be successful both in work and in life.
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- Crithagra symonsi
Length 13-14 cm, mass 11 g
Male: The head and neck are olive-green, streaked brownish, the back is olive-brown, and the rump greenish. The tail is dark brown and white and the wings are brown. The throat and breast are yellow-green and the rest of the underparts are pale brown. The eyes, legs and feet are brown and the bill is brownish horn, the upper mandible being darker than the lower.
Female: Similar to the male, but browner.
This species should not be confused with any other species within its range.
High-altitude (2000-3000 m) heathlands, shrublands, grasslands and croplands.
Forages on the ground and in shrubs in pairs or small flocks. Food includes seeds, buds and insects.
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2022) Drakensberg Siskin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 14 August 2022 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Drakensberg_Siskin
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You'll find two most important kinds of accounting, cash and accrual, learn quickbooks as well as the variety you utilize depends with your business enterprise. Generally speaking, most small businesses use dollars accounting though massive companies use accrual. A whole new proposal from the Senate could demand accrual accounting for just a number of latest companies, and it faces strong opposition: 46 away from 100 US Senators have signed a letter opposing the proposal. Although it exists to, in concept, simplify the US tax code, it appears that the proposal could complicate issues for numerous.
Varieties of Accounting
In money accounting, receipts are recorded during the period they can be been given, and expenses are recorded from the time period they are really paid out. To paraphrase, the accounting method is in line with when hard cash truly changes arms, not in the event the determination to pay is created. It can be a clear, simple approach of accounting favored by most compact corporations.
In accrual accounting, expenses and revenue are recorded when they are incurred, not when they're paid. By way of example, a business would report profits when it issued an invoice, although that bill was not collected until eventually right after the interval. This allows a company proprietor to manage its overall income and bills inside the interval by which it is earned/incurred.
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Men and women Partnerships Professional products and services corporations Most farming and ranching corporations without stock C companies with lower than $5 million in ordinary yearly gross receipts S companies
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The alter to the tax code could final result in $23 billion in tax income more than another ten several years, but it could come in the price of smaller companies that have to take out loans to meet their obligations.
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Hashtag: a word or phrase preceded by a hash or pound sign (#) and used to identify messages on a specific topic.
Hashtags: Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re an integral part of using social media. With reams of content being produced and promoted on social media each and every minute, hashtags provide a simply way to search for specific, topical content.
With every major social network now allowing the use of hashtags, understanding why they’re such an important part of social media marketing is even more important.
They allow us to whittle down the thousands of updates we receive daily from friends, colleagues and businesses, as well to find new people to interact with and new conversations to follow. They give us the ability to track conversations about our brand and our products, and help us keep an eye on what’s going on in our industry.
Here are 7 why you can no longer afford NOT to use hashtags in your social media marketing!
1. They allow for highly specific audience targeting.
When you want to target your social media message to a specific group of people, there’s no better way than by using relevant hashtags. For instance, if you’re looking to market to people who have just had a baby, you could use the hashtag #newborn. Then, anyone who’s searching social networking sites for conversations about newborns has the potential to find you.
2. They allow you to monitor your reputation.
By monitoring hashtags related to your brand or products, you can always have an idea what people are saying about you. If you’re NOT monitoring these hashtags, the conversation’s still going to be happening….you’re just not going to know about it. And isn’t it always better to know?
3. They allow you to perform better customer service.
In the same way that tracking your company hashtags allows you to monitor your reputation, it also allows you to find and respond to comments, complaints and kudos quickly and efficiently. By monitoring mentions of your brand, you can make sure you always know what’s being said, and can respond as quickly as possible.
4. They allow you to keep an eye on your competition.
Want to know what people are saying about your competitors on social media? Try running a search for hashtags related to their business name or products. This can shed quite a bit of light on things like how often they’re receiving complaints, how they’re responding to them, and how you can set yourself apart from them when it comes to customer service.
5. They allow you to hear what’s going on in your industry.
Hashtags are a powerful way to keep track of what’s happening in your niche or industry. For instance, if you’re a writer, you may want to track hashtags like #Books, #WhattoRead, #WritingTip and #AuthorRT. This will give you the advantage of knowing what your colleagues are up to, and the opportunity to participate in the conversation.
6. They allow you to promote special events, contests or deals.
Come up with snappy, easy-to-remember hashtags for special events, deals or promotions to facilitate easy sharing, as well as easy campaign tracking. For instance, when the city of New York runs their annual photo contest, they use the hashtag #LoveNYC. This allows them to easily track contest entries (more than 10K last year) and conversations that are related to the campaign.
7. They Help You Find Relevant Twitter Chats.
A Twitter chat is a pre-arranged “meeting” on Twitter where like-minded people get together and discuss a topic. There is usually a moderator and sometimes a set of questions that help to guide the chat along. If you’re looking to engage with your target audience and show them what an industry expert you are, use hashtags to find current Twitter chats relevant to your niche and join in!
Hashtags can be an extremely powerful and efficient way to initiate, take part in, and track conversations happening in your industry. Now that you have 7 reasons why hashtags are a must in your marketing, the next time you’re looking for a social media conversation to join, why not try searching for one using relevant hashtags?
P.S. If you’re looking for more information on hashtags, please see my post How to Use Hashtags to Grow Your Business.
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The Cordelia Fire District Map book consists of the following:
4 pages of street names. Included in these 4 pages are the following:
- Street Names – The name of the street.
- Address Range – The range of addresses present on that street or the portion shown for the particular map page.
- Cross Street – The most significant cross street intersecting with the street you are trying to find.
- Map Page TBM (Thomas Bros. Map) – The page you’ll find this street in the Thomas Brothers Map guide.
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Rockville Park Information Page & Roads & Trails Map
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The NYC Daily Post is pleased to bring you collective news perspectives from multiple sources. This daily news series curates articles from around the US and the World to empower your perspective. Do you know a piece of news we could include? Send us a message at email@example.com.
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Mikael Lundin, a Swedish politician is in hot water after a picture of Adolf Hitler and racist material is found on his social media account. Lundin denies making the posts, while an investigation into these allegations has been opened. Learn more here.
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United States – New book details opioid history in America
Washington Post journalist Scott Higham addresses opioid history in his new book American Cartel. In his book he details how pharmaceutical companies lobby for legislation to limit the Drug Enforcement Agency’s power to pursue drug wholesalers. Read more about pharmaceuticals here.
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As technology moves towards digitalization of information, concerns over data protection emerge. What sectors confidential computing affect and how is this new trend in cybersecurity shaping the digital world around us? Learn more here.
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Planetary scientists from UCLA state that some of the pits and caves on the moon could maintain steady temperatures favorable to human living. What does the future of moon exploration and habitation look like? Read about it here.
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OLD SAYBROOK -- — Elderly residents from area towns told government officials Friday that transportation, housing and Medicare issues concern them most.
"We are all scared," said Ruth Luca of Westbrook. "Five years from now, what is the situation going to be?"
A public hearing Friday at the Estuary Council of Seniors Clubs in Old Saybrook was set up by the state Commission on Aging to listen to the elderly.
The commision, made up of members appointed by the governor and leaders of the legislature, was formed in 1993 with the charge to identify and make recommendations about issues affecting the elderly throughout the state.
Although Friday's hearing was intended to be nonpolitical, U.S. Rep. Sam Gejdenson, D-2nd District, sat with commission members to give his comments about Medicare, in light of the federal medical bill that was approved by the House of Representatives Thursday.
"It's the insurance companies that are pushing up their rates and the lawyers with all this malpractice, and all the people want is to be covered," Alice Morgan of Westbrook said. "Our pensions are being wiped out. What are we going to do?"
"Medicare is a federal jursidiction not a state one," said David Loughlin, of the state Insurance Department and a member of the commission.
Urging the elderly to keep their Medicare, Gejdenson said the coverage is inexpensive compared with the price of health care for people his age.
"And if you put your money in an HMO, then it disappears, you're out of luck," he said.
Clinton resident J. Richard Jacobs told officials universal health reform is desperately needed.
"One of the main reasons . . . is everybody in the universe should be covered," said Jacobs, who said he has a rare genetic condition that has made if difficult for him and his family to acquire health insurance.
Another issue, transportation, was raised by several people.
"There are hundreds of state vehicles for state employees; why can't [the state] provide some of these vehicles all over the state for seniors to be taken to the doctors, etc.?" asked James Salafia, who coordinates errand runs and programs for the senior center in Middletown.
"It's because volunteers [drivers] are so frightened about insurance liability," answered Mary H. Boatwright, chairwoman of the commission.
Boatwright said the commission has recommended to legislators that a cap be put on the amount of insurance that can be collected from volunteer driving.
"We find volunteers are doing most of the work," said David Tuckerman, a municipal agent for the elderly. "I don't think we should lean on government, or expect from government. We need volunteers."
The Estuary Transit District, a transportation program serving nine shoreline towns, is an example of a successful program that relies on volunteers and federal and state money for its success, officials said.
The need for housing for the elderly was also expressed at the public hearing.
"It's very difficult for us to get our elderly out of a hospital and back into the community," said Chester First Selectman Martin Heft. He described a disabled resident whose home was unlivable, and after a hospital stay, was frightened and financially unable to live independently. He said she must rely on the kindness of her neighbors.
Available state-funded housing options for the elderly were described by commission member Michael Duffy, who works with the state Department of Economic and Commnity Development. Duffy urged interested town officials to contact him about developing homes for the elderly to provide comfort, meals, housekeeping and security for the elderly.
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Seattle public schools have released a plan to bring students back into the classroom, but it differentiates the priorities for who should come back first based on many factors involving a measure of those who are most marginalized. Per the guidelines, "students furthest from educational justice," and "students of color" would be given priority on returning to school for face-to-face instruction.
In the document from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), "Reopening Washington Schools 2020", Superintendent Chris Reykdal, and the workgroup, stated that, with a "phased-in" approach, they would "expect that districts will prioritize face-to-face instruction."
The document outlines the phased approach prioritizing grade level, such as "serve all elementary students first," or "serve students furthest from educational justice first, including students with disabilities, English learners, students experiencing homelessness, students experiencing poverty, students of color, and other student groups."
In his opening statement of the plan, Reykdal noted that the workgroup that created the plan "was influenced by the civil unrest across the country in response to overt racial injustice and inequality."
"We are educators. We know that despite real progress, educational systems and institutions continue to contribute to racial inequality and injustice. We know that we have a much higher responsibility than teaching content in classrooms. We know that each of us owns a piece of injustice. We have an opportunity in the reopening of our schools to take another step forward in what must be a lifetime of energy toward a more just world."
Continuing to the "Equity Statement," the document stated "educational equity … goes beyond equality. It requires education leaders to examine the ways current policies and practices result in disparate outcomes for our students of color, students living in poverty, students receiving special education and English Learner services, students who identify as LGBTQ+, and highly mobile student populations," the workgroup wrote.
The document elaborates in the "Commitment" section. The first commitment mentioned is to "support students furthest from educational justice".
"The impacts of fear, hatred, and systemic and structural racism within institutions cannot be ignored, and they yield tragic outcomes. Washington’s public education system must engage in anti-racist capacity building, leadership, and resource allocation. Dismantling systemically racist structures will make progress on inclusivity and will better serve students of color, students with disabilities, students who are English learners, students who are migratory, students experiencing homelessness, students in foster care, students experiencing intergenerational poverty, and students who identify as LGBTQ+."
Shortly after Reykdal announced the re-opening of the schools, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee said the schools will not be reopening in the fall. The question of if students will be returning to schools in the fall remains in doubt. New questions have been raised regarding what will enrollment numbers look like and will public school parents pursue other educational options.
One Seattle parent told me they had some questions about the plan, including "does this mean students are being penalized because they are white, Asian, Jewish or anything other than the protected categories? Isn’t that racism?"
Since attention came to the paragraph prioritizing these groups, the document’s page (31) containing the language appears to have been revised. The document now includes “students who were not equitably served through continuous online learning in Spring 2020”
However, many parents, regardless of race, feel that their children were not "equitably served through continuous online learning." They feel that the online learning provided by public schools, especially in the Seattle area, was "a joke" and a "waste of time".
Some parents realized how "substandard" the education was when they were overhearing online lessons in living rooms and began hiring private tutors to augment the subject.
Other parents were appalled by the revisionist history being taught including some teachers who bragged to students about attending recent riots and pushing the radical narrative on children. One parent said "… my kid is being taught a complete rewrite of the facts of history."
Parents pointed out that some school districts were originally not going to offer online classes at all. School districts like Seattle said that because of "inequality" they could not offer classes because some students did not have access to technology and wifi.
Amazon, Microsoft, Xfinity, Century Link and other tech companies came to the rescue and donated the technology to lower income families to make online school possible for all. Even with the donation and the extra lead time in creating an online model many parents felt that the education itself was "sub-par".
Washington parents recently sent a very clear message regarding how they felt about the curriculum to the Superintendent and OSPI by collecting a record number of signatures against a radical sex education curriculum instituted by the governor, the Democrats in the State House, OSPI and Reykdal.
The parent-led initiative managed to gather over 264,000 signatures, more than twice what was needed, even with coronavirus shutdowns in place and without paid signature gatherers. The curriculum was so graphic that a parental advisory warning was imposed over the video broadcast of the debate on the bill at the State House.
The complaints were not limited to the subject matter. Students with disabilities who received therapy and programs through the public school system fell behind in their progress and were left with no resources when the schools closed. The Tacoma school district recently sent out a letter saying that it was cutting funding, positions and hours for para- educators for the 2020-2021 school year. This leaves parents of disabled children wondering how their children are being prioritized and searching for "equity", "equality" and "educational justice first, including students with disabilities" when their funding was cut.
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Installing smoke and heat detectors that can be interconnected to each other and to social alarms increases security for the individual, relatives and home help services. There are also major advantages to municipalities working preventively with fire safety. A study conducted collaboratively between Careium and Karlstad University concluded that there are direct economic benefits to installing smoke alarms that are directly connected to an alarm centre for older people who have social alarms, as this is an effective way of preventing accidents (A. Carlsson, 2021).
With the new interconnected Careium fire, heat and carbon monoxide detectors, it is easier to prevent injuries and even save lives. It is possible to increase security throughout the home by interlinking several detectors, avoiding the risk of not hearing an alarm in another room. For older people who may have difficulty both reacting and responding to an alarm, connecting detectors to social alarms can reduce the risk of unnecessary accidents.
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The EAGLES work takes as its starting point an existing Standard, ISO 9126 ((ISO91a)), which is concerned primarily with the definition of quality characteristics to be used in the evaluation of software products. ISO 9126 sets out six quality characteristics, which are intended to be exhaustive. From this it follows that each quality characteristic is very broad. We shall not recapitulate all six here, but will give two as illustrative examples.
A set of attributes that bear on the existence of a set of functions and their specified properties. The functions are those that satisfy stated or implied needs.
- This set of attributes characterises what the software does to fulfill needs, whereas the other sets mainly characterise when and how it does so.
- For the stated and implied needs in this characteristic, the note to the definition of quality applies (see 3.6).
Since this note (3.6) will prove critical to later argumentation, we reproduce it here:
NOTE: In a contractual environment, needs are specified, whereas in other environments, implied needs should be identified and defined (ISO 8402:1986, note 1).
A second quality characteristic that will be important in what follows is usability:
A set of attributes that bear on the effort needed for use, and on the individual assessment of such use, by a stated or implied set of users.
- ``Users'' may be interpreted as most directly meaning the users of interactive software. Users may include operators, and users and indirect users who are under the influence of or dependent on the use of the software. Usability must address all of the different user environments that the sofware may affect, which may include preparation for usage and evaluation of results.
- Usability defined in this International Standard as a specific set of attributes of a software product differs from the definition from an ergonomic point of view, where other characteristics such as efficiency and effectiveness are also seen as constituents of usability.
A key point here is that quality characteristics are the top level of an hierarchical organisation of attributes: each characteristic may be broken down into quality sub-characteristics, which may themselves be further broken down. Specific evaluations or specific views of software quality may imply that some attributes are considered to be more important than others. ISO mentions the views of the user, the developer and the manager. The manager's view is quoted here in illustration.
A manager may be more interested in the overall quality rather than in a specific quality characteristic, and for this reason will need to assign weights, reflecting business requirements, to the individual characteristics.
The manager may also need to balance the quality improvement with management criteria such as schedule delay or cost overrun, because he wishes to optimise quality within limited cost, human resources and time-frame.
The quality characteristics are accompanied by guidelines for their use. As we shall see, each attribute is associated with one or more metrics, which allow a value for that attribute to be determined for a particular system. As ISO 9126 points out:
Currently only a few generally accepted metrics exist for the characteristics described in this International Standard. Standards groups or organisations may establish their own evaluation process models and methods for creating and validating metrics associated with these characteristics to cover different areas of application and lifecycle stages. In those cases where appropriate metrics are unavailable and cannot be developed, verbal descriptions or ``rule of thumb'' may sometimes be used.
The guidelines nonetheless suggest an evaluation process model, which breaks down into three stages.
First comes the quality requirements definition, which takes as input a set of stated or implied needs, relevant technical documentation and the ISO Standard itself and produces a quality requirement specification.
The second stage is that of evaluation preparation, which involves the selection of appropriate metrics, a rating level definition and the definition of assessment criteria. Metrics, in ISO 9126, typically give rise to quantifiable measures mapped on to scales. The rating levels definition determines what ranges of values on those scales count as satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Since quality refers to given needs, which vary from one evaluation to another, no general levels for rating are possible: they must be defined for each specific evaluation. Similarly, the assessment criteria definition involves preparing a procedure for summarising the results of the evaluation and takes, as input, management criteria specific to a particular environment which may influence the relative importance of different quality characteristics and sub-characteristics. This definition, too, is therefore specific to the particular evaluation.
The final stage is the evaluation procedure, which is refined into three steps: measurement, rating and assessment. The first two are intuitively straightforward: in measurement, the selected metrics are applied to the software product and values on the scales of the metrics obtained. Subsequently, for each measured value, the rating level is determined. Assessment is the final step of the software evaluation process, where a set of rated levels are summarised. The result is a summary of the quality of the software product. The summarised quality is then compared with other aspects such as time and cost, and the final managerial decision is taken, based on managerial criteria.
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A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Bust Quarters. Last week, with a little help I looked at Seateds and Barbers. This week, I wrap up our three-part look at the vintage U.S. Quarter Market with a look at Standing Liberty Quarters (SLQs) and silver Washington Quarters.
Standing Liberty Quarters
Minted from 1916 to 1930
Key Dates: 1916, 1918/7, 1927-S
Great Years for Type Coins: 1917, 1918, 1920, 1923, 1928, 1929, 1930
Hermon MacNeil’s beautiful Liberty Ship Standing Liberty Quarter had but a short run. While most coinage types go for at least 25 years, this silver quarter only ran from 1916 (1917, really) to 1930.
That means it’s a nice short set to collect, right? Well, yes. But there are some expensive pieces that will keep you from completing it unless you have quite a few buckaroonies. The cost of a 1916 is prohibitive to most collectors in all but the lowest grades. The 1918/7 is right up there, and in the highest grades is much more expensive. And, at least if you want nice coins, all of these babies get expensive fast.
On the low end, they’re utterly collectible. You can collect the whole set, all mints for under $4,000. Under $3,000 if you’re really careful. But, as you have to spend over $4,000 just to get a decent 1916 in VF (!), your set isn’t going to be high grade coins.
Key Date Standing Liberty Quarters
The key date for the set is the 1916. With only 52,000 minted, it’s small – almost as low a mintage as last week’s 1913-S Barber. 1918/7s are scarce (and heavily counterfeited) too. The 1927 is kind of the low-end key date, an in low grade is actually quite affordable.
So let’s tackle the 1916. Today, the finest 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter is a Mint State 67+ Full Head, and if it came to auction, it would “only” probably sell for over $200,000. I say only because other coins that are this beautiful, in this kind of state, routinely sell for well North of that, and they’re not SLQs.
But how did it get there?
Back in the late 1950s, 1916s were already worth around $200 in Uncirculated condition. You could spend more than that on a nice one, of course, but that was a lot for the late 1950s. By the late 1960s, they were almost $1,000 in Uncirculated. Keep in mind that grading wasn’t quite as sophisticated as it is now, so many people saw weakly struck SLQs as AUs, but sold them as Uncs if they looked nice.
By the silver boom in the late 1970s after the coin collecting boom of the early and mid-1970s, they were selling for $1,500 in unc, some much, much more than that. In the late ’80s, they were more than double that, up to high 3s and low 4s. By the late ’90s they’d recovered to the $5,000+ price tag. And ten years ago, the average Unc was selling for $18, $19, almost $20,000. In fact, the auction record for a 1916 SLQ happened in 2010 at $200,000.
Right now, you can get a nice Unc for under $20,000. Sometimes well below that. The market may still be correcting for SLQs, but as I see the next generation of collector take a shining to them (and know not to take a shining rag to them, thank G-d), they may have a resurgence in the next decade. Only time will tell.
Ol’ D.L. and Morelan will probably break a quarter mill for a big piece if a nicer one comes up for sale, maybe more.
So you see, the path to the current state of the SLQ hasn’t all been littered with gold. But, it’s a key date and on the whole it’s held up and kept going up. Which is nice.
For the rest of us mortals, getting a 1916 SLQ is tough. I’ve heard of them selling for as little as $400 in Poor, but that doesn’t happen often. The keen-eyed youngsters get rolls of low-end coins hoping to strike it rich with careful diagnostics examination and a loupe. Or a USB camera thingy, or whatever it is they use these days.
Really, to get even a low end 1916 SLQ, you’ll have to shell out close to $2,000. $1,500 isn’t unheard of. For a VF coin (which frankly is not that attractive a grade in SLQs), you’ll need over $6,000. For XF (now we’re getting warm), you’ll want about $8,000. Maybe more, maybe less. These coins aren’t on a super hard line close to price guide. The average is there, but they sell high and low.
Now, for a choice AU piece, you’ll have to pay over $10,000. And you might wish to look at Full Head designations if you want a choice coin in a more affordable grade. The truth is you can get a softly struck but cleaner looking coin for not much more and really climb the grades and still pay around or even under $20,000 for a nice Uncirculated 1916 Standing Liberty Quarter.
SLQs for Your Type Set
The good news about the non-key dates is that they’re plentiful and not bank-breakingly expensive.
Perhaps the best type set coin is the 1917 Type 1, which, while not quite as inexpensive up the grading ladder as the Type 2, is a beautiful, affordable coin. And you can get a modestly priced piece in the mid-AUs with a full strike designation, which is fun.
Strike versus wear is particularly tricky with SLQs. Wear often looks like unstruck metal, and vice versa. If you don’t want an early coin, settling for a late coin like a 1929 or 1930 will be even more affordable. It’s up to you which design iteration you want for your type set. Or, maybe, you want them all! (Good on ya.)
A low-end 1917 Type 1 can be bought for not much more than melt. And you can quickly and easily pick them from rolls for just over melt. A decent VF coin is buyable for just over $50, if you’re careful, and you can get a nice XF for just over $100. A pretty Full Head AU is bought for over $200, sometime below if you’re patience. And you can buy a nice, fully-struck Uncirculated coin for under $350. If you must have the finest known, expect to pay over $20,000 for a Mint State 67+ Full Head.
To really get bang for your buck, look at 1928. You can get a nice VF coin for about the same as a low-end 1917 T1, and a nice coin grading Extremely Fine for over $30. If you want a choice, choice 58 with a full head, you can pick one up for over $100, and a really nice fully struck Unc is around $400. The finest coins go for the same as the 1917, in 67+FH.
Minted from 1932 to 1964+
Key Dates: 1932-D, 1932-S
Great Years for Type Coins: 1939
Obviously, Washington Quarter Dollars are still minted in various forms, but today we’re looking at the silver coins. That is, minted in 1964 and before. The United States had a break from quarters in 1931 with no new coins bearing that date. The Washington Commemorative Half Dollar became the Washington Commemorative Quarter Dollar, and the low-mintage Commemorative became a high-mintage common coin.
Key Date Silver Washington Quarters
Aside from varieties – of which there are many fun ones to collect in the set – the key dates are 1932, from both Denver and San Francisco.
ALWAYS watch for altered or added Mint Marks. 1932 donor coins are plentiful. Certified is best.
Both of these coins have mintages around that of the 1909-S VDB, each around 400,000. Despite having higher mintage figures, the ’32-D has always been the key date. It’s less so now than ever before, but the D-Mint coin still holds a hefty edge over the S-Mint brother – especially in higher grades.
In the 1950s, you could buy an Uncirculated 1932-S Washington Quarter for around $30, while the 1932-D in Mint State would cost you $65-ish. That means more than twice as expensive. That trend continued: in the late 1960s after the transition to silver, an Unc ’32-S was just $100 while the ’32-D was routinely over $200. Then after the silver rush, things really hit the fan. A Mint State 1932-S Washington would set you back around $500, whereas a ’32-D would cost you probably around $1,500 for a nice one.
In the early 1990’s, it was no longer quite twice as much, though prices had still gone up. $2,000+ for a nice Unc S and a bit under $4k for a D-Mint coin. By the late ’90s, you’d have to spend over $4,000 routinely to get a Denver coin but you were now in the high $2,000s, almost $3,000 to buy a San Fran Washington.
Then, ten years ago, something odd happened: regular Uncs from both mints fell considerably in value. The top of the line coins were still going up, but collectors started to get discerning with the combination of Internet and certification. An average ’32-D Unc was back down under $3,000, while a coin of similar grade but with an S Mint Mark was down to $1,500 (half).
The public auction record for the ’32-D is still $143,000 for a 6 coin, set back in 2008. The top S piece is also a 6, but only rated (so far) about $35,000.
But for you and me, We can pick up a nice untoned Unc ’32-D today for around $1,200 or $1,500. A matching ’32-S will set you back around $500, maybe a little more.
Be wary of strike on Washington Quarters, as it varies widely. The young collectors haven’t really taken to silver quarters as the type still has a similar design in circulation today, and the next generation of collectors has taken to the Statehood and National Parks Quarters. It might be a good time to buy key date Washingtons. Then again, it might not. What do I know?
Great Silver Washington Quarters for Your Type Set
Pretty much any quarter is great. There are literally a bajillion 1964 Washington quarters out there, nice. But if you’re going to get a key date, my vote would be 1939. It’s a high enough mintage to still be cheap and it’s Pre-War (well, at least as far as U.S. official involvement).
It’s hard to spend $1,000 on a 1939. The finest coins, certified Mint State 68, are in the $5 – $6,000 range. But if you can settle for a decent ‘3, it’ll cost you a whopping $30. To follow the precident for these articles, AGs sell for melt, as do VFs, as do practically speaking, XFs. A nice AU will set you back $10, maybe $20 if you’re picky.
Now, of course you know if you want a toned coin, that’s a different story. But even then, Washington Quarters are not like Morgans, generally speaking.
So there you have it. That wraps the Academy of Coins’ look at United States Quarter Types through history. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you.
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The Net Logon service verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates domain controllers. Also, to maintain backward compatibility, Net Logon manages replication of the user account database to back up domain controllers running Windows NT 4.0 and earlier.
For Windows 2000, Net Logon manages replication only when replication involves servers running Windows NT 4.0 and earlier. Net Logon for Windows 2000 does not manage replication between two servers running Windows 2000.
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The following is a report of a study of the relationship between school context and learning how to teach. The study is based on the assumption, among others, that learning to teach is enhanced by “reflection,” which is understood to be collaborative problem solving. The context for reflective practice in seven schools is discussed. Teacher interview data provide the basic information. The data include the identification of factors within each school that facilitated collaborative work. These data and the analysis were used to increase collaborative leadership in schools and to continue research into that type of leadership.
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Concept: A Peer-Agent Teaching Tool to Support Social Learning and Play.
Design: Romibo is an effective low-cost robot designed for use in education and therapy with special needs populations. Academic and field research with clinicians and caregivers informed the development of Romibo. Interacting with 10,000+ children sine 2011.
Meet Romibo and friends today through Fine Art Miracles, Inc.
Role: Concept, Research, Design, Funding, Management, etc.
Tactile-audio wearable computer designed to allow hearing-impaired users to experience rich sound. 32 individually addressed motors translate sound to body regions allowing users to differentiate between songs.
Role: Concept, Design, Fabrication, Funding.
Fully functional devices persist in London, Toronto & San Francisco.
- SIGGRAPH CyberFashion, 2004
- International CES, Las Vegas, 2011
- Human+ Traveling Exhibit
A pinpoint point of view capturing of video feed corresponded to pupil movements. FPV captures a person's full field of vision and specific gaze-based intent to provide the user with intelligent cues and guidance, personal assistance, training, information or entertainment.
Where to Locate Wearable Displays? For a location to be truly useful, it needs to not only be accessible for interaction, socially acceptable, comfortable and sufficiently stable for electronics, but also effective at conveying information.This research evaluates reaction time performance to visual stimuli at seven different body locations. Results indicate numerous and statistically significant differences in the reaction time and performance characteristics, applicable to the design and placement of future wearable computing applications and systems.
Role: Research Coordinator.
A peer-agent teaching tool and learning companion. Effectively model verbal skills, lengthen attention span, and encourage social behavior with an easy-to-use robot puppeteering platform. Designed to allow educators and therapists to easily create and share spoken phrases and scripts.
Role: From hand-cut cardboard to the hands of thousands of children and teachers around the world.
Shown: Process and development from 2010 to 2014.
Videos sources from those who have touched Romibo and those who are working with him today.
Thinking and doing meaningful things.
Curiosity, experience and imagination inspire the right questions. The things we have never seen can be more important than the ones we have.
We are not the user. Observe and capture the current state of the unknown world. Edge cases often reveal more than the target market. Why would they never use it? Capture that too.
Make it physically work. Use it. break it.
Build many more, better, faster, stronger...
Push the limits... but leave a working demo in the lab for pictures.
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Viral particle binding to plasma membrane receptors elicits virus motions, recruits signaling proteins, and triggers membrane bending and fission, finally resulting in endocytic virus uptake. Here we analyze how human adenovirus engages its receptor coxsackievirus adenovirus receptor (CAR) and coreceptor αv integrin to move on the plasma membrane. Virus binding to CAR through fiber knobs gave rise to diffusive motions and actomyosin-2-dependent drifts, while integrin-targeted viruses were spatially more confined. Diffusions, drifts, and confined motions were specifically observed with viral particles that were subsequently internalized. CAR-mediated drifts together with integrin binding supported fiber shedding from adenovirus particles, leading to exposure of the membrane-lytic internal virion protein VI and enhanced viral escape from endosomes. Our results show that adenovirus uncoating is initiated at the plasma membrane by CAR drifting motion and binding to immobile integrins.
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Cryptographic techniques are applied to ensure system integrity, secure communication and data protection.
Four levels of encryption are supported for external site connections. Network channels are protected with per-connection encryption. Login credentials are validated using secure public key methods.
IP camera connections are secured. Camera views can be restricted using privacy zones. Users can preserve camera layouts, creating a bookmark that cannot be overwritten.
Passwords are hashed. Encryption methods, along with pass phrases, provide data integrity verification. Archives are protected from being exported to media files.
Users can password-protect archives to control playback, and footage can be watermarked. Original footage and metadata can only be played via the proprietary Cathexis Archive Viewer.
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The owners of dogs who attack and injure people could face up to a year and a half in prison, under new guidelines.
Judges and magistrates have been advised to be much stricter with people who own dangerous dogs.
They could automatically be given six months in jail if their pet injures someone, with longer sentences for more serious attacks.
It comes after a rise in the number of people being treated for dog bites.
Previous rules meant lesser punishments like community orders, where people do work or chores in the their local area, were often handed out instead of prison time.
Owners who don't train or look after their pets properly can also be banned from keeping them if the animals become aggressive.
If dogs have injured someone a court could also order them to be put down.
Trevor Cooper, from the Dogs Trust, said:
"This tougher approach should serve as a stiff reminder to dog owners to keep their pets under proper control and to behave responsibly."
Some breeds of dogs are thought to be more dangerous than others and are even used as weapons by their owners.
The number of people having to go to hospital for treatment because they have been attacked by dogs has gone up by more than 3,000 since 1997, with children the most frequently treated for bites.
Some types of dog are actually banned in the UK and there are rules to punish people who own them. If someone owns a dangerous dog illegally they could go to prison for up to six months.
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Variation and adaptive potential in bacterial gene pools exposed to different mechanisms of mutation
Mutations generate novel, heritable variation in phenotypic traits, thereby supplying the raw material for adaptive evolution. Neo-Darwinian theory posits that mutations occur randomly with respect to their fitness consequences to the organism. Yet, mutations are not necessarily random in other respects as well, given that they carry signatures of the molecular mechanism by which they were generated. Each different mechanism of mutation produces its own characteristic statistical pattern in phenotypic effect sizes, pleiotropic effects and epistatic interactions, which shape the genetic architecture of traits. Based on this observation, it has been suggested that the mechanisms of mutation can significantly bias microevolutionary processes and influence the future adaptive potential of populations.
This project is a collaboration between the institutes GELIFES and GBB and shall shed light on whether different mutation mechanisms shape the genotype-phenotype-map of bacterial populations in a way that their adaptive potential varies for different selective environments. The molecular construction of required strains is performed in the MolGen-labs, particularly, the development and characterization of mutator strains. Evolution experiments in continous chemostat-systems are performed in the lab of the TRES-group of GELIFES.
Molecular biology techniques in L. lactis and E. coli, cultivation in continuous chemostat systems
Rokyta, D.R., et al, 2005, An empirical test of the mutational landscape model of adaptation using a single-stranded DNA virus, nature genetics, Vol. 37, No. 4, p. 441-444
Machielsen, R., et al, 2010, Indigenous and environmental modulation of frequencies of mutation in Lactobacillus plantarum, Applied Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 76, No.5, p. 1587-1595
El Karoui, M., et al, 1998, Identification of the lactococcal exonuclease/recombinase and its modulation by the putative Chi sequence, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 95, No. 2, p. 626-631
Barrick, J.E. and Lenski, R.E., 2013, Genome dynamics during experimental evolution, Nature Reviews:Genetics, Vol.14, p. 827-839
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Valve announces a major update to the Steam gaming platform called Big Picture. Steam's new Big Picture mode lets gamers access all of their favorite Steam games on a television. With the press of a button, Steam displays a new full-screen user interface optimized for readability and interaction on TV. Big Picture has been designed to be used with a traditional game controller, while also fully supporting keyboard and mouse input.
Steam gamers can experience Big Picture by connecting their PC or Mac to a TV, typically with a single HDMI cable. Access to the complete Steam store is included, as is the Steam Community. In addition to their complete library of Steam games, each user's cloud files, Steam Workshop content, account information and preferences will be accessible automatically in the new mode.
"Sega's roots are in living-room gaming." said John Clark, Vice President of Digital Distribution at Sega. "For the first time since the advent of PC games decades ago, gamers are finally going to have access to the kind of entertainment experience we've always wished they could have with our PC titles - one that's incredibly social, comfortable, and accessible. We're excited about the opportunity, and Big Picture has inspired us to bring even more of our titles to Steam in the future."
"There is nothing more satisfying than slaying thousands of orcs on your big screen. And many of the most die-hard players of Orcs Must Die 2 have always preferred playing with a game controller. Steam's Big Picture mode finally marries these two and delivers a true living room entertainment experience to players."
"We're pleased that gamers on Steam will now be able to immerse themselves in our entertainment experiences in the comfort of their living room on large sc reen TVs," said Steve Glickstein of Take-Two Interactive Software. "From action and adventure to sports and sims, our titles deliver big fun on big screens."
"PC gaming continues to be the leading edge of entertainment, whether it's social gaming, MMOs, graphics hardware, free-to-play, or competitive gaming," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "With Big Picture for Steam, we are trying to do our part to give customers and developers what they want - their games, everywhere, optimized for the environment in which they are playing."
Big Picture also includes a new web browser designed for televisions and game controllers. It is accessible from anywhere within the Big Picture UI, and even while playing Steam games on a TV. It supports Big Picture's new method of typing with a game controller, which is useful for entering URLs, filling out forms, chatting, and other functions.
For more information, including how to participate in the beta, please visit this page.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. — In response to increased calls for improvements to its food program, including a bill to create a new agency, the Food & Drug Administration has announced plans to commission external agency experts to conduct a comprehensive evaluation.
"While America's food supply is safe, and our foods program experts have significantly contributed to the availability of more nutritious food options for consumers, the program has been stressed by the increasing diversity and complexity of the nation's food systems and supply chain," FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D., said in a release. "Fundamental questions about the structure, function, funding and leadership need to be addressed. The agency's inspectional activities related to the program also need to be evaluated, particularly in light of stresses related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The Reagan-Udall Foundation, an independent partner organization for the agency, will be working with an external group of experts on the evaluation. The Foundation will report its findings, including an initial assessment of the processes and procedures, resourcing, and organizational structure for the Foods program and CTP, to the agency within 60 business days of initiation. It may take some time to implement any recommended changes, but I am committed to addressing them and communicating them to the public in a timely manner. It is my belief that this effort will continue strengthening the FDA and better position the agency to deal with the many immediate public health issues we are facing, while preparing for the many scientific challenges and fascinating opportunities of the future."
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New Zealand culture is portrayed through visual arts, crafts and design; music, dance and performing arts; and literature and film. In these many forms it has been published, performed, exhibited and sold overseas since the late 18th century.
Expatriates and ambassadors
New Zealand culture has often become known overseas through the efforts of individuals. Many talented expatriate New Zealanders such as writer Katherine Mansfield, artist Len Lye and opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa have made their mark in other countries. Other kapa haka performers, artists, musicians, singers, writers, curators, performers and film makers have become known overseas while continuing to live and work primarily in New Zealand.
Since the 19th century the government has played a significant role in promoting New Zealand culture overseas. International exhibitions have been one of the places where global audiences have been able to experience traditional and contemporary art, Māori performing arts and New Zealand music of various kinds.
Various government agencies have used a number of other methods, including gifts, delegations, displays and participation in competitions, to promote New Zealand culture overseas. Their motivations have included helping to build diplomatic relations and trade with other countries and encouraging tourism and migration to New Zealand.
Among the major projects sponsored by the Cultural Diplomacy International Programme were a performance by kapa haka champions Te Waka Huia at the America’s Cup and a Royal New Zealand Ballet tour of China in 2013. Smaller projects also received support, including a 2010 visit by Māori pop musicians Moana and the Tribe to Taiwan, and a visit by jazz saxophonist Nathan Haines and his band to Jakarta the same year.
Cultural Diplomacy International Programme
In the 2000s Manatū Taonga - the Ministry for Culture and Heritage administered a Cultural Diplomacy International Programme supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Tourism New Zealand, Te Puni Kōkiri and Education New Zealand. Its purpose was to build a New Zealand cultural presence in other countries to enhance New Zealand’s economic and diplomatic interests. One of the goals was to ensure a cultural dimension at big events such as international sports tournaments.
Fulbright New Zealand is best known for the scholarships it provides for New Zealand scholars to study in the United States (and for American scholars to study in New Zealand), but it also funds a three-month Pacific Writers’ Residency at the University of Hawaii, a 10-week visual artists’ residency at the Headlands Centre in California and travel awards to assist artists (as well as scholars and professionals) to study or present their work in America.
Creative New Zealand International Programme
At the same time, arts funding body Creative New Zealand ran an international programme to give artists opportunities to engage with other cultures and art forms overseas. The programme provided funding for art, writing and dance cultural exchanges, support for overseas tours and engagements, grants to publishers wanting to translate New Zealand books into other languages, and help in organising New Zealand participation in major international arts events such as the Edinburgh Festivals, the Venice Biennale and the annual Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM).
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Data acquired in collaboration with the University of Boulder in Colorado (U.S.A.) for the understanding of the Colorado Plateau elevation. These data sets include mineralogical, petrological, chemical, pressure-temperature modelisation and density evolution.
The database "Suretta nappe shear zones" contains petrological, structural and microtextural data of millimetre-scale shear zones from the Roffna rhyolite (Suretta nappe, Eastern Alps, Switzerland). The data consist of structural orientations, optical and electronic images of the mineralogy of the ...
Objective : characterize the deformation mechanisms and the crystallographic fabrics within homogeneously deformed granitic samples.
Objective : microtextural characterization within a shear zone brittle precursor
Objective : calculate the crystallographic preferred orientation (CPO) of each mineral phase in order to rebuild the elastic properties of the polyminéralic aggregates.
Objective : compare the chemical compositions of minerals within the brittle precursor and in the host rock.
Objective : characterize the chemical zonings in plagioclase and garnet related to fluid-rock interactions within a shear zone precursor
Data related to human population screening and dog surveys carried out in 1996-97, 2005-6 and in 2014/15 in South Gansu, China
Sampling of Mediterranean fan mussel specimens (Pinna nobilis) for molecular analyses of the byssus and of the shell matrix
This document describes a field mission carried out in May 2017, at the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer. This mission aimed at collecting live specimens as well as dead shells from the Mediterranean fan mussel, Pinna nobilis, an endemic species protected by European Directive ...
This database contains a set of petrographical, mineralogical and geochemical data from ores collected in the Bou Arhous deposit in Morocco
Water physico-chemical data of the cut-off channel called Gourdans
Water physico-chemical data of the cut-off channel called Planet
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The TEOM (Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance) instrument was settled in Dedougou (Burkina Faso) in March 2012. It automatically measures the PM10 (particulate matter which diameter is lower than 10µm) mass concentrations at the surface (at 2m) at a 15mn time-step, and day and night. The ...
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“Not again! Mary received an invitation to an interview with a Fortune 500 company. John, remember him? He accepted a job offer in Hawaii, where he always wanted to go. And Kate got promoted only a year after being hired! Meanwhile, my own job search seems to be a disaster. I think to myself that all good positions are already taken. I am never going to be a faculty member. Sigh.”
Not exactly verbatim, but I often hear similar stories during my career coaching sessions, especially when social comparison, but not healthy competition, fuels a job search. While it is good to know whom you are up against in your quest for a dream position, if left unchecked, constant comparison can make an already stressful situation more nerve-racking. Thus, today, I’d like to share a few strategies to help you deal with the urge and consequences of unhelpful “me versus them” appraisal while you are in the job market.
First, let’s take a closer look at this peculiar human behavior to understand how it shows up in our daily lives. According to the social comparison theory, people tend to evaluate “their abilities and attitudes in relation to those of others” to assess better their social position, self-image and subjective well-being. On the one hand, knowing where we are relative to other members of society helps identify areas for improvement, create a more positive self-image and helps us gain insights into unfamiliar environments. On the other hand, habitual upward comparison with those who are judged to be better may lead to an intense buildup of envy, jealousy and a fear of missing out.
Here is how this may play out in an ordinary job search: initially, you reach out to successful professionals in the hopes of refining your application materials or soliciting interview tips. The more information the better, right? However, soon you might come to believe that everyone is doing much better than you are. Next, you decide to turn to social media for comfort, only to encounter the same phenomenon — everyone else is moving up the career ladder, with you lagging behind. Now, you hear a demotivating internal soundtrack put together by your inner critic and a fearful feeling that you are an impostor. Voilà: comparison at its best. (Or shall we say worst?)
Knowing that this social behavior is of a part of our making, how can we keep it from negatively impacting our job search and workplaces?
Pick your reference point wisely. The social comparison theory suggests that we evaluate ourselves against different groups, aka a reference point. This evaluation could be done in upward, downward or lateral directions. In the first type, the reference group includes members who are judged to be better and/or have more money, fame, knowledge and the like. Practicing this type of appraisal may breed resentment, a feeling of inferiority and negative self-perception.
In contrast, the downward comparison yields the opposite results. If manipulating the reference point can bend human perception, how can we use this knowledge amid unhelpful comparison? Of course, it is possible to harvest positive feelings from the misfortune of others. But instead, it’d be more beneficial to travel back in time to when you were less experienced, educated and skilled. Observing and fully re-experiencing your amateur younger self could reset the reference point, resulting in more appreciation and gratitude of your current situation.
Make comparisons like a scientist. During my past life as a scientist, I conducted multiple studies to investigate changes in animal behavior. I carefully designed the experimental groups to ensure that I compared apples to apples and not apples to elephants. For the research, it meant all the subjects would have to be sex-, age- and trait-matched to the best of my abilities.
For a job seeker, that would mean you would compare yourself to people with the same current job title, similar background, years of experience and other attributes that are relevant to the job. Moreover, it would be important to know which job they are applying for. That knowledge would prevent you from wasting your mental energy on examining an industry candidate when you are in the market for a faculty-track position. And in case you met a professional who didn’t fit the group description, you’d consider this person as a resource or inspiration, not a new reference point.
Exercise the abundance mind-set. Once, a friend unexpectedly got a job that I secretly wished for. Upon the news, my mind immediately announced, “That’s it, Irina, you have no chance of ever getting a position there. You shouldn’t even try.” I absorbed those statements as the truth without realizing they were a product of the scarcity mind-set: a belief system that considers opportunities, money, success and so on to be limited in nature. In line with those core beliefs, my friend’s new job meant fewer options for me, which, in hindsight, was a silly conclusion.
If you ever face similar circumstances, I recommend you try out the abundance mind-set that assumes there are enough resources for everyone to share. With that alternative worldview, my response to my friend’s luck would be, “Irina, great news! You will be next, and your friend could be the one to help you get your foot in the door.” The same situation — vastly different outcomes.
Using social comparison during the job search is tempting, because it can uncover valuable data to help you outrun the competition. However, we should consider that this approach is likely to generate incomplete data sets and biased opinions, because we never know what really happens in the minds and lives of others. In addition, what works for one person doesn’t guarantee it will work for you, because each person’s life is filled with distinct experiences and skills.
Owning your authentic story is what ultimately leads to the best employment match and also greater job satisfaction. Thus, my last piece of advice is to cultivate your inner truth and don’t forget to compare apples to apples, not apples to elephants, even if the elephants would not mind eating them for breakfast.
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Purpose Bitcoin ETF, the first North American exchange-traded fund for bitcoin, on Thursday began trading with a bang.
Volume for the fund on the Toronto Stock Exchange recently totaled 9.3 million shares. The fund opened at C$10.59 (US$8.35) and recently traded at C$10.36. The trading range for the day has been $10.07 to $11.
Investors may be familiar with the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust GBTC. But as the name suggests, that’s an exchange-traded trust, not an ETF. The new ETF says it’s backed by real bitcoin.
The big question surrounding bitcoin is whether it’s for real or just a fad. Given the infrastructure that’s growing around it, with heavyweight investors and institutions jumping on board, it could certainly be for real.
But there are signs of a speculative bubble too. Bitcoin has risen more than fivefold over the past year. That’s not the path of a stable asset. And it has periodically plunged during its 12 years of existence.
Bitcoin doesn’t meet the basic definition of a currency: It’s barely used for legitimate commerce. And the massive volatility means it will likely remain that way for some time.
Bitcoin represents a vehicle for speculation. Advocates see it as a hedge against inflation and declines in other financial markets. But that relationship isn’t clear yet.
Still, even if bitcoin is merely a speculative vehicle, as long as investors believe in it, it can remain powerful.
Star bond investor Jeff Gundlach on Thursday suggested on Twitter that bitcoin might be a better hedge against stimulus than gold right now.
Bitcoin recently traded at $51,947, down 0.22%.
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Ohio Smart Meters
FirstEnergy's Ohio utilities – Ohio Edison, Toledo Edison and The Illuminating company – are starting to install smart meters on customers’ homes and businesses in several locations throughout our service area. This effort is part of a three-year investment approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to modernize the electric distribution system in Ohio with advanced automation equipment, real-time voltage controls and the installation of 700,000 smart meters.
This step toward a more modernized electric system will enable automated meter readings and may enhance our ability to respond to outages faster and more efficiently.
Plus, in the future, you will have access to more detailed energy information through our online Home Energy Analyzer tool that will help you better understand your electricity use – which means you can then make informed decisions on how to manage and control your electricity consumption.
Be assured that the smart meter technology being implemented has been rigorously tested and proven by manufacturers to be accurate, safe and secure in systems throughout the country.
Looking for more detailed information? Click the links to the right.
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In a city that's growing up, literally, the (typically) small matter of the apartment balcony has become – perhaps unsurprisingly – a polarizing obsession, and not just among those who live at the north end of an elevator ride home.
An unscientific Facebook survey reveals the full gamut of opinions: condo dwellers for whom the balcony represents a psychological bulwark against claustrophobia; those who revel in the views of the horizon and the street life below; and still others for whom the marketing sizzle gave way to disappointment as wind and noise rendered these outcroppings into little more than storage space.
"The higher up balconies are situated," observes Ted Kesik, a building-science expert at the University of Toronto, "the less they are used, since high-wind speeds combined with large heights can be unsettling for many people."
For builders, however, balconies pose a complicated riddle, subject to a tangle of considerations that encompass municipal planning and energy efficiency regulations, market-specific consumer expectations about floor space, and condo corporation rules.
Increasingly, though, they're also being pressed into service as a means of creating an aesthetic signature for very tall buildings, such as One Bloor East or Five St. Joseph, a 48-storey tower by Graywood Developments and MOD Developments and designed by Hariri Pontarini. "The balconies go beyond outdoor living space," MOD chief executive Gary Switzer says. "They become part of the sculptural shape of the building."
He attributes this shift to the legacy of the complex designs by conceived by "starchitects" such as Frank Gehry and Daniel Liebeskind. For high-rise condos, undulating buildings are now technically possible but very expensive if the floor plans for each unit are different. The workaround, Mr. Switzer says, is to use the balconies to create curves and use geometrically interesting shapes to break up towering vertical glass planes on tall towers.
One of the most sensuous examples, says Andre D'Elia, a principal at Superkul, is Studio Gang's Chicago's Aqua Tower, which is clad in a cascading sequence of asymmetrical fins that project from the façade. They have a social objective as well as an aesthetic one, he adds: They've been configured to allow residents to interact with one another from their balconies. "It's a noble idea."
Mid-rise builders, meanwhile, are increasingly looking to create inset balconies instead of protruding ones that offer little more than a few square feet of outdoor space. They make sense because they provide more protection from the elements, says Streetcar's development manager David Stevenson, citing examples such as The Southwood, a 45-unit project in the Upper Beach.
Mr. Switzer agrees that such balconies can create a clean look as compared to exterior planes broken up by small concrete slabs with glass railings, and MOD, in fact, has incorporated these into its WaterWorks project on Richmond Street. But, he cautions, they can be shadowy, and thus less desirable.
Prof. Kesik, however, notes that in many Nordic cities, inset balconies are used in combination with retractable enclosures, such as those designed by Lumon. "They extend the period of comfortable use by inhabitants and provide shelter from the wind and rain, converting desolate spaces into outdoor rooms."
Toronto's preoccupation with balconies dates to planning rules enacted in the 1950s and 1960s, says Mr. Switzer, who points out that in some markets, such as New York, apartment purchasers don't expect balconies because they've not been proscribed by the municipality. Here, he says, conventional wisdom is that consumers demand balconies, even ones unlikely to be used as outdoor living space because they are either too small or too high.
In New York, Mr. Switzer continues, the distinctive built form of the upper east and west sides has been shaped by rules proscribing angular planes to prevent the city streets from becoming permanently shaded canyons.
Those planning policies created a legacy of private outdoor terraces, as have similar rules in Toronto that require developers to create a step-back angular plane on mid-rise buildings that back onto residential neighbourhoods.
In Toronto, the gradual move since the 1980s from slab apartments to narrow point towers meant that balconies became shorter as newer condo floor plans tended to have narrow external walls.
Mr. Stevenson says balconies are today treated as part of a building's mandated overall outdoor space, but can't extend over its footprint, which means that the size question becomes a zero-sum game: Larger balconies means less floor space. "It's tough because you're trying to make the unit as big as possible."
Yet both Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Switzer say that growing consumer demand for larger two and three bedroom units has pushed developers and their architects to look for better alternatives to utilitarian slabs of concrete that are merely six feet deep. These include some configurations that were more commonplace a generation ago, such as the wrap-around balconies on some of the two-bedroom units on MOD's new Massey Tower. With the space those configurations provide, Mr. Switzer says, "You're getting true outdoor living space."
(Or at least, that's the idea.)
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Using SNS and SQS and Example using NodeJS
I wanted to test out using the new aws-sdk with Amazon Web Services (AWS) SNS and SQS services. It is now possible to subscribe queues to topics therefore creating a pub/sub style system without any system configuration work.
Setup at AWS
I created a new IAM user in the AWS console and attached the User Policies for Amazon SQS Full Access and Amazon SNS Full Access.
Then I created code to generate the topic, queue and to subscribe the queue to the topic. By doing it this way the configuration is stored in code. No need to log into the AWS console and click through their interface.
Now I can publish messages to the topic and consume them from the queue.
All the code is in github at: https://github.com/markcallen/snssqs
Pros for using SNS/SQS
- no setup
- easy to configure
- easy to program against
- simple to scale
- available in all aws regions
Cons for using SNS and SQS
- can be very expensive – SNS $1.50 + SQS $1.50 per message per request a second
- SQS 64K package size – max 256K or 4 packages
SNS and SQS are well suited for simpler tasks and workloads with a lower volume of messages.
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As you’re employed towards retirement, you need to consider your hard earned money and the amount you will want for the retirement. Should you have a fully funded crisis fund, you should begin thinking about your retirement. If you’re presently freed from credit card debt, you ought to start off preserving to your retirement and beginning a retirement fund. To estimate the amount of cash you may need in your retirement, utilize a totally free calculator. You need to have a retirement fund of at the least 10 % of one’s yearly wage and may perform toward retiring that has a ten per cent withdrawal price.
Investing for retirement needs to be an integral A part of any American’s financial arranging. This process demands careful thing to consider of financial investment plans, time horizon and possibility appetite. You should use various retirement accounts to handle lots of the hazards. Having said that, investing for retirement must evolve along with you. Here are some procedures that can help you get rolling. They are not foolproof and there’s usually area for advancement. The real key would be to select the proper harmony concerning possibility and reward to your retirement.(Tax Positive aspects)
Your house is likely your premier asset. You might need to promote it afterwards, but real-estate tends to understand as time passes. Therefore you might want to think about renting. Renting is less expensive and might be a extra valuable investment decision. You may also use the money you help you save for the house to pay back the home loan, which is able to increase your net truly worth. Investing for retirement may well evolve together with your family tree and everyday living adjustments.(Financial Advisor)
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Everyday living expectancy plays A significant purpose in arranging for retirement. In case you have long life, it is possible to retire at age sixty two, but in case you are in poor overall health, you might have to faucet into your personal savings A great deal previously. For the same purpose, you might like to think about putting revenue into a property financial commitment belief or direct fairness positions in house. You can invest in a mix of these two varieties of money To maximise your savings and revenue.(earnings boundaries)
A typical concern that occurs in the whole process of retirement preparing is definitely the “time horizon” on the investments. Though the concept of the 20 calendar year time horizon is popular for traders, not Many people basically observe this rule. In retirement, we will often be envisioning our independence at 65, but our financial plans might be many years absent. A distinct time horizon is utilized for purchasing your son or daughter’s college or university, Because the account might be depleted in 4 yrs of graduation.
Traders tend not to normally have a certain time horizon, but their All round objective is to build up wealth and approach for retirement. Whatever the timeframe, defining milestones to trace development towards that intention may help investors get to their fiscal aims. However, deciding on a time horizon for investing may be complex, so it is best to map it out intimately. Here are several examples:(investing entails threat)(401 k)(retirement funds)(retirement conserving)
All through your Operating decades, you need to have previously amassed an excellent sum of money in financial savings accounts. Whether or not you may use it for residing bills, retirement, or possibly a retirement fund, you should know the different investment decision alternatives accessible for your retirement preparing. A great prepare need to include a mixture of growth and income property to maximize your returns. As an example, If you’re a young professional, it is best to speculate in expansion assets to maximize your cash while you are however as part of your early twenties. A well balanced mixture of progress, profits, and compounding belongings is suggested for pre-retirees and retirees alike.(mutual fund)
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When you are a Functioning personal, it is best to be part of a retirement price savings plan at get the job done. Most for-revenue companies supply 401(k) retirement options. To participate, complete a type and your employer will deposit the resources into your account. After the cash are within your account, you’ll be able to choose the volume you should add. Some employers will automatically boost the level of cost savings for employees. Some workforce have an interest in greater price savings rates. But before you decide to make the ultimate conclusion, you need to know the tax consequences from the money you place into your system.
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The normal IRA is a wonderful selection for people who need to develop their funds tax-free of charge. This type of retirement earnings approach provides useful tax Positive aspects, like a practically limitless level of financial commitment solutions. Furthermore, you won’t need to fork out tax on withdrawals for those who withdraw your cash at retirement. Dependant upon your age, you can also pick out the type of retirement account that most closely fits your preferences. Should you have minimal funds, a dollars balance approach will not be the correct option for you.(capture up contributions)(danger tolerance)(enough dollars)
In case you are an NRI, you will be worried about the tax implications of a retirement portfolio. Although tax costs are minimal now, they are not likely to stay like that once you retire. Continue to, the chance to steer clear of long run taxation is worthy of thinking about. It is possible to stay away from opportunity problems by selecting a certified tax specialist. The subsequent are a few of the most important tax implications of retirement price savings:(brokerage companies)(inventory marketplace)(medicare premiums)
The Roth IRA – The creation of such a account changed The full retirement financial savings design. Even though the normal IRA and employer-sponsored retirement programs offered an upfront tax deduction, the Roth IRA needed the taxpayer to pay for tax only upon withdrawal right after retirement. This posed a significant issue for many taxpayers. Luckily, Congress determined to create a new retirement cost savings account that supplied tax deferral and reduced latest taxes. With the introduction of the Roth IRA, much less individuals should have to worry about the tax implications in their retirement price savings.(estate plan)(employer match)(financial commitment returns)
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Upon getting a sensible finances, you might want to develop a plan to achieve Those people goals. It is very important to take into account which kind of Life-style you desire in the retirement and the amount of You will need to save every year to be able to get to that volume of Way of living. It is usually a smart idea to get a detailed look at your expenses. Do you shell out funds on enjoyment, buying, and day-to-day charges? If that’s the case, you might want to consider delaying your retirement for a handful of a lot more years.
There are lots of distinct retirement price savings strategies offered. You’ll find SEP IRAs and straightforward IRAs. SEPs are the best to set up and terminate, although Solo-k strategies are more complex. On the other hand, they equally enable for the next contribution Restrict. A Solo-k IRA also permits increased returns as it permits both employer and personnel contributions. An important detail to bear in mind when establishing a SEP IRA is you will have to resist temptation to choose early withdrawals, as You will likely should shell out a ten p.c penalty.(compound development)
SEP IRAs are just like the standard IRA, However they’re geared toward self-utilized individuals. They allow self-used people to contribute pre-tax salary deferrals. As a little organization operator, you might be needed to match your employees’ contributions, and that is approximately 25% in their compensation in 2022. Moreover, your contributions will qualify as tax-deferred mone
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A 403(b) retirement price savings plan is a terrific way to dietary supplement other retirement accounts. It is possible to add a percentage of the earnings or a selected dollar total each and every month. Your employer could also add for your 403(B) account, and this free of charge income is taken into account “totally free dollars.” Beware of the traps of 403(B) strategies, even so. The worst possible scenario is to settle on a program that’s loaded with large-rate insurance products. Also, you may well be topic to surrender costs and high-priced fees.(is sensible)(outpace inflation)(much more risk)
The retirement price savings approach of your respective decision is critical towards your economical upcoming. You’ll want to steer clear of the so-referred to as one-sizing-fits-all options and try to find a retirement account that matches your foreseeable future ambitions and situation. There are numerous strategies to save for the long term. Read on To find out more about the differing types of retirement accounts currently available. There are various positive aspects to every variety of retirement account. Mentioned underneath are a few of the most common choices.(very same amount of money)(improve Employment)(roth 401 k)(magic variety)(married partners)
There are various differing types of IRAs, with Every featuring its have set of positives and negatives. Traditional IRAs make it possible for pre-tax investments, while Roth IRAs let tax-no cost withdrawals. Tiny business owners may opt to open a Sep-IRA, or Self-Employed Personal Retirement Account. The whole process of opening a conventional or Roth IRA is pretty basic. Follow the techniques underneath to find out the right variety for you.(Main financial investment officer)
1st, figure out the type of institution to open your regular particular person retirement account. You will discover banking companies, Accredited fiscal planner, brokerage companies, and in many cases robo-advisors offering minimal-cost investments, computerized portfolio balancing, and on the net dashboards. Ensure you select an establishment which will fulfill your needs, as not all are made equal. Look at your investment decision targets and the amount possibility you’re ready to acquire in order to arrive at your financial savings aims. You can also invest in stocks and bonds.
There are various advantages of a Roth IRA retirement account, and a lot of people are more suited for this sort of account than Other people. One of many most important benefits of this sort of account is the ability to defer taxes and also have your hard earned money mature tax-no cost. A Roth account is especially advantageous if you will have to get regular distributions, for instance expected bare minimum distributions, from a retirement account. Though this can be challenging, it continues to be doable to generate a meaningful contribution to the Roth retirement account.(retirement arranging)
Another advantage of a Roth IRA is its versatility. You’ll be able to withdraw your contributions any time you choose, without incurring cash flow tax. On top of that, you’ll be able to defer the tax over the account progress for many years, making it possible for you to extend out your distributions about several a long time. Nevertheless, withdrawals produced before you decide to attain age fifty nine 1/two might be subject matter to a 10% penalty tax on the quantity withdrawn. It is possible to lead as much dollars as you want on your Roth IRA, as long as it is in income.(retirement scheduling)
To determine a SIMPLE IRA retirement account, you have to make particular your employer participates in it. To achieve this, You should use the model Financial savings Incentive Match Prepare for workers (Very simple) program files. Then, you need to choose a economic institution, possibly a lender or a broker-vendor, to serve as your Straightforward IRA trustee. After this, you can start contributing for your retirement account.(retirement setting up)
When developing an easy IRA retirement organizing, you will need to Ensure that your organization maintains a retirement approach for the whole calendar yr. The retirement strategy is matter to specific procedures, such as whether you fund all promised contributions and If the strategy could be maintained on a fiscal-yr basis. Your company may also make contributions to a straightforward IRA plan, and you can elect to exclude precise employees from your system.
A assured retirement account (GRA) is a personal price savings program that a worker can roll over from a person position to a different. Its funds could be invested by a private income supervisor. Employees would determine at which age they might retire, and the GRA would change their personal savings into a assured monthly payment. In case the employee died, his cash would visit a beneficiary of his choosing. Nevertheless, this option is just not readily available for all personnel.
In Australia, the common worker discounts account has worked. This concept has been embraced in The us as well, exactly where a the latest survey confirmed a robust help for your idea. The majority of respondents backed the thought of assured retirement accounts, and Many individuals are desirous to give it a consider. It is an easy way to offer a retirement advantage to workers who otherwise wouldn’t have it. Guaranteed retirement accounts will not be a panacea, but they are able to bridge the gap for personnel who can’t just take their firm’s pension prepare.
Many individuals worry about their long run money security and they are unsure about the correct Retirement Age for them. In this post, We’ll explore a couple of important retirement problems, like Early eligibility, minimized Gains, and The simplest way to devote for the future. Our advice? Spend money on lower-cost index resources. These investments can provide a considerable stream of money for that extensive-phrase. Also they are tax-deferred. This is a fantastic time to begin buying index money, especially if you might be just beginning to establish a nest egg.
The full retirement age is outlined because the age when you will acquire your comprehensive Social Security gain. The full retirement age is 66, sixty seven or 70, based on your birth calendar year. Delaying your Social Security declare and accumulating your Added benefits will lower your every month payment, although the boost will remain until finally your 70th birthday. Here are three explanations why you need to hold out right until your total retirement age. Read more to discover additional. But very first, let’s clarify what total retirement age usually means.
Generally, the entire retirement age applies to all of the retirement Rewards you’ll receive from Performing, including survivor Positive aspects and spousal Gains. For folks born in 1956 and 1961, the entire retirement age is sixty six. For those born in 1962, the total retirement age is 67. Rewards will begin to be paid out considerably less should you assert right before this age. However, you can begin acquiring your Positive aspects earlier, beginning at age 62.
The federal govt can raise the early retirement age (EEA) to improve the gain to which more mature workers are entitled. The EEA is not to be confused With all the National Retirement Age (NRA), which is 65. Though personnel beneath 62 are still authorized to collect some of their old-age pensions, they can’t go ahead and take complete advantage. Many of them, nonetheless, submit an application for Incapacity Insurance (DI) pensions and wait right up until the next approaching calendar year to acquire the full amount of money.
To be suitable for the program, anyone ought to are actually protected because of the program for a minimum of 24 months, or have labored no less than 1,000 hrs inside of a 24-thirty day period time period. A person can discover out if she or he is qualified for This system by getting in touch with the executive Workplace of their retirement system. For anyone who has contributed for their account for a minimum of 25 a long time, an extra two-thirds in their standard retirement gain is earmarked to the early retirement period of time.
Taking your Social Safety benefits early might be a good suggestion. Early Social Safety Added benefits are temporary and you can retain Doing the job, but your regular check will likely be less than in advance of. On the other hand, you will need to shell out taxes in your earnings until eventually Medicare kicks in. If you’re employed more than forty-five hours a week, your regular monthly profit will probably be Reduce even even further. If you work for greater than forty-5 several hours every week, you might even be able to hold off boasting your Advantages until finally 70.
You are going to also have to have to ascertain when to begin getting your Rewards. Some states have a minimum amount age just before you can start gathering your Positive aspects. You would like to find out when you can start drawing benefits and when They are going to be permanently diminished. There are several strategies to determine your retirement Gains. Seek advice from the Calculating Your Retirement Rewards brochure for more information. When you’ve decided simply how much you’ll need to retire at, the next phase is working out just how much you will get.(Regular revenue tax)
In case you are approaching retirement, among the finest ways to take a position is in very low-cost index resources which have a goal retirement age. These funds are created to step by step lessen your financial investment chance when you close to retirement, building them a fantastic choice for a lot of buyers. Numerous target day funds will even modify their expense strategies when you solution retirement. Nevertheless, though these cash may be reduced-payment, they are not chance-totally free, particularly when you’re approaching retirement age.
Buying index funds is a great way to put money into main stocks. On the other hand, it’s important to take into account some vital things when selecting which index fund to take a position in. Even though It is real that person shares is often worthwhile, they generally involve considerable research. Index money, on the other hand, are collections of stocks and they are priced similarly to personal shares. These money fluctuate in cost throughout the day.(Social protection administration)
A lot of people worry about their potential fiscal stability and so are uncertain about the proper Retirement Age for them. On this page, We’re going to go over a few critical retirement problems, which includes Early eligibility, reduced benefits, and The simplest way to devote for the longer term. Our tips? Put money into very low-price index money. These investments can offer a considerable stream of income for that extended-expression. Also they are tax-deferred. This is a superior time to get started on buying index cash, particularly if you might be just starting to make a nest egg.
The entire retirement age is defined given that the age whenever you will obtain your total Social Protection benefit. The complete retirement age is sixty six, 67 or 70, according to your beginning calendar year. Delaying your Social Protection declare and gathering your benefits will lower your month-to-month payment, however the Strengthen will remain right until your 70th birthday. Here are a few explanations why you ought to wait till your comprehensive retirement age. Keep reading to understand a lot more.(Annual pre retirement profits)
Generally, the entire retirement age applies to all of the retirement Gains you can receive from Functioning, like survivor benefits and spousal Gains. For folks born in 1956 and 1961, the full age is sixty six. For those born in 1962, the complete retirement age is sixty seven. Benefits will start to be compensated considerably less for those who declare ahead of this age. However, you can begin acquiring your Gains previously, starting at age sixty two.(Increase tax deferred)
The federal government can raise the early retirement age (EEA) to enhance the reward to which older workers are entitled. The EEA is not to be confused Together with the National Retirement Age (NRA), that is 65. Although staff under sixty two are still allowed to collect some of their previous-age pensions, they can’t go ahead and take complete advantage. A lot of them, nevertheless, apply for Disability Insurance policy (DI) pensions and wait around until finally the next future 12 months to receive the complete quantity.
To get qualified for the program, an individual have to happen to be included through the program for at least 24 months, or have labored at the very least 1,000 hours inside a 24-month time period. Somebody can find out if he / she is qualified for the program by speaking to the executive Business of his / her retirement approach. For individuals who have contributed for their account for a minimum of twenty five a long time, an extra two-thirds in their ordinary retirement reward is earmarked for that early retirement time period.
Having your Social Protection Added benefits early could be a good suggestion. Early Social Stability benefits are temporary and you’ll maintain Functioning, but your regular monthly Test will probably be lower than in advance of. On the other hand, you’ll need to fork out taxes on your earnings right up until Medicare kicks in. If you’re employed greater than forty-five hrs weekly, your regular profit will be Slice even more. If you work for over forty-5 hours each week, you may perhaps even have the ability to hold off declaring your Added benefits right until 70.
You can expect to also want to ascertain when to start receiving your Added benefits. Some states have a minimum amount age before you can begin accumulating your Rewards. You would like to determine when you can begin drawing Added benefits and when They are going to be forever diminished. There are lots of strategies to estimate your retirement benefits. Seek the advice of the Calculating Your Retirement Benefits brochure for more information. Once you’ve determined just how much You’ll have to retire at, the subsequent action is figuring out how much you may obtain.
For anyone who is approaching retirement, probably the greatest ways to speculate is in low-charge index cash that have a focus on retirement age. These money are created to progressively reduce your investment threat while you close to retirement, creating them a terrific choice for lots of traders. Quite a few target day cash may also alter their expenditure methods when you method retirement. However, when these money could possibly be minimal-payment, they don’t seem to be threat-no cost.(rental money)
Investing in index resources is a great way to invest in primary shares. Nonetheless, it is vital to think about some vital components when deciding which index fund to speculate in. While It is real that particular person shares may be gratifying, they generally call for in depth investigation. Index funds, On the flip side, are collections of shares and therefore are priced equally to unique stocks. These funds fluctuate in price tag during the day.(retirement scheduling guide)
How do I commence preparing for retirement?
The five techniques of retirement arranging
Action 1: Know when to get started on retirement organizing.
Phase 2: Find out simply how much funds you must retire.
Move 3: Prioritize your financial goals.
Stage four: Choose the finest retirement plan in your case.
Move five: Select your retirement investments.
Now, Take into account, If you’re planning to retire at 55, you may (heaven eager) want to own plenty of saved for 20 years or maybe more. Utilizing the formula I just shared, Which means you will be dwelling on $40,000 a year or fifty percent with the salary you had been accustomed to ($800,000 about twenty years).
According to the Social Security Administration, the maximum Social Safety profit you can acquire monthly in 2021 is $three,148 for anyone at complete retirement age. The average Social Security earnings per 30 days in 2021 is $1,543 immediately after getting adjusted for the price of dwelling at one.3 p.c.
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This Code of Basic Working Conditions and Human Rights represents the commitment of The Boeing Company to fundamental standards that make Boeing a good place to work. People are Boeing's most vital asset. The individual and collective contributions of Boeing people at all levels are essential to the success of the company. In recognition of this, Boeing has developed policies and practices designed to assure that our employees enjoy the protections afforded by the concepts set forth in this Code.
Boeing is committed to the protection and advancement of human rights in its worldwide operations, and the concepts in this Code are generally derived from Boeing policies and practices already in place, but which have not previously been summarized in a single document. While parts of this Code reflect our review of working standards and human rights concepts advanced by other groups, such as the International Labor Organization, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Global Sullivan Principles, this Code represents Boeing's statement of its own standards on these subjects, rather than those of a third party.
Boeing's worldwide operations take place in an increasingly diverse universe, so circumstances can arise where legal, regulatory or other requirements may necessitate applying or interpreting this Code in ways that assure compliance with applicable local law. In any event, however, we believe that the concepts in this Code represent important fundamental values that should underlie all aspects of the employment relationship.
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Conventional automatic trajectory tracking control technics for car-like ground vehicles typically decompose the controller into separate longitudinal driving control and lateral-directional steering control, owing to the nonholonomic kinematic constraint, highly nonlinear dynamics and control under-actuation of such vehicles. However, such decoupled control techniques inevitably impose operational constraints on agile maneuvers that may be critical in evading impending collisions, preventing loss-of-control of the vehicle, and special maneuvers that are needed for law enforcement missions. Thus, integrated three-Degree-of-Freedom (3DOF) tracking control of car-like ground vehicles are highly desirable but remains a challenging problem. There also appears to be a lack of research on automated reverse driving. In our previous work [ASME DSCC2017-5372, DSCC2018-9148], design and hardware validation test results of an integrated 3DOF trajectory tracking controller based on nonlinear kinematics and dynamics vehicle model using Trajectory Linearization Control (TLC) for forward driving have been reported. The present paper supplements that work with design and hardware validation test results on vehicle backward driving at fast and low speeds. The reverse driving control incurs minimal alteration to the original design with minimal tuning efforts due to the model-based TLC control approach, and it should be readily scaled-up to full-size vehicles and adapted to different types of autonomous ground vehicles with the knowledge of vehicles’ kinematics and dynamics parameters.
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Family therapy without the family, a psychoeducational support group for the adult child
Rutledge, Suzanne Leigh
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The overall purpose of this practicum was to develop, implement, and evaluate an intervention which would assist the "Adult child" to improve her ability to cope with an aging parent whom she perceived as having a "difficult personality". An intergenerational and feminist groupwork intervention strategy was utilized in this project to provide support and improve the Adult child's coping skills. In particular, the aim of the intervention was to facilitate improved ways of coping through the reduction of feelings of burden, and/or the improvement of social support, and/or the improvement of attitude toward the parent, and/or the improvement of self-esteem. The group, conducted for eleven weeks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, consisted of eight women who perceived a parent as having a "difficult personality" and who were drawn to the soup by their desire to change their relationship with that parent. The practicum findings indi ated that the group was helpful to all group members. It was particularly helpful in improving members' perception of the quality of social support available to them, and in creating positive changes in members' attitudes toward their parents, as they engaged in resolving issues from the past. This form of group intervention was found to be an effective modality for helping the Adult child. Implications for the practice of social work with the Adult child whose parent has a "difficult personality" are outlined, and suggestions for future study are offered.
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Dominicanaonline.org is the web portal of the Dominican Republic, created and implemented by the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo and the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development, with the purpose of presenting the country with a wealth of current information to a national and international public.
This project has been built by an international and multidisciplinary team with a vision for promoting the image of the Dominican Republic, disseminating knowledge about the country and strengthening the appreciation and respect for its heritage and values.
The site addresses students, teachers, tourists, investors, travelers, children, academics, Dominicans abroad or simply a curious person that wants to know and understand this nation, its history, geography, economy, culture and daily life.
The idea for Dominicanaonline.org is born from the need to fill a void in the information available on the country and to collect disparate data from various sources, often difficult to access, into the same space. Likewise, Dominicanaonline.org aspires to present the country with all of its facets, in a comprehensive and objective manner, adapting the information to the interactivity, agility and vitality that the Internet requires.
Dominicanaonline.org is a living project, without limits, that will grow and increase daily, promoting the creation of an international virtual community and becoming a platform for educational and creative activities, with competitions, discussion forums, chats, blogs, etc. Dominicanaonline.org is the first step toward the establishment of a broader project, the Universidad Virtual Dominicana, that will soon offer online courses on relevant Dominican themes/subjects.
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The constitution adopted in 2014, like the constitution drafted under Morsi, is based on the Egyptian Constitution of 1971. ... Under the constitution, there is a guarantee of equality between the sexes and an absolute freedom of belief, but Islam is the state religion.
CONSTITUTION 2014 PREAMBLE
In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Must Merciful.
God or other deities. This is Cur Constitution Egypt is the gift of the Nile and the gift ofEgyptians to humanity. Blessed with a unique location and history, the Arab nation of Egyptis the heart of the whole world. It is the meeting point of its civilizations and cultures andthe crossroads of its maritime transportation and communications. It is the tip of Africa onthe Mediterranean and the estuary of its greatest river: the Nile. This is Egypt, an immortal homeland to Egyptians, and a message of peace and love to all peoples Iri the beginning ofhistory, the dawn of human conscience rose and shone forth in the hearts of our great ancestors,uniting their good intention to build the first central state that regulated and orgarized thelife of Egyptians on the banks of the Nile, It is where they created the most amazing wondersof civilization, and where their hearts looked up to the heavens before earth knew the three revealed religions
Reference to country's history Egypt is the aradle of religiors and the banner of glory of the revealed religions.
On its land, Moses grew up, the light of God appeared, andthe message descended on Mount Sinai, On its land, Egyptians welcomed Virgin Mary and herbaby and offered up thousands of martyrs in defense of the Church of Jesus. When the Sealof the Messengers Mohamed (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) was sent to all mankind toperfect the sublime morals, our hearts and minds were opened to the light of Islam We were thebest soldiers on Earth to fight for the cause of God, and we disseminated the message of truth and religious sciences across the world. This is Egypt; a homeland that we live in as much asit lives in us
In the modern age, minds were enlightened, humanity became mature, and nationsand peoples progressed on the path of science, raising the banners of freedom and equality.Mohamed Ali founded the modern Egyptian state with a national army as its pillar. Refaa, theson of Al-Azhar, prayed that the homeland become "a place of common happiness for its people We, Egyptians, strived to keep up with the pace of development, and offered up martyrs andmade sacrifices in several uprisings and revolution until our patriotic army delivered victory tothe sweeping popular will in the "Jan 25 - June 30" Revolutiee that called for bread, freedom andhuman dignity within a framework of social justice, and brought hack the homeland's free willThis revolution is but an extension to a procuss of national struggle whose brightar symbolswere Ahmed Oraby, Mostafa Kamel, and Mohamed Farid. It was the capstorie of two grealrevolutions in our modern history: The 1919 revolution that had rid Egypt and the Egyptiansof the British guardianship, and had established the principle of citizenship and equalitybetween the people of the same country. Its leader, Saad Zaghloul, and his successor, MosfataEI-Nahhas, walked the path of democracy asserting that "Truth is above power and the nationis above the government". During this revolution Talaat Harb laid down the comerstone of thenational economy, The July 23, 1952 revolution that was lod by the leader Ganal Abdel Nasserand was embraced by the poptular will achieved the dream of generations for evacuation andindependence. As a result, Egypt affirmed its Arab allegiance, opened up to its African cantinentand Muslim world, supported liberation movements across.continerits, and took firm stepson the path of development and social justice
This revolution represents an extension of therevolutionary march of Egyptian patriotism, and supports the strong bond between the Egyptianpeople and their patriotic army that bore the trust and responsibility of protecting the homelandThanks to it, we achieved victory in our greatest battles including driving of the 1956 TripartiteAggression and the glorious victory of October that granted President Sadat a special place inour recent history. Compared to major revolutions in the history of mankind, the fan 25 - June30 Revolution is a unique revolution, because of the heavy popular participation involved - whichwas estimated to be in the tens of millions -- and the significant role of youth who aspire to abrighter future, the masses who transcended class and ideulogy to reach out to more exparisivepatriotic and human horizons. the manner in which the people's army protected the popular willand the blessings granted to it by Al- Azhar and the patriotic church. Itt is also unique becauseof its peacefulness and ambition to achieve freedom and social justice together. This revolutionis a sign and a good omen. It is a sign ut a past that is still present and a good omen of a futureto which all humanity aspires. The world has almost forgotten about an age that was torm byconflicts of interest between the east and the west, and ihe nurth and the south; an age wheredisputes and wars erupled between classes and peoples, where risks grew, threatering theexistence of mankind and life on Earth, which God created for us Humanity hopes to move fromthe age of maturity to the age of wisdom to build a new world where truth and justice prevail,and where freedoms and human rights are protected. We, Egyptians, believe that our revolutionis an opporturuty to return to help write a new history for mankind.
We believe that we arecapable of using the past as an inspiration, stirring up the present, and making our way to thefuture. We are capable of developing this homeland that develops us. We believe that every itizenis entitled to ive in this homecland in safety and security, and that every citizen is entitled to atoday and a tomorrow.
We believe in democracy as a path, a future, and a way of life; in politicalmultiplicity, and in the peaceful transfer of power. We affirm the right of the people to make theirfuture. They, alone, are the source of authority. Freedom, humari dignity, and social justice are aright of every citizen. Sovereignty in a sovereign homeland belongs to us and future generations.
We are now drafting a Constitution that embodies the dream of generatiuns of a prosperous united society and of a fair state that achieves the aspirations of today and tomorrow forindividuals and society We are now drafting a Constitution that completes building a modermdemocratic state with governmenit.
We are drafting a Constitution that closes the door for anycorruption or tyranny, heals the wounds of the past from the time of the old Eloquent Peasant tothe victims of negiigence and the martyrs of the revolution in our time, and relieves our peopleof the injustice they have sulfered from for long.
We are drafting a Constitution that affirms thatthe principles of Islamic Sharia are the principle source of legislation, and that the reference forinterpretation thereof is the relevant texts in the collected rulings of the Supreme ConstitutionalCourt.
we are drafting a Constitution that paves the way to the future for us, and which is in line with the
universal Declaration of Human Rights, which we took part in the drafting of and approved .
We are drafting a Corstitution that maintains our freedom and protects the nation againat every threatagainst it or against our national unity.
We are drafting a Constitution that achieves equalitybetween un in tights and duties with no discrimination. We are the citizens.
We are the Egyptianpeople, sovereigns in a sovereign homeland. This is our will and this is the Constitution of our revolution. This is our Constitution.
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By the time this column sees print, we will already know the early results of the May 9 elections and the front-runners in the presidential, vice-presidential and senatorial races based on the automated tabulation of votes. While it may take a few more days to have the complete list of the new set of elected government officials, it is time to look back and note the momentous steps taken under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
It is nearly impossible to count all the accomplishments of the government over the past six years, but allow me to enumerate some of them, which I think should serve as a challenge for our next leaders to emulate.
Let me limit the list to economic feats that the government recorded in six years and which enabled our people to survive the pandemic and emerge stronger. One of them is the massive infrastructure development under the “Build, Build, Build” campaign spearheaded by the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Department of Transportation.
Infrastructure spending accounted for over 5 percent of the gross domestic product under the Duterte administration, or double the level in previous administrations. The spending generated thousands of jobs, linked islands and markets and made life more convenient for many Filipinos. More projects are about to be completed, and we will have better mass transit systems, expressways and airports that will facilitate the flow of goods and the movement of people. These projects will also be for the benefit of the next generations.
Many civilizations are often judged based on the imposing structures they built and which lasted for generations. Infrastructure projects are legacies that our children and grandchildren will continue to appreciate in the years to come.
Another major feat that the government achieved is the most comprehensive tax reforms ever implemented in the country. The Comprehensive Tax Reform Program and its several packages overhauled the tax system to exempt poor workers from paying income taxes, reduce the corporate income tax rate to make the local business environment more competitive, raise the excise taxes on “sin” products and streamline the fiscal incentives granted to investors. These tax reforms allowed the Philippines to keep its investment-grade credit ratings despite the challenges of the pandemic and other external shocks. Fitch Ratings, for one, said the fiscal and monetary policy response, strong infrastructure spending and resilient remittances and exports are boosting the Philippine economic recovery.
Fitch expects the gross domestic product of the Philippines to expand 6.9 percent in 2022 and 7.0 percent in 2023, which are impressive growth numbers by any measure.
Equally important is the government’s resolve to maintain price stability in the form of the inflation target. The government works together with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to keep inflation within the target band of 2 percent to 4 percent, which is typical for a fast-growing economy. Surprisingly, we were able to maintain an average inflation of 3.4 percent in the first quarter, even as other countries, including the advanced economies, reported much faster inflation in the face of oil supply shocks and supply chain challenges that resulted in excessive global commodity prices.
While we registered faster inflation in 2020 and 2021 because of tight pork and rice supply in the local market, the government quickly adjusted by allowing imports to mitigate the impact of high prices and stabilize the situation without harming local farmers and livestock growers.
Inflation is one of the most important economic indicators that have a direct impact on poverty and hunger, and it is fortunate that we have government leaders who appreciate this dynamic. The passage of the Rice Tariffication Act shows the government is willing to risk an unpopular move for the sake of the majority of our people.
Then, there is the most meaningful economic reform in decades—fully opening the economy to foreign capital to create jobs, facilitate technology transfer and maintain a balance of payments surplus, with the help of remittances and business process outsourcing receipts.
The enactment of game-changing reforms such as the Ease of Doing Business Act and the amendments to the Retail Trade Liberalization Act, Public Services Act and Foreign Investments Act will hopefully elevate the Philippines to an investment hub in the likes of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore or Vietnam. It is important to note that our more wealthy East Asian neighbors such as Japan, Korea and China became industrial giants when they opened to foreign capital and technical know-how. We are getting around $10 billion in foreign direct investments every year, but I believe we can increase that multiple times if we make the business environment more conducive to both local and foreign companies.
If manufacturing grows at a robust pace, the rest of the economy will follow, including retail, construction, real estate, transportation and services. The money will continue to circulate until every sector benefits from it. The last but certainly not the least of the government’s accomplishments is the effective response to the pandemic that involves massive vaccination and the enforcement of health protocols, such as the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors, which continues to this day.
We now have a more manageable health situation, as active Covid-19 cases settled below 5,000 in the first week of May ahead of the elections. I just hope that the numbers would not see any drastic spike soon despite the hectic activities during the political campaign period.
Speaking of the elections, I hope our next leaders will sustain the remarkable economic achievements and reforms under the Duterte administration for the sake of the current and future generations of Filipinos. Governance is all about laying the foundation of the future and providing hope for the next generations.
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By Mackenzie Miller ’21
Goshen College has received a $17,000 community investment grant from the Community Foundation of Elkhart County, further funding the Teach Elkhart County program.
Since its launch in 2019, the Teach Elkhart County program at Goshen College has partnered with the Community Foundation of Elkhart County along with Concord Community Schools, Elkhart Community Schools, Goshen Community Schools and Bethany Christian Schools to train student teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in Elkhart County partner districts for careers in area schools.
“As the only four-year teacher training institution in Elkhart County, Goshen College is uniquely positioned to collaborate with the Community Foundation and K-12 schools to ‘home grow’ future educators,” said Elisa Zwier, Teach Elkhart County Director and assistant professor of education. “Our program will provide a local pipeline of teachers of color who are underrepresented in our area schools as compared to the population of students of color.”
This $17,000 grant is the second Goshen College has received from The Community Foundation of Elkhart County, which continues to make possible the Teach Elkhart County program. The foundation previously granted Goshen College $57,000 for the 2019-2021 school years, with the goal to recruit and retain diverse teachers for Elkhart County Schools.
“This initial grant proposed a robust mentorship program for first-year teachers and incentives to encourage retention,” Zwier said. “However, during our program design and pilot year, we realized mentorship at the undergraduate level and targeted recruitment were equally important.”
With this additional funding, the Teach Elkhart County program will continue to support future underrepresented teachers coming from high school or the workforce, into teacher training, and then a career in area schools.
Research shows that students excel academically and socially when they have a teacher who shares their racial or ethnic background. Yet in Elkhart County, only 50% of underrepresented students will ever have a teacher “match” in K-12th grades.
Goshen College hopes to graduate five to seven Teach Elkhart County educators annually, beginning in Fall 2024, according to Zwier.
The Teach Elkhart County program provides students who are underrepresented in teacher education, benefits for earning a bachelor’s degree in education, which include incentives for committing to teach in the county following their college graduation. These include faculty mentoring, peer cohort support and priority job placement.
Zwier notes this program is needed now more than ever, amid recent global and national events.
“Recent events have underscored the critical role that teachers play in K-12 students’ lives and learning,” she said. “Teach Elkhart County and its K-12 school partners are deeply grateful to the Community Foundation for its investment in this K-12 and higher education collaboration that will benefit underrepresented students and teachers, increasing racial equity in our county’s schools.”
About the Community Foundation of Elkhart County
The Community Foundation strives to support nonprofits and various endeavors that improve the health of the community, businesses, and people – impacting success. The Community Foundation of Elkhart County is dedicated to transforming Elkhart County by advising donors of all types and their professional advisors on charitable giving, awarding grants to effective nonprofit organizations and providing leadership to address critical needs with a focus on youth development, vibrant community and quality of life.
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Tesla unveiled its new Cybertruck on Thursday, which boasts a range of 250 miles at the low end to 500 miles for the top model, off-road capabilities, a design straight out of Blade Runner, and a starting price of $39,900. A lot of people are going to want one. I know, because even though I'm not usually fond of pickup trucks, I want one myself.
Earlier this evening, I was sitting at my desk finishing up some work when I got this text from my husband: "Holy Batmobile! Tesla just released the Cybertruck, and day-yum I want one!" He's not necessarily a fan of pickup trucks or Teslas, but once I got a look at it, I saw his point.
Not only is it incredibly futuristic looking (the design truly was inspired by Blade Runner, apparently), Musk says the low-end version will go 0-60 mph in less than 6.5 seconds, while the high-end version will go 0-60 mph in less than 2.9 seconds--and a quarter mile in only 11 seconds. The low-end Cybertruck will have rear-wheel drive, but the two better versions will have all-wheel drive. It will have impressive off-road capabilities, including the ability to handle steep angles and with a clearance of up to 16 inches. Heck, you can even camp in it.
Able to withstand a sledge hammer and outrun a Porsche
In his usual showman fashion, Musk revealed the truck at an event in Los Angeles where he boasted of the truck's especially strong stainless steel alloy body. To prove the point, Tesla's design chief, Franz von Holzhausen, pounded on the truck with a sledgehammer, with little effect. In fact, Musk claimed, the truck could stop a 9mm bullet. Von Holzhausen also threw metal balls at the windows, which didn't go so well--they were supposed to bounce off harmlessly but they broke the windows instead.
Conscious of the competition, Musk also showed video of the Cybertruck out-racing a Porsche 911 and out-pulling a Ford F-150 pickup truck, the most popular vehicle in America. But that was a bit disingenuous, because of course Tesla's real competition is not these gas vehicles, it's other electric ones. Ford has already revealed an electric version of the F-150 that can tow 1.25 million pounds, although it hasn't said when that vehicle will hit the market. (A hybrid version is due next year.) And then there are Rivian and Bollinger, both of which have promised electric pickup trucks soon, although both will likely be pricier than the Cybertruck.
Musk, as always, is behind schedule. He first said he planned to create an electric pickup truck back in 2013, and later that it might arrive on the market in the summer of 2019. Now Tesla says that production will begin sometime around late 2021 on the lower-end models, while the high-end model will start production in late 2022. But, for $100, you can put your name on the preorder list right now. I've never bought a new vehicle in my life, let alone preordered one. But I have to admit, I'm kind of tempted ...
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support universities that are implementing their own covid-19 testing measures.
16 October 2020
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on universities, and we welcome the resilience, innovation and dedication from the sector over these months, as well as its wider contribution to support the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak through offering research and resources. Capacity for COVID-19 testing is the highest it has ever been and we are seeing significant demand. The department continues to work closely with the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), and with sector representatives, to ensure that any students who display COVID-19 symptoms can have quick and easy access to testing.The government has set a target of 500,000-a-day for UK testing capacity by the end of October. Local testing sites will be most accessible to students and will have the quickest test result turnaround. DHSC plan to increase the total number of sites to 150 by the end of October, and to 400 by the end of January 2021. Many of these new testing sites will be located near universities. In addition, there are 258 mobile testing units. Where there is a mobile testing unit in the vicinity of the university, students and staff will also be able book a test at one of these units.
We have drawn on the expertise of the Higher Education Taskforce that we set up, and we have been providing robust public health advice and regular updates to the higher education sector to help providers work through challenges of setting up their own testing measures. Our universities are home to world-leading science and innovation, but for universities producing their own tests, they should work in conjunction with their local Health Protection Teams and directors of public health and NHS Test and Trace so we can utilise it for public safety.
Under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations (2010), it is a legal requirement to report positive cases of COVID-19 to Public Health England. It is a voluntary decision for providers to run testing programmes for their staff and students and we do not expect this to be a service offered by all higher education providers. Higher education providers should ensure they are fully aware of the implications, both clinical and organisational, of introducing testing programmes and of the potential limitations of any tests or test services that they use. In the event that higher education providers in the Bolton South East constituency want to conduct their own testing, departmental officials can be contacted about this at email@example.com.
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Funds go to support and attract high-tech companies in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Oct. 8, 2014) – Gov. Steve Beshear announced that 21 high-tech Kentucky companies have been awarded $5.63 million as part of a program to support and attract technology-based small businesses to the commonwealth.
The companies are receiving funding through the state’s competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Matching Funds program. Kentucky’s program matches all or part of federal SBIR-STTR awards received by Kentucky-based companies. It also provides a match to out-of-state companies, should they be willing to relocate to the Commonwealth.
“These companies are developing some of the nation’s most promising new technologies,” Beshear said. “From developing a device to treat heart disease in infants, to creating new technology enabling early detection of colon cancer, to simplifying communications for the military and first responders, Kentucky is proud to support these innovators and entrepreneurs creating high-tech businesses and high-paying jobs throughout the Commonwealth.”
Since its inception in 2006, Kentucky’s SBIR-STTR program has awarded nearly $48.6 million to support 100 companies receiving 201 grants. These 100 businesses have leveraged an additional $85.3 million in federal funds and created more than 450 new jobs. Thanks to the program, 34 companies relocated their businesses to Kentucky.
Eligible high-tech companies can apply for the federal grants in two phases. Businesses in the concept or feasibility phase can apply for Phase I funding while companies in full-scale research and development can request Phase II assistance.
Kentucky’s competitive program will match federal Phase I grants up to $150,000 and match Phase II funding up to $500,000 per year for two years.
Kentucky is the only state that matches Phase II awards at this level.
The 21 companies receiving awards since January 2014 are:
- AllTranz Inc. (Fayette County)
- Angiomics Inc. (Jefferson)
- GISMO Therapeutics Inc. (Fayette – relocated from New York)
- Gradient Engineering Inc. (TBD – relocating from Montana)
- Hummingbird Nano Inc. (Fayette)
- Info Beyond Technologies LLC (Jefferson)
- Kentucky Imaging Technologies LLC (Jefferson)
- Liberate Medical LLC (Jefferson)
- Louisville Biosciences Inc. (Jefferson)
- Mercury Data Systems Inc. (Fayette)
- Minerva Systems & Technologies LLC (Fayette)
- MosquitoMate Inc. (Fayette)
- PGXL Technologies LLC (Jefferson)
- Science Tomorrow LLC (Fayette)
- Sequela LLC (Jefferson)
- SiNode Systems (TBD – relocating from Illinois)
- Tribo Flow Separations LLC (Fayette)
- TutorGen Inc. (Kenton – relocated from Pennsylvania)
- UHV Technologies Inc. (Fayette – relocating from Texas)
- WaveTech LLC (Kenton – relocating from Ohio)
- W-Z BioTech LLC (Fayette)
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A gyroplane is an aircraft that achieves lift by means of a free spinning rotor.
Unlike a helicopter which has a powered rotor, the rotor of a gyroplane spins in flight due to the air loading on the rotor blades (aerofoils) as the aircraft moves forward. The free spinning rotor of a gyroplane does not require an anti-torque device, such as a tail rotor, as there is no torque load as would be associated with a powered rotor. The most common gyroplane configurations are comprised of an airframe with landing gear, a single rotor which, in general, has either two or three blades, a propulsion engine and propeller in either pusher or tractor (puller) configuration, and an aircraft style tail assembly with a vertical fin and rudder, and a horizontal stabiliser and elevator. The rudder and elevator flight controls work essentially the same as those of a conventional aircraft. A wing may be included in the design to enhance performance.
A fundamental difference between helicopters and gyroplanes is that in powered flight, a gyroplane rotor system operates in autorotation. In other words, the rotor spins freely as a result of air flowing up through the blades, rather than using engine power to turn the blades and draw air down from above. Forces are created during autorotation that keep the rotor blades turning, as well as creating lift to keep the aircraft aloft. Aerodynamically, the rotor system of a gyroplane in normal flight operates like a helicopter rotor during an engine-out forward autorotative descent.
Prior to takeoff, the gyroplane rotor must first achieve a rotor speed sufficient to create the necessary lift. On very basic gyroplanes, this is accomplished by initially spinning the blades by hand. The aircraft is then taxied with the rotor disc tilted aft, allowing the airflow through the system to accelerate it to the required speed for flight. More advanced gyroplanes use a prerotator, which is driven mechanically, electrically or hydraulically to provide the means to spin the rotor. Note that these types of prerotators can only be used on the ground as the torque that they create must be overcome by the friction between the gyroplane's undercarriage and the surface. In a very few cases, jets mounted on the tips of the rotor blades have been used to prerotate the rotor. Many prerotators are capable of only achieving a portion of the rotor speed necessary for flight; the remainder is gained by taxiing or during the takeoff roll. However, some prerotator systems are robust enough to achieve rotor speed in excess of that required for flight with enough inertia to sustain the rotor speed through a "jump" or vertical takeoff and acceleration profile.
Gyroplane Operating, Handling and Flight Characteristics
It is well beyond the scope of the SKYbrary mandate to provide operating methodology, evaluate the fight characteristics or to suggest handling techniques for specific aircraft types. The FAA Rotorcraft manual listed under Further Reading below contains a wealth of information on these subjects.
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Here’s how food preference can predict your vote choice
In what has left the traditional political measures unexplained, it has come to a notice that certain seemingly non-political topics can be a way to understand people's political choices. Questions surrounding someone's food preferences, travel or favourite sports can shed light on someone's local versus cosmopolitan orientation.
The latest New York Times/Siena College poll asked 584 possible Iowa Democratic caucusgoers some of the typical political questions, like whether they were Democrats or Republicans, and whether they planned to vote. But along with it, they also followed a few random questions like if they'd been out for Indian food or how important it is to buy organic food.
Such less political-oriented questions when asked during the 2008 Democratic primary, helped to differentiate voters who chose Barack Obama from those of who chose Hillary Clinton.
The people who were more likely to experience other unfamiliar cultures, be it through travel or food were more likely to vote for Mr Obama.
Even in 2016, such an orientation toward the world came as help to differentiate people who supported Donald J. Trump from those who supported any of the 16 other candidates in the Republican primary.
By asking such non-political questions to the voters, it came to light that voters who had been to Europe, Australia, Canada or Mexico or had eaten at an Indian restaurant were less likely to choose Mr Trump by 10 to 12 percentage points, beyond the differences of factors like education, income, racial attitudes, personality, and city living, reported The New York Times.
In the 1950s, sociology researchers focused more on workplace dynamics and did not look at voting behaviour.
They tried to understand the situation by seeing weather the employees were likely to solve problems locally (by working it out within their unit) or globally (by leveraging ideas outside their group).
Gregory Ferenstein, David Broockman, and Neil Malhotra in a recent paper returned to a workplace setting and showed that these orientations also separated technology entrepreneurs from other economic elites in terms of their attitudes toward economic and social policy.
Tech entrepreneurs are more cosmopolitan and the authors think the rise of tech could, therefore, help to reduce economic inequality and other social and political inequalities, as these cosmopolitans start influencing politics and policy.
A similar concept is emerging among possible Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa this year. The Times/Siena poll revealed the same descriptive differences across the candidates' supporters on basic demographics like age, education and race, and on political characteristics.
Most of the supporters gave the president a low approval rating, disapprove of the military strike that killed the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, and believe the president should be removed from office.
Meanwhile, Iowans who supported Mr. Sanders were the most in favour of the United States withdrawing its military forces from the Middle East, while those of Amy Klobuchar was the most critical.
Non-political questions came with no discernible differences across the candidates' supporters in Iowa, such as on buying organic foods, which most of them thought as important, and using Twitter to read political news, that most prefer not to.
When taken the context of Indian food in Iowa, supporters of Mr. Sanders are its biggest fans, while Mr. Biden's supporters are less likely to go for Indian dining.
A voter's orientation toward the world is related to candidate choice.
One way to measure where people think they are more connected to, be to those around them locally or to people farther afield is to eat in restaurants that celebrate less familiar cultures.
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The current collapse in the price of crude oil is the most extreme so far this century. It has already had significant impact on the oil industry, leading to some declarations of force majeure (examples include licenses and contracts in Iraq and the Gulf of Thailand). The question we address here is: what will the impact be on upstream producing countries? And more specifically, how should upstream countries react if companies approach them for fiscal concessions, citing marginal economics?
While not all eventualities can be covered in a brief note such as this, we offer some broad heuristics, or rules of thumb, for governments to consider in the current situation. They can be summarised as follows:
- Fiscal and tax relief should be considered in operating fields only.
- The onus should be on companies to demonstrate actual operating losses now and for some significant period into the future.
- The government should run their own analysis to understand the impact of price collapse based on the particular fiscal regime in place in each project, and the life stage of the project.
- Reasons for losses may play a part in government reaction to company demands for fiscal concessions: for example, if profits are in any case held low through transfer pricing and other tax optimisation strategies.
- Any measure should be on an interim basis only.
- There should be reciprocity on the upside, through adjustment of profit-sharing mechanisms for example.
- Transparency and accountability: any concession made by a government should be documented, quantified, and executed through a clear legal instrument, whether that is an amendment to the existing agreement, or by way of entering into a new set of arrangements.
Operating Fields Only
Any consideration of loosening the fiscal regime should apply only to fields already in operation. The current bear market has already seen several negotiations and new bid rounds postponed (for example in Brazil, Angola and Lebanon) as companies assess exploration and development risk against the new price environment. But the life of upstream petroleum projects is so extended that it would be premature to consider concessions either in bid rounds, or in concessions already signed but not yet in production. Upstream governments should only consider cases in which companies are actually losing money, not facing some potential of losing money in the future.
There is high variability in the way individual projects will be exposed to the price crash, as can be seen in the charts above of investor free cash flows from projects with different cost bases and life stages. In the chart on the left, the price crash makes little difference because the project is already in technical decline and the loss (gap between the blue and red lines) is relatively minor in terms of life of project economics. In the chart in the middle, where production has just started, losses from continued low prices are enormous. But the company will still keep producing as long as it is making any operating profit (the red line is above the breakeven line), since the capital phase is sunk costs and even if the project is loss-making overall, continued production is a way of trying to minimise the losses. The chart on the right shows a project at a production plateau. A higher cost base has pushed free cash flows below zero. If the company believes it looks like staying there, it must start to consider mothballing the project.
Government’s Own Fiscal Analysis of Status Quo and Any Change
Upstream governments should also reach an independent understanding of the impact of the price crash in terms of project economics and fiscal regime, in order to be able to make any determination in response to an approach by companies. Fiscal regimes can react very differently to a loss of profitability, depending on whether they are progressive or regressive and what life stage a project has reached: is it in early stage production (pre-plateau), plateau or decline? Have capital costs been fully or partly recovered? And so on. Entering into (re-) negotiations without knowing the own negotiation position, based on a fundamental understanding, exposes a government to either believe or discard the arguments of the upstream companies related to their attempt to change the commercial terms, which is not a good starting point for any meaningful and effective negotiation, that should be instead focused on exploring whether either of the parties could and should fairly request the sharing of the burdens imposed by the current price situation.
Reasons For and Scale of Losses: Harder and Easier Places to Make Concessions
Governments should also examine what the drivers of any operational losses are: from the commercial perspective an operational loss is arrived at by the sum of processes, both “real world” and financial, that are in play in the project. Does accounting loss involve transfer pricing, for example, which naturally reduces profitability in the upstream jurisdiction, or financing costs in highly leveraged operations?
Some kinds of fiscal concessions also play to upstream government interests more than others. Relief on payroll tax, for example, could address both operational losses and the need for projects to retain their skilled workforce. Relief on royalties, on the other hand, could strike at a central pillar of government revenues, and unless very tightly controlled could spill over into a bull market as much as a bear one.
Maintaining an overview of fiscal flows across the government is also important. Different agencies may have oversight over different revenue streams and this can be expected to influence the attitudes of these individual institutions. But “joined up government” is the key in the broader sense.
Interim Measure and Reciprocity
“There remains significant uncertainty around the recovery in the oil price and But some analysts already predict oil prices north of 100 USD per barrel with recovery starting from 2021 and any Government making concessions today, without getting a better deal in a different price environment or using the request for reshaping and renegotiations by the upstream companies as an opportunity to analyse and reshape the overall relationships into a better partnership between upstream government and upstream company will have missed a chance. As stated above, when entering into negotiations it is essential to know ones position. Once the government understands the implication of any concessions requested based on its own models and analysis and the discussions with upstream companies, it can and should settle for fiscal adjustments that are flexible and apply in a challenging price environment only, will be reversed automatically if the market changes, and ideally improve their terms (whether fiscal, commercial, or with regard to the overall partnership with the upstream companies in areas such knowledge transfer, real local content, and others) in a bull market.
Transparency and accountability: Legal Mechanisms and Process
Any concession made should be thoroughly documented, costed, and established through a clear legal instrument, with a defined scope, including, by default, a defined time period. This can be achieved by way of amendments of existing contracts and licenses or, for example were the existing documents in a country are outdated and for new project have been replaced by new documents and approaches, by engaging with the upstream company on the basis of these new documents. Although there is huge pressure on all stakeholders involved, hasty negotiations and quick concessions may turn out to be at the long term detriment of the government and may even by, rightfully or, questioned by any successor government or the public. If a government follows the steps recommended in this article, it should be well equipped to have focused discussions and negotiations with the upstream companies that can be easily documented and communicated to the broader market and the public, with maybe even having a welcomed positive side effect of stronger relationships ion the long term with the upstream companies. This kind of quantifiable and documented approach, with clear, public and measurable criteria, is also what will protect governments against any liability from bilateral or multilateral investment treaties which require equal treatment of investors.
As stated at the beginning of this article we are focusing here on operating fields only. The situation during the exploration phase is different and will require a different approach. OpenPoil is currently working on a number of case studies in this regard
Johnny West, Founder and Director, Openoil,
Alexander Sarac, Energy and Infrastructure Partner, Addleshaw Goddard Dubai.
Eleanor Morris, Energy and Infrastructure Associate, Addleshaw Goddard Dubai.
David McEwing, Energy and Infrastructure Partner, Addleshaw Goddard UK.
John Podgore, Energy and Infrastructure Partner, Addleshaw Goddard Dubai.
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(By Luo Yanjie) According to the Trademark Law, the geographical names of administrative divisions at or above the county level, and foreign geographical names well-known to the public shall not be used as trademarks, except for geographical names that have other meanings or are not geographically-oriented. However, under certain circumstances, geographical trademarks shall, if they are of sufficient distinctiveness as a whole, may be considered to have the requisite requirements of distinctiveness. In today’s post, we will introduce such a typical case for our readers.
Introduction to the Case:
Plaintiff: Munich Re Group
Defendant: Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (the “TRAB”)
Court of first instance: Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court No.:（2012）一中知行初字第3335号
Court of second instance: Beijing Higher People’s Court No.:（2013）高行终字第884号
On January 14, 2010, Munich Re Group applied to protect its “Munich RE and its picture” (the “disputed trademark”) with global number 1024730, through the registrations for territorial extension under Class 36 for insurance and financial service. On August 11, 2010, the Trademark Office issued a dismissal notice to the Munich Re Group, announcing that “Munich” that is a well-known foreign geographical name that shall not be used as a trademark, thus resulting in the dismissal of its registration.
Dissatisfied with the dismissal notice, Munich Re Group applied for review with the TRAB and provided substantial evidence proving that the disputed trademark has acquired distinctiveness through use. However, the TRAB still rejected the review of Munich Re Group. Still dissatisfied with the rejection, Munich Re Group brought the case to the court.
The Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court maintained the rejection of the TRAB, but Munich Re Group further appealed. Finally, the Beijing Higher People’s Court heard the case and decided the following:
- The disputed trademark consisted of the text “Munich Re” and its pattern. Even though “Munich” is the name of a well-known German city, the use of “Munich” in dispute was only part of the disputed trademark.
- Munich Re Group provided substantial evidence proving that Munich Re can be considered an abbreviation of “MUNICH REINSURANCE”, thus meaning that the relevant public is unlikely to consider the disputed trademark as a geographical place.
For these reasons, the Beijing Higher People’s Court supported the claim of the Munich Re Group and revoked the rejection of the TRAB.
- Why should a geographical name not be used as a trademark?
The Trademark Law clearly stipulates that geographical names of administrative divisions at or above the county level, as well as foreign geographical names well-known to the public, shall not be used as trademarks. Despite this, the Trademark Law also stipulates that geographical names that have other meanings or constitute part of a collective mark or certification mark can be used as trademarks. For example, “Phoenix” refers to a name of bird in one possible meaning. However, when “Phoenix” is used on products, the relevant public would deem “Phoenix” to be a trademark, and not the geographical name of Phoenix County in China.
Furthermore, despite the fact that no provision is stipulated in the Trademark Law, the reason why geographical names should not be used as trademarks is that the place of production are sometimes labeled on the product packaging. When geographical names are used as trademarks, this is likely to lead relevant public into thinking that the geographical name trademark and the place of production are associated and cause confusion. In addition, if a local enterprise uses other geographical names as trademarks, it is likely to cause confusion between the source of goods and the trademark, bringing inconvenience to the relevant public.
- The exception that the geographical names can be registered as trademarks.
Apart from the above-mentioned conditions, the geographical names that have other meanings can be registered as trademarks. The judgment tells us that the geographical names that are not the unique part of a trademark and that have acquired distinctiveness through use could also be registered as trademarks.
In this case, the disputed trademarks could be registered for the following reasons. In this case, the disputed trademark was a combination trademark, because the geographical name is only a single part of the disputed trademark and the text-based parts also include the geographical name and its pattern. Even though the disputed trademark includes the geographical name, the applicant is actually from Munich, Germany. Therefore, the relevant public won’t be misled into drawing erroneous associations with any resulting confusion. Furthermore, the Munich Re Group proved that the disputed trademark has been used and that the relevant public could make association between their services and the applicant. For these two reasons, the Beijing Higher People’s Court decided that the disputed trademark could be used as a trademark. Despite the fact that “Munich” was registered as a trademark, it should also be noted that the geographical name “Munich” could still be used reasonably and in good faith..
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A secretive project that would aim to make ethereum more suitable for corporate users is taking shape, according to multiple sources familiar with the project.
Rumored to be called Enterprise Ethereum, the exact nature of the effort remains veiled behind an unusual degree of privacy – especially so for participants who are better known for their work in more transparent open-source communities.
Based on comments from sources, the group – which has the appearance of a broad consortium – intends to remain quiet until it is ready for a forthcoming public launch. Yet, word is already beginning to leak out.
On Thursday, 15th December, a group of startup founders and representatives from some of the world's largest financial institutions reportedly gathered in New York to discuss the common problems they face when building enterprise applications on ethereum.
On site at the undisclosed location appears to have been several bulge bracket banks, including at least one who was in the past involved with R3CEV, a stock exchange and a major software provider, among others.
Independently confirmed attendees include Deloitte blockchain spin-off Nuco, Taiwanese blockchain consortium Amis and ConsenSys, an ethereum platform known for working closely with major tech firms including Red Hat and Microsoft.
Though all the parties involved were discreet, a few additional details have begun to take shape.
ConsenSys chief of staff Jeremy Millar, who previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Barclays, described the secretive project to CoinDesk, stating:
According to Millar, who joined ConsenSys after founding enterprise blockchain consulting firm Ledger Partners LLP, the work is being done in partnership with multiple Ethereum Foundation members and core contributors.
Emphasis on privacy
Present at the meeting was Alex Liu, founder of blockchain consortium Amis.
A former employee of Qualcomm and Samsung, Liu indicated that the Enterprise Ethereum project would consist of an "enterprise-grade stack" and provide tools for users with demands to ensure the privacy of transactions – a major pain point for institutions today.
But, he added that the technology would leverage the strengths of ethereum’s public blockchain.
"The scalability, security, privacy that any enterprise blockchain will want, those are being added or addressed," Liu told CoinDesk, adding:
In the days following the Ethereum Enterprise meeting, Nuco co-founder Matthew Spoke confirmed he was in New York City to participate in the event.
So far, the reason for the secrecy appears to be concerns about the competition coming from other sectors of the blockchain industry. But, there's reason to be skeptical about this possible reasoning for the group's launch.
Former IBM blockchain developer Henning Diedrich, who left the company last year to work on his own smart contract language, contends that ethereum's software is already suitable for private blockchains that he tested at IBM.
However, he noted that the relatively nascent state of enterprise products like Hyperledger and R3CEV's Corda platform may be forcing enterprise interest in a more robust offering from ethereum, a comparatively more tested alternative.
Though Diedrich argued that ethereum developers still have room to improve the product, he remains skeptical that a large-scale ethereum consortium is even necessary.
"Sure you can always make it easier," he said. "But the limits are being tackled."
Not so fast
Regardless of who else might be involved, blockchain consortia have already proven their ability to help organizers recruit high-profile participants.
Ethereum users are no different, according to Hudson Jameson, a former lead blockchain researcher at USAA, and now a member of the Ethereum Foundation.
Jameson told CoinDesk that he believes "2017 is going to have a number of consortiums, primarily between banks that are all testing on ethereum or ethereum derivatives."
But, to his knowledge, not a single one of his peers at the Ethereum Foundation was at that secretive meeting in New York City on 15th December.
As for Alex Liu, he’s not surprised in the least that little is known about "Ethereum Enterprise", if it exists.
Liu indicated the secrecy is part of the plan, but only for the short term.
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The New York Philharmonic is one of the Big Five American orchestras, and one of the oldest in the America. Since organizing in 1842, the orchestra has performed over 14,500 concerts. In this recent video from the NY Phil, see the new music being introduced over the upcoming 2017-2018 season.
In the 2017–18 season the Philharmonic will perform two World Premieres commissioned by the New York Philharmonic by Philharmonic Kravis Emerging Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Bent Sørensen. Esa-Pekka Salonen will begin his third and final season as The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence. And the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, a wide-ranging exploration of today’s music, and "CONTACT!," the new-music series, return.
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How You Can Take Responsibility for Your Confidence
Knowing your role can dramatically improve your self-confidence. Role Theory, according to social psychology, is a set of action-defined considerations, rights, expectations, and duties of everyday activity and social behaviours that a person has to fulfil. Every culture has different set of social norms that vary based on cultural learning and conditioning.
The expectation is that people act within the roles they adopt, and encourage others to act within their expected roles. As soon as we come into the world, we are given a role by our primary carers. We are expected to behave, act and perform in certain ways. As we grow and learn through social conditioning, we develop our own internal schemas about our role, based on what we see, read and experience.
When we interact with others, we subtly send non-verbal messages through our body language and behaviours. Here we conform to our roles and develop social identity and a sense of who we are based our rank in the group. According to Social Identity Theory, belonging to a group (such as family, social class, community, religious group, etc.) promotes our sense of belonging, pride and self-esteem which in turn lead to self-confidence.
Being in groups gives a person a sense of security and safety, essential for survival. But belonging to groups also has its disadvantages. As we conform, we embrace ideologies and negative aspects too. We become influenced by group ethos and expectations. We are forced to adopt the roles that are dictated to us by others, in an effort to please those around us. The longer we continue to be naïve about our roles, the more power we relinquish. We become easily influenced by others and our role boundaries are stretched and blurred, as we allow others to fight over us. We develop prejudiced views and biased thinking, dividing thinking into ‘them’ and ‘us’ to discriminate outsiders and out-group members. At this point, we lose sense of our own personality. If we allow this to happen continuously, we are given a label in the group as being weak, a push-over, a helper, a person who cannot say no.
Suddenly, we are in conflict from within. The initial security of belonging no longer holds the benefit of safety and security. As the conflict divides our internal moral codes, we question our roles in the group, who we are and our values. When the conflict is not resolved (internally), we lose confidence in being our true self.
In order to maintain or regain that confidence, and increase positive self-image, you need to balance the powers of each of your roles, in various relationships. By getting out of your comfort zone and the safety net of the familiar in-groups, and engaging and interacting with others, you can learn new thinking, grow and find a new way of being.
You can choose to stay within the roles that you were given or venture out and explore the endless possibilities of other roles yet to be discovered.
Over to you, the choice is yours.
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AUDIENCE: Consumer, Patient, Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Disease, Health Professional
ISSUE: FDA is concerned that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are being used inappropriately to treat non-hospitalized patients for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or to prevent that disease. We authorized their temporary use only in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 when clinical trials are not available, or participation is not feasible, through an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). These medicines have a number of side effects, including serious heart rhythm problems that can be life-threatening.
We have reviewed case reports in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System database, the published medical literature, and the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Poison Data System concerning serious heart-related adverse events and death in patients with COVID-19 receiving hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, either alone or combined with azithromycin or other QT prolonging medicines. These adverse events included QT interval prolongation, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, and in some cases, death. We are continuing to investigate these safety risks in patients with COVID-19 and will communicate publicly when more information is available.
BACKGROUND: Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are FDA-approved to treat or prevent malaria. Hydroxychloroquine is also FDA-approved to treat autoimmune conditions such as chronic discoid lupus erythematosus, systemic lupus erythematosus in adults, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine:
- should be used for COVID-19 only when patients can be appropriately monitored in the hospital as required by the EUA or are enrolled in a clinical trial with appropriate screening and monitoring. FDA is reviewing the safety of their use when used outside of the setting of hospitalized patients for whom use was authorized.
- have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing COVID-19.
- are being studied in clinical trials for COVID-19, and FDA authorized their temporary use during the COVID-19 pandemic under limited circumstances through the EUA, and not through regular FDA approval.
- being used under the EUA when supplied from the Strategic National Stockpile, the national repository of critical medical supplies to be used during public health emergencies.
- can cause abnormal heart rhythms such as QT interval prolongation
- can cause dangerously rapid heart rate called ventricular tachycardia.
- pose risks that may increase when these medicines are combined with other medicines known to prolong the QT interval, including the antibiotic azithromycin, which is also being used in some COVID-19 patients without FDA approval for this condition.
- should be used with caution in Patients who also have other health issues such as heart and kidney disease, who are likely to be at increased risk of these heart problems when receiving these medicines.
- Patients taking hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for FDA-approved indications to treat malaria or autoimmune conditions should continue taking their medicine as prescribed.
- The benefits of these medicines outweigh the risks at the recommended doses for these conditions.
- Do not stop taking your medicine without first talking to your health care professional and talk to them if you have any questions or concerns.
Be aware that there are no proven treatments for COVID-19 and no vaccine. If you are receiving hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 and experience irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, seek medical attention right away by calling 911.
- Do not buy these medicines from online pharmacies without a prescription from your health care professional.
- Do not take any form of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine that has not been prescribed for you by a health care provider. Serious poisoning and death have been reported after mistaken use of a chloroquine product not intended to be taken by humans.
- If you have these medicines in your home, keep them in childproof containers out of the reach of children to prevent accidental poisoning.
- FDA recommends initial evaluation and monitoring when using hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine under the EUA or in clinical trials to treat or prevent COVID-19. Monitoring may include baseline ECG, electrolytes, renal function and hepatic tests.
- Be aware that hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine can:
- cause QT prolongation
- increase the risk of QT prolongation in patients with renal insufficiency or failure
- increase insulin levels and insulin action causing increased risk of severe hypoglycemia
- cause hemolysis in patients with Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency
- interact with other medicines that cause QT prolongation even after discontinuing the medicines due to their long half-lives of approximately 30-60 days
If a health care professional is considering use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine to treat or prevent COVID-19, FDA recommends checking www.clinicaltrials.gov for a suitable clinical trial and considering enrolling the patient. Consider using resources available to assess a patient’s risk of QT prolongation and mortality.
Health professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of these products to the FDA's MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:
- Complete and submit the report online.
- Download form or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the form or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178.
[04/24/2020 - Drug Safety Communication - FDA]
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Great Barrington — At Berkshire Food Co-op, the staff doesn’t just sell wellness — they practice it, too.
Each January, interested employees sign up for the Co-op’s annual wellness challenge: a month-long initiative in which team members earn points by working toward their personal wellness goals. At the end of the month, the participant with the most points wins a prize.
“Any employee is welcome to sign up,” explained Program Coordinator Jessy Turner, who oversees the contest. “And beginning January 1 through the end of the month, you log wellness activities.” It’s an open-ended premise, and that’s by design.
“As we know, ‘wellness’ is not just physical wellness. It’s emotional wellness, it’s psychological wellness — all of that,” Turner said. “Basically, what it’s encouraging you to do, is to be more active, and be more mindful of whatever wellness is to you, and what you need to add in your life.”
Participants can earn points for a wide range of activities, from strength exercises and cardio to meditation, with the only stipulation being that each activity lasts at least two minutes. This can also include making conscious healthy decisions, like opting for a salad when out for dinner, instead of a steak. “We’re kind of flexible, just because there’s so many aspects of what makes us well,” Turner said.
By allowing participants to choose their own activities, each person is able to pursue wellness from where they are, rather than chasing a universal goal. “That way, it’s fair for experienced gym-goers and the newbies,” Turner said. “So everyone’s on the same playing field.”
For those seeking a little more structure, the Co-op provides a calendar of suggested activities. “It’s accompanied by a video tutorial, as well as a modification for people who, for whatever reason, may not be able to fully do the activity. And then also a mindfulness activity, in case you can’t or don’t want to do the physical activity,” Turner said. “It’s totally voluntary, and it’s just a way for all of us to kind of be on the same page.”
A wellness competition isn’t just a way to boost employee morale — it has serious benefits for individuals when it comes to forming and maintaining healthy habits. The structure of a contest, plus the accountability it encourages, are powerful motivators. Even more importantly, working together with a group provides vital emotional support, which can make the difference between staying the course and giving up. A study by the American Osteopathic Association, for instance, showed that people who worked out as part of an organized group saw substantial benefits in quality of life, compared to those who worked out without social support, across all metrics: physical, mental and stress levels.
“I work with a really supportive group,” Turner said. “So I think in that way, we support each other’s emotional and physical wellness.”
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The government of Madagascar will purchase ten tree-planting drones this year. With a transplanting capacity of 400,000 trees per day, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will enable the large island to achieve its reforestation objectives, i. e. the restoration of more than 4 million hectares of forest and land by 2030.
Madagascar is using ecological engineering techniques to restore its flora. The East African country will purchase a dozen tree-planting drones before the end of 2020. It is a revolutionary technological innovation in the reforestation industry, as ten of those flying machines would theoretically be capable of planting up to 400,000 trees a day.
Created in the United States following the work of former U.S. Space Agency (NASA) engineers, the drones first fly over an area to map it and then collect data on soil conditions and topography, combining them with satellite data. The UAVs then determine the best locations for seed development. Ultimately, the drones shoot a small biodegradable capsule into the soil that contains a germinated seed and nutrients.
Madagascar plans to reforest 4 million hectares of land by 2030
The Madagascan project to purchase ten planting UAVs was recently announced by Prime Minister Christian Ntsay, as he presented the environmental segment of the government’s general policy implementation report to the Senate. The purchase of the planter drones should enable trees to be sown in hard-to-reach areas and optimise the results of the reforestation campaigns currently underway.
In 2019, Madagascar is committed to restoring more than 4 million hectares of forest and land throughout the island by 2030. In 2019, reforestation actions covered 41,065 hectares, including 38,609 hectares of common land and 2,457 hectares of mangroves.
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The college admissions process is often fraught with stress and anxiety, sometimes driven by the fact that admission offices say they haven't received all of your application materials, or confusion over deadlines and other issues. Often, this requires a check-in with the admissions office to ask questions, inquire about whether documents have arrived or resolve technical glitches. But in these situations, who should reach out to schools — the parent or the applicant?
Many parents want to help their college-bound children and take some stress off them. However, it is you — the student — that needs to take the lead in the process of your college applications, including if you have questions before you submit your application as well as after you apply.
"The process should be driven by the student," explains Laurie Kopp Weingarten, cofounder of One-Stop College Counseling in Marlboro, N.J. "Once in college, the student won't have their parents on campus to check that they are doing their homework, studying effectively or going to sleep at a decent hour. This is a great time to start becoming responsible and more independent."
Kate Coffman, vice president of admissions and financial aid at Franklin College in Franklin, Ind., agrees that students need to be the ones who contact the colleges where they are applying when they have questions about their applications.
"I would encourage the student, not the parent, to call to check if all documents have been received," says Coffman. "Some colleges have application portals that will show the application status including missing documents, but students should always check their emails first, as oftentimes an auto-generated email is sent if the college is missing materials."
An exception of when parent(s) should call the college rather than the student is when the questions involve financial aid issues.
"Often, parents are not comfortable having students handle this issue — teens may not be aware of the family's financial situation, and they have little experience negotiating," notes Weingarten.
Some parents may struggle with the idea of letting their students handle these "check-ins" with admissions offices, but since many college-bound students will soon be moving out of the house, it's a good time to begin trusting them to make these connections on their own, advises family counselor Anna Corrigan.
"It's hard to cut the apron strings, but the only way to prepare a student for the independence required of college life is to start before they leave the house," she says. "If they make mistakes when handling things on their own, that's actually okay. We learn from our mistakes and move on."
Each year, applicants to The University of Chicago are asked to answer two supplemental essay questions. Sounds normal enough, ri…
The short answer to this question is, YES. Apply early to college may give you an advantage in the admissions process because col…
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Damage to citrus from greening costs Florida $3.6 billion
Citrus greening, a bacterial disease that kills trees, has cost Florida's economy an estimated $3.63 billion in lost revenues and 6,611 jobs over the last five production seasons as a result of reduced orange juice production, a University of Florida study released Tuesday found.
Greening, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB, is believed to have originated in China more than a century ago. The tiny insect that spreads the disease, the Asian citrus psyllid, was first found in the United States in Delray Beach in 1998. In 2005, greening was detected in Miami-Dade County, the first U.S. finding.
The study, which considered the economic impact of greening on production of Florida oranges used for juice, is the first complete assessment of its kind, said Jack Payne, a UF senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources.
It's an important step in the fight against greening, because it quantifies damage and could show legislators why the disease is one of the state's biggest challenges, Payne said.
Andrew Meadows, spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's largest grower organization, which paid for the study, said, "We always knew there was significant damage being wreaked by HLB."
Although much research is under way, no cure has been found. The industry is working in Washington to form a citrus research and development trust fund that would divert a portion of tariff dollars to research each year. The tariff on imported orange juice from Brazil brings in
$6 million to $90 million a year, Meadows said.
Tom Spreen, an economics professor with UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and Alan Hodges, a UF extension scientist, compared actual harvests of oranges for juice with projected harvests that would have taken place if greening had never struck.
The state's juice-orange harvest from the 2006-07 season through the 2010-11 season was 734 million 90-pound boxes and would have been an estimated 951 million boxes without greening.
The economists then estimated lost revenues and jobs, taking into account direct losses to growers, indirect losses to related industries and the resulting cuts in spending by employee households and government.
The study did not take into account production of citrus sold as fresh fruit, Spreen said.
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"PACE (Parking and Code Enforcement) is responsible for enforcing ordinances that maintain the safety and appearance of our neighborhoods. You can use the City's web site to search for information about housing codes, trash and any other topic. Just type in a key word. Take a look at some of the important need-to-know ordinances that will guide you to living in East Lansing:
Sec. 36-85: Be sure your trash is properly stored (use rigid closed containers)
Sec. 36-85: Don't put your trash at the curb until 8 p.m. the night before pickup.
Sec. 36-85: Remove your trash containers and recycling bins from the curb the day of your pickup.
Sec. 36-85: Any bulk items (furniture, appliances, etc) require a bulk item sticker. These can be purchased at City Hall and Public Works.
Sec. 302-4: Keep your lawn neat and trimmed.
Sec. 48-36: Keep trees and shrubs trimmed so sidewalks and street corners are not physically or visually obstructed.
Sec. 38-127: Sidewalks should be cleared within 24 hours of a snowfall.
Sec. 302.10: Don't use or store indoor furniture on any porch, deck, balcony or lawn.
Sec. 302.11: Park in designated parking areas only. Don't drive or park on the lawn.
Sec. 14-36: Vehicles must be operable (no flat tires) and have a current license.
Sec. 36-86-h: Refuse containers (trash cans and dumpsters) are required to be concealed or enclosed in shed or garage or place inconspiciously next to the structure (if on the side, at least half the distance of the structure back from the street).
If a property is issued a property violation notice, there is a specified period of time given for compliance. If the officer reinspects and the property is found to be in compliance, it is noted in the file report. If the property is not in compliance, a civil infraction citation is issued to the property owner/manager. If the property remains in non-compliance, PACE coordinates with the Department of Public Works to abate the problem and bring the property into compliance. This cost is assessed to the property owner."
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Walz condemns Republican's remarks on gun bill supporters
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz is condemning comments by a Republican state lawmaker who said supporters of tighter gun restrictions need to be "kicked to the curb and stomped on and run over."
Rep. Carl Bahr of East Bethel made his remarks Saturday during a Capitol rally by the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus. That rally came as the House this week is expected to consider bills including universal background checks for gun buyers.
Walz responded Sunday with a statement calling Bahr's comments "unacceptable."
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that Walz said encouraging violence "endangers our communities and undermines our democracy." Walz, a Democrat, said such remarks should be condemned by all political parties.
The other major gun bill due for consideration this week is for a so-called "red flag" law that would let police confiscate guns from people considered dangerous.
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U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Ut., has made the news once more asking his colleagues to advance a national ban on flavored electronic cigarette products.
Romney’s comments echo the words of support for such a policy by President Joe Biden’s nominee for Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy — Obama’s Surgeon General from 2014 through 2017.
He went on to reference a 2019 study produced by the Center for Tobacco Products at the Food and Drug Administration. This study features data from the FDA’s annual tobacco use surveys for tracking such use among middle and high school aged students.
“The prevalence of e-cigarette use among U.S. youth increased from 2011 to 2018,” notes the study’s abstract, via the JAMA journal. “Continued monitoring of the prevalence of e-cigarette and other tobacco product use among youth is important to inform public health policy, planning, and regulatory efforts.”
The study in question is entitled “E-Cigarette Use Among Youth in the United States, 2019,” which was published on Nov. 5, 2019. At this time, the former Trump administration signed into law an increased minimum legal sales age to purchase such products.
Former President Donald Trump, of whom Romney is a political foe, mandated that only people 21 years or older can purchase tobacco products. Romney and Murthy, on separate occasions, have advocated for ‘Tobacco 21’ policies.
“The analysis shows that nearly one fourth of high school kids are vaping on a regular basis — tobacco products — and in many cases marijuana, as well,” Romney said, via coverage by local CBS affiliate KUTV, speaking to the study in a meeting with stakeholders.
Previously, Romney introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate in September of 2019. The legislation would have banned flavored vapor products, except for tobacco flavors, in retailers across the country. This bill, though, died in the Senate without any vote or action.
Utah, Romney’s home state, issued an emergency ban on flavored vaping products as a response to the 2019 epidemic of the noncommunicable e-cigarette, vaping associated lung injury (EVALI). The emergency ban, though temporary, mistakenly applied to vapor products that are regulated, not marijuana vapor products purchased illicitly.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slowly identified that marijuana vapes made up the majority of the EVALI cases, and that these marijuana vapes we’re counterfeits or contaminated products meant to emulate regulated brands sold by companies in states where marijuana is legal.
Utah’s action, including several emergency orders issued by other state governments, was met with a tobacco and vaping industry lawsuit asking for clarity and potential dismissal of the order. Flavored vaping products are still available in Utah, via specialty retailers.
Vaping Post will continue to track: Murthy’s confirmation; potential legislative action involving Romney; and other policy changes made by the Biden White House.
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By Pedro Palandrani
We expect the 2020’s decade to be defined by near-ubiquitous connectivity. All types of devices in our homes, workplaces, and cities are expected to be internet-enabled to seamlessly capture and transmit data. Semiconductors costs have declined over 90% over the last decade, making such connections remarkably inexpensive. And the rollout of 5G will allow data to transfer between devices and the cloud virtually instantaneously, at speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G.
As the Internet of Things (IoT) brings millions of devices online, it creates vast opportunities for individuals and corporations, but it also introduces new types of risks and vulnerabilities. Each of these millions of devices presents new entry points for hackers, adding challenges and complexity to effectively manage security for firms and individuals. Successful IoT deployments will require multi-layered, end-to-end security that ranges from up front baked-in security requirements to the ongoing management and protection of sensitive machine-generated data.1 There will be no one-size-fits-all solution, but the world’s leading cybersecurity firms are preparing to protect this vast expansion in a new era for the internet.
New Devices, New Threats
The Internet of Things is central to many emerging technologies and themes, including autonomous vehicles, smart cities, smart factories, and health devices. But internet-enabled devices also create new targets for hackers who want to steal or ransom valuable private data. Today, 98% of all IoT device traffic is unencrypted, causing 57% of IoT devices to be highly vulnerable to cyberattacks, exposing personal and confidential data on a network.2 We can expect the number and degree of incidences to increase with the proliferation of connected devices.
Take smart speakers, for example – a relatively new market that grew from internet giants looking to enter our homes via virtual assistants. In 2018, a weakness in Amazon’s Alexa code enabled hackers to eavesdrop on users. Typically, Alexa is supposed to start recording only after detecting the wake word “Alexa,” and terminate recording after a receiving a command (“Turn off the lights!”). Yet hackers programmed Alexa to continue listening well after a command, effectively allowing them to record users’ conversations. Fortunately, the hackers were actually researchers without malicious intent and alerted Amazon of their findings.3 The company pushed security fixes immediately.
Many hackers, however, do have malicious intentions, and their prevalence is on the rise. To help plan defenses, cybersecurity firms use honeypots as decoy servers to gauge trends and patterns of a cyberattack. Honeypots, which are set up all over the world, can receive attacks from connected devices such as a malware-infected smartwatch or a connected toothbrush. In 2019, security researchers found that honeypots documented a 446% year-over-year increase in attack traffic, with the number of hits rising from 1.0 billion to 5.7 billion.4
Your Health Can Be Hacked
The advent of connected cars, smart cities, and next-generation health devices mean hackers may not just steal private data in the virtual world, but also target devices that bridge the digital and physical world. Devices that comprise the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) are particularly sensitive entry points for hackers. In 2013, hacking fears caused doctors to replace former US Vice President Dick Cheney’s WiFi-connected pacemaker with one without WiFi capacity.5 Four years later, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled nearly half a million connected pacemakers due to the potential for hacking.6 Digital pills are another potential target. While they have chips that can capture diagnostic information as they travel along the gastrointestinal tract, such information could be intercepted by hackers.7
Recent research on IoT medical imaging devices found that 83% are running on unsupported operating systems.8 Healthcare organizations that use these devices may be increasingly vulnerable to attacks that can expose sensitive medical information.
Answering questions about how to secure connected devices like these are of utmost importance for medical providers and patients to use this technology safely. The stakes are particularly high for IoMT device manufacturers. According to FDA guidelines, the manufacturers bear total responsibility for safety and performance.9
The earliest endpoint security firms initially focused on laptops, PCs, and smartphones, but their focus often now extends to connected IoT devices. Endpoints consist of two main categories. A user interaction point is where users input commands and their device displays the requested information, for example, your smartphone. The second category includes actuator or sensor devices, such as a smart speaker or smart bulb, that responds to the commands from the user.
IoT architecture is typically bidirectional, allowing data to be generated from an actuator or sensor and then sent to both the user interaction point and to cloud storage. For example, a smart security camera may sense motion, sending a notification to one’s phone and capturing images that are stored in the cloud.
Given this architecture, IoT devices, user interaction points, and cloud storage require security measures to protect data. For IoT devices, there must be protections within the operational software known as microcode that is patched to the hardware. Therefore, today’s cybersecurity firms work hand-in-hand with IoT device manufacturers in device design and testing, incident response, and threat modeling.10
Controlling access to networks is also critical, a role taken on by network firewall companies. These companies identify and profile every device on a network. They monitor the devices continuously to ensure that they are not compromised and mobilize to take immediate action if they are.11
AI in the Fight
Increasingly, cybersecurity firms and device manufacturers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications to provide customized endpoint security solutions. Because IoT devices are so numerous in volume and variety, AI can help provide a scalable, customized cybersecurity systems. Such algorithms are trained to identify devices based on their hardcoded attributes and behavior. They may also use sensing engines to autonomously learn the ‘normal’ behavior for these devices once they are on the network. For example, with pacemakers or smart pills, AI can predict performance based on previous results and then detect when the devices behave abnormally. When behavior does change, it’s a potential indicator of a corrupted or attacked device.
While AI is used for cybersecurity defenses, hackers are also using it to create new, sophisticated, cyberthreats, such as data-poisoning. It’s expected that through the next two years, 30% of all AI cyberattacks will leverage training-data poisoning.12 Data poisoning consists on feeding IoT or connected devices with compromised and malicious data, tricking the systems to mistakenly classify data. To thwart new AI-based cyberattacks, cybersecurity firms continue to enhance their own AI applications in an ongoing arms-race.
A one-size-fits-all cybersecurity solution doesn’t exist for the continued wave of connected devices. But the world’s leading cybersecurity firms and IoT manufacturers continue to evolve their strategies and leverage the latest technology to implement protective measures. As the IoT continues to expand to new avenues, including infrastructure, health care, and transportation, it is critical that cybersecurity firms play a central role in securing these devices so digital attacks do not result in real world consequences.
BUG: The Global X Cybersecurity ETF seeks to invest in companies that could benefit from the increased adoption of cybersecurity technology. Companies include those whose principal business involves the developing and managing security protocols to prevent intrusion and attacks on systems, networks, applications, computers, and mobile devices
SNSR: The Global X Internet of Things ETF (SNSR) enables investors to access a potential high growth theme through companies at the leading edge of IoT, an approach which transcends classic sector, industry and geographic regions to target this emerging theme. In a single trade, SNSR delivers access to dozens of companies with high exposure to emerging IoT technology.
AIQ: The Global X Future Analytics Tech ETF (AIQ) seeks to invest in companies that potentially stand to benefit from the further development and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in their products and services, as well as in companies that provide hardware facilitating the use of AI for the analysis of big data.
1. IoT Cybersecurity Alliance, “Demystifying IoT Cybersecurity,” 2017.
2. Palo Alto Networks, “2020 Unit 42 IoT Threat Report,” Mar 10, 2020.
3. Wired, “Hackers Found a (Not-So-Easy) Way to Make the Amazon Echo a Spy Bug,” Aug 12, 2018.
4. F-Secure, “Attack Landscape H2 2019: An unprecedented year for cyber attacks,” Apr 3, 2020.
5. Forbes, “What Is The Internet Of Bodies? And How Is It Changing Our World?,” Dec 6, 2019.
6. Business Insider, “The FDA has recalled about 500,000 internet-connected pacemakers over hacking fears,” Sep 1, 2017.
7. Alliance of Advanced BioMedical Engineering, “Smart Pills Enable Convenient Diagnostics and Accurate Therapy,” 2017.
8. Palo Alto Networks, (n2).
9. FDA, “ FDA informs patients, providers and manufacturers about potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities for connected medical devices and health care networks that use certain communication software,” Oct 1, 2019.
10. Rapid 7, “IoT Security Testing Services,” Accessed on Mar 31, 2020.
11. Fortinet, “Protect networks with IoT deployments,” accessed on Mar 31, 2020.
12. Business Chief, “Gartner: Top 10 technology trends,” Mar 11, 2020.
This article was originally published on Global X.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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Menier was founded by Jean Antoine Brutus Menier in 1816. Menier was initially a pharmaceutical company based in Paris, although not trained as a pharmacist, he sold a number of different powders for medicinal purposes. Chocolate was used initially by him as a medicinal ingredient and covering for bitter- tasting pills.
Menier built a factory in Noisiel in 1825 to accommodate an expansion in the company which in 1830 became the first mechanized mass production factory for cocoa powder in France.
Menier then became the first company to introduce blocks of chocolate in 1836 which were wrapped in a yellow paper. Menier was an entrepreneur and innovator, pioneering the conching process that enabled the mass production of premium chocolate.
After an expansion at the factory in Noisiel, by 1853 Menier was producing over 4,000 tonnes of chocolate a year.
In 1862, Emile-Justin Menier invested in a plantation in Nicaragua with sugar beet fields and a sugar refinery at Roye in the Somme in France as well as a merchant fleet of ships for transportation.
A factory in London was purchased which became known as the Menier Chocolate factory as well as a site in New York.
Further expansion at the Noisiel Factory saw the construction of the most modern production facilities in the world
Owing to increased production, now up to 125,000 tonnes annually, more workers were needed in the factory and were needed to be sought from other towns and cities. Owing to the lack of housing in the small town of Noisiel, Menier built, on 30 hectares of land near to the factory, 312 houses for their workers and a school for the workers children to attend. The town hall was also built and a Menier family member would be a mayor ever year up until 1959.
In 1878 Menier won 7 gold medals in the World’s Fair in Paris for excellence of their products and the way in which they looked after the welfare of their employees.
A modern refrigeration system was added to the plant in 1881 and a rail line was built up to the Noisiel Factory which helped to reduce the costs for incoming and outgoing freight and allowed for a far wider, and quicker distribution.
The factory in New York was constructed in 1891 on West Broadway and Leonard Street.
Firmin Buisset in 1892 created a poster that would leave its mark on the history of advertising.
At the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago they were billed as the leading chocolate makers in the world.
The Menier establishments are rewarded during the universal exhibition of 1900 and obtain a gold medal ex aequo.
By 1900 the London factory is producing 1,000 tonnes of chocolate in a year and the Noisiel factory was creating 16,000 tonnes, more than half of the French market.
The city of Noieiel is complete. It includes 138 houses and 312 accommodations. This though is only enough to house 60% of the personnel and so they go on to build a small city of 53 accommodations and five shops for trade in Champs – sur- Marne. They also go on to organise 100 accommodations in the surrounding villages
In 1914 the factory workers count is 2,400 and they are producing 6,000kg of chocolate a day.
Menier is the first company in 1929 to cover the roads and hour before the racers pass in the Tour De France with the distribution of paper hats and samples of their chocolate.
Menier in 1930 began selling the kiosk money boxes aimed at children for Christmas.
In the June of 1939 the company carries a reduction in capital by the withdrawal of buildings in Paris and the field of Noisiel.
The Menier Family leave the management of the company in 1959 and also the city of Noisiel
The First and Second World War in France took their toll on the production and work force and saw the company merge with Cacao Barry.
By 1965 the Menier family held no interest in the company.
The Menier factory in Noisiel was sold to Group Ufico-Perrier which became part of British confectioners Rowntree Mackintosh in 1971.
In 1988 it was acquired by the Swiss food and drinks company Nestle.
The factory in Noisiel was designated by the government of France as an official ‘Monument historique’
In 1996 Menier moved production to Broc in Switzerland where it remains today. The main building at the Noisiel Factory site was turned into Nestle France’s headquarters and other parts of the site have been turned into a chocolate museum, open to the general public.
The factory in Noisiel is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site
Menier celebrates its 200th Anniversary Year
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Today we are going to take a deep dive into the secret world of the dumbo rat, covering everything from history to genes and lifespan to health issues. We’ll explain why dumbos are dumbos and the specific ways the genetic mutation impacts the rat.
We’ll also lay some dumbo myths to rest and offer a definitive answer as to how dumbos differ from top eared rats. So let’s begin by discovering where the dumbos that we live with today actually came from.
The History of the Dumbo Rat
The dumbo rat is thought to have originated as a spontaneous mutation within the pet rat population in the USA. Sources vary as to the exact details but a breeder in North West America seems most likely.
The American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association (AFRMA) records this as happening in 1991. It is extremely likely that all of the dumbo rats around the world today are descended from this one individual.
Making More Dumbos
In keeping with breeding protocols for gene testing, the dumbo would then have been bred to a top eared rat. This mating would have resulted in a full litter of top eared babies, as we now know that a recessive gene causes the mutation.
All babies in the litter would have carried the dumbo gene (now called dmbo – or du in the UK fancy). It’s likely that at least one baby was then bred back to the dumbo parent – we don’t know whether this was the mother or the father – to produce more dumbos.
Being a recessive gene, both parents need to at least carry the gene to produce dumbos in the litter. Two siblings from this first litter may also have been bred together to produce more dumbos.
Why Dumbo x Dumbo May Not Be As Good As It Sounds!
A top eared carrier mated to a top eared carrier would be expected to produce 25% dumbo babies. Where a top eared carrier is mated to a dumbo the litter would be 50% dumbo, and two dumbos mated together will produce an all dumbo litter.
Of course, these are statistical probabilities and the actual outcome might be very different in practice, except in the dumbo x dumbo mating, which always produces 100% dumbos. However, mating dumbo to dumbo is not usually the best way to produce great dumbos!
This is because the genetic factors involved cause a reduction in the growth of the eye in late gestation. This creates a tendency in the variety towards having small eyes, but it can be overcome by regular crossing back to top eared rats with good eye size.
When Did Dumbos Reach Other Countries?
Dumbos were first exported to the UK in May of 1999, shortly after they were standardized for exhibition by the AFRMA. After initial suspicion within the UK fancy about other possible effects of the mutation beyond ear position, they have been widely accepted throughout the UK and Europe.
What Is a Dumbo Rat?
A dumbo rat is a variation of the standard top eared Norway rat (rattus norvegicus). Dumbos are essentially standard rats who have a genetic mutation (dmbo) on chromosome 14, which affects a number of physical characteristics:
- Ear placement – ears are displaced from the top to the side of the head.
- Ear shape and size – shape is rounded, almost circular and size is often somewhat larger than the top eared equivalent.
- Eye size – research has noted reduced growth of the eye during the later stages of gestation (achieving around 86% of normal size). If dumbo x dumbo matings are repeated over a number of generations this effect can produce extremely small eye size in the offspring.
- Facial bones – shortening of the cheekbone, micrognathia (undersized jaw) and microstomia (small mouth). These effects are also exaggerated when dumbos are continuously bred to dumbos.
Genetic analysis has revealed that the gene dmbo (commonly called ‘du’ in the UK) is likely to be a deletion mutation, that is, a mutation where genetic material is deleted from the normal sequence.
Researchers have concluded that the rat dumbo phenotype (the way the dumbo rat looks) is probably the result of the lack of an enhancer that regulates the Hmx1 gene – a gene that itself regulates the development of craniofacial (skull and face) structures.
How Long Does a Dumbo Rat Live?
Lifespan is unaffected by the dumbo mutation and a dumbo’s average life expectancy is the same as a top eared rat’s life expectancy – around 2 years.
The things that are more likely to affect lifespan are the quality of the breeding line, diet, exercise, feeding ad-lib, some coat deletion genes like blue, the quality of veterinary care and so on.
Good Breeding – The Key to Keeping Dumbos Healthy
Dumbo rats need to be bred thoughtfully and often crossed back to top eared rats to prevent problems arising from the cumulative effects of the gene.
With this caveat, the physical changes that affect dumbo rats are usually minor and not thought to cause unwanted symptoms. Reduced eye size can be limited by crossing back to top eared rats and selectively breeding from dumbos with good eye size.
Equally – with good breeding practices – the facial bones are rarely shortened enough to cause the rat any problems (like malocclusion where the teeth don’t connect).
Sadly, many pet rats are bred in rodent farms where this doesn’t always happen and dumbos do appear with tiny eyes and problems arising from their skull shape.
Is a Dumbo Physically Different to a Top Eared Rat in Other Ways?
While some unscrupulous pet shops and breeders may try to sell dumbos as special ultra-exotic rats, they are – in all other ways – the same as top eared rats. So, whatever you may hear, dumbos are standard rats with changes that only affect their skull and eye development.
This means that dumbos have the same average body size, limb and tail length as other rats, as well as the same brain and organ development. They are renowned for being “stockier” than top eared rats, but this is related to breeding choices.
It is perfectly possible to breed lines which produce dumbos that are lean and racy, just as it is possible to breed lines of top eared rats who are chunky and prone to being overweight. So, what should the ideal dumbo rat look like?
The Ideal Dumbo Rat
The dumbo is now a standardized variety, which can be exhibited at rat shows across many countries including the USA and UK. The dumbo is judged as a standard rat with the following differences:
- The ears to be set low on the sides of the head, their base at the back of the cheeks wider and more open than a standard rat. The ear is slightly furled at the top and should stand out at a prominent angle from the head. The ear may appear to be rose petal-shaped but should be perfectly rounded and as flat as possible.
- Head shape to follow the standard for normal eared rats, though may appear to differ due to the ear position. A prominent occiput (back of the skull) is normal but should not present a ‘hunchback’ appearance.
- Faults: creased, bent and wrinkled ears, ears being too narrow, pointed, and tubular rather than rounded.
- Serious faults: Dome skulls, foreshortened head, misplaced or small eyes.
- Color to conform to a recognized color or pattern variety.
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Other Differences Between Dumbo and Top Eared Rats
It’s not uncommon to hear all kinds of claims made about dumbo rats as being rare, special, different to fancy rats, larger, smaller, more docile and so on. These claims have no foundation.
Dumbo rats are essentially just rats who have their ears on the side of their head, a predisposition to smaller eye-size and somewhat shortened cheek and jaw bones.
Despite some early claims of dumbos having more docile temperaments, this does not appear to be a dumbo trait. Some dumbos are extremely docile and some are active and spirited. The same is true for top eared rats.
The temperament of any individual dumbo depends on genetic and environmental influences in exactly the same way that the temperament of a standard rat is determined.
When on heat, female top eared rats communicate their willingness to mate with displays of darting, jumping and vibrating their ears. Female dumbo rats do not seem to vibrate their ears when on heat.
However, thousands of dumbo females have successfully communicated their receptiveness, been mated and become pregnant. So, the lack of this trait does not seem to affect the male rat’s willingness to mate when a dumbo female is on heat.
Despite a similar genetic mutation in humans (probably more severe) called Treacher Collins Syndrome being associated with deafness, this does not appear to be a feature of dumbo rats. They do, however, sometimes have a smaller opening into the ear canal.
Without further research and auditory testing, it is not yet possible to say that dumbo rats have the normal – extremely sensitive – hearing of a top eared rat. Hopefully, someday laboratory studies will give us this information.
Injury and Illness
The low set ears of the dumbo rat seem to be more prone to injury, especially during rat fights, than their standard eared friends and relations. Most injuries are minor and heal quickly without intervention, but nicks and gaps in the ear can remain after healing.
Ear infections and zymbal gland tumors are the two main rat illnesses to affect the ear and related glands. These conditions affect top eared rats and dumbos alike, and a survey of cases mentioned in a large rat care facebook group shows no difference in the rate of occurrence between the two varieties.
Deciding Whether a Dumbo Rat Is for You
The decision as to whether or not to home a dumbo rat as one (or more) of your mischief is really down to personal preference about the appearance of the dumbo. The lower ear position and wider forehead can soften the facial features making the rat look both kind and cute.
This can be very appealing to some people, while others prefer the sharper, natural features of the top eared rat. Dumbo rats are potentially available in all of the color, pattern and coat types of the standard rat.
So, a dumbo can be any color variety, marked variety, or shaded variety and can come in a standard coat, rex, satin, and so on. They can even be hairless!
The important thing to remember is that a dumbo is not more exotic than a standard rat and in some areas are actually more commonplace. Be suspicious of anyone who tries to charge more for a dumbo – a dumbo is a standard rat with a different ear set and should cost the same.
No special care or attention is needed to own a dumbo rat. They require the same housing, diet, care and attention as a standard eared rat and, as with all other varieties, can live in a mixed variety group.
In fact, litter siblings are often homed in dumbo/ top eared pairs. It’s one way of easily telling your rats apart if they are the same color variety.
Dumbos, like all rats, usually make affectionate, inquisitive, endearing companions and often have a notably cute appearance, which many humans enjoy.
Rest assured that a well-bred dumbo rat is not disadvantaged as a pet rat and will enjoy life with all the usual rattie enthusiasm that standard rats are renowned for.
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Thank you for your question.
I think it’s great that you recognized yourself in John/McKayla’s story, and I think it’s normal to want to speak with others who are experiencing the same things.
Mostly, I would recommend you register to some internet forums and boards for trans youth so you can exchange thoughts and comments with other young people who are going through the same things as you. I did a bit of research before answering your question , and, in Latvia, the only website I found was www.gay.lv, not speaking latvian though, I don’t know if they offer resources for trans youth, but it would be a good place to start your search.
There are also 3 really interesting websites I found for trans-youth, because all three had a lot of info on transitioning, coming out, dealing with school and parents, and, they all had forums and boards with different subjects where you can meet other young people like you.
www.transproud.com is based in the States, so some of the info won’t be relevant to you, but there is still a lot of info on what it means to transition from one gender to another, some definitions and key terms, answers to questions you might have, and, there are a lot of links to other websites about and for trans people, including some that have discussion forums for trans youth. I think it’s worth checking out for that.
Another one is a british site called transyouth; their website is www.transyouth.org and they are part of the queer youth network which is a UK national LGBT youth network, There are a lot of forums, and resources that go beyond the UK, some being in the European Union, although I did not see any in Latvia, there might be some in neighboring countries.
The third is the website for the SALTO YOUTH Network (Support, Advanced Learning and Training Opportunities within the European YOUTH program.) which is part of the European Commission’s Youth in Action Program. You can get to it at http://www.salto-youth.net/InclusionLGBT/ where there’s an awesome page that is all about resources in Europe for trans youth, and you are sure to find some websites with forums and discussion boards for young trans people.
One thing I would like to mention here is a caution about BEING SAFE when you talk to others on internet forums. Over the internet it is really easy to present yourself in any way you want to, which can be great if you want to experiment, but it can also be dangerous. There are people who take advantage of this freedom of expression, especially towards children and youths. Especially if you are all excited to meet other people like you, and to make friends with others who are also experiencing the same thing as you. Do not give out personal info about yourself!!! Don’t give your home address, phone number, cell number, and /or full name. Don’t agree to meet anyone in real time, unless it’s in a public place, and you know you can get away if you need to. There is real violence out there against LGBT youth, and more so, against trans youth; for a lot of people, dressing like another gender than the one you were assigned at birth, it can make them very angry. I’m not trying to scare you, or discourage you about meeting other trans youth, but just to give you a heads up about being smart about disclosing your trans status to others. Some people won’t understand. Some won’t want to even try. And, some will think that this gives them the right to hurt you. I am also mentioning this because you are writing from Latvia, and there is a lot of repression, ignorance, and intolerance against LGBT people still, and the laws won’t protect or defend you if you are assaulted. Just be careful, and use common sense about what you say or do when meeting people online. If you are going to meet people try and see if they will meet you at an LGBT event or meeting place, or make sure to bring a friend or two along as back up.
I hope this answers your question. Have fun exploring who you are.
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WisDOT begins issuing new eagle license plate
Orders for new Endangered Resources license plate now being filled
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is now issuing a new Endangered Resources license plate that features a photo rendition of an American Bald Eagle. The eagle plate is the third in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Endangered Resources series.
“This Endangered Resources series of license plates is popular, having issued more than 23,000 plates since the wolf license plate was released 20 years ago (in 1995),” explained Shaun Peterson, DMV Special Plates Unit supervisor. “Preorders of this eagle plate have been strong.”
The plates can be ordered online at wisconsindot.gov, keyword search Endangered Resources license plate; or view here: http://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/dmv/vehicles/title-plates/endanger.aspx.
The eagle design highlights the eagle’s recovery in Wisconsin. The eagle plate replaces the limited-edition badger plate that was added in 2010 and ended August 17. A total of 3,490 badger plates were issued.
When you purchase a special Endangered Resources license plate the fee includes an annual $25 donation to the DNR’s Endangered Resources Fund. The Fund supports the work of the DNR’s Natural Heritage Conservation Program to identify, protect and manage native plants, animals and Wisconsin’s natural communities from the common to the critically endangered. The annual donation supports work to:
- Enhance the quality of life in Wisconsin by bringing back endangered and threatened species.
- Prevent rare species from becoming endangered.
- Preserve and manage the best examples of native ecosystems in our state natural areas for public use, education and research.
- Promote knowledge and stewardship of our state’s natural heritage for future generations.
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British Academy announces First World War events for 2014
4 Aug 2014
Throughout November the British Academy will be holding a series of events, including a concert, a poetry reading, a conference and an exhibition as part of theFirst World War Centenary Partnership.
Led by the Imperial War Museum, the First World War Centenary Partnership is a global programme of cultural events, exhibitions and activities, and online resources that connect current and future generations with the lives, stories and impact of the First World War.
A full list of the British Academy’s First World War events, research and other activities is availableonline.
An exhibition of photographs, diaries and poems by soldiers and the women who volunteered to nurse them back to health when 10 Carlton House Terrace was transformed from a home into a hospital for wounded officers during thefirst world war.
An evening of songs, music and writings responding to the conflict from Great Britain and beyond, including performances by the British tenor Andrew Kennedy and readings by the poet-critic Angela Leighton FBA.
The evening will feature readings by three distinguished poets – Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy FBA – who over many years and in different forms have deeply engaged with the First World War and its poetry.
This conference brings together some of the world’s leading experts and emerging scholars to reassess the First World War's literary and cultural impact and explore its vexed relationship to modernity.
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DETROIT/SEOUL -- Ford Motor Co. and South Korean battery maker SK Innovation are set to launch a battery joint venture in the United States to support the ramp-up of the No. 2 U.S. automaker's electric vehicle rollout, two people familiar with the matter said.
The deal may eventually include a jointly owned plant to make battery cells for use in rechargeable EV batteries, the sources said.
A memorandum of understanding about the joint venture will be announced on Thursday, the sources, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters. Ford has scheduled "an update on Ford batteries" for Thursday at 9 a.m. ET.
Ford declined to comment other than to say SK is a valued supplier. SK Innovation said in a statement it does not comment on specific projects for reasons of client confidentiality.
Talks around the JV picked up speed last month after SK Innovation agreed to pay $1.8 billion to LG Energy Solution to settle LG's accusations of trade theft by its Korean rival, one of the sources said.
The dispute, which the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden had been on the verge of settling with a ruling, had put SK Innovation's battery cell plant in Georgia at risk. That plant, which is under construction, will serve Ford and Germany's Volkswagen Group.
Biden on Tuesday called for government grants for new battery production facilities as part of a $174 billion EV proposal during a visit to a Ford EV plant in Michigan. He also referenced his administration's role in brokering the settlement between SK and LG Chem.
SK Innovation is expected to complete the Georgia plant's construction later this year, and is building a second facility next door that is expected to start battery production in 2023. The company has invested $2.6 billion in Georgia.
SK Innovation, with battery production sites in the U.S., Hungary, China and South Korea, has an annual capacity of about 40 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of batteries. It aims to ramp up to an annual capacity of about 125 GWh of batteries in 2025, which can power about 1.8 million EVs.
A deal with SK may have Ford taking a similar path as rival General Motors, which has a battery JV with LG Energy that is building plants in Ohio and Tennessee.
Ford is pushing to electrify key models in its lineup, including the Transit van late this year and F-150 pickup mid-2022, and already sells the all-electric Mustang Mach-E crossover. It has said it will invest $22 billion in electrification through 2025.
The automaker has repeatedly stepped up efforts around batteries, with CEO Jim Farley stating several times the automaker was looking at making its own batteries. Last month, after Ford reported quarterly results, he said things have changed as the automaker has boosted its EV volumes.
"We've totally entered a different zone ... so we've already made the decision to vertically integrate the company," he said on a conference call with analysts.
"We're now building motors, e-axles now, we've been writing our own battery management software for quite some time, and now it's time for us to lock in on the latest technology and to have a secure cell production relationship."
While saying Ford had no news to announce, Farley added, "To be competitive in this industry, a major brand like Ford will have to vertically integrate all the way through the system."
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What is a Digital Crown and why does your Apple Watch have one?
The iconic shape of the Apple Watch has always been relatively square with a protruding Digital Crown. But just what is this spinning dial and how do you use it? Read on to find out.
A rotating dial you can spin or push, the Digital Crown can be used in several ways to navigate or activate Apple Watch features.
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What is the Digital Crown?
Aside from the device’s overall shape, the Digital Crown is the most noticeable feature of your Apple Watch. It’s the large protruding dial on the side of your device, right above the much less noticeable side button. We like it because it feels like an ode to winding up a traditional watch. However, its existence is not just for looks.
The Digital Crown is one of the most useful interaction options on your smartwatch and can be spun, pressed, or long pressed to accomplish different things. Most notably, push the Digital Crown to return to your watch face, spin it to zoom in or out on photos, or long hold it to access Siri. You may also be asked to use your Digital Crown to expel water from your device and can spin it to wake your device from sleep mode.
To go beyond the basics, keep reading to find out more ways to use your Digital Crown.
Five things you can do with the Digital Crown
Open an app: With your app gallery open, zoom in by spinning your Digital Crown to open whichever app you have centered on the screen.
Reopen a previous app: Double-press the Digital Crown to return to the last app you were using.
Control volume: Open Now Playing on your device and use the Digital Crown to raise or lower the volume of any audio you are listening to. This includes music, podcasts, audiobooks, and anything else you are streaming or have saved on your device.
Skim content: You can spin the Digital Crown within most apps to scroll through content. Additionally, you can also use this same functionality to scroll through menus, including those of the watch itself.
Get a better look: In your navigation app, spin the Digital Crown to zoom in or out on your route or points of interest.
Yes. In addition to choosing which wrist you wear your watch on, you can also change your preferences for the Digital Crown. Open the Watch app on your iPhone and tap General. Tap Watch Orientation and choose either Digital Crown on Left Side or Digital Crown on Right Side.
If you do not like the ticking sound of spinning your Digital Crown you can turn it off. Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch and scroll down to and tap Sound & Haptics. Scroll down to Crown Haptics and slide the toggle to the left.
To water lock your device, open your control panel and tap the waterdrop symbol. Then spin your Digital Crown to expel water and unlock your device.
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Do you know that if you or someone in your house commits a criminal offence, you can lose your home? Whether it is your son growing 2 marihuana plants in his room, or your tenant is paying rent with money she earned selling stolen goods, both can result in you losing your house. It does not matter if there are criminal charges, it is up to you to show that you did everything you could to watch out for illegal activity in your home. Know what is happening in your home at all the time.
Please contact our office if you are dealing with a civil forfeiture claim by the government.
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Daniel and Sarah came to me for couples therapy because they were uncertain about the future of their marriage. Daniel had just moved out. They were both unhappy and considering divorce.
In our first session, they described meeting each other in college. After graduating, they moved in together and soon after she was pressuring him to propose, but he wasn’t ready to take the next step.
“I’m not sure I ever wanted to get married,” he told me.
He knew he didn’t want to break up with her. But with pressure from both families to “settle down,” he reluctantly gave in. For him, marrying never truly felt like the right fit. Now seven years and two kids later, they landed in my office.
Sliding instead of deciding to get married
According to Scott Stanley, Ph.D. and Galena Rhoades, Ph.D. in a report titled “Before I Do” sponsored by The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, a generation or two ago, people formed relationships and made commitments differently than they do today. Back then, couples made more intentional decisions to get married, move in together, and have children.
Today, according to Stanley and Rhoades, marriage comes near the end of the line. About 90% of couples have sex before marriage, according to one study, and about four in ten babies are born to unmarried parents. Most couples live together before getting married.
After surveying more than one thousand American couples, Stanley and Rhoades came to a major conclusion:
Some couples slide through major relationship transitions, while others make intentional decisions about moving through them. The couples in the latter category fare better.
The unintentional decision to slide into marriage, as in Daniel and Sarah’s case, is where one or both partners find themselves agreeing because getting married seems like the next “logical” step.
Commitment is critical
Commitment is one of the “weight-bearing walls” of Dr. John Gottman’s Sound Relationship House. It’s about demonstrating through your words and actions that you are in the relationship for better or for worse, and that you can count on each other.
As Certified Gottman Therapist Zach Brittle puts it, “commitment is about choice. And it’s not just choosing your partner. It’s about choosing the relationship, day after day.” Commitment is critical regardless of your relationship status, whether you’re dating, cohabiting, or married.
Without commitment, couples begin to nurture resentment for what they think is missing in their relationship instead of nurturing gratitude for what they have.
If you’re worried that you may be sliding into marriage instead of deciding, here are five questions to discuss with your partner about the intentionality of your relationship.
1. Why do we want to get married?
2. What will we do if our marriage gets off track?
3. What can we do to get better clarity about our future together?
4. What are our views of marriage based on our families of origin?
5. What core values do we share about having children, religion, finances, work ethic, and general philosophies about life?
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The Healthiest Fast Food Salads in Canada
The healthiest salads to get at your favourite fast food spots—plus tips to eat smarter when you’re on the go.
Fast food salads: Diet friend or foe?
In a best case scenario, you would have made your own salad for lunch, packed with good-for-you ingredients that will keep you full and focused for the rest of the day. For those busy weeks? Not likely. Which is why even the best of us need to pick up a quick lunch to go at the closest fast food joint. But, just because you’re opting for a salad over a burger doesn’t mean that your meal is suddenly healthy. (Although you might want to know what happens to your body after you eat that burger.) Salads—especially fast food or store-bought ones—have plenty of hidden sugar, fat and sodium that could be holding you back from a healthful meal. We asked the experts for advice on what goes into a good salad. Plus, we pick the top six salads for a healthier fast food lunch.
Pay attention to dressing
The sad truth is that salad dressings are full of hidden health sacrifices. According to Jenna Hope, a registered nutritionist, your best bet is to “avoid creamy, sugary sauces or dressings.” That means you’re better off skipping fan faves like Caesar, ranch and honey dijon. For the truly health conscious, a homemade salad dressing (a mix of olive oil and lemon works with pretty much any salad) is best, but if you do need to grab dressing with your salad remember to keep it simple and not-creamy. “Dressings are usually where you get the added sugar, salt and preservatives,” says Sarah Goldstein, a Toronto-based holistic nutritionist. “Opt for an olive oil, balsamic dressing if possible.”
Our Pick: Burger King BLT Garden Fresh Salad
This is a simple yet flavourful salad with lettuce, tomatoes and BLT-inspired toppings. Add grilled chicken to make it more of a meal and opt for Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing (over Caesar or Ranch) to keep it as healthy as possible.
Burger King BLT Garden Fresh Salad = 230 calories, 16 g fat, 18 g protein, 180 mg sodium
Not all healthy foods are equal. Here, nutritionists dish on the “health” foods they never eat.
Look for colour and variety
Having a salad with variety is a must, especially if you’re looking for a full range of nutrients. According to Goldstein this means “trying to get as many different colours as possible.” Consider veggies that are red (tomatoes), orange (carrots), purple (cabbage and beets) and dark green (kale and spinach). By including a wide range of colourful veggies you’re getting essential nutrients like vitamin D, vitamin K, potassium and calcium.
Our Pick: Starbucks Rice and Veggie Salad Bowl
This well-rounded salad bowl includes butternut squash, beets, cabbage, broccoli and tomatoes.
Starbucks Rice and Veggie Salad Bowl = 420 calories, 23 g fat, 10 g protein, 600 mg sodium, 9 g fibre
Now what should you order to drink? Here’s how many calories are in your favourite Starbucks drink.
Ditch toppings you know aren’t healthy
Plenty of fast food salads have toppings that you can add though they are usually packed full of sugar or sodium. “Opt out of fried toppings, dried fruit and sweet dressings or sauces,” says Goldstein. Deciding to forgo candied nuts or salty croutons can actually cut down quite a bit of the unhealthy factor of a fast food salad.
Our Pick: Wendy’s Apple Pecan Chicken Salad
The good thing about fast food salads is that they often come deconstructed so you can easily pick and choose which toppings to use. This one features red and green apples, crumbled blue cheese, sweet cranberries, roasted pecans and grilled chicken. Ditch the sweet cranberries and roasted pecans that this salad comes with and you’re still left with a satisfying sweet and savoury meal.
Wendy’s Apple Pecan Chicken Salad = 570 calories, 26 g fat, 33 g protein, 7 g fibre *Nutritional info includes all toppings
Consider your base
Your base is what makes up most of your salad, so you want to make sure you’re choosing something healthy. “Opt for veggies as the base,” says Goldstein, “and opt for the darker green veggies.” This means leafy greens like kale and spinach trump iceberg lettuce—or even worse—options like potato or pasta. If your options are limited (which they usually are at fast-food spots) opting for romaine or green leaf lettuce salads is a good start.
Our Pick: McDonald’s I’m Greek-ing Out Salad
McDonald’s I’m Greek-ing Out Salad has a mixed-green and baby kale base with couscous. Ditch the seasoned pita-crisps and opt for grilled chicken (over fried) to make the most of this Greek-inspired salad.
McDonald’s I’m Greek-ing Out Salad = 310 calories, 10 g fat, 33 g protein, 720 mg sodium
Add healthy fats
It’s always a good idea to add healthy fats to your salads to help you stay full longer. These can include things like eggs, avocado and nuts. In some cases, cheese is also a good pick and options like chia seeds or fish can definitely help keep you feeling full without too much guilt.
Our Pick: Wendy’s Southwest Avocado Chicken Salad
This salad has a healthy balance of protein (grilled chicken) and fats (avocado and cheese), all served up on a bed of greens with tomato. The bacon is a nice treat every once in a while but hold the creamy ranch dressing. Instead, try a bit of olive oil – or simply mix in the avocado, which can serve as a healthier creamy dressing.
Wendy’s Southwest Avocado Chicken Salad = 600 calories, 41 g fat, 40 g protein, 7 g fibre
Love avocado? Here’s what happens when you eat it every day.
Don’t shun carbs or protein
Though many restrictive diets call for less carbs and protein, you don’t need to ditch them altogether even if you’re making an effort to eat healthy. Just remember to make smart carb choices. “Make sure your source of carbohydrates are complex carbohydrates,” says Hope. For example, sweet potato, brown rice, quinoa or beans are all good options. Goldstein also recommends that you “always add a source of protein, which can be chicken, fish or beans, and a healthy fat like avocado.” These are the best sources of protein, according to the new Canada’s Food Guide.
Our Pick: Starbuck’s Black Bean Salad Bowl
This salad bowl is packed with protein in the form of quinoa, black beans and grilled chicken. Other toppings include roasted corn, jicama, tomatoes, and feta served on spring greens. A side of mild chili vinaigrette allows you to control how much dressing you add.
Starbuck’s Black Bean Salad Bowl = 370 calories, 15 g fat, 14 g protein, 850 mg sodium, 8 g fibre
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Image is a visual language and is a key element in the communication in our culture. All kinds of media are used to achieve communication goals - to tell the story. But it is always about: Why am I telling it, how do I tell it, what do I tell it with, when and to whom? With your designs, you as the designer get the message across in visual form. Because not only the image itself, but also the way in which it is made and the medium with which you show the image, are definitive to the impact of your story.
The study programme DESIGN - Visual Communication consists of four study profiles:
You will discover photography as a tool for storytelling and individual expression. You will have the opportunity to experiment within and outside the bounds of various genres (fashion, advertising, architecture, still life, landscape, portraiture, reporting, documentary) to help you develop your own image strategy and work method as a storyteller. The programme will touch upon the similarities and differences with other visual, audio-visual, digital, and hybrid media through artistic creation on the one hand and practical field assignments on the other.
From zero to a hundred and from nothing to a film product: film is a complex and versatile medium. You may ultimately choose to become a cameraman, a director, or a screenwriter. Whatever you choose, we will provide you with the tools to deliver a finished film product: from the initial idea to treatment, script, budget, production, editing and post-production, and finally a finished product that can be screened.
As a graphic designer, your goal is to discover your own communication language. You will develop this in a concrete and open context, while demonstrating an understanding and knowledge of social and topical issues. Authentic visual expression, an enterprising attitude, and a professional and innovative approach are the conditions for becoming a future image-maker/designer in a flexible and dynamic field. The professional realm of graphic designers ranges from traditional printing to interactive media.
As an illustrator, you communicate through images. You develop a visual vocabulary to tell illustrative stories, encourage your audience to enter into a dialogue through sharp and stimulating images, or use clear visuals to help make complex processes and constructs easier to understand. You determine how to visualize things in order to convey the right message. Your imagination is a powerful tool. You can also use symbolism to ascribe new meaning to things as part of your own visual language.
The main language of instruction of this bachelor study programme is Dutch. A command of Dutch (NT2 level two) is order to enrol in this course. More info about Dutch NT2 courses.
In the search for your own image language, it is important that you are open to everything happening around you and that you are abreast of social developments. You will do this among others in our learning community. You develop your own view of image and an entrepreneurial mindset; you are professional in your work and are interested in innovative thinking and action. You will also gain knowledge about communication and communication strategies, human interaction, media options and related disciplines that can be used for the lines of communication.
The Maastricht Institute of Arts has a rich history. Its location in the historic center and the different architectural styles reflect that. Here you will feel the craft and its atmosphere every day. This is the place where you think about art and what you would like to do with it.
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Architects: Albert H. McPhail
Built in 1919, the original Imperial Theatre in Sarnia operated until 1953, when a tornado devastated downtown Sarnia and leveled the theatre’s stage. While the rest of the theatre only suffered minor damage, the damage was too severe to allow the building to remain as a theatre so the building was converted to office and retail space. The ‘Imperial’ theatre name returned to downtown Sarnia when the Capitol Theatre was renamed the Imperial Oil Centre for the Performing Arts.
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Hunting for a job can be difficult, especially when the search drags on for weeks, months or even years. Here are five tips that will help you remain positive as you look for the position that will be just the right fit.
Posted in , Jul 13, 2016
A job search is a swirl of resume preparation, networking, research, and interviews. But when it stretches from weeks to months, it can be hard to stay fresh, sharp, and motivated. “Looking for a job is hard,” says Karen Burns, author of The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl: Real-Life Career Advice You Can Actually Use. “The longer it takes, the harder it feels.”
It’s normal to have periods of discouragement during your search. Read on for five strategies to bolster yourself as you search for your dream job.
1. Be Your Own Project Manager
Paul Bernard, a New York City-based career coach and recruiter, has his clients treat a job search like the professional project it is. Picture it as a three-legged stool—the first leg is the overall strategy, the second are the “marketing materials” like your resume and cover letter, and the third leg is how you distribute your most precious resource, your time.
One way to reenergize a long job search, he says, is to revisit one of the legs, recasting your strategy or reexamining your networking calendar. “You have to design it,” he says, “Where do I want to be, and what do I want to do?”
2. Write a Mission Statement
Jocelyn, a mother in her 40s, is a philanthropy professional who has been looking for work for several months. She created a personal mission statement that has given her job search focus and inspiration. Using prompts from several career strategy books, she developed a statement that articulates her life’s next steps, including how her work can balance meaningfully with the other parts of her life.
The process left her with a clear, concise elevator pitch, not to mention confidence in the direction she’s taking her search. “I was feeling the need to reorient,” she says. “My personal statement is helping me stay true to what I want.”
3. Ditch the Guilt
Toxic self-talk is the stuff of discouragement and depression, says Melissa Maher, a San Francisco-based life and mindfulness coach. Feeling guilty for having lost a job, saying no to a sub-par offer, or taking an afternoon off is classic negative thinking. “We think we need self-critical self-talk, we use it thinking it’s going to motivate us,” she says.
Instead, she advises policing your internal monologue. “Focus on what’s going well, not just what’s not happening yet,” she says. Setting realistic expectations will put things in perspective. Consider this math: Bernard says it takes between 75 and 90 face-to-face conversations to get six to eight interviews-- that includes everyone from colleagues you meet at a networking event to the Human Resources representative who welcomes you to an interview. Two of those six to eight interviews will become job offers. “Every ‘no’ should be a message that I’m one step closer to a ‘yes,’” he says.
4. Practice Gratitude
Gratitude is a muscle that gets stronger with regular use. Keeping yours in shape is good for your career as well as your soul. “Make a gratitude list with three things on it every day,” says Maher. “That puts the mind into a more spacious, possibility-oriented mindset.”
Jocelyn has found this practice beneficial, not only in boosting her confidence in interviews, but also in appreciating the pleasures that come with her in-between time. “It’s helped me define an appreciation of the small gifts of the day,” she says, “I try to enjoy the little things, because I know that later, I’ll be busy again.”
5. Take a Step Back
If your job search is too intense for too long, your physical and emotional health both might start to suffer. Watch for signs like upset stomachs, headaches, anxiety, or low energy, and take them as signals to step back and take care of yourself. “Self care doesn’t mean you’re slacking off,” says Burns. “It’s a way to bring your best self to achieving your goal.”
Maher advises making a “joy list” of things—small or large—that bring pleasure into your day. On any given day, at least one item from the joy list, like a walk with a friend, an extra few minutes of sleep, or a leisurely bubble bath, should show up on your “to do” list, right next to “follow up on interview” and “review resume.”
Holly Lebowitz Rossi is a freelance writer based in Arlington, Massachusetts. She is coauthor of Yoga for a Healthy Lower Back: A Practical Guide for Developing Strength and Relieving Pain.
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The work of covering the COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll on the mental health of journalists.
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the University of Toronto interviewed 73 journalists from international news organizations in June and found:
70% suffer from some levels of psychological distress and responses suggest that 26% have clinically significant anxiety compatible with the diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder which includes symptoms of worry, feeling on edge, insomnia, poor concentration and fatigue.
Around 11% of respondents report prominent symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, which include recurrent intrusive thoughts and memories of a traumatic COVID-19-related event, a desire to avoid recollections of the event, and feelings of guilt, fear, anger, horror and shame.
Read more here.
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This is an application to compute and simulate astronomical events. A tool for astronomy lovers that allows to know in a simple way the general and local circumstances for solar and lunar eclipses and planetary transits.
Which futur eclipses will be visible from my location? And from the antipodes? What they will be like? How long will they last? And in the past, how many eclipses have there been? All these and many other questions about both, eclipses and planetary transits, are answered with this tool. Now, all the information about these astronomical events in your mobile thanks to this application.
* Access to data of all solar and lunar eclipses and planetary transits between 1900 and 2100 (extendable to 1550 - 2300).
* Computation of general circumstances of the phenomenon, including global visibility maps.
* Computation of the local circumstances of the phenomenon for any place in the world (beginning, end, duration, altitude of the Sun or Moon above the horizon, ...)
* Interactive maps to know the circumstances of the eclipse.
* Simulation of the phenomenon from your observational point.
* Simulation of the path of the Moon shadow on the Earth's surface (solar eclipses).
* Simulation of the Moon's path through the Earth's shadow (lunar eclipses).
* Choice of observation place from a data base, manually or from the GPS coordinates.
* Lunar limb profile and Baily's beads.
* Sky at totality.
* Continous tracking of you position and update of the contact times. Useful if you observe the eclipse on board a ship.
* Possibility to adding the eclipses and transits to the personal calendar.
* Available in English, Catalan, Spanish, Danish, Polish and Portuguese.
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Dr. Greene's Answer
Bee venom contains at least nine different components that work together to cause bee sting reactions in those stung. When a bee injects its venom under the skin, the child may have immediate reactions (those symptoms beginning within 4 hours), delayed reactions (symptoms that don’t appear until more than four hours after the sting), or both. Classifying the reactions is important both for immediate management and for predicting future problems (Allergy Principles and Practice, Mosby 2003).
Local vs Systemic Bee Sting Reactions
Some immediate bee sting reactions are classified as local (a two – or three-inch area of swelling, redness and pain that lasts less than 24 hours). Others qualify as large local reactions (those that are larger — often an entire limb — or that last longer, but all symptoms are adjacent to stings). Systemic reactions are allergic responses distant from the sting and include symptoms such as hives, generalized itching, generalized swelling, low blood pressure, difficulty breathing, or anaphylactic shock — a severe reaction involving most or all of these symptoms.
A sting on the forehead with swelling of the eyelids is a large local reaction, while a sting on the foot with swelling of the eyelids is a systemic reaction. Large local reactions are rarely serious and rarely portend future severe allergies. Systemic allergic reactions, though, are present and future warning signs.
Toxic Bee Sting Reactions
A fourth type of immediate reaction is the toxic reaction, which can follow multiple stings. This is a direct result of bee venom, and not an allergic reaction. Symptoms can include fever, weakness, nausea, vomiting, and pain. Toxic bee sting reactions are rarely serious, but do sometimes sensitize the child and herald future allergic reactions.
Delayed reactions result when the body’s immune system prepares for future stings, but some of the exuberant defense measures inadvertently turn against the body itself. These symptoms begin more than four hours after the initial sting. Delayed reactions include serum sickness (fever, weakness, rash, swelling, and/or intense itching which begin a week after the sting), nephrotic syndrome (inflammation of the kidney), neuritis (inflammation of the nerves), or inflammation of other parts of the body.
For an in-depth look at bee stings, see Treating Bee Stings: A Dive Into Reactions, Treatment & Prevention of Bee Stings.
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Your screen time diet
While electronic devices and apps are great tools for tracking diet and wellness, too much screen use might cause a host of other problems, from anxiety and depression to traffic accidents and even online addiction. “Most people have no idea how much time they’re spending online,” says David Greenfield, PhD, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction. “The goal is to create mindful technology use.”
Read on to learn how to limit your screen time.
Turn off all notifications. Research has found that social media usage releases dopamine into our brains and may elevate cortisol, leading to a compulsive pattern of use, similar to other addictions.
“Reducing the number of notifications you have will decrease the likelihood that you will anticipate a reward. That’s what elevates those dopamine levels,” explains Dr. Greenfield, who is also the author of Virtual Addiction.
Focus on digital nutrition. Limit yourself to sites that add value to your life, says Kimberly Young, PsyD, a psychologist and founder of the Center for Internet Addiction in St. Bonaventure, New York. “When it comes to screen addiction, it is not about the volume of time but the quality of what we’re doing. I call it digital nutrition,” says Dr. Young. “It is very much like food—and making healthier choices about our screen use.”
Avoid combining screen time with food or meals. Research has shown a positive correlation between the increase in digital technology use over the past 20 years and an increase in the average weight of people under 30. “One of the things we know is that the more screen time you use, the more you’re going to weigh,” says Dr. Greenfield. “That doesn’t mean that the screen is causing your weight gain. What’s causing your weight gain is the increase in sedentary behaviour and the increase of unconscious eating because you’re distracted. So those two key features are happening simultaneously.”
To avoid this unhealthy combo, never put electronic devices on the table when you eat. “Separate normal social interaction and self-care without the technology,” says Dr. Greenfield. When you go out to dinner, Dr. Young even suggests leaving your smartphone at home, if you are able. (We understand if you need to be available to babysitters.)
Go on a digital fast. To put your real life and relationships back in focus, Dr. Young suggests doing a 48-hour digital detox. “You need to disconnect in order to reconnect,” she says. “We need to decompress from our devices.”
Never mix screens with sleep. The blue light emitted from electronic devices disrupts sleep by suppressing melatonin levels, a hormone that triggers the body’s sleep cycle. And poor sleep can lead to a variety of health problems, such as depression, diabetes, and heart disease. Research has found that turning off devices at least two hours prior to bedtime allows the body to produce normal melatonin levels to achieve a restful night’s sleep.
“Do not sleep with your smartphone next to your bed or under your pillow. Leave it charging in another room,” suggests Dr. Greenfield.
Monitor your digital time. Just as you restrict calories to reduce weight, restrict the number of hours you spend online to reduce your screen time dependency, says Dr. Young, who discusses going on a “digital diet” in her popular TEDx talk.
To eliminate the compulsion to check your devices, set specific times during the day to check email and social media, says Dr. Greenfield. “What happens is that people lose track of time when they’re on their devices, and they’ll compulsively check them over and over because the dynamic is changeable.”
Use something like an app that times you, or write down when you start and stop. “It’s not unlike writing down what you eat,” says Dr. Greenfield. “What we’re trying to do is create a digital diet, so you don’t spend excessive amounts of time, just as you don’t want to consume excessive calories.”
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What do you do when you have hundreds of photos of hippos?
That’s not a joke. I’m asking.
Here’s what I’m doing with a few of them. Yes, Mike, just a few. You’re welcome, everyone else.
This is the Khwai River. It comes off the Okavango River and forms part of the northern border of Moremi Game Reserve. It’s not a very big river, at lease not here, but it seems like a good and reliable water source.
You can camp here in a community-operated campground, in actual designated campsites, but there are no amenities. We stayed here three years ago, but only for one night. I would stay here again for several nights, but I’m not sure it’s on the agenda this time around.
According to one source, hippos are the third largest land mammals, with elephants and rhinos out-sizing them. However, another source counts giraffes as larger than hippos. I’ll just say they’re enormous.
Multi-species photo: Hippo, egret, waterbucks, zebras
As in the hero of our tale.
“Hippopotamus” comes from the ancient Greek for “river horse.” The Greek adjective follows the noun, though, so it’s “hippo” that means “horse,” not “potamus.”
River, yes. Horse? Hmm . . . I don’t think so, ancient Greeks.
More like τελμα λουκανικο, or telma loukaniko, or telmaloukaniko. According to Google Translate, that’s “swamp sausage” in Greek! Although, technically, I think it would be λουκανικο τελμα.
Okay, probably not howling. Singing opera, perhaps. Actually, I don’t know if this one is vocalizing at all; it very well might be standing there with its mouth open. They do that. Apparently, facing another hippo with your mouth open is a sign of submission. (So I’m likely to be seen as no threat when I get face-to-face with a hippo, right?)
But perhaps I should point out that this one isn’t facing anyone. It might be looking at us, or not. It is walking from Pool A to Pool B.
I’m unclear what constitutes an aggressive yawn and what constitutes a submissive open mouth.
These two definitely seem to be sparring.
“Water scooping” is another common behavior that is said to be an aggressive display.
That’s a big scoop splash! Is this an exceptionally grumpy hippo?
A Fine Hippo How-Do-You-Do?
It started like this:
A Tale of Two Hippos turns into A Tail of One and A Tale of Woe.
See if you can make out what’s happening before I explain. Mike got a series of still photos, and I managed to make a bad (but mercifully short) video. In my defense, I was filming something else and had to swing over to this action while something else entirely was also screaming for my attention. Seriously, three things happening at once. It’s a wonder I got anything at all.
The still photos:
Fifteen-second video of the same, which you can see full-screen on YouTube.
Want to be a hippo?
Scientists have decided to call this “dung showering.” We have to call it something because it’s a common behavior. That’s right, everybody’s doing it, on land and in the water; although, not always in someone’s face. Sometimes they shower in solitude. Some people report watching two bulls standing head to tail do this to one another, and others have witnessed territorial males meet at a shared border and exchange excrement.
As always when it comes to animal behavior, we can only theorize about why hippos do this, but let’s do that, okay?*
- to demonstrate dominance
- to mark territory or announce one’s presence
- because hippos that did this survived, and hippos that didn’t do this died
- freedom of expression through exterior design
All quiet on the hippo front. Huh. This may be the most rare sighting—and photo—of the lot.
*I might be joking about one of these.
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