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Ashish Kedia, Intern 2015, Web Solutions Engineer at Google
In August 2013, Google and all of its services came down briefly for 2-3 mins. And the whole internet traffic went down by a massive 40%.
A similar incident also occurred in May 2009.
Note that it was just for 2 mins. Imagine 30 mins. It’s highly unlikely but here is what I think will happen –
- First few mins people will check their internet connection. Some will even call their Service Provider. Some may even check for hardware failures on their side – which is still more likely than 30 min outage
- People will then realise that it’s true. There will be a period of disbelief. People will desperately try to reload google’s homepage.
- People all around the world will start taking screenshots of the Google Server Error Page.
- Your Facebook Newsfeed will be full of “OMG Can’t believe”, “I witnessed something astonishing” along with several images from previous point.
- People will search for alternate search engine ~ but how ? Most of them don’t even know that there are alternate search engines 😛
- Bing and Yahoo will get huge traffic surge.
- DuckDuckGo( Page on duckduckgo.com ) will start trending on Twitter. People will realise it’s good. (That’s a search engine that doesn’t track you BTW)
- Many other internet apps – that uses Google Services in backend will also come down. Without GMAIL for 30 mins the productivity across the whole world will drop by a huge margin.
- I can’t even imagine the Revenue Loss – not just for Google but for all the companies throughout the world that uses Google.
- Android users will be stranded on the roads and iPhone users will be lost in the lanes if Google Maps stopped working for 30mins **
- Among all this fiasco Internet life in China will remain unaffected. ***
- People at other competitive companies will enjoy and sing songs 😛 (Meant to be a joke)
After the outage is fixed and services are restored :
- Google will release their statement to press – explaining the cause (may be)
- Tech Savvy people around the world will try to dig deep in search for the cause of outage.
- Many will speculate that a group of Hackers are responsible. People will then approach many Hackers regarding their opinion
- Media will go crazy. They will call experts and try to analyse situation themselves.
- Many bloggers will write post about “How we are too dependent on Google? – A reality check”. Even Media will do it
- Quora would be full of questions – “Why did it happen ?”, “What do you think about the outage ?”, “Can it happen again ?”, “Was my data leaked?”, “Is it true that Google was hacked ?”, etc.
- A lot of users will switch from Google services to alternates.
- BuzzFeed and ScoopWhoop will have articles like “Google went down for 30 minutes. You won’t believe what happened next.” and “10 things to do when Google goes down the next time”.
- People will find this answer and realise that many of it is actually happening 😛 (Again, meant to be a joke)
Eventually if it keeps happening people will switch to alternatives. Google’s revenue will decline and they will lose the monopoly. People will move on and build better products. Google engineers will have to hunt for jobs again. A lot of them will start their own companies. If it doesn’t happen again – Google will recover and they will ensure it never happens again.
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The device will launch next year and forms part of the company’s plan to attract a wider audience to VR which has so far resulted in dissapointing sales.
While introducing the Go, Zuckerberg said it’s a product meant to fill the gap between the affordable Gear VR and the Oculus Rift.
Speaking at Facebook’s yearly virtual reality developers conference in San Jose, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive and co-founder of Facebook acknowledged the slow adoption of the technology to date. But he said his company’s goal was that one day, it would get one billion people into VR.
To get there, the company needs to create a premium, standalone VR device that offers free movement. It hasn’t managed that yet – the new Oculus Go should still be regarded as a budget VR experience.
Oculus Go is a lightweight headset which resembles a cross between Google’s Daydream set and Samsung’s Gear VR, which is also powered by Oculus’ technology.
It’s secured to the user’s face by a series of adjustable straps, and contains an LCD screen which projects the VR content directly through the lenses, bypassing the need for a mobile or linked PC.
Users will navigate Oculus Go using a simple gamepad controller, while audio will play through inbuilt speakers – though there’s also a headphone jack if you prefer headphone output.
The original Oculus Rift, which currently costs £399 for the headset and Touch controllers, requires a powerful gaming PC to run it, which costs around £1,000.
Similarly, optimised VR content on smartphones is limited to higher-end models: Gear VR is designed to run on its Galaxy line of phones, while Daydream works with a wider range of Android handsets.
The three largest VR vendors, Oculus, HTC’s Vive and Sony’s PlayStation VR have all slashed the price of their headsets in recent months, which analysts attribute to a lack of consumer interest over high prices and lack of strong gaming titles.
Apple, meanwhile, has chosen to focus on augmented reality (VR), which transposes digital elements into real-world environments via the iPhone’s camera. Its ARKit framework is intended to help developers create AR apps for inclusion in the App Store, including standardised motion tracking and camera environment capture.
View Zuckerberg’s keynote address here:
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In any organization, team members differ in beliefs and behaviors. However, the team’s agreement and consent it’s an essential element of any organizational strategy. Diversity and inclusion can improve teams’ ability to have better agreements and consent, as well as a better understanding of the customers they serve.
Let’s observe the importance of inclusion and diversity in multicultural teams and how we can build global leadership strategies that promote them in our teams.
In multicultural teams, member participation, creativity, discussions process, and decision-making do influence the success level of any project and organization.
Thus, promoting inclusion and diversity in a team will allow its members to:
- Develop awareness of different communication and thinking styles to facilitate the discussion process.
- Learn to take advantage of diverse backgrounds and skill participation to increase the effectiveness of a team.
- Share their experiences to be able to create something far greater than what each would have achieved on its own.
Similarly, not promoting diversity and inclusion can challenge teams in many ways. At the end of the day, if team members fail to stand for the larger community, the results of the team’s efforts can become biased and limited.
Here are some examples of these challenges:
- People with strong hierarchical cultures tend to expect they’d be treated differently in accordance with their position in the organization chart. Thus, the failure of cultural awareness among some members in honoring such expectations could cause humiliation and even loss of credibility and esteem in a team member.
- Team members might disagree on how much data and analysis they’ll need when making decisions. For some cultures, a bold thinking style may be considered as being proactive, while in other cultures it may be seen as being an ill-thought-out action plan.
Multicultural teams are the lifeblood of a successful organization. Therefore, cultural awareness in a team needs to be a priority at an individual level as well as at a team level to foster cultural success.
When a company has a workforce made up of people with different experiences, skills, and backgrounds it means that the generated ideas won’t be homogeneous, they’ll be more creative and innovative.
On the other hand, when organizations support multicultural teams, or teams located in distant geographical areas, or teams with specific demographic members, this can directly influence employee engagement and retention.
One of the best examples in this area is Google Inc. a famous global company known for an excellent organizational culture that drives a strong competitive advantage. This company has received the “Best Company Culture” Award for many reasons, but the most powerful one: Diversity and inclusion.
So then if we agree that team members perform at the highest potential when their beliefs, comfort, and orientation, are considered. We should, therefore, strive to make sure they have the freedom to work in ways that bring out their strengths.
Inclusion is more about incorporation than merely accommodating someone. Therefore, those in leadership positions in an organization should build global leadership strategies that promote inclusion and diversity, such as:
- Practice active listening with the desire to understand and connect with others, especially those from different cultural contexts.
- Try blending different approaches, work-styles, and needs into a cohesive process that truly empowers your team.
- Consider leveling the playing field within the members of each team to provide equal opportunities
- Address unconscious bias within members of each team as well at the organizational level.
All in all the benefits of inclusion and diversity are evident, and they go hand-in-hand. When your workforce is happier, their creativity, productivity, and effectiveness levels are higher. This translates to the business being more innovative and successful; furthermore, the best talent from around the globe will be pulled in to work there.
Cultural diversity is one of the 7 elements that have proven to be a key factor when working with multicultural teams. Find more about the Global Team Effectiveness Model ®. If you and your team are ready to improve their performance, we can help you!
Question: How can you take multicultural teams to the next level of performance and effectiveness? --> You can leave a comment on the comments box below.
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What is the top speed of a blue whale?
Blue whales can reach speeds of 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph) over short bursts, usually when interacting with other whales, but 20 kilometres per hour (12 mph) is a more typical traveling speed. When feeding, they slow down to 5 kilometres per hour (3.1 mph).
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Bayer’s Yaz lawyers are facing some confusion over whether the company’s generic version of Yaz is exempt from lawsuits. Ocella, the generic version of Yasmin, might be exempt from lawsuits thanks to the Supreme Court’s blanket ruling involving the liability of generic drug makers. Ocella is also just as controversial as the brand name versions of Yaz and Yasmin. Side effects from both birth control pills have been the subject of thousands of lawsuits.
Generic drug companies manufacture drugs of all types, but what makes Ocella different is that is manufactured by Bayer, the same makers of the brand name version. Because of this, Yaz lawyers don’t like the fact that, according to this recent ruling, Bayer is responsible for side effects from the generic version and name brand version, and they want to contest it. They are also just as liable for all of the label inconsistencies that are supposed to warn the public about the pills.
All of this hullaballoo is because of a ruling the Supreme Court made in June of this year. The court ruled on the case Pliva Inc. v. Mensing in a 5-4 judgment that said that generic drug companies aren’t liable for warning label inconsistencies that don’t report on the side effects properly because federal law stipulates that the generic drugs’ labels have to be identical to the labels of the brand name versions.
As to how Bayer lawyers think that this isn’t fair is anyone’s guess. The fact is, if the brand name versions of Yaz and Yasmin had listed the warnings properly in the first place, there wouldn’t be as many lawsuits against them today. If Bayer can manufacture dangerous pills and market them (even in their off-label uses) , the company should be held accountable for the suffering of patients taking those drugs. The drug giant should have known that creating a generic version just to make more money off of the drug was going to come back to haunt the company sooner or later. It just wanted to hold on to the drugs’ revenue — and in doing so, the company opened itself up to more lawsuits.
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Soil microbial community responses to heat wave components: drought and high temperature. Climate Research. 66:243-264.. 2015.
Use of the MicroResp (TM) method to assess Pollution-Induced Community Tolerance in the context of metal soil contamination. Ecological Indicators. 40:27-33.. 2014.
Severe drought-induced community tolerance to heat wave. An experimental study on soil microbial processes. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 12:513-518.. 2012.
Resilience of soil microbial communities impacted by severe drought and high temperature in the context of Mediterranean heat waves. European Journal of Soil Biology. 47:333-342.. 2011.
Soil microbial respiration and PICT responses to an industrial and historic lead pollution: a field study. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23:4271-4281.. 2016.
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Court of Appeal judgment allowing same-sex marriages in the province, effective immediately. The remedy had been suspended until July 12, 2004, but in light of the availability of same-sex marriage in Ontario, was altered.
Examination of the Hendricks and Léboeuf case.
A Canadian organization fighting for "Equality For Gays and Lesbians Everywhere". Battles in courts over same sex couples, rights, government insight.
Information about advocacy and campaign methods, upcoming events and celebrations, past activities, historical perspectives and related links.
Full text of the opinion of the Court of Appeal. To remedy Charter violations of equality rights, the official definition of marriage is changed, effective immediately, to be the union of two persons.
An overview of the situation in Canada including case law.
A discussion paper on same-sex marriage legislation.
Toronto church conducting what is claimed to be the first legal same-sex marriage in Canada.
This paper reviews some of the issues and developments affecting the legal rights of lesbians and gay men at the federal level as well as in areas of provincial jurisdiction and in the private sector.
Official summary of the ruling which legalized gay marriage in the province of Ontario. The definition of marriage is changed to "the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all others".
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HS2 says it is continuing to lead by example as it published its annual EDI report.
In its latest Equality, Diversity and Inclusion report, HS2 says it is continuing to challenge its national supply chain, and the wider rail engineering and construction sectors, to champion inclusivity.
Across the supply chain, HS2 says its performance continues to beat industry averages for the number of female and BAME employees working on the project, with the supply chain achieving 28% and 18% respectively.
HS2 is working with 2,500 UK-based businesses across its supply chain.
Whilst just shy of the internal targets it set itself, HS2's own performance saw its female workforce reach 37% [40%]. The number of BAME employees peaked at 22% [23%] – although HS2 added it is discretionary as to whether staff choose to disclose their ethnicity and/or disability status.
Natalie Penrose, head of legacy at HS2, said: “HS2’s construction is gathering pace by the day, and we now have a 25,000-strong workforce spread across more than 350 sites. HS2’s scale brings the reality of our challenge to life, given the white male dominance that has gripped the rail and civil engineering sectors for many years.
“But every challenge brings opportunity, and I’m proud of the huge waves we are making to address national skills shortages, the threat of an ageing workforce in engineering and in attracting more women and BAME candidates into employment on the project.”
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Nigel Farage was the most tenacious figurehead for Britain to leave the EU. It was Farage and his party, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), that have been calling for a referendum for decades.
Today, he became the latest leader of the Leave camp to quit. At a press conference, Farage said that he was stepping down as leader of UKIP because he’d achieved his objectives.
I am not and I have never been, a career politician. My aim in being in politics was to get Britain out of the European Union. That is what we voted for… I now feel that I’ve done my bit; that we couldn’t possibly achieve more than we’ve done in that referendum.
It has come as a cost to me and perhaps to those around me. During the referendum I said I wanted my country back. What I’m saying today is, I want my life back.
(It may be very tempting for those 16.1 million people—or 48.1%—who voted against Brexit to respond: “So do we.”)
Farage has resigned before. After failing to win a seat in Parliament at the last UK general election in May 2015, Farage said he’d step aside, but was quickly reinstated. This time appears more final.
His resignation is the latest in a string of fallen leaders. David Cameron, the UK prime minister, campaigned for the country to remain in the EU. When his side lost, and facing not only the exit of the UK from the European Union but also its possible dissolution, Cameron resigned.
Boris Johnson, former mayor of London and a prominent Brexit campaigner, was tipped to become the next prime minister but was the next to crumble as he lost key support in his own party. On the political left, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing a deep lack of confidence from his own party that might also force him to resign.
Before the country’s elections in 2015, UKIP’s demand for a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU—its main campaign platform—was causing Tory MPs to defect and finding voters. So rattled was the Conservative Party that Cameron promised a referendum if he won. After unexpectedly getting a majority, the Conservatives followed through with their promise—and the result was Brexit.
As Farage resigned, he said: “There would not have been a referendum without UKIP.”
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Integration of DevSecOps for Strong Security Practices and Cloud-Native Applications
DevSecOps is a brand-new approach for detecting security bugs early in the development cycle, instead of after a product has been launched.
Security and security risk management are becoming increasingly popular as governments take more steps to fight cybercriminals and prosecute businesses who fail to protect their customers’ data. Security is a massive challenge that, if done incorrectly, can have disastrous consequences for the company. Thus, DevSecOps is the solution to incorporating these problems into a cohesive and reliable software delivery strategy.
It’s a brand-new approach for detecting security bugs early in the development cycle, instead of after a product has been launched. The goal is to resolve the need for constructive, customer-focused protection that avoids data breaches and other cyberattacks rather than responding to them. Through incorporating protection into any step of the development phase, from the requirement stage onwards, DevSecOps will lead to significant savings with addressing security vulnerabilities.
Significance of DevSecOps
Cyber-attacks have risen dramatically in recent years, and even the well-prepared organizations cannot rule out the possibility of being targeted. In the last few days, it was discovered that zero-day attacks accounted for more than 65 percent of all attacks, and that risks to cloud-based apps have steadily risen, from previously insignificant levels, as more enterprises migrate to cloud environments.
Safety must be incorporated into the DevOps process because it can no longer be overlooked or neglected. Furthermore, DevSecOps was born as a consequence of the greater level of threats.
The following are some of the benefits of combining protection with DevOps, or DevSecOps:
- Safety teams would have more pace and flexibility.
- In the end, security from the ground up eliminates several flaws in safety and saves so much time working to fix them.
- Better cooperation between the Production, Operations, and Security teams.
- This integration allows for a quicker, safer, and more efficient implementation of systems, among other things.
Cloud-native DevSecOps basically describes the process of incorporating innovation, operations, and security practices with cloud – based solutions. Scalable, flexible modules are used and secured in a cloud-native implementation. Microservices, declarative APIs, service meshes etc are examples of this.
The different tools, settings, and processes are handled with automation wherever possible, just like in traditional DevSecOps. This automation helps designers to make improvements to products easily and efficiently, while still reducing manual labor on tedious or boring activities.
Cloud-native protection tools are built to be scalable and decentralized, allowing them to respond to changing demands on the run. These tools help development and operations teams work autonomously and safely by allowing meta-data-based security measures to be integrated. In principle, cloud-native tools can outperform conventional tools in terms of functionality, robustness, and quality.
Veritis mentioned that a recent report titled ‘Security for DevOps – Enterprise Survey Report’ shed light on the organizational challenges in securing cloud-native applications.
According to the report, most organizations are looking at ‘automating security through DevSecOps’ as the standard approach for securing cloud-native apps and considering that as a top product requirement.
“More than two-thirds of respondents expect that, within two years, their organization will secure more than half of its production cloud-native applications via DevSecOps practices, up from 42% today. The focus on DevSecOps automation influences product decisions, with DevOps integration being the top business driver influencing product selection,” the survey noted.
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By Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD
Promoted as “a customer service fable,” The Napkin, the Melon & the Monkey is ambitiously subtitled: How to Be Happy and Successful at Work and in Life by Simply Changing Your Mind. Let me confirm that I believe it lives up to its grandiose intention.
The inside back cover notes that author “Barbara Burke is an internationally known consultant, speaker, and author who specializes in the ‘people side’ of customer service management.” The Napkin, the Melon & the Monkey is all about customer service, in this case, specifically customer service in a call center. However, its lessons can be readily applied to all customer service situations, as well as to life in general.
Reminiscent of the classic The One Minute Manager, this fable follows the vocational pursuits of Olivia, a harried customer service representative—that is, a call center agent—working for the local utility.
Starting her position with much excitement and expectation, it isn’t long before the crush of complaint calls and barbs from angry customers brings her to her breaking point.
It is then when wise Isabel, an insightful veteran of the team, comes to Olivia’s rescue. With one simple piece of advice, Isabel changes Olivia’s job outlook and career trajectory.
This, however, is not the only interaction between mentor and mentee, but the first of many such exchanges. Along the way, Olivia records twenty-two “aha!” moments, which have broad applications for call center work, customer service efforts, and life itself.
In case you’re wondering how a napkin, a melon, and a monkey fit into this, let me assure you that they do, serving as apt metaphors for three key points and reoccurring themes in the book.
But don’t take my word for it – read The Napkin, the Melon & the Monkey yourself… and then share it with your coworkers. It just might make all the difference.
Read more in Peter’s new book, Sticky Customer Service, to uncover helpful customer service tips, encouraging you to do better and celebrating what you do best.
Peter Lyle DeHaan is an entrepreneur and businessman who has managed, owned, and started multiple businesses over his carer. Recurring themes included customer service, sales and marketing, and leadership and management. He shares his lifetime of business experience and personal insights through his books and posts.
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Amazing stories of faith from twenty centuries of church history!
From the Roman Empire to the Reformation, St. Valentine to St. Francis, Martin Luther to Billy Graham, On This Day introduces you to a parade of preachers, martyrs, heroes, and saints. Intriguing and inspiring stories from 2,000 years of Christianity offer an enjoyable glimpse into church history. On This Day is 365 simple, colorful stories about history-making events in the lives of people who love God wholeheartedly. On This Day brings a year's worth of inspiration and spiritual challenge as you learn what some Christians went through for the love of God.
"On this Day is an exciting book that recaptures the history of Christianity. It is practical, profound, and powerful! I highly recommend it."
On This Day will whet appetites to learn more . . . life will be enriched by all the fellow believers you never even realized existed."
--Ruth Bell Graham
"A fascinating collection of vignettes."
--James M. Boice
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Why it’s important to join your local political party
Categories: Election News, Latest News
Thursday October 31 2019
With various political parties facing accusations of racial and religious impropriety, and of being detached from the lived experiences of the UK’s minority communities, the importance of a diverse party membership cannot be stressed enough.
It is important that the UK’s religious and ethnic minorities are proactively engaging with and influencing policies which affect them, on both a national and local level. One of the most effective steps in ensuring this is to join a political party.
It is commonly understood that democracy rests on the idea of representation. While there are many barriers to full and effective participation for minority communities, it is nonetheless incumbent on every individual to ensure that they are represented. Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that minority communities are more disenfranchised from the political structures as compared to the average Briton. A Parliamentary briefing paper on ‘Political disengagement in the UK: who is disengaged?’ highlights how ethnic minority communities are less likely to vote and less likely to be registered on the electoral register compared to their white counterparts. The report says that: “25% of first generation and 20% of second-generation ethnic minorities who were eligible to register to vote had not done so, compared to 10% of the white British population”. Furthermore, the report adds, in the 2017 General Election, “turnout among BAME voters is estimated to be around 59%, 11 percentage points lower than the turnout among white voters (70%)”.
Moreover, members of minority communities are not being represented at the decision-making level, even in areas where these communities form a large proportion of the local population. Kate Green, MP for Stretford and Urmston, told MEND: “I want to see more candidates from BAME backgrounds in elected office, including more BAME women. I represent many Asian families in my constituency, but they are very underrepresented on the local council.” This highlights how a lack of BAME and/or Muslim membership in local political parties is leading to a lack of potential candidates for leadership roles and, subsequently, the underrepresentation of members from these communities at a decision-making level. This, in turn, means the voices of the communities to which they belong are being drowned out, and they aren’t having the impact they should on issues that impact them. To avoid this underrepresentation, members of BAME and/or Muslim communities should join and become actively involved in their local parties.
Kate Green MP went on to say: “It’s so important that our elected representatives reflect the diverse makeup of our country. Policy-making is at its best when it draws on the life experiences of everyone in our diverse communities; it’s also a question of voice and legitimacy. I would love to see more people from BAME backgrounds joining political parties and seeking elected office. I urge the parties to do more to support, welcome and encourage new members.”
To be fully represented, communities must be fully engaged. To be registered to vote is essential for every eligible person, but to truly have your voice represented, there are other ways that engagement provides opportunities for influencing the political landscape that governs the country.
MEND recommends you:
– Register to vote here
– Vote in any local or general election
– Explore MEND’s Get Out And Vote (GOAV) website here
– Attend one of MEND’s political masterclasses (find information here)
– Become a member of a political party
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UDC’s Research Week will be held April 4-8. Building on the success of UDC Research Week 2021, this year’s theme, “DIG-IN! Diversity, Innovation, Groundbreaking,” celebrates the diversity and contributions of our faculty across the research ecosystem at the University.
A few of the presentations that will be given at UDC Research Week 2022 include:
- “How Social Robotics Supports Learning Development”
- “Family Members Perspectives on COVID-19 and Self-Efficacy”
- “Addressing Visual Space Integration Deficits in the Art Room”
- “Chatbots for Cyber Security Reducing Threats and Vulnerabilities”
- “Observational Data for Solutions to Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces”
Here are also a few facts about UDC’s Research Ecosystem since last year’s research week:
- $58M in funding proposals submitted for Fiscal Year 2021
- $39M in funding awarded for Fiscal Year 2021
- $8M in FY2021 research expenditures reported to the National Science Foundation
- Six (6) provisional patents filed in FY2021
- The University of the District of Columbia establishes the Office of University Research starting October 1, 2021 (FY2022) per the Equity Imperative
- UDC Community College received a $8.7M grant from the Department of Health & Human Services to lead a local consortium to develop a cadre of public health IT professionals
- President Ronald Mason served on a National Science Board panel to discuss ‘Lessons from the Success of Minority Serving Institutions, May 19, 2021
- Dr. Freddie Dixon, awarded 2021 Women of Color in STEM for Educational Leadership, October 9, 2021
- Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, Director of DARPA, visits the University of the District of Columbia, September 16, 2021
- Dr. Tolessa Deksissa, 2022 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Award for Research Leadership, February 18, 2022
The University of the District of Columbia
The University of the District of Columbia is:
The only urban land-grant institution nationally designated an Historically BlackCollege/University (HBCU)
The only public higher educational option in the District of Columbia
A source of high quality education at an affordable cost
UDC was consolidated as the University of the District of Columbia in 1976 by merging District of Columbia Teachers College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute.
The University of the District of Columbia strives to be a pacesetter in urban education and has the responsibility to build a diverse generation of competitive, civically engage scholars and leaders.
UDC Academic Units:
- College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability & Environmental Sciences (CAUSES)
- College of Arts & Sciences (CAS)
- David A. Clarke School of Law
- School of Business & Public Administration (SBPA)
- School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS)
- UDC Community College
Learning Resources Division (LRD)
- Center for the Advancement of Learning (CAL)
- Offers a diverse range of services, programs, and professional development activities to advance teaching and learning.
- Provides programming in cross-disciplinary, discipline-specific, and institutional capacities customized to the individual needs of departments, schools, and colleges.
- Strives to promote a learner-centered culture that values and rewards inclusive, innovative, and effective instruction and course design.
- Provides online access to over 200 databases with thousands of peer-reviewed articles, newspapers, trade publications, e-books, and multi-media resources.
- Contains over 300,000 print volumes.
- Offers faculty research support, library instruction, in-person and virtual reference services.
- Member of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC)
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Learn to speak Spanish with us at IIC Spanish School in the Dominican Republic. There is so much life and warmth in this culture – you’d be surprised HOW MUCH FUN it is to learn a language on site with the local people.
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- Discover that successful learning is fun, and enjoy learning Spanish in small groups with our native speaking teachers.
- Speak Spanish from day 1 on and practice your newly acquired skills from class on our “salídas pedagógicas” among the locals right in the streets.
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Check out the different Spanish courses we offer. Choose between an intensive immersion experience or a laid-back holiday Spanish Course.
Contact us, we are glad to help and answer your questions.
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Study on the introduction of hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) concept of the water quality management in water supply systems
Water Sci Technol (2006) 53 (4-5): 483–492.
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Water Safety Plans and HACCP implementation in water utilities around the world: benefits, drawbacks and critical success factors
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Water resources security evaluation model based on grey relational analysis and analytic network process: A case study of Guizhou Province
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The International Monetary Fund recommended that countries stop trying to control growing food and energy prices and instead focus on “protecting the most vulnerable” and ensuring that the poorest people are assisted.
National budgets are burdened by efforts to keep prices low, and “higher prices on energy should encourage more efficient use of energy and investments in renewables, while higher food prices should encourage more agricultural production,” according to the research.
“Ensuring affordable access to basic staples, especially where food security is a concern, therefore, should be prioritized”, the report said, suggesting direct cash transfers to low-income groups or other targeted tools be used, instead of universal tax cuts or subsidies.
Countries with existing energy or food subsidies should gradually pass through international prices to retail prices while committing to eliminate subsidies over the medium term.
While global food prices have fallen from their all-time high in March, the conflict in Ukraine is contributing to already high inflation and driving up prices for oil, gas, and consumables like wheat. This not only makes life more difficult for people around the world, but it also raises costs for national governments, who appear to be utilizing subsidies to prevent the full impact of increased prices from reaching home customers.
Instead of the temporary windfall taxes on energy companies that are being proposed in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, the Fund’s analysis recommends that countries tax surplus earnings permanently.
Excess profits, defined as “economic rents in excess of the return required by investors,” would promote social cohesion and may become “a source of significant revenue while causing little distortion,” according to the report.
The Fund also urged governments not to apply export limits, claiming that doing so could jeopardize global food security and “add to further price pressures, especially when imposed by countries with a sizable share of the global market.”
In May, India imposed a ban on wheat exports in order to preserve food security and price stability. However, the report claims that while export limits help to keep domestic prices stable, they also raise international prices, which can encourage smuggling and reduce incentives to produce more.
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How Your Spine Could Be Hurting Your Arm
Arm pain can originate from a number of reason that start in your spine. Your spinal cord is what carries the signals between your brain and your limbs, so if there is any damage on these signal pathways, your brain will be sure to let you know.
Usually, if you are experiencing arm, shoulder, or other upper body pain and suspect it originates from a back problem, you are dealing with a cervical spine issue. Your thoracic spine is the section from the base of your neck to the middle-back. Many things could be causing your pain such as foraminal stenosis, spinal stenosis, or maybe a disc that has been ruptured is compressing a nerve.
See other more specific conditions here.
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Extremely high public service compensation (YKO) surcharges concerning nighttime electricity consumption, an unpleasant surprise for many consumers last winter, once again threaten to burden the budgets of households preparing to use electric heaters this coming winter.
This surcharge cost rose sharply as of the beginning of 2018, when a fixed nighttime rate was replaced by incremental rates rising with higher consumption levels.
This change prompted sharp electricity cost increases for some 30,000 households relying on lower-cost night-zone electricity tariffs.
The problem was recognized by authorities and RAE, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, proposed nighttime surcharge reductions. A legislative revision was needed but the previous government’s energy ministry did not deliver a bill to Parliament. The current government, elected in July, has yet to make a move on the matter.
The RAE proposal called for a nighttime public service compensation reduction from 0.085 euro per KWh to 0.03 euro for the highest consumption category of 2,001 KWh and over, as well as a drop from 0.05 euro to 0.015 euro for the mid-level consumption category of 1,600 to 2,000 KWh.
Since January 1, 2018, nighttime public service compensation charges have been the same as the daytime rates for all consumption categories.
Prior to this, a flat YKO rate of 0.00889 euro for all nighttime consumption amounts applied until December, 2017.
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Blockchain technology is becoming normalised in the business sector. But is it a necessity for global companies?
Most of us have heard about blockchain’s potential to create crime, but we don’t often hear about its capability to combat it.
Artificial intelligence can do anything from write articles to analyse data. It’s versatile. It’s intelligent. But do you really understand it?
Industry 4.0. It’s the future of industry. It’s the foundation that will one day mean a digital society. And it’s starting right now.
Industry 4.0 – or the Fourth Industrial Revolution – is here. Instead of saying ‘one day in the future,’ we’re saying right now.
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Sandwich panels are construction materials used for construction of public buildings (shops, warehouses, cold storage buildings, sports arenas, etc.) and industrial buildings, installing them on bearing constructions made of metal, concrete or wood.
Sandwich panels TENAX are manufactured in a wide range of thickness, with different thermal insulation cores, panel joints and profiling of the steel facings, all of which have a significant influence on the performance characteristics and the appearance of the structure.
• Custom made solutions
• Short delivery time (3-4 weeks)
• Engineering and designing support to clients
• Project management support during construction
• Less cutting work and waste at building site (available panel widths are from 0,6 till 1,2 m)
• Easy to replace the insulation core of panels after project design (for example, from MW to PIR)
• Panel joints are fully compatible with each other (MW, PIR, PUR and EPS)
• Panels are delivered together with complementary elements (flashings, screws etc.)
• More than 10 years’ experience in production, execution and delivering of goods
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This is an English locational surname. It originates from the hamlets of High and Low Bentham, near the town of Settle in the former West Riding of Yorkshire. The village name, and hence the later surname, derives from the pre 7th century Olde English 'beonet - ham', which translates as 'The homestead on the reed grass'. The surname is recorded in the Poll Tax register of Yorkshire for the year 1379, when three men called Bentham, who may have been related, and were most certainly land owners, appear in the records.These were Johannes de Bentham, Ricardus de Bentham, and Thomas de Bentham. It is not clear whether any or all of them lived in Bentham, but the use of the French 'de' would indicate that originally at least, all were from the village. Locational surnames are by their very nature 'from' surnames. That is to say that they were usually names given to people after they left their original homes and moved elsewhere, as an easy form of identification. The exception to the rule is when the local lord of the manor took the village name as his surname, which may well be the case here. For instance at the battle of Boroughbridge in 1322 'Sire Thomas de Bengham' (as spelt) is recorded as one of the knights, in the list known as 'Bodley's roll'. Other examples of recordings from later times are those of Sir Edward Bentaine at St Dionis Backchurch, city of London in 1576, and Thomas Bentham, who married Katherine Brooke, at St Leonards church, Eastcheap, also city of London, on November 5th 1586.
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Control Techs Nw Clackamas,OR | Home A/C Repair: How to Keep Your Cool This Summer
The dog days of summer are here, and that means one thing: it’s hot outside! If you’re like most people, you’re probably running your air conditioner all day long to keep cool. But what happens when your A/C breaks down? Don’t worry, we’re here to help! In this blog post, we will discuss some common Home A/C Repair problems and how to fix them. Keep reading for more information.
Air Conditioners Are A Necessity In Hot Climates
If you live in a hot climate, then you know that an air conditioner is a necessity, not a luxury. When the temperatures start to rise, your air conditioner is what keeps you cool and comfortable indoors. But what happens when your A/C breaks down? You can’t just go without it, especially during a heat wave. That’s why it’s important to know how to troubleshoot and fix common A/C problems so that you can keep your cool all summer long.
One of the most common A/C problems is a loss of coolant. This can happen for a variety of reasons, such as a leak in the system or simply because the coolant level is low. If you notice that your A/C isn’t blowing cold air, then it’s a good idea to check the coolant level and add more if necessary. Another common problem is a dirty or clogged air filter. The air filter traps dust, dirt, and other airborne particles so that they don’t end up in your air conditioner’s coils. Over time, the filter can become clogged with all of the debris it has collected. When this happens, it reduces the airflow and makes it harder for your A/C to do its job. To fix this problem, simply replace the air filter with a new one.
Inspect Your Air Filter Every Month And Replace It When It's Dirty
The most important part of your air conditioner is the air filter. It’s what keeps the dust and pollen out of your home, and it needs to be replaced regularly. Inspect your air filter every month, and replace it when it’s dirty. A clean air filter will help your air conditioner run more efficiently and will extend its life. The best time to replace your air conditioner’s air filter is in the spring before you start using it for the summer.
If you have a central air conditioner, you’ll also want to check the filters in your furnace or heat pump. These filters should be replaced every three months. A dirty furnace filter will make your furnace work harder and shorten its life. Keeping your furnace and air conditioner filters clean is essential so your HVAC system can run efficiently. They will also last longer, and you’ll save money on your energy bills. These are just a few tips to keep your home cool this summer.
Make Sure The Unit Is Properly Sized For Your Home
Making sure your unit is the right size for your home is important for two reasons. First, a unit that’s too small won’t be able to effectively cool your home. This will leave you feeling hot and sweaty all summer long. Second, a unit that’s too big will use more energy than necessary to cool your home. This will end up costing you more money in the long run.
If you’re not sure what size A/C unit you need, it’s best to consult with a professional. They’ll be able to take a look at your home and give you an estimate of the right size for your needs. Home A/C repair can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. With a little bit of knowledge and some elbow grease, you can keep your A/C unit running smoothly all summer long.
Change Your Filter Regularly
One of the most important things you can do to keep your A/C unit running smoothly is to change the filter regularly. Most filters should be changed every three months or so. However, if you live in an area with a lot of dust or pollen, you may need to change it more often.
A dirty filter will make your A/C unit work harder than necessary to cool your home. This not only wastes energy but can also lead to premature wear and tear on the unit. The good news is that changing a filter is a relatively easy and inexpensive task that you can do yourself.
Get Regular Maintenance Checks From A Qualified Technician
In addition to regular maintenance checks, you can also extend the life of your AC unit by doing some simple tasks yourself. For example, changing the air filter is a quick and easy way to keep your unit running efficiently. Another good idea is to keep the area around your AC unit clean and free of debris. By taking these simple steps, you can help ensure that your AC unit will keep you cool all summer long.
The best strategy to prevent an unexpected breakdown is to get routine maintenance inspections from a professional expert. Home AC repair may be costly, so detecting any early signs of trouble is essential before they become catastrophically expensive. Your technician will examine the equipment for any indications of wear and tear during this check and that all components are functioning as expected. If you do find yourself in need of home AC repair, don’t panic. There are a few things you can do to troubleshoot the problem. First, check the thermostat to make sure it is set to the correct temperature. If the thermostat is set correctly and the unit is still not cooling properly, check to see if the air filter is dirty. A dirty air filter can restrict airflow and cause your AC unit to work harder than it needs to.
If You're Feeling Warm, Chances Are You're Not Cooling Your House Efficiently
It’s important to have your air conditioner serviced by a professional before the start of each cooling season. However, there are some things you can do yourself to keep it running smoothly in between service appointments. First, check the outdoor unit and make sure there is nothing blocking the airflow. Then, take a look at the air filter and replace it if it’s dirty. Finally, check the ductwork for any leaks or holes. By following these simple tips, you can help your air conditioner run more efficiently and keep your home cool all summer long.
The warmer months are upon us, so it’s time to start thinking about our air conditioners. If your unit is over a few years old, it might be time for an upgrade. But before you start shopping for a new one, you can do a few things to ensure your current unit is running as efficiently as possible. Having your air conditioner serviced by a professional before the start of each cooling season is essential. This will help to ensure that it is running at peak performance. However, there are some things you can do yourself to keep it running smoothly in between service appointments. First, check the outdoor unit and ensure nothing is blocking the airflow. Then, look at the air filter and replace it if it’s dirty. Finally, check the ductwork for any leaks or holes. Following these simple tips can help your air conditioner run more efficiently and keep your home cool all summer long.
Close Off Unused Rooms And Keep The Doors Closed To Contain The Cool Air.
In the summertime, we all want to keep our cool. Home air conditioners work hard to keep us comfortable when the mercury rises, but there are a few things we can do to help them out. One way to ease the load on your A/C unit is to close off unused rooms and keep the doors closed to contain the cool air. This will allow your unit to work less and last longer. Another tip is to keep the area around your A/C unit clear of debris and dust. By keeping it clean, you’ll help it run more efficiently.
The summer heat can be tough on your A/C unit, but with a little care, you can keep it running smoothly all season long. Follow these tips and enjoy the cooler temperatures indoors. If your home doesn’t have central air conditioning, there are still ways to stay cool. Fans are a great way to circulate air and create a breeze. Some people even choose to install window air conditioners to help beat the heat.
Whatever method you choose, make sure to stay cool this summer! Home A/C Repair: How to Keep Your Cool This Summer | HomeAdvisor closes off unused rooms and keeps doors closed Home A/C repair can be easy with a few tips to follow.
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Shift to clean, affordable energy critical to attaining Global Goals – UN officials
To tackle the double challenge of energy poverty and climate change – producing clean, affordable energy at a pace that will meet rising demand without environmental detriment – all stakeholders must step up efforts to transform the world’s energy systems for everyone’s benefit, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday.
“Energy is the golden thread that connects all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” the Secretary-General told a High-Level Symposium on Global Energy Interconnection, at UN Headquarters today, where participants gathered to discuss ways to advance the 17 globally-agreed Goals.
Modern energy services are integral to poverty reduction, food security, public health and quality education for all. Moreover, they are the key to sustainable industrialization, healthier more efficient cities and successful climate action.
Despite this understanding, Mr. Guterres said the world is still far from achieving the vision of SDG7 on affordable and clean energy for all. Indeed, some one billion people still live without any access to any electricity at all – 500 million in Africa and more than 400 million in the Asia-Pacific region. And three billion still cook and heat their homes without the benefit of clean fuels and more efficient technologies.
“So, the world needs more energy, and – in particular – more clean energy,” Mr. Guterres continued, but stressed that as this need rises, the world is experiencing rising temperatures and in 2016, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide surged to a new high.
Recalling the sobering report issued just yesterday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) which found that pledges made under the Paris Agreement are only a third of what is required by 2030 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the Secretary-General said falling short of the agreed 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise would be “catastrophic.”
Against this background, and in light of the devastating hurricane season that had just battered the Caribbean and similar extreme weather events elsewhere, urgent climate action is needed. “That means transforming the world’s energy systems. It means promoting modern technologies than can fulfil energy needs without polluting the environment and pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” Mr. Guterres explained.
He said today’s Symposium could help point the way, as it would feature both policy- and technical-level presentations on how to strengthen global energy interconnection through the deployment of smart grids.
“With smart grids it is now feasible to generate, transmit and distribute power efficiently, cutting transmission losses and providing clean, affordable, economically viable and environmentally sound energy services,” he stated.
Echoing the Secretary-General’s sense of urgency, Liu Zhenmin, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 SDGs and 169 targets, puts a strong emphasis on inter-linkages. As such, progress in implementing SDG7 on energy is bound to impact delivery on other Goals.
“Likewise, without increased access to modern energy, energy efficiency and renewable energy, there will be no progress on climate action,” he said, emphasizing: “So, we need to move from silo to synergy.” And in that regard, the UN is reforming its development system in response to the 2030 Agenda to provide more coherent support to Member States.
Turning to the role of SDG7 in the broader context of the 2030 Agenda, Mr. Liu highlighted three key points:
- Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all is fundamental to a peaceful, inclusive and sustainable work, and a necessary investment in our collective future;
- Energy is inextricably linked to most of the global challenges now and in the future, including poverty, food security, clean water, infrastructure, public health, education, economic growth, youth’s and women’s empowerment, and climate change; and
- Access to modern energy must go beyond residential power access. It must aim to unlock new entrepreneurial opportunities for the growing workforce, so that they can become the next global engine for the new economies of the future.
“New technologies, new business models, and new approaches to capacity building are all needed to transform the world and achieve global sustainable development. The global energy interconnection, through smart grids, offers one such avenue,” he said.
But such global energy interconnection, or GEI, can only work in partnership. “The technology for worldwide energy connectivity is there. The barriers are institutional, not technological,” stated Mr. Liu, calling for a change in mindset, and stressing that decisive progress can only be made through partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources are indispensable to success.
Source: UN News Centre
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MAO Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released by the US State Department.
The Chinese dictator said he believed such emigration could kick-start bilateral trade but could also "harm" the US with a population explosion similar to China's, according to documents covering US-China ties between 1973 and 1976.
In a long conversation that stretched past midnight at Mao's residence on February 17, 1973, a cigar-smoking Mao referred to the dismal trade between the two countries, saying China was a "very poor country" and "what we have in excess is women".
He first suggested sending "thousands" of women but as an afterthought proposed "10 million", drawing laughter at the meeting, also attended by Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai.
Dr Kissinger, who was president Richard Nixon's national security adviser at that time, told Mao that the US had no quotas or tariffs for Chinese women, drawing more laughter.
He then tried to highlight the threat posed by the Soviet Union and other global concerns as he moved to lay the groundwork for restoring diplomatic ties a year after Nixon's historic visit to China.
But Mao dragged the talks back to Chinese women.
"Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens," Mao said.
"Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million."
Dr Kissinger noted that Mao was "improving his offer".
Mao continued: "By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things.
"They give birth to children and our children are too many."
Dr Kissinger replied: "It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."
The leaders then spoke briefly about the threat posed by the Soviet Union, with Mao saying he hoped Moscow would attack China and be defeated.
But Mao said: "We have so many women in our country that don't know how to fight."
The assistant Chinese foreign minister, Wang Haijung, then cautioned Mao that if the minutes of the conversation were made public "it would incur the public wrath".
Dr Kissinger agreed with Mao that the minutes be scrapped.
But when Dr Kissinger joked he would raise the issue at his next press conference, Mao said he was "not afraid of anything".
"Anyway, God has sent me an invitation," said the Chinese leader, who coughed badly during the talks.
Mao died in September 1976. US-China diplomatic relations were restored in 1979.
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This workshop is intended for family members and caregivers who would like to enhance their skills in managing crisis situations, and learn about de-escalation techniques. Participants will be provided with an overview of the verbal and non-verbal communication concepts and strategies taught in the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® (NVCI) training program that can help in the support and care of family members, or people they support, with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), both at home and in the community.
Please note that participants will not receive a certificate of completion, or become NVCI certified.
Caregiver Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) will be delivered live via Zoom for Professionals and the Zoom link will be e-mailed out by Kerry’s Place two business days before the event start.
To participate in the event, the following is required:
• Mobile Device, Tablet or Computer
• An internet connection
• Speakers and a microphone
• A webcam
Date: Saturday, September 24, 2022
Cost: there is no cost to participate
Please Note: Registration does not guarantee a space in this webinar. To be eligible, confirmation of OAP registration, completion of a Kerry’s Place Autism Services intake meeting and additional documentation may be required to attend.
Foundational Family Services are available to persons under the age of 18, and their families, registered with the Ontario Autism Program. These services assist families in supporting their child’s learning and development. For more information on specific questions related to your child or Foundational Family Services at Kerry’s Place Autism Services, please contact our intake team at: firstname.lastname@example.org or 1-833-77-KERRY (1-833-775-3779).
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The Point and shoot camera is also called the compact camera, the compact digital camera, and sometimes simply referred to as the P&S. These cameras are primarily used for simple operations, and they are the most famous cameras for vernacular photography (simple day to day photography) among people who do not want to indulge in …
A compact camera is also referred to as a point-and-shoot camera. It is a type of camera that is designed for simplicity and ease of use. Point-and-shoot cameras typically have few or no manual controls and are often smaller and lighter than other types of cameras.
Benefits of point-and-shoot cameras
Point-and-shoot cameras are popular because they are easy to use and require little to no knowledge of photography. They are also often small and lightweight, making them easy to carry with you. Additionally, many point-and-shoot cameras have automated features that make it easy to take good photos without a lot of knowledge about photography.
Users of point-and-shoot cameras
Point-and-shoot cameras are popular among amateur photographers and those who want an easy-to-use camera. They are also popular among travelers because they are small and lightweight. Many professional photographers also use point-and-shoot cameras as a backup to their larger, more complex cameras.
Type of photography point and shoot cameras are used for
Point-and-shoot cameras can be used for a variety of photography, including landscapes, portraits, close-ups, and action shots. They are also commonly used for snapshot photography, as they are easy to carry with you and quick to use.
What are the main features to look for when choosing a point-and-shoot camera?
When choosing a point-and-shoot camera, there are a few main features to look for. First, consider the size and weight of the camera. Smaller cameras are typically more compact and lightweight, making them easy to carry with you. However, smaller cameras may have fewer features than larger ones.
Next, consider the megapixel count. This is the number of pixels that make up the image sensor, and it affects the quality of the photos you can take. A higher megapixel count means that you’ll be able to print larger photos or crop them more without losing quality.
Finally, consider the lens. The lens is what collects light and focuses it onto the image sensor. A camera with a longer zoom lens will allow you to take photos of subjects that are far away. A camera with a wide-angle lens is good for taking landscape photos.
Under this category, you’ll find articles about the best point-and-shoot cameras on the market today. In addition to that, we’ll also discuss their important features and give top recommendations to the users.
The best compact camera for wedding photography can eliminate the need of hiring a professional photographer for your once and lifetime wedding event. It is an ideal choice for those who don’t want to spend on expensive professional photographers but still want quality event coverage without indulging in complicated Mirrorless or DSLR cameras and their …
Photographers, whether beginner or professional both lookout for the best budget compact camera because despite being cheap a good budget compact camera can be an excellent second camera. The reason is that compact cameras are easy to carry in pocket and ready to capture high-quality images. And if it comes at a low affordable and …
Why do you need the best compact camera for video shooting? Well, videography is entirely a composition of a different technical language, and being skilled in it helps you go far in this field. But starting videography can be challenging because you need to learn new skills and techniques that help you in video-making. Different …
You need the best compact camera for travel if you love capturing your travel moments but don’t want to indulge in too many camera complications. Compact cameras are smaller in size and lighter in weight, so, they are easier to carry during traveling. Not only do they occupy less space in your luggage but can …
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Tesco supports the UK’s proposed plastic bottle return scheme.
The supermarket giant has announced it is behind the implementation of a Deposit Return System (DRS) if it could be achieved practically and cheaply across the country.
The firm thinks a plastic return initiative should be introduced as only one aspect of a wider approach to reduce waste and increasing recycling in the UK.
A Tesco spokesperson said: “We do support developing a cost-effective DRS and are currently working with a number of partners to scope a project to explore how this can operate in practice and at scale.”
The retailer recently announced it is to stop the sale of 5p carrier bags across the UK from the end of the month and instead offer 10p ‘Bags for Life’.
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Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) (see www.about-hus.com) is a severe, life-threatening complication of an E. coli O157:H7 bacterial infection (see www.about-ecoli.com). Although most people recover from an E. coli O157:H7 infection, about 5-10% of infected individuals goes on to develop HUS.
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome was first described in 1955, and is now recognized as the most common cause of kidney failure in childhood. E. coli O157:H7 is responsible for over 90% of the cases of HUS that develop in North America. In fact, some researchers now believe that E. coli O157:H7 is the only cause of HUS in children.
HUS develops when the toxin from E. coli bacteria, known as Shiga-like toxin (SLT) [1,2], enters the circulation by binding to special receptors. These Shiga-toxin receptors, known as Gb3 receptors , are probably heterogeneously distributed in the major body organs allowing disparate thrombotic (blood clotting) impacts in different HUS victims, although the greatest receptor concentration appears to be in the kidneys, especially in children. As the inflammatory reaction process accelerates, red blood cells are destroyed and cellular debris aggregates within the microvasculature while the body’s inherent clot breaking mechanisms are disrupted. The result is formation of microthrombi within particularly susceptible organs such as the kidneys and brain. Because there exists no way to halt the progression of HUS, doctors are left to support the HUS victim while the acute process runs its course.
Some organs appear more susceptible than others to the damage caused by these toxins, possibly due to the presence of increased numbers of toxin-receptors. These organs include the kidney, pancreas, and brain.
Dave McKibben, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer reported today that:
The 12-year-old, one of seven diners who became ill after eating in a Lake Forest restaurant, remains in intensive care with complications. A 12-year-old girl remained in intensive care Wednesday after being infected with the E. coli bacteria at a Lake Forest restaurant, hospital and health officials said. After being diagnosed with the most serious complication of E. coli Wednesday afternoon, the girl was transferred from Children’s Hospital of Orange County at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo to the CHOC facility in Orange. The girl, whose name has not been released because of privacy issues, was admitted to the hospital Friday. Two others hospitalized after dining at the Foothill Ranch restaurant have been released. One person over age 70 was discharged Tuesday or Wednesday. An 8-year-old boy was discharged Tuesday. Denise Almazan, a CHOC spokeswoman, said the 12-year-old girl, a dancer, was in excellent health before she became ill. Almazan said the girl was diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome, which occurs in less than 10% of those infected with E. coli, usually those younger than 5 or the elderly. People with HUS may develop kidney failure and anemia, and 3% to 5% die.
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This posting is late, due to a lack of internet in Antarctica… In Ushuaia, Argentina at the start of this week we learned that there is less oxygen at the southern end of the world than we are used to, which causes drowsiness. I had thought my exhaustion was from limited sleep on the plane – surely that contributed as well. We took a day tour of Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego where we found tundra-like terrain for Upland Geese and Black Neck Swans to thrive. Sadly, we also saw damage done over time from the original 25 pairs of beavers who were imported with the intent for the pelting industry in 1946. However since the weather conditions here preclude viable enough coats and with the lack of predators, there are now over 100,000 beavers, and their dams prevent water from reaching the roots of indigenous trees… a problem still needing to be resolved.
Late in the afternoon we boarded our ship, Ocean Diamond. With 179 passengers and 22 expedition staff, all served by 122 dedicated ship’s crew, dining, and housekeeping, we sailed away through Beagle Channel, having our safety preparedness drills while at sea.
Later, we were fortunate to have an easy time of two days and nights through Drake’s Passage, normally known for its rough waters. The doctor onboard was helpful in our decision to still take dramamine – see my new nickname for this medicine below, another factor in feeling tired. However, I will take tired over seasick any day, as the dining room was noticeably less full the second night at sea.
I was inspired to write this four verse Haiku:
Cruising to Antarctica
by Claire Adalyn Wright
Through the Drake, no way
could I take showers… as our
ship rocks, lifts and dips.
Drunken sailors walk
the halls, sans any liquor
passing through our lips.
Drowsamine pills cause
during helpful talks,
Where expert staff teach
how to stay safe and have fun
in the Antarctics.
The expedition staff included a variety of people knowledgeable in, for example, geology, marine biology, ornithology, photography, and, who entertained us with lectures, activities and photos. Did you know that the continent of Antarctica doubles in size in winter? Not only is it known as the 7th continent, it is also called the White Continent, and, claimed to be the coldest, driest, highest, and windiest. Nearly summer right now, calving glaciers create floating masses of icebergs and ice floes. Here is my best of first photos of an albatross, and my first sighting of an iceberg bigger than a bus…
We stopped in calmer seas among the South Shetland Islands. This is where we first disembarked on heavy-duty rafts called Zodiacs. If you look at Antarctica’s geography, there is a finger shaped peninsula aimed at Ushuaia toward which we then sailed. It contains the continuation of the Andes mountains of South America. Sailing around parts of the western side of this peninsula, the waters remained calmer. Sometimes the Zodiac drivers piloted us to an island shore or to the continent to hike, and sometimes they cruised us around the waters. Oftentimes we had both a hike and a cruise per day, and that was usually once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
In all we saw:
Cetacean, or Whale
Fin (just their blows)
Humpback (blows, dorsal fins, and tail flukes)
Minke (blows, dorsal fins, and, one who swam under our Zodiac!)
Pinnipedia, or Seal
Crabeating (misnamed as they eat krill!)
Antarctic Terns and their nests
Cormorant and their colonies
Kelp Gull (among many varieties)
Southern Giant Petrels
including Penguin: Chinstrap and their colonies, and many Gentoo and their colonies
*In the lecture, we heard how this particular Albatross for example has white on its head, that particular Albatross has gray on its head, this one has dots on its wings, that one has stripes on its wings – all very hard to identify from a distance!
As if that were not enough, other events that stand out include snowshoeing; finding new born penguin chicks keeping warm beneath a parent’s body; seeing iridescent rainbow clouds above dense bright white clouds below beautiful blue skies;
the full moon following us; our ship plow through sea ice; remains of yesteryears – like skeleton boats of the whaling industry;
and, the myriad forms of glacial ice.
These among other photos that I did not capture include a glacier calving down a partially exposed rocky mountainside as if sand in an hourglass; that Minke whale that swam about a meter – 3 feet, below our Zodiac; an evening BBQ on an outer deck where we bundled up underneath our handmade hats to compete in a contest.
An additional noteworthy experience is the night when sixty of us – plus four staff – camped on the snow. We spread out over a wide berth on Ronge Island to sleep amid the Antarctic sounds: like calving of ice and snow sounding like rifle fire, thunder, or a slushing noise; terns chirping in flight; noisy skua seeming to be jockeying for a partner to sleep beside; then, snow crystals bouncing on our outer layers of protective ground bedding, first gently, then heavily, as the hours of the all-night-light sky ticked by. While two centimeters – more than half an inch, of accumulating snow fell, the vistas morphed from distinctive mountains, glaciers, clouds and dark southern ocean, to simply blended grays and whites.
The overnight inspired my most recent Haiku:
Antarctic Outdoor Overnight
by Claire Adalyn Wright
during the night – barely I
slept, for sound and sight.
All along the past two and a half years of our journey, different people have asked if we would visit Antarctica. My answer was always no, little dreaming how much of interest this part of the world was to Loren, and that it would become part of our experience.
Since booking our voyage, some people have asked if we would take Bikram Yoga classes while there, or, wondered if we would spend each night on the ship. There are no settlements on Antarctica, just the very few research stations. Most of those are abandoned and yet to be cleared off per recent inter-country agreements. The one exception we came across was Port Lockroy, an historic British outpost that receives thousands of applications for the meager few staff positions briefly available each summer. Here we were able to mail a few postcards. So, no there are no opportunities to take yoga classes on the 7th continent, and, other than our one night of snow camping, we spent all of our nights onboard the Ocean Diamond.
Returning from the Southern Ocean to the rough to us swells of Drake’s Passage, our walk was step-step-shuffle-shuffle-shuffle. Our sleep was lulled by rocking – except for occasional big thumps, sudden drops, or unexpected rolls, as if airline turbulence. Once again we were fortunate in that most of the time the ship kept up a nice rhythmic pace through the Drake, alternatively feeling like a waterbed, cradle, hammock, or rocking horse, not unlike a breathing-in and breathing-out of the open ocean, reminding me how waves on a beach often feel like the heartbeat of the Earth. We made our return voyage with more informative lectures and fun gatherings, one of which was a photo contest where two of Loren’s photos and one of mine were given Honourable Mention. Loren’s are included his most recent “On the Road…Just Didn’t Know” Photos with Poetry e-blast.
We sailed on, first seeing Cape Horn which straddles the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. We had such an easy time through the Drake that we idled around Cape Horn for hours before sailing overnight through Beagle Channel to Ushuaia. I am so very appreciative for the opportunity to have traveled on this exceptional, otherworldly excursion. Now in the Buenos Aires area since late last evening, I am still feeling as if my body is being gently lulled and rocked as I stand, walk, or sit.
We wish you Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!
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Whether you are selling your existing home or buying a new one, you will first need to know the property’s value. If you already own a property the most common way of finding this out is to get the house valued, which you should do as close to the time you want to sell as you can, as prices can stagger quite a lot, even in a matter of months.If you are buying a property for the first time the chances are the search will of already been carried out for you, which is when you have to be a bit sneaky and find a way to get the property for a better price, if it genuinely has been priced up.
There can often be a difference of opinion between a lot of valuers as to how much a property is worth, so one valuer may value it at £200,000, while another will think it is worth £190,000. If you are looking at a property that you want to buy and think it is over priced then there a number of things you can do.
Valuing a Property YourselfDepending on who owns the property you could take your own valuer along to asses how much they think the property is worth, the owners may or may not be very pleased about you doing this, so it is worth mentioning it to them and trying to find some excuse as to why you would need to do this, as they could see it as an insult.A lot of valuations are carried out automatically these days to save time, so it could be that the original valuer didn’t even make a trip to inspect the property, which isn’t always the best way to do things.
Another trick that people often have up their sleeves when it comes to valuing a property is to compare it against other houses on the same street that may be in a similar price bracket.There are a number of websites available where if you type in the postcode of your chosen house or a house close by it, it will tell you how much the house sold for and when. This can also give you a good idea as to whether house prices in that area have gone up or down over the past few years. If you find that a similar house next door sold for a lot less within the same year, then you may be in a good position to lower your offer and try and get the property for a cheaper price.
It may seem like a tug of war at first, as the person selling the property will inevitably want to get as much as they can for it, while the person buying it will want to purchase it for the best price they can get, hopefully a happy medium can be found.It is always worth putting a bid in below the asking price of a property, as you have nothing to loose, but if you are really serious about the property then unless you are 100% confident this may not be the best tactic to play. When the housing market is good people will normally offer above the asking price, but if a property crash looks like it is on the horizon then people will try their luck and offer lower.Depending on how much a lender is willing to lend to you for your mortgage, it could mean that offering lower than the asking price means the difference between you owning your dream property or merely dreaming about it. So, do your research, see how much other properties have sold for in that area and put on your bargaining hat.
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The Children of Menasseh – A Lost Tribe of Israel
Stand for Israel | February 17, 2021
During the First Temple era, Israel divided into two kingdoms. The Kingdom of Judah, in the south, consisted of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, as well as Levi. The northern kingdom, the Kingdom of Israel, consisted of the other ten tribes, including Joseph’s son, Menasseh. This tribe is believed to be the Bnei Menashe, which we’ll discuss.
A Lost Tribe of Israel
In the 7th century BCE, the Assyrians invaded and conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel. Those ten tribes, either exiled or enslaved by the Assyrians, came to be known as the Lost Tribes. The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew for “Children of Menasseh”), a tribe living in the far northeastern corner of India, began to make aliyah nearly 15 years ago, with help from The Fellowship. At the time, Rabbi Eckstein had this to say:
Recently I returned to India to visit these dear people and reassure them of The Fellowship’s support. While my trip was short, it was encouraging nonetheless. I was able to visit Bnei Menashe synagogues, and felt privileged to be invited into their homes. In my private conversations with them, there were two recurring themes: Their gratitude to learn that American Christians are helping them return to Israel, and their intense and enduring desire to come home to the Holy Land.
Returning to Israel
Yes, Christian friends of the Jewish people played an important role in bringing God’s children home, just as you bring home God’s children today. And making aliyah (immigrating to Israel) is not even the hardest part of these precious people’s journey. No, as Rabbi Eckstein also pointed out:
Our commitment to Jewish immigrants extends far beyond simply bringing them to Israel. The klitah (resettlement) process includes a broad range of services to help the Bnei Menashe successfully establish their new life as full citizens in Israel and provide their basic needs, including language and job training, housing, schooling, and financial assistance to help them through this time of transition.
So, as we rejoice that these children of God have returned to their biblical homeland, we also thank Him for friends of the Jewish state and her people like you who continue to make possible The Fellowship’s prophetic work – through your gifts, through your prayers, and through our shared faith.
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TWI Industrial Member Report Summary 740/2002
D W Taylor
Cutting is an important application for materials processing with lasers, dominated by the use of CO 2 lasers for the cutting of steels. Laser users have four basic requirements for laser cutting: cut quality, cutting speed, cutting reproducibility and material cost. There is evidence that some types and grades of steel have improved quality, cutting speed and reproducibility over others.
Currently the evidence for factors that affect cuttability comes from anecdotal evidence from end users and from steel suppliers who have launched 'laser grade' steels. As described in this report, laser grade steels are those which are marketed as providing improved cutting speed, quality and reproducibility. The compositions and manufacturing processes used by other steel makers may also provide benefits for laser cutting, but these are not always promoted on this basis. The issue of laser cutting quality is complex with a variety of parameters that can affect the process such as:
- Variable laser related parameters - including power, speed, assist gas pressure, lens focal length.
- Fixed laser parameters - for example laser beam quality or pulsing capabilities.
- Machine performance - such as focus position control or stability of motion.
- Operator influence - both at an individual level and a company level.
- Material composition - such as levels of carbon, manganese, silicon, phosphorus, sulphur.
- Surface condition - mill scale condition and surface preparation methods.
- Material dimensional effects - flatness and material thickness control.
Greater understanding of the influence of the above factors should allow steel makers to supply steel plates with improved cuttability, leading to greater consistency and reproducibility of the laser cutting process. To provide some of this understanding a study of how the material composition and surface condition of carbon and C-Mn steels can affect the quality of CO 2 laser cut edges has been carried out.
The objectives of the work performed were:-
- To determine current market views and establish the level of current understanding of factors that affect laser cut quality of carbon and C-Mn steels through an industry survey.
- To determine the influence of different operators and laser cutting systems on laser cut quality of carbon and C-Mn steels up to 12mm thickness.
- To determine the influence of the plate composition effects and plate surface condition effects on laser cut edge quality and propose guidelines for the selection of carbon and C-Mn steels, up to 12mm thickness, for laser cutting.
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December 20, 2015, Israel
Can guns and songs go together? Can rifles and guitars be slung over the same shoulders? Can you fight for peace?
Yes, the answer is yes.
And this people in Israel raise their voices in song, in prayer, to heaven, to mankind, for peace, for an end to war. A song, a prayer for the soldiers to come home safely, to return from the battle, for this war to be the last war.
I have grown up in this country, every war has its songs, every generation has its songs. Everyone is training for war but everyone is praying for peace.
From the rabbinical academies reciting the Psalms of King David to the beatniks on the beaches of Tel Aviv, with the harp and with the guitar, we are all one, and we are all singing the same song.
The smoke is mixed with tears, the gun power is mixed with prayers, it is the sacrifice offered to heaven, no less than that offered by our ancestors years ago on the alter at the Temple.
Brothers go out to war, brothers and sisters, fathers and sons, rockets, bullets, but here we are, we are back home and this people shall never fall back. The spirit of this people shall never be broken.
Images flood the mind, memories fill the heart, different hairstyles, but the spirit is the same, one generation after another, young men walking off to war saying "Don't' worry, really, there is no reason to worry, I will be home soon."
And we pray for peace. The songs go up to heaven like the sacrifices on the Temple alter, the gun power is the incense of the High Priest, and we pray for no more bloodshed.
Sadness brings songs of hope, and the sound of the shofar, the ram's horn sounds as the old and the new mix. The footsteps continue from one generation to another and we long for the words...All our forces have come home safely, B'Shalom, in peace.
Little boys grow up and become soldiers, little girls grow up and are on the front line supporting them, all too young, all too much. Young men run into battle shouting "After me", some...never come home and the prayers go up to heaven, another sacrifice. The Levites of old join with the singers of today and the song is one, a song of peace but a song of war. Put on the uniforms, the warriors of old were anointed with olive oil, the warriors of today wear olive uniforms. And the singers and song writers of the holy city offer their prayers, their songs, a prayer for peace.
A soldier walks off, and we wonder, and we hope and we pray, and we sing. From one generation to another the song remains, a song of hope.
The song is not only words, not only sounds, it is hope, it is spirit, it is the soul.
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Meet General Grant
Amerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928.
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Cookbooks can be fun to review (plus I like learning how to make new dishes). Last month, I proofread a collection of recipes for a client. This required a lot of attention to measurements and to the flow, structure, and format of the steps; ensuring the steps coordinated with the illustrations or photos; ordering the list of ingredients; and many, many other things.
Following a recipe
Recently, I made applesauce using this recipe I found online, halving all the measurements because I only had three apples:
After the cooking was complete, my apples were soft but still had their cut shapes. “They forgot to say something about mashing the apples. This recipe wasn’t edited!” I complained. Even though it was obvious you might have to mash the apples, the step should still be included.
The revised recipe
Weeks later, when I did have six apples, I made another batch of applesauce, and it was clear. The apples mostly dissolved into mush themselves. Hence, there was no need to mention mashing them—except I still would add that step, as I don’t know whether what happened to my apples was because of the number of apples I used or the variety.
The same recipe instructions, cleaned up, might look like this:
Peel and core the apples and cut them into quarters. Place them in an enamel saucepan with the water and lemon juice. Bring to a boil, then turn the heat down slightly and simmer 30 minutes to break them down and get them to thicken. Take the saucepan off the heat and stir in the sugar and cinnamon, if using. Mash any large chunks of apple that remain.
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Qualia and the Standard Double Standard
Wednesday: Now here’s the thing. We’re gonna act real normal.
The Addams Family: Gasp!
Grandma: Define “normal.”
(Addams family Musical)
My friend studies philosophy, a field full of theories that I know very little about (as my course of study is the much more practical study of ethics). Recently she explained to me a concept in philosophy called qualia – the subjectivity of experience – that is the source of much theoretical discourse. She listed questions like: How can I know that the way I see green is the way you see it? Doesn’t every person derive different emotions from the same experiences? She explained that these questions make philosophers wonder if people can ever actually relate to others. If we don’t know exactly how others feel, then how can we ever claim to relate with them?
This conversation had three main effects on me: 1. It made my head hurt, 2. It reminded me why I am not studying philosophy and 3. It shoved in my face the limits of rationality. It is on the latter point that this post will focus. Because, despite coming to the logical conclusion that it is impossible to actually relate to others, my heart tells me a contradicting reality… Emotions hold within them some kind of truth that logic can never begin to fathom even in her purest form. These contradicting truths often create double standards in our behavior especially toward those we are more passionate about: toward those we love. And it is here that my story begins…
Just like the Addams Family says so elegantly, my family is not normal. Despite all the petty fighting, the teasing, the peculiarities that, similar to gefilte fish and horseradish, become normalized only after living with and being surrounded by them for years, despite the love shown through eating an extra piece of pita bread, or home cooked challah french toast even though you already told Grandma or Bubbe (Yiddish for grandma) that you are stuffed but she managed to either “not hear” or forget… despite all of this we stick together. We take the cliché mi casa es tu casa quite literally.
I love my family. They help keep me grounded and I am super grateful to have such a tightly-knit one. I understand the importance of them in my life. So, logically it would follow that I treat them the kindest… that I am most forgiving to those who are most giving. However, time and time again despite this gratefulness and unconditional love, I find my family gets me so angry, upset or disappointed over things that I wouldn’t even notice in any of my friends. It’s an emotional reality that logic fails to comprehend.
I hold a double standard, and that standard is not in favor of those closest to me. I often find myself in a feedback loop in which my family irrationally frustrates me, and the fact that I get frustrated frustrates me more until the cycle repeats… And, now since college has empowered me to critically examine myself, I dedicated it is time to unpack this double standard and find the balance between my conflicting logical and emotional truths.
I realize that I am talking a lot in the abstract here so let me give a concrete example of the logic-emotion double standard in action:
My younger sister and I are perfect complements. She is petite, blonde and blue-eyed, and I am tall (on my family’s standards), with brown eyes and hair. I am gifted with academic intelligence, but can use some guidance when it comes to people smarts; whereas, she just gets people but can use some help with academics, particularly with math. This dichotomy has resulted in her coming to me for math help, and me coming to her for help socializing (particularly with girls) ever since math became difficult and girls stopped having cooties (which conveniently was around the same time).
Whereas I would like to think that I was the only person privy to my sister’s girl advice, my sister was certainly not the only person I helped in math. I was a tutor, with years of experience teaching elementary through high school level math. Despite tutoring being far from easy (sometimes tutees would sleep, give-up or just wouldn’t get it), I loved it. Sure, it was frustrating at times, but I never allowed my frustration show. I knew that such frustration would help neither me nor the tutee. I also realized that although I may understand and be fascinated with the reason why log(x) and 10x are inverses and what that meant algebraically and graphically, that my tutees didn’t share that same fascination. And, that was okay. They didn’t need to know why things worked for the test, all my tutees needed to know was how they do. I would tailor my instructions accordingly, such that the breadth of knowledge was prioritized over the depth of knowledge. Even though I firmly believe that from depth of knowledge comes breadth of knowledge, I understood that they didn’t and that I needed to teach in a way they would understand, regardless if it’s not the “ideal way.” In essence, I followed the “logical truth.”
However, no matter how hard I try, I am nearly never able to extend the same courtesy to my sister. It’s unfathomable. With my sister, I am not okay with her not understanding the why behind math. I get frustrated so quickly when she doesn’t pick something up and I give her little help when navigating through a problem set, as I rather empower her to find the solution than enable her with it. I do this even though time and again it results in frustration on both sides, a lack of learning and in the worst cases a total shutdown toward the subject matter.
I understand my hypocrisy in these situations; I acknowledge my double standard and I still cannot shake it. I feel like not enforcing the “why” (despite her general disinterest) would be limiting my sister’s understanding of math. My thoughts go as follows:
I love her, and she looks up to me. Isn’t it then my responsibility to act as a role model to her and give her the most access to knowledge (mankind’s greatest tool)? Plus, if I give her the answers now what will happen once, I return to college? Doesn’t it make more sense to see her struggle, because in the long run it will result in independence? Tough love is acceptable sometimes…
Emotions entirely rule my behavior toward my sister, whereas they don’t even come into play with others. And I struggle to find the balance between the two competing forces. It is so hard to help those you love.
Realizing that finding the answer on my own would prove nearly impossible, I asked someone who has a lot of experience balancing logic with emotions for advice. I explained my predicament to my Grandma…
The more I told her, the more she related to me, explaining that many times in her role as a loving, caring mother she has to balance enforcing discipline with wanting to give love to children and grandchildren. Although this creates a sense of cognitive dissonance, it is something that allows her to be the best mother she can be. Sometimes hypocrisy is necessary, especially when dealing with those we love, Grandma said. She continued it’s finding the proper balance between love and discipline that people always struggle with. That balance doesn’t exist with those you don’t love – those outside your family – which is why you feel so frustrated around your family sometimes. It’s your unconditional love that drives your frustration, and your “double standard.” It’s up to you to find what balance makes sense for you so that you can help your sister and not get frustrated. Either way never stop listening to your heart and your brain. They are both important decision driving forces.
It was one of those conversations that last five minutes but feel like they last hours, because the amount of wisdom gained is that of a lifetime. I knew I chose the right person to talk to.
While I am still working on finding the proper balance of logic and emotion, conversations like this one bring me a sense of tranquility. They remind me that we are all human, and that despite my family on the whole not being “normal,” the way we feel and act as individuals certainly is. So, albeit I am still coming to terms with my double standard, I know it is something healthy. Hypocrisy is not always bad, and being “normal” is not something to always strive for, despite logic concluding otherwise. That is to say, there is a limit to rationality, and that limit is not always something to despise; qualia, although may logically isolate us, brings us together through shared emotions.
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How are you running things in your household? Do you divide the chores so that the kids can learn how to do their share in maintaining the home? Do you make them responsible for cleaning their own room? Do you make sure that there’s equal time for playing and studying?
One more thing that you should include on the list of things to teach children is saving electricity. Read on to find out how you can raise kids who are environmentally conscious and find out how you can teach them to save electricity inside your home.
Teaching Kids to Be Eco-Conscious
As you may already know, the natural resources across the globe are slowly being depleted. The effects of global warming are also slowly catching up on Earth, which is why each and every household is encouraged to do their part in reducing carbon emission. This is something that can be done by cutting back on energy use – starting from electricity to water.
What’s good about living in a country like the US is that clean water can be had simply by turning on the faucet. There are other not-so-fortunate people in the world who live in areas where potable water is difficult to come by.
This is exactly the reason why kids should be taught that all-important lesson of conserving energy, both electricity and water. If the value of being eco-conscious is something that was ingrained in them while still young, they can carry this over well unto adulthood. The result is that more and more households in the future will become eco-conscious, and every little bit helps in this regard.
Lots of Ways to Teach Kids How to Save Electricity
As a parent, there are many things that you can do inside the house to make sure that you are conserving electricity. Not only will this make your household more eco-friendly, but you can also cut back on the utility bills that you have to pay. The savings that you will incur will add up, so you can free up money from your budget to buy the little luxuries that you can afford.
So what can you do in order to make sure that your house is operating in an electricity-efficient manner? If you have not already done so, replace all your light bulbs with energy saving ones. As compared to traditional lights, LEDs last longer without affecting the level of brightness of the lamps.
Not only that, but you will also be saving a lot of energy in the process. When replacing big ticket appliances at home, look for ones with a high energy efficiency rating.
Although you can save big on electricity by doing these two tasks, you can save even more if you will teach the kids how to do their share in helping slash off your electricity bills. So how exactly can you teach kids the value of saving electricity? Take a look at the following list:
Have the kids turn off appliances when not in use
If the television set in the living area is not in use, have the kids turn it off, along with any other appliance which is not being used. Leaving any electronic gadget or electrical appliance on when nobody is using it is simply a waste of electricity.
If your three-year-old is coloring books, for instance, show him or her how you turned off the television set in order to save on electricity. When doing such tasks that help you save on energy, explain to the younger kids that what you are doing is friendly to the environment and that it will help you cut back on electricity bills.
Say goodbye to standby electricity
Standby power, standby electricity, vampire power, phantom power or phantom electricity – this is the amount of energy being used when appliances are left on standby mode instead of fully turning them off. Phantom electricity can take up as much as 15% of your overall electricity use, so you should teach the kids how not to accumulate phantom power!
How can it be done? If you have a gadget-crazy household, for example, and you have an assortment of laptop computers, mobile phones, tablets, MP3 players, gaming consoles, etc. What do the kids do after the device has been fully charged? It could be that they are simply leaving the charger onto the electrical outlet.
When this happens, the charger is actually consuming phantom electricity. The same thing holds true for television sets and other appliances which are left on standby mode instead of being fully turned off. To make the task of turning these appliances off a lot easier, what you can do is use a power strip. This way, you only need to press one button to turn everything off when leaving the house.
During winter, get them to dress in warm clothes even while inside the house
Heating and cooling costs account for about 50% of a household’s overall electricity usage. During winter, make the heating system in your house work to the fullest by adjusting the temperature by at least one degree.
Then, simply have the kids dress warmly even while inside the house. You can do the same thing during summer. Instead of always leaving the air conditioning unit on, you can have the kids dress in cool clothes.
Limit their time online
Almost all kids of different ages these days are addicted to gadgets like tablet computers. What you can do as a parent is limit the amount of time that they spend online. Not only will you be saving electricity in the process, but you can also get them to play real games with other kids outside the house.
Teach the older kids how to conserve energy especially when doing household chores
If you have a tween daughter, for example, you can teach her how to conserve electricity by only turning on the dishwasher once it has a full load. Eliminate having to use the hot water cycle when doing the laundry so that you can save on electricity.
If you must use an electrical iron to press clothes, do it during night time or in the cooler part of the afternoon so that you can save on energy. Have the kids open the blinds or curtains to let in as much of the natural light and air as possible.
Have them help out in the kitchen and explain to them how electricity can be saved while preparing food
If you must reheat food, use the microwave instead of the regular oven. If you must whisk something, use a regular whisk instead of the electric one. The added bonus is that you can give your arms a slight workout. While you are preparing food in the kitchen, have the kids help out and explain to them what you are doing in order to save on electricity.
Download apps that will teach them the value of conserving energy
For the older kids who are spending quite some time on their tablet computers, you can download apps that will teach them the value of conserving energy.
For instance, there are apps which help homeowners manage energy consumption. Other apps teach kids about the value of using alternative energy sources like solar energy.
There are also applications which teach kids how to read an electrical meter or how to monitor the energy consumption inside the home. With these apps, kids can learn about the value of conserving energy.
Teach them the value of also saving water
While you’re at it, why not teach kids the value of saving water as well? Just like electricity, water is a precious resource that needs to be saved. If not conserved, the natural water resources can easily dry up and no safe-to-drink water will be available for people.
How can you get kids to learn about the value of saving water? Encourage them to join you in making science projects like a rain barrel. Demonstrate what happens and how water shortage will occur if there is no rain and no water is collected inside the barrel.
More than that, it’s their everyday habits that need to change if you would like to teach them how to conserve water. Encourage them to take shorter showers, teach them how to only use a glass of water while brushing their teeth, and teach them additional ways to save water inside the house.
Some of these may sound like small changes to make. But when they are done every day, the difference will be huge especially once you see your next electricity bill. By teaching kids the value and importance of saving electricity, you can impart to them the lesson that electricity and water are resources that need to be conserved.
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Without them, it will be more difficult to lead a clean, healthy and happy lifestyle – just imagine how you can survive a day without running water or electricity. Start your kids young so that they can develop green habits that will last them for practically a lifetime.
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When buying dresses online, it is important to take accurate measurements to ensure a better fit.
You can measure a dress to find its size and length by laying it on a flat surface and using a measuring tape. Dress sizes are different at most stores. You can also measure your body to figure out which sizes work best for you. It's easy to take these measurements and well worth your time.
Steps to Measure a Dress
- Chest: Place the tape close under the armhole and measure from side seam to side seam.
- Waist: This is the narrowest part at the waist. Place the tape from side to side directly at the waistline.
- Hip: Place the tape approximately 7–9 inches below the natural waistline and measure from side to side at the hip line.
- Flare: This is length of the flare of your dress. Flare is the bottom wide length of your dress.
- Strap to Hem: This is length from the top of the strap down to the hem.
- Waist to Hem: This is length from the top of the waistband to the bottom of the hemline.
Steps to Measure Your Body
- Measure your chest: Stand up straight with your arms hang down in a relaxed, natural pose. Measure around the fullest part of your chest. Tight up under the armpits and over the shoulder blades.
- Measure your waist: Stand up straight in a relaxed, normal position. Run the tape around the narrowest part of your natural waist. This is usually where the belly button is.
- Measure your hips: Stand with your feet together. Measure around the fullest part of your hips and rear. This is typically midway between your crotch and your belly button.
Tips for Taking Measurements
- For dress measuring, take all measurements lying flat on a clean floor or table because hanging clothes can stretch as you measure.
- For body measuring, keep the measuring tape snug but not too tight. If you do it too tight then you'll get the wrong measurements and your dress won't fit properly.
- Measure twice to ensure the most accurate measurement.
- Record measurement to the nearest ¼ inch. Remember that lying flat measurements are generally doubled (e.g., lying flat waist of 13.5″ can be understood as a 27″ waist) so a ¼ inch could make a difference.
- Always choose the larger size if your measurements come between two sizes, especially when you're ordering online.
- Each country has its own sizing standards. No worries, you can choose the size based on your measurements and find the corresponding sizes on different size charts.
To reduce the return rate after a successful sale, we also recommend that you can create a size chart with unit conversion to make your customers pick the unit they are most comfortable to think in to make a purchase decision.
Or use Kiwi Sizing AI Size Recommender as a size chart tool. It will recommend the most suitable size of products for customers to reduce return rate, help you decrease the cost of the return, and to create a positive cycle of your e-commerce business.
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Environmentally friendly teas really are a frequent tea quite a few persons sip. Several people today enjoy ingesting coffee but personally I like tea. An updated examination of down-to-earth lipton diet citrus green tea plans. The will it style excellent but includes other terrific utilizes also. Mainly reusing the teabag for skin care and handling.
In the last handful of decades, health care experiments have proved that it contains a robust antioxidant that would be wonderful for persons. Environmentally friendly tea is made up of something termed epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG. This anti-oxidant stops most cancers mobile advancement likewise kills cancer cells with out harming nutritious tissue. Can be astounding and now it is just from the simple tea.
Despite its gentle coloration, eco-friendly tea does comprise caffeine comparable to most other their tea. There is certainly some discussion as as to if decaffeination ruins the health advantages with the polyphenols, truthful and useful . use biggest judgment when buying your tea leaf.
This tea is really a excellent anti-oxidant. Bloodstream . the digestion of food stuff by boosting the metabolic exercise belonging into the physique. The increase in metabolic approach is created by removing dangerous contaminants from the physique.
The very first good issue with regards to the extract form of environmentally friendly tea is that the function get the caffeine that by natural means takes place in the eco-friendly tea. This really is perfect for persons who have difficulties with caffeine or with any individual who wants to glimpse at tablet later in time or evening and not need to remain up late evening.
Most within the researches exhibiting the health advantages of environmentally friendly tea assert that the advisable inexperienced tea dosage is three cups every week. This is actually the normal amount of cups eaten in the majority of Asian near to.
Exploration indicates that environmentally friendly tea has native anti-oxidants referred to as cathechins. These antioxidants are proving keeping helpful in several areas of assisting human human body the organic way.
Black Teas. Naturally, we even now actually ought to point out our most favored tea within the remainder of the world. Black tea offers 20% together with the caffeine of coffee and sometimes has a more powerful taste than other teas. Arthritis typically consume their black tea with sugar or creme. Healthcare exploration implies that black tea might help with lowering ldl cholesterol!
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Enefit Green has taken final investment decision for 32 MW
Enefit Green has taken final investment decision on 32 MW Purtse solar farm, the largest solar farm for Enefit Green to date, with an estimated annual production of 32 GWh, which covers the annual electricity consumption needs of more than 10,000 average Estonian households.
Purtse solar farm will be part of Estonia’s first large-scale hybrid wind and solar solution that uses the same grid connection as Enefit Green’s 21 MW Purtse wind farm, the investment decision of which was made at the end of January.
Purtse solar farm is expected to be completed in Q2 2023. Enefit Green is investing up to 19.5 million euros in completion of the project.
Enefit Green is one of the leading diversified renewable energy producers in the Baltic Sea area. The Company wind farms in Estonia and Lithuania, cogeneration plants in Estonia and Latvia, solar farms in Estonia and Poland, a pellet plant in Latvia and a hydroelectric plant in Estonia. In addition, the Company is developing several wind and solar farms in the mentioned countries and Finland. As of the end of 2021, the Group had a total installed electricity production capacity of 457 MW and a total installed heat production capacity of 81 MW. During 2021, the Company produced 1,193 GWh of electricity and 618 GWh of heat.
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Origin of the name:
-opsis: indicates a resemblance.
The name was given related to some species having similarities to the genus Rhipsalis.
Britton, N. L. & Rose, J. N. (1923): The Cactaceae. Descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family 4: 209.
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Epiphyllopsis A. Berger
Berger, A. (1929): Kakteen: 97.
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December 27, 2022 to January 8, 2023
This winter break, the Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology is hosting a free, drop-in activity centre all about Victorian toy making! In the 19th century, many children’s toys were hand-made from materials like wood, paper, and string – no batteries, circuit boards, or phone apps in sight! Try out some classic Victorian toys, learn about how toys were made in the past, and make your own keepsake toys and crafts to take home.
Housed in a 150-year-old Waterworks, this National Historic Site preserves two 70-ton steam powered water pumping engines, perhaps the oldest surviving Canadian-built engines. The museum is home to Hamilton’s first Waterworks built in 1859 to pump water from Lake Ontario to the citizens of Hamilton. Guided tours include a look at two 70-ton steam-powered engines preserved in their original context.
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By Dan Gookin
The go-to app on your Windows 10 laptop for chatting it up is Skype. You can connect with other Skype users to text-chat, voice-chat, and video-chat. If you already have a Skype account — great! Otherwise, you can use your Microsoft account to sign in.
The Skype app dwells on the All Apps list. Click the Start button, and then All Apps, and then locate the Skype app. If you don’t see it, look for the Get Skype app, which installs Skype.
After the Skype app starts, sign in or create an account. Work through the setup. Eventually, you see the main screen.
To place a Skype call to a Skype contact, choose the contact. They must be online and available. After they connect, you can text-chat or bring it up a notch and activate voice- and video-chat.
You can call a real phone with Skype only when you have Skype credit. You can see the Skype credit, which is a paltry $4.49. Even so, that’s enough to chat for several minutes — even internationally. Use the dialpad to type the number and connect.
When you’re done using Skype, you can set it aside or sign out.
If you set aside Skype, it stays active and catches incoming chats or video call requests. Simply close the app window to set it aside. Click the App button on the taskbar to reactivate Skype, or choose the notification for an incoming message.
To sign out of Skype, click the Skype menu item and choose Sign Out. You hear the “Skype deflating” audio play, and then the sign-in screen appears. You’re officially signed out of Skype and can close the app window.
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One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the “Cold War” or the “War on Terror” narratives. A totally delusional official narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is contradicted by a preponderance of facts.
Nazism and Stalinism are the classic examples, but the phenomenon is better observed in cults and other sub-cultural societal groups. Numerous examples will spring to mind: the Manson family, Jim Jones’ People’s Temple, the Church of Scientology, Heavens Gate, etc., each with its own psychotic official narrative: Helter Skelter, Christian Communism, Xenu and the Galactic Confederacy, and so on.
Looking in from the dominant culture (or back through time in the case of the Nazis), the delusional nature of these official narratives is glaringly obvious to most rational people. What many people fail to understand is that to those who fall prey to them (whether individual cult members or entire totalitarian societies) such narratives do not register as psychotic. On the contrary, they feel entirely normal. Everything in their social “reality” reifies and reaffirms the narrative, and anything that challenges or contradicts it is perceived as an existential threat.
Read More: The Covidian Cult
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From the horse’s mouth
BSI (German Federal Office for Information Security)
It is being identified that network connectivity devices and devices that are part of the Internet-Of-Things are being considered the weakest point of the secure Internet ecosystem. This is due to issues like security not being factored in to the device’s design along with improper software quality assurance when it comes to the devices’ firmware.
The first major incident that brought this issue to the fore was the Mirai botnet attack on some Websites and dynamic-DNS servers through the use of compromised firmware installed in network videosurveillance cameras. Recently in 2016, a similar Mirai-style attack attempt was launched by the “BestBuy” hacker involving home-network routers built by Zyxel and Speedport.There was a large installed base of these routers because they were provided as standard customer-premises equipment by Deutsche Telekom in Germany. But the attempt failed due to buggy software and the routers crashed.
Now the BSI who are Germany’s federal information-security government department have taken steps towards a baseline set of guidelines concerning security-by-design for these home-network routers. It addresses both the Internet-based attacker sithation and the local-network-based attacker situation such as a computer running malware.
There are requirements concerning the LAN-side private and guest Wi-Fi segments created by these devices. They have to work using WPA2 or newer standards as the default security standard and the default ESSIDs (wireless network names) and Wi-Fi passphrases can’t relate to the router itself like its make or model or any interface’s MAC address.
As well, guest Wi-Fi and community / hotspot Wi-Fi have to be treated as distinct separate logical networks on the LAN side and they have to be “fenced off” from each other. They will still have access to the WAN interfaces which will be the Internet service. The standard doesn’t address whether these networks should implement client-device isolation because there may be setups involving a requirement to discover printers or multimedia devices on these networks using client software.
The passwords for the management account or the Wi-Fi segment passphrases have to be tested against a password-strength algorithm when a user defines a new password. This would be to indicate how strong they are, perhaps through a traffic-light indicator. The minimum requirement for a strong password would be to have at least eight characters with at least 2 each of uppercase, lowercase, number and special characters.
For the management account, there has to be a log of all login attempts along with lockout-type algorithms to deter brute-force password attacks. It would be similar to a code-protected car radio that imposes a time delay if the wrong passcode is entered in the radio. There will be an expectation to have session-specific security measures like a session timeout if you don’t interact with the management page for a certain amount of time.
Other requirements for device management will include that the device management Webpage be only accessible from the main home network represented by the primary private Wi-Fi segment or the Ethernet segment. As well, there can’t be any undocumented “backdoor” accounts on the router when it is delivered to the customer.
But the BSI TR-03148 Secure Broadband Router guidelines also addresses that sore point associated with router firmware. They address the issue of updating your router with the latest firmware whether through an online update or a file you download to your regular computer and upload to the router.
But it is preferred that automatic online updates take place regarding security-related updates. This will most likely extend to other “point releases” which address software quality or device performance. Of course, the end-user will need to manually update major versions of the firmware, usually where new functionality or major user-interface changes take place.
The router manufacturer will be required to rectify newly-discovered high-severity security exploits without undue delay once they are notified. Here, the end users will be notified about these software updates through the manufacturer’s own public-facing Website or the router’s management page.
Like with most regular-computer and mobile operating systems, the use of software signatures will be required to authenticate new and updated firmware. Users could install unsigned firmware like the open-source highly-functional firmware of the OpenWRT kind but they will need to be warned about the deployment of unsigned firmware on their devices as part of the deployment process. The ability to use unsigned firmware was an issue raised by the “computer geek” community who liked to tinker with and “soup up” their network hardware.
Users will also need to be notified when a manufacturer ceases to provide firmware-update support for their router model. But this can hang the end-user high and dry especially if there are newly-discovered weaknesses in the firmware after the manufacturer ceases to provide that software support.
The standard also places support for an “anti-bricking” arrangement where redundant on-device storage of prior firmware can exist. This is to avoid the router from “bricking” or irreversibly failing if downloaded firmware comes with software or file errors.
Other issues that need to be addressed
There are still some issues regarding this standard and other secure-by-design mandates.
One of these is whether there is a minimum length of time for a device manufacturer to continue providing security and software-quality firmware updates for a router model or series after it is superseded. This is because of risks like us purchasing equipment that has just been superseded typically to take advantage of lower prices, or us keeping a router in service for as long as possible. This may be of concern especially if a new generation of equipment is being released rather than a model that was given a software-compatible hardware refresh.
Solutions that could be used include open-sourcing the firmware like what was done with the Linksys WRT-54G or establishing a known-to-be-good baseline firmware source for these devices while continuing to rectify exploits that are discovered in that firmware.
Another is the existence of a logo-driven “secure-by-design” campaign directed at retailers and the general public in order to encourage us to buy or specify routers that are compliant to this standard.
An issue that needs to be raised is whether to require that the modem routers or Internet-gateways supplied as standard customer-premises-equipment by German ISPs and telcos have a “secure-by-design” requirement. This is more of an issue with Internet service provided to the average household where these customers are not likely to fuss about anything beyond getting Internet connectivity.
The BSI will definitely exert market clout through Europe, if not just the German-speaking countries when it comes to the issue of a home network that is “secure by design”. Although the European Union has taken some action about the Internet Of Things and a secure-by-design approach, they could have the power to make these guidelines a market requirement for equipment sold in to the European, Middle Eastern and African areas.
It could also be seen by other IT bodies as an expected minimum for proper router design for home, SOHO and SME routers. Even ISPs or telcos may see it as an obligation to their customers to use this standard when it comes to specifying customer-premises equipment that is supplied to the end user.
At least the issue of “secured by design” is being continually raised regarding home-network infrastructure and the Internet Of Things to harden these devices and prevent them from being roped in to the next Mirai-style botnet.
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Over the last few months we have been having a lot of conversations with customers and Keynote Speakers alike. Well, it is our job! It seems there is a recurring demand for Keynote Speakers to share their expert knowledge on the following topics. Of course, the constant recurring topic is Technology, but in addition to that: –
While the HR industry has been disrupted and innovated by companies such as LinkedIn, Glassdoor and others, nothing is more important as the actual employees in any business. Frequent topics that are requested are along the lines of: –
- Is technology creating or replacing new jobs?
- What are the long term effects of millennials in the workforce?
- Is Generation X the real force behind changing the nature of work?
- Women returning to work – how to encourage a more balanced work force by bringing more women back into the workforce.
The changing workplace
Stress is now such a huge factor for a lot of employees, from senior managers to manual workers and people are working more intensely and clocking in more hours of work than in the recent past.
Employees want their work to be more aligned with their human values. It is no longer the case of throwing in a few bean bags, IKEA plants, free beer and ‘bean-to-cup’ coffee and painting the office in funky colours to ‘look’ like a start-up without addressing the fundamental recurring issues within the organisation. Topics such as: –
- How can the leadership team motivate and inspire their employees?
- How can leaders adapt to this changing environment? Ricardo Semler runs some brilliant workshops exclusively to CEO’s to help combat this.
A sustainable workplace increases employee productivity, it helps reduce work-related illnesses, injuries and accidents, however it means doing business differently throughout the company.
Topics such as: –
- What can actually be done to improve circular economy?
- What is the next sustainable challenge, after plastic?
- How to implement the Agile / Lean principles into an organisation?
Retail – Ecommerce and technology:
We have more choices to buy products than ever before. Instead of taking a trip to the shop, we can simply log on to our computers. All types of retailers must understand that consumers control the retail environment and it is imperative that their business reaches potential customers though every channel possible: –
- The power to improve retail business.
- The changing world of retail.
- How can the businesses compete with online
According to a study done by Influencer Marketing Hub. The term “influencer marketing” increased by 325% in Google searches over 2017. Making this the fastest-growing online acquisition method of the year. So the answer to the question below, is yes: –
- Are they truly powerful?
- How do we as businesses harness their potential?
Media / New Media and fake news
Media and New Media has been fundamentally changing how we interact with each other and this is only the start, for example Google recently announced Pixel Buds, which allegedly have the ability to translate spoken language in real-time! So who knows how many more new and exciting (and yet, scary) developments we have yet to see. topics we have noticed.
- Can fake news and social media create/destroy/ consumption trends?
- What can traditional media do about digital disruption?
- Has the growth of social media permanently changed journalism?
- Has it created a long-lasting threat to traditional players?
These are only some of the main topics we have come across, there are many more. If interested in a chat about what kind of theme / topics to have at your conference, give us a call or send us an email, we would be delighted to have a chat with you.
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I have for some time been dissatisfied with being primarily interested in one aspect of natural history such as birds or plants. The variety of fascinating creatures I have encountered this week illustrates the difficulty of restricting your scope of curiosity. I admit the problems of identifying some of the critters and plants can be daunting, but the advent of internet interest groups and simplified identification manuals makes this manageable.
My son, who was visiting from Utah, found this pair of horseshoe crabs (Limulus) in tandem near the southern tip of Little Gasparilla Island. Of course these are not crabs at all but harmless relatives of the spiders/arachnids which are very ancient marine inhabitants. The smaller male has two appendages to hold on to the female until she crawls up on the beach to lay her eggs. The bluish blood has special clotting properties which are quite valuable in medicine, and the eggs are invaluable also in feeding migrating shorebirds. The shed exoskeletons are seen more often than the live animals so it was a special treat to find this pair.
I never cease being amazed by dragonflies and was fascinated by this immature common green darner. This is a very old lineage of insects which is predatory both as aquatic larvae and as the aerial adult. Their behavior is highly visually oriented and the enormous compound eyes made up of 30,000 individual ommatidia are remarkable. The legs are covered with spines which help in holding prey caught and often consumed in flight. Green darners migrate long distances and are capable of complex social interactions. They have become popular objects of observation by those who have mastered birds and want to find new intellectual fields to conquer.
One of the insects most opposite to dragonflies in terms of mobility is the walking stick which is slow moving and camouflaged. You may often find these as mating pairs in Florida and they are sometimes called devil-riders, possibly due to the ability of the large female to squirt toxic terpenes into the eyes of an attacker. So be careful when you examine them!
I spend a lot of time working in our yard and often find interesting critters such as this small greenhouse frog introduced from the Caribbean. It likely immigrated in the root balls of plants brought in by nurseries along with the worm-like Brahminy blind snake. It is quite unusual among amphibians since it lays terrestrial eggs that hatch directly into tiny frogs without an aquatic tadpole stage. The advantage of this in habitats with damp soil but which lack fresh water pools is obvious and allows them to colonize areas unavailable to other frogs.
Two snakes turned up in our yard, a very young corn snake, one of the rat snakes, and a black racer. The corn snake has a series of dark lines on the head, one of which passes through and obscures the dark pupil of the eye. The black racer has a dark area on the upper part of the head, including the dark pupil and a reddish iris. Both of these patterns must make it harder for prey or predators to detect the snake when it is motionless. The corn snake is much more arboreal than the racer and this likely provides some habitat separation which limits competition for food between them.
I was excited to find an adult male Florida box turtle on Palm Island. Although males often have a reddish iris at least some of the year, the reliable way to sex them is by the concave shape of the bottom shell or plastron. The purpose of this obviously is to facilitate mating which must be quite difficult given the rigid shells. Indeed poet Ogden Nash penned the famous lines,
by Ogden Nash
The turtle lives ‘twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile.
While sitting at the computer recently I heard a familiar sound which I knew to be the call of a bald eagle. I rushed outside and looked up at the osprey nest which sits immediately over our house in a tall Norfolk Island pine. There were two eagles sitting in the nest engaged in some bill fencing which soon led to mating. The eagles then left and did not seem interested in taking over the osprey nest which they occasionally try to do. The relationship between these two predators, which compete for fish as food and sometimes for nest sites, reminds me of the uneasy relations between lions and hyenas- in other words not friendly!
So try expanding your horizons and learn a new animal or plant from a taxonomic group with which you are not familiar. It is not as hard as you might think and it will be very rewarding.
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San Diego, CA – July 19, 2022 (Investorideas.com Newswire) GBT Systems Inc. (GBT Systems Inc. (OTC PINK: GTCH) (“GBT” or the “Company”), is exploring practical purposes implementation of its intelligent, wi-fi, movement detection patented know-how, which has been assigned an internal code identify “Apollo”. The non-provisional patent was granted on April 12, 2022, and protects serious time, RF centered technology to create an precise pc eyesight method. Apollo features AI algorithms to handle and evaluate radio wave transmissions and their reflections to assemble correct 3D/2D imaging in actual time. The patented IP describes a engineering that can make a large-resolution dwell video of objects and living entities inside a scanned location. The technological know-how distinguishes involving objects and living entities by detecting exceptional styles and undertaking an smart surroundings mapping. GBT started off R&D activities to check out Apollo’s simple programs progress inside of many domains. Apollo’s know-how principal aim is to provide an exact wireless laptop or computer eyesight ability. Administration believes that fashionable purposes may perhaps probably consist of autonomous cars look-all-around technique, health and fitness monitoring, armed service and security. It is also believed that the patent’s know-how can be also used for safety reasons which include an airport’s concealed weapons detection, intruder’s preventions, and as a wireless night eyesight technique for military uses. The technological know-how is made to functions in indoor/outside environments, as a result of walls and other mediums, for instance underground and drinking water. The system’s productive variety can be extended working with repeater models to deal with much larger regions. GBT options to perform thorough study to examine the implementation of Apollo’s patented engineering inside of significant domains applications.
The Business produced a limited video clip that current the opportunity of reported technology about different domains: https://youtu.be/7H4o3Nz6ndQ
“We are at the moment researching for realistic apps growth possibilities for our Apollo, patented technological innovation. We think the wireless motion detection and imaging technologies encapsulates a broad planet of commercialization choices. The patent’s IP can be successfully employed as an precise, substantial resolution laptop or computer eyesight “eyes” in a large range of fields. For example, a person possible application is an exterior, non-invasive artery’s clogs imaging method. A modest probe, like a typical ultrasound unit, can scan the human body’s arteries, delivering 3D imaging of arteries and veins, detecting daily life threatening blockages. A different effective software is good vehicles glimpse-all-around eyesight process to present a specific details about the vehicle’s environment. In addition, this style of know-how can be very effective for the safety domain, for example concealed objects detection technique for airports. The patent’s computer system eyesight IP can “see” as a result of walls and other mediums working with equipment understanding algorithms. Apollo sends RF facts and analyzes its reflections applying deep studying procedures, developing 3D/2D pictures and are living movement video clips in authentic time. Due to the fact its really sensitive to volume alterations, it can wirelessly evaluate heartbeat, respiratory rhythm, and psychological distress, all with out any have to have of wearables or actual physical get in touch with. GBT options to further investigate the Apollo IP inside of significant domains to recognize industrial improvement options in big area. We definitely consider that Apollo’s IP captures large opportunity to provide our contemporary globe greater well being, existence fashion and protection” delivered Danny Rittman, the Firm’s CTO.
There is no assure that the Organization will be successful in looking into, building or employing this system. In purchase to correctly employ this idea, the Organization will have to have to raise suitable money to support its exploration and, if correctly investigated, made and granted regulatory approval, the Business would need to have to enter into a strategic relationship with a third social gathering that has encounter in production, offering and distributing this solution. There is no assure that the Organization will be productive in any or all of these significant methods.
GBT Technologies, Inc. (OTC PINK: GTCH) (“GBT”) (http://gbtti.com) is a progress stage organization which considers alone a indigenous of Internet of Items (IoT), Synthetic Intelligence (AI) and Enabled Cellular Technologies Platforms made use of to improve IC functionality. GBT has assembled a team with comprehensive technological know-how knowledge and is creating an intellectual home portfolio consisting of a lot of patents. GBT’s mission, to license the technology and IP to synergetic companions in the spots of hardware and software package. The moment commercialized, it is GBT’s aim to have a suite of items which includes intelligent microchips, AI, encryption, Blockchain, IC design and style, cell safety programs, databases management protocols, with tracking and supporting cloud computer software (with out the require for GPS). GBT envisions this technique as a generation of a international mesh network using advanced nodes and super executing new generation IC technology. The main of the technique will be its highly developed microchip technology know-how that can be put in in any cellular or preset device all over the world. GBT’s eyesight is to create this technique as a minimal price, secure, private-mesh-community concerning any and all enabled equipment. As a result, supplying shared processing, sophisticated mobile database management and sharing although employing these improved cell options as an substitute to standard provider solutions.
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NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio (AP) — Jacque Jones watched as an autumn breeze sent dozens of leaves to land between rows of red peppers and eggplants. Chickens clucked at her feet.
“My life couldn’t be much better,” Jones said.
Jones is one of eight women who live at the Woodrow Project recovery house and farm. The North Royalton recovery house and farm started in February as a way to provide stability and training to women in recovery, Woodrow Project executive director Erin Helms said.
“There’s no treatment here,” Helms said. “It feels like a home.” Residents may attend their own counseling, psychiatry or medical appointments.
On the farm, women grow and harvest a variety of produce and collect eggs from their chickens in the hoop house. They’ve also made some fruit jams, jellies and pies. They sell their items at several farmers markets.
The farm includes a five-bedroom home where women sleep, eat meals together, lead recovery meetings, have regular house meetings and socialize. The Woodrow Project is funded through grants from the Cuyahoga County ADAMHS board, Ohio Recovery Housing, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the USDA for the farm part, among others.
Jones, the house manager with a particularly green thumb, oversees their farm and greenhouse.
“Agriculture has been my life, all my life,” Jones said. “I’m a farmer’s daughter. So it’s a gift, for me, to be given an opportunity to teach and live here and be able to have my chickens and be able to help women in recovery.”
Each day, Jones takes joy in teaching the other women about farming, while they all learn from each other about recovery.
“I’ve had a beautiful experience here,” said Brandi Gillen, who drank for 23 years. “Every day, there’s something that I learn that I can apply, and it’s a structured environment that I didn’t have to go back to when I came out of in-patient treatment.”
There are standards in place for the safety of all residents, Helms said.
“There is a problem with unregulated sober living,” Helms said. “We go through a certification process.”
Just as the recovery house feels like a home, the recovery farm feels like a job. Women are paid for their work on the farm as part of Woodrow Project’s job training program.
“Many job training programs are not designed for women in recovery,” Helms said. “Many are unpaid and won’t work around their schedules.”
The women spend part of their day working in the farm or hoop house, but may also take some time to meditate by the fire pit, go to a recovery meeting or attend social outings, whether it be a sporting event or a camping trip.
“One vital part of the recovery house is that social aspect,” Helms said. “They do things that normal families do together. Debbie cooks, and-“
“People eat!” Debbie chimed in.
“We plant it, pick it and then somebody cooks it,” Jones said. “They put the work in out there and we reap the rewards in here, and share it.”
The Woodrow Project also sells items at local farmers markets. While some of the job training centers on horticulture, Helms also has the women develop business plans and learn how to work through them.
“As much as the training program is fantastic and wonderful, the recovery house and the recovery part is really what comes first,” Helms said.
Many people who come out of in-patient treatment don’t have a safe, structured or supportive place to go.
“They may have a very loving family, or they may have their own house, but it’s really being able to look at addiction as the chronic disease that it is, and being able to treat it in a chronic disease manner, versus an acute care of detox or just in-patient,” Helms said. “It’s about being able to really hit on the three parts of the chronic disease – physical, psychological and social.”
In addition to the other women in the house, there is a certified peer supporter who works with the women, Helms said.
Each house manager, like Jones, has maintained sobriety for at least two years.
After going through treatment for her alcoholism, Debbie Sisson moved into the Woodrow Project recovery house and farm in North Royalton with a very small social circle.
“I had pretty much demolished every single relationship that I had, so I came here with no relationships, and I certainly couldn’t do it on my own,” Sisson said.
Sisson found a sisterhood with the other women in the house that she had never experienced.
“They genuinely like me because of the person I am. They’ve seen me go from really nothing, the bare minimum, to build my life the way I’ve been building it. They’ve seen me really become the woman I never thought I could be,” Sisson said.
“It’s an organic relationship,” she said. “It’s an organic relationship because we all started like this. We all started from the bottom and we’re working up, and we’re doing it together.”
Being close with so many women is a new experience for Gillen.
“In my active addiction and alcoholism, I thought I was more comfortable with the boys and could hang and drink, and had some pretty rough times,” Gillen said. “So it’s been a blessing because these women are my strong sisters. We have so much more strength than we give ourselves credit for, and we bring it out of each other.”
Gillen says she’s made strides in her recovery and personal growth since coming to the Woodrow Project. Like a plant that flowers because it receives care, love and attention, so too do the women blossom thanks to the support they receive from and extend to the other residents.
“That has been the greatest experience for me, is the ‘we’ of this house,” she said. “Having a family, people who understand, who want me to succeed, who help me and challenge me to better myself and to keep me honest and accountable…
“It’s been a learning experience that I can never repay,” Gillen said.
Dozens of women are on the waitlist, Helms said.
The residents hope to expand the recovery farm for 2019 by installing a second hoop house. They are using the winter months to concoct business plans and learn the skills of how to implement them.
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Porcelain tea set detailed with a small, hand-picked rock originating from the Silk Road.
The Silk Road was an an ancient trade route, 7000 km. long, extending from China to the Mediterranean Sea.
Among the many commodities transported besides Silk was tea. The route was used from 100 B.C. until the Middle Ages.
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Customer or Consumer, Who are You really Designing for?
Many of us have been taught in design school to be very user focused when seeking design solutions. However if you have been in the industry as long as I have, there is this insidious sickness that tends to influence this fundamental approach we have with design.
The reason is that the majority of brands or products are sold to “customers” or channels rather than directly to the ultimate consumer. These “customers” include distributors, sales organizations and retailers etc. As a result, you can get a number of odd requests to design products that have only one aim and that is to make the lives of these “middle men easier. We designers need to be constantly aware and sensitive to this influence.
Some of these requests could include: “design everything to fit in the front because when it is placed on the shelf you can’t see the back”, or perhaps “forget about spending money on the packaging because the product is not sold in the box”, or the ever popular “make it taller/bigger/wider because everyone else is like that”. The list goes on, but the basis of these requests usually comes as a response to some kind of retail strategy that often contradicts with the needs of the ultimate consumer.
At the end of the day though, I belief that a successful product has to fulfill all requirements of the brief including these retail needs. So designers will need to reconcile this problem by both keeping in mind the original design intent and aligning it with the consumer’s needs.
I like to now leave you with a quote a clever marketer told me:
If consumers do not want our products, it would not matter how great our customers are in their jobs. However, if every consumer wants or demands our products, no customer can stand in our way.
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Quick facts about spring and fall cankerworms
Cankerworms (inchworms) cause defoliation in shade trees. They are found on elm, apple, hackberry, basswood, oak, boxelder, maple and ash trees as well as shrubs growing beneath heavily infested trees.
- Young, newly transplanted, or weak trees have more chances of injury from defoliation.
- If a tree is defoliated for three consecutive years, the branches of the tree can die, making the tree very weak.
- Pesticides can be used when the caterpillars are small (around the second week of feeding), for two reasons:
- to protect trees
- to eliminate the presence of cankerworm moths around homes
Cankerworms go through natural cycles with two to seven years of high populations (average of four years). This is followed by a period of 13 to 18 years, of low populations.
Spring and fall cankerworms have not had a significant population outbreak since the late 1970s. This could be due to the reduced number of elm trees in Minnesota (preferred host for cankerworms). Elm population is decreasing due to Dutch elm disease, and the remaining trees cannot support large numbers of cankerworms.
How to identify cankerworms
Spring and fall cankerworms look very similar. There are slight differences in markings and size between the two species that are difficult to detect.
- Adult females of both species are wingless, giving them a spider-like appearance.
- They are both grayish brown and about 5/16 of an inch long.
- Males have grayish brown wings and an average wingspan of 1 1/8 inches long.
The larvae also look very similar. Full-grown cankerworms are about 1 inch in length and can vary in color.
- Spring cankerworms can be yellow-green to brownish to blackish. A white stripe may run along the side of the body, all the way from the head to the back end of the body.
- Fall cankerworms range from light green to dark green to black.
The two species differ in the number of prolegs (false legs) on the back half of the abdomen. Fall cankerworms have three, but, spring cankerworms have only two prolegs.
Life cycle of cankerworms
Fall and spring cankerworms feed in a similar way, but have different life cycles.
This species comes out from the soil as an adult moth, generally in late October after a hard freeze. The male moths emerge a few days before the females.
- Mating takes place as the females crawl up tree trunks in search of small twigs to lay egg clusters.
- The males and females die after the eggs are laid.
- Eggs stay on trees throughout the winter and hatch in the spring.
Egg-hatch varies from late April to mid-May depending on weather conditions. It is normally around the time elm buds open.
- Newly hatched larvae are less than 1/16 of an inch long, and spin silk threads that allow them to easily blow from tree to tree.
- They reach full-grown length in about four weeks.
- Larvae then drop to the ground and transform into pupae, in the soil.
- Later in the season, pupae give rise to adults.
- The pupae in the soil do not emerge as adult moths until early spring. The winged males and wingless females emerge during the third week in March in the Twin Cities area.
- Eggs deposited as loose clusters in bark cracks and under bark scales are not easily seen.
- Spring and fall cankerworm eggs hatch about the same time in the spring and the larvae follow a similar life cycle.
Damage caused by cankerworms
Spring and fall cankerworms feed at the same time of year on the same trees causing the same kind of damage.
- feed on buds and expanding leaves right after egg hatch in the spring
- create small BB-sized holes (about 4.4 mm) in the leaves
- as the larvae grow, holes get bigger until all the tissue between the veins is eaten up
Large numbers of caterpillars spinning to the ground on silken threads, crawling or falling on picnic tables, doors, walks and/or house siding can create an unpleasant environment.
- This stage lasts for only about a week and cankerworms cannot be controlled at this time.
- May also create a nuisance during the spring and fall as moths crawl up the exterior walls of homes. Nothing can be done at this stage to get rid of cankerworms.
Affecting tree growth
Cankerworms chew small holes on leaves.
- They chew between veins first, then leaf tissue (except for major veins), and eventually chew up all of the leaf (except the midvein)
- Feeding can cause complete defoliation of a tree.
- A mature, strong tree can survive one to two seasons of complete defoliation, but more than three years of cankerworm feeding can cause the branches to die.
How to protect your trees from cankerworms
Assess a tree's age, size, strength and previous history of defoliation when choosing a control method.
- The best time for chemical treatment is in the second week of feeding when:
- the damage is minor
- the caterpillars are still small (less than 1/2 inch)
- the leaves have fully expanded
- Look at your trees closely, because cankerworms and their damage might not be seen so easily.
- After eggs hatch, cankerworms grow rapidly for three to four weeks. They feed on large parts of the leaves and only the veins of the leaves remain, when the damage is severe.
- Treatment is not effective after you notice severe damage. Pesticides can irritate the cankerworms and cause them to drop from trees in larger numbers.
How to apply pesticides
Follow these steps to control spread of cankerworms:
- Determine egg-hatch date by following either of these steps:
- Find fall cankerworm egg masses and observe them during early spring for signs of hatching (hatched eggs will have a hole in the center)
- Look at foliage of several trees for the first signs of young cankerworms or their feeding.
- Add 10 days to the date of hatch (as found in step one). This will be the best date for spraying.
- Look at few trees during the 10-day post-hatch period, to check if development has slowed or quickened because of weather conditions.
- Modify the spray date as necessary. Remember that the worms should be less than 1/2 inch in length and that at least 50% of the leaf surface should be intact.
- Spray with one of the suggested materials.
Types of pesticides
Several pesticides are effective for treating cankerworms when applied at the correct time. Examples of active ingredients of pesticides are:
Use the bacterial insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis, whenever possible. Bacillus thuringiensis must be applied while the cankerworms are still small (less than 1/2") to get good results.
- environment friendly, non-chemical product that specifically targets caterpillars of moths and butterflies
- does not harm beneficial insects, wildlife or humans
CAUTION: Read all label directions carefully before buying pesticides and again before you apply them. Always follow all label directions completely. The label is the final authority for use of the product.
Trunk banding is a method, where sticky barriers are applied to tree trunks to trap cankerworms. This method is NOT recommended.
This method does not work very well, even in areas where most trees have been banded. The sticky material used for trunk banding is expensive, messy to work with and spoils the appearance of the trunk.
Reviewed in 2018
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Sleep deprivation and hallucinations are connected because not getting enough sleep can lead to these figments of imagination. The reason why sleep deprivation and hallucinations are connected isn’t really clear. Some experts think it is simply a symptom of the brain being overtaxed. These hallucinations can be fairly extreme. People may see things that aren’t there or hear sounds that don’t really exist.
Two prominent cases of sleep deprivation and hallucinations being connected can be found in the stories of Randy Gardner and Peter Tripp, who have both held the world record for going without sleep at different times. Both men eventually suffered from severe hallucinations and even lost their ability to reason or think clearly at times. In the case of Peter Tripp, many experts think that his brain was damaged in some way by the experience, causing his personality to change for the worse. Less extreme cases of sleep deprivation can also lead to hallucinations, although usually not as severe ones.
Some people may even experience total psychotic episodes where they lose all grasp of reality. To reach this level of severity usually takes several days without sleep. For less extreme cases, a person may just hear a sound or glimpse something out of the corner of the eye.
Besides the connection between sleep deprivation and hallucinations, there are also several other health risks from not getting enough sleep. It can potentially lead to an increased risk of diabetes, for example, and it can make a person more prone to catching sicknesses. Some people may suffer with anger problems and have their personal relationships threatened. For some individuals, it can even lead to long-term mental issues like depression.
A lack of sleep can also potentially hurt a person’s career prospects. Some people eventually miss a lot of work by not getting enough sleep, and when they go to work, they may not be able to perform at an acceptable level. Over time, a lack of sleep can greatly limit a person’s cognitive abilities in many different areas, and this can be a problem in almost any kind of career.
When someone is suffering with sleep deprivation, doctors have a lot of options available. In many cases, patients may be prescribed some kind of sleeping medication. For other people, it is simpler to just make a few lifestyle changes. It is possible to become dependent on sleeping medications, especially if they are used for a long time, and they can also be dangerous when mixed with other substances like alcohol. Many physicians will avoid prescribing them if possible.
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When preparing for a commercial driver’s license, simply reading through the CDL’s drivers manual or depending on your driving experience alone will not provide you with the necessary information and skills to pass the various CDL tests and licensing. Further training should be obtained in order to pass the CDL written and skill tests.
THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING A COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE
Similar to getting a regular driver license, those looking to obtain a CDL must first get a permit by passing a series of written exams. While specific requirements vary from state to state, most states CDL permit testing cover General Knowledge, Air Brakes, and Combination vehicles. For drivers in need of certain endorsements such as Hazardous Materials (HazMat), additional written CDL endorsements exams are needed. Finally, drivers must pass the CDL driving test, which is a 3-part exam that includes pre-trip inspection test, basic control skill test, and a driving test. Once all three skills are passed, the driver can be issued a CDL.
OUR ON-SITE CDL TEST PROGRAM
Total Equipment Training offers a comprehensive, on-site Commercial Driver License training program which covers all pertinent information that typically appears on both the hands-on and written CDL test. We work with you to tailor our program to meet your organization’s specific commercial and truck driving needs while providing your employees with the knowledge to safely drive commercial trucks in accordance with state and federal regulations.
Our CDL prep test and training program is the most effective way for your employees to learn the material necessary for passing their CDL exams fully. Our training course covers the following topics:
Don’t depend on your driving experience alone. Prepare for your commercial driver’s license in the most effective manner possible.
Paperwork needed to obtain your CDL, including medical requirements
General knowledge (required)
Air brake (required)
Combination vehicle (optional)
Passenger and tanker (optional)
Sample tests and how to pass them
Vehicle inspection according to D.O.T. regulations
What happens at a roadside inspection with do’s and don’ts if you are stopped
Proper cargo loading and shipping procedures
A replica of a DMV Test Course will be used for hands-on practice
Over the road practice done one-on-one with the Trainer
ARE YOUR EMPLOYEES IN NEED OF CDL TEST TRAINING?
At Total Equipment Training, our commercial driver’s license test trainers are experienced, thorough and the best in the industry. Our effective and efficient approach to help to prepare employees for their CDL prep test sets us apart from other training programs. We bring our training program to your site, saving you time and money. In addition, our on-site CDL prep test can be customized to meet your organization’s specific needs and the state’s requirements.
ABOUT TOTAL EQUIPMENT TRAINING
Total Equipment Training is a heavy equipment training company. We take the time to go to your site to train you, and we customize the training to suit your needs.
ON SITE HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR TRAINING
We offer heavy equipment training to your site, saving you time and money. Importantly, we customize the program to meet your needs. That means no two training courses are the same. We work at your skill level, on your machines and at your worksite. Our approach is a mix of classroom work and hands-on training. We complete the final testing and qualification. Each candidate receives an OSHA recognized completion of training certificate.
Total Equipment Training has some of the most qualified instructors to teach its operator training, safety and inspection courses. TET’s trainers have backgrounds that include a rock solid education, certifications, PLUS over 120 years of combined practical experience; these qualifications, together with their years of industry work experience (including construction, shop manager, equipment manager, equipment demonstrator, field representative, and construction management) is what makes TET an industry leader in its field.
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Read to Learn Books for Free Book Drive – The Wizard of Oz
Saturday, July 14, 2018 @ 2:00 pm
1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132 United States
The Wizard of Oz was a technical marvel for the MGM studio in the late 1930s. Today, MGM has stunningly re-mastered this timeless classic. The brilliantly restored images are accompanied by full symphony orchestra playing entirely new transcriptions of Harold Arlen’s brilliant lost scores. Gently-used children’s books are being collected at both showings for Read to Learn Books for Free to stock the 55 bookshelves found around Miami-Dade providing every child who visits the shelves a free book to take home. What is really needed are baby books, first readers, and picture books.
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What Makes us Different?
Farming experience. We have been a CSA farm for 24 years and farming for over 30. We have learned a lot in this period of time and continue to hone how we do things. We continuously work to improve both the farming side of things as well as to offer more choice and services to our members.
We have continued to add to our infrastructure for all these years. Most recently we’ve added our retail area so members and local residents can purchase superb local products beyond our own produce. It is amazing how much it costs to farm! Tractors, seeders, planters, cultivation equipment, harvest containers, refrigeration, irrigation pumps, and pipes. We’re always looking at ways to improve.
We mention these things because we hope that it will allow us to perform at a high level as farmers, and give you a rewarding experience as a member. We can’t change the weather, but we can try to prepare for those “less than perfect conditions”.
How else do we stand out?
Fruit. We grow both fruits and vegetables at our farm. Fruit is included in the cost of our shares. Cantaloupes usually begin ripening the middle of July; watermelons in August and early September. Though we have had our own orchards for many years we have recently decided to face reality and give up on our old trees. Our peach and apple trees have passed their prime and are no longer cost effective to maintain. When available we include peaches and apples now from some of our orchard growing friends.
Members can pick their own blackberries at a nominal fee.
We do not grow strawberries at this time but are sometimes able to get some from our local grower friends and offer them for sale on CSA pick-up day. We have a young blueberry planting in the ground but we are only harvesting nominally at this point. So far its been all work with anticipation for the future. Each fruit has its season — when there is an abundance you can plan on seeing it included in your share. There are times when there just isn’t enough for everyone, so we offer smaller quantities for sale to those who wish to purchase or supplement their share.
Sweet Corn and Potatoes. Some CSA farms don’t grow or include sweet corn or potatoes in their share offerings (these crops take up a lot of space and add complexity to crop rotations). Both of these crops are included in Vollmecke CSA shares.
Choice. While one of the main tenets of the CSA model is members share the harvest, we realize that our members prefer to have some control over their share choices. Our on-site farm pickup shares are not pre-boxed. We offer Farm Market Style pickup, where you may customize your share from the choices available. Members who pick up at one of our off-farm locations will have choices too. We pre-pack shares that will be picked up at off-farm locations. Some will have one of the choice items, another bag will have another choice. We also offer a Swap Box at all of our locations to further customize your share.
Pay in full to receive the best price: For large and medium-size shares take advantage of our payment plan: $150 down at sign-up, and monthly payments starting in June.
We accept online credit card payments as well as personal checks
Multiple Share Sizes. We have three different share sizes – pick the one that’s best for you:
A large share with a weekly pickup (to include 8-10 units; feeds 2 adults and 2 small children; 22 share distributions per season)
A medium share with a weekly pickup (to include 6-7 units; feeds 2 adults, or a small family that doesn’t cook often; 22 share distributions per season)
A small share with a weekly pickup (to include 4 units; feeds an individual or a couple who doesn’t cook very often; 22 share distributions per season)
Make-Up / Deferred Day. We realize that many people like to go away at least once during the summer. Since you have paid ahead for your share, we hate to see you miss out on even one pickup if we can help it! So, we offer a make-up day, or the ability to defer one share, until the end of the season. Our regular season is 22 weeks, but on week 23 ( as long as you let us know in writing before your missed pickup), you can come to pick up a deferred share.
Pick Your Own (PYO) crops. We offer PYO cut flowers, which are included in the price of your share. PYO berries are available at a nominal fee for members. There are other times we may have other PYO crops. We will inform members of these opportunities as they come up.
One-Stop-Shopping. When you pick up your share at the farm, you have the ability to purchase additional produce as well as other local, sustainably produced products such as Bailey’s Dairy products, wild-caught salmon, Elkins pasture-raised beef and local honey. You also have the ability to buy other products produced from our produce, such as fruit butters, applesauce, pasta sauce, as well as our Happy Hen eggs. You have the ability to feed your family locally produced, nutritious foods while keeping your dollars local and directly supporting these other fine producers. Check out our Retail Sales for a full list of these producers.
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Through the new Catalyst Connections program, seniors interested in manufacturing careers will be able to earn a free career certification and high school credit while they are Baldwin students.
“It is a state recognized, pre-apprenticeship program for industrial manufacturing,” social studies teacher Natalie Grattan said. “They focus on getting students the certifications to either go work directly in the manufacturing industry or use it as a stepping stone for students in particular career paths, such as engineering.”
The program, which is only for seniors, is fully virtual. It offers classes that students can take on their own time, either during study hall or outside of school.
“It doesn’t have to be just outside of school. There is an opportunity within school to do it. Right now it is not a formalized class at Baldwin, but we will support it,” counselor Noel Santini said.
Seven career certifications, including Safety and Quality, Manufacturing Processes and Production, and Maintenance Awareness, are available. Each takes one semester to earn, and each opens opportunities for careers, college internships, and employability after college.
“Those are great things to put on your resume going forward,” Santini said.
“Students need to start thinking outside of the box,’ Grattan said. “It’s not just a check sheet to meet every requirement. It’s ‘what have you done to go above and beyond?’ ”
The manufacturing field is experiencing major staff shortages, so experienced grads are in high demand. Through this program, Grattan and Santini hope to prepare Baldwin students for these opportunities.
“There’s a standard that you’ve met that just makes you more employable,” Grattan said of the certifications. “This is something colleges are already looking for.”
Spots remain open, and rising seniors can express interest by contacting Grattan or Santini. Though there is usually a cost for these programs, this certification program is free for Baldwin students.
“This program will set you up with a job after you leave high school,” Santini said.
For companies, the program is beneficial.
“You’re getting the free education and skill, and (the company) is getting a great employee,” Grattan said.
For Santini, the program has a clear purpose.
“The main goal is to set BHS students up for success after they’re done here,” Santini said, “And I think that programs like these … only open the door for other opportunities,” Santini said.
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Save the Negev Index ~ this section was last updated in 2012
photos courtesy of Bustan, Wadi el-Naam
In advance of JNF's tree planting activities this Tu B'Shvat, the village of Al Arakib was once again demolished. For the ninth time...
Bedouin villages have been demolished to make way for Negev developmentIsrael's plan has been to "suburbanize" the Negev with Jewish settlementsScroll down for 20+ entries
||Save the Negev asks you to sign the petition against the renewed destruction of Bedouin villages at Change.org.|
The basics: The Jewish National Fund's "Blueprint Negev" is a driving force in Negev development, but the environmental and social impact of Blueprint Negev has never been reviewed by outside parties. A positive future requires much more than the JNF—the gov't of Israel must decide to implement the best recommendations of the Goldberg report on Bedouin affairs. SavetheNegev.org is a catalyst to get JNF-US, and Israel's government, to revise their plans for the Negev based on principles of sustainability and equitable development, so that what unfolds will both respect the earth and the Bedouin, and help all of Israeli citizens.
Al-Arakib was demolished July 27, 2010, the first such destruction of a Bedouin village since the Goldberg Commission recommended recognizing the existing unrecognized villages.
A JNF project aims to develop a Bedouin model for sustainable, community-based agriculture.
Forests in the desert are no solution for global climate change.
Protect the Bedouin – Protect the desert
Almost all of the "unrecognized" Bedouin villages subject to demolition were created when the IDF moved the Bedouin out of the majority of the Negev over fifty years ago...
"Invisible Citizens: Israeli Government Policy Towards the Bedouin" – the full scoop on why there are "unrecognized" villages and why they need to be recognized.
An eco-built mosque (the first in Israel, perhaps the world, built by Moslems, Christians and Jews together) in the unrecognized village of Wadi el Na'am was demolished on Dec 25th. Please help rebuild it!
Resolution from the Jewish Renewal Rabbis and Cantors on Blueprint Negev
Planting a tree for the future sounds like second nature, a wise investment for both Israel and the planet. But whether you think about doing this at Tu Bish'vat or during the Omer when it's really planting time, it's a little more complicated than donating to JNF...
A deep cleavage already exists in the Negev...
Ideas for Revising Blueprint Negev, submitted to JNF-US
A brief update on the response of the JNF and our dialogue with them
What happened with the Goldberg Commission on Bedouin affairs, along with the letter we sent to the Commission.
The Goldberg Commission was established by the Government of Israel to present recommendations regarding the Bedouin settlement in the Negev. They are accepting comments through February 14th 2007.
How can you give directly to KKL in Israel?
Press releases, satellite photos, more links, and a short video of A-tir.
If you are planning to sponsor trees in Israel for Tu Bishvat, please read this page about current and historical concerns with KKL-JNF.
Read, and comment on a petition to JNF-US about Blueprint Negev. Sign and circulate it for Tu Bishvat!
"ILA Destroys Bedouin Homes to Make Way for Jewish Town"
A Negev without Bedouin? – the vision of one of JNF-US's Israeli partners
Does Bedouin culture really know how to use and live in the Negev desert sustainably?
A brief report from Bustan, the foremost organization working with the Bedouin for sustainability, on Blueprint Negev.
Adalah, Bustan, documentary movies, articles from Haaretz, map links and more
From the authors: "The projects outlined in JNF-US's 'Blueprint Negev' have not been reviewed or endorsed by the KKL directorate or sustainability committee..."
Give to Bustan. Give to this campaign.
The split between JNF-UK and KKL
"The Bedouin would not live on his land with his herds, but would become an urban person who comes home in the afternoon and puts his slippers on...[W]ithin two generations...this phenomenon of the Bedouins will disappear."
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This is the moment baffled holidaymakers experienced close encounters of the BLURRED kind when they checked the departures board at their airport.
From a distance, the destinations, gate numbers and flight times at Liverpool Airport were all there, but close up, things became clear … or rather unclear.
The set-up was created by Vision Direct to mark their trial of a contact lens vending machine for forgetful folks who left their eyewear behind.
It came after their survey revealed 58 per cent of travellers worry about forgetting something they really need when going away.
Barney Streeting, general manager for the contact lenses provider said: “There are so many things to plan and remember for a holiday, it is no wonder people often miss something along the way.
“With most things you can make up for it when you arrive at your destination – buying replacement clothing or toiletries or underwear is relatively easy.
“But there are some pre-holiday blunders which are harder to cover, such as forgetting to take the right passport, losing car keys or leaving prescriptions at home.
“We wanted to raise awareness of how life-changing wearing contact lenses or glasses can be – and how forgetting them can be the difference between enjoying a holiday and finding it unbearable.”
Planning in advance
The study found four in 10 have found themselves in a spot of bother following a momentary lapse of judgement prior to departure.
Travelling with an out-of-date passport, driving to a different airport and taking the wrong currency are among Brits’ biggest pre-holiday blunders.
Other mistakes include going to the incorrect airport gate, failing to pack appropriate clothing and arriving for a flight a day after its departure.
Going over the baggage allowance, picking up the wrong luggage at the airport and missing a motorway turning on the way also feature in the top 20.
Of those who
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From the use of solar panels and energy-efficient glass, to combining design with forestry, sustainable architecture is reaching new heights in Asia.
High-rise towers have long been common in the region. But in recent years, eco-friendly skyscrapers have been gaining traction, noticeably in China, as governments tackle rapid urbanization and its impact on the environment, says Eric Lee, head of JLL’s Greater China Property and Asset Management business.
“While tall structures typically served as landmarks, they are also increasingly used to showcase businesses’ corporate environmental responsibility,” Lee says.
“Many project owners and developers seek green accreditations such as LEED (Leaders in Energy and Environmental Design) in order to attract businesses and talent who have sustainability goals,” he says.
Another primary driver of the trend is cost reduction. Tall buildings with sustainability features use less energy and water, helping businesses to save on operating costs.
Yet sustainable designs aren’t just doing their part for the planet. Occupiers are increasingly demanding a green working environment, according to Daniel Safarik, an editor at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and JLL.
“Many people find skyscrapers to be somewhat cold and alienating, but as cities densify and grow, the collision course is set – sustainable design, the concentration of talent, and the high-rise are going to continue to meet,” Safarik says.
Here, Real Views looks at some of the region’s skyscrapers that are pushing the green agenda:
Singapore: Oasia Hotel Downtown (2016)
In the heart of Singapore’s central business district, the Oasia Hotel Downtown is covered in 21 species of verdant climbers and flowers, and was conceived as a haven for birds and animals, according to architect WOHA. It has an overall Green Plot Ratio of 1,100 percent, which means there is 10 times as much greenery growing on a building than could have been on the same plot of unbuilt land. The tower also features open-sided gardens, so there is no need for mechanical ventilation in the hotel’s 314 rooms and 100 office units.
China: The Nanjing Green Towers (2018)
Stefano Boeri Architects designed the Nanjing Green Towers as a vertical forest. The mixed-use project in Nanjing Pukou District was developed by the state-owned National Investment Group, and consists of two towers characterised by their green tanks and balconies. Due to be finished this year, the towers will be a breath of fresh air: it is claimed they will absorb around 25 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, and produce about 60 kilograms of oxygen per day.
Image credit: Stefano Boeri Architetti
China: Shanghai Tower (2015)
The Shanghai Tower boasts a total of 43 different sustainable technologies, including renewable energy sources and extensive landscaping to help cool the building. These technologies have allowed the structure to reduce its total energy consumption by 21 percent and slash its carbon footprint by an estimated 37,000 metric tonnes each year. These achievements have earned the supertall both the American LEED Gold certification and China’s three-star Green Building award.
China: Ping An International Finance Center (IFC) (2015)
The 599-meter high Ping An IFC is the tallest building in South China. The energy costs to run the skyscraper are 46 percent lower compared with a conventionally constructed commercial office building of the same scale, according to a CTBUH research paper. This LEED Gold certified building’s sustainability features include a high-performance façade that minimises heat penetration and maximises natural light, as well as its external vertical stone fins that provide shading.
China: Pearl River Tower, Guangdong (2011)
Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) incorporated sustainable technology and engineering into the 309-meter-tall Pearl River Tower. According to SOM, the tower directs wind to help push turbines that generate energy for the building. Other sustainable elements include solar panels, a chilled ceiling system, under-floor ventilation, and daylight harvesting, all of which contribute to the building’s energy efficiency.
China: Hong Kong International Commerce Centre (2014)
At 484 meters and 108 stories, this is the tallest building in Hong Kong, and the sixth-tallest in the world. It is equipped with a centralised intelligent control system that collects and analyses operational data 24-hours a day and evaluates seasonal variations. The data is used to adjust the air conditioning system for greater energy efficiency. With this system, energy consumption can be 15 percent lower compared to general office buildings without such an application.
W350 Wooden Skyscraper, Japan (2041)
Japanese architect Nikken Sekkei and developer Sumitomo Forest have announced plans for the world’s tallest wooden skyscraper. The 350-meter tower is set to be completed by 2041 and is to be located in central Tokyo. The timber skyscraper forms part of the W350 project, a mixed-use environmentally friendly development whose completion will mark Sumitomo‘s 350th anniversary. The concept has been prepared by Sumitomo’s Tsukuba Research Institute, which the company hopes will help “transform the city into a forest.”
Image credit: Sumitomo Forestry
Article courtesy of JLL Realviews
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USDA Forest Service
Trails made with wood chips are difficult for those who use mobility aids because the surface is soft, uneven, and shifting.
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IMBA Trail Solutions
This master plan is a result of the entirety of IMBA TS site visits, with greater importance placed on those 2018 and 2019 planning and design site visits. The master plan represents industry best practices, professional expertise and experience, modern trail theory, and insights gained from numerous conversations with GA DNR, CVA-SORBA, and many others.
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Created based on the idea that hiking is an activity that can—and should—be fun and accessible to all, these guides provide 20 family-friendly and wheelchair accessible hikes per state.
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The State of Victoria’s Guidelines for Trail Planning, Design and Management aims at “development of exceptional trail experiences. A useful feature is a trail planning and design checklist. The book also covers management models, marketing and brand- ing, community and stakeholder engagement, and monitoring and review.
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American Trails Staff
The Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) serves as a guide for all public outdoor recreation in urban and rural neighborhoods, cities, and regions for a given state. Each state must prepare a SCORP every five years to be eligible for funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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Delaware State Parks
A new trail in Delaware breaks new ground with trail sharing: antique vehicles join bicycles and walkers on a paved trail at Auburn Heights Preserve. The 1.5 mile trail is just the start of a larger system.
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A variety of steel-frame commercial bridges along typical multiple-use trails.
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Locating replacement parts for the stock-drawn hillside plows of yesteryear.
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Federal Highway Administration
The 2016-2021 Strategic Agenda for Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation builds on 25 years of progress toward increasing walking and biking safety and activity throughout the United States. The 1994 National Bicycling and Walking Study: Transportation Choices for Changing America set the stage for advancing safe, accessible, comfortable, and well-used pedestrian and bicycle transportation networks, with a focus on increasing trips and reducing injuries and fatalities.
published Oct 2018
This Workbook describes thirteen (13) key strategies that have been used effectively to accelerate multimodal projects and provides examples and case studies for each.
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August 5 - The new Boeing 747-8 Freighter has successfully completed its certification flight test programme, with two aircraft landing at Paine Field in Everett, Washington.
Flight test aircraft RC522 completed testing of the flight management computer (FMC), and RC523 completed function and reliability (F&R) testing. According to Elizabeth Lund, vice president & general manager of the 747 program,Boeing is in the home stretch in delivering this aircraft to its customers.
The first 747-8F is scheduled to be delivered to launch customer Cargolux in September after certification from theUS Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Boeing says that the 747-8F has flown more than 1,200 flights and 3,400 hours since its first flight in February 2010. During that time, the five-aircraft test fleet was used to gather data for more than 1,700 FAA certification requirements. Boeing tested the capabilities of these airplanes far beyond what they are expected to encounter in normal service. Tests concluded with F&R testing, a final phase in which an aircraft must accrue 300 FAA-approved flight hours in its final delivery configuration.
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Long non-coding RNA DLGAP1-AS1 facilitates tumorigenesis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in hepatocellular carcinoma via the feedback loop of miR-26a/b-5p/IL-6/JAK2/STAT3 and Wnt/?-catenin pathway.
ABSTRACT: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common and lethal malignancies worldwide, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial factor affecting HCC progression and metastasis. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been validated to act as critical regulators of biological processes in various tumors. Herein, we attempted to elucidate the uncharacterized function and mechanism of lncRNA DLGAP1-AS1 in regulating tumorigenesis and EMT of HCC. In our study, DLGAP1-AS1 was shown to be upregulated in HCC cell lines and capable to promote HCC progression and EMT. Besides, DLGAP1-AS1 was proven to serve as a molecular sponge to sequester the HCC-inhibitory miRNAs, miR-26a-5p and miR-26b-5p, thus enhancing the level of an oncogenic cytokine IL-6, which could activate JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway and reciprocally elevate the transcriptional activity of DLGAP1-AS1, thus forming a positive feedback loop. Moreover, we elaborated that the cancerogenic effects of DLGAP1-AS1 in HCC cells could be effectuated via activating Wnt/?-catenin pathway by positively regulating CDK8 and LRP6, downstream genes of miR-26a/b-5p. In conclusion, our results demonstrated the detailed molecular mechanism of DLGAP1-AS1 in facilitating HCC progression and EMT in vitro and in vivo, and suggested the potentiality of DLGAP1-AS1 as a therapeutic target for HCC.
Project description:Purpose:The long noncoding RNA DLGAP1 antisense RNA 1 (DLGAP1-AS1) plays well-defined roles in the malignant progression of hepatocellular carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to determine whether DLGAP1-AS1 affects the aggressive behavior of gastric cancer (GC). Methods:DLGAP1-AS1 expression in GC tissue samples and cell lines was determined by reverse-transcription quantitative PCR. GC cell proliferation, apoptosis, migration, invasion, and tumor growth in vitro as well as in vivo were examined by the Cell Counting Kit-8 assay, flow-cytometric analysis, transwell migration and invasion assays, and xenograft model experiments, respectively. Results:DLGAP1-AS1 was overexpressed in GC tissue samples and cell lines. Among patients with GC, the increased level of DLGAP1-AS1 correlated with tumor size, TNM stage, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, and shorter overall survival. The knockdown of DLGAP1-AS1 suppressed GC cell proliferation, migration, and invasion in vitro, as well as promoted cell apoptosis and hindered tumor growth in vivo. Mechanistically, DLGAP1-AS1 functioned as a competing endogenous RNA for microRNA-628-5p (miR-628-5p) in GC cells, thereby increasing the expression of the miR-628-5p target astrocyte elevated gene 1 (AEG-1). Functionally, the recovery of the miR-628-5p/AEG-1 axis output attenuated the effects of DLGAP1-AS1 knockdown in GC cells. Conclusion:DLGAP1-AS1 is a pleiotropic oncogenic lncRNA in GC. DLGAP1-AS1 plays a pivotal part in the oncogenicity of GC in vitro and in vivo by regulating the miR-628-5p/AEG-1 axis. DLGAP1-AS1, miR-628-5p, and AEG-1 form a regulatory pathway to facilitate GC progression, suggesting this pathway as an effective target for the treatment of GC.
Project description:Objective:DLGAP1-AS2 has been characterized as an oncogenic lncRNA in glioma. Our preliminary microarray analysis revealed the altered expression of DLGAP1-AS2 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the role of DLGAP1-AS2 in HCC remains unknown. Method:Expression of DLGAP1-AS2 and miR-154-5p in paired HCC and nontumor tissues from 62 HCC patients was determined by RT-qPCR. The 62 HCC patients were followed up for 5 years to analyze the prognostic value of DLGAP1-AS2 for HCC. DLGAP1-AS2 knockdown and miR-154-5p overexpression was achieved in HCC cells to study the relationship between them. Methylation of miR-154-5p was analyzed by methylation-specific PCR. Cell proliferation was analyzed by CCK-8 assay. Results:DLGAP1-AS2 was upregulated in HCC and predicted poor survival. miR-154-5p was downregulated in HCC and inversely correlated with DLGAP1-AS2. In HCC cells, DLGAP1-AS2 knockdown resulted in the upregulation of miR-154-5p expression and decreased methylation of miR-154-5p gene. Transwell assay showed that DLGAP1-AS2 knockdown and miR-154-5p overexpression inhibited cell invasion and migration, and the combination of LGAP1-AS2 knockdown and miR-154-5p overexpression showed stronger effects. Conclusion:DLGAP1-AS2 knockdown may inhibit HCC cell migration and invasion by regulating miR-154-5p methylation.
Project description:BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence has highlighted the potential role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the biological behaviors of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, we elucidated the function and possible molecular mechanisms of the effect of lncRNA-AGAP2-AS1 on the biological behaviors of HCC. METHODS:EdU, Transwell and flow cytometry were used to determine proliferation, migration, invasion and apoptosis of HCC cells in vitro. The subcutaneous tumor model and lung metastasis mouse model in nude mice was established to detect tumor growth and metastasis of HCC in vivo. The direct binding of miR-16-5p to 3'UTR of ANXA11 was confirmed by luciferase reporter assay. The expression of AGAP2-AS1 and miR-16-5p in HCC specimens and cell lines were detected by real-time PCR. The correlation among AGAP2-AS1 and miR-16-5p were disclosed by a dual-luciferase reporter assay, RIP assay and biotin pull-down assay. RESULTS:Here, we demonstrated that AGAP2-AS1 expression was up-regulated in HCC tissues and cell lines, especially in metastatic and recurrent cases. Gain- and loss-of-function experiments indicated that AGAP2-AS1 promoted cell proliferation, migration, invasion, EMT progression and inhibited apoptosis of HCC cells in vitro and in vivo. Further studies demonstrated that AGAP2-AS1 could function as a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) by sponging miR-16-5p in HCC cells. Functionally, gain- and loss-of-function studies showed that miR-16-5p promoted HCC progression and alteration of miR-16-5p abolished the promotive effects of AGAP2-AS1 on HCC cells. Moreover, ANXA11 was identified as direct downstream targets of miR-16-5p in HCC cells, and mediated the functional effects of miR-16-5p and AGAP2-AS1 in HCC, resulting in AKT signaling activation. Clinically, AGAP2-AS1 and miR-16-5p expression were markedly correlated with adverse clinical features and poor prognosis of HCC patients. We showed that hypoxia was responsible for the overexpression of AGAP2-AS1 in HCC. And the promoting effects of hypoxia on metastasis and EMT of HCC cells were reversed by AGAP2-AS1 knockdown. CONCLUSIONS:Taken together, this research supports the first evidence that AGAP2-AS1 plays an oncogenic role in HCC via AGAP2-AS1/miR-16-5p/ANXA11/AKT axis pathway and represents a promising therapeutic strategy for HCC patients.
Project description:<h4>Background</h4>Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) are reported to influence colorectal cancer (CRC) progression. Currently, the functions of the lncRNA ZNF561 antisense RNA 1 (ZNF561-AS1) in CRC are unknown.<h4>Methods</h4>ZNF561-AS1 and SRSF6 expression in CRC patient samples and CRC cell lines was evaluated through TCGA database analysis, western blot along with real-time PCR. SRSF6 expression in CRC cells was also examined upon ZNF561-AS1 depletion or overexpression. Interaction between miR-26a-3p, miR-128-5p, ZNF561-AS1, and SRSF6 was examined by dual luciferase reporter assay, as well as RNA binding protein immunoprecipitation (RIP) assay. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) mediated knockdown experiments were performed to assess the role of ZNF561-AS1 and SRSF6 in the proliferative actives and apoptosis rate of CRC cells. A mouse xenograft model was employed to assess tumor growth upon ZNF561-AS1 knockdown and SRSF6 rescue.<h4>Results</h4>We find that ZNF561-AS1 and SRSF6 were upregulated in CRC patient tissues. ZNF561-AS1 expression was reduced in tissues from treated CRC patients but upregulated in CRC tissues from relapsed patients. SRSF6 expression was suppressed and enhanced by ZNF561-AS1 depletion and overexpression, respectively. Mechanistically, ZNF561-AS1 regulated SRSF6 expression by sponging miR-26a-3p and miR-128-5p. ZNF561-AS1-miR-26a-3p/miR-128-5p-SRSF6 axis was required for CRC proliferation and survival. ZNF561-AS1 knockdown suppressed CRC cell proliferation and triggered apoptosis. ZNF561-AS1 depletion suppressed the growth of tumors in a model of a nude mouse xenograft. Similar observations were made upon SRSF6 depletion. SRSF6 overexpression reversed the inhibitory activities of ZNF561-AS1 in vivo, as well as in vitro.<h4>Conclusion</h4>In summary, we find that ZNF561-AS1 promotes CRC progression via the miR-26a-3p/miR-128-5p-SRSF6 axis. This study reveals new perspectives into the role of ZNF561-AS1 in CRC.
Project description:LncRNA PITPNA-AS1 was a newly identified lncRNA which has never been studied in cancers. Whether PITPNA-AS1 participated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is obscure. Given the coaction of lncRNAs and miRNAs to carcinogenesis, the purpose of the present research is to inquire how PITPNA-AS1 affects HCC progression. Firstly, PITPNA-AS1 was observed to be heightened in HCC tissues. Then function assays proved that overexpressing or silencing PITPNA-AS1 could manipulate the proliferation and motility of HCC cells. Besides, PITPNA-AS1 was located in the cytoplasm. Among the candidate miRNAs of PITPNA-AS1, miR-876-5p was an obvious target. Moreover, mechanism experiments validated that PITPNA-AS1 modulated WNT5A expression by targeting miR-876-5p. Rescue experiments affirmed that WNT5A silencing rescued the miR-876-5p suppression-induced cellular processes in PITPNA-AS1-silenced Hep3B cells. And in vivo experiments determined that PITPNA-AS1 regulated HCC progression in vivo via miR-876-5p/WNT5A pathway. In conclusion, this work shed lights on the modulatory mechanism of PITPNA-AS1/miR-876-5p/WNT5A axis in HCC, which might be pivotal for exploring effective diagnostic biomarkers and treatment strategies for HCC patients.
Project description:Accumulating evidence have suggested that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) had malfunctioning roles in the development of human cancers. The present study aimed to investigate the role of lncRNA small nucleolar RNA host gene 5 (SNHG5) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression using human tissues and cell lines. The quantitative real-time PCR results showed that SNHG5 was up-regulated in both HCC tissues and hepatoma cell lines and was closely associated with tumor size, hepatitis B virus infection, histologic grade, TNM stage, and portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) in HCC patients. Knockdown of SNHG5 induced apoptosis and repressed cell cycle progression, cell growth, and metastasis in hepatoma cell lines, whereas overexpression of SNHG5 had the opposite effects. In vivo functional assay, xenograft tumors grown from SNHG5-knockdown cells had smaller mean volumes than the tumors grown from negative control cells. Further investigations showed that SNHG5 may act as a competing endogenous RNA by competitively binding miR-26a-5p and thereby modulating the derepression of downstream target GSK3?, which were further confirmed by luciferase reporter assay. Functionally, SNHG5 promotes tumor growth and metastasis by activating Wnt/?-catenin pathway and inducing epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). Taken together, SNHG5 promotes HCC progression by competitively binding miR-26a-5p and regulating GSK3? and Wnt/?-catenin signal pathway.
Project description:Background:T cell receptor gamma locus antisense RNA 1 (TRG-AS1) has been reported to involve in the progression of glioblastoma, however the role and its underlying molecular mechanism in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain unknown. Methods:Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was applied to detect TRG-AS1 expression in HCC cells. Besides, the proliferation abilities of HCC cells were assessed by colony formation and EdU assays. The migratory and invasive abilities of HCC cells were examined by transwell assays. Imunofluorescence staining (IF) was used to analyze the epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMT). The interaction among TRG-AS1, miR-4500 and BTB domain and CNC homolog 1 (BACH1) were proofed by means of RIP and RNA pull down and luciferase reporter assays. Results:TRG-AS1 was conspicuously overexpressed in HCC cells. TRG-AS1 silencing apparently suppressed HCC cell proliferation, migration, invasion and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Mechanism exploration revealed that TRG-AS1 acted as a molecular sponge of miR-4500 to regulate BACH1. MiR-4500 silencing or BACH1 overexpression in BACH1-downregulated cells fully rescued cell proliferation migration, invasion and EMT progress. Conclusion:TRG-AS1 regulates HCC progression by targeting miR-4500/BACH1 axis.
Project description:BACKGROUND:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are crucial in the invasion, angiogenesis, progression, and metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The lncRNA MYLK-AS1 promotes the growth and invasion of HCC through the EGFR/HER2-ERK1/2 signaling pathway. However, the clinical significance of MYLK-AS1 in HCC still needs to be further determined. METHODS:Bioinformatic analysis was performed to determine the potential relationship among MYLK-AS1, miRNAs and mRNAs. A total of 156 samples of normal liver and paired HCC tissues from HCC patients were used to evaluate MYLK-AS1 expression by qRT-PCR. Human HCC cell lines were used to evaluate the colony formation, cell proliferation, migration, invasion, cell cycle and apoptosis after transfection of lentiviral short-hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) targeting MYLK-AS1 or MYLK-AS1 vectors. The competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) mechanism was clarified using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), Western blotting, qPCR, RNA binding protein immunoprecipitation (RIP), and dual luciferase reporter analysis. RESULTS:MYLK-AS1 up-regulation was detected in the HCC tumor tissues and cell lines associated with the enhancement of the angiogenesis and tumor progression. The down-regulation of MYLK-AS1 reversed the effects on angiogenesis, proliferation, invasion and metastasis in the HCC cells and in vivo. MYLK-AS1 acted as ceRNA, capable of regulating the angiogenesis in HCC, while the microRNA miR-424-5p was the direct target of MYLK-AS1. Promoting the angiogenesis and the tumor proliferation, the complex MYLK-AS1/miR-424-5p activated the VEGFR-2 signaling through E2F7, whereas the specific targeting of E2F transcription factor 7 (E2F7) by miR-424-5p, was indicated by the mechanism studies. CONCLUSIONS:MYLK-AS1 and E2F7 are closely related to some malignant clinicopathological features and prognosis of HCC, thus the MYLK-AS1/ miR-424-5p/E2F7 signaling pathway might represent a promising treatment strategy to combat HCC.
Project description:Accumulating evidence has indicated that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play pivotal roles in the processes of cancer occurrence, progression, and treatment. FAM83A-AS1 is a novel onco-lncRNA involved in various cancers. Nevertheless, the biological function and underlying mechanism of FAM83A-AS1 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) remain largely unclear. In this study, we found FAM83A-AS1 to be upregulated in LUAD tissues and closely associated with tumor size, lymph node metastasis, and TNM stage. In addition, high FAM83A-AS1 expression correlated positively with a poor prognosis. Functional investigation revealed that FAM83A-AS1 promotes LUAD cell proliferation, migration, invasion and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. Mechanistically, FAM83A-AS1 functions as an endogenous sponge of miR-150-5p by directly targeting it, removing inhibition of MMP14, a target of miR-150-5p. Furthermore, rescue assays demonstrated that FAM83A-AS1 enhances cell migration, invasion and EMT by modulating the miR-150-5p/MMP14 pathway. Collectively, we conclude that the novel FAM83A-AS1/miR-150-5p/MMP14 axis regulates LUAD progression, suggesting an innovative therapeutic strategy for this cancer.
Project description:<h4>Background</h4>Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a malignant disease with a high mortality among primary HCC patients worldwide. Lots of studies have shown that lncRNAs are known as the biomarkers in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma. Therefore, clarifying the detailed function and mechanism of the lncRNA in the HCC progressing seems particularly important.<h4>Methods</h4>The TCGA and GEO database and RT-qPCR were used to analyse the expression of TRIM52-AS1 in HCC tissues and cell lines. Clinical data were collected to further analyze the correlation between indicators of clinical samples and the expression of TRIM52-AS1. CCK-8, plate clone and transwell assays were employed to evaluate the role of TRIM52-AS1 on cell proliferation, migration and invasion. Then, bioinformatics prediction, luciferase reporter, RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP), and RT-qPCR were employed to analyze the direct interaction among TRIM52-AS1, miR-218-5p and ROBO1. Additionally, the rescue function assays were used to verify that miR-218-5p/ROBO1 was the function downstream of TRIM52-AS1.<h4>Results</h4>TRIM52-AS1 was overexpressed in HCC according to the TCGA database and RT-qPCR assay. The expression of TRIM52-AS1 was higher in the metastatic foci compared with primary tumor according to the GEO database. Additionally, TRIM52-AS1 knockdown inhibited the proliferation and metastasis of HCC cells. TRIM52-AS1 could act as competitive endogenous RNA to regulate ROBO1 through miR-218-5p, then promoted the HCC cell progression.<h4>Conclusion</h4>TRIM52-AS1 is overexpressed in HCC and can promote the proliferation and metastasis of HCC cells through miR-218-5p/ROBO1 axis, then drives the HCC cell progression.
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We have good news and bad news: the good news is that employee recognition programs are increasing; the bad news is that over half (55 percent) of the employees responding to a recent survey would leave their jobs for a company that recognized employees for their efforts.
According to the spring 2012 Workforce Mood Tracker from Globoforce, reconfirms the importance of connecting consistent recognition with performance. It also demonstrates marked improvement in employees' opinions of their company's culture and their own job satisfaction. In fact, the percentage of employees who said they were recognized increased by 13.6 percent, going from 44 percent to 50 percent in a matter of six months.
Thankfully, some companies are catching on to the value of recognition.
Not surprising to us, 81 percent of employees said receiving recognition made them more satisfied with their work and/or position in the company. That number is up from 73 percent in fall 2011. Moreover, 54 percent reported being satisfied with the level of recognition they received for doing a good job, up from 48 percent in last fall.
In addition to being more satisfied with the recognition they received, the survey found a high positive correlation between recognition and retention. Of those respondents who have been recognized in the last three months compared to those who have never been recognized in their job, the survey found that 23 percent plan to search for a new job, compared to 51 percent of those who have never been recognized---a significant difference!
On top of that, of the people who have been recognized, 89 percent feel appreciated at their job, compared to 17 percent of those never recognized. In addition, the recognition registers, because a full 90 percent felt their manager effectively acknowledged and appreciated them, compared to 21 percent of those never recognized. And perhaps most telling of all, 67 percent of those recognized love their jobs, compared to 37 percent of those never recognized.
This survey shows what we have long known, that recognition is vital to employee engagement and retention. People want to feel appreciated. Ignore your employees at your own risk.
Imagine a 5-foot long yellow fish swimming through the shallow waters of Gijon Harbor in Spain; however, this fish is no marine animal, rather, it is a well-equipped robot patrolling the waters of the harbor, looking for polluters.
A product of the technology consultancy BMT Group in the United Kingdom, this robo-fish works autonomously to find contamination in the water, then feeds the information back to shore. The company is part of the Shoal Consortium, a European Commission-funded group from academia and business.
Inspired by nature, the fish measure about 5-foot long and their movements closely mimic their real-life counterparts. They can work in very weedy environments. Ordinarily, environments like this would snag propellers. Because they swim like fish, they very agile and can change direction quickly.
Providing real-time monitoring of pollution, the fish work together to report if someone is dumping chemicals or something is leaking, so that they may address the problem right away. At this point, they are taking samples in the harbor about once a month. Eventually, the researchers hope to see robot fish swimming around the harbor all the time, constantly checking for pollution.
According to the researchers, there are other advantages to this fishy design, compared with some other autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The robo-fish do not use propellers or thrusters for propulsion; instead, they use the fish fins to propel themselves through the water.
Fins are particularly useful in shallow water, where there is debris. The fish use microelectrode arrays to sense contaminants. They can detect phenols* and heavy metals such as copper and lead, as well as monitor oxygen levels and salinity. Once the fish have detected a problem, they use artificial intelligence to hunt down the source of pollution.
These robo-fish are not the first in nature-inspired robots. Drones, used in warfare, are shaped like birds and robots, used to search for life in the debris after earthquakes, mimic rodents.
Expect to see more nature-inspired robots to consistently handle all kinds of menial and repetitive that humans find less pleasant. These robots will be especially valuable in spaces and places that would be dangerous or inaccessible to people.
* Phenols are a type of pollutants, characterized as being estrogen-disruptors.© Copyright 1998-2012 by The Herman Group of Companies, Inc., all rights reserved. From 'The Herman Trend Alert,' by Joyce Gioia, Strategic Business Futurist. (800) 227-3566 or www.hermangroup.com
The Herman Trend Alert is a trademark of The Herman Group of Companies, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
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In this post, we’ll take a look at filtering and manipulating objects in a Collection using Java 8 lambdas, streams, and aggregates. All code in this post is available in BitBucket here.
For this example we’ll create a number of objects that represent servers in our IT infrastructure. We’ll add these objects to a List and then we’ll use lambdas, streams, and aggregates to retrieve servers from the List based on certain criteria.
- Introduce the concepts of lambdas, streams, and aggregate operations.
- Explain the relationship between streams and pipelines.
- Compare and contrast aggregate operations and iterators.
- Demonstrate the filter, collect, forEach, mapToLong, average, and getAsDouble aggregate operations.
Lambdas are a new Java language feature that allows us to pass functionality or behavior into methods as parameters. One example that illustrates the usefulness of Lambdas comes from UI coding. When a user clicks on button on a user interface, it usually causes some action to occur in the application. In this case, we really want to pass a behavior into the onClick(…) method so that the application will execute the given behavior when the button is clicked. In previous versions of Java, we accomplished this by passing an anonymous inner class (that implemented a known interface) into the method. Interfaces used in this kind of scenario usually contain only one method which defines the behavior we wish to pass into the onClick(…) method. Although this works, the syntax is unwieldy. Anonymous inner classes still work for this purpose, but the new Lambda syntax is much cleaner.
When we use Collections to store objects in our programs, we generally need to do more than simply put the objects in the collection — we need to store, retrieve, remove, and update these objects. Aggregate operations use lambdas to perform actions on the objects in a Collection. For example, you can use aggregate operations to:
- Print the names of all the servers in inventory from a particular manufacturer
- Return all of the servers in inventory older than a particular age
- Calculate and return the average age of Servers in your inventory (provided the Server object has a purchase date field)
All of these tasks can be accomplished by using aggregate operations along with pipelines and streams. We will see examples of these operations below.
Pipelines and Streams
A pipeline is simply a sequence of aggregate operations. A stream is a sequence of items, not a data structure, that carries items from the source through the pipeline. Pipelines are composed of the following:
- A data source. Most commonly, this is a Collection, but it could be an array, the return from a method call, or some sort of I/O channel.
- Zero or more intermediate operations. For example, a Filter operation. Intermediate operations produce a new stream. A filter operation takes in a stream and then produces another stream that contains only the items matching the criteria of the filter.
- A terminal operation. Terminal operations return a non-stream result. This result could be a primitive type (for example, an integer), a Collection, or no result at all (for example, the operation might just print the name of each item in the stream).
Some aggregate operations (i.e. forEach) look like iterators, but they have fundamental differences:
- Aggregate operations use internal iteration. Your application has no control over how or when the elements are processed (there is no next() method).
- Aggregate operations process items from a stream, not directly from a Collection.
- Aggregate operations support Lambda expressions as parameters.
Now that we have discussed the concepts related to Lambda expressions, it is time to look at their syntax. You can think of Lambda expressions as anonymous methods because they have no name. Lambda syntax consists of the following:
- A comma-separated list of formal parameters enclosed in parentheses. Data types of parameters can be omitted in Lambda expressions. The parentheses can be omitted if there is only one formal parameter.
- The arrow token: ->
- A body consisting of a single expression or code block.
Using Lambdas, Streams, and Aggregate Operations
As mentioned in the overview, we’ll demonstrate the use of lambdas, streams, and aggregates by filtering and retrieving Server objects from a List. We’ll look at four examples:
- Finding and printing the names of all the servers from a particular manufacturer.
- Finding and printing the names of all of the servers older than a certain number of years.
- Finding and extracting into a new List all of the servers older than a certain number of years and then printing the names of the servers in the new list.
- Calculating and displaying the average age of the servers in the List.
Let’s get started…
The Server Class
First, we’ll look at our Server class. The Server class will keep track of the following:
- Server name
- Server IP address
- Amount of RAM (GB)
- Number of processors
- Purchase date (LocalDate)
Notice (at line 65) that we’ve added the method
getServerAge() that calculates the age of the server (in years) based on the purchase date – we’ll use this method when we calculate the average age of the Servers in our inventory.
Creating and Loading the Servers
Now that we have a Server class, we’ll create a List and load several servers:
Example 1: Print the Names of All the Dell Servers
For our first example, we’ll write some code to find all of the servers made by Dell and then print the server names to the console:
Our first step is on line 76 – we have to get the stream from our list of servers. Once we have the stream, we add the filter intermediate operation on line 77. The filter operation takes a stream of servers as input and then produces another stream of servers containing only the servers that match the criteria specified in the filter’s lambda. We select only the servers that are made by Dell using the following lambda:
s -> s.getManufacturer().equalsIgnoreCase(manufacturer)
The variable s represents each server that is processed from the stream (remember that we don’t have to declare the type). The right hand side of the arrow operator represents the statement we want to evaluate for each server processed. In this case, we’ll return true if the current server’s manufacturer is Dell and false otherwise. The resulting output stream from the filter contains only those servers made by Dell.
Finally, we add the forEach terminal operation on line 78. The forEach operation takes a stream of servers as input and then runs the given lambda on each server in the stream. We print the names of the Dell servers to the console using the following lambda:
server -> System.out.println(server.getName())
Note that we used s as the variable name for each server in the stream in the first lambda and server as the variable name in the second – they don’t have to match from one lambda to the next.
The output of the above code is what we expect:
Example 2: Print the Names of All the Servers Older Than 3 Years
Our second example is similar to the first except that we want to find the servers that are older than 3 years:
The only difference between this example and the first is that we changed the lambda expression in our filter operation (line 89) to this:
s -> s.getServerAge() > age
The output stream from this filter contains only servers that are older than 3 years.
The output of the above code is:
Example 3: Extract All Servers Older Than 3 Years Into a New List
Our third example is similar to the second in that we are looking for the servers that are older than three years. The difference in this example is that we will create a new List containing only the servers that meet our criteria:
As in the previous example, we get the stream from the List and add the filter intermediate operation to create a stream containing only those servers older than 3 years (lines 102 and 103). Now, on line 104, we use the collect terminal operation rather than the forEach terminal operation. The collect terminal operation takes a stream of servers as input and then puts them in the data structure specified in the parameter. In our case, we convert the stream into a list of servers. The resulting list is referenced by the oldServers variable declared on Line 100.
Finally, to demonstrate that we get the same set of servers in this example as the last, we print the names of all the servers in the oldServers list. Note that, because we want all of the servers in the list, there is no intermediate filter operation. We simply get the stream from oldServers and feed it to the forEach terminal operation.
The output is what we expect:
Example 4: Calculate and Print the Average Age of the Servers
In our final example, we’ll calculate the average age of our servers:
The first step is the same as our previous examples – we get the stream from our list of servers. Next we add the mapToLong intermediate operation. This aggregate operation takes a stream of servers as input and produces a stream of Longs as output. The servers are mapped to Longs according to the specified lambda on Line 119 (you can also use the equivalent syntax on Line 120). In this case, we are grabbing the age of each incoming server and putting it into the resulting stream of Longs.
Next we add the average terminal operation. Average does exactly what you would expect – it calculates the average of all of the values in the Stream. Terminal operations like average that return one value by combining or operating on the contents of a stream are known as reduction operations. Other examples of reduction operations include sum, min, max, and count.
Finally, we add the operation getAsDouble. This is required because average returns the type OptionalDouble. If the incoming stream is empty, average returns an empty instance of OptionalDouble. If this happens, calling getAsDouble will throw a NoSuchElementException, otherwise it just returns the Double value in the OptionalDouble instance.
The output of this example is:
We’ve only scratched the surface as to what you can do with lambdas, streams, and aggregates. I encourage you to grab the source code, play with it, and start to explore all the possibilities of these new Java 8 features.
Author: Eric Ward
I love making software and teaching others about the craft. I’ve worked on a lot of projects in many industries over the last couple of decades and now I teach people how to make software at the Software Guild in Akron, OH. I spend my time teaching Java and Spring, developing curriculum for the Guild, and playing with new JVM languages and tech.
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What is the problem with India and China?
Despite growing economic and strategic ties, there are a lot of hurdles for India and the PRC to overcome. India faces trade imbalance heavily in favour of China. The two countries failed to resolve their border dispute and Indian media outlets have repeatedly reported Chinese military incursions into Indian territory.
What happened between India and China recently?
15 June 2020: … Beginning on 5 May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops engaged in aggressive melee, face-offs, and skirmishes at locations along the Sino-Indian border, including near the disputed Pangong Lake in Ladakh and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and near the border between Sikkim and the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Why does China claim India?
The Indian government has argued that China claims the territory on the basis that it was under Chinese imperial control in the past, while the Chinese government argues that India claims the territory on the basis that it was under British imperial control in the past.
What do Chinese call India?
The current Chinese word for India is Yìndù (印度), first used by the seventh-century monk and traveller Xuanzang. Similar to Hindu and Sindhu, the term Yìn 狼之印 was used in classical Chinese much like the English Ind.
Can China stop water to India?
This could permanently restrain India in confronting Chinese encroachment, with the ever-present threat of droughts or floods. More dangerously, water to the river could be cut entirely, though not without some measure of internal displacement.
How many wars happened between India and China?
In the case of the India-China War, there is no mistake that China started the war. This paper has presented an overview of India’s four wars to date.
How much part of India is in China?
China controls the remaining 15% of the land, including Aksai Chin and the mostly uninhabited Trans-Karakoram Tract, as well as part of the Demchok sector.
What is the problem between India and Pakistan?
The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a dispute over the region that escalated into three wars between India and Pakistan and several other armed skirmishes.
What are the main causes of conflict between India and China?
Seven flashpoints between India and China
- 1) Border disputes. Probably the biggest sticking point in Sino-Indian relations, border disputes between the two countries have existed since many years, and remain unresolved. …
- 2) Border incursions. …
- 4) Tibet. …
- 5) String of pearls. …
- 6) Water dispute. …
- 7) Trade imbalance.
Is India mentioned in Bible?
India is mentioned in Esther 1:1 and 8:9 as the eastern boundary of the Persian Empire under Ahasuerus (c. fifth century B.C.) and in 1 Maccabees 6:37 in a reference to the Indian mahouts of Antiochus’s war elephants (second century B.C.). Otherwise there are no explicit references to India in the Old Testament.
Who invented India?
Vasco-Da-Gama discovered India when on a voyage.
Can an Indian live in China?
The number in the Mainland is growing rapidly with the Sixth National Population Census of the People’s Republic of China recording 15,051 Indian nationals living in mainland China as of 2010. … Many Indians in China are students, traders and professionals employed with MNCs, Indian companies and banks.
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Margaret Atwood has long been hailed as a feminist icon. The Handmaid’s Tale and the sequel, The Testaments, continue to hold up a mirror to the state of women’s rights around the world. The patriarchal and discriminatory practices of Gilead are the kinds of practices Equality Now tackles every day.
In 2019, we were lucky enough to partner with Margaret Atwood on the release of The Testaments and couldn’t wait to get our hands on her new book Burning Questions, full of Margaret’s essays on everything from women’s rights and the climate crisis to being a writer and zombies.
With over fifty essays, for this month’s Feminist Culture Club, we’ve rounded up some of her key thoughts about feminism and gender equality:
From Eve to Dawn:
“Women, it seems are not a footnote after all: they are the necessary centre around which the wheel of power revolves; or, seen another way, they are the broad base of the triangle that sustains a few oligarchs at the top. No history you will read, post-French, will ever look the same again.”
Her 2014 essay On Beauty is a reflection on the magic of the idea of beauty, how it changes throughout a woman’s life, and its relationship with the male gaze.
“Skin-deep or not, curse or blessing, disdainful or seductive, reality or constructed illusion – beauty retains its magic power, at least in our imaginations. And that’s why we continue to buy those countless little tubes of lip gloss: we still believe in fairies.”
Reflections on the Handmaid’s Tale:
In this piece, written in 2015, to mark the 30th anniversary of The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood talks about the development of the novel following the second wave of feminism, and the importance of the law in Gilead.
“The answer to how to cram the women back into the homes was simple: dial back history a hundred years – no, even less. Take away women’s jobs and their access to money – the latter via their bank and credit cards. Oh, and their most recently won civil rights, such as the right to vote and the right to own property, and the right to their own children. To do that, you’d change the law. Some people are fond of invoking “the rule of law,” but they should remember that there have been some very unjust laws. The Nuremberg Laws – directed against Jews – were laws. The Fugutive Slave Act was a law. The decree forbidding literacy for American slaves in the South was a law… I could go on for a very long time on that subject.”
We Hang By A Thread:
In this speech, given in Canada ahead of the 2016 US Presidential Election, Atwood said, ‘You have to pinch yourself to make sure you’re awake.’ Ahead of what became defining period of history, she spoke of the importance of protecting the rights we have, as a key part of pushing for progress toward gender equality:
“We hand by a thread, even in the so-called advanced West. We hang by a thread, even in the so-called advanced West. It wouldn’t take that much to roll back recent legal entitlements for women and send us right back to 1843, or even earlier. The old saying—attributed to abolitionist Wendell Phillips—is right: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
A Slave State:
This piece from 2018 was written in support of the movement for reproductive rights in Argentina. The movement celebrated victory in 2021, when the Senate of the country approved abortion legalization in a historic decision, a ground-breaking move for a region that has some of the world’s most restrictive termination laws.
“No one is forcing women to have abortions. No one either should force them to undergo childbirth. Enforce childbirth if you wish, Argentina, but at least call that enforcing by what it is. It is slavery: the claim to own and control another’s body, and to profit by that claim.”
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Achieving gender equality will happen faster if everyone takes up the challenge. Equality Now is proud to stand with No nonsense in our shared commitment to enduring, inclusive equality for women & girls.
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Doctors may be accidentally creating a new generation of recreational drug users, a new study suggests.
Among teenagers, those prescribed anti-anxiety or sleep medications are 12 times more likely to illegally abuse them later, says the University of Michigan study.
“I recognize the importance of these medications in treating anxiety and sleep problems,” says Carol Boyd, first author and professor of nursing. “However, the number of adolescents prescribed these medications and the number misusing them is disturbing for several reasons.”
Almost 9 percent of the 2,745 adolescents in the study had been given a prescription for anxiety or sleep medications during their lifetime. More than 3 percent of them received at least one prescription during the three-year study period.
Addictive or Fatal
Examples of anti-anxiety medications include Klonopin, Xanax, and Ativan. Sleep medications include Ambien, Restoril, and Lunesta.
These drugs are controlled substances partly because of the potential for abuse. It is a felony to share them.
According to Boyd, anxiety and sleep medications can be addictive or even fatal when mixed with narcotics or alcohol.
“What happened to (actor) Heath Ledger could happen to any teen who is misusing these medications, particularly if the teen uses alcohol in combination with these drugs.”
Three Year Study
Researchers gathered students from five Detroit-area schools and grouped them into three categories.
The categories were those never prescribed anxiety or sleep medications; those prescribed those medications within the three-year study period; and those previously prescribed those medications but not during the study period.
• Adolescents prescribed anxiety medications during their lifetime, but not during the study, were 12 times more likely to use someone else’s anxiety medication than participants who had never been prescribed such drugs.
• Teenagers prescribed anxiety or sleep medications during the study period were 10 times more likely to abuse them within two years, to get high or to experiment, than teens without prescriptions.
• White students were twice as likely as black students to use others’ medications, and females older than 15 and teens who had prescriptions for longer periods of time were more likely to abuse the medications.
Researchers write that this is the first longitudinal study to establish whether teens’ recent medical use of anxiety or sleep medications is associated with later on taking somebody else’s prescription medication illegally, whether for self-treatment or recreational use.
”I looked at these numbers and said, ‘There’s a story here.’ It just catches you off guard that so many adolescents are being prescribed these medications,” said Boyd.
Boyd had intended to write a paper about teens abusing their own prescriptions, but changed course when the results became clear.
“Why is it that our youth are anxious and sleepless? Is it because they are under stress, consuming too much caffeine, or seeking an altered state?”
A Prospective Study of Adolescents’ Nonmedical Use of Anxiolytic and Sleep Medication. Boyd, Carol J.; Austic, Elizabeth; Epstein-Ngo, Quyen; Veliz, Philip T.; McCabe, Sean Esteban Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Nov 24 , 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/adb0000026
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Destiny (Expression) Number 2
“ I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.”
Tim Tebow has a great talent for working with others; he possesses tact and refinement. He has a highly developed intuition. This provides Tim with insight into personalities and situations. Therefore, he acts with tact and subtle persuasion. Tebow possesses a kind of radar, avoiding the landmines within another's personality, yet bringing out their goodwill. These abilities make Tim Tebow the perfect diplomat.
Tim's abilities are better expressed while working with others than by working alone. In the same way, Tebow performs better in a partnership than in a leadership role.
He seeks balance and peace in all relationships and situations. The key to his personality is sensitivity, but there are two sides to the coin: Tim Tebow has the ability to perceive the thoughts and emotions of others, and can work gently with others for a mutually shared goal. This makes Tim a great asset in any group endeavor.
However, Tim Tebow's sensitivity makes him vulnerable. Tim can be thrown off balance by an unkind word, a conflict, or by hostile conditions at work. He is far more upset by these conditions than people without his sensitivity. While others appear to be enduring troubled times with a modicum of turmoil, Tebow suffers the turbulence of life as if his very survival were at stake.
In difficulties, Tim Tebow tends to persevere and steadily erode the resistance. He is like a gentle wind that shapes the rock.
Tebow is friendly and open-minded. He is a great support person, pulling the best out of those around him. Tim is the power behind the throne. He is indispensable to the leadership of another, providing insight and advice that is essential. Yet, despite the invaluable service he provides, Tim Tebow often does not get the credit and recognition he deserves, which can be frustrating. His natural modesty and the enjoyment he gets from being an important asset is usually satisfaction enough for him.
Close relationships are essential to Tim Tebow's happiness. When single, he dreams of finding his "soul mate." When married, Tebow is concerned with his spouse's needs, emotions, and thoughts. Tim is an outstanding marriage partner, giving, thoughtful, and conscious of meeting the needs of his loved one. Tim Tebow provides great support for his spouse’s career. He is a passionate lover.
Parenthood is not an easy role for Tim, probably because he lacks the will to enforce discipline and he needs a tranquil, delicate, and harmonious environment.
Tim Tebow is blessed with a high degree of musical talent. He has a good sense of rhythm and harmony. [HE_SHE+] is also a good counselor with an inborn talent for psychology and finely tuned intuition.
You and Tim
About Tim's Destiny (Expression) number
The Destiny number reveals the talents, abilities, and shortcomings that were with Tim Tebow when he entered his human body. His name, and the numbers derived from it, reveals Tim's development, as well as the talents and issues he will be working with during this life.
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Help prevent the spread of fires in any building! The DIVA RS fire-rated door provides all the comfort of an everyday automatic door, all while contributing to safety in the event of an alarm.
Rated EI2-30, it provides mandatory protection in public-access buildings and workplaces, in compliance with building codes.
Its door leaves can resist flames for 30 minutes in order to contain fires and allow for the safe evacuation of building occupants. The “Metal fire-resistant doors” NF 277 certification compliant with EN 1634-1 and EN 13501-2 standards is proof of its sturdiness.
What are the advantages of the fire-rated door?
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- Controlled Gravitational Energy (CGE) closing mechanism independent of any electrical source
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DOOR UNIT SPECIFICATIONS
- Sliding door with one or two leaves
- With or without fixed leaves
- With or without transom
- Max size single door 1550 x H 2500 mm
- Max size double door 2400 x H 2500 mm
- Leaf weight up to 1 x 200 kg (single) / 2 x 200 kg (double)
- Public-access buildings
- Logistical platforms
- Covered car parks
- Industrial sites
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- RAL colour of choice
- Control mechanisms
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The door can be installed on masonry or on reinforced partitions. The door is closed by an Intrinsic Mechanical Energy mechanism (CGE System) independent of any electrical source. All its elements (leaf, built elements, operation) form a single unit in order to comply with the NFS 61-937 standard.
The fire-rated performance of a door unit is defined by its ability to resist fire for a certain amount of time. Testing yields classifications decided by certified laboratories and according to uniform protocols. The modern standard for the European Community allows for showing product performance in an identical fashion, referred to as the “EI” European ranking.
The letter “E” corresponds to the Fireproof rating.
The letter “I” represents Thermal insulation (still used in addition to an E rating).
These performances are expressed in minutes.
In accordance with French regulations established on March 14, 2011: doors that have EI1 ratings may be installed without any restrictions. An EI2 rating requires, the usage of M1 or B-s3 rated materials on the walls and surfaces adjacent to other doors, and d0 in a 100 mm zone extending from the outside of the fixed door portion.
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Salindres, an industrial town nestled between the Cévennes National Park and the Rhône Valley, a stone’s throw from Alès (Gard), has been under surveillance by health authorities for ten years. On Tuesday, the public health agency France announced the existence of a “grouping” of cases of glioblastoma, a rare and very aggressive type of cancer of the central nervous system (less than 5% survival at 10 years). In total, nine cases were identified between 2006 and 2015 in the municipalities of Salindres and Rousson. A number “Three times higher than the departmental average”, according to the health agency’s report. Eight of these people died.
“Three of them worked on the industrial site of Salindres, but, according to discussions with the families, this does not seem to be the case for the other six”, specifies a communicator of the regional health agency Occitanie. “We want to remain cautious and verify all of this information”, indicated to Figaro Public health France. Now, a
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Pastels are ruling the design world in the current times. There are numerous elements that pastels are being incorporated in, thereby giving a pleasant and elegant feel to the space. Owing to soft tones of colours, pastels can provide neutrality of shade, which in turn compliments an array of patterns, textures, materials and colours. Colours have the power to change the ambience of the space as seen below.
Pastel colours are not only limited to wall application or upholstery but also find application in kitchen cabinet shutters, wardrobe shutters, tiles, embellishments, so on and so forth. Innovation and advancement have given us techniques that aid in giving a pleasant pastel tint to glass, metal, resin, etc. to widen the horizon for the use of pastel colours in modern home interiors. But what wonders can you create when glass itself comes in pastel colours? Innovative products such as lacquered glass, textured lacquered glass, tinted glass and especially switchable glass can be used to enhance the overall aesthetic of space with a pastel décor palette.
While pastel tones can be incorporated in an array of ways to decorate the interior spaces, creating pastel or earthy accents acid-etched and tinted glass is an interesting concept. Pastel tones can be introduced using bronze mirror as focal element and neutral tones of fabric and furnishing. The Planilaque colours offer at least 10 shades in the pastel palette. They help in imparting a clean and seamless finish to the surfaces in addition to adding a sophisticated pastel tone to the space.
With the pastel tones reigning every sphere of the design-based choices, they offer a soothing palette to incorporate a range of textures, finishes, and accessories and highlight using colour as seen in this living room.
Glass is one material that complements the pastel décor palette quite well. Bring in the pastel tones of green or blue and balance them with Champagne and Gold like seen in the design of this apartment. A tasteful combination of soothing pastel tones and glass can lend a highly sophisticated look to a space.
Light and colour are two complementary factors that can do wonders in an interior space décor. The colour and texture of tinted glass can result in interesting pastel fenestration decor as the rest of the interior follows a different colour palette. Exploiting transparency levels of materials can help in creating an interesting spatial experience through nice pastel tonalities. Selection of colour, tone and texture can help in imparting a unique visual appeal at different times of the day. Such walls or corners, with a reflected pastel tone, can be strategically designed to enhance a space.
A nice pastel shade along with an interesting texture can take the usage of glass to the next level. Colored glass panels, in interior design, find use as backsplashes, wall backdrops, partitions, doors, shutters for wardrobes and cabinets too. With the technology in place, a space can efficiently incorporate glass as a complimenting element to its decor.
The sky is the limit when it comes to exploring the possibilities of employing glass in space design. Interesting mood boards can result from pairing up soothing pastels with versatile glass. This composition looks into a few possibilities of creating intriguing idea boards by combining glass and pastel shades in various permutations and combinations. Glass as a material is finding uses in diverse segments of the decor industry. In conjunction with pastel palette, glass can result in imparting an elegant and chic language to a space.
Aditi is an architect with a specialization in craft and technology (CEPT University). Fond of writing and capturing moments while travelling, she believes in the narratives created by words and spaces alike.
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The German premier dismissed claims the Russian President is partly to blame for the record prices. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Ms Merkel said: “To my knowledge, there are no orders where Russia has said we won’t deliver it to you, especially not with regard to the pipeline in Ukraine.”
She went on to say: “Russia can only deliver gas on the basis of contractual obligations, and not just only like that.”
However, some analysts and European officials claim Russia is selling directly to spot markets, causing prices to shoot up at alarming current rates.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov echoed the rhetoric of the German Chancellor by agreeing that all contractual agreements are being met.
Various European Union Parliament members have called for an investigation in to the Russian energy giant Gazprom, alleging a spike in prices possibly come from market manipulation.
Brussels warned of ‘unmanageable’ civil unrest over gas prices hikes
In a letter to the EU’s executive Commission on September 16, around 40 of the Parliament’s 700 lawmakers said they suspected Russia’s Gazprom had acted to push up gas prices.
“We call on the European Commission to urgently open an investigation into possible deliberate market manipulation by Gazprom and potential violation of EU competition rules,” said the letter.
Russia and Germany have built the Gazprom owned Nord Stream II pipeline between Ust-Luga to Greifswald, under the Baltic Sea. It is of geo-political importance as it avoids a route through Ukraine.
Although complete, gas is yet to flow through the pipeline as official confirmation and permission for the project to start has yet to be received.
The United States and some European countries have warned against the pipeline being opened as it could lead to further dependence by Europe on Russian gas.
Some say that as prices have risen as Russia pressures a more rapid response over the opening of the line, which will see around 55 billion cubic meters of gas flow at peak annual capacity, adding to the already flowing Nord Stream I, which pumps the same amount.
Whereas some nations, including France and Spain, are reeling over the spike in energy prices, which at one point were 40 percent up, the German Chancellor delivered a more measured appraisal of the situation.
“I just want to remind you that we have become used to very low gas prices,” said Ms Merkel at a conference in Slovenia.
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She went on to say: “Some of the shale gas in the US could not be extracted anymore because the prices were so low that it wouldn’t have paid off. Now the demand is getting bigger again, and we will have to look very closely.”
Environmentalists claim that shale gas extraction is most damaging to the environment, and should be avoided.
With Ms Merkel about to step aside from the German leadership, some claim that this may explain her lax approach to the situation, and her soft and toned down rhetoric on Russia, and Gazprom.
There is also the suggestion that the Nordstream II pipeline would give Germany another geo-political advantage in Europe as the ‘gateway to the gas’.
With no more voters to upset, Ms Merkel can afford to let her opinions run more freely than before, much to the delight of the Kremlin it seems.
With the Russian President claiming the gas crisis in Europe is ‘panic’ only, he addressed an energy conference in Moscow on Wednesday claiming that Russia would open the taps further to supply more gas to Europe in its time of need.
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The first step we took on this journey was to simply ‘begin writing’ – to develop the habit of writing on a regular schedule. In the end, writers write; if you’re not writing regularly you may want to be a writer someday, but you’re not a writer now.
Writing regularly and writing a book are two different things. A book is an idea or collection of ideas, structured around a central theme in logical progression, in long-form (let’s say from 30,000 to 300,000 words).
Collecting those ideas and structuring them around a central theme in logical progression is what we’ve been practicing in our last three sessions – the ones that come after ‘begin writing.’ Those next steps are:
Now that we’ve developed a habit of writing, gathered our ideas, plotted our course, and created an outline, we can get down to the business of writing a book! This is the good part; it’s also the ‘work’ part. Let’s begin, shall we?
At this stage, we’ll begin putting flesh on the bones of the skeleton, the structure, of our outline. Using the outline you’ve created from our last session, simply begin at point (1) in the outline, or your first bullet point under point (1) and begin writing what’s stored up inside you. Nothing happening? Nothing ’stored up’? That’s a common feeling … more like a universal feeling among writers when they face a blank screen. Here’s the cure: just begin writing. Don’t worry, don’t think; just begin writing. Whatever you write now is just between you and the screen; nobody is looking over your shoulder, nobody is judging it. Ernest Hemingway said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” He also said, “The first draft of anything is sh*t.” If Hemingway admitted it, it’s okay for us to face it. Just pick your first point on the outline and begin writing. This exercise, besides putting flesh on the bones of your book will reveal two valuable results:
- It will reveal what you know about your subject – things you didn’t consciously know you knew, but, as I said earlier, have been ‘stored up’ inside you that the writing of them has brought out. This is an amazing phenomenon that happens when writers write – what comes out often surprises the writer more than anyone!
- It will reveal what you don’t know about your subject – we’ll get to that in a later session. Right now, your only job is to write – outline point by outline point – everything that comes out. No judging, no re-writing, no ‘researching’ (also known as procrastinating). All that (but the procrastinating) comes at a later stage.
Click here to see how I have begun ‘fleshing out’ the sample outline I created last session. You’ll see that chapters 1 through 5 have some flesh on them and 6 – 18 have just the bullets from the outline. I’ll begin fleshing out those chapters next.
Now it’s your turn. Get started!
* Note: In our next session we’re going to take a short writing break and talk about writing for your audience (a lot of starving writers hate this part, that’s why they’re starving). Who’s going to buy this book you’re writing and why we need to talk about it now before we go any further.
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Classic Remarks is a meme hosted at Pages Unbound that poses questions each Friday about classic literature and asks participants to engage in ongoing discussions surrounding not only themes in the novels but also questions about canon formation, the “timelessness” of literature, and modes of interpretation. Founded and run by Briana and Krysta, Pages Unbound is one of my absolute favorite sites. So I always love when I can throw my two cents in on a Classic Remarks discussion. So, dear readers, let’s get the conversation rolling!
I have read a lot of articles and social media posts by black authors and activists over the last week who have said the same thing. In this moment in time, the role of white allies is to listen to and learn from black voices, to stand with the movement and march in solidarity, and, if needed, put our white privilege to a just use by placing our white bodies between the police and black bodies during peaceful demonstrations. What was stressed again and again is that this is not the time for white voices to lead, to speak out, and/or to make it “about us” – something, sadly, all too rare in American history. What is most important is for white Americans to listen and learn, to hear what our black sisters and brothers are saying and to follow their lead in the struggle against the sin of systemic racism. Continue reading
SO MANY amazing comic books vie for my attention each month but, realistically, there’s only so much money to go around…unless I forego food, electricity, my house, and all those other trivial things. So that means choices. (Ah, nothing like #FirstWorldProblems am I right?) One of my first blog posts was a look at the comics I’d decided to fill my file with once I returned to reading them regularly. I figured now, six months later, it would be an interesting topic to revisit! Continue reading
This week those crazy cats over at Goodreads have issued the following challenge to the world of Top 5 Wednesday writers – put together a list of your top five favorite first sentences. Sounds intriguing right?? It is! However, once I considered it, I realized this would end up being trickier than I thought. I am excellent at quoting films or shows I love – and even certain lines in literature. But, with the exception of a few classic lines, I don’t tend to remember the first sentence of even the books that are most beloved to me. But I didn’t let that stop me! So here you have it folks, my list of five favorite first sentences! Continue reading
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The future for environmental standards in the UK
Emma Howard Boyd yesterday spoke at a Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum on environmental standards and the Office for Environmental Protection.
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Just over a year ago I spoke at this forum on this very same topic – the future of environmental standards, principles and governance. Back then the first draft of the environment bill had been unveiled and the first meaningful vote on Brexit had just been lost.
In some ways a lot has changed – last week we left the EU and the full Environment Bill was published by a new government.
But perhaps the biggest change is the sizeable and welcome shift in public concern about climate change and the natural environment. It was great to see the PM recognise this launching the Year of Climate Action on Tuesday.
This can kick-start the decade of climate delivery that we need. Because the one thing that hasn’t changed is the urgent environmental challenges we face.
A year ago I quoted tennis player Billie Jean King who said that pressure is a privilege.
Right now there are enormous pressures on our environment – I doubt nature sees it as a privilege.
Later this year the UK will host COP26 – in the run up the government has an incredible opportunity to show the bold leadership required to begin to ease the pressure.
It has already started with the legal commitment to reach Net Zero by 2050 last year.
Demonstrating its firm commitment to the highest environmental standards would show the scale of our ambition.
Because we should never underestimate the value and importance of having high environmental standards and strong and effective regulation.
With the UK inside the EU we have seen massive improvements in the quality of bathing waters in this country, whilst product efficiency standards have helped cut energy use.
Domestically, over the last decade the Environment Agency’s own regulation has helped: reduce greenhouse gas emissions from sites we regulate by 47 per cent; reduce air pollutants like sulphur dioxides by 81 per cent and nitrous oxides by 65 per cent; and reduce serious pollution incidents by 14 per cent.
All of this helps create a better environment for people to live in.
It is also good for businesses, giving them certainty over the rules and allowing them to invest for the future. It drives resource efficiency and innovation and creates new markets.
Over the next decade the standards that are set in this country, and the regulation we do, can help tackle the climate emergency, prepare for its impacts, restore nature and help UK PLC.
So we welcome the Environment Bill – an ambitious and potentially transformative piece of legislation for the natural environment.
It sets out the new legal framework for environmental governance in this country and aims to put environmental thinking at the heart of policy making.
Environmental issues should never be seen as a nice to do, a cherry on top – they should be baked into government decision making - essential to building a better world.
We look forward to responding to the consultation on the policy statement on environmental principles to make sure the Bill achieves these aims.
So yes, let’s bank the improvements that have been made,
But if we are going to meet the twin challenges of restoring the natural world and tackling the climate emergency we must do better than to simply maintain the status quo.
Our goal should not be to keep hold of what we currently have but to make it better.
And if the UK wants to be a global leader on the environment, it needs to set consistent standards internationally – we can’t have one rule at home, while turning a blind eye to environmental degradation overseas.
The Bill requires the government to set legally binding targets on air quality, water, waste reduction, and nature recovery.
On Tuesday the Prime Minister rightly spoke about the global toll the impacts of climate change were having around the world. This is a description I recognise from my role as the UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation.
But we also feel the impacts of climate change in this country. Our communities can experience the toll of both too little water and too much.
I would like to see the targets set under this Bill help us adapt to a changing climate.
Making us fit and ready to face the impacts of an increased risk of flooding, drought and heatwaves. Seeing nature as a friend to work with not a foe to fight against.
For example; restoring saltmarshes not only provides a habitat for diverse lifeforms, it also increases resilience to flooding by protecting the coastline.
As the government regains the powers to legislate for future environmental standards a broad and transparent framework which fosters a collaborative approach is the best way forward.
Standard setting should not sit in a small office in Whitehall, being decided by a small number of people.
The inclusion of business, government, regulators, NGOs and the public – will mean we can get effective standards – to protect and enhance the environment – that everyone can sign up to and support.
Shortly you’re going to hear in depth views on the new Office for Environmental Protection.
With the right leadership we believe it will have the powers it needs to fulfil its role. It’s good to see climate change included within its remit. Climate and the environment are inextricably linked.
We will welcome the scrutiny of the OEP and look forward to working with it.
However, for it to be truly effective it must look across the whole of government, and not just at those organisations it sees as doing ‘Environment’.
It’s also correct that it doesn’t duplicate the functions of what we already have.
The second part of the Bill also has very welcome provisions.
It will help improve regional planning on water resources to help ensure water resources, flooding and pollution are better managed in a changing climate. It will also allow us to stop damaging, unsustainable abstraction.
The powers on waste crime will help us take more effective enforcement action against those breaking the law.
A new addition, on stopping the export of plastic waste to developing countries, will also help signify the UK’s global leadership role.
We support the focus on air quality in the Bill, and the aim for the Environment Agency to work more closely with local authorities.
Legislating to mandate biodiversity net gain is welcome and we believe it can be a stepping stone to a longer term ambition of Environmental Net Gain.
As always, with all these provisions, the devil will be in the detail. We look forward to working with Defra to make sure we have the resources required to fulfil the ambitions set out in the Bill.
We know that without a healthy environment we cannot have a stable economy.
As abstract and distant from people’s lives that discussion on principles and governance can sound the consequences are not. Dangerous air pollution, degraded bathing waters, increased flooding all have real world health and economic impacts.
If we are to meet people’s growing expectations of environmental action, then the delivery bodies, doing the work on the ground, need access to the resources required to undertake complex and sometimes controversial work.
The environmental challenges we face are fundamentally connected to one another. Climate change is causing damage to ecosystems, whilst environmental degradation is leading to emissions that cause climate change.
With our role to regulate for the environment across sectors as diverse as farming, nuclear power, chemicals and water, the Environment Agency is well placed to provide expert advice to government on the challenges of the future.
I mentioned earlier some of the successes we have had - but we are always looking at how we can do better.
We will always be tough on those who break the rules, damage the environment and undermine trust in legitimate business trying to do the right thing.
But good regulation also involves collaboration – helping those we regulate perform better to achieve better outcomes for the environment.
By focussing on the ‘what’ – the standards we want to achieve - rather than a prescriptive ‘how’, good regulation creates the space for businesses to innovate, and innovate in the right way.
We are also making better use of modern technology and investing in digital systems. This will make it quicker and easier for people to apply for permits, and it will improve our ability to detect and disrupt those who act illegally.
This is important – because it means high standards and strong regulation won’t mean more bureaucracy for businesses doing the right thing.
But just as importantly it will also enable the public to easily find out about their local environment, and the environmental record of the businesses that operate near their homes.
It creates more accountability and roots operators in their community. As people become more climate conscious and environmentally aware developing this connection will be important.
I started this speech reflecting on what had changed in the last year and talking about pressure.
Pressure can cause extreme reactions – it can burst a pipe or create a diamond.
The pressure on our natural environment is no different.
As we look ahead to what might change in the next year, and the next decade, let’s work together, use the opportunities in the Environment Bill, and in hosting COP26, so that just as we value the wonder of a diamond, we value the wonder of the natural world.
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Unlike students returning to school, germs don’t have classroom assignments. They’re known to spread in lots of ways, especially during cold and flu season.
To help keep your family well in the coming weeks that often bring coughs and sniffles, Hurley Medical Center offers a few recommendations.
“Prevention is paramount when it comes to infectious diseases, such as influenza and even the common cold. First and foremost, obtaining the appropriate flu shot for your family members,” says Danielle Campbell, Hurley’s community wellness manager. “The flu shot is effective for the entire flu season and protects you with immunity from the viruses.”
Experts recommend a few simple tips and tricks.
For younger students, memory minders help. Teach them simple phrases to help them become germ fighters:
Wash when you flush or touch: Handwashing is the best way to stop germs from spreading.
Cover your cough: Use a tissue to cover your face when you sneeze or cough, or sneeze/cough into your elbow.
Sharing is not always caring: Toys should be shared, but germs shouldn’t. Help your kids understand that sharing straws, cups, food, silverware (forks, spoons, etc.) spreads germs.
Hands off: Keep your hands away from your eyes, nose and mouth, which are the “doorway’ that germs use to get into our bodies.
Experts at the CDC recommend that parents make sure their kids get a good night’s sleep, regular exercise and plenty of healthy nutrients, particularly during flu season.
Keeping kids healthy and in the classroom is important, according to Tricia Hill, Executive Director of Countywide Programs at the Genesee Intermediate School District, who knows that parents often struggle with the decision of when to keep their child home during cold and flu season.
“If a student has a fever, diaherra or has been vomitting they should stay home from school,” says Hill. “If they have not thrown up, had diaherra or a fever for 24 hours, they can return to the school. If in doubt, parents should contact their child’s doctor or the school office for guidance.”
If your child does get sick, a few simple tips can help ease their recovery, according to Cambell.
“If you or your child gets sick drink plenty of fluids and rest,” says Campbell, who explains this can help your body fight the virus and avoid spreading illness to others.
Sipping hot soothing liquids like chicken soup, tea and other beverages help ease achy throats, reducing the sinus mucus that causes congestion.
Age-appropriate over-the-counter medications can help too, according to Campbell
“Most viral infections last from several days to two weeks, therefore proper precautions and treatment can make you more comfortable and help to keep others from getting ill,” says Campbell.
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R&D is a very important department in our company. We research and design constantly modify and inspect by the digital R&D computer equipment together with the mould factory and by the 3D computer simulation and improve the original defects continuously until the perfectible mould appears.
With the experience of R&D and innovation of so many years, we unceasingly invest on the manufacture facilities of hardware and research the new machine besides renewing the design software in order to promote the technologies of the world.
We are confident that we can fully satisfy the increasingly developing demands of the plastic container industry. The multiple application EPI Polyvinyl drum is made by a process of computer controlled mechanical equipment in a hollow integrity with even thickness in the whole drum while the quality of the product is stable for easy loading and unloading as well as in management and storage while easy handling keeps it in smooth operations while it is resistant to acids and alkalis as well as impacts. It is applicable in dyestuffs, colorants, paintings, resins, accelerants and all sort of chemicals in liquid and powder.
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The child David and the whale is a story that tells us about friendship . Or rather, of how a child imagines a friend. Among other things, a friend is someone to share confidences with. But also someone who teaches you to respect and learn from the differences. The tale of friendship between David a
The child David and the whale is a story thattells us about friendship. Or rather, of how a child imagines a friend. Among other things, a friend is someone to share confidences with. But also someone who teaches you to respect and learn from the differences.
The tale of friendship between David and the whale
It had been raining non-stop for four days. The four days that David and his family were on vacation.
It was raining hard on the empty beach, it rained without respite on the roof of the caravan in which the child David and his family invented ways to pass the time, of waiting for that endless rain to take a break.
They played cards.
They played the oca and the parchís.
They played chess, checkers and also dominoes.
But time did not pass. The rain either.
The boy David looked out the window and sighed. He had so many projects for those vacations at sea ... He wanted to build a sand castle and invite his princess to play with the shovels. He wanted to dive among the waves and the sirens would teach him to breathe underwater. I wanted to swim and swim and swim afterwards. Get to the high seas and meet some pirates of the patch in the eye and leg stick. I wanted to sail with them across a thousand seas, from one end of the planet, to each continent and each ocean. Later, when he decided to return home, tired of so much knowing the world, he would have gone up to a huge whale.
It would be a bright skin whale, which would always give him conversation, and it would always be the most interesting. She would tell him what it was like to be a whale, and the boy David who did not always like to go to school. She would tell him about poachers, and him about what it was like to be a fugitive pirate. She, who like all the whales would be a vegetarian, would teach her how to eat placton and other plants, and the boy David, very surprised, would eat it as if it were the best of the sandwiches. Then, when they got back to the beach, she would say goodbye by releasing a stream of water through her lungs. And David would be fired to the beach, where a pirate would arrive ...
- David, David ... stop sleeping! Put on the swimsuit that the sun has risen ...
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When ASUS’s live software update servers were hacked last year, an estimated million-plus computers were infected with a backdoor. But only some 600 were actually being targeted, Kaspersky Lab, which revealed the compromise, said this week.
It subsequently released a downloadable tool for users to see if one of their computers was among those targeted, but declined to unveil the MAC addresses themselves, concealing them in the tool and protecting them using a salted hash algorithm.
For some, the temptation was too strong. Aussie cybersecurity company Skylight Cyber (founded by Israeli duo Adi Ashkenazy and Shahar Zini) this week cheekily reverse-engineered the tool to work out what encryption protocol was being used, then brute-forced it to reveal (and publish) 583 of the MAC addresses, saying Kaspersky Lab’s approach “does not really serve” the security community.
The move – and research by others in the community; Skylight Cyber was not alone in cracking the list, although it was the first to publicly publish a plain text version – reveal that the MAC addresses primarily belong to other large technology corporations like Intel, as well as ASUS itself, VMware, AMPAK and more.
Almost 600 #MAC addresses targeted in the #ShadowHammer #APT attack get cracked by @360TIC. Below are statistics of related NIC manufacturers, #ASUS, #Intel and #AzureWave account for the most part. pic.twitter.com/1Geflvxp4h
— RedDrip Team (@RedDrip7) March 27, 2019
ShadowHammer Attack: The MAC Addresses
Skylight Cyber said in a blog initially shared with the Hacker News and now publicly posted, that it used reverse engineering toolkit IDA, a custom-tweaked version of the HashCat password cracking tool and AWS’s p3.16xlarge instance (which carry eight of NVIDIA’s V100 Tesla 16GB GPUs: “say hello to my little friend”) to crack the encryption on 583 of the MAC addresses in less than an hour, in a “short but sweet” challenge.
We've published the [almost] full list of MAC addresses targeted by #shadowhammer in plain-text form (based on @Kaspersky's work). Feed into your #threatintel to see if your organization was targeted.https://t.co/G8QUVpi34M
— Skylight Cyber (@SkylightCyber) March 29, 2019
As they wrote: “Kaspersky have released an online tool that allows you to check your MAC address against a DB of victim MAC addresses (which is hidden). Good on Kaspersky on one hand, but on the other hand, this is highly inefficient, and does not really serve the security community. So, we thought it would be a good idea to extract the list and make it public so that every security practitioner would be able to bulk compare them to known machines in their domain.”
As well as being an entertaining read, it’s a sharp reminder that easily available compute power makes brute forcing even the SHA256 encryption protocol viable in a short period of time. As for your average password? Forget it.
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Czech Republic: Education of Romani children has not changed much since Strasbourg judgment
Six years have passed since the groundbreaking judgment by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of D.H. and Others vs. the Czech Republic. That judgment confirmed that the Czech Republic discriminates against Romani children by disproportionately sending them to what are today called "practical schools" (previously "special schools").
Despite international criticism, this problem persists. The Czech government, according to the judgment of 13 November 2007, violated the rights of 18 Romani children from the Ostrava region to education and to freedom from discrimination by assigning them to the "special schools".
The Grand Chamber of the ECtHR overturned the initial judgment from a lower level of the court on appeal. The final judgment was adopted by the justices 13:4.
According to the judgment, the Czech Republic violated the article of the European Convention on Human Rights banning discrimination and the article of a protocol to that convention on the right to education. "The court has rendered an historical judgment according to which discrimination has no place in 21st-century Europe. Romani children now will have the same access to quality education as everyone else," James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative and legal adviser to the plaintiffs, said at the time.
"Our efforts took almost 10 years and we are very glad to have succeeded. The NGOs and parents warned that the primary school system has a fundamental problem because the 'special schools' segregate Romani children and the quality of education in those schools is poor. The parents are here with me and they are very enthusiastic," activist Kumar Vishwanathan told news server Romea.cz on the day the judgment was announced.
"This is an enormous step forward in the European fight against discrimination. The forced assignment of Romani students into inferior schools is now illegal," declared Vera Egenberger, executive director of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) on the day the judgment was announced.
The Romani plaintiffs' legal representatives originally filed a complaint with the Strasbourg court in the year 2000 alleging the violation of a greater number of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights. The court, however, accepted just the two articles mentioned (discrimination and the right to education) for review and originally ruled 6:1 that neither had been violated.
At the time, the court said that even though the complaint was based on several serious arguments, the court itself was not competent to evaluate an entire social context, just individual cases. The court also expressed the opinion that the rules for accepting children into the "special schools" did not have a racial basis and that the government had proven that the schools did not accept Romani children only.
The Grand Chamber, of course, took the opposite position. In its final judgment, the court said the documentation presented by the plaintiffs, which contained data about the number of Romani children in the "special schools", should be considered sufficiently reliable to form the basis for a strong presumption of indirect discrimination.
The court also referenced data from several international organizations and the Czech Government itself about the high number of Romani children in the "special schools". The Court also stated that it shared the uneasiness of other Council of Europe bodies about the lower overall level of the programs in the "special schools" and especially about the segregation resulting from the system.
As far as the tests used as the basis for placing the plaintiffs into the "special schools" were concerned, the court said there is a risk that they were marked by prejudice and that their results had not been evaluated in the light of the specific situations of the Romani children who were subjected to them. As for the consent of the parents to their children's enrollment into the "special schools", which was, according to the judgment, the main argument of the Czech Government, the court said it was not convinced that the parents of Romani children were capable of evaluating all aspects of the situation and the consequences of their consent.
"Because it was proven that the application of the relevant Czech laws had, during the time period under discussion, a disproportionately harmful impact on the Romani community, the plaintiffs, as members of that community, were necessarily exposed to that same discriminatory treatment. The Court has therefore come to the conclusion that Article 14 of the Convention (concerning the ban on discrimination) has been violated in combination with Article 2, Protocol 1 of the Convention (on the right to education)", the ECtHR concluded.
Four members of the Grand Chamber provided dissenting opinions, including the Czech member, Karel Jungwiert, and the Slovak member, Ján Šikuta. "I strongly disagree with the opinion of the majority in this case," Jungwiert wrote at the start of his five-and-a-half page explanation as to why he voted against the final judgment.
The judgment, now six years old, has not changed much about the Czech approach, however. Czech Education Minister Ondřej Liška attempted inclusive education during his time in the Topolánek cabinet, but the ministers who followed him discontinued the processes he set up.
The return to discriminatory behavior was primarily the doing of Czech Education Minister Josef Dobeš during his time in the Nečas cabinet. In June 2011, at a personal meeting with Czech PM Petr Nečas, the American philanthropist George Soros, founder of the Open Society Foundations network, called on the PM to enforce particular measures on this issue.
Those measures would have included, for example, creating a support system for mainstream primary schools so they would be able to include all children in their classes, including those with special educational needs (inclusive education), and bring pupils currently attending the "practical schools" into mainstream ones. The "Together to School" coalition also called on the Education Ministry to take action that same year.
"Four years after the judgment, the Czech Republic is not upholding its obligations. The 2009 Institute for Information in Education report, the March 2010 Thematic Report of the Czech School Inspectorate, and the November 2010 report by Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg have all found that discrimination against children in their access to education continues unabated," the coalition wrote in a 2011 press release.
"The Education Minister and the Government must understand that sending Romani children to the 'practical schools' is a fundamental problem, as inferior education predetermines their futures and pushes them into social exclusion. Inclusive education can contribute toward reducing the number of people who find it difficult to assert themselves on the labor market and therefore the number of people dependent on welfare. Better integration will also lead to greater social calm," Robert Basch, director of Open Society Fund Prague, said in November 2012.
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1378 Porter Ave
Telephone: (401) 841-4801
The history of the Navy Supply Corps dates back to 1795 when President George Washington appointed Tench Francis as the first purveyor of public supplies; however, it was not until 1921 that the first Supply Corps School opened in Washington, D.C. In 1924, the school was disestablished but then reopened in 1934 as the Naval Finance and Supply School in Philadelphia. The school then merged with the Supply Corps Reserve Officer School in 1941. In 1945, the school was moved to Bayonne, New Jersey, where it operated until 1954, then relocated to Athens, Georgia, where it remained until December 2010.
The Navy Supply Corps School officially opened its doors in January 2011 at its current location in Newport. The building is named after Vice Adm. Kenneth R. Wheeler, the 31st Chief of Supply Corps and former World War II prisoner of war. His distinction in many crucial roles earned him a third star in January 1973, at which time he was designated vice chief of naval material, becoming the principal adviser to the legendary Adm. Isaac Kidd Jr., and exercising authority over six deputy chiefs and six systems commanders. Wheeler retired in September 1974 after 35 years of service.
The Wheeler Center is a 58,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility with 11 electronic classrooms, two video teletraining rooms, a multipurpose room that can be separated into three classrooms and nine breakout discussion rooms. Additionally, there is a mock ship’s store, barbershop, shipboard galley, storeroom, laundry and a Navy Cash laboratory used to introduce the students to what they might expect during their first tour as division officers afloat.
The mission of the Navy Supply Corps School is to develop Navy Supply Corps officers and other logistics professionals through integrated education and training while building their personal, professional and leadership competencies to meet current and future global defense challenges. As the initial training site for new Supply Corps officers, the Basic Qualification Course/Basic Qualification Course Navy Reserves teaches the fundamentals of supply and logistics. The curriculum includes training in supply management, food service, retail operations, disbursing, and leadership and management. Officers returning to the fleet to take charge of an afloat Supply Department attend the Supply Officer Department Head Course or Senior Supply Officer Department Head Courses to review supply fundamentals.
Other courses include: Joint Aviation Supply and Maintenance Material Management, Introduction to Expeditionary Logistics, Transportation of Hazardous Material, Relational Supply Force Level Course and Reserve Supply Management Advanced Refresher Training. The school also partners with international military and civilian management programs to offer the International Officer Supply Basic Course, International Logistics Executive Advanced Development and Advanced Management Program.
The Navy Supply Corps School trains more than 2,400 students every year. The training is delivered in-resident and through distance learning via a mobile training team or Video Tele-Training.
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Names of York: Abraham Wells
More in the ongoing series on the Names of York.
Place: Wellsville, a small borough in northern York County
Who was it named after? Abraham Wells, a whipmaker, was the town of Wellsville’s founder. The original industry of the town included Wells’ whip factory, as well as a tannery where animal hides were made into leather for the whips.
Interesting facts: Remember William Wells Young, the subject of a previous “Names of York” entry? Abraham Wells was his maternal grandfather!
Source: Daily Record/Sunday News archives
Do you have a suggestion of a place in York County named for a person? If so, post a comment! I’m going to work my way through some likely ones, such as schools and parks, but I need other suggestions too!
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"Free Form" shape cup and saucer "Primitive" pattern decoration
Viktor Schreckengost ( American, 1906 - 2008 )
Salem China Company ( American, 1898 )
- designed 1955
Between 1925 and 1965, American potteries reached their peak in both production and importance in the marketplace. Serving this industry were many world-famous designers, among them Viktor Schreckengost. Developed to fit the casual lifestyle that had developed in post-World War II America, the Free Form line is characterized by non-traditional shapes - cups that stand on three legs, and oval-teardrop-form salt and pepper shakers, among others. The teapot with its loop handle, tripod feet, and extended spout is the most avant-garde piece in this line. Several of the decorative patterns applied to these forms were also unusual. Primitive is loosely derived from the imagery of prehistoric cave painting, most famously seen at Lascaux. Interestingly, the manufacturer hoped this pattern would appeal to male consumers, rather than their female counterparts, who represented the vast majority of ceramics buyers.
Charles L. Venable, Ellen P. Denker, Katherine C. Grier, Stephen G. Harrison, China and Glass in America, 1880-1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), cat. 198, 467.
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See prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, the type of prehistoric art that inspired the "Primitive" pattern.
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Interview by Richard Marshall
'That the book is called Analytic Islamic Philosophy is a political statement. I am re-appropriating, and owning, the slur that it is to be called an ‘analytic’ so-and so. I have found scholarship in Islamic philosophy to have hitherto been overly geared towards philology and textual exegesis. The gatekeepers to that sub-discipline have made it the case that one has to get into, and show the credentials of being capable of grasping, the minutiae of issues concerning translations, for example, in order to be allowed to have a voice. I think this is partly responsible then for the exclusion of Islamic philosophy from the curriculum in modern UK and US philosophy departments – philosophers, qua philosophers, are deemed not to be allowed to say anything about it.'
'... the evidentialist view about what constitutes correct belief made salient the following question: why did God send down a Prophesy? There seems to be no unique epistemic purpose to Prophesy if all that’s in the Koran are simply true propositions, that might have been discovered by doing science or philosophy. I think then the central aim of Falsafa is to answer this last question. As I say, it resembles the ‘faith vs reason’ question, though is subtly different, and in fact a slightly more sophisticated problematic (in fact more similar to modern problems in epistemology about testimony and the role of experts).'
'I take intuitions to be the sorts of things that underscore mathematical and a priori knowledge (so often used in analytic metaphysics): how we can come to know these things from the armchair to me remains a complete mystery, as difficult to solve as the famous hard problem of consciousness.'
'According to Evidentialism one ought to believe something just in case one has good evidence for it. As such, evidence itself is normative, and this therefore seems to commit one to a kind of realism about normative properties. Anti-evidentialists will often think instead that such properties look mysterious, and that it’s really some will that brings normative properties into the world (either God’s will perhaps, or our human wills).'
'My take is that the project of understanding epistemic justification should be seen as a branch of the ethics of belief and to be distinct from the project of defining knowledge.'
Anthony Booth is a philosopher interested in applied philosophy, epistemic normativity, epistemology, ethics, ethics of belief, Gettier cases, Islamic epistemology and philosophy of mind. Here he discusses the analytic/continental divide in philosophy, Islamic philosophy, the relationship between Greek philosophy and Islamic philosophy, the Falsafa, Al-Farabi and ‘moderate evidentialism’, Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Islamic philosophy and politics, intuitions, Wittgenstein, when we should believe something, and epistemic justification.
3:16: What made you become a philosopher?
Anthony Booth: I was a really rebellious teenager and was getting into all sort of trouble in my final years at school when a kindly history teacher (Margaret Ainscough) took me under her wing. She identified the sorts of questions I was asking in class as irrelevant to what we were studying (e.g. whether Cardinal Wolsey was a pragmatic opportunist) but as ‘philosophical’. She helped me pursue my interests by taking me to the few relevant lectures of the York Philosophical Society, giving me things to read, and indulging me in long discussions. Margaret had an extremely powerful intellect, and was exceptionally kindly, but nonetheless had a complete, almost physical, allergy and aversion to philosophy. I have since continually experienced a similar aversion in my professional life, particularly when in the company of historians of various stripes. I really don’t understand where that animosity comes from, but it’s often so deep that I wonder whether it’s somehow innate for some people. I guess I just wasn’t born with such an allergy! At the time, Margaret would often try to see if I would intellectually engage with subjects that she thought were more worthwhile, like anthropology or sociology, and finally persuaded me to apply to study philosophy as a joint honours subject with psychology at university. Once I was at university I was excited and surprised to meet people that actually had a deep love of, and respect for, philosophy, and I was hooked! I was conversely alienated by the manner in which my psychology teachers kept denigrating psychoanalysis (to first years, as if to cultishly brain-wash them), and by the machismo of acting as if the subject was like a ‘hard’ science. So I dropped psychology after my first year. In so doing, I more consciously and wilfully started to identify myself as a ‘philosopher’. Incidentally, I’ve since also become much more sympathetic to psychology as a discipline – they’re doing amazing work!
3:16: One of your great interests is Islamic philosophy and you begin your most recent book by explaining why you find the so-called analytic/continental divide in philosophy a bad thing whilst calling yourself analytic. So first, can you explain why you don’t think the divide justified philosophically yet you use one term of the divide to describe your own approach which on the face of it not only endorses the divide but picks a side?
AB: Given the various historical ‘turns’ that ‘analytic’ philosophy has been through (such that it is now completely kosher and apparently not contradictory to talk about ‘analytic metaphysics’)I don’t think there’s anything left to the term ‘analytic’ than denoting adherence to the following very board norm: make your work understandable to others, via the use of accepted conventions for writing, such that its results can be assessed. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who is seriously working on a topic or a figure that is paradigmatically considered to be ‘continental’ (e.g. Sartre or Heidegger) who would reject that norm. They may abide by slightly different conventions for writing – they may put greater emphasis on historical scholarship, or to close reading – but they follow the conventions in order to be understood by peers and such that their work may fairly be assessed as scholarship. A hell of a lot of people working on Heidegger, for example, work really hard to try to understand him, to make him intelligible to themselves. And because they are forced to do this with the tool of language, the effort is also de facto one geared at making his thought intelligible to others. And note that the norm above does not prescind doing professional work on the ‘ineffable’, either. Since it’s (a) unclear given the meaning of the word ‘ineffable’ that poetry and the like, and not argumentative discourse, is best at capturing it. That is, given that the ineffable is meant to go beyond thought and language. (b) That good poets are not themselves subject to the norm above.
There is a small handful of ‘purists’ within contemporary continental philosophy who do explicitly reject this norm (and a small handful of anglo-american philosophers who unfairly characterise them as spokespeople for the whole of continental philosophy). I can see how it might be pragmatically rational (opportunist?) for them to do so: it expediates the formation of cliques, and so obviates exposure to critical analysis, and, much more charitably, may insulate them from some of the big sociological problems affecting the philosophical mainstream – problems to do with sexism, and racism, for example. But I think that, sociologically speaking, it is not at all obvious that that they are immune from all these problems and I think we’re better off working together to tackle them. Further, to reject the norm in question is in my mind to effectively reject the wish to communicate with others. I can sometimes appreciate the sentiment, but, all things considered, I find it excessively anti-social.
So to that extent I do pick a winning side. But, given how I’ve just defined its central characteristic, it’s rather a pyrrhic victory for analytic philosophy. It would have re-invented itself almost to the point of extinction (if it’s defined by its opposite other). I think the capacity for such re-invention, and subsuming of other traditions, is a good thing in a tradition (I think Tim Williamson has said something similar). But it may leave some fearing that analytic philosophy is colonising other traditions in a domineering way. Hence why being an ‘analytic Nietzschean’ is often used as a slur. However, I feel the fear is misplaced, given how broad the ‘analytic’ norm is, and that there being such a thing as an ‘analytic Nietzschean’ is a testament to the norm’s breadth. As such I think the existence of such labels, and their no longer carrying a very obvious sense of paradox, marks the first steps towards completely abandoning the analytic-continental distinction, and symptomatic of a friendlier, more open minded, less patriarchal and less racist overall discipline.
That the book is called Analytic Islamic Philosophy is a political statement. I am re-appropriating, and owning, the slur that it is to be called an ‘analytic’ so-and so. I have found scholarship in Islamic philosophy to have hitherto been overly geared towards philology and textual exegesis. The gatekeepers to that sub-discipline have made it the case that one has to get into, and show the credentials of being capable of grasping, the minutiae of issues concerning translations, for example, in order to be allowed to have a voice. I think this is partly responsible then for the exclusion of Islamic philosophy from the curriculum in modern UK and US philosophy departments – philosophers, qua philosophers, are deemed not to be allowed to say anything about it. They are only allowed to speak about it quahistorians or philologists. More importantly this attitude tacitly attributes to Islamic philosophy the idea that it contains nothing philosophicallyworthwhile. That it is merely an item of curious exotica, to be explored over a port at an oriental studies event. I’m afraid I find that attitude rather a racist one, and the term ‘analytic’ is meant to denote a departure from it. My aim is to show respect to Islamic philosophy by treating it as something that can inform and transform my own tradition. ‘Analytic’ here then also denotes a methodological commitment in the history of philosophy – the giving of maximum hermeneutical priority to the principle of charity and of philosophical engagement with texts over poring over textual and historical details. That’s not to say that the latter aims are not valuable and necessary ones, just that the former trump them. I think the same about the values of empirical adequacy and explanatory power with respect to scientific theories.
3:16: So can you sketch for us the salient aspects of Islamic reason that you think show that Islamic philosophy is more than just something of historical interest but directly congruent with philosophy as generally understood, despite Russell’s assessment?
AB: I think the most salient point to make here is that, unlike Russell, I don’t think there really is anything that is Islamic reason. I think there are a number of philosophical thinkers who do or have considered themselves to be Islamic. Some of these think that their philosophies are inexorably tied to Islam and some do not. And one finds a huge spectrum of philosophies adhered to by them: from the ultra rationalist, to the anti-evidentialist, from compatiblist accounts of free will to quietist mysticism. At the risk of sounding trite: Islamic philosophers are good philosophers who reason like the rest of humanity, and have correlatively have come up with theories and anti-theories that much resemble what other historical traditions have come up with. What’s interesting to me is the difference that one finds in the detail of the particular versions of these theories, as I think that opens up the space of the possibility of making progress as to how we understand the world.
3:16: And how does the Greek legacy – in particular particular aspects and works from Plato and Aristotle – feed into Islamic thinking?
AB: I think it very explicitly feeds into the work of Falsafa (philosophy) – a word that is ‘Arabised’ from the Greek philosophia,of course, rather than directly translated using the Arabic word for wisdom (hikma) – whose exponents very much define themselves as bringing it into dialogue and showing it to be compatible with Islam. It’s an open question though that the Islamic theologians who preceded the advent of Falsafa were also, much more tacitly, influenced by such works.
What I think the Falasifa (Philosophers) were most interested in from Greek philosophy was the Neoplatonist cosmology that explained the origins of the world in way that seemed congruent with Islam; and a way of reading both the Platonic and Aristotelian epistemology that gave room for both reason and religion, in a way that had political implications.
3:16: The Falsafa is a crucial period for Islamic philosophy isn’t it? So who are the key figures and what are the key foundational aspects of this?
AB: Yes, I think ‘Falsafa’ denotes what can be considered a ‘classical’ or what Peter Adamson has called a ‘formative’ movement in Islamic Philosophy. The key, and most famous, thinkers of this early movement were al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes. These thinkers explicitly consider themselves as Peripatetic – as Aristotelian – but also bring a lot of Neo Platonist thought into their systems (they laboured under the miss-apprehension that certain Neo Platonist works had been written by Aristotle, and so often took the works of Plato and Aristotle to be a seamless whole). Al-Ghazali wrote a very famous critique of this movement The Incoherence of the Philosophers – so it’s probably not correct to label him a Falaysuf– but he’s certainly a philosopher, and a very important thinker in the period where Falsafa was extant.
I think the central problematic was something like what came to be known as the faith vs. reason issue. I know that became somewhat of an obsession later in Europe – and some have thought it to be a uniquely European obsession – but I think it has its roots in the central problematic behind Falsafa. The period when Falsafa first came into existence was during the Abbassid Caliphate, when a kind of ‘rational’ theology (Mu’tazilite theology) was very much dominant. In my view theologians in this school were often advocated of a position I call Evidentialism – that the correctness conditions of belief its truth conditions. So that one ought to believe things just in case they are true and thus that what gives you an obligation to believe that there is no God but God, for instance, is that it is true that there is no God but God. I think this was really radical, and it came with a particular metaphysics of belief where belief is considered to be a private, occurrent mental state. This had hugely significant implications for how to try apostates in Islamic Law (that ultimately this was a matter for God to determine in the afterlife). And it enabled the first Falasifa to argue for the study of Greek philosophy – if what is in the Koran is true, and what is in Greek philosophy is true, then the two must be in complete harmony, such that it was actually un-Islamic to fail to study Greek philosophy. But the evidentialist view about what constitutes correct belief made salient the following question: why did God send down a Prophesy? There seems to be no unique epistemic purpose to Prophesy if all that’s in the Koran are simply true propositions, that might have been discovered by doing science or philosophy. I think then the central aim of Falsafa is to answer this last question. As I say, it resembles the ‘faith vs reason’ question, though is subtly different, and in fact a slightly more sophisticated problematic (in fact more similar to modern problems in epistemology about testimony and the role of experts).
3:16: You link Al-Farabi with what you call ‘moderate evidentialism’ – so what is this evidentialism and how do Plato and Aristotle get in on the action?
AB: So I take evidentialism to be the view that one ought to believe things just in case one has good evidence for the truth of those things. I think that Thomas Aquinas moderated that view by claiming that while that applied to most things, there were some propositions – namely, certain religious propositions about which our evidence perforce had to be neutral – that were exempt. I think al-Farabi and others in the Falsafa movement also moderate evidentialism to get around the issue I mentioned about the epistemic uniqueness of Prophesy, but do so slightly differently. They do so by restricting not the propositions that Evidentialism applies to, but the subjects. In other words, they think that for a certain intellectual elite, evidentialism applies, but for the ordinary person it does not – they can believe on the basis of metaphors and stories.
I think that Aristotle gets in on the action, for al-Farabi, since he seems to have admitted of ways of knowing that are ‘sub-demonstrative’ (less than give you full certainty, but nonetheless give you knowledge). Plato, in that he seemed to make room in his epistemology for allegory, dialectical learning and rhetoric – especially for the intellectual non-elite.
3:16: Avicenna is the next giant figure you discuss, and his thinking turned to necessity and contingency, essence and existence – and of course modality is a key element in contemporary thinking still. So what did Avicenna argue, in particular about the necessity of the world, self consciousness, the active intellect and prophesy. (And what’s the flying man argument?)
AB: Al-Farabi had proposed (what I think was a very exciting and sophisticated) solution to the problem of the epistemic uniqueness of Prophesy problem. To simplify: the Prophet doesn’t have knowledge that is unique to them (that is unavailable to any other human). What makes their epistemic state different is not what they know, so to speak, but how they know: they understand the knowledge they have more so than ordinary humans. They do this via having superior faculty of the imagination that enables them to see how everything they know is connected (this, incidentally, also gives them a unique political role). Avicenna agrees that what marks out the Prophet from ordinary humans is their faculty of imagination. But this for Avicenna makes them have not just better understanding, but esoteric knowledge (knowledge that is available to them only). This is because of the role of the imagination in his epistemology and correlatively because of his necessitism: he advocates for the view that everything that exists, exists necessarily. Avicenna follows the other Falasifa in taking the best kind of knowledge to be the sort of knowledge that is taken passively from the Active Intellect. The Active Intellect was a notion the Falasifa had developed from Aristotle’s De Anima– a sort of intellectual force permeating everything that cannot be destroyed and permanently thinks or carries all the possible intelligibiles (roughly, the a priori truths). It was thought that it was necessary to posit this, since intellectual intuition is structurally like perception, and so needs an agentto generate a move from potentially intellecting something and actually intellecting it (actually being in the state of intuiting that Gettier cases are not cases of Knowledge, for instance).
BUT, thought Avicenna, the human mind needs to prepare itself before it can be acted upon by this agent. It does this via the use of the imagination: for instance, one imagines a house without a roof or a mud hut before one has the eureka moment and sees that the essence of a house is to provide shelter. Thus, Avicenna reasons, the more developed is one’s imagination, the more knowledge one will receive from the Active Intellect (the Active Intellect is for him an Emanation, in Neo-Platonist parlance, from the One). Because the Prophet has a better imagination, the Prophet therefore knows more than the ordinary human – such that there is knowledge in Prophesy that we can only know by consulting that Prophesy. This all makes thought experiments – such as the Flying Man thought experiment - for Avicenna have a very important epistemological role. The Flying man thought experiment, very roughly, is supposed to start to set up the mind such that it knows that our essences are not bound up with our material existences. Avicenna asks us to imagine whether if we were in the modern equivalent of a sensory deprivation tank (where we are born ‘flying’ in mid air as a fully formed adult with no sensory stimulation) whether we would still be self-aware. If we think that we would still be self-aware, then what are we aware of? Since it cannot be our bodies, our selves cannot be essentially material. Self awareness is something that is extremely important to Avicenna. This is because he thinks that it has a special epistemological status, and shows that there is something other than nothing (at least we know that we exist). And because there is something other than nothing we know that there must be something that has existence as an essential property (since, extremely roughly, something must cause there to be something other than nothing, and that something cannot have existence as a contingent property on pain of infinite regress). If the cause of there being something than nothing is something than exists essentially, then everything that has been caused to exist has been done so necessarily. Hence the modality of the world: everything that exists, exists necessarily. It’s all a very neat system!
3:16: Al-Ghazali argued against moderate evidentialism didn’t he – what are his reasons for this and his attack on Falsafa generally? Is he defending a form of Sufi mysticism? Ernest Gellner defended a view that Islam consisted of not one but two forms that oscillated like a pendulum throughout history – stopping only at the end of the nineteenth century when modernity emerged to enable the non-mystical, puritan revolutions to become the sole viable form of Islam in modernity. Is al-Ghazali the philosopher we might turn to to remind us of this alternative to contemporary puritan Islam?
AB: Yes, al-Ghazali wrote that famous work against Falsafa and their moderate evidentialism: The Incoherence of the Philosophers. What I think he’s most against (he mentions this in the famous fatwa right at the end of the work) is the attendant view of moderate evidentialism that religious scripture is constituted of metaphors to aid the understanding of the masses, the intellectual non-elite. There are certain theses held by the Falasifa – like the pre-eternity of the world – that are just false for al-Ghazali, andare contrary to scripture, and thus cannot be taken to be metaphors. Al-Ghazali aims to show that the thesis that the world is pre-eternal (has no beginning) does not stand up to philosophical scrutiny – hence his objection is not merely that it goes against scripture, and hence ‘the incoherence of the philosophers’. Obviously to do this, he’s had to rely on philosophical argument though. So while, yes, he is a Sufi, he’s a kind of moderate Sufi who acknowledges the value of philosophy (when put in its proper place) as well as orthodox theology (also when put in its proper place. So I agree that al-Ghazali is a thinker to turn to for the reasons you mention, but especially because he aims to remind us of the vacuity of that pendulum.
3:16: Averroes defends moderate evidentialism against al-Ghazali. Is he the key figure in Islamic modernism and neo-Islamic evidentialism and what does this modernism consist of?
AB: Yes, I think the issue is whether belief on the basis of sub-demonstrative proof, such as on the basis of metaphors, is really non-epistemic. And, correlatively, whether ‘noble’ lies are really lies. I think Averroes rules in favour of thinking that belief based on metaphors is nonetheless belief held for epistemic reason, and cannot properly contradict belief that is based on full on demonstrative proof. There may be non-epistemic, practical reasons for belief (such as belief in the afterlife) but these cannot contradict belief based on demonstrative proof either, since they are of a different order. Thus, Prophets and philosophers should also believe, for non-epistemic reasons, that there is an afterlife, even if the claim is not backed up by demonstration for them. This is mean to allay al-Ghazali’s charge that people who espouse noble lies are, well, liars, and that its inappropriate thus to say that the Prophet is someone who would engage in such an activity.
Averroes becomes central to the thinking of certain Modernist thinkers, I think, yes. Though I think they take him to be an Evidentialst (what they would call ‘rationalist’) rather than the Moderate Evidentialist I think he is. Modernism was in part a response to Colonialism. It advocated progress for the Muslim world by recovering a past that had been lost. Some of the central figures thought that Colonialism had not merely robbed the Muslim world materially, but also intellectually. That the ‘rationalism’ that had enabled the ‘west’ to flourish had been stolen from them through, say, Aquinas’ appropriation of Averroes, and needed to be recovered. Hence Muhammad ‘Abduh’s (one of the key Modernist thinkers) claim in 1888, on returning from a trip to France, that ‘I went to West and saw Islam but no Muslims; I returned to the East and saw Muslims but no Islam’.
3:16: How do you understand Islamic philosophy and politics? Islamic states seem politically illiberal and without civic society. Do politics follow from the philosophy – what’s the relationship between philosophy, politics and religion? And why is a neo-Pyrrhonism relevant here?
AB: I don’t think that any existing Muslim state really puts into practise the ideas of the Falasifa, but I think that understanding the latter nevertheless helps us understand many of the political impulses and ideas in the contemporary Islamic world. In my understanding, the Moderate Evidentialism of the Falasifa has very clear political implications. Perhaps the most important regarding a conception of political legitimacy. A very common thought about political legitimacy today is that a state wields political power legitimately just in case it rules by consent. I think the conception of political legitimacy in Islamic Moderate Evidentialism, however, differs to this – mere consent is not sufficient, what it required is belief. Political power is legitimate just in case it is doing the right thing. Thus people need to know what the right thing is, and hence they need to be educated as best they can be – hence the role of metaphors and religion conceived of as a way of educating the public in that manner. Today, we might conceive of that relationship as that between the experts and their ability to use the media in a way that best educates the public. One of the problems with this kind of view is that it seems to assume a state of epistemic certainty as to certain matters where there really is none (that there can be reasonable disagreement, for instance, is a cornerstone of certain modern liberal thinkers). So here is where think neo-Pyrrhonism is important here because I think one finds in Islamic Philosophy and Islamic thought generally an idea of knowledge that can be graded. Even the word in Arabic for ‘knowledge’ (‘ilm) works differently grammatically from the work ‘knowledge’ in English – where it seems infelicitous to say, for instance, that I sort of know that Casablanca is in Morocco. So because of the underlying epistemology one finds in Islamic Philosophy a kind of perfectionist liberalism (akin to say that of Joseph Raz) but one that is better equipped to deal with some its objections (to do with epistemic certainty as levied by figures such as John Rawls).
3:16: You’re also interested in epistemology: intuitions are one area you’ve discussed. What is the epistemological and ontological standing of intuitions in light of work by Williamson, Sosa and Bealer and of X-Phi? And does analytic metaphysics make intuition based thinking about conceptual analysis?
AB: I personally think this area is the most difficult in all of philosophy, and it’s extremely hard to make any real progress here. Williamson, Sosa, and Bealer are the people who have made the most valiant attempts to do so (as well as Wittgenstein, when we take the area to cover meta-philosophy more generally) but I think we’re far from properly understanding intuitions. I take intuitions to be the sorts of things that underscore mathematical and a priori knowledge (so often used in analytic metaphysics): how we can come to know these things from the armchair to me remains a complete mystery, as difficult to solve as the famous hard problem of consciousness. But it’s correlatively one of the things that makes philosophy so exciting and fascinating!
3:16: You’ve wondered whether trust is a form of belief? Is it? Does Wittgenstein on the mental help you to answer this?
AB: On a neo-Wittgensteinian conception of the mental (which one finds nicely articulated by Robert Stalnaker), one attributes a belief that p to a subject S just in case attributing that belief best explains S’s actions (both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ – though Wittgenstein would hate this last qualification). This is subtly (?) different from behaviourism [I think it’s obviously different, but a recent (famous) reviewer of some of my papers didn’t see it]. My idea is that this sort of view has limitations: it would make mental states like belief look voluntary in a way that they are not. So I think belief resists this Neo-Wittgensteinian treatment, but I don’t think this is reason to abandon this picture of the mental altogether. I think accepting its limitations actually make it a more powerful theory, that can help us get a grip of other mental states that notoriously seem to escape our understanding – for instance, intention and trust. My account of trust then is something like this: it is what belief would be like if a Neo-Wittgensteinian account of the mental could apply to belief. This helps explain why trust seems, paradoxically, to involve features that make it look both that it is a belief and that it is not.
3:16: Why is the question whether we can believe anything if we will ourselves to important for epistemology and in particular issues regarding the normativity of belief? How do you deal with this issue?
AB: It’s important because on one of the most central understandings of epistemic justification (paradigmatic ‘internalism’), epistemic justification has to do with our meeting our epistemic duties. But that way of thinking about epistemic justification seems to be at odds with the famous principle that ‘ought’ implies ‘can’, and that we have no voluntary control over our beliefs. I get around this by arguing that while we have very little directvoluntary control (we cannot hardly ever engender a beliefjustby intending it) there are things we can do to indirectlybring about belief: performing a Google search for instance, or simply reflecting. Unlike some philosophers working on this issue, I now think our ability to do these things does give us doxastic controland not mere doxastic influence.
3:16: You’ve written a lot about when we ought and ought not to believe things. Can you sketch for us how you go about deciding this – what’s the landscape like and perhaps can you give us a few examples to chew over, such as why you think responsible belief isn’t obligatory?
AB: Very broadly, I think that traditionally speaking there are two sorts of view on the table about the issue of what we ought to believe. One is Evidentialism, whose proponents include people like William Clifford, and, I think, some Mu’tazilite theologians, as well as the Falaysuf al-Kindi. The other is anti-Evidentialism, whose proponents include, I think, people like William James, Nietzsche, Blaise Pascal, Kierkegaard and some Ash’arite theologians such as al-Ghazali. According to Evidentialism one ought to believe something just in case one has good evidence for it. As such, evidence itself is normative, and this therefore seems to commit one to a kind of realism about normative properties. Anti-evidentialists will often think instead that such properties look mysterious, and that it’s really some will that brings normative properties into the world (either God’s will perhaps, or our human wills). Here’s a nice example to illustrate that I take from Beri Marusic: suppose that you’re about to marry someone and you’re about to vow that you will be faithful to your spouse. But suppose that the night before the wedding you’ve come across some good evidence that indicates that most marriages involve some infidelity. What should you believe when you make your vows? Should you believe in line with the evidence? To have the intuition that you should not, that it would somehow be inauthentic to do so, I think is to perhaps start moving in the direction of Anti-Evidentialism. The Anti-evidentialist will think that the case shows that it’s really your will, the fact that you’ve freely chosen to make a vow that is ultimately responsible for any normativity here. Opposing this Evidentialists raise the following sort of case (adapted from Tom Kelly): suppose that you want to watch IT at the cinema, and so have pragmatic reason not to know the ending until you’ve seen the film (it’ll ruin the experience to know the ending). But suppose that you’ve accidentally read a review of the film and are now in possession of good evidence that IT ends up being a giant spider (sorry, spoiler alert!). Surely, claim Evidentialists, we rule, in such cases, that you ought to believe that IT ends up being a giant spider, even where we have very good pragmatic reason not to believe it. And what can explain that except the proposition that evidence is itself normative?
3:16: And another big epistemic issue that troubles philosophers is that of epistemic justification. So how do you approach this issue and is this a different project from an analysis of knowledge. If true would it pose a problem for the likes of Williamson and his knowledge-first theory as well as Gettier approaches?
AB: My take is that the project of understanding epistemic justification should be seen as a branch of the ethics of belief and to be distinct from the project of defining knowledge. I think the former is the interesting project out of the two. I call this idea a ‘divorce’ developing Richard Foley’s suggestion of a ‘trial separation’. I think it helps to solve the Gettier issue (or dissolve it) effectively by submitting to infallibilist intuitions about knowledge. I don’t think the approach need be necessarily in tension with the knowledge-first theory. The approach is compatible with the idea that knowledge is an un-analysable primitive, but incompatible with the idea that notions such as justified belief need to be understood in terms of the concept of knowledge. So it depends on whether as a knowledge-firster, you’re committed to the second thing above.
3:16: And finally for the readers here at 3:16, are there five books you can recommend that will take us further into your philosophical world?
and Euthydemus [I think these ought to be read together]
William Alston Essays in Theory of Knowledge
Avicenna Metaphysics (The Healing)
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Richard Marshall is biding his time.
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We have written many columns about home inspections and the high hurdle they present in getting a home sale to settlement. Sometimes buyers are unwilling to tolerate even the smallest flaws in a property's condition, a home inspector might inflate the degree to which condition issues constitute a serious problem, a seller may have failed to properly maintain their home, or a real estate agent might not be helping to find a solution. There can be many reasons why home inspections are a tough nut to crack, but recently, chimney inspections have become a significant problem.
In our experience, and that of most agents we talk to, virtually every masonry chimney that is inspected is deemed "unsafe for use" and requires $9,000 to $10,000 worth of repairs. So, what's going on? Are masonry chimneys falling apart at an alarming rate, or are chimney inspectors just blowing smoke to ring the cash register on repairs?
First off, we don't want to paint with too broad a brush. There are chimney inspectors out there who have earned a reputation for fair and accurate inspections. Unfortunately, there are a number of other companies who can be counted on to consistently declare a chimney unsafe, and the cost to make it safe is almost always $9,000 to $10,000.
To illustrate the problem, ABC's Good Morning America set up a sting operation. They started with a house that had a 50-year-old chimney. It was inspected by the director for the Chimney Safety Institute of America. This nationally recognized expert determined that the chimney was in proper working order. Then, Good Morning America started to bring in chimney inspectors.
Time after time, it was the same story. The inspectors said that the chimney was unsafe and in need of immediate repair. They told the homeowner "that the chimney needed a new liner because it was blocked, rotted, and very unsafe". One inspector even suggested that the chimney could collapse. Just last year, NBC News conducted a similar operation. In their sting, the use of scare tactics was even more intense. One inspector walked out of the house, saying "I hope you're not dead by morning". Another told the homeowner that unless the chimney was fixed right away, she would need to spend the night in a hotel. All of this was despite the fact that NBC's chimney expert said, "99% of the time, there's nothing wrong".
It begs a couple of common sense questions. First, if so many inspectors are regularly telling buyers, sellers and real estate agents that most chimneys are "unsafe for use", then why aren't we hearing about large numbers of people being injured or killed by carbon monoxide poisoning? And second, since carbon monoxide is lighter than air, why would a hairline crack in a chimney liner suddenly cause carbon monoxide to go sideways, through the mortar, through the bricks, through the sheathing, through the insulation and through the drywall into your house? There is one local chimney inspection / repair company that our agents have found to almost always declare chimneys unsafe. We reached out to them for a response to questions like these, but we didn't get a call back.
Essentially, we see six major reasons why chimney inspections have become a major problem with respect to home inspections; they are as follows:
1) Chimney inspectors and those who do repairs are not licensed. In the state of Maryland, home inspectors are licensed and most all contractors are also required to have a Maryland Home Improvement Commission (MHIC) license. That's not the case with chimney inspectors or those who do non-structural repair work on chimneys.
2) There are no real standards for what constitutes a failed chimney or dangerous condition. Occasionally, chimney inspectors belong to the Chimney Safety Institute of America (CSIA), and through that trade organization there might be some consensus on what makes a chimney unsafe. But for the most part, it's a subjective call that's made by the inspector.
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3) Damage to a chimney is not immediately visible. Most inspectors will run a camera down a chimney and show you some grainy pictures of the cracks or mortar loss that they believe makes the chimney unsafe, but a lay person can't really interpret what those pictures mean, if anything.
4) Companies that inspect chimneys also do the repairs. If a chimney company's profit primarily comes from making repairs, then it's probably not surprising that many of these companies frequently find some sort of problem when doing inspections.
5) The fear factor is a powerful motivator. A leaky roof isn't likely to kill you. But, something like carbon monoxide, an invisible killer, is a scary thing. Consequently, when an inspector says a chimney is unsafe, people are quick to pony up the money to make it safe.
6) The pressure of a pending home sale makes people vulnerable. When buyers and sellers become committed to a home sale, they try not to let home inspection repairs get in the way of going to settlement. Plus, once a seller is told that their chimney is unsafe, it becomes a latent defect that must be disclosed to all buyers. So, even if the sale falls apart with the current buyer, the seller is forced to make repairs or disclose a dangerous condition that will essentially make his house unsalable.
Like we said, not all chimney inspectors and repair companies are con artists. And, chimneys aren't something to fool with. An improperly functioning chimney can kill you and a chimney fire can easily burn your house down. However, the volume of complaints we're hearing from agents and homeowners regarding chimney inspections suggests that there might be a problem. For example, we had one case where a chimney was inspected when the house wasn't for sale, and the inspector said it was fine. But, when the house was sold three years later, the same company came out for an inspection and said it needed $10,000 in repairs. The kicker is that the homeowner didn't use the fireplace at all during those three years.
So, what can you do to help protect yourself? There is no foolproof answer, but we have three suggestions. First, take the time to make sure you get a reliable recommendation on chimney inspectors. Second, take pre-emptive action and have your chimney inspected on a regular basis, or "before" you put your house up for sale. That allows you to select the inspector and gets the job done when you aren't boxed in by the need to keep a contract alive. Third, get a couple of opinions, rather than rely on just one inspector. Remember, where there's smoke, there's fire, and you don't want to get burned by an unscrupulous chimney inspector.
Bob and Donna McWilliams are real estate agents with Champion Realty. Bob is also the Assistant Manager at Champion's Annapolis office and the Legal Liaison with Champion's corporate parent, HomeServices of America and Berkshire Hathaway. They can be reached at 443-994-9589 or email firstname.lastname@example.org
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The episode opens with more background material on Arthur Dent, specifically how the "remarkably unremarkable" human from Earth had an effect on the war between the G'Gugvuntts and Vl'Hurgs, and will now have further significance on the planet Brontitall, where the Heart of Gold has just arrived. Zaphod and Ford discuss their arrival in a cave with Eddie the Computer, noting the cold. Eddie calculates, after they, and Arthur and Marvin, have departed the ship, that they are thirteen miles above ground level, despite there not being any mountains on the planet.
The quartet begin to explore the cave. Very soon, Arthur falls out of the cave mouth. Zaphod nearly falls as well, but catches the lip of the cave mouth, then discovers for himself that they are "miles up in the air". Ford talks to Zaphod while the latter dangles.
Meanwhile, Arthur has managed to fall onto a large passing bird. The bird reveals that the "cave" is actually a mile-long marble sculpture of a plastic cup, hanging in the sky, part of a larger statue. The bird flies Arthur to the main statue, which is known as "Arthur Dent Throwing the Nutrimatic Cup". Arthur then reveals himself to be the very person that the statue is modelled after, and the bird flies into the statue's right ear, where the rest of his kind live. Arthur meets them, and their leader, the Wise Old Bird, and learns a few things about the past of Brontitall. For example, the statue was built in Arthur's honour after his argument with the Nutrimatic Machine inspired them to rid themselves of the "blight of the robots". There is one thing the birds refuse to speak of, however, and the Wise Old Bird tells Arthur, "if you want to know, you will have to descend to the ground...."
The Guide mentions how little is still considered to be unspeakable in the galaxy, except for the rudest word in existence: "Belgium". Zaphod uses this word to finally convince Ford to attempt a rescue, still dangling from the lip of the mile-long cup. The attempt fails, and both of them fall out of the cup, and onto another passing bird.
On the surface, Arthur encounters a Footwarrior, who has declared the planet of Brontitall to be the property of the Dolmansaxlil Galactic Shoe Corporation. Fleeing the Footwarrior, Arthur takes refuge in a trench with an archaeologist named Lintilla, who tells Arthur that she's on Brontitall to discover why the Footwarriors are all limping due to blisters, as the episode ends.
Cast and Characters
- The Book and Narrator - Peter Jones
- Arthur Dent - Simon Jones
- Ford Prefect - Geoffrey McGivern
- Zaphod Beeblebrox - Mark Wing-Davey
- Eddie the Computer - David Tate
- Marvin the Paranoid Android - Stephen Moore
- Bird One - Ronald Baddiley
- Bird Two and Footwarrior - John Baddely
- Wise Old Bird - John Le Mesurier
- Lintilla - Rula Lenska
- Announcer (uncredited) - John Marsh
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COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
SUMMARY RECORD (PARTIAL)* OF THE 934th MEETING
Held at the Palais Wilson, Geneva,
on Thursday, 22 January 2004, at 10 a.m.
Chairperson: Mr. DOEK
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS OF STATES PARTIES (continued)
Initial report of Papua New Guinea
The discussion covered in the summary record began at 11.15 a.m.
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS OF STATES PARTIES (continued)
Initial report of Papua New Guinea (CRC/C/28/Add.20; CRC/C/Q/PNG/1; CRC/C/RESP/52)
At the invitation of the Chairperson, Ms. Kidu, Mr. Klapat and Mr. Maipakai (Papua New Guinea) took places at the Committee table.
Mr. MAIPAKAI (Papua New Guinea) said that, in spite of progress during the 1970s, development had slowed considerably during the past 20 years. Consequently, Papua New Guinea currently ranked 132 on the Human Development Index and had some of the lowest social indicators in the region. Its development challenges were compounded by high population growth and an alarming increase in the incidence of HIV infection.
Following a review of existing laws and mechanisms for protecting children’s rights, the Government had identified 20 pieces of national legislation in need of reform. At the same time, a number of community initiatives had been launched to address such issues as child abuse, child labour, organized paedophilia and sex tourism. Educational reform continued to focus on increasing school enrolment and achieving greater gender parity. In 2003, juvenile courts had been established for the first time, legislative reforms concerning sexual offences and child welfare had been introduced, and the HIV/AIDS Management Act had been adopted. Further efforts were necessary to protect children from hunger, manipulation, abuse, domestic violence and preventable diseases.
Ms. ORTIZ said that the State had a duty to assist children in coping with the tremendous changes taking place in Papua New Guinea. However, women and children appeared to be very low priorities. Since the law providing for free and compulsory education had been abolished, half of the child population did not attend school.
At 930 per 100,000 births, the maternal mortality rate was extremely high. Over the past 10 years, the average life expectancy for women had not risen above 51 years. Infant mortality rates were on the rise, and a high proportion of children under 5 continued to die from curable diseases.
She welcomed the process of legislative reform that was currently under way and urged the Government to incorporate a rights-based approach in its laws concerning children.
Ms. KHATTAB asked whether the Government had taken any steps to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, or the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. She wished to know whether a children’s code, combining all child-related laws in a single document, had been contemplated under the Government’s reform proposals. It would be useful to learn whether the reforms would make it possible to invoke the Convention before the courts.
Pursuant to article 4 of the Convention, the Government was required to devote the maximum available resources to social expenditure. She therefore asked why the Working Committee on the Rights of the Child had been denied the resources to enable it to coordinate and monitor implementation of the Convention. The delegation should provide additional information on the mandate and composition of the Working Committee.
No national plan of action had been adopted for implementing the Convention, and no independent monitoring mechanism had been established. In the absence of a national human rights commission, children had virtually no opportunity to lodge a complaint in a confidential manner. She asked what steps the Government was taking to improve that situation. The delegation should explain why data concerning special protection, child labour and juvenile justice had not been included in the written replies.
She asked why the minimum age for marriage was 16 years for girls and 18 for boys. She wished to know how the Government ensured that the legal minimum age was respected. She asked whether any steps had been taken to provide legal protection for unborn children.
She asked whether the Government had taken any steps to improve the status of women in Papua New Guinea. The situation of girls was a cause for concern, as indicated by the significantly higher incidence of child abuse and sexual abuse among girls than among boys. The delegation should explain what obstacles had prevented the Government from establishing mechanisms to deal with those problems. She enquired whether any measures had been taken to correct the imbalances that existed between urban and rural areas in terms of the public services.
She wished to know whether Papua New Guinea had received any assistance for dealing with the 1,800 asylum-seekers whom it was hosting under an arrangement with Australia. She asked whether the Government had taken any special measures to protect child asylum‑seekers, or whether that task had fallen to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which appeared to be the chief institutions responsible for children’s issues in Papua New Guinea.
Ms. AL-THANI asked what progress had been made in disseminating the provisions of the Convention to children since the publication of the initial report, and whether any surveys had been conducted to determine the level of children’s awareness of their rights.
Mr. LIWSKI asked whether any steps had been taken to encourage greater respect for children’s opinions at home and in the community, especially in matters that concerned children directly. He wondered whether any efforts had been made to promote the establishment of children’s and adolescents’ organizations.
Mr. FILALI urged the Government to ratify the other major international human rights instruments, which served as the foundation for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The State party had made little progress in enacting domestic legislation to give effect to the Convention, and he wondered whether the State party had the necessary political will and resources to achieve that objective.
He wished to know the amounts that had been allocated in the general budget for the purpose of birth registration. He wondered whether the children born to refugees or stateless persons residing in Papua New Guinea were automatically granted citizenship. He asked whether the children born to naturalized citizens acquired citizenship through birth or whether they had to be naturalized.
Ms. ALUOCH said that birth registration was important in order to ensure that sufficient resources were budgeted to meet children’s needs. She asked whether any efforts had been made to harmonize the numerous definitions of the child contained in domestic legislation.
The CHAIRPERSON said that the delegation should explain why budget allocations for education and health had fluctuated so sharply over the past few years. He enquired whether any targets had been set for completing the current legislative reforms. It was important to adopt legislation that enabled the judiciary to invoke the Convention directly.
The meeting was suspended at 12.05 p.m. and resumed at 12.20 p.m.
Ms. SARDENBERG enquired whether any resources had been allocated for an assessment of the impact on children of the Bougainville conflict. She wished to know what kind of international assistance the State party had received and who the donors had been. She requested information on the manner in which attitudes and legislation had changed with respect to children born out of wedlock.
Ms. KIDU (Papua New Guinea) said that, while the Government was taking measures to ratify the international instruments mentioned by some members of the Committee, it lacked the overall capacity to advance more rapidly. The main reasons for the State party’s lack of progress on children’s issues included budget cuts and other austerity measures taken to reduce the country’s foreign debt. Frequent changes of Government had resulted in a rapid turnover of staff in the public service. Consequently, the State party had had to rely almost exclusively on international agencies and foreign donors to fund its development budget.
In spite of its current difficulties, the Government had begun to harmonize the various definitions of the child used in its domestic legislation. An extensive revision of the outdated Child Welfare Act had recently been completed, and a draft would be submitted to Parliament in March 2004. In addition, a new system of family courts based on the Australian family court system was being introduced.
Although work on domestic violence legislation had begun in the 1980s, the process had come to a halt. Greater progress might be achieved if the legislation used less confrontational language and was referred to as a family protection bill.
Mr. LIWSKI asked whether Papua New Guinea had attempted to negotiate with the international financial institutions to reduce debt repayments in exchange for increasing spending on such key areas as health and education.
Ms. VUCKOVIC-SAHOVIC asked whether Papua New Guinea had the human resources it needed to carry out its reforms.
Ms. ORTIZ asked whether the current Government of Papua New Guinea included a technical specialist on the rights of the child or whether the Government relied on the expertise of international agencies. She wondered how professionals received the necessary technical training, and whether there was a system to ensure that such experts did not lose their jobs following a change of Government.
Ms. KIDU (Papua New Guinea) said that the Minister of Finance had tried unsuccessfully to reschedule debt repayments. There were currently not enough technical specialists in the country. Recent legislation on public sector reform would ensure that specialists were retained in the civil service following elections. The Government did not have an expert on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and it relied on assistance from international agencies to help it complete specific tasks. For example UNICEF and the Papua New Guinea Law Reform Commission had provided the technical expertise needed to draft the Child Sexual Assault Act. The Government was currently seeking the technical support that would allow it to meet its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Papua New Guinea also relied on international assistance for the technical expertise that it needed to strengthen and fund the Children’s Rights Monitoring Committee.
While the Government was working hard to adopt legislation to promote and protect children’s rights, it was aware that the effective implementation of such legislation would be very difficult. A campaign was under way to raise awareness of the 2002 Child Sexual Assault Act among police and other professionals.
There were plans to bring equal opportunities and children’s rights under a single human rights desk. Although human rights were guaranteed in the preamble to the Constitution, there was as yet no jurisprudence on the subject.
The CHAIRPERSON requested confirmation that the human rights desk was not intended to serve as an independent monitoring committee, and that national plans of action had so far been sectoral. He asked whether there was a government policy on non-discrimination against girls.
Ms. KHATTAB said that children’s rights did not seem to be a political priority in Papua New Guinea.
Ms. KIDU (Papua New Guinea) said that the Government was aware of the increased risks that children faced as a result of poverty, HIV/AIDS, globalization and ethnic tension. Papua New Guinea had only recently recognized the need for an integrated early childhood development policy, which was currently being developed. Changes in society would also create the need to improve parenting skills. She confirmed that the human rights desk was not intended to serve in an independent monitoring capacity but was designed to improve cost-efficiency, and that national action plans had so far been sectoral in nature.
Mr. KLAPAT (Papua New Guinea) said that the Government, in partnership with UNICEF and other agencies, had established a national coordination mechanism with a view to formulating an overall national plan of action based on the provisions of the Convention. He hoped that legislation to facilitate implementation of that plan would be adopted in 2004. A gender-balance policy that gave girls greater opportunity to participate in education was already in place, although some girls might not have access to schools because transport in rural areas was difficult. In 2003, a committee had been established to improve girls’ access to education; the initiative had been successful owing to support from NGOs and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
Information on the Convention had been disseminated in English and Tok Pisin. The Convention was taught in schools, although it had not been included in school curricula. With assistance from NGOs and other civil society organizations, children and adults were being made aware of children’s rights through publications, workshops and seminars.
Ms. KIDU (Papua New Guinea) said that a role-model programme coordinated by the National Council of Women had been effective in raising girls’ aspirations and sensitizing boys to gender issues. A cartoon on the rights of the child captioned in English and Tok Pisin had been published in a weekly insert in a national children’s newspaper. The Government had been making concerted efforts to ensure the participation of children in workshops on various issues; almost half the participants in a recent workshop on reproductive health had been young people. Although young people had the right to express their views in school, they were not always given that right in their communities. The Government was working to remove such cultural barriers.
Mr. KLAPAT (Papua New Guinea) said that the Government did not have sufficient capacity to prevent the sexual abuse of children, the commercial sexual exploitation of children and trafficking in children. The skills of professionals who worked with children would be upgraded through training in the rights of the child.
Ms. KIDU (Papua New Guinea) said that the Government was working closely with NGOs and church organizations in areas where its own capacity was lacking. It was also taking steps to improve coordination among NGOs.
Since there were no State orphanages in Papua New Guinea, the Government encouraged communities to care for children whose parents had died of AIDS.
Ms. ORTIZ said that experience in other countries had shown that cultural resistance to change could be tempered if information on the rights of the child was first disseminated and then promoted at the local government level. Perhaps a civil servant could be trained by an NGO to listen to people’s problems and give advice.
The meeting rose at 1 p.m.
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AbstractThis document is the second part of the study on water saving potential in the EU. It contains four case studies from regions in four different European Member States which encounter increasing water stress. The case studies take the generic findings of the main synthesis report to more depth. The current and the projected situation in each river basin is first analyzed and possible measures to alleviate water deficit which were depicted in the synthesis report. The first case study analyses the situation in the Guadalquivir river basin in southern Spain which focuses only on the analysis of water saving measures on irrigated agriculture. Guadalquivir is an example of an old and relatively well managed river basin that has reached the limit of sustainable water use. Any possibility to increase water supply is limited. The rising demand for irrigation water in this basin, coinciding with a series of dry years and reduced recharge, has increased the water deficit. As of 2006, the water deficit is estimated at 11% of the demand. The effect of technical, economic and social measures on water saving is therefore analysed in detail. The second case study is that of the Ardèche river basin in France investigating costs and benefits of different measures and actions through qualitative and quantitative assessments for the five main water using sectors (household, tourism, agriculture, industry and energy). It explores potential savings versus maximal savings, temporal allocation, feasibility of measures (coherence, synergies, conflicts of interests, when available, the issues of wet and dry savings (savings that lead to effective environmental improvements), negative incentives that prevent from achieving this savings, water rights, etc), energy issues (cost benefits ratios of measures included in the Energy Action plan for energy savings and identify to what extent it can be extrapolated to the water sector), virtual Water in the context of water saving, role of the consumers in the context of water saving (water labelling, changes in consumption patterns), and values of environmental benefits (which value for additional water into the ecosystem -use and non-use values- avoided damages and investments). Water scarcity is not only an issue in southern Europe. The third case study assesses water saving potential scenarios for South and South-East England (United-Kingdom). The South and Southeast of England are particularly cause for concern, with London rated as ‘very low’ by the World Resources Institute with regards to water resources. For the five sectors different water saving measures, including water labelling, metering and economic instruments are discussed. The last and forth case study focuses on the Plastiras and Smokovo Reservoir in Greece. It discusses three different water saving scenarios based on hydrographical modelling and the related costs and benefits.
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In the 1980s, the IRS worked to improve the inefficient and time-consuming tax filing paper process with an online filing option to eliminate paper storage and cut down on processing time. Enter the beginning of e-filing tax returns, which started in 1986 as a small pilot program. At the start, only five tax preparers in three metropolitan areas – Cincinnati, Raleigh-Durham and Phoenix – agreed to test out the online tax filing system. Once popular tax preparation firms H&R Block and Jackson-Hewitt jumped on board, more individual tax preparers were willing to give e-filing a try. In 2011, the IRS hit the 1 billion milestone for individual tax returns received and processed. Today, 91% of all tax returns filed are prepared using online e-filing services and the electronic filing option evolved into a promising option for both tax preparers and payers.
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Easy to read design with information organized and displayed nicely. The colors work well together thought I would have appreciated a few more images.
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The information shows how E-files have developed and changed over the years. It is interesting to see just how e-files started and where they are today.
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Alberto Fernandes, a native of Miranda do Douro, completed his degree in Basic Education Teacher, variant Musical Education at the Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, having participated in the Erasmus program at Vilnius Pedagoginis Universitetas, Lithuania.
As a teacher, he taught musical expression from Trás-os-Montes to the Algarve through the island of Boa Vista in Cape Verde. In 2015, he completed his master’s degree in Artistic and Cultural Management from the Higher School of Education of the Viana do Castelo Polytechnic Institute, having as a dissertation “Mirandese Cultural Heritage: a contribution to a political-economic approach”.
He has worked at the Miranda Land Museum and actively collaborates with cultural associations such as FRAUGA or Galandum Galundaina in activities related to the promotion of Mirandese cultural heritage, such as participation in conferences, festivals, events and exhibitions.
Cultural identity, economy of culture, intangible cultural heritage and the way it is perceived by the community are part of the research interests.
He is currently a doctoral student in Cultural Studies at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho, Braga, and a researcher at the Center for Studies on Communication and Society under the FESTIVITY project “Festa, cultural heritage and community sustainability. Investigation and communication in the case of Bugiada and Mouriscada de Sobrado ”.
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With schools and outdoor activities shut during this lockdown phase, for those with little kids, these five weeks might prove daunting to keep the little ones occupied. After all, this is the age where children learn quickly and look for interesting and fun ways to get their hands dirty! In order to keep your children engaged indoors, here is a super cool DIY (Do It Yourself) activity for you and your children.
Paints with Natural Colours
When it comes to art and craft, children love to get messy with paints. They are always intrigued by bright and vibrant colours and love to paint their world in different colours. The tough part for the parents comes when their children, in the process of painting, spill paints all over themselves. After all, the paints which you get in stores may not always be safe for children. Hence, the best alternate option is to make your own paints using vegetables and fruits. They are 100% natural and safe for children and also a fun way to spend some quality time with your child.
All paints are types of dyes and are made of two things – pigments and binders. The role of the binder is to help the colour stay on the material you paint on.
You can create different shades of colours by mixing the three primary colours – red, yellow, and blue! To make these primary colours, you can use the following vegetables or fruits:
Let’s get started!
You can mix and match these three primary colours to get other colours. For example, mix the red from blended beetroots and yellow from the mangoes to get orange. Red and blue together make violet, and blue and yellow together make green.
These homemade paints are super easy to make and the best part is that they are edible too! Thus they are totally safe for your child to use.
So, let your children explore their imagination and paint their world in their favourite colours.
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Books are Tanaya Goswami’s first love and cheesecakes come a close second. Talking about movies, music, calligraphy, politics, and Elon Musk will get you listed under the friends’ section of her diary. Ever since moving on from her job as an English lecturer, she spends her time at BYJU’S crafting stories filled with emotion and sprinkled with sarcasm. Outside of work, she’s either learning something new (French, most recently!) or is curled up with a book and a cup of coffee. She firmly believes that discovering what you don’t know is the key to knowledge and is constantly working towards improving herself. Drop in a line at sto[email protected] if you liked her stories, have something nice to say, or if you have compelling ideas to share!
Arya C is a 4th grader who talks about her transition from the US to India and how BYJU`S has helped her at that. She also loves how BYJU`S has made learning a lot more fun.
Meet Sourabh who has a ton to say about his BYJU`S learning experience. His love for quizzes, games and other fun activities are paying off!
V Shriya is a class eight student who has been using BYJU’S for a year now. She shares her experiences with using the app and how it has helped her in improving her academic performance.
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Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy
In collaboration withBCG
Kay Firth-Butterfield was teaching AI, ethics, law, and international relations when a chance meeting on an airplane landed her a job as chief AI ethics officer. In 2017, Kay became head of AI and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where her team develops tools and on-the-ground programs to improve AI understanding and governance across the globe.
In the final episode of the first season of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Kay joins cohosts Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh to discuss the democratization of AI, the values of good governance and ethics in technology, and the importance of having people understand the technology across their organizations — and society. She also weighs in on other themes our hosts have discussed this season, including education, collaboration, and innovation.
Sam Ransbotham: How can governance of artificial intelligence help organizations? The word governance can come with a lot of baggage and some negative connotations, but governance can enable organizations, too. The question is, how?
We’ll close out the season with a discussion with Kay Firth-Butterfield. She’s the head of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the executive committee of the World Economic Forum. With Kay, we’ll learn not only about her specific background in the legal profession, but she’ll also help us think about what we’ve learned overall this season.
Welcome to Me, Myself, and AI, a podcast on artificial intelligence in business. Each episode, we introduce you to someone innovating with AI. I’m Sam Ransbotham, professor of information systems at Boston College. I’m also the guest editor for the AI and Business Strategy Big Ideas program at MIT Sloan Management Review.
Shervin Khodabandeh: And I’m Shervin Khodabandeh, senior partner with BCG, and I colead BCG’s AI practice in North America. Together, BCG and MIT SMR have been researching AI for four years, interviewing hundreds of practitioners and surveying thousands of companies on what it takes to build, deploy, and scale AI capabilities and really transform the way organizations operate.
Sam Ransbotham: Hi, Kay, and welcome to the show.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Thank you.
Sam Ransbotham: Of course. So, Kay, you have a kind of fascinating job or, actually, really, jobs — you’ve got so many things going on. So, for our listeners, can you introduce yourself and describe your current roles?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yes, certainly. I’m Kay Firth-Butterfield, and I am head of AI and machine learning at the World Economic Forum. So what that essentially means is that we work with multiple stakeholders — say, companies, academics, governments, international organizations, and civil society — to really think through the governance of AI. So when I say governance, I say it very much with a small “g.” We’re thinking about everything from norms through to regulation, but AI, we feel, is less susceptible to regulation.
Sam Ransbotham: Can you tell us how you got there? Give us a little bit of background about your career to date, and how did you end up in this role?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: I am, by background, a human rights lawyer. I am a barrister — that’s the type of trial lawyer that wears the wig and gown. And I got to a point in my career where I was being considered for a judicial appointment. In the U.K., they kindly sort of try out whether you want to be a judge and whether they think you’re any good at it. I don’t know what their view was, but my view was that it wasn’t the culmination of a career in the law that I really wanted. I had been very interested in the impact of technology on humans and their human rights, and so it gave me this wonderful opportunity to rethink where my career would go. So I was fortunate to be able to come to Austin [Texas] and teach AI, law, [and] international relations [and] to pursue my own studies around law and AI and international relations and AI, and the geopolitical implications of this developing technology.
And then, purely by luck, [I] met a person on a plane from Heathrow to Austin — it’s 10 hours. He was this chair and CEO of an AI company who was thinking about AI ethics. And this was back in 2014, when hardly anybody apart from me and the dog and some other people were thinking about it. And so he asked me as we got off the plane if I would like to be his chief AI ethics officer. And so that’s really how I moved into AI, but obviously with the social justice, with the ideas of what benefits AI can bring to society and also [being] cognizant of what we might have to be worrying about. And so I have been vice chair of the IEEE’s initiative on ethically aligned design since 2015. I was part of the Asilomar [Conference on Beneficial AI] thinking about ethical principles for AI back again in 2015. And so my career ended up with me taking this job at the forum in 2017. I say “ended up,” but maybe not. Who knows?
Sam Ransbotham: Yeah. We won’t call it an end just yet. So, what does artificial intelligence mean?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Well, part of the problem, and part of its complexity, is that AI means different things to different people. So AI means one thing to an engineer and another thing to a person who’s using it as a member of the public, through their phone.
Sam Ransbotham: So we’re shifting our definition as we go, and we’ll continue to as well.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yeah. There’s that old adage that it’s not in artificial intelligence once it’s done.
Shervin Khodabandeh: And how much of that do you think is education and it sort of stemming from [a] lack of understanding and lack of education versus a technical or process complexity inherent in putting all that governance in place? I mean, I guess part of it is, you can’t really manage or govern that which you don’t really quite understand. Is that most of the battle? And once everybody understands it, because it’s common sense, then they begin to say, “Well, now how can we govern this? Like anything else we would govern, because now we understand it.”
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yes. Well, I think that it’s organizational change, it’s education and training for employees, but it’s also thinking very carefully about product design, so that if you are actually developing [an] algorithmic product, what’s the path of that from the moment that you dream up the idea to the moment that you release it either to other businesses or to customers, and maybe even beyond that?
Sam Ransbotham: I couldn’t help but pick up on one of the things you said about governance as being negative. But one of our studies a few years ago found that health care shared data more than other industries. And that seems counterintuitive, but when we dug into it, what we found is, they knew what they could share. They had structure about it. And so that structure then enabled them to know what they could do and know what they couldn’t do — whereas other places, when they talked about data sharing, they were [saying], “Well, [we’ll] have to check with our compliance department and have to check and see what we can do.” There’s much less checking because it’s explicit, and the more explicit we can be. … And that’s an enabling factor of governance versus this sort of oppressive factor of governance.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yes. I think just governance has got itself a bad name because regulation impedes innovation, and that’s not necessarily so. I think that at the moment, we’re exploring all these different soft governance ideas, largely because to begin with, yes, we will probably see regulation — the EU says you need regulation out of Europe, around things like facial recognition and human risk, AI and human resources, because they’re classified as high-risk cases. But a lot are not necessarily high-risk cases; what they are are things that businesses want to use, but they want to use wisely. So, what we have done as well is created a lot of tool kits, for example, and guidelines and workbooks, say, that companies or governments can say, “Oh, yes, this can guide me through this process,” of, for example, [the] procurement of artificial intelligence. Just to give you an example, we surveyed a number of our members of boards on their understanding of artificial intelligence, and they didn’t really understand artificial intelligence terribly well.
And so what we did was develop an online tool for them to understand artificial intelligence, but also then to say, “OK, my company is going to be deploying artificial intelligence. What are my oversight responsibilities”? And long questionnaires — the things that you might want to ask your board, if you’re on the audit committee or the risk committee, or you’re thinking about strategy. So really digging into the way that boards should be thinking across the enterprise about the deployment of AI.
Sam Ransbotham: I’m guessing most people need that guidance.
Shervin Khodabandeh: Yeah, most people for sure need that guidance, and I think this is a very well-placed sort of point you’re making. What we don’t want to happen is to be so far behind in understanding and education and governance of any technology where then it becomes such a black box that it’s a huge activation energy for anybody to get there. We heard that also from Slawek Kierner from Humana, we heard that from Arti [Zeighami] at H&M. [It] was the importance of really big cross-organizational training, not just for the board and not just for the handful, but for everybody almost. I think we heard from Porsche that they actually did training for their entire technology organization: “This is AI. This is what it could do right. This is what it could do wrong. This is what you need to learn. And by the way, this is how it can give you all these new designs that you as an engineer or a designer can explore to design the next-generation model. And this is how it could be your friend.” But I think you’re pointing out that it’s time for us to really internalize all of these as not nice-to-haves, but critical, even, I would say, almost first steps, before getting too far ahead.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yes, absolutely. And in fact, there’s a company in Finland that requires everybody to learn something about AI, even at the very most basic level. And they have a course for their employees, which is important. Obviously, not everybody can master the math, but you don’t even have to go that far.
Sam Ransbotham: Or should. I can’t help but build off of your human rights background. One of the things that strikes me is there [are] incredible advances with artificial intelligence used by organizations, particularly large organizations, particularly well-funded large organizations. How do we, as individuals, stand a chance here? Do we each need our own individual AI working for us? How can we empower people to work in this perhaps lopsided arrangement?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yes, I think the imbalance[s] of power is something that we have to address as both individuals and as companies. There are some companies with more AI capabilities than others as nonprofits, and also as a world. Because at the moment, the concentration of AI talent, skills, and jobs is very skewed around the world. And we really have to think globally about how AI is deployed on behalf of humans and what makes us human and where we want to be maybe in 15 or 20 years, when AI can do a lot of the things that we are doing currently. I think it’s systemic and structural conversations that we have to have in all those different layers as well.
Sam Ransbotham: Right. The systemic and structural issues are big because, I have to say, I don’t think most companies intend to start AI with an evil bent. I mean, they’re not cackling and rubbing their hands together and plotting. I think these things are more insidious and systemic than that. How do we do that?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: In my experience of working with a lot of companies, governments, etc., I would say you’re absolutely right. Companies want to go in doing the right thing. And what we need to be doing is making sure that we help them do the right thing. And it’s very much that perhaps a lack of understanding of the technology is getting to skew how they use it. And so those are all areas that we have been trying to focus on at the forum, so that people who go into using AI with the right mindset actually come out with the right results. And, you know, your company is a little piece of society. The idea should be that everybody works together, because you’re actually going to end up with a better product. And I think, to your point, the better we enable our customers or the general public to understand AI, the less scary it will be.
I also fear that there are many companies that are being told to go out and get AI, and they actually don’t know what it is that they’re getting or really what the benefit is going to be or what the downsides might be. So having the board being capable of asking the right question is absolutely crucial. … We’re currently working on a similar tool kit for different types of C-suite officers so that they, too, can be empowered to understand more. But I always see the need for thinking carefully about AI as [a] top-down and bottom-up; that’s why I go back to that survey that you did, where … an understanding across the organization is actually so important. And I think where you’re seeing some of the developments amongst the companies that have been dealing with this, like Microsoft — they went for an Aether [AI, Ethics, and Effects in Engineering and Research] Committee, they went for really sort of thinking about strategically how are we using AI. And so I think that we have the benefits of what they learned early on that we can then begin to bring into the sector, from board to designer.
Sam Ransbotham: And the good part about that is that education component keeps it from just being ethics theater — kind of the thin veneer to put the stamp on it and check the box that, yes, we’ve done the ethics thing.
But I guess, what’s the role for business in trying to educate people to have a better human-machine collaboration? Obviously, we’ve heard a lot about the potential for AI to affect workplace and job security, but people are already incredibly busy at work. What potential is there for AI to free us from some of these mundane things and lead to greater innovation? When we talked with Gina Chung at DHL — she’s in the innovation department, and that’s where they’re focusing AI efforts. Is this a pipe dream or is there potential here?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: No, I think that it’s certainly not a pipe dream, and most people have innovation labs both in their companies and countries. And UNICEF has an innovation lab. We were talking about children and AI, so the potential for AI to free us from some of the things that we see as mundane, the potential for it to help us to discover new drugs, to work on climate change. … They’re all the reason that I stay working in this space. And you might say, “Well, you work on governance; doesn’t that mean that you just see AI as a bad thing?” And that’s not true.
Just as an example, at the moment we have problems just using Zoom for education, because there are many kids who don’t have access to broadband. That brings us against the questions of rural poverty and the fact that many people move from rural communities to cities. And yet, if we look at the pandemic, cities tend to be bad for human beings. So, are the conversations that we should be having — I’m thinking about the innovations that AI will create, which allow that sort of cross-function of rural to be as wealthy as city — we should be having really deep structural conversations about what our future looks like. Does it look like Blade Runner cities, or does it look like something else?
Sam Ransbotham: You were mentioning … kids were one extreme, and you had been talking about board level, which seems like another extreme. It seems like there’s a lot of other people between those two extremes that would need to learn how to work together alongside [AI]. And I guess just looking for some practical [advice], how do businesses get people to be comfortable with their teammate as a machine versus their teammate as a normal worker? Actually, for example, we’ve seen people completely impatient with robots. If it’s not perfect right off the bat, then why am I bothering teaching this machine how to do this? You’d never be that impatient with another coworker. You remember when you were first learning to do a job. So how do we get that same sort of, I guess, empathy for the poor little machine?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Well … I do think it’s an education and training piece that the company has to put in place, but also it’s important because sometimes we overtrust the technology: “The computer told us to do it.” That’s something that we’d been noticing, for example, in the criminal sentencing problems that we’re having there, where judges have been overreliant upon the fact that the machine is telling them this. And so it’s that education to not overtrust the machine and also trust [that] the machine is not going to take your job, is not going to be spying on you. There are sort of a lot of things that employees are frightened of, and so you’ve got to make sure that they have some better understanding of what that robot or machinery is going to do with them. And that it’s a human-machine interaction as opposed to one dominating the other.
Shervin Khodabandeh: What’s your thinking on — to bring about large-scale understanding and change, not just at the board level, but from the fabric of the organization — how important is it that companies begin to understand the different modes of interaction between AI and human[s] and begin to test some of those things?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Obviously, that’s really important. We do have a project that’s actually led by Salesforce called the Responsible Use of Technology. And … what we’re trying to do is to bring together all the different companies, like BCG, who are actually thinking about these issues and come up with some best practices. So how do you help your employees to really think about this interaction with AI? How do you make sure that the company itself is focused on ethical deployment of technology and where your employees are going to be working specifically with the technology [so] that they don’t fear it? I think there’s a lot of fear, and that is, at the moment, probably not useful at all.
Shervin Khodabandeh: Yes. You clearly can’t be friends with somebody if you’re afraid of them.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yes. What we are seeing is that, when I was talking about AI and ethics in 2014, very few people were talking about it. Now, everybody — not everybody, but every enlightened person — is talking about it. Business is talking about it. And we’re talking about business here. Business is talking about it, government’s talking about it. Governments are talking about it in the “If there is something that is unsafe, usually we regulate the unsafe.” I think, actually, the time is now to be having these conversations. Do we regulate? Do we depend upon more soft-floor approaches? Because what we’re doing, what we are setting now in place is the future. And it’s not just our terrestrial future, but that if we’re going to go to Mars, we’re going to use a lot of AI.
We need to be really having these conversations. And one of the things that we have been doing is having a conversation that looks at positive futures. So you can sort of look across the panoply of sci-fi and it’s almost all dystopian. And so what we wanted to do is say, “OK, we have this potential with AI; what do we want to create?” And so we brought sci-fi writers and AI scientists and business and economists and people together to really sort of have that conversation. So we’re having the conversation about AI ethics, but the next conversation has to be, how do we systematically want to grow and develop AI for the benefit of the world and not just sectors of it?
Shervin Khodabandeh: I could recall the flavor of these kinds of conversations I would have five years ago. It was very heavily tech-focused. What does that tell you in terms of a profile of future leaders of AI? What [are] the right sort of traits, skills, [and] profiles, do you think?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: I think we will see — so, I have a humanities background — I think we will see more humanities. There’s the AI piece that the technologists have to work on. But what we do know is that … there’s a Gartner study that says that by 2022, if we don’t deal with a bias, 85% of algorithms will be erroneous because of the bias. If that’s anywhere near true, that’s really bad for your R&D and your company. So what we know is that we have to create those multistakeholder teams. And also, I see the future of AI, this discussion, as part of ESG [environmental, social, and corporate governance]. I see the AI ethics discussion moving into that more social realm of the way that companies think about some of the things that they do.
Sam Ransbotham: And that’s something that we heard from, for example, Prakhar [Mehrotra] at Walmart — that they’re thinking big picture about how these will connect and remove inefficiencies from the process. And that certainly has ESG implications. What we’ve seen with some of the other folks we’ve discussed artificial intelligence in business with is that they’ve transferred learning from things that they’ve done in one organization to another. They’ve moved. … This education component that you’ve mentioned before has not happened within companies; it’s happened across companies and it’s happened across functional areas. How do we encourage that? How do we get people to have those diverse experiences?
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yes, I think that’s, (a) right and (b) really important that we do. I was actually talking to somebody yesterday who had set up some really good resources and training around artificial intelligence in a bank, then moved to government, and then moved to yet another private-sector job and is doing the same thing. And many of the trainings that we need to be thinking about with artificial intelligence are cross-sectoral. We did an interesting look at all the ethical principles that are out there. There are over 190 now, from the Beijing [AI] Principles through to the Asilomar ones, etc.
Sam Ransbotham: That’s different from 2014.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: It’s very different from 2014. And one of the things that a lot of people sort of have said to me in the past is, “Well, whose ethics are you talking about anyway?” And what we found was actually there were about 10 things that were ubiquitous to all of those 190 different ethical principles. So there are 10 things that we care about as human beings, wherever we are in the world. And those are 10 things that are actually fairly cross-sectoral. So they’re about safety and robustness. They’re about accountability, transparency, explainability. They’re about that conversation we had earlier, human-machine interaction. Then they’re about, how does AI benefit us as humans? I think that that ability to be able to take what you’ve learned in one sector and move it to another is important and relatively straightforward.
Sam Ransbotham: And also it seems very human.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Yeah.
Sam Ransbotham: That’s something that I think that the machines themselves are going to struggle with and need at least our help for a while.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Oh, undoubtedly. Yes. And it probably doesn’t need saying to this audience, but it’s worth saying that these machines are not really very clever yet.
Sam Ransbotham: There’s still time. We’re still —
Shervin Khodabandeh: And thank God for that.
Sam Ransbotham: Kay, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. We’ve really enjoyed it.
Shervin Khodabandeh: Yeah, thank you so much, Kay, it’s really been a pleasure hearing your views and your leadership on this topic.
Kay Firth-Butterfield: Thank you so much to both of you. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to be with you. I could have talked on for hours.
Sam Ransbotham: But we can’t, because that is the end of our episode and that is the end of our first season. Thank you for joining us on this podcast.
Shervin Khodabandeh: Thank you very much.
Allison Ryder: Thanks for listening to Me, Myself, and AI. If you’re enjoying the show, take a minute to write us a review. If you send us a screenshot, we’ll send you a collection of MIT SMR’s best articles on artificial intelligence, free for a limited time. Send your review screenshot to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Egypt is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible numerous times, but despite multiple studies, the Egyptian background referred to in the Bible remains historically elusive. This is due to the fact that Egyptian details from the biblical source (names, epithets) can often be correlated with more than one period in Egypt's history. These difficulties have prevented the Egyptian aspect from becoming a major factor in biblical studies. To rectify this state, it is here suggested to employ a different methodology: rather than seeking parallels to the Bible's Egyptian details, one should ask how and when these details came to be known in the biblical traditions of Judah and Israel. The article will discuss possible scenarios of transmission as viewed through the archaeological record pertaining to the relations between Egypt and Israel during the Iron Age.
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Ben-Dor Evian, S., (2018) “The Past and Future of “Biblical Egyptology””, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 18(1), p.1-11.
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THE baptism of babies into the Catholic Church is unsuitable and needs to be overhauled because it means people’s freedoms are being suppressed for life, Mary McAleese has said.
In an address to Oxford University today, the former Irish President said canon law claims the Church is entitled to limit, compromise and control church members’ rights thanks to the “christening contract which most of us slept or cried through”.
Her talk – entitled ‘Baptismal obligations? Revisiting the christening contract – a necessary prelude to any synodal journey’ – called for a change in the way infant baptism imposes lifelong obligations and compulsory obedience to church teaching as babies cannot possibly understand what is being promised on their behalf.
Church members, she warned, are expected to subordinate their freedoms to compulsory obedience to the Church’s teaching or magisterium from the day of their baptism onwards.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of baptism that “having become a member of the Church, from now on, he is [we are] called to obey and submit to the Church’s leaders”.
It is a claim increasingly contested by an educated laity who point out that infants are incapable of making such promises, she said.
Speaking to academics of St Benet’s Hall at the prestigious British university, Ms McAleese said: “It is difficult, arguably impossible, to sustain any longer the proposition that the 37,000 babies who are baptised every single day into the Catholic Church have, as a consequence of that christening, made promises which bind them to serious lifelong obligations, promises they cannot possibly understand and which canon law says they cannot escape even when they become capable of understanding their implications.”
She indicated the Church needs to find an alternative to the christening contract and instead offer its members an opportunity for expressing a voluntary commitment to these obligations when they are mature enough to do so.
Contemporary understanding of human rights, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have overtaken Canon Law’s limits on people’s freedom of conscience, opinion, belief and religion, she suggested.
Canon Law and the Catholic Church are at a “crossroads” Ms McAleese, a canon lawyer, said and there was “evidence of panic” at the top of the Church “and a familiar degree” of denial.
"Some old and some new enemies are blamed for the serial crises in the Church; secularism, relativism, feminism, gay cabals, atheism, selfish individualism, sectarianism, a hostile media,” she said.
She paid tribute to the Irish Church’s youngest prelate, Bishop Paul Dempsey, of Achonry, who admitted earlier this year that the blame for the crisis lies in the Church’s own mistakes and the shattering of its reputation by abuse scandals.
The Catholic Church’s “imperial top-down model of control” which centralises power in a clerical elite and “obliges unquestioning loyalty from the lay and paying masses” is not simply outmoded, it is no longer fit for purpose and never was, Ms McAleese said.
She warned that the Church is hollowing out faith from the inside and that its system of control had skewed relationships between the laity, the clergy and the hierarchy in such a way that the laity have been unequal Church citizens, excluded from discernment and decision-making.
“So, we can say truthfully of Church teaching it has been a case of ‘everything about us – without us’.
"It still is and will remain so regardless of synodality,” she warned.
In March, the Irish bishops announced a national synod for the Church in Ireland.
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Acupuncture Impacts Same Biologic Pathways in Rats that Pain Drugs Target in Humans
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WASHINGTON (July 21, 2015) — In animal models, acupuncture appears to impact the same biologic pathways ramped up by pain and stress, analogous to what drugs do in humans. Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers say their animal study, published online in Endocrinology, provides the strongest evidence to date on the mechanism of this ancient Chinese therapy in chronic stress.
“The benefits of acupuncture are well known by those who use it, but such proof is anecdotal. This research, the culmination of a number of studies, demonstrates how acupuncture might work in the human body to reduce stress and pain, and, potentially, depression,” says the study’s senior investigator, Ladan Eshkevari, PhD, CRNA, LAc, associate professor in the department of nursing and the department of pharmacology and physiology at GUMC.
“We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,” says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist. She is assistant program director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Georgetown’s School of Nursing & Health Studies.
Eshkevari and her team found that applying the technique with electroacupuncture to a single but powerful acupuncture point — stomach meridian point 36 (St36) — blunts activity in the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis, the chronic stress pathway that is also associated with chronic pain, the immune system, mood and emotions. Tuning HPA down via acupuncture reduced production of stress hormones, secreted by the pathway, that are involved in the chronic stress response.
“Some antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs exert their therapeutic effects on these same mechanisms,” Eshkevari says.
She has already shown that pre-treatment with acupuncture prevents increases in HPA hormones caused by cold-induced painful stress in rats, and that the beneficial effects were long lasting.
Her series of studies uses four different groups in rats: three stress group of animals- a group that received acupuncture through electroacupuncture (a device that ensures equitable distribution of electro stimulation); those that received sham acupuncture (delivered in an area that is not an acupuncture point); and a third, placebo group that did not receive any acupuncture. The stress groups were compared to a fourth group of animals that served as controls, with no exposure to stress or acupuncture.
The first study mimicked the benefit experienced by individuals who have acupuncture regularly, while the new study looked at the benefit of acupuncture during a stressful event — “which is how acupuncture is most often utilized clinically,” Eshkevari says.
They indeed found that electroacupuncture delivered at St36 minutes after chronic painful cold exposure was as effective in preventing elevation of stress hormones as it was with pretreatment with acupuncture.
The new study also used a drug to block acupuncture’s manipulation of the HPA system, and found that production of stress hormones equalized in all treatment groups. “This confirmed that electroacupuncture does affect the HPA system,” she says.
Behavioral and protein analyses indicated that acupuncture appears to prevent stress induced release of hormones, as well as decrease depression and anxiety-like behavior in the rats. “This is the first report linking the effects of electroacupuncture at St36 to chronic stress induced depressive and anxious behavior in animals,” Eshkevari says.
“This work provides a framework for future clinical studies on the benefit of acupuncture, both before or during chronic stressful events,” she says.
Study co-authors are Susan E, Mulroney, PhD, and Rupert Egan, both from Georgetown University Medical Center, and Lixing Lao, PhD, from the University of Hong Kong.
The study was supported in part by the American Association of Nurses Anesthetists (AANA) doctoral fellowship award to Eshkevari.
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through MedStar Health). GUMC’s mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis — or “care of the whole person.” The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing & Health Studies, both nationally ranked; Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute; and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization, which accounts for the majority of externally funded research at GUMC including a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.
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The following pages are designed to be printed out for the class.
Introduction and Letter 1
James has read stories, looked at pictures and read brochures about the Canadian West, which have influenced his ideas about what he will see and find there.
Look at the brochures the travel agent gave to James, which appear on the side bars of letters 1, 4 and 9, as well as the promotional video clips throughout the letters: How did advertisers “sell” images of places, people and products to James? How have advertisements today changed? How are they similar?
Write notes about each Primary Source (videos, pictures and brochures) you find in the chart below.
What types of words and slogans are used?
Do you see any reoccurring themes or images?
The people who rode the rails by sneaking onto freight trains during the Depression of the 1930s were often young single men who were not eligible for the same benefits as people with families. Families were given relief payments, which provided some food and basic clothing. They were allowed to live in accommodations of their choosing as long as the rent was less than $13 per month, which usually meant whole families shared one room in a boarding house. However, the single men were expected to live in barracks, with rules inspired by the military, to receive relief. They were not given food vouchers, but instead fed in communal kitchens. These young men were forced to work in relief camps for 20 cents a day, performing tasks that had little value, such as splitting wood with an axe (even though chain saws were invented, the government wanted to make sure they could keep as many men busy as possible by forcing them to use hand tools), building elaborate bridges over small rivers or building roads to places no one travelled. In 1935, the frustration these men felt resulted in the "On to Ottawa" trek.
Question: What was the "On to Ottawa" trek? What were the men's goals? How did it end? Why do you think the government worked so hard to suppress it?
Read about the "On to Ottawa" Trek http://www.ontoottawa.ca/trek/trek.html
Hear the trek anthem "Hold the Fort," which was recorded in 1986 to raise money for strike support. http://www.ontoottawa.ca/holdthefort.mov
James writes to Ellie about his first day of travelling on the Prairie, dust storms, young boys working and black blizzards.
For extra room, use the back of this sheet.
A. What is a "black blizzard" and why did they occur on the Prairies during the Depression?
B. What did families do to deal with the Depression, poverty and drought on the Prairies?
C. What was the "Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Project"?
James writes of his visit to Regina, dancing, the diner incident, drought and radio.
Discussion or Essay Questions
A. Recreation was very important in the 1930s. People attended movies, went to weekly dances, developed theatre groups, borrowed books on adventure, philosophy, economics and fiction from the local library and listened to radio programs called "soap operas" (because the first ones were sponsored by soap companies). Many families worked extra hard to find the money needed to enjoy these activities. Why do you think recreation was so important to poor families during the Depression of the 1930s?
B. Regina is situated within the region known as the Palliser Triangle -- a section of southern Saskatchewan and Alberta that, in 1863, was surveyed by John Palliser and declared unsuitable for farming because it was an extension of the sandy American Desert region. Palliser claimed in his report to the Dominion government that the land was more suitable for growing grass and raising cattle than farming. The government ignored his advice and advertised the area to settlers for farming. They claimed it was ready-made for farms because of the lack of trees. Unfortunately, Palliser correctly anticipated that the area would be problematic for farmers. Wheat farming broke the topsoil into small particles, and when, during the Depression, the entire area was struck by drought, the top soil turned to sand and blew away in clouds of black dust. Hundreds of farms had to be abandoned.
Question: Why do you think the Dominion government ignored Palliser's advice and advertised the area for farming to immigrants at the beginning of the twentieth century?
University of Calgary, "Applied History: Calgary and Southern Alberta"
National Resources Canada, "Palliser Triangle Global Change Project"
The Canadian Encyclopaedia, "Drought in Palliser's Triangle"
Immigrant Voices, "Laurier Boom"
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