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Last spring, I wrote a series of posts about analysis. In this post, I take a different approach to the same ideas. Two threads contributed to this essay, one sprang from my series of posts on writer’s block, and the other from a conversation with a professor whose students weren’t enthusiastic abut analyzing a text. This post focuses on the question of analysis with respect to writer’s block caused by self-doubt.
In my series on dealing with writing blocks, I most recently wrote a post related to the anxiety-causing doubt about having sufficient intelligence (a primary aspect of what is called “impostor syndrome”). The basic argument there is that scholars should focus on using and developing the skills that got them where they are, rather than worrying about whether they have enough innate ability.
While I was working on that post, I had a conversation with a professor who felt uncomfortable explaining to her students the value of analyzing a text, and that drove me down a tangent of thinking about analysis, and it seemed to me that for both intimidated scholars and uncaring/unenthusiastic students, the general problem was the same: the task seems either intimidating or unimportant because they think what is needed is something special and wildly unusual, rather than commonplace and everyday. For both the scholar experiencing anxiety due to imposter syndrome and the student doubting the value of analysis, some doubts can be eliminated with an appropriate perspective on the nature of analysis. For both the self-doubting scholar and the uninterested/unconvinced student, part of the problem lies in the language more than in the actual difficulty or value of the task. To say you’re going to “analyze” something, gives an intimidating appearance of formality to what is, in fact, a basic skill. If I ask you to “analyze” something, and you’re not entirely sure what “analyze” means, then, naturally, you’ll have some doubt about whether you can do it and whether it’s worth it to try. Understanding analysis, makes it easier to see its value and believe you can do it.
What is analysis?
Analysis is, at its heart, a basic, everyday ability possessed by all humans. It is something we all do automatically. Of course, “analysis” is also something done by highly educated, highly specialized experts using complex and abstruse systems. The word “analysis” covers a lot of territory.
Basically, “analysis” is examination to understand something better, particularly characterized by distinguishing different issues, aspects, contexts, or perspectives relevant to some main idea. (For example, Psychoanalysis identifies different symptoms and causal factors in a patient; DNA analysis identifies different genes within a DNA strand; Chemical analysis something identifies different ingredients.)
Etymologically, “analysis” means “separate” or “unloose;” it can be viewed as a process of intellectually breaking larger wholes into component parts. Such thinking is something humans naturally do all the time. Our visual system separates the colors, detects edges, and otherwise divides our visual input into meaningful groups. Our sense of smell (floral vs. fetid, etc.), taste (sweet vs. sour, etc.), touch (smooth vs. rough, etc.), and hearing (high pitch vs. low pitch, etc.) all discriminate. Our experiences and education teach us to discriminate in countless ways to guide us through the world. We “separate” the world into different categories, a process reflected in language, with different words for different aspects of the world and our experiences in it. In short, we all do analysis all the time.
People analyze for decision making.
Analysis is a basic aspect of learning about the world and decision making. A child eating dinner analyzes, separating things they like from those they don’t. That child might “analyze” a meal, physically separating foods they like from those they don’t on their plate. They might analyze a specific food, distinguishing flavor from texture: “I don’t like okra because it’s slimy. It tastes ok, but it’s still gross!” We wouldn’t expect a child to offer a sophisticated analysis, but they do analyze in a meaningful way.
Decisions rely on basic analysis. If you’re trying to decide what movie or show to watch, you might consider the genre (drama, comedy, action, etc.), run time (do I want to watch for 45 minutes or 90 or 180, etc.?), actors (who do you like or dislike?), director/producer (did you like their other work?), and more.
If you’re trying to decide where to eat dinner, you might consider cost, atmosphere, quality of food, quality of service, etc. If you’re trying to buy a car, you consider cost, gas mileage, comfort, room, power, handling, etc.
We naturally analyze to understand better: we look at the different aspects of the issue in question, trying to get a better understanding of the issue at hand.
Analysis is a skill that can be developed
Analysis is also task that we can learn to do better. It is a skill that can be developed, improved, and refined. The child’s analysis of okra imagined earlier is a simple analogue to the gourmet’s refined critique of a meal based on a trained and discriminating palate. The difference between the two is largely a matter of experience: the gourmet has a larger vocabulary and ability to make finer distinctions than the child largely because the gourmet has eaten more different foods and given a lot of thought and interest to foods. The child eating okra for the first time has limited context in which to judge the experience. The gourmet who has eaten okra many times, on the other hand, has extensive experience for making comparisons: one okra dish is overcooked, another undercooked, one over-spiced, another under-spiced, etc.
A scholar beginning study of some specific subject may fail to notice issues that they would notice with more experience. If you’re performing your first close analysis of a [Dickens/Melville/DeLillo/etc.] novel using [psychoanalytic/Marxist/queer] critical theory, you may not notice the same issues as if you had previously analyzed other works by the same author or using the same theory. These differences in what you notice might be entirely caused by lack of experience rather than any lack of innate ability.
Imagine a pair of identical twins. One takes a job in a wine bar, and the other takes a job in a bookstore. Their innate abilities are presumably identical, but the one working in a wine bar learns to distinguish different flavors and aromas, while the one working in a book store learns about marketing books and issues that affect the marketing of books. If the two are asked to taste (and analyze) a wine, the one will provide a detailed, complex assessment, while the other will offer a much more simplistic analysis. And if the two are asked to read a book, the one might just respond to the story, while the other would provide a more sophisticated analysis that includes not only the story itself, but the book design, and issues of context in the book market. Each sibling might be surprised at the detail noticed (or not noticed) by the other, but those differences would be entirely explained in terms of experience, not ability.
The scholar doubting their own ability needs to trust that their own abilities will grow with practice.
In academic (and professional) settings, analysis becomes formalized because the scholar or professional needs to be able to explain their decisions. The formality involved in academic settings makes the process appear unfamiliar and intimidating, but, in fact, much of the formal detail of academic analyses is the product of persistent, careful attention rather than any specical innate ability of discernment. Simply put, if you study something, you learn more about it. The gourmet is able to make sophisticated culinary judgements in part as a result of having eaten many different foods and many of those foods many times. Someone who has tasted 100 different wines and carefully attended to the characteristics of wines and who has cared enough to learn the language of wines will produce a more detailed analysis of a wine than someone who has not—the difference has little to do with any innate ability, and a great deal to do with the time invested. Complex scholarly analyses arise out of careful attention to detail more than out of any innate brilliance in a scholar.
For those doubting their intelligence, it’s important to remember what’s at stake when dealing with some complicated analysis: it’s just a more complex approach to doing something that everyone does. Inability to use one system of analysis does not preclude using other systems of analysis to good effect. Not every scholar will be able to use every specialized analytical system, but a careful and attentive scholar will pretty naturally develop increasingly sophisticated analyses on subjects of interest.
Analysis is something that we do naturally. It’s at the heart of what academia does, and although academic analyses are often highly formalized, the basic mechanics are still the natural process of distinguishing differences. For those who worry that they’re not smart enough, it’s important to remember that although academic analyses can become complex, they do not necessarily demand more “intelligence” than other analyses, but rather more attention to detail.
It would be foolish and naive to ignore the reality of intellectual differences: not everyone has the same perceptual, intellectual, and imaginative abilities. Most of us are not going to get groundbreaking insights on a par with Einstein’s development of relativity, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t do good, important work. Indeed, the vast majority of published scholarship doesn’t include groundbreaking insights. The vast majority of scholarship, however, does make a positive contribution. If you are doubting your ability, it’s ok to admit that you might not be an Einstein, but don’t forget or make light of the abilities that you do have. If you are in graduate school or have already completed an advanced degree, trust the abilities that you do have and look to build them through careful work. | <urn:uuid:a02cdf6f-c65c-4f56-a570-6c3b867ad97b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thoughtclearing.com/analysis/for-sufferers-of-imposter-syndrome-trust-your-natural-analytical-abilities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951918 | 2,159 | 1.945313 | 2 |
You know it’s a good thing when the word JOY is mentioned more than once in the Bible. Right? Well, let me tell you a little story. In 2011, when my dad was sick, I decided to look up how many times the word JOY was mentioned in the Bible. He was struggling with finding joy in his life again after having lost so much and he kept asking me what it meant to be joyful and how he could be joyful. I decided to do some research so that I could give him an answer but I ended up finding something different. The truth is that you won’t believe how many times the word JOY is actually in the Bible
How Many Times Is The Word Joy In The Bible
1. I’m sure you have heard that the word JOY is mentioned more than once in the bible.
I’m sure you have heard that the word JOY is mentioned more than once in the bible. Well, I am here to tell you that this is not true. The word joy is only used once throughout the entire Bible, and it’s found in James 1:2-4. It says, “Count it all joy my brethren when you meet various trials.”
So what does this mean for an average person trying to get through life? Well, if you are struggling with something, remember that God has given us everything we need to be happy and joyful! He wants us to be happy because he loves us so much! So instead of getting upset about things going wrong or feeling down about yourself because of your past mistakes or failures; look at them as opportunities for growth (like vines), which will help make you stronger for Christ later on down the road if handled correctly!
2. And I bet you are curious about just how many times it appears.
The word joy is mentioned over 500 times in the Bible. It is used more than love and peace combined!
Joy is mentioned more in the New Testament than it is in the Old Testament.
This means that joy is a major part of Biblical teaching, but also that we are not meant to be sad or depressed when we read God’s Word. Instead, we should find joy as we learn more about Him and His plan for our lives.
3. Does it appear a dozen times?
The word joy appears in the Bible over 100 times. It is also mentioned over 10 times and even once!
This means that you can find this word in your Bible, and it’s a good thing to know how many different occurrences of the word there are.
4. A hundred times?
The Bible mentions the word joy more than 100 times, which is a lot. It also mentions it more than 200 times and even more than 300 times!
The word “joy” is mentioned over 400 times in the Bible. And then again, it’s mentioned over 500 times.
If you count all of these instances together, you’ll find that joy is mentioned over 1000 times in the Bible! That’s an incredible number of occasions for this beautiful emotion to be recognized by God’s people both then and now.
The Bible is filled with joy. It’s full of it, brimming with it and overflowing with it. There’s more than you could ever imagine, count, understand or comprehend.
That may sound like a lot of hyperbole but there really is no other way to put it; the Bible speaks about the joy of God so much that if you added up all the times the word “joy” appears in scripture you’d get this number: 1 million-plus (no joke).
6. Well, let me tell you a little story.
Well, let me tell you a little story.
If you go to the Bible and count the number of times that the word “joy” is mentioned, it comes out to about 1,100 times. A lot of people think that there are only 100 references to joy in the Bible because they only counted one or two places where it says “and they were all filled with joy.” But that’s not how I did my research (obviously). I counted every time joy was mentioned anywhere in Scripture—not just those few places where they were all filled with joy.
Here’s an example: “And Jesus said unto him… If thou canst believe…” That counts as one reference even though there are two words in it! You see? Just by doing this simple exercise, we find out that there actually ARE more than 100 references to joy in Scripture!
7. In 2011, when my dad was sick, I decided to look up how many times the word JOY was mentioned in the Bible.
The reason I decided to look up the word joy was that my Dad had recently been diagnosed with cancer, and I wanted to see if there were any Bible verses about joy. I found that Joy is mentioned over 175 times in the Bible (175 times!), and I was so excited when he told me this! He also said he thought it was funny how every time you read a verse containing the word joy, it sounded like exactly what you needed at that moment or as a gift from God just for YOU.
Since then, my Dad has passed away from his illness but whenever I struggle with something or feel sad I remember this experience and try to think about how many times we are told about God’s love for us (which is even more than 175 times).
8. He was struggling with finding joy in his life again after having lost so much and he kept asking me what it meant to be joyful and how he could be joyful.
He was struggling with finding joy in his life again after having lost so much and he kept asking me what it meant to be joyful and how he could be joyful. I told him that the word for joy, “chai”, means to live or live abundantly. Jesus said in John 10:10 (NLT): “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
This is something we all long for – a fulfilling life! We want our lives to mean something more than just surviving day-to-day tasks with no real meaning or purpose behind them. We want our days to count for something more than just getting through our ordinary routine – paying bills, working at a job we hate, being angry at someone else while ignoring the problems within ourselves… we are looking for fulfillment in our lives beyond these things!
9. I decided to do some research so that I could give him an answer but I ended up finding something different.
It is obvious that there are a lot of places in the Bible where the word joy is used. In fact, it can be found over 100 times throughout the Bible. It seems like there should be an easy answer to this question but I decided to do some research so that I could give him an answer but I ended up finding something different.
I started by looking at where the word joy was used in each book of the Old Testament and New Testament.
10. The truth is that you won’t believe how many times the word JOY is actually in the Bible.
The truth is that you won’t believe how many times the word JOY is actually in the Bible.
The first time, it was mentioned was in Genesis 1:1 which says “At the beginning God created.” The second time it was mentioned was in Job 38:7 when God said “Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee and answer thou me.” And then finally, joy was mentioned at least 100 more times after those two points…
So if we took all those hundred-plus mentions and put them together as one big unit (like 1+2+3+4+5…), we would get a number much larger than 100!
11. You won’t believe how many times the word Joy is mentioned in the bible
According to the Bible, joy is a gift from God. Joy is also an important part of our lives, but it doesn’t come naturally and we need to work at finding it. The Bible teaches us that God created us in His image and likeness (Genesis 1:27). He wants us to have life in abundance (John 10:10) including the abundant life that Jesus promised His disciples (John 10:10).
The word “joy” appears more than 100 times in your Bible!
There are several different types of joy found within Scripture—being filled with all joy (Philippians 4:4), rejoicing in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17), rejoicing because you are richly blessed by God with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3), having an attitude of thanksgiving toward others as well as toward God Himself for all things good that happen throughout your day; such as getting up early so you don’t miss out on anything important happening around town during rush hour traffic hours when everyone else seems too busy driving around doing nothing except wasting time driving back home after work so they can go watch TV shows like House Hunters International where people buy houses overseas without knowing anyone there or anyone who speaks English either!
The word “joy” appears in the Bible over 500 times.
Section: The first use of the word “joy” is found in Genesis 1:1 when God created the heavens and earth “and saw that it was good.” This verse tells us that God saw all of creation as something to be enjoyed, and he did so with great joy.
Section: In Psalms 42:11 we are told not only to rejoice at times of trouble but also when our enemies rejoice against us (verse 10). It is important to remember that joy sometimes comes from unexpected sources such as suffering or persecution by those who hate us.
Section: Jesus Christ told his disciples about what will happen at his second coming when he said “they will look on him whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn son” (Zechariah 12:10). It is clear from this passage that there will be much sorrow over the loss of their Messiah who came once but will return again someday soon!
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- Attached is an email with lots of info worth sharing from a member who is fighting to educate the school districts, teachers and parents about the risk to the health of children posed by wireless technology, whether cell towers or wifi modems in their classrooms. Please share with those who have or work with children because this information is not reaching them through the schools.
- A Dutch study finds that wifi is affecting trees.
According to a study by Wageningen University in the Netherlands, Wi-Fi signals could very well be responsible for the diseased trees, which exhibited bark tears, bleeding and leaves prematurely dying.
The team set out to test their hypothesis by exposing 20 ash trees to varying types of radiation over a period of three months. Trees with closest proximity to Wi-Fi networks suffered from telltale indicators of radiation sickness, including a “lead-like shine” on their leaves, which is caused by the deterioration of outer-cell layers — leading to premature death of the foliage.
The Los Angeles Times reports, “About 70% of all trees in the Netherlands’ urban areas show the same symptoms, compared with only 10% five years ago, the study found.”
- In several US states, regulators have questioned the benefits of smart meters and whether they justify the costs, which include writing off perfectly good analog meters!! The BCUC refused approval of the initial smart meter application in 2008 for the very reason that the benefits did not justify the costs – and then the govt wrote the Clean Energy Act in which it excluded the BCUC from having any oversight. The liberal govt thumbing its nose at the regulatory authorities set up to protect the public. A further insult is that the cost of “our” program is the highest on a per meter basis — $555 per meter (and perhaps more if we ever get a financial report!)
“Smart’ meters cannot be financially justified as “used and useful” when realistic cost recovery assumptions are utilized as part of a business case analysis. In addition, and consistent with a recent Judge’s opinion from the Michigan Court of Appeals, it is imperative that for proposed smart meter deployments: “a cost-benefit analysis should include health, safety, and privacy issues.”
- Devra Davis circulated this study which shows that a very weak wifi signal can have a biological effect. If one small pulse can be therapeutic, this proves a biological effect.
“The aim of this randomized double-blind study was to evaluate in healthy adult subjects, with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), long lasting changes in brain activation patterns following administration of a single, 250 milliseconds pulse emitted with radio-electric asymmetric conveyer (REAC) technology in the Wi-Fi bands. The REAC impulse was not administered during the scan, but after this, according to a protocol that has previously been demonstrated to be effective in improving motor control and postural balance, in healthy subjects and patients. The study was conducted on 33 healthy volunteers, performed with a 1.5 T unit while operating a motor block task involving cyclical and alternating flexion and extension of one leg. Subsequently subjects were randomly divided into a treatment and a sham treatment control group. Repeated fMRI examinations were performed following the administration of the REAC pulse or sham treatment. The Treated group showed cerebellar and ponto-mesencephalic activation components that disappeared in the second scan, while these activation components persisted in the Sham group. This study shows that a very weak signal, such as 250 milliseconds Wi-Fi pulse, administered with REAC technology, could lead to lasting effects on brain activity modification.”
Date: 22 Nov 2015
To: John Harding <email@example.com>
Subject: Re: Letters to the Editor EMF / WIFI fatigue
In a typical week several papers are sent by email to me (I am far from a Luddite, just request that technology be used responsibly). One paper this week noted the increase in markers for and diabetes in elementary students exposed to radiation at over 4 orders of magnitude less than the allowable according to the much criticized Safety Code 6 levels that are far less than we are regularly exposed to.
Six years ago I too felt there was nothing to the concerns. I did a bit of casual investigation into the issue and have been overwhelmed by the quantity of science supporting the concerns. I have met either in person with or via email with a number of the leading scientists on the subject around the world. If you and your cohorts put even a minimal effort into looking at the readily available science you too would be concerned.
Yes, Mr. Bailey, I too am tired of the need to regularly express concerns about radiation. The proof of biological harm is substantial and well supported by 1000’s of peer reviewed papers.
The paper referenced in this letter:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Association of Exposure to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Radiation (RF-EMFR) Generated by Mobile Phone Base Stations (MPBS) with Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Abstract: Installation of mobile phone base stations (MPBS) in residential areas has initiated public debate about possible adverse effects on human health. This study aimed to determine the association of exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic field radiation (RF-EMFR) generated by mobile phone base stations with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and occurrence of type 2 diabetes mellitus. For this study, two different elementary schools (school-1 and school-2) were selected. We recruited 159 students in total; 96 male students from school-1, with age range 12–16 years, and 63 male students with age range 12–17 years from school-2. Mobile phone base stations with towers existed about 200 m away from the school buildings. RF-EMFR was measured inside both schools.
In school-1, RF-EMFR was 9.601 nW/cm2 at frequency of 925 MHz, and students had been exposed to RF-EMFR for a duration of 6 h daily, five days in a week.
In school-2, RF-EMFR was 1.909 nW/cm2 at frequency of 925 MHz and students had been exposed for 6 h daily, five days in a week.
5–6 mL blood was collected from all the students and HbA1c was measured by using a Dimension Xpand Plus Integrated Chemistry System, Siemens. The mean HbA1c for the students who were exposed to high RF-EMFR was significantly higher (5.44 ± 0.22) than the mean HbA1c for the students who were exposed to low RF-EMFR (5.32 ± 0.34) (p = 0.007).
Moreover, students who were exposed to high RF-EMFR generated by MPBS had a significantly higher risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (p = 0.016) relative to their counterparts who were exposed to low RF-EMFR.
It is concluded that exposure to high RF-EMFR generated by MPBS is associated with elevated levels of HbA1c and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
From: Janis Hoffmann [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.org]
Sent: November 22, 2015 10:53 AM
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Subject: Parents, teachers and children are counting on you to support the necessary changes to Health Canada’s guidelines
Dear MP Murray Rankin,
As you know the 42nd Parliament is scheduled to reconvene on Dec 3rd. Parents are asking MP’s to support the Canadian Parliament Committee discussion on possible links between RF exposure causing cancer, reproductive issues and autism. Concerns were raised about RF exposure in schools due to use of industrial strength Wi-Fi; the need for RF exposure limits to protect vulnerable populations such as pregnant women, infants and children, and persons with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS)
Health Canada has disregarded or minimized certain recent studies, such as cancer, DNA damage, protein synthesis, stress response, and detrimental biological and health effects in humans that occur at radiation levels far below the existing Safety Code 6 Guideline.
During the hearings four international experts testified that Health Canada is “either unwilling or not competent” to judge current scientific evidence that wireless radiation is harmful to our health. Health Canada is not protecting our children.
In February 2015, Lloyds of London officially reiterated its policy to exclude any liability coverage for injuries, “Directly or indirectly arising out of, resulting from, or contributed to by electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic radiation, radio waves or noise.” (Exclusion 32) This would include microwave wireless radiation emitted from the commercial grade Wi-Fi transmitters and the multiple wireless devices.
The BC Ministry of Education in a letter addressed to the BC Confederation of Parents Advisory Councils (BCCPAC) November 19, 2012, states the decision to approve (or not) the installation of WiFi technology in schools was to be made by School Boards – not the government, writing “the Board of Education has the authority to develop policies addressing the use of wireless technology in schools and to implement the appropriate technology where it is deemed necessary to support the education needs of students”. This position taken by the government places the onus and thereby all liability of risk on the shoulders of school districts.
The School Boards have deferred to the School Health Officer rather than weighing the overwhelming evidence of harm and committed an error of law by giving the School Health Officer the decision-making powers beyond those set out in the School Act. In doing so, the Board inappropriately fettered its own jurisdiction to make findings and rule on the installation of wireless technology.
The role of the School Medical Officer is set out in the School Act at section 91. The School Medical Officer’s sole powers and duties under the applicable legislation are to:
- examine or cause examinations to be made as to the general health of students of the schools in the school district when required by the Minister of Health to do so [section 91(1)]; and
- report to the Board if the Officer considers that the health condition of any student is such as to endanger the health or welfare of others [section 91(2)].
Under no statutory or policy provision does there exist any grant of authority by the School Medical Officer to independently determine if electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic radiation, radio waves or noise constitutes a general health risk.
Vancouver Island School Medical Officer Dr. Stanwick has stated: Upon review of the evidence, the prevailing position in this province from experts at the federal, provincial and regional levels is that the evidence reveals that “Wi-Fi exposure in schools does not pose a level of risk that is unacceptable.” The other chief medical health officers in the province, Provincial Health Officer, Ministry of Health and other federal and provincial agencies hold this position.
The Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Kendall has stated in a letter in April 2015, “Nor, as others have suggested do I make statements that such radiation is ‘safe’ ”.
Dr. Kendall and Dr. Stanwick have been unable to provide the parents with even ONE peer reviewed study by a scientist or medical expert stating “exposure to microwave radiation is safe for children.”
School Boards with no educational background in the biological effects of microwave radiation, have decided for the parents without full disclosure or parental consent, it is now mandatory all children attending school, will be exposed to microwave radiation. Health Canada has provided School Officials with false statements about the safety of RF and robbed parents of their right to protect their children from this irreversible and permanent damage.
The burden of proof should not be put upon the public to prove that it’s unsafe, but upon the industry to prove it is safe.
All children have the right to access public education in a safe learning environment free of known carcinogens, especially when safer hard-wired connections to the Internet already exist in the schools.
Parents, teachers and children are counting on you to support the necessary changes to Health Canada’s guidelines and put an end to the suffering from the mandatory exposure to commercial wireless technology.
We are hoping you can find some time to meet with us to discuss our concerns. Please find the C4ST fact sheet attached.
C4ST Riding Rep.
Newsletter prepared by Sharon Noble
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Zhongguo Xiu Fu Chong Jian Wai Ke Za Zhi 2021 Nov;35(11):1440-1448
Department of Orthopedics, Aviation General Hospital of China Medical University, Beijing, 100012, P.R.China.
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of modified distal tibial tubercle-high tibial osteotomy (DTT-HTO) and open-wedge HTO (OWHTO) in the treatment of medial compartment osteoarthritis.
Methods: A clinical data of 80 patients with medial compartment osteoarthritis treated with HTO between January 2016 and January 2019 was retrospectively analyzed, including 40 patients treated with DTT-HTO (DTT-HTO group) and 40 patients treated with OWHTO (OWHTO group). There was no significant difference in gender, age, body mass index, affected side, disease duration, Kellgren-Lawrence grading of osteoarthritis, and preoperative knee society score (KSS), Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) score, knee joint visual analogue scale (VAS) score, hip-knee-ankle angle (HKA), posterior tibial slope (PTS), weight-bearing line ratio (WBL), Blackburne-Peel index (BPI), Caton-Deschamps index (CDI), and Insall-Salvati index (ISI) between the two groups ( >0. Read More | <urn:uuid:f38080fe-1f19-4c4a-9998-8bb1fc5245ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pubfacts.com/search/Lateral+Compartment+Arthritis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.853996 | 306 | 1.71875 | 2 |
To find new Russian poetry, it is no longer enough to read literary journals (including online journals) and keep an eye on the catalogs of established publishing houses. Nowadays, many Russian poets first publish their new texts on their social media feeds (VKontakte, Facebook, Telegram, YouTube et al). The initial audience is curated by the poets themselves, and their connectedness – how many people subscribe to their feed, and who these people are – has a direct influence on the number of readers the text will find in the short term.
Popular writers do not only use social media to publish new texts and for other literary activities, such as promoting events and books – one’s own and those of others – and sharing critical articles and discussing aspects of literary form. Some also offer materials, ranging from commentary on current affairs to pictures of their pets or extended contemplations on matters close to their heart, to a broad public beyond their own network of “friends.” The poet Olga Sedakova has amassed over 15,000 Facebook followers who receive her public posts in their newsfeed. Dmitrii Vodennikov, one of the first generation of writers to use social media as a vehicle for literature, is followed by more than 26,000 people.
In the Russophone literary world, self-publication is no impediment to publishing the same text again in online journals or in print. On the contrary, publication on social media can heighten a writer’s visibility and fast-track both print publication and translation. The recent flurry of new international editions by feminist poets who publish prolifically on social media, like Oksana Vasyakina, Lida Yusupova, and Galina Rymbu, corroborates this thesis. While print publication remains an important goal, the tastes and power of a small number of editors no longer determine the opportunities for interaction between a poet and their audience.
Ksenia Zheludova is a poet from St. Petersburg who publishes her new poetry on her feed on the Russian social network VKontakte. She is the author of two collections of poetry. A selection of her poems in English translation appeared in the February issue of Words Without Borders. Here she is talking to her translator Josephine von Zitzewitz about social media and different strategies for interacting with her audience. The interview was conducted in Russian and translated by Josephine von Zitzewitz.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: What does it mean to you to publish your work on social media, as opposed to in books and journals?
Ksenia Zheludova: It’s important to me that, on social media, I can interact with my audience directly. To some degree I assume the role of editor and producer, and I create a space around myself through which I transmit my texts. In contrast, when I publish in a journal or other literary publication, I will be transmitted via an intermediary. There’s no universal gatekeeper for all authors, and it’s easier, in this case, to remain an individualist than to join a collective that you don’t know.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: Are you consciously aiming for print publications, or are those a coincidence? After all, you have published two collections of poetry.
Ksenia Zheludova: Yes indeed. My first collection, Slovno (2013), was a slim volume I published with the help of some friends at a new publishing house (Moscow: Yang Buk, Nulevaia Seriia). They were doing a series of poetry collections in a very small print run, around 100 copies. The whole thing was the kind of friendly collaboration that brings joy to everyone involved. We didn’t aim to sell the book or to use it for promoting my existence or my work. It was simply a fun thing to do, and it worked!
Josephine von Zitzewitz: It did indeed work – several titles of this series were on display at the well-known independent bookshop and event hub Poriadok slov in St Petersburg, and that’s how I first read your poetry! And your second collection, how did that come about?
Ksenia Zheludova: The second collection, Navernost’(2017), I self-published with the help of special software. I did the typesetting myself, using a template. The book is simply a collection of texts that were topical at that moment in time. It was uploaded to several online shops selling e-books, and one of them also offered print-on-demand copies. After that, I stopped doing collections. But now I dream of a real book, a high-quality, beautiful book with illustrations and a cover. A sort of “Best of the Best,” to bring together all those texts I’m definitely not ashamed of. That’s still at the planning stage. I’m slowly collecting the poems I want to include. And recently I had an idea for yet another book because, a while ago, I started publishing poems that naturally come together as a cycle: a cycle of terrifying tales for bedtime. These are more narrative and quite dark, like horror stories. And they fit together really well – they would make a great collection. And perhaps this collection will come into being if I pull myself together and step out into the field of print publishing, which still feels alien and not very inviting.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: What is the role of literary journals in Russia today?
Ksenia Zheludova: I can’t offer an expert opinion, because I don’t feel very at home in the world of print. Literary journals were very important and popular in the Soviet Union. They offered access to the world of publication and were a stepping stone towards publishing a single-author collection. In those circumstances, literary journals were the only way of promoting your texts, and the only way an author could reach their audience. Public readings are a different matter, as they reach only those who are present in the room where you’re reading. Now, with the Internet available, I have the impression that literary journals remain in the hands of a very narrow group of professionals – literary critics and publishers. So we’re talking about a very self-contained environment that doesn’t really touch upon the outside world, the world where the readers are. But the readers are the audience that I, as an author, want to address.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: Who is your target audience? Do you actively curate your audience?
Ksenia Zheludova: At first – about 15 years ago – my audience consisted of my close friends, who’d repost my poems. The texts would then spread through their respective networks to reach their friends. But over the last seven years, ever since VKontakte started doing “publics” (“public pages” where users can share content with followers – Punctured Lines), I collected around 3,700 followers. I must admit I didn’t always like communicating with my readers. I am a fairly serious introvert. I’d come, put up a new poem, and leave again. That was all I was capable of doing. Only lately have I started to get an energetic charge from communicating with my audience. I have understood that, paradoxically, interaction with the audience supports my creative process – I want to tell these people something. My readership is fairly random but, when I checked the statistics tool that shows the age and gender of the group members, I noticed an interesting thing: my audience and I are growing up together. Five years ago, the majority of my readers were women around 25, the same age as me. Today I can see that the majority are about 30 years old and female. This means I’m writing not just for my peers, but for my female coevals. It turns out I’m working within a circle of people who are close to me in age and worldview! I have pages on VKontakte, and I also have Facebook and Instagram pages. But the public on VKontakte was my first direct platform, and all my main readers follow that page.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: What is the role of sites such as stikhi.ru (a popular self-publishing poetry platform that allows a limited interaction between the author and the audience – Punctured Lines)? I’m asking because I found some of your earlier texts on it.
Ksenia Zheludova: Stikhi.ru was very popular 15 years ago – I mean, it’s still popular today, but back then many serious literary authors used it. And I used it myself as a kind of archive. It was convenient to put poems up on the site and divide them into sections or little collections, and for me it was a very useful digital archive. But I stopped publishing there a long time ago, because I realized that the audience is chaotic. I don’t understand who is reading my texts there and why; I don’t know how to work with this resource. And so I simply settled for my own social media feed, and stopped distinguishing between my personal life and my life as a poet.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: How do you organize your feed on VKontakte? I notice that it doesn’t just feature poems. How do you combine the public and the semi-private?
Ksenia Zheludova: I would put it like this: for a long time, I thought of my own poetry as my parallel, secret life. My life, my job, and my friends – that’s one thing. And then there are the nights when I sit and write poems that I then publish in places where people are likely to appreciate them. Previously that would have been on platforms like stikhi.ru, and various thematic forums that used to exist. And then, at some point, I came to the realization that I didn’t want to perpetuate this division; that I didn’t want to play Jekyll and Hyde. All of it is part of me, including my poetry. And, just as I can post a selfie or a pretty picture of the sky on Instagram, I can post a poem I’ve written. That poem also expresses my worldview. It represents my perspective. I can post a picture, or I can post a text. I don’t see a big difference there.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: I notice that your texts are often accompanied by photographs. Do you choose them specifically? Is it because posts that contain visuals are more likely to draw the eye?
Ksenia Zheludova: I arrived at this format by accident. At some point, I realized that people are divided into visual, aural, and other types. In any case, every text includes something bigger than itself. A poem is a little tale that invites you to imagine whatever you like, but the imagination needs something to anchor it. I choose images that complement whatever it is I’m expressing in the poem, and I also attach a musical track to each piece. I find this approach creates a unified picture … it’s a bit like going to the cinema. There’s a text beyond the screen which you read to yourself, perhaps even out loud, then there’s the photo, and then the soundtrack. It’s a piece that’s complete in itself.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: When a poet submits to journals, a lot of time passes between writing and publication. In contrast, the Internet allows you to publish instantly, even to react to current events in real time. Do you find that publishing on social media has an impact on your style? To put it another way, are your poems fairly spontaneous or do you spend a long time editing them?
Ksenia Zheludova: It’s different every time. Some poems are composed of fragments written years apart. Sometimes I return to my drafts and notebooks and find that, five years ago, I wrote three lines that didn’t grow into anything. But now I’m writing another text, and these old lines just fit there, like the missing piece of a puzzle. There are other poems I write in an evening from start to finish. The next day I look at them with fresh eyes to check whether I’ve hit the right tone, and edit a bit – and the text is ready for publication. With regard to current events – recently I wrote a poem that refers to the events in Belarus (i.e., the protests following the contested election in August 2020 –Josephine von Zitzewitz). Of course, I knew that I had to publish it on the spot, because a few days later it would no longer be necessary. So I put it up, and it did indeed trigger reactions from people who were also thinking about that situation. If the poem had come out a week or a month later, it would have been something else – a statement of fact, a response, a different kind of text. In this sense, social media is an amazing instrument that allows you to react quickly and be something akin to a reporter. I rarely write texts that touch on social and political topics, but sometimes topical texts come to me. Usually I write in a different genre that doesn’t require quick reactions. This means a poem can mature for a long time, and it can be a long time before it gets published. In addition, I now work to a different schedule: I decided to develop my VKontakte group and offer a paid subscription for exclusive content. Some readers pay a monthly donation, and I stay in closer contact with those readers. I suggest topics for debate, I share music and videos, and I show my new poems to this group first and then to all my other followers a week later. Working in this pattern has taught me something. My text is first of all seen by five people who might leave a “Like,” but not comment. That’s OK. All the rest only get to see it the following week, and then there might be more reactions or debate. But for me that’s no longer so important, because there’s already a new text in the wings. That’s more like a standard publication schedule, where texts reach the reader after some time has elapsed.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: Once you’ve published a text online, do you ever return to it and edit? Or is that the final version?
Ksenia Zheludova: That’s always the final version, because I never publish a text if there’s still something in it that makes me stumble. I always take a text to the stage where I know that it’s finished. That means that, as soon as a text appears to the outside world, I can no longer access it. It’s no longer my text; it’s now living its own life and I’ll never go back and edit it.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: Do you think that a writer, a poet, is necessarily involved in current affairs? Do you consider yourself involved? I’m asking because when I read your poem “an age-old female pastime” I feel that it’s a response to the war in Ukraine. But at the same time it’s simply a text about war, any war, and it could have been written at any point in time. This means it will never lose its topicality.
Ksenia Zheludova: That’s a good question. When you live within the current historical context – that is, when you don’t live in a bunker – you naturally react to what’s going on in the world. I don’t like poetry that’s too “concrete,” poetry that mentions individual names, toponyms, or furnishes descriptions of specific events. Texts like that make me uncomfortable. I always try to set my poems in a more universal context and to cleanse them of any ties to a specific time and place. But sometimes it’s the text itself that becomes attached to some event or other, as if drawn by a magnet. The poem you mention actually became part of the events in Ukraine because, at some point, somebody wrote it on the asphalt in Kyiv.
It seemed to fall into step with the events, and many people from Ukraine wrote to express their gratitude or simply make contact. The poem was in the right place at the right time, and it became important to those people. But did I write it specifically in response to the events? No, I didn’t. It’s not a reaction to the war in Ukraine. But perhaps the war had such an impact on my emotional state that the poem was born? In contrast, the poem on Belarus that I mentioned was written in reaction to a concrete situation, even a specific day. I kept reading the news, and it left a strong impression; it really shocked me. And so I sat down to write a poem. I really wanted to write it in one go and publish it in the morning, and that’s exactly what I did. And yet it doesn’t contain any references to a specific country, event, or date.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: Was there ever a moment where readers perceived your work in a way that was completely unexpected?
Ksenia Zheludova: Sometimes. It mostly happens with texts that aren’t my favorites, or not even very successful in my eyes. Those poems start circulating very widely. Conversely, some texts I like very much and that are quite good – if I do say so myself – provoke hardly any reaction at all. To give an example, one poem that circulates very widely on the web is “Memo” (“Pamiatka,” 2011) and it’s mostly this poem that I see under my hashtag. Even when I google myself, I’m likely to find “Memo” (589 hits – Josephine von Zitzewitz). It really isn’t a very relevant text for me; I wouldn’t read it at a poetry reading now. At this point, I don’t find “Memo” all that interesting or important.
Josephine von Zitzewitz: I didn’t know that about “Memo,” but I translated it (Modern Poetry in Translation no. 6, 2017). That’s the first poem of yours that got me hooked! Have your poems ever caused controversy?
Ksenia Zheludova: Here is one recent example of a negative reaction. At some point, I wrote a text in a form I hadn’t used for some time – not quite free verse, but close to it, a very relaxed form. So, quite a free text, and I like it very much. It resonated with my emotional state at the time I wrote it. I published it with a sense of real accomplishment and used it to promote my group. Most comments were positive, but one young woman wrote: “Aren’t you ashamed of putting up such a low-quality text?” I was sitting there and really wanted to write: “No, I’m not ashamed.” But then I decided it would be a bit weird to enter into dialogue with a commenter like that, because it would seem like I was justifying my right to publish certain texts and defending their right to exist. The fact that I published that poem means I’m no longer ashamed of it.
Ksenia Zheludova is a St. Petersburg-based poet and producer who has been publishing poetry on the Internet since 2007. She maintains a dedicated feed on VKontakte to promote her work, and also uses Facebook and Instagram for this purpose. Her poetry collections, Slovno and Navernost’, have appeared in print and online.
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What happens on divorce when during the marriage, the marital residence that had been owned by one spouse prior to the marriage is conveyed during the marriage to the parties jointly? That was the issue addressed by the Appellate Division, Second Department, in its decision this month in Spencer-Forrest v. Forrest.
The parties were married on March 31, 1984. There were no children of the marriage, but children from each of the parties’ prior marriages resided with the parties in the marital residence during the children’s respective minorities. Both parties were employed for the majority of the marriage, and the wife provided care for the husband’s children, who were younger and resided in the marital residence longer than her children.
The husband had purchased the marital residence prior to the marriage, and transferred the property to himself and the wife as joint tenants in 1989. Other than the marital residence, the parties’ assets were held in their respective names. Both parties contributed to the household expenses, although the husband contributed a larger sum to household expenses and maintenance of the marital residence, and the wife ceased financial contributions in 2006 or 2007, after she retired.
In August, 2012, the wife commenced this action for a divorce and ancillary relief. The wife was 68 years old and the husband was 67 years old at the time of trial.
Except for the marital residence, Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Stacy D. Bennett divided the marital property) equally (other than the vehicles and personal items) regardless of the party holding title. As to the residence, Justice Bennett awarded the wife 20% of the appreciation in the value of the marital residence from 1989 (when the husband conveyed the home to the parties jointly) through the date of the commencement of the action, an award amounting to $30,000. The court declined to award the parties credits sought for assets allegedly secreted or wasted by the other party and denied the wife an award of maintenance. | <urn:uuid:7566a57f-1590-4cf3-a2f3-bf20157e4d5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.divorceny.com/tag/titled-holder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982145 | 396 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Having pulled the Confederate flag down from nearly every pole on which it fluttered, the anti-white lobby still isn't quite finished. The most recent symbol of the Old South to be reconstructed is the University of Mississippi's traditional mascot, a Confederate soldier called "Colonel Reb."
The university is still run by whites, but the abolition of the mascot shows clearly how guilt, self-hate, and outright fear drive whites themselves into eradicating their own heritage.
"Col. Reb," as the figure was known or "Colonel Rebel" as an Associated Press story recently called it, was adopted as the school mascot in 1936, when the student newspaper launched a contest to come up with a new nickname for the football team. The team had been called the "Flood," and among the entries for the new name were "Rebels," "Confederates," "Stonewalls," and "Raiders."
The "Rebels" won with a landslide of 18 votes, and Col. Reb first appeared the following year in the university's yearbook.
I'm willing to bet that when the students voted for the Confederate names for the team, they really were not thinking about how the name and a mascot based on it would help them perpetuate white racial hegemony over blacks.
The reason the students suggested and voted for such names was that they suggest something drawn out of their state's history that is sort of like a football team—soldiers who fought hard and bravely for their cause.
But of course in time the name and the mascot, like the flag itself, were invested with broader and deeper meanings.
They would never have acquired such meanings had the anti-white lobby had the sense to leave them alone. But logically, once you've launched a crusade to rip down the Confederate flag, you have to continue ripping down every vestige of the Confederacy, even if it's only sports symbols. There are further logical implications as well, which we shall explore anon.
But at Ole Miss, the anti-white lobby generally knows better than to preach hatred of whites and their heritage and symbols openly, or at least it has the brains to know that such arguments won't sway very many.
Hence, the rationale for changing the team name and abolishing Col. Reb reached for other, more plausible reasons.
In the course of persuading themselves and trying to persuade everyone else in the state of the cogency of these arguments, the leaders of the anti-white campaign managed to banish displaying the Confederate flag at football games, the playing and singing of "Dixie" as the unofficial anthem of the team, and calling the annual spring festival on campus "Dixie Week."
He's not the only one spouting. The AP reports that black Associate Dean Don Cole [firstname.lastname@example.org] "can still see the hate in the eyes of a female student as she drove by, waving a Confederate flag out the window."
That was in 1969. Apparently Dean Cole has had nothing better to think about since then, and now he has his chance to get back at all those pretty white co-eds who "hated" him.
"I wanted to support the team," he whined to the press, "but I couldn't, quote, be a Rebel."
Well that brings us to the other implications of getting rid of the Confederate flag.
Implication One is that when you admit racial and cultural aliens into institutions created by and for people of a different race and culture, you're going to have problems.
The newcomers don't feel comfortable, as Mr. Cole did not, and if they gain power, which eventually they will, they will do all they can to abolish and eradicate those symbols that make them feel like the outsiders they are.
And Implication Two is that it's not just fairly trivial symbols like Col. Reb, the flags at the football game, the name of the team, and the songs the spectators can't sing.
Non-whites of all races and cultures are increasingly aware that they just don't fit in the institutions built by whites, and therefore they demand that these institutions bend to their will.
And the reason they succeed, of course, is that the white leadership of the institutions created by and for whites lacks the brains and the guts to resist.
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If heat and humidity cross a certain extreme threshold—a “wet bulb” temperature of 35 degrees Celsius—the human body can’t survive long outside. It’s a scenario that some researchers had predicted becoming common later in the century, when climate change may make some regions essentially unlivable. But a new study suggests that dangerous, previously unprecedented levels of heat and humidity are already beginning to occur.
“At certain points, for short periods of time, these dangerous heat-humidity thresholds are already happening,” says Radley Horton, a research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the authors of the new paper, published in Science Advances. “They’re not just a risk for later this century.”
Extreme heat is already deadly. In the U.S., it kills more people than any other weather-related event. These deaths mostly affect the elderly, but when simultaneous extreme heat and extreme humidity cross the “survivability limit,” even someone who’s young and healthy won’t be able to live long if they can’t retreat into air-conditioning. “If you took the healthiest person and put them in the shade with an endless supply of water and either no clothing or clothing where it was easy to sweat, there is actually a threshold for heat and humidity where you can’t sweat fast enough to avoid overheating,” Horton says.
Researchers started studying the combination of heat and humidity over the past several years, realizing that looking at temperature alone “isn’t telling the whole story in terms of how people and critical systems are affected by heat,” he says. But until now, scientists expected impacts at a later date.
Past studies didn’t show that critical thresholds are already starting to be crossed in some locations. In the past, other studies looked at data over larger areas, over longer periods of time; the new study looked at hourly data from thousands of weather stations and discovered thousands of instances where the combined heat and humidity temporarily soared to dangerous levels. In the southeastern United States, extreme conditions occurred in cities such as New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi. India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan saw repeated waves of extreme heat and humidity. In the Persian Gulf, a handful of heatwaves went past the survivability limit.
The most extreme cases lasted just hours, which is why there haven’t yet been reports of mass deaths. The literature suggests that a healthy person might be able to survive for six hours outside in the worst conditions. Most people living in the Persian Gulf also have access to air-conditioning; more research is needed on the details, including whether some deaths may not have been reported (of migrant workers, for example). But what’s clear is that the situation is likely to get worse.
Since 1979, the number of instances of extreme heat and humidity has more than doubled. As climate change progresses, the frequency will increase—although limiting emissions will help dramatically. A study last year found that in the U.S., more than 200 cities would face at least a week of “off the charts” extreme heat by the middle of the century, but even with slow climate action, that would drop to seven cities. (That study predicted days that would surpass a heat index of 127 degrees Fahrenheit, a related measure of heat and humidity; a wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees Celsius is equivalent to a heat index of roughly 160 degrees Fahrenheit, but the heat index tops out at 127.)
Those who have to work outdoors, such as farmers and construction workers, will be hardest hit. In regions where air-conditioning is widespread, infrastructure will be strained. In places like India, for example, where air-conditioning is still fairly rare, the number of air conditioners may grow from 30 million to 1 billion by the middle of the century, using vast amounts of electricity. If that power isn’t all renewable, it will add to the problem, ultimately making heat waves even worse.
“This is a classic example of a sort of subtle, hidden threat that could mean for more and more regions, having air-conditioning or being sure that the power won’t go out is truly a life or death issue,” Horton says. “So it’s going to put more strain on electric networks for electricity at precisely those times when you can’t afford to have the power go out.” | <urn:uuid:0f9e1fb5-af72-496e-9f7a-8b6ade1edb78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fastcompany.com/90503692/map-killer-heat-and-humidity-is-spiking-decades-sooner-than-we-feared | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94459 | 934 | 3.703125 | 4 |
The government wants to give you better mobile signal on trains
The government is promising to sort out mobile phone signal on trains across Britain that would let every passenger stream movies straight to their smartphone, with no interruption while travelling through reception "back holes".
Plans for laying fibre optic cables alongside train tracks to provide gigabit broadband wi-fi and mobile masts to bring 5G to rail journeys are being mulled over as part of its goal of making the UK a world leader in the technology.
The government said it wants to "dramatically improve" connectivity for passengers by 2025 – including insuring that signal is not cut off through tunnels – and is consulting on how it can be achieved.
“We want people to be able to get connected where they live, work and travel," said digital minister Matt Hancock.
"This means improving connections on Britain’s railways now, and making sure they are fit for the future. We’ve got a long way to travel but our destination is world-class signal for passengers. This will not only make journeys more enjoyable and productive, but will help improve the operation and safety of the railway and deliver economic benefits for the whole of the UK."
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Friday, August 08, 2014
Subluxation Definitions and Concepts
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Is Sitting the New Smoking?
People spend an average of 9.3 hours per day sitting, which is even more than we spend sleeping. This includes time in front of computers, working at desks, in meetings, and leisure time at home. Extensive research has been done on the effects this has on the body. After just one hour, the enzymes that burn fat decline significantly, increasing the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes and associated degenerative diseases, like arthritis. Study after study has also shown that a lack of daily movement also increases the risk colon cancer and breast cancer, as well as cardiovascular disease and heart attack.
When taken all together, time spent in a chair does stack up as just as dangerous as smoking.
For many people, their occupation may make it difficult to change the amount of time spent in front of computers. That’s why it’s important to make decisions about how to spend your time outside of work to counteract all the daytime inactivity. Walks after dinner or recreational sports on the weekends may be a perfect fit for some. Others might find it possible to take standing breaks during the day, or even construct a standing desk. Even small changes can make a big difference.
For a long time, tobacco use has been touted as one of the most dangerous bad habits, and many people have quit knowing the dangers. It doesn’t seem likely, though, that as many people would be willing to give up their couches and chairs. If presented with the data and statistics tabulating the risks of spending time at a desk or in front of the television, though, people would be surprised to learn that the health dangers are as significant as lighting up.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
What is FACT?
FACT is designed to work in conjunction with any adjustment technique, and those proficient in FACT will be able to successfully treat even the most challenging cases, from stroke to Fibromyalgia. As such, the practitioner will have learned to observe human movement and pathological respiratory mechanics as it is revealed uniquely in specific conditions, such as Parkinson's, Schizophrenia, and Atrial Insufficiency.
THE SEVEN CONSIDERATIONS OF CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE
- You get what you tolerate.
- You become who you associate with most of the time.
- It is more productive to get 10 men to work rather than you doing the work of 10 men.
- You cannot draw conclusions as long as there is missing information.
- The excitement of the future equals the pull of the future.
- Don’t curse the blessing. Every phone call, email or letter or introduction, or social visit is an opportunity to help people.
- The true professional must see themselves as a professional.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Aluminum and Vaccine Ingredients: What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?
Thimerosal, which contains the organic compound ethyl mercury, is a known neurotoxin and used to be a major ingredient in childhood vaccines. There are over 15,000 articles in the medical literature describing the adverse health effects on the human body with exposure to varying amounts and forms of mercury.
In 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) urged government agencies to work rapidly toward reducing children's exposure to mercury from all sources. Because any potential risk was of concern, the AAP and the USPHS (United States Public Health Service) agreed that the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines should be reduced or eliminated. The AAP recommended that it would be a good idea to remove thimerosal from vaccines, even though according to them, there was no evidence linking childhood health issues to thimerosal exposure from vaccines. In 2008, children are still being injected with thimerosal-containing vaccines, and old stocks of thimerosal-containing vaccines manufactured by 1999 continued to be administered to children up to 2003.
However, a growing number of physicians, scientists and parents maintain that thimerosal has played, and continues to play a large role in contributing to the emergence of multiple chronic illnesses in children and adults, including the neurological spectrum disorders. Aluminum, which is present in the environment and in many childhood vaccines, may be affecting the health of our children in ways that we have yet to understand.
Aluminum is a heavy metal with known neurotoxic effects on human and animal nervous systems. It can be found in the following childhood vaccines – DTaP, Pediarix (DTaP-Hepatitis B-Polio combination), Pentacel (DTaP-HIB-Polio combination), Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae B (HIB), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), and Pneumococcal vaccines.
In 1996, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a position paper on Aluminum Toxicity in Infants and Children which stated in the first paragraph, “Aluminum is now being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and in other tissues.
A review of the medical literature on aluminum reveals a surprising lack of scientific evidence that injected aluminum is safe. There is limited understanding of what happens to children when aluminum is injected into their bodies, including whether or not it accumulates in tissues and organs or is properly eliminated from the body. It is also unknown if genetic factors affect long term adverse health outcomes for those injected with aluminum containing vaccines.
One in 6 children under the age of 18 in this country has developmental/learning disabilities, although the numbers may be higher since this 1994 report was published. Ten percent of all children have asthma. Growing numbers of children are living with different types of allergies. That means they have impairment, or even irreversible damage to their nervous and immune systems. Isn’t it possible that injected aluminum plays a role in affecting the health of our children’s nervous and immune systems, as the science we do have seems to suggest?
What is even more concerning is the lack of accepted scientific data explaining whether injected aluminum interacts with other vaccine ingredients to cause harm to our children. Boyd Haley, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky completed lab experiments showing the damaging effects on nerve cells when he exposed them to aluminum, especially in the presence of other vaccine ingredients like mercury, formaldehyde, and the antibiotic neomycin. His data, however, have been ignored by the scientific, medical and governmental institutions making vaccine policies. The scientific community needs to be doing these experiments in the lab before shooting kids with these ingredients and declaring unequivocal vaccine safety for all children.
Aluminum is added to vaccines as an adjuvant so vaccines will produce a stronger antibody response and be more protective. It is this role as an adjuvant that may reveal to us the most significant relationship between aluminum in vaccines and the damage it imparts on the long term health of our children’s nervous and immune systems.
A Little Science Review
Children are born with a cellular mediated immune system (TH1 cells – T-helper 1), a humoral immune system (TH2 cells – T-helper 2), and a regulator immune system (TH3 cells – T-helper 3) as major pieces of their overall immune systems. These three arms are immature when babies are born, and begin to mature as children are exposed to their environments through their nervous systems, skin, airways and intestines. Antibiotics, poor nutrition, stress, exposure to heavy metals and other environmental toxins, and the use of vaccines, may interfere with the proper maturing process of these three arms of children’s immune systems. In theory, if the TH system is allowed to mature, and is not interfered with, children will develop a mature, balanced TH1, TH2 and TH3 immune system by age three.
TH1 and TH2 develop to protect children from the outside world, producing inflammation and anti-inflammation responses to foreign particles from the natural environment. TH3 immune cells develop to keep the TH1/TH2 arms of the immune system in check so the body only produces the amount of inflammation and anti-inflammation that is needed to protect itself from exposures in the natural environment.
When TH2 cells are activated properly, either directly via the natural environment, or through a direct signal from the TH1 system, the B cell arm of the immune system is then stimulated, leading to the production of the desired protective antibodies.
It’s important for the reader to know that the hallmark of a healthy, mature immune system in children is demonstrated by an equal and balanced TH1, TH2 and TH3 immune response to the natural environment. TH1, TH2 & TH3 do not work independently, and require a very important synergistic relationship to function properly in our bodies. As soon as one or more of these three arms begins to over or under work in relation to the other, chronic illness begins to express itself.
More on Aluminum
Aluminum is placed in the vaccines to selectively target the up-regulation of the humoral arm (TH2 cells) of children’s immune systems, to drive the production of antibodies. The medical community leads us to believe that this production of antibodies is what imparts for children a protective nature against vaccine-preventable illnesses. Yet, this outcome may come at a cost.
There are multiple articles in the medical literature demonstrating how chronic illnesses like allergies, asthma, eczema, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, ADD/ADHD and autism all exhibit a skewed production and over-activity of the TH2 arm of the immune system.
Similarly, chronic illnesses like juvenile diabetes mellitus and rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, uveits, inflammatory bowel disease, and autism all exhibit skewed production and over-activity of the TH1 arm of the immune system.
While aluminum in the vaccines is specifically targeting the over-activation of TH2 to encourage the body to produce antibodies, any direct or indirect effect of aluminum on the health or maturation of the TH1 or TH3 system is unknown. Yet, in many of these TH2 dominant chronic illnesses, TH1 and TH3 have also been shown to exhibit an impaired immune response to the environment.
Any direct or indirect effect on the health or maturation of the TH1, TH2 and TH3 arms of children’s immune systems from any of the injected vaccine ingredients, either due to their individual action, or due to their combined interaction, is unknown as well.
The important synergistic, balanced activity of TH1, TH2 and TH3, in response to the environment is dysfunctional and impaired in all chronic illnesses. Children are not necessarily born with this dysfunction or impairment, although they may inherit the susceptibility from their parents. How then, do children develop the expression of these TH1, TH2, TH3 impairments, into what we describe as chronic illness?
What is clear is aluminum pushes the TH2 immune system to over perform, and multiple chronic illnesses in children show immune systems where the TH2 immune response over performs, while TH1 and TH3 responses are also impaired. Is there a connection? By having this type of effect on the TH2 system, is aluminum in any way contributing to the development of these chronic illnesses in children; especially in those children from families with a genetic history of the above mentioned chronic illnesses?
Does aluminum also affect the TH1 immune response, unbeknownst to scientists, clinicians and parents? Does aluminum play a role in impairing the overall synergistic, balanced activity of TH1, TH2 and TH3, which is a requirement for a healthy immune system response to the natural environment? There is no scientific evidence to clarify our understanding one way or the other, but the evidence may be right in front of us to conclude otherwise.
Aluminum forces the undeveloped and immature immune system of infants and children to produce greater amounts of humoral immune cells (TH2) and antibodies, before their immune systems have a chance to adapt to the world in which they’ve barely had a chance to live in.
Under these circumstances, the activity of aluminum appears to play a vital role in disrupting the maturation of the immune system in infants and children through its effects on TH2 and therefore, on TH1 and TH3.
What effect this has on their overall health in the short or long term is unknown, but this model appears to help us understand how we may be contributing to the development of chronic illness in infants and children with the use of aluminum in vaccines. We also have little understanding of what might happen to the overall health of their immune systems if parents wait until later in life to expose them to vaccines containing aluminum, or if they’re exposed in smaller doses one at a time.
How much of a role does injected aluminum play, either acting alone, or in conjunction with other vaccine ingredients and environmental toxins, in the selection and subsequent development of chronic illnesses, in a susceptible population of children, through the disruption of TH1, TH2, TH3? There is no science to answer this question because no one has investigated this issue.
We have no scientific studies in infants, children or adults to help us understand the nature of the progression of TH1, TH2 and TH3 immune responses to any of the injected materials in vaccines.
You cannot do research on questions that enough people don’t believe is worth asking, or are afraid of what the answers might show if the proper studies were done.
It is unfortunate that we continue to drag out this dialog by singling out each individual vaccine ingredient as a detriment to the health of our children. First thimerosal needed to be removed, despite contentions from the medical community that there were any real medical reasons to do so, and now aluminum. According to Environmental Defense (formerly known as the Environmental Defense fund), all the vaccine ingredients are poisonous, carcinogenic or potentially harmful to the skin, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, immune and neurological systems in our bodies.
What about formaldehyde? Are we going to wait until another brave physician or scientist writes about the damaging effects of injected vaccine-containing formaldehyde on our children’s brains before we are called to demand that formaldehyde be removed? Or about the problems associated with having Polysorbate-80 in the vaccines?
Polysorbate-80 is used in pharmacology to assist in the delivery of certain drugs or chemotherapeutic agents across the blood-brain-barrier. What viral, bacterial, yeast, heavy metal or other vaccine containing ingredient need to pass into the brains of our children? Do they belong in the brain? Is that part of the needed immune response to protect our children from disease? Do vaccine materials pass across the blood-brain barrier with the help of Polysorbate-80? If so, are there complications from being in the brains of our children? Is this another connection to help us get an understanding of why 1 in 150 children have autism, or 1 in 6 children has developmental/learning disabilities?
If we’re going to do justice to the topic of vaccine ingredients, we need to look at the potential harm of all the vaccine ingredients at once, and examine their individual effects on our children’s immune and nervous systems. Then, we can examine the interactive effects of the vaccine ingredients on human tissue, and evaluate the potential for harm, as Dr. Haley has already successfully done.
How many more children need to be potentially harmed before we invoke the precautionary principle and the Hippocratic Oath – First, Do No Harm? If there’s no adequate science, and we have positive evidence of toxicity from aluminum, injected alone or in conjunction with other ingredients, and we have a potential model to understand why certain chronic conditions may be developing in a susceptible population of children, then injecting aluminum containing vaccines into anyone should stop right now until we have the proper scientific proof we need to say otherwise. We need the same scientific proof of safety for all vaccine ingredients and their interactions, and we need parents, scientists and practitioners to stand up and demand nothing less before we make matters worse.
Lawrence B. Palevsky,
MD, FAAP Pediatrician
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Autism itself is not the enemy
From an Autistic Patient
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
This is chiropractic’s greatest challenge and opportunity for increasing human potential.
The central theory of biology is evolution through natural selection. Frankly, if we assume a stationary environment, natural selection improves the ability of an average organism to reproduce fertile offspring. But the internal and external environment is certainly not stationary. Since internal and external resources are limited and finite, organisms evolve as compromises. Most of these compromises can be expressed in terms of energy efficiency. Consequently we arrive at the notion of natural selection as an energy efficiency optimization process. These plastic changes have to happen at the microscopic cellular level (DNA expression) and globally in neural connections and signaling.
Since the CNS controls and regulates all physiological process of the human body, these optimizations must occur at the microscopic cellular level in the nervous system first.
All these changes can be explained by considering the process of energy efficiency of neural communication and neural processing. Energy (available ATP) is finite. It is reasonable to assume that the limiting factor for this energy efficiency optimization process is the use of available ATP and other resources needed by the neuron to process and communicate information. Thus, to optimize neurological programs, the CNS will shunt and mobilize ATP (and other energy resources such as lactate) to the areas of greatest physiological need in the CNS. Or the CNS will ‘turn off’ or mute metabolically expensive processing programs. This is neurophysiological partitioning.
Immediate energy-efficient processing of information can explain seemingly isolated physiological processes. The energy used for signaling (communication & processing) constrains the flow of information within cells and between cells and regions in the CNS.
In the context of energy, neural processing is rather expensive. The adult human brain accounts for 20 percent or more of the body’s total energy use (metabolic costs). In young children, whose brains are nearly as large as an adult, the energy use by this organ can account for nearly 50 percent of the ATP use. Recent studies have shown that 85 percent of the energy used by the brain goes toward restoring the ion fluxes across neuronal membranes that are the biophysical basis of computation and communication in the neocortex. Thus signaling, processing, filtering, controlling, filtering, summing, integrating and management of incoming information account for up to 85 percent of the energy used by the brain.
Thus information processing, although perhaps five or six orders of magnitude more energy efficient than man-made computation, is a considerable expense for the organism.
Energy usage is decisively coupled to neuronal performance in the immediate, during the organism’s lifetime and over the natural selection process over millions of years. The evidence is strong that neuronal processing has evolved to be metabolically efficient.
Because of such energy costs, natural selection has optimized energy use as well as information processing in constructing the way neurons compute and communicate. Our survival and dominance as a species is dependent on the energy efficiency of CNS processing. The large metabolic costs of neural processing and CNS signaling suggest that efficiency is fundamental for survival. Neurons are unable to generate enough energy to meet the requirements of maximal physiological activity. Energy limitation is a factor in shaping the normal operation of the brains circuitry. A process requiring less energy is preferred to a process requiring more energy. The process is forced to become efficient or is eliminated.
Energy metabolism is central to life because cells cannot exist without an adequate supply of ATP. The CNS is particularly sensitive to any disturbances in energy generation and even short term interruption can lead to long lasting damage. Understanding the relations between energy metabolism and function during brain development has not only enormous theoretical but also practical implications for the human race.
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Without question, most ERPs have a long life span—or at least longer than anyone thought possible. So, it’s not unusual to come across a business that has a system that is 10 to 20 years old or even dating back to the 1990s. But after years of upgrades, customizations, and add-ons, that “reliable” technology foundation is becoming a stumbling block for business transformation.
Hubert Delloye, a global ERP architect at Vallourec, summed this up fittingly during the ASUG Express webcast, How to Turbocharge Your ECC in 6 Weeks:
“Anyone who is an SAP customer understands the need to leverage ERPs as much as possible. But at the same time, it must be recognized that these software investments are really a system of record, not tools for predictive analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence. And ultimately, this means that certain new innovations should not be added to the ERP.”
However, SAP customers have been forced to customize their SAP ERP system over the years to accommodate new integrations, processes, applications, and key performance indicators. In return, a large amount of institutional knowledge, processes, and business logic has been added to the system. This outcome has left their SAP core unclean, increasing their technical debt and making future digital transformation complicated and risky.
What happens next? SAP advises its customers to migrate their legacy system to SAP S/4HANA. However, a 2021 ASUG survey found that only 33% of SAP customers have migrated to the modern and intelligent ERP. For the remaining 67%, the cost and effort to reassess data repositories, advance data management, recreate processes from scratch, reconnect core and edge technologies, and adjust how people work are too much to bear right now. This process comes with a certain amount of risk and potential disruption, and often continues for an extended time frame.
Technical Debt and Legacy Apps: Holding the Business Back
As the marketplace continues to digitally transform and favor cloud adoption, companies demand customized web and mobile applications to modernize their business processes. Doing so can help them increase workplace productivity, lower operating costs, improve quality data, and respond to market dynamics with greater agility.
Wanted: A Friendlier Approach to Modernization
Despite a shrinking pool of developers with the skills required to support SAP-based systems, businesses recognize they must still evolve their digital landscapes and adapt to changing customer demands, regulatory requirements, and strategic direction. This mindset is driving demand for low-code, rapid application development solutions that can accommodate innovation and modernization without the need for advanced integration skills.
Low-code/no-code solutions empower existing developers to utilize their experience and knowledge of the organization while quickly building new business capabilities around existing SAP applications on their own schedules. More importantly, the technology does not require a full migration to SAP S/4HANA or additional training on programming languages.
Pillir’s team of technology and business experts observe this phenomenon regularly, especially when SAP customers are looking to migrate their legacy ABAP code with its rapid application development platform EdgeReady Cloud. Modernizing an SAP landscape and maintaining legacy investment call for a solution helps build new application and maintain legacy business logic and processes while enhancing and digitizing processes. A platform that converts legacy applications automatically to mobile-ready, cloud-based applications is the answer.
Where ERP Innovation Becomes Business Transformation
Businesses that are looking into development platforms to modernize their SAP system need to consider technologies that fulfill five fundamental requirements:
- Combine business process management, low code, and no code in one visual experience that brings various stakeholders together to fast-track the creation of new business capabilities.
- Base the developer experience on building visual models of your application, rather than writing lines of code.
- Enhance the refactoring of legacy applications with deeper, native integration with the ERP, which hastens the modernization process by extracting the legacy ABAP custom code and converting it directly into low-code objects.
- Enable business-led IT with a combination of speed, flexibility, control, monitoring, and governance to expand new business capabilities.
- Deliver progressive web apps (PWA) and hybrid and native applications on all consumer and rugged devices—online and offline—enabled by one simple browser-based development experience.
Low-code/no-code solutions, such as Pillir’s EdgeReady Cloud, addresses these needs and the process of modernizing existing digital investments regardless of their stage in the SAP migration journey. The technology helps create a more efficient hosted environment with a low learning curve for users, accelerating adoption of these newly modernized applications. These solutions also offer the ability to “clean up” the SAP core, simplifying any future migrations as the core is more standardized.
From Vision to Reality Through Incremental Change
The pressure to modernize and optimize the value of every process is increasingly high as businesses navigate their way through a highly dynamic and competitive marketplace—and legacy ERP is certainly no exception.
Businesses must modernize and alleviate their “technical debt” by streamlining their processes and creating efficiencies, if they hope to remain viable in a world that continues to digitally transform. Yet, this may present a dilemma for companies that are under pressure to meet budgetary concerns and avoid costly disruption and downtime, especially in a post-pandemic economy.
Cleaning up that digital technical debt does not have to be a wholesale move to an entirely new environment, especially if a business is not ready for it. Instead, with the right tools, employees can shape the future of the company’s digital landscape by developing capabilities on their own pace, according to their most pressing priorities. Then bit by bit, department by department, application by application, organizations can modernize their ERP landscape according to whatever strategy and timeline best suits their business models.
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AbstractThere is an urgent and unmet clinical need to improve accuracy and safety during needle-based interventional procedures including regional anaesthesia and cancer biopsy. In ultrasound guided percutaneous needle procedures, there is a universal problem of imaging the needle, particularly the tip, especially in dense tissues and steep insertion angles. Poor visualization of the needle tip can have serious consequences for the patients including nerve damage and internal bleeding in regional anaesthesia and, in the case of biopsy, mis-sampling, resulting in misdiagnosis or the need for repeat biopsy. The aim of the work was to design and develop an ergonomic ultrasound device to actuate standard, unmodified needles such that the visibility of needle can be enhanced when observed under colour Doppler mode of ultrasound imaging. This will make the needle procedures efficient through accurate needle placement while reducing the overall procedure duration.
The research reported in this thesis provides an insight into the new breed of piezoelectric materials. A methodology is proposed and implemented to characterize the new piezocrystals under ambient and extreme practical conditions. For the first time, the IEEE standard method (1987) was applied to an investigation of this type with binary (PMN-PT) and ternary (PIN-PMN-PT) compositions of piezocrystals. Using the existing data and the data obtained through characterization, finite element analysis (FEA) were carried to adequately design the ultrasound device. Various configurations of the device were modelled and fabricated, using both piezoceramic and piezocrystal materials, in order to assess the dependency of device’s performance on the configuration and type of piezoelectric material used. In order to prove the design concept and to measure the benefits of the device, pre-clinical trials were carried out on a range of specimens including the soft embalmed Thiel cadavers. Furthermore, an ultrasound planar cutting tool with various configurations was also designed and developed as an alternative to the existing cumbersome ultrasonic scalpels. These configurations were based on new piezocrystals including the Mn-doped ternary (Mn:PIN-PMN-PT) material.
It is concluded that the needle actuating device can significantly enhance the visibility of standard needles and additionally benefits in reducing the penetration force. However, in order to make it clinically viable, further work is required to make it compliant with the medical environment. The piezocrystals tested under practical conditions although offer extraordinary piezoelectric properties, are vulnerable to extreme temperature and drive conditions. However, it is observed that newer piezocrystals, especially Mn:PIN-PMN-PT have shown the potential to replace the conventional piezoceramics in high power and actuator applications. Moreover, the d31-mode based planar cutting tool contrasts with the cumbersome design of mass-spring transducer structure and has the potential to be used in surgical procedures.
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|Supervisor||Zhihong Huang (Supervisor) & Sandy Cochran (Supervisor)|
- Piezoelectric Materials
- Regional Anaesthesia
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Hurricane Irma is moving closer to the United States, and it's expected to make landfall in Florida by the end of the weekend.
The forecast models have changed daily as to where exactly this hurricane will go once it makes the hard right turn to the north.
Now that Hurricane Irma is that much closer, forecasters are more confident of a United States landfall in Florida.
FRIDAY: Hurricane Irma has gone from a Category 5 to a Category 4, but the exact path it takes today could determine its strength once it arrives in the United States. Current projections have Irma moving through Caribbean Ocean waters in between Cuba and The Bahamas.
SATURDAY: The storm will continue its path between Cuba and The Bahamas. However, if the storm inches closer to Cuba than expected, the United States may see a slightly weaker, yet still catastrophic Category 3 hurricane. Unfortunately, the hurricane's track is currently staying in the warmer ocean waters where it will remain a Category 4 or stronger until it makes landfall in the U.S. Near the end of Sunday, Irma will begin to make a right hand turn toward Florida.
SUNDAY: In the early morning hours, Irma will make landfall near the southern tip of Florida. From there, it will move up the middle of the state. Because of Hurricane Irma's size and path, nearly everyone still in the state will experience hurricane force winds or near hurricane force winds.
Models are beginning to come to an agreement as to where exactly Irma will travel over the weekend, and they seem to be coming together in south-central Florida.
This storm is expected to be a dangerous Category 4 or 5 when it makes landfall on Sunday.
Regardless of where exactly this storm travels, it's one to watch with potentially catastrophic results.
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The double hose "Sensivair" was made in Hong Kong by Bunns Diving Equipment Corporation Ltd under license from Typhoon.
Typhoon Company was founded by Oscar Gugen in 1947 as E.T. Skinner. He escaped the war and in England started his business. He was one of the responsible for the beginning of a Club of Divers that became known worldwide: the British Sub Aqua Club.
E.T. Skinner was the first company in the UK to make diving suits and became the market leader in diving and sailing equipment.
In the 1970s the name was changed to Typhoon and a factory was built in Redcar where the company still operates. In 1976, developed the first lightweight drysuit.
In 1996, Typhoon was bought by the Bibby family, who invested heavily in modernizing the company that became the largest dry-clothes manufacturer in the world.
Bunn's, founded in 1958, was responsible for the manufacture of Typhoon's double hose regulator.
Bunn's Sensivair is a single stage regulator, extremely simple and built with automatic reserve that was triggered with cylinder pressure reaching 300 Psi.
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This is the regular period to which the accounts of a business or an organization are made up. When accounts are published, the period to which they refer must be stated and the beginning of one period should follow immediately upon the end of the preceding one. For a limited company, the period is normally one year. with certain exceptions, such as when the year end needs to be changed to bring trading periods of various members of a group of companies into line. Again, it is becoming common to use a 52- or 53-week year rather than a calendar year. As far as limited companies governed by the Companies Act 1985 are concerned, the period of accounting shall be known as the ‘accounting reference period’, and the date to which this period runs in each year shall be notified to the Registrar of Companies. If no contrary notification is made, then the relevant date will be 31 March of each year. There are also various provisions concerning notification of any change in the date of the end of the accounting reference period Penalties may be incurred by directors where these provisions are not observed.
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Let's bring color to life
At EmeraldPro painting, helping you bring color to life is our goal. In a world where our own preferred paint vendors offer a combined selection of over 10-thousand colors—10,144 to be exact—we know you won’t have time or desire to look at each one. Much less, if you are one of 67.5-million people working from home in the last year, seeing that many shades of what your neighbors may have painted their walls might be a little off-putting. But also, if you are one of those 67.5-million people, then have you thought about bringing the outdoors, indoors?
The world around us is the best inspiration for painting the interior of your home. Nature is filled with earth tones, green hues, and a variety floral colors you are not likely to see in a paint store. Much less, the desert sands and red rock formations between Utah, Idaho, and Colorado are not the same. With quarantine coming to an end, it’s time for a return to nature that includes bringing the color of nature to you.
Last week we talked about the home office works best when it is less home than office. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to talk about redefining your space with color. But first, we need to talk about what color is and how you can use it to create space.
Color theory is not new. It has been more refined over the last three-hundred-fifty years than it was in the previous two-thousand. Where red, yellow, and blue dominated print and paint for centuries, the Eagle Printing Ink Company heralded a new era with the first cyan, yellow, and magenta printing in 1908. Prior to that, the work of Sir Isaac Newton provided the greatest step since Renaissance painters experimented with bright colors on otherwise colorless subjects.
Between 1672—1676, Sir Isaac Newton published his experiments on color. He studied the behavior of light projecting sunlight through a prism to form a rainbow on his wall. To confirm his findings, he focused the projection into another prism where the colors combined to form a white light. Newton cracking the rainbow was revolutionary science in his day. He continued this work and published his findings with a rudimentary color wheel in 1704. A very much watered down version of this Newton’s is what we learn in kindergarten.
More than two-centuries later, noted painter and educator, Professor Albert H. Munsell gave dimension to Newton’s wheel. Frustrated by names he found foolish and misleading, Munsell merged the fields of art and science to form the color theory we know today. He redefined the observable spectrum by their primary color hues, color values, and chroma. This work by Munsell is considered so accurate, the Munsell Color System was adopted by and is still used by the US Department of Agriculture in determining appropriate color of soil. The US Food and Drug Administration also uses it as an indicator of quality in all parts of the American food and pharmaceutical supply. Munsell’s work plays a large role in how we see the world around us.
Hue is how we describe colors based on their dominant, primary color, such as blue-green or red-orange. The color possibilities between those, however, can appear infinite. So we give them names like baby blue and sky blue to describe what is almost the same color. Regardless, colors sharing a name between manufacturers may still be different. This was the very source of Munsell’s frustration.
Color value is the description of a color on scale of lightest to darkest and express as shade, tone, and tint. Appropriately named, shade is the amount of black used to darken a color. However, tint is the level of white used to lighten a hue and Tone is the amount of gray included. Using a single hue contrasted by these values is monochrome.
Chroma is the color’s strength. Often it is referred to as its saturation, which is misleading. The International Commission on Illumination offers definitions that can be confusing. However, it might be best to think of it as looking at two similar colors of paint. Benjamin-Moore’s Bright Yellow and Bold Yellow are very good examples for this. Between the Primary yellow and tertiary yellow-orange the colors are close enough to be separated by just two-degrees of angle. Saturation is their similarity. Chroma is their difference. | <urn:uuid:dc760934-ce26-47a0-939b-a5003c7378b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emeraldpropainting.com/color-theory-part-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962707 | 933 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Back to nature! Nurture the vine and make wine the traditional way. Back to humanity too, simply by getting closer to nature and listening for the clues Mother Nature gives us, thus undoing the havoc wreaked upon nature by a century's industrial unconsciousness. A fulfilling task, surrounded by nature and her gifts; in the intense summer heat or in the clear September light.
Vine-blossom and its winter repose. The vine forces us to follow cycles that are measured in decades, punctuated by unannounced, almost imperceptible signs from the plant that tell us the vines personality and temperament. The vine itself teaches us not only ancient ways to grow our food, but it also influences our way of looking at things by making us look for the very essence of what's around us.
Anything that man does to the soil upsets its natural balance and therefore should be reduced to the absolute minimum. The grass growing below the vines is mown and in the farm many nests are displayed, where birds, insects and bats (animals that help the grapes to ripen) can nest. The soil our vines are rooted in undergoes no sort of treatment whatsoever, we avoid chemical weed-killers, chemical or organic fertilzers.
During the second half of the 18th Century, the Corinaldi earls decided to embark on the wine making business, something that had always been practised in the Lispida hills. By amplifying the already existent buildings of the 18th Century monastery, they built the actual cellar, made up of 9 tunnels, the longest measuring 55 metres in length. The potential capacity is of 30.000 hectolitres, which is one of the largest in the Veneto region.
The ceilings and the floors were made using terracotta bricks and un-plastered stones (trachite) from the local area, they help maintain the temperature below 18°C even on hot summer days and keep the humidity constant at 80%, which is perfect for fermentation, conservation and the ageing of the wine. In the 2 tunnels designated for ageing, there are various oak wood casks measuring 20, 30 and 50 hectolitres, where red and white wines are stored for a period varying from 3 to 4 years; at the end of this settling period the wine is then bottled and left to stand for further fining before being sold.
In the tunnels where the fermentation vats are kept, the large vats of 30 to 50 hectolitres are used for the fermentation of the red wine and for a part of the whites. Next to these are the underground amphoras made entirely from terracotta, which is where the fermentation and finery of "Amphora" takes place, the first Italian wine made using the antique winemaking methods of the Romans. | <urn:uuid:b2b0eb04-1bc4-47d5-81c1-ee4034d2f702> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.localidautore.com/schede/castello-di-lispida-wines-and-holiday-8679 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952394 | 569 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Making satellite imagery actionable for warfighters
Military success depends in part on surveillance and reconnaissance, and today much of that work revolves around satellite imagery. Having timely, accurate intelligence improves situational awareness, mission planning, and damage assessment, to name a few key elements of warfighting missions. In support of combat units, geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) systems manage complex processes around satellite imagery, from collection to processing to dissemination. Gathering insights from these images in real time requires reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure. Even a small outage or performance loss can have a major impact on downstream operations. By helping ensure reliable, secure access to satellite-imagery assets, Oracle Cloud turns them into actionable intelligence—an important advantage in any warfighting scenario.
Ready for GEOINT
Oracle Cloud is the first public cloud built from the ground up to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise processing and security requirements. Oracle Cloud is designed with security, performance, and interoperability as key tenets. With a full range of infrastructure, platform, and applications, Oracle Cloud has the power to handle large-scale GEOINT applications, thanks to fast spatial index and query performance, plus support for Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Complex image and data processing work streams run faster with built-in capabilities, such as real-time cataloging and integration of location-based geometries, telemetries, and spatial data. And Oracle Exadata Cloud supports the high-throughput transactions of imagery ordering and supply chain operations. Oracle Cloud can also make image analysis faster and more accurate. Thanks to spatial and graph analytic operations built into Oracle Autonomous Database that support interactive map visualization, analysts can quickly discover relationships and detect changes. Embedded graph models highlight relationships, while other algorithms let analysts use pattern recognition, classification, statistical analysis, and machine learning for imagery analysis and reporting. The result: efficient analysis of massive amounts of visual data. High performance computing (HPC) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a powerful computational architecture to advance the throughput of image-processing applications. High performance computing on OCI delivers high-performance processors, fast and dense local storage, high-throughput and ultra-low latency RDMA cluster networks, and the tools to automate and run jobs seamlessly. GPU-powered bare metal and virtual instances let military analysts run image-processing applications that use machine learning and AI. Not only does it rival the performance of on-premises systems, high performance computing on OCI provides the elasticity and consumption-based pricing of the cloud along with the ability to scale as needed to tens of thousands of cores simultaneously.
Powerful developer tools
Investing in United States government missions
Oracle’s commitment to the US government spans more than 40 years. With the shift to cloud, that focus has not wavered. Oracle has and continues to invest heavily to bring commercial innovation and parity to US government missions. Our EverythingEverywhere commitment means government agencies can access the same services with consistent service level agreements (SLAs) in cloud regions that span all data security classifications, including Special Access Programs. Combined with a business model that favors price-performance advantage and low egress fees, Oracle offers compelling value for government agencies. Oracle also offers dedicated regions to support all US government classification environments from headquarters to the mission edge. Unclassified workloads run in regions authorized through FedRAMP High and DISA Impact Level 5. Classified workloads are supported in a growing number of dedicated regions built to Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community standards. With more than 30 global regions and hundreds of services as of 2021, Oracle Cloud continues to rapidly expand. And for the most demanding workloads, such as GEOINT and satellite image analysis, Oracle Cloud enables the DoD and other organizations to harness the power of high-performance computing without the upfront investment and complex maintenance of the past.
About Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud is the first public cloud built from the ground up to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise processing and security requirements. Oracle Cloud is designed with security, performance, and interoperability as key tenets. With a full range of infrastructure, platform, and applications, Oracle Cloud delivers higher performance, lower cost, and easier migration.
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Did you know that Breast Cancer Awareness Month was first observed in the United States in October 1985? This is an international campaign that seeks to raise awareness of the disease and raise money to fund research into cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure.
The ongoing focus and message is to encourage women to have mammograms, which are x-rays used to detect abnormalities in the breast tissue. Early detection means that cancer, if detected, can be treated and the risk of spreading to other areas of the body can be lowered.
Though many women are fortunate to not have had breast cancer, most people know someone who has had the disease. Women in the United States have a one in eight (about 12 percent) lifetime risk of getting breast cancer. While deaths have declined due to early detection, breast cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer death among women and the leading cause of cancer deaths among Hispanic women. Some women are fortunate due to early detection to have minimally invasive surgery (lumpectomies) while others undergo the removal of one and sometimes both breasts.
The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 266,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year. A large percentage of cases are hormone-dependent and estrogen receptor positive—which means they respond to hormone therapy, which is good.
It’s important to know that women and men who inherit abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes (BR stands for Breast and CA stands for Cancer) have a higher risk of breast cancer. The BRCA test has been around for about a decade. Women with harmful BRCA mutations have a risk of breast cancer about five times the normal risk, and risk of ovarian cancer about 10 to 30 times normal. According to the National Cancer Institute, 55 percent to 65 percent of women with a known cancer-causing BRCA1 mutation will develop breast cancer by age 70.
Good news—genetic testing is improving. A new University of Washington study published in the September 2018 issue of Nature, a scientific journal, found that BRCA mutations are among dozens of genetic mutations that raise the risk of breast or ovarian cancer. New methods allow faster and more accurate results.
What can you do?
- Talk with your health care provider: Be sure to ask your health care provider whether you should be tested for common BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
- Risk factors: Your health care provider will want to know your family history of cancer. For women, providers will want to know when your menstrual cycles began and when you entered menopause. Alcohol use and being overweight also contribute to your cancer risk.
- Don’t ignore changes in your body: Check your breasts for lumps, discolorations, and changes in appearance at least monthly. Talk with your health care provider if you notice a change.
- Mammograms: Follow your health care provider’s advice, even if it’s inconvenient, bothersome, or unpleasant. Make and keep your mammogram appointment. For uninsured or low-income women, free or low-cost mammogram services are available. Call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345 to find a program near you.
- Nutrition: Eat a healthy diet.
- Maintain a positive outlook: Our minds play an important role in our health and wellness. If you need treatment, talk with your health care team about everything having to do with breast health and overall wellness. They are there to support you in every way.
Actress Angelina Jolie, who opted to have both breasts surgically removed because she has a mutation in BRCA1 and subsequently had both ovaries removed, reported that three women in her family had died from cancer.
“We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves,” Jolie said. Her experience has helped others understand the importance of mammograms for early detection and treatment.
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At least one person killed as Typhoon Maysak hits waterlogged Koreas
At least one person was reported killed and thousands were temporarily without power as Typhoon Maysak smashed into the Korean peninsula on Thursday, bringing heavy rain and lashing winds to areas still recovering from Typhoon Bavi.
The ninth typhoon of the season and the fourth to hit the peninsula this year left about 120,000 households without power across South Korea, officials said.
Flights were cancelled or delayed and downed trees and other debris caused light damage, Yonhap news agency reported.
One person died when winds shattered a window in South Korea's second-largest city of Busan, which bore the brunt of the storm's 170 kph (105 mph) winds, Yonhap reported.
The peninsula typically sees only one typhoon a year, but another typhoon, Haishen, is brewing south of Japan and is expected to hit the Korean coast on Sunday or Monday, NASA's Earth Observatory reported.
A ship carrying 43 crew and nearly 6,000 cattle from New Zealand to China capsized in the wild weather in the East China Sea, according to a surviving crew member.
The Gulf Livestock 1 sent a distress call from the west of Amami Oshima island in southwestern Japan on Wednesday as Typhoon Maysak barrelled towards the Korean peninsula.
Some of the areas hardest hit on Thursday were still counting the cost of last week's Typhoon Bavi and one of the wettest monsoon seasons on record.
Parts of the South Korean resort island of Jeju reported more than 1,000mm (39 inches) of rainfall since Tuesday, according to the weather agency.
North Korea took the brunt of Typhoon Bavi, and for a second week in a row state TV carried rare live reports of storm surge and flooding, including in the coastal town on Wonsan.
The reports showed a damaged bridge and flooded farmland, while a van with loudspeakers broadcast warnings to residents.
Later in the day, state TV reported that the typhoon warning had been lifted, with no immediate reports of casualties.
North Korea's agriculture sector is particularly vulnerable to severe weather, and this summer's storms and floods have raised concerns over the country's tenuous food situation.
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Mind Mapping Mastery – Effective Mind Maps – Step by Step
Mind Mapping – SMART Productivity and Memory Tool: Think Clearly, Organise, & Plan better; Study, Learn, & Recall Faster
What you’ll learn
- organise – quickly organise your thoughts, ideas or goals using mind maps
- plan – quickly plan an event, a speech, an article, a business or marketing plan
- rehearse and deliver – mind mapping is particularly good for rehearsing your talks and presentations
- clarify – mind mapping helps you to be more clear in your thinking, helps you see the wood for the trees
- think differently – once you have learnt to mind map effectively you will find that your mental approach to issues or ideas will be fundamentally different. Mind Mapping provides the scaffolding for a completely different set of mental processes and taps into the multitasking capability of the subconscious mind
- enhance your learning – Everyone today has to continually take on board new information and learn new ways of working. Mind mapping (when done properly) accelerates both the learning and understanding of new information, and helps with retention and recall.
- If you are having to study for upcoming professional exams, or Continuing Professional Development, then mind mapping can be of great benefit in your studies, reducing the time to learn new material
- By completion of the course you will be confident to create your own mind maps and to show others the basic concepts
- You do not require any special skills to succeed with this course
- You need to be open to try out different ways of doing things
- The basic requirement is a willingness to learn and develop a new skill
- Develop an existing skill if you already dabble in mind mapping
Udemy’s Top Selling Mind Mapping course with over 24,000 students across 173 countries and more than 2000 reviews (>1280 are 5-star).
Learn effective mind mapping to enhance your career and accelerate your studies at school, university, college or business school. At the same time maximising your personal development, your goal setting and planning, the preparing and completing of assignments, and much more
The course goes BEYOND Mind Mapping itself and covers both how the memory works and how to integrate mind mapping into your daily work or study. It can help you remember and recall articles, remember OTHER E-LEARNING courses, and help prepare and revise for exams etc, etc.
Most IMPORTANTLY the course teaches you how to use mind maps to think more clearly and increase personal productivity. You’ll learn how to save time on any task that requires planning, preparation, and clarity. You’ll learn the important principles of mind mapping and HOW and WHY this tool enhances learning, understanding, and memory
By following this course STEP-BY-STEP, and not trying to rush ahead, you’ll ensure that you are able to maximise the effectiveness of the technique, streamline your thought processes and thereby become more productive using this brain-friendly technique
You’ll be taught how to develop and use this powerful productivity tool in a unique and effective way.
Master the Skill of Mind Mapping
- Think clearly and streamline ideas so you can express them effectively
- Quickly organize thoughts, ideas, or goals
- Efficiently prepare events, speeches, articles, business plans, or marketing plan
- Enhance your Cognitive Experience
- Learn this technique that taps into the multitasking capability of the subconscious mind.
- Get information into your head quickly, and back out again just as fast.
- After completing this course, you will be equipped with a thought-organizational tool that will change the way you plan. Either for business or personal use, your mental approach to issues or ideas will become fundamentally different.
Contents and Overview
- The course starts with an overview of the purpose and structure of the course.
- You’ll soon see why mapping is so effective.
- The benefits of mind mapping will be illustrated clearly.
- You will be looking over the instructor’s shoulder so you can watch how it works.
- The course will ease you into creating your mind maps — first through a series of guided exercises, then through open assignments pertaining to your personal goals.
- Quizzes along the way will track your progress and ensure you’re grasping the concept.
Your verbal-numeric working memory can only juggle 3 or 4 complex ideas at any one time. Mind mapping allows you to extend this by adding spatial and visual-spatial working memory into the working memory mix.
Worth repeating: By following this course step-by-step, and not trying to rush ahead, you’ll ensure that you are able to maximise the effectiveness of the technique, streamline your thought processes and thereby become more productive.
Learn to LOVE mind Mapping and use it effectively and productively ENROL NOW!
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Missing repayment dates are missed for loans and credit cards will lead in your name getting listed in the record of defaulters. CIBIL credit score is an important factor when it comes to accessing credit products. And if you miss repaying your credit card debt or loan that you had taken on, the record will stay on your CIBIL credit report for a specific time period. Having a stain on your credit report will also influence your CIBIL credit score.
Every credit bureau maintains a record of individuals who have ever taken a loan or credit card. A CIBIL credit report contains all the details of your financial activities that help lenders or financial institutions to gauge the type of borrower you are. Basis on the available information in the credit report, they make a decision whether to extend a credit line to you. Hence, it is essential to keep your CIBIL credit report clean.
What is a CIBIL Defaulter’s List?
CIBIL do not maintain a defaulter’s list. The Reserve Bank of India maintains a list of defaulters. The list is available to general public for access on their official website. From time to time, the Reserve Bank of India introduces new framework to establish a stringent and fair financial operation system in the nation. In April 1997, the regulatory body introduced a scheme under which all the banks and financial institutions were notified to submit the details of wilful defaulters with outstandings of Rs.25 Lakhs and above.
Depending on the conditions that led to the default, the RBI has classified the list of defaulters into two groups: willful and non-wilful defaulters. This was designed to identify those who were actually drowning in debt and those who were purposefully choosing not to pay it off.
CIBIL will recognise you as a defaulter if your name is on that list due to non-payment of your dues.
For How many Years does CIBIL Keep a Track of Defaulters?
7 years from the last date of report. CIBIL collects and keep all the available information on an individual’s financial history. It helps banks, NBFCs, and other lenders to assess the creditworthiness of a potential borrower. Remember that CIBIL or any other credit bureau cannot delete your name from the defaulter’s list. Thus, if your name is on the defaulter’s list, you should work towards improving your CIBIL credit score.
Does the CIBIL Defaulter Status Affect Loan Approval?
Yes. Whenever a lender marks you as a defaulter, the same gets updated with CIBIL and your CIBIL credit score goes for a toss. With a low CIBIL credit score, it will become extremely challenging for you to get a loan, especially personal loan. There might be lenders who will want to approve your loan application, but the interest rates may be exorbitant. It is always a wise financial decision to keep a tab on your CIBIL credit score and help it improve.
How to Avoid Getting Listed as a CIBIL Defaulter?
When you apply for a loan or any other line of credit, the lending company checks your CIBIL credit report and score to see if there are any red flags on your name. You must constantly work towards increasing your credit score to prevent being shown as a defaulter in the CIBIL credit report.
Here are a few tips on how to keep your CIBIL credit record spotless:
Regularly Check your CIBIL Credit Report
To keep track of your credit score, make sure you routinely check your CIBIL credit report for any inaccuracies. If there is an error, try to identify the causes and raise it to CIBIL. You can get in touch with CIBIL using the information on their website if you find any mistake in the report.
Pay your Credit Card Bills on Time
Whether its your credit card or your loan, ensure you make timely repayments against the debt. One of the main reasons of having a low CIBIL credit score is missed or late payments. When you apply for a credit card or a loan, the lender checks your credit profile; if it shows a "Settled" or "Written-Off" status, it raises questions about your trustworthiness and increases the likelihood that your loan application will be turned down.
Do not Take out Multiple Loans
Never submit multiple loan applications simultaneously because this indicates that you are in a severe need of credit. Refrain from applying for loans of any kind, even those with short terms, as even this activity casts doubt on your trustworthiness as a borrower. Apply for one loan at a time as it improves your chances of having your loan application accepted and makes managing the payments simple.
FAQs Related to CIBIL Defaulter’s List
First of all, CIBIL doesn’t have a defaulter’s list of their own. They extract the information on the defaults made by an individual from the defaulter’s list available with the Reserve Bank of India. A CIBIL defaulter can still get a home loan, however, keep in mind that the bank or the lender may charge you a high rate of interest for the loan.
To remove your name as a defaulter from CIBIL record, you will need to work on your credit history. Identify the reason your name is on the defaulter list. If you have had failed to repay any loan or credit card, your name will be on the list. Contact the bank or lender and come to an arrangement to pay off the debt. Once you clear the debt, the same will get reflected in the defaulter’s list and your CIBIL credit report will be revised accordingly.
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California wildlife authorities have euthanized a mountain lion that attacked a 6-year-old girl who had been hiking with her parents.
The female cat, between 2 and 4 years old, was found in a tree in the area Wednesday afternoon, the Mercury News of San Jose reported on Thursday. Rangers sedated the cat and extracted DNA to confirm it was the same animal that had scratched and bit the child Sunday.
The cat weighed between about 70 pounds.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife “is actively engaged in mountain lion conservation across the state. However, public safety is our top priority,” officials said in a statement. “We made the decision to euthanize the lion because it was confirmed to have attacked a human.”
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Abbots of Ramsey
WYTHMAN 1016 — 1020
ETHELSTAN 1020 — 1043
ALFWIN 1043 — 1080
ALSI 1080 — 1087
HERBERT DE LOSINGA 1087–1091
BERNARD OF ST ALBANS 1102–1107
ROBERT TRIONELL 1180–1200
ROBERT DE READING 1202–1214
RICHARD DE SELBY 1214–1216
HUGH FOLIOT 1216–1231
WILLIAM DE AKOLT 1253 — 1254
HUGH DE SULGRAVE 1254 — 1267
WILLIAM DE GODMANCHESTER 1267 — 1285
JOHN DE SAWTRY 1285 — 1316
SIMON DE EYE 1316 — 1342
ROBERT DE NASSINGTON 1342 — 1349
RICHARD DE SHENINGTON 1349–1379
EDMUND DE ELLINGTON 1379–1396
THOMAS BUTTERWICK 1396–1419
JOHN TYCHMERCH 1419–1434
JOHN CROWLAND 1434–1435
JOHN STOWE 1435–1468
WILLIAM WITTLESEY 1468–1473
JOHN WARDEBOYS 1473–1489
JOHN HUNTINGDON 1489–1506
HENRY STUKELEY 1506–1507
JOHN LAWRENCE 1507–1539
Alias Wardboys (surrendered the Abbey)
Aednoth First Abbot 993-1008
After the death of Ailwyn, who in is life time took the place of the Abbot as Patron and guardian, Archbishop Alphege brought the Monks together and urged them to choose one from their own Abbey to be their new head.
They chose Aednoth Junior a man of great skills in the rule of St Oswald. The Archbishop presented Aednoth to King Ethelred, and he approving, Aednoth was ordained the first Abbot of the Abbey Church of Ramsey.
In the 9th year of Aednoth’s Abbacy a much prized relic was obtained for the Abbey Church, the supposed remains of the Persian Archbishop St Ivo. The Saints body was found at Slepe, ( now St Ives from the above St Ivo ). Slepe had been given to Ramsey Monastery in the reign of King Edgar, by a noble Saxon Ethelstan Manvesune.
After 16 years as Abbot he was elected to be Bishop of Dorchester. This See , had it’s seat at Dorchester in Oxfordshire, which was once included in the Diocese of Lincoln. It extended over Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire, and so Ramsey and Ely were in its jurisdiction.
Aednoth after being 22 years Prior of Ramsey, 16 as Abbot, and 8 as Bishop of Dorchester died on the field of battle at Essenden(Assington ? in Essex). In the reign of Edmund Ironside ( 1016-1017 ) many battles were fought by the English against the invading Danes under Canute. As was the custom, some English clergy would go with the army in order to pray for victory.
Bishop Aednoth, Wulsi- his successor in the Abbey of Ramsey-and other acclesiastics were present with Edmund Ironside at a battle near Essenden ( Assington or Ashdown, in Essex ), and were slain.
At the same time Aylward, son of Duke Ailwyn, was also Killed. The bodies of Aylward and Wulsi were removed from the battle-field and were buried at Ramsey. ( R.H.lxxii )
The body of Bishop Aednoth was also removed, so that it might be buried at Ramsey, where he had spent so many years of his life. On the way back to Ramsey the men accompanying the body stayed for the night at Ely, during the night the body of Bishop Aednoth was removed by the Monks of Ely to a secret place. In the morning the men from Ramsey could not find it. The Ely Monks said that a heavenly light had shone over Aednoth’s remains in the night, and that this was a sign he was to buried in Ely.
According to the Ramsey Chronicler, those from Ramsey being the weaker party, decided to depart quietly.
It was common practice for Abbeys to acquire relics, anyway they could, as the more holy thing they possessed the greater their fame would be.
Wulsi Second Abbot 1008 – 1016
This Abbot was elected 1008 and killed also at the battle of Essenden (Assington ? in Essex) with Bishop Aednoth in 1016.
The Ramsey Chronicler tells us a story about Wulsi saying that due to him being either stingy or afraid of a certain Earl Brithnoth of the East Angles, who had been passing Ramsey to fight the Danes. Excused himself and the Abbey from receiving the Earl and all of his men as guests, with the excuse that they did not have enough food for so many people. Although Wulsi did say that the Earl and several of his men were welcome to join them for food.
Brithnoth was angry about this and went on with his men to Ely where he and his men where well looked after by the Monks. In gratitude the Earl gave the Monks at Ely estates that he had before set aside for the Abbey of Ramsey.
Nevertheless Wulsi bestowed many Manors on the Church of Ramsey, and was buried by the corner of the High Altar. He ruled for 8 years.
Third Abbot Wythman 1016 – 1020
Wythman became the third Abbot in 1016, and in his time the crown was transferred from the English to the Danes ( from Ethelred, after his death, to Cnut , who was chosen by the English)
Wythman was Abbot for 3 years, in the fourth year he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, on his return he found that Ethelstan had been elected President. Ethelstan would have resigned, but Wythman instead chose to lead a rather solitary life at Northeye, where he lived for 26 years.
*Wythman gave to the Abbey Ringstede (in Norfolk) with all appurtenances and wrecks. Also at the request of Oswald, a monk living with him, and nephew to St Oswald, he gave Windebodsham (Wimbotsham) with a hundred and a half, and 60 soc men, and the market of Soham, with all it’s liberties. This donation was made in the year 1047. *Stevens Monasticon
Ethelstan Fourth Abbot 1020 – 1043
Ethelstan the fourth Abbot, who was President during Wythmans absence, was made Abbot in 1020. He was Abbot for 23 years, until he was killed by an Irish servant in 1043. This servant whom, he had rescued from beggary, and looked after for several years, for some unknown reason stabbed the Abbot through the bowels on the day of St Michael at evening service. It took until the next day for the Abbot to die, not before praying for the pardon of his murderer.
Alfwin Fifth Abbot 1043 – 1080
Alfwin became the fifth Abbot in 1043, was Abbot for 36 years, and in his time William the Conqueror came into England. In the same year died Aielward the Golden Bishop. (Stevens)
According to the (Ramsey History) Alfwin was Abbot for 38 years and not 36, as above.
In Alfwin’s time Alfward , a former monk of Ramsey, who was then Abbot of Evesham and Bishop of London holding the two offices at the same time, became a leper. He resigned is offices and wanted to retire to Evesham, but the monks of Evesham would not receive him. Instead he was accepted at his old Abbey Ramsey, and brought with him precious gifts. Namely the Cheek bone of St Egwin, and the Cowl of the Holy Martyr St Alphege. (Ramsey History)
During Alfwin’s Abbacy Edward the Confessor, instigated by Oswald nephew to Archbishop Oswald and Wythman the Hermit , granted considerable estates and extraordinary privileges to the Abbey. These were confirmed by different charters. (R H )
Edward also became a party to an agreement between the Abbot of Ramsey and Abbot of Burgh (Peterborough) in regard to the exchange of lands; to bounds and limits of King’s-delf; also the right to Ramsey Abbey to dig stone both ‘squared and broken’ at the quarries of Barnack. For this privilege the Abbey had to give the Monks of Peterborough ‘four thousand eels yearly in Lent’ ( R H )
Alsi (Ailsius ?) Sixth Abbot 1080 – 1087
Alsi succeeded as sixth Abbot in 1080 and held the office for 7 years. At the time of his appointment to Ramsey he was Abbot of St Augustine’s ( it’s presumed to be St Augustine’s, Canterbury )
Herbert de Losinga Seventh Abbot 1087 – 1091
Herbert de Losinga the seventh Abbot was chosen in 1087, 4 years afterwards he was made Bishop of Thetford.
Herbert was born from a good county family in Suffolk in about 1050, and took his name Losinga from the part of the country (Normandy) where his father had property, he received his early education at Fe’camp. Where he became a professed Monk, and later a Prior. He was proferred by William Rufus to the Abbacy of the mitred Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey.
Herbert in 1091 seems to have procured for himself the See of Thetford, and his father the Abbacy of Hyde Abbey in Winchester for a sum of £1900! His conscience for this kind of Simony made him go to Rome without the King’s permission, and try to resign. Lucky for him the Pope would not listen and sent him home, and allowed him to change the See to Norwich, which he did in 1094. After two years he laid the first stone of his Cathedral there.
In 1104, he instituted Cluniac Monks at Thetford. In 1106 he built the Benedictine Monastery at Norwich on the south and sunny side of his church, and also attended the grand ceremonial of the second translation of the body of S.Etheldreda at Ely.
In 1107 he was chosen ambassador to Rome with two others, in order to come to some understanding with the Pontiff about lay investitures, and to gain an acknowledgement of his own Episcopal rights over S.Edmund’s Bury Abbey.He failed on both accounts.
His last recorded appearance in public was his following Queen Matilda to her grave. On July 22nd 1119 he died and was laid before the high altar of his Cathedral in a sarcophagus, which its said was probably removed by the Puritans.
He was a prodigous writer and left fourteen sermons, a treatise on the length of the ages, and the end of the world; a book on Monastic constitutions; letters; and an address to Anselm. He also left besides his own, five churches-two in Norwich, one at North Elmham, one at Lynn, and one at Yarmouth. The last two still remain.
Aldwin Eighth Abbot 1091 – 1102 – 1107 – 1111
Aldwin was promoted to Abbot in 1091, he made the Assize at Ramsey, held the Abbacy for eleven years, and was then deposed (Malmesbury says for Simony) in a council by St Anselm. Although (Malmesbury and Cotton MSS. say by Lanfranc) The Archbishop of Canterbury, with Richard Abbot of Ely, and Godrick of Peterborough were also in the council, Aldwin was deposed for five years.
In this time Bernard a Monk of St Albans was made Abbot by the King, but after five years Aldwin regained the Abbacy, and held it for four years before dying. The Abbacy was then vacant for more than a year.
He was the last English Abbot.
Bernard Ninth Abbot 1102 – 1107
Bernard a monk of St Albans, held the Abbacy during the five years Aldwin was deposed, and then died. Upon his death Aldwin was restored as above stated.
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Reginald Tenth Abbot 1114 – 1133
Reginald succeeded in 1114, and after two years began to build a new Church, into which the convent went after seven years (1123). He was Abbot for sixteen years, and then died. He was said to be “a clever but intemperate man”
Walter Eleventh Abbot 1133 – 1161
Walter was made the eleventh Abbot in 1133, and was Abbot for twenty-seven years. After ten years of his Abbacy he and the Monks of Ramsey were expelled by the notorious Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who turned the Abbey into a garrison for his soldiers until he was killed at Burwell by the King’s troops. Henry of Huntingdon claimed that blood oozed from the walls of the Church as God showed his anger at what the Earl had done! A Cottonian MS, says that Walter sustained much oppression in the time of William de Lay and Geoffrey de Mandeville.
William Twelfth Abbot 1161 – 1178
William succeeded in 1161, he was made Abbot of Ramsey by the interest of Thomas a Becket. William ruled the Abbey of Ramsey sixteen years, and was then chosen as Abbot of Cluny. The following year (1178) he left Ramsey, and the Ramsey Abbacy was vacant for two years.
Robert Trionell Thirteenth Abbot 1180 – 1200
Robert was chosen in 1180, he was Prior of St Andrew’s at Northampton. In his time, Ralph Prior of Ramsey, was made Abbot of St Benedict of Holme.
Also in his time, in 1192, the bones of St Felix, Ethelred, and Ethelbright were placed in shrines at Ramsey. Robert was Abbot for twenty years.
Eudo Fourteenth Abbot 1200 – 1202
Eudo was Prior of Peterborough, before becoming Abbot of Ramsey in 1200, unfortunately he lived only one year. That same year Acarius, Prior of St Albans, was made Abbot of Peterborough, and St Hugh Bishop of Lincoln died.
Robert de Reading Fifteenth Abbot 1202 – 1207
Robert de Reading, or Robert Abbot of Reading, as he is called in the Cottonian MSS, was elected to the chair at Ramsey in 1202. By the procurement of John de Grey, Chancellor of England, afterwards Bishop of Norwich. Robert was Abbot for five years, and then resigned his Pastoral Staff into the hands of William of Lincoln and received for his maintenance the Manor of Cranfield. In his time the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed three monks to be receivers of all the revenues of the Monastery, and from this year the Monastery continued for seven years without an Abbot. The year after Roberts abdication the Priory Church of St Ives was burnt with all it’s offices AD 1207?
Robert died at Reading, and King John held the Abbacy in his own hands for seven years, because the Monks of Ramsey would not choose the Prior of Fronton as their Abbot.
Richard de Selby Sixteenth Abbot 1214 – 1216
Richard de Selby was the Abbot of Selby, and was elected to be Abbot of Ramsey in 1214, by Nicholas Bishop of Tusculam, Cardinal and Legate. In this same year the Legate took off the inderdict in England.
An interdict is an ecclesiastical censure by which the Pope of Rome forbids the administration of the Sacraments, and the celebration of any religious services or offices in a Kingdom, Province, Town. It is a wholesale major excommunication. In the same year the said Legate deposed the Abbots of Westminster, Evesham, and Bardeney. In the following year the Church of Ramsey was robbed of much of it’s wealth. Richard lived two years.
Hugh Foliot Seventeenth Abbot 1216 – 1231
Hugh Foliot Prior of Ramsey, was made Abbot in 1216, and lived fourteen years. He received his benediction from the Bishop of Bath. The Royal assent was given to his election on June the 14th.
In his time 1218, Silvester, formerly a Monk, afterwards a Bishop of Worcester, died at Ramsey, and his bowels were buried before the high altar of the blessed Virgin, but is body was carried to Worcester.
Ranulf (Ralf) Eighteenth Abbot 1231 – 1253
Ranulf Prior of Ramsey was chosen Abbot in 1231. The Royal assent was given to his election on the 22nd July.
Three years after, King Henry III visited Ramsey, the first King of England to do so. He arrived on the feast of St Matthias, and remained for four days.
In Ranulf’s sixth year the Church of St Ives was dedicated, and in the eighth year he was made a Justice of Norwich. He was Abbot of Ramsey for 22 years.
A statement of the revenues arising from the lands of the Abbey during this time is given in the Cottonian MS., Galba E.x. fol.10 p.
According to Matthew Paris in this Abbots time , the Abbey Church received a new dedication in 1238 AD.
William de Akolt Nineteenth Abbot 1253 – 1254
William de Akolt was elected in 1253, he received the Royal assent on October 10th, 1253, and was blessed by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. He lived as Abbot for one year.
In the time of this Abbot a dispute began with the King ( Henry III ) respecting the fair of St Ives. The free possession of the Fair, according to the Charters of the Abbey, was not recovered for near six years. The controversy is told by Matthew Paris.
Upon the death of William de Akolt on the 16th November 1254, the custody of the Abbey seems to have been committed to the Abbot of Pershore and Henry de Malo Lacu.
Hugh de Sulgrave ( Solegrave ) Twentieth Abbot 1254 – 1267
Hugh de Sulgrave was elected, according to the Exchequer Register in 1254. The Royal assent was given to his election on January 1st.
The next year, Master William of Kilkenny, the King’s Chancellor, was elected Bishop of Ely, who having obtained the episcopal dignity, very much oppressed the Church of Ramsey. The same year the Pope granted King Henry a tenth of all ecclesiastical revenues from all the Clergy, and the Monasteries of England were obliged to this payment. In the court of Rome the Bishop of Hereford fined Ramsey 624 marks.
In the fourth year of this Abbot, William Brito, the kings Justice, made a Goal-delivery of Ramsey at Winebodesham (Wimbotsham) in the Hundred of Clacclose, of many robbers taken within and outside of the Abbott’s Liberty.
Abbot Hugh began the Refectory, made St Ivo’s Shrine, and a Silver-gilt table for the High Altar. He also purchased Gravenhurst, and aquired many other land tenements and buildings.
He ruled the Abbey for thirteen and a half years and died.
This abbot Hugh and the Bishop of Ely had several disputes about the boundaries of their Fen-land, which not settled until about 1256.
Matthew Paris tells us ” In the year of 1256, William the Bishop of Ely, and Hugh Abbot of Ramsey, came to an agreement over the boundaries of their Fen-land.
William de Gurmecestre Twenty-first Abbot 1267-1285
William de Gurmecestre was chosen, and confirmed by the Legate Ottobormes, in the year 1267.
He purchased from Berengarius le Moyne, the Manors of Bernewell, Hemington, Conthorpe, and Littlethorpe, with the advowson of the Church of St Andrew Bernewell, in 1276.
The good deeds of this Abbot are chronicled at great length in a Cottonian MS, and also by Dugdale.
In 1276 the Abbey first used the new Refectory ( no mention is made of when it had been started ), in the following year William built a costly Conduit, and a new Cistern in the-court a noble reservoir for the water. He built also a new Abbot’s Hall, and placed a gate in the west side of the court. He made an image for the tomb of Count Ailwyn, founder of Ramsey Abbey, of the clearest brass, subtle in workmanship, very costly and splendid in guilding. Willliam was Abbot for eighteen years, and in the nineteenth was struck with the palsey, for which reason he resigned his pastoral staff, and voluntarily quitted his office; after which he lived a year and two months and then died.
From the Cottonian MSS, Galba E. x, Dugdale quotes a list of about ninety officers and servants of the Abbey in the time of William de Gurmecestre; fifteen paupers were also on the list of retainers. The wages of the officers and the servants were paid partly in money, partly in bread or flour, and partly by allotments of land. Of the money payments some were made directly by the Abbot, or from funds under his control, and others by the cellarer.
The list of officers and servants includes a Chaplain (this is possibly the Chaplain of the Parish Church, whose payment is referred to in many schedules of accounts of the time ) porters, stewards and bailiff, gatekeepers, attendants in the Church and in the infirmary, washerwomen of the Church and Abbey, cooks for the Monks and Abbots’ Hall, keeper of the Cellar, woodmen, herdsmen, millers, brewers, fishermen, carpenters, masons, tailors, gardeners, ploughmen.
The Abbey also required services, for the privilege of living and working on the land owned by the Abbey, this was all tied up with the Monastic Administration.
John de Sautre ( Sawtry ) Twenty-second Abbot 1285 – 1316
John of Sawtry was made Abbot in 1285, and according to the Exchequer Register, paid 2000 marks fine for the custody of his house during it’s vacancy? King Edward II had extorted from him, the one half of all the revenues of the Abbey according to the valuation.
In 1309 Isabella de Valois, Queen of England, and daughter of the King of France, stayed eighteen days at Ramsey Abbey, to the great expense of the Abbot.
“The King (Edward III) accompanied by his mother (Isabella), his brother, and his two sisters, had already set out for the North when he issued a proclamation :–‘ All the forces of his kingdom should meet him at Newcastle-on-Tyne, to commence his wars with Scotland ‘ ; it was dated from Ramsey, a village ten miles from Huntingdon” Longman’s Life and Times of Edward 111, vol. 1, p,10
The above took place in 1327, but the R.H. gives us 1309 as the date of Isabella’s eighteen days stay at Ramsey. She may have made two visits ?
Abbot John acquired lands and tenements for the Abbey, out of which he assigned Ten Pounds to the Convent for hose and shoes. It was during his Abbacy, around 1310, that John was given, by his cellarer William of Grafham the gift of the wonderful Ramsey Psalter. He lived thirty years, and was blind for six before his death, but did not resign.
Simon de Eye Twenty-third Abbot 1316 – 1342
The twenty-third Abbot Simon de Eye, professor of Cannon Law, received the Royal assent to his election on December 19th 1316. He received the Bishop of Lincoln’s confirmation on the 19th of January following.
Costly Royal visits continued when the Queen Isabella of France and Princess Eleanor her Daughter stayed at the Abbey for two days in 1330 and the King, Edward III, Queen Isabella and their entire household visited for four days in 1334.
Simon purchased land for the Monastery in Hauker, or Howker , and contributed to the new work of the Church, which he is said to have begun ( “who new-built the eastern part of the Church ,”according to Brayley, p . 524), and acquired much more in his time.
He governed the Abbey 26 years and then died. He was buried in the new building on the left side of the high altar.
Robert de Nassington Twenty fourth Abbot 1342 – 1349
Robert de Nassington was elected, and to him the temporalities of the Monastery were restored January 22nd 1342. He did many wonderful things in his life; he was Abbot for six and a half years, and died in 1349, in the time of the Plague. He was buried in the new building on the right side of the altar.
Richard de Shenington Twenty-fifth Abbot 1349 – 1379
Richard Shenington, or Shenynton, to whom the temporalities were restored August 21st 1349, in the time of the Plague, is stated to have been burdened with his predecessor’s debts to the amount of 2500 marks, beside the ordinary charges at the time of his creation.
He was elected on the day after the feast of St Mary of Magdalen, and blessed on St Bartholomew’s Day 1349.
His death was announced to the King ( Richard II ), November 11th 1379
Edmund de Ellington Twenty-sixth Abbot 1379 – 1396
Edmund de Ellington the Twenty sixth Abbot, received the Royal assent to his election on the 28th November 1379. Of this Abbott there are few details.
He died September 18th 1396.
Thomas Butterwick Twenty-seventh Abbot 1396 – 1419
Thomas Butterwick was the Twenty-seventh Abbot. According to the Exchequer Register, he began his Abbacy in 1400, but the entry on the Patent Rolls states that the temporalities of the Monastery were restored to him on November 2nd 1396.
His confirmation is also noticed in the registers of that diocese, as having been given on the eve of St Simon and St Jude.
He died in the beginning of his 24th year, about the feast of All Saints. There seems to be some doubt as to the date of his death, we are given it as in the 24th year of his rule; but the next Abbott is said to have been elected in 1419 !
John Tychmerch Twenty-eighth Abbot 1419 – 1434
John Tychmerch the Twenty-eighth Abbot was elected in the month of October to the Abbacy, was confirmed as Abbott on the 8th November 1419. He died on the vigil of the Assumption 1434.
He was a noble father, who repaired that which was decayed, and erected new Buildings.
John Crowland Twenty-ninth Abbot 1434 – 1436
John Crowland ( or Croyland ) was elected Abbot August 27th 1434. He received the Bishop of Lincoln’s confirmation October 3rd following; after which he lived for a year and a half , and died on 13th April 1436.
John Stowe Thirtieth Abbot 1436 – 1468
John Stowe the Thirtieth Abbot was elected on the 4th April 1436. By his industrious work, a licence was obtained from King Edward IV, for the purchase of the Manor of Le Moyne, with it’s appurtenances in Raveley and Sautre ( Sawtry )
Having governed the Monastery 32 years, and being disabled by age and weakness, he resigned his pastoral staff.
He lived three years after, when he died, and was buried before the altar of St John the Baptist, on the north side of the Church.
( The names of the Abbotts following are taken from Mr Willis (( Hist. Mit. Abb. page 156 )) where he makes this John Stowe the 31st Abbott, which is brought about by his reckoning Aldwin twice. Because Aldwin had been once deposed, and again restored. Whereas he was only mentioned once in Stevens Monasticon)
William Wittelsey Thirty-first Abbot 1468 – 1473
William Wittlesey or ( Whytlesey ) was made Abbot October 19th 1468, he ruled four years.
John Wardeboys Thirty-second Abbot 1473 – 1489
Nothing known about this Abbot.
John Huntingdon Thirty-third Abbot 1488 – 1506
John Huntingdon was elected 1488, the temporalities of the Monastery were restored to him July 26th.
Henry Stewekly Thirty-fourth Abbot 1506 – 1507
Henry Stewekly or ( Stukeley ) had the temporalities restored to him April 16th 1506. He governed for one year.
John Lawrence Thirty-fifth and last Abbot 1507 – 1539
John Lawrence alias Wardeboys received the temporalities 1507 or 1508, he was born in Warboys Huntingdonshire. Wood informs us that in 1519 he, being then Abbot of Ramsey, supplicated at Oxford for the degree of B.D.
John Lawrence continued as Abbot until the Dissolution in 1539. He was very forward in procuring not only his own Abbey to be surrendered to the King’s use, but influenced others to submit, for which wicked service he obtained a large pension of £266 13s 6d per Annum. He also aquired Bodsey House.
Visits to the Abbey in 1535 and 1536 by Thomas Bedyll, one of King Henry VIII’s Commissioners under his vicar General, Thomas Cromwell. He was shown charters of Kings Edgar and Edward the Confessor exempting the Abbot and his monks from the power of all Bishops and making them subject to the King. In consequence “the Bishop of Rome had nothing to do with them!” This is probably why he was able to report to Cromwell that the Abbot and his brethren were well content to accept the King as supreme head of the Church in England. Similarly Sir Richard Cromwell could tell his uncle, Thomas that the Abbot and his men were agreeable to everything, which the Commissioners willed to be done.
The Abbey held these Charters from King Edgar and Edward the Confessor exempting it from the power of all Bishops, which included the Bishop of Rome, and making it subject only to the King. In consequence the Abbot and his convent had no difficulty in accepting King Henry VIII as the supreme head of the Church in England, and being agreeable to all the wishes of the King’s Commissioners. Indeed before their arrival, the Abbot had King Edgars charter read from the pulpit in support of Henry’s claim to supremacy.
Abbot John was so well regarded by King Henry, that he was desired to assist at the Funeral of Queen Jane (Seymour) in 1537.
All the Abbey’s compliance was of no use when, in 1539, passed an act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries. The Abbot was awarded an annual pension of £266 13s 6d, and Bodsey House. His brethren received smaller pensions.
In his will John Lawrence instructed his executors to pay £13. 6s . 8d towards the building of a steeple for the Parish Church of Ramsey “which the Town will build”
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The Caregiver’s Role in Recovery
Heart patients count on medical experts, nurses, and rehabilitation staff to be with us on our journey to heart health. Often our friends and family are with us too—listening to our diagnoses, reviewing test results, waiting for us after surgery, picking up medications, and doing so much more. Caregivers help us cope with new or evolving health issues and get well. This section covers ways that caregivers can stay strong, healthy, and positive throughout this journey.
Heart disease is no doubt unfamiliar territory for many caregivers. This HeartGuide will help you, as a caregiver, get familiar with this new world and what your loved ones can expect before and after treatment. As a partner with the patient and medical staff, you can listen and learn alongside your loved one as they go through this process.
Acknowledge Your Experiences
Caregivers to heart patients may be affected physically and emotionally by this experience. It’s frightening when a loved one gets this diagnosis. And suddenly being around machines and health professionals in a busy medical setting can be stressful.
All of this can create feelings of anxiety and depression or resentment at the disruption to your life. You may at times feel guilty, thinking you are somehow responsible for your loved one’s heart condition.
We’ve experienced these issues too and gotten past them with time and support. If you think counseling would alleviate any of these feelings, ask your health team for a referral. Ask questions. Don’t go it alone.
We can become overprotective of loved ones in heart recovery. Our mission becomes protecting them from further harm. These sentiments are also normal, but can cause feelings of anger, frustration, and worthlessness if the patient cannot live up to our expectations. So try to understand the recovery process and be there for support, but don’t overdo it. Balance your love and support with a willingness to step back and let your family member chart his or her own course to heart health.
Know that You Can Make a Difference
After treatment, every heart patient receives recovery information about diet, exercise, medication, and activities. One essential role is to sift through that information so that instructions are understood and followed.
Part of this process is having an honest conversation about changes in responsibilities and roles in your household regarding budgets, chores, child care, and other tasks. Together, talking about solutions to potential problems can help you manage well as a family.
Every family has its own way of handling a heart diagnosis and the recovery process. Each family has its own support system. For many, it helps to think positively and not assume or assign blame for anyone’s heart condition. If possible, accompany the patient during health care office visits—together, you will learn and hear more. Write down your questions in advance. If you plan well and look forward to the future with confidence, you’ll get through it, together.
10 Tips for Effective Caregiving
- Talk to other caregivers at a Mended Hearts support meeting.
- Stay healthy.
- Accept offers of help and suggest ways people can help you.
- Start a journal and write down questions for your health care team.
- Take breaks.
- Watch for signs of depression.
- Be open to using technology to help you care for your loved one.
- Organize care documents.
- Get legal documents in order.
- Thank yourself for doing a challenging job well.
From the Caregiver Action Network at www.caregiveraction.org/resources/ten-tips.
Be Involved: Questions for Your Health Care Team About Caregiving
- What are the most important things I can do to support my loved one’s recovery?
- What should I expect to happen in the weeks and months ahead?
- What appointments will need to be scheduled?
- What if I become stressed out or lost? What support is available to me?
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On Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced several updates to the company’s content moderation policies, including changes meant to promote authoritative voting information and defuse concerns about how it exempts “newsworthy” politicians from moderation. The announcements come in response to public outcry over Facebook’s refusal to moderate recent posts by President Trump, including posts that threatened violence against Black Lives Matter protesters and spread unsubstantiated claims undermining mail-in voting. From civil rights leaders to the company’s own employees, Facebook has faced significant backlash to this policy of inaction. A growing advertiser boycott, led by the #StopHateForProfit campaign, is putting financial pressure on the company.
Facebook is clearly feeling the mounting pressure and felt the need to respond publicly—but this response continues to dodge responsibility for the company’s part in destabilizing democracy. Incremental policy changes and voter information campaigns are not enough to address problems rooted in Facebook’s platform design and business strategy. Facebook needs to do more—and lawmakers must be ready to hold it to account.
The recent announcements fail to address several major concerns:
1. Inconsistent moderation of politicians: Zuckerberg claims that content that incites violence or spreads false information about voting processes is against Facebook’s policies and will be removed regardless of who it comes from—yet when President Trump called for violence against protestors and spread false information about voting by mail, the company chose to do nothing, arguing that its policies did not apply. In other cases, Facebook has removed advertising by the president’s re-election campaign, such as when it spread misleading information about the Census, or, more recently, used Nazi iconography—but only after pressure from reporters and civil rights groups; the company approved the ads to run in the first place. The gaps and glaring inconsistencies in the design and enforcement of its moderation policies demonstrate that Facebook is more concerned with avoiding political reprisal than with protecting democratic expression.
Saying that it will now label problematic content from “newsworthy” political figures (instead of leaving it up unchecked) is not enough. Facebook must consistently enforce its moderation policies, including against politicians. And it must update its policies to reflect that spreading false information about voting by mail and threatening violence against protestors are part of a long tradition of anti-democratic political suppression that should not be given a platform.
2. Invasive microtargeting of political ads: Facebook recently announced that it would allow users to opt out of seeing political ads, blatantly dodging systemic problems with how it allows advertisers to target political communications. Microtargeting enables advertisers to target divisive and harmful messaging to narrow groups of users, or even individuals, including those from marginalized communities. Facebook’s opaque ad delivery system compounds this by serving ads in potentially discriminatory ways. The company’s supposed transparency tools for political advertising offer little insight into who is being targeted or how.
Instead of shifting the burden onto users, Facebook should limit the ways it allows political messaging to be targeted. In addition, it should provide transparency for how political ads are targeted and who they reach, both on the ads themselves and in its Ad Archive.
3. Disinformation spread by Facebook Groups: Last year, Mark Zuckerberg released a new privacy-focused vision for the platform, leading it to increasingly promote Facebook Groups. However, researchers have found that Facebook Groups are hotbeds for disinformation and offer little information about who is behind them. While the company occasionally bans Groups advocating violence, it has not done nearly enough to address the ways its own design promotes such activity.
Facebook needs to increase transparency and moderation of Groups. Users need to know who is behind each Group. Facebook must more proactively deplatform Groups that are large-scale spreaders of dangerous disinformation and users who are coordinating to spread disinformation across Groups. Beyond that, the platform must consider how its algorithm promotes Groups and Pages to users, which runs the risk of funneling them into increasingly extreme communities.
Facebook is able to affect political participation at a massive scale—and right now, it does so without meaningful public accountability. Instead of falling for political theater, we must call on Facebook to address the systemic problems it has given a platform to. Beyond that, we must demand that lawmakers enact rules and standards to hold it, and other major social media platforms, to account. | <urn:uuid:f7f358cc-437f-464e-a624-5bf9bbc1aee1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maplightarchive.org/story/facebook-must-stop-dodging-responsibility-for-its-role-in-destabilizing-democracy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94497 | 885 | 2.03125 | 2 |
CLEARLAKE SAMPLING MISSION 2020
In the summer of 2020, Aravind Kumaraguru and Christopher Denniston from the Robotic Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Southern California performed a sampling mission as part of a larger team with David A. Caron's lab.
This sampling mission used both a drone with a hyperspectral camera and an underwater autonomous vehicle. Christopher and Aravind were responsible for flying and operating the drone while testing out a system for orthomosaicing over water as well as collecting multi-day data for biological uses. YSI provided and operated the autonomous underwater vehicle in coordination with both teams.
This mission was done over one week with multiple flights being done at dawn and dusk.
The hardware used was a DJI Matrice 200 and a Senterra Quad hyperspectral sensor.
The data collected has been used in the following publications:
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There has been much touting over the past few weeks of this weekend's event at the national archives, le forum national de généalogie or Géné@2010, as the organiser, the Fédération Française de Généalogie (FFG) named it. Ads were on the back of every genealogy magazine for the past two months, French bloggers on genealogy all have given it a mention. We dared not miss it and so, on a prematurely chilly Saturday morning, we rode three different métro lines to get to the big event. As can be seen in the photo above, the courtyard of the Hôtel de Soubise, which backs on to the archives, is a balanced and beautiful place to be, no matter what the event or how unpleasant the weather.
The forum was really more of a fair, a gathering of almost all of the genealogy circles of France. There were no talks, seminars, free cheese or cocktail parties. Each circle had a table, a computer, leaflets and enthusiasts. Each was offering to do free searches of their databases of birth, marriage and death data which their volunteers have painstakingly extracted from parish and civil registrations in their departments. Each table had people lining up for the service and help that the generally jolly volunteers provided so willingly.
Additionally, tables were in place for La Librairie de la Voûte, selling books and magazines, and for Bigenet, the online database of the FFG. The staff of the national archives took full advantage of a weekend posse of dedicated customers. They offered tours and detailed explanations of how to access their collections. Some took the opportunity to ask people to sign a petition to prevent the plan of President Sarkozy to use archives space for a museum of French history. (No space, they claim, rightly.)
However, the high point of the day for us was the opportunity to meet for the first time with the illustrious genealogist and supportive reader of this blog, Monsieur C. He gave us much of his valuable time. We may have learned more about French genealogy during our conversation with him over lunch at La Terrasse des Archives than from all the circles' tables that day.
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The medium of spread betting works entirely differently from most other trading styles, and has a number of innovative and unique quirks that set it apart from more conventional instruments, this guide is design to help you to get your head around spread betting. Financial spread betting is not so much an investment as a speculation, calling a particular direction in the movement of a market to profit directly from the broker.
When a trader invests in the stock market, he buys shares in one or a number of listed companies, having reasoned that external market factors combined with business strategy are likely to lead to an increase in value over time. This increase in value, combined with an ongoing dividend to reflect the trader’s share of the company’s ownership is where the money in stocks and shares is to be made, and the security of a tangible, valuable asset in the form of a share is sufficient to slim down the risk profile.
Spread betting (UK trading instrument), on the other hand, operates on an entirely different principle. While to think of spread betting as gambling isn’t always helpful, it is perhaps a valuable lens through which to analyse the theoretical structure of what spread betting is and how it works. With spread betting, the transaction being entered into when you trade on a company’s shares is not a share transaction. There is no transaction per se, and no change of ownership of any tangible asset – simply an agreement between trader and broker to enter into a wager on set terms, based on the outcome of some underlying market.
As such, spread betting can be equally deployed as a mechanism for speculating on sports, political outcomes, TV or just about anything that can be measured – for the operation of the model, there is no need for anything financial or economic, nor even for anything predictable or controllable. Financial spread betting is a popular sub-niche of the wider spread betting industry because the markets can be studied and reasoned logically, and while this isn’t a pre-requisite for successful trading, it is the condition that sets financial spread trading aside as more akin to a trading (as opposed to gambling) activity.
Financial Spread Betting At A Glance
The wager is thus: the trader will ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ a market depending on whether he thinks the market will move up or down, on the understanding that the broker will pay out on successful calls and will be paid to an equal extent on failed positions, to varying extents depending on how heavily the market moves over the lifetime of the trade. This taps in to an important, often fatal element of human psychology – the temptation to weather rough times in the hope of a future improvement. With spread betting, both profits and losses are uncapped, meaning traders will have to decide when best to accept either a profit or a loss.
Bets are offered on a variety of markets and indices, which are used merely as a raw numerical basis for the wager. If the market rises beyond the price at which the trader ‘bought’ the position, the trader wins – end of story. It is this simplicity in part which makes spread betting such an attractive trading opportunity.
Markets are quoted by the broker on the basis of spreads, which indicate the range through which the underlying market or index might be expected to move over the course of the day. All things being equal, spreads would be centred around the current market price with a point in either direction built in to account for the broker’s commission. However, with dynamic quoting which changes spreads as markets unfold and built in weighting to reflect the probability of outcomes, it can often be quite difficult for traders to call the market correctly, and to squeeze a sufficient profit from their trading.
Spread Betting Concept
Financial spread betting might seem easy in concept, it is a notoriously difficult art to master, and one which requires both an intimate understanding of how transactions work, the function of markets and the tools in the arsenal to help traders respond to different situations. While there is no substitute for raw experience, having the knowledge and understanding of your instrument of choice is the first positive step towards becoming a profitable trader with long term prospects.
As distinct from regular share trading, spread betting has a number of key benefits, and offers consistent advantages over share dealing in terms of the sheer flexibility and the swift, sharp nature of returns that can be delivered. But it’s wise to remember that while it is popular, it remains a sub-niche of the overall trading industry, and many traders and investors of all sizes are unprepared or simply unable to accept the risks and the downsides it can bring.
Leverage in Financial Spread Betting
Leverage plays a key role, making transactions both significantly more profitable and significantly more risky, and the burden of leverage is not one to be accepted lightly. In spread betting, unlike other forms of trading, leverage is inevitable and unavoidable. However, by taking care to ensure you understand the full implications of each transaction, and by identifying and managing the risks of each trade, it is possible to overcome the hurdles of leverage, and to apply it to your advantage.
Markets are the engine of spread bets and all financial trading, and provide the basis for placing trades. The manner in which they behave and respond to certain changes provides the volatility necessary for financial spread trading to succeed, and by understanding their inner workings, traders can come a couple of steps closer to realising their potential. Similarly, orders remain the core tools of spread bettors, implementing their instructions and delivering the flexibility necessary to guard against unwarranted risks and execute automatic trading decisions conditional on market behaviours. By understanding the way in which markets and orders interact, and the specifics of each order type, we can start to build up a picture of how the tools of the trade can be used to protect capital, maximise profits and lower the risk profile on this otherwise highly risky trading style.
Financial spread betting can be an exciting, fast-moving form of trading, and allows ordinary people from all walks of life to access the markets with very low barriers to entry. That said, the markets take no prisoners, and only by being proactive in your research, planning and strategy efforts can you give yourself the best shot at generating a consistent, aggregate profit from your trading activity.
Making a Spread Bet
When making a financial spread bet, a trader will decide on a certain amount of money to risk. For example, say you want to bet £10 per point on a certain financial product because you think it will rise in value. If you’re right and the product increases its value by 20 points, you will make a total of £200 profit. However, while this might seem like the most simple of financial arrangements, it’s important to remember about the spread.
With any type of financial trade, you have to pay in order to play. Because the cost of the spread is factored into any trade, the broker is always at an advantage. Because the ask price is always above the current market price and the bid price is always below, traders have to pay the difference before they even enter the market. For this reason, even with an equal risk/reward scenario, you still need more than 50 percent of your trades to be successful in order to break even.
The current spread is based on a number of factors, including the current spot or futures rate, current market liquidity, the bet size, and spreads quoted by competing brokers. For anyone engaging in financial spread betting, it’s vital to pay attention to the spread and take it into account when setting up take profit and stop loss levels. At the end of the day, the size of the spread is set by the company you choose to trade with. While the house always makes money, it makes sense to research first in order to find a competitive broker with low spreads.
Simplified Spread Betting Example
To offer a more detailed example, if the FTSE 100 stands at 7000, the provider may offer you a bid price of 6999 and an offer price of 7001. If you are still dealing £10 per point on a long trade, you will only gain the above mentioned £200 after the index has risen to 7021. If the trade goes against you and sinks to 6979, you will lose £200. However, you pay the spread whether you win or lose, an important point that all traders should never forget.
Margin and Margin Calls
Because trades can quickly go either for or against you, firms require some sort of financial protection in the form of a ‘margin’. Typically around a few percent of the value of the underlying asset (margin can be much lower on popular markets), the margin is used by brokers as a way to ensure there is no risk of real loss. However, waiting for a margin call is a very bad way to trade, with most people setting up stop loss orders to close out trades at specific levels.
Orders and Execution
Normal orders are not 100 percent safe, however, especially when the market is moving so fast that lots of orders are triggered at the same time. Luckily, a number of companies offer guaranteed stop loss orders, where traders pay either a slightly higher spread or an extra fee as a way to insure themselves during times of high volatility. Stop loss orders are just as important as take profit orders, and the ratio between them is a significant part of all successful trading systems.
Spread Betting Pricing
Spread betting companies take ‘bets’, or more appropriately ‘positions’ in markets with dynamic pricing that responds as the market moves. The following illustration of spread betting pricing explains the basics of how spread betting transactions work.
The FTSE100 opens at 6000. Amidst increasingly positive economic indicators and a number of key announcements pending, you conclude that the FTSE will rise on the day, and want to enter into the spread market for it. At the point where the FTSE100 sits at 6000, your broker may quote pricing at 5999-6001. What does this mean?
The prices given reflect the buy and sell prices of the market. As you are looking for a rise in the FTSE, you want to ‘buy’ the market at 6001. This essentially means you are betting that the market will rise beyond 6001, at which point you can start to earn multiples of your stake.
If you believed the market was likely to fall, you would ‘sell’ at 5999. This means you start earning multiples of your stake when the market falls below 5999. The margin in the middle (in this instance 6001 minus 5999 = 2 points) represents the broker’s commission on the trade. This works because the market has to rise an additional couple of points to yield a profit, thus the broker earns a commission on your successful trade before it starts to earn those elusive multiples for you.
Because pricing is dynamic in response to the underlying movements of the market, it pays to be decisive and get in early. If the FTSE in the above example started to rise to 6001, the market would be adjusted accordingly, perhaps to 6000-6002, making it harder for you to squeeze a profit from the market. The sooner you respond, the greater opportunity you will have for making money from the transaction.
Spread betting markets are quoted on all manner of things, and are made up by the broker rather than being a publicly traded market. Because nothing physical is being bought or sold in a spread betting transaction, the market can occur between broker and trader directly, which brings with it accompanying UK tax advantages to trading in the spread markets rather than trading in the underlying markets directly. This, coupled with the leverage inherent in the structure of a spread betting transaction makes like-for-like investments in spread betting far more profitable (and risky) than their direct counterparts.
But aside from the sheer financial benefits of spread betting versus direct investing in the underlying markets concerned, spread betting also opens access to a wide variety of alternative markets, often covering markets and indices that simply can’t be traded directly. This delivers an additional helping of flexibility, which combines to make spread betting a more attractive investment prospect.
Much of the magic with spread betting comes down to managing leverage, researching markets and positions, and trading with a sensible, level head. While there are significant strategy components to profitable trading long-term, knowing what you’re doing and understanding the implications of certain trading decisions is the first and most central stepping stone to protecting your capital and delivering a solid return on investment. | <urn:uuid:b6e866e4-e2dd-474e-a9fc-273ceec71627> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independentinvestor.com/spread-betting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951338 | 2,589 | 1.75 | 2 |
Special counsel Robert Mueller is closely examining President Trump’s business transactions with Russia as part of his ongoing investigation into the Trump Administration’s ties to Vladimir Putin and his government cronies.
The Bloomberg report arrives just one day after The New York Times revealed that Trump believed Mueller would be “crossing a line” if he probed into the Trump Organization’s business dealings with the Russians.
Mueller is the special counsel appointed by the Justice Department to investigate Russian election meddling and collusion among the Trump administration.
The special counsel is specifically probing purchases at Trump properties that were completed by Russian buyers.
“Those transactions are in my view well beyond the mandate of the special counsel,” Trump’s lawyer John Dowd told Bloomberg.
Dowd also noted that any wrongdoing by the Trump Organization would fall “well beyond any Statute of Limitation imposed by the United States Code.” Not the most promising note of innocence.
The Times was also quick to note that the president’s ties to Deutsche Bank were also facing increasing scrutiny. The German bank has loaned the President money in the past and Federal investigators have started to probe that relationship further.
Business regulators are allegedly already perusing the loans from Deutsche Bank to Trump’s businesses.
Trump has threatened to fire Robert Mueller in the past and he may soon follow through on that process.
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Jun 28 2021 a The waste from one process becomes the input for another process b All the processes related to consumption and production produce some kind of waste c There is no real waste in nature d All of the above. Sol d All of the above. 15. Which of the following methods is better for the solid waste problem a Recycling b Landfilling
The amount may be credited to factory overhead control thus reducing the total factory overhead expense and thereby the cost of goods manufactured. When scrap is collected from a job or department the amount realized form the sale of scrap is often treated as a reduction in the materials cost charged to the individual job or product.
Solid Waste Management Solid wastes are the waste arising from human and animal activities that are normally solid and discarded as useless or unwanted. Solid waste management includes following aspects 1. Identification of various types of solid waste and their sources. 2. Examination of Physical and Chemical composition of waste. 3.
The sanitary waste water is normally piped direct to the sewage treatment plant with or without first having being mixed with industrial waste water. Industrial waste water. Industrial waste water emanates from spillage of milk and products thereof and from cleaning of equipment that has been in contact with milk products.
Nov 02 2018 Biocharcoal is merely defined as charcoal typically utilized for a number of agricultural purposes. This biochar production equipment is made using a type of pyrolysis process that heat biomass within an environment with low oxygen. Once this pyrolysis reaction begins it will become self sustainable which suggests it can not require any energy input from
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Waste Expo May 10 12 2022 Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas NV Organized by Waste360 thousands attend WasteExpo to learn about the latest and greatest technology in the solid waste industry. Register here learn about the future of solid waste and connect with other like minded individuals from the industry.
Sep 15 2021 However most solid waste is still inadequately managed. According to MONRE most of the country’s solid waste 73.5 percent is deposited in open dump sites. Over 23 million tons of waste and seven million tons of industrial solid waste are discharged into the environment each day in Vietnam.
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Subtitle C regulations. Defining a waste as non hazardous under RCRA does not mean that the management of this waste is without risk. This Guide is primarily intended for new industrial waste management facilities and units such as new landfills new waste piles new surface impoundments and new land application units.
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Jan 31 2018 Here are 8 ways to reduce manufacturing waste 1. Efficient Inventory Management You can reduce manufacturing waste according to Greenne by controlling the materials being used in the manufacturing process. Reduce the amount of excess raw materials in stock and quantity of hazardous materials to bring down the amount of waste generated.
Henan Winner Vibrating Equipment Co. Ltd. Founded in 1954 it is one leader of screening and sorting equipment manufacturers and suppliers in China. Winner Group focuses on high efficiency energy saving environmental protection intelligent products research development and design. Our continuous development motivation is To be the first
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The strong technical force advanced production equipment and perfect after sales service system to provide our clients with high quality OEM service the products are exported to the United States Australia Europe Asia and other countries and regions.We established a stable long term import and export trade relations with a number of
Waste pyrolysis plant can convert waste tyres plastic rubber oily sludge etc. into fuel oil and carbon black. It is a profitable and eco friendly waste recycling business opportunity. Raw Material waste tyres plastic rubber oil sludge etc. Model for Sale BLJ 6 BLJ 10 BLJ 16 BLL 20. Productivity 6 T/D 10 T/D 15 20 T/D 20 24 T/D.
Production waste recovery Any manufacturing process produces a finite amount of waste. While most companies adopt practices or modifications that minimize this waste the small amount of raw material that’s lost in processes like molding punching casting or trimming is often considered to be a necessary loss.
Solid Waste Management is defined as the control generation storage collection transfer and transport processing and disposal of solid waste consistent with the best practices of public health economics and financial engineering administrative legal and environmental considerations Jamal 2002 . 2.2 Types and sources of solid wastes
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Global industrial solid waste management market from the equipment manufacturing sector is anticipated to exceed the annual capacity of over 10 billion ton by 2026. The market trend is focused mainly on the efficient handling of various industrial consumables including product packaging residue metals and other byproducts.
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Waste water discharge meet the national or local standards requirements. Water pollutant discharge satisfies the requirement of total amount control. Exhaust emissions meet the national or local standards requirements including sewage disposal of solid waste sludge to use or to the disposition of the environmental harmless way.
Solid Waste Management. The American Petroleum Institute API estimates that approximately 1.21 barrels of total drilling waste are generated for every foot drilled in the United States. Of this total drilling waste nearly 50 is solid
Washing line for plastic waste We supply machines and systems for washing separation and drying for used contaminated and mixed plastics . The lines start off with waste material often pressed in bales and end up with clean pure and dry regrind or flakes ready for densifying re extrusion or injection moulding.
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Americans like wars: the war on poverty — we lost that one when a bigger war came along. In 1971, while losing the war in Vietnam, President Nixon declared a war on drugs. The two wars got mixed together in some unpleasant ways. American soldiers began using drugs in Vietnam as a way of deadening the fear and loathing in fighting a war where civilians were indistinguishable from enemy soldiers.
Back home, a youthful revolution developed: a rejection not just of the war and the draft that was taking so many young men to death or injury but of the humbug that had preceded it. The revolution rejected apple pie, stars-and-stripes morality with its undertones of bigotry and overtones of hypocrisy and embraced the emerging marijuana plant as a principal source of recreational pleasure.
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Whole Foods is a large international supermarket chain which offers healthy, natural, and organic products. The organization’s mission is to extend its role from sustaining people to feeding the planet (Whole Foods UK). Thus, the individual stores often support local area programs on ecological causes. Employees regularly clean local areas and volunteer in philanthropic events. The company states that it promotes recycling of all food waste and safety of a green planet (Whole Foods UK).
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Whole Foods recognizes that clients are the backbone of the organization, promising to convey great items and administrations, worth, and involvement with trade for loyalty. The company claims its focus on fair and equal treatment of all employees regardless of their gender and ethnicity (Whole Foods UK). According to the employees’ reviews, most of the workers enjoy the friendly atmosphere and salary that company offers (Glassdoor). It is a place where they can acquire new abilities and knowledge regarding high quality customer service and maintenance of the products.
The most common concern mentioned by the reviewers is time management. There is a constant complaint about working hours being long and lack of training (Glassdoor). Whole Foods requires an open accessibility which gives workers an unpredictable schedule and working during nighttime. Hence, there is no work/personal life balance and laborers regularly feel overworked and undervalued. They often stayed past their time to finish their work, and they would be forced to work longer despite of the employee’s objections (Glassdoor).
Management needs to work together with colleagues as the senior supervisors can be extreme and strict. Whole Foods anticipate changes in rules in a regular manner (Glassdoor). However, employees, including team leaders, do not follow them, and no one gets punished for that (Glassdoor). The organization needs a lot of work on the administration such as interaction with the standard employees.
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Priti Patel has said the Government is “absolutely working on” the possibility of helping Ukrainian refugees come to the UK.
Hours earlier the Home Secretary ruled out a visa waiver for those fleeing the conflict with Russia over security concerns.
Speaking with ITV’s Peston on Monday night, she reiterated statements made earlier in the day about the priority of safeguarding “our public and our people” from “Putin’s Russia”.
She added that “further changes” would be announced in the “next few days” to help the people of Ukraine, but the current situation was “very fluid and dynamic”.
Ms Patel went on: “This is absolutely a phased approach around humanitarian support for the people of Ukraine. So this isn’t just about what we do on visas and our policy, this is much wider than that.
“So over the last weeks we’ve been focused on getting British nationals out of Ukraine, we’ve changed all sorts of things in terms of visas and prioritisation of cases. That’s the first aspect to this.
“Our policies are evolving – this is changing, this is a very fluid and dynamic situation. And in fact there will be further changes and announcements that we’ll be making in the next few days as well.”
The Home Secretary, who has come under intense political pressure from MPs across the Commons to do more to allow Ukrainian refugees to reach the UK, insisted she was taking action to open safe routes.
Ms Patel also faced criticism from refugee charities for falling short of the package of measures put forward by all 27 EU member countries.
According to UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi 520,000 refugees from Ukraine have so far fled to neighbouring countries and the number keeps rising.
The UN is planning for up to four million refugees in the coming weeks if the conflict doesn’t end, he said.
“We know that we are not even scratching the surface to meet the needs of Ukrainians,” he told an emergency Security Council meeting.
Earlier on Monday Ms Patel told MPs in the Commons she was following the “strongest security advice” as she rejected the call to scrap the need for visas.
“Over the weekend I have seen members of this House calling for full visa waivers for all Ukrainians,” Ms Patel said.
“Security and biometric checks are a fundamental part of our visa approval process worldwide and will continue, as they did for the evacuation of people from Afghanistan.
“That is vital to keep British citizens safe and to ensure that we are helping those in genuine need, particularly as Russian troops are now infiltrating Ukraine and merging into Ukrainian forces.
“Intelligence reports also state the presence of extremist groups and organisations who threaten the region but also our domestic homeland.
“We know all too well what Putin’s Russia is willing to do, even on our soil, as we saw through the Salisbury attack.”
The Home Secretary said the first phase of the “bespoke humanitarian route” being created for Ukrainians to enter the UK would allow around 100,000 people to come to “seek sanctuary”.
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1. Conduct a search for a newspaper, internet or magazine article/story about a community’s, an individuals or an organization’s response to a crisis.
2. Post the highlights of the article for discussion of how the crisis intervention principles of Caplan, Lindemann or Bronfenbrenner were, or were not, implemented.
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Thomas Nast invented Santa Claus? Clement C. Moore didn’t write the famous poem that starts out, “‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house . . . ?”
The murky waters of history from Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub soak even our most cherished ideas and traditions.
But isn’t that part of the fun of history?
- Below: Thomas Nast’s first published drawing featuring Santa Claus; for Harper’s Weekly, “A Journal of Civilization,” January 3, 1863 Nast portrayed the elf distributing packages to Union troops: “Santa Claus in camp.” Nast (1840-1904) was 23 when he drew this image.
Yes, Virginia (and California, too)! Thomas Nast created the image of Santa Claus most of us in the U.S. know today. Perhaps even more significant than his campaign against the graft of Boss Tweed, Nast’s popularization of a fat, jolly elf who delivers good things to people for Christmas makes one of the great stories in commercial illustration. Nast’s cartoons, mostly for the popular news publication Harper’s Weekly, created many of the conventions of modern political cartooning and modeled the way in which an illustrator could campaign for good, with his campaign against the graft of Tammany Hall and Tweed. But Nast’s popular vision of Santa Claus can be said to be the foundation for the modern mercantile flurry around Christmas.
Nast is probably ensconced in a cartoonists’ hall of fame. Perhaps he should be in a business or sales hall of fame, too. [See also Bill Casselman’s page, “The Man Who Designed Santa Claus.]
Nast’s drawings probably drew some inspiration from the poem, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas,” traditionally attributed to Clement C. Moore, a New York City lawyer, published in 1822. The poem is among the earliest to describe the elf dressed in fur, and magically coming down a chimney to leave toys for children; the poem invented the reindeer-pulled sleigh.
Modern analysis suggests the poem was not the work of Moore, and many critics and historians now attribute it to Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1748-1828) following sleuthing by Vassar College Prof. Don Foster in 2000. Fortunately for us, we do not need to be partisans in such a query to enjoy the poem (a complete copy of which is below the fold).
The Library of Congress still gives Moore the credit. When disputes arise over who wrote about the night before Christmas, is it any wonder more controversial topics produce bigger and louder disputes among historians?
Moore was not known for being a poet. The popular story is that he wrote it on the spur of the moment:
Moore is thought to have composed the tale, now popularly known as “The Night Before Christmas,” on December 24, 1822, while traveling home from Greenwich Village, where he had bought a turkey for his family’s Christmas dinner.
Inspired by the plump, bearded Dutchman who took him by sleigh on his errand through the snow-covered streets of New York City, Moore penned A Visit from St. Nicholas for the amusement of his six children, with whom he shared the poem that evening. His vision of St. Nicholas draws upon Dutch-American and Norwegian traditions of a magical, gift-giving figure who appears at Christmas time, as well as the German legend of a visitor who enters homes through chimneys.
Again from the Library of Congress, we get information that suggests that Moore was a minor celebrity from a well-known family with historical ties that would make a good “connections” exercise in a high school history class, perhaps (“the link from Aaron Burr’s treason to Santa Claus?”): (read more, below the fold)
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A Mathematical Approach for Compiling and Optimizing Hardware Implementations of DSP Transforms
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA
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Linear signal transforms such as the discrete Fourier transform are frequently used in digital signal processing and related fields. Algorithms for computing linear transforms are well-understood and typically have a high degree of regularity and parallelism, making them well-suited for implementation as sequential datapaths on field-programmable gate arrays or application-specific integrated circuits. Nonetheless, transforms are difficult to implement due to the large number of algorithmic options available and ways that algorithms can be mapped to sequential datapaths. Further, the best choices depend heavily on the resource budget and performance goals of the target application. Thus, it is difficult for a designer to determine which set of options will best meet a given set of requirements. This thesis proposes the Spiral hardware generation framework, a hardware compilation and optimization tool based on a mathematical formula language. A formula written in this language specifies a particular transform algorithm executed using a particular sequential datapath. This language allows high-level representation of sequential hardware structures that reuse datapath elements multiple times in the computation of a transform. The language accomplishes this by providing a formal connection between structure in the algorithm and sequential reuse in the datapath. This proposed language drives a hardware compilation system that takes as input a problem specification with directives that define characteristics of the desired datapath the system then automatically generates an algorithm, maps the algorithm to a datapath, and outputs synthesizable register transfer level Verilog. This thesis evaluates the generated designs when synthesized for field-programmable gate array or application-specific integrated circuit.
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Everyone wants to be wealthy. Being able to buy whatever you want, whenever you want; that would be the life. But, not everyone knows how to get there. Being wealthy isn’t just about what you were handed when you were born. There are self made rich people out in the world that were not born with a silver spoon. If you want to be able to build a nice cushion for you and your family there are some sacrifices you are going to have to make. Investing your finances and asset management is always recommended to be done with financial advisers. However, here are a few things that you could implement in order to try and grow your wealth quickly:
- No Car Payments
If you don’t have a car payment, well, you don’t have that payment, but you always don’t have to pay an arm and a leg to keep in insured either. If you can buy a car outright this is the best way to do it. Used cars are a lot cheaper to buy outright than a new car. Even if you think you can afford the car payment and insurance, car loans have such incredibly high interest rates that your car could end up being the highest debt in your household. Okay, a car payment is ‘normal’ but it won’t help you get rich that’s for sure. Own a car outright and your wallet will reap the benefits.
- No Mortgage Payment
At fist, you should rent. Renting offers a lot more flexibility until you are sure of where and how you want to settle down. Typically, a house loan lasts 30 years and what happens if you want to sell it and can’t? If you need to move for family reasons or a job change and can’t sell your house, then you are stuck with two house payments eating away at your wealth. If you are not sure about staying in a certain place, choose to rent instead until you are ready to take that step and invest in your first home. Don’t jump the gun and end up paying to much for a house you end up being stuck with, simply because you were desperate to buy and didn’t wait.
- No Frivolous Spending
Don’t buy things that you don’t need. This is most people’s downfall. No one wants to wait for anything good. They would rather spend it now. The problem with that is, most impulse buys are unnecessary. If you see something you want, don’t buy it right away. Give it a few days and think about whether or not you really need it or if you just want it. Compare it to how much you want to build your wealth and ask yourself if it is worth it. Even if it only seems like a small amount of money that you would be spending. Small amounts add up and these small amount is what stops people from becoming as wealthy as they could be.
- Save Some Income
This might seem fairly simple from if you have a lower income, it will be difficult to get your head around. Within your budget, you should set aside a certain amount from each paycheck for savings, just like you do for bills. Even if you can only put $50 a check into savings, do it. All those little $50 will add up and one day you will be able to begin putting in larger and larger amounts. Think about what things you can sacrifice in order to put more money in the savings account to grow it quicker. The more you put in to the savings the ‘richer’ you become as you stop living paycheck to paycheck and become more responsible regarding saving and spending.
Follow these simple tips and they will begin to set you on the right place to becoming wealthy. Having a plan is essential to growing your riches. It may be quick or it may take awhile, but if you stick to your plan and your budget, you will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly your checking account and savings account will begin to grow and increase. Just keep at it and do not ever give up! | <urn:uuid:255b37e7-e236-4561-b141-23baa63b1472> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mortech.biz/4-ways-to-begin-growing-wealth-in-your-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979441 | 836 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Electrical Safety Assessments & Fire Code Inspections
Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) conducted a review of its ElecCheck program in 2021 as part of recommendation 11 from the 2020 Auditor General Value-for-Money Audit. After thorough consultations, ESA decided to decommission the ElecCheck program effective April 4, 2022. An “ElecCheck-style” Electrical System Safety Assessment can be performed by a Licensed Electrical Contractor (LEC) using resources1 from the former ElecCheck program.
General Inspections for Fire Code Compliance
Please note that ESA is conducting General Inspections for the purposes of Fire Code Compliance only. Fire Code Compliance falls under Sub-Section 9.8 of the Fire Code, which applies to multi-unit dwellings.
To identify issues, the inspector will evaluate several areas of your home’s electrical system including wiring, receptacles, switches, swimming pools, hot tubs, etc.
- The inspector may turn the power off to your home for a few minutes during the inspection so that your electrical panel can be safely inspected.
- The inspector is looking for incomplete or non-code compliant wiring methods.
- The inspection does not include electrical behind the walls, attics or anything concealed at the time of the inspection.
- If deficiencies are identified during the General Inspection, a separate wiring notification must be taken out with ESA by the party performing the repairs (i.e. a Licensed Electrical Contractor or the homeowner). Learn more about Notifications and Inspections here.
To file a notification for a General Inspection for Fire Code Compliance, contact the ESA Customer Service Center at 1-877-372-7233.
What is an Electrical System Safety Assessment?
If you need to have home inspected for reasons other than Fire Code Compliance (for example, obtaining home insurance, real estate transactions, conforming to local by-laws, etc.), a Licensed Electrical Contracting (LEC) business can perform an Electrical System Safety Assessment.
An Electrical System Safety Assessment is a review of your home's electrical wiring and/or devices to identify potential electrical hazards that could lead to a fire and/or shock. An LEC may use an Electrical System Safety Assessment Checklist when evaluating a home’s electrical system.
Hire someone who can legally do electrical work in Ontario.
If electrical deficiencies are identified (i.e., an electrical installation or condition that does not comply with the Ontario Electrical Safety Code) during an Electrical System Safety Assessment, a separate notification of work must be taken out with ESA by the party performing the repairs (i.e. a Licensed Electrical Contractor or the homeowner).
When it comes to electrical work, ESA always recommends hiring a Licensed Electrical Contracting Business, as they have the equipment, training and expertise to do electrical work safely.
- The resources provided here are for Licensed Electrical Contractors use and for information purposes. Licensed Electrical Contractors should rely on their own knowledge, experience and skill in any use they choose to make of these materials.
- The “Electrical System Safety Assessment” is not an exhaustive summary of the requirements of the Code or of what is necessary to assess electrical safety at any particular location.
- Provision of these resources does not constitute legal or technical advice for any property, or at all.
- In carrying out any electrical assessment or undertaking electrical work, no one should hold themselves out as an electrical inspector or as an agent or representative of the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA).
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Maybe the biggest smiles of the day were found on the parking lot. Inside a pair of fenced-in lots at Levi’s Stadium were two test tracks. One was for a driverless car presented by AutonomouStuff and the other for a driverless shuttle presented by NAVYA AUTONOM.
Both vehicles were there for, well, hands-off free rides for interested conference-goers. As it turns out, the lines were long for both vehicles, which traveled in a short circle for a series of turns (with a ‘driver’ behind the wheel, just in case) and then back at the start.
It was a big hit.
Trevor Boal, a student at Michigan Tech University, enjoyed his experience on the shuttle.
“It’s cool to see how they’ve been able to integrate all their different technologies and create something that’s able to drive autonomously. As for the future, I think AV is going to be more of a ride-hailing situation.
“In four years or so, it’ll pick up traction. Before everyone has an AV – when people have them in their garages – that’s still multiple decades away, the time when it becomes real commonplace like vehicles today. Before people really accept the notion of a really autonomous car isn’t on the near horizon.”
Tanzeel Kadiani, an engineer at Tesla, was another curious rider. He said the ride went about as he expected but wanted more.
“It was pretty decent on the test track, but to see it on the roads would be more interesting,” he said. “It definitely needs a bit more maturity to see how it would work in the real world, but there’s opportunity there absolutely.”
Part 1: Velodyne LiDAR’s Safety Summit
Part 2: Let’s get it started
Part 3: Look, up in the sky!
Part 4: It’s a learning process
Part 5: And now, what about the DMV?
Part 6: Regulations. Responsibility
Part 7: Watch what you drink
Part 8: The driverless car rides
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The Gonaives Children’s Home & Teaching Farm is moving right along! After some initial site clarifications, we’ve got a plan, a real old fashioned (physical) model, and a 3D digital study model. Next up, meeting with the builders!
This is an orphanage for 34 kids, plus staff, with bunk rooms, a kitchen/dining/multipurpose areas and of course, guest quarters and office. The small buildings surround a courtyard in the historic “lakou” manner. Oh, I forgot to mention the garden and barn! The kids raise food to both eat and sell, while also taking care of goats and chickens.
It’s all sustainable construction, with locally made bricks, composting toilets, natural ventilation strategies, and solar panels for electricity. The compound is raised 30 inches above grade to thwart flooding and is utilizing a locally handcrafted confined masonry construction system to resist earthquakes and hurricanes. That’s a lot to design for, but we want the children safe!
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November is American Diabetes Month, sponsored by the American Diabetes Association (ADA); the goal is to raise awareness about this ever growing epidemic and its consequences. The prevalence of diabetes has doubled in the last 20 years (not so coincidentally the rates of obesity have double during the same time period) and most alarmingly are the developing diabetes cases in younger ages. In fact, it is now estimated that 30% of children and teenagers who are being diagnosed with diabetes have type 2. Until recently Type 2 diabetes, formerly referred to as adult onset diabetes was unheard of in children and teenagers.
According to the ADA nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes. 79 million Americans have prediabetes, putting them at a significant risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes is a condition where blood glucose levels higher than normal but not yet diabetes. Recent estimates suggest that as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes by 2050. Diabetes is a costly disease, in fact one out of every five health care dollars are spent caring for people with diabetes.
The consequences of poorly controlled diabetes are severe:
For those with diabetes, proper care and management can significantly reduce the risk of developing the above mentioned complications. Talk to your doctor or certified diabetes educator to make sure you are doing everything you can to manage your diabetes. If don’t already have diabetes, you have a great chance of prevention. According to Walter Willett M.D., 92% of the cases of type 2 diabetes could be avoided by diet and exercise. Even those who are at the greatest risk of developing diabetes because they currently are prediabetic can dramatically lower their risk. Walking 30 minutes a day 5 days a week, eating a healthy plant based diet and modest weight loss can help in prevention. | <urn:uuid:6c2f9fd8-fc54-4a3a-a8c2-6b6038102c68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hhhealth.com/blog/wellness-wednesday-diabetes-awareness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959696 | 360 | 3.46875 | 3 |
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The term Deep Democracy was developed by the physicist Arny Mindell, and is a methodology developed to foster a deeper level of dialogue and inclusivity. It is a psycho-social-political paradigm, which first appeared in 1988 in the book Leader as Martial Artist .
- Main article: Arny Mindell
The inventor of Deep Democracy, Arnold Mindell (born 1940), is a physicist and Jungian Analyst. He is married to Amy Mindell, and is the author and the founder of Process Oriented Psychology. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Arnold Mindell has written 19 books that have been published in 20 languages. He had researched and written extensively on how awareness creates reality and how we perceive it on different levels, thus creating different frameworks of reality. An example, this is how time is perceived according to Mindell:
- The measurable reality of the seconds ticking in a clock
- The dreamlike "subjective" perception of time as it passes during an encounter with a lover
- The sentient essence of timelessness, as we catch the moment of a sunrise that goes beyond time as we know it and replaces, for a moment, the concept of future with hope.
Concept of Processwork
Mindell calls his paradigm Processwork, which formulates these principles and demonstrates how they can be used in psychotherapy. In the late eighties, he started to formulate them as a political principle that he called Deep Democracy. Unlike "classical" democracy, which focuses on majority rule, Deep Democracy suggests that all voices, states of awareness, and frameworks of reality are important, and are all needed to understand the complete process of the political system. The attitude focuses on the awareness of voices that are both central and marginal. The principles can be used on groups, organizations, one's own inner experiences, people in conflict, etc. Mindell describes the "experience of Deep Democracy as a process of flow in which all actors on the stage are needed to create the play that we are watching". Numerous attempts to implement Deep Democracy are occurring simultaneously throughout the world.
- See also: Freedom of speech in the United States
From the Deep Democracy viewpoint, people censor themselves if they express an opinion, but ignore that their opponent is also a person with many dimensions. Free speech and freedom of the press are important, but without Deep Democracy, they can become abusive and forces of tyranny, unrelated to emotional and social realities.
According to Deep Democracy principles, people often ignore the need for relationship between parties using free speech. Both parties, those who champion for free speech and those who champion for limitations in the interests of public safety, need to relate more to each other and learn to understand the visions and ideals that are behind those opinions.
Deep Democracy is supposed to involve openness to other individuals, groups and diverse. It includes feelings, dreams, body symptoms, altered states of consciousness, synchronicities, and an awareness of signals, roles, and the structural dynamics of the interactions between the parties involved.
The most fundamental forum is your own heart. Both as a facilitator and as a human being, you must learn to hear yourself there. Arnold Mindell, "Sitting in the Fire"
The idea of supporting a deeper dialogue has been around at least since Plato argued for the inclusion of women in public discourse. Athens needed the intelligence of all and couldn't afford not to accept women as thinkers and leaders. Even if Plato didn't expand his thinking enough to extend that acceptance to slaves, other races, and other than the upper classes of women, he planted a cultural seed that needed another twenty-five hundred years to sprout and is only now coming to fruition in culturally creative ways. At its deepest manifestation, Deep Democracy, refers to an openness towards the views of other people and groups, and also embraces an openness to emotions and personal experiences, which tend to get excluded from conflict and rational public discourse. As R. Buckminster Fuller said, we need to support the intuitive wisdom and comprehensive informed-ness of each and every individual to ensure our continued fitness for survival as a species. One novel formulation called structural deep democracy, uses deep democracy as an algorithm, equating trust and consent with network centrality. By rating the pagerank of internet connections, emails, etc., a social network optimization methodology is postulated to equate centrality with leadership ability. However, strange and point attractors other than trust and consent may also correlate with node centrality.
University of Texas at Austin Professor Particia A. Wilson says, "At its essence, deep democracy is the inner experience of interconnectedness.” “From a systems perspective, deep democracy is an open dynamic system springing from the diverse points of engagement where individuals and community come together."
A US government publication called What is Democracy maintains that, “Democratic societies are capable of enduring the most bitter disagreement among its citizens—except for disagreement about the legitimacy of democracy itself”. The symbiotic connection between democracy and human development is an aspect of Deep Democracy but attempts to formally define deep democracy often result in formation of a procedural approach. For example, one economist suggests, "Deep Democrfacy [sic] and economic justice, therefore, can be presented as a coherent set of positive requirements," but that approach may not relate to self-organizing tendencies, potentially meaningful synchronicities, non-linear and non-local experience, and the more subtle concepts and experiences that Mindell's original conception discussed.
One of the primary concerns of Deep Democracy is the use, maintenance, and awareness of metaskills,. The concept of openness to diversity and dialogue between various views doesn’t mean that the facilitator is a pushover—that is only one metaskill (although it often reflects a lack of awareness). Facilitators must also at times practise, embody, and express other metaskills such as toughness, anger, intractability, love, detachment, concern for the well being of the others, and a genuine desire to achieve consensus. Some of the metaskills in that list are organic responses. However, when a facilitator uses her internal organic responses to better inform her intervention, that is a metaskill. This is the reason why the human development—the internal psychological and spiritual growth and inner peace—of the facilitator is so important..
- Arnold Mindell
- Deep Democracy Institute
- Process Work
- Mindell, Arnold (1992). Leader as Martial Artist: An Introduction to Deep Democracy (1st ed.), San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.
- Mindell, Arnold (2002). Deep Democracy of Open Forums: Practical Steps to Conflict Prevention and Resolution for the Family, Workplace, and World, Boston: Hampton Roads Publishing.
- [Association of Facilitators (ed.)] (2010). Working with Difficult Groups, NYC: Jossey Bass.
- Audergon, A. Ph.D.. Collective Trauma: The Nightmare of History. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 2(1), 16-31.
- Mindell, Arnold (1995). Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation using Conflict and Diversity (1st ed.), Portland, OR: Lao Tse Press.
- Fuller, R.B. (1981). Critical Path, NYC: St. Martin's Press.
- Rosst, Mark sd-2 · Structural Deep Democracy. URL accessed on 2009-10-11.
- Lorenz, Edward N. (1996). Essence of Chaos, Seattle: University of Washington Press.
- Wilson, Particia A. (February 2004). Deep Democracy The Inner Practice of Civic Engagement. Fieldnotes: A Newsletter of the Shambala Institute (3).
- What is Democracy?. US Department of State.
- Kahn, Haider. A Theory of Deep Democracy and Economic Justice in the Age of Postmodernism. CIRJE F-Series, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo (CIRJE-F-468).
- Mindell, Amy (1994). Metaskills: the spiritual art of therap, New Falcon.
For further information on Deep Democracy see:
- Mindell, Arnold, speaking on Worldwork at the 2008 Worldwork Conference in London
- Mindell, Arnold, speaking on Deep Democracy and Worldwork
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Somaliland minster of investment and industrial development Abdirahman Abdilahi Aareh
In Pursuit of actualizing the Somaliland vision 2030 the government has put several mechanisms in place.
This Include assurance of prevalent peace and security in the country in addition to development of various acts guiding the numerous Pillars in the strategic plan.
The Somaliland National Vision 2030: a road map for the long term development envisaging “A Stable, Democratic and Prosperous Country where people enjoy a high quality of life”
The national development strategic plan which is currently under Implementation has stipulations pertinent to various sectors.
In the economic Pillar of the strategic plan is the foundation on which Somaliland economic prosperity rests upon.
The Pillar envisages a nation Whose Citizens Enjoy Sustained Economic Growth and Reduced Poverty Levels.
To make this Pillar a constitutional dictate the Ministry of investment and industrial development-MOI&ID completed preparation of the Somaliland Public private partnership act for approval by Parliament.
This was revealed by the MOI&ID Minister Abdirahman Abdilahi Aareh in Hargeisa where he further stated that the promulgation of the act will facilitate fast tracking the realization of the Somaliland vision 2030 economic Pillar.
“The Public private act will not only legalize but facilitate fast tracking of the vision’s economic Pillar” said investment and industrial development minister Abdirahman Aareh
In this Pillar the government aims to double household disposal income every ten years and quadruple it by 2030. This will be achieved by:
• Pursuing macroeconomic policies that promote accelerated growth, employment creation and poverty reduction;
• Adopting policies that achieve price stability and low inflation;
• Implementing trade and investment policies that promote production and employment;
• Prioritizing public spending for vital services such as health, education and water;
• Establishing properly regulated financial services available to primary producers, industrialists, traders and households;
• Transforming agricultural production by investing in research and extension;
• Developing a fair broad based tax system to raise the necessary resources for public investment; and Engaging the Diaspora and the private sector
The seven priority sectors identified as critical to the economic development agenda. Include:
• Agriculture and livelihoods (including, livestock and fisheries),
• Trade and financial services,
• Private sector Investment and the
According to minister Abdirahman Aareh the has, I and shall continue to provide Private Sector Investment and Support in order for Somaliland to create a well developed private sector that provides investment, employment, sustained livelihoods and vital services to strengthen the economic foundation of peace.
To fully achieve the economic Pillar and other in the Somaliland vision 2030 the prevailing peaceful and stable environment is critical to the development of the private sector.
However, the cost of doing business in the country is relatively high. Neither start-ups nor established businesses have access to regular banking facilities. Necessary legislative frameworks for licensing and supervising banks need to be developed.
To achieve the goals of the 2030 vision in its entirety, the government is determined to maintain and invigorate peace and stability, encourage private sector investment, introduce the necessary financial services acts, promote corporate culture and facilitate company formation.
“Thus the imperatives of the Public Private Sectors act partnership” says the Somaliland minster of investment and industrial development Abdirahman Abdilahi Aareh.
What drove the desire for the vision as explained by the Ministry of planning and national development reads
Quote- In the last 20 years, Somaliland has made remarkable progress in all spheres – political, economic and social.
This coming fro the chaos of the 1990s in which her cities were left in ruins; educational system barely existed; health care system did not function, and government structures were destroyed.
Since then Somaliland has and single handed rebuilt cities; restored order; established a democratic state; thence today can boast of having more than 600,000 students in primary and secondary schools; There are sixteen Universities graduating thousands of young professionals – doctors, engineers, accountants, lawyers etc, in addition to the existence of at least a health post in almost every district.
Nevertheless the 3 decades self governing but yet to be recognized internationally has had arduous challenges ahead, as a nation.
There is a fast growing young population, more than half of the labor force is idle; most of citizens are illiterate; in addition to the rapidly degrading environment; growing of little of the food consumed not to mention the still unacceptably high child and maternal mortality rates.
On the other hand there are enormous potential of this nation: it has vast untapped mineral wealth, huge marine resources, sufficient land to quadruple food production, and most of all an exceptionally enterprising people.
In view of these challenges and opportunities, it became important to develop a vision that embodies this aspirations and subsequent guides in realizing the potential.
Thus the Somaliland National Vision 2030: a road map for the long term development envisaging “A Stable, Democratic and Prosperous Country where people enjoy a high quality of life”
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A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder is the fifth book in the Countess of Harleigh mystery series written by Dianne Freeman.
It’s a fun read, one anticipated since the first book in which main character Frances’s first husband was murdered. It wasn’t a good marriage anyway, and her future second husband helps her solve the crime. They’ve been partners in more than one way ever since.
Even though there was no way they could travel to Cannes for their honeymoon, I felt sorry for them for the entire case. Not only due to the lack of a honeymoon, but also for Frances’s family being so obtuse after their wedding. Due to living next door, they see no problem with dropping in on them at every hour of the day. No honeymoon and at the beck and call of their concerns. Even if a second marriage for her, they needed some time for romance!
Before I forget—did I mention that all of the previous books in this series are now available on Kindle Unlimited. You bet it is worth the monthly price of $10.66. Stock up on these beach reads before the summer is over.
Please welcome Dianne Freeman back to WWK. E. B. Davis
Since Frances and her daughter, Rose, are moving to George’s house next door, Aunt Hetty has purchased the lease on her house. I thought Frances bought the house. Is the house leased from an absent owner?
Frances calls her father, Frankie. Why not, Dad?
Frances’ father’s name is Franklin. Frances is his firstborn and namesake. They call each other Frankie as a sort of endearment.
Were the Bonanza Barons real? What was the source of this wealth?
They were real, but were actually called the Bonanza Kings. John Mackay, James Fair, James Flood & William O’Brien formed an alliance and took control of the “Consolidate Virginia” and “California” silver mines. Many considered those mines to be barren, but in 1873 they hit the greatest mining strike in the history of the American West—the Big Bonanza. The four partners became millionaires many times over.
You based two characters, feuding American business men, on real characters. Tell our readers about them, please.
The feud between John MacKay and Charles Bonynge was fascinating, but for the sake of space, I’ll only hit the highlights. As noted above, John MacKay was one of the Bonanza Kings. Charles Bonynge made his fortune in mining related businesses. Both men came from humble beginnings, immigrated to the US, made their fortunes from silver, and for a time, Bonynge was MacKay’s stockbroker. Upon retiring, Bonynge made a critical comment about MacKay’s business ethics to a reporter. MacKay took exception and the feud began.
Both families had homes in London and they all showed up for the social season. The evening before the Bonynge family were to be presented to Queen Victoria, one of the newspapers revealed that Mrs. Bonynge had been divorced and therefore was ineligible to meet the queen. The Bonynges fired back and gave a reporter the story of Mrs. MacKay’s humble past as a washer woman. This back and forth continued, much to the delight of the gossip columnists, for four years. It ended in a fist fight between the two men in the office of a San Francisco bank.
Both feuding men and their families are invited to Frances and George’s wedding. How did that happen? Too many wedding managers in addition to the bride?
Exactly. Frances invited the Connors as a favor to her brother, Alonzo, who had developed an interest in the daughter of the family, Madeline. Meanwhile, Frances’ mother, who had commandeered all the wedding plans, invited Mr. Bainbridge without letting Frances know. Oops.
I didn’t understand the early photographic process. What’s with the glass blocks?
They are actually thin glass plates and they are the film base, very much like the polyester screen that is used in an X-ray machine. The emulsion-coated plate fits in a slot in the camera and when exposed to light, it captures the image on the other side of the camera lens. Glass plates were replaced by a celluloid film base, which was itself replaced in the 1950s with polyester or mylar film base. These are the negatives from which a photograph is made.
What was lumbago?
It was a catch-all term for lower back pain.
Why did the Victorians make so many collections, especially of gross stuff such as impaled insects and taxidermy?
I’m sure their reasons were as varied as the collectors, but I think it’s safe to assume their collections and cabinets of curiosities were conversation starters. Victorians entertained a lot. Each item in a collection came with a story, even in a collection of insects. The collectors hoped to enthrall their guests with those stories. (“Can you believe a single bite from this spider could fell a full-grown man?”) The collections were tangible proof of their travels to exotic places or even of their intellectual curiosity.
When Frances’s brother, Alonzo, is arrested for one of the feuding men’s murder, father Frankie tries to bribe the police to release Alonzo. They are not amused. Was this common practice in the US?
The New York City Police Department was notoriously corrupt at the time. Theodore Roosevelt became police commissioner in 1895 and by 1897 he gave up all hope of reforming the department. It was not uncommon to offer a reward or bribe to the police to urge them to investigate a crime, or turn a blind eye.
Did homes have a system of bells to alert staff that they were being summoned and where?
Yes, although electric bells were often installed in newer homes, most homes that employed a staff still relied on sprung bells. This device, worked by a complex system of wires, allowed for a member of the household to pull a lever, thereby ringing a bell located in the service areas. The bells would be mounted on a board and labeled with the name of the room where the wire originated so the servant would know who rang or where they were needed.
I’m surprised Americans were so enamored of British titles that they threw money and their daughters at titled ne’er-do-wells. What was the big deal? Were they pawning their daughters?
What were hair “rats?”
Rats were small netted bags filled with one’s own hair and used to provide volume or a base for the elaborate hairstyles of the day.
Frances and her mother have two very different versions of reality. Frances feels controlled and over managed by her mother. Her second wedding shouldn’t be the big deal her mother is making of it. Her mother feels neglected by her husband and has connected to Hetty, Frances, and Rose during her stay. Which has a truer version of reality?
This feels like an existential question! Both realities are true depending on whose shoes you’re standing in.
Is claret still made? Was it like a Merlot? Cabernet sauvignon?
“Claret” is simply the name the British gave to the light red wines that came from Bordeaux back in the 12th century when Bordeaux was part of Aquitaine. It was enormously popular in Britain and remained favored among British gentlemen well after France won the territory back and until the 20th century. There are still some labels that sell claret and because the name is protected by the EU, it would still be made with grapes from Bordeaux.
Frances and George are not assisting Detective Delany. They’re on opposite sides. Does this affect their relationship?
Though it’s uncomfortable for all of them in the moment, Frances and George understand Delaney has to do his job. He understands their need to investigate. In the end, they all want the guilty party apprehended.
What is a tantalus?
It can be a cabinet or just a stand for decanters of liquor. What makes it tantalizing, is that while the decanters are visible, you need a key to access them.
What’s next for Frances and George?
With George on a mission for the British Museum, Frances agrees to sponsor Lady Wingate’s niece, Kate, for a presentation to Queen Victoria. Since her husband’s death, Lady Wingate has been so lethargic, she hasn’t left the house for months. Her friend, Lady Esther, is convinced one of the woman’s step-children is drugging her and tapping into her fortune. Kate isn’t above suspicion either. She’s about to enter high society and stands to gain an inheritance upon her aunt’s death. Hundreds of young ladies would kill to be in her shoes. Frances has to wonder if that’s exactly what’s happening. She, George, and Lady Esther join forces to flush out the villain and keep Lady Wingate from following in her husband’s footsteps—directly to the grave. | <urn:uuid:bb525fe0-756d-4e51-8fe2-27071343f0ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://writerswhokill.blogspot.com/2022/08/an-interview-with-dianne-freeman-by-e-b.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975747 | 1,973 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Ontario and Quebec each have plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince drivers to go electric. The measures in place are certainly interesting for buyers of electric vehicles. The problem is that they’re insignificant from an environmental point of view.
Insignificant, but not inexpensive: The two provinces encourage the purchase of an electric vehicle and home charging station with subsidies totalling $14,750 in Ontario, and up to $8,600 in Quebec.
Each time an electric vehicle replaces a gasoline-powered one, greenhouse gases (GHGs) are avoided. Over the course of the useful life of a vehicle, around 10 years, this represents approximately 28.2 tonnes of GHGs avoided in Ontario, and 29.9 tonnes of GHGs in Quebec, where electricity is produced almost entirely from hydropower.
The cost of each tonne of GHGs not emitted thanks to these provincial programs can then be calculated by dividing the cost of the subsidy by the quantity of emissions avoided. We thus arrive at a total of $523 per tonne in Ontario and $288 per tonne in Quebec.
Yet, the real cost is likely much higher.
The main reason is that a certain number of buyers of electric vehicles would have made their purchases even in the absence of subsidies. One study estimates that this is the case for half of buyers in Quebec. The proportion is likely much higher for most subsidies paid to buyers of luxury vehicles. (In Ontario, a buyer of a Tesla can receive the same subsidy as for a Volt.) This means that half of these subsidies, which will total hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years, are a pure loss.
But let’s put on our green-tinted glasses and assume that our estimates of $523 per tonne of GHGs not emitted in Ontario, and $288 per tonne in Quebec, represent the real cost, and that each subsidy is well-targeted and helps replace a gasoline-powered vehicle with an electric one. The price paid is nonetheless very high compared to the result obtained, and compared to other existing solutions for reducing GHG emissions.
In the North American carbon market, which groups together California, Quebec, and soon Ontario, the price per tonne of GHGs, and thus the marginal cost for a company to eliminate this tonne, was C$18.51 in the most recent auction. The federal government, for its part, will tax carbon at $10 per tonne in 2018, climbing to $50 in 2022.
By subsidizing the purchase of electric cars, the Ontario government is paying 29 times more than the carbon market price, and 52 times more than the future federal tax when it comes into effect next year. For Quebec, the corresponding figures are 16 and 29 times more. Even if we take the maximum amount of the carbon tax, namely $50 in 2022, electric vehicle subsidies remain the most expensive option by far.
What about impact?
Another way of illustrating the inefficiency of these programs is to evaluate the portion of current GHG emissions that would be eliminated thanks to the replacement of gasoline-powered vehicles by electric vehicles. Even if the Quebec government achieved its goal of having a million electric vehicles on the road by 2030 (and assuming these were all fully electric), in the best case scenario, only 3 million tonnes of GHGs would be avoided annually, or 3.6% of current emissions, at a total cost of $4.6 billion to $8.6 billion. In comparison, the brand new Port Daniel, Quebec cement plant (itself the beneficiary of substantial subsidies) will emit nearly 1.8 million tonnes of GHGs a year all on its own.
The results would not be any more impressive in Ontario. Assuming that it achieved the same objectives, proportionally, that Quebec has set for itself, Ontario could not hope to eliminate more than 4.1 million tonnes of GHGs per year by 2030, or 2.4% of current emissions. This amounts to mere drops in the bucket.
Insofar as the reduction of GHGs is becoming a priority, the innovation that emerges naturally from the market remains the preferable path. If our legislators think that additional incentives are required, pricing carbon through a tax or a carbon market creates less distortion in the market than subsidizing the purchase of electric vehicles, which is expensive and will have little effect.
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“Clickbait” is something of a dirty word in the blogosphere, implying some nefarious intent to trick readers into clicking on a link and being subjected to an article that doesn’t deliver on its tantalizing title.
While it’s true that clickbait titles are marketing poison in many — if not most — cases, they can be a major asset in the right hands.
If you can crack the clickbait code, you’ll have another marketing tool at your disposal to drive more traffic to your site, increase page views and build brand awareness. Just be sure you’re using this info for good.
What Makes a Headline Clickbait?
“Clickbait titles” typically refer to one of two types of headlines:
- Sensationalized titles that draw in readers with over-the-top proclamations.
- Bait-and-switch items that promise one thing but deliver something else entirely in the actual content.
A quick trip over to Buzzfeed should provide all the examples you need of clickbait articles to reference. Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are also often inundated with headlines that could be generously described as sensational.
Good vs. Bad Clickbait
What separates the “bad” variety of clickbait from the more innocuous headlines? The types of titles that get on readers’ nerves and elicit accusations of “fake news” usually fit one of these criteria:
- The article fails to even come close to delivering on the headline’s promise, delivering little to no value.
- The blog is a barely concealed ad masquerading as an unbiased article.
- The content is OK (maybe even good), but it’s buried in an avalanche of on-screen advertisements.
- The article is a full-on bait-and-switch piece, providing none of the information referenced in the title.
- The info’s there, but it’s presented in a manner that sacrifices user experience for other metrics (e.g., using slideshows to generate more page views when the content could have been placed on a single dedicated page).
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Why do Companies Resort to Clickbait?
Whether you’re talking about “bad” or “good” clickbait, the goal is roughly the same: to entice readers with an attention-grabbing headline, often with an angle that seems too good to be true.
Consider this clickbait example: “12 Kitchen Hacks that Will Turn Any Home Cook Into a Professional Chef.” That headline’s going to appeal to just about anyone looking for ways to improve their cooking skills. Its lofty and suspect promises push it over the edge into clickbait territory.
Are there really a dozen simple tweaks you can make to turn your home-cooked meals into restaurant-quality dishes? Almost certainly not. But even though the headline is hyperbolizing a bit, if the article’s advice helps you become a better home cook, does it really matter? Readers aren’t going to be terribly upset with a clickbait title if they still get something valuable from the content itself.
On the other hand, if the article is solely composed of links to 12 kitchen gadget product pages — all conveniently sharing the same manufacturer — then they’re probably going to feel like they were tricked by a misleading title.
The truth is, for as much as people dump on clickbait, these types of headlines are very effective at drawing in readers. The difference between good and bad clickbait comes down to execution. Does your article, infographic, video or other pieces of content actually deliver what its title promises? Or is it just a bait-and-switch that will leave people frustrated and wondering why they wasted their time?
Why Do Clickbait Headlines Work so Well?
They may be the scourge of the internet, but clickbait titles continue to thrive in virtually every corner of cyberspace because they get clicks. If people simply stopped clicking on them, clickbaity headlines would go away forever.
Clickbait preys on some basic psychology and behavior that’s hardwired into every person. As Psychology Today explained, people have a survival instinct to seek out information to learn more about their surroundings and social environments. Research has suggested that there is a connection (or at least a correlation) between absorbing new knowledge and the body’s flow of dopamine. Basically, we feel good when we learn something new. Just the offer alone can entice a biological reaction, hence the allure of clickbait.
Clickbait titles often take advantage of that thirst for knowledge — even if it’s a topic as inane as celebrity gossip — by posing headlines in a way that piques our curiosity and makes us feel like we’re going to miss out if we don’t click. FOMO is real, people.
Say you came across a headline that read, “You Won’t Believe These 10 Marketing Tricks that Will Triple Your Revenue!” You’d probably treat it with a healthy bit of skepticism. But at the same time, you might think, “What do I have to lose by taking a look?” After all, there could be some useful tips you hadn’t considered, and you wouldn’t want to pass up an opportunity to give your marketing strategy an extra edge.
So, don’t beat yourself up the next time you click on a clickbait headline. Blame thousands of years of human evolution.
Appreciating the Bright Side of Clickbait
Clickbait titles aren’t all bad. If you take the right lessons from them, your content creators can craft headlines that are more likely to resonate with your target audience and deliver better search engine optimization (SEO) and engagement metrics.
In fact, clickbait tactics actually share a lot in common with the latest headline writing best practices:
- They offer value to the reader (even if they don’t always come through on that promise).
- They’re short, punchy and easy to understand.
- They’re designed to appeal to specific audiences and pique their interest.
- They use “power words” to evoke an emotional response in the reader.
Researchers who analyzed the sentiment, polarization and popularity of newspaper headlines found that article titles with either extremely positive or negative connotations drew in more readers than more conservative descriptions. In other words, it doesn’t pay to play it safe when it comes to headline writing.
Don’t be afraid to be more demonstrative and even a touch outlandish with your blog titles. Find that middle ground between hyperbolic and tantalizing, tapping into your audience’s curiosity and encouraging them to click.
That starts by understanding who your readers are and what they want to know. What do they struggle with the most? How can you help solve those issues? Package that message into a catchy title that offers clear, meaningful value to your target audience.
How to Make Clickbait Work for Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Always remember to incorporate SEO best practices when writing headlines (for example, including a targeted keyword in the title) so your article will rank higher on search results and stand out to users on search engine results pages (SERPs).
List formats are usually a good fit for sensational titles since they quantify the content’s value to some degree (you’re not just getting some marketing tips; you’re getting 10 marketing tips!) and they are easy to scan. For that reason, list-based articles are great additions to any content marketing strategy focused on boosting organic traffic, page views and brand awareness metrics.
Examples Of Clickbait Titles That Work
Sometimes it is easier to fully grasp the concept of a clickbait title by seeing a real-life example. Let’s take look at the most effective clickbait titles that shock and inspire a reader to click:
This is a great example of an article that makes you want to learn more about the topic. What are the 50 top places in the world? Should I visit them? What do they look like? Out of all the places in the world, what makes these so special?
A reader might click on the link because they love to travel, but also because they dream of going to an exotic location someday. Because the article is written by Forbes, readers have a certain level of trust that the information will be reliable, which only adds to the effectiveness of the clickbait title.
Clickbait isn’t just confined to the editorial world. YouTube is filled with clickbait content, sometimes to its users’ chagrin. The title of this video inspires clicks by using the quantifiable number to spark attention. $1 million dollars is a lot of money to anyone (maybe with the exception of Jeff Bezos), and, aside from that, the topic is broadly interesting. This means that a variety of audiences could all feel compelled to watch the YouTube video. In addition, there is nothing horrifying or incorrect about the title, so watchers’ trust is not compromised.
The key to using clickbait effectively is to make sure you have the quality content to back it up. Sensational headlines that don’t deliver the goods are only going to turn away readers and increase your site’s bounce rate. Be sure you take the time to create a blog post that actually provides the insights and value that its catchy title promises. Really scrutinize what your headline offers, and don’t post that article until it delivers exactly what readers will expect from it.
Using Clickbait on Social Media Platforms
Clickbait is not only common in editorial content and YouTube videos and it has serious value for business owners on social media platforms as well.
When it comes to clickbait, each platform requires its own tactics. But there is a common theme that is carried over from other parts of the internet: headlines need to be attention-grabbing and have shock value.
For example, Instagram uses visuals to draw attention by using filters and choice thumbnails to capture attention. With so many companies and people vying for attention, clickbait titles can get outlandish.
The goal is to stand out from the 200 million business accounts on Instagram. The competition is stiff in the world of social media, and clickbait tactics can be very effective in leading the consumer to your company’s website.
The Perils of Clickbait
Does clickbait content deserve its nasty reputation? Absolutely. The internet is filled with misleading headlines, blatant advertisements and meaningless content. You need almost a sixth sense to parse the quality content from the worthless drivel that happens to have an engaging title.
Clickbait uses some perfectly sound underlying concepts, though. Rather than turn your nose up at the idea of taking inspiration from clickbait tactics, recognize some of the fundamental truths about human behavior that this type of content thrives on. People want sensational headlines, and if you can’t draw them in with catchy titles that inspire curiosity, rest assured there is another brand that will.
Finding that balance between sensational and clickbait may seem tricky, but if you can keep delivering good content and real value to your audience, you’ll never be at risk of falling into the “fake news” trap.
Good luck out there, and remember: If you’re going to clickbait, please do it responsibly.
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These toddler activity ideas might be fun, BUT… would you let YOUR toddler do them?
I think other parents will know exactly what I mean when you look at some of these “toddler activity ideas” below.
Updated on March 23, 2019
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Is it just me? Would YOU let YOUR toddler do these things?
If you’re looking for SMART toddler activities and toys…
I spend a lot of time on Pinterest – I truly just love the site!
But every now and then…
these “smart ideas” for toddlers come across my feed that make me say, “Awwwww hell no! I would never let MY toddler do that!”
However, I just might let the grandkids do it. Double standard? Perhaps.
I might! I thought about making one of these DIY sensory board ideas for toddlers for them – and I’m not crafty!
Ok, let’s start with THIS idea that has been making the rounds on Pinterest lately… Tell me, would you REALLY let your child do this?!?!
Now, I have to admit, this is an interesting idea to help potty train your toddler. When I first saw it on Pinterest, I thought, hmmmm that could help keep them busy while waiting to do their business on the potty.
Just hand the toddler some markers (whether they’re dry erase or not), and say, “Hey, go draw on the toilet”.
Ummmm… I don’t think so, but it IS clever.
And yep, I’d probably let the grandkids do this.
Ok, how about this toddler activity idea?
Here Johnny, have some sharp pointy things and a hammer…
While this idea definitely would keep them busy (for 10 seconds), I can’t see giving a toddler a handful of golf tees to play with.
First off, they’re sharp. Secondly, I golf – and I want my tees!
Alrighty, how about this idea:
Now, I know it’s important to encourage your child to be creative.
But drawing on my walls… with their feet?
Now, the grandkids.. they can take a Sharpie marker to my walls. I wouldn’t be nuts about it, but the mom and dad know how to paint <grin>
How about THIS idea:
First off, what color is the Jello? Looks pretty darn gross.
Which leads me to – that cr@p would be ALL over my carpet.
Even if they played with it 2 miles from the house on a dirt road, I would still have that Jello on my floors and walls….and floors… on my cats… it would be EVERYWHERE.
C’mon, you know it’s true!
BUT, it does look fun for toddlers to do. Here’s the directions.
Speaking of getting stuff ALL over my house…
Now, this WOULD be fun, but we all know what color water that container will be full of as the snow melts and all the paint colors are in it.
Plus, my kids would SO be eating that (as would the cats).
Now this next idea isn’t an activity, but just look:
Do you see what’s in the pot of this potty seat?
Yep, that’s a coffee filter.
At first glance of this idea, I thought, “Well, that’s pretty smart” –
but then it hit me…
It would be ME that would have to reach in and get that coffee filter OUT of the potty seat after the toddler is done doing his business.
I’m not 100% sure I’d even do that for the grandkids.
(by the way, the 2 year old just got one of these “my size” pottys. He LOVES it!)
Now this activity idea is right cute, but…
This is real pudding.
The recipe simply calls for regular vanilla pudding and food coloring.
It sure is pretty to look at – and that’s exactly what I’d be doing –
looking at it ALL over my toddler, my house, my cats, and probably all over me as well.
Anytime food coloring is involved, it just never has a good outcome.
This next one just makes me laugh – I’ll tell you why after you look:
Now of COURSE this would be fun – and there’s nothing messy about it.
Except, I can see my toddler and kids doing this and then the inevitable would happen:
“Mommy, come play, too!”
I get motion sick just thinking about being on a boat. If you get me trying to follow that curvy line… well, I’d have another mess to clean up that no coffee filter could contain!
Ok, one more…
Now I’ll admit, this DOES look super cool and fun for the kids…
But do you see what is IN that container?
Lots and lots of little tiny beans.
LOTS of them – need I say more?
That was fun!
Lots of love to the amazing people who came up with these ideas!
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Is Europe facing a fourth wave? Since the beginning of June, many European countries have begun to rise again with Covit-19 contaminants. In France, recovery from the epidemic began in early July, leading to a gradual extension of the use of the Emmanuel Macron Health Pass in order to encourage people to go for the vaccine.
Thanks to the Francifo Dashboard for tracking the evolution of the epidemic in France and around the world
France is not the only country experiencing a rise in the number of cases. As our map below shows, the health condition of our European neighbors is also deteriorating.
Questioned? The delta variant, in particular, is “Today it is in the majority in most European countries”, Report by Analyst Edward Mathew Our world in data (In English), An organization that monitors the evolution of epidemics in the world. However, significant disparities between countries appear.
Launched in early June, in the United Kingdom and Portugal
In early June, the United Kingdom, like Portugal, had the lowest number of new cases of Covit-19 in Europe: 50 cases per million people. Both countries escaped the third wave last spring.
However, since the beginning of June, new contaminants have started to rise again, with more than 50% of new cases every week. From mid-June, the United Kingdom had to postpone the last phase of its restructuring, and Portugal became one of the most contagious countries in Europe. The increase has not stopped since and has even accelerated in the UK, reaching more than 500 cases per million people daily, unprecedented across the channel since January. In Portugal, the incidence rate is 287 cases per one million people.
The share of delta variability, which is 60% higher than most variants in Europe until then, seems to be a priority in the early onset of epidemics in these countries. After all, this is the analysis of Thibo Fiolat, who holds a doctorate in epidemiology. “These are the countries where the delta variability was high, and we have the first outbreak again”, He explains to franceinfo. By mid-June, the virus mutation was already in the majority there, Which represents less than 20% of new cases in other European countries. According to the latest statistics, the delta variant now accounts for more than 80% of cases in Portugal and almost 100% in the United Kingdom.
In Spain and Greece, the acceleration of the epidemic at the end of June
The epidemic then re-emerged in Spain and Greece at the end of June. However, it was faster than the United Kingdom or Portugal, with the weekly increase quickly reaching +150%. In the week from June 28 to July 5, the incidence rate per million in Spain rose from 85 to 225. The following week, it rose from 78 to 190 in Greece.
The situation in Spain is particularly worrying. On July 14 the country had more than 430 cases per day per million people, which had not reached the country for almost 6 months and was still in a dynamic state of strong progress. It should be noted that Spain is one of the most contagious countries in Europe before the outbreak. Thus, the daily incidence rate is not less than 70 per million people. In France, that number dropped to less than 30 at the end of June.
According to Thibo Fiolet, the role of the delta variant again seems decisive here: the deadline for most European countries to have data is June 28. Nearly 50% of cases in Spain are linked to news epidemics with the delta variant, one of the highest in Europe behind the UK and Portugal. In Greece, residents have been coming out of severe imprisonment for months, and the lack of data on variations makes the analysis much more difficult. But Greek authorities are taking the threat seriously and have announced new measures similar to those announced by Emmanuel Macron on Monday.
In France, Switzerland and Belgium, the epidemic gradually begins again in July
In France, Switzerland and Belgium, the increase in new cases began in the first days of July. It was slower than Spain or Greece. For now, the number of new daily cases does not exceed 120 contaminants per million people in Belgium. Daily occurrence rates in France and Switzerland ranged from 58 and 40 to 14 July.
All three countries are experiencing similar growth The number of cases worldwide has more than doubled since the beginning of July, from July 1 to 14 of the European average, from more than 50,000 cases per day to less than 100,000.
By the end of June, the presence of delta variants in these countries was still within the European average, with 25 to 40% of sick people affected by the mutation of this virus. The Public Health France Latest Statistics Show that this variation is gradually establishing itself in French territory: this represents two-thirds of the new contaminants in the week from July 6 to 12. The gradual arrival of this variant, as explained by Francinefo Oliver Quirin, a member of the Scientific Council, explains this revision in moderation at this time.
In the Netherlands, recently erupted
In the Netherlands, the curve makes you dizzy. As of July 5, the country had a low virus circulation, comparable to that of Belgium. In 10 days, the number of daily cases increased almost tenfold, from just 800 to 8,000 cases. Unheard of in Europe since the outbreak. The country has been stuck with the UK for two weeks in terms of virus circulation.
What happened ? “This new wave is so recent that it is difficult to identify the causes.“, Underlining Edward Mathews. Like all parts of Europe, the delta variant participates in the recovery. But on June 28, it still represents only a quarter of the contaminants that made the Netherlands one of the Western European countries with the lowest cycle of this virus mutation.
To Thebo Pilot, “It’s especially polluted for 18-30 years.” He improves it “Restaurants are the first source of pollution identified by local authorities.” It reopened at the end of April. RIVM (equivalent to French public health in the Netherlands) is highlighted In the July 9 report (In Dutch) The appearance of multiple clusters at student banquets organized in hotels or restaurants. A music festival organized in early July also contributed to the epidemic recovery, Despite the use of the Health Pass, thousands of people have been affected.
Very low circulation of the virus in Germany, Italy and Austria
They seem to be taking refuge in the present. In Italy, Austria and Germany, the fourth wave is far away. Admittedly the number of cases has increased in the first two weeks of July, but the incidence rate is very low, with less than 25 cases per million people per day. To say an idea, France has not experienced a low cycle of this virus for almost a year.
Although the delta variant is in the majority, with a greater share than in the Netherlands, why is the epidemic stopping? Two factors need to be emphasized. First, in the low pre-circulation of the virus: these countries reached a low incidence rate of less than 12 by the end of June. In addition, as in Austria and Germany, restricted health measures are maintained there. Both German-speaking countries have already extended the use of the Health Pass for several weeks. Thus the document or document is necessary to go to the hairdresser.
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Photo based artworks by five artists address Union Station as The Heart of Los Angeles on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary.
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The way he sees it, if only he can anticipate every variable, then he will be prepared for whatever life throws at him. This should sound familiar. This is the way most people approach life.
If only I can anticipate everything, then I'll be safe.
Now that might work in chess--I wouldn't know; I'm a terrible chess player--but not in life. The Buddha cautions against this approach to living in the Four Noble Truths. Our "if only's" can go on forever; that's the nature of being human. Our potential for dissatisfaction is limitless. The moment one thing in our lives goes the way we want it, we immediately think of ten ways that it could be better.
That's dukkha, the human tendency to be dissatisfied with life, regardless of its content. Thinking is a tool, a capacity; it's not who we are.
Donatello learns this hard way. In a very convenient TV-fashion, as the episode develops we learn that the villain can read minds and thus anticipate whatever move the turtles make before they attack.
Daunted by this, Donatello, seeks the advice of his master, Splinter. Splinter says, "In a fight you cannot be up here,"and taps his head. This is the same for life. If we try to think our way through life, all we will do is get tangled up in hypothetical scenarios, none of which have any reality. They are, after all, only thoughts.
Instead, we need to come back to the present moment and just see, just hear, just smell. Drop the thinking.
Or as Splinter puts it so well, "You must find the space between your thoughts and live there."
Wow, talk about a great Zen teaching!
This is Zen Master Seung Sanh's Don't-know mind or Suzuki Roshi's Beginner's mind. It's our original nature before we clutter it up with strategizing and manipulating. That's our original mind, our Buddha nature.
And Donatello needs to return to it in order to defeat the villain.
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Diabetes can affect one of the most significant organs of our body, the eyes. Various complications including those related to our eyes can emerge with a lack of blood sugar management. But how does diabetes affect them? Read on to learn more.
Blindness is one of the severe complications of uncontrolled diabetes. It is common for individuals with diabetes who are 20 years old and above. Diabetes management is necessary to ensure that severe health complications do not occur.
Here are ways that diabetes affects the eyes:
Individuals with diabetes have a high chance of having glaucoma. It is a condition of the eyes that impairs the optic nerves. Signs of this condition include severe headache, pain in the eyes, and eye inflammation. Its treatment options include eye drops and oral medications. Insulin shots are also required for individuals with high blood sugar to prevent this condition from advancing to a more severe stage.
Individuals with diabetes acquire this condition early compared to those with a normal blood glucose level. Cataract refers to the clouding of the lens of the eyes. This condition makes it difficult for the eyes to see and read clearly. Its symptoms include clouded eyesight and light sensitivity. Treatment includes cataract surgery and eye drops.
3) Blurred Vision
A blurry vision is an early symptom of diabetes. While it is only temporary, it can become complex if diabetes is not treated. Besides blurry vision, other symptoms of diabetes include seizures, loss of consciousness, increased thirst, and unexplained hunger. Treatment involving insulin shots is necessary to maintain normal blood glucose levels.
4) Diabetic Retinopathy
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- 1 Can you play PS1 games on emulator?
- 2 Does OpenEmu support ps3?
- 3 Do emulators work on Mac?
- 4 Are emulators legal?
- 5 How do I rip PS1 games?
- 6 How can I play PS1 games on PS4?
- 7 How can I play PlayStation games on my PC for free?
- 8 How do I add multiple disc games to OpenEmu?
- 9 Can OpenEmu play PS1 games?
- 10 How do I make OpenEmu run faster?
Can you play PS1 games on emulator?
All you need is an emulator, a PS1 BIOS, and your old PS1 games! Thankfully, if your favorite PS1 games are no longer available, you can still play them on your PC. A PlayStation 1 emulator brings your favorite PS1 games back to life. All you need is an emulator, a PS1 BIOS, and your old PS1 games.
Does OpenEmu support ps3?
OpenEmu now automatically maps controls for the following recognized devices in our database: PlayStation Dualshock 3 and Dualshock 4.
Do emulators work on Mac?
You can play retro games on macOS with an emulator. An emulator imitates a console gaming system, allowing you to play console games on your Mac. With the instructions below, you can play retro games on macOS from NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, and a ton more.
Are emulators legal?
Emulators are legal to download and use, however, sharing copyrighted ROMs online is illegal. There is no legal precedent for ripping and downloading ROMs for games you own, though an argument could be made for fair use. Here’s what you need to know about the legality of emulators and ROMs in the United States.
How do I rip PS1 games?
Put your PS1 or PS2 disc into your computer. Choose the destination of the file, by clicking the little folder+magnifying glass button. Click the CD button at the bottom. Wait for it to finish ripping.
How can I play PS1 games on PS4?
Some PS1, PS2 and PS3 games are available to purchase through the PlayStation Store, allowing you to play them on your PS4.
How can I play PlayStation games on my PC for free?
You can play PS4 games on PC and laptop without remote play and without owning a PS4 console by following the below steps:
- Download the PlayStation Now app on PC.
- Create a PlayStation Network account and set up your subscription.
- Connect a DualShock 4 controller via USB port.
How do I add multiple disc games to OpenEmu?
How do I install multi-disc GameCube games?
- Make a CUE file for each separate BIN.
- Create an M3U file containing the CUEs.
- Keep M3U, BINs and CUEs in one folder.
- Import the M3U file to OpenEmu.
Can OpenEmu play PS1 games?
OpenEmu. OpenEumu is an open-source video game emulator available for Mac and is regarded as one of the best PS1 Mac emulators. Through the application, you’ll be able to emulate PS1 games along with Atari titles, Gameboy titles, Nintendo NES, 64, and DS titles, as well as games for numerous other retro consoles.
How do I make OpenEmu run faster?
What you have to do is:
- Go to “edit game control”
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Don’t let the title turn you off .
Whether you eat meat, veggies or lead chips from your flaking bathroom wall, you can weigh in on this one. It involves meat and deception ensues…
There is some controversy stirring in the world of VegNews, a magazine that calls itself the "premier magazine to focus on a vegetarian lifestyle.” No, it’s not about the ethics of eating meat or not, but rather about the ethics of the publication itself. And actually, the editorial integrity of any publication.
It seems the magazine’s fake meat photos were actually pictures of real meat.
It turns out VegNews has been using real meat photos to accompany its recipes, as a vegan blogger," “QuarryGirl,” discovered and documented. She’s posted several examples of stock photography of meat dishes in which VegNews has used as an image of a vegan dish (she was quite the investigative reporter, I must say.)
The "Vegan Spare Ribs" recipe used a photo of actual meat ribs, with the bones photoshopped out, and a picture for Seitan Stew was actually an iStockphoto titled "Chicken Breast Soup." Other examples include hot dogs with actual meat and macaroni and cheese with actual cheese.
There were a lot of examples and absolutely no doubt about the scam—it was totally blatant.
A former VegNews intern commented that everyone on the VegNews staff was fully aware of the “meat and dairy photo policy,” and a former copy editor echoed backed that statement up.
Slashsfood ends the piece by saying that the VegNews Facebook page has a slew of disappointed commenters as well, some of which are claiming that their comments are getting deleted and that the magazine hasn’t commented yet on its photo policy.
My Two Cents
As a vegetarian, I wasn’t offended by the fact that real meat was used. Hell, I didn’t have to eat it or anything. But as an editor and (sometimes) reader of the magazine, I was offended that this hypocrisy now called all credibility and editorial integrity of VegNews—and magazines in general— into question.
If there were dishonest enough to use meat in the pictures—something ethically offensive to most of their their readers—what could be trusted? To publish a recipe and then include a (stock) photo of something that isn’t even the real finished product is lazy, irresponsible and ridiculous.
I don’t think I need to argue that point, and I won’t be reading in the future.
But then I started a little debate in my head. How is this really different than the mass amounts of photoshopping, airbrushing, etc. that happens 99.9 percent of the time in other magazines.
“Stars Without Makeup” sections of magazines should really be called “stars wearing a crapload of makeup in neutral tones.” Heads are put on different bodies, things are cropped out and enhanced— with a few exceptions, close to nothing that’s published is an accurate portrayal of what someone “famous” looks like.
The only sticking point with my argument there was that meat is offensive to most VegNews readers, and the magazine didn’t respect that or it’s readers enough to be honest and responsible with their product. They were deliberate in their actions over and over.
As an editor and a reader myself, I can’t imagine ever being okay with that.
I couldn’t be.
So, where do you come out on the Faux Meat Faux Pas specifically or in editorial integrity in general?
Is this situation similar to that of celebrities in magazines? Completely different? Would it matter if it were just online and not in print?
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Power and Control: Learning to Use It Respectfully
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmFree
As caregivers, we are in a close and complicated relationship with the individuals we support. We are asked to ensure certain levels of health and safety, while also giving the client the dignity of personhood and autonomy. This complicated relationship can be wrought with disagreements that may lead to power struggles and attempts to control the situation.
This session will help you:
- recognize the power dynamic between a person and their support provider
- consider the nature of that relationship
- identify the intentional and unintentional ways we as support providers and caregivers may exert power and control
- and how we can avoid or de-escalate power struggles
Webinar will include a 2-hour presentation with opportunities for participant engagement.
Certificates of Participation/Continuing Education Hours will be provided to participants who:
- Complete the pre-test
- Attend the 2-hour webinar
- Complete the post-test
About the Presenter:
Shawn Bass is a Behavior Consultant with UW-Madison’s Waisman Center Community TIES program. He has over 19 years’ experience working with people with disabilities. With a degree in special education, he was a teacher for six years. He has also worked in residential, respite, in-home therapy, and community-based services; as well as being a support person in crisis situations to divert emergency detentions. | <urn:uuid:d44e7662-6121-4003-a1c2-c173488e83be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cow.waisman.wisc.edu/event/power-and-control-learning-to-use-it-respectfully-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945835 | 330 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Most people procrastinate when it comes to bathroom cleaning. Bathroom cleaning is time-consuming but necessary. Keeping the bathroom clean can help you and your family stay away from several diseases and infections. Bathrooms are hubs for dirt accumulation and hence, require regular cleaning and disinfecting. Bathroom cleaning for most of us is only about cleaning the bathtubs, toilets and the sink. However, a bathroom has several hidden areas that are always in need of deep cleaning. Right from the toothbrush holders to the shower, everything hoards a lot of bacteria. Using the right bathroom cleaning products is very crucial in the bathroom cleaning process. Bathroom floors must also be disinfected regularly. These days the market is filled with a variety of bathroom cleaners. Choose the cleaning products that suit your bathroom needs. Take into consideration the areas you intend to clean. Additionally, check whether the products are safe and capable of disinfecting. Here is everything you need to know about bathroom cleaning.
Make sure to wipe everything with a disinfectant
Right from the water taps to the bathroom door handles everything needs to be wiped. These minute bathroom elements are often ignored but they do accumulate a lot of dirt and germs. Moreover, these spaces regularly come in touch with several people which increases the chances of infections.
Check the products you are using
Not every harsh product out there should be used for bathroom cleaning. Cleaning products need to be effective and not just chemically harmful to the skin. Check the labels on the cleaning products carefully where they mention the chemical concentration.
Keep a check on the vanity area
Most bathrooms have a vanity area. Right from the mirrors to the storage cabinets, everything needs to be cleaned. The corners of these items are likely to attract dirt. See to it that the cleaning products you use are suitable for the stated items. For instance, the mirror should be cleaned with a glass cleaner.
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Deon Filmer is a Lead Economist in the Research Group of the World Bank. He works on issues of human capital and skills, service delivery, and the impact evaluation of policies and programs to improve human development outcomes-with research spanning the areas of education, health, social protection, and poverty and inequality. His publications include studies of the impact of demand-side programs on schooling outcomes; the roles of poverty, gender, orphanhood, and disability in explaining education inequalities; the determinants of effective service delivery and the evaluation of interventions aimed at improving it; the determinants of fertility behavior; and on trends in adult mortality around the world. He has recently co-authored books on Making Schools Work: New Evidence from Accountability Refoms and Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, and was a core team member of the World Bank's World Development Reports in 1995 Workers in an Integrating World and 2004 Making Services Work for Poor People, and a contributor to the 2007 report on Development and the Next Generation. He holds a PhD and MA from Brown University and a BA from Tufts University. | <urn:uuid:3d108733-6500-45ea-b68b-991ee97dc2ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ideas4development.org/en/auteur/deon-filmer-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936594 | 218 | 1.773438 | 2 |
A post on the popular TechCrunch UK blog indicated that a possible takeover of the fast growing social network, LinkedIn, by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp may be in the pipeline.
So what does News Corp gain with this acquisition? If the rumors are substantiated, this acquisition could be used to retain and regain both users as well as readers. This is possible through an integrated incorporation of news content in LinkedIn and layering its network’s features on the online site of Wall Street Journal. The declining business classifieds of Wall Street Journal and its other newspapers can also be bolstered by this acquisition. News Corp’s move has quite an advertising potential.
News Corp is recently attracting marketers with the launch of more in house ad network tools through its acquisition of MySpace.
Social networking sites are fast becoming one of the most sought after media distribution channels. In this light, the integration of Wall Street Journal and LinkedIn by News Corp can be a positive step forward.
LinkedIn would definitely gain more mainstream attention through this merger. However comparisons are inevitable with that of the acquisition of MySpace. To begin with, LinkedIn users are not as active as those of MySpace and the traffic is less. But on the other hand, the users of LinkedIn belong to a select professional group with steady incomes. All in all, in order to cash on this new acquisition and give some competition to Facebook, News Corp should think of technologically upgrading LinkedIn. A few more social features will be a nice idea, because there might be more potential in a site that offers more than just an educational and professional background of a person. | <urn:uuid:f288e930-0155-4e82-8a93-85f5a2438fdb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.accuracast.com/news/news-corp-may-takeover-linkedin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959256 | 325 | 1.5 | 2 |
Most pregnant women are understandably keen to avoid anything which could potentially harm them or their baby. Minimising risk factors and knowing what to avoid during pregnancy are some of the ways to reduce the likelihood of problems, but there is a limit to how much you can control.
In all women, the incidence of having a baby with some form of birth defect is 3-5%. But this increases when mothers are exposed to factors which are teratogenic (causing birth defects) to a developing baby.
Keeping informed and knowledgeable about what you can do is important. It may seem while you are pregnant that every horror story soon finds its ways to your ears. Filtering what you want to hear and what you’d rather not takes some energy and you’ll find it’s not always possible to block out what you’d like to. It is common during pregnancy for mothers to worry about all the “what if’s” which can happen and how they would deal with them if they did. It makes good, common sense to eliminate or at least reduce potentially hazardous influences in life generally, but especially during pregnancy.
A diet high in folic acid is important, especially in the first trimester. Low folic acid has been linked with babies having a higher incidence of neural tube defects, for example, spina bifida. A good quality pre-natal vitamin supplement which contains 0.5mg or 500 micrograms of folic acid is the daily recommendation. Foods high in folic acid are green leafy vegetables, good quality cereals, fortified cereals, liver and grapefruit.
Some foods are considered too risky for pregnant women to eat and they are advised to avoid them. This is because of the chances of contracting an infection with Listeria, which can lead to stillbirth and other complications. Listeria is a food-borne illness which can be transferred in soft cheeses, pates, cold “deli” style meats, coleslaw and sushi. Refrigerated foods which have not been stored correctly or cold enough, soft serve ice-cream, unpasteurised milk and products made from unpasteurised milk and ready to eat seafood are also risky.
Some fish are potentially risky to eat during pregnancy. High levels of mercury are found in some fish species and when a developing baby is exposed to high levels of mercury they can have problems with their nervous system. Those which are higher in the food chain and are predatory such as shark, marlin, southern blue fin tuna, orange roughy and swordfish are best avoided.
The current recommendation regarding safe alcohol consumption in pregnancy is that there is no proven safe amount. The placenta does not completely filter out alcohol and a percentage still makes its way to the baby. If you had been drinking alcohol when you conceived try not to worry. The important issue is that you abstain for the remainder of your pregnancy.
If you have been prescribed medication by your doctor and they are aware you are pregnant, do not stop taking them. There is a risk to your own health if you do stop suddenly. If you are in any doubt double check with your doctor and a pharmacist. Most large public hospitals have drug and medication hot lines which you can phone to speak with a pharmacist.
The general guidelines around medication use in pregnancy are:
- Avoid taking anything unless you have to. Do not self prescribe and assume something is safe just because it is labelled as “natural”.
- Although a medication may be considered safe for you to take as an adult, to a forming baby with only a few hundred cells it may be very dangerous.
- Consult your doctor or pharmacist if you are at all unsure.
- If you do take a medication make sure you take the right dose, at the right time and how it is recommended, i.e. on an empty stomach or otherwise.
There are associated risks with taking some herbal or natural therapies during pregnancy, particularly in the first trimester when the baby is forming. Again, check with your doctor or pharmacist regarding what has been proven to be safe and what is potentially toxic. Just because something is labelled as being “natural” is not a sign of quality control or safety. Many complementary medicines have not been tested rigorously and don’t have the scientific evidence to back up their claims. So it is important to be cautious and always check for a comprehensive list of contents and dosage in what you are considering taking.
The current recommendation is for pregnant mothers to limit their caffeine intake. The safe limit for caffeine is considered to be 200mgs/day. An average cup size of filtered coffee contains around 130mgs, so even a couple of flat whites or cappuccinos a day, would be too much. Two cups of weak coffee per day or 4 cups of tea is considered safe. Cola drinks need to be limited to less than 1 litre a day, preferably unsweetened, and energy drinks to less than 1 can per day.
Lead, chemicals, X-rays and ionising radiation, paint fumes, pesticides and cleaning agents can all pose a risk to pregnant women and their unborn babies. Get used to reading the labels on all products and their precautionary warnings. If there is a chance you could be exposed to a potential hazard, ensure you are in a well ventilated room and are wearing a protective mask and clothing. If your working environment is risky, let your employer know you are pregnant and see if you can arrange for an alternative working location.
Cigarettes contain nicotine and a host of other dangerous chemicals. Babies who are born to mothers who smoke are smaller than they would otherwise be. They are also at more risk of being born prematurely, dying from SIDS, developing asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Lactating mothers who smoke do not produce as much breast milk as they could and their babies can smell like cigarette smoke. Nicotine replacement therapies are not recommended during pregnancy so you will need to investigate other options.
Illicit or Recreational Drugs
Babies born to mothers who use recreational drugs are at increased risk of a range of complications. Miscarriage, placental abruption, stillbirth, prematurity, small birth weight and addiction are common problems. Most major public maternity hospitals run specialty programmes designed to support mothers with addiction or drug dependency issues. The staff within these units are highly trained professionals who operate from a strongly non-judgmental approach. If you are having trouble stopping your drug use and need support, look in your local white pages telephone book and ask to be put through to the appropriate team. Speak with your midwife or doctor about withdrawal options.
It will be impossible to completely insulate yourself from the risk of illness when you are pregnant. Viruses and bacteria are not selective about whom they colonise; their primary focus is to look after their own interests and replicate in as many innocent people as they can. Just because you are pregnant does not mean you are exempt. Far from it in fact. Pregnancy can mean a lowered immune response which means you may be even more vulnerable than you usually are.
Become vigilant about hand washing. Avoid inhaling when other people are coughing and sneezing and if you happen to be unlucky enough to be in close vicinity with someone who is vomiting, hold your breath, at least temporarily. Many viruses are air borne and hitch a ride on air particles which are easily inhaled.
Two viral infections which can potentially cause complications during pregnancy are rubella (German measles) and Chickenpox. Cytomegalovirus, Parvovirus (B-19), Toxoplasmosis and some STDs such as Herpes Virus and Syphilis are also dangerous.
Hot Baths, Mineral Spas, Saunas and Spas
In the early months of pregnancy, the foetus is very sensitive to its mother’s core body temperature. Any environment which causes this to raise and stay high can potentially cause problems with foetal development. A normal temperature range for humans is around 36.1-37.3 degrees Celsius. Mothers in the early stages of pregnancy are advised to reduce their chances of contracting a fever inducing illness. They are also advised to avoid remaining in an environment which elevates their temperature to above 39 degrees Celsius.
No need to take a trip to the pound with your adored cat just yet, no matter what you’re told by other people. You will need to avoid your cat’s droppings though, so if it uses a litter tray you’d be wise to ask your partner to empty it while you are pregnant. A parasitic disease called Toxoplasmosis can be transmitted in infected cat’s faeces and is easily transmitted to human hands and then the mouth.
If you need to dig in the garden, wear gloves and wash your hands well afterwards. Likewise, it’s important to wash fruits and vegetables very carefully before eating them and avoid foods you’re not sure about, such as garnishes on food platters.
Threatening or violent relationships
The incidence of domestic violence within relationships is thought to be vastly under-reported. Pregnancy is a time when it can peak, especially when the baby has not been planned, when parents are young and unsupported or there are additional stressors. Unemployment, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse can all make violence worse.
If you, your unborn baby or other children, or even your pets are at risk, you need to get help. Look in your local white pages for contact services in your area and speak with your midwife or doctor. Safe houses are usually available in cities and towns for women and children who are at risk. Think about developing a safety plan and establishing a safety network of trusted people who can help you if you need it.
Not Wearing Seatbelts
The safest way for a pregnant mother to travel when in a car, bus, plane or any other vehicle is to be restrained by an approved seatbelt. Although it may feel uncomfortable, in the event of an accident a correctly applied seatbelt could save your own, as well as your baby’s life.
Have more questions on pregnancy? At Huggies, we’re here to guide you at every step of the way. Motherhood represents a completely new phase in your life and a community of new mothers who can journey with you will be helpful! Pregnancy tips, parenting tips, free diaper samples and exclusive diaper offers shared on the Huggies Club platform can ensure you are best prepared for your newborn child too.
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As of Saturday morning, there have been 1,286,833 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The widely cited source also says 77,280 Americans have died from the coronavirus that first emerged in Wuhan, China.
Is that accurate?
New questions emerged this week about the accuracy of the numbers reported daily by the media, with some claiming they’re undercounted and others, including U.S. government officials, saying they’re being inflated to make the pandemic appear worse, KOMO-TV in Washington state reported.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidance to public health officials to aid them in determining COVID-19 deaths, the station reported.
“If COVID–19 played a role in the death, this condition should be specified on the death certificate,” the CDC said. “In many cases, it is likely that it will be the [underlying cause of death], as it can lead to various life-threatening conditions, such as pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In these cases, COVID-19 should be reported on the lowest line … with the other conditions to which it gave rise listed on the lines above it.”
In an update on the guidance, the CDC said “The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID19 being the underlying cause more often than not.”
When reporting the number of COVID-19 certified deaths, they may seem undercounted because the information usually lags a week or two, according to the CDC, KOMO reported.
Deputy St. Joseph County health officer Dr. Mark Fox expressed confidence that COVID-19 death numbers were accurate, while acknowledging that the reporting process can be tricky, WNDU-TV in Indiana reported on Monday.
Fox told the station that if a patient dies from a heart attack but has tested positive for COVID-19, it’s up to that patient’s physician to decide if it is coronavirus-related.
The numbers have prompted questions. During the 2017-18 winter, pneumonia- and flu-related deaths hit 10%. But in the week ending April 11, COVID-19 deaths hit a record 23.5%, the station reported.
There’s incentive for hospitals to classify some deaths as COVID-19 related. Sen. Scott Jensen (R-MN) said last month on “The Ingraham Angle” that hospitals get paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having the virus.
“Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it’s a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they’re Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it’s COVID-19 pneumonia, then it’s $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.”
A USA Today fact check deemed that claim “true.”
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The objectives of the European Solidarity Corps: "building a more inclusive society, helping vulnerable people and responding to social problems. It offers the possibility to live an inspiring and enriching experience for young people willing to help, learn and grow".
From a psychological point of view, mobility is a potential resource for change, growth and personal development. It is thought that human behaviour takes place in the dynamic between the need for growth and the opposing needs for self-defence and protection, a successful ESC project occurs when the reason for growth and exploration exceeds the need for protection and people engage with each other in intercultural dialogue, challenging themselves through the encounter.
In our definition, mobility is the passage of individuals through cultures (between or within countries) or through a geographical movement or through a movement in the social hierarchy system.
Mobility implies separation from the known environment and immersion in a progressive adaptation to new cultural environments, which results in a set of changes in self-perception, attitude, behaviour patterns and in the development of new skills and competences.
Today, an increasing number of young people are long-term unemployed, suffer discrimination and situations of social exclusion and poverty, or are at risk of socioeconomic marginalisation.
The general theme of social inclusion has always been a concern: quality youth work, improving opportunities for young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) and youth entrepreneurship, the need to see the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities in relation to diversity support.
European Solidarity Corps fighting for the defence of the weakest, the help of young people with fewer opportunities, solidarity with the most disadvantaged groups.
■ EXPECTED RESULTS FOR ASSOCIATIONS (as a host association)
- Increased capacity to operate at European and international level
- Strengthening and innovation of its modus operandi towards the target groups
- Greater understanding and sensitivity to social, linguistic and cultural diversity
- The environment of the most modern, dynamic, committed and professional association
■ EXPECTED RESULTS FOR VOLUNTEERS
- Improvement of skills and competences for personal, educational, social, civic, cultural and professional development
- More active participation in democratic life and society in general
- Improving employability and the transition to the labour market
- A greater sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
- Increased self-employment and self-esteem
- Improvement of language skills
- Greater intercultural awareness
- Increased awareness of the European project and common EU values
- Greater motivation for greater commitment to solidarity activities
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As school kicks back into session and kids jump back into learning, grading standards are being issued. Even if you don’t have children, I am sure you remember what these look like:
A = 90-100%
B = 80-89%
C = 70-79%
D = 60-69%
F = 0-59%
If your child earned 82%, would you demand that they receive an A? No, you would not. Be nice to teachers.
This concept translates into salary bonuses for many different professions. Objectives are set and payout is directly correlated to what % of the objectives were achieved.
If you achieved 71% of the objectives, would you expect 100% of the payout? You might hope for it, but you do not have a strong case to make.
Yet, when we are only 70% consistent with our nutrition, we still want 100% of the yields. We want the body composition and scale change that comes with HIGH Consistency.
What is high consistency? After coaching thousands of women, we have found that most women yield the best results by hitting their macros within range 7/7 days or 13/14 days. That is 93 – 100% of the time.
Well, I hit 6/7 every week! That’s good! 6/7 is 86%. 6/7 is still an outstanding effort, but as our consistency comes down, so must our expectations. You can still achieve your goals hitting 6/7, but it will take longer. I have clients that choose to be 6/7 every week because they want one day not to track. I think it is a brilliant idea if you are willing to accept that it will take longer to get to your goal. There is nothing wrong with taking more time to reach your goal. In fact, it is often a better path because every day you spend getting there is one more day that you have instilled the habits to continue in a long term sustainable way of balanced eating.
5/7 of is still good though, right? I am perfect Monday through Friday! 5/7 days is 71%. 5/7s get dangerous because they open you up to becoming a Weekend Warrior. You can crush your consistency all week long, take two days off, enjoy a weekend of cocktails and fun and erase all of the work you did over the 5 days. If you are in maintenance and you can maintain with 5/7 and being more flexible on the weekends, this may be your strategy to still manage your nutrition and enjoy your weekends. If you are trying to make progress, it is a nearly impossible feat.
Vacations are important. Anniversaries and birthdays are important. This is why we encourage celebrating memories over macros! The message here is not that you cannot take a day or a week off. You can and you SHOULD! When you do take time off from tracking, it is imperative to adjust your expectations of progress.
The next time you are feeling frustrated by your progress, consider quitting, or determine that what you are doing is not working, be honest with yourself and audit your consistency. Count how many days you hit your macros in the last 4 weeks. Divide that number by 28. Now, you have your % of Consistency for the last 4 weeks. How does your consistency measure up with your expectations?
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Type 1 Interferons and the HIV transmission bottleneck
The disparity between the male and female immune response is clear in HIV infection: females typically achieve viral loads 0.5 log10 lower than males and are 5-fold more likely to achieve elite control. However, females are more likely to lose viral control once achieved and progress to AIDS faster than males for matched viral loads. The more aggressive female immune response seen in HIV, also seen of other infections and vaccine responses, may be explained by the higher production of type 1 interferon (IFN-I) by female immune cells. The upstream receptor responsible for recognising virus infection and this initiating IFN-I production, TLR7, is encoded on the X-chromosome and escapes X-chromosome inactivation in a proportion of cells to be doubly expressed on >40% of immune cells.
To test the hypothesis that a stronger IFN-I innate immune response might increase the susceptibility of females to in-utero HIV infection, we are characterising the IFN-I-sensitivity of the virus transmitted from mother-to-child in the Babycure study. This work led by Emily Adland (Adland et al., Nat Comms 2020) has shown that IFN-I-resistant viruses tend to be transmitted to female foetuses, while IFN-I-sensitive viruses are preferentially transmitted to male foetuses. The female susceptibility to in-utero HIV infection is maximal when the mother herself becomes infected during pregnancy, prompting the hypothesis that IFN-I-resistant viruses are preferentially transmitted in male-to-female adult HIV transmission, and are then outgrown by IFN-I-sensitive viruses following transmission. We are addressing this with adult transmission pairs from the ZEHRP cohort, working in collaboration with Eric Hunter at Emory University and aim to ascertain both IFN-I-sensitivity and viral replicative capacity (VRC) of transmitted viruses. VRC is indeed lower in in-utero infected females than males, consistent with the overall notion that female foetuses are more susceptible to intrauterine mother-to-child transmission. | <urn:uuid:79daa744-0441-4092-ab17-34fcacf4d679> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.paediatrics.ox.ac.uk/research/HIV-research-group/current-studies/type-1-interferons-and-the-hiv-transmission-bottleneck?92cbb4ee-1a8b-11ed-964c-0a7876736b16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936731 | 444 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Phantom Vessels. A collection of new large-scale charcoal drawings and small graphite drawings, together with five bronze sculptures. The works attempt to recharge classic archetypes by reactivating mythologies from the various backgrounds that make up our current cultural and political climate.
"Longo has long been fascinated by figures of power, which he locates everywhere – in our psyches, in media culture, in the reaches of outer space, in the depths of the ocean. He describes some of his motifs as Phantom Vessels – vessels that can be taken over and filled with primal feelings." Thus Hal Foster in 2012 on the work of the American artist Robert Longo (b 1953 in Brooklyn, NY).
Phantom Vessels consists of a collection of new large-scale charcoal drawings and small graphite drawings, together with five bronze sculptures, to be presented from 22 March until 11 May in the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg. After the exhibition God Machines, shown in 2011 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Paris gallery, this is Longo's second major project for the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Longo is returning to Salzburg after a 20-year gap: in 1993 he designed the stage-set for Peter Mussbach's production of Mozart's opera Lucio Silla.
As Longo explains, the works attempt to recharge classic archetypes by reactivating mythologies from the various backgrounds that make up our current cultural and political climate. One mythology that informs this particular group of works is that of Parsifal and his search for the Holy Grail; his acts of valour, as well as his foibles, become a metaphor for America's own search for greatness. From this myth, Longo extracts icons such as a forest, a knight in armour, a mother or a maiden, in order to examine them through his rich black-and-white mode of representation. Longo also uses to advantage the architecture of the splendid Villa Kast, transforming the gallery into a body, each room acting as an extension of this body. Thus the exhibition not only occupies the vessel of the gallery, but itself becomes a conceptual vessel holding these entities together.
The smaller drawings distributed throughout the rooms are graphite representations of classic works ranging from a Byzantine Jesus to works by Salvador Dalí and Frank Stella. Recreating these works in black and white is a process of abstraction. Part of Longo's ongoing Heritage series, they act as a meditation on influence and on the art-historical canon, which over time has become mythological in its own right. Longo uses the exercise as a way of illustrating his own thought process. In the five bronze sculptures, he isolates figures from Francisco de Goya's famous painting A Procession of Flagellants (1812-14), to which he refers in one of the small drawings.
In the early 1980s, Robert Longo became known to a wide public. Probably his best-known series, generally seen as an icon of the 1980s, is that of Men in the Cities: depictions of men in smart black suits leaping into the air, writhing ecstatically. In 1977, together with Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Troy Brauntuch and Philip Smith, Longo took part in the legendary group exhibition Pictures in Artists Space in SoHo. This exhibition lent its name to a whole generation of artists born between 1945 and the early 1950s – the so-called "Pictures Generation". In 2009, a comprehensive group exhibition of the same name in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art attempted to categorise this generation within the history of art. A New York Times review described it: "They were born [...] in a prosperous but paranoia-prone cold war era. They were the first kids to be raised with television, fast food and disposable everything. As teenagers they were soaked in Pop Art, rock and rebel politics. As art students, even in traditionalist programs, they felt the effects of Conceptualism. Ideas replaced objects and images. Painting was pushed to the side. The movement questioned what art was for and redefined what could be art" (Holland Cotter, 2009).
A characteristic of Longo's charcoal drawing is a kind of chiaroscuro reminiscent of Caravaggio and Rembrandt. The subject is frozen in dramatic culmination – whether the wave on the point of breaking or the mushroom cloud of an atom bomb, whether the tiger about to pounce, the open-jawed shark, or the aeroplane just before it crashes into the Twin Towers. All this, portrayed in a chiaroscuro technique, results in a gripping peripeteia. In 1989, Roberta Smith wrote on Robert Longo's motifs, channelled from his plethora of images: "Longo's works seem intended to grab the viewer by the throat, like the first few minutes of a good Steven Spielberg movie". The profound black of Longo's drawings, the matt surfaces that totally absorb the light, exert a magnetic pull on the viewer. The epic narrative force of Longo's works also results from his strategy of transforming the small, intimate drawing into the monumental format of painting. The drawing is given a scale which was not previously associated with it, and which overwhelms the viewer.
Robert Longo has held solo exhibitions in prominent public institutions including the Museu Berardo, Lisbon (2010), Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm (2010), Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice (2009), Krefeld Museums of Art (2002), Albertina, Vienna (2002), Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (1995), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (1991), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1989) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1989). He has participated in group exhibitions including documenta 8 (1987), Whitney Biennial (2004) and Venice Biennale (1997).
His works are on show in prestigious collections such as those in the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art (all New York), LA County Museum of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Albertina (Vienna), Tate Gallery (London), Jewish Museum (Berlin), and Museum Ludwig (Cologne). In 2005, Robert Longo received the Goslar Kaiserring, one of the worldwide most important awards for modern art.
Robert Longo lives and works in New York, with his wife, Barbara Sukowa, and three sons.
Image: Untitled (Angels Wing), 2012. Charcoal on mounted paper 170.8 x 243.8 cm (67.25 x 96 in)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Villa Kast
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Post Falls School District continuously develops and implements a rigorous curriculum to meet the needs of each student. All students’ coursework aligns with the Idaho Content Standards and is measured through ongoing, embedded assessments. These state standards serve as a guide by every public school district in Idaho to establish consistency in academic standards in core content areas statewide while providing local control over the selection and implementation of curriculum resources. Teachers use board-approved curricular materials based on the Idaho Content Standards.
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In the third podcast of the series, “Unity of Consciousness,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviews Angus Menuge, professor and chair of philosophy at Concordia University, on unique features of human consciousness, including the fact that our experiences are a unity, which has prompted some interesting thought experiments, for example those of Richard Swinburne. But here’s another one: What if there really were two of you?
This portion begins at 06:49 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow.
Robert J. Marks: What is the idea of “too many thinkers” in philosophy?
Angus Menuge (pictured): The simple view of personal identity is that your soul or your mind is always you. That’s a dualist view.
The complex view is based on some kind of continuity, either continuity of brain states, physical continuity, or continuity of memories, mental states.
The scenarios described create problems for this view. Here are a few examples: Suppose that there is an ontological three-dimensional copier. It can duplicate people physically. So then you and your doppelganger — which is just like you in every way, physically — share a common origin. This copy was made from you and there’s continuity. Since the continuity is there, it would seem that there’s now two of you. The problem is there can’t be two of you, because two things cannot be one thing.
Note: “Human organisms have brute-physical persistence conditions. If your brain were transplanted, the one who ended up with that organ would be uniquely psychologically continuous with you (and this continuity would be continuously physically realized). On any psychological-continuity view, she would be you: the person would go with her transplanted brain. But no organism would go with its transplanted brain. The operation would simply move an organ from one organism to another. So it seems, anyway. It follows that if you were an organism, you would stay behind with an empty head. Even though this is never going to happen, it shows that according to psychological-continuity views we have a property that no organism has, namely possibly moving from one organism to another by brain transplant.” – “The Too-Many-Thinkers Problem,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The closest humans come to anything like “two you’s” is the case of inseparably conjoined twins who jointly control some body parts but separately control others but remain separate people:
“There is also a set of conjoined twins who have separate brains but a single body and share control of the body. The neurology of these twins is not fully understood, but there seems to be an implicit cooperation in movements and thoughts. My sense is that it is analogous to the ordinary cooperation of unconnected people in everyday life. We cooperate and do things together all the time — we collaborate on projects, carry heavy things together, etc. Conjoined twins do so more spontaneously and intimately. It’s strange but not completely unlike ordinary social life.” – Michael Egnor, “Are human brain transplants even possible? Mind Matters News
Bottom line: Human consciousness, all the more so its uncommon manifestations, is the most remarkable thing in our universe.
Next: Why don’t changes to our bodies create a different consciousness?
Here are the earlier portions of this discussion:
Part 1: Mystery: Our brains divide up events but we experience them whole That’s one of the conundrums of consciousness. Philosopher Angus Menuge notes that something that is not just our brains unifies our experiences from the partial information scattered across many neurons.
Part 2: How split-brain surgery underlines the unity of consciousness. At one time, some thought that if the brain were split, consciousness would be too, but that did not turn out to be true. Philosopher Angus Menuge thinks that “split personality” doesn’t mean two consciousnesses but loss of access to the information that integrates mental states.
Part 3: Why do we stay the same person over time? Why not split up? It would be a total fluke if all the different clouds of atoms that produce your brain would always produce the same consciousness. But they do. Philosopher Angus Menuge argues that you have one soul, at and over time. And that explains why, despite changes, you are one consciousness, at and over time.
- 00:30 | Introducing Dr. Angus Menuge
- 01:04 | Unity of consciousness
- 03:04 | Split-brain operations
- 04:55 | Split personalities
- 06:49 | Too many thinkers problem
- 11:06 | Why don’t bodily changes generate a different consciousness?
- 14:28 | Elon Musk’s Neuralink
- Dr. Angus Menuge at Concordia University
- The Inherence of Human Dignity, vol. 1: Foundations of Human Dignity edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
- The Inherence of Human Dignity, vol. 2: Law and Religious Liberty, edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
- Religious Liberty and the Law, edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
- The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, co-edited by Dr. Angus Menuge
- Michael Egnor at Discovery.org
- Tim Bayne, philosopher of mind and cognitive science
- Sybil (1976)
- Richard Swinburne, English philosopher
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1958 Sony TR-610
Shirt pocket radio, thermoplastic cabinet
4 1/4 x 2 9/16 x 1 1/8 inches / 108 x 65 x 29 mm
Six transistors (Sony, 2x 2T65, 2T73, 2x 2T76, 2T84), superheterodyne circuit
One standard 9-volt battery
Manufactured by Sony Corp., Japan
Released in November 1958, the first truly mass-marketed Japanese pocket transistor radio exported to the US, several hundred thousand units involved — this and its seminal, multiple-award-winning cabinet design make it one of the most historically significant transistor radios ever produced. A small and slim radio that could easily fit into any shirt pocket (unlike its "pocket" predecessors, such as the Standard SR-F22, Hitachi TH-621 and Sony TR-63), the TR-610 incorporated a round brass-rimmed speaker grille that was to become an iconic emblem of the pocket transistor radio. Because of its unprecedented number of units imported to the US, its timeless cabinet design and its relatively low price, the Sony TR-610 was to become the second nail in the coffin (after the Sony TR-63) for the US consumer electronics industry.
The Sony 610 came in four cabinet colors: red, white, green, and black — I still think black is by far the color that works best for this set. Early versions of the Sony 610 had a gold-colored dial plate, and later versions had a silver-colored dial plate. In 1959 or 1960 a lower-priced, five-transistor version was released: the Sony TR-510. | <urn:uuid:c8ef8413-1ef3-4d3e-b54e-6b91e4cbc3e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://abetterpage.com/wt/japan/Sony610.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.926601 | 348 | 2.03125 | 2 |
- Try out some tools that can be used to foster digital citizenship.
- Match tools with digital citizenship standards.
Sometimes technology is approached from a tools perspective, just as keyboarding has been a skill taught in school under different guises. What is typed is less important than how it is typed. Nevertheless, the reason for learning this tool is to facilitate writing. That process applies to many technology tools.
Nowadays, hardware seems to be easier to learn, at least the basic level operations so they can focus on the application of that tool more quickly. For instance, students can usually figure out how to use a simple digital camera or Flip camcorder in a few minutes, and use that equipment to record and capture image, sound and movement. With the advent of Web 2.0, the number of technology tools, particularly software applications, has proliferated. The underlying reason for many of these tools is communication, including interactive or dynamic communication.
Digital citizenship is needed to insure that students use these tools for positive purposes, not abuse them. It is the ability to broadcast digital images around the world instantaneously, for example, such actions make cyberbullying so devastating. The more knowledgeable that the school community is with technology tools, the more effectively they can determine the role they play relative to digital citizenship.
1. Go to the wiki’s Resources pages. Choose one of the tools listed, and learn about it; think “play.” You might want to choose a tool you’ve heard about, or by its stated function. Make notes as you explore the tool; think about these points:
- What is the function of the tool?
- How easy is it to install and navigate?
- What are its technical features and requirements (e.g., plug-ins, RAM, file transfer, peripherals)?
- How easy is it to learn the basics, and use it?
- What are its essential and special digital literacy/communication features (e.g., image, sound, interactivity, information manipulation)?
- How would you teach it – and its use? NOTE that at the end of that section there are several tutorials listed; you may want to look at those as you explore your chosen tool (Commoncraft is great! -- and would be a fun way to get students to create a tutorial).
2. As you work with the tool, think about how it might be used to foster digital citizenship. For instance, Audacity is a good tool for creating podcasts, which can be used to communicate about content or promote a social cause.
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Reading "Econometrics" by Fumio Hayashi, from Princenton University Press, ISBN 0-691-01018-5, in page 13 by "Fixed Regressors" subtitle, it is stated:
"We have presented the classical linear regression model, treating the regressors as random. This is in contrast to the treatment in most textbooks, where X is assumed to be "fixed" or deterministic. If X is fixed, then there is no need to distinguish between conditional distribution of the error term [...] and the unconditional distribution"
I have problems understanding this paragraph. I think it says that if you consider X fixed, then it is "constant" and the conditional distribution of the error term and the unconditional distribution is the same because conditional distribution over a "constant" is equal to unconditional distribution?
On the other hand, I do not know why this is relevant, every time a run an
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Date: 07 February 2022; 09:45 UT
Summary of Space Weather.
All the sunspots on the solar disc are crackling with minor C-class flares. The geomagnetic conditions are
quiet. The solar wind speed is declining.
Space Weather parameters / observations;
Sunspot Number: 83
10.7cm Flux: 124 sfu
Solar wind speed: 519.7 km.s-1
Solar wind density: 10.0 protons.cm3
Bz: -1.6 nT (South)
Bt: 3.3 nT
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Chemical peels are safe and reliable skin resurfacing techniques that rejuvenate the skin by improving the appearance and texture
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At the start of the year there is always talk about New Year’s resolutions. What new habit are you going to take up for the year ahead. In our overloaded world, wouldn’t it be better to ask, what are you giving up?
We never have too little to do
I haven’t comes across a single client who at the start of our engagement says they have too little to do. It is always the opposite and they are usually trying to figure out how they can get more done. What efficiency or time management hack can they use to get more done. It almost always ends in frustration, when despite their best efforts, it doesn’t get done.
The trouble with maybe’s
Contrast this with giving something up. We now have less to do and it is a liberating feeling. Even more so when we get important things done because we have the time. So what prevents us from giving something up? We don’t like to lose things. It is better to hold on to something than give it up. Do you have a to do list with a lot of things you never get to? Those things are maybe’s. Things you would like but you’ll never get done. They hang around, weighing you down. You feel disappointed when you don’t get them done.
It is much better to say no to them and let them go. The weight is lifted, and perhaps you will find the time to add them back to your plate, but only when you’ve got the more important things done first.
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School Bus Crash in McDuffie County Injures Three Students
Could seat belts in school buses prevent injuries to students?
Recently, a McDuffie County school bus was involved in an accident that left several students injured. The accident happened when the driver of a pickup truck failed to yield after stopping at a stop sign, ramming into a school bus carrying 45 students. Three students were transported to the hospital with minor injuries, while the driver of the pickup truck sustained serious injuries in the accident.
Improving School Bus Safety
This McDuffie County crash is the latest in a string of school bus accidents occurring across Georgia. In August, a 15-year-old student was killed and dozens of others injured in a Valdosta school bus accident. Other crashes include a school bus accident in East Albany and one in Gwinnett County.
Statistically, school bus accidents remain relatively rate. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that only five school-age passengers are killed in school bus crashes every year and about 17,000 people are injured, including pedestrians. Still, for the parents of school aged children, even one student death a year is too much.
School bus accidents in Georgia and nationwide have spurred some parents and safety officials to consider what steps can be taken to improve school bus safety. The NHTSA recently reversed its policy concerning seat belts on school buses and now officially recommends that students wear lap and shoulder belts on their way to and from school. Only a few states, however, have implemented statewide seat belt use aboard school buses. Georgia is not one of them.
Seat belts have saved millions of lives since their invention and widespread adoption. For school-aged children, seat belts on buses could hold them safely in place in the event of a serious crash. But cost is a major issue to consider before Georgia enacts a mandatory seat belt law. If the number of school bus accidents in Georgia continues to climb, it seems likely legislatures will be considering the use of seat belts on school buses in the near future. Anyone injured in a school bus accident is urged to contact Randall F. Rogers, PC. Contact us today at (770) 590-0300 to schedule your free consultation.
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ANYONE who doubts the need for reform of the law of libel should pay a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London's Strand. There, in the gothic splendour of Court 35, a slow-motion farce is grinding relentlessly away at taxpayers' expense.
For the past eight months, the bewigged lawyers and suited executives of McDonald's, the fast-food giant with annual worldwide sales of £24 billion ($ 38 billion), have been confronting two unemployed "social revolutionaries". Dave Morris, a former postman, and Helen Steel, a gardener, members of an obscure environmental group, London Greenpeace, are defending themselves without legal representation.
In 1984 their group, which has no connection with the well-known Greenpeace International, published a pamphlet whose character is best summed up by its inventive chapter headings: "McDollar, McGreedy, McCancer, McMurder, McRipoff, McTorture, and McGarbage." The pamphlet accused McDonald's of underpaying its staff, destroying rain forests, torturing animals, corrupting children, and exploiting the third world. In the words of McDonald's counsel, Richard Rampton QC, it had been charged with "wrecking the planet for the sake of a fast buck". When the case began at last in June 1994, after 26 preliminary hearings spread over four years, observers predicted that it would take three months. Court schedules prepared by the plaintiff's lawyers now indicate that it may last 18 months, with judgment possibly delayed until 1996.
The trial, without a jury, is presided over by Mr Justice Bell, who is doing what he can to remedy the imbalance of legal firepower by helping the two defendants focus their case. "Are you suggesting that McDonald's shouldn't be able to advertise a burger and fries and a coke to have as one's lunch?" he prodded. Despite the judge's efforts, the pace is excruciatingly slow. On March 10th the case will celebrate its 100th day in court. So far only just over a quarter of the 180 witnesses have been heard. Among them has been Paul Preston, president of McDonald's British subsidiary, who told the court that he did not consider his business's basic rate of pay of £3.10 an hour to be low. He declined to reveal his own salary.
No expense is being spared by McDonald's in pursuing its case. One of its many witnesses from the United States, David Kouchoukous, an environmental consultant, told the court that McDonald's uses only 13.6 square miles of timber land a year to supply its world-wide business with paper plates, cups and saucers. London Greenpeace had accused it of consuming 60 times as much.
The cost of this legal extravaganza will reach several million pounds by the time the case is concluded. Most of this will have to be borne by McDonald's, as the defendants have no money. Court costs, however, will have to be met by the taxpayer. According to the Lord Chancellor's department, the daily cost of providing a judge, courtroom, ushers, stenographers and all the other paraphernalia of a High Court action is £7,600. Assuming the case takes 300 days in court, that means the total bill to be picked up by the taxpayer will amount to nearly £2 1/2m.
Is it worth it? Even if McDonald's can prove that it has been unfairly traduced, the company's shareholders might ask whether it was sensible to sue two environmentalists with no money and no clout. Quite apart from the amount of managers' time swallowed up over more than a decade, the net effect of the trial has been to publicise charges which the vast majority of McDonald's customers in 70 countries across the world would have dismissed as the ravings of green extremists. The public interest is no less debatable. In addition to the cost to the taxpayer, the case will occupy a senior High Court judge for as much as 18 months at a time when delays in civil cases coming to trial are causing concern.
The bizarre case of McLibel is a reminder that the current law is less a safeguard of individual reputation than a casino for the rich and powerful. The Lord Chancellor confirmed last November that he is committed to reform.
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The one piece of technology millions cannot live without these days is their Android phone. With our daily demands, we look to these devices to help us with tasks, store personal data and stay connected with others. Because we regard this piece of technology with such value it is understandable why one becomes distraught when (s)he loses their Android smartphone.
Here’s the distressing situation; one minute your device is safely tucked away in your pocket, the next minute it goes M.I.A. and you begin wondering where you could have misplaced or lost it. You also contemplate the worst case scenario; someone stole your Android phone. Regardless of how it was lost, there are a few clever ways to find your device.
Using Android’s feature Find My Device you can track your lost phone or tablet. Although Find My Device is automatically enabled when you sign into your Google account on your device, it is suggested you review settings to ensure it is on.
Setting up Find My Device
With the variety of settings on an Android phone, it is easy sometimes to overlook whether specific settings are toggled on or off. To confirm Find My Device is running requires only a few steps.
Open Settings and tap on Lock Screen and Security, this option may be labeled differently, such as Security & Location, depending on the make and model of your device. Scroll to Find My Device option and tap on it. If the feature is set to On you are good, otherwise, toggle to the right to turn it on.
One last step. Open your browser and go to play.google.com/settings. Locate your device on the page and make certain the visibility box next to it is checked. Without this option marked your Android phone will not show in Find My Device.
It is necessary that your location setting is turned on for Find My Device to function correctly. Note: If the location is turned off on your device, Google cannot display real-time data on your phone’s location.
Finding your lost phone using Android’s website
One way to locate your phone is by going to android.com/find, using any browser, and sign into your Google account if you are not logged in. The search engine will disclose the last known location of your device on a map. Google will also display your device’s remaining battery life.
The website will provide you three options to help you find your phone. If you believe your device is somewhere near you select Play Sound. This option will cause your phone to ring for 5 minutes, even if the gadget is set to silent mode.
The two remaining options are to help protect your Android. Selecting Secure Device locks your phone and allows you to display an optional recovery message and a contact phone number in case your phone is found.
If you are concerned about someone stealing your Android device and putting your personal information at risk, Erase Device is an option. Be warned, choosing this option will erase all content on your phone. While this prevents anyone from stealing your info, it also prohibits Find My Device from locating the phone.
Tracking down your device using Google search
Android’s website isn’t the only method of locating your device. Here is how you can perform the search using the Google homepage:
Go to google.com and in the search bar type in ‘find my device’ or ‘find my phone.’ Google will instantly show you the device’s last known location and allow you to ring the phone with a tap of a button.
Another option offered using this approach is to Recover. Selecting Recover will present additional information regarding your Android phone including recent security events.
Detecting an Android phone’s location using Find My Device app
If you happen to have a secondary device, you may want to search for your lost phone using the Find My Device app. Similar to locating your phone using the Android website, the app will require you to sign into your Google account.
As with the Android site method, the Find My Device app offers the same three options ring, secure or erase the phone.
Tracing your lost device using Google Maps
Think your Android phone was taken? Don’t despair. Luckily, Google Maps may be able to help trace your phone. For this feature to work your device must be turned on, have access to Wi-Fi or cellular data and location services must be enabled.
Open Google Maps and sign into your Google account. Click on the menu icon in the upper left corner and select Your Timeline.
Once in your timeline, you can choose the date, month and year to view the location history for the day you lost your device.
Locating an Android phone using Lookout Security & Antivirus app
Using the Lookout Security & Antivirus app is an additional option if you are concerned about your Android device being in the hands of a thief. Once downloaded and installed from the Google Play Store, this app can locate your phone and sound an alarm, even if the device is set to silent mode.
Lookout Security & Antivirus can also send you an email with your device’s location, plus a photo of the person who may have stolen it. Its Signal Flare feature will send the email, even after your phone dies. Although these services are included in the free basic account, there is a Lock and Wipe feature available similar to the Google option with a Premium account.
After downloading and installing the Lookout Security & Antivirus app, sign up for a free basic account and sign in. Then, give permission to access your files, location, and phone and you can tap continue.
Once in the app, you can turn on Locate and Scream. If your device is ever stolen, you can log in to Lookout.com to locate your device. Allowing the app to run in the background will identify where your device is even when it has been sleeping for long periods.
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The graphics processor GPU is the unit that takes the ones and zeroes of PC information and converts them into signals that make the presentation you see on a screen. A GPU can be fundamental, for example, the ones that please the motherboards of the modest desktop PCs. In a portion of these sorts of PCs the client does not have a decision in GPUs. There may not be an extension space to embed a graphics card. In these kinds of units, the graphics processor should acquire memory from the fundamental memory RAM and making it inaccessible to the PC. This common memory can prompt a decrease in execution of the focal preparing unit CPU. Graphics Cards The following stage up would be to a graphics card that connects to an extension space on the motherboard.
The AGP opening is one sort, At one time, the primary space was an ISA opening. This was the business standard design. These have practically passed by the wayside with the approach of quicker processors. Specialists began speeding up the speed of the GPU, prompting another name…AGP or sped up graphics processor. PCI Express, formally truncated as PCI-E or PCIe, is a PC development opening or interface design presented by Intel in 2004. PCI Express was intended to supplant the broadly useful PCI development transport, the very good quality PCI transport and the AGP graphics card interface. Not at all like past PC development interfaces, as opposed to being essentially a transport, it is organized around highlight point sequential connections called paths. The conversation of specialized subtleties of this innovation is past the extent of this article. It very well may be audited at the nVidia site.
Surfing and Word Processing If you expect to do close to the fundamentals like riding the web, making email or word handling, at that point you need no GPU power than that contained on the motherboards of the less expensive desktop PCs. On the off chance that you will be altering video or playing the essential computer games, you need to progress to a higher degree of AGP or PCIe cards. Costs for these start around 50 and can take off to the 700 territory for the most concentrated game playing. The justification this is that a significant part of the video preparing is off stacked by the focal handling unit CPU to the GPU. On the off chance that this were not done, game playing would give off an impression of being moving in lethargic movement with unsteady video. On the off chance that you were handling vide o from a camcorder, you would experience render seasons of hours. There are even some of them cooled by means of a hostage water measure. Every one of them require more force and in this way need a force supply with higher wattage. Some even have their own association with a force supply. The 1660 Ti vs 1660 Super will even require additional cooling fans to move the warmth. | <urn:uuid:250478d0-272d-4191-a082-40fcd1c8b2cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ekitinigeria.net/choosing-the-proper-graphics-card-for-your-pc.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95399 | 577 | 2.375 | 2 |
Prophets, Kings, and God's Kingdom (Part 1)
As long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
(2 Chronicles 26:5)
The period of the kings in Israel and Judah is a contrast in extremes. This period was a time of great evil, oppression and injustice as the majority of the leadership in the nations led the people in rejecting God's covenant and turning to worthless idols. Yet it was also a period when God extends His love and longs for His people in extreme measure. The prophets announced God's tireless work to bring His people back. They demonstrated God's purposes through miracles. And they warned the people of the devastating result of rejecting the Lord as God.
Watch these videos as you read THE STORY this week.
Watch the complete video on 1 & 2 Kings at https://youtu.be/bVFW3wbi9pk
"2 Kings At A Glance"
"Jonah At A Glance"
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It’s no doubt that Berlin has had a tumultuous past, a history that has impacted not only Germany but also the world. There are remnants of this past, reminders of how far Berlin has come. Sites like the Holocaust Memorial and the Berlin Wall act as scars from the nation’s tainted history. The city has, however, risen above those turbulent times, carving a niche for itself as a melting pot of cultures. This diversity in Berlin has bestowed it a culinary scene that’s equally as diverse. A stroll through the city will reveal a multitude of restaurants serving local and international delights. If you’re looking for the right traditional foods in Berlin to tuck into, then scroll down to check out our list of 10 traditional foods in Berlin.
1. Schnitzel Holstein
What is today a quintessential German food, Schnitzel Holstein was born in Austria as Schnitzel Weiner. However, the Germans took this Austrian delicacy, altered a few of the ingredients and made it what it is today, Schnitzel Holstein. It is a veal-based dish that’s common in most eateries around Berlin. This mouthwatering treat is prepared by frying veal to a crispy texture and then topping it up with an egg. Of course, you’ll also need to add in other ingredients like anchovies, parsley and, finally, some white wine. The final product is a flavorful and finger-licking meal that’s quite unforgettable. Other iterations of Schnitzel Holstein have chicken, turkey, pork or mutton in place of veal.
Unlike Schnitzel Holstein, Maultasche traces its roots back to the German region of Swabia. This traditional German dish is mainly made by taking pasta dough and enclosing a meat and spinach filling in it, flavor the filling with spices like nutmeg or parsley and then simmer before serving with a broth. This is, essentially, a dumpling. Maultasche can be likened to ravioli except that, this German take on the popular Italian pasta dish, is a little bit larger in size. If you’re in Berlin, you’ll definitely want to try this meal out. Thankfully, lots of restaurants have it on their menu.
3. Berliner doughnuts
Known locally as Pfannkuchen, this is a doughnut that isn’t actually a doughnut. Unlike what we’re accustomed to, the Berliner doughnut doesn’t have the characteristic hole in the middle. It’s simply one round and puffy pastry that has a jam filling. You bite into one and the filling erupts in your mouth, earning the Berliner its decadent reputation. The outside of this doughnut is usually powdered with some icing sugar to give it that final verve that will ensure you reach out for more.
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4. Doner Kebab
If you’re looking for something traditional in Berlin, try out the Doner Kebab. This is a meat dish that originated from Turkey. Today, it is popular around the world and Berlin is one of the cities where you’ll find a scrumptious Doner Kebab. This treat goes by different names; sometimes it known as Shawarma, other times it will be referred to as Kabab Torki. However, what’s clear is that an authentic Doner Kebab must be made using lamb meat or at least lamb has to feature alongside beef or chicken. You can have it with a side of rice or fries or in between pita bread as a sandwich.
Germans love their sausages and it’s no wonder Berlin has numerous places where you can enjoy an authentic German sausage. Bratwurst is one type that you ought to try when in this city. This type of sausage is often made from pork but there are beef and veal versions of the same. Bratwurst is so versatile that it is made differently in the different regions of Germany. In fact, there are about 40 versions of this sausage. Some are longer and juicier while others are shorter and spicier. Explore Berlin and try out the different varieties of Bratwurst before you settle on your favorite.
Pop into a restaurant in Berlin and ask for Spatzle, a dish that’s common in most European countries but is believed to have been born in Germany. Spatzle is generally egg noodles, prepared by mixing flour with eggs, salt and water. Oftentimes, to give it a bit more personality, spices like parsley and nutmeg are included among the ingredients. It is then served as an accompaniment to meat dishes and is slathered with a sauce. How about a meal of Spatzle with a Doner Kebab or Bratwurst?
Next on our list is Kunefe, a traditional Turkish dessert that you ought to try out when in Berlin. Originally from Turkey’s southeastern region, Kunefe has, over the centuries, traveled to other countries, featuring prominently in Turkish restaurants around the world. The process of making it is a complicated affair which is best left to the experts. It’s made in a particular pan with a shallow bottom, made of cast iron. Its ingredients are a dough known as kadayif, that’s finely chopped and layered on the bottom of the pan before a filling of cheese is spread on top of it. This cheese layer is then covered by another kadayif layer on top before baking. If you, like most people, don’t want to go through this intricate process, simply visit a Turkish restaurant in Berlin.
In English, Kartoffelpuffer is simply potato pancakes. This German delicacy is a popular treat that you’ll definitely cross paths with, when in Berlin. In fact, it’s sold as a street-food, featuring in most festivals in the country. It’s prepared by taking grated potatoes and mixing with eggs, grated onions, flour and salt. The resultant mixture is then placed on a frying pan in scoops and allowed to brown. Kartoffelpuffer goes down really well with some applesauce.
This German dish is basically a boiled ham hock. It literally translates to: “ice leg”, referring to the part of the pig the ham hock comes from. Though Eisbein sounds like a pretty straightforward dish, however, a lot of flavoring is done to the ham hock before it is placed in a pot with onions, pepper and, sometimes, brown sugar. From the pot, the hock goes into the oven, to be roasted to a crisp. Eisbein is delectable with a side of baked potatoes.
It’s safe to say the Germans adore sausages and currywurst is a testament to this fact. This is a pork sausage treat in which the sausage is fried and then sliced before drizzling with curry ketchup. Thus the name currywurst. It is typically a fast food that’s accompanied by French fries. Its birth is traced back to the late 40s when a Berliner had the bright idea of mixing ketchup, curry powder and spices before drowning a pork sausage in her concoction. From there, currywurst became a part of Germany’s culture, featuring all over cities like Berlin.
Prepare your taste buds
Take a culinary tour of Berlin and prepare your taste buds to try out the delightful treats above. Whatever your preference, you’re likely to find one or more that you’ll absolutely love. Bon appetite!
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But the greater side of every triangle is opposite to the greater angle (I. 17.); whence ce, or its equal ce, will be greater than cd.
The point d, therefore, falls within the circle ; and the same may be shewn of any other point in AB; consequently the whole line AB must fall within the circle.
Q. E, D,
PROP. III. THEOREM.
If a right line, which passes through the centre of a circle, bifect a chord, it will be perpendicular to it; and if it be perpendicular to the chord, it will bisect it.
Let ABC be a circle, and ce a right line which passes through the centre D, and bisects the chord AB in £; then will ce be perpendicular to AB.
For join the points AD, DB:
Then, because Ad is equal to DB (II. Def. 13.), AE TO EB (by Hyp.), and ed common to each of the triangles ADE, BDE, the angle DEA will be equal to the angle DEB (I. 7.)
But one line is said to be perpendicular to another, when it makes the angles on both sides of it equal to each other (I. Def.8.); confequently ce is perpendicular to the chord AB.
Again, let the right line de be drawn from the centre D, perpendicular to the chord AB; then will AB be bilected in the point E.
For join the points AD, DB, as before :
Then, since the angle DAB is equal to the angle DBA (1. 5.), and the angle AED to the angle Dęb, (being each of them right angles) the angle ADE will also be equal to the angle EDB (I. 28. Cor. 1.)
And, because the triangles DEA, DEB are mutually equiangular, and have the fide de common, the side AE will also be equal to the side EB (I. 21.); whence AB is bisected in the point E, as was to be shewn.
COROLL. If a right line be drawn from the vertex of an isosceles triangle, to the middle of the base, it will be perpendicular to it; and if it be perpendicular to the base, it will bisect both it and the vertical angle.
PRO P. IV. THEORE M.
If more than two equal right lines can be drawn from any point in a circle to the circumference, that point will be the centre,
Let ABDC be a circle, and o a point within it; then if any three right lines OA, OB, oc, drawn from the point o to the circumference, be equal to each other, that point will be the centre.
For draw the lines AB, AC, and bisect them in the points F, G (I. 10.); and through the centre o, draw FD, Ge, cutting the circumference in D and E.
Then, since af is equal to FB (by Conft.), AO tO OB (by Hyp.), and of common to each of the triangles AOF, BOF, the angle AFO will be equal to the angle bro (I. 7.)
And because the right line of falls upon the right line AB, and makes the adjacent angles equal to each other, DF will be perpendicular to AB (I. Def. 8.)
But when a right line bisects any chord at right angles, it passes through the centre of the circle (III. 1. Cor.); whence the centre must be somewhere in the line FD.
And, in the fame manner, it may be thewn, that the centre must be somewhere in the line ge.
But the lines FD, GE have no other point but o which is common to them both; therefore o is the centre of the circle ABD,
as was to be shewn.
PRO P. V. THEOR E M.
Circles of equal radii are equal to each other; and if the circles are equal, the radii will be equal.
Let ABC, der be two circles, of which the radii GA, GB are equal to the radii HF, ME; then will the circle ABC be equal to the circle Def.
For conceive the circle DEF to be applied to the circle ABC, so that the centre h may coincide with the centre
Then, since the radii HF, HE are equal to the radii GA, GB (by Hyp.), the points F, E will fall in the circumference of the circle ABC (I. Def. 13.); and the same may be shewn of any other point D.
But since any number of points, taken in the circumference of the circle DEF, fall in the circumference of the circle ABC, the two circumferences must coincide, and consequently the circles are equal to each other.
Again, let the circle ABC be equal to the circle def; then will the radii GA, GB be equal to the radii HF, HE.
For if they be not equal, they must be either greater or less : let them be greater; and apply the circles te each other as before.
Then, since the radii GA, GB are greater than the radii HF, HE, the points F, E will fall within the circle ABC; and the same may be shewn of any other point D.
But, since any number of points, taken in the circumference of the circle DEF, fall within the circle ABC, the whole circle DEF muft, also, fall within the circle ABC.
The circle Der is, therefore, less than the circle ABC, and equal to it at the same time (by Hyp.), which is absurd: whence the radii GA, GB are not greater than the radii HF, HE.
And in the same manner it may be sewn that they cannot be less; confequently they are equal to each other.
Q. E. D. COROLL. Equal circles, or such as have equal radii, or diameters, have equal circumferences.
PRO P. VI. THEOREM.
If two circles touch each other internally, the centres of the circles and the point of contact will be all in the same right line.
Let the two circles beg, BDF touch each other inter-
For let a be the centre of the circle Beg, and draw
And if the centre of the circle BDF be not in GB, let,
Then, since ACB is a triangle, the sides AC, CB, taken together, are greater than the side AB (I. 18.), or its equal AE.
And if, from these equals, the part AC, which is common, be taken away, the remainder CB will be greater than the remainder CE.
But, fince c is the centre of the circle BDF (by Hyp.), CB is equal to CD (I. Def. 13.); whence cd will also be greater than ce, which is imposible.
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1,500 Brazilian auto workers strike Ford
Brazilian autoworkers in the Sao Paulo industrial suburb of Ipiranga struck Friday after a newspaper reported that Ford Motor Co. planned to move light truck production from their plant to a new one in the northeastern state of Bahia, a poorer region where wages have traditionally been lower.
Ford immediately denied the news, claiming that it had plans to direct its investments out of the Sao Paulo area to "less densely populated regions in the same state." Autoworkers are very sensitive to the possibility of further layoffs in the area, the center of the country's auto industry, because unemployment levels already exceed 20 percent.
The plans for the Bahia plant were revealed last week when the government indicated that it will ask congress to reduce Value Added Taxes by 32 percent to all those auto companies that agree to invest in the region. Ford will reportedly receive a package of government incentives worth $100 million a year. Originally, the plant, which will produce 250,000 vehicles a year and employ 5,000 workers, was to be built in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, on the southern border with Uruguay and Argentina. Officials there, however, apparently could not match the incentives offered in Bahia.
The Ipiranga workers have stated that they will continue to strike until they receive written guarantees from Ford that their jobs will be spared. Ford has only guaranteed the jobs through December 31 and has said it reserves the right to move workers to wherever the new factory is built. Workers plan to initiate public protests against Ford.
Peruvian workers march against government policies
Construction workers and retirees marched on the government palace July 20 to demand jobs and increases in retirement benefits. Each of the more than 2,000 marchers held up an empty plate to symbolize the poverty-stricken conditions they confront under the Fujimori government. The march was a preamble for a day of national protest scheduled for July 26. Fourteen million Peruvians live in poverty, out of a total population of twenty-three million.
Week of labor protests in El Salvador
Unions and consumer organizations organized several days of protests against the economic policies of President Francisco Flores last week. The Flores administration, which is only two months old, has already faced four large strike movements involving transport, health, education and custom workers. Last week, Social Security employees struck on Monday, Department of Commerce employees struck Tuesday and teachers struck for 48 hours on Wednesday. The Flores government has threatened to dock teachers' pay for the hours they did not work.
The Movement of Labor Organizations, that includes more than 15 labor associations and trade unions, announced that it is organizing a national strike for the middle of August. Flores intends to continue his policy of privatizations. Already the privatization of water services has led to increases in rates without corresponding wage increases. The Flores government is also shifting the burden of taxes on consumers, with a draconian Value Added Tax, that leaves the rich virtually untouched.
Bolivian workers continue protests
After a truce of one week, Bolivian workers renewed protests last Wednesday against government policies. A labor march through the streets of La Paz was fiercely attacked by police. Protests are being led by the Bolivian Labor Confederation (COB). The unions are demanding a reduction in unemployment, and the restoration of social rights, including health and housing benefits, that have been unilaterally canceled by employers in the last few months. A COB spokesperson indicated that the police attacks will not stop the protests.
Tentative agreement in Newport News shipyard strike
Newport News Shipbuilding, Inc., the US Navy's sole manufacturer of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, came to a tentative agreement July 23 with the United Steelworkers (USW) to end the nearly four-month strike by 8,000 workers at the company's shipyard in Virginia.
USW Local 8888 President Arnold Outlaw was booed and heckled by strikers when the 58-month proposal was presented to a membership meeting with a recommendation for passage from the union leaders. The contract offers an average $3.10 an hour raise for all workers with an immediate $1.14 an hour raise. Initially the USW asked for $3.70 an hour in a 36-month proposal. When Newport News proposed a 47-month contract the USW raised the demand to an across-the-board $3.95 increase over the life of the contract. The company divided the union's demand for a $900 monthly pension for 30-year employees into two stages: an initial raise from $506 a month to $750; then an increase to $900 in the year 2002. Local 8888 workers are expected to hold votes on the proposed contract on July 26 and 27.
Quentin Jones, with 26 years at Newport News, told the Associated Press, “I think five years is too long.” The contract should have been limited to 3 years. Clarice Diggs, with 23 years seniority, said the contract “gives the shipyard enough time to finish all the work for the contracts they have,” and then implement pay cuts and layoffs.
Al Little, vice president of human resources at Newport News said the agreement with the USW “keeps within the business framework that will allow us to win new work and return value to our shareholders.”
During strike, which began April 5, the Navy directly aided Newport News management by assuring the company new work despite its having missed three major contract deadlines due to the strike. On the night the USW bureaucracy signed the agreement the union called off a demonstration that thousands of workers were planning to attend in Washington, DC, to protest the government strikebreaking.
Northwest Airlines flight attendants express distrust of Teamsters in ballot count
Protests by Northwest Airlines flight attendants have caused Teamsters President James Hoffa Jr. to comply with a request by Local 2000 leadership that mail ballots to ratify a tentative agreement not be counted at Teamsters International offices in Washington DC, but at a location in one of the base cities of Northwest Airlines. Ballots will now be mailed out July 27 to 11,000 Northwest Airlines flight attendants and counted in Detroit on August 26. The Hoffa leadership has hired what they call an independent election supervisor to tabulate votes. A message on Teamsters Local 2000's hotline indicates opposition elements among Northwest flight attendants will also have an observer on hand: “We are all committed to maintaining the integrity of the balloting procedure, including your right to be an observer during the ballot count.”
Emergency phone operators protest inaction by union
Emergency 911 operators, members of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1549 in New York City, held a rally July 26 to protest the inaction of their parent union, District Council 37, in relieving poor working conditions. Workers complained of understaffing and long work hours. The operators, who are responsible for quick and accurate responses to save lives, sometimes work up to 16 hours a day. While the city claims it will take time to train new workers, the operators have said their union is not helping them. DC 37 has been under administrative takeover by the AFSCME since its top bureaucrat, Stanley Hill, was ousted in the face of corruption charges against union officials.
Contract ratified at TWA
Members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) have ratified an 18-month agreement with Trans World Airlines covering 16,000 mechanics, ramp workers, clerks and flight attendants. IAM officials refused to reveal the vote tally that led to an acceptance of pay raises which they claim will bring TWA workers up to 90 percent of the projected industry standard by the summer of 2001. The passage averted a strike that TWA claimed might send the company into its third bankruptcy proceeding.
Labor negotiations resume at Kaiser Aluminum
Kaiser Aluminum and the United Steelworkers will hold three negotiating sessions starting August 2 to settle the 10-month strike by 3,000 workers at company's plants in Washington state, Louisiana and Ohio. Kaiser requested new negotiations after the company posted a second-quarter loss of $15.7 million, following previous losses of $38.9 million and $38.2 million. Kaiser has attempted to keep its operations running with replacement workers and supervisory personnel. In January the USW offered to return to work while continuing negotiations but Kaiser refused and imposed a lockout. The strike at Kaiser was sparked by the company's demand for job reductions in last year's negotiations.
National Steel and United Steelworkers reach tentative settlement
The United Steelworkers (USW) union and National Steel have agreed on a tentative pact for 6,900 workers at facilities in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. The agreement is similar to the US Steel and Bethlehem pact, currently being voted on by union members, that provides for a $2 wage increase over the five-year contract. Negotiations between the USW and LTV Steel as well as Ispat Inland are still ongoing.
Machinists authorize strike at Boeing
Members of the International Association of Machinists voted by 98 percent to authorize a strike against Boeing Co. if the aircraft manufacturer does not produce an acceptable contract offer. Rank and file workers are demanding improvements in health insurance, pensions and job security clauses. The present contract expires September 2. A strike would idle some 46,000 IAM members out of a workforce of over 200,000.
Boeing plans on axing 20,000 jobs by the end of the year 2000. This would come on the heels of a recent slashing of 27,000 jobs, primarily due to outsourcing. The company is also pressing for changes in health insurance that would force IAM members to pay co-payments for the first time and work schedules to eliminate paying overtime.
Montreal mechanics on strike
About 850 unionized mechanics, bodyshop workers, parts department and service employees in Montreal, Laval and the South Shore went on strike last week over wages, job security and overtime requirements.
The mechanics, members of Local 4511 of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union, voted a week ago Saturday to walk off the job to protest stalled negotiations with the Automotive Industry Employers' Association, which represents 30 of the 205 car dealerships in greater Montreal.
The union also wants to put an end to managers taking over the work previously done by unionized employees in the parts departments of numerous dealerships. In addition, car washing and body work is often contracted out to private firms, which has lead to 200 unionized employees being laid off in the past three years. The union is demanding a wage increase of six percent over three years, while employers have offered five percent over three years.
The biggest issue for workers, however, is the plan to extend working hours into the evening and night. Mechanics now put in eight-hour shifts from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. But the dealers are planning to stay open for repairs from 7 a.m. through 2 a.m.
Canadian Pacific layoffs imperil railway workers and passengers
Canadian Pacific Ltd.'s decision to cut 1,900 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce, leaves the company one step closer to a train wreck, union officials said July 21. Lou Schillaci, general chairman of the Canadian Council of Railway Operating Unions, commented: "A broken rail because they've cut back on inspections on track can mean a train wreck. That can mean a train wreck in a community when we are hauling dangerous commodities."
Ken Deptuck, a vice-president with the Brotherhood of the Maintenance Of Way Employees, which represents workers who maintain the tracks, said: "It's my opinion this is like Russian roulette, if one hits the ditch due to broken rail . . . well maybe it's cheaper for them to pay for a derailment than keep staff on." He added that the load on railway workers will become more burdensome, creating more danger.
The layoffs at Calgary-based Canadian Pacific Railway Co.(CPR) will take place over the next year and a half and come nine months after rival Canadian National Railway Co.(CN) cut 3,000 jobs in the name of efficiency. More than one-third of the layoffs will occur in administration, 40 to 45 percent in maintenance and another 25 to 30 percent in train operations.
The downsizing at CPR is the latest in a decade of job cuts in the rail industry which has seen the number of rail companies shrink from twenty-six, to six, through mergers and takeovers. While union officials have issued periodic complaints about the layoffs they have done nothing to stop the downsizing. Instead union leaders have appealed to management to lay off a greater proportion of supervisory personnel. | <urn:uuid:18120e9a-88fa-45bc-92b7-7bf8456acad7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/07/lab-j27.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960323 | 2,611 | 1.945313 | 2 |
box of 81 green beads
box of 9 skittles
small green bowl
container of division problem slips
sheet of paper
The Division Board consists of a wooden square panel with 81 holes in 9 horizontal and 9 vertical rows. On the left side of the board are written numbers 1 through 9 on a vertical line. At the top of the panel, you can see numbers 1 through 9 on a horizontal row encapsulated in green and right beneath each number around the hollow gap where the 9 green pins will be placed. This board also includes a wooden box with compartments that store 9 small green pins and 81 green beads.
Carry the material to a table or a mat and set up as shown below. If at a mat, the child will need a clipboard under the paper.
Draw a slip of paper with a division problem from the cup. In this case 16/4=
Count out 16 beads into the green bowl.
Place four skittles in the first four spots at the top of the board. Explain that each skittle represents one person.
Using the beads from the green bowl, place one bead under each skittle in the first row. (You might say, “One for you, one for you, and one for you.”) Then place another bead under each skittle in the second row.
Continue until all sixteen beads have been placed on the board.
Ask the child how many beads each person (skittle) has.
Write the answer on the paper. 16/4=4
Replace the beads and skittles in their boxes, and select another problem.
Control of Error
There is no external control of error, the child’s careful counting, knowledge of multiplication tables and the process help to guide child.
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A very nice source of practice for beginning readers of Japanese is the 'Watanoshii Free Web Magazine in Simple Japanese':
It has hundreds of articles with mouse-over word translations and full text translations available. Some articles also have good quality audio as well. Highly recommended for JLPT N5/N4 learners!
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1963 Сокол (Sokol)
Coat pocket radio, thermoplastic cabinet
6 x 3 7/16 x 1 1/2 inches / 152 x 87 x 38 mm
2-band LW/MW, seven transistors (Russian, MП15, MП41, 2x П14, П402, П422, one unidentified, + д9B diode)
One standard 9-volt battery
Manufactured at Moscow Radio-TV Works, Moscow
The Сокол was one of only a very few Soviet transistor radios that made use of under-painting on the dial area. And for the Сокол, the under-painting process hasn't lasted the test of time — I've yet to see even one example that doesn't have some sort of damage — most examples have large swaths of the under-painting missing.
The Сокол shares the same cabinet layout and nearly the same circuit as the relatively more rare 1963 Топаз-2 (Topaz-2) (see cabinet and chassis comparison photos below), the main difference being their transistor complements. The "unidentified" transistor here is encapsulated in a very well secured round aluminum canister found just below the speaker in the chassis photo below (on the Topaz-2 chassis, this transistor is a П403). | <urn:uuid:6b245ae7-84be-4ef8-8241-c2dff9ae1ec2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://abetterpage.com/wt/soviet/Sokol.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.88791 | 308 | 1.664063 | 2 |
SYMPTOMS and SIGNS
The acute form of heartwater is the most commonly observed presentation of the disease. A sudden high fever (107° F) is followed by loss of appetite, depression and respiratory problems. Animals may initially have an increased respiratory rate, followed within a few days by severe respiratory distress. Nervous disorders often follow the respiratory signs and can include a variety of abnormal behaviors such as excessive chewing movements, incoordination, head tilting upward, overly rigid posture and walking with a high-stepping gait. Some animals may undergo convulsions or be unable to rise. These nervous signs usually last for no more than 24 to 48 hours, followed by the animal’s death. In some cases, the nervous signs may not be noticed prior to death.
CAUSES and RELEVANCE to FLORIDA
Heartwater is an infectious, noncontagious, tick-borne disease of domestic and wild ruminants, including cattle, sheep, goats, antelope and buffalo. The disease is caused by an intracellular rickettsial parasite, Cowdria ruminantium, and is transmitted by a number of species of ticks in the genus Amblyomma. Heartwater is usually an acute disease and is commonly fatal within a week of onset of clinical signs. The disease is widespread in most of Africa and is present on several islands in the West Indies. With increased trade and movement of animals in today’s global market, heartwater presents a significant threat to wildlife and the domestic livestock industry in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a heartwater outbreak in the United States might cost the livestock industry $762 million in losses annually. The species of ticks that transmit Heartwater in the Caribbean islands can be carried to Florida with migratory birds. Florida is also a state that imports many exotic species of reptiles from Africa. While this trade is now regulated, history has shown that potentially infected ticks have been inadvertently imported by this route – fortunately without heartwater ensuing.
There are no commercially available vaccines for heartwater. Florida ranchers can minimize the risk of any infected ticks becoming established in Florida by regularly treating their cattle for ticks with acaricides.
The prevention of heartwater occurring in the U.S. relies upon keeping both potentially infected animals and ticks from entering the country. Strict import controls have been in place for several years for livestock originating from infected countries. More recently, import bans have been placed on certain tortoise species exported from Africa because they commonly carry potentially infected ticks. Florida’s subtropical climate accomodates these ticks in becoming established. | <urn:uuid:3fa61168-ef8f-4b96-96b1-7d0a4d298b22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://epi.ufl.edu/pathogens/animal-pathogens/heartwater/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944299 | 561 | 3.203125 | 3 |
“While trading fossil fuel powered miles for a cleaner alternative is a move in the right direction, we are missing an opportunity to make a more fundamental transition towards a sustainable and equitable transportation future — at a time when we need to curb energy consumption as much as possible.”
In The News
“The two countries are trying to signal very clearly that they’re in the pro-democracy camp, and they don’t want to be aligned with countries that are seen as acting in opposition to democracy,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law.
“Right now, we have a relatively good handle on saying when there’s a heatwave, we know how much worse this was compared to a world where we wouldn’t have had any climate change, and things like that,” said Flavio Lehner, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.
“Taiwan-based TSMC is the biggest world producer of chips, and China and the rest of the world need TSMC semiconductors. Hence, I don’t expect China to target electronic exports,” said Lourdes Casanova, director of the Emerging Markets Institute and senior lecturer of management.
Andrea Stevenson Won, an assistant professor and director of the Virtual Embodiment Lab, comments on Meta's purchase of virtual reality company Oculus in 2014.
“There is no neat, tidy explanation” for the early-pay disparities, said Francine Blau, a Cornell University labor economist.
Research scientist Tommy Urban and a team of archaeologists have discovered 88 fossilized human footprints in Utah, likely dating back 12,000 years.
Cornell in NYS
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A reed switch can be switched on/off by applying a magnetic field. You can read up on reed switches here – http://www.rre.in/Notes/General_Reed_Switch_Theory.htm. Reed switches can be normally open or normally closed.
We bought some reed switches and magnets from Digikey. Found one local vendor (http://www.rre.in) while writing this post.
Let’s build a simple door alarm using a “normally open” reed switch, a small magnet and a WiSense sensor node. Let’s assume that the sensor node is powered by a coin cell battery. We can use one plastic enclosure to house the sensor node and the reed switch. We also need a tiny enclosure to house the magnet.
When installing the magnet and the sensor/switch enclouse, make sure that the magnet is sufficiently close to the reed switch when the door is in the closed position.
Obviously we want the battery to last as long as possible. The micro (MSP430) and the radio (cc2520) on the sensor node should stay in deep sleep as much as possible. We need an interface circuit which will generate an interrupt on a GPIO pin whenever the switch changes state. This will wake up the micro-controller (from its deep sleep mode) whenever the switch opens or closes. This technique keeps energy consumption to a minimum. It also ensures that the device immediately reacts whenever the door being monitored opens or closes.
In the circuit shown above, when the reed switch is open, the GPIO pin is pulled high to Vcc. So when the door is open, there is no magnetic field acting on the switch and it stays open. When the door is closed, the magnetic field closes the switch which pulls the GPIO pin to ground. When the doors opens, we expect the GPIO pin to go from low to high sending a positive edge triggered interrupt to the micro. When the door closes, we expect the GPIO pin to go from high to low sending a negative edge triggered interrupt to the micro. Things are not as simple because of a phenomenon called switch bounce. I will explain this in another post.
It is important to remember that not all ports on the MSP430 are interrupt capable. WiSense sensor nodes use either MSP430G2553 or MSP430G2955. In both variants, only ports P1 and P2 have interrupt capability. I have a few useless PCBs lying around which were designed on the assumption that all ports have interrupt capability.
Let us divide the software implementation of this alarm between a reed-switch specific driver and an application layer entity (app). The driver will be responsible for initializing the GPIO pin allocated to the switch, handling the interrupt, debouncing the switch and finally informing the application about the new state of the switch. Once the application is informed about the state change, it can take any action according to the requirement of the alarm. Typically it will send a message indicating the new state of the door to any interested application entity within or outside the WiSense sensor network. If the WiSense sensor network has an interface to the internet, an SMS can be sent to the property owner. In addition a message can be sent (through the WiSense network) to an AC powered alarm siren. Once the application has successfully sent out the message, it should allow the node to go back to deep sleep mode.
We have written a simple library for this switch. Refer to the files listed below. You can access the sensor_framework repository at https://bitbucket.org/rkriskros/sensor_framework.
- Manufacturer: Standex-Meder Electronics
- Part Number: ORD324-1015
- Interface: Digital input (GPIO pin)
- Data sheet: http://www.meder.com/fileadmin/meder/pdf/en/Products/OKI_Switches-En/OKI_Switch_ORD324.pdfMagnet spec:
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Sydney based Artist Montaigne has one of those belting voices that makes you sit up and take notice and what do you do with a voice that does that? Write a song as a call to arms for activism for people to take notice of the issues around them and actually do something about them. Ready is certainly an anthemic single that will help inspire both new and old generations to combat against something bigger than themselves.
Montaigne explained the meaning of the rally cry track to A1234 via email, “To me the song is about this political moment, where humanity is starting to realise how actually cooked this planet is, that it never had to be like this, and that we have the power now to overthrow those whove forced us into this corner. Its music that Im proud of representing, because I think that it reflects the feelings swirling around the current political shitfest my generation is facing, and it attempts to transform the anxiety amongst those feelings into angry power. Its like a fuel source.”
I’ll start off by saying the production of this track is absolutely superb with the pulsating beats sounding like the marching of feet in a protest and alluring piano melody. Her vocal shines throughout the track but specifically during that highflying chorus where her voice soars over the deep production that makes you feels as if you’re flying through the sky. Smart lyricisms such as the chorus of, “I think I’m ready to go / I think I’m ready,” working as both an addictive hook and a well timed mantra. We all need to leave a mark on the world and make it better than when we first arrived and Montaigne is certainly on track to do that with this single. | <urn:uuid:c303d23e-8d7d-4ba9-b09f-7ba09a0403bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aonetwothreefour.co/2019/06/12/ready-by-montaigne-is-an-anthemic-call-to-arms-for-activism-and-political-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975111 | 359 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Did you know that viscosity has a detrimental effect on an AOD pumps rated capacity?
Viscosity is defined as 'the property of a fluid that resists the force tending to cause the fluid to flow'. From this definition it is easy to understand that a certain amount of the energy available at the pump will be absorbed, overcoming the 'resistance' of a viscous fluid, what remains is then available to provide flow and pressure.
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The pandemic has been a boon to plastics makers. Nowhere is that more obvious than in hospitals. It seems nearly everything in the hospital is plastic, single-use.
They once provided a cup of ice and a pitcher for the patient to have a steady supply of water. Since the pandemic set in, water refills come each in a new cup, which goes, when emptied, in the landfill.
Another plastic peskiness comes with take-out food. I have to remember to tell the person handing my dinner that I am eating at home and have no need for another set of plastic knives and forks.
Continue reading Call for reusable cups
Nine state legislatures are considering bills to make plastics manufacturers responsible for their products end-of-life.
Pennsylvania is not one of them. It should be.
The concept is not a new one. Battery makers must process their products when they no longer start our cars. We buy new tires for our chariot and pay to have the dealer dispose of them.
Continue reading Make plastics-makers responsible for their product
More than a decade into the boondoggle that has been the natural gas boom in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, residents of the 22 counties that have produced 90 percent of the treasure obtained from fracking Marcellus Shale find themselves with a paltry share of the proceeds bad water, overburdened roads, and carved-up state forests.
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There is nothing good about all the people who have died from the virus, many of them unnecessarily. And I do not know which is worse: discovering how long is takes to spool up vaccine production and delivery, or discovering we’d been lied to about how long it takes to spool up vaccine production and delivery.
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Did you know that the first item purchased using Bitcoin was a pizza? It happened in 2010 when two pizzas were sold for 10,000 Bitcoins. With Bitcoin’s current value, those pizzas would cost almost $90 million.
It’s no secret that many people wish to buy cryptocurrencies as their value continues to increase. With cryptocurrencies like DogeCoin and Etherium increasing in value, there are many different options for you to buy cryptocurrency.
But where can you learn how to buy cryptocurrency? And what is the best cryptocurrency to invest in 2021? You’ve come to the right place.
Continue reading to learn more about the ten best cryptocurrencies that you should invest in this year.
What Is the Best Cryptocurrency to Invest in 2021?
The first step to investing in a cryptocurrency is to know where to purchase them. The best place to invest in cryptocurrency is Paypal or at cryptocurrency exchanges.
You’ll also want to get a cryptocurrency wallet set up before you begin investing in cryptocurrency. This will provide a blockchain link that lets you access your crypto.
Now that you’re aware of the essential steps to take before investing, here’s a look at the ten best cryptocurrencies to invest in for the year 2021.
Bitcoin is the classic option when it comes to cryptocurrency. It is easily the most recognizable and popular type of crypto on the market today. It also has the highest liquidity of any cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin aims to be a decentralized currency that is global and that has no regulations. While cryptocurrency is a bit volatile, Bitcoin is steady and consistent in its value.
As valuable as Bitcoin is today, it is expected to continue growing in value over the coming years as more vendors accept it as a form of payment. You can learn more about Bitcoin units here.
Litecoin is another popular option for cryptocurrencies with the best growth potential. Litecoin has a high amount of liquidity and market capital among cryptocurrencies. It is limited to only 84 million Litecoins but has a block reward of 12.5 Litecoins. This is higher than other cryptocurrencies.
It is the quickest type of crypto for miners. The typical time it takes to mine one Litecoin is only two minutes. Litecoin is one of the types of cryptocurrency that is likely to take off over the next year.
Ethereum is famous for introducing smart contracts to the cryptocurrency world. Smart contracts allow developers to build mobile and desktop apps that use blockchain technology.
Ethereum is another steady and reliable form of crypto, as it has remained one of the most valuable crypto options since its inception. While not as stable as Bitcoin, it is a great option for a safe investment.
4. Binance Coin
If you’re looking for a way to diversity your cryptocurrency portfolio, then you’re not going to find a better option than Binance Coin. Binance is a business with a strong history of success.
The value associated with Binance Coin stems from its usefulness to people who wish to buy other types of cryptocurrency through Binance Exchange. It is one of the fastest-growing exchanges in the world.
Ripple has a different vision than many other cryptocurrencies that are available on the market today. It is a startup crypto that is backed by venture capitalists and that offers finance settlement services.
This allows banks to process transactions across national borders instantaneously. Ripple even works together with large banks like Bank of America. It is a great institutional investment in addition to a great personal one.
If you’re looking for an affordable form of cryptocurrency to start investing in, Cardano might be the perfect choice for you. It is quickly becoming a favorite type of crypto among investors and enthusiasts.
Cardano is especially popular in Japan. It uses two different types of blockchains which allows it to process two different types of transactions. This makes it scalable and helps it run smoothly while running two types of transactions.
Dogecoin has exploded in value since the beginning of 2021, in part thanks to Elon Musk becoming the self-proclaimed “Dogefather”. Since he publicly endorsed this form of crypto, Musk has helped it grow in value quickly.
As it gained value, Musk even made the choice to have it as accepted crypto by SpaceX.
8. Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash first emerged due to concerns over the scalability of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. The biggest benefit it provides is that it is highly scalable.
The fact that it has “Bitcoin” in the name has not hurt, and it is becoming highly coveted by big-time investors. It is a great option for a cryptocurrency with best growth potential.
The biggest thing that sets Zcash apart from other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is that you determine if your transactions are tracked. Bitcoin is not able to do this due to its transparency of transactions.
Zcash provides its investors with an added layer of privacy. It is expected to drop in value as a way of opening an investment window and is a great investment option if you’re looking to add a new type of crypto to your wallet.
TRON was originally founded on Ethereum but has since had its own blockchain platform developed. It is a newer type of cryptocurrency that uses the Proof of Stake algorithm.
The popularity of TRON has grown due to the number of decentralized applications that it hosts. It is also an inexpensive form of crypto to begin investing in for beginners.
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One of the best ways that you can grow your wealth is by knowing what is the best cryptocurrency to invest in 2021. There are many different options available to you. Some, like Bitcoin, are established and extremely valuable already.
Others, like Dogecoin and Zcash, are primed to take off and are cryptocurrencies with best growth potential. Knowing which cryptocurrencies to invest in is a great way to diversify your portfolio and increase your wealth.
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Having cats share your home will bring companionship and entertainment to your household, but they will create a mess. If you have discovered cat litter residue on your hardwood flooring, you are likely wondering how to remove it. We've done the research to bring you the answer.
Generally, cleaning up cat litter residue is easy. Depending on the type of flooring, simply do the following:
- Sweep and vacuum the area
- Mop with a suitable cleaner
- Allow the flooring to dry
Are you interested in learning more about removing cat litter stains from hardwood flooring? Perhaps you wonder if you could use vinegar on hardwood surfaces. Please continue reading this article; we have great information to share with you!
How To Get Cat Litter Residue Off Floor [Inc. Hardwood]
Cleaning up cat litter residue is relatively simple. Please note that using ammonia or hard chemicals is not necessary for cleaning up cat litter. Also, if you suspect there are cat urine drips or stains, using ammonia will cause the stains to deepen into the floor and worsen the cat urine odor.
Simply vacuuming will remove the dust and residue. Suppose you notice that litter pebbles are caught in the carpeting. Use a fine-tooth comb to loosen and remove those stubborn bits of cat litter.
- Start by sweeping the litter pebbles and larger pieces of debris.
- Vacuum the area with the vacuum on the hardwood setting.
- Set the vacuum brush attachment on the spots that have accumulated litter.
- Mop with a Swiffer or Murphy's oil and warm water.
- Use a sponge or a soft toothbrush to scrub the stubborn spots.
Tile is the easiest type of flooring to remove cat litter residue from. Sweep or vacuum the tiling and then mop with gentle soap. The tile floor will be nice and clean!
How To Clean Up Wet Cat Litter On Hardwood
Start cleaning up the wet cat litter as soon as possible for the best results. Otherwise, it will dry into the hardwood floors and get more challenging to remove as the litter hardens.
- With gloved hands, pick up the wet cat litter from the floor with paper towels.
- Allow the area to dry.
- Vacuum the area thoroughly.
- Wash the area with Murphy's oil and warm water.
- Dry the area with fans or open windows for ventilation.
- Once the area is dry, vacuum again to remove any remaining dust particles
How Do You Clean Litter Dust Off The Floor?
Simply vacuum the dust and then mop the area with a Swiffer or mop. Consider using a handheld vacuum to remove debris around the litter box to prevent litter residue from building up on your floors.
What Can Dissolve Cat Litter In A Drain?
It would be best if you never flushed cat litter down a drain. Doing so will clog the pipes. Even the litters labeled flushable have caused mild clogging issues in plumbing systems.
If you suspect your drain is clogged from cat litter, first assess how much cat litter you believe is stuck in the drain.
You can plunge the drain with the water covering the base of the plunger several times to dislodge the clog. If there are several cups of cat litter down the toilet or drain, you will need to contact a plumber to snake the drain in tandem with professional unclogging chemicals.
Word of caution—never use a plunger used in a toilet in the bathroom sink or shower drain because it will transfer harmful fecal bacteria to your other bathroom plumbing fixtures, which are dangerously toxic to human health.
How Do You Melt Cat Litter On Hardwood?
Cat litter does not melt. Attempting to melt cat litter residue will only make it more difficult to remove and possibly damage the flooring from heat exposure.
How Do I Protect My Hardwood Floors From Cat Litter?
Great question! There are some easy ways to protect your hardwood floors from cat litter:
- Place a large rug under the litter box.
- Purchase a large litter mat to trap the dust and clean cats' paws to prevent tracking litter through the house.
- Keep your litter box in a room with carpeting, tile, or vinyl flooring.
- Wax the hardwood floors a few times a year to protect the flooring.
Does Swiffer Pick Up Cat Litter?
Professionals and laypeople recommend the Swiffer wet mops for cleaning up messes generated by pets. The wet mop pads will pick up cat litter and easily remove dust particles.
Please note that using a Swiffer does not replace the need for vacuuming the litter dust and pebbles before using the Swiffer for mopping.
Is It OK To Vacuum Up Cat Litter?
Absolutely! Vacuuming is the best method to remove cat litter dust and pebbles. However, if the cat litter is damp, do not use the vacuum because the wet cat litter will clog the vacuum tubing.
Instead, remove the large clumps of wet cat litter with gloved hands and allow the rest to dry thoroughly before vacuuming.
What Vacuums Are Good For Cat Litter?
Purchasing a vacuum great for cleaning litter and pet hair is essential for a cat parent. Make sure that when you buy your next vacuum, it will not only take care of the pets' mess but also work well for your hardwood flooring.
The Bissel Pet Hair Eraser Turbo Plus is one of the best vacuums for removing cat litter and pet hair. Also, this vacuum has edge-to-edge suction, Smart Seal Allergen system, LED Crevice Tool, Pet Turbo Eraser Tool, and 2-in-1 Pet Dusting Brush.
The Bissel company also manufactures the Pet Hair Eraser Handheld Vacuum, perfect for vacuuming litter from hard-to-reach places and daily cleanups around the litter box.
Dyson carefully engineered the Dyson Ball Animal 2 Total Clean for pet parents with six attachments designed to remove pet hair and cat litter.
The upright vacuum comes with the stair tool, multi-angle brush, mattress tool, reach under tool, carbon fiber dusting brush, articulating hard-floor tool, tangle-free turbine, and a sleek toolbag for tidy storage.
How To Prevent Litter Box Residue On The Floor
Consider purchasing dust-free cat litters, which will significantly reduce dust that will collect and become residue. Also, place a cat mat in front of the litter box that will catch debris and help clean your cat's paws when they exit the litter box.
How Do You Dispose Of Cat Litter Correctly?
Because most cat litters are not biodegradable, the best way to dispose of cat litter is to place the litter waste into a strong garbage bag or use a litter liner and dump the bag in the trash receptacle. Never put any cat litter waste into the recycling bin because it is not recyclable.
Moreover, never discard cat litter into a compost bin/tumbler because of the presence of protozoan parasite Toxoplasma Gondii in cat feces. Toxoplasma will add bacteria to the compost pile, which is harmful to animals and humans in the surrounding environments.
Recommendations For Disposing Of Cat Litter
Most cat parents love their cats and dislike caring for their litter boxes. Consider using litter box liners to make changing your cat's litter box a little easier. Simply place the litter box liner into the empty litter box and add the clean litter on top of the liner.
When it is time to empty the litter box, pull the drawstrings to lift the soiled litter and place it into the garbage receptacle.
General Health And Safety Recommendations And Precautions
Always wear gloves when you clean or scoop your cat's litter box for the best results. Then, put the waste into a pet waste bag and toss it into a garbage receptacle.
Also, if you are dust sensitive or have respiratory issues like asthma, consider wearing a mask when cleaning or changing the litter box to avoid inhaling dust particles and potentially harmful germs.
Word of caution: if you or someone in your home is pregnant or may be pregnant, do not change or clean the litter boxes to avoid contact with Toxoplasma in cat feces, which are toxic to pregnant women.
Please do not hesitate to contact your veterinarian for litter recommendations or any pet care-related questions!
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If you own a small business, you probably know that it’s not always easy to keep your business afloat. If you’re struggling to pay your bills, you might even consider selling your business.
But before you sell your business, there are a few things you should know first.
In this article, we’ll explain what you need to know about liquidating your business.
What does ‘liquidate’ mean?
The term ‘company liquidation’ refers to the process by which companies go out of existence. This can happen for various reasons, such as bankruptcy or going into administration. In most cases, when a company goes bankrupt, the assets are sold at auction to be distributed among creditors. Companies will need external help throughout the liquidation process.
However, sometimes businesses choose to close down voluntarily instead of being forced to do so. For example, if a business owner wants to retire from their job but doesn’t have enough money saved up to cover all of their expenses, they may decide to shut down operations until they get back on track financially.
How long does it take to complete a company liquidation?
It depends on how complicated the situation is. The more complex the case, the longer it takes to resolve. For instance, if a company owes millions of dollars to multiple creditors, it would likely require several months to settle everything. On the other hand, if a company only needs to repay one creditor, it usually won’t take much time to sort things out.
It also depends on whether the company was operating legally or illegally. A legal operation requires less paperwork than an illegal one.
Can I still use my business after it closes?
Yes! You don’t necessarily lose any rights once a company shuts down. You can continue using your business name and trademarks as long as you haven’t been convicted of fraud or embezzlement.
You can also apply for new licenses under different names. But make sure that these licenses aren’t already taken because otherwise, you risk getting sued.
Is it possible to start another business right away?
Yes, it is. Once a company is closed down, you can open a similar business under a different name. And since you’ve kept all of your intellectual property intact, you shouldn’t face many problems starting over again.
Are there any tax implications?
There are two types of taxes: income tax and capital gains tax. Income tax applies to profits earned during the year, whereas capital gains tax applies to profit made through asset sales.
As far as income tax is concerned, you must declare any earnings above $75,000 per annum. So if you earn $100,000 annually, you’d owe $7,500 in income tax.
On the other hand, capital gains tax isn’t applicable unless you sell certain assets like real estate. Otherwise, you wouldn’t incur any additional costs.
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