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fi ilf I 1, . - So & rSl 1 1 1 I A Drama of the Western Frontier In "The Cheyenne Massacre'' Soldiers, Pioneers and Redskins Again Wage War Love and Romance Play Their Parts in This New Kalera Production Perhaps no more striking portraval ff the spirit of daring and fortitude which settled our western frontier has ever heen placed before the public than the Kalem ompany's moMon picture production, "The Cheyenne Massacre." I 'iW' mW I GUBOBGE HOIXIBTK8, J IS, I halrni ! To rise above the ravages of marauding I Indians and establish a home for pos terity; to thwart the saagc trickery and bring order out of chaos, were the prob I lems which confronted the hardy pio neers who penetrated the and plains From certain historical data the Kalem Company has developed a pow erful drama m two parts Scores of genuine Indians t who now don vvar bonnets and pamt for hire) were se cured for this special feature, and sev eral companies of the state militia took part. The story in brief is as follows: At the frontier post. Fort P.rvson, Robert Lili.-, an intrepid young lieuten ant, Wins the hand of the commander's daughter and the admiration of his companions through his many deeds of daring He befriends Mountain Dew. an Indian maid when the is annoyed by a thoughtless officer and gains her gratitude. Swift Bear, an Indian chief, visits the post and openly defies General Foster's authority. The general endeaors to pacify the red man and sends him on his way Determined to incite an out break. Swift Dear returns to his ramp and sends two vicious braves to demand food of a settler. John Simmon the settler, rctuses the request, knuwmg that the Indians are not in need The chief flics ivjto a passion when his bravc rcturn and. sweeping down upon the cabin, he burns it to the ground. Sim mons' son Bob, the sole survivor, makes his way to the post and gives the alarm At daybreak General Foster and his troops set forth to quell the outbreak, but they fall into an ambuscade and suf fer a great los? Knowing that he can not cope with the Indians, the general returns to Fort Bryson and endeavor' to communicate with a neighboring pom by telegraph, but the crafty savages have cut the wires. Lieutenant Ellis volunteers to dis cover the Indians' numbers and secure reinforcements from Fort Craig As he approaches the camp he overpowers an Indian brave and takes his blanket Mountain Dew bids Fills to return when she peneirates his disguise, but before he can c-cape the Indians fall upon him. The lieutenant places his revolver at the girl's temple and. with the threat that he will shoot at the first sign of treachery, he mounts his horse and da-lies away. Swift Bear loses no time in gathering his forces and making an attack on the weakened post The little band of de fenders is about to be annihilated when Ellis, at the head of the Fort Craig forces, arrive and saves the day. I i SCREEN PICTURES THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE BARRED FROM Scenes Enacted in Hospital Clinics With Surgeons and Patients As Actors, Reproduced on Filims To the general public the words Motion Picture" are synonymous with "pleasure," 'amusement." "recreation' The motion picture undoubtedly does mean this, but it also means very much tng ones his whole attention must be centred on hi? patient and he has neither thought nor words for the students. The motion picture removes all these hampering restrictions The camera scue; every minute detail of the operation performed by the sur geon with an ey.-u-t faithfulness beyond the power of the human eye. When the Rim is placed within the motion picture machine and the operation is re-enacted on the screen the enlargement of the picture permit1 it to he presented to the vision of the students with a clearness ind disiinctnc-s they could never hope to i lurun during the performance of the actual operation. OPTOtTUXITY KOK STUDY AND KXI'LA NATION Further than this the reel can be un rolled rapidy or slowly as the pro fessor may desire, or ma be brought to a stop altogether while he dwells at length upon some important point in the handling of the case under consideration It is obvious that the motion picture clinic must thus possess many advan tages for the student sUpCrjor lo those of the real clinic itself The least that may be said for it is that it is a valuable and important aid to him in his efforts to gain mastery of his profession. That those advantages are fully ac knowledged by the medical profession is proven by the steadily increasing intro duction of the motion picture into the E S S A. N AY FIVE-A-WEEK SEE THEM AT YOUR THEATRE I hospitals and medical colleges of this country and Europe. Aside from the value of the motion picture as an important aid in the in struction of the student is the use to more and almost daily the extent of the more serious interests it includes are sensibly enlarged. There is one phase of the motion pic ture that is known at best to the gen eral public by hearsay only, and it is one that is very far removed from associa tion with ideas of pleasure or amuse ment Th:s is its use in connection with medical and surgical diagnosis and demonstration. Everyone knew? that the most impor tant feature of the medical student's training in his profession especially in its surgical branch comes from obser vation of actual operations in the clinics of the hospitals accompanied, of course, by explanations from the surgeon per forming the operation. Naturally the operating surgeon must give his chief attention to his patient. Such instruc tion as the students receive from obser vation or instruction must neccssaril bi incidental merely to the operation itself Consequently also it must of necessity be imperfect. NO TIMT. FOR LENGTHY WSSfcftTATIONS The skilled surgeon's delicate instru ments move quick! in his deft hands. His explanations as to what he is doing and wh) he i- doing it, one can easilv understand, must lack something of the detail and clarity he might bestow upon them if he were standing on a platform with j lifcles? manikin .- the subject of his discourse. In the most critical cases and consequently the most interest- 1 IV THE (Iir.il.NM; MASSACRE which it is being put both for the diag nosis of disease and for purposes of research. With the aid of the Roentgen ra the camera now shows the actual workings of the several organs in the human body the heart, the brain, the stomach, the kidneys and others and where the movement of any one of those organs departs in any degree from its natural, normal functions this is shown to the eyes of the practitioner. In no other way can he obtain such clear, exact, minute knowledge of the real condition of a diseased organ and the diagnosis is thus based on certainty not guesswork. PEEKING INTO HUMAN STOMACHS As one instance of the value of the motion picture in conjunction with the Roentgen ray may be cited the studies of the processes of digestion recently mad'j with living men and women as subjects of observation Those proc esses, taking hours for their completion, were relied ed through the camera lens on the film and it was then possible to reproduce them on the screen within a 5pac of time to be measured in minutes. hat had heretofore been known of di gestion was based mainlv on deduction Now, thanks to the motion picture, this knowledge can be made the result of visual observation I his subject is one that has appealed very strongly to Sicgmund Lubin, head of the- gigantic film producing organ-ration of Philadelphia. Mr Lubin's attention was first directed to it by tin produi lion of a film showing the- microbes in milk This suggested to him an idea and as a result, he wrote to -everal prominent Philadelphia phy sicians and asked them to co-operate with him in making pictures that would aid them in establishing higher hygienic -tandards for the public SOME GRl'ESOME SUNDAY EXHIBITIONS Now the Lubin Studios are thrown open to the medical profession every Sunday for the production arid exhibi tion of pictures of patients from the Philadelphia hospitals suffering from every variety of disease or undergoing all manner of operations. The spectator- at these exhibitions are Composed exclusively of medical men, patients, nurses and the motion pic ture operator Could any of the general amusement seeking public whose ideas of the mo tion picture are limited to scenes of laughter producing comcdv or thrilling melodrama Rain ntrance to one of those Sunday afternoon exhibitions they would have emotions of a different char acter awakened on seeing some of the gruesome sights there depicted. A director and his camera man of the Powers Company had a curious experi ence during the taking of a recent pic ture An automobile figures in the ac tion, and when the film was developed it was noted that both the director and the camera man were reflected perfectly in the windguard of the auto, and the scene had to be retaken. trA, DEMAND THAT ljjg UNIVERSAL PROGRAM- Gleanings From Photoplay Studios Actors and Actresses of the Screen Supply Food for Gossip of Their Doings Comedian Eddie Lyons Sees No Fun in Committing Suicide to Order Gertrude Robinson, recently with the Reliance Company, :s now playing leads with the Victor. Chatles W. Travis, who ic taking the heavies and strong character parts in Rex pictures, is a well known legitimate actor He has been in the profession for more than thirty years, fie plavcd ifl the first Bison production, and since then has taken heavies and characters with the icm and Republican Mr. v v (y 1.MO TUB NOKTH V I I Travis has been with the Rex Companj for seven months and is a screen favor ite Charles Bartlctt, of the "101 Bison" Company, is recovering from the ctfects of being shot in the eye. lie is still busy "shooting" Indians at the old stand. Talking about coivhojs, did you ever see a cowboy cry ' The other day, dur ing the taking of a pathetic scene in a frontier production, one of the cowboys was found weeping silently. He was somewhat annoyed at being found out, but freely admitted that he loved to go to "pathetic motion picture shows and dramas" and that he always wept when! he saw women or children oppressed or! injured. This cowboy is a particularly manly fellow, loo. and one of the finest "bulldozer.' in the country. Frank M Kcllcy. who is acting in Powers pictures, is one of the best ; known caricaturists in the countrv. He has been associated with, several large newspapers. He has also done a good deal of writing and is very well known on the vaudeville s(aKe He promises to be a favorite on the -crtcn Recently in the takmp pi a cene in a Nestor comedy. Eddie I VOnS, the pop ular screen corhedian was supposed to contemplate suicide He in-- down and places hi, head on the car tracks. Eddie acknowledged to nervousness, and the rest of the company enjoyed his uneasi ness. "It's all right for vou fellows stand ing on the sidewalk " he said "but sup posing the car came a little too iar ' Don't worry." came the response, you won't derail it " . . Two ladies passed and one of them cried out in horror, but was somewhat relieved when her attention was called to the camera , "They ought not to be allowed to frighten people so" she said. Eddie made the jump of h lite when i In- word came, and jut in lime to keep his little place on this earth. Manv of the biggest stars and semi Mars of the legitimate stage have tried out in motion pictures productions and have failed utterly vet a large percent age of the leading photOplayetS entered the profession after vears teaming in musical comedy, stock or the drama. WHERE WOMEN MA Y SEE THEMSELVES AS OTHERSSEE THEM Motion Pictures Tell Unflattering Tales, But Prove Efficient in Teaching How to Acquire Grace and Beauty When Burns penned the lines: "Oh. wad some power the giftic gic us To see ourselves as others sec us" he little dreamt that such a power would be created in a later dav . that there would be born the Motion Picture to permit us to "sec ourselves as others sec us." It might be argued that a mirror gives us power to "sec ourselves as others see us." It docs not. No man nor woman j cither can see in the mirrored reflection the self that others see. Nor does the stationary posr b( fore the -amera result in a photograph that --hows us that real self "as others sec us." A rrrnTri In the motion picture is found for the first time an effective medium of self revelation An American woman who, though still young, has lived for many years in Europe and has gained recognition both in Paris and London as a teacher of dancing and detortment. has returned to New York and has there established a school of physical culture with the mo tion picture as its most important ad junct. In this school are already cn rollcei many of the coming debutantes of what is known there as "Society'' and also members of that "Society" who have sonic time since parsed the debu tante age and stage A SCHOOt OP OB ACE hile the head of this school applies to it the name of ' physical culture." she distinctly disclaims any pretense either to restoration or preservation of health except as such results may incidentally follow her course of instruction. '.race'" she- exclaimed in rcplv to a ipicstion as to the purpose of her school. "That is what I am trvmg to drill into mj pupils to drill s0 thoroughly that it I will become instinctive and manifest it self in every movement." "But the motion picture part of it? she was asked, "What about that5" Well," was her replv, "in that 1 havei i-'Und the solution of the difficulty I have struggled against for years. My first difficulty, the difficult that per sisted, tlrat it was almost impossible to overcome, was to convince the girl or the woman that she was not already graceful in her every movement She would stand before a mirror and admire herself. She would look at her photo graph and find herself beautiful and sraceful. She came to me to learn to be graceful, and she believed she had noth ing to learn she was already graceful On the tip of my tongue would be the question 'If you are alrcadv perfect wh) do you come to me?' But I would bite my tongue and that question would not be asked. "H I did ask it the answer would be perhaps not put into words, but in her mind all the same Yes. I am graceful. corm' to you to make me more SO.' "But now " and the instructress aughed. not loudly but verv merrilv to lur-elf chuckled could T say? "But now," she continued, I say nothing, I I simply put them on my platform. 1 tell them to enter a room. Thev do so. I tell thcra to walk They walk. I tell them to sit down, to stand up again. And all the time my motion picture Tllfc DRAGON'S UKt'ATH Re i 1 camera is at work and every movement is caught upon the film. And after wards A SELF-TAl'OHT LF.SSON "Well, I simply let them sec thern selves upon the screen After that I can begin to teach them something, and they know they have something to learn "But when they do see themselves, what then " " I asked "Yes, wdiat then I" said Madame of the Motion Picture Physical Culture School in a very reflective manner. "What then' Ah' that is the whole secret of my success. They see them selves. They see themeslves awkward, ungraceful, ugly Yes, ugly ". She re peated in most animated fasbion. "Any one, I care not how handsome her face, how perfect her figure, must be ugly who walks, who stands, who ? its awk wardly, ungracefullv nd that is what they see themselves awkward ungraceful, ugly, and they cannot be lieve it "But I shrug my shoulders and I tell them the camera cannot lie ; there is their true selves as everyone who has eves must sec them. Then I give the word and on the screen come other women women who know how to walk, to stand, to sit and mv pupils well, thev see the difference After that I can begin to teach them." But. as this teacher of grace explained, this was not all Continuously were ber motion picture emploved to lead her pupils toward realistic embodiment of the true spirit of beauty of poe and motion. Thev walked they sat, the danced, they fenced, they went through their cahsthenic exercises with the eye of the camera upon every movement. And those movements were reproduce. upon the screen with truthful, unflatter ing, remorseless exactitude And always alternated the contrasting figures of women who walked and sat and moved in accordance with Nature's laws of beauty and grace. as it to he wondered at that such lessons were effective2 That thev pro duced in tne seekers after grace of movement eager desire to rid themselves of the gauchenc that had marred their every movement? SPURRED TO EACFR EFFORT And when, as the course progresses, the pupils begin to sec the great improvement that is being wrought, they feel well rewarded for the labors' they have been forced to undergo and in creasing desire to attain a higher degree of gracefulness of poise and movement. Kor the first time thev acquire just appreciation of the grace and beauty the vvomen of Greece possessed in classic days and her sculptors so successfully portrayed in their stature "I have said," resumed the instruc tress, that I make no claim to give or preserve health through the exercises of my course except as such result mav incidentally follow But vet it is mar' cclous what beneficial results are so pro duccd lo breathe, to walk, to move in accordance with the laws of grace that Nature intended should govern all men and women seem to nccessarilv brincr health and vigor also. I see it in cverv instance where the pupil follows mv course faithfully and conscientiously and the pupih delightedly recognize this added benefit. Latest Releases Of the Film Makers Pictures Traffic and Comic Produced for Patrons of the Screens What Comes of Advertising for a Husband A Sparatan Father In His Own Trap "AUNT KATE'S MISTAKE (Imp) Aunt Kate advertises that she is de sirous of marrying - group of club men read the advertisement. The spin ster's niece visits her aunt. The sweet heart of the niece sends the spmner his photograph and. for the lark of it. goes to visit the spinster The choice of the girl's parents is a young clergyman and i I I i BBLMS COSEBLLO Yltsfrapb he is told to go to the aunt's to see the girl The aunt hopes to win the Apollo, but the comedy ends as it only could end, by the girl winning her lover and the old maid winning the clergyman. In the cast arc Estcllc Kirb as the aunt. Violet Homer as the nie:e. Edward Boring as the lover and Budd Ro;s a the minister. "SHANGHAIED" (Champion) Because his son fails to show any signs of making a man of himself the youth's father arranges to have the boy shanghaied aboard a ship and forced to work for a year But the process does not work out as he expects and instead of the son being drugged, as planned, the father is drugged and s carried off. Meantime the son elopes with his sweet heart and goes away on an extended honeymoon. Twelve months later he is shown as a proud father, his father re turns, notes the change in the son, real izes that his own hard work has re juvenated him, and so all are content "THE FORGOTTEN LETTER" (Nemtor) 1 here is heart interest in this photo drama and the play is capably acted The man goes to the city and writes his sweetheart a love letter which he put- in a coat pocket and forgets to post. Time passes and she marries another After thirty years he finds the letter when going through an old trunk, and then calls on the woman, since a widow, an explains They become engaged "STEAM" (Kinemacolor) "Steam." the new Kinemacolor fea ture film in three reels, which pictures the development of steam power fr'1"1 the tea-kettle to the modern 100-tOlj locomotive, together with the lives and love-stories of the inventors, Jani.s W " and George Stephenson is a character istic Kinemacolor photoplav, combttlinfi education as well as entertainment. Hu man interest is supplied by the early struggles of the great inventors, who-c biographies have been carefully follow in picturing the principal incidents ot their careers. Although not contem poraries, the record of their achieve ments has been welded into a contin uous storv, which sustains the interest to the dramatic climax, when a modr" locomotive is pictured running at speed across the screen. | <urn:uuid:e7a2d180-5515-49a7-9ff6-37d0c11540a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058397/1913-04-26/ed-1/seq-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968191 | 4,698 | 1.523438 | 2 |
BUENOS AIRES: US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will wrap up a global summit on Saturday with high-stakes talks expected to determine whether they can begin defusing a damaging trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.
With the United States and China locked in growing disputes over commerce and security that have raised questions about the future of their relationship, Trump and Xi are due to sit down for dinner at the end of a two-day gathering of world leaders in Buenos Aires.
The first day of the G20 summit offered glimmers of hope for progress between Washington and Beijing despite Trump’s earlier threat of new tariffs, which would increase tensions already weighing on global financial markets.
But on the eve of what is seen as the most important meeting of U.S. and Chinese leaders in years, both sides said differences remained, and the outcome of the talks were uncertain.
This year’s summit has proved to be a major test for the Group of 20 industrialized nations, whose leaders first met in 2008 to help rescue the global economy from the worst financial crisis in seven decades.
With a rise in nationalist sentiment in many countries, the G20, which accounts for two-thirds of the global population and 85 percent of the global economy, faces doubts over its ability to deal with trade tensions and other geopolitical differences among its members.
Delegates from G20 nations worked late into the night to seek agreement on the summit’s final communique, which in past years has been worked out well in advance.
European officials said on Saturday that a draft of the document committed to reforming the World Trade Organization (WTO), which has been engulfed in institutional crisis just when it is most needed to perform its role as umpire in trade disputes. They said the draft also included a reference to climate change – a sensitive issue for Trump, who is a skeptic that global warming is caused by human activity.
The communique needs to be endorsed by the leaders of member states.
Looming large at the summit is the trade fight between the United States and China, which have imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars on each other’s imports after Trump began an effort to correct what he views as China’s unfair commercial practices.
With the trade war weighing on the global economy, world financial markets are hanging on every development and will be watching closely to see if any compromise can be struck between Trump and Xi. The meeting will also be a test of the personal chemistry between the two leaders, which Trump has hailed as a warm friendship.
Another big unknown, however, may be Trump’s personal unpredictability and his penchant for injecting drama into his appearances on the world stage.
‘A deal would be good’
Trump was typically coy on Friday even as he noted some positive signs.
“We’re working very hard. If we could make a deal that would be good. I think they want to. I think we’d like to. We’ll see,” he said, speaking during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
A Chinese foreign ministry official in Buenos Aires said there were signs of increasing consensus ahead of the discussions but that differences persisted.
Beijing hopes to persuade Trump to abandon plans to hike tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 per cent in January, from 10 per cent at present. Trump has threatened to go ahead with that and possibly add tariffs on $267 billion of imports if there is no progress in the talks.
Trump has long railed against China’s trade surplus with the United States and Washington accuses Beijing of not playing fairly on trade. China calls the United States protectionist and has resisted what it views as attempts to intimidate it.
The two countries are also at odds militarily over China’s extensive claims in the South China Sea and U.S. warship movements through the highly sensitive Taiwan Strait.
Xi and leaders from the BRICS group of leading emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – called in a statement on Friday for open international trade and a strengthening of the WTO.
Trump cited Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian ships last week as the reason he cancelled a planned bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The presence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the summit also raised an awkward dilemma for leaders, and Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader cut a lonely figure standing at the edge of the G20 family photo on Friday.
Prince Mohammed arrived under swirling controversy over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge of the murder.
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Recently an ESL student of mine became a spanking new U.S. citizen. I’ve been teaching her English for about a year and a half, but the last six months were spent cramming for the citizenship exam, which has not only reading and writing tests but also big chunks of American history. To better help her remember the material she was memorizing, I often used Google Translate to explain complex concepts that the Founding Fathers had immortalized in the U.S. Constitution over 200 years ago. The very first paragraph is quite a mouthful –
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The entire paragraph is actually just one sentence, but it contains within that single sentence such a multitude of ideas that it took us a while to unpack them all and truly understand the purpose of the drafters. As we proceeded through the reading of American history, I felt such a sense of pride for this country I now call home.
Eight years ago, I had taken the same citizenship test, and I recall how my voice wobbled when I pledged allegiance to this country over my motherland India, where I had spent the first four decades of my life. What had kept me going through the solemn ceremony was the certainty that the values of this country I had now adopted were aligned with my personal belief system. Casting my first presidential vote for Barack Obama, who embodied those values and referred to them often, only made my pride in this country deepen.
Fast-forward to 2016 and I am looking on in horror as a minimum of 40% of the American populace seems to be in thrall to a racist, egomaniacal demagogue who has shattered all norms of civility, political correctness, and even lawful behavior, yet continues to have stable support among a plurality of Americans. Donald Trump once famously said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” His continued viability as a Presidential candidate seems to bear that out.
So what does this say about us as a country? About our claim of moral leadership? About our standing as the leader of the free world?
When I became a U.S. citizen I believed that America stood for certain values, and that core ethic justified its preeminence in its world. Yes, we made and continue to make mistakes in our self-governance and in our dealings with the world, but I’ve always hoped that we have a certain moral core that we return to to self-correct, to acknowledge our mistakes, to make reparations. What bolsters this belief is that I live in a society whose values lean increasingly towards acceptance of diversity, towards tolerance, towards punishing wrongdoers and rewarding virtue. Sometimes this belief gets shaken, as when I hear of black Americans unfairly targeted by police, or bank executives getting away scot-free after legally looting their stakeholders. But there has always been a sense that if we can mobilize, protest, and take action, these mistakes can be fixed.
But when a throwback like Donald Trump comes this close to power, I really have to question my fellow Americans and their loyalties. Have we really forgotten what we are and are meant to be as Americans? Do we need a reminder of what our values are? Well then, here’s a list, in no particular order –
- We believe in a voice for everybody, regardless of their economic, social, or racial status.
- We accept and welcome diversity
- We believe in abiding by the law and none of is exempt from doing so
- We pay our fair share of taxes and insurance to live in a stable, prosperous society
- We care for our fellow citizens and our global brothers and sisters
- We care for the environment and the ecology we are leaving to our children
- We engage in respectful dialogue
- We believe in equal opportunity
- We are saddened by others’ suffering and seek to help where we can
And most important of all, America is a nation of “We” and not a country filled with “I’s,” each looking out for himself. This is enshrined in our constitution, whose first three words should give us a hint to the culture the framers were creating for the new country.
Donald Trump, you, your campaign, and your supporters need to take a closer look at what it means to be a patriotic American. Take a minute for self-examination and think about whether the values I listed above are actually better held by immigrants like myself and my student, who honor them by our actions every single day or by rage-filled xenophobes like you who seem to have strayed far, far away from the ideals of this country.
Maybe each one of you should take the citizenship test too…it might teach you a few things you seem to have forgotten as you celebrate hate, denigrate the “other” and make a virtue of gaming the system. Then you might understand what it truly means to be an American. | <urn:uuid:c2527da7-3ccc-4c2e-ab7b-f3b27cbb2708> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://waternoice.com/2016/09/29/what-it-means-to-be-an-american-citizen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971269 | 1,090 | 1.882813 | 2 |
By Mark Lipman
Preamble: A great many persons in Venice strongly oppose installing permit parking in our community for various reasons and it is improper to simply ignore their concerns.
Firstly, the proposed Overnight Parking Districts (OPDs) discriminate against very low income residents, who are forced to live in their vehicles due to the overwhelming economic crisis.
Secondly, the OPDs will force many renters and home owners to pay for parking in and around their neighborhoods.
Thirdly, the OPDs discriminate against large families and households with more than three vehicles.
Finally, the OPDs discriminate against people living near the beach, who will not be eligible for permits.
Understandably, many in our community are concerned with there being an excess of recreational vehicles parked on the streets and the various problems associated with this. However, installing OPDs is the wrong solution to this problem.
May I propose the following more balanced approach to solving this problem:
Whether we like it or not, it must be recognized that for whatever reason a number of people are living in their vehicles. According to Section 85.02 of the LAMC, this is illegal. However, there is much acknowledgement throughout the city, on up to our own councilman Bill Rosendahl, that this is a bad law and must be changed.
Additionally, many may rightfully argue the validity of this law under the constitution. Under the basic precepts of our freedom, the right of lifestyle choice is fundamental.
Therefore, we are forced to accept that if someone, who is housed in a vehicle chooses to live in our community they have the constitutional right to do so.
Beyond that however the city does also have the right to regulate this form of housing for the overall well being of our community as a whole.
The first order of business is to determine who and how many amongst the vehicularly housed are residents. This will give us a good understanding of how many parking places are necessary within the Venice boundaries to accommodate our needs.
Those who desire to register as residents of Venice will then be issued a permit to be affixed to their vehicle. By registering, this will establish residency in Venice, with the same rights and responsibilities as other residents, including the right to vote in all local elections.
II. Permits and Parking
Through the issuance of residency permits, vehicularly housed residents will be required to pay a permit fee of say $50 per year (with a recommended fee waiver or reduced fee for the first year of implementation). This permit fee would be reflective of a property tax that could be used for community investment in needed areas such as street maintenance.
This permitting structure would shift the tax/fee burden from renters and home owners to the vehicularly housed residents, thus making it fairer for all concerned. Renters and home owners will not be forced to pay for parking, while vehicularly housed residents will pay a reasonable fee for use of public streets and approved parking lots to live on top of legally.
In order to reduce the community impact of this arrangement the city will create preferential parking zones for RV’s and other vehicles within Venice that display the vehicular resident permit.
There will be a study performed to determine what the best locations for these zones will be that have minimal impact to traditional residential zones.
III. Lincoln Place
One location where there is currently plenty of available street parking is in front of the housing project known as Lincoln Place. These streets could easily accommodate many motor vehicles and could be made into preferential parking zones for RV’s.
As Lincoln Place will eventually be reopened as affordable housing, with many of the illegally evicted tenants returning, there will be a number of additional housing units available there and priority placement could be offered to those vehicular residents who choose to park in this zone of Lincoln Place.
IV. Non-Residents Living in Vehicles
Those persons choosing to opt out of becoming vehicular residents of Venice would choose to be considered as tourists, travelers, or variants of such. For those non-residents, they would be permitted to park as normal, however the city parking control agents would be informed to strictly enforce all existing parking regulations, with particular emphasis on 72 hour parking limits.
For 72 hour parking enforcement, agents would both chalk the targeted vehicle’s tires and leave a warning ticket on the vehicle’s windshield informing them that they have been targeted for citation.
V. Enforcement of Current Laws
One additional way to increase public street parking is by enforcing the current zoning laws. If a survey were conducted of houses in Venice, it would be found that many of the garages that were required to be built in order to receive the original building permits, have been illegally converted into ping-pong parlors and workshops, storerooms, game rooms, living rooms, offices and even apartments, instead of places to park their cars as prescribed by law.
If these property owners insist on violating the existing zoning laws, thus exasperating the parking situation, the least they can do is stop blaming RVs for the problem they helped create.
VI. Overnight Parking Districts
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Millions of people use Adderall every day to manage their ADHD and narcolepsy symptoms. The drug’s side effects and potential for abuse are simply taken as a necessary evil to get through the day.
But is Adderall really as bad as people say it is? What are its side effects and long-term risks? And if the drug is so bad for you, what are your alternatives?
This article answers all these questions and more, like the effects of Adderall on men and women and why you can get addicted.
Key Takeaways: Adderall and Its Effects
What Is Adderall?
Adderall is a prescription medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy.
The drug is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that comes in the form of a dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate, dextroamphetamine sulfate, and amphetamine sulfate tablet.
Like other stimulant drugs, Adderall increases the concentration of dopamine and norepinephrine neurotransmitters in your brain, thereby improving your focus and reducing impulsivity.
Due to its effects on concentration and learning ability, Adderall is often abused as a study drug and could become addictive. As a result, some doctors prescribe Adderall XR, an extended-release version of Adderall that only needs to be taken once a day and could reduce the possibility of becoming dependent on its effects.
What Does Adderall Do To Your Brain?
Like other ADHD medications, taking Adderall can help you boost your focus and reduce hyperactivity.
Doctors believe ADHD may be caused by an imbalance of dopamine and norepinephrine neurotransmitters in your brain, causing hyperactivity, a short attention span, and the inability to concentrate on mental tasks.
The chemical compounds in Adderall trigger your body to produce more of these neurotransmitters, correcting the imbalance and easing ADHD symptoms.
When the quick-release tablet is taken, the effects of Adderall can be felt within 30 minutes and may include:
- Improved ability to focus and pay attention.
- The reduction of behavioral problems associated with ADHD.
- Better organizational skills.
- Enhanced listening skills.
- Energy to stay awake and focused all day.
Is Adderall Bad for You?
Stimulant therapy with Adderall for ADHD can be very helpful if you’ve been struggling with the symptoms of the disorder for some time. However, the drug has serious side effects and could lead to addiction and other stimulant drug abuse.
As such, Adderall is not the best option for the long-term treatment of ADHD, as this could lead to mental health issues like irritability, mood swings, and depression. Misusing the drug is also a bad idea, as it increases the risk of severe physical and psychological side effects.
What Are the Side Effects of Using Adderall?
Adderall may affect men, women, and children differently. However, general side effects include :
- Trouble sleeping.
- Weight loss.
- Increased body temperature.
- Blurred vision.
- Irregular heartbeat.
- High blood pressure.
- Poor mental health.
Adderall Side Effects in Males
Besides the general side effects of Adderall, men may also experience erectile dysfunction (ED) while using the drug. One of the side effects of Adderall is constricting the blood vessels in your body. Reduced blood flow to the penis can make it challenging to get or keep an erection and may affect overall libido .
However, these contributing factors to ED may not be experienced by all men, as some have reported Adderall increasing their sex drive. The effect of Adderall on libido, therefore, varies from person to person.
Adderall Side Effects in Females
Some studies have found that the increase in estrogen during the first 14 days of a woman’s menstrual cycle could significantly increase the severity of the side effects of Adderall. This is due to estrogen also triggering a dopamine release alongside the chemicals in Adderall .
Some of the adverse effects of ADHD medications like Adderall in women include:
- Elevated blood pressure.
- Weight loss.
- Difficulty sleeping.
Although these effects may seem general, they are typically more severe in women at certain points of their menstrual cycle.
Adderall Side Effects in Kids
Adderall may cause general side effects in kids, but also age-specific ones like:
- Stunted growth.
- Stomach ache.
- Trouble sleeping.
- Reduced appetite.
Discuss any adverse effects in your child with a medical professional who may need to adjust their dose or recommend an alternative.
Who Should Not Take Adderall?
One of the primary demographics who should not use Adderall are individuals with a history of substance abuse or substance addiction. This is because Adderall is an addictive substance and could cause a relapse if used by people who previously abused stimulant or sedative drugs.
People with cardiovascular conditions like heart disease should be cautious when taking Adderall as the increased blood pressure and heart rate could put them at risk of a heart attack .
What Are the Long-Term Effects of Using Adderall?
Taking Adderall for an extended period can cause long-term risks and side effects. Some of the most common negative effects of chronic use include :
- Mental health issues like depression or anxiety.
- Damage to brain cells and structures.
- Stimulant abuse, tolerance, dependence, or addiction.
- Psychotic behavior.
- Panic attacks.
Adderall Health Risks
Serious side effects and health risks associated with Adderall use include:
- High blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat leading to a possible heart attack.
- Strain on your cardiovascular system and an increase in the risk of developing heart disease.
- Allergic reactions that cause skin rashes and discomfort.
- Serotonin syndrome.
You should get medical attention immediately if you start experiencing chest pain, trouble breathing, and dizziness while using Adderall. You could be having a heart attack or stroke and require a doctor’s assistance.
Another serious effect of Adderall is the development of serotonin syndrome, especially if large amounts of Adderall have been used .
The symptoms of serotonin syndrome include :
- Dilated pupils.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Muscle stiffness.
- Flushed skin.
Like other ADHD medications, mixing Adderall with other drugs could cause serious interactions.
Adderall use alongside alcohol may reduce your ability to tell how drunk you are and could result in alcohol poisoning.
Adderall also interacts with more than 180 medications, including tramadol and omeprazole. Before using Adderall, it is important to discuss any chronic medication or conditions you have with your doctor.
What Does Adderall Do if You Don’t Have ADHD or Narcolepsy?
Students often use adult ADHD medications like Adderall to help them study more and longer before exams. However, Adderall isn’t a true cognitive enhancer, as many articles and reports like to claim. Adderall only works to reduce hyperactivity, improve focus, and provide energy, leading to improved learning abilities in students with ADHD.
For people without ADHD, however, these effects may be much less powerful. Some studies on the effect of stimulants on people without Adderall found it could at times delay memory recall and only significantly improve memory retention after several days to a week .
Such inconsistent results paired with the range of side effects make it unwise to use Adderall under the assumption it will help you become smarter.
Is Adderall a High-Risk Medication?
Like all stimulant drugs, Adderall offers a high risk of prescription drug abuse and subsequent addiction.
Is Adderall Addictive?
Yes, Adderall is a stimulant medication that is often abused for its energy and concentration-boosting properties. Adderall abuse leads to tolerance over time as your body adjusts to its effects, and eventually, Adderall use may result in dependence on the drug and then addiction.
Adderall Abuse and Addiction
Adderall abuse is particularly dangerous due to the development of tolerance, which requires you to use even more Adderall to get the same high. If you stop using Adderall for a while and take the same amount you used to, you may be at risk of overdosing.
Signs of Adderall Overdose
Adderall abuse can lead to using high doses being taken over a short period, possibly leading to an overdose.
Signs of an overdose due to abusing Adderall include :
- Rapid breathing.
- Dilated pupils.
If you or someone around you is exhibiting these symptoms, seek medical attention immediately.
Adderall Withdrawal Symptoms
Adderall addiction may also lead to Adderall withdrawal symptoms whenever you can’t get your regular dose or your dosage is reduced.
Withdrawal symptoms in people who abuse Adderall may include:
- Vivid dreams.
- Increased appetite.
- Mood swings.
- A drop in the person’s blood pressure.
- Memory impairment.
- Intense cravings for high doses of Adderall.
If you suffer from Adderall or substance abuse, getting addiction treatment is vital and should not be delayed.
Alternatives to Adderall
There are many alternative ways to boost cognitive function other than using Adderall.
If you are worried about the effects of the drug or possible Adderall abuse, get professional medical advice regarding alternatives to your treatment.
Some alternatives that may prevent drug abuse and health risks include:
Other ADHD medication options may effectively treat your condition without all the serious side effects.
Ritalin is a common alternative to Adderall XR in amphetamine treatment. It consists of a drug called methylphenidate and produces far less severe side effects. It is often prescribed for children and teenagers with ADHD as it is also less likely to cause abuse.
Nootropics are natural brain boosters that consist of research-backed ingredients to improve memory, cognitive function, and mental energy with little to no side effects.
Nootropics Mind Lab Pro and Performance Lab Mind offer significant benefits like better memory, less distractibility, and improved focus and motivation.
If you’re interested in using nootropics, check out our Mind Lab Pro review and Performance Lab review for more information.
Since most nootropics, including those mentioned above, are naturally stimulant-free and contain no additives, they often cause no negative side effects. At the same time, this over the counter Adderall alternative provides a much more sustainable solution for energy and focus boosts.
For more information about nootropics for memory or nootropics for energy, take a look at our detailed articles on both.
Below are the most frequently asked questions about the safety of Adderall.
Can Adderall Cause Sudden Death?
Abusing ADHD meds like Adderall can cause serious damage to your body and possibly lead to complications like a heart attack or stroke, resulting in sudden death.
If you use the prescription as directed, however, this is very unlikely.
Can Adderall Help for Anxiety?
No, Adderall is a prescription drug indicated for use for ADHD and narcolepsy. As a stimulant, Adderall may worsen your anxiety instead of ease it.
Is Adderall Safe for Kids?
Yes, Adderall is safe for children as long as they take the drug strictly according to their doctor’s prescription.
What Reduces the Side Effects of Adderall?
Some practices may help ease the severity of Adderall side effects, including:
- Taking Adderall in exactly the doses directed by your doctor.
- Taking your first dose of Adderall as soon as you wake up.
- Avoiding using any other stimulants, including coffee.
Can You Overdose on Adderall?
Yes, you can overdose on Adderall, which could be dangerous to your health and cause severe adverse effects like seizures or a heart attack.
Is Adderall Bad for Your Heart?
Adderall may cause high blood pressure and an elevated heart rate in some people, which could negatively affect your heart health, especially if you have a pre-existing heart condition.
Adderall is a highly effective stimulant used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy. However, its potential for abuse, side effects, and long-term health risks make it a risky choice for long-term medication.
On the other hand, nootropics provide a more sustainable option to treat these symptoms with almost no side effects and little to no potential for abuse.
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My own entry in the Six word story challenge: QUEST:
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The writing prompt for this week’s Six word story challenge is QUEST.
In mythology and literature, a quest, a journey towards a goal, serves as a plot device and (frequently) as a symbol. Quests appear in the folklore of every nation and also figure prominently in non-national cultures. In literature, the objects of quests require great exertion on the part of the hero, and the overcoming of many obstacles, typically including much travel. The aspect of travel also allows the storyteller to showcase exotic locations and cultures (an objective of the narrator, not of the character).
Tolkien-crazy as I am, when I hear quest, I can only think of Frodo in Lord of the Rings. And in my mind I wander through valleys, in search of… well, I’ll have to think on that.
What’s your quest about? Surprise me with your six words!
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The challenge for you:
Write a story about a QUEST in just six words. Let a photo or image inspire you to write a story. Or first write the story, and then make or search for a picture to go with it.
Here’s a Six Word Story by Ernest Hemingway.
Such an impact and unseen images in only six words…
Publish your Six word story on your own website/blog and paste the link to that post in a comment to this one here at Figments. I will include your contribution in this post, forming a list of stories.
Will you join me? Will you? Say you do. And share the challenge news.
Have fun writing!
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How do we enter Meditative Stabilization? (Part 2)
Dharma Talk by Living Buddha Lian Sheng on 09/07/96
Speaking of meditative stabilization, we must know how to stop our improper thoughts. The way to stop our thoughts is known as `Trekcho` in Tantrayana.
There are many ways to stop our thoughts. In short, we have to use `thought to curtail thoughts`; we substitute bad thoughts with good thought. In Tantrayana, we visualize so that all our improper thoughts do not arise. We must have made great progress in this aspect if we are in meditative stabilization. As our mind is focused and undivided, we should be able to enter into Samadhi.
After which, we can cultivate rainbow light - part of great perfection Dharma, and brightness in meditative stabilization known as `Togal`.
Many people have taken my photographs. And they found round shapes of light surrounding me. The lights that appear initially can be called `bright spots`. Those who are able to cultivate lights in their meditative stabilization can see many tiny bright spots, circulating and gyrating around their bodies.
The bright spots will grow slowly and form a Vajra-necklace known as Vajra-chain in Tantrayana. Sometimes, our personal deity, Buddha, or Bodhisattva will appear in these bright spots. All the Dharma realms can also appear in the bright spots if our spiritual level is very high. In future, I shall talk more about `Togal`.
We shall now go back to talk about Trekcho `Stop our thoughts`. As I said before, we can`t be too up tight when we attempt to enter meditative stabilization. If we try too hard, thinking that `I want to enter meditative stabilization`, then we can never succeed. On the other hand, we cannot be too relaxed. If we have no thoughts, we may fall asleep and enter into dreamland. We have to strike a balance between uptightness and relaxation; and stay in a stage between staying awake and sleeping.
When improper thoughts arise, we must visualize so as to use one thought to stop all thoughts.
Logically speaking, we must use our minds to think of the most beautiful thoughts, such as carry out `Buddha in me, me in Buddha` visualization as follows:
A Buddha appears in the space. He sits on our head. He changes into a bright pearl and enters into the blossom flower that lies in our heart through our central channel. Then he enlarges his size and we morph ourselves into Buddhas. To me, this is a good way, a holy and perfect way of visualization. It can be used to moderate our thoughts and achieve the so-called `using one thought to curtail many thoughts`.
Tantrayana uses Mantra, Mudra and visualization.
Mantra is closely related to breathing and rhythm. Our breathing must be very subtle and our mantra must be immersed with the sound of universe. By means of visualization, if our body, speech and mind are purified, we can enter into cosmos consciousness and let it enter into our body in return. This is a union. This is how we should enter into Samadhi (meditative stabilization).
Today, I have briefly explained to you my cultivation experiences accumulated over the years. I believe the best way to enter Samadhi is:
Use the subtlest way to breathe,
Assimilate the frequency of Mantra to that of the universe,
Visualize the minute details,
Then enter the most magnificent stage of meditative stabilization.
Of course our hands must form a Mudra. We must also chant the Mantra so that its frequency will resonant with that of the universe. Then we use the most beautiful and dignified visualization to cultivate `Trekcho` - meditative stabilization.
In the meditative stabilization, we can cultivate Togal - light. Remember that we must cultivate for a while before we can see lights in our meditative stabilization.
It is just like when we first switch on our TV set. The screen will not be clear immediately. Instead, we will see a lot of white dots. And slowly pictures appear. By changing the focal points to the right places, we can see sacred shrine; personal deity and Vajra-chain appear in front of us.
When our bodies are full of brightness, and can change into light instantly, we have achieved the `Rainbow Light Great Attainment`.
By cultivating, we will have Prajna and Vijnana. The purpose of Tantric cultivation is to maneuver them so as to enter into Vairocana Buddha`s great ocean of brilliance as mentioned in the Hua Yan Sutra.
That is all for today.
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In recent months, there have been protests by LGBTQI+ activists against the marriage law, migrant workers’ rights advocates in support of protections for caregivers and a railways union protesting plans to corporatise the agency. While there is press freedom, there is a very polarised media environment.
The state of civic space in Taiwan remains ‘open’ according to the CIVICUS Monitor.
On 5th May 2022, the cabinet unveiled Taiwan's first-ever national human rights action plan, which it says will prioritise issues such as transitional justice and a review of the country's refugee policies over the next two years. The plan aims to provide general guidelines for different government agencies as they make and implement plans pertaining to human rights.
An international panel of human rights experts reviewed Taiwan’s record on civil and political rights and on 13th May issued its concluding observations and recommendations. While the panel said that Taiwan “has substantially improved its human rights record over the years”, there are some long-standing issues to be addressed including the use of the death penalty, allegations of torture against law enforcement officials, the lack of legislation that criminalises torture and the need to adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination law that addresses the various types of discrimination. Human rights groups in Taiwan echoed the group's call.
In recent months, there have been protests by LGBTQI+ activists against the marriage law, migrant workers’ rights advocates in support of protections for caregivers and a railways union protesting plans to corporatise the agency. While there is press freedom there is a very polarised media environment.
LGBT activists in Taiwan braved a Valentine's Day downpour on Monday (Feb 14) to protest against the island's same-sex marriage law, which critics say falls short of full recognition for many international couples.https://t.co/rGAgLCcRVC— Asia Democracy Chronicles (@demchronicles) February 15, 2022
On 14th February 2022, LGBT activists in Taiwan held a protest against the island's same-sex marriage law, which critics say falls short of full recognition for many international couples. Under the law, those from Taiwan may legally wed foreigners but only from countries that also recognise marriage equality.
Taiwan's courts have been open to considering challenges on a case-by-case basis, but that requires the presence of both partners - an impossible task for many as foreign tourists are banned during the pandemic.
Dozens of LGBT activists and couples gathered in front of Taiwan's seat of executive power to protest against the rules. They tied hundreds of yellow ribbons around the compound's metal gates - a reference to the 1973 hit song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree", in which lovers yearn to be reunited. Each ribbon had the names and nationalities of separated couples, along with the number of days they have spent apart.
As previously documented, in 2019, Taiwan's parliament legalised same-sex marriage in a landmark vote that made the island the first in Asia to adopt such legislation. The law allowed same-sex couples to form "exclusive permanent unions" and a second clause allowed them to apply for a "marriage registration" with government agencies. The vote was a major victory for the island's LGBTQI community, who have campaigned for years to have similar or equal marriage rights as heterosexual couples
On 8th March 2022, migrant workers’ rights advocates rallied in support of protections for caregivers, the majority of whom are women who make on average only NT$17,000 (USD 575) per month.
To mark International Women’s Day, the Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan gathered in front of the Ministry of Labour in Taipei calling for stronger legal guarantees for vulnerable caregivers.
According to the network, most caregivers in Taiwan are women, but their work is not covered by the Labour Standards Act Ministry. Data last year showed that 74.3 percent of caregivers reported not receiving any time off work. In the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as 34 percent did not receive time off, meaning there are about 70,000 caregivers who have not had a break for years.
“The cost of employing a caregiver is borne by individual households, but they should be incorporated into the government’s long-term care and social welfare system”, said Taiwan International Workers’ Association specialist Betty Chen. “That would ensure that labour protections are afforded to migrant caregivers under the law, while also improving the quality of care”, Chen said. She added that a domestic services bill has been proposed to protect workers’ rights but has not been passed into law.
On 23rd March 2022, more than 1,000 Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) workers protested the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ plan to corporatize the agency, saying that the ministry drafted the statute establishing Taiwan Railway Corp without thoroughly communicating with the workers’ unions.
Members of the Taiwan Railway Labour Union (TRLU) and two other unions in the railway agency marched from Taipei Railway Station to the Legislative Yuan and handed a petition to lawmakers serving on the legislature’s Transportation Committee.
TRLU chairman Chen Shih-chieh said that the union organised the protest because the ministry sent the draft statute for legislative review without first reaching an agreement with the unions.
We hope that both the government and legislators can listen to the voice of TRA workers, who have qualms about the ministry’s plan to turn the agency into a state-run corporation,” he said. “We will decide what to do next if we do not get a goodwill response.”
The ministry and the union disagree on 12 articles in the statute, he said, adding that workers do not believe the ministry’s promises of better salaries and benefits.
Reporting the Taiwan Railway Union strike. At the heart of this protest is the corporatization of the Taiwan Railways Administration. The Gov’t believes it will help make trains safer. The Union says they were not consulted on the plan and fear their benefits would be affected. pic.twitter.com/tnlw1MTjYL— Bing Wang 王斌 (@bingwangtw) May 1, 2022
On 1st May 2022, more than 12,000 TRA employees, including 90 percent of its drivers, went on strike to protest against the law. TRLU initiated an industrial action in which it asked its members to take a rest day on Labour Day as they are entitled to, rather than follow their shift schedule, to force the government to recall from Legislature the draft bill on converting TRA into a corporation.
Taiwan’s ranking in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index has improved from 43rd to 38th place from 180 countries in new rankings issued by the organisation on 3rd May 2022.
According to RSF, Taiwan is a liberal democracy that generally respects the principles of media freedom, but its journalists suffer from a very polarised media environment dominated by sensationalism and the pursuit of profit. This hinders the work of journalists and can prevent citizens from accessing objective information.
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This appeal is being made on behalf of St. Anne’s School and is a request for you to support us to raise money to enhance the educational experience of our pupils and their learning environment.
We provide education for children who have been assessed as having general learning disabilities in either the moderate or severe range between the ages of five and eighteen years. Some of our pupils have physical or sensory impairments and some have a diagnosis of autism. All of our children are amazing and fun to be with and always do their very best. Their learning will progress with the experiences we provide for them.
To do this effectively we need a large variety and vast amount of resources to cater for the very individual needs of our pupils to enable them to access the curriculum
As a primary school we follow the curriculum for Children with General Learning Disabilities. However fifty per cent of our pupils are of post primary age and are completing the Junior Cycle Learning Programmes at Levels 1 and 2. Because of the variety of needs and age groups across the school, providing resources is very costly as we endeavour to cover everything that we are required to within both curricula. Most of our resources are custom made for each pupil, for those that are not we have to make several copies as our pupils can no longer share within current restrictions.
We also have access to sensory rooms to provide therapeutic supports, sensory diets or sometimes just fun for our pupils. We need to access a variety of sensory toys and equipment to provide for individual needs and likes. Repairs and replacement of these can be very costly.
As a result of Covid – 19 we have separated our classes into bubbles for play times. Breaks are organised according to age groups and as you can imagine this has stretched the few items of play equipment we already have, to the limit as they can no longer be shared easily.
We do receive grants from the Department of Education but these do cover the basic costs of running our school most of the time, not to mention the nicer things in life such as play equipment or sensory toys.
Our fund raising initiative which was to be held in March 2020 was cancelled and already we are struggling financially.
We need your help now.
What will we buy? These are the items we have identified that our children will benefit most from:
- Enable us to make additional specialist resources e.g. cover costs of photocopying and additional paper/ink required laminators and printers for every class
- Repair/provide laptop for every class that does not have one
- Replace and improve supply of all curriculum based resources and equipment and enough PE gear to provide separately to all classes
- Provide portable barriers to divide play areas for bubbles/ social distancing
- Provide outdoor sensory panels, magnetic dry white boards with magnetic shapes, letters etc.
- Provide indoor activities for wet weather break times e.g. games consoles, tabletop games/activities, CD players
- Go towards and help to alleviate high heating and electrical costs. We are a relatively small special school but have similar number of classes to heat as a school with a much larger pupil population
€50,000 will get us all the above plus:
- Sensory room equipment e.g. .bubble tubes, projectors, music system, sound to light interactive toys, interactive panels
- Funds to service and clean existing sensory room equipment
- Purchasing specialist kitchen equipment for the Home Economics Room e.g. slow cooker, soup maker, food processor/mixer, cooker etc.
- Provide interactive white board for a classroom plus software/installation
- Large outdoor play equipment e.g. slide/swing/climbing frame etc.
- Ride on toys (bikes, pedal cars, snickers) for play areas
- Install wheelchair swings
- Provide adequate PE equipment
- Pay ongoing annual subscription for Boardmaker communication system (€170 minimum annually.
€70,000 and over will get us all the above plus
- Resurfacing play area, replacing grass with resilient surfacing
- Awning to cover play area to protect the children from the weather
- Outdoor sensory panels, music panels, bench games
- Purchase two additional interactive white boards plus software and installation
- Fix roof leaks (for which funding was refused by DES as we will be getting a new building in a couple of years time)
- Continue to support additional heating/electrical costs
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About Campus Ministry
One of the great benefits your child receives by attending a Catholic high school is the campus ministry. Our campus minister has been given the responsibility of providing spiritual care and supporting the faith life of students and staff. They spread the Good News of the Lord and promote our Catholic teachings within the school setting.
The campus minister works to enhance your child’s faith and learning experience by focusing on Christian morals, values and attitudes through work in and out of the classroom, during school liturgies and retreat experiences. The campus minister is also available for spiritual help and resource support. Students who experience loss due to a death, separation or divorce in their families or any other issue can find great comfort and support by turning to the school campus minister.
The Chapel – The Chapel is located at the main entrance of the school. Students are encouraged to visit the Chapel during their free time.
Eucharistic Adoration- At Pensacola Catholic High School, we recognize the value and importance of spending time in the Real Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. As Father John Hardon, S.J. said,
“The center of the whole Catholic liturgy is the Eucharist. The Eucharist is most important in the life of the Church because it is Jesus Christ. It is the incarnation continued in space and time. The other sacraments and all the Church's ministries and apostolates are directed toward the Eucharist.
The word "Eucharist" means "thanksgiving". This is explained by the fact that Christ "gave thanks" when He instituted the Eucharist and this is the supreme act of Christian gratitude to God.
We should worship Jesus in the Tabernacle because He is present there under the appearance of bread and wine as truly as He is in heaven. We should give Him the adoration given to God alone because of His infinite perfection and His supreme domination over all things created. The Church fosters devotion to the Real Presence through public adoration of the Holy Eucharist…”
Twice a month we invite our students, faculty, and parents to join us in Eucharistic Adoration. During this time of intimate prayer with our Lord, we especially ask Jesus to help our young people make responsible decisions, acknowledging always that we are created as one family.
Dates for Adoration will be published each semester both on the Campus Ministry Weblink and the CHS website calendar. Adoration begins at 7:55 a.m. and lasts until 2:35 p.m. Please know that you are welcome to join us for Eucharistic Adoration. If you have any questions, please contact our Campus Minister, Rebecca Carter.
Eucharistic Celebrations – Mass is celebrated for the entire student body on the First Friday of every month and for Holy Days and other celebrations during the year.
Sacrament of Reconciliation – The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available at specific times as posted by the Campus Minister, in conjunction with Religion classes, and also at any time by personal request. If a student has an urgent need that requires the services of a priest, the Campus Minister can help coordinate this with either the student's parish or by reaching out to one of our local priests. Please contact Rebecca Carter if this is the case.
Student Days of Recollection – Student Days of Recollection are provided for the spiritual development of each student. A special day is set aside for this spiritual activity. Attendance at the annual class Day of Recollection is mandatory for all students and, for seniors, is a requirement for graduation. In light of this year's social distancing requirements, it is our hope that we will be able to have these days rescheduled for the spring semester. In the spring, if we are able, Days of Recollection and the Senior retreat would be given on campus in two of our new buildings. Please note that Religion teachers will disseminate this information as it becomes available.
CHS Religion Service Requirement– CHS graduation requirements include for 9th and 10th graders a total of 20 hours of service (it is recommended that students perform 10 hours in each semester course; an annual total of 5 must be at CHS); for 11th graders a cumulative total of 30 hours including 5 at CHS; for 12th graders a cumulative total of 40 hours at one volunteer agency plus 5 at Catholic High. To satisfy the service commitment for the Florida Bright Futures eligibility, the Guidance Office will register the 30 hours of service performed in the 11th grade and the 40 hours performed in the 12th grade (at one volunteer agency) plus 5 hours of CHS service for a total of 75 service hours. For a listing of volunteer agencies, please follow the Service Project Opportunities navigation link to the left (the agencies listed may or may not be able to utilize volunteers due to COVID restrictions)
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Growing up, my idea of who the Chicks (previously known as the Dixie Chicks) were was vague, incomplete, and – though I couldn’t have known at the time – incorrect. I knew that they were country singers and that they had been the center of some controversy. Their reputation as a politically outspoken group preceded them, and I took it at face value. So when the band announced recently that they had decided to nix the “Dixie” from their name in light of and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, I thought “well, makes sense!”
Anyone familiar with the old controversy surrounding the Chicks knows that when they were labeled as politically outspoken, it wasn’t exactly meant to be a compliment. Even I, with my limited knowledge of the whole affair, felt its negative connotation. Upon watching Barbara Kopple’s documentary on the subject, Shut Up & Sing (2006), I had only a shadow of an idea of what I would be watching. But boy, was I in for an eye-opener.
“Politically outspoken? It was one little comment!” I found this thought resounding in my head for almost the entire film. For context, in 2003 the Chicks were the best-selling female group in history. During this time, President Bush’s approval ratings were sky-high, and much of the country and the government-supported his proposed invasion of Iraq in order to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his hidden weapons of mass destruction. When Chicks singer Natalie Maines publicly voiced her disapproval of the war and added that she was ashamed the president came from Texas (her home state), things got nasty as much of the South turned its conservative back on the band.
Rather than take back her statement, as her publicist advised her to do, Maines and the band decided to lean further in, which I love! So often in the news we hear the sentiment floating around that artists – singers, actors, and the like – should stay out of politics and stick to their art. But for these people, who express their very selves through their work, this is not possible.
In fact, art is often born from politics or other beliefs. When Michelangelo painted the roof of the Sistine Chapel, was he not spurred by a fervent belief in and love of God? If art can be religious, then why can’t it be political? If we banned all art – paintings, film, television, music, and more – from including beliefs on politics, culture, religion, and the environment, then what would we have? A common argument from people and politicians for artists to remain quiet on politics is that they shouldn’t weaponize their influence as a celebrity. I remember my own mother denouncing Oprah Winfrey when she publicly announced her support for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama back in 2006.
But if you have a voice, then why shouldn’t you use it? As a child who looked up to her mother, I was inclined to agree with her condemnation of Oprah. As a young adult today, I find that I couldn’t disagree more. It has become harder to ignore the injustice that abounds in this nation, and even more difficult to remain unaffected by the screaming pleas of those it negatively impacts. And I, somebody who once proclaimed that I wasn’t interested in politics, cannot remain blind to their voices. It is a privilege to make such a declaration, because it means that you have no personal stake in its dealings.
Something even more frustrating about the mistreatment of Maines and the Chicks in 2003 and afterward is that they were right all along. Today we have the gift of hindsight on the matter. There were no weapons of mass destruction. The invasion of Iraq was not only a bust, but it cost the lives of American soldiers, Iraqi soldiers, and – worst of all – innocent Iraqi civilians. It left the country in shambles. Nobody seemed to consider this outcome when Bush’s approval ratings were soaring. It serves as a reminder of the toxicity of patriotism and nationalism, ideals that country music has seemed to hold high for decades when they burn so brightly that they blind us to the voices of those we’ve made into the “other.”
The Chicks decided long ago that they didn’t care to listen to the advice of those who wanted them to shut up and sing. And today, they’ve made another stand for something they believe in, the recognition and implementation of equal rights for Blacks, starting by removing the “Dixie” from their name. While the Black Lives Matter movement has been around since 2013, the fight for Black justice has existed for far longer.
And whether we like it or not, names carry meanings that come from and perpetuate the culture. Removing a word like “Redskins” from a name (as the Washington Football Team recently did) is a step in squashing a culture that says it’s okay to use historically derogatory names for Native Americans, a group that has already suffered injustice enough on their own soil. Similarly, the musical group formerly known as “Lady Antebellum” has removed “antebellum” because they recognize the danger in imbuing the word with both nostalgia and fashion appeal. The word refers to the era just before the Civil War, when slavery was prevalent and accepted in the southern U.S.
“Dixie” isn’t simply a nickname for the South; it is associated specifically with those states that made up the Confederacy, a proposed nation born out of the belief that slavery should remain an accepted institution. Although dixie might have a broader meaning today, its roots cannot be erased.
Finally, groups like the Chicks and organizations like the Washington Football Team have stopped to reflect on the danger that lies in words, the risk of the perpetuation of a culture so toxic. Like I said, hindsight is a gift. We exist at a time where we can look at history as a bigger picture rather than isolated events, and see the ways that injustice persists and put an end to it. So we must re-evaluate the language that we use and the ways in which it might perpetuate toxicity. We must also recognize that we have every power to choose this language for ourselves, to choose to right wrongs.
I think often of the people who scoff at these types of actions, of those who might dismiss such gestures – dropping or changing an offensive word – as merely performative activism that does more to make the doer feel better about himself than to make any real change in society. And of course, we cannot simply remove offensive words and be done. The work does not end here. Action must be taken. But, changing our language is a promising start.
I laud the Chicks for nixing “Dixie” and I am happy to see them continue to voice their opinions, no matter what those that would like them quiet might say.
© Roza M. Melkumyan (9/20/20) FF2 Media
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Experts Uncover Rare Mosaics Showing Biblical Scenes in Ancient Synagogue in Galilee
Mosaics from the 5 th century AD, one depicting Noah’s ark and the other the parting of the Red Sea by Moses, have been excavated in an ancient Jewish village in Galilee, Israel. The synagogue in which the mosaics have been excavated show other scenes, including battle, possibly Alexander the Great visiting Palestine and a triumphal parade with elephants. Also found at the site of Huqoq, the ancient village, were coins spanning 2,300 years.
Depictions of the two Old Testament stories are rare in ancient mosaics, so the archaeologists and researchers working on the find are excited about this June’s find. Experts have removed the mosaics for preservation and backfilled the site of the synagogue.
“These scenes are very rare in ancient synagogues,” said Jodi Magness, a professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences in a news release . “The only other examples that have been found are at Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan and Mopsuestia/Misis in Turkey (Noah’s Ark), and at Khirbet Wadi Hamam in Israel and Dura Europos in Syria (the parting of the Red Sea).”
Dr. Magness and Shua Kisilevitz of the Israel Antiquities Authority are directing several other institutions in the dig.
One mosaic on the floor of the nave or center of the hall portrays an ark with pairs of animals, including lions, bears, leopards, elephants and snakes. The mosaic also shows donkeys, ostriches, camels, sheep and goats.
Genesis 6:19: “You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.” This mosaic detail shows two donkeys to be led onto Noah’s ark. (Photo credit: Jim Haberman)
Another scene shows pharaoh’s troops being swallowed by large fish after Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, as told in the book of Genesis (see photo at the top of the page). The soldiers are depicted surrounded by overturned chariots with chariot drivers and horses.
These are not the first mosaics discovered at the synagogue. In 2012, one depicting Samson and the foxes was found in the east aisle, a story from Judges 15:4. Then, in 2013, adjacent to it the researchers discovered a mosaic depicting Samson carrying the gate of Gaza, a story from Judges 16:3.
In the east aisle in 2013 and 2014, the team uncovered the only known non-biblical story adorning an ancient synagogue. It may depict the legendary meeting between the Jewish high priest and Alexander the Great. Alexander visited the Galilee, the northernmost region of Palestine, in the 4 th century BC.
Head of a Greek military ruler, possibly Alexander of Macedon, in a mosaic that shows the only non-biblical scene known in an ancient synagogue. Photo credit: Jim Haberman)
In 2015, a mosaic panel was discovered that shows a Hebrew inscription surrounded by animals, human figures and putti and other mythological creatures.
Dr. Magness says in the press release:
‘This is by far the most extensive series of biblical stories ever found decorating the mosaic floor of an ancient synagogue. The arrangement of the mosaics in panels on the floor brings to mind the synagogue at Dura Europos in Syria, where an array of biblical stories is painted in panels on the walls.’
Huqoq is an ancient Jewish village about 3 miles west of Capernaum and Magadala. A consortium of universities has done five seasons of excavations at the site so far. The synagogue dates to the Late Roman and Byzantine eras.
As for the coins, “The ancient coins at Huqoq, which I study, span 2,300 years at the site and are critical for our knowledge of the monumental synagogue and the associated village,” said Baylor University coin specialist and art history professor Nathan Elkins in a press release . The release does not elaborate on the coins.
The Huqoq Excavation Project has a website here.
Top image: A big fish swallows an ancient Egyptian soldier on one of the mosaics found on the floor of the synagogue. (Photo credit: Jim Haberman)
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The new air traffic control tower at RSW is ready to start keeping an eye on the growing number of flights at the airport. While it is currently not being used, it is expected to begin operating next year.
The 225-foot high tower provides controllers with a 360-degree view of the airport. The tower is also the only one in the country that was not built with FAA funding. Half of the $80 million price tag came from the Florida Department of Transportation and the other half came from fees paid by all those travelers.
Executive Director of the Lee County Port Authority Ben Siegel said, “this is a critical component for really the future of Southwest Florida International Airport.”
The tower is the brains behind all air traffic, and it needs to have a bird’s-eye view of everything, from the planes taking off and landing, to the terminal and gates.
The old tower is only half the height of the one, which means it isn’t high enough to handle the planned expansion.
David Woods, the lead designer & architect with Pond & Co., said, “so now this is located central along with our ARFF (Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting) facility so you can see both the existing runway over here all of the terminal parking and over here to the future runway. The current tower is only 120-feet tall and at that height, you could not see over here to get all the safe views that the faa needs to operate their tower.”
In the last past 20 years, RSW has seen a 56% increase in passengers. The airport is already expanding the existing terminal and soon will have a new concourse and in the next 15 years will add another runway.
Siegel said, “people want to come here and we gotta make sure that we’re growing with the community and were prepared to do that.”
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Dr. Johann Vollmann, PhD is Associate Professor of Plant Breeding at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (POKU) in Vienna, Austria. He has conducted research on Mendel’s history on the context of plant breeding during the time Mendel was active in research, and contemporary reports of Mendel’s activities in newspapers. Dr. Vollmann received the Mendel Memorial Medal in 2016 for his research on Mendel.
Based on your examination of plant breeding in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in what ways did Mendel’s contemporary plant breeders influence his research, and what novel contributions did he make that other plant breeders were not investigating at the time?
Several of the nineteenth century plant breeders already carried out hybridisations. They observed, that the first generation following a cross was uniform, whereas the second generation was described as “variable”. Mendel might have been aware of such observations which also confirmed his own findings. But Mendel went much further: He tried to find a general mechanism explaining these observations. He looked at figures on the population level and used statistics. And by doing so he came up with a fairly precise explanation on how biological information is transferred from one generation to the next one.
Could you share a few of the most intriguing discoveries from your examination of newspaper reports on Mendel during his lifetime?
The newspaper findings are just a small piece in the Mendel puzzle. But these reports confirm what present-day Mendel biographers are pointing out: Gregor Mendel was not excluded from the rest of the world and from the scientific community. He was an open-minded person, he travelled to Vienna, to Rome, Paris, even London, he had a political attitude, he had various interests which he pursued. And it is fascinating to see that seemingly irrelevant information such as a traveller’s hotel registration becomes interesting over 150 years later when it is viewed in another context. | <urn:uuid:72469456-3976-45d5-9352-6c2946b8651b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://genetics.org.uk/event/mendel-200th/mendel-interviews/johann-vollmann/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979849 | 409 | 2.859375 | 3 |
If your marbles are available in different sizes, you can use different types of marble, such as white, black, red, green, blue, yellow, orange, or red marble.
You need to know the size and thickness of the marble you want to cut, and if your marble is more than 16 inches tall, you can use a wet saw blade tabletop, but it simply won't be cut at all. If you are cutting a thin marble slab for your countertop, you must use a diamond blade supplied with a circular saw.
Granite is harder than ceramic marble, and a blade designed for cutting this type of tile will hardly leave a dent in the granite.
Carefully measure how much you need to cut into the tile, and then create a cut with an indelible marker. Any faulty ink left on the tiles after cutting can be removed with a little rubbing alcohol and a rag.
Remember that you can scratch the surface of the marble, so limit your polishing to the edges where you make your cuts.
Most home-made tile saws rented from your hardware store cut on 24-inch tiles, meaning that the panel size should be limited to about 24 inches in width. If your slab is too large to fit into a wet saw or tile tray, you can use a wet saw to cut the marble. Commercial rails – Smarts are sometimes available for rent or purchase, but if you have a friend who owns one, the principle is the same: Place the plate in the shell and guide the blade through the stone.
This work requires a wet saw with a diamond blade for a good reason and should not be tried with just a saw. If you are massively rebuilding your house, you will be better off buying just one saw if you do only one job but need it for several jobs. You will also be well off if you do it yourself, rather than renting it from your local hardware store or hardware store.
This is to reduce the heat and pressure caused by the cutting of stones such as marble and granite. A high-pressure water jet in combination with a CNC cutting table and a water jet cutter (which can also cut other materials) is the most common method of cutting marble. Other materials that can be cut with waterjet cutters include glass, ceramic tiles, concrete, and bricks.
A 3×2 water jet is often used because the available slabs of marble and granite are often twice as large as these.
Answers to these and other similar questions can be found at the bottom of the marble worktop page. Apart from the fact that it is a countertop in the kitchen, I would advise using granite and not marble tiles. The drawback is that marble tiles require much more care, etching, and scratching than granite. You need to reinforce the place where your sink sits on your marble or tile countertop. Marble tiles are not nearly as heavy as marble slabs, so support is not as crucial.
I had many, many polished marble slabs removed from my bathroom walls. I used a marble slab as a countertop in the kitchen and a marble tile on the bathroom wall of my old house.
Marble is one of the many natural stones that make up the slab, and like any other slab, it must be cut to meet a specific installation. The average do-it-yourself user can cut small marble slabs, while large format cutting should be left to professionals with commercial slab systems.
You can simply have a diamond cutting board cutter or cut the block with a huge saw from 2 cm to 3 cm by 3.5 cm and make as many stone discs at once. Once it arrives at a stone cutting and production plant, it can be cut by hand or with a cutting knife.
If you can imagine how long it takes to cut a sample plate, it can take hours for the blade to pass through a footstone. When you visit a granite showroom, the slab is usually shown to you, but when it arrives at the stonemason's factory, it is usually cut by hand.
Once you have selected a tile that offers the color variations and patterns that are attractive to you, you are ready to create a custom worktop.
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These boldly patterned beetles are common visitors on flowers in western North America (Alaska-California to Northwest Territories-Saskatchewan-Texas). Adults feed primarily on pollen and occasionally on small insects, while the larvae parasitize leafcutter bee or wasp nests. After hatching on flower heads, larvae wait for a visiting bee or wasp, attach themselves and hitch a ride to the nest. Bee or wasp larvae are their targets, although the literature suggests they can sustain themselves on pollen, which results in a lengthier development time.
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MISSION FITNESS: In 2006, Medical Center Healthcare System, located in Odessa, Texas, was seeing its market share eroding as population shifted out of the City to surrounding areas. The Healthcare System needed a unique way to provide healthcare services to that area and a more progressive approach to population health management. The Medical Center’s visionary CEO partnered with Healthplex Associates to build a medically integrated health and fitness complex in an area outside of the City where growth was predicted.
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The basic idea behind the Medical Wellness Center is to shift the focus of health care from “sickness” to “health” and to provide physicians a place/program for patient referral to continue their change in lifestyle. Having a Medical Wellness Center allows the sponsoring entity to bring health back into the continuum of care. This lifestyle change has an emphasis on the root causes of disease prevention and health promotion.
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Singing River Health System broke ground for its new vision of health care in the Gulf area of Mississippi in the Spring of 2010. Located next to Singing River Hospital, the 24,000 sq. ft. medicallybased fitness and wellness center is positioned strategically close to Cardiac Rehab and Physical Therapy within the Singing River Medical Park, to strengthen clinical integration and improve the continuum of care.
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The complex initially included physician offices, physical therapy, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, diabetes education, lab services, radiology, classrooms for community education, as well as a comprehensive medical fitness center. The original MCH Center for Health and Wellness and Mission Fitness opened in 2010 with over 1,200 community members. Today, the campus has grown to accommodate additional clinics, as well as the growth in the Wellness Center which now has 3200 members.
Working with hospitals, health systems, and universities across the country, Healthplex Associates works to create and manage clinically integrated fitness facilities. Healthplex Associates launched Mission Fitness in 2010.
In their 9th year, Mission Fitness still faced the challenge of converting more of the hospital’s employees into members of the fitness center. There was a disconnect between employees and the fitness center. In an effort to be more impactful with the benefits of the population’s health and have hospital employees engaging in exercise programming, Mission Fitness needed to effectively communicate the benefits of membership.
Healthplex Associates worked to create an employee wellness initiative to attract employees to join their fitness center instead of other, low cost, low service fitness options. By offering a more cost effective membership for employees, Mission Fitness was able to grow membership while offering an incentive based, usage rewarded membership option for employees.
Because of the employee wellness initiative, membership from staff members grew from only 173 hospital employees to 692, a 300% increase.
CLINICALLY INTEGRATED MEDICAL WELLNESS AS A BUSINESS STRATEGY
While Medical Wellness Centers have been around for a number of years, only recently has the concept of clinical integration been recognized to be an effective means for reducing re-admissions (reduction in penalties = real dollars), improving outcomes, as well as growing clinical volume, revenue and market share. Where properly sized, located, and managed, these facilities have been profitable and provided the sponsoring hospital or health system substantial market differentiation from competitors.
Why should your organization pursue population health through fitness?
- Position the hospital to become a life partner in healthcare choices across the continuum of care. Taking a wellness approach builds loyalty from future patients.
- Add a platform for community risk assessment of a myriad of conditions that can funnel into services for further diagnostics and treatment.
- Build a platform of solutions to offer employers that address cost and effectiveness of their health coverage.
- Help to diversify your system’s portfolio of services and contribute to overall hospital profitability.
- Distinguish the hospital from its competition. Being first to market with this strategy is key.
- Establish a larger beachhead of services in a market that can support physicians and their patients, while concurrently strengthening the ability to compete.
- Serves as another avenue to help the hospital manage its own employee health costs.
The basic idea behind the Medical Wellness Center is to shift the focus of health care
from “sickness” to “health” and to provide physicians a place/program for patient referral
to continue their change in lifestyle. Having a Medical Wellness Center allows the
sponsoring entity to bring health back into the continuum of care. This lifestyle change
has an emphasis on the root causes of disease prevention and health promotion. As
the chart below shows, the medical fitness model supports the members of your
community whose health is currently at risk or subject to rising risk for medical
Wellness centers provide the unique opportunity to expand the continuum of care, but also to improve the health status of people within the service area. Having a medical fitness center allows the sponsoring entity to empower people to take charge of their own health status in an environment that is supported with professional help. By developing clinically integrated medical wellness centers, the hospital or health system can:
- Improve community health status.
- Develop an attractive location for physicians to practice.
- Promote the development of disease management programs.
- Reduce utilization of inpatient services by expanding post discharge options.
- Provide an opportunity to increase clinical volumes and business growth.
- Tie the medical wellness center to the health system’s EMR to assure a smooth transition for clinical referrals to the center.
- Create a barrier to market erosion in key services.
- Provide much needed space for expansion of outpatient clinical services.
- Create a new source of “retail” revenue for the hospital, thereby reducing dependency on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
- Provide a facility that can assist in physician recruitment.
- Offer new and innovative health promotion and wellness services to area employers.
- Improve medical capabilities and physician practice opportunities in the areas of physical rehabilitation, cardiology, women’s services, occupational medicine, senior health care services, and cancer care.
- Reposition the hospital with an image focusing on “health” rather than on “sickness”.
How a Medical Wellness Center Fits in the Continuum of Care
EXISTING MEDICAL WELLNESS CENTERS
If your organization has an existing Medical Wellness Center, ask yourself if it is profitable and part of your population health strategy. If the answer is no, it’s time to take action.
Turning around an existing center requires a fresh, professional look from a team that knows what it takes to succeed. An audit performed by the HPA team looks at the entire operation to give the organization actionable recommendations on how to make it financially viable and to be the asset it should be. A management audit should include the following:
REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF CURRENT OPERATIONS:
- Marketing efforts: greeting and sales approach, marketing plan, closing rates, incentives, sales program.
- Financial performance.
- Policies and procedures.
- Billing practices and operating system.
- Pricing structure (membership dues and fee for service).
- Physical facility concerns: condition, suitability, layout, cleanliness, maintenance, décor.
- Equipment concerns: quality, variety, maintenance, and suitability.
- Staffing patterns.
- Staff qualifications: training, quality, and compensation system.
- Programming structure, creativity, quality, and suitability.
- Key operating metrics such as sales closing rates, non-dues revenues, attendance, costs per class, etc.
- Member satisfaction: turnover rates, feedback/survey results (if available), staff responsiveness, attendance patterns.
- Population Health/Clinical integration efforts.
- Center’s sales approach to community prospects and other important corporate entities in your area.
FINAL REPORT ELEMENTS:
Analysis and opinion of:
- Operating policies and procedures of the centers.
- Billing practices and financial reporting systems of the centers.
- Marketing and sales practices of the centers.
- Clinical integration levels achieved.
- Pricing policies.
- Customer service levels, both actual and desired.
- Services offered.
- Range of equipment and layout.
- Short term strategies.
- Long term strategies.
- Recommendations and action plan.
Like any new venture, proper planning and market research can spell the difference between ultimate success and failure. Hospitals and health systems that don’t take the time and make the investment to properly research and understand the market, operations and clinical potential for a wellness center by commissioning a feasibility study are destined for problems. HPA’s feasibility study recommendations provide the necessary answers to how this concept fits into a health system by including the following:
- Review of proposed site
- Description of project and rational
- Compatibility with the Client’s strategic plan
- Project cost estimate for a model facility
- Demographic analysis of the site selected
- Competition analysis
- Interviews with key stakeholders
- Preliminary sizing and design (including site and floor plans)
- Discussion/recommendations of clinical service component
- Preliminary medical office space analysis
- Preliminary wellness center financial pro forma
- Project cost summary
- Space requirements
- Service offering analysis
- Five-year operational summary
- Membership summary (suggested rates and membership volume estimates)
- Final recommendations
- Education of key stakeholders
A Medical Fitness Center is much more than the exercise equipment found within the four walls of the building. It must have innovative and creative exercise programs and education programs both inside the Center and in the community The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has long been promoting the use of exercise regimens as an essential part of the healthcare continuum for treatment of conditions that range from heart disease to neurological disorders, orthopedic issues and even oncology. From a patient care standpoint, offering programs that appeal to special needs populations with chronic conditions is as important as meeting their therapeutic needs. An attractive level of entertainment and facilities equipped to deliver high-quality programming is essential to the success of the program offerings. This is part of what will make the medical wellness center a preferable medical treatment and service location than what is provided by competitors. The following list offers a sampling of programs that have been shown to have a direct link to improving the care and outcomes for patients:
- Senior Health
- Balance programs to prevent falls & increase confidence
- Maternal Health
- Pre-natal and post-partum fitness
- Disease Related Programs
- Cancer recovery
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Heart disease- (early intervention and prevention)
- Physical rehabilitation
- Occupational medicine
- Neurological disorders (MS, MD, Cerebral Palsy)
- Diabetes (prevention and maintenance)
- Smoking Cessation
- Weight reduction and control
Most health care providers who focus on orthopedics ought to be considering how fitness and wellness mesh with their continuum of care. This is because movement, joint health and musculo-skeletal functions are central to this discipline. From the most basic elements of orthopedic practice to the most esoteric, a wellness center can enhance the quality of care, the patient experience, recovery and the physician’s practice. Some of the potential touch points include:
- For many patients, a program of “pre-hab”, i.e., pre-surgical physical conditioning can enhance their results from a surgical procedure.
- For joint replacement, the wellness center can supplement post-surgical physical therapy. With insurance reimbursement declining, more onus is placed upon the patient to work out independently to achieve optimum
results. In addition, low cost access to the wellness center (or in some cases no additional cost) while in active therapy can enhance the patient’s experience and compliance.
- For patients with spinal problems, a program to strengthen the back muscles can often help to prevent re-injury after surgical repair.
- Sports medicine connections are an obvious tie to a wellness center. Many orthopedic practices are delving into the entire gamut of sports performance from weekend athletes to college and professional performance enhancement.
- The presence of a wellness center provides access to equipment and facilities that would be unrealistically expensive for a typical practice; equipment such as state-of-the-art circuits or facilities such as pools become realistic with the revenue generated in a successful wellness center.
Why a Hospital/Health System should be in the business of wellness? Consider the following observations:
Finding #1 – Survey Research
Healthplex Associates’ own consumer research has found the following medical wellness center membership trends:
- 51% of more than 13,000 respondents indicated that a connection to the sponsoring hospital was a factor in joining a medical wellness center.
- 73% of more than 23,000 wellness center members indicated that the connection to the hospital/health system was seen as a clear advantage.
- The vast majority of members in hospital affiliated centers are over 40 years of age with average ages typically well into the 50’s. This is not the crowd that populates typical commercial centers, but it is certainly the prime market for hospitals.
- 28% of consumers in HPA’s studies had never belonged to any fitness center prior to joining the medical wellness center.
- 25% of the membership should be from clinical integration efforts.
- HPA’s surveys indicate that more than one third of the members self-report that the reason they joined the wellness center was for some specific health concern.
Finding #2 – Medicare Advantage Plans
For systems with a Medicare Advantage Plan, having a wellness center makes a critical difference in several areas:
- A wellness/prevention benefit can help to boost the plan’s “Star Rating”, an important factor in success of the plan.
- Members who stay active and fit utilize expensive health services far less than those who are sedentary, affecting plan costs.
- HPA has found that the marketing of the plan is much easier with an affiliated wellness center. We have seen significant plan growth when the benefit was added.
Finding #3 – Lifestyle Modification Works!
An actual case study from a Healthplex Associates managed medical wellness center demonstrated a significant reduction in disease related claims among system employees who participated in a lifestyle modification program. The wellness center designed a program to improve health and prevent disease among at risk people. The healthcare system rewarded eligible employees at the collective (not individual) level for improvements in overall health data and claims reductions.
The chart below demonstrates the actual impact that lifestyle modification had on employee claims:
A strategic goal of the Health System was to move patients efficiently from clinical services to supervised exercise programs. Another factor in the decision to build the medical office/wellness center building was to create a hub for community education and wellness. The additional departments within the medical park include Speech/Occupational Therapy, Radiology, Rheumatology, Pulmonology, Sleep Center, and Women’s Wellness.
Healthplex Associates takes pride in working with our partners to help achieve their goals. A high priority goal for SRHS is the emphasis on clinical to membership conversion rate, a measure of the effectiveness of the integration of services. This rate is defined as the number of memberships generated from clinical services and physician referrals. Healthplex Associates worked with SRHS to establish a specialist position (Clinical Integration Coordinator) to facilitate the relationship with clinical services and to serve as a liaison to create an exercise program for the patient. After opening, Singing River Healthplex struggled to meet the goal that was set. Referrals from Cardiac Rehab and Physical Therapy weren’t enough. A new strategy needed to be developed.
To achieve Clinical Integration, for patients, the path to fitness and wellness programs must be easy and convenient for both the referring provider and the patient. Whether it’s a primary care physician, physical therapy or the cancer center, every element of the continuum must work in concert to provide an optimal patient pathway. At SHRS, an innovative part of the solution was to set up a referral mechanism within the Health System’s EMR (Electronic Medical Records). Coupled with both an internal communication campaign to educate physicians and other health professionals about the ease of the process and benefit to their patients, and a respected Clinical Integration Coordinator the program has led the way to a more effective patient experience, exceeding expectations.
The System set what it believed was an aggressive goal of a 30% conversion rate; by early 2020 that goal was exceeded and the growth trend continues!
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Chambersburg businesses will see a hike in their storm sewer pollution control fee, starting with their January bill.
“If you own property that is not a single-family house, you should prepare for the change,” Borough Manager Jeff Stonehill warned in December.
The borough has 993 properties that are not single-family residences. Those include businesses, multi-family properties, commercial properties, churches and institutions such as nursing homes and a hospital. The fee changes impact those properties, Stonehill said. They will pay the fee based upon the actual impervious area on their property or lot.
Single family homes won’t see an increase in the $5 monthly fee. Chambersburg businesses, multi-family units, churches and institutions could see substantial increases, however.
The flat fee was first added to the borough’s utility bills in 2015.
The idea behind fees for treatment of storm water was first implemented in 2014. The borough has operated a storm sewer system for almost a century, however. Local property taxes covered the cost until recent years. The most recent fee schedule establishes a separate fee structure where all property owners shared in the cost, rather than just the 60% that pay real estate taxes.
Leveling the playing field
The latest change levels the playing field, so to speak, levying fees based on the amount of storm water each property feeds into the system. Properties with large amounts of impervious area like parking lots pay a higher rate than those with larger amounts of unpaved surface that allows water to be absorbed into the soil.
The result is much higher storm sewer fees for many businesses.
The new Storm Sewer Pollution Control Fee and Credit Program was supposed to take place in 2020; but Town Council put it on hold at the start of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Stonehill said several fliers and mailers have already gone out to borough property owners. Town Council approved new legislation in late 2021 to put the changes in place in January.
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Video answer: Real diamonds, imitation, synthetic diamonds cvd, hpht explained!
Top best answers to the question «Are hpht diamonds real»
Non-HPHT diamonds and HPHT diamonds are both real, natural diamonds… Because an HPHT diamond has been treated by extreme heat and pressure, its color has been enhanced and improved.
Those who are looking for an answer to the question «Are hpht diamonds real?» often ask the following questions:
✨ Are diamonds real on a 925 ring?
925 Sterling silver makes beautiful jewelry, but this precious metal is too soft to hold valuable stones like real diamonds. As a result, most jewelers will set CZ stones on sterling silver rings and not real diamonds.
✨ Are pandora rings made with real diamonds?
Pandora provides a universe of hand-finished and modern jewelry primarily made from genuine materials, including solid sterling silver and 14k or 18k gold… These originate from material categories commonly used in the jewelry industry - diamonds, gemstones, organic gems and man-made stones.
✨ Are real diamonds mounted in 925 silver?
What does 925 mean on a silver ring?
- The 925 means the ring is sterling silver, not gold. (The 925 means the metal is 92.5 percent pure silver.) In diamonds quality is judged by cut, color, and clarity.
✨ Are real diamonds set in rolled gold?
Yes, I dont think it would be that unusual for gold fill to have a real diamonds..Ive seen diamonds set in sterling and also gold plated..so why not? “Never pick a fight with an ugly person. They don’t have anything to lose.” ~Robin Williams
✨ Are real diamonds set in sterling silver?
“Usually real diamonds won't be set in sterling silver because it's too soft. And if you see a stamp that says "CZ," you're looking at a cubic zirconia stone, rather than a real diamond. If you see 10k, 14k, or 18k, that means gold. If the stone is set in gold or platinum, chances are that it's a precious gemstone.”
✨ Are the diamonds in diamond blades real?
Do diamond blades have real diamonds in them? The answer is simple, NO, they have synthetic or man made diamonds. This is a little embarrassing, but I thought that diamond blades had real diamonds in them for about a year into my tenure with Diamond King Tools. Give me a break, I was self taught on all things diamond tools.
✨ Diamond buzz hpht vs cvd diamonds: what's the difference?
The main difference between HPHT vs CVD diamonds is the way they grow or their morphology. HPHT diamonds grow in cuboctahedron shape and have 14 growth directions, while CVD diamonds grow cubic and have 1 growth direction. In comparison, natural diamonds grow in octahedron shape and have 8 growth directions.
✨ How is hpht used to make synthetic diamonds?
- HPHT aims to mimic the thermodynamic conditions in nature that diamond forms in, but with the addition of a molten metal solvent/catalyst to reduce the large kinetic barrier and act as transport media for dissolved carbon.
✨ Is it worth buying hpht treated diamonds?
Prices on HPHT treated diamonds are much lower than non treated diamonds, up to 50 % cheaper. We don't see the same increase in prices of HPHT treated diamonds, as on non treated diamonds, so as an investment it is not optimal.
Video answer: Are diamonds still precious if we can make them in a lab?
We've handpicked 6 related questions for you, similar to «Are hpht diamonds real?» so you can surely find the answer!What are irradiated and hpht color-treated diamonds?
- Irradiated yellow diamonds usually come in orange-yellow and darker shades of yellow color, whereas HPHT processed yellow diamonds tend to be bright yellow. The irradiation process alters the stone's internal molecular arrangement, thereby changing its optical properties/color.
A cubic zirconia is a real cubic zirconia, but it is not a real diamond. There are a few types of stones that are used as diamond simulants, but cubic zirconia is by far the most common and the most realistic.What are purple diamonds called, are they real?
- In the case of Purple diamonds, which are mainly known by their color, they are sometimes called Plum diamonds, Orchid diamonds, Lilac diamonds, Mauve diamonds, Lavender diamonds, and Grape diamonds. 3. Are Purple Diamonds Real? There are Natural Purple Diamonds, and there are enhanced Purple diamonds.
The main difference between HPHT vs CVD diamonds is the way they grow or their morphology. HPHT diamonds grow in cuboctahedron shape and have 14 growth directions, while CVD diamonds grow cubic and have 1 growth direction. In comparison, natural diamonds grow in octahedron shape and have 8 growth directions.What is the difference between hpht and irradiated yellow diamonds?
- Irradiation achieves vivid yellow, blue, green, and black colors, while HPHT typically results in yellow or purple-pink hues. Irradiated yellow diamonds usually come in orange-yellow and darker shades of yellow color, whereas HPHT processed yellow diamonds tend to be bright yellow.
Video answer: Can you tell the difference between lab grown diamonds and real diamonds? #shortsWhich is better hpht or cvd diamonds?
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Welcome to New Garden Friends School
We’re so glad you’ve chosen to explore what a New Garden Friends School education can provide for your child. Choosing a school can be a daunting experience, but we strive to make it as easy, open, and friendly as possible. The goal of our admissions process is for your family to get to know New Garden Friends School and for us to get to know you and your child. Throughout the process you will be considering if NGFS will enable you to provide the educational experience you are looking for, and we will be determining whether we think this is a school at which your child will thrive.
While we’ve tried to answer lots of questions here, nothing takes the place of a visit. We’d like to get to know you and your child, and we want you to have an opportunity to get answers to all of your questions.
Limited spaces are available for the current year, 2022-23. Please contact the Admissions office to find out the availability in a particular grade: firstname.lastname@example.org.
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We are a community of learners. From preschool through 12th grade, our students experience critical thinking and experiential learning beyond the classroom. Developmentally appropriate curriculum is introduced at each level and accommodations are made to support and challenge students. Service learning and outdoor education are important facets of our all school program across grade levels.
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How long does it take to cook country style ribs in the oven at 350?
How Long Do You Cook Ribs in the Oven
|Oven Temp||Back Ribs||Country Style Ribs*|
|300°F||2 1/2 hours||40-60 minutes|
|350°F||2 hours||20-30 minutes|
|400°F||1 hour||15-20 minutes|
|450°F||45 minutes||12-15 minutes|
How long do you cook ribs at 275?
Bake the ribs at a low temperature (275°F) for 2 ½ to 4 hours or until they are tender. Slather the baked ribs with barbecue sauce, and then broil (or grill) the ribs for a few minutes until the sauce is caramelized.
How long do you cook ribs at 250?
Cook the ribs: At 250 degrees, place the ribs wrapped securely in tin foil onto a cookie sheet (sometimes juice/fat can escape the tin foil) and place them in the oven. cook for 2 hours.
What temperature should spare ribs be cooked to?
According to USDA, ribs are “done” when they are 145°F internal temp, but they may still be tough. If you take them up to 190 to 203°F, the collagens and fats melt at this temp and make the meat more tender and juicy. Then they’re ready!
Is 350 too hot for ribs?
If smoking ribs, maintain temperatures of 225 to 250 degrees F. If indirect grilling ribs, maintain temperatures of 325 to 350 degrees. Don’t limit yourself to pork or beef ribs. Lamb ribs are enjoyed on much of Planet Barbecue and are absolutely terrific.
How long does it take to cook beef ribs at 375?
Preheat oven to 375℉. Place ribs into a large casserole dish. Season with salt and pepper. Place uncovered into the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
How long do ribs take to cook in the oven at 200?
Pour barbecue sauce over the ribs, cover tightly and place ribs in oven. Reduce the temperature to 200 and cook ribs for 6-8 hours.
How long do ribs take at 300?
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Spring rolls called cha gio are served as an appetizer in Vietnam using paper-thin rice wrappers sun dried on baskets. The Fujian style fresh non-fried spring roll with the flour-based wrapper is known in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia as popiah (or poh piah). In the Philippines, savory spring rolls are lumpia. If the filling is sweet, it’s turon.
It’s a lot to cover and a lot to understand especially if you’re not Asian and you tend to think that spring rolls are necessarily fresh and, when fried, they are called egg rolls.
I understand that in America, frying spring rolls entails dipping them in egg and coating them in flour before they go into the hot oil. And, hence, they are called “egg rolls”. The egg and flour coating is American, not Asian. With a few exceptions, both egg and flour are unnecessary to give fried spring rolls their signature crispness.
So, just to reiterate, spring rolls are either fresh or fried. There are savory spring rolls and there are sweet spring rolls. When served, the wrapper can be soft, chewy or crispy. Some spring rolls require dipping sauces or accompaniments.
Spring roll wrappers
You might have wondered why spring roll wrappers vary in color, texture and mouth feel. That’s because the ingredients for making the wrapper, and how the wrappers are made, vary.
Flour-based spring roll wrappers
The most common spring roll wrapper is made with flour, water and salt. You can buy them in the market or in the frozen section of the grocery. It is essentially a dough and how that dough is transformed into uniformly-sized paper-thin wrappers is an interesting technique.
Because this type of spring roll wrapper is so widely available, we don’t need to make them at home. We buy packs of wrapper and freeze them until needed. How long do they stay good in the freezer? A few weeks. The expiry date may suggest that they will last longer but, once opened, the wrappers dry out fast, harden and lose their pliability.
If you’ve had Vietnamese spring rolls, you might have wondered why the wrapper has a checkered texture. That’s because of the way they are prepared. Made with rice flour and water (sometimes, tapioca starch is added or it totally replaces rice flour), rice paper is steamed then dried on special racks made with woven dried grass.
While rice paper is commonly associated with Vietnamese spring rolls, they are used in other ways. During a street food tour in Ho Chi Minh City, we were introduced to “Vietnamese pizza” which is prepared with rice paper.
For home cooking, rice paper needs to be moistened to soften them and to make them pliable enough to be filled and rolled. Simply dip the rice paper in water for a few seconds, lift and shake off excess water, lay flat and use as you would the flour-based spring roll wrapper.
Crepe-like spring roll wrappers
In the Philippines, this is the wrapper used for lumpiang ubod (spring rolls with heart of palm filling). You won’t find this wrapper in the grocery so we make it at home.
The thin batter is a mixture of flour, corn starch, eggs and water. I like to add chopped herbs occasionally. The wrapper is cooked in the same way you’d made French crepes. Ladle into a non-stick pan, cook, flip, cook and it’s ready to be used.
How to wrap spring rolls for frying
Whether you’re using regular wrappers or rice paper (no, you can’t fry crepe-like wrappers), making a spring roll for frying follows the same basic technique. The photos below is for cheese and banana spring rolls but the technique is the same whether the filling is sweet or savory.
You need to seal in the filling so that the juices and flavors don’t drip into the cooking oil. If the filling consists of raw ingredients (especially raw meat), you can’t put in too much filling because the cooking time is short — just long enough to brown the wrapper — and a thick filling will not get cooked through.
- Place the filling across the center of the wrapper.
- Fold the corner (or edge if you’re using a round wrapper) of the wrapper nearest you over the filling.
- Take one corner (or edge) on the side and fold it inward. The fold should be where the filling ends. Do the same with the opposite side.
- Brush the edges farthest from you with the egg wash or water.
- Start rolling the spring roll away from you, rolling as tightly as you can. Keep on rolling until you reach the edges brushed with egg wash or water.
When you have used up all your wrappers or filling, whichever comes first, your spring rolls are ready to go into the frying pan. Or store the spring rolls for frying at a later time.
How to store uncooked spring rolls
First, let me just say that NOT all uncooked spring rolls can be stored for later use. Those with mostly vegetable filling cannot be frozen. What we store in the freezer are uncooked spring rolls with meat filling, those with sweet filling like banana and spring rolls where the main filling is cheese.
The thing about spring rolls is that the wrapper can get soaked with the juices of the filling. That’s why, ideally, spring rolls should go directly into the hot oil after they are wrapped. So, how do we prevent the wrappers from getting soaked?
Use flour or starch to separate the spring rolls
Take a freezer container and sprinkle the bottom generously with flour or starch (corn starch, potato starch or tapioca starch will all work).
Lay the spring rolls on the floured bottom of the container — single file and not too tightly. Sprinkle the spring rolls with more starch or flour. Repeat until all the spring rolls are in the container.
The flour or starch will soak up any excess liquid and moisture that gets absorbed by the spring roll wrappers. It will also prevent the spring rolls from sticking to each other. As an added bonus, the flour or starch will form a kind of coating that will turn crisp when the spring rolls are fried.
Do the spring rolls need to be thawed before frying?
NO. Since you can easily separate them from one another even in their frozen state, you can fry them directly. But since they are frozen, you will need to fry them in smaller batches to make sure that the oil in the frying pan stays hot enough to make them crisp. If you overcrowd the pan, the temperature of the oil will drop and you will be SIMMERING the spring rolls in lukewarm oil rather than frying them.
And just where did I learn all that? If you spend time browsing through grocery shelves and freezers, make an effort to read the labels of products even if you’re not buying them. Frozen food items are everywhere in groceries — ready-to-fry spring rolls, French fries, hash browns… What do the cooking instructions say?
DO NOT THAW. Because anything frozen is stiff. When the ice starts melting, the stiffness goes. You want the spring rolls or French fries or hash browns to start browning in hot oil at once — it’s like making the food go from one stiff stage (frozen) to another stiff stage (fried) without allowing it to go through the soggy stage in between.
It’s not rocket science and I sure as hell can’t explain it in more impressive and precise scientific language. But if you’ve been cooking for a long time and you bother observing what actually happens during the cooking process, well, you notice a thing or two. I know I do.
How to reheat fried spring rolls
This only applies to fried spring rolls with meat or seafood filling that contains a meagre amount of chopped vegetables. There really is no effective way to reheat all-vegetable spring rolls.
The most common mistake when reheating fried spring rolls is to use oil. I tell you, there is enough oil in the spring roll wrappers and you don’t need more.
The second most common mistake is to reheat the spring rolls using high heat. High heat is essential when cooking the spring rolls because the wrappers are uncooked at that point. But after they have been fried, subjecting them to high heat again is a sure way to burn them.
On the stove top
It is best to use a non-stick pan which has been lightly heated. Arrange the cold spring rolls in a single layer and reheat. Low heat only. After about three minutes, turn them over and reheat the other side. When you turn them over, you will already notice that the side that had already been reheated has turned crisp once more.
In an air fryer
Arrange the cold spring rolls in a single layer in the air fryer basket. Use medium heat then set the timer to seven to ten minutes depending on the thickness of the spring rolls and the wattage of the air fryer.
In the oven or oven toaster (but not the microwave)
An oven or oven toaster will require preheating. An oven is ideal if reheating a large amoung to cooked spring rolls that had been kept in the fridge. Reheat smaller amounts in an oven toaster.
Whether using an oven or an oven toaster, preheat before even taking the spring rolls out of the fridge to prevent condensation of moisture on the surface of the spring rolls.
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Removing clutter at home may be overwhelming sometimes. Especially when you realize just how much you need to keep in storage facilities, donate to charity, or simply throw away.
It may hold you back from organizing your space and discourage you in making any part of your home clutter-free. Grab your cleaning tools and put on that battle face because we’re here to help you make your task easier by using these 5 simple steps.
STEP 1: Let Your Room Breathe
We have three words for you, pull everything out. Empty whatever room you plan to declutter. It may seem like a daunting task, but trust us! This step will make the rest of the steps easier for you.
Doing this might give you a better perspective of what you want your room to look like. You may not even realize the design potential to your room because of all your clutter. This can also be a chance for you to find things you have lost for a long time.
As you clear out your room, make sure that you have prepared storage boxes and trash bags since this will come in handy as you go through the next steps.
STEP #2: Envision Your Ideal Space
Now that you have taken out everything in your room (not including the furniture of course!) There will be plenty of room for imagination (pun intended). Envision what you want the space to look like and start building ideas from there.
You can move around the room to have a better feel of it. We recommend following these three key concepts- emotion, comfort, and function. When decluttering your space, it’s also important to take note of creating a better space for yourself. After all, choosing to have a clutter-free space is the first step to a better lifestyle.
STEP #3: Categorize your items.
After envisioning your space, it is now time for you to sort your things. Ask yourself these questions, Do I need this? Is this part of my vision? It helps if you group items according to its function. If you are decluttering your bedroom, you can categorize linens, clothes, books, stationery, etc.
Remember those boxes and trashbags you prepared earlier, now is the time to use that and separate items you’ll keep in storage, donate to charity and throw away. Keep in mind to research different Storage Facilities to find the best place to keep your storage.
STEP #4: Discard Your Trash
Now that you have decided which items to keep and which items to dispose of, it’s the right time to take the trash out. Free up your space so you’ll have plenty of room to work on. Make sure to properly dispose of the items you don’t need.
If you don’t feel like throwing away a large amount of stuff, you can keep them on storage first and organize a yard sale after you declutter. It’s a sure win for you, not just letting go of items that you don’t need, but also earning money from it.
Don’t worry about buying new stuff with the money you earned. Remember that you have put so much effort into removing clutter. Reward yourself by buying items that could contribute to your vision. You won’t have to worry about space since storage facilities are available to handle the stress for you.
Final Step: Pull Everything Back
Congratulations! You have made it through to the final step. You deserve a pat on the back. It must have been emotional for you going through all your stuff. It’s time to pull everything back and start to turn your envisioned space into a reality.
Now that you have the exact items you absolutely need, it will be easier for you to organize your space. Rearrange everything according to how you want it to function. By the end of the day, you have achieved what you thought was unimaginable.
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Interview with Bruno Delahaye CMO- Founding Partner of NeuroChain
What is NeuroChain?
The project is new distributed ecosystem for Machine Learning and AI, based on new consensus Algorithm; It’s an augmented Blockchain technology. It provides a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) mechanism for any real life and business purpose. The validation mechanism is based on Bots (robots animated by AI algorithms) installed on a decentralized network. They are elected on a scientific protocol called Proof of Involvement and Integrity (PII) so as to validate transactions on NeuroChain network.
Who is the team behind NeuroChain?
The project is a complex initiative composed of scientists, technicians, business and lawyers experts. Fundamentally, the kernel is composed of two people:
- Billal CHOULI: a Ph.D. in Nuclear Fusion physics who strive at applying his knowledge on uncharted fields. Billal is the author of the Blockchains, a reference book on blockchain in France.
- Frederic GOUJON: an entrepreneur, expert in IT architecture with strong knowledge how to run a business and an IT project. He is also an expert on blockchain and the co-author of Blockchains.
The team is then composed of a well-balanced group of professionals both in skills and characters. Their key characteristics:
- Expert in decentralized technologies and Ethereum
- Expert in Machine Learning and AI
- Experts in Big Data and parallel programming
- Expert in IT security
- Expert in systems administration
- Experts in communication and business partnership
- Experts in law
What are the key differences between NeuroChain and Ethereum?
Ethereum is a blockchain where Turing completeness was introduced (Smart contracts).
NeuroChain is a blockchain project where Artificial Intelligence was introduced and play a central role (collective artificial intelligence). In other words, except the ledger, inspired from Bitcoin everything else is different:
- A new protocol which greatly improved speed and number of transactions, while reducing dramatically energy requirements (Proof of Involvement and Integrity)
- A new set of communication protocols
- A real ‘Intelligent’ application systems thanks to automatic learning algorithms (in opposition to simple smart contracts)
- An ecosystem of Collective Artificial Intelligence
- A better use of infrastructure : all is based on CPU
- An ecosystem rather than a flock of standalone programs
What is the role of Bots in NeuroChain?
Bots have at least two roles:
- Validate a transaction if elected
- Improve the ecosystem thanks to its specialization in the algorithm that he runs
- Allow other Bots to communicate with each other
- Learn from each other
- Elaborate an ecosystem of Collective Artificial Intelligence
Why do bots need to be elected and what is that process to do so?
The election process is simple. Periodically:
- They start looking at the ledger and compute the Proof of Involvement and Integrity algorithm (to reach the consensus) of each Bot on the network. This is a score that measures the activity in the network, and the power of this activity, also known as entropy and enthalpy.
- The top scored Bots are elected among an arbitrary number of 577 Bots (which evolve according to the network).
- They receive the transaction of the community of other Bots.
- The elected Bots create Blocks and validate them.
- The elected Bot receives a given amount of NCCs, to compensate for the validation work.
- The elected Bots send the validated Blocks to the other Bots.
- A block received is always controlled: was the Bot who sent the Block was able to validate or not. If so, make a copy of it in your local ledger.
Who will operate these Bots and what are the requirements and incentives to do so?
Anyone can operate a simple Bot. It must at least be installed and connected to the network. The best performers are more likely to be elected as validators. Hence, the network quality, speed and power of the Bot are all incentivized in exchange of NCC (NeuroChain Clausius) forging.
It can be installed on a VM, a container or anything alike.
Can the Bot operators alter bot behaviour?
Yes, it can. If doing so, their PII score will be altered. If the alteration is positive (e.g., better speed), its PII score will increase, hence the probability to forge NCC. If altering negatively, the probability of being elected shrinks significantly.
A bot counterfeiting a program is highly unlikely, thanks to the Proof of Workflow. A program was validated as not behaving as a malware.
What are the elected bots using NeuroChain tokens for?
They can be used, by selling them, as a mean to pay for the operations. It can be used otherwise on other programs or Bots to process a given computation. And they use them to operate the Intelligent applications.
Can tokens be issued on NeuroChain?
No. They are forged by the Bots. The first NCC (tokens) are created by the genesis block however.
What are some practical use cases for NeuroChain?
Some easy to identify use cases are:
- Cross companies data exchange, while hiding part of the knowledge (e.g., insurance contract transfer between companies that significantly lower mailing and legal costs, while hiding the people who won the new contract)
- Traceability of goods
- Validation of information (e. g., the customer is telling the truth)
- Anything that required Artificial Intelligence of Machine Learning (e.g., genomic distribution, plane delays, expected market share, future most required product for a given client group, etc.)
- Autonomous cars algorithm transfer
- Autonomous car processed data transfer
- Automatic contract execution (insurance payments)
- Property transfer (shares, micro-bonds)
- Regulated professions
- Data banks
What are the key dates on the NeuroChain roadmap?
|First concerns and enlightens on blockchain technologies||2010|
|First book on Blockchain and angular stones of NeuroChain||2016|
|Preparing NeuroChain ICO||June 2017|
|Presentation of the concept at Paris Microsoft event||October 2016 and 2017|
|ICO Launch||March 2018|
|Start of Protocol development||March 2018|
|First launch of test net||January 2019|
|First launch of main net||March 2019|
|First business applications available||March 2019|
|Release of the meta language based on C++||September 2019|
What are the key dates for the ICO?
- Start of Private Sales : Feb 20th 2018 3:00:00 PM UTC
- End of Private Sales : March 12th 2018 3:00:00 PM UTC
- Start of Public Sales (Discount Sales) : March 19th, 2018, 08:00:00 AM UTC
- Start of Public Sales (Attractive Sales) : March 26th, 2018, 08:00:00 AM UTC
- Start of Public Sales (Haste Sales) : April 9th, 2018, 08:00:00 AM UTC
- End of ICO: April 19th, 2018, 08:00:00 PM UTC
How will the ICO funds be distributed?
Tokens expected usage and forging schema:
A- 70% to Elected Bots
B- 15% to Investors
C- 10% to Founding Team and Advisors
D- 3% to the Foundation
E- 2% to the Seed Fund
Would you like to add further information?
The NeuroChain is a scientific applied project. Anything you can do with artificial intelligence and machine learning can be done through NeuroChain.
Granted that most business issues can be tackled with AI and ML, then pretty much everything you can think of can be dealt with NeuroChain.
We are looking for entrepreneurs, engineers, believers and new ways to exploit our project.
The code is open source. You can fork, but we would prefer a community work than a quick segregation of seed projects.
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Center of Excellence for a Global Mining & Metals Company
A Fortune 500 mining company operating in more than 30 countries with greater than $40 billion in annual revenue.
Dynamic Resource Deployment Across Geographies
Industry Context: In recent years, mining companies have boosted output in response to increased industrial demand, resulting in excellent financial performance. This growth has increased pressure to optimize their yield of raw materials while also addressing concerns from stakeholders about health, safety, and environmental impacts.
Challenge: To responsibly create value and optimize its operations at scale, the company relies heavily on subject-matter experts, such as geotechnical engineers, metallurgists, and environmental scientists. These highly-skilled individuals are globally dispersed and can be difficult to find, especially for engagements that require local knowledge, whether geological, cultural, or political.
As a result, company leaders have historically had to rely upon external local contractors, whom they have engaged in an ad hoc, uncoordinated way. This reliance on external consultants has not only been inefficient, it has also often led to talent shortages that pose significant risk.
Dynamic Deployment of Internal Resources: Business and operations leaders decided to use Catalant’s platform to get visibility into the knowledge, skills, experiences, and capacity of the subject-matter experts within the company’s technical Center of Excellence (COE), a group of nearly 10,000 employees in various mining and industrial disciplines.
Catalant’s platform provided operations leaders with visibility into the knowledge, skills, experiences, and capacity of the subject-matter experts within the Center of Excellence — it gave them an easy way to find and engage specialists across the globe, from Western Australia to Mozambique to Saskatchewan.
Before Catalant, the process for finding and engaging members of the COE lacked formal structure, resulting in slower and less-reliable execution, even for important projects and initiatives. With the Catalant Platform, whether a business unit requires a geologic survey to increase mine productivity or a safety analysis to prevent a ridge collapse, business and operations leaders can access the critical capabilities they need to execute.
Opportunity Access and Employee Engagement: Through Catalant’s platform, members of the technical COE now have access to projects across business units and geographies and visibility into the impact that each workstream has on the organization’s strategic objectives.
Work through the technical COE includes some of the most important and highest visibility projects and initiatives at the company.
By providing subject-matter experts with access to the company’s most critical work and giving them visibility into their strategic impact, the organization inspires COE members with a greater sense of purpose and potential, accelerating execution while also building the company’s next generation of business and scientific leaders.
About Catalant: Catalant builds software that gives companies visibility into how their work and workforce align with strategy, helps accelerate work execution through dynamic resource access, and tracks progress against key metrics to inform decision making. More than 30% of the Fortune 100—and hundreds of other leading companies—partner with Catalant to enable effective strategy execution with greater operational clarity, increased employee productivity, and dynamic access to external resources with the right capabilities. | <urn:uuid:a6655de7-bd03-468d-8fc5-b431df379b33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gocatalant.com/uncategorized/center-of-excellence-global-mining-company/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930141 | 660 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Faubourg St. John regular, John Richie carrying a camera as he works on the documentary, “Shell Shocked”. Click on his photo to view the trailer.
Obviously the issues of gun violence & race are in the forefront of the national news right now. Whatever your beliefs, opinions, or political views, John believes that the best way to move forward is to begin a dialog. Shell Shocked attempts to do that by taking an honest & comprehensive look at this very urgent & complicated problem.
The trailer (short clip) of the entire movie is below but John Richie asks you to please take one hour of your time to watch the entire documentary. ($4.99 to download) Take away from it whatever you will, but hopefully it will contribute to the attainable, positive solution that everyone wants: a more peaceful society.
New Orleans, Louisiana is the murder capital of the United States. For the last decade, statistics have shown murder rates four to six times higher than the national average. Eighty percent of the victims are black males, mostly in their teenage years. This is the city’s greatest neglected crisis with profound implications for the issues of violence and crime most American cities face. New Orleans government, law enforcement, community leaders, and well-intentioned citizens cannot agree on a prognosis or a solution to this situation. Wherever a disagreement is escalating into violence, an execution is being planned, or a victim is taking his last breath, it is more than likely a youth is witnessing or carrying out these actions.
Shell Shocked attempts to bridge the gap of this disconnect by hearing the ideas, opinions, and testimonies from activists, community leaders, police, city officials, youth program directors, family and friends of victims, and the children who live in these violent circumstances. John Richie and his friends are looking for positive solutions to an extremely negative situation.
Let me tell you a little about myself. My name is John Richie. I am a local filmmaker who made a documentary called “Shell Shocked.” The film is about youth, violence and environment. The original idea was to start a documentary program and let kids show what was really going on in their neighborhoods. This idea came from my own shame of living here for eight years and not realizing that the sometimes murder capital of the United States equates to not being able to find one black child from here who has not been personally touched, and often witness to, a homicide.
I didn’t know what was more shocking, the enormity of how murder has affected our young or my blindness to it. Like Mayor Mitch Landrieu has said, “This is our society’s biggest problem. The situation is unnatural, and what we are fighting for is the heart and soul of the city.”
I had one young man who was 17 at the time tell me that he no longer made friends with people. He would walk around his neighborhood listening to music or stay in his room. Keith had lost his younger brother to gun violence when his brother was only 13 years old. He told me that the friends could quickly lead to trouble and that his mom had already lost one child and he did not want her to go through any more grief. There is a problem when a 17-year-old feels that making friends is a life liability.
Originally, the idea of “Shell Shocked” was to just expose people to the environment that leads a small amount of our young into dangerous behavior and has the rest numbed to death, but still worried about the possibility of something happening to them or their friends.
People would ask, “Well, what about the solutions?”
And I would say, “Oh, I’m not even going to pretend to know.” I thought it was overwhelming and too many decades in the making to really have a solution, but with our film program and observing other youth mentoring programs, I began to see some answers.
Mentoring programs work. They give youth who do not have anything to do somewhere to go and ensure that they are focusing their energies into something positive. I am not saying that all youth who partake in mentoring programs would be doing crime if they didn’t attend some kind of program, but without these programs and varying family situations, we are leaving it up to them to navigate their way through a dangerous environment. Always expecting them to make the right decisions in the face of peer pressure, economic pressures, and in many cases unhealthy self-perceptions. Who out of any of us did not make some crazy, bad decisions as teenagers?
So, I offer you this, if you are worried about violent crime, if you are pondering whether or not this is the city you can raise your family in. Before you throw in the towel, volunteer a few hours every week at your nearest youth program or hire on a young man in need of a job at your business. If you don’t have the time, then donate a tax-deductible donation to a local youth program.
This is what is desperately needed. The programs working with our youth in this capacity are underfunded and often under staffed. We can do better than that.
Our youth development and recreation centers should not be an afterthought. They needed to be treated as the valuable asset they are. They make the best with what they have, which is amazing to see the influence in their client’s lives, but they cannot reach all the kids who could benefit from these services.
This is where you hear people say, “Well if I can help one kid, then I’m making a difference.” Help them say, “By being a part of this, we are making a ferocious dent into the murder rate of New Orleans by helping kids who deserve to have a good quality of life.” They are not going to solve the problem, but it is a step in the right direction.
Here are a few that you can start with, just pick one:
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Fighting mass incarceration means building an alliance from the inside out.
From the Inside Out: Reflections After Incarceration was a joint production between Boston artist & organizer Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano (UFE's Director of Cultural Organizing) and the ACLU of Massachusetts that explored many of the obstacles faced by our friends and neighbors after they have been incarcerated and are continuing their life on the outside.
There is a crisis of incarceration in our state, and the country at large. Of particular concern are the disparities in the number of people of color represented in the Massachusetts system of incarceration. This disparity is far worse than the national average. The Commonwealth has entire communities that have been impacted by racially disproportionate policing, charging of crimes, sentencing laws and correctional practices.
And the crisis of incarceration does not end upon release. Despite the fact that 98% of incarcerated people will return home, our sentencing laws and system of incarceration do not prepare people for release after their term of incarceration. Additionally, programs for those suffering from drug addiction or mental health issues are rare, and there is limited access to vocational and educational programming.
From the Inside Out helped put a face on the crisis in the system of incarceration and its impact in our communities. Now more than ever, we need to be re-centering discussions about reforming the justice system and ending mass incarceration around those experiencing the crisis first-hand.
The evening featured performances by Pedro Picasso (Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción's youth arts coordinator), Amber Aliyah Rasool (a local poet), and Toussaint the Liberator (local musician). Tina Williams read a poem by Massachusetts' own Mel King (politician and organizer).
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from: HELIOS (sun)
According to Homer, author of Iliad and Odyssey, the two epic poems-foundations of ancient Greek literature, aelia means power from the sun.
From Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios), or helius from Latin (sun, east, day, sunshine), in Greek mythology, Helios was the personification of the sun. He was imagined as a handsome god, crowned with the shining aureole of the sun, driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight.
Daelia Villas will fascinate you with its sophisticated and unpretentious design, guaranteed to steal a piece of your heart. Our villas promise you unique care free hours of tranquility in nature. Daelia villas is located in the settlement of Agia Varvara, Lesvos Island in Greece in an area full of Mediterranean vegetation, 250 meters from the sea, designed and implemented with the best specifications to offer you the comfort you deserve.
We combine modern facilities with traditional Greek values that will exude homely warmth. Our vision was to create a residence that is completely intertwined with the destination in which it is located. We drew all the elements that were "marrying" traditional architecture with modern aesthetics and style.
The large openings in the face of the building achieve the perfect frame towards the blue of the sea and the sky (soothing and relaxing), while at the same time they lead to the open space of the houses that integrate with their surroundings.
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TikTok is a video sharing social networking service that has been available in the United States since 2016. It uses short-form videos anywhere from fifteen seconds to one minute long in a variety of categories. The videos tend to be a hybrid between entertainment and infotainment depending on what you’re looking for.
It’s quite remarkable how varied the content is which is delivered by an ever-changing algorithm that learns more about you & your interests during each session. TikTok has two feeds that supply videos to your app. The ‘For You’ feed is suggested accounts that you may have interest in based on your preferences or past viewing habits. Your ‘Following’ feed is filled with accounts you are subscribed to that have released fresh content. You can toggle back and forth between the two with ease.
One of the reasons TikTok has become more popular with content creators is that the video content on TikTok ‘lives’ longer than many other social platforms. In fact some creators have seen their content become viral weeks or months after it was originally posted. And of course, there’s a few different ways to make money on TikTok.
Fun Facts About TikTok
TikTok is available world-wide and currently there are 40 languages you can tap into for the service. While TikTok is not the only platform designed to share short videos, there is something about the app that is setting itself apart from others. Here are some fun facts about TikTok and the people who use it:
- 50% of users are under the age of 34
- Content ranges on the scale from raw, real, funny, to shocking
- The average TikTok user is on 52 minutes per day
- 60% of users are female
- 26% of users are 18-24
- Millennials and Boomers are adding the TikTok app at an alarming rate
TikTok is More Than Dancing and Comedy Bits
Tiktok is much more than fifteen seconds of dance moves. In many ways, TikTok is taking the lead in producing influencers. TikTok “influencers” seem to go viral with alarming speed and often times see a surge in their followers over night from a single video.
The app is ever evolving, and new categories are beginning and growing all the time including alternative lifestyle categories, DIY and upcycling, business, and behind-the-scenes looks at industries typically off-limits to insider information.
Who is Using TikTok?
The stats suggest most of the users are between 18-35, but those numbers are changing every day as every age group enjoys the benefits of TikTok.
Though it is certainly entertaining, it is also a smart business tool.
In the past year TikTok has generated millions of dollars in revenue for its users in a wide variety of ways. From being an influencer to linking to goods and services, the potential to earn via TikTok is pretty amazing since there is not cost associated with the platform.
In the end, there’s no drawback to TikTok.
The learning curve for making videos is fairly easy and the potential to generate revenue is easier and cheaper than similar platforms. Having an account is as easy as downloading the app, and since it’s been around a while, there are plenty of tutorials on how to maximize your account.
TikTok is a relatively new social networking platform that may be a smart business move to get noticed and make money.
Cons & Concerns
Main Concern: Security
While as of 2021, ‘cybersecurity experts say using TikTok is about as safe as other social media platforms. However, it does collect & use more personal data on it users than others. Because of this, Insider recommends users: Don’t overshare, Make your account private, Don’t allow other users to find you, and Don’t let other users interact with you.’ Source
Main Con: Creating Video
While you can now schedule TikToks, many people don’t want to go through the hassle of creating engaging video content. For some, this makes TikTok low hanging fruit – meaning there’s less competition. It’s up to you to decide if the effort is worth it. If you’re already creating Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or were just interested in trying out some short-form video content, then this can be a good place to experiment.
Ways to Monetize TikTok
While it is possible to earn income from TikTok, there are also other benefits that may not translate to instant dollars in your bank account, but can be equally lucrative. Here are some ways you can benefit from TikTok:
- Merchandise, affiliate links from companies you endorse
- Sponsored posts / ads
- Growing accounts and selling them
- Freelance / social media manager opportunities
- Donations via cash apps
- Sell additional, exclusive content through Patreon or other memberships
- Coin donations during TikTok lives
- Creator Fund through TikTok
- Promote existing business
- Develop a brand & sell your own merch
Whether you use TikTok for personal or business use, there are a lot of ways to use your profile for profits.
Use Money-Making Links
Your bio is an important part of your TikTok account.
You can list a brief description of your qualifications, intent for your account or anything that helps a follower identify you and what you do. You want to use it to create access to more information about you and your business and offer opportunities to profit. Be strategic with your bio. Make sure it’s catchy, informative, and shares the information that gives you credibility and sets you apart from other creators.
You can also link to your website, linktree, or other landing page in your bio.
If you have multiple resources, link to your website and create a landing page with other links to your business assets. From one link your followers can access a variety of links or a landing page with one call to action.
If you don’t know how to create a webpage, use a service like Linktree or LIKEtoKNOW.it. These platforms offer you a way to direct followers to content you have affiliate links for. These are great for apps like TikTok and Instagram that only allow one link in the bio. You can use your social networking platform to generate a buzz or excitement about products you use and give followers a way to buy them, earning you a commission and passive income.
Add your relevant, money making links that you reference in your videos or captions to your one landing page or linktree. Choose your links carefully to make sure they lead to the most profitable ways to connect.
Important note: Not all links will be available to every account. Some links require a minimum of 1,000 followers or more before you can use some commission-based links. The good news is, TikTok has lower follower minimums than other platforms like Instagram. Use your account in the meantime to build your followers and share valuable content so you reach the minimum number of subscribers fast.
Not all Profit is Money – Unexpected Benefits of Viral TikToks
When it comes to business, the bottom line tends to be profit. Why else would you be in business if it isn’t to make money? Well, not all profit is money. Sometimes there are hidden resources that are as good as…or better, than money.
TikTok has the potential to create a buzz about you and your goods and services. These can lead to resources that you may not have imagined. Some TikTok influencers have seen rampant and unexpected benefits that have incredible value. Take a look:
Mikayla Nogueira– Makeup artist influencer: Mikayla started out on TikTok simply as someone who loves makeup. She began an Instagram account sharing tutorials in 2013 and only gained 43k followers. On TikTok she has amassed over 3.7 Million followers. Since coming to TikTok, she has earned over a million in income, products and other goods and services.
Mikayla has not only monetized her TikTok account she has benefitted from hidden resources like: free products, collaborations, and exposure to people in her industry she would not otherwise been able to access. She is now beginning to branch out into other areas of interest to her followers, including mental health issues she manages.
DogFace– One TikTok account took the world by storm with a simple video showcasing Nathan Apodaca drinking Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail while riding a skateboard with Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams playing in the background. The back story was his car broke down on the way to work and he simply wasn’t going to let his situation get the best of him. Well, his zen-like attitude catapulted him to TikTok fame triggering a series of copy-cat videos with some pretty famous people.
Ultimately, he was given a new truck from Ocean Spray after his video caused a spike in consumption of their product.
While the majority of videos do not go viral, many do. It isn’t unusual to get thousands of views on videos and the ratio of influencers on TikTok tends to be higher than other platforms as in Mikayla’s case where she had infinitely more traction on TikTok than Instagram.
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Clare Francis (science critic)
Clare Francis is a pseudonym used since 2010 by the author (or authors) of hundreds of whistle-blowing emails sent to the editors of scientific journals that call attention to suspected cases of plagiarism and fabricated or duplicated figures. Described as a scientific gadfly, the pseudonymous Francis is "a source both legendary and loathed in biomedical circles" for their "uncanny knack for seeing improperly altered images, as well as smaller flaws that some editors are inclined to ignore." Francis refers to themself as an "attentive reader"; their "real identity, gender, and occupation remain secret."
Mixed response from editors
Francis's complaints have been determined on a number of occasions to be valid; for example, in 2013, the Journal of Cellular Biology retracted an article published in 2006 after Francis brought image manipulation to the editors' attention.
Francis's complaints, however, are not always acted upon, as some editors do not wish to respond to anonymous whistleblowers and have found some of Francis's claims to be lacking in verifiability or even a waste of time to investigate.
Tom Reller of Elsevier explains how publishers deal with Francis:
Generally speaking, Clare was rather disruptive at first, but by now most editors and publishing teams have an approach in place when it comes to managing Clare’s demands and threats. Clare's emails are read and assessed, but they’ve set boundaries in regard to what kinds of cases they’ll investigate, how far back, and how many papers they'll look into before deciding if it's warranted to go any further. (Many cases will require cross referencing one piece of original research with 5, 10 or more suspected papers to plagiarize it).
- Ed Yong, Heidi Ledford & Richard Van Noorden, Research ethics: 3 ways to blow the whistle, Nature (November 27, 2013).
- James Glanz & Agustin Armendariz, Years of Ethics Charges, but Star Cancer Researcher Gets a Pass, New York Times (March 8, 2017).
- Kerry Grens, What to do about "Clare Francis", The Scientist (September 14, 2013)
- Ivan Oransky, Clare Francis scores a bullseye: Journal of Cell Biology paper retracted for image manipulation, Retraction Watch (January 22, 2013).
- Elsevier Corporate Commentary. It's not that Clare Francis is a pseudonym; it's that the pseudonym is Clare Francis
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2174 Asteroid Heist.
The biggest theft of the century and the "Rain of Gold".
In 2172, the asteroid mining company Seren-Enterprises maneuvers the core of a small comet from a near-Earth solar Orbit into high Earth orbit. The comet is 90 meters in size. It contains two million metric tons of water ice and an exceptionally high proportion of rare earths. The whole operation takes 14 years with fusion flare engines consuming most of the comet's ice.
Seren-Enterprises intends to mine raw materials for the orbital industry in cis-lunar space. The main customers are L4/L5 constructions, lunar production facilities, and research stations in earth orbit. In addition, the comet contains various precious metals including 50,000 metric tons of gold that is only needed in small amounts for industrial purposes. The project is running under the highest secrecy. The comet and the extraction facilities are hidden under a cover of aluminum foil.
Then in early 2174 the asteroid is occupied by well-equipped units of unknown origin. Seren-Enterprises is denied access. For ten months Seren explains away the delay in delivery to customers as being caused by operational problems without reporting the incident to the authorities.
At the end of the year the so-called *Rain of Gold* begins. The thieves land gold with deorbiters in remote areas collecting the cargo. These unregistered landings attract the attention of civil and military authorities worldwide. After three weeks in which the authorities try to negotiate with Seren-Enterprises units of the Space Guard try to land on the comet. There they encounter strong resistance and are repelled.
Now the hijackers change their tactics. They drop gold to the Earth, again into uninhabited areas, but now uncontrolled and without deorbiters. Much of the gold vaporizes as it enters the atmosphere. Drops of molten gold and nuggets rain down over wide areas starting a gold rush in the Sahara, Alaska, Siberia, and Australia.
The thieves land a total of 9,000 metric tons of gold. This accounts for about one percent of the world's gold reserves at the time. The world becomes aware that any organization in the future will be able to bring almost any amount of precious metal to the Earth. The price of gold collapses.
It quickly becomes known that 2,000 metric tons of gold had already been sold at the old market prices via futures contracts. The total value is equivalent to the gross national product of a small country. Later it turns out that the real purpose of the asteroid theft was not to sell gold, but to manipulate the markets, were the thieves probably earned much more.
In the chaos caused by the *Rain of Gold* the thieves leave the asteroid. Their identity remaining in the dark. Some facts point at state actors. There are many leads and clues, but no clear evidence. The real masterminds will never be revealed.
2191 100,000 in Space.
100,000 people live in orbit, on the moon and in interplanetary space.
Many work to extract raw materials from the moon and from near earth asteroids. Their work being dangerous, not everyone returns.
Actually, modern technology made working in space much safer. It protects against the deadly radiation outside the earth's magnetic field. Life support is much more compact and reliable than 200 years ago during the first "spacewalks". The spacesuits are also much more damage resistant due to new materials. However, in the asteroid mining business, there are so many risk factors that accidents still happen. Taking serious efforts many risks could be reduced, but this would amount to extraordinary costs. So, companies trying to provide a perfectly safe work environment would not competitive.
Human spaceflight has always been a trade-off between safety and cost. Absolute safety is not possible. Though the risk can be reduced with investments in equipment and personnel. The actual cost depends on the risk of failure that the stakeholders are willing to take.
In the early days of spaceflight, when the media closely followed all manned missions, attempts were made to limit the risk of fatal accidents to 1%. That means one dead astronaut on 100 missions. To achieve this goal early space organizations had to invest about 500 million dollars for each astronaut. 200 years later that much is no longer necessary. With 100,000 people in vacuum jobs it would not be possible either.
Despite much better technology and scale economies which make everything cheaper, vacuum applications are still expensive if certain safety standards are to be met. Safety and costs are still to be weighed against each other. 200 years after the first clumsy steps in orbit, missions have become safer, but a job in orbital resource extraction is still orders of magnitude more dangerous than other jobs.
At the end of the 22nd century a mission risk of 0.1% can be achieved at reasonable costs. The term "mission risk" is defined as a stay in orbit for several weeks with some external work, as it was 200 years before. This 0.1% risk is nominally 10 times better than in the early days of space travel. In practice this number is deceiving because the job description has changed. The first astronauts conducted three missions on average. In doing so, they accumulated a total risk of 3%. That was considered to be justified by the dream of travelling into space as an astronaut.
Now, modern vacuum workers are more likely to have 10 such mission assignments per year. Extra vehicular activities are a lot more numerous often being the normal daily work after all. The missions are not as precisely planned as they were in the early days and the performance demanded per shift has increased. On the other hand, workers staying in space for a long time, there is no need for risky ascents to orbit on slow-burning 1000-ton bombs and no less risky meteorite-like landings.
The advantage of not being subjected to dangerous ascents and descents is offset by the fact that vacuum workers have to risk their lives in EVAs every day. Over time, their total risk may amount to 10% or 20%, and for some even 30%, depending on equipment, training, and work ethics.
While the space agencies of Earth’s governments and the military in close Earth orbit keep standards reasonably high, the situation in commercial asteroid mining is somewhere between problematic and precarious. Asteroid mining companies basically have to find a balance between security costs and replacement costs, ultimately between the cost of keeping workers alive to do their jobs and the cost of bringing in new trained workers from the Earth's gravity well. The lives of the workers themselves play a secondary role in their calculations.
Among the 100,000 people in the vacuum are tourists, military personnel and orbital construction workers. Only about one-tenth are on dangerous resource extraction jobs where accidents are commonplace. A full fifth of those vacuum workers does not return alive. The job is correspondingly unpopular. On the other hand, it is highly paid. Salaries do not play a major role compared to all the other costs of space operations. Morale is low. Everyone knows that the job is a kind of Russian roulette. They either return rich or they don't return at all.
At the end of the 22nd century prices for orbital raw materials sink due to increasing competition from more mining companies. With shrinking margins investments go down, worsening the security situation even more. It then becomes almost impossible to recruit enough well-trained engineers for asteroid jobs. Only people who have no choice, who are heavily indebted or, for whatever reason, want to disappear, still volunteer for these jobs. That is why some states and companies resort to recruiting prisoners serving long term sentences. | <urn:uuid:eecb0e57-f5b3-4ba1-97af-2256a786eedf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.galactic-developments.de/data2.html?first=2169 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960187 | 1,583 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday continued their written decision discussion on the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School athletic fields after making several changes and additions.
Commissioner Ben Robinson suggested noting under the energy section of the written decision that language be added acknowledging the fact that certain elements of the project will introduce embodied carbon emissions.
“It should be noted that the choice of synthetic materials and the associated components as well as the fieldhouse hold a certain amount of embodied carbon emissions which diminish the value of the benefits stated above,” Robinson said.
Although Robinson recognized the energy benefits of adopting a new LED lighting system and other elements of the project, he stressed that adding new material to the campus that contains embodied carbon is a detriment that should be noted.
Commissioner Fred Hancock disagreed with Robinson, and said that he thinks the information in the decision is a good representation of what was discussed during the MVCs deliberation.
“I know Ben has other feelings about this,” Hancock said.
Commission chair Joan Malkin reminded the group that they are not strictly limited to what was discussed during deliberation, and are only limited to what the public record reflects.
Commissioner Doug Sederholm said there isn’t a project that the MVC reviews that doesn’t involve some form of embodied carbon, and he worries that nitpicking could lead the group down a rabbit hole.
Robinson made a motion to add the language, which passed 7-6.
Another change added language specifying that, with respect to safety and health, the commission finds that the project may have a detrimental impact due to potential contaminants related to the synthetic field.
The original language in the document stated that the project “would” have a detrimental impact due to contaminants (not potential contaminants).
Commissioner Ted Rosbeck said he is concerned that using words like “may” and “potential” are editorializing on the issue of potential impacts from chemicals like per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Rosbeck suggested that the project would have a neutral impact on safety and health.
Development of Regional Impact coordinator Alex Elvin said the reports from environmental consultants did conclude there were potential contaminants, but did not have enough information to draw conclusions related to leaching and the impact on the watershed.
Commissioner Jeff Agnoli said the synthetic field is proven to contain PFAS, and the matter saw conflicting testimony as to whether or not it would affect health and safety.
“There was quite a bit of testimony that there are a very small number of PFAS that are being adequately tested for. I think the slightly detrimental is appropriate,” Agnoli said.
The motion to alter the language passed 9-4.
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For example, a blade might implement a map UI, a chat window, a charting module or an alerting mechanism. A blade usually corresponds to a particular area of the display.
Workbenches allow Blades to be developed, debugged and run independently of the application.
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With BRJS the first line of code you write is feature code. No need to setup and configure a development environment, build processes or spend time evaluating and integrating libraries your app will use.
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One of the main benefits of using BRJS is that is ensures your application will scale to multiple teams. By seperating functionality into Blades and libraries, and by using the EventHub and Services, it massively reduces the likelihood of feature incompatibility and code conflicts.
When developing complex UIs you can end up with several hundred detailed behavioural tests. By using MVVM within a BRJS application you can test the UI via the "view model", without having to touch the DOM. Hundreds of UI tests can be executed in minutes.
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In this quick guide, we room going to answer the question “How plenty of tablespoons that minced garlic amounts to 4 cloves?”, discuss answers to various other related questions prefer what can be the substitute because that garlic cloves and also how to save garlic cloves.
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How numerous tablespoons the minced garlic equals 4 cloves?
4 cloves the minced garlic are equal to ½ tablespoon. This way that if friend mince 3.8 garlic cloves of little size or 4 cloves of typical size, friend can obtain ½ tablespoon that minced garlic.
In terms of teaspoons, 1 and also a ½ teaspoon is same to 3.8 garlic cloves.
How much is a clove the garlic?
A solitary clove of garlic is equal to 1 tespoon of chopped garlic or ½ teaspoon of minced garlic. Below is a fast review of the standard measurements to have actually an idea about the garlic cloves and their amount:
|1.9 cloves of garlic||¼ tablespoon of minced garlic|
|5.6 cloves the garlic||¾ tablespoons of minced garlic|
|7.5 cloves the garlic||1 tablespoon of minced garlic|
|15 cloves the garlic||2 tablespoons of minced garlic|
|11.3 cloves the garlic||1 ½ tablespoon of minced garlic|
What go a clove the garlic look like?
The clove of garlic shows up to be irregular when observed simply. It has actually two ends, of i beg your pardon one finish is level while the other end is a spearhead. Every garlic clove is individually paper-skin wrapped.
A maximum of 11-12 individually covering cloves is bonded through each various other to type a bulb that has a brownish to violet paper-skin. These cloves have the right to be peeled and also stored personal or girlfriend just have the right to store the bulb together a whole.
How come tell if garlic has gone bad?
Fresh garlic has a characteristic smell and also taste, however once the is spoiled or rotten, you can know this by:
Spots on the surface
If the garlic has actually gone bad, the will develop some brown point out on the surface of the cloves. Also, the color at this stage will be readjusted from details off-white to a yellowish tan.
When the garlic go bad, over there is some expansion of eco-friendly roots in the center of the garlic cloves. These roots room actually the sprouts the taste bitter. These sprouts need to be gotten rid of from the center of the cloves however they leave a milder odor behind.
The best means to determine if the garlic has gone poor or not is a squeeze test. On squeezing, if the head gets soft or malleable because of pressure, climate this is the clear indication the the reality the garlic has gone bad.
Other FAQs around Garlic which you might be interested in.
How lengthy do garlic cloves last?
How countless teaspoons same 1 garlic clove?
How lot is 2 garlic cloves minced?
What can be the substitute because that garlic cloves?
Fresh garlic tastes great but as result of its poor odor, sometimes, you can substitute it v its other forms. For example, you can purchase a pre-minced garlic jar native the market and use the respective variety of teaspoons in the recipe. This type of garlic, being stored in the jar, additionally has a reasonably long shelf life.
How to save garlic cloves?
Garlic has a relatively longer shelf life as compared to other vegetables yet the maintain of garlic for the long term requirements to be accompanied by the proper storage conditions.
The best means to save garlic is to save it as a whole in an open container. This container must be placed at a rather cool temperature far from the warmth where over there is precise air circulation. It is recommended not to store garlic in the refrigerator, as the refrigeration temperature reasons the garlic to sprout.
Try to store garlic together a whole because when among the cloves that garlic is bring away out, its shelf life beginning decreasing.
Short term storage
For temporary garlic storage, pack the garlic in a brown record bag rather of a plastic bag to prevent the chances of humidity. This will help to save the taste and freshness the garlic for as much as 4 to 6 months.
If you room going come refrigerate an separation, personal, instance unpeeled clove the garlic, it can be stored because that 10 days. For peeled garlic cloves, store them in a plastic bag for as much as 1 come 2 days.
Long term storage
For irreversible storage the garlic, you deserve to go because that freezing them. Unpeeled, totality garlic (Garlic bulb together a whole) have the right to be save in the freezer for approximately 1 year.
If you want to save peeled and also chopped garlic, load it in the freezer bag and also store it in the freezer for up to 1 year.
In this quick guide, we answered the question “How many tablespoons that minced garlic equals 4 cloves?”, disputed answers to various other related questions choose what can be the substitute for garlic cloves and also how to store garlic cloves.
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So pick up a few new study tips, and prove your outstanding ability in your assignments and exams!
- Don’t miss a class. ‘A’ students never miss a class.
- Review your notes quickly and often.
- Organise your notes visually.
- Plan ahead.
- Explain things to others.
- Get together with a study group.
- Stay positive.
- Trust your instincts.
How can I top in exam?
Ten Top Tips for Exams
- Answer the right number of questions. Read any instructions carefully.
- Answer the question asked.
- Take your time.
- You can’t memorise everything.
- Practise previous exam questions.
- Don’t panic if you think you’ve gone blank.
- Learn to use your breath.
- Take care of yourself.
How do you get 80 in all subjects?
11 Tips To Score More Than 90% Marks In 10th 12th Board Exam
- Defeat Yourself.
- Stick with your syllabus book – Mind It.
- Be careful with your weak points.
- Time will kill your marks.
- Practicing from the sample and previous year papers is the best way.
- Don’t underestimate ENGLISH – especially CBSE students.
How do you get 100 in all exams?
Tips and tricks to tackle those difficult areas prior to your board exams.
- Plan your schedule:
- Note-making is an effective method:
- Solve previous years’ question papers:
- Understand the concepts while studying:
- Group study can help:
What motivates to study?
Researchers believe that your motivation to study can either come from inside you or outside of you. You can be motivated by an internal drive to learn as much possible. Or, you might be motivated to study by an external reward like a good grade, or a great job, or someone promising you a car.
Should we bath before exam?
Bathing releases tiredness, anxiety, depressions, and many other mental and bodily illnesses. Bathing before can help you perform well in your exam and bathing after your exam can help you prepare well for the next exam.
How can I improve my brain before an exam?
Organize these things the night before your exam, so you can go to sleep easy and wake up with peace of mind.
- Collect your materials.
- Get enough sleep.
- Set your alarms.
- Lay out your outfit.
- Map out your route the night before.
- Listen to music.
- Repeat positive affirmations.
- Calm yourself with focused breathing.
How do I become a top student?
10 Habits of Successful Students
- Get Organized. Making a plan for what you’re going to do and when you’re going to do it will make sure you’re always ahead of the curve – literally.
- Don’t multitask.
- Divide it up.
- Set a schedule.
- Take notes.
- Manage your study space.
How can I get 100 in all exams without studying?
12 Study Hacks to pass exams without studying
- Find the right workplace.
- Make the most use of your time.
- Assemble your requirements properly to avoid distractions.
- Compile all your notes.
- Avoid cramming for long hours. Take breaks!
- Prioritize and work accordingly.
- Talk to someone around you.
- Plan as per your requirement.
How can I be a serious student?
Most students believe that good grades come only with pulling all nighters, but the real secret is to study smarter, rather than harder.
- Manage your time in 5 minutes each day.
- Always have a plan.
- Be organized.
- Take care of your physical health.
- Don’t cram — instead, use a periodic review system.
- Form a homework group.
How do you get 90 in all subjects?
8 ways to Score More than 90% in CBSE Class 10 Board Exams 2020
- Start Your Preparation Right Now.
- Chalk Out a Proper Timetable.
- Stick to Your Syllabus.
- Practise Solving Previous Years’ Question Papers and Sample Papers.
- Work on Your Weak Areas.
- Strict ‘No’ to Social Media.
- Night Just Before the Exam.
- During the Exam Time.
How can I become first in class?
To achieve the first rank in your class, you will have to stay disciplined and study hard throughout the year. Take part in class activities and do all of your homework on time, including reading assignments. Organize your study time, test yourself, and eliminate distractions that will reduce your productivity.
How can I get full marks?
Remember: you’ve got this.
- Give yourself enough time to study. via GIPHY.
- Organize your study space. via GIPHY.
- Use flow charts and diagrams. via GIPHY.
- Practice on old exams. via GIPHY.
- Explain your answers to others. via GIPHY.
- Organize study groups with friends. via GIPHY.
- Take regular breaks. via GIPHY.
- Snack on brain food.
How do I stop being so lazy?
Here are some tips to help you get rid of laziness and get a grasp on your productivity.
- Make your goals manageable.
- Don’t expect yourself to be perfect.
- Use positive instead of negative self-talk.
- Create a plan of action.
- Use your strengths.
- Recognize your accomplishments along the way.
- Ask for help.
- Avoid distraction.
Why do I have no mood to study?
Try to resolve it before focusing on your studies so it isn’t weighing you down. Make a list of anything that is mentally distracting you and tackle each individually or come up with a plan to address them later so they don’t distract you so much while studying. Study in a tidy place.
Why can’t I study even if I want to?
It could be that you are the type of person who loses focus easily. Work on forcing yourself to study even when you don’t really want to. If you do it because you want to do well, that helps too because if you are trying to impress someone else that may not be enough motivation to get you going.
What is the best color to wear when taking a test?
Wearing something yellow for a test-taking situation does not only make you feel happier, more optimistic and filled with positive energy, but also makes your fellow test-takers experience these positive feelings. In addition to stimulating you mentally, the color yellow also stimulates your nervous system.
How do I avoid friends during exams?
How to Avoid Friends While Studying
- 1 Study at home when you can.
- 2 Try the library for a quiet study session.
- 3 Go to a coffee shop for a change of scenery.
- 4 Create a study plan to stay focused.
- 5 Change your phone and computer settings.
- 6 Use a productivity app to stop checking social media.
What not to do when studying for exams?
What Should You NOT Do Before An Exam?
- Putting off studying until the last minute.
- Over-cramming the night before the exam.
- Over-caffeinating the night before the exam.
- Not taking adequate notes during lectures.
- Studying by myself.
- Walking in blind to the exam.
- Go to sleep at different, inconsistent times every night.
How can I study faster without forgetting?
How To Study Well For Exams Without Forgetting (10 Study Tips)
How can I memorize faster?
9 Steps to Learn How to Memorize Something Fast
- Record What You’re Memorizing.
- Write Everything Down.
- Section Your Notes.
- Use the Memory Palace Technique.
- Apply Repetition to Cumulative Memorization.
- Teach It to Someone.
- Listen to the Recordings Continuously.
What foods to avoid while studying?
- Trans-fats. One thing you need to avoid to keep your brain healthy is foods that are high in trans fats.
- Sugar. Sugar, while sometimes stimulating, also hits the brain pretty hard (and not in a good way).
- Caffeine. Glorious, energy-producing caffeine is a staple in any university student’s diet.
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Many crimes are down amid COVID-19 lockdowns, but some crimes may go unreported.
In Chicago, drug arrests amid the coronavirus city-wide shut down have decreased 42% compared to this time last year. And, this seems to be the trend for the crime rate of many major metropolitan cities.
“The feedback I’m getting is that [dealers] aren’t able to move, to sell anything anywhere,” said Joseph Lopez, a Chicago-based criminal defense attorney.
Overall, the prevalence of serious crimes declined 10%, according to newly released data, including robberies and homicides as well as drug-related activity. Other crimes in the city, however, such as domestic violence, may have increased. It’s tough to tell as many of these cases go unreported, according to law enforcement.
New York also saw major crimes, including murder, rape, robbery, burglary, assault, grand larceny and car theft, decrease by 12% from February to March.
“There’s a lot fewer opportunities for criminals to take advantage of,” said Joe Giacalone, a former New York Police Department sergeant. “Most burglars, they wait for you to leave the house.”
The NYPD, which has more than than 36,000 officers, has more than 7,000 officers currently off-duty and more than 2,000 have been diagnosed with COVID-19. This means low-level citations are also not being as forcibly addressed, which may be affected the overall crime rate.
“While departments are unlikely to announce they’ve backed off policing certain crimes, that’s going to be the case,” said Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip Stinson. “In many respects, over the next weeks, they’re really in survival mode.”
But while narcotics arrests are down, some believe drug sales will continue. They’re just not going to change up the game.
“Dealers are likely forced to change their strategies,” said Rodney Phillips, a former gang member in Chicago who now works as a conflict mediator in the city. “These guys already face poverty and death in these areas. they might be selling more online now. But they aren’t going to give up just because of the coronavirus.”
Also, certain crimes may be actually exasperated by the virus and spike during this time. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said the city’s “aggravated assaults were up 10% in the last three weeks, and half of those were domestic violence.” And Chicago did see an increase gun violence, including sixty shootings and nineteen deaths in a one-week span.
Teresa Sullivan, a supervisory attorney with Legal Aid Chicago, which represents domestic violence survivors, said, “One of the biggest challenges is how to provide remote services to clients at a time when their abusers may be using the virus as a justification for isolating them.” She added, “We anticipate there being escalations and violence and we are trying to make ourselves as available as possible while working remotely to our current clients.”
Katie Ray-Jones, chief executive officer of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, said the resource has adopted internet telephone services to reroute calls to employees working from home. “We moved our entire operation to remote status without a decrease in operations, which was a brilliant, logistical feat that our team pulled off,” Ray-Jones explained, adding, “This is an opportunity for [victims] to not look like they’re seeking help, but the information is just there for the general public. We’re also imploring friends, family, neighbors, colleagues to contact the hotline.” The hope is for those stuck home with abusers to find the courage to reach out.
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The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley introduces readers to modern cuisine of the Dakota and Minnesota territories. The book shares award-winning recipes that embrace locally sourced and seasonal, “clean” ingredients. The following excerpt is from Chapter 1, “Fields and Gardens.”
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Dried beans are the backbone of Native cuisine. High in protein, they add body and substance to soups, stews, and salads. When pureed, they become a soft dough for fritters, burgers, and croquettes. Here’s a quick look at just a few of the different varieties.
Small, purple and white heirloom beans from Mesa Verde, Colorado; quick cooking.
Small, spotted black and white, sometimes called Dalmatian; creamy.
Tan bean with a red eye, very creamy texture and mild flavor.
Large, white or purplish from New Mexico; very earthy.
With their meaty texture and distinct flavor, these beans are perfect for hearty soups and stews.
Larger than navy; creamy and tender.
Hidatsa Shield Figure
Named for the Hidatsa tribe and described in Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden. A beautiful pale-cream bean with gold saddle, this cooks up to be creamy and delicate.
American heirloom, kidney-shaped and cream-colored with red splashes; delicate and mild tasting.
Also known as butter beans, kidney-shaped and great in succotash; very quick cooking.
Small, round, and white that swell dramatically when cooked; creamy and mild.
Small and white, they hold their shape when cooked.
Split green and yellow peas cook quickly and are great for soup.
Most popular in the Southwest.
Red and Black Nightfall
Heirloom beans with mild flavor.
Tiny, earthy, and quick cooking.
From Rancho Gordo, brown and purple; meaty tasting.
Aztec, Giant Pinto, and others. Big beans that swell to twice their size; need slow and careful cooking.
Kidney-shaped, pink with a white cap; sharp tasting.
Old New England heirlooms, one of the original baked bean beans.
Black-eyed peas are most common. Mild and earthy.
Native to the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Mexico, they’re small and gray, white, or brown; need a long cooking time, and their flavor is earthy and pronounced.
What about canned beans? Canned beans are convenient and can save the day in a pinch. The best are natural foods brands such as Eden Foods.
Three Sisters Mash Recipe
Wagmíza na Omní?a na Wagmú Pat?á?pi
This easy side dish makes good use of leftovers; serve it with roast meat or fish; top it with a poached or fried egg for brunch.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
- 1 to 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 1 wild onion or large shallot, chopped
- 1 small summer squash or zucchini, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 cup Cedar-Braised Beans
- 1 cup sweet corn kernels
- 1/2 cup cooked hominy
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons chopped sage
- 1 tablespoon chopped mint
- Generous pinch smoked salt
- Film a large skillet with the oil and set over medium heat.
- Cook the onion or shallot until tender, about 3 to 5 minutes.
- Add the squash and continue cooking until tender, stirring often, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the beans, corn, and hominy and cook until the corn is bright and tender, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the maple syrup, sage, and mint.
- Season with the smoked salt.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
Chef’s Note: To prepare hominy or dried corn, soak in water to cover overnight. Drain and turn into a pot and cover with water by 2 inches. Set over medium-high heat, bring to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer until the kernels are tender, 10 to 25 minutes. Drain and proceed with the recipe.
More from The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen:
- Different Types of Wild Greens with Pesto Recipe
From The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley (University of Minnesota Press, October 2017). © 2017 Ghost Dancer, LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission of the University of Minnesota Press. You can buy this book from our store:The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen. | <urn:uuid:189defaf-367a-4b85-831c-50080b9d43a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motherearthgardener.com/food/types-of-beans-three-sisters-mash-ze0z1801zmcg/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.884195 | 1,100 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Mentors for Berks Youth was started in 1987 by a group of engineers and educators who saw the potential for helping high school students, particularly those who find themselves disadvantaged in some way. M4BY is a grass-roots organization designed to help students finish high school and enter post secondary education. Ideally, students will return to employment in the greater Reading area where they can become contributing members of their communities. Our organization facilitates one-to-one mentoring relationships between students in Berks County school districts (primarily the Reading School District), and dedicated members of our community.
(Founders were Thomas McMahon, Richard Kratz, Nancy Omaha Boy, Sandra Sorrels)
Currently, we do not have a place to call "Home". In previous years, we enjoyed a small office on Lancaster Avenue due to a generous donation of space from Security First, Inc. They graciously continue to allow us some storage space there as well. If you would like to meet with us then please call or email our Executive director, Christine Sinclair to arrange a visit. email@example.com 484-273-2081
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Details for this year's bus trip now available on the News & Event page.
Purchase tickets to select Santander Arena and Santander Performing Arts Center Events and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to M4BY. https://form.jotform.com/
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Indeed, China’s social credit system could result in alarming outcomes if it does not learn from the missteps of local pilot programs. For example, a number of students were barred from attending schools and universities because of their parents’ low credit scores. This had landed their parents on a national blacklist, a system that tracks “untrustworthy persons” based on their failure to honor court decisions, such as to repay debts. The pilot system clearly has a lot of challenges that need to be quickly addressed. However, it is also more complex and less sinister in its intent than the West’s neat dystopian vision suggests.
First, using the phrase “social credit system” for this massive Chinese social engineering effort is misleading. We typically associate “credit score” with a credit bureau’s assessment of one’s record of repaying debt. When extending this thinking to social spheres, it is easy to conjure an image of a single credit authority assigning scores to all aspects of one’s social and personal life. However, there is a great deal of confusion and uncertainty on the future direction of this massive social governance project. In a 2014 document, the Chinese government outlined its vision for such a system and noted that it involved four distinct segments: a government trust system, a commercial credit system, a social trust system and a judicial trust system. What drives this gargantuan project is an effort to build a culture of trust in Chinese society. Given this broad aim, a more appropriate term to describe the initiative is a “social trust system.”
Indeed, many measures introduced as part of the social trust system are intended to curb official corruption, tackle official dereliction and improve efficiency in enforcing court decisions, as well as punish unethical behaviors of professionals such as lawyers, doctors and teachers. Even local governments can make the nationwide blacklist. More than 480 city- and district-level governments are named. Senior officials from those governments suffer the consequences and can be barred from certain activities, especially high-end consumption like flights or staying in prestigious hotels, which is similar to travel restrictions for those who have filed for bankruptcy in countries like Australia or Singapore.
Restrictions like these, however, are meant to apply only to people who have defaulted on penalty payments or who have refused to comply with court decisions. Such penalties are meted out according to Supreme Court regulations — that is to say, no private scoring company or government agency (besides law enforcement institutions) are able to hand out such penalties.
Second, many Western media stories overstate the level of public and government consensus over the pilot programs, especially when applying scoring systems to social affairs. Right now, there are over two dozen local government pilot scoring programs, each with different types of grading systems, and a few commercial programs as well. The point of pilot programs is to explore boundaries.
These programs have thus been revised or revoked at times, depending on public reception. For instance, Suining County in Jiangsu Province was one of the first local governments to roll out a grading system for its residents, giving them an A through D mark. It sparked heated debates. The most contentious aspect was the inclusion of point deductions for “unauthorized” petitions. (It is fairly common for Chinese citizens to travel to Beijing to petition higher level authorities to address their grievances because of the people’s lack of trust in lower level governments, but petitions are considered unauthorized if they are “disturbing or disruptive,” for instance.) The media and public backlash forced the county mayor to apologize and revise the scoring system.
Third, most Western reports on China’s social trust system sidestep the reality that there are different cultural expectations of the government in China than in other countries. China’s governance tradition of promoting good moral behavior goes back thousands of years. In recent decades, as the economy took off and people’s living standards improved dramatically, fraud and technology-enabled economic crimes proliferated as well. Fraud is now so widespread that anyone who has lived in China in recent years has most likely experienced it in some form. Another widespread social ill today is the difficulty in enforcing court decisions, as mentioned earlier. Given all these problems, a system that bolsters trust is seen by many Chinese citizens as necessary.
Again, China’s social trust initiative is not without its challenges and risks. Apart from oft-cited concerns about data privacy and potential abuse, more clarity is needed on the policy goals and values underlying this project. The central government should commence a broad-based discussion and consultation process involving scholars and policy advisers to examine the potential downsides of using the scoring systems in social contexts and to continually evaluate the pros and cons of the experiments carried out by local governments. Including during the pilot stage, rules and regulations are needed to constrain overzealous local officials who could use such scoring systems too broadly.
Social governance in the digital age is a global challenge. Rather than instantly dismissing China’s unconventional governance innovations, we need an open-minded discussion of the pros and cons — one that is sensitive to the challenges and priorities of different cultural and political contexts. | <urn:uuid:7224c75a-ced4-4fdc-af1e-3d0da9864a93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/11/29/social-credit/?fbclid=IwAR2IJr4G7oNe4UjUbrgmSvqQ_uSZ-MfoOKp3cJLYmoS4a5lAwY6ksj1UHKs&utm_term=.3f4c39d19c79 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959955 | 1,057 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Way back in 1970, when I began my career as an international educator in Japan, the furthest thing from my mind was becoming a high school guidance counselor. Think back to how you started in the profession and just how prepared you felt. I remember when it all happened to me. The high school principal approached me and asked if I would be interested in the job. It was a K-12 school for boys in Tokyo and I would be responsible for helping 70 or so seniors with their college applications, working on schedules, and teaching a course and a typing class—not keyboarding, but on actual, non-electric machines. But that is another story.
My background was in social studies and I had just completed a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction that included a few personal counseling courses, but nothing to do with university applications. I was very fortunate in that I was able to take a one-week summer course on college counseling at the University of San Francisco, followed by the College Board Summer Institute for international counselors, before I began my job.
Let’s not be naïve. The reputation of most private and many public schools depends on where their graduates attend college. This was certainly the case in my international school, and we were no exception. We ask ourselves, “Are we doing a good job finding the right fit for our students? Are the parents and students happy with the results?”
If this “reputation” is true, why don’t high schools put more importance on having well-qualified, professionally trained college counselors on staff? I realize the staffing implications, but as more and more international students, especially from Asia, are applying to U.S. universities, the need for well-qualified counselors to help them is paramount. And just where do they receive this training? We all know that on-the-job training is important, but the basics need to be taught!
Imagine you are attending a workshop and one of the presentations is on how to write the prefect letter of recommendation. I can guarantee that there will be standing room only, and if a representative from a major university presents it, they will be turning people away. Now, just why is that? Why, even after 40 years of writing recommendations, do I still go to these presentations? It is because we all want to do what is best for our students, and that magic bullet must be out there somewhere.
If you want to have a career as an international school counselor, having the background in college counseling is a must. Take that course while you are in college, and if there isn’t one, ask the head of the education or counseling department why there isn’t one. If you are in the profession now and feel you need help, take an online course or find out if your nearest university is offering one. Work through your local NACAC affiliate. Perhaps even volunteer to teach a course yourself.
Several of the state and regional NACAC affiliates offer mentorship programs. Don’t be afraid to ask—after all, you are in a profession that helps students, so you should not be shy about asking for help yourself. I am still so thankful for that one-week course in San Francisco. | <urn:uuid:2d2854a1-3264-4b8f-b650-7f8e72d82a6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.collegexpress.com/counselors-and-parents/college-counselors/blog/road-becoming-international-school-counselor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97086 | 667 | 1.765625 | 2 |
With summer heat settled over the Southland and more young children being found inside hot cars, the Automobile Club of Southern California is strongly cautioning parents, caregivers and motorists not to leave children alone in a closed vehicle and not to allow children to play in or around cars and trucks. On average, 38 children die in hot cars each year from heat-related deaths after being trapped inside motor vehicles, according to San Francisco State University data.
The Auto Club reminds parents and caregivers on National Heatstroke Prevention Day that children can die within minutes inside a hot vehicle and that California law makes it illegal to leave children unattended in a car or truck.
“Make it a routine to look and check the back seat for children before you leave the car,” said Auto Club Manager of Community Programs and Traffic Safety Anita Lorz Villagrana. About 51 percent of child hot car deaths in vehicles were caused by adults forgetting the children, and 29 percent of victims were playing in an unattended vehicle, according to California researchers.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notes that heatstroke is the leading cause of non-crash vehicle fatalities for children 14 and younger. In fact, one child dies from heatstroke nearly every 10 days after being left in a hot vehicle.
Nationwide, 624 children died from heat stroke after being left in unattended vehicles since 1998, with 18 deaths thus far in 2014. Last year, 44 children died from heat stroke after being left in unattended vehicles. In California, 40 children died in cars from 1998-2013. Just this week a Fullerton couple was arrested at the Brea Mall on suspicion of leaving their 3-year-old in their hot car while they went inside the shopping center. This spring, a child died in Bakersfield due to playing in an unattended vehicle; another child died in San Jose strapped in a car seat inside an SUV after the father thought he’d dropped the child off at the babysitter.
“We think that we’re only going to be inside a store for a few minutes, but children under age four are the most at-risk for having their lives endangered by being left in a hot car,” said Villagrana. “Children should not be left in a car by an adult, or forgotten because of an adult’s distraction. If you see an unattended child in a vehicle, call 9-1-1 immediately.”
Shaded parking, cracking windows open and tinted windows don’t lessen the interior temperature of a closed car, according to pediatric researchers. Doctors warn that if it’s a 90-degree day, it could be at least a life-threatening 130 degrees inside a car. A child’s body isn’t as efficient as an adult’s and warms 3-5 times faster, leading to dehydration and heatstroke.
The Auto Club urges motorists to:
- Immediately call 9-1-1- if you notice a child locked unattended in a car.
- Never leave car keys or a car remote where children can get to them.
- Always keep doors and windows locked to prevent kids from playing inside a vehicle.
- Never leave a child unattended in a car, even if windows are tinted, cracked open or down.
- Develop “look before leaving” routines. Ensure all kids exit the vehicle at your destination.
- Create an electronic device reminder to make sure you dropped your child off at daycare.
- Leave something needed for the day in the back seat with your baby – a briefcase, purse or your day’s shoe(s).
- Develop a daycare drop-off plan so that if your child is late or isn’t at daycare, you’ll be called within a few minutes. Some children have been left in office parking lots by distracted adults forgetting to drop them off at day care.
- If a child is missing, check the car, including the trunk. If you have a pool, check there first, according to safety experts.
- Teach children that a car is not a play area.
- Don’t treat heatstroke at home with cold water or cooling the child in a tub of water. Only a specialist should treat heatstroke. Seek medical treatment immediately. | <urn:uuid:e0acb7f5-67e3-4968-afe2-be4546999408> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.aaa-calif.com/news/look-before-you-lock:-auto-club-warns-about-leaving-kids-in-hot-cars | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953045 | 894 | 2.03125 | 2 |
‘Band in a Van’
At Alina Orchestra we believe ‘Music is for everyone’ and as part of our dedication to the community, Alina has created ‘Band in a Van’. ‘Band in a Van’ is a small group of musicians taking music to the heart of communities, with interactive concerts that feature popular music and lots of audience participation.
Band in a Van is currently performing at libraries in Buckinghamshire and is generously supported by the Rothschild Foundation.
Read more about Band in a Van here
GCSE/ A-Level Syllabus Events
As news spreads of the orchestra, we are always happy to support communities in any way we can.
On 22 March, the orchestra was asked to perform a concert of GCSE Music Set Works at Stevenage Music Centre for local GCSE Students. We were delighted to be asked!
Hilary Davan Wetton and Alina not only provided a live performance of the music for students but also explained the music in detail, highlighted key moments and explained the history around the composition of the works.
Thanks for having us Stevenage Music Centre.
If you are interested in Alina performing set works for a music syllabus, contact Nick Cutts, Chief Executive, to discuss further.
Alina Orchestra and Arts for Health Milton Keynes present…
Music4Mindfulness is an inclusive 12-week online programme of support for anyone who wishes to improve their health and wellbeing through an introduction to classical music
The 12-week programme of videocasts will be streamed online. Videos will be made available every Friday at 10am starting from 30 April on the Arts for Health MK website.
We are grateful for the support of Magic Little Grants and The National Lottery Community which enabled this project to take place.
For more details, please visit https://artsforhealthmk.org.uk/Music-4-mindfulness
Has now finished. Thank you to everyone who took part and everyone who supported the project.
‘Unlocking Imagination was a free online wellbeing project created by Alina for the people of Milton Keynes which celebrated optimism, positivity and hopefulness at a time where people were feeling vulnerable, stressed, isolated, angry or frustrated as a result of the events of 2020.
Over the course of 2 workshops, we –
- Taught participants some dedicated wellbeing techniques to help them find their positive side and put the negative feelings of 2020 behind them.
- We also asked them to find their creative side and express yourself. We did this by recording a mindful piece of music – ‘Spiegel Im Spiegel’ by composer, Arvo Pärt; asking participants to watch/listen to the video and to return with their own creative responses to the video.
It was a fascinating project and one that all participants enjoyed, finding mindfulness and positivity as part of the process.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters have flooded Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office with calls expressing concern about his decision to give some voter registration information to a national commission investigating alleged voter fraud.
The office received “literally hundreds of calls” this week,” spokeswoman Maura Browning said Thursday.
Many callers were concerned that the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity will be given their Social Security numbers and voting history. Browning said Missouri will provide only information showing that the voter participated in an election, not how they voted, The Columbia Daily Tribune reported.
The commission last week asked secretaries of state for voters’ names, birthdates, partial Social Security numbers, voting history and other information if it is public under state laws. More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia refused to comply, while many other states said they would provide only information that is public under their laws.
Browning said Missouri doesn’t record party affiliation. The other information sought is not public.
Former Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat, provided the information 380 times during the four years he was in office, Browning said. His predecessor, Robin Carnahan, released the list more than 600 times during her eight years, she said.
In an email to supporters, Ashcroft wrote that the worries about the data release are misplaced and that the state’s open records law requires him to provide the information upon request. He said the outrage over the request is “based on a misunderstanding of the facts.”
President Donald Trump, who created the commission through executive order in May, lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election but has alleged, without evidence, that millions of people voted illegally. Democrats have blasted the commission as a biased panel merely looking for ways to suppress the vote.
In Missouri, Democrats have criticized Ashcroft for quickly agreeing to release the data and accused Republicans of hypocrisy on privacy issues.
At a town hall meeting Wednesday in Ashland, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said she is most upset about how Republicans politicize privacy.
“I am less critical about him doing it and much more critical about the hypocrisy of their positions about data and privacy,” the Missouri Democrat said. “It is just when a Republican asks, it’s OK; and when a Democratic administration asks, it is not.”
McCaskill noted that the Republican-dominated Legislature cited privacy concerns when it couldn’t agree that Missouri residents should have drivers’ licenses that comply with the federal Real ID Act, necessary to board an airplane or enter a military base.
Lawmakers passed a law allowing people to ask for a compliant license, but they didn’t require it.
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Update > Constitution UK project has been awarded a Campus Technology for Innovation (pg 30).
Chaired by Peter Bryant – Head of Learning Technology and Innovation at the LSE
Prof. Conor Gearty – Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Human Rights Law (LSE)
Darren Moon – Senior Learning Technologist, Learning Technology and Innovation (LSE)
Paul Sullivan – Manager of the Institute of Public Affairs (LSE)
The next NetworkED will be held on Wednesday 16th December at 3pm. Get your FREE tickets for the event here.
The idea of the ‘massive’ has been at the heart of some of the most disruptive and transformative debates in Higher Education, dating back to the growth of the large scale lecture and the era of mass education right through to more recently, where the massive has been one of the movable concepts within the MOOC acronym. In many ways, the massive has been the least understood and explored idea within revolutionary or hyperbolic discourse around MOOCs.
What happens when the massive is more than just a measure of scale or numbers of students? What kind of learning emerges where the massive stops being a community of individual learners, and becomes a learning community, drawing on the power of the collective and the crowd to solve problems, engage in civic debate or write a constitution? How do you surf the sometimes chaotic, informal, unpredictable and unstructured interactions, conversations and debates that occur within a crowd to deliver a collective solution to an intractable problem? Can the massive transform the ways we undertake and promote civic engagement in a digital age? What does on-line learning and teaching look like in the crowd?
In January 2015, the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) launched an innovative civic engagement project, which aimed to crowd source the United Kingdom Constitution. One of the key intentions of the project was to leverage and magnify the power of the community and the ‘massive’ in order to empower participants to engage in debate, identify solutions and come to a common agreement about the need for and the content of a UK Constitution. Involving over 1500 participants and generating tens of thousands of on-line interactions that increased as opposed to decreased over the 14 week duration of the ‘course’, Crowd Sourcing the UK Constitution challenged some of the dominant paradigms of Massive Open On-line Learning.
Featuring a panel of the key people involved in the project NetworkED will present the findings arising from a critical evaluation of the project and pose a number of questions that emerged from both the School’s engagement with the project and from the participants themselves centred on enhancing the effectiveness of a pedagogical design to harness the power of the massive, and leverage a large community of engaged participants working together in order to solve a problem, effect change or develop capacity. The panel will challenge some of the dominant paradigms of civic engagement and open on-line learning in a active and participatory debate.
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Ro Cook - Lino Printing - Theme, Draw, Cut, Print, Stitch
A hand printing workshop - Working to a theme, participants will explore and draw ideas. Create hand cut lino blocks and use found objects to print in an explosion of colour and shapes. Add surface design with stitching. Come away with a hand printed, embellished cloth that is your unique expression.
See the potential for designs from a theme and adapt your designs for block printing. Learn how to safely carve lino print blocks to achieve your design. Experience printing from your own original blocks, and practice various patterns, as well as multi-coloured printing.
Develop skills in embellishing your prints while being guided to express your own style in stitching.
Both diamond pieces shown below are designed using the grate (image) for inspiration.
Suitable for All Levels. Please Note: Requires some dexterity to carve lino, and the printing is quite physical.
Ro Cook is a multi-disciplinary Artist specialising in textiles. Ro creates her work by printing, dyeing and embellishing in 2D and 3D. Having studied and practiced both design and visual art her appreciation of textiles is influenced by the women at the Bauhaus and their philosophy of using textile design as artistic expression.
|Date||Sat 29th Oct 2022 9:30 am|
|End Date||Sun 30th Oct 2022 4:30 pm|
|Price||ATASDA Members $200 Non-members $250 Materials Fee $TBA|
|Location||Epping Creative Centre|
- Pay a deposit to secure your place in a workshop as they fill quickly
- The deposit of $31 for a one day workshop and $62 for a two day workshop is non-refundable
- Remainder of payment is due 4 weeks before the workshop
- Non-members pay a higher price for workshops so join now to get the members’ rate
- Non-members are not included in ballots if the demand is greater than available places
- For Textile Tasters, full payment is required when you register.
Material fee to be paid directly to the tutor at the workshop.
- Bring your own lunch and mug, morning and afternoon tea is provided
- Please arrive early so you are unpacked and ready to start at 9.30am
- Tutors finish teaching at 4pm, so everyone can help with the cleanup. Participants leave at 4.30pm each day.
We may take photographs during the workshop for use in ATASDA promotional material. If you do not want to be photographed please advise the workshop helper at sign-in.
Before taking photographs for your own records, check with the workshop helper first, as some tutors do not allow photography.
It is your responsibility to provide any personal protective and/or safety equipment required for the workshop, e.g. safety glasses, facemask, gloves. See workshop requirements list for additional items.
Please email NSW Workshops before you book if you have special needs e.g. wheelchair access.
- If a workshop is cancelled by ATASDA your workshop fee will be refunded
- Can't attend? You may be able to gift your enrolment, please contact NSW Workshops
- If you cancel up to 4 weeks prior to the workshop your payments, minus the deposit, will be refunded
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An International Course on Irrigation will be held in Europe in October 2016.
The objective of the course is to provide the elements that are required in the operation of an irrigation system so that efficiency of plant water use and the efficacy of the system in delivering water are maximized.
This is a complex problem since crops grow under varied combinations of soil, weather and growing conditions. Guiding principles in how to deal with these changing environmental factors will be provided.
This course assembles a group of highly experienced international scientists with extensive careers in the field of fruit tree growth and irrigation management.
The activity will last 5 days and includes five different types of lectures:
- Short theoretical sessions of 30-45’ covering a total of 24 different topics
- Workshop exercises of 60’ each covering a total of 6 different topics
- Demonstrative laboratory training sessions covering 5 different topics
- Afternoon field trips
- Discussion sessions between the instructors and the students at the end of each day
More information on the course can be found within the course program.
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On 24 February 1916 he applied for total exemption, stating: “I am a conscientious objector and I am a member of the non-conscription fellowship, whose members are not prepared to take up arms, whatever the penalties for refusing. I claim absolute exemption from military service in any shape or form and from any other employment than my present employment. On the grounds that it would be utterly at variance with all my deepest moral convictions, I cannot admit the right of the state to compel me to cause or help to cause death.”
On 25 April he was denied exemption. He appealed: “ … I was a delegate at the last peace conference held here in Edinburgh several years ago. For the past eight years I have been a member of the Independent Labour Party an association that on principle has opposed as it still opposed War. As a socialist-believer in the International Brotherhood of man I could not conscientiously engage in Military Service of any description. I therefore claim absolute exemption.” The appeal was dismissed. | <urn:uuid:eba80d02-ff87-45a9-b057-93b971667e8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://opposingwarmemorial.wordpress.com/john-vallace-johnston/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973464 | 208 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The way we experience the present is largely influenced by our memories of the past. Some memories help us navigate the world around us, while others can make life more difficult and uncomfortable. Intrusive, pathological memories contribute to anxiety disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder, a trauma-triggered condition that affects nearly 8 million Americans. On Wednesday, researchers in Science Advances described a unique new way of short-circuiting the underlying process.
Scientists have long believed that memories are fixed, and this assumption has been an obstacle in the development of treatments for traumatic memories. However, the new study shows that reactivating an old memory can put it in an unstable state — and once it’s in that state, it’s susceptible to manipulation.
This manipulation took the form of the anesthetic propofol. The team behind the study discovered that people who receive a dose of propofol after a negative memory is reactivated have difficulty retrieving that memory 24 hours later. While this study is an early exploration into this process, the results suggest that memory reactivation, when combined with a routine anesthetic procedure, could be an effective, noninvasive approach to alleviating traumatic memories.
The study involved 50 healthy study participants recruited from the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, each of whom participated in this study before going a pre-planned endoscopy. Instead of exposing healthy participants to anesthesia they didn’t need, the team decided to conduct the study on people who needed to take propofol anyway.
Theyused propofol because previous studies have demonstrated that it blocks emotional memory encoding and retrieval. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a medical treatment used for patients with severe major depression, also uses an anesthetic while a patient undergoes a brief electrical stimulation of the brain.
The authors of the new study questioned whether the role that the anesthetic plays in ECT was more significant than previously suspected. ECT is known to disrupt emotional memory reconsolidating — the process in which memory becomes malleable for 24 hours after it’s been remembered. It’s possible, however, that reconsolidation was actually linked to the anesthetic.
To test this idea, participant went through an “emotional memory encoding” process. They watched slideshows of two three-part stories that conjured up negative emotions. The first and third parts of the story were emotionally neutral, while the second part was negative. The idea was that the second part would ignite the memories they wanted to get rid of.
One week after the encoding session, all participants watched the first slide of the two stories and reported what they remembered about the other slides. Immediately after the memory reactivation, they received a dose of propofol and underwent the endoscopy procedure they had planned. Because sedation depends on weight, age, and clinical condition of a patient, the prescribed propofol doses were individualized to each participant.
One group was asked about what memories they had of the slideshow immediately after they were discharged from the recovery room, while the other group was asked 24 hours later. The scientists discovered that those tested immediately could remember each part of the stories they were shown. However, the people tested 24 hours later had immense difficulty remembering the negative, emotional middles of the slideshows — even though they could still remember the neutral beginnings and ends.
The scientists say this suggests propofol causes emotional aspects of memories to lose their resonance during the memory reconsolidating process. They speculate that amygdala activity is “highly sensitive to the inhibitory effects of anesthesia,” and that the effects on patients may be a result of propofol inhibiting the amygdala and the hippocampus, as well as the connection between these two brain regions.
Further testing is needed to know whether these memories return after 24 hours. It’s also questionable whether the emotional memories encoded during truly stressful life experiences root in the brain in the same way that the memories in this study did. What’s shown here is a proof of concept, though, one that merits further investigation.
The adjustment of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors associated with emotional memories is central to treating psychiatric disorders. Recent research, predominantly with laboratory animals, indicates that memories can become temporarily sensitive to modification following reactivation, before undergoing reconsolidation. A method to selectively impair reconsolidation of specific emotional or traumatic memories in humans could translate to an effective treatment for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder. We tested whether deep sedation could impair emotional memory reconsolidation in 50 human participants. Administering the intravenous anesthetic propofol following memory reactivation disrupted memory for the reactivated, but not for a non-reactivated, slideshow story. Propofol impaired memory for the reactivated story after 24 hours, but not immediately after propofol recovery. Critically, memory impairment occurred selectively for the emotionally negative phase of the reactivated story. One dose of propofol following memory reactivation selectively impaired subsequent emotional episodic memory retrieval in a time-dependent manner, consistent with reconsolidation impairment. | <urn:uuid:29745f83-486e-4649-b6ea-c3f03f9f1c2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inverse.com/article/54220-propofol-anesthetic-traumatic-memory-reconsolidation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950394 | 1,045 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Europe must spend more money on research and development (R&D) in the services industry if it is to close the spending gap with the United States, a study from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to be published next week (9 February) will argue.
It warns that encouraging spending on R&D in regions where it is currently low could prove “wasteful” and instead suggests making it easier for firms to be innovative in areas where R&D spending is already high.
The EU’s Lisbon Agenda for growth and jobs identifies increasing R&D spending as a way of making the EU more competitive, but the goal of raising spending to 3% of gross domestic product by 2010 is not expected to be reached.
The EIB study also identifies the industries where Europe is lagging behind the US, which spends three times more on R&D in commercial services than ten EU states (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK). In terms of technology R&D, the US spends twice as much as the ten EU states in the survey.
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The report argues that Europe should increase R&D spending in the services sector because “the EU is likely to see its services sector grow over time, thus following the US example”.
In the manufacturing sector, the ten states spend as much as – or more than – the US does, but this does not solve the problem, the study warns. “Europe’s relatively favourable R&D position in manufacturing offers little consolation. If Europe cannot close its R&D gap with the US in services, the overall R&D gap is likely to widen rather than narrow as the share of services in total value-added grows,” the report says.
The biggest gaps in R&D spending on services between Europe and the US are in wholesale and retail trade and repairs, and real estate and technology services, which together account for more than two-thirds of the commercial services sector’s value-added and R&D spending in both the EU and the US.
The report also shows a link between R&D spending and productivity, stating: “Heavy spending on R&D in conjunction with a high level of investment in inform-ation and communication technology appears to have helped boost innovation and productivity gains in the US.”
Spending on R&D varies across the EU but all member states lag behind the US.
Sweden, Finland, Denm-ark and Austria are increasing their R&D spending faster than other EU states, while Greece, Portugal, Sp-ain, Italy and Ireland have stayed well below the EU average.
In the EU states which spend more money on R&D, the investment is focused in regions of high economic activity.
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Understand what is LVM snapshot and why to use it. Learn how to create, mount, unmount, and delete the LVM snapshot.
LVM (Logical Volume Manager) is one of the widely used volume managers on Unix and Linux. There were series of LVM articles we published at kerneltalks in the past. You can refer them in below list :
- LVM legends
- LVM tutorial on physical volume part I and part II
- LVM tutorial on volume group part I, part II, part III & part IV
- LVM tutorial on logical volume part I, part II & part III
- Difference between LVM and LVM2
- LVM cheat sheet
In this article we will be discussing how to take snapshots of the logical volume. Since LVM is widely used, you must know how to take a backup of logical volume on the LVM level. Continue reading this article to know more about LVM snapshots.
What is LVM snapshot?
LVM snapshot is a frozen image of the logical volume. It is an exact copy of LVM volume which has all the data of volume at the time of its creation. LVM copies blocks or chinks from volume to volume so it’s comparatively fast than file-based backup. Backup volume is read-only in LVM and read-write in LVM2 by default.
Why to use LVM snapshot?
LVM snapshots are a quick and fast way to create a data copy. If your volume size is big and you can not tolerate performance issues while doing online data backup or downtime while doing offline data backup then LVM snapshot is the way to go. You can create snapshots and then use your system normally. While the system is serving production, you can take a backup of your backup volume at your leisure without hampering system operations.
Another benefit of using snapshot is your data remain un-changed while the backup is going on. If you take a backup of production/live volume then data on volume may change resulting inconsistency in the backup. But in case of snapshot since no app/user using it or writing data on it, taking backup from a snapshot is consistent and smooth.
How to take LVM snapshot?
LVM snapshots are easy to take. You need to use the same lvcreate command with
-s switch (denotes snapshot) and supply the name of the volume to back up in the end. Important things here are to decide the size of the backup volume. If backup volume size is unable to hold data volume then your snapshot becomes unusable and it will be dropped. So make sure you have little extra space in backup volume than your original data volume (per man page 15-20% might be enough).
Lets create LVM snapshot.
# df -h /mydata Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol0 93M 1.6M 87M 2% /mydata # lvcreate -L 150 -s -n backup /dev/vg01/lvol0 Rounding up size to full physical extent 152.00 MiB Reducing COW size 152.00 MiB down to maximum usable size 104.00 MiB. Logical volume "backup" created.
In the above example, we created a snapshot of 100MB logical volume. For snapshot we defined 150MB space to be on the safer side. But command itself reduced it to 104MB optimum value to save on space. We also named this volume as a backup with -n switch.
Once the snapshot is created it can be mounted as any other logical volume. Once mounted it can be used as a normal mount point. Remember, LVM snapshots are read-only and LVM2 snapshots are read-write by default.
# mount /dev/vg01/backup /mybackup # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol0 93M 1.6M 87M 2% /mydata /dev/mapper/vg01-backup 93M 1.6M 87M 2% /mybackup
You can see after mounting backup volume its the exact same copy of the original volume. Original volume mounted on
/mydata and backup volume mounted on
Now, you can take a backup of the mounted backup volume leaving original volume un-touched and without impacting its service to the environment.
How to delete LVM snapshot?
LVM snapshot deletion can be done as you delete the logical volume. After backup you may want to delete snapshot then you just need to unmount it and use lvremove command.
# umount /mybackup # lvremove /dev/vg01/backup Do you really want to remove active logical volume backup? [y/n]: y Logical volume "backup" successfully removed
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During pregnancy, increased pressure on the abdominal wall can cause a condition called diastasis recti. I wish it had a less scary name. Diastasis recti looks like a gorge running vertically down the middle of the belly area. It stretches from the bottom of the breastbone to the belly button, and increases with muscle straining. The middle muscle, the ‘linea alba’, is where our 6-pack usually lies. Chuckle. When the muscles on either side of this line pull apart, women may develop 2 finger’s width of separation (2.7cm or greater) of the abdominus recti muscle (down the centre line of the belly). The area between these two muscles may stick out like a vertical pouch. It’s important to realize that this area is not torn – just temporarily separated.
Remember when maternity fashion was an oxymoron? When insipid little rosebuds on a mu-mu were au courant? Canadian designers are among the top in the world, and as our reputation grows as a world-class travel destination, our shopping options do as well – even for maternity clothes. I remember when I was trying to conceive and kept going to the States to buy out of season Pea in the Pod items on sale in hopes that they’d fit if I conceived right away!! NO MORE. Shop local. Shop Canadian. We are featuring stores that carry maternity clothes in Canada and the ones below are Canadian-based stores dedicated to the belly. We’ve also got a section on nursing bras and nursing wear. Let us know if you have any additions!
Morning sickness is a bit of a misnomer; while morning is the most common time to experience feelings of nausea, morning sickness can be experienced at any point in the day – especially if you are carrying twins. Researchers aren’t entirely sure what causes morning sickness, but there is a general consensus that morning sickness is at least partially related to hCG, (human chorionic gonadotropin), a hormone produced during pregnancy. During a multiple pregnancy, hCG levels are higher than in a singleton pregnancy which explains why episodes of morning sickness tend to be elevated in twin pregnancies. This leaves many moms asking how to cope with morning sickness.
Q: I am a part time esthetician, and go to client’s homes to give manicures and pedicures. No artificials are used, so the fumes are straight from the regular nail polish bottles. Now that. I am trying to get pregnant, I am wondering if I should stop doing my house calls till all is said and done, or is it ok that I continue doing mani’s and pedi’s throughout my pregnancy?
When I was about 10 weeks pregnant I was very excited to see my doctor, because the pregnancy was advanced enough to be able to hear my baby’s heartbeat on the Doppler. We heard it, and it was unbelievable. It made everything seem real – there was, in fact, a baby on the way. I joked to my practitioner at the time, ‘there’s only one in there, right?’ She laughed and said no way was I having twins, I had barely gained any weight and besides, we could only hear one heartbeat.
Q. How long does morning sickness last?
So you’re thinking about starting a family. And you’re trying to start a family. And trying. And trying. And you’re at the point where, if one more person tells you to “relax” so “it will just happen”, you might lose your [email protected]#* completely.
You’re thinking about seeing a doctor, or you’ve seen one, or three. The idea of IVF has come up. Or maybe it’s come up for your sister, or your best friend. You have questions, but you have no one to ask. You’re scared it won’t work, you can’t afford it, that it’s going ‘too far’. You hate needles. You’ve begun to wonder if there’s a deeper, cosmic reason you can’t have a baby. There are countless reasons why it’s impossible to even try. And then you suddenly start to feel like you’re just done with it all.
Diala’s Kitchen is one of my favourite new food blog obsessions and after getting gluttonous on the (terrible, curse on whoever invented this) “Eat What You Want Day” with a bowl of popcorn to carry me through from breakfast to lunch, an inhaled curry pad thai for dinner, and half a huge bag of dark choc almonds to follow—let’s just say that I woke up this morning hungover, overcome with guilt, and looking to redeem myself.
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I will never forget how connected to my body I felt with each pregnancy. The cravings for nutrients, sleep and extra calories balanced out against my desire to nurture, nest and send love and energy to the little human inside. It’s always yin and yang, somehow, and the abundance of what I was receiving helped the balance output I was expending.
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So, without further ado, here are the 2022-2023 University of Chicago essay prompts:
- Was it a cat I saw? Yo-no-na-ka, ho-ka-ho-ka na-no-yo (Japanese for “the world is a warm place”). Może jutro ta dama da tortu jeżom (Polish for “maybe tomorrow that lady will give a cake to the hedgehogs”). Share a palindrome in any language, and give it a backstory. – Inspired by Leah Beach, Class of 2026, Lib Gray SB ’12, and Agnes Mazur AB ‘09
- What advice would a wisdom tooth have? – Inspired by Melody Dias, Class of 2025
- You are on an expedition to found a colony on Mars, when from a nearby crater, a group of Martians suddenly emerges. They seem eager to communicate, but they’re the impatient kind and demand you represent the human race in one song, image, memory, proof, or other idea. What do you share with them to show that humanity is worth their time? – Inspired by Alexander Hastings, Class of 2023, and Olivia Okun-Dubitsky, Class of 2026
- UChicago has been affiliated with over 90 Nobel laureates. But, why should economics, physics, and peace get all the glory? You are tasked with creating a new category for the Nobel Prize. Explain what it would be, why you chose your specific category, and the criteria necessary to achieve this accomplishment. – Inspired by Isabel Alvarez, Class of 2026
- Genghis Khan with an F1 racecar. George Washington with a SuperSoaker. Emperor Nero with a toaster. Leonardo da Vinci with a Furby. If you could give any historical figure any piece of technology, who and what would it be, and why do you think they’d work so well together? – Inspired by Braden Hajer, Class of 2025
- And, as always… the classic choose your own adventure option! In the spirit of adventurous inquiry, choose one of our past prompts (or create a question of your own). Be original, creative, thought provoking. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun! | <urn:uuid:52b97668-3018-4786-a042-f5b130b5cfb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yourbestcollegeessay.com/2022-2023-u-chicago-essay-prompts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.921002 | 506 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Issues in Public science
Science is a system with its own norms and rules, labour markets and funding structures. As a source of knowledge and innovation, and key influencer, it also plays important roles for economies and societies.
My research explores how science interfaces with the economy and wider society. An important aspect of this interface is how individual academics engage with stakeholders external to science - I refer to this as academic engagement (see for a review).
Accross various projects, some of the questions I address are:
- What are the consequences of collaborating with industry for scientists' reputation within science? (read).
- What are the consequences of academic engagement on the quality and direction of science? (read)
- What are the implications of university-wide commercialization strategies for academics' identification with their university?
In order to address these questions, my co-authors and I have been studying various contexts. For instance, we have developed a rich longitudinal dataset about 12,000 scientists at Imperial College London covering the time period between 2002 and 2017 (more info here). We have also used data on the national scientific qualification in Italy, involving ten thousands of scientists seeking accreditation for being employable at Italy's universities.
For more information about research on this topic at Imperial, click here.
Open Data Partnerships
Firms in the pharmaceutical industry have started to use 'open data' initiatives that make all data and research results openly available with no restriction. How can firms appropriate the benefits from such collaboration? In this study, we explore how firms structure their partnerships with universities in a way that allows to reap benefits even though no intellectual property (e.g. patents) is involved.
One way to manage this is to create a ‘go-between’ organisation situated between the university and the company, which mediates between the interests of academia and business, respectively. See here for an output from this project.
Many universities have established centres that pursue both open science and industry-funded applied research. This project explores the opportunities and challenges arising in these mixed-purpose organizations, and seeks to identify the organizational structures and procedures that allow for ambidextrous success. See here for an article published in Organization Science on this topic.
I also have an ongoing interest in how organizations are shaped by their environment. My research has explored how 'management fashions' influence the practices within organizations, and how they adopt certain organizational forms. My work on 'institutional entrepreneurship' has investigated how new practices are created, and spread within and across sectors. Finally, in a previous period (my doctoral work) I studied regional economies, regional innovation and competitiveness, and cross-border regions (see here). | <urn:uuid:967b674f-b17c-4584-a797-10252f13f09f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.perkmann/research.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937394 | 558 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The main source of Life is the Organizing Field Power. If the depletion of this Power is running low it results in aging and diseases. Complete exhaustion of this Power means Death inevitably followed by fast decomposition of all material systems into elementary components.
The Organizing Field Power establishes a specific organization code, provides the program for the development of all living and «inanimate» beings within the Universe, and determines their role and the sense of Being.
Universal Ties provide the cause energy exchange between all living and «inanimate» beings within the Body of the One.
This Great Unity, which a human being is part of, represents an energy conglomerate that may be provisionally divided into several “limbs”, each with different vibration levels. Everything in it, from the roughest, manifested organic forms to the finest transparent field substances, is material that differs only in frequency and measurement, and, therefore, is subject to the Law of Ha-Tha Dualism.
The purpose of Yoga is transcending or overcoming this dualism and achieving (do not be surprised) the Limit of the Unlimited.
Differentiating the human being into limbs is required, but only for the purposes of primary teaching and realizing him/her its nature. This is a general approach. But different spiritual schools discriminate different numbers of such limbs. For example, the Tradition of Yoga uses seven limbs, or Koshas:
- Anna Maya Kosha — organic body
- Prana Maya Kosha — energy body
- Mano Maya Kosha — psychic body
- Vijniana Maya Kosha — intellectual body
- Ananda Maya Kosha — body of joy
- Chitta Maya Kosha — body of consciousness
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Ah love, one of life's greatest joys. All intelligent species throughout the Universe procreate bisexually in some form or another. For some species the urge is mild and the body relatively uninvolved. We are speaking here of species who lay eggs, for instance. For other species, in particular the hominoids, procreation is intense - the sex drive in proportion to the investment required to carry and deliver live young. For hominoids this involves being pregnant for the greater part of a year, being massively pregnant during the later months, and caring for utterly helpless and nude young without a protective pouch. Consider other mammals on Earth. Where they are born in a den, such as the bear, or into a pouch, such as a Kangaroo, they are utterly helpless and nude. But where they are out in the world, they are born literally on their feet, and scampering about after their mothers shortly after birth. Humans have the worst of both worlds, so place a supreme emphasis on the love bond. Competition is intense, and the requirements of the female go beyond any physical attraction. Will the potential father stay with her, and is he a good provider? If not, she will ignore her urges and deny him sexual contact.
How does this change in 4th Density? In the Service-to-Self camps sex becomes promiscuous, as the mothers care not for their young. The young are collected by those assigned this task, and raised essentially in orphanages. In the Service-to-Others camps, there is much less worry about support for the mother than during 3rd Density. She in fact receives more support than she could ever use, an abundance. The issues revolve, instead, around the child. Who would provide the best genes, the most sustaining parental attention, and the most stimulating environment. As for sex, this is freed from the near automatic connection to procreation that occurs in 3rd Density. Contraception is assumed, as is free love. One should not assume this means promiscuity, as there is less of this than in 3rd Density human societies today. Free love in the 4th Density Service-to-Others camps means that sex is used, truly, as an instrument of love. Ownership and possession are not part of the equation, at least in theory. | <urn:uuid:0464cfe3-e8f8-4077-b78d-547d80c3c18d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zetatalk11.com/orientat/o06.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972261 | 479 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Several technologies exist to provide position feedback or data of a cylinder’s position. Linear position sensors convert the position into a proportional analog or digital signal.
LVITs—Linear Variable Inductive Transducers—are contactless position sensing devices, with sensing ranges up to 30 inches or more. Most designs feature an inductive probe surrounded by a conductive tube. This is attached to the moving object to make the reading.
Hall-Effect Transducers use a magnet that communicates with the Hall chips, which then give an output to the internally built microprocessor. The output from the microprocessor is converted to a signal required by the user interface such as voltage, current, PWM or digital output.
Using Hall-effect technology on linear position sensors allows manufacturers to make small, compact designs that can be mounted internally or externally to a cylinder. Hall-effect technology is well suited to mobile applications as it is highly resistive to shock and vibration. It is used commonly on steering and depth applications.
LVDTs or Linear Variable-Distance Transducers are durable and resist shock and vibration while offering high repeatability. These absolute linear position/displacement transducers convert a linear displacement into an analog electrical signal. Their design includes transformer coils wound around non-magnetic coils.
Magnetostrictive Transducers measure the distance between a position magnet attached to the component in motion and the head-end of a sensing rod that is attached to axis to be measured. An electronics module sends an analog or digital position reading to a controller or other receiving device.
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The apartment buildings on Bell Street south of Gladstone are amongst the oldest in Ottawa. We were becoming a big city when young single people no longer needed to “board” with someone or continue living at home. Of course, these independent living arrangements were not chaperoned, giving the Bell Street Towers the moniker “Peyton Place” for the first decades. After all, why else would young people leave home if not for immoral purposes?
I recall back in the 70’s visiting other students who lived there, and discovering the ceiling above was at a crazy angle, and there were large bolts and metal brackets in the apartment wall to hold up the floor above which had “let go” of the underneath wall that supposedly supported it. Seriously scary.
After decades of decay and exterior neglect, a firm bought the towers with the intention of rebuilding them. Some of the balconies will be partially enclosed to expand the living rooms.
Work has been going on the balconies for some time, hammering off the damaged and decayed concrete and pouring new. Here is an exterior shot, and be sure to notice the apartment on the left most stack that is stucco with small windows rather than all glass (there was a fire, it was repaired in this mis-matched fashion a decade ago):
And here is a view of the first panels of new exterior to go up on the west side. The metal panels are two toned gray, the balcony railings glass.
Architectural fashions seem to go around and around. The original 50’s exterior is all glass walls, just like the most elegant condos being built today. Will today’s de luxe condos be tomorrow’s affordable housing? Will we someday bless Claridge for providing the thousands of affordable apartments spread around downtown?
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Some 65,400 people every month in England are waiting too long to find out whether they have cancer, according to a new analysis from Cancer Research UK.
A new target introduced last autumn says people should be either diagnosed with the disease or have it ruled out within 28 days of an urgent referral by their GP, referral for breast symptoms or if they have been picked up through screening.
The aim is for 75% of these people to receive either a cancer diagnosis or the all-clear within a month, yet Cancer Research UK’s analysis shows this target has not yet been met since it was introduced. It has varied, but stood at 74% in February.
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Even if the target was met, 55,000 people every month would still be left waiting to find out whether they have the disease, according to Cancer Research UK.
Data also shows a large variation across England – with only 78 out of 143 hospital trusts meeting the 75% standard.
Cancer Research UK said people were being failed by the system, which lacks the capacity to deal with the numbers needing to be seen.
It also said that due to chronic shortages of specialists across the NHS, the target was also set too low.
Experts say the Government must be even more ambitious in its upcoming 10-year cancer plan if it wants to improve diagnosis and survival, by raising the target to 95%.
Meeting this would see around 54,300 more people each month receiving a diagnosis or having cancer ruled out within 28 days, Cancer Research UK said.
Michelle Mitchell, the charity’s chief executive, said: “As a country we should not be willing to accept that over one in four people on an urgent referral are left waiting over a month to find out whether they have cancer. Nor should we stand for the variation that exists across the country.
“The Government must take this opportunity to deliver for the millions of people affected by cancer.
“With ambitious targets, a credible plan to reach them and clear accountability, we can get there.”
Early diagnosis of cancer allows treatment to start more quickly and is more likely to be successful.
Early diagnosis in England lags behind comparable countries.
Professor Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician, said: “The Government has declared it will radically improve cancer care in England through its 10-year cancer plan, and crucial to this plan is ensuring that more people receive an all-important timely diagnosis .
“With a robust plan and sustained investment to build a cancer workforce fit for the future, we could diagnose people quicker and earlier, and save more lives.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “We are committed to reducing waiting times for cancer patients which is why we are rolling out up to 160 community diagnostic centers across the country – with 81 already open and over 800,000 additional scans delivered.
“Our record investment in the NHS includes an extra £2 billion last year and £8 billion over the next three years to cut waiting times, including delivering an extra nine million checks, scans and operations by 2025 as part of plans to tackle the Covid backlog and deliver long term recovery and reform.”
A spokesperson from NHS England said: “Record numbers of people have received lifesaving cancer checks in the last year as we continue to recover from the impact of the pandemic, and while it won’t happen overnight, the NHS is investing billions in extra diagnostic and treatment capacity – with staff working hard to roll out initiatives from lung scanning trucks to cancer symptom hotlines, so that patients are seen quickly and their cancer can be caught earlier.
“It is vital that people continue to come forward if they have any worrying signs or symptoms, as getting checked could save your life.”
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Luke Higgins, Sports Coach at Heather Garth Primary Academy, hails the Premier League Primary Stars programme after seeing a ‘massive’ difference in his pupils.
Premier League Primary Stars is a Premier League-funded scheme which seeks to use the pull of professional football clubs and sport to promote education in primary school children.
Incorporating English, Maths, PE and PSHE lessons, the programme also looks to teach students real-life skills transferable outside of the classroom as they learn the importance of the key concepts related to discipline and respect.
Reds in the Community have been delivering the programme at Heather Garth Primary Academy throughout the Autumn term and Mr Higgins has already witnessed the impact of the programme.
He said: “It’s going really well. They’ve become different kids to be honest. They’ve been with year five, year three and year four. There’s a massive change in the kids both socially out on the playground and in the lessons as well so it’s had a really positive effect on them.
“Different kids learn in different ways. Me, for example, I know that if I could learn through sport that’d benefit me massively. There’s some kids that love the classroom and academic side of stuff. I know lot of kids at this school love the physical side of stuff rather than the theory so learning that way is awesome.”
Senior Community Coach Gareth Cooke has led the sessions alongside Tom Taylor, the latter of whom has progressed from the Charity’s education setup into paid coaching work.
Mr Higgins was full of praise for the Reds in the Community staff, explaining further how they have helped both himself and the pupils.
“Gaz (Gareth) and Tommy (Tom) are absolutely class. The kids love it and are excited for you guys coming in. It’s class because they get into a routine of having me teaching them PE. It’s nice to have a different emphasis of PE from somebody else. It’s something new for the kids and they love it.
“It’s basically taught them about morals inside and outside of sport. We’ve had a PSHE lesson which has basically been teaching them about right and wrong, how they believe they should act in certain situations. It’s obviously helping them with the physical side of stuff but also the mental side of their lives as well.
“I teach PE throughout school. I’ve done it for quite a while but coaches and teachers can always learn. Getting different ideas off other people is always a benefit.”
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TerraGenesis mod 6.28 Unlimited Money
Description of TerraGenesis
TerraGenesis is an entertaining game as well as a source of additional knowledge about the extremely interesting planet that everyone should know. With a reliable source of information provided by NASA, this game promises to bring the most authentic experience. For more detailed information about this interesting game, please refer to the following introduction.
Introducing the game TerraGenesis
TerraGenesis game takes players lost in the endless space thanks to the top quality graphics. Here, you can not only visit the world around you but also carry out missions to save the dead planet. One outstanding advantage that sets this game apart from other planetary games is that it gets reliable data sources from NASA to realistically simulate every detail of the planet. The game creates a sense of excitement when the player is holding an entire universe and arbitrarily changing that universe to his liking.
Learn more about the world around us
An obvious fact when playing this game is that you will learn a lot of interesting knowledge about the planets through real data from NASA. If you are an astrologer, this is a good opportunity to learn more. In addition, the data is presented in realistic graphics making visualization easier. You can invite more friends with the same passion to play games and learn.
Control the universe at will
In the game, players can join the faction to fight to conquer other planets. From there gradually take over the whole world and build a colony. Surprisingly, the game also allows the player to change the character of the world. This will help people on the planet have better development conditions. Once you have established all the habitats on the planet, you can follow the life on the world you founded.
More than simply setting up life, you can customize human civilization there. That is, based on the collected data, players will conduct analysis and draw conclusions about what to do best. This is also a prerequisite to help change social and economic policies... towards sustainable development.
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Wealth Founded on Values and Worthy Purpose
Over the past several years I have been working on a book analyzing the process of creating genuine and sustainable wealth. I have just turned this into a course on Udemy titled Creating Wealth in Your Life and Your Business.
This is no “get rich quick” course and it does not tell you how to make money in any specific business. Rather, it presents the real personal qualities and capabilities demonstrated by those who build businesses and achieve true life satisfaction.
I know that courses on creating wealth are too often some “rah rah” motivational pitch or some scheme that is unlikely to work. This is very different. This is the real deal. It is no short cut and presents the reality of the hard work and the self-reflection required to develop the five forms of wealth that ultimately lead to financial success.
The Five Forms of Capital
In the “good old days” of capitalism, the days of J.P. Morgan and Karl Marx, wealth and power was defined by money. Capitalism was money. It is no longer. In the twenty-first century true wealth begins with a deep understanding of one’s worthy purpose and values – what I call Spiritual Capital. That then forms the basis for trust, the creation of Social Capital both within a firm and with customers or the market, brand equity. Your competence and motivation, Human Capital, are the third essential ingredient in wealth creation. These three forms of capital lead to innovation, the creation of new and better products and services. All business today succeeds based on innovation, trust and relationships. Financial wealth is the natural consequence of the first four forms of capital. This applies equally to one’s personal life and to the life of an organization.
The game of life is creating sustainable wealth achieved by the turning of this wheel, the continuous investment in these five forms of capital.
Please take a look at the promo video. I am offering this for at 50% off as an introductory offer. A mere $20.
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What Are Intacs?
Intacs are medical devices used by an ophthalmologist to correct eye ailments. Intacs are specific brands of clear plastic arcs that are designed to be inserted into the eye. These clear plastic arcs an FDA-approved treatment for certain eye diseases and ailments that require a surgical procedure to install. Intacs can be used in place of a corneal transplant as well. If you live in or around the Memphis area and believe you would benefit from Intacs, contact the staff at Meca Eye & Lazer to schedule a consultation today.
What Are Intacs Used for?
It is important to understand what eye ailments Intacs are typically used for treating. Intacs can also be used as an alternative for corneal transplants. However, they are typically used for keratoconus eye conditions.
keratoconus is an eye condition the affects the cornea of the eye. The cornea of the eye works as a lens of sorts. Maintaining the shape of the eye lens is vital for maintaining optimal vision. In an eye with keratoconus, it is common for the eye shape of the cornea to be abnormal, negatively affecting your vision. Keratoconus afflicted corneas usually bulge either out or down. This can cause the cornea fibers to become weakened. This will also lead to the deterioration of your vision and eye health. Keratoconus typically occurs due to an imbalance of enzymes in the cornea, which commonly occurs in seniors.
If a degenerative disease causes keratoconus, more procedures will need to occur before using Intacs to correct your eyes. If your keratoconus is caused due to a degenerative disease, our ophthalmologists may recommend cross-linking. Cross-linking is a procedure meant to strengthen corneal fibers. Corneal cross-linking is a procedure that helps to strengthen the fibers of the cornea. This procedure will significantly reduce the deterioration of the cornea and prevent it from getting worse. Cross-linking can strengthen your cornea fibers and get keratoconus afflicted eyes ready for the following corrective procedure.
How Intacs Are Used for Keratoconus Corrective Eye Surgery
Keratoconus causes your eyes to become misshapen, which can lead to other eye issues. A cornea that is shaped correctly will have fewer issues and deteriorate at a slower rate than a cornea that is not shaped correctly. Intacs are plastic devices that shape abnormal corneas. During this producer, our eye surgeon will carefully use Intacs to flatten your misshapen corneas closer to their original dome shape.
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Cost of living: Families seeking charity help for first time, mum skips dinner to ‘spread food further’
The surging cost of living has forced more and more West Australians to seek help for the first time as they struggle to meet day-to-day expenses, including previously well-off double-income families.
Mother-of-two Helen spent more than two decades working in high-end events plus a stint with yacht interiors in Dubai before moving to Perth from South Africa with her husband John.
But after losing her job in health administration, their family was reduced to one paycheck, which went backwards after her husband took a lower paying role to escape the rough and tumble of a resources sector job.
With their daughters no longer at private school, the family is now renting a property in Perth’s southern suburbs and fear losing it when the lease expires in December.
They’ve had to cancel their private health cover and are now faced with a big car repair bill after Helen crashed into a Lexus without vehicle insurance.
Like so many families, groceries get cut back as they become more expensive.
“We spread things. I don’t want our children to feel the impact too much. If I don’t eat dinner, the food will go a little bit further,” Helen said.
“If I’ve had something for lunch or a couple of cups of tea in the afternoon, by the time dinner is ready, I’ll leave my portion of whatever there is and send it to work with my husband the next day.
“I’ve got an an autistic daughter who only eats certain fruits but the other day, strawberries were $9 for a small tub. I thought ‘I just can’t afford it’.
“Everything has gone up and if you’re adding 50¢ to every item that you’re buying, it’s just crazy.”
Recently, she started seeking help from hunger relief charity Foodbank but only after her friend Megan encouraged her to accept it.
“I thought I’d see down and out, people like that, but they were normal people,” Helen said.
“When we were leaving, this woman in a BMW and Givenchy jumper got out of her car. I said to Megan ‘she’s rorting the system’.
“And she said ‘you never know what she’s going through’.”
Megan, a single mum, was earning $75,000 a year at age 26 in the fire and safety industry, but says she hit a few stumbling blocks, including a bad relationship, and now lives in a Homewest property.
“There’s this sub-section of society that’s really struggling,” she said.
Healthy food was more expensive than junk, she said, but thankfully there were many charities that could help families with nutritious meals such as SecondBite and OzHarvest.
“It’s frankly beautiful how much assistance is out there,” Megan said.
Foodbank WA chief executive Kate O’Hara agreed.
“There are many people who have never asked for help before who now find themselves in a situation where they need a helping hand,” Ms O’Hara said.
“There is help available: by reducing your grocery bills it can help ease the pressure on your other living costs.
“Please don’t be afraid to ask.”
Lifeline WA crisis supporters answered the most pleas for help in its history during the 2021-22 financial year, with State chief executive Lorna MacGregor saying more calls had come recently from people under financial strain and mortgage stress.
The most recent Consumer Price Index, which measures the cost of living by tracking a basket of goods and services, jumped 5.1 per cent in the year to March — its highest level in more than 20 years.
Inflation looks set to get worse, with Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe predicting it could rise to 7 per cent this year.
To tackle that, the central bank is tipped by most economists to lift the cash rate by 50 basis points to 1.35 per cent at its monthly board meeting on Tuesday.
“The better policy is to move decisively and signalling clearly that the board is fully committed to returning inflation to its target range in due course,” Westpac’s Bill Evans said.
The cost of regular unleaded petrol broke fresh records in Perth last week, with Coles Express charging 239.9¢ a litre at some outlets.
And on Friday, the first day of the new financial year, electricity and water charges in WA rose 2½ per cent, while Transperth and Transwa standard fares increased 2 per cent.
Motor vehicle-related costs will rise by a total of 3.4 per cent for the average household in 2022-23 and all property owners will pay five per cent more for the Emergency Services Levy.
Most health insurers applied their annual increase on April 1, including WA’s biggest provider HBF, but NIB, Bupa, Medibank and HCF delayed until later this year.
Council rates are also lifting, with City of Joondalup ratepayers forking out 4.09 per cent more while City of Nedlands property owners will pay an extra 2½ per cent for vacant lots.
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An environment is a computer system where an application runs. We develop the web applications in our machines, called the development environment, and are commonly deployed to a publicly accessible server machine, called the production environment.
Typically, applications will not behave similarly in both environments because they will likely have different hardware, software, and configurations. For example, let's say we have the following production server setup:
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A web app designed to work with the above setup will work OK on another machine with an exact or nearly identical configuration. However, if it has a different version of any of the required services, libraries, or even OS, you'll probably encounter some issues.
You can directly set up your computer to mirror the production server, which is usual for starters. But what if several colleagues want to join in the development? What if your hard drive suddenly got corrupted or a
Windows system update fucked up your setup?
Re-configuring your machine now and then is impractical, especially when developing multiple projects with different frameworks, databases, and languages.
This is where virtual machines come in handy.
A virtual machine (VM) is an image of an actual computer. With the help of virtualization, a physical computer (host) can emulate one or more computer systems (guest) that have different operating systems and hardware platforms. A software or hardware monitor (hypervisor) creates and controls these VMs, which uses native execution to share and manage resources while maintaining isolation of multiple environments.
Because virtual machines are isolated, you can safely do anything in the guest machine without affecting the host machine, such as running complex and OS-dependent applications, trying out new operating systems, software, network configurations, untrusted applications, etc.
A hypervisor helps you create, manage, and monitor virtual machines. Here are some known hosted hypervisors that you can use:
- VirtualBox - a free and open-source hypervisor by Oracle.
- VMWare Workstation - a proprietary hypervisor by VMWare.
- Hyper-V - included in certain versions of Windows operating systems.
Since a VM is an actual computer, the host machine should have relatively capable hardware, with its CPU and OS also supporting hardware virtualization for optimal performance. Generally, you need:
- Reasonably powerful CPU. Any recent Intel or AMD processor should suffice.
- Memory that's enough to support the minimum requirements of the host operating system, plus a minimum of 512MB for the guest operating system.
- A free hard disk space of at least 10GB, depending on the operating system and software that you need to install on the guest, as well as the number of projects you need to support. Dynamically-sized disk image files tend to grow considerably large.
For software development
Application developers can make use of virtual machines to run, test, and even compile their projects. Hypervisors allow control of the allocation of most resources to a virtual machine, giving developers the freedom to create an environment that closely matches the specifications of the production machine.
With an environment that is similar to the production environment, bugs can be discovered and replicated much faster, thus improving workflow and quality assurance.
Moreover, hypervisors allow exporting and importing of virtual machines and their data as a disk image, making it possible to share and run an environment that behaves consistently across different development units.
Setting up a virtual machine (called provisioning), however, requires some technical knowledge, such as service and network configuration, and package management, to name a few. Not all project members will have the ability to provision a VM or have the time to do or learn it. And since VM disk images usually consume gigabytes of storage, one will need a high bandwidth network to transfer it within a short period.
Luckily, there's a tool called Vagrant that helps make VM environment management easier.
Vagrant is a free, open-source, and cross-platform tool for creating and maintaining portable virtual environments for software development. Its authors claim it is the easiest and fastest way to create a virtual environment.
It works with providers such as VirtualBox, VMWare, Docker, and AWS. Industry-standard provisioning tools like shell scripts, Chef, and Puppet can automate the installation and configuration of software on the virtual machine.
VirtualBox is the default provider because it is free, most accessible, and provides the lowest friction for users to get started with Vagrant.
For brevity, this guide will use Vagrant with VirtualBox. Download and install the following:
You can verify the installation by running
vagrant commands in a new console session:
$ vboxmanage -v 5.2.34r133893 $ vagrant -v Vagrant 2.2.6
Vagrantfile (actual filename) is the specific file loaded by Vagrant that describes the type of the machine required by a project, and how to configure and provision these machines. It must be at the root directory of the project.
The configurations are defined using Ruby, but the knowledge of the programming language is not required because it is mostly simple variable assignments.
To initialize a new Vagrant environment, run
vagrant init on a terminal:
$ mkdir my-project $ cd my-project $ vagrant init
You can also run the
vagrant init in the directory root of an existing project.
Below is a basic Vagrantfile:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "base" end
The Vagrantfile should be committed to version control with your project files if you use one. That way, collaborators can benefit from Vagrant with less effort.
Instead of creating a virtual machine from scratch, Vagrant uses base images, called boxes, that you can quickly clone to create a virtual machine. It is always the first step to specify the box to use in the Vagrantfile.
You can always browse HashiCorp's online catalog for the box suitable for your project.
A box may take around hundreds to thousands of MBs of disk space. Free up some hard disk space and make to have a good internet connection when pulling a new box.
Boxes are stored globally for the current user. These are never modified because projects clones a box then uses the copy. So when you have two projects using the
ubuntu/bionic64 box, files added in one machine won't affect the other.
To pull a box from the catalog, run
vagrant box add <box name>. Box names have a
<username>/<boxname> format. These are downloaded once and re-used by multiple Vagrant environments.
$ vagrant box add ubuntu/bionic64
If the box for a Vagrant environment is not yet available locally, Vagrant pulls it automatically after running
Using a Box
To use a box in a project, specify it in the Vagrantfile. For example, if we want to use Ubuntu 18.04:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64" end
You can also specify the version if you need a previous one:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64" config.vm.box_version = "20200629.0.0" end
Running the virtual machine and SSH access
From a terminal, run the following command at the root directory to start the vagrant environment:
$ vagrant up
The terminal will print the status while the machine is booting up. Once done, the virtual machine will run in the background without any UI (aka headless mode).
One way to interact with the virtual machine is through a Secure Shell (SSH) session, which you can do by running:
$ vagrant ssh
To end the SSH session, press
CTRL + D or run
[email protected]:~$ exit logout Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.
Remember that a running virtual machine consumes resources of the host machine. After you're done using it or don't need it for a while, run
vagrant halt to shut it down.
If you won't use the virtual machine anymore, it's best to run
vagrant destroy on the host machine to free up the consumed disk space.
Vagrant allows linking of your project directory to the virtual machine, called synced folders. It gives the tools or applications inside the virtual machine access to your project files while you edit them in the host at the same time. These are set up automatically during
vagrant up and
Modifying the files in the synced folder from either side (guest or host) will write, read, or delete the same data. So, if you remove a file from inside the virtual machine, it will also disappear from the host machine.
By default, Vagrant shares the project directory to the
/vagrant directory in the guest machine.
To change the shared directory and mount point in the virtual machine, add the following to your
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| # other config config.vm.synced_folder "project/dir", "/path/in/vm" end
If the first parameter is a relative path, it is relative to the project root. The second parameter must be an absolute path of the project within the guest machine. Before mounting, it creates the folder in the VM if it doesn't exist.
You can also disable synced folders by setting the
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| # other config config.vm.synced_folder "project/dir", "/path/in/vm", disabled: true end
Synced folder disk performance
The disk I/O of the default synced folders in VirtualBox is slow compared to the host machine, which is negligible with general use. However, if disk writes frequently occur within the shared folder, you'll see a significant impact.
How slow? It will take a simple page of a Symfony web app in debug mode more than 1s to load in the default sync type and about 300ms in NFS, while only about 80ms when served locally in the host. The framework uses caching, so it frequently writes data in its local
Activities like package installation, compiling, and caching that do extensive writes on the disk are affected by this bottleneck.
Optimize by either disabling syncing of directories where heavy write occurs (e.g., node_modules, vendor, log, cache) or use an alternative type of syncing like NFS (macOS/Linux) or SMB (Windows/macOS).
Vagrant has built-in support for automated provisioning, enabling the creation of ready-to-use virtual machines easy and repeatable.
This is useful for creating environments like application servers that require setting up and running multiple services such as web servers, proxy servers, DBMS, etc. so other people that will use it won't need to go through the hassle of setting them up.
Now, let's try setting up an Apache webserver. Create a subdirectory
html in the project root, then add an HTML file named
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h1>Hello world, from Vagrant!</h1> </body> </html>
Then make a simple provisioning shell script named
bootstrap.sh and save it in the same directory as your Vagrantfile:
#!/user/bin/env apt-get update apt-get install -y apache2 if ! [ -L /var/www ]; then rm -rf /var/www ln -fs /vagrant /var/www fi
A shell script contains a sequence of commands that you usually run in a terminal prompt. The above script is a set of Linux commands that installs an Apache web server and symlinks
/var/www, the base directory for webserver files.
Next, we update the Vagrantfile to use this script for provisioning:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64" config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh" end
provision setting tells Vagrant to use the
shell provisioner to setup the machine with the
bootstrap.sh file. The file path is relative to the project root.
After that, run
vagrant up to boot your machine and Vagrant will automatically provision it. If the machine is already running, run
vagrant reload --provision to reboot and run the provisioner.
If the machine is created but stopped, run
vagrant up --provision instead to boot and provision it since Vagrant does the provisioning only on the first
Networking configurations in Vagrant allows your virtual machines to communicate with other virtual machines (given they have the same provider) or with the host machine.
There are three ways to achieve this:
The items above links to the Vagrant docs for the complete details. For this guide, let's try port forwarding.
Port forwarding allows you to access a specific port on the guest machine via a port on the host machine. So when you access that port on the host machine, all network traffic is forwarded to the specified port on the guest machine.
To access the webserver (port 80) on the guest machine from the host machine, we can forward all network traffic from port 8080:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| # other config... config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 8080 end
vagrant reload or
vagrant up to load the changes. Once the machine has loaded, open http://localhost:8080 in your browser to see the webpage hosted from the virtual machine.
Explore more on what you can do with Vagrant by reading the online documentation. For provisioning, you need to have a working knowledge of manipulating and configuring the platform of your choice.
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The Wolverhampton waterfront used to be a hive of activity, with basins, wharfs and warehouses hemming in the northern end of the Birmingham Canal.
Over time most of these side arms have been lost, leaving just the core main line canal as a little used thread of water running through endless new housing estates.
This homepage lists the more significant branches, arms and basins and, as images are found, they will link to individual posts of archive photographs showing how these areas used to look.
Kinks to individual branches and basins in this area, listed from south to north:
1. Springvale and Bilston area
2. Chillington and Shrubbery Interchange Basins
3. Wolverhampton Central area
4. Wolverhampton Station diversion
5. Horsley Fields area
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Dubai is an enthralling metropolis within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is famend globally for its towering high-rises, cultural points of interest, and thrilling buying experiences. It has emerged as a worldwide metropolis over time and is now a serious enterprise hub within the Center East area. Within the 20th century, Dubai’s revenues primarily got here from commerce and oil. As we speak, a serious portion of its revenues comes from tourism, as a lot of vacationers from totally different components of the globe go to the town yearly to discover its fabulous points of interest. From the month of April to October, this metropolis of the UAE experiences its scorching summer season months. Whereas this is able to be the perfect time to get pleasure from your low-cost Dubai holidays with some reductions supplied on lodge lodging, you will discover it extraordinarily tough to go outdoor owing to excessive warmth and excessive humidity. Winter season from November to March has the best circumstances for having fun with outside actions within the metropolis. That is the explanation why winter is the height vacationer season on this a part of the UAE. If you happen to intend to go to the town round this time of the yr, it’s advisable to guide your vacation a number of months prematurely.
Essentially the most iconic construction within the metropolis is Burj Khalifa, the tallest constructing on the earth. Your Dubai holidays will not be thought-about full with out a go to to this world-famous landmark. Guests to this constructing can get pleasure from a fowl’s-eye view of the environment from its statement deck situated on the 124th ground. If you happen to’re planning to go to the statement deck of Burj Khalifa on a weekend, just remember to purchase your entrance ticket prematurely to keep away from the lengthy queues of tourists. Visits to the constructing’s statement deck after sundown can also be common with many vacationers owing to the great views of city-lights that they get to get pleasure from at evening. One other fabulous place to go to throughout your Dubai holidays is The Dubai Mall, which is the most important mall on the earth as regards to complete space. It has greater than a thousand retailers and was essentially the most visited constructing on the planet in 2011. This mall has been attracting thousands and thousands of tourists since its opening on the 4th of November, 2008. With a go to to this mall, you will get to discover lots of its indoor points of interest, corresponding to a big aquarium, theme parks, an aquarium-facing cafe, and a 22-screen megaplex. You will additionally really feel delighted upon visiting the Jumeirah Mosque, which has been constructed within the conventional Fatimid type of structure. It’s an iconic cultural landmark of Dubai and welcomes guests of all faiths. The mosque can accommodate as much as 1,200 worshippers. Guests can study extra concerning the tradition and faith of the UAE with a 75-minute guided tour of this mosque organized by the Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding. Your complete tour is performed by the representatives in an especially welcoming and pleasant method. Throughout this tour, you will additionally get the chance to pattern a number of the conventional Arabic dishes and drinks. | <urn:uuid:4ba1518b-4667-4f9a-a072-2d2b9c39099d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.royaltraveltours.org/travel/three-iconic-points-of-interest-to-discover-throughout-your-dubai-holidays.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952625 | 666 | 1.53125 | 2 |
As I’ve written about previously, no single idea or innovation will be the magic bullet that solves the climate or biodiversity crisis. Luckily, we have lots of options to deliver significant changes, plus more coming into life. If we can get the synergies working across different sectors coupled with a collective shift in our mindsets then we can limit the damage for the future generations.
The global north consumes way too much, with little regard for the origins of our material wealth and possessions. Yet, as highlighted by the recent Ukraine crisis and the increasing effects of climate change, global supply chains are failing. A drive for sustainability, within an economic system that strives for eternal growth is doomed.
As noted in this article, and also this useful infographic, the amount of rare earth metals needed to fuel the transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy is limited. However, if we make policies that prioritise sharing economies and community wealth, for example shared vehicles that can be booked out when needed, better public transport and alternative mobility options, then limited resources can be fairly distributed. What this necessitates is a move away from individual possession to one of area-wide resources.
This is the difficult part to navigate. Let’s take this example, car ownership, which is by no means the only collective wealth we need to cultivate, and examine it more closely. Lots of difficult questions immediately spring to mind — how can we learn to relinquish individuality for common good, how can we justify the impact on product consumption, which will inevitably be less, the impacts on profits and knock-on effects on jobs? We tug at one string in this web and the whole is pulled in many places. Yet, by exploring this single idea, we can begin to understand the underlying complexity and the number of factors we need to influence to deliver this change.
Individual western/global north consumption is ingrained from our youngest ages. Many moons ago when I was doing my Masters degree, I wrote an essay entitled ‘Can you get me out of my car? An analysis of sustainable transport’. To me, the car represented freedom, ease, adventure and is a manifestation of our personality. That is what I had been conditioned to think with all those glossy adverts I’d been exposed to over my life. Only now, can I reflect and understand more deeply that conditioning. Really it is a tool, one that can carry a family, the shopping and explore places that public transport doesn’t reach. That is its use and truth, nothing more, nothing less. Breaking out of these conditioned thought processes is really hard.
If I lived in a city a car would be fairly redundant. Parking is generally a nightmare and expensive, far easier to travel by public transport. I lived in London during the tube strikes many years ago. Getting on the packed buses was a fight — literally, I saw people pushing and pulling like a Black Friday sale. Not for me all that aggro, so I walked and without knowing the backstreets, just ambled home along the bus route. It took 40 minutes and was pretty enjoyable. I could take in the architecture, the people and discover different bits of the city that I’d previously go straight past. London now has brilliant walking maps.
Where I live now, in rural Portugal, the situation is very different. Our bus services are intermittent and the car is very much part of getting about. However, I still would like to have a less recource intensive option, ideally a car-share pool. When communities have tried to explore these options, sticking points can be around insurance and damage concerns. These problems are just about bureaucracy and risk management and should be pretty simple for our intelligent monkey brains to solve.
More problematic is growing support within large organisations and consumers at large, that economic growth needs to be better aligned with social and environmental goals. These changes are happening and the Net Zero ambition is becoming more prevalent. Importantly, care must be taken to ensure that ambitions prioritise decarbonisation for all goods and services. Offsetting emissions can be done but it does not deliver benefits for the planet or the people and species that live together here, it is the last part of the process.
Returning to the car example, manufacturers and their shareholders must begin to realise that in these times of transition there needs to be a greater acceptance of lower commercial gains to deliver long-term survival. Profit will shrink, but profit can still be delivered through consistent transformation. We cannot just replace every combustion engine vehicle with an electric version, our energy infrastructure is not capable and the resources to achieve this are not around. There needs to be a move towards less vehicles in cities, accessible public transport and alternative mobility in cities. Rural transport infrastructure can be better provided by instigating community conversations to deliver options that suit different places.
In the discussions I have with sustainability practitioners, I hear about innovations and ideas that have the potential to transform these and other big challenges. Batteries that don’t require rare earth minerals or lithium, renewable technologies at small scale, which could be placed throughout existing urban areas to generate energy on site, biomimicry design solutions and many more. Humans are clever and exciting.
Whilst these times can feel dark and overwhelming, with knotty problems seemingly endless to untangle, it is worth reminding ourselves that these are also times of transition. There will be ideas that don’t make the grade, innovations that work and then are quickly replaced by others that are better. Transition times are not linear, tangents are important, leaps of imagination and creativity catalysts for change. I try hard to hold onto these thoughts as I assess the landscape of change, impacts of solutions and what nexts across our planet.
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Updated: October 6, 2017 1:52:30 pm
Banwarilal Purohit was sworn in as the Governor of Tamil Nadu on Friday in an oath-taking ceremony held at Raj Bhavan in Chennai. Purohit is the 25th Governor of Tamil Nadu. The Chief Justice of Madras High Court, Justice Indira Banerjee administered the oath of office to Purohit.
Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, his cabinet colleagues and DMK Working President and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly MK Stalin were among those present at the ceremony. Purohit, who was previously the Governor of Assam, will replace the current governor of Tamil Nadu, Ch Vidyasagar Rao.
The appointment has come at a time when the role of a governor has become extremely crucial in the state as the political crisis has continued to escalate over the last few months.
Earlier, Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan read out the Warrant of Appointment issued on September 29 by President Ram Nath Kovind, appointing Purohit as Governor of Tamil Nadu. He is the first full-time Governor of the state since the retirement of K Rosaiah in August 2016.
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Purohit, a veteran political leader from Vidarbha district of Maharashtra, was a three-time Lok Sabha member from Nagpur constituency. He started his political career in 1977 and was elected to Maharashtra Assembly on a Congress ticket in 1979 and 1980. He was elected twice from Congress, in 1984 and 1989, was elected once from BJP, in 1996. He was ousted from Congress when he took part in kar seva in Ayodhya in 1991, when he was still a member of the party.
Purohit left BJP in 1999 after a span of eight years. He returned to the Indian National Congress and unsuccessfully contested for Lok Sabha seat from Ramtek in 1999. He went on to launch his own party Vidarba Rajya Party and contested Lok Sabha elections from Nagpur. He again contested elections in 2009 for BJP from Nagpur district but lost against Congress’ Vilas Muttemwar.
He was embroiled in high-drama controversy in 2007 when he claimed he had arranged an hour-long meeting between the then RSS chief Balasaheb Deoras and then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1989. He claimed that Gandhi had forged a secret pact with the RSS to permit Shilanyas and construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya in exchange for support from RSS to the Congress in the 1989 elections.
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Can You Stop Giving Your Dog Denamarin
Is Denamarin necessary for dogs?
Denamarin is one medicine that is commonly recommended for pets or pet cats that are experiencing from liver troubles. This medication has been revealed to raise liver levels of glutathione. This is an important substance located in your liver when SAMe is metabolized.
Can Denamarin be used long term?
It is absolutely secure to make use of long-term and also even as a preventative in those animals who are also taking medicines that may be hazardous to the liver such as prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications such as Rimadyl, Deramaxx, Previcox or Metacam.
Can I give Denamarin every other day?
Many animals are kept lasting on every-other-day or every-third-day administration. Denamarin can be used combined with Marin ® And also for pets to give additional silybin levels as well as the benefits of vitamin E, zinc, curcumin, and MTC oil supplements.
Can I cut Denamarin in half?
Yes, put the tablet on a hard surface such as the kitchen area counter, as well as continue both sides of tablet, as well as it will certainly split along the racked up line. 1 of 1 discovered this handy.
Are there any side effects to Denamarin?
Though there are some known negative effects of silybin, such as irritation, gastrointestinal distress, and also headaches- these negative effects have just been observed in primates.
How can I improve my dogs liver?
Diet adjustments usually assist. Your canine might require an unique diet plan to make certain they are obtaining the nutrients and also calories needed to aid their liver. Supplements such as SAM-E or milk thistle may aid the liver recuperate. Prescription antibiotics are made use of for infections of the liver.
How does Denamarin help the liver?
How Does Denamarin Work? The cornerstone in Denamarin (as well as the single ingredient in Denosyl) is the S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe), which triggers an increase in hepatic (or liver relevant) glutathione levels, which are vital for appropriate liver function.
Does Denamarin upset dogs stomach?
The list below adverse effects are uncommonly reported: 1) Stomach upset consisting of inappetence, vomiting and also diarrhea 2) There is an opportunity that animal that dislike the ragweed family will also dislike this drug.
What happens if you give Denamarin with food?
Administration of Denamarin ® for Pet cats. For optimal absorption, tablet computers need to be given on a vacant tummy, at least one hr prior to feeding, as the presence of food lowers the absorption of S-Adenosylmethionine.
Does Denamarin cause diarrhea?
There are not any considerable adverse effects for pet dogs that take Denamarin. Nevertheless, pooches that are given way too much Denamarin may have throwing up and also diarrhea.
How long do dogs live with elevated liver enzymes?
While your veterinarian can recommend liver assistance in the form of medicines as well as prescription diet regimens, they might still experience a reduced lifetime. What is this? The typical life expectancy of pet dogs with liver disease or liver damage can vary from 6 months to 3 years.
Does liver disease in dogs cause thirst?
Signs of Liver Disease in Pet dogs Onset signs and symptoms can include: Vomiting as well as diarrhea. An increase in thirst, which will cause the pet to pee more regularly. Loss of cravings and also weight management.
What is the generic for Denamarin?
S-Adenosylmethionine (SAMe, Denosyl, Novifit, Vetri-SAMe, Zentonil, Denamarin) – Vet Partner – VIN.
What can I use instead of Denamarin?
If you’re searching for a high-grade, science-backed item after that Denamarin is likely going to be your item of option, however if you’re seeking something that is available in a variety of various kinds as well as at a reduced price, then Milk Thistle might be your best option.
What do you feed a dog with liver problems?
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To provide the best forms of university education in general sciences and to train and develop scientific and practical skills and abilities in the fields of education and scientific research to keep updating with the modern development and contribute in providing appropriate solutions to the challenges of society and the environment as well.
Supporting the role of scientific and theoretical colleges in qualifying cadres capable to compete nationally and internationally, and provide the community with services in the scientific fields that contribute in building the knowledge society through effective administration that provides a supportive learning and research environment and fostering outstanding of community partnerships.
1. Preparing specialized frameworks in the field of general sciences.
2. Contribute effectively in meeting the needs of collages of the university through specialists from professors, assistances, technicians, technologists and laboratory assistants in the field of general sciences.
3. Development and enrichment of scientific research, translation, and publication as well as disciplines of general sciences.
4. Develop and maintain study plans in the field of general and human sciences using modern methods of updating with scientific research.
5. Establish cooperation and exchange of experiences with higher education institutions and related research centers internally and externally.
The subjects taught in the different collages of the university, which are specifically intended for the following sciences:
1. Islamic Studies.
2. Arabic language.
3. English language.
4. Sudanese studies.
5. Mathematics with its various branches.
6. Physics with its various branches.
7. Chemistry with its various branches.
8. Computer Principles (Computer Basics).
9. Environmental studies.
10. Laboratory Materials (Physics – Chemistry- English language and computer in the collages outside the language and computer school outside the computer department in Engineering collage
11. Applications of the English language lab outside the language school.
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At MMTC-PAMP, we are committed to securing a place for India at the heart of the
international bullion market through sustainable processes and initiatives.
Sustainability is the foundation upon which we have built all our processes, from production to people. Various aspects including environmental compliance, conflict-free minerals and grassroots people-centric initiatives are the cornerstone of what we do. In addition, we follow stringent protocols to ensure that our partners in the supply chain act responsibly across the full production cycle.
We believe that sustainability also encompasses building an enduring and resilient business, for which we place great importance on risk management, financial sustainability, counterparty due diligence, business diversification, employee safety and sustainability reporting.
We believe in strengthening local communities and supporting them on their journey to improved welfare and greater equality. Through our grassroots, people-centric initiatives, we focus on critical development aspects such as technical education, skill development and sanitation.
Making safe drinking water accessible
Mewat, Haryana is one of the most water-scarce districts in India, with an entrenched problem of lack of access to safe drinking water. Our initiatives focus on energy-efficient and cost-effective modes of water purification, as well as awareness programmes on the issue amongst community members in the area.
One of our earliest forays into sustainability addressed the entrenched lack of access to safe drinking water in Mewat, Haryana (where our Plant is located); one of the most water-scarce districts in India. We built energy-efficient and cost-effective water purification units and now, in addition to maintaining them, also conduct awareness programmes in our community.
Building the community
As part of our mission to strengthen local ecosystems, we also implement initiatives that help build more accessible and safer public spaces as a means to better health and greater wellbeing. MMTC-PAMP has constructed two fully-fitted multipurpose halls with restrooms for the Rojka- Meo and Nuh police stations in Haryana. Our efforts have been recognized three years in a row since 2016 by the Haryana State Government for “Outstanding Contribution to CSR Projects in Mewat District”.
Nurturing technical education
We also recognize that skilling and education are vitally important in order to build communities with a strong social fabric. In light of this, we partnered with Shri Ram College of Engineering and Management (SRCEM) to offer a 2-year training programme. Based on our extensive learnings, we are now positioned to collaborate with SkillSonics India, a National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) approved Training Partner, for a Swiss–certified VET Curriculum to equip students with trade–specific skills.
Accountability to our customers through stringent anti money laundering controls
As part of our responsibility to our most important stakeholders– our customers– we work hard to ensure transparent engagement across the board. We have gone above and beyond regulatory KYC standards and instituted a strict no-cash transaction policy that aligns with good governance practices in the post-demonetisation era in India. We follow extremely stringent anti-money laundering policies, implemented through comprehensive management systems. These include rigorous risk-based due diligence procedures before entering new commercial relationships. The policy also ensures continuous monitoring of transactions using a risk-based approach.
Building a sustainable ethical value chain by complying with Responsible Gold Guidelines
Responsible supply chain management is non-negotiable for us and we take deep pride in producing sustainably sourced precious metals. Following the Responsible Precious Metals Policy established by our parent company, the MKS PAMP Group, our supply chain due diligence is audited annually by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA).
Our effective management and control systems and protocols conform to the stringent standards of the LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance, making us the first and only refinery in India to hold the coveted and independently audited Responsible Gold certification till date.
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The old phrase, “Work smarter, not harder,” has been around since the 1930s when industrial engineer, Allen F. Morgenstern, came up with a work simplification model to help increase production with less effort. In business and life, many of us strive to be more efficient every day as we seek ways to get better results while simultaneously reducing the energy and exertion spent in our processes.
While we may be professionals with this philosophy in our careers, too often we reverse the model when it comes to our walk with Christ. In 1 Samuel 15, Saul disobeyed the Lord’s command to destroy all of the flocks and herds of the Amalekites. He instead saved the best of the sheep and oxen. His rationale was, “Just think of all the sacrifices that we can make to God!” Samuel’s response is a classic reminder of God’s simple way: “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams” (1 Sam. 15:22).
What’s the point? We can work our fingers to the bone, even sacrificing our time, effort, and energy for the sake of the ministry, but if our hearts are not yielded to Christ, and if we are doing things our way and not God’s way, then we have missed the simple, yet profoundly important priority of God—that is—obedience. David said it beautifully after being confronted with his sin: “For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise (Psalm 51:16-17).”
As a Christian, perhaps you find yourself exerting a lot of effort externally but seeing few results in your personal growth. Perhaps it’s time to think about the “smarter, not harder” approach. Someone once said, “God’s way may not be easy, but it is simple.” Jesus wants your heart and your obedience above all the sacrifices you could offer Him, and that is a smart decision. Will you yield to Him today? | <urn:uuid:4ec3a87c-e230-4c72-b233-b742e0223191> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mikadobaptist.org/the-sacrifices-of-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946744 | 474 | 1.75 | 2 |
SEPHARDIC Jews – whose ancestors were thrown out of Spain in 1492 along with the Muslim Moors – are now to be given automatic citizenship.
The group can currently only claim citizenship after two years’ residency, and have to provide proof of income.
Under the changes, they will only need to present a certificate confirming they are descendants of Sephardic Jews in order to gain Spanish nationality.
Sephardic Jews lived in Spain and Portugal until the 15th century but were later expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs, who accused the Jewish population of trying to subvert the Catholic faith.
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Lifestyle Economics explores several links between health, lifestyle, and the labor market. Special emphasis is given to health equality, obesity, and alcohol problems. This is done in the context of Iceland, which is important and interesting in an international context. The Icelandic government takes financial responsibility for the medical-care demands of its citizens, to the point where non-governmental funding of such consumption has been negligible for several decades. The same holds true for disability-related income replacements. With one of the most expensive centralized medical systems in the world it is important to see if the equalitarian goals of this system have been effectively attained. Thus, this book should be interesting for researchers, policy makers and the interested public alike.
This book provides one hundred and twenty easy to understand, practical ideas that you can use to start cutting costs today without decreasing your standard of living. No matter who you are, I guarantee that there will be at least one idea here that will pay for this book the very same week you read this! If this isn't enough incentive, conserving food, water and energy is going green. In the bulk of this work, I will present you an example budget then walk through each bill and offer several ways to save money. Using multiple ideas, you will be able to significantly decrease your spending. In many cases I will tell you how to find resources on the web. All that is needed from you is the willingness to make minor changes in your habits.
Lifestyles and subcultures are tools through which people say - to themselves and to others - who they think they are, who they think they are similar to, and who they think they are different from. Lifestyles and subcultures are ways which people adopt to look at their own lives, and to try to keep together different roles, different practices and different realms which they are involved in. Lifestyles and subcultures are lenses through which we, as observers, analyze society, and orientate ourselves within it, looking for similarities and differences among individuals and collectivities which allow us to understand their thoughts and their actions.
This book presents the main analytical approaches through which lifestyles and subcultures have been studied, and also proposes a new interpretative perspective. Today a growing panorama of social phenomena and processes possess intermediate characteristics with regard to those which in the past were identified either as lifestyles or as subcultures. The hypothesis is that consequently these phenomena could be explained and interpreted by means of an analytical framework developed by the intersection of these two perspectives, and the last part of the book is therefore devoted to the presentation of this innovative framework. This book provides new lenses and a fresh view to try to both grasp and understand a constantly-changing reality.
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Overcrowding on trains remains a persistent challenge
24 July 2018
Commenting on the Department for Transport’s ‘Top 10’ overcrowded train services, Guy Dangerfield, head of strategy for Transport Focus, said today:
“Despite more capacity in some areas there is clearly more to do in order to relieve overcrowding.
“Our research shows the ability to sit down can transform an alright journey into a good one. Continuing to invest in new trains, better frequency, track capacity and improved signalling are the only way to give passengers a better chance of getting a seat – something passengers rightly expect in return for continuing fare rises.
“Improvements to make fares more flexible to suit changing patterns of demand, and to modernise ticketing systems also cannot come too soon. In the meantime, we will continue to focus on routine punctuality and performance, since overcrowding is frequently associated with late, cancelled or short formed trains.”
The Department for Transport (DfT) analyses passenger count data collected by train operators to monitor train crowding levels. All franchises let by DfT require the train operator to address crowding. Operators must plan their timetables to ensure, as far as possible, that crowding is not unduly concentrated on any particular route or service. | <urn:uuid:d722093c-f303-464f-b9ac-85b7b584ecf2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.transportfocus.org.uk/news/overcrowding-trains-remains-persistent-challenge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941768 | 268 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Retirement is a time that people always look forward to it. It takes years of planning and strategizing to establish a comfortable retirement.
Are You Ready To Retire?
After working many arduous years in the business world, many adults begin planning for their retirement. This is something that is not taken lightly and cannot only happen overnight. Many steps have to happen before someone can retire from work.
- Acquire a financial advisor to go over goals for retirement
- Make investments that will earn interest and provide income throughout retirement
- Calculate your cost of living expenses and plan for increases in costs of living
- Consider how you want to spend your retirement
Some people are entirely content to retire and stay in their home and only travel locally. Other individuals want to downsize to a more manageable property and travel more. It is essential to consider how you would like to spend your retirement to save accordingly.
To retire comfortably, individuals must have adequate savings and plans for continuous income other than social security or a pension.
Saving For Retirement
Saving for retirement is essential. Individuals often do not realize that retirement occurs faster than they think. People always say, “don’t blink, life will pass you by,” which is right for jobs and careers. Planning for retirement should be done, starting with the first day of employment. Individuals in their 20’s do not typically consider life 40 years later. Early on in employment, many people do not make large salaries, and setting money aside may seem nearly impossible.
Individuals who speak with a financial adviser early in their 20’s will be able to start saving and making smart investments that can evolve. As they advance in their careers, they will save more over time and invest more as they earn more. By starting a savings account and investments early in life, individuals will establish significant savings for retirement. More substantial savings will allow them to retire more comfortably and enjoy more luxuries.
Tips For A Happy Retirement
There are many ways that people can begin saving for a retirement that goes beyond simply establishing a savings account and contacting a financial adviser. We can do things each day in our average day-to-day activities that will free up money that can be put aside. These habits can then continue throughout retirement and allow more monthly savings.
- Shop frugally
- Lower monthly utility bills
- Consider side jobs that can be done from home
- Watch waste and learn how to save and reuse
Shopping frugally throughout your adult life will instill great shopping habits far in to retirement. Not everything purchased has to be brand-new, and the sale racks at stores are often full of fantastic deals. By placing a limit on purchasing at the total price, you will save more over time. Additionally, coupon has never been easier. There are many apps created that will allow you to scan grocery receipts, and coupon discounts will instantly be rewarded and paid out as gift cards. Looking into these savings methods will help cut monthly bills.
Lowering monthly utility bills will help free up more money that can be put into a retirement fund. Energize CT is well-known for helping customers shop around for the best energy deal for their home. Often individuals notice such substantial savings that they can begin to save the earnings nearly immediately.
Additionally, considering side jobs such as answering surveys or teaching classes on zoom can bring additional funding that can immediately be put into a retirement account. These side jobs can also be done by retiring looking for interaction and the opportunity to make a bit extra spending money in their spare time. Recycling products and reusing them for new purposes can also become a fun hobby that will have frugal results.
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It was not a complicated or “innovative” song for its time, and it’s nostalgic rather than ground-breaking now. But it’s lovely, when performed soulfully. I present four sweet variations on the theme. I’ll wait, if you’d like to have some pineapple while you listen.
Bjarne “Liller” Pedersen sings with Papa Bue’s Viking Jazz Band, 1960:
Midge Williams with Miff Mole and his Orchestra:
Edythe Wright with Tommy Dorsey (glorious percussive commentaries from Dave Tough, a modernist interlude from Bud Freeman, and a three-trumpet passage that looks back to Bix and forwards to Bunny, who leads the trumpets, on January 19, 1937):
And the absolute master in March 1937 (this video provided by my friend Austin Casey) — Louis Armstrong accompanied by Andy Iona And His Islanders : Louis Armstrong; Sam Koki (steel guitar); George Archer, Harry Baty (guitar); Andy Iona (ukelele); Joe Nawahi (bass):
This post is for my friend Nick Rossi, who is enjoying the delights of mid-period Louis Armstrong.
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We also propose the distinctive patch convolution for feature representation learning to reduce the time consumption.
Important findings on the use of spatial and spectral information in the autoencoder framework are discussed.
Semi-supervised learning (SSL), which aims at leveraging a few labeled images and a large number of unlabeled images for network training, is beneficial for relieving the burden of data annotation in medical image segmentation.
Second, an adaptive DropBlock (AdapDrop) is proposed as a regularization method employed in the generator and discriminator to alleviate the mode collapse issue.
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a vital yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis.
Outside-knowledge visual question answering (OK-VQA) requires the agent to comprehend the image, make use of relevant knowledge from the entire web, and digest all the information to answer the question.
Taking meta features as reference, we propose compositional operations to eliminate irrelevant features of local convolutional features by an addressing process and then to reformulate the convolutional feature maps as a composition of related meta features.
Most previous works address the problem by first fusing the image and question in the multi-modal space, which is inflexible for further fusion with a vast amount of external knowledge.
Physical modeling methods can offer the potential for extrapolation beyond observational conditions, while data-driven methods are flexible in adapting to data and are capable of detecting unexpected patterns.
Moreover, a correlation layer is designed to further explore the correlation between multitemporal images.
Multi-hop machine reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing, which requires more reasoning ability and explainability.
Based on this, we propose a general-purpose deep clustering framework which radically integrates representation learning and clustering into a single pipeline for the first time.
In summary, the EOQ framework is specially designed for reducing the high cost of convolution and BN in network training, demonstrating a broad application prospect of online training in resource-limited devices.
Skin blemishes and diseases have attracted increasing research interest in recent decades, due to their growing frequency of occurrence and the severity of related diseases.
In addition, we further propose a multi-region convolution module, which emphasizes the central region of each patch.
In this paper, we propose a deep model to ground shooting range of small intestine from a capsule endoscope video which has duration of tens of hours.
An efficient linear self-attention fusion model is proposed in this paper for the task of hyperspectral image (HSI) and LiDAR data joint classification.
As the ground objects become increasingly complex, the classification results obtained by single source remote sensing data can hardly meet the application requirements.
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made great progress for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images change detection.
Then, a new style discriminator is designed to improve the translation performance.
However the function of calcium signaling in epithelial cells is not well understood.
Charge transport in disordered organic semiconductors occurs by hopping of charge carriers between localized sites that are randomly distributed in a strongly energy dependent density of states.
The fault surface morphology is the direct result of the microscopic processes near the crack tip or on the frictional interface.
However, it is still in a developing stage, and a lot of experiments have to be performed in a simulation setting.
Learning depth and ego-motion from unlabeled videos via self-supervision from epipolar projection can improve the robustness and accuracy of the 3D perception and localization of vision-based robots.
Seeing that the proposed generalization problem has not been widely studied yet, we carefully define an evaluation protocol, with which we illustrate the effectiveness of MEIP on two proof-of-concept domains and one challenging task: learning to fold from demonstrations.
In this paper, we investigate how the recently introduced pre-trained language model BERT can be adapted for Chinese biomedical corpora and propose a novel conceptualized representation learning approach.
In this review, we performed an overview of some new developments and challenges in the application of machine learning to medical image analysis, with a special focus on deep learning in photoacoustic imaging.
We demonstrate the power of this perspective to develop cognitive AI systems with humanlike common sense by showing how to observe and apply FPICU with little training data to solve a wide range of challenging tasks, including tool use, planning, utility inference, and social learning.
In this paper, we propose an actor-critic method - Attention-based Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic policy gradient (ATD3) algorithm to approximate a driver' s action according to observations and measure the driver' s attention allocation for consecutive time steps in car-following model.
Short text is becoming more and more popular on the web, such as Chat Message, SMS and Product Reviews.
In this work, we develop a novel PACT system to provide real-time imaging, which is achieved by a 120-elements ultrasound array only using a single data acquisition (DAQ) channel.
"Thinking in pictures," i. e., spatial-temporal reasoning, effortless and instantaneous for humans, is believed to be a significant ability to perform logical induction and a crucial factor in the intellectual history of technology development.
As a result, the proposed construction unifies and extends known theoretical results for many of the existing graph scattering architectures.
The Euclidean scattering transform was introduced nearly a decade ago to improve the mathematical understanding of convolutional neural networks.
Furthermore, ConvNets inspired recent advances in geometric deep learning, which aim to generalize these networks to graph data by applying notions from graph signal processing to learn deep graph filter cascades.
In this work, we propose a new dataset, built in the context of Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) and aimed at lifting machine intelligence by associating vision with structural, relational, and analogical reasoning in a hierarchical representation.
In order to address these limitations, we present tree-structured ConvLSTM models for tree-structured image analysis tasks which can be trained end-to-end.
The hierarchical attention components of the residual attention subnet force our network to focus on the key components of the X-ray images and generate the final predictions as well as the associated visual supports, which is similar to the assessment procedure of clinicians.
We explore the generalization of scattering transforms from traditional (e. g., image or audio) signals to graph data, analogous to the generalization of ConvNets in geometric deep learning, and the utility of extracted graph features in graph data analysis.
In this paper, we propose to leverage intra-class variance in metric learning of triplet network to improve the performance of fine-grained recognition.
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The European Commission is carrying out the preparatory work for the entry into force of the SDG Once Only Technical System, which is set to be in place and ready for use by 12 December 2023. The overall objective is to set up a technical system for the cross-border automated exchange of evidence and application of the Once Only Principle. This will allow citizens and businesses to request any official evidence, required by an administration as part of several key online procedures, to be exchanged directly between administrations, even in different Member States.
As foreseen, CEF will take over the groundwork set out by TOOP since 2017, including the technical specifications for the Once Only Technical System, the implemented common components used for the facilitation of the evidence exchange process between Evidence Requesters and Evidence Providers. Going forward, the technical specifications will focus on the use of reusable organisational and legal frameworks combined with semantic and technical standards, to promote reusability and interoperability on all levels. In this regard, CEF will deliver the final version of the technical specifications of the Once Only Technical System by December 2021. | <urn:uuid:56bd331d-1fc0-464b-b2f7-fbdf70bda4d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.toop.eu/node/420 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931646 | 221 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Free Reading Helps Your Mind Bloom motivational poster for classroom. This phrase will inspire and motivate your students all day long.
Reading Helps Your Mind Bloom
Reading is a magic key that opens the doors to many wonderful worlds. Your pupils should be aware of this and never forget it. This poster will help them keep this in mind at all times.
You can use this poster to pique your students’ curiosity and make them think about their attitude. Moreover, this inspiring and positive Reading Helps Your Mind Bloom poster will help them be motivated throughout the day. You just have to download this poster for free, print it, and hang it on your classroom wall!
Includes 2 design options (2 pages): color and black and white outlines (ink-saver alternative that can be colored by the students).
The ‘Reading Helps Your Mind Bloom’ classroom poster document features:
- 2 pages
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- Exclusive design
- Orientation: Portrait
- Paper size: Letter
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Getting ready to apply for college and you don’t even know where to start, right? There are millions of forms and hundreds of essays to be written. Getting organized now will help you so much in the mad dash between now and the impending due date.
Start with a plan—this isn’t something you want to wing like an APUSH project. Deadlines are coming up soon. Many, including the UC app, close at 11:59 p.m. PST on November 30, so set up your own deadline a few days before just in case you run into any problems and need that extra time. When I applied I set three Sundays aside to specifically work on my application. The first time I opened it I thought I would be able to get through all of the questions in one day. Jokes on me, right? That was when I knew I had to dedicate multiple hours to applying and broke it down. That first Sunday was putting in all the information into the application like my address, grades, extracurriculars, etc. With this schedule I was actually able to review all my essays multiple times and turn in my application three days early, which was the biggest relief.
Give yourself lots of time to brainstorm for your essays. Out of the eight questions on the UC app you get to choose the four that speak to you the most. So from there give yourself about two or three days to think of what stories you want to tell. You’ve likely experienced and accomplished so much through your life, so it is difficult to condense everything about yourself into four short essays. Organize your ideas before going to write and find what part of yourself you want to show the world. For me, I talked to my family and friends about what I was writing about and let them read my essays to see if it actually reflected my true character. Writing these essays was not an easy feat. I had to set aside time to brainstorm what was important for me to talk about and what I wanted admissions to know about me. From there it was a lot of rewrites, trying to condense important life experiences into a tiny 350 words! I recommend writing everything out that you want to without the word count in mind then go back and pick out the most important elements and condense.
Besides the PIQs, the application itself has a lot of important elements, one of those being choosing which UCs you want to apply to. Luckily there is only one application for all nine schools, so you fill everything out and send it where you want it to go. Picking what schools you want to send your application to are important as well. Try and imagine yourself at each school that you're considering. Each UC is really unique in its courses, and location, and you only have so much time to apply.
This point in your senior year can be so overwhelming, thinking about all the deadlines you have and the pressure of getting into your dream school. It is so easy to feel weighed down by everything. That's where it’s important to remember to take care of your mental health. Take time to sprinkle in fun activities with your application prep. If you know you’re going to spend all of Sunday writing your PIQs, make sure to go hang out with your friends for a few hours on Saturday and have a good time.
In the end it’s important to remember that this journey is long and may be difficult but your accomplishments are impressive and you will end up where you belong!
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The Uniform Residential application for the loan, also called a Fannie Mae Form 1003 or simply a 1003 type, is just a standard type that contains everything required for a loan provider https://maxloan.org/installment-loans-mo/ to determine the chance profile of the debtor. All demands for domestic home loans are prepared utilizing this application, whether or not the loans are for house acquisitions, refinancing, or home construction that is residential.
You may fill this type out with the aid of a loan officer in the lender. When there is a co-borrower, their information will have to be submitted on an independent 1003 type, until you both indication exactly the same type trying to get joint credit. There is certainly space regarding the kind for co-borrower information into the case of joint credit.
You can find ten parts into the type, with all the after headings.
1. Form of Mortgage and regards to Loan – The lender fills away this part with details of the mortgage, such as the kind (FHA/VA, main-stream, etc.) in addition to terms for instance the amount, rate of interest, amortization and term routine (fixed, supply, or other).
2. Home Information and Loan Purpose – fundamental information on the house like the address and description that is legal. If you’re refinancing your present house, that’s effortless. When you haven’t chosen a true house yet, that part should state, “To be determined.” You need to suggest who can keep the name, perhaps the residence will be a main, additional, or investment house, therefore the way to obtain the advance payment funds.
Additional lines are expected for refinancing and construction loans including the cost that is original current liens, together with great deal value/planned improvements for construction loans, as well as the function and description of every improvements for refinancing loans.
3. Borrower Information – Your basic information such as for example title, target, Social Security quantity, and marital status.
4. Employment Information – Two years’ well worth of back ground work history is needed. In the event that you aren’t certain of the actual times of work or salaries throughout that time, collect and confirm all your valuable information before using when it comes to loan.
5. Monthly money and Combined Housing Expenses – All income sources needs to be detailed, along with housing expenses under your present situation as well as the proposed situation in the event that you purchase a house. The intent is always to observe much earnings you have gone after housing costs. Self-employed applicants may prefer to provide information that is further.
You will want to fill in IRS Form 4506-T which allows the lending company to gain access to your taxation statements for verification.
6. Assets and Liabilities – This could be the meat regarding the kind, and it surely will take a moment to correctly fill it out. All assets consist of checking and cost savings reports, shares and bonds, bigger assets such as for example vehicles, real-estate, in addition to money worth of life insurance coverage. Portions of your your retirement records may be considered as also assets. Liabilities include some other loans, liens, alimony/child help, bank cards as well as other revolving financial obligation, and installment debts.
Community home states may need that the liabilities of community home liberties holders must even be included if their income/assets are not being considered when it comes to application for the loan
7. Transaction Details – Includes elements such as for example shutting costs, refinancing debts, home loan insurance coverage, points to cover the interest rate down, as well as other points which are contained in the total loan quantity. The amount that is total of loan can also be included right right right here.
8. Declarations – You are inquired about certain circumstances, such as for instance whether you’re a United States citizen, whether you have got past delinquencies and bankruptcies, along with other clarifications which could influence your loan status.
9. Acknowledgement – Where you signal, once you have read most of the terms and responsibilities. Recognize that regardless if the loan officer fills out the 1003 for you personally, you’ve kept to sign it consequently they are accountable for confirming that every the information and knowledge in the form is honest and accurate. Browse the finished kind while making certain you recognize every thing before you sign it. If you aren’t certain, ask. You shall have to have documents to aid your claims regarding the 1003, and without that paperwork, you’re not likely to be authorized for home financing.
10. National monitoring Ideas – Voluntary information that the national federal federal government may use for analytical purposes, like the debtor’s and co-borrower’s ethnicity, competition, and intercourse.
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Just what Wiring Diagram?
The wiring diagram is a simple visual representation from the physical connections in addition to physical layout of the electrical system or perhaps circuit. It exhibits how the power wires are connected with each other and may also demonstrate where fixtures and parts may end up being connected for the program.
When as well as how to Employ a Wiring Plan Use wiring diagrams to assist in building or producing the circuit or perhaps electronic device. They are usually also useful for making repairs.
Craftsman Lt1000 Wiring Diagram
DO-IT-YOURSELF enthusiasts use cabling diagrams however they usually are also common in home building and auto repair. Regarding example, a home builder will want to confirm typically the physical location of electrical outlets in addition to light fixtures using a wiring diagram to avoid costly errors and building code violations.
How to Draw a Routine Plan SmartDraw will come with pre-made wiring diagram templates. Customize hundreds of electrical symbols and quickly drop them with your wiring diagram. Special control handles about each symbol allow you to quickly resize or perhaps rotate them as necessary.
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Just how is a Wiring Diagram Different through a Schematic?
A new schematic shows the particular plan and performance for an electrical routine, but is not really concerned with the particular physical layout in the wires. Wiring diagrams show how the particular wires are attached and where these people should found in the particular device, as well as the actual physical connections between all the components.
How is a Wiring Plan Different from a Pictorial Diagram? As opposed to a pictorial plan, a wiring plan uses abstract or perhaps simplified shapes and lines to show elements. Pictorial diagrams usually are often images together with labels or highly-detailed drawings of the particular physical components.
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Nov 25, 2019
Feature Guest: Lachlan Lancaster
Quantum mechanics is strange. Until recently we could comfort ourselves with the belief that its odd properties were safely confined to the world of the microscopic. But what if quantum mechanical effects were suddenly magnified to cosmological scales. Imagine the quantum mechanical interference pattern spread across clusters of galaxies. That’s a possibility, according to a new theory of dark matter known as fuzzy dark matter, which imagines dark matter particles as being incredibly minuscule but with astrologically large wavelengths. How can we prove whether this fascinating new theory is correct? Do these ultra small particles give us clues to mysterious string theory? And what does all this mean about the past, present and future of the universe? Today we’re joined here at The Star Spot by Lachlan Lancaster, co-author of a new paper that sheds light on these questions.
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About Our Guest
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ken. Had we not before our eyes the salutary fear of a long prologue, we could dwell here with pleasure on the liberal encouragement which it has already met with—and on the profound sense of obligation, entertained by the Editor towards individuals, and the public generally.
The first number of the Magazine of Ireland must now speak for itself--and though we do not flatter ourselves that it will start into life armed against every shaft--we trust, like the myrtle which Minerva presented to the Athenians, it will strike deep root, and gather around it the founders of a New Academy.
CORINNA,–BY L. E. L.
She stood alone ; but on her every eye
ON A SLEEPING CHILD,-BY L. E. L.
How innocent, how beautiful thy sleep!
LINES,- BY L. E. L. .
She kneels by the grave where her lover steeps,
With a cypress and rose she has crown'd it;
While the moonlight beams surround it.
Her hair is loose to the chill night gale ;
No more with spring flowers she'll braid it :
Sorrow can swiftly fade it.
She has knelt by that grave for many a day
Morn and cven still found her beside it.
Her grief, the cold grave will hide it.
Her spring of youth was fair for a while,
And then the dark cloud came o'er it;
Where is the spell to restore it?
• The Poems by L. E. L. are from a volume of Poems, by the fair and talented author of “The Improvisatrice” and “Troubadour," printed in 1821, but only partially circulated.
A DUBIOUS CASE.
Whatever may be said to the contrary, it cannot be correct, that the simple effort to render one's self agreeable, is, the only means necessary to be used; the desire alone constituting the whole art of pleasing. I am the more incredulous, as a worthy friend of mine, has tried this good natured plan so long, and so little to the purpose, that instead of making any progress, he is pretty generally considered to be a very disagreeable fellow.
From his own acknowledgement, I am convinced, there are many requisites necessary, not merely to secure applause, but ordinary respect and civility in company.
Thomas Melburne had one general sweeping recommendation in certain circles he had been in the army,--a Captain in a Militia regiment, and was considered by himself, if not by others, to have seen something of the world, though not much service; having been quartered from time to time in several country towns. He was likewise convinced that he knew something of human nature, for he was long in the recruiting service, which gives a great insight into character. Many have thought him too ceremonious in his manner, as he was punctilious in all that respected the drawing-room. His father having spent many years abroad, was of the good old school, and acquired all the points and etiquette essential in forming the complete gentleman. He impressed those points so firmly by precept and example on the Captain, that our hero was never to be taken off his guard, and some said, appeared never to be off parade. He had also imbibed from the same much respected source, a most exalted idea of the fair sex, whose honour he preferred beyond the attraction of their charms. He was elated therefore sooner than any other man, at the sight of a fine woman; in much the same manner, he became intoxicated at the mess, generally before the cloth was removed, which was attributed to the sight of the decanters. His warmth or his weakness ever contributing to the conviviality of the society he was in, was sufficient gratification to his natural good temper and politeness, and he was too fond of good humour, not to contribute towards it, even by becoming the subject of it, to the great amusement of his friends.— Yet he has assured me that all this profited hiin nothing; a sense of mortification and disappointment always following him. He has studied and copied, to no purpose, the manner of others who were admired, told their jokes, sang their songs, imitated all their little ways: notwithstanding which, he remained unsuccessful, and was treated with insufferable neglect.
Every body may have, in the course of their lives, felt embarrassed at a large dinner table, where much conversation is going on, and the difficulty of abstracting themselves, or not possessing sufficient nerve, or volubility to preserve them on such occasions from the horrors of silence. It was the Captain's ill fate to be ever in a state of distraction, between the activity of his mind, the watchfulness of his ear, and the slumbering nature of his attention, the whimsical effect of this absence of manner, exposed him continually; for his reply to any question, would be the echo frequently of somebody at the remote end of the room, and once, he has thought it nearly cost him his liberty.
A friend of our hero's was paying his addresses to a young lady. The Captain was taken one day to dine at her house, and the young lady and
her sister were left with the two gentlemen, by the rest of the family, after dinner. It very soon happened, that the Captain's friend withdrew with the young lady to the window, and left our hero chatting beside her sister. The Captain could distinctly overhear the tender, warm addresses of his friend, though it was a mere whisper:--the soft and sweetly extorted promise,-her yielding sounded irresistable--so reluctant--yet so expressive and tender. Who will not believe in the power of sympathy? The Captain involuntarily seized the sister's hand-he pressed it-still listeningbut transposing what he heard, and while inflamed with all his friend's ardour, tried to speak of the passage of the steam boats, opera dancing, &c.—but, still lending his vigilance to what was passing in the window, his entire attention was absorbed, the emotions of the neighbouring cou. ple labouring in his breast. Overcoming all his usual habits of polite reserve, he was raising the lady's hand to his lips,—when the action for a moment was suspended, and our hero was roused from his reverie, by a sound box on the ear-his companion vanishing in an uproar of laughter.
The Captain complains of impertinence and ill-breeding, which is called“ being pleasant,” though it is always much below regulation manners. Such treatment would render others iniserable, but the Captain's mind was tranquil, and never ruffled by feelings of resentment; his self complacency furnished him with as good ground for happiness, as most philosophical nostrums; correcting the effect of every evil levelled at his breast, which could only find there, that they missed their aim, and found a tomb. Still he felt happy whenever the regiment got the rout, and went into new quarters, where he hoped to find a more favourable impression amongst new tried friends. At length there was peace, his regiment was disbanded, and he betook himself to a country life, and study. The Captain was far from being of an unsocial turn, and would not have preferred this secluded and solitary life, but from necessity. Every body, in due time, falls in love; and some ladies and gentlemen, frequently; some only once in their lives; others more persevering, perhaps occasionally, while the Captain, after this natural custom, often, we might say habitually complied with this instinct, whenever occasion offered. But some impertinent Ensign, or some direct refusal, always marred his hopes, or stood in the way of his happiness. He therefore cultivated quiet literary pursuits, reading books that the librarian of the adjoining village imagined were never to be read,--until at length, the whole stock of the circulating library became a mere“ tiffin” to the Captain's greedy and voracious taste.
The Captain's love of literature awakened great enthusiasm, which led him in conversation to express himself with all his usual warmth. One day he declared to a lady, he would rather be the author of “She Stoops to Conquer," than have £30,000, that is correcting himself) I have more respect for the deceased author, than for the living possessor of that sum. He saw the lady blush, for she had only ten thousand pounds,--she was greatly offended.
But he discovered she was vindictive and disagreeable.So in his turn, he “ cut her dead."
It would be tedious to follow the Captain through all the various abortive means he vainly used to obtain the good opinion of his friends and acquaintances. To no purpose he assented, admired, and obliged, sacrificed his own opinion, or adopted another's. Since he relinquished his red coat, matters grew worse. He found he lost some of his attractions in the ball-room. Having fallen into the ranks he seemed not to survive the fall. There are facts which we meet with, in our enquiries on any subject, that check our pursuit, and seem to cast a doubt on all our previous knowledge.
Now the Captain's case presents this obstacle to all theories on the art of pleasing. 'Pree from that matured selfishness called the “old soldier;" admitted to be a very polite man;—he never punned, seldom swore, was always well dressed, engrossed no more than his share in conversation, and for a man he was amiable; yet, I could never explain or observe what disqualification or awkwardness exposed him frequently to derision, and deprived him of praise, due certainly, to his merii. not owing to a certain weakness in his character, not to be discerned always.-Could it arise from the loss of his nose which was more apparent?
Advantages to be derived from the cultivation of the Tritoma Uvaria in the South of Ireland; in a letter addressed to John Wilson Croker, Esq. first Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. By the Rev. S. Hans Sloane, L. L. D. Cork.
To John Wilson Croker, Esq.
Sir, Knowing the interest which you have taken for a long period in the affairs of Ireland, and your anxiety to forward any plan which promises to promote the welfare of this portion of the united Kingdom. I have taken the liberty of inclosing to you, the results of an interesting discovery, which I trust at no distant time may prove of advantage to the Navy of Great Britain, to the independent resourses of the country, and the prosperity of Ireland.
Having been aware that a substance which might furnish sails and cordage for the navy, at a moderate cost, and of a more durable nature than those already in use, has long been a desideratum with the Lords of the Admiralty. And having understood that the Phormium Tenax, or “new Zealand fax,” has been recommended to the attention of their Lordships, as a plant, the cultivation of which, was worthy of their Lordships encouragement and patronage, as it promised to afford a material for the sails and rigging of ships, of much greater strength than either the flax or hemp of Europe; but being at the same time, fully satisfied that the Phormium Tenax cannot be cultivated as a general crop in the climates of England or Ireland, without affording to it that protection from the frosts of winter, which must counterbalance the advantages to be derived from its naturalization; I have ventured to submit through you, to their Lordship's consideration, the result of experiments on a plant of the same genus, which, possessing a different constitution from the Phormium Tenax, may be probably found to be the long sought-for material, and of which, it may not be too much to say, that if recommended by their Lordships to the atten | <urn:uuid:45eb54af-8545-4ac4-b378-c2e68ddeb263> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MNoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3&vq=%22(which+even+now+I+do)+To+work+mine+end+upon+their+senses,+that+This+airy+charm+is+for+%3B+I%27ll%22&dq=editions:OCLC551997235&lr=&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982454 | 2,517 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The concept of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) — also known as transforming an image of printed text into a text code — has been around for nearly 200 years in one form or another. Back in the 1850s, inventors began bombarding the patent offices with schemes for the machine that could read Latin letters. However, it wasn’t until the 1950s — in the midst of the burgeoning computer processing industry — that OCR technology really took hold. This was due in large part to one invention: the GISMO of David Shepard.
Three Facts about David Shepard
- In addition to his GISMO invention, Shepard also created the iconic Farrington B numeric font seen on most credit cards today.
- Another Shepard invention, the Conversation Machine, was the first device to give interactive voice responses using early speech recognition technology.
- Shepherd also worked to explore the possibilities of high-altitude wind power.
GISMO of David Shepard: History
In 1951, American inventor David Shepard built the first optical character recognition (OCR) system in his attic with fellow inventor Harvey Cook Jr. The invention was called “GISMO”, and it had the ability to convert printed messages into machine language for processing by computer. Later called the Analyzing Reader, Shepard and Cook started their work on the computer processing device in early 1950. Up in the attic of Shepard’s home in Arlington, Virginia, the two spent almost a year (and some $4,000) working on the invention.
- David Shepard and Harvey Cook Jr.
- Original Use
- Reading and processing typed text
In December of 1950, Shepard and Cook finally finished their optical character recognition device. They called it GISMO, and the computer processing machine could recognize 23 Latin letters of the alphabet as produced by a standard typewriter. After another year’s work (and more financial investment), Shepard and Cook debuted an improved GISMO that could recognize all 26 Latin letters of the alphabet.
Shepard filed a patent application for his “Apparatus for Reading” on March 1st, 1951. The patent wasn’t granted until December 22nd, 1953. The important thing is that it was granted, though. The patent application described the GISMO as a reading apparatus that could sense printed characters and punched openings and recognize the identity of particular characters or other items passing before the sensor. The application described that these items would then be reproduced in various forms of coding. They argued that the GISMO had many practical uses, such as scanning a printed, typewritten page and producing signals that transform each character into any desired form of coding.
In 1952, Shepard and a colleague from his wartime work in Armed Forces Security Agency named William Lawless Jr. worked to commercialize the invention. They formed Intelligent Machines Research Co. (IMR) in Arlington, Virginia as a way to develop and sell the GISMO. Their efforts proved successful: the first dozen sold went to companies such as AT&T, First National City Bank, Reader’s Digest, and several other major oil companies and banks.
In 1953, IBM obtained a license on IMR’s patents. In 1955, they contracted IMR to build a developmental system named Scandex in exchange for a five percent royalty. Scandex was invented to read constrained hand-printed numeric characters. However, IBM never actually marketed this system. In 1959, IBM instead marketed a system of its own. Classifying it as an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, from then on the term OCR has been the standard terminology in the industry for this kind of technology.
In 1959, Farrington Manufacturing Co., a leading company in the credit card business at that time as well as IMR’s best customer, acquired IMR for good. The deal made IMR a subsidiary of Farrington, and Shepard became Farrington’s largest shareholder as a result. This deal resulted in Shepard’s numeric font, called Farrington 7B, becoming the standard for most of the well-known credit cards of that time. Today, this font can still be seen on the face of just about every credit and debit card.
GISMO of David Shepard: How It Worked
In the mid-1950s, Shepard worked to streamline the GISMO’s scanning process by inventing a font that was easier for the machine to read. While at a cocktail party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, Shepard designed the font on his napkin. It was the perfect font for clearer transmission using the early analog card processing devices of the mid-century.
GISMO worked by scanning Latin letters with a photoelectric eye. It then recorded what it had read on a mechanical card punching machine. It scanned each letter and matched its impression with its built-in memory. Later, Shepard developed a more accurate method of optical character recognition using lasers.
GISMO of David Shepard: Historical Significance
To understand the historical significance of GISMO, it’s important to first understand the historical significance of David Shepard himself. You see, David Shepard was a prolific inventor who held 29 patents. Many seemed to be several decades ahead of their time.
For example, in the 1950s, trying to sell grocery store chains on a bar-code system he had developed, Shepard told his clients that every item in the store could have a bar code that could be read. He also said that, eventually, people would have push-button telephones to punch in the numbers of the items they wanted. According to Shepard, clerks could then bag the items and have them waiting for customers at the store. Store managers thought he was just another crazy inventor and told him he should go home.
Judging by his long and impressive list of ideas and inventions, it’s not hard to understand the historical significance of Shepard’s GISMO. The device not only revolutionized the world of data entry in the mid-20th century, but it also went on to become an integral part of modern cognitive computing, present-day machine translation, and contemporary text-to-speech. OCR can also be considered a form of artificial intelligence. It’s safe to say we wouldn’t have any of this without Shepard’s GISMO. | <urn:uuid:9603c7d7-2c0c-4566-8ee3-0d72bc59d095> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://history-computer.com/gismo-of-david-shepard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968016 | 1,329 | 3.359375 | 3 |
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TUCKER, Ga. (August 9, 2017) – The City of Tucker GIS Department is stepping into the past in introducing its newest web application. ‘Tucker Nostalgia’ gives users the opportunity to compare current-day maps of the City with a map from more than 100 years ago.
“We’re really excited about the opportunity to provide this unique way of looking back at Tucker’s roots,” explains Tucker GIS Analyst Chris Rice, who created the app.
The app features a sliding bar that allows the user to overlay a 1915 map on top of current GIS mapping of Tucker. The 1915 map was provided to the City by the Tucker Historical Society.
“It’s great to have partners at City Hall who value the rich history of our community,” says Tucker Historical Society President Matthew Lee. “With Tucker flourishing as a regional destination for families and businesses, it’s critical that we preserve the past and share it with younger generations.”
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Eagles migrate through bad weather to arrive in time to nest
April 5, 2017
Migration is tough, and birds do everything they can to optimize it. How do factors like weather and experience affect the strategies they choose? A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances shows that older, more experienced Golden Eagles actually migrate in poorer weather conditions and cover less ground than their younger counterparts, but for a good reason — they’re timing their efforts around raising the next generation of eagles.
Adrian Rus of Boise State University (now at Australia’s University of Sydney), Todd Katzner of the USGS, and their colleagues studied GPS telemetry tracks to evaluate the migratory performance of almost 90 Golden Eagles in eastern North America and determine how performance related to season, age, and weather. Unsurprisingly, eagles flew faster and farther when they had strong tailwinds and thermals to help them along. What was counterintuitive, however, was that older eagles did not cover more ground than younger eagles despite their greater experience. Instead, older eagles migrated in poorer weather conditions and travelled more slowly.
The researchers believe this is because older birds face different pressures than younger birds. Even if the weather is bad and will slow them down, they need to start heading north earlier than young birds that aren’t breeding, because they have to get back to their breeding grounds in time to reclaim their territories and start nesting. “Younger eagles just need to survive the summer, so they can be choosy about when they travel north and only migrate when conditions are really ideal for fast soaring flight,” explains Katzner.
Lead author Adrian Rus, who worked on the study as an undergraduate, enjoyed the challenges involved in analyzing the migration data. “The best part about working on this project was using specialized software to visualize the golden eagle migrations and being able to pair it with meteorological data to answer my biological questions,” he says. “As a result, the project greatly improved my geospatial and statistical analysis skills and was instrumental my current graduate research in animal movement ecology.”
“Rus et al. provide an unusual demonstration of the interaction between migration experience and seasonal environments,” according to Oklahoma University‘s Jeff Kelly, an expert on avian migration. “It is likely that the migration experience that older birds have enables them to extend their summer season through early spring and late autumn migration despite declining atmospheric conditions. Rus et al.’s demonstration of this insight into the interaction between age and the migratory environment expands our thinking about the life history tradeoffs that occur across the annual cycle of migrants.” | <urn:uuid:e365e8e6-98c5-4a6e-bc01-263e3add7d16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/golden-eagle-migration-in-bad-weather-new-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958459 | 566 | 3.1875 | 3 |
It’s a shame that modern astronomy’s naming systems are so no-nonsense. We’re going to be considering a star that will soon explode within a constellation called Ara. Ptolemy named the constellation in the 2nd century; it means “altar”, because the Greeks saw it as the place where the gods made sacrifices and formed alliances. In Chinese astronomy, this area of the sky is known as the “azure dragon of the east”.
Meanwhile, a team of modern astronomers is talking about looking within Ara at a cluster of stars it calls Westerlund 1. The star the astronomers are interested in is W26. The instrument they’ll be using to look at it is known without irony as the “Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope”. Thankfully, what they’ve found does kindle something in the imagination.
The biggest known star in the universe is about to blow. Its radius is 1,500 times that of the sun but it is only dimly visible. Besides being about 150,000 trillion kilometres from Planet Earth, it’s also on the other side of one of the spiral arms of our galaxy. As a result, W26’s light passes through a fearful amount of dust and gas before it reaches us.
Janet E Drew of the University of Hertfordshire first spotted W26’s potential in pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. According to a paper that she and her team recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, follow-up studies show that it is shedding mass so quickly that it will soon explode as a supernova.
This kind of thing doesn’t happen every day. Drew’s team is now applying for telescope time in order to take a closer look.
Supernova explosions are not just pretty pictures. In the past, we have used them to seed a revolution in our understanding of the entire universe. Watching how the different colours in the spectrum of the explosion’s flash fade away gives us a way of determining not just how far the light travelled to the earth but how the space between the supernova and the earth was expanding during the light’s journey. That led us to the discovery in 1998 that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down.
Until then, everyone had thought that the gravitational attraction between all the matter in the universe would be pulling on it, slowing down the expansion that started with the Big Bang.
Yet a survey of the light coming from various supernovae showed that something is pushing on the fabric of the universe, causing an ever-faster expansion. We still don’t know what that something is, although it has been given a name that is better than usual: dark energy.
Studying W26’s explosion is unlikely to bring us revelations on that kind of scale. However, it’s still going to be an inspiring moment.
Heavy atoms are already spewing out from the star as its surface breaks up. These atoms were manufactured in nuclear reactions powered by the high temperatures and pressures that exist deep within the body of the star and are essential to the formation of new solar systems. When W26 explodes, it will eject atoms that will seed future suns, future planets and, quite possibly, future life.
We’ve known for at least a century that all the stuff from which we, the sun and our planet are made comes from other stars. But we still don’t know where in the star the elements form or how they rise to the surface.
The idea that we are stardust is almost banal now but, happily, it still thrills and motivates the astronomers who get to work out the details of how that came to be – even if they have to use something called the Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope to do it. | <urn:uuid:000d8be1-a33d-452d-bdfb-e000bc01ee1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2013/10/why-we-could-soon-see-revolution-our-understanding-universe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952917 | 804 | 3.578125 | 4 |
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