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Master Simon, Brace Bridge, Church discussed on Boring Books for Bedtime
I afterwards understood that early morning service was read on every Sunday and Saint's day throughout the year. Either by Mr Brace Bridge or by some member of the family it was once almost universally Selena case at the seats of the nobility and Gentry of England and it is much to be regretted that the customers fallen into neglect for the dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful to form of worship in the morning gives as it were the key note to every temper for the day and tunes every spirit a harmony our breakfast consisted of what the squire denominated true old English fair. He indulged aged in some bitter lamentations over modern breakfasts of tea and toast which he censured as among the causes of modern Feminazi missy and a week nerves and the decline of old English hardiness and though he admitted them to his table to suit the balance silence of his guest yet there were a brave display of cold meats wine and Ale on the side board after breakfast. I walked about the grounds with Frank. Brace Bridge and Master Simon or Mr Simon as he was called by everybody but the squire wire. We were escorted by a number of gentlemen like dogs that seemed loungers about the establishment from the frisking King Spaniel to the steady old stag hound. The last of which was of a race that had been in the family time out of mind. They were all obedient to a dog. Whistle which hung to master Simon's but in the whole and in the midst of their gambles would glance Lanson. I occasionally upon a small switch. He carried in his hand. The old mansion had a still more venerable look in the yellow sunshine than by Pale Moonlight and I could not feel the force of the squires idea that the formal terraces this heavily molded balustrades and clipped yew trees carried with them an air of proud aristocracy there appeared to be an unusual number of peacocks about the place and I was making some remarks upon what I termed Affleck of them. That were basking under a sunny wall. When I was gently corrected in my phraseology by Master Simon who told me that according to the most ancient and approved treatise on hunting I must say a muster of peacocks? He cocks in the same way added he with a slight air of Peden Tree. We see flight of dubs or swallows. Up Heavy of quayle's herd of deer of Rennes or cranes a skulk of Fox's or the building of rooks. He went on to inform me that according to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert we ought to ascribe waited this bird both understanding and glory for being praised. He will presently set up his tail. Chiefly against as the sun to the intent you made the better behold the beauty thereof but at the fall of the leaf when his tail fall as he will mourn and hide himself in corners till his tail. Come again as it was I could not it helps smiling at this display of small erudition on so whimsical subject. But I found that the peacocks were birds of some consequence sequence at the hall for Frank. Brace Bridge informed me that they were great favorites with his father who was extremely careful to keep keep up the breed partly because they belong to chivalry and wearing great request at the stately banquets of the olden time and partly because they had pomp and magnificence about them highly becoming an old family mansion. Nothing he was accustomed to say had an air of greater st dignity than a peacock perched upon an antique stone. Own Balustrade master. Simon had now to hurry off having an appointment at the parish. Church with the village choristers foresters who were to perform some music of his selection. There was something extremely agreeable in the cheerful flow of animal spirits. Up The little man and I confess I had been somewhat surprised at his apt quotations from authors Who certainly were not in the range of everyday reading? I mentioned this last circumstance to Frank. Brace Bridge who told me with a smile. That master Simon's whole stock of ammunition was confined to some half a dozen old authors. which which the Squire had put into his hands and which he read over and over whenever he had a studious fit Asi has he sometimes had on a rainy day or among winter evening? Sir Anthony Fits Herbert's book of husbandry. It's been dray Markham's country contentment S- The treatise of hunting by Sir. Thomas cockayne is it Walton's Angler and two or three more. Such ancient worthies of the pen were his standard authorities. He's and like all man who know but a few books. He looked up to them with a kind of idolatry and quoted quoted them on all occasions asked to his songs. They were chiefly picked out of old books in the squires. Here's library and adapted to tunes that were popular among the choice spirits of the last century. His practical application of scraps literature however had caused him to be looked upon as a prodigy of book knowledge by. Yeah all the groom's huntsmen and small sportsman of the neighborhood while we were talking we heard the distant didn't tall of the village bell and I was told that the squire was a little particular in having his household at Church on Christmas morning considering it a day of pouring out of thanks and rejoicing for as old touch her observed at Christmas Miss B Mary and thankful with awe and Feast Thi- poor neighbors the great and the small. If you are disposed to go to church said Frank Brace Bridge. I can promise you a specimen of my cousin Simon's musical achievements us as the church is destitute of an Oregon. He has formed a banned from the village. Amateurs and established a musical sickle club for their improvement. He has also sorted acquire as he sorted my father's pack of hounds according according to the directions of surveys Markham in his country contentment for the base he has sought out all the deep deep solemn mouths and for the tenor the loud ringing mouse among the country bumpkins and for sweet tweet mouths. He has called with curious taste among the prettiest losses in the neighborhood. Though these last he affirms firms are the most difficult to keep in tune. Your pretty female singer being exceedingly wayward and capricious and ferry liable to accident as morning. Though frosty was remarkably fine and clear. The most of the family walked to the church which was a very old building of Greystone and stood near village about half a mile from the park gate. 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Sounds like a word from, I dunno, Japanese, or an African language, or the corners of Rudyard Kipling’s mind, dunnit? Or a nickname for your friend Kim. But you probably know this word well enough. Come, now: what word comes before it? Demonstrate arms akimbo. Are your elbows crooked like the kick of a k, knuckles (m) resting on your hips (b)? Doesn’t your arm make a keen bow that way? No, keen bow is not where this word comes from, though the bow part might be related. Truth is, the trail on this one fades off in the fog of time. In 1400 we had it as in kenebowe; in 1611, it was written down a kenbow; 1629, on kenbow; and so on. The [n] assimilated to the [b] – it kept the nasal manner but moved the place to the lips – and the preposition, whatever it was, reduced and attached to the front. Now we have a nice, angular-sounding word, bouncing from the back of the mouth to the front, with possible echoes of Akela – what Cub Scouts call their leader, who we may feel sure sometimes stands with arms akimbo – and a bimbo, who may not have arms akimbo but your wife sure will if she sees you with one.
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Subject: [CAS] 43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art – Brian Reffin Smith
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:20:40 +1000
From: Paul Brown p...@paul-brown.com
Reply-To: Computer Arts Society c...@jiscmail.ac.uk, Paul Brown
43 Dodgy Statements on Computer Art – Brian Reffin Smith
1. The sadness of most art is that it does not know its future. The
sadness of computer art is that it does not know its past.
2. Constraint is liberty; reduce to the maximum.
3. If it looks just like, you know, ‘art’…it probably isn't.
4. Using state-of-the-art technology merely produces
5. Those who use computers to make art need to understand art as well as
6. Most participative art is deeply authoritarian.
7. The computer is best characterised not as an information processor but
as a general-purpose representation processor.
8. Marshall McLuhan, at least as filtered through his sound-bites, was
often wrong. The medium is not the message, which is more often determined
socially and psychologically by the recipient.
9. If your system costs 10 000 € and mine 30 000 €, it does not follow
that my art is thrice as good as yours.
10. In an ideal world, New Media institutions would employ at least one
11. Are you pushing the frontiers of computational representation, or of
contemporary art? Confusion rarely leads to success.
12. 99% of computer art is meretricious nonsense. But then 99% of
everything is meretricious nonsense.
13. Self-imposed formal requirements are not inhibitive of expression.
14. Post Modernism has never said that everything is of equal value, just
that the contexts in which we identify or attribute value should be open to
15. You know your amazing new computer art, rich in metaphors and
analogies? It's been done. Years ago. Without a computer.
16. We lose dimensions and scale. The computer in art is immediate and
almost always, however global, local. Just as no well-found art school
would be complete without computers, so every such institution should have
a telescope and a microscope, connected to the computer or not.
17. Making computer art too dangerous to sponsor would be a good way to
18. Just as everyone has a novel inside them, many believe they have an
artwork. The purpose of a good art school is to seek out these people and
19. Using a computer merely to access the web is like using a Bugatti
Veyron to deliver the papers.
20. Many people think that graphic design is art. Art is undertaken for
art-like reasons, graphic design for graphic design-like reasons. There may
of course be overlap. There should never be confusion.
21. Making the (arts) information revolution consists not only in enabling
the control of the means of computer art production by art workers, but
also in being kind, non-gouging and relatively honest. Without the latter,
one may doubt commitment to the former.
22. The best interactive art always makes you look at the participants.
23. There is only one thing worse than studying art for the budding
computer artist, and that is to study computers. Or vice versa.
24. Art is not craft.
25. What would be pretentious or nonsensical if one said it oneself does
not become more worthy when spoken by a computer-generated avatar.
26. Seen in the light of Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle,
computer art is very spectacular indeed.
27. Beware of computer art as farce repeating itself as history.
28. There is no normal computer art, in the Kuhnian sense. It is in
constant revolution, hence constantly evading scrutiny.
29. When the first solitary Metro station was built in Paris, where could
people travel to? They just admired the station.
30. Bugs are good; as with fireflies, the fertile ones shed light.
31. The Prix Pierre Gutzman, 100 000 Francs, was offered by the Institut
de France in 1906 to the first person who could establish contact with
extra-terrestrials; except with Martians, which would be too easy.
32. ‘All that is solid floats into air’ is not a celebration of
virtuality, but Marx 'n' Engels' prediction for late capitalism.
33. A half developed Polaroid photo is different to half a digital photo.
A half-finished pen-plotter drawing is different to a half-finished inkjet
34. When art processes happen near-instantaneously, doing art becomes
synonymous with correction and selection, later with celebration; rarely
35. Art is visual philosophy. But computer art is not visual computer
36. Revolutionary modes of interaction between humans and normative
structures do not a revolution make.
37. 'i', the imaginary square root of minus 1, is to the real numbers as
the computer is — or should be — to art.
38. The purpose of the computer in art is to render it difficult and
problematic, not easy.
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Globalization and internationalization of business demand new ways and methods of operations management and logistics. There is strong competition among export-oriented industries which try to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The strict consumer demands and alliances between industries do not provide a favorable environment for new entrants. The role of the intermediaries (a third party) is to improve and coordinate operations between two or more companies taking into account global economic situation and fierce competition. For many companies, process improvement in transportation is a rational way of translating experience and thought into marketing action. It is a pragmatic, organized procedure for analyzing situations and meeting the future. Based on information about ends and means to determine various causal relationships, trends, and patterns of behavior, it is concerned with the selection of alternative strategies.
Strategic Functions of Logistics
Logistics and strategic planning
For modern companies, planned activity is goal-directed and achieves a more efficient expenditure of marketing resources. Process improvement necessitates classification of a company’s goal or objective; but recently there has been a change in the perception of planning. A company first specifies goals and then develops plans to carry them out, thus being able to achieve the goals. Goals thereby determine plans -plans are ways of reaching goals. Another dimension of the relationship between goals and plans stems from the fact that an organization does not have a single corporate goal; it has multiple goals. Thus, a decision that at first appears to be a compromise among conflicting goals actually creates a major-goal. This goal is the weighted average of all corporate goals rather than a single goal. As the basic vehicle for matching ends with means, or marketing resources with market opportunity, marketing planning becomes the mechanism through which a company is brought into line with the external environment (Eboch, 1998). Planning is an essential function of transportation management, which has a forward-looking, integrated, and balanced view of total action. Transportation planning encompasses the perspective of the future, the types of objectives established, and the strategies and tactics to be employed. Through transportation planning, the fundamental strategies of the business enterprise are conceived on the basis of market needs, forces, and opportunities; and marketing is implemented as a philosophy of business operation and a way of corporate life (Harris, 1989).
While significant attention is usually focused on the customer service needs of the firm’s external customers, it is equally important to identify the needs of the firm’s internal customers/users as well. Alternatively, internal value creation involves concentrating on how the organization can function more effectively and efficiently for all its constituents, both internal and external to the firm (Hage, 1999). A first step is to get employees to understand whether the next customer in the pipeline is internal or external to the organization, even though this distinction should make no difference in terms of the quality of service offered. In their continuing quest for new ways to establish and maintain a competitive edge, many leading companies are recognizing the unique and meaningful types of customer value which can be contributed through logistics management. These companies agree that product quality and consistency are of exceptional importance, they argue that the elements of logistical service also create significant value for their customers. This viewpoint is in sharp contrast to the traditional, yet fast-changing, marketing paradigm relating to the importance of the tangible product form itself (Murphy and Wood, 2005).
The main success factors are process improvements, shipment optimization, reduction of transportation costs and improved quality. Demand characteristics are directly related to physical-distribution systems. Where demand is widely variable, then distribution facilities are usually concentrated in fewer locales. Where demand is continuous and rather consistent, as is the case for some food products, distribution facilities can be decentralized (Murphy and Wood, 2005). A highly variable demand makes it difficult to design effective physical-distribution systems and control costs, while a stable demand permits it. In between these extremes, where demand patterns can be discerned through analysis, as with seasonal products, reasonable distributions systems may be approximated. High-value items, if heavily stocked, mean a heavy inventory investment and hence increased costs. Their storage is often minimized. For them transportation is a modest amount of the total price. Physical-distribution systems are geared to the optimization of the system as a whole rather than of any part of it (Baudin, 2005).
Process improvement is crucial for transportation excellence as it allows companies to reduce number of employees and improve service quality. Effective allocation can only be achieved, however, through planned behavior. Although finance and production have long been planned, marketing activity has not. Often it has been performed rather haphazardly. The emphasis on planning of marketing operations (which is new, and has been stimulated by the marketing management concept) is now widely applied (Murphy and Wood, 2005). Process improvement is concerned with predetermining courses of marketing action. It is based on both marketing intelligence and the assessment of opportunities, since it deals with the future in respect to both perspectives and operations. Marketing programming and marketing action are its major objectives, which are achieved through organizational implementation. Two general approaches to marketing planning exist: a deterministic or general formula approach, and a dynamic approach. The former, a rather static approach, usually details the marketing planning procedure as follows:
- determine objectives or goals;
- set up a plan to achieve them;
- control the elements to make sure they conform to the plan.
The sequence is goals, plans, and control. This approach ignores the realities of marketing situations. The dynamic approach stresses that retailers should plan for change. It underscores the fact that plans are not merely the results of objectives, but that plans affect objectives. The goals and objectives can be changed, as can the plans. Changes in market opportunities, for example, result in changes in company objectives and hence changes in marketing planning. In addition, a company might purposely set out to change its marketing plans in the sense of improving them (Simchi-Levi et al 2008).
Management focus in logistics is expanding beyond the existing company structure to involve suppliers and vendors. Sino-Japanese Alliance regards the role of suppliers and vendors as essential to achieving satisfaction for the firm’s external customers (Murphy and Wood, 2005). Historically, however, many firms treated their customers with respect and dignity, while simultaneously bearing down hard (and frequently unmercifully) on their suppliers and vendors. This type of action is counterproductive to a truly value-added perspective. By spending more time interfacing with suppliers and vendors, interorganizational alliances/partnerships are evolving which enable a firm to willingly commit performance capabilities to customers in advance, and then perform to expectations. This same study identified a number of representative measures of logistical customer service. Included were product availability, order cycle time, distribution system flexibility, distribution system information, distribution system malfunction, and post sale product support. Considerable attention is directed toward the integrative aspects of logistics, and the fact that the length and consistency of the customer “order cycle” is emerging as a key concern of firm wide interest. In effect, the integrative aspects of logistics have qualified this area to be a major contributor to the creation of customer value (Baudin, 2005).
As one of the most significant managerial functions, process planning is a prime responsibility of the top marketing executive. The very nature of critical day-to-day operations, the pressures of time, and the tendency to act rather than plan, frequently cause executives to neglect this function. Process planning provides retailers with a forward-looking view of the total enterprise. It is the basis for determining the fundamental strategies to be employed and the objectives, programs, and resources required. Process improvement is to a business enterprise what thinking is to an individual (Simchi-Levi et al 2008). It supplies the rational means for achieving maximum market-striking power and results from the resources in hand. Transportation planning is closely related to problem solving. Transportation planning constitutes an intentional, unified approach to the solution of various transportation problems. Although the specification of a plan for solving a problem is the first step, execution must accompany planning to achieve results. Planning is neither automatic nor impersonal (Stroh, 2006).
The supplier erroneously believes the customer wanted first morning delivery. They try to develop a system to deliver on the first morning, but the system they devise can do no better than the second. They fail to control it adequately, and deliver on the third. Furthermore, they make no effort to tell the customer anything about the system’s capabilities. The customers are happy; they are getting the service they wanted. The supplier, however, is wasting effort (and cost) trying to provide a service greater than what the customer wants. Perhaps the hardest part of the quality implementation program is to design the process to be sure that the service provided consistently meets the specifications that management has developed from the customer’s requirements. The evolution toward using quality as a strategic weapon demands effective design efforts. Inventory is a barrier to improvement in customer value (Stroh, 2006).
Technology [permits flexibility and is used as a strategic tool. In this case, the most significant trend is the growing recognition of third party logistics as a means to creating customer value. Also, business firms can direct greater resources toward logistics and that the senior logistics executive is becoming more visible and involved on a firm wide basis. As a result, logistics managers have been actively repositioning their efforts in the interests of facilitating cross-functional coordination in order to best serve the customer. It is encouraging to see logistics managers work closely and consistently with their counterparts in areas such as marketing, manufacturing, finance, and general management (Stroh, 2006). This type of activity is a significant factor in helping to eliminate the so-called functional-silo syndrome that has been so negative and characteristic of the past. The rational of using technology can be identified by three success factors: effectiveness, efficiency and differentiation. Efficiency refers to the organization’s ability to provide the desired product/service mix at a level of cost that is acceptable to the customer. This concept implicitly identifies the need for logistics to manage its resources wisely and to leverage expense into customer value whenever possible. The interests of efficiency are well served, for example, by the current interest in and trend toward the use of activity-based cost management systems (Murphy and Wood, 2005).
The main benefits of the technology are (1) lower total cost (through logistics improvements), (2) faster response to changing volume needs (through the closer location), and (3) faster provision of technical consulting help. They have also implemented the process changes enhancing value to be delivered to the customer and reducing sacrifice (Stroh, 2006). Similarly, manufacturing decisions that appear to reduce cost may in fact be unwise from a global system perspective. Product in long runs or delaying a switchover may reduce efficiencies and unit costs. As a result, revenue can be lost owing to the inability of manufacturing to respond quickly to customer needs (Murphy and Wood, 2005).
Firms such as Xerox, L. L. Bean, Frito-Lay, and McDonald’s are use third party logistics services. While these companies would surely agree that product quality and consistency are of exceptional importance, they would argue that the elements of logistical service also create significant value for their customers. This viewpoint is in sharp contrast to the traditional, yet fast-changing, marketing paradigm relating to the importance of the tangible product form itself. For instance, faced with a declining market share owing to increased offshore competition, it was clear that Xerox needed to consider some set of innovative logistical initiatives in order to achieve customer satisfaction (Murphy and Wood, 2005). Although Xerox targeted the high end of the market, its offshore competition was targeting the lower end. In order to attack the low end successfully to strengthen its market share, Xerox needed to rethink and rationalize its overall delivery system. A direct consequence of its involvement in third-party relationships is that Xerox has improved its ability to meet its customers’ needs. The delivery process has been streamlined, and overall costs have been reduced. Xerox sales personnel, no longer needed to train customers, can concentrate on selling and customer requirements. As a result, and with the assistance of Ryder, Xerox trimmed its logistics network from ten to two equipment logistics centers. Logistics providers performed a number of activities such as supplying warehouse equipment; performing preinstallation assembly tasks; delivering and installing product; training Xerox customers in the use of the equipment; and removing old equipment and preparing for shipping to specific locations (Murphy and Wood, 2005).
The rational of using the intermediaries in global logistics systems are (1) focus on core strengths, (2) technological flexibility, (3) other flexibilities (geographical locations, service offering, flexibility in resources and workforce size). Logistics represents a comprehensive process, one that not only incorporates a wide range of activities, but that also evidences key linkages with other strategic systems. The logistics function is changing rapidly as firms apply significant resources to effective management in this important area. Intermediaries provide unique and meaningful opportunities for achieving best net value (Murphy and Wood, 2005).
A role of a third-party provider of logistics services is evidence that a well-managed logistics operation can create value for a customer regardless of whether logistics is performed internally or externally to the firm. The actual degree of value added is dependent on how a company leverages its logistics resources and the ability to recognize the effect a third-party relationship can have. In both companies, a high priority is also placed on satisfying the needs of firms which are internal as well as external to the firm. For many global companies, the main problem is that a number of new tools and approaches have emerged as proactive elements of the logistics, but they are unable to invest in new technologies and resources. Using intermediaries, the companies are able to take advantage of the new strategic management process. Third party logistics (intermediaries) allow technological flexibility. “As requirements change and technology advances, and technology such as RFID become more prevalent, the better third party logistics providers update their information technology and equipment” (Simchi-Levi et al 2008, p. 251). Representative logistics activities include supply chain management (including inventory and materials management), transportation, and customer service (Murphy and Wood, 2005).
Logistics and Quality
Today the prosperity of each enterprise is dependent on the interplay of many factors. The analysis of the recent activities of the companies has proved that the successes of companies are the issue that has undergone many changes. The introduction of TOM helped to change view on how both quality and business management are handled by the companies. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the Total Quality Management Implementation process and its major specifics (Beckford, 2002). These techniques are based on the diligent work of both workers and managers whose main objective becomes maximization of productivity and quality of the products. In general, the process includes several rather important procedures:
- monitoring of staff,
- the improvement of customer service.
The idea is based on the successful cultivation of Kaizen issue. The issue is concerned with the idea of company’s improvement that is being fulfilled with the involvement of all members of a company.
Just-In-Time, Quick Response, and Efficient Consumer Response are relatively new approaches to quality management. The main objective of this process is the improvement of company’s quality and performance. Traditionally, the process is aimed at meeting and exceeding the customer expectations. The final objective can be met by integrating all quality-related functions and processes that have occurred throughout the organization. Usually, the company bases its work on the use of a holistic approach to managing quality design and development. The same thing can be told about quality control and maintenance of the general processes that are projected to improve the overall performance of the company. Recent times have brought many approaches to management. Just-in-time (JIT) management principles have become the main principles that are used in modern managerial practices. The major part of the concepts that exist in the company have been existing during a relatively long period of time. The main specifics of JIT program is that it is directed towards ensuring that the right quantities of the people. Many people perceive this program as a material-control system (Beckford, 2002).
A great emphasis is put on training people in tools and techniques knowledge. So, knowledge of safety rules at working station by workers would eliminate accidents at work, thus making process more effective and productive. With the help of quality control process chart, a safety officer is able to analyze his actions directed onto training people in safety issues. For instance, safety issues are very important in glassmaking plant, where all the working processes can be analyzed with the help of Plan-Do-Check-Act strategy. Introduction and usage of different safety signs in the plant can be analyzed for effectiveness and practical value of such practice. Thus safety issues in a plant can be checked with the help of fishbone diagram. For example, there is a cause – workers do not know safety rules. The effect is frequent incidents in the plant. The cause can be steaming either from people, or process, or equipment. If equipment is not working properly, the incidents at working station could be also an effect. The scheme is divided into cause and effect parts, where cause can contain such categories as people, methods, machines, materials, environment, measurements, etc. Usually there would be found a relation between causes and effects in the diagram. Manufacturing and service quality improvements are an natural outcome of attaining the time reductions and balance shown above. To be sure, total quality is not simply a matter of putting things together right or serving consumers with speed, accuracy, and courtesy. Leadership in design, service, a atmosphere, rides and assistance is extremely important in the quality actually built into the product. Customer satisfaction lies not only in what is done at each organization and product development stage but equally in how the stages are linked to each other. Certainly, poor understanding of customers’ requirements and needs limits the potential of later stages. A poorly-designed service harshly constrains how much quality can be built into it, just as there is only so much promotion one can do with a poorly-made service (Calingo, 1996). Quality is essential to establishing a culture of quality and to focusing attention on customer satisfaction as a basic organizational value. The purpose underlying all quality efforts, of customer satisfaction enhancement efforts in general, is, at one level, to establish both methods and philosophies of working which lead to improved outputs (quality and value) as well as techniques for keeping track of progress toward these output aims. At another, more important and more permanent stage, quality assurance becomes internalized and not continues as an introduced possibility. In three organizations, employee responsibility for quality and the realization that lapses in quality, in effect, break the ties that bind one activity to the other, are the final aims of a successful quality program. Though customer satisfaction is by no means a notion, grounded as it is in specific needs, resources and actions, there is a sense of order underlying it and a sense of responsibility in its achievement that changes physical assessment (Calingo, 1996).
New relations with partners
For global companies, geographical flexibility is one of the main success factors and sources of competitive advantage. In some cases, “suppliers are requiring rapid replenishment, which in term, may require regional warehousing” (Simchi-Levi et al, 2008, p. 251). Also, linkages with other areas of the firm such as marketing and production/operations management are prevalent and meaningful. Issues related to cross-functional coordination and integration. The third party logistics process has several unique characteristics. First, it is comprehensive, extending from the original source of raw materials to the location of the final customer. In fact, the logistics process can, and does, span organizational boundaries in terms of encompassing very comprehensive, industry wide channels of supply and distribution (Christopher, 2005). The second characteristic is that it pertains to the flows of both product and information, and considers each as essential to the value-creating process. This concept has received broad acceptance and acknowledges the critical role of logistics in the overall area of information processing and management.
Recent years, many shipping companies sign cooperation agreements and enter strategic alliances in order to improve their market position and sustain competitive advantage. Many shipping companies form strategic alliances with channel partners including suppliers, customers, or intermediaries such as providers of transportation and/or warehousing services. Additional benefits to both parties typically include asset productivity, operational effectiveness, and cost efficiencies. Moreover, it is not unusual for one channel member to promote the existence of a meaningful relationship with some prestigious firm with which a strategic alliance has been developed (Christopher, 2005). The net impact is that logistical service is becoming recognized as an essential element of customer satisfaction in a growing number of product markets today. The intermediaries provide certain types of products and/or services that reduce costs and improve services. Thus, it is accurate to think of logistics as one of the strategic systems responsible for company’s image and brand loyalty. Although this premise should be of interest to people who are involved with logistics on a daily basis, it will also serve to highlight some of the value-creating properties of logistics for the benefit of others throughout the organization. In the interest of focusing attention on the new role of logistics management, the following four propositions have been formulated around key issues that need to be addressed. It is evident that the process improvement involves (1) corporate values and objectives; (2) the appropriate personnel; (3) personal values and objectives; (4) marketing opportunities; (5) marketing barriers; (6) the business organization and its resources; and (7) the time horizon and space dimension (Cohen and Roussel, 2004). All of these factors must be combined in an integrated network of activities. In each company subsystem, concessions must be made in order to achieve a unified plan. Temporal and spatial relations are particularly important). The major goal of transportation programming is programming the marketing mix (Drensek and Grubb, 1995).
Logistics is used to gain competitive advantage as it complements, rather than obstructs, company’s marketing objectives. A well-managed logistics operation can create value for a customer regardless of whether logistics is performed internally or externally to the firm. The actual degree of value added is dependent on how a company leverages its logistics resources and the ability to recognize the effect a third-party relationship can have. Strategic alliances through the supply chain are attracting many followers in other countries because they enable companies to carry out concurrent engineering and practice agile management. The follower strategy entails intensive competition in growth areas, and if a company can survive domestic competition it can achieve competitive strength in the world market. The development of partnership arrangements with suppliers, customers, other channel members, and external third parties is explained by the interest of achieving desired results in logistics. The overall impact of this trend is that customer service policies, as well as the wide range of logistics sourcing and procurement systems, have been overhauled and modernized in meaningful and productive ways. Transportation excellence is the main factor which helps many companies to save costs and deliver the best possible quality of services to their customers. Competition and pressures to reduce costs are also stimuli.
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Aberdares National Park
Information on Aberdares National Park in Kenya.
1. General Information. The colonialists recognized the Aberdares as fertile grounds for the growth of coffee, tea, wheat and flowers who ultimately had no regard for the local population. As such the infamous Mau Mau leader and freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi had his headquarters in the thick forest of the Aberdare mountain range. The Aberdare National park forms part of the mountain ranges, which peak at a height of 4000m above sea level. The Aberdares are part of Kenya's well-known mountains.
2. Getting There. The park is located 160km north of Nairobi. It is readily accessible on tarmac from Nyeri (154 km from Nairobi), Nyahururu (188km from Nairobi) and Naivasha (87km from Nairobi). For those who prefer flying, Mweiga airstrip next to the park headquarters and Nyeri airstrip are of service. The Park can be accessed via four gates: Wanderis, Kiandorogo, Shamata and the Rhino gate.
3. Major attractions. The park is host to a myriad of animals: elephants, lions, rhinos, black leopards, the elusive but breath taking bongo antelope, monkeys, warthog can all be seen roaming the park. A note on the rhino: rhinos are a protected species especially the black variety and the Aberdares National Park is host to the few surviving ones. The Kenya Wildlife Services is charged with protecting them.
Other attractions that await tourists are the three falls: Chania, Gura and Karura which have been created by the rivers Karura and Chania. Karura falls have the deepest drop marked at 300metres and have two viewing stations.
Thought of as a blessing in disguise, the park experiences heavy rainfalls that can put off safari companies and individual travelers but not the zealous tourist who can indulge in fishing in the Karura and Chania rivers. Nocturnal game viewing provides good entertainment and learning experience. For those into meditation in the wild, walks in the moorlands, twin hills elephant hills and Table Mountains can enable this.
Vegetation in the park is thick, characterized by wooded hills and mountains making it easy for one to get lost. The mountain air on the other hand is fresh and clean and the Aberdare rainforest is a water catchment area for the whole of Nairobi.
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PLORERA IN ENGLISH – This article will teach you what the word “plorera” is in the English translation and its meaning.
Table of contents
- What is the meaning of Plorera in Tagalog? (Plorera Kahulugan)
- What is Plorera in English?
- What is the Meaning of Plorera In English? (Flower vase)
- Example Sentences of Plorera in Tagalog
- Example Sentences of Plorera (Flower vase)
- For More English and Tagalog Translations
There are a couple of words that could translate into “plorera.” However, the use of these words depends on the context of the sentence; therefore, be mindful of what you write.
What is the meaning of Plorera in Tagalog? (Plorera Kahulugan)
Ang plorera ay galing sa salitang Espanyol na florera, ito ay ginagamit upang lalagyan ng mga bulaklak upang bigyang disenyo ang tahanan. Karaniwang yari ito sa kristal, plastik, o porselana.
Dagdag pa rito, plorera rin ang tawag sa babaeng nagtitinda ng mga bulaklak at plorero naman kapag ang nagtitinda ay lalaki.
Plorera Synonyms in Tagalog (Plorera Kasingkahulugan)
Here are some synonyms of Plorera in Tagalog
- Lalagyan ng bulaklak
What is Plorera in English?
The English word for “plorera” is directly translated as “flower vase.”
What is the Meaning of Plorera In English? (Flower vase)
The phrase “flower vase” is used to hold flowers or as an ornament to decorate the home. It is usually made of crystal, plastic, or porcelain.
Plorera Synonyms in English (Flower Vase)
Here are some synonyms of “flower vase“
- Flower holder
Example Sentences of Plorera in Tagalog
Here are the example sentences of plorera in Tagalog.
|Sentences of Plorera in Tagalog|
|Ingatan ang mga plorera baka mabasag.|
|Mukhang mamahalin ang mga plorerang ito.|
|Ang plorerang ito ay pamana pa sa akin ng aking ina.|
|Napaka-ganda ng plorerang iyong nabili.|
|Maganda ang disenyo ng inyong plorera.|
Example Sentences of Plorera (Flower vase)
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Here are some example sentences of “Plorera” (Flower vase).
- Be careful not to break the flower vases.
- These flower vases look expensive.
- This flower vase is my mother’s legacy.
- The vase you bought is very nice.
- The design of your flower vase is beautiful.
Ang plorera ay ginagamit upang lalagyan ng mga bulaklak upang bigyang disenyo ang tahanan.
Flower vase is used to hold flowers or as an ornament and it is usually made of crystal, plastic, or porcelain.
For More English and Tagalog Translations
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In summary, we have discussed the meaning and translation of the word “plorera.” We also provided example sentences in English and Tagalog.
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On Wednesday, the White House COVID-19 Response Team said initial data indicates the new Omicron COVID-19 variant is spreading in America, but present vaccine boosters appear to be effective enough in combating it.
According to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the new variant – Omicron – is in almost 36 US states and makes up 3 percent of all coronavirus cases, although it’s higher in some locations, such as New Jersey and New York, where it might for as much 13 percent.
While the more virulent Delta variant still dominates America at nearly 97 percent of all American cases analyzed, the Omicron version is swiftly gaining ground. According to the US public health agency, the new COVID-19 variant represented an estimated 2.9 percent of all infections sequenced past week, up from 0.4 percent the earlier week.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House Chief Medical Adviser, and Jeff Zients, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, cited data showing being fully inoculated along with a booster dose is the best way to fight off the new Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
Fauci added that their COVID-19 booster vaccine regimens work against highly mutated Omicron. So currently, there is no need for a variant-specific vaccine or booster.
Moreover, Walensky cited recent data from the United States nursing homes displaying unimmunized or fully inoculated residents without boosters were tenfold more likely to contract the fatal COVID than residents fully immunized with boosters. Fauci cited the most real-world research showing booster shots can boost anti-body protection against Omicron by as much as 35fold.
When did Omicron variant arrive in the United States?
California was first to report an Omicron variant case in America on 1st December in a citizen who flew into San Francisco from the Republic of South Africa. But on Friday, the U.S. CDC said they’d confirmed an earlier Omicron-case in an individual who developed symptoms on 15th November. It isn’t apparent when Omicron first arrived in America.
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In addition, Zients cited agency statistics presenting an uninoculated person is eight-fold more probable to be hospitalized and fourteen times more possible to die from COVID than a fully immunized person. He said that the latest research from the Yale University of Public Health displays American inoculation program prevented 10.3M COVID-related hospitalizations and saved around 1.1M American lives.
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator said 14M people Americans got booster doses in the first half of December, with 26M total doses in arms during the same time. Overall, the Team reports over 200M American residents are now fully protected against COVID-19, and over 55M have received boosters.
On Friday, the CDC said that one inoculated person had been hospitalized with Omicron variant, but no fatalities have been reported among the forty-three COVID patients that have been followed up on. So far, the most common symptoms are fatigue, cough, a runny nose, and congestion. Among those, 58 percent were between 18 and 39 years of age, and 79 percent were fully immunized with at least two weeks before the onset of symptoms or testing COVID-positive.
Level 4 COVID-19 Alert in the U.K.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 33 percent of the 43 patients traveled internationally during the two weeks days before developing symptoms or testing COVID-19-positive, indicating that community transmission is underway in America.
Furthermore, on Sunday, the United Kingdom issued a Level 4 COVID-19 alert, a step below the highest caution level. On Monday, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the U.K., confirmed the first Omicron-death in Britain, cautioning that the U.K. faces a tidal wave of Omicron cases.
Sajid Javed, the U.K. Health Secretary, said that the new variant is spreading at a phenomenal rate, with infections increasing twofold every few days. Recent week, he cautioned that Britain faces over 1M Omicron-cases by the end of the year.
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Macs and iPhones (iPads too) come with a fantastic Reminders app that automatically syncs through iCloud. Here’s how to make the most of this app so you’re never likely to forget something important again.
The Reminders app is super simple to use and because it syncs across both OS X and iOS platforms, if you add a reminder on your Mac, you’ll be able to see it on your iPhone or iPad, and vice-versa. It seamlessly syncs everything to iCloud so you never need to replicate your efforts.
This is especially nice when you suddenly remember you need to buy milk or there’s an important meeting coming up and you’re sitting in front of your Mac or have your iPhone in hand. Simply add the reminder to the device and then it will be on everything that is connected to the same iCloud account.
Today, we want to take a look at Reminders on Mac and iPhone, show you how to add, edit, and share them, as well as make sure you’ve got everything set up so it all syncs properly.
Reminders on Mac
Reminders is already installed on your Mac so you just need to fire it up and add a few things to get started.
The Reminders app is laid out in two columns. The left column shows you your lists. Note that it says ‘iCloud” at the top of your lists, meaning that anything there will be synced to iCloud.
The right column contains the contents of your lists. To add anything to a list, simply click the “+” in the upper-right corner, or click on a new line.
To edit a reminder, click on the text so you get a cursor, and you can then fix it if it so appears as you want.
Click on the little “i” symbol to access things like when you want the reminder to alert you and when, or whether it should repeat, and when it should end. You can also set the priority, and add any notes you find pertinent.
If you right-click on a list, you can, among other things, rename it, delete it, and “complete” all the reminders within it.
To start a new list, simply click the “Add List” button at the bottom-left corner and then give it a name.
If you want to share a list, then you will need to click the little icon to the right of the list as shown in the screenshot below. Then you can add people with whom you want to share it. When you’ve added everyone, click “Done”.
As we mentioned, everything contained in these lists will then be synced to iCloud so you can then see them on your iPhone or iPad. Let’s now move on and discuss how Reminders works on the iPhone.
Reminders on iPhone
Usually when you open the Reminders app, you will probably see one of your lists. In order to access your other lists, you will need to tap at the bottom where you see them stacked (under where it says “Show Completed”).
When you see your lists, it will show how many reminders are in each one, whether there are any that are overdue, and so forth. If you want to rearrange the order or your lists, tap, hold, and drag it to the location you desire.
When you open a list, you’ll see it’s contents, and you can then add to it by tapping the “+”. When you tap the “Edit” button, you can change the list’s color and share it just as you can share in OS X.
The “Share with…” screen will show you who you are sharing a list with and their status. If you tap on a name, you will be able to see their contact info and you can also elect to stop sharing with them.
Finally, if you want to adjust how reminders sync and which list is the default, then you can open up the Reminders settings and change things.
In addition to getting reminders on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, you may also get reminder notifications on your Apple Watch. Let us take a moment then to discuss how to change your reminder notification preferences.
Adjusting Reminders on Apple Watch
To adjust how Reminders notify you on Apple Watch, open the Watch app on your iPhone and tap open “Notifications”, then tap open “Reminders”.
Now you can select how Reminders will notify you, either by mirroring your iPhone or setting up a custom design.
If you elect to go the custom route, you can choose whether your Watch shows you alerts, have sounds, and if there’s any haptic feedback.
Making Sure it Syncs
None of this syncing stuff does you any good if it isn’t actually working, which means that if you create a reminder list on your Mac and it doesn’t appear on your iPhone or vice-versa, then you might not have syncing correctly enabled.
To check your Mac’s sync settings, first open up the iCloud system preferences and make sure “Reminders” is checked.
On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings, and then tap open “iCloud” and make sure “Reminders” is enabled.
The other thing you need to ensure is that your Mac and your iOS device are logged into the same iCloud account. Obviously, if you are syncing to separate accounts, then nothing will work as intended.
With that said, you should be able to start creating to-do, shopping, grocery, and other important reminder lists. Now, next time you’re out and about, you can whip out your iPhone and check to make sure you’re remembering everything.
Don’t forget, you can also have Siri add stuff to your reminders lists such as “Hey Siri, remind me tomorrow to pick up my dry cleaning” or “Hey Siri, add grapes to my grocery list.” Siri is helpful in that regard with a lot of things and it really pays to learn how to use it.
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On 12 September 2020, the Singapore Convention on Mediation will officially enter into force, providing a uniform and efficient framework for international settlement agreements resulting from mediation. In other words, from 12 September 2020, a settlement agreement between a Vietnamese business and a Singapore business made by a mediation center in Vietnam will be recognized and enforced in Singapore.
After many efforts, the Singapore Singapore Convention on Mediation (“Singapore Convention” or “Convention”) was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 December 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Aiming to facilitate international trade and promote the use of mediation for the resolution of cross-border commercial disputes, the Singapore Convention provides the legal framework for the recognition and enforcement of international settlement agreements. After coming into force, the Singapore Convention will increase the security and effectiveness in recognizing and implementing the international settlement agreements reached through mediation. In other words, the settlement agreement concluded by parties through mediation will become binding and enforceable in the member states in accordance with a simplified and streamlined procedure.
53 signatory countries and 6 member states
Since its opening for signature in Singapore on 7 August 2019, the Convention has attracted the signatures of 46 countries, thereby demonstrating the potential for mediation as a method of resolving trade disputes apart from court and arbitration. Until now, the number of signatories has increased to 53 countries, including major trading partners of Vietnam such as the U.S., China, Korea, … and some ASEAN countries such as Brunei, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore. The first six countries to deposit their respective instruments of ratification of the Convention were: Belarus, Ecuador, Fiji, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Consequently, from 12 September 2020 the Convention will enter into force in these six member countries. In the future, when other signatory countries ratify this Convention, the scope of its influence will be broader.
Settlement agreements in Vietnam can be enforced in Singapore
Although Vietnam has not acceded to the Convention, the implementation of the Convention in countries that are Vietnam’s trading partners in the region and around the world will have an impact on and contribute to promoting mediation in Vietnam. For example, from 12 September 2020, a settlement agreement between a Vietnamese business and a Singaporean business made by a mediation center in Vietnam will be recognized and enforced in Singapore.
From now on, businesses will have greater assurance that mediation is an appropriate and convenient method of dispute resolution. This is a milestone marking a new development step of international commercial mediation and a premise for this method to continue to expand its sphere of influence and enhance the role in international dispute settlement.
To commemorate the entry into force of the Singapore Convention, the Singapore Ministry of Law and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) will co-host a digital event at https: // www .singaporeconvention.org/. This event will take place at 1200hrs GMT+8 SG Time on Saturday, 12 September 2020 (1100hrs GMT+7 VN Time).
See the contents of the Convention at https://uncitral.un.org/sites/uncitral.un.org/files/singapore_convention_eng.pdf.
https://www.singaporeconvention.org/convention/status/ accessed on September 10, 2020.
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While some studies have observed that those who follow a vegetarian diet have a lower risk of developing cancer as a whole, no individual study has been able to show with enough reliability that vegetarians have a lower risk of developing specific cancers (eg colorectal cancer, breast cancer or prostate cancer).
Are Vegetarians less likely to get cancer?
Fresh evidence from the largest study to date to investigate dietary habits and cancer has concluded that vegetarians are less likely to develop cancer of the blood than meat eaters and are less likely to develop cancer overall.
Is vegetarian diet good for cancer patients?
While a completely vegetarian diet is not required to build a healthy eating pattern, you can reduce your cancer risk by choosing a variety of vegetables, fruits, beans, and whole grains while limiting red meat according to the American Institute for Cancer Research’s (AICR) Guidelines for Cancer Survivors.
What do vegetarians die from?
Death rate ratios for vegetarians compared to non-vegetarians were calculated for ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, cancers of the stomach, large bowel, lung, breast and prostate, and for all causes of death.
What is the best diet to prevent cancer?
Population studies have repeatedly suggested that certain types of produce — dark green vegetables; tomatoes; citrus; cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage; and carotene-rich ones such as carrots and cantaloupe — reduce overall cancer risk.
Do vegetarians live longer?
This may explain why a recent review found that while vegetarians are more likely to live longer than the general population, their life expectancy is no higher than that of similarly health-conscious meat eaters ( 23 ).
What are the 11 cancer causing foods?
Cancer causing foods
- Processed meat. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is “convincing evidence” that processed meat causes cancer. …
- Red meat. …
- Alcohol. …
- Salted fish (Chinese style) …
- Sugary drinks or non-diet soda. …
- Fast food or processed foods. …
- Fruit and vegetables. …
What is a good breakfast for cancer patients?
The American Cancer Society recommends eating at least 2½ cups of vegetables and fruits each day, limiting red and processed meats, and choosing whole-grain instead of refined-grain foods. A healthy breakfast focuses on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and lean proteins.
How can I boost my immune system to fight cancer?
These five science-backed tips can help keep your immune system as strong as possible during cancer treatment.
- Sleep Well. Aim for 7 hours of sleep a night. …
- Eat Smart. …
- Get Moving. …
- Manage Stress. …
- Stay Away From Illness.
Is rice bad for cancer patients?
Long-term consumption of total rice, white rice or brown rice was not associated with risk of developing cancer in US men and women.
Do humans need meat?
There is no nutritional need for humans to eat any animal products; all of our dietary needs, even as infants and children, are best supplied by an animal-free diet. … A South African study found not a single case of rheumatoid arthritis in a community of 800 people who ate no meat or dairy products.
What is the average lifespan of a vegetarian?
A team of researchers at Loma Linda University in the United States has shown vegetarian men live for an average of 10 years longer than non-vegetarian men — 83 years compared to 73 years. For women, being vegetarian added an extra 6 years to their lives, helping them reach 85 years on average.
What is the life expectancy of a vegetarian?
Many large population studies have found that vegetarians and vegans live longer than meat eaters: According to the Loma Linda University study, vegetarians live about seven years longer and vegans about fifteen years longer than meat eaters.
Do healthy people get cancer?
Can I make sure I don’t get cancer? No, but living a healthy life does make it less likely. There are some things that can increase the risk of cancer that we can’t change. This includes things like getting older and damaged DNA inherited from a parent.
What is the name of the fruit that cures cancer?
Graviola (Annona muricata), also called soursop, is a fruit tree that grows in tropical rainforests. People have long used its fruit, roots, seeds, and leaves to treat all kinds of ailments, including cancer. Modern scientists have been studying the plant for 50 years. They see potential promise in graviola.
Can you eat eggs if you have cancer?
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Patients who experience distal biceps tendon avulsions generally benefit from surgical intervention. Compared with nonoperative treatment, surgery has shown improved muscle endurance as well as increased flexion and supination strength. Although a number of surgical techniques exist, repair of the distal biceps through a single incision is gaining popularity. This may be due in part to patient preference and emerging technologies such as cortical button fixation, suture anchors, and intraosseous screws. In this report, we present a simple technique for anatomically repairing distal biceps injuries using an intramedullary tenodesis button. This technique has the benefit of using a single unicortical drill hole in the radius while allowing the surgeon to sequentially tighten the tendon to its desired level of tension. When appropriate surgical steps are followed, it can be completed in a reliable, safe, and efficient manner through a single incision.
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by Bishop Dennis Sullivan
Bishop of the Camden Diocese
There is a large attractive billboard located on Route 130 South at the Brooklawn Circle. It looms over the road. Its colorful graphics are eye catching and its message riveting. It certainly did that for me and for my two companions as we recently drove past that intersection. It caught our attention.
Ten baby fingers are displayed with this message: “I have unique fingerprints nine weeks from conception.” Think about it. Those unique and life-lasting human markings on the skin, fingerprints, are already in place at the ninth week of the life of a baby in the womb of his or her mother.
Human fingerprints are absolutely individual; no two sets of fingerprints among the entire human race are alike. In the beginning of the third month of pregnancy that unique human identification is in place on the fingers, a personal marking for life.
We believe that the hand of God is involved in the creation of each human life from the moment of conception. The hand of God touches the infant in the womb and provides personal finger-prints on the hand.
This week marks the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision which made it legal to destroy human life in the womb, a tragic anniversary that marks a disgraceful page in the history of our nation which professes that all are created equal. Evidently, all does not apply to the human being in the womb.
As far as I know, no one has ever proved that what is in the womb is not a human being. Only when the human being emerges from the womb into the world is it recognized in our society as a human person. That is when human life is obvious and needs no proof. Once outside the womb human life is guaranteed its rights. Inside the womb those rights do not apply.
What is the difference between who is inside the womb and who is outside the womb? The same exact set of fingerprints are found on the fingers of who is inside the womb and who is outside the womb. There is no difference.
The teaching of our Church is very clear. Life is created by God. Life is from God. Life is sustained by God and returns to God. Whatever threatens life in all its wonderful variety of cultural expressions and colors is a threat to God who is life’s origin, sustenance and destiny. Human life is sacred and should be respected because God has created it in the image of God, as the Book of Genesis puts it. Human life has a God-given value and dignity. Too many do not accept this.
Our Holy Father recently said, “Things have a price and can be sold but people have dignity because they are created in the image and likeness of God; they are worth more than things and are above price.”
In the womb and outside the womb it is the same human life which demands respect and which has God-given rights. Unfortunately, in our country those rights do not apply to inside the womb. Thousands of people of good will and faith gathered in Washington D.C. on Thursday, Jan. 22, for the March for Life. Many of those who were unable to join the marchers accompanied us in prayer and even with sacrifices. Your prayers and sacrifices have tremendous value. The abortion tragedy in our country has resulted in a disregard for human life and human values that has unleashed an avalanche against life in our society that is frightening.
For example, in our state of New Jersey there is a bill before the legislature to allow physician-assisted suicide. In effect, killing the sick. What’s next? I shutter to think what could unravel! Perhaps the disabled? This culture of death which surrounds us cannot be ignored nor wished away. We need to keep bothering society and our elected leaders with our call for the right to life. In our personal lives and our parishes we need to put into practice what we believe about the Right to Life.
There are many wonderful examples of right-to-life efforts in our diocese. Let me mention a few that recently came to my attention. I am so proud to be bishop of these parishioners. At Immaculate Conception in Bridgeton, in response to Code Blue last week during bitterly freezing winter cold weather, they opened their parish hall for overnight use by the homeless. Providing a warm place for those who live on the streets is a right-to-life act. At Christ our Light Parish I heard an-announcements last Sunday about upcoming parish missions to Appalachia and to Honduras. Missions directed at assisting the poor in those areas are right-to-life inspired. At the conclusion of our prayer for Christian Unity at Saint Mary’s in Cherry Hill I joined the parish youth group who brought delicious and nutritious warm foods for supper for the men in the overnight shelter. Feeding the hungry affirms life.
Last Saturday I confirmed some of God’s special children from Saint John of God Religious Education program. Their families beam with the same pride I see in the parish Confirmation ceremonies around the diocese. These special children are loved and respected. Their lives are of the same value as the lives of all the children of the diocese. They have as much a right to life as all children do.
The culture of death is an infectious disease spreading rapidly in our society, but thanks be to God there are those, like the examples I referred to, who witness against the culture of death. Among those witnesses were the Marchers in our Nation’s capital on Thursday, Jan. 22. Buses from our diocese went down to Washington D.C. with God’s good people from our diocese and participated in the annual Right to Life March, each marcher with his or her distinct set of fingerprints since their ninth week in their mother’s wombs.
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EITI response to Covid-19: Call on governments and companies to protect workers & communities while upholding transparency
"Covid-19: Likely impacts, wider implications and our response", 27 March 2020.
...We recognise that countries around the world are facing a deeply challenging and unpredictable situation caused by the spread of the virus. At the same time, the upheaval in the markets for oil and other commodities will have far reaching consequences for governments which depend on revenues from the extractives sector...Under current price scenarios, we can expect exploration and the development of new projects to be delayed or cancelled. We can also anticipate closures and restructuring of some existing projects. Companies and their employees and suppliers will be affected. Vulnerable communities who depend on extractives operations will be among those most severely impacted.
It is inevitable that in some countries there will be short-term delays in EITI implementation...The International Secretariat is working closely with national stakeholders to respond and adapt to these challenges...the 47th EITI Board meeting in June will be held virtually...One lesson which has been learnt from the current public health situation is the need for transparency. In this time of profound uncertainty, the EITI’s work to promote greater transparency and good governance is as important as ever.
...Despite commodity price falls, the extractives sector remains an engine for growth in many countries and a source of much-needed funding for countries in handling the current health crisis. There will be a need to bring stability to the industry after this period of crisis. We see a role for dialogue and collective approaches in this task...we urge all stakeholders to go about their business in a way which safeguards public health, and takes account of the gravity of the situation... | <urn:uuid:2118be39-1dee-4462-ba65-047e5ad372a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.business-humanrights.org/de/neuste-meldungen/eiti-response-to-covid-19-call-on-governments-and-companies-to-protect-workers-communities-while-upholding-transparency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940436 | 354 | 1.632813 | 2 |
On average, how long does it take you to write a blog post of, say, 500 words? On a good day, you might get one published – writing, adding images and links, and proofreading included – within an hour, maybe even less. On a bad day, especially if you do not have any topic in mind yet, it might take you double that time.
If you make a living out of writing online, then you know very well the importance of being able to write content as quickly as possible without skimping on quality. That’s what this article is about – how to make writing content easier for you.
Have a running list of topics.
Back in the day, I would drum up a topic when I sat down to write. It was like an on-the-spot brainstorming session, albeit on my own. Not long after I started getting more work, I realized that my habits had to change. What I was used to just didn’t work, especially when I had several articles to finish in a day.
The result is this: I have a running list of topics for every blog/client that that I write.
I use Evernote for this purpose, with a notebook dedicated to article ideas. Whenever an idea hits me, I immediately open Evernote and add it to the relevant section. The great thing about Evernote is that I have it installed on every device – the laptop, the iPad, and the iPhone; so, wherever I may be, whenever, I can take note of an idea when one comes up.
Having this running list of topics makes it easier to write because you do not have to sit there and read and think about what you have to write. Just look at your list, and you already have a headstart.
You might also want to read: 5 Tips For Writing Articles That Will Take Your Blog To The Next Level
Do research before writing.
While having a topic or title ready any time is handy, it is also good practice to do some legwork before you actually start writing blog posts. I do have to admit that some writers may disagree, and I understand. We all have different creative processes, but in my experience, doing the research and putting all the material I need to write an article makes it easier and faster to write. This may result in a window with a hundred tabs open, but at least sources are within a click’s reach.
Make an outline.
Another thing that some may disagree with is making an outline. Again, this is based on my experience: having an outline – as rough as it may sometimes be – helps me write faster.
Having an outline basically cuts down my writing time drastically because the ideas are already laid out in a (more or less) cohesive manner. The sections are laid out. The flow of the article is there. All I need to do is “fill in the blanks”. If you do not have this habit, I highly recommend that you try it out. You might find that “filling in the blanks” is so much easier than just typing out a whole article without a structure to follow.
This does not mean that the outline is rigid. The flow of the article may change as I write, but the entire writing process is facilitated by having that guide in place from the get go.
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There are a number of reasons why you may want to begin a blog, as well as the reason varies from person to person. While many people begin an individual blog, others wish to enlighten others or establish a professional on the internet presence. For instance, releasing consultant Jane Friedman started a blog site concerning business of composing and swiftly became an assumed leader in her market. Along with people, many business and companies use blogs as a marketing device. Unlike personal blogs, company blog sites concentrate on particular industry-related info as well as are typically run by a team of writers.
While most types of website web content do not call for continuous upgrading, blogging calls for more constant posts. A blog site can be a good search engine optimization tool, as online search engine formulas have a tendency to rate fresher content higher than older material. A blog site that receives regular website traffic is more likely to generate earnings for the site, which subsequently causes a larger audience. The function of blogging is to construct an area and also share understanding. Consequently, you need to consider your target market, in addition to the goals of your business.
Blogs are a wonderful means to reach a broad target market as well as promote a brand. The main function of blogging is to construct awareness as well as traffic and also monetize your blog site. By adding web links to your blog, you can gain a considerable income as well as advertise your service. By addressing client concerns, you’ll be offering potential clients a chance to obtain a better concept of the service or products you’re providing. With a blog, you’ll have the ability to get to a brand-new target market and use even more products or services to them.
The major objective of blog writing is to raise internet search engine web traffic. The more people that watch your blog, the even more money you can make or advertise your company. With more viewers, you can easily generate income off your blog site and utilize it to advertise your organization. The more traffic you have, the simpler it will certainly be to advertise your organization or a brand via your blog site. There are several means to increase your blog site’s seo, and also making use of the leading SEO tools can improve your traffic.
There are numerous factors to start a blog site, however among one of the most typical is to develop a community of followers. This indicates that you require to build a solid area in your niche. It is important to have a strong community. It can be a social networking website as well, and also it can be a great way to get in touch with people. For example, you can produce a listing of individuals who share your interests. This will aid you bring in more visitors.
The objective of a blog site is to create online search engine web traffic. It is not just a way to share yourself to other people, but it also enables you to make more cash with your blog site. There are numerous reasons to begin a blog, as well as making it extra SEO-friendly will enhance its opportunities of getting even more web traffic. Raising the variety of visitors implies you’ll be able to promote your organization via your blog site. The even more viewers you have, the even more readers you’ll have.
An additional factor to begin a blog site is to generate income from it. While blogging can have various programs, the primary goal is to produce internet search engine traffic. The even more people read your web content, the more opportunities you’ll have to generate income or advertise your organization. Boosting your blog site’s search engine optimization will certainly raise your chances of getting even more traffic to your blog site. It will also help you get even more readers, and also this will certainly boost your income. This can be done by enhancing your blog’s search engine optimization.
There are several advantages of blogging. For one, it helps your business drive traffic to your website. If you create a blog site frequently, you’ll have much more chances of getting a higher page ranking in the online search engine. You’ll likewise have a larger audience, which means much more possibilities for making money with your blog site. In other words, the more web traffic, the even more individuals you have, the even more individuals you can promote your business. As well as, the much more visitors, the more opportunity you need to make money from your blog.
Individuals make use of blog sites to engage with others and establish connections. By reading their blogs, they acquire a better understanding of the lives of individuals around the globe. By engaging with their readers, they will certainly be most likely to acquire a product or service. They will certainly additionally learn more about their preferred brands as well as their competitors. Additionally, a blog can be used for promoting a service. You can use your blog to produce even more website traffic. It is necessary to enhance your blog site’s search engine optimization so that it can obtain one of the most from it.
Blogging is the procedure of writing as well as releasing messages on a web site. It is an outstanding tool for promoting your company. A blog enables you to communicate with your visitors. A blog site is an expansion of your site, making it very easy for people to discover your content as well as read your articles. It can also be an exceptional tool for search engine optimization, as internet search engine love fresh web content. You can enhance your positions in search engine result by using the most effective search engine optimization tools for your blog site.
The earliest true blogs started to show up in 1994. These were on the internet diaries shared with the world. Early writers of online journals consisted of Carolyn Burke, Justin Hall, and Claudio Pinhanez. In the year 1996, the general public and media began to focus on the content and layout of these on-line journals. This caused the growth of blogs, including social networks, news websites, and news sources. While it is still tough to monitor the web content of all these internet site, the increase of Twitter has actually made it much easier for people to develop and share their thoughts.
The appeal of blogging has enhanced exponentially. Its popularity has led to the production of new kinds of material. One of one of the most popular uses blog sites is for search engine optimization. Fresh, relevant material is placed greater in search results than older ones, and also this boosts a website’s visibility and also website traffic. The goal of a blog site is to produce an area, and to reflect the area it exists within. There are a wide array of ways to make use of a blog site, as well as many of these can be categorized as individual, expert, or social. Extra resources
Blog sites are used to spread out awareness of important subjects. They can inform clients regarding safety and security problems or bring awareness to a subject. On top of that, they can be a great way to showcase know-how in a certain location. As a business owner, your blog can be a beneficial tool for reaching out to clients. If you can discover the appropriate target market for your blog site, you’ll have the ability to optimize your direct exposure by utilizing a blog site. | <urn:uuid:6c774920-6f7d-458d-a8ac-6620f7683267> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goldcountrybicycletours.com/2022/03/26/quick-tips-concerning-blogging-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960001 | 1,478 | 1.734375 | 2 |
When entering a casino, customers gamble by playing games of chance and skill. While many games are based on luck, the house edge (also known as rake) ensures that the house will always have an edge over the players. Free drinks and cigarettes are common comps at casinos, and the management is often more than happy to give them to big-time players. In addition, a casino will also give its customers free gifts and reduced-fare transportation.
If you want to play casino games, you can visit an online casino, which is not limited to the internet. Online casinos require download of software client, which connects to the casino service provider. This software handles all the contact without the support of the browser. Download-based casinos are faster than web-based counterparts, because the software client caches sound programs and graphics for faster performance. However, the initial download may take a long time, and it may contain malicious software.
Technology is a major factor in casino gaming. Video cameras and computers are routinely used to monitor casino games, and “chip tracking” is a practice that uses betting chips with microcircuitry to monitor wagers minute by minute. Similarly, roulette wheels are monitored and checked for statistical deviations. Some casinos offer enclosed versions of their games, which do not require dealers and allow players to place their bets with the push of a button.
The casino is the most infamous place where you can lose a lot of money. You can win one million dollars and still want to win two more. This greed is what drives the casinos’ profits and allows them to operate as they please. There are ways to cheat or change game settings to beat the house, but the casino rules are designed to favor the casino. If you have a large bankroll, you may be able to get away with cheating, but you should always remember that cheating won’t work.
Casinos are generally run by professional gambling companies that accept bets on games they know they can win. In many cases, the casino will accept the maximum bet a patron is willing to place. This means that the patron cannot win more than the casino can afford to pay. The mathematical expectation for every game in a casino is high, which is why it is so rare for a casino to lose money. However, it doesn’t stop there. To lure big bettors, casinos often offer extravagant inducements, like reduced-fare transportation and free drinks or cigarettes.
A casino’s security is typically divided into two main departments – a physical security force and a specialized surveillance department. The former is tasked with patrolling the casino and responding to calls for assistance. The latter, the casino’s closed-circuit television system, or the “eye in the sky,” is responsible for monitoring the entire casino, and the two work together to ensure the safety of patrons and protect the assets of the casino. These teams work closely together to keep patrons safe and protect the assets of the casino.
It is important to remember that gambling is a form of entertainment. Although it is fun and entertaining, it should be limited to an occasional experience and shouldn’t become an addiction. However, as it becomes more popular and accessible, it can become a serious problem for those who are addicted to it. A person suffering from gambling disorder should speak to a gambling counsellor, who can help them overcome their urge to gamble and get their life back on track.
A gambler’s behavior can be a symptom of depression or other psychological problems. A person may find comfort in gambling, but it can also lead to more serious issues. If you’re suffering from depression, it is important to get professional help and address any underlying issues. For example, a friend or loved one may be able to provide support, and you can talk to them about your problem. The more you can learn about the mental health problems associated with gambling, the less likely you’ll become a victim of them.
Another way to reduce the chances of developing a gambling problem is to limit your child’s exposure to gambling. While you may not want your child to be exposed to your gambling habits, you can limit the amount of time he or she spends in front of the television. By keeping the gambling environment as low as possible, your child won’t be affected by your gambling behavior. If you have a gambling addiction, you should consider getting treatment as soon as possible. | <urn:uuid:6acd2c78-2991-4da8-a04f-ccf89c458e67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://michellesuttonwrites.com/2022/03/27/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961166 | 910 | 1.59375 | 2 |
- President Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night to push for paid leave that was included in the Democrats' sweeping social spending bill.
- The proposed aims to bring the U.S. in line with most other developed countries that already offer these kinds of benefits to workers.
- Though it could still face hurdles, some Democratic leaders and advocates were quick to applaud Biden's mention of paid leave.
President Joe Biden called for passing a new federal paid family and medical leave policy in his State of the Union Address Tuesday night.
However, the timing of when such a law could be put in place is still up in the air.
The policy is part of Democrats' sweeping social spending plan, Build Back Better, that has stalled on Capitol Hill. The party had aimed to pass the legislation through a simple majority. But opposition from some leaders, particularly Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., has dimmed its prospects.
If paid family and medical leave were to go forward, it would bring the U.S. in line with most other developed nations that already have paid leave policies.
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The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 allowed workers to take unpaid time off.
Nine states and Washington, D.C., have enacted their own paid family and medical leave laws, up from four states in 2016, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
While some workers may be able to use these benefits, many are not. Currently, 79% of workers do not have access to a defined paid family leave or caregiving benefit, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. Moreover, 60% do not have medical leave.
The Covid-19 pandemic helped invigorate interest in a national paid leave program. In 2020, a temporary program was created that expanded access to paid sick and caregiving days for Covid-related reasons.
Those measures have expired, and 8.8 million workers missed work in early January due to pandemic-related reasons, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Efforts to include paid family leave in the Democrats' social spending plan have not always been smooth.
The paid leave plan was cut to four weeks from the original 12 weeks last year, after it briefly fell out of the proposal altogether.
Meanwhile, the cost of the plan has still been a concern cited by lawmakers like Manchin. Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office indicate the paid leave measure would cost around $205 billion over 10 years.
Still, some Democratic leaders and advocates were quick to praise Biden's inclusion of the plan in his State of the Union speech.
"From strengthening our supply chains to achieving universal paid family and medical leave, the Ways and Means Committee will keep pushing to support workers and supercharge our ongoing economic rebound," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, said in a statement.
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Benson, Elizabeth P. 1963 Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. 54, cat. 309.
Bliss, Robert Woods 1957 Pre-Columbian Art: The Robert Woods Bliss Collection. Text and Critical Analyses by S. K. Lothrop, Joy Mahler and William F. Foshag. Phaidon, New York. p. 268, cat. 267, pl. CXIII.
"Indigenous Art of the Americas", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, January 1956 to October 1960.
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Tuesday 27 May 2003
Trauma, Victim Culture, and Science
Last November, while commenting on the scandal surrounding the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, I discussed the motivations of various sexual-abuse ‘survivors’ groups. I said, in part:
To which some illiterate jackass replied, in the comments:
My refusal to buy into the orthodoxy that sexual abuse (or, indeed any kind of abuse, or any trauma at all) is somehow incredibly emotionally scarring makes me “sick”, and I deserve to “rott in hell”.
So I am particularly interested in a book review that appeared in The New Republic recently. Sally Satel reviews Richard J. McNally’s Remembering Trauma. I haven’t yet read the book, but Satel’s quotes and comments make it sound quite interesting, particularly as it touches on the subject of the way it has become totally unaccaptable to even question others’ claims of victimhood, even in the abstract:
Posted by tino at 12:08 27.05.03
Monday 26 May 2003
Cars, Parks, and Car Parks
Not long ago, Brian Micklethwait on Samizdata wrote about the aesthetics of car parks. Car parks — parking lots — are a necessary part of our environment, and useful, to be sure. But why is it that they’re so ugly?
The answer is that they’re designed entirely for cars, and not for humans. The term car park — not much used in the United States — is interesting in this. The problem is that car parks are too much about car, and almost not at all about park.
I was recently in Williamsburg, VA, where there is a good parking lot. I was fortunately armed with my camera.
The parking lot in question is at an outlet mall that’s otherwise unremarkable. The only thing notable about it is that they left some of the trees alone when the built the parking lot:
For comparison, here’s a parking lot annex at the same outlet mall, built with no trees in it, a much more hostile environment:
None of these are really ideal spaces, but given that we have to have somewhere to put cars while we’re not actually driving them, the parking lot in the first two photos seems much preferable to the one in the third. The only reason the cars are there is because of the people, yet most parking lots — habitats for both cars and people — are little different from the enormous tracts of asphalt near ports where cars for export are lined up (habitats just for cars).
Obviously, it’s less expensive to build an ugly parking lot. Not only do you not have to spend any money on trees, but you get more parking spaces in the same amount of land as well. Very little we build in our society is purely utilitarian, though — even an outlet mall has little architectural embellishments intended to make the thing more pleasant to look at — so I am unconvinced by the utility argument.
I think it’s because the need to park large numbers of cars in the same place is a very recent problem. The need for parking lots as such at all has almost entirely arisen since World War II, and it’s within my memory that parking lots have grown so large as to be environments in themselves, rather than just fringes around stores and the like. When I was a child, the parking lot at our suburban grocery store had precisely three ranks of cars in front of the building and on one side: that is, one rank of cars would nose in against the building, and then two more ranks would park nose-to-nose in the lot. The far reaches of the parking lot were no more than about fifty feet from the building. I wasn’t driving then, of course, but I don’t remember parking there ever being a problem.
For whatever reason, parking in the suburbs is a problem now, and the solution has generally been simply to pave over more ground for larger parking lots — almost all of which goes unused almost all of the time. This hostility of parking lots is almost certainly costing merchants business, and it contributes a great deal to today’s familiar suburban hostility to further development.
Maybe a good short-term solution would be to offer tax credits or zoning breaks to developers who build car parks that function on some level as parks. I predict that were there to be enough of these built, suburbanites would become less hostile to more development, and developers and merchants would come to realize the benefits of having parking lots that were an enticement, rather than an obstacle, for potential customers.
Posted by tino at 23:36 26.05.03
Tuesday 13 May 2003
Professional Responsibility And Consequences
The New York Times was reduced, Sunday, to running a boxed correction on the top of its front page — a correction that jumps to four full pages inside. The Times itself describes this as a “low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper”.
While it’s almost certainly not actually the lowest point in the Times’ history (that would be Walter Duranty’s Stalin-polishing lies for which he won a Pulitzer prize in 1932, a laurel that the newspaper still crows about on its various websites), combined with a visible and growing bias in the Times’ news coverage over the last two years or so — a bias that has resulted in quite a few instances of incorrect if not fraudulent reporting — this scandal may well damage the paper’s credibility for some time to come.
I’m not going to say much about the scandal itself — if you want commentary about Jayson Blair, there is no shortage of it right now.
What intrigues me is the way the Times speaks of this:
Blair is a “reporter who resigned”. If you read just the headline, you might be under the impression that this is about someone who left the newspaper and whose work was later discovered to be flawed, or about someone who resigned in disgrace because he took responsibility for his actions. Neither is true; for some time after the Times had figured out (or at least suspected) what was going on, Blair continued to defend his work. When directly questioned by management about his activities, he answered with unambiguous lies in an attempt to save his career.
Of course, Blair only resigned after being told that he would be fired if he didn’t, but I don’t understand the logic behind even giving the choice. In the last couple of years, hundreds of thousands if not millions of employees have been sacked for financial reasons; but one guy can’t be fired for causing untold further damage to the reputation of what was once one of the United States’ best newspapers. He’s asked to resign like a gentleman, which he manifestly is not.
Given the publicity surrounding this case, Blair will almost certainly never work in journalism, or in any professional capacity, again. In thousands of other cases where people are ‘asked to resign’, though, there’s no publicity, just incompetence or fraud. These people aren’t fired presumably because their employers fear being sued; if someone resigns, no matter under what pressure, they will have a much harder time claiming that they were pushed out the door unfairly.
It’s about the time to revive the practice of firing people for cause. Unambiguous, high-profile cases like this one would be a good place to start, because they’re unlikely to result in any more bad publicity for the employer than they’ve already got. If being fired from a job because of malfeasance or poor performance again becomes a real possibility, we might wind up with people actually resigning on their own impuse.
In this case, the Times might have an ulterior motive; their front-page article on Sunday seems to make the case a bit too strongly that the paper considered this matter ended with Blair’s, uh, resignation:
In other words, the system at the New York Times, when functioning correctly, should allow reporters to file wildly inaccurate or wholly false stories for years on end. Nobody but Blair did anything wrong here, the Times is saying. All that editorial framework that failed to put a stop to this? Working as designed. This is particularly odd given the Times’ seeming house policy of belittling weblogs and other amateur media beause, according to them, the lack of an editorial infrastructure leads to inaccuracy and unreliability.
Perhaps I was wrong above, and Blair was asked to resign in order to avoid a dispute and yet more publicity. Perhaps we haven’t yet heard the worst about the Times.
Posted by tino at 10:20 13.05.03
Sunday 11 May 2003
More Customer Service Rules
Some months ago, I wrote down a number of what I called rules for retailers. These rules were written to be specifically applicable to retail operations, but they apply to pretty much anyone who’s wondering about how to improve his or her customer service. I estimate this group to contain precisely zero members, but
Anyway, I just thought of two more:
Posted by tino at 19:36 11.05.03
Thursday 08 May 2003
Politics, Entertainers, and Art
The Clash have long been one of my favorite bands, even though they were an overtly political group that championed theories that I believe to be diametrically wrong. That they came out of the mess of 1970s Britain does not give them a pass; but their music was great, and it’s certainly worth listening to, whatever their politics. I have no problem with listening to music about the injustice of capitalism, if it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.
The Dixie Chicks, Susan Sarandon, and Sheryl Crow are no different than The Clash in this case. I am not fond of any of those specific performers, but for aesthetic and not political reasons. They’re entertainers, and I don’t see what their political views should have to do with my enjoying their work.
(For the same reason, I refuse to boycott French wine and cheese and German car parts. A boycott is not going to cause Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder to become less odious, or to rethink their Fascist scheme for conquering Europe; I’ll still have to listen to those two idiots on TV and I’ll be denied the good things that result from the existence of France and Germany.)
I certainly lose some respect for the intellect of people whose opinions are based primarily on politically-correct Marxist ideology, but if I otherwise like their work, I don’t see why I shouldn’t enjoy it. Past a certain point, of course, the feeling that the person up on the screen is an odious idiot can make it difficult to separate the performer from the work; but I haven’t yet reached that point with anyone whose work I otherwise find entertaining.
Margaret Drabble has found a place, I think, that is well beyond the point where one ignore the idiocy and enjoy an artist’s work. While Sheryl Crow et al. have shown arrogance at their own importance and errors in their own judgement, a recent column in the Telegraph by Ms. Drabble makes me think that the woman is mentally ill.
Drabble is a British highbrow author (aside from her own books, she seems to be the official writer of introductions for classic novels written by women), and she, according to her article — indeed, according to the article’s headline — “loathes” America.
To begin with understand that my basic premise here is that Drabble is an idiot. Among other things she offers to justify her loathing is that some American warplanes she saw on TV had sharks teeth painted onto the nose.
In support of the argument that Drabble doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about, I offer these images:
These are RAF planes from World War II. Note that they are all equpped with painted-on teeth. I believe this originated because the distinctive radiator housings on the lower fuselage of some of the aircraft of the era. Regardless of where the idea came from, the United States, the UK, and Canada, at least, all painted teeth on their fighters. I do not believe that Ms. Drabble would judge the Battle of Britain as “madness”, “insane”, or “unaimaginable irresponsibility”, despite the fact that painted teeth were deployed in that conflict. I believe that it is more than safe to assume that Ms. Drabble’s horror at the painted teeth is a reflection of her opinions about the United States, rather than vice versa.
I’m not going to go in for examining Ms. Drabble’s argument point by point — she’s really too incoherent for that to even be possible, much less interesting or entertaining. Based on part of her article, though, I think I may be able to see some of her motivation. She says
All of which is frankly baffling. She detests American ‘imperialism’, but the United States doesn’t have an empire. As far as ‘infantilism’ and ‘triumphalism about victories it didn’t even win’, I have to say I have no idea what she’s talking about.
Some clues to the roots of her hatred might be found in the previous paragraph, though, where she mentions “Disneyfication”, burgers, and Coca-Cola. I think that her charge of ‘imperialism’ has to do with these three things.
“Disneyfication” presumably refers to the tendency of the Disney company to dilute culture to a watery gruel that’s fit for consumption by children, and, in a broader sense, the tendency of American mass culture — particularly the culture that’s exported — to be, well, Disneyfied. Burgers and Coca-Cola presumably refer to the popular sandwich made with a patty of ground beef in a bun and a famous sugary beverage from Atlanta.
These things are often cited, along with Britney Spears, Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, Baywatch, etc. as evidence of American “cultural imperialism”.
I will leave Disneyfication aside for the moment, and address burgers and Coca-Cola. What, precisely, is the matter with burgers and Coca-Cola?
Nobody is forced to purchase or consume Coca-Cola, in the United States or elsewhere. It’s an industrial and not a natural product, but other than that and the fact that there’s no alcohol in it, I do not understand the difference between Coke and the national beverages of any other countries. I don’t like skunky beer, but I don’t allow that to color my opinion of the Canadians.
And burgers…? A hamburger consists of beef and bread, often with pickles and/or other condiments. It’s admittedly an informal dish, and one that Americans perhaps eat too often. But I do not understand what a non-vegetarian can possibly have against hamburgers per se. It’s likely that what Ms. Drabble loathes is McDonald’s and other American globe-spanning fast-food chains. There are two problems with this. First, as any American will tell you, what McDonald’s serves are not proper hamburgers. The Big Mac may be tasty, but it’s a pale imitation of a real hamburger. Second, as with Coca-Cola above, nobody is under any obligation to buy and eat the things. McDonalds and Coca-Cola continue to sell their product overseas, and to make money doing so, because a lot of people want these products. It’s not the United States that’s the odd man out here, it’s Margaret Drabble. To paraphrase Homer Simpson — whom Ms. D. almost certainly loathes — everyone is stupid but her.
‘Disneyfication’ I’ve left for last because it’s a bit more realistic charge. American culture does genuinely tend to chew things up and to spit out a much more watered-down version. Disney — they’re not the only company that does this, but they make a perfect example — makes much its money from bowdlerizing classic tales while at the same time doing its level best to monopolize the culture to the extent possible. This might be sound business practice, but it’s unhealthy for the culture as a whole.
But, again, nobody is consuming Disney culture at gunpoint. As amazing as it is, even to me, people voluntarily pay their hard-earned money to be entertained by Disney. I assure you, Disney’s plan for world domaination extends only as far as amassing all the world’s money. If what the people of the world really wanted was to see dramas about lonely pergnancies, jealous sisters, fears of physicality, and loss of identity, Disney would be satisfying that desire and raking in the dough — or someone else would be, and Disney would go out of business. Observation — of Disney’s success — indicates that people around the world prefer Disney’s treacle. Again, this is because everyone is stupid but Drabble.
Margaret Drabble does not hate America because it is the source of Big Macs, Coca-Cola, and the nasty, fat, yellow Winnie the Pooh. She hates these things because America is their source.
While my disdain for Disney and Disneyfication in general should be apparent, I’ll also admit that McDonald’s and Coca-Cola are not always unalloyed goods. Perhaps the worst effect they have is in creating a world in which you can not ever really leave the United States. If you leave France, for example, and travel to another country, you leave almost all of France behind. But America and American culture is everywhere — something that can be annoying, and something that must be quite threatening to someone who isn’t American and whose profession is culture.
But — not to be repetitive, but this is an important point — the spread of American culture is spread by private enterprise hoping to make money, and nobody, anywhere on Earth, is under any obligation to spend his or her money in order to make this strategy work. American culture spreads not as the result of a diabolical scheme by gnomes in the basement of the U.S. Information Agency in Washington, but as the result of millions — billions — of people around the world making the decision to consume American cultural products.
Ms. Drabble would do… what? Ban such behavior and such culture? Require people to adhere to the view of the world that she prefers? Require them to loathe what she loathes? No wonder she’s so upset at the United States; in Iraq, it recently deposed a leader whose policies were presumably in line with Ms. Drabble’s own thinking.
Posted by tino at 13:29 8.05.03
Wednesday 07 May 2003
The Economic Fallacy of Spam Redux
Yesterday, I wrote about my skepticism about the business of spamming. Specifically, I challenged the common assertion that spam makes money despite abysmal response rates, and I mentioned that I was disappointed in the Wall Street Journal for accepting this assertion without comment.
Earthlink alleges that over a year, Howard Carmack, of Buffalo, NY, opened 343 Earthlink accounts using stolen or fraudulent credit card numbers, and that he sent approximately 825 million spam e-mails.
So for sending out “over 10 million” spams, you get $360. The article doesn’t say anything about how much money Mr. Tirico made from selling the actual product, but it can’t have been worth the trouble, because he gave up the practice.
If we assume that Earthlink’s total of 825 million e-mails is correct, and if we assume that Mother Nature’s Wonder Pill is a representative product in terms of response rates, and that he actually sent out ten million e-mails on Mother Nature’s behalf, we can conclude that Mr. Carmack grossed about $29,700 in the last year. Out of that, he’s got to pay for his time in setting up new Earthlink accounts (nearly one new account every day), he’s got to acquire stolen or fraudulent credit card numbers, he’s got to rent mailboxes, he’s got to buy computers, he’s got to buy or develop software, he’s got to pay his phone bills, and he’s got to spend money on marketing his own services to others.
Oh, and in doing all this, he exposes himself to enormous civil and criminal liability. For $30,000 a year. How is 36-year-old Mr. Carmack doing these days?
He’s living with his mother in a run-down neighborhood.
There’s a long tradition of doing illegal things for money. It’s possible to get quite rich by doing work that’s illegal or only tenuously legal. Classically, though, this work pays extraordinarily well, because of the legal risks involved. This is why Tony Soprano’s house is so large; he makes a lot of money for work that’s not all that sophisticated because he’s always running the risk that the FBI will show up at his door with a warrant. He’s got, besides the large house and the nice cars and that boat, thousands of dollars in cash hidden around the place for emergencies.
Not only does it look like Mr. Carmack isn’t getting compensation for his legal risks, he apparently isn’t even making enough money to move out of his mother’s house.
I have to conclude that most spammers are at least a little stupid, and that they underestimate the cost of the risks they’re taking. This lack of compensation for risk is the only thing that makes spam remotely possible these days. Never mind the cost to society in lost productivity and wasted money on scams; the cost to the spammers themselves isn’t being recouped by spam.
The Journal doesn’t explicitly point this out in today’s story, but at least this time the facts are all there, and the reader can draw his own conclusion: spam doesn’t pay.
Posted by tino at 14:41 7.05.03
Tuesday 06 May 2003
The Purpose of Recess
Joanne Jacobs, in her excellent education-centric weblog, today points out a column in the Bucks County Courier Times about the soon-to-be-implemented recess regime in the Neshiminy (PA) School District. The headline is “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be Hans Blix”, and the new recess policy is described thusly:
This is horrifying, but I think that J.D. Mullane, the columnist, Joanne Jacobs, and the headline writers miss the true horror entirely.
Is the risk here really that children will grow up to be Hans Blix? I understand that lot of people find Blix annoying because of his insistence on inspections in Iraq, but remember that Blix is an inspector. That’s what he does: he inspects. Because of his role, the only tool he has is a proverbial hammer, so he’s going to see a lot of nails.
But Blix is a leader, and a successful and well-educated man. He’s held executive positions with the Swedish government and the U.N. Blix is a diplomat and an inspector, and as such his prime goal is going to be to avoid armed conflict and to go on inspecting forever. His public remarks while arms inspections were still going on in Iraq seemed, actually, to be incredibly blunt and critical of the Iraqis. He didn’t say ‘inspections are a failure, and you should start bombing’, true, but then it wasn’t his place to say that. He said, in as about a straightforward way was you’re ever going to hear a diplomat speak, that the Iraqis were not complying with their obligations. And for this he’s called weak.
The danger isn’t that these bubble-wrapped kids are going to grow up to be Hans Blix. The danger is that, having been deprived of the opportunity to learn social skills in the unstructured world of school recess, they’re going to grow up to be socially-incompetent adults with an incredible willingness to submit to authority, and with no ability to think on their feet. (See here for comments I made in January on the same issue.)
Recess, you see, is at least as important a part of the school day as geography class. It’s when kids learn to interact with peers as peers, rather than as colleagues in a system governed by outside authority.
There’s always been outside authority on the playground, embodied by the recess ladies, of course, but that’s because it’s assumed that these kids don’t yet fully know how to operate in a peer group, and that there will be some occasional intervention needed.
The structured-recess people don’t deny this, I think, but rather they think that by funneling the kids’ energies and wills in certain directions, they can affect their behavior as adults: a child who follows the peace maze enough times will solve his adult problems in a non-violent manner.
This is an enormous piece of social engineering, one that’s totally unnecessary and destined to fail. It will fail catastrophically if it’s allowed to go too far.
You see, one of the things that kids learn by playing games where someone’s feelings might get hurt is that feelings sometimes get hurt. Kids learn how to deal with feeling rejected, and, hopefully, other kids eventually learn how not to make others feel bad.
Games where knees might get skinned teach kids about limits, and, to a certain extent, they teach them how to take risks.
The real world, where these kids will spend most of their lives, does not have peace mazes painted on the ground, and it doesn’t have violence prevention coordinators. It’s up the adults these kids will become to prevent their own violence, and to make their own peace. The fact that the vast majority of adults in modern society are not violent would seem to indicate that the playground strategies of twenty or thirty years ago do not result in violent behavior.
Incidentally, The official pitch of the ‘peaceful playground’ people — Peaceful Playgrounds is a company that licenses playground markings and activity guides to schools — is largely an economic one. They stress a reduction in injuries (and thus presumably expenses, and apparently with all the kids playing follow-the-gruppenführer you can pack more of them into a smaller space:
Posted by tino at 16:22 6.05.03
The Economic Fallacy of Spam
The conventional wisdom — you see this repeated all the time in the news — is that spamming is a business like any other, if a bit more annoying. That, yes, the response rates are incredibly low, but that this isn’t important because the cost of sending out millions of e-mails is almost nil.
The Wall Street Journal this morning characterizes (subscription required) it this way:
The Journal is usually better at understanding economics than this.
To begin with, sending out spam is not free. It’s nowhere close to free. Sending out the volumes of mail that people associate with spam is actually a fairly expensive proposition. You’ve got to buy a computer — multiple computers, if you’re going to send out 100 million e-mails — software, the mailing list itself, and network access.
Oh, and that network access is going to cost you, in money and especially in effort, because you’re going to have to switch providers every day or two as you get banned for sending out spam.
You also have to write the pitch, have something to sell, have a way to collect payments, and, if you’re selling something physical, have a way to ship it.
After all that, yes, the marginal cost of sending a single e-mail is close to nothing. This does not mean that someone selling one $29.95 penis lengthener after sending out a million e-mails is going to make much (or any) money in the end.
Let’s look at what the spammers are trying to sell: over the weekend, my main e-mail account got spam in nine distinct categories:
Anyone who is at all familiar with spam will note that these are the same things that have been heavily spamvertised for the last year, at least. And the porn ads, the most numerous and the only ones that seem likely to draw repeat customers (after all, once you’ve found a good source for your PhD. or your generic Viagra — some places sell both in a package deal — you’re likely to stick with the people you know), generally aren’t advertising porn websites at all, but rather websites filled with pay-per-impression ads for other websites that offer dozens of pay-per impression ads for etc., etc. ad infinitum.
It’s unlikely that anyone is making any significant money off any of this stuff any more, if they ever did. Most of the people who are interested in these particular products will have bought them the first time they saw the ad for them, or the second, or… the hundredth. Sure, a few people who have been living under a rock will keep buying now and again, but by and large these products either are outright scams or are not in demand to begin with. If these things were actually in demand, they’d be selling them down at Wal-Mart. (The few spamvertized products that are in demand, like mortgages, are tainted by their association with spammers; the value of a mortgage offer from firstname.lastname@example.org is nowhere near the value of a mortgage offer from a legitimate financial institution.) And besides all that, these products have been marketed to death already.
It’s been suggested that the main product of spam is… spam. That is, the spammers make their money by selling e-mail addresses to other spammers. The majority of the spam you get isn’t trying to sell you anything at all, but rather just trying to see whether your e-mail address works. When you’re sent an HTML spam with pictures in it, the spammer can see whether a particular image was loaded from their web server. If the image that was encoded into a spam sent to your address was loaded, it can be assumed that someone is reading that mail. The address is verified, and thus more valuable.
This would indicate that the main fuel for the spam industry to expand and indeed to survive is gullibility. If selling addresses make the spam world go ‘round, then the industry would need regular and large infusions of capital from the outside world, or nobody would make any money at all.
If addresses and not dollars are the main product of most spams, then spam will continue only as long as those addresses are valuable; and those addresses will be valuable only as long as new people continue to enter the industry believing that they’ll be able to make money. And here’s the odd thing: the constant media coverage of how pervasive spam is, and how hard it’ll be to ever stop spam because it’s sooo lucrative feed the spam industry. People who don’t know anything about economics read in the Wall Street Journal that it’s possible to “make money” with a response rate of one in a million, and they head out to buy a mailing list.
For a lot of them, I think it eventually becomes a game, a test of their wits to see how many spams they can manage to get past anti-spam filters, ignoring whether or not getting an ad to someone who is deliberately trying to avoid it, and thus not likely to buy whatever it is you’re selling, is worth the effort.
There are, to be sure, some people for whom spamming works financially: people already in some kind of mail-order business where the competition is so fierce that you can’t afford to worry about your reputation (I’m thinking mail-order pharmacies and porn here, among other things), and there are some people like this guy who make money by acting as spam cannons, people who sell spamming software, and people who sell mailing lists on a large scale. Only the legitimate direct merchants — legitimate here meaning not people selling generic Viagra out of their basements — stand to benefit from spam in the long run, and even them I’m not so sure about. The rest of them I predict will eventually get out of the practice — and I’m figuring that before assessing the cost of dealing with deliberate anti-spam efforts, which are proliferating.
In the meantime, we’re sure to see increasingly desperate measures by spammers attempting to get their ads past increasingly-sophisticated filters, and some high-profile battles on Court TV as the laws evolve and prosecutions of spammers increase. Here’s to hoping that the news media will begin to critically examine the economics of spam, rather than repeating the tired old line about response rates.
(N.B. If you send me mail about any of this, be sure to include the word “NOSPAM” in your subject line; mail mentioning many of the topics here gets filtered into the spam bucket.)
Posted by tino at 08:39 6.05.03
Monday 05 May 2003
E-mail Addresses In Comments
One of Movable Type’s deficiencies is its inability to accept obfuscated e-mail addresses for comments. If you supply an e-mail address at all, it has to be a plainly valid address, ripe for harvesting by spammers.
I’ve never liked this, so I’ve made some changes. When leaving comments now, you can obfuscate your e-mail address in the form of “tino at tinotopia dot com”. I have not tested it fully, but I have every reason to believe that this will also work with e-mail addresses of the form of “someone at host dot domain dot com”. If you have trouble with this, please send some e-mail to our technical support department.
Posted by tino at 21:14 5.05.03
Cultural Imperialism My Ass
The BBC reports, apropos of the United States’ general view of the world:
They wouldn’t do it in Manchester, either, but that’s irrelevant. The trouble here is that those damned Americans are judging the ‘Other’ simply because that ‘Other’ beats itself with chains. How amateurish. How absolutely reeking of simplisme. Just what you’d expect from those Americans, actually.
Posted by tino at 18:18 5.05.03
D.C. Goes On Shooting Itself In The Foot
While Mayor Tony Williams makes speeches about how he wants to attract 100,000 new residents to Washington, D.C., the rest of the city’s government goes on giving people more reasons to not come into the city at all, even for a visit. Washington Post:
The city patrols the streets between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., and records out-of-state license numbers. If your non-DC vehicle is spotted three times, you get a ticket. The article doesn’t say anything about what happens if your vehicle is spotted in three wildly differing places, but I’d imagine you get a ticket anyway; DC is not known for law-enforcement subtlety.
The purpose is to force Washington residents to comply with the law that says that they’ve got to register their cars with the city within thrity days of moving to DC.
Most places don’t have a problem with people refusing to register their cars locally, but the DC government goes out of its way to make the process as difficult, expensive, and unattractive as possible. (Progress is being made, though: soon there will be two places in the city where you can get a safety inspection done — but still only during business hours Monday through Friday.)
And if you do the right thing and register your car locally, you’re putting yourself at the mercy of the DC government’s mind-boggling incompetence. Not long ago, the city changed its registration-renweal and parking-permit stickers. There was an article in the Post, and the police and parking enforcement people were told about these changes. They went on writing tickets on perfectly legal cars for months, because they were not displaying the old-style stickers and permits.
Ah, yes. It’s really a pity that there are not other problems facing the government in DC, like say failing schools, a rising crime rate, or a total lack of civil order in the streets in certain neighborhoods at night. If DC were faced with any of those things, it might not have time and money to waste on discouraging the middle class from visiting the city.
Posted by tino at 13:43 5.05.03
The Problem With Non-Lethal Force
The problem with non-lethal force is that it’s specifically intended to be a low-intensity kind of thing, so it winds up getting used more casually, and in more situations, than is good or necessary. Most if not all law-enforcement agencies in the United States have a policy of using ‘non-lethal force’ to subdue suspects. Presumably ‘lethal force’ means shooting someone, and ‘non-lethal force’, while actually being a catch-all term, seems to mean ‘pepper spray’ almost all of the time.
The police have always had non-lethal force at their disposal, of course: the billy club. But even with euphemism (in the Rodney King trial, the act of smacking Mr. King on the head with a stick was referred to as ‘delivering power-strokes with the baton’), it’s an inherently violent, aggressive act, and it looks extremely bad on TV (cf. Mr. King). On a practical level, it also requires the cop to get extremely close to the suspect and thus to expose himself to possible injury, and it’s certainly possible to permanently injure or even kill someone with the ‘non-lethal’ nightstick.
So the pepper spray has certain advantages: the officer can stand at arm’s length and subdue the suspect, and there’s little or no chance of permanent harm to the sprayee.
But precisely because the use of pepper spray is so simple and innocuous, it seems to be used by the police as a first resort and in situations where there’s no need for any force, even ‘non-lethal’.
This story of a recent police encounter in Fort Lauderdale is interesting:
Jaywalking. The very definition of an absurdly minor crime. To be sure, jaywalkers put themselves and others at risk, and they can tie up traffic, but jaywalking is hardly the kind of offense that merits being maced.
Ah, but there’s more to the story:
Well, that’s different. This person was threatening to assault the officer. Being a cop is a risky job to begin with, and there’s no reason why the police should take any more risks than they have to. But wait — I deleted a passage in the second paragraph there. Let’s see what the original said:
Ah. Hm, well now. That puts the risk to the officer in some kind of perspective, doesn’t it?
(As an aside: the article also says:
— Which would seem to indicate that there’s a significant need for the students to cross the road there. It’s far easier and cheaper, though, to write tickets and mete out non-lethal force than it is to actually adapt the human habitat to the needs of the humans.)
To name just one example, last year, a Washington Redskins football game was delayed when police used pepper spray to subdue a disturbance in the stands, and the fumes drifted onto the nearby field and incapacitated a number of players. No arrests were made in the incident, and since there were a number of police officers within pepper-spraying range (and thus well within eyewitness and identification range), I have to conclude that these people weren’t doing anything that was actually illegal. Nevertheless, the police felt justified in using a weapon (albeit a non-lethal one) that causes significant collateral damage (drifting spray) when used on a large area.
The police — too many of them, anyway — aren’t using the pepper spray instead of clubbing or shooting someone, they’re using it instead of negotiating. It makes the job easier, and wraps up things a lot more quickly. The cops probably believe that this hair-trigger approach will result in people being more submissive, but past experience would seem to indicate that it’s going to result in a general escalation of hostility. If the scofflaw public starts to believe that any encounter with a cop that’s less than perfectly harmonious is highly likely to result in a pepper-spraying (or a taser-ing, or any one of a number of other non-lethal responses), they’re going to be much more likely to come out shooting in the first place.
Posted by tino at 00:01 5.05.03
Saturday 03 May 2003
Smith College and Gender
The Smith College student government is excising gender-specific pronouns from its constitution in order to be less exclusionary.
Since one of the defining characteristics of Smith is that it excludes students who are not female, this might seem odd. According to the Hampshire Gazette though:
So. If you were born physically female but feel yourself to be psychologically male, you are welcome at Smith College. It seems to me that the proper way to ‘celebrate’ the transgender ‘community’ at Smith would be to throw them out. If having feminine pronouns applied to them could make them feel uncomfortable, every moment they’re students at Smith must be a psychic horror.
Does this include male-to-female sex-reassignment surgery (formerly called sex-change operations)? I understand that it’s almost impossible to undergo the surgery as a minor; there’s a lot of psychological counseling involved, and it’s generally felt that you have to have the perspective of an adult to make the decision.
Most of Smith’s entering freshmen would be 18 or 19 years old, so it’s unlikely that a ‘woman’ who was born with a penis and testicles would have been able to have her surgery before entering. Or does ‘all kinds of women’ mean ‘all kinds of people born physically female’? I rather suspect that it does.
I don’t expect this to happen, but this might be a good time for Smith (and other women’s colleges) to re-examine their premises. The student government at Smith — and thus, I assume, the general Smith vibe — holds that those students who are psychologically male should be accomodated and respected.
Unless, of course, those psychologically male students are also physically male, in which case they must not be allowed to enroll. In the past, the justification for maintaining single-sex colleges for women while forcing all-male institutions to allow women to enroll has been that women perform better in a single-sex environment, and that they’re imtimidated and harmed by, for instance, the generally more competitive, more aggressive style of men in classes.
However, while all natural-born men and women who were born with male genitalia are assumed to be a drag (no pun intended) on women’s education, a man in a Smith class who happens to not have a penis, or who happens to have a surgically-constructed penis, is not.
You can’t have it both ways. If you are determined to see gender as a social construct (and indeed if you’re determined to see sex and gender as discrete things in human beings), you can’t bar the door to people based on what equipment they have.
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The game opens with 5 empty jars, a spoon and a tape recorder on the counter. Your cursor is a watering can. Click on any jar and it will begin to fill with water. Click again, and more water goes in. When you have finished pouring water into the jars, it's time to play your "Water Xylophone."
To do this, click on the spoon and it will become your cursor. Use the spoon to hit the jars and hear the sounds they make. When the jar has less water, is the sound higher or lower? Find out when you play!
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Risk is a part of every business, and there is no business where risk is not involved. Though the intensity of the risks can vary, risks are inevitable. Since the business environment is dynamic, there is always uncertainty that follows.There are opportunities, as well as threats that bind a business environment.
Knowing where you stand in the competitive world is quite important for ensuring the stability of your business, and it also tells you what are the possible threats or risks that you might face. Be it a small scale business or a full-fledged business house, be prepared for the uncertain events.
A business doesn’t stand the chance of profit until and unless it takes risks. The greater the risk, the more chances for the business to grow, but the risks should not overpower the operations. Amidst all the chaos, an efficient risk management framework is what you need.
Risk management is the no.1 priority when it comes to taking care of business organizations and keeping things in control. The dynamic environment of business always puts the organization on a lookout for risks. Knowing what to be done, how to be done and when to be done should be addressed for the unexpected risks that might arise in a business and accurate risk management assures that nothing is left behind, untouched.
Foreseeing things or prepping for the future is crucial. Missing out on what your business beholds can sometimes lead to a huge loss or unrecoverable damage. Finding and acknowledging the risks in a business for a smoother functioning is inevitable.
The Risk management process facilitates the organization to prepare for the unexpected shifts and changes by minimizing the risks and extra costs that may arise, beforehand. It is the process of identification and assessment of a business environment to control the earnings and capital of the organization.
With risk, itself being an uncertainty, having greater control over the risks is a sign of an efficient manager and better outcomes follow. Harmful or unexpected events can cost money and sometimes the entire business too.
An efficient management is also one of the biggest risks when the challenges are not identified. Another common problem is the allocation of resources. Allocation of resources is one of the difficulties during risk management as resources get carried away for the management of risks putting other profitable activities in question. But, an absolute risk management plan brings down the use of resources and manpower; it also reduces the negative effects of risks.
With risk, itself being an uncertainty, having a greater control over the risks is a sign of an efficient manager and better outcomes follow. Risk managers are the best options to take as they can work out the best strategies and plans for the threats and uncertainties for a business.
Different approaches and strategies can be used for the risk management process. It can either be a detailed definition of what, where, how and a straight-up solution or an in-depth observation and plans to overcome the threat. Either way, there has to be a final solution and as a manager, one should be prepared to face off the challenges the business will face.
Knowing your business and the risks that might be rooted is important to find an absolute solution. Here is a thread of risk management strategies that can assist your business in the long run.
Internal or external, risks have to be identified from their sources among the wide range of possibilities. Identification of risks forehand on a high-level analysis based on daily activities and business strategy. Be it financial, operational, technological or every other, risks have to be considered under each department and section.
Keeping it simple, you can begin with asking questions like are all your employees trained properly?, how would you handle the business, if something went down and things get complicated?, is there employee welfare or are your employees unhappy that they might leave?, etc. Such insightful questions are the first step to an efficient identification of risks.
While in the lookout for risks, keep all the chances open for their happening. Do not keep the probability of the risks not happening; that can bring in a loss. Never miss out even on the tiny details that might challenge your business. Internal research helps in identifying the risks that might arise within the organization.
Know what your customer’s complaints are just like knowing employee grievances. Modals and software for technological and business strategies are another way of getting things in place.
Risk analysis is a deeper strategy than the identification of risks. Once the potential risks are identified, estimation of the probability of the risks happening has to be taken. Detailed information needs to be drawn to analyzing the risks.
Risk analysis is a complex strategy, helping in the anticipation and neutralization of possible risks. An efficient analysis of the risk helps in deciding whether or not a project should be taken up. Analyzing the risks portrays the effects and outcomes each risk will have on the functions, consumers, employees and the company as a whole, giving a wider perspective on things.
Determining the magnitude of the risk or prioritizing risks is one of the major steps in risk management strategies. Which risk has the probability of occurring first and which will have a greater impact – setting a hierarchy for the risk is what will pave the way for a better and efficient solution as one needs to prepare for the outcome and must be able to fix it immediately.
Evaluating the business environment is what stands crucial as one needs to know where a risk management plan is essential. Time and energy need to be invested in the evaluation process to ensure that the ends justify the means. After a thorough assessment of the efficiency of business activities, possible changes can be made to get the desired results.
The evaluation process is time- consuming and takes up much of human effort. It is always to be noted that the analysis and evaluation be done at every stage or it can lead to a huge loss of time, effort and money.
Treatment of the risk follows after the planning, analysis, and evaluation. How you treat the risk is what will determine how successful you are as a risk manager and how efficient your business will run.
Treating the risk can be done in four ways – avoid, reduce, transfer and accept – avoiding the activities that can cause the risk, Reducing the intensity of the action that can cause the risk, transferring the action to a second or third party or accepting the risk as it is for profit.
Once the risks are identified and treated, there is an inevitable need to monitor the same. A business should always be aware of the status of the risks in a business.
Identification, analysis, evaluation, treatment, and monitoring of risk is the methodology of risk management and the intensity and tools can differ according to the organization or situation.
Enterprise Risk Management is the identification of business hazards, organizing, and preparing for the same. Binding to the objectives and operations of a business, the risks of a business are classified for action. Since potential dangers are a part of modern business, risk mapping has to be done to determine the threats that might jeopardize the business functioning and to set controls.
Apart from developing a risk treatment plan, the enterprise risk management process also allocates AI technologies to automate the manual processes that are inactive and inefficient. Monitoring and measurement of the risk management process are also important, which is rightly served by Enterprise Risk Management.
IT is something that runs far and wide with deeper interference in day to day activities. The world of Information Technology, to a great extent, is what binds almost everything. This brings in the highest levels of uncertainties and risks to an ever-changing environment. Managing risks in IT is not a piece of cake as the challenges are quite unique in the field. IT needs smart risk management tools and efficient risk management solutions.
The challenges in the field include the up gradation and change in technology, finding people with training expertise and great work ethics, etc. The best risk management framework for the IT arena is to follow the 5 step strategy – Identity, Analyze, Evaluate, Treat and Monitor. An early and regular identification and evaluation of the challenges that might arise help in resolving the issues effectively. Avoidance, Mitigation, Transferring, and Acceptance is the best way to treat the same.
IT is not just a professional field. IT takes up a major part of personal lives too. This gives more importance to the IT risk management plan as the denial or delay in facing the challenges could lead to severe outcomes.
A business environment is never stable and every business undergoes change during their course and these changes are what determines their growth. Throughout the changes, the business is also bound to face challenges that can be smooth like a breeze or tough enough to question the very existence of the business.
Crisis management, business continuity plans, people-related risks, process systems, health, safety, etc are captured under the operational risks. Operational risks arise from the failed internal processes or people or external events that lead the business to a loss.
The Operational risk management plan is based on three fundamentals – in-depth, deliberate and time-critical. Based on these, risk identification, risk assessment, measurement and mitigation, and monitoring and reporting are carried out.
Operational Risk Management increases the reliability of business activities and strengthens the decision making processes. With lower compliance costs and early detection of unlawful activities, Operational Risk Management protects the business from potential risk damage in the future.
Risks revolve around finance and there is always a heightened number of challenges that business has to face when it comes to financial operations. Market risk, credit risk, inflation risk, liquidity risk, shape risk, sector risk, legal risk, and the categories are never-ending. Costs or Finance are the roots of a business and there are only chances of growing risks. Since the financial markets are never stable or perfect, a business needs to ensure that its operations should always increase the shareholder value.
Financial risk management is necessary for investment decisions. One wrong move and everything goes down the drain. Since risk and return are inseparable, the risks involved are ascertained by checking the average ROI and the average standard deviation of the period. This criterion brings out a numerical result, based on which investments are made. If the results are in their favor, they invest. With a solid comprehension of the risks and its variants, the investors can foresee the opportunities and trade-offs along with the costs.
Loss is always painful, be it in IT or finance and there is so much happiness in profit. To a great extent, businesses can control their losses and profits if the right risk management framework is laid out.
Efficient managers with risk management certification are what a business needs for ensuring that they don’t fall back or gets cut short in the long run. Knowing your weaknesses or challenges that might arise in your business environment is the key to a successful business operation. Outcomes can be minor or severe but being able to handle the risk before it gobbles up the situation is where the risk management process succeeds.
It is not about having sophisticated and top-notch technology or the most qualified workforce. It is always about knowing what fits where and how things are done. Sometimes, due to lack of keen observance, all the hard work and money gets wasted as the business was not efficient enough to face even the tiniest of risks. Such situations can bid farewell with a detailed and in-depth risk management strategy and framework, which will assure that opportunities are taken and threats are cut out. | <urn:uuid:cd349eab-aa16-4f00-8860-af2aa2bdc707> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bluecast.tech/blog/enterprise-risk-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950118 | 2,321 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Choisya ternata Kunth (Rutaceae family) are bushy shrubs of 2 m maximum height. They are ornamental, with persistent leaves and white flowers resembling those of orange trees whence their French name: Oranger du Mexique or English name: Mexican orange (). In Germany they are called Dreizahlige Choisya, and in their native country, Mexico, they are known as Hierba del Clavo, Flor del Clavo, Clavillo, and Clavo de Olor. The genus name is dedicated to the Genevan naturalist, Choisy (1799-1859).
Botanical Traits and Classification
The genus Choisya was studied by Gray (1888), Standley (1923), and later by Muller (1940). Choisya neglecta is the nearest to Choisya ternata, differing only by smaller leaflets and inflorescences. The other species counted by Muller are sometimes classified in a related genus, Astrophyllum, but according to Dreyer et al. (1972), the comparison of the chemical constituents of Choisya ternata, Choisya mollis, and Choisya arizonica cannot justify this distinction. Therefore, the genus Choisya contains seven species: C. ternata Kunth, C. neglecta Muller, C. dumosa A. Gray, C. mollis Standley = Choisya dumosa var. mollis Benson, C. arizonica Standley = Choisya dumosa var. arizonica Benson, C. palmeri Standley, and C. katherinae Muller.
Choisya ternata was first described in 1823 by the German botanist Kunth when he classified the plants harvested in North America by Humboldt and Bonpland. This species fructified infrequently, which may be due to irregular meiosis, the irregularities being manifested by a few lagging chromosomes at the time of anaphase. Moreover, pollen is often defective. According to Desai (), Choisya ternata may be a hybrid; however, some seeds were described by Boudouresques (1895).
Choisya ternata originated from the central and southern mountains of Mexico. The plants are seldom known growing wild. They were already widely cultivated in their native country when harvested by Humboldt and Bonpland. These cultivated plants are, in fact, very similar to those encountered in nature ().
Biology and Propagation
In Europe, Choisya ternata blossoms in April-May. After the spring flush, there are usually two other flushes of the same shoot within the same season, each of which may be accompanied by the development of lateral inflorescences as in the spring flush. Details on the endorhythmic development in C. ternata have been given by Guedes (1980). Even in their native region, the fruit-bearing is very infrequent. Thus, the species is propagated vegetatively. Micropropagation of Choisya ternata was recently achieved in France (Nursery Salle-Proust, St-Cyr-en-Val). Rooted plants of 8-10 cm in height have been commercialized since 1991. The plants are adapted in greenhouses and sold in a mixture of peat and perlite.
In 1895, Boudouresques studied this species and undertook the first pharmacological tests by experimenting the effects of aqueous extracts of leaves on himself: he found them tonic and appetizing. On the other hand, the oil is strongly repulsive. In 1923, Standley reported that Mexican people employed infusions of leaves for their antispasmodic and “stimulant properties”; Choisya ternata was registered in the 4th and 5th editions of the Mexican Pharmacopoeia. As far as we know, the present use of C. ternata is not widespread. However, it may be recalled that some Rutaceae-related species, such as Ruta graveolens and Ptelea trifoliata, which have a similar chemical constitution, are still used therapeutically ().
By using different strategies, in vitro cultures of Choisya ternata were established. Great variations exist within the populations of strains.
The use of inherent variability in vitro is an efficient procedure to obtain high-platydesminium-accumulating cell lines. Some of them accumulated the alkaloid in higher amounts than the mother plant. However, high-balfourodinium-accumulating lines were not obtained. The best method was the cloning of protoplasts obtained from mesophyll cells: with this procedure the highest balfourodinium-accumulating lines (about 700 µg/g on a dry weight basis) were obtained, a concentration far lower than that found in leaves. Other strategies than strain selection are necessary for achieving high-balfourodinium production in cultures of Choisya ternata. On the other hand, some strains can biotransform ellipticine by a process different from those generally encountered with microorganisms, which emphasizes the capacity of in vitro plant cell cultures to obtain new molecules.
Photoautotrophic growth does not allow the restoration of alkaloid biosynthesis capacities. Nevertheless, the presence of sterols not found in the whole plant shows that some original substances can be produced by photoautotrophic cultures.
Because of their easy cultivation procedures, cultures of Choisya ternata prove to be a good model for studying the enzymes involved in the biosynthetic pathway of furo- and dihydrofuroquinolines.
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This book provides a concise introduction into twenty-one trends that are transforming the role of religion and spirituality in “re-globalizing” societies. In referring to processes of “re-globalization”, the book draws attention to profound ongoing changes in the patterns and mechanisms of contemporary globalization. Inter- and transdisciplinary in its approach, clearly structured, and easy to read, the book analyzes the impact of religious self-understanding, rhetoric, and practice on five core fields: economics, politics, culture, demography, and technology. In turn, it describes the effects of these five fields on religion and spirituality themselves.
This book represents a broad, encompassing overview of the main transformations that religion is undergoing today. Roland Benedikter combines a “big picture” approach with a keen attention to the details of specific case studies. With its clear and accessible structure and timely examples, this book is ideally suited for students of international relations and religious studies, and will also appeal to researchers engaged in those fields and to interested general readers. The book is also apt to serve as an encompassing basis for contemporary debates in civil society, including both grassroots and expert discussions.
Roland Benedikter is Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy; Research Professor of Multidisciplinary Political Analysis in residence at the Willy Brandt Centre at Wroclaw University, Poland; and Member of the Future Circle of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the German Federal Government. | <urn:uuid:34147be2-af66-4cf8-93d7-9228ed765c4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80857-0?error=cookies_not_supported&code=1995d7dd-e2d3-494a-9259-c42b368ea319 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.927518 | 314 | 1.703125 | 2 |
GLASGOW – John Kerry is everywhere and on the move at a fateful U.N. climate summit.
President Joe Biden’s envoy at the talks in Glasgow, Kerry steams from side talks with U.S. rivals China and Russia that painstakingly probe for common ground on climate to news conferences extolling progress. Kerry pops into project launches, rewarding CEOs and bankers for emissions-cutting efforts with high-level face time and praise. The lanky envoy smiles for a photo with Indigenous women from Brazil, their feather headdresses barely reaching his chin.
Toward the end of the U.N. climate summit's first of two weeks, Kerry’s voice grew hoarse from his mission of rallying global climate efforts that are threatening to hit a wall at home.
“The alternative is you don’t do anything, you don’t say anything" on climate, Kerry told reporters at the summit. “You don’t have any promises, you don’t have any commitments. And you’re sitting there, waiting for the deluge.”
He was speaking of a climate fight growing more urgent, as global warming from the burning of fossil fuel intensifies, and more fraught, as the United States' own wildly swinging seesaw politics imperil Biden's climate efforts and again threaten global momentum on the matter.
With the summit underway, the U.S. House on Friday finally passed a stalled infrastructure bill that contains some important measures to cut U.S. emissions.
But Biden’s lagging political support, and Republican upsets in off-year elections last week, are heightening uncertainty that the U.S. administration can deliver on some of Biden's biggest climate promises.
Kerry, President Barack Obama's secretary of state and a former senator, came back post-President Donald Trump to serve as Biden's climate envoy.
The job has entailed apologizing for the global disruption that Trump, who mocks the science behind climate change, wreaked when he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris climate accord, which Kerry helped to negotiate. Scientists say the ground lost during the Trump administration leaves this decade a last chance to keep the Earth from warming to more catastrophic levels.
Kerry's job now is part diplomat, part cheerleader. At the Glasgow climate conference, as in the months before, Kerry negotiates to nail down every possible bit of new climate effort from countries and businesses — then pushes for more. While the U.S. return to global climate negotiations has helped push allies to some deeper cuts on emissions, the world's other big polluters besides the United States — China, Russia, India and others — are short on emission promises, at best.
At 77, Kerry is waging only the latest of his campaigns in a decades-long personal battle to curb the fossil fuel emissions heating Earth.
Kerry “brings a deep knowledge of what's at stake," said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International, and a veteran of climate talks. “He brings long-term relationships to these talks, and the spirit of collaboration.” Yet, she adds, he "gets limited by what is happening at home.”
If there's not “a credible U.S. plan to meet the targets and phase out fossil fuels, there's only so much, only so far, he can get here," Morgan said.
Conservative groups single out Kerry online, making social media memes out of his wealth — at Glasgow he introduced a speaker as his neighbor on Martha's Vineyard — and supposed love for jetting around the world.
Kerry's intentness on diplomacy to try to push and pull coal-loving China into faster emission cuts also brings him into public contrast with Biden and some of Biden's top officials, who have become vocally critical of China. China is currently the world's top climate polluter. The U.S. is No. 2 at the moment, and the world's worst carbon polluter over time.
Biden's parting words as he left the Glasgow summit this past week after joining more than 100 other world leaders here were that Chinese President Xi Jinping had made a “big mistake” in not attending.
“They’ve lost an ability to influence people around the world,” Biden said.
Veteran observers of global climate talks speak favorably of Kerry's quieter work as climate envoy.
Thom Woodroofe, a researcher on U.S.-China climate diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said Biden's appointment of the former secretary of state made countries such as China “really sit up and take notice with just how significant ... how much importance the Biden administration was going to place on diplomacy and their climate action at home.”
While Chinese leaders publicly scold and snub members of the Biden administration, China's own veteran climate diplomat, Xie Zhenha, told reporters at Glasgow he calculated he had talked to Kerry 23 times in Kerry's current position.
When a news site ran a caricature showing an exaggeratedly chinned Kerry with one hand on the shoulder of the equally exaggerated round-faced Xie, and the other hand cupping the Earth and its future, Kerry had the cartoon framed and presented it to Xie.
At the climate summit, Kerry's height makes him an easy spot among the thousands of climate advocates, government officials and reporters at the summit site, which sprawls for more than a half-mile (close to a kilometer). It's a mix of permanent and temporary structures along Glasgow’s River Clyde that feels like an airport terminal flanked by a military forward-operating base.
Kerry appears patient and polite with the random advocates and reporters from around the world who approach him at the summit.
Before the summit, climate activists carrying out a hunger strike at the White House gates filmed another Biden administration official impatiently thumbing his phone when they approached him on the need for climate action.
Kerry, by contrast, went out and talked to the young climate strikers, telling them about his own environmental activism when he was young.
Kerry's first cause after returning from fighting in the Vietnam War was activism for the first Earth Day, in 1970, he says. His wife, Teresa Heinz, says they met at a later Earth Day, in 1990.
In 2015, his work in climate negotiations, and the trust Xie seemed to place in Obama negotiators including Kerry, helped seal a global climate deal in which more than 190 nations committed to taking action to cut climate emissions.
The irreversible damage being wrought by global warming was even more obvious to all by November 2016, when Kerry made one of his last trips as Obama's secretary of state, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Antarctica.
The U.S. presidential election had just handed victory to Trump, who already had pledged to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord and would soon be rolling back U.S. climate efforts in office.
Kerry crunched in boots over a frozen sea, faced off with a curious penguin and talked with U.S. scientists there.
The South Pole had the purest air in the world, but it, too, was heavily polluted with coal and petroleum waste, scientists told him. The West Antarctic ice sheet was melting from below in the warming waters, breaking off and floating out to sea.
It was “some of the most stunning wilderness," Kerry recalled last month to The Associated Press, and it was ”mixed with the negative impacts of human beings.”
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A member of the Indian parliament wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to cap the prices of 20 medical devices to bring down hospitalization costs and make healthcare more affordable.
The letter follows government decisions earlier this year to cap prices of two other medical devices – knee implants and cardiac stents – which did not go down well with many in the healthcare industry.
Several foreign manufacturers, which command a majority share of India's $5 billion a year medical-technology industry, have opposed price controls, saying they hurt innovation and investment decisions.
Public health experts, however, point to India's high out-of-pocket spend and lack of health insurance as reasons for tighter control of drug and medical device prices.
"Currently, there are no restrictions on the healthcare charges in the country," said Dharam Vira Gandhi, a doctor and member of the parliament from India's Punjab state. He called for more price controls to be imposed "at the earliest."
Bhupendra Singh, Chairman of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) – the agency that imposed previous price controls – declined to above statement.
The agency has previously expressed the need to cap prices of more devices such as balloons – commonly used to prop open blocked arteries during surgeries. It says its actions have been geared towards bringing down treatment costs.
But ensuring hospitals comply with the price caps has been a challenge, and the NPPA has earlier disclosed cases where hospitals were found to be overcharging, despite price caps.
Some in the industry, including the Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI) that represents many foreign medical device companies such as Johnson & Johnson, have questioned if previous price cap decisions have been successful in reducing the cost to patients.
The MTaI did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but in previous statements, it has called for price caps on knee implants – imposed in February – to be reconsidered.
Gandhi, in the letter, pushed for more price caps, citing government data that showed nearly a quarter of Indian families borrow money to meet their healthcare costs.
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Doc Passport: Pathways for Australian Films to Go Global
Learn how to create and craft stories that appeal to international markets
Join us for this inspiring end-of-the-day session where we explore the exciting potential pathways for local stories to go global!
Learn how to create and craft stories that can appeal to international markets as we look at two specific case studies of Australian documentaries that have made it big overseas, through very different pathways: the Screen Queensland-supported Hating Peter Tatchell (pictured) and Gold Coast Film Festival Opening Night film Valerie Taylor: Playing with Sharks.
Here we will talk to leading producers from Queensland production company Wildbear Entertainment and their international partners involved in taking Australian nonfiction stories to massive global audiences.
Speakers: Veronica Fury (Wildbear Entertainment), Oli Harbottle (Dogwoof), Bettina Dalton (Wildbear Entertainment), Christopher Amos (Chrysaor Productions)
Moderator: Lauren Valmadre (AIDC)
Click herefor full details on all of the industry experts participating in REGIONALITY CAIRNS.
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If our aim is to report the most particular classic cars, available on the market at a given moment, we certainly could not avoid reporting this prototype.
This is not a prototype of a mass-produced car (which, however, would have some importance), but the prototype of a Rally legend, the Lancia 037, the last rear-wheel drive car to win a World Rally Championship, beating the Audi Quattro on its own ground. Being a prototype it has the typical look of an experimental car: buttons and levers randomly thrown into the passenger compartment, zero comfort, approximate finishes to say the least. However, these things will certainly not interest the next owner.
This very car wore the official Martini livery of the other 037 works with the role of patrol car in the 1982 Acropolis Rally. After its development tasks ended, the 037 prototype was permanently retired and ended up in the private collection of its designer, Sergio Limone, which has brought it back to its original condition, including the 1,995 cc engine fed by a supercharger. It will be auctoned on the next June 15 during the RM Sotheby’s auction in Milano, Italy, with an estimate of €700,000-900,000 (today $833,000-1,071,000). | <urn:uuid:846ea8dd-867a-4690-8bb1-bf64f85513c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://classicvirus.com/2021/04/16/se-037-001-1980-lancia-037-prototype/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966401 | 271 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The variety of loan merchandise have increased more than the past twenty several years as economic necessity and a demanding community in require of specialization to remedy economic conditions. From private financial loans, academic loans, organization loans and even municipal financial loans. The entities that took portion in the development of the various economic merchandise are actuaries, threat administration professionals, “details and informatic engineers” and Wall Street among other folks. It was essential to generate, increase or split down for far better or for even worse loan solutions and products to keep funds fluid in a assorted market that required funds to address market demographics.
Signature Financial loans – A signature mortgage is just as it sounds. One applies for a mortgage and offers a signature on a promissory note to repay the mortgage in a certain amount of time. That quantity of time is known as a “financial loan term ” and may be from 6 months to 5 many years. Signature financial loans typically demand great credit history and the conditions for mortgage approval are mostly based on the borrower’s credit score and and to a lesser diploma on assets. Not all signature loans have the identical parameters for skills. Some financial loans could demand the borrower even with excellent credit score to account for property to show the lending institution for underwriting reasons. The institution might or could not spot a lien on the belongings but however needs to have documentation proving that there are in fact economic or bodily assets owned by the borrower. Signature financial loans typically appear with lower fascination costs than other sorts of buyer financial loans like payday financial loans, credit history card developments, title financial loans and some vehicle loans. More on these topics later. Who are the loan companies in signature loans? They selection from huge subsidiaries of car manufacturers to banking institutions, cost savings and mortgage institutions, finance businesses and payday bank loan organizations.
Credit Card Loans – Credit Card loans or cash improvements from credit history cards are an additional kind of individual financial loans. These quick loans are much more readily accessible to the common community and does not call for a credit rating examine. To obtain the initial card much more than most likely required a credit rating check or at minimum the process of identification for secured credit cards. Credit rating card loans or improvements generally arrive with greater curiosity charges and also other expenses for obtaining access to the cash. Different entities let access to the credit rating card money developments from bank tellers, examine cashing facilities and automatic teller equipment (ATMs). The expenses differ dependent on resource used to access the money. To reduced the costs for money developments some use check out cashing services to have the card billed and acquire funds back again in switch for not having to incur the fees of ATM equipment as playing cards are assessed a price twice first by the ATM firm and also their lender. The desire charges on credit rating card loans or advances are normally higher than signature loans. There are some states that have usury laws that have lower desire rates on credit playing cards. The mortgage or progress on a credit card is not a “time period bank loan” as with most signature financial loans. It is a lot more or considerably less a line of credit the borrower has access to when they require it as prolonged as there are funds accessible on the credit history card. Fascination on consumer financial loans are no more time tax deductible as in preceding a long time. They were created for quick expression borrowing needs but many have appear to use their credit rating playing cards as a standard supply of money in tight financial moments or between paychecks.
Marriage Loans – A relatively new kind of mortgage to carve out a specialized niche for the lending industry and fulfill the needs of the increasing fees of weddings is the Marriage Mortgage. Simply because of the expenditure of weddings which can selection into six figures, it occasionally requires a private financial loan or even a company financial loan of the family members involved to provide a proper wedding ceremony. Wedding loans can be secured (utilizing assets for collateral) or unsecured (signature financial loans) to get cash for the ever developing need to pay out for the escalating marriage fees and all the various services and merchandise that a effective matrimonial ceremony would want. The credit history standards and the time period might differ based mostly on the amount needed and monetary standing of the people concerned.
Payday or Cash Advance Loans is a quickly increasing market simply because it usually demands the the very least of credit criteria utilized for bank loan approvals. One can have undesirable credit for a quick and quick bank loan. Just possessing proof of earnings, proof of identification and a examining account is all that is necessary to secure funds. Even nowadays a lot of have examining accounts without checks one particular can nevertheless get a funds advance by inquiring their lender to generate a 1 time check out to give to the payday bank loan agency. Numerous payday bank loan organizations and merchants can get acceptance with no faxing of files as they employ other indicates for proof of cash flow. Even though payday loans occur with very large annualized fascination costs they occasionally are the only source of emergency funds financial loans for those in require.
Automotive, Motorbike, RV (leisure vehicle) and Boat Financial loans – These private consumer financial loans are generally not signature only financial loans but asset based mostly loans. In other terms a monetary lien is placed towards the asset to secure a bank loan to acquire or refinance the car, boat et al. These consumer loans could sometimes require a down payment of five to 20-five p.c to safe enjoyment and use of possession. Simply because these are not funds that are currently offered as with credit history playing cards they occur with a “bank loan phrase” from one to 6 a long time dependent on the choices of the consumer, the market and the credit rating status. The interest costs can variety from extremely low typically offered by producers of automobiles, bikes, RV’s (leisure automobiles) and boats to extremely large if the borrower uses a credit card, a finance company or a “acquire listed here – pay out below” loan provider – or the automobile supplier who finances the acquire of the vehicle by offering the borrower a expression of months and many years to shell out the harmony of the financial loan off.
SBA (Modest Business Administration) Loans are loans that are provided to little businesses which are not able to qualify for a bank loan from a economic institution for different motives from absence of company historical past, lack of collateral to “protected” the bank loan or not getting an ample credit history. The SBA is not a direct loan company but acts as an underwriter on behalf of the financial institution that money the financial loan for the enterprise entity. If the borrower defaults on the loan the SBA will pay out the bank a percentage of the harmony for getting the fiscal chance to loan the money to the organization. There are various sorts of SBA loans which will not be covered in this post but a foreseeable future post will explain in a lot more element.
Typical Company Loans are loans that are both unsecured meaning no asset is utilised to approve the financial loan or secured and called “asset based mostly financial loans” where belongings from inventory, tools, accounts receivable or true estate are utilised for underwriting for loan approval. Standard organization loans are presented to business entities that have excellent banking associations, established business credit history historical past with trade strains with other organizations they do enterprise with and excellent standing with different credit score reporting entities like Dun & Bradstreet. There are brief term loans with interest only payments with the harmony thanks at the end of the loan typically referred to as a “Balloon Financial loan”. There are also more time phrase financial loans that are totally amortized (principal and fascination in each and every payment) compensated over 1 to five years or far more.
Equipment Leasing is a economic instrument which technically is not a mortgage. Indicating primarily based on tax ramifications and who owns the tools – leasing is just that – leasing an asset owned by yet another entity. Leases are usually from huge corporations or a financial institution. The lease term can range from a single to 5 a long time or far more and there typically are tax advantages to the company entity in leasing new or utilized equipment.
Equipment Sale Leaseback is a transaction to use tools that is already owned by the organization or municipal entity to safe funds for the current want for functions. The time period can fluctuate from one particular to five a long time and the quantity of money can fluctuate dependent on credit score history and a proportion of the fair marketplace price of the gear. The organization then in change leases the tools back again in normally a month to month payment. The business or the lessee generally has diverse choices on what they want to do with the equipment at the end of the time period. My Loans Center can roll the lease transaction into newer more current gear or computer software. They can buy the tools for 1 greenback or ten percent of the fair industry worth of the equipment.More and a lot more businesses are leasing right now as opposed to paying money or utilizing bank lines or financial loans.
Merchant Money Progress is utilized by firms that want quickly money and can’t qualify or don’t want to go through the method of receiving bank approval for needed money. A Service provider Income Advance is also not a financial loan solution but it is the promoting of belongings or credit rating card receipts at a discount. In other words the Merchant Money Progress organization purchases the credit card receipts and then attaches a price normally each time the business “batches”, settles or closes the day’s or week’s revenue until the cash sophisticated are paid out off. There is no phrase with service provider funds improvements as it is not a bank loan so there is no set payment volume or period of time. The spending off of the innovative resources differ primarily based on a the credit score and debit card transactions of the day or week.
Factoring Accounts Receivable Invoices allows a business entity that normally has to hold out 30 days or longer to be paid by other businesses or governmental entities. Again factoring is not technically a mortgage but a offering of invoices at a low cost for money now. In a common transaction the company applies with a Factoring Company and the firm seems to be mostly at the credit rating of the other business or governmental entity that the organization is carrying out enterprise with. Based on that as long as the client of the firm is a solvent organization or authorities company the invoices are bought and cash are dispensed to the enterprise typically in 3 times of because of diligence on the company they are transacting enterprise with. In other words and phrases the money are dispensed after there is a credit rating check and processing of the other firm. The greenback amount that is superior can differ from fifty % of the invoice to eighty or ninety % depending on numerous variables this sort of as the size of the bill to the credit requirements of the other organization or governmental entity whether it is a town, county, state or federal company.
Health care Factoring is a fiscal transaction that advantages medical entities like hospitals, clinics and numerous health treatment pros that have to wait around to get cash for companies carried out on individuals. Like Factoring and Service provider Income Improvements Health-related Factoring is the selling of assets in this case invoices for funds now. In several situations the overall health treatment market gets payment from 3rd celebration entities like insurance organizations, Medicaid and Medicare and state entities that give cash for those in need to have of health care procedures. The medical facility or skilled in turns sells the invoice(s) on a on heading foundation or one particular time for money now. After there is an desire is offering the receivables then a Factor actions into examine the billing so that funds can be superior. This approach can fluctuate in length but is normally shorter in size than the method of obtaining lender funding.
Contract and Obtain Get Funding makes it possible for firms to bid on huge initiatives for governmental organizations, hospitals, universities, prison systems and municipalities or also to sell to greater corporations even if the organization does not have the credit history or financial institution acceptance or the wherewithal to provider or fulfill a big deal purchase. Similar to Factoring which works hand in hand with Buy Order Funding it is not a financial loan but a simultaneous transaction that includes advancing cash dependent on the credit of the governmental company or bigger business and the size of the deal. The money that are advanced are for the expense in completing the purchase of products or doing solutions. So the earnings that will be received is not advanced but the costs as in raw and concluded materials, transportation, creation, labor, skills and any other costs included in finishing the deal. Once the contract is completed or as soon as an invoice is ready to be despatched to the consumer a factoring organization which is at times owned by the very same company buys the bill at a price reduction and the resources that would generally be innovative to the organization are usually utilised to settle the sum superior for the substance and other providers that ended up essential to total the purchase. Contract and Acquire Get Funding usually requires large transaction quantities as opposed to factoring that can be utilized for invoices as modest as one particular hundred bucks. With the use of Contract and Purchase Buy Funding companies that had been locked out of the process of bidding on large deal s could turn out to be gamers in multi-million dollar discounts.
Business Real Estate Sale Leasebacks are related to Products Sale Leasebacks highlighted in this post. As an alternative of employing owned products to secure cash when financial institution borrowing is not needed or not accessible the industrial real estate is employed to obtain funds now. This can differ from office properties, health care properties, retail franchises, industrial properties and producing to huge utility plants. This frees up funds “locked” away in genuine estate. Several entities find that at the current time the organization they are in whether or not it is retail, manufacturing or another area that the holding of business real estate is not in their best economic fascination for now. They desire to place to use funds for their industry. So a retailer offering retails products decides to focus on the retail operations and to lease the room since that true estate when factored into a myriad of calculations does not match their monetary objectives for the duration of the current time. Yes the ownership of business real estate is an asset and can be employed as a safety for a mortgage but might also be viewed as a set non-executing entity that does not meet up with the demands of the company, business, team or individual that owns the constructing. Business Real Estate Sale Leasebacks are an additional type of obtaining obtain to funds and has improved in excess of the years. | <urn:uuid:7040aa9e-29c9-43b0-a0f2-fc4a61dd1470> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.electricianislington.com/an-outline-connected-with-personalized-in-addition-to-company-loan-groups-in-addition-to-their-very-own-utilizes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964344 | 3,009 | 2.125 | 2 |
TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 163, which requires individuals to wear face coverings in outdoor public spaces when it is not practicable to socially distance and keep a six-foot distance from others, excluding immediate family members, caretakers, household members, or romantic partners, except where doing so would inhibit that individual’s health, where the individual is under two years of age, or in situations where individuals cannot feasibly wear a face covering, such as when eating or drinking at outdoor dining areas.
The Order, which takes effect immediately, also reiterates New Jersey's policy of requiring face coverings in indoor spaces that are accessible to members of the public, such as retail, recreational, and entertainment businesses, areas of government buildings open to the public, and mass transit buses, trains, and stations, again with exceptions for health reasons and children under two.
“As I’ve said before, we know this virus is a lot less lethal outdoors than indoors, but that does not mean it is not lethal,” said Governor Murphy. “The hotspots we’re seeing across the nation and certain worrisome transmission trends in New Jersey require us to do more. In the absence of a national strategy on face coverings, we’re taking this step to ensure that we can continue on our road back as one New Jersey family.”
The Order notes that situations when wearing a face covering would inhibit an individual’s health include when an individual is engaging in high intensity aerobic or anaerobic activities, when in the water, and in other situations where the presence of a mask would pose a risk to the individual’s safety.
The Order also notes that for indoor commercial spaces that are not open to members of the public, such as office buildings, those spaces must have policies that at a minimum, require individuals to wear face coverings when in prolonged proximity to others. The Order also notes that child care centers, other child care facilities, and youth summer camps are not governed by this Order, and those settings continue to be governed by Executive Order No. 149 (2020) and applicable standards issued by the Department of Health.
Furthermore, the Order clarifies that for outdoor dining purposes, outdoor areas shall be defined as open air spaces that either 1) have no roof or cover, or 2) have a fixed roof or temporary or seasonal awning or cover, with at least two open sides that would comprise over 50 percent of the total wall space if the space were fully enclosed.
Lastly, the Order clarifies that practices and competitions for sports defined as “Low Risk” by the Department of Health’s “Guidance for Sports Activities” are permitted in both outdoor and indoor settings. No-contact practices for sports defined as “High or Medium Risk” are permitted to resume in outdoor and indoor settings. Contact practices and competitions for sports defined as “Medium Risk” are permitted to resume in outdoor settings only. Contact practices and competitions for sports defined as “High Risk” remain prohibited in both indoor and outdoor settings. All sporting activities are subject to the “Guidance for Sports Activities”, and such activities must comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and Executive Orders.
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This session will examine global perspectives on special educational needs and inclusion. You are required to engage with the content and activities within the online presentation below and complete the corresponding directed task.
Download the following worksheet and outline potential issues with the identification of SEN and applying labels. Consider similarities and differences in the United Kingdom and the USA.
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Making oobleck has been on my list of things to do with Sophie for a while now. I thought it would be something fun to do as part of our outdoor learning at home. Messy play with a bit of science thrown in – what’s not to like?
Oobleck is made from a mixture of cornflour and water. It’s a non-Newtonian fluid which acts like a solid under pressure but then becomes liquid again when the pressure is released. It’s a lot of fun to play with, is non-toxic and easy to clean up afterwards which is always good.
To make oobleck, you need one part water to 1.5-2 parts cornflour. Put the water in a bowl and slowly add the cornflour, stirring continuously until you have a thick gloopy mixture. You can add food colouring if you wish, although we left our oobleck uncoloured.
We set up the tuff tray in the garden with the bowl of oobleck. Sophie had a wonderful time squishing it into a ball and then letting it “melt” and drip through her fingers. She loved the way the oobleck in the bowl felt solid when she hit it, and the way her hands then sank into the gloopy mixture.
Daddy enjoyed joining in the fun as well. One of the plus points about having to stay at home at the moment and having him working from home!
Sitting and playing with the oobleck kept Sophie amused for quite a while. We added a little water to the mixture every so often as it started to dry out a little. The puddles on the tuff tray dried out quite quickly in the sunshine leaving little piles of powdery cornflour like miniature snowdrifts on the tray.
After Sophie had finished playing, we disposed of most of the oobleck (by now covered in bits of grass from the garden) in the bin. You can let it dry out and store in a container to re-use another time if you prefer – just add more water when you’re ready to re-use it. Don’t dispose of it down the sink though as it could clog the drain. You can wash it off your hands with warm water to remove. Sophie just let the residue on her hands dry off for a few minutes and then brushed it off instead. We left the splashes of oobleck in the tuff tray to dry out. They were easy to sweep up once they’d dried out.
Exploring the oobleck was a fun way to discuss and describe solids and liquids. It’s definitely something that we’ll do again. Next time though, I think I’ll try making a bigger batch of oobleck and filling the tuff tray with it. Sophie can have fun finding out what happens if she tries to walk or jump on it. | <urn:uuid:31d4e071-2777-49ad-a8d3-b9fbf149e685> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://littleheartsbiglove.co.uk/outdoor-learning-exploring-oobleck/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.963034 | 615 | 2.515625 | 3 |
TheHouse Armed Services Committee voted to include an amendment expediting LNGexport permitting in the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.
"TheHouse Armed Services Committee's passage of LNG exports legislation is the latestexample of bipartisan recognition by Congress that the U.S. is an energysuperpower," American Petroleum Institute Executive Vice President LouisFinkel said in an April 27 statement just after the vote in markup. "U.S.LNG exports not only provide international consumers with greater choice, butalso help them break dependence on nations that use their energy resources as adiplomatic and political weapon."
Similarto language in the House's broad energy bill passed in December 2015, the amendment would require theU.S. Department of Energy to approve LNG export applications no later than 30days after all required federal environmental reviews are completed for aproject.
TheCenter for Liquefied Natural Gas also applauded the amendment.
"Exportingour surplus natural gas overseas will not only benefit our allies abroad, itwill also drive significant investment into the domestic economy while makingsizable reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions," Executive DirectorCharlie Riedl said in a statement."The shale revolution has fundamentally transformed the American energy landscape;LNG exports now represent an opportunity to allow the rest of the world tobenefit." | <urn:uuid:d313342c-a5b4-452f-9fae-7b4e97b36875> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending/nmzhyzzlzo4mdzpmjasfrw2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922086 | 268 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysore Open Forum has organised a multimedia presentation on ‘Wonders of the Night Sky’ by Dr. S.N. Prasad, former Principal, Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Mysuru, at 10.30 am on Saturday (June 25) at Kalpa Kshetra Auditorium, 581/1, Vijayanagar 4th Stage, 1st Phase, Mysuru.
Dr. S.N. Prasad is a Teacher, Educator and Educational Consultant with over forty years of field experience. He is actively involved in popularisation of Science, including observational Astronomy, through lectures, demonstrations and writings. He has observed total solar eclipses in China (2009), Indonesia (2016), USA (2017) besides India (1980) and travelled widely in different countries. Currently, he is on the Advisory Board of the Education and Public Outreach Committee of the COSMOS Project relating to the setting up of a state-of-the-art Planetarium in Mysuru.
In this multimedia presentation, the audience will be taken through a bird’s eye view of the magnificent wonders of the night sky as visible through the bare human eye as well as through telescopes, both small and large.
This includes the members of our own solar system, the innumerable and different types of stars that ‘stud’ the night sky, a variety of apparent groupings of them leading to the commonly perceived stellar constellations and not so well recognised star clusters and multiple stars.
The talk is open to all. For details contact Mob:94498-19536. | <urn:uuid:bc93ec7d-46ad-4be5-8c44-abd2b545cdad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://starofmysore.com/multimedia-presentation-on-wonders-of-the-night-sky-tomorrow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936098 | 344 | 1.71875 | 2 |
"Someone to Love" Therapy Dolls
Therapy dolls have a remarkable effect on both men and women in the middle and later stages of Alzheimer's disease. They are calming, soothing and bring the person back to a time in their life when they felt useful and had a sense of purpose; when caring for a young family member was the #1 priority. Alzheimer’s doll therapy helps patients escape from a world where someone is always caring for them.
Giving someone a "baby" doll brings them back to that safe and secure time in their life. These sweet little babies are very special, bringing pleasure to anyone who holds them. Their beautiful faces and cuddly bodies can help but make you smile. Dementia care is never easy, but seeing the joy that these dolls bring turns therapy into a rewarding experience that enriches the lives of everyone involved.
Our ‘Carolyn’ Therapy Doll is wearing a cute little ruffled dress, she has gorgeous brown hair topped with two adorable floral bows.
- She is so adorable with her silky smooth brown hair, hand blushed details and hand applied eyelashes
- 20 inches from head to toe, made of high quality vinyl toddler doll with moveable head, arms and legs’; soft body.
- Weighted body complete with diaper for realistic nuturing.
"My mother is in an advanced stage of Alzheimers. Her doll is her constant companion. In my mother's mind, the doll is a living being. She cuddles it, talks to it, and exhibits less fearfulness at night when she sleeps with the doll. The familiar occupation of caring for "Little Debbie" seems to remind my mother of her role as an adult. The reduced level of agitation, and even more importantly, the comfort and happiness "Little Debbie" has brought my mother only makes me sad that I did not get her a doll sooner." Jill - Caregiver for her Mother | <urn:uuid:ebf027f1-982b-4893-bb89-3faf4dff92fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alzstore.ca/alzheimers-baby-doll-therapy-Carolyn-p/c801.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963685 | 410 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Courageous faith stands taller than, wider than, and deeper than any faith I’ve experienced. Although I don’t fully understand it, I recognize it when I see it. Courageous faith seems to emerge out of the darkest places. It rises up above wild angry seas. it surfaces from tumultuous rapids and within the flames of fire.
People who demonstrate courageous faith rarely realize they have it. It seems to come with a soft garment of humility. It grows in adversity and it cannot be tamed.
No one wants the circumstances that accompany courageous faith. No one relishes storms, rapids or consuming fires. For courageous faith lives within adverse circumstance. It doesn’t tell the circumstance what to do or try to predict its outcome. Like outcome, it’s beauty and power cannot be captured.
When circumstances squeeze in around the strong shoulders of such faith, arms reach down to lift observers up top. I’ve seen the broad shoulders grow big enough to carry whole communities, families and the faithless.
Storms and fires want to overpower courageous faith – but they can’t. Our powerlessness and dependence are its energy boosters, growth-generating enhancers. The higher the waves, the greater its resistance. The deeper the waters, the more buoyant it is. The hotter the furnace, the more brilliant it becomes.
Courageous faith is not of this world. We can’t learn it, earn it or reproduce it. We can’t even properly describe it, but when we see it, we know it.
Whether from the top of someone’s shoulders or within a storm ourselves, if we look long enough, we will see the face of God. He is the lifeblood of courageous faith – he is the anchor, the author. He is the breath, the depth and the width.
Strength, valor, grit, and perseverance can be found in the middle of any circumstance.
Today is the day to fill our own cup of trust. We do it by consuming the Word of God and spending time with him. Our cup is filled one spoonful at a time by dependence and brokenness.
Believe. Trust. Grab hold – so when the waters rise, when the seas try to overtake us or fires rage – we will be ready for the miracle of courageous faith. He promises to be there. With us. Our overcomer. Our strong defender. Our God. Our courage and our strength. | <urn:uuid:97168c72-7271-41ce-8a54-7d58c9756964> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://patbaer.net/courageous-faith/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.914703 | 515 | 1.625 | 2 |
Source: Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, Vol 23, n.3, Spring 2007.
Publisher: Department of curriculum and Instruction Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching
This qualitative study investigated P-12 school administrators' perceptions of teacher education candidates' online digital portfolios for hiring purposes. Over the course of three semesters, focus group interviews and an online questionnaire gauged administrators' perceptions of selected candidates' portfolios and how they might be used to help select teachers to hire. Based on preliminary feedback from administrators, candidates had opportunity to modify their portfolios each semester.
Findings give evidence that administrators will use digital portfolios as a tool in the hiring process if they can easily access them, navigation is clear, and items they have traditionally used are still available. Administrators also viewed online video clips of candidates as a potentially powerful tool to help in selecting teachers to hire. | <urn:uuid:90ea6f80-09cf-4fe1-9150-1870f0f3c982> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://education.eng.macam.ac.il/article/620 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.908215 | 174 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Television. Kids. Two words that lead to a lot of (mostly) healthy debate about the effects of viewing for children and the balance between screen and non-screen time for little imaginations. Whether you’re a no-television household or like to let the little ones enjoy their favourite show while you cook dinner, here’s a way to let the little ones bring fun and TV together in a lovely crafty way.
What you’ll need
– an old box
– foil paper
– pipe cleaner
– pom poms
– sticky tape
What you’ll do
To create the screen, cut the base out of an old box to create the opening, leaving the lid free so the little ones can access it from the back with puppets. From the piece you cut out, you can cut rectangles to make a remote control with paint and buttons.
Paint the inside of the box black.
Cut a piece of foil paper so that when it is stuck to the top panel at the back of the box it will hang to the bottom, as this will allow your little one to poke their hands through with puppets without being seen. Glue it to the inside of the top flap at the back of the box.
Paint the outside of the box and once dry attach buttons and your antennas, which can be made by gluing pom poms to the end of a pipe cleaner.
Simple fun, but truly the best part is watching the shows the little ones put on when it’s ready. Sitting back and watching what’s on the box has never been more fun! | <urn:uuid:21a13385-199f-4230-b9bf-89abb6118145> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tinyandlittle.com/the-box-tv/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922013 | 349 | 2.03125 | 2 |
November 18, 2021 - Pastor's Corner
Dear Church Family,
The key verse of 1 John is 5:13, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life,” and the main theme of his letter is Certainty of Faith in Jesus Christ and Our Subsequent Practice. This assurance is addressed in multiple ways throughout 1 John through contrasts, direct statements, and three specific areas of Christian living—moral (obedience), social (love), and theological (Jesus is the God-man).
Today, the apostle speaks plainly to believers concerning the main theme of his letter in 3:19-24. Please take a quick moment to read these verses anew. From this passage come the following brief insights:
- John reveals that the certainty of our faith in Jesus comes by way of specific actions based upon truth. He says, “By this we shall know [or come to know] that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before Him.” And the “this” the apostle is referring to are the three specific areas of Christian living, which are seen in verses 22-23: “we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him,” “we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ,” and we “love one another, just as He has commanded us.” All three actions go together and are not isolated from each other.
- The obedience area speaks to our doing what pleases God for He alone is the determining Factor of what pleases Him, which He has revealed in the Scriptures. John is here referring to a lifestyle of obedience to the commandments in the Bible, not selective obedience nor occasional disobedience. He says, “we keep His commandments,” and he adds, “whoever keeps His commandments abides in God, and God in him.” Moreover, this lifestyle of obedience is empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit, Who is another assurance of belonging to God (v 24b cf. Eph 1:13-14; Rom 8:1-17).
- Believing in the name of God’s “Son Jesus Christ,” is to believe in His unique dual-nature Person: fully God and fully human in One Person. Practically, this means that Jesus being God has the absolute right to tell us how to live. Likewise, being human, Jesus has shown us how we are to live in obedience to God. Moreover, believing in Jesus is to trust all that God says about His Son, including Him being the only way to be saved from our sin.
- Loving other Christians is another act of obedience, and a specific assurance of belonging to God. For loving the unlovable imperfect people that God has set His love upon is to demonstrate that God Himself lives in us; such actions are supernatural.
- No Christian perfectly lives the three areas of assurance. Knowing this can and often does cause believers to wonder if they are indeed God’s people. This is why John says God’s determination of who is His “is greater than our heart, and He knows everything.” God is the perfect judge who rightly assesses who belongs to Him. The three areas taught by John are for us (v 21). And to ensure we rightly apply these truths to our lives, we ask God to make them true of us, and we trust and act like He has already done so. For “by this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before Him.”
As mentioned before, beloved, we will be taking next week off from our study to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families. We will return to 1 John on December 2, 2021, focusing 4:1-6.
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In 2017, the environmental goods and services sector accounted for 2.8% of national gross value added (GVA), 3.7% of exports and 2.4% of employment. Comparing with the previous year, exports increased by 20.0% and employment by 3.7%, showing greater dynamism than total economy (11.6% and 3.4%, respectively). GVA and output, on the contrary, registered growth rates below those of the national economy, with a slight reduction in GVA (-0.9%, compared to an increase of 4.7% for the economy as a whole). About a quarter of output (23.6%) was exported.
In 2016, Portugal was the fifth country in the EU28 with the largest weight of GVA of Environmental Goods and Services in the national GVA (3.0%, higher than the EU28 average of 2.4%) and of exports in national total (3.5%).
In 2017, National Expenditure on Environmental Protection (NEEP) totalized 2,721 M€ (1.4% of GDP), increasing by 18.9% compared to the previous year (after a decrease of 6.3% in 2016). This result reflects increases in final consumption expenditure, intermediate consumption and investment and the decrease in transfers received from the Rest of the World. | <urn:uuid:cb944f72-a131-4bca-a343-495da4cb9cbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_destaques&DESTAQUESdest_boui=399286746&DESTAQUESmodo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946949 | 274 | 1.851563 | 2 |
This year, the Student-led Learning team at LBS launched the Social Impact Cohort – with a focus on Sustainable Supply Chains for the pilot programme. The student group, including Tara Higgins, Sasha Riser-Kositsky, Ariane Tardiou, and your co-authors (Sarah Pavlu and Veronique Vera), was brought together to experiment with new ways to drive change on campus in the social impact space.
The cohort brought together a group of students who are passionate about the topic and driven to make a change in how organisations impact the environment and society at large through their supply chain operations. Our aspiration is to integrate sustainability into the lives and careers of LBS community members, inspiring more champions of change. We leveraged the strengths of our networks, the LBS student and alumni community, and the guidance of faculty and staff to further our understanding and have just launched a 4-part blog series to share our findings and keep the conversation going. We encourage you to read further here , and share your thoughts if this is something that resonates with your experience or future expectations.
As we seek to be responsible leaders, LBS offered us a plethora of opportunities to learn about the various methods and means to make our impact – from the shift in focus of the Energy and Environment club, the significant growth in the Social Impact Club, the ever-expanding involvement of the Wheeler Institute, and the increasing addition of and enrolment in new classes related to social enterprises and responsible businesses. We are just one of many groups of students passionate about impact and purpose in our work and our pursuits.
Looking to the next year, we encourage more students to launch similar cohorts in the fields that interest them. Below are our key takeaways from working in our cohort, and we look forward to seeing more social impact cohorts that can build upon our progress.
- Explore the huge array of resources available – We received support from clubs, institutes, professors, and classmates to shape our specific learning journey. Using feedback from others involved in the space and learning about other initiatives underway, we were able to shape the purpose and activities of the cohort to be exactly what would best support our individual and collective learning journeys. There are so many available resources and support from the community for individuals seeking to make a difference
- Leverage the strength of the community – Specifically focusing on the LBS network, there are a number of avenues to connect with students, alumni, and community members who are interested in getting involved. It is important to realise the power of the LBS network and tap into it early and often
- Experiment – The unique format of our small and agile cohort allowed us to quickly shift direction to pursue new avenues, dive further into various concepts from our courses, and learn from and adapt to different approaches to learning and network building. Activities and involvement at LBS are ideal for a low-risk, easy-to-implement testing ground for larger endeavours
There is such a vast and diverse set of experiences amongst the LBS community, we hope you will go out and find it!
Contact the Wheeler Institute for information about initiatives in the area of business for development.
The Wheeler Institute is inspired by the purpose and passion of our students who are focused on applying innovative thinking in the area of business for development. We seek collaborations with student clubs and initiatives that have the potential to evolve how we think about business.
The Sustainable Supply Chain Cohort was an initiative of the Student-led Learning team which creates experiential learning opportunities through student leadership, in addition to their other initiatives such as the Student Leadership Incubator and Project Aasha. Contact the Student-led Learning team for more information about student leadership roles within the LBS community. | <urn:uuid:4f0b85b9-500e-45d6-af66-05c70a689c3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wheelerblog.london.edu/social-impact-cohort-in-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954863 | 757 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Nothing could be more harmful to the domestic debate within Israel and our ability to continue the project of Jewish sovereignty and wrestle with its implications than the phrase “Jewish and democratic.”
Tzipi Livni, Israel’s minister of justice, nominated on Aug. 19 professor Ruth Gavison in charge of drafting a constitutional law proposal that would enshrine Israel’s status as the nation-state of the Jewish people, to address the slew of similar legislation initiatives. Her nomination and the phrasing of the laws as “Israel: Homeland of the Jewish people,” inspire hope for repairing the damage in the national and international discourse caused by the phrase “Jewish and democratic.”
The description of Israel as “Jewish and democratic” appears initially not in the Declaration of Independence — as is often thought — but in two 1992 constitutional laws pertaining to freedom of professions and dignity of all humans. Since that time, this has become the most common phrase describing the essence of Israel. But this formulation, originally intended to help resolve various tensions, has in itself become a source of problems. By its very phrasing as Jewish and democratic — joined together by the article “and” — the immediate assumption is that the two aspects are inherently contradictory and that Israel could hope for nothing more than a problematic compromise between the two.
Within Israel, as well as among Jews and Israel watchers, this equation has become one of antonyms — Jewish is the opposite of democratic. For those on the left, the democratic part of the equation has come to symbolize all the liberal and progressive values that they hold dear; and the Jewish side a mirror image of that. For the left, Jewish values are increasingly viewed as the repository of all that they detest. This is flipped for many on the right. For many on the right, Jewish values represent all that they care about and democracy the repository of all that threatens what they hold dear. Both left and right perceive Jewish and democratic as conflicting adjectives. They are wrong.
Democracy at its core is a system of governance. It is associated with specific values in the sense that liberal values are thought to be best expressed and ensured through the system of democracy, not because democracy is inherently liberal. An unchecked majoritarian democracy could be tyrannical and oppressive to minority rights, whereas a benevolent dictatorship could promote liberal values.
In seeking to understand Israel, the question then is not whether there is an inherent tension between Jewish and democratic, but whether there is an inherent tension between Jewish values and liberal values. The answer of course is, it depends.
Like all ancient value systems that have been constantly evolving, Judaism can serve as a repository of liberal as well as ultra-conservative values. It is in the eye of the beholder and the interpreter. It is partial to neither of them. Jewish civilization, like all ancient civilizations, is so rich as to support any system of governance and any set of values that its bearers choose. Just as Confucianism can underpin a communist dictatorship and a capitalist state, so can Judaism underpin liberal democracy, a socialist utopia and authoritarian theocracy.
If anything, the sad reality is that many of those both on the left and right of Israel have forgotten how to argue for liberal values from within Jewish traditions and texts. The secular left has gone overboard in its desire to create a "new Jew" and, by and large, has given up on drawing on Jewish sources to argue for the liberal values that it holds dear. The left argues for progressive values almost exclusively from within foreign traditions. The religious right, for its side, has chosen to mine Jewish sources for limited political purposes and give up on a broader discussion of values in our society.
It is in Israel’s Declaration of Independence, in which the word “democratic” does not appear, that the new state’s aspirational values were best presented stating that “it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.” These were the values chosen for the state, considered not only desirable but grounded in Jewish tradition.
Israel is the democratic state of the Jewish people, and it is our only sovereign state. It was established to be the homeland of the Jewish people and would not have come into being otherwise. It is democratic by necessity, and it is liberal by choice.
Liberal democracy is not inimical to paradoxes, ambiguities, contradictions and the constant tensions of human life and society, and is not designed to somehow make them go away. If anything, it is a response to them and is expressed through the continuous negotiation of its various paradoxes, ambiguities, contradictions and tensions. There is no inherent contradiction between “Jewish” and “democratic” or between “Jewish” and “liberal.” The only question is how those living in the democratic state of the Jewish people — Jews and non-Jews alike — choose to interpret Jewish tradition, in all its variety and wealth, to organize their common lives in the present.
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Sadly, not everyone is gifted with a naturally strong body. There are people who have unlimited stocks of medicine for cough and cold because they can easily catch a virus due to their weak immune system. Then there are also people who suffer from asthma attacks. Research shows that asthma attacks kill 3 people each day. Although it can occur at any age, it is mostly children who suffer from this condition. Asthma, when left untreated, can cause heart failure or death by suffocation. But People that are treated properly can improve or completely outgrow their condition.
What exactly are Asthma attacks?
An asthma attack is the constricting or tightening of the muscles around your airways. Symptoms associated with asthma are difficulty in breathing, chest pains, anxiety, sweating, wheezing, difficulty in speaking, coughing and blue nails or lips. When faced with an Asthma attack, first things first! Stop whatever you’re doing and don’t panic. Try to calm down and relax. The most important thing you have to do is to restore your breathing to normal.
Here are 5 first aid tips to control your asthma attacks:
1. Know what causes the sudden attacks
The first solution is prevention! You have to stay away from possible triggers. Especially when you’re already having an asthma attack. Keep yourself away from smoke and dust. It is advisable to have a skin test. Know which allergens can cause your asthma to act up because it can also be caused by certain foods or chemicals. Don’t force yourself with strenuous activities or over exert yourself physically. Asthma attacks can also be caused by fatigue or stress.
2. Improve your lung capacity
Do not do extreme workouts! 10-15 minutes of simple aerobic exercises will do the trick. Ask your doctor to teach you breathing exercises too. Daily exercise can improve your respiratory system, this can help prevent future asthma attacks. Since it is important to develop your respiratory system, just so we’re clear – smoking cigarettes is not an option for you.
3. Sit upright
When having an asthma attack keep an upright position. You might be feeling dizzy but laying down will only aggravate your condition. Lying down makes it harder to breathe and lacking oxygen in your body will only worsen the asthma attack.
4. Keep your inhaler with you at all times
Take 1 to 2 puffs or as instructed by your doctor for quick relief. Take slow steady breaths to normalize your breathing. Always have your inhaler with you as a precaution because you never know when you will need it.
5. Call 911
Never hesitate to call 911. Your life is on the line, if you don’t feel better even after using your inhaler then call an ambulance. Do not take asthma lightly, if you continue to have problems breathing get medical help immediately.
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In October, Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wis., delivered the Arcticus to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center in Cheboygan, Mich. A little more than a week later it was on its maiden voyage, surveying trout on Lake Michigan.
The 77'5"×26'×8'9" Arcticus is a fisheries research boat that replaces the 38-year-old Grayling, which was retired because its scientific capabilities “have outlived their usefulness,” said the Great Lakes Science Center’s Russell Strach.
He called the Arcticus a “state-of-the-art scientific research vessel that has a modern lab for assessing fish communities and modern propulsion systems that are more fuel efficient to reduce emissions.”
The Arcticus and the Grayling are the same size and there’s something else that’s the same — the name. But you have to be up on your Latin to pick up on that.
It’s also necessary to realize there was a lot of support for retaining the name “Grayling.” Thus the choice of Arcticus, for Thymallus arcticus, the scientific name for Arctic grayling.
“Arcticus means grayling in Latin,” Strach noted. “So it’s still the Grayling, in honor of the good service the old boat had.”
JMS Naval Architects in Mystic, Conn., developed the Arcticus’s preliminary design and Burger Boat finalized the design and the construction drawings.
Dry and wet labs are located on the main deck, with the ability to freeze and store samples.
A big part of the research work is to “access the prey-fish communities,” said Strach. These are fish, such as smelt and bloaters, that sport fish feed on. “The other important task is assessing lake-trout populations.” Data from this work plays a major role for fisheries management throughout the Great Lakes.
Deck equipment includes a gillnet lifter and a pair of hydraulic trawl winches holding 1,500' of 3/8" wire rope.
The new boat also has hydroacoustic capabilities. “This wasn’t available on the old Grayling. We can access prey-fish populations without handling them. We can do bottom trawling to access abundance and in parallel do hydroacoustics,” Strach said. The Arcticus also does water sampling and plankton tows.
Propulsion for the Arcticus comes from a pair of 454-hp Caterpillar C12s that give the boat a top speed of 10.2 knots and a cruising speed of 9.5 knots. A hydraulically powered 50-hp Wesmar bowthruster is set in the bulbous bow.
Accommodations include two berths on the main deck and six below.
The Arcticus is built for a 40- to 50-year service life. It will operate on Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior, generally from April through November.
“The Arcticus was built on budget, on time and consistent with the design,” said Strach.
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Edited by the Curator of the Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library, Robert L D Cooper. Published by Masonic Publishing Ltd.This is the original guide book to the Temple Church, London, England. Like Rosslyn Chapel this church, which was built and owned by the medieval Order of the Knights Templar featured in the novel: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. This guide book was originally published in 1907 and is the most comprehensive description of the church, its contents and history which is easily available. But this is more than just a guide book. It contains, for example, a history of the Knights Templar together with engravings of the Templar tombstones in the church. This is an ideal companion volume to the Illustrated Guide to Rosslyn Chapel especially for those who wish to learn more about the important locations in The Da Vinci Code. | <urn:uuid:5dcd6d62-d05a-45b6-8073-41350e9506d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.grandlodgescotland.com/product/the-church-of-the-knights-templars-in-london/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956154 | 172 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Erdinc BAL and Demir KOK
Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag Agriculture Faculty, Departament of Horticulture, Tekirdag, Turkey
BAL, Erdinc and Demir KOK, 2007. The effects of glycerin added ethephon treatments on fruit characteristics of Actinidia deliciosa cv. Hayward. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 13: 291-300
This study was conducted at Namk Kemal University, Tekirdag Agriculture Faculty and Department of Horticulture in Turkey in 2005. Kiwifruits of Actinidia deliciosa cv. Hayward harvested at the proper stage of maturity with soluble solids content of 6.9% and fruit firmness of 7 kg were treated by 500 and 1000 ppm ethephon with 0 (control), 1, 3 and 5 percentage of glycerin. Afterwards, kiwifruits which were put into polystren package containers were covered with polyethylene bags stored at 20±0.5°C during 6 day. Some important quality characteristics like kiwifruit firmness, soluble solids, titratable acidity, pH, vitamin c content and sensory evaluation were measured and determined at regular intervals in the course of 6 day.
In order to improve penetration effect of glycerin into kiwifruit tissues, different percentages of glycerin were added into ethephon in this study. In conclusion, 3 and 5% glycerin levels were especially enhanced penetration effectiveness of ethephon at 1000 ppm. | <urn:uuid:8175a905-70cb-4f84-ae58-7f65d00f828c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agrojournal.org/13/03-05.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936267 | 320 | 1.679688 | 2 |
CROS Ministries launches mobile food pantryMissions and Outreach
|In its first three months, the mobile food pantry served 860 persons, and 28 percent of those were children.|
It’s CROS Ministries’ new mobile food pantry, which delivers canned goods and fresh produce to neighborhoods in central Palm Beach and Martin counties.
Most people who hear Palm Beach think multi-million dollar real estate and A-list celebrities. That’s just along the coast. The interior of the county is a food desert.
In 1978, a group of United Methodist churches did something about it, forming CROS Ministries—Christians Reaching Out to Society. It has grown to become an interfaith effort.
CROS Ministries provides:
- Hot meals seven days a week at its Caring Kitchen based at Cason United Methodist Church in Delray Beach;
- Lunch and snacks at its nine-week summer camp, and
- Food pantries at seven brick-and-mortar locations, including Lighthouse Food Pantry at Community United Methodist Church in Belle Glade.
The mobile unit was launched January, using donations from Bank of America, Florida Power & Light and United Way. The 18-foot refrigerated truck was retrofitted with racks that can be rolled into the parking lot where customers can choose the food they want.
|Ruth Mageria, executive director of CROS Ministries.|
In its first three months, it served 860 individuals, 28 percent of whom were children. It reaches an array of people in need: the homeless, the unemployed, the elderly and the working poor who experience food insecurity.
“We find that in Palm Beach County, many people are working but it’s not enough because the cost of living is so high,” executive director Ruth Mageria said. “They can’t make it last through the month. Sometimes, it’s a choice between buying food and paying the rent, or they use the food money to repair the car.”
Using Palm Beach’s hunger relief plan, CROS Ministries provides food assistance in targeted areas where there are gaps in service. It also makes food available in the evening and on weekends, when other services might not be available.
In Palm Beach County, 200,000 persons are considered food insecure.
“That means that at some point in the month, they will be without food,” Mageria said. “That affects one in four children and one in seven senior citizens. When we think hunger, we think panhandlers. But we don’t see people making the choices of what to do with limited income.”
And Mageira said they also focus on the nutritional value of the food. CROS pantries provide fresh produce, some of it gleaned from the agricultural fields in the western part of the county.
|Last year, 4,500 volunteers gleaned 527,356 pounds of produce.|
The mobile pantry sets up at church every Saturday morning and three Wednesday evenings a month. They are searching for more locations.
The mobile pantry serves every other week at St. Luke’s United Methodist in Lake Worth. Rev. Pierre Exantus said the church advertises the visits on its marquee and its bulletin. He also tries to get the word out by visiting with people waiting at the bus stop across the street from the church.
Rev. Shawn Allen of Church in the Palms in Greenacres said his congregation has supported CROS Ministries financially and with food drives for several years.
The mobile pantry now distributes food on Saturday mornings from the church’s parking lot, reaching about 45 families.
“It’s a super wise and efficient way to distribute food. Taking food to the people and avoid paying overhead is a really smart way to distribute food,” Allen said.
Volunteers from the church also invite the people who come for food to access other services in the community. That includes classes in English as a second language, computers, counseling and other services.
“I’m convinced that model could be extremely effective in preaching the gospel as word and deed,” Allen said.
—Lilla Ross is a freelance writer in Jacksonville.
|Who CROS Ministries reached in 2018
- At First UMC Orlando, doves send a message of love and hope
- UMsConnected looks to expand community beyond church walls
- Faith and vision led to "transformational" Bethune-Cookman University
- Finding peace, purpose, and a "happy place" through painting
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Very similar in appearance, biology, and habits to the Confused Flour Beetle, the Red flour beetle is a scavenger that feeds on virtually any vegetable-based food products, but it is unable to feed on whole, undamaged grains. It may occur in conjunction with the weevils that bore into grains, feeding on the grain once it is opened by the weevil. When present in great numbers they cause flour products to turn gray and distasteful and to mold more quickly. Flour and meal products are especially prone to infestation by the flour beetles in general. Adult beetles may live more than 3 years, laying around 350 eggs in that time. The development of the larva may take from 22 to 100 days, depending on conditions in the habitat, and it may molt up to 18 times in its growth.
Control of most stored food pest beetles relies on a combination of proper storage of products in cool, dry conditions and if possible in pest-proof containers, sanitation measures to remove or prevent spilled materials and dust accumulations, and monitoring with pheromone traps to determine when adult insect activity may begin in an account or to pinpoint the location of the infestation within a structure. Fumigation with either methyl bromide or aluminum phosphide will kill all stages of the beetles present in food, and ensure food products are pest-free as they go into storage. | <urn:uuid:669d88f6-dede-4112-bea6-658fa2093d40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pestweb.com/pests/749/red-flour-beetle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941054 | 283 | 3.5 | 4 |
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Tips And Methods For Anybody Coping With Hair Thinning
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Consider using a product that contains minoxidil if you suffer from from hair thinning. Shampoos or hair treatments with this particular drug might be effective against hair thinning in a few people. You’ll have to carry on using it to find out if it will help your problem within the lengthy-term. The amount of effectiveness can differ among differing people, so monitor the way you react to it.
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While you might use lots of hairspray and mousse products, you need to avoid these if you are losing hair. They are able to just be too harsh in your scalp and may ultimately damage hair follicles and cause hair to drop out. Before you can strengthen hair, steer clear of the harsh products.
There are lots of reasons for eyebrow hair thinning, for example too frequent eyebrow plucking and employ of eyebrow pencils, in addition to aging. In case your physician determines that the eyebrow thinning is because aging, you can utilize eyebrow cosmetics to cover your hair loss. Whether it’s brought on by certain health conditions, you should use eyebrow Rogaine to decrease loss.
Avoid strong shampoos and proper hair care products if you wish to prevent hair thinning. If you’re worried about losing hair, think about using the herbal shampoos that are offered for you personally. They will keep your scalp as well as your hair more healthy than these would.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reignited debate about energy production. Most European countries rely to some extent on Russian fossil fuels, with 40 per cent of the EU’s natural gas and about a quarter of its oil imports coming from Russia.
In the first two months since the outbreak of war, the EU accounted for 70 per cent of Russian fossil fuel exports at a value of €46 billion, much of which went to the state-owned companies Gazprom and Rosneft. This dependence has complicated efforts to impose economic sanctions on Russia, which has retaliated by cutting supplies to Bulgaria, Poland and Finland.
There is a clear moral case to divest from Russian energy supplies, and the European Commission and International Energy Agency have announced a 10-step plan to do so by 2030. Consumer electricity costs in Ireland, already the fourth-highest in Europe, have increased by an average of 79 per cent since October 2020, making a strong economic case for other options.
There is also a clear environmental case to divest from fossil fuels since they make up such a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions. France has extremely limited fossil fuel supplies and relies heavily on nuclear energy, which generates almost three-quarters of its electricity. Much of the remainder comes from renewable sources, and this means that France’s greenhouse emissions are relatively low compared with many other advanced economies.
Could nuclear power be a solution for Ireland? We have a knotty history with atomic energy, beginning with a similar geopolitical crisis and oil price spike. The Nuclear Energy Board was established in 1968 to explore nuclear generation. In 1973, the Arab-Israeli war resulted in a dramatic rise in prices as petroleum-exporting Arab nations embargoed nations that had supported Israel.
This intensified calls to diversify energy supply, with more than half of Irish electricity generated from oil. The board obtained planning permission for several reactors at Carnsore Point in Co Wexford, with one scheduled for imminent construction.
However, plans were hampered by several changes of government, and it was not until Desmond O’Malley was appointed minister for industry and commerce in 1977 that the project began in earnest. Local groups had debated the costs and benefits of a nuclear power station in Wexford throughout the 1970s, and in 1978 a protest movement led by Friends of the Earth sprung up.
In August, a three-day protest festival dubbed Get to the Point was held at the Carnsore site, attracting thousands of campers to see a headline performance from Christy Moore and international political speakers such as Petra Kelly, the German Green Party founder. Subsequent festivals in 1979 and 1980 featured acts such as Chris de Burgh and U2.
The festivals came at an important cultural moment, with the last gasp of hippie counterculture meeting the rising wave of punk. Anarchist magazines such as Contaminated Crow made anti-nuclear protests their main focus and were well-represented at Carnsore and at smaller protests in Dublin, Cork and Belfast.
The campaign created a sense of temporary unity among the Irish left, with the only exception the British and Irish Communist Organisation, which picketed the protests because it believed nuclear power would be essential in a socialist republic.
Globally, public opinion had begun to turn against nuclear power. In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA ran a violent campaign that eventually convinced Madrid to abandon the Lemóniz nuclear plant just before its completion.
Disaster thriller The China Syndrome depicted a fictional nuclear meltdown and subsequent cover-up and was released just days before the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania suffered a real meltdown. However, 1979 also saw a further spike in prices caused by the Iranian revolution and the explosion of the crude oil tanker Betelgeuse at Whiddy Island, both of which gave impetus to pro-nuclear power voices.
Ultimately, though, the anti-nuclear arguments won out, and natural gas was chosen to replace oil. In 1999, the Electricity Regulation Act banned electricity produced by nuclear fission in the State. Yet interconnection with the British grid means that some of our electricity does come from nuclear power, and the forthcoming Celtic interconnector with France will increase that. As for Carnsore, while it might not host a nuclear power plant, it does play a role in fossil-fuel diversification: since 2002 it has been the site of a wind farm.
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12th Singapore Children's Society Lecture
12th Singapore Children's Society Lecture Transcript
Associate Professor Teo You Yenn delivered the 12th Singapore Children's Society Lecture on "Growing up in an Unequal Society" on 15 September 2018. Please click here to view her lecture transcript if you have missed the event.
In the society, people refer to kids from low-income homes as individual “delinquents” or from “dysfunctional families.” There is a great deal of focus on “at risk” kids, on changing their “mindsets,” or “empowering” them. There is insufficient attention paid to the larger social conditions that shape their experiences of and options in society. Drawing from Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn’s book, This is What Inequality Looks Like, she will discuss key inequalities in areas of education and family life. It is this unequal context that we must pay attention to and aim interventions at.
|Date||:||Saturday, 15 September 2018|
|Time||:||10am – 12pm|
|Venue||:||Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
(beside Singapore Conference Hall)
Level 9 Auditorium
1 Straits Boulevard, Singapore 018906
|Speaker||:||Teo You Yenn
Associate Professor and Head of Sociology
Nanyang Technological University
|Title||:||Growing up in an Unequal Society|
About Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn
TEO You Yenn is Associate Professor and Head of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University. She is the author of Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society (Routledge, 2011) and This is What Inequality Looks Like (Ethos Books, 2018). Aside from academic writings, she has contributed commentaries to The Straits Times, Today, and The Online Citizen. In 2013, she was winner of NTU’s Nanyang Education Award, and in 2016, she received the American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section’s Feminist Scholar Activist Award. Her research focuses on issues around inequalities, poverty, welfare, state-society relations, and citizenship.
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The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program today announced the award of more than $5.8 million in Great Lakes research, education and outreach dollars for 2020-22 as part of a federal-state partnership.
Sea Grant will fund 15 research, three education and 32 outreach projects on six University of Wisconsin campuses and at a private college. Other entities will participate in the projects, such as the Wisconsin Historical Society, which will conduct research on Great Lakes shipwrecks.
“For the coming two years, just as in our program’s preceding 52 years, our outreach and education activities and funded research will go forward on the basis of scientific integrity and relevance. The Great Lakes are a true treasure and we’re privileged to undertake this work to ensure their continued sustainability,” said Jim Hurley, Sea Grant director.
Researchers will look into the effects of high Great Lakes water levels on infrastructure, a series of chemical contaminants known as PFAS, fostering the growth of the sportfish walleye, and more.
In all, nearly 100 researchers, staff and students will be engaged in this work, Hurley said.
The campuses within the University of Wisconsin System are Green Bay and its campus in Manitowoc, Madison, Milwaukee, Stevens Point and Superior. The other campus is St. Norbert College.
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The number of bales of cotton in the U.S. classified as rough preparation is generally less than 0.5% of the crop. In 1994, at least 12 gins representing 350,000 bales had greater than 5% preparation calls. Data from these gins were analyzed by frequency analyses across time to isolate occurrence patterns. Results were extremely variable and did not indicate a clear pattern across the entire season for all gins; several groupings of gins with similar chronological patterns were developed. At one gin, analyses by producer clearly indicated a strong relationship between producer and preparation calls as preparation ranged from 0% to 13.6% across producers. A number of causatives such as inadequate drying, excessive conveying velocities, machine overloading, incorrect machine settings, and recirculation in vacuum dropper and blow boxes were indentified and possible solutions were suggested to help resolve the preparation problem. | <urn:uuid:779d1a43-f9fc-485d-a37f-c5e41d7232d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cotton.org/beltwide/proceedings/1996/abstracts/223.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977763 | 191 | 2.625 | 3 |
“This decision, following a similar one by Brunei Darussalam and Qatar, marks a significant progress in realizing the right of all to take part in physical and sporting activities, and hence achieving greater gender equality in sport,” the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace, Wilfried Lemke, said in a news release.
“Decisions such as the one taken today by the Saudi Arabian authorities definitely set a positive example and bring us gradually closer to the realization of a more equitable future, on and off the field of play,” he added.
According to the International Olympic Committee, Saudi Arabia will send two female athletes – Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani, who will compete in judo, and Sarah Attar, who will compete in athletics – to the 2012 Games, which start on 27 July in the UK capital.
Lemke noted that the UN family, the Olympic Movement and their partners, have long worked together to promote the participation of women in sports activities and competitions, as well as in management and leadership roles.
“This is for instance reflected in the fact that today, at the Olympics, participation of athletes is almost equally balanced between women and men,” he said, adding, however, that women and girls still face today a great deal of discrimination and marginalization in all sectors of society around the world.
“This saddening reality applies to the world of sport, despite the remarkable advances made in that area over the past decades,” the Special Adviser said. “The practice of sport and physical activity, at all levels, can have immense benefits for individuals, communities and societies. No one should, on the basis of gender, race, ability, age, culture or religious considerations, be denied access to sport and miss on the positive effects its practice can bring.”
One of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – anti-poverty and development targets agreed on by world leaders at a UN summit in 2000 – aims at “promoting gender equality and empowering women.” Mr. Lemke’s office has noted that sport has been recognised as a viable and practical tool to assist in the achievement of the MDGs.
In February, at the 5th World Conference on Women and Sport, organized by the IOC and attended by several UN officials, including Special Adviser Wilfried Lemke, participants adopted a declaration which said that “the promotion of women’s participation in sports activities, management and administration should, and must, serve the wider goal of supporting the international agenda of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.” | <urn:uuid:c663566a-7943-487a-9de0-b66b023620d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alyunaniya.com/saudi-decision-on-female-athletes-at-olympics-welcomed-un-sport-envoy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.955376 | 550 | 2.375 | 2 |
Week 1 Complete
Molloy, M. (2020). Experiencing the World’s Religions (8th Edition). McGraw-Hill Higher Education(US). use this link to access the book: https://savantlearningsystems.vitalsource.com/books/9781260813746
This week, we explored ways to define religion and the impact of religion on cultures globally. For your Unit 1 Complete assignment, write a narrative (minimum 1000 words) in which you address and discuss the questions and statements listed below. Engage at least three scholarly sources and remember to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the READ and ATTEND sections.
• Draft your own definition of religion based on the lecture and reading assignment. Indicate why you chose each element of your definition.
• Pull out of Chapter 2 other defining characteristics of native religions and compare and contrast the elements discussed with your own definition.
• Finally, based on Internet research, show how at least three specific, contemporary indigenous spiritual paths (from three different cultures or people groups) are related to these characteristics. How do these paths fit the definitions of religion you’ve explored to this point? In what ways? Be specific.
TIP: Remember to support your discussion drawing on sources as appropriate. SHOW your reader why you say what you do. Remember to assume an “interested, educated, but uninformed reader.” What key details would such a reader need to follow your discussion and argument and to arrive at the conclusion you lead them to step by step, paragraph by paragraph? | <urn:uuid:d5a41102-59af-4e5a-9a56-bac2e45ae203> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://academicpaperexperts.com/week-1-complete-book-molloy-m-2020-experiencing-the-worlds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.909401 | 326 | 3.640625 | 4 |
- A person responsible for the conduct of the clinical trial at a trial site. If a trial is conducted by a team of individuals at a trial site, the investigator is the responsible leader of the team and may be called the principal investigator. (ICH Guidelines)
- An individual who actually conducts a clinical investigation (i.e., under whose immediate direction the test article is administered or dispensed to, or used involving, a subject) or, in the event of an investigation conducted by a team of individuals, is the responsible leader. (FDA)
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52563 has 8 divisors (see below), whose sum is σ = 80128.
Its totient is φ = 30024.
The previous prime is 52561. The next prime is 52567. The reversal of 52563 is 36525.
It is a sphenic number, since it is the product of 3 distinct primes.
It is not a de Polignac number, because 52563 - 21 = 52561 is a prime.
It is a Harshad number since it is a multiple of its sum of digits (21), and also a Moran number because the ratio is a prime number: 2503 = 52563 / (5 + 2 + 5 + 6 + 3).
It is a d-powerful number, because it can be written as 5 + 211 + 55 + 66 + 36 .
It is an alternating number because its digits alternate between odd and even.
It is a Duffinian number.
It is not an unprimeable number, because it can be changed into a prime (52561) by changing a digit.
It is a polite number, since it can be written in 7 ways as a sum of consecutive naturals, for example, 1231 + ... + 1272.
It is an arithmetic number, because the mean of its divisors is an integer number (10016).
252563 is an apocalyptic number.
52563 is a deficient number, since it is larger than the sum of its proper divisors (27565).
52563 is a wasteful number, since it uses less digits than its factorization.
52563 is an odious number, because the sum of its binary digits is odd.
The sum of its prime factors is 2513.
The product of its digits is 900, while the sum is 21.
The square root of 52563 is about 229.2662208002.
The cubic root of 52563 is about 37.4593336938.
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As a motorcyclist, it is important to know and obey the safety rules that will keep you safe on the road. These rules are in place for a reason, and they can help prevent serious injuries or fatalities in the event of an accident. In this blog post, we will discuss some of the most important safety rules that every rider should follow.
1. Always wear a helmet
This is one of the most important safety rules for motorcycle riders. A helmet can protect your head in the event of an accident and help prevent serious injuries or fatalities. Always make sure that your helmet is properly fitted and secured before you ride. So that in the event of an accident, it will stay in place and provide the protection that you need. This is an absolute must for all motorcycle riders.
2. Wear other protective gear
In addition to wearing a helmet, it is also important to wear other protective gear such as gloves, boots, and a reflective vest. This gear can help protect you from the elements and make you more visible to other motorists. So, if you are riding at night or in low-light conditions, make sure that you are visible to other motorists. Make sure that your gear is properly fitted and secured so that it does not come off in the event of an accident. This is another important safety rule that all riders should follow.
3. Obey the speed limit
Speeding is one of the leading causes of motorcycle accidents. So, it is important to always obey the posted speed limit when you are riding. This will help ensure that you are not going too fast for the conditions and that you can stop or maneuver if necessary. Always use caution when riding and never ride faster than you are comfortable with. For instance, if you are not comfortable riding in heavy traffic, then find a route that has less traffic.
4. Have an attorney
If you do get in an accident, it is important to have an experienced motorcycle accident attorney on your side. These attorneys can help you navigate the legal process and ensure that you receive the compensation that you deserve. So, if you are involved in a motorcycle accident, make sure to contact an experienced attorney as soon as possible. This will help you protect your rights and get the compensation that you deserve. Moreover, if the other driver was at fault, they may also be held liable for your injuries.
5. Ride defensively
One of the best ways to stay safe on the road is to ride defensively. This means being aware of your surroundings and always being prepared for the worst. For instance, if you see a car coming up behind you, give them plenty of space and do not assume that they will see you. Always use your turn signals when changing lanes or making turns. And never ride in between cars. These are just a few of the many defensive driving techniques that you should use when riding your motorcycle. Additionally, always be on the lookout for road hazards such as potholes, debris, and animals. By riding defensively, you can help avoid accidents and keep yourself safe on the road.
6. Don’t ride under the influence
Never ride your motorcycle under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This is extremely dangerous and can lead to serious accidents. If you are going to be drinking, make sure to have a designated driver or take a cab home. Do not risk your life or the lives of others by getting on your motorcycle after you have been drinking. This is one of the most important safety rules for motorcycle riders. Also, always ensure you are well rested and alert before getting on your motorcycle. This will help ensure that you are able to react quickly and safely if necessary.
7. Take a motorcycle safety course
If you are new to riding, or if it has been a while since you have ridden, consider taking a motorcycle safety course. These courses can teach you the basics of motorcycle riding and help you become more comfortable on the road. Additionally, many insurance companies offer discounts to riders who have completed a safety course. So, taking a motorcycle safety course is a great way to save money on your insurance premiums.
8. Get your motorcycle inspected
Make sure to get your motorcycle inspected on a regular basis. This will help ensure that it is in good working condition and that there are no safety hazards. Additionally, always check your tires before riding to make sure that they are properly inflated and have enough tread. By taking these simple steps, you can help keep yourself safe on the road.
9. Avoid riding in bad weather conditions
If the weather is bad, it is best to avoid riding your motorcycle. This includes conditions such as rain, snow, sleet, and ice. These conditions can make it difficult to see and can make your motorcycle more difficult to control. So, if the weather is bad, it is best to stay off the road. Also, be sure to check the weather forecast before you ride to help avoid bad conditions. This will help you stay safe and avoid accidents.
These are just a few of the many safety rules that motorcycle riders should follow. By following these rules, you can help keep yourself safe on the road. Additionally, always use caution when riding and never ride faster than you are comfortable with. If you get involved in a motorcycle accident, make sure to contact an experienced attorney as soon as possible. This will help you protect your rights and get the compensation that you deserve. Moreover, if the other driver was at fault, they may also be held liable for your injuries. By taking these simple steps, you can help reduce the risk of accidents and keep yourself safe on the road. Thanks for reading! We hope this was helpful. Ride safe! | <urn:uuid:17d37bf4-8d0e-49a1-a1a3-a04175b2677a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.xtremespots.com/news/safety-rules-that-every-rider-should-follow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968626 | 1,152 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Built in 1813-17 by Thomas Hardwick, this is the church in which Robert Browning was married to Elizabeth Barrett in 1846. A Browning Room here contains relics of the poet.
Construction of the present church was first considered in 1770. A site was given in Paddington Street and plans were prepared by Sir William Chambers, Architect to the King, but the scheme was abandoned, and the land purchased for a burial ground. In 1810-11 the present site was secured, and it was intended that this building should be another Chapel of Ease supporting the work of the nearby Parish Church.
Plans were prepared by Thomas Hardwick, who was a pupil of Sir William Chambers, and the foundation stone was laid on 5 July 1813. Later, it was decided to enlarge the building and make it the Parish Church; the present tower was erected, the front widened, and the gigantic Corinthian-columned Portico built. A vaulted crypt extended under the whole area of the church, with extensive catacombs under the west side.
These catacombs were bricked up in 1853, and in the mid-1980s, with due authority, the coffins were removed from the crypt for reinterment at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey and the crypt was transformed into the present-day Healing and Counselling Centre, Sacrament Chapel, Jerusalem Chapel and NHS Marylebone Health Centre.
The present parish church, opened in February 1817, is the fourth known parish church building to serve this parish. It was originally built (at a cost of some £80,000) without its fine Roman Renaissance style frescoed apse; this was added in 1884 by Thomas Harris. The original position of the altar was in what is now the Choir, just below the cross built into the ceiling. This altar (before which Robert Browning married Elizabeth Barrett in 1846) can be seen in the Holy Family Chapel. Above it hangs the painting of the Holy Family donated to the new parish church by Benjamin West, PRA (1738 -1820).
The church of 1817 is reputed to have sat 3,000 people and, above the present gallery, a second gallery (the remains of which can be seen either side of the organ) wrapped around three sides of the building.
The present organ, one of the finest recital instruments in the country, was built by Rieger Orgelbau of Austria and was commissioned in July 1987; it was a joint venture between the parish church and the neighbouring Royal Academy of Music. The organ pipes, which can be seen at the ends of the first floor galleries, belong to earlier instruments.
Charles Dickens and his family lived for many years next door to the parish church in Devonshire Terrace. He brought his son here to be baptised and the ceremony is described in his novel Dombey and Son.
Bomb damage sustained during World War II destroyed the stained glass windows and also the Georgian roof. Fragments of the destroyed windows were collected and set in the windows you see today.
The fine crystal chandeliers were relocated here in 1968 from the old Council Chamber in St
Marylebone Town Hall when the Borough of St Marylebone merged with other metropolitan boroughs of Middlesex to form the City of Westminster.
A fine collection of memorials adorn the walls of the parish church; many of them belonging to colonial administrators and governors and members of the East India Company.
St Marylebone Parish Church has always had a fine musical tradition and today the professional choir of ten voices is supported by the Director of Music, the Assistant Director of Music and an Organ Scholar. Sir John Stainer wrote his Oratorio Crucifixion for the choir in 1886 and it has been performed every year since.
The Browning Room, which commemorates the marriage of the poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett here on 12th September 1846, has a stained glass window gifted by The Browning Society of Winnipeg. Two fine brass bas reliefs of the poets can also be found in this room.
The fine apse, the mahogany benches and choir stalls together with the gilded English baroque decorative scheme all date from the mid-1880s and were designed by Thomas Hardwick. Work begun in 1884 and a memorial stone laid by Mrs Gladstone can be seen on the outside wall of the apse. The decoration of the apse was carried out by Edward Armitage, RA; his decorative scheme once included murals between the great windows on the gallery level but these were painted over in the late 1940s.
In 2016, the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the parish church a grant of nearly £4 million to help complete an ambitious programme of works that will repair the ravages of time, extend the crypt and help tell the story of St Marylebone from rural hamlet to urban metropolis. | <urn:uuid:b3f16242-df7a-4980-97d4-2111f88adc79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.friendsofregentspark.org/houses-of-worship/st-marylebone-parish-church | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.981986 | 1,008 | 2.234375 | 2 |
On Tuesday, a special court headed by Peshawar High Court announced its guilty verdict against former dictator of Pakistan, Retired General Pervez Musharraf and declared him a traitor placed on death row under article 6 of the national Constitution.
The verdict against former former Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf is being termed unprecedented because for the first time an army general has been given the death penalty.in Pakistan, reportedly.
Charges Against Pervez Musharraf
The treason case against general retired Parvaiz Musharraf began in December 2013 and has been lingering in court ever since. On Tuesday, under the leadership of Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, a three-member team with a spilled verdict of 2:1 found the ex-president of Pakistan guilty of treason under article 6. According to article 6 of the Constitution, any person who tries to abrogates or subverts or suspends or hold in abeyance the constitution or attempts or conspire to perform the acts as mentioned above by force or unconstitutional means will be charged with treason.
How Did The Ex-President Violate The Constitution
The retired general violated article 6 when he clapped a state of emergency in Pakistan on Nov 3, 2007, and held the Constitution in abeyance. Mass protests lead by all legal bodies of Pakistan broke out, demanding the retired general be removed from power. These protests soon turned violent in an attempt to sooth the raging flame the government started negotiations with the lawyers and judges. These negotiations ended in a deadlock, and more violent protests raged on.
To reestablish law and order, the government started a crackdown operation against all senior legal representatives and jailed them. To many legal experts, the treason verdict announced by the high court on Tuesday, may be influenced by the hostile treatment senior legal figures faced during his presidency.
Defence Lawyer on Musharraf Verdict
Despite the strong verdict that has been issued, there are still a lot of loopholes that can be used to challenge and revert the court’s verdict.
Journalists on Twitter explaining what the case was all about and which whether charges levied against him are justifiable.
Reactions to the Verdict
The way journalists, members of civil society, politicians and citizens are acting about the verdict is much predictable. A look at the reactions on social media shows that people are presenting it as if it is clash between judiciary and army. At the same times, people are advising that labelling special court’s decision in treason case against Musharraf as an attempt to sabotage the repute of Army is insane as acts of institutions can’t be held responsible for acts of individuals who are part of them.
Here is what the statement from DG ISPR regarding the verdict says.
While people are happy that high court has done a necessary thing to set a precedent they are also expressing that they didn’t want anyone to face the death penalty.
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ICU Emergency (otherwise called Intensive Care) is a multi-professional medical services speciality that really focuses on patients with intense, hazardous sickness or injury. The vast majority of us will encounter a basic sickness or injury, either as the patient, relative or companion of a patient.
ICU Emergency can be given any place life is undermined – at the location of a mishap, in a rescue vehicle, in a medical clinic trauma center, or in the working room. Most ICU Emergency today, notwithstanding, is conveyed in profoundly concentrated serious consideration units (ICU). Different wordings like Critical Care Unit (CCU), Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU), and Coronary Care Unit (CCU) might be utilized to portray such administrations in a medical clinic. ICU Emergency Hospital in Malad
ICU Emergency is given by multi-professional groups of profoundly experienced and proficient doctors, medical attendants, respiratory consideration specialists, drug specialists and other associated wellbeing experts who utilize their exceptional skill, capacity to decipher significant restorative data, admittance to exceptionally refined gear and the administration of help staff to give care that prompts the best result for the patient.
Patients are seldom conceded straightforwardly to the ICU Emergency unit. Rather, they are generally conceded from the trauma centre or careful region where they are first given care and settled. The continuum of ICU Emergency starts right now with sickness or injury and goes on all through the patient’s hospitalization, therapy and resulting recuperation.
Is Critical Care another clinical strength?
ICU Emergency developed from an authentic acknowledgement that the requirements of patients with intense, hazardous ailment or injury could be better treated assuming they were assembled into the explicit region of the clinic. Medical attendants have long perceived that extremely debilitated patients get more consideration assuming they are situated close to the nursing station.
We expounded on the upsides of laying out a different region of the clinic for patients recuperating from a medical procedure.
Escalated care started in the United States when Dr W.E. Dandy opens a three-bed unit for postoperative neurosurgical patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. In 1927, the main emergency clinic untimely conceived newborn child care focus was laid out at the Sarah Morris Hospital in Chicago.
During World War II, shock wards were laid out to revive and really focus on troopers harmed in a fight or going through a medical procedure.
In 1947-1948, the polio plague seethed through Europe and the United States, bringing about a forward leap in the treatment of patients kicking the bucket from respiratory loss of motion. In Denmark, manual ventilation was achieved through a cylinder put in the windpipe of polio patients. Patients with respiratory loss of motion or potentially experiencing intense circulatory disappointment required escalated nursing care.
During the 1950s, the improvement of mechanical ventilation prompted the association of respiratory concentrated care units (ICUs) in numerous European and American medical clinics. The consideration and checking of precisely ventilated patients ended up being more productive when patients were gathered in a solitary area. General ICUs for extremely debilitated patients, including postoperative patients, were produced for comparable reasons.
Between 1990 and the present, ICU Emergency altogether decreased in-emergency clinic time as well as expenses caused by patients with illnesses like cerebrovascular deficiency and lung growths.
The improvement of new and muddled surgeries, like transplantation of the liver, lung, small digestive tract, and pancreas, made a new and significant job for ICU Emergency following transplantation.
Far and wide use of painless patient checking has additionally diminished the expense and clinical/nursing complexities related to care of fundamentally sick and harmed patients. Far-reaching use of painless patient checking has additionally decreased the expense and clinical/nursing intricacies related to the care of fundamentally sick and harmed patients.
Far and wide usage of pharmacologic treatment for ICU Emergency patients with explicit organ framework disappointment decreased time spent in both ICU Emergency units and in the medical care office.
What sorts of ailment and injury for the most part require ICU Emergency?
Common instances of basic ailment incorporate cardiovascular failure, harming, pneumonia, careful difficulties, untimely birth, and stroke. ICU Emergency likewise incorporates injury care – care of the seriously harmed – whether because of an auto collision, gunfire or cutting injuries, a fall, consumption, or a modern mishap. | <urn:uuid:3564826f-447a-4f5e-8fb2-3b8fffed656b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ashahospital.co.in/icu-emergency-hospital-in-malad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.932897 | 907 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Upon Initial Review EU Watchdog Says Blockchain Needs Further Review
The European Union’s markets watchdog will study blockchain in more depth after an initial analysis showed it was too early to say whether the technology poses any threat to financial markets.
Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), currently underpins the virtual currency bitcoin.
Blockchain’s proponents say it has the potential to disrupt financial markets by making payments and the settling of securities transactions, in particular, far cheaper.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said on Thursday it had looked at whether blockchain could meet technical, governance, legal, and regulatory requirements to keep securities markets safe.
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“It is too early at this stage to form a definite opinion on whether DLT (blockchain) will be able to address these issues in an efficient way,” the watchdog said in a statement.
“ESMA stresses that firms willing to use DLT (blockchain) should be mindful of the existing regulatory framework.”
The watchdog also published a discussion paper asking for more views on blockchain’s risks and benefits to help it decide whether new rules are needed for securities markets.
“ESMA believes that the DLT will need to overcome a number of possible challenges and shortcomings before its benefits can be reaped,” the watchdog said.
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“Some of these challenges are related to the technology itself. Others are mainly related to possible governance, privacy, and regulatory issues.”
Regulators are trying to work out what is really new about blockchain in case it takes off.
Meanwhile a race is on among financial technology or “fintech” companies to show how they can apply blockchain at a time when banks are keen to cut the cost of doing business.
British financial startup SETL said on Wednesday it has launched what it called the world’s first commercial platform using blockchain technology to register and settle securities transactions.
ESMA said targeted uses of blockchain are being introduced, but none is on the large scale needed to reap benefits such as cutting costs.
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Kidneys are your body’s “treatment plant”
Most people know that the kidneys make urine, but they might not know how. A simple way to understand how kidneys work is to think of a city's water treatment plant, where all used water goes to be cleaned up so it can be used again and again. In a treatment plant, water is filtered so the bad things are taken out and good things can be added.
Think of the kidneys as a treatment plant for blood. As blood flows in and out of your kidneys, it goes through thousands of tiny blood filters called glomeruli. The filters keep the good stuff in your blood and let out the bad things, such as extra water, chemicals and waste that you don't need or that could be harmful if allowed to build up in your body. Fluid from the blood goes through filters and flows through tiny tubes connected to each filter. As fluid goes through the tubes, it is filtered again, and this time, some things are added to make the fluid become urine.
All of the tubes in a kidney join a larger tube called the ureter. The ureter connects each kidney to the bladder, where urine is collected. When you are ready to get rid of the urine, it goes out through a tube called the urethra. The whole drainage system is called the urinary tract.
Pediatric kidney diagnosis and testing
Normal, healthy kidneys know how much urine to make depending on what your body needs. For instance, if you don't drink enough, your kidneys will make just enough urine to get rid of unneeded chemicals and waste, keeping you from getting dehydrated. If you drink more than you need, healthy kidneys will get rid of the extra fluid.
However, if your kidneys don't work well, you could drink more than they can handle and the extra fluid can build up in your body. Problems occur when sick kidneys can't get rid of extra fluid, or when they cannot get rid of the extra chemicals or waste through your urine the way they are supposed to. Some sick kidneys lose too much water and chemicals, too.
Healthy kidneys remove two things from your blood: blood urea nitrogen (BUN) from protein metabolism, and creatinine from muscle metabolism. The doctor tests your blood for these things to see how well your kidneys are working. Normal creatinine depends on a person's size and ranges from 0.3 in a small infant to 1.5 in a large man.
Pediatric kidney specialists are called pediatric nephrologists, and they will know the level of creatinine that is right for a child of a certain size. For example, if a normal creatinine for a child of a specific size is 0.5 (100% working kidneys), a creatinine level of 1.0 in that child would mean kidney function has decreased by one half, which is 50% kidney function. If the creatinine level keeps going up from 1.0 to 2.0, it means that kidney function has dropped another half, which is only 25% kidney function.
Your child’s care team
Some kidney conditions can be diagnosed and treated by your pediatrician or family doctor. If there are any questions about the degree to which kidneys are being affected, your child’s doctor can get advice from a pediatric nephrologist. In a few children, the kidney problem will be serious, so your child's doctor will refer you to visit a pediatric nephrologist.
At Children’s Hospital Colorado, our multidisciplinary approach allows us to work closely with other departments of the hospital to better coordinate care. Conditions that require urinary tract surgery are treated in conjunction with the Urology department.
Why functioning kidneys are important
Kidneys are responsible for a lot of things: they keep acids balanced in the body, make vitamin D and help with calcium and phosphorus balance for healthy bones. Kidneys also make erythropoietin, a hormone that helps your body make blood. Another important thing kidneys do is help to regulate blood pressure.
If your kidneys don't work well, a lot of things can go wrong. Acid builds up in the body, bones suffer and can become deformed, anemia (low blood count) develops, blood pressure may get high and if urine decreases, body fluids can build up. A waste product like BUN can get so high in the blood that it can cause nausea and cloudy thinking, even seizures or coma.
Some kidneys let too many chemicals leak out into your urine. When this happens, tests are done to find out what the different chemicals are. The diagnosis and medicines needed to help slow the leak or replace the chemicals depend on what is leaking out. In some cases, the problem may be permanent.
The Kidney Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado
The Kidney Center serves thousands of infants, children and adolescents each year. Whether your child has a more common kidney disease or is experiencing kidney failure, chronic dialysis and the possibility of kidney transplantation, our specially trained and experienced physicians, nurses and other clinical staff are here to care for your child.
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SageMath, sometimes called Sage, is a free, open mathematics software package with the mission of “Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.” In other words, it is a computer algebra system, allowing you to do symbolic math in the same way you might work it out on paper.
In this article, I want to briefly introduce Sage from the point of view of someone who’s spent far more time developing and using software than he has doing mathematics. In addition to a high-level overview, I wanted to share some tips and issues I ran into when installing it, the solution to these issues, and ways you can get started online.
Because it’s written in Python, working in Sage doesn’t require learning a new, proprietary language and allows you to work with familiar tools such as Jupyter. There’s also a Sage shell if you prefer a command-line interface, but much like the combination of IPython plus Matplotlib, you can still launch plots with very little work.
Sage is written in Python, but it is not pure Python. Sage is a high-level tool built against over ninety open-source packages — so it has many Python and non-Python dependencies. These include Maxima (a LISP-based computer algebra system), GAP (which specializes in group theory), PARI (another computer algebra system originally incorporated into Sage for its number theory functionality), and even R for statistical computing. In addition, Sage includes interfaces to use many of these packages and many custom algorithms developed by the Sage community.
Getting Started With Sage
Running Sage Online
There are some excellent options for running SageMath online. SageMath.org, for example, hosts a free SageMathCell page that’s handy for running short experiments. Let’s try our hand at a bit of math, solving a quadratic equation. Minus the comment, this is a one-liner in Sage:
For more extensive work with Sage, you might prefer to create a free account on CoCalc, a commercial Jupyter, Sage, and collaborative development and teaching platform developed by William Stein, Sage’s author. CoCalc will give you access to full Sage notebooks and many other cool features. If your needs grow beyond the free account, you can upgrade for a modest monthly or yearly price, depending on how much CPU and disk space you need.
Installing Sage Math On Your Machine
Before we get into installing SageMath on your machine, let me point out a few caveats up front. Don’t let the talk of caveats scare you off too much, though — I did get Sage installed on my Mac. I also created a nice Docker container for it too, so I know that in Linux, installing it using the combination combination below worked well:
RUN apt-get update RUN apt-get install -y sagemath
As for Windows, the documented approach in the official installation guide is to use WSL, so presumably, that approach works well there, too.
Though I was able to get Sage working, there were a few things I tried that didn’t work. I realize I should probably spend some time going through those with the Sage community so I can help out in their efforts. For now, let me just note them briefly: I was unable to build SageMath from source on a Mac. (My little Mini is M1 based). In fairness, I used the main branch main instead of grabbing a release tag. On that same machine, I was also unable to get an environment working using MiniConda.
What did work well for me after trying these approaches was to install SageMath using a Mac binary package provided by 3-manifolds. After installing this, running the SageMath 9.6 launcher from Launchpad started a Sage tool that you can use out of the box to launch either the SageMath shell or a Sage notebook.
In general, the Sage terminal is now my first choice for quick experiments in Sage. Here, for example, I define a function and plot it:
You may have noticed two things by this point. First, you’ll see that after some false starts, I had to download and install a binary version of Sage. Sage is a non-trivial piece of software so I wouldn’t count on “pip install” for it.
Secondly, there are things about the code we’ve gone over so far that simply wouldn’t work in Python; Sage is mathematics software built on Python; it’s not just another Python shell.
We’ll discuss this theme a bit more in the next section.
Sage Is “Python With a Twist”
Whether you’re using the Notebook version of sage or the terminal program, you’ll see several differences between them and a vanilla Python shell, but there are core similarities as well that make working with Sage quite fun for Python programmers.
How Sage Is Different From Python
- Sage has many, many more built-in functions than Python. Opening up a vanilla Python terminal, if we type
len(dir())to see what’s available before even doing anything, we get 7 things. Of course, a lot of good stuff in Python is in
__builtins__, which gets resolved automatically, but even there, the number of items is 156. Running
len(dir())in Sage, on the other hand, returns a value of 1918 as of SageMath 9.6.
We see one of them in the function definition we showed earlier:
f = x^3 + 4*x + 2. As everyone’s favorite math variable,
"x” is defined in Sage, it’s a sage symbolic expression (an instance of sage.symbolic.expression.Expression), which incidentally is also what f ends up being once we’ve defined the function that way.
- Numbers and operators sometimes do different things in Sage. Another interesting feature of the last expression is this part of it:
x^3. The caret operator is an exponent operator in Sage, though
**also works as it does in Python. In Python, there is such an operator, but it represents the little-used bitwise exclusive or (xor). Thus, 5^3 == 6 in Python, but 125 in Sage! Number literals, too, often have surprising types, as we see in this screenshot:
- Symbols everywhere! Generally speaking, for symbols like pi or for rational expressions, values are displayed in their symbolic form by default (which makes sense for software doing symbolic math). Thus,
.2in a Python console, but remains
1/5in Sage, unless we explicitly divide it by casting to a float, as shown here in a Sage notebook:
How Sage And Python Are The Same
Even though Sage is heavily customized, when you’re working in Sage, you’re still working in an environment based on Python. Because of that, I was able to explore the Sage types using the Python
type() function and compare the number of builtins using
dir(). Python types still pop their heads up from time to time (for example, in a list comprehension based on a range, the elements will still be Python ints). Even the xor operator hasn’t been stolen from you (not that I would miss it) — you just need to type two carets instead of one.
If you’re a Python programmer, you’ll feel right at home using Sage once you get over some initial surprises. As Gregory Bard, the author of “Sage for Undergraduates”, wrote on his retro-styled Sage Related Stuff page,
If you use Sage in a mathematics, statistics, physics, or data-science class, you will learn Python along the way.
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Following furnace maintenance recommendations, you will need to replace your oil furnace burner. This should be done at least every two years.
Without regular maintenance of your furnace, it is possible that critical systems within the furnace could fail in addition to the burner. Keeping the furnace as clean as possible is recommended as this can enable the furnace to run well and extend the life of your furnace.
Burner Replacement Kit
Most oil furnace burners can be replaced by purchasing a kit that includes the necessary components. This is dependent upon the make and model of your furnace.
Below are the steps to replace an oil furnace burner using a replacement kit. The tools and materials required include a burner mounting gasket, screwdriver, a pipe wrench, old rags or paper towel and oil dry, in case there is some oil leakage. If you do not have oil dry, you can also use kitty litter. A pair of pliers can also come in handy should you need a gripping tool.
Step 1 – Turn Off the Fuel Supply
It is important to make sure that the fuel supply and electrical power to the furnace is shut off for safety purposes. Set the thermostat on the furnace to its lowest setting or to “Off” and turn off all electrical power by shutting off the circuit breaker to the unit. Remove the furnace door to shut off the oil supply to the furnace.
Step 2 – Disconnect Fuel Piping and Oil Line
Using a pipe wrench, disconnect the fuel piping to the oil furnace burner. Then disconnect the oil line from the oil pump. Once all of the piping has been disconnected, unplug the burner from the furnace housing.
Step 3 – Remove Wires
Remove the wires from the burner terminals. Typically, the wire colors will be red and blue. Make note of how they were originally connected so that you will connect the new assembly correctly.
Step 4 – Remove the Burner
Using a screwdriver, remove the fasteners holding the burner to the heat exchange panel. Set the fasteners aside for reassembly. Carefully remove the burner from the unit.
Step 5 – Remove and Replace Mounting Gasket
Before you replace the burner, you must remove the old burner mounting gasket from the heat exchange panel. Install the new mounting gasket.
Step 6 – Replace the Burner
Using the fasteners that you set aside, reattach the burner to the heat exchange panel. Reconnect the red and blue wires to the appropriate terminals.
Step 7 – Cleaning
Use rags or paper towels, wipe down the air passages within the furnace and clean the assembly that houses the blower. Also clean off the transformer and its electrodes and the oil pump. If you have an optical flame sensor on your furnace, clean that as well.
Step 8 – Reconnect Fuel Piping and Oil Line
Using a pipe wrench, reconnect the oil line to the oil pump. Then reconnect the fuel piping to the oil furnace burner. Plug the burner back into the furnace housing.
Step 9 – Reconnect Fuel Supply
Reattach the furnace door. Reset the thermostat and reconnect the electrical power to the unit.
Step 10 – Test the Furnace
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A good filmmaker has the power to move audiences to tears or create eruptions of laughter — that’s the beauty of cinema, after all. But despite a director’s best efforts, wardrobe malfunctions and mistakes in design can cause laughter for all the wrong reasons.
It’s unfortunate, but continuity errors can really detract from an otherwise great film. Take a look at some obvious and some not-so-glaring costume errors and continuity slip-ups from Hollywood history — they might change your opinion of these classic films!
Troy’s Umbrella Trojan Horse
The ancient Greeks believed Troy was near an area called the Dardanelles, where a significant battle took place over Helen of Troy. The Trojan War, although unproven as a real event, took place in either the 13th or 12th century B.C. Wolfgang Peterson’s epic based on these events received mixed reviews at the box office.
In the film, multiple scenes featured characters shaded by sun umbrellas. During a parade, Paris and Helen sat beneath one. Although umbrellas were around at that time, the supportive metal ribs in them didn’t appear until the late 1700s in London — and for some reason they appeared in this film when they shouldn’t have.
Pretty Woman’s Pretty Revealing Lingerie
Pretty Woman was a victim of multiple costume errors. Vivian begins one scene wearing a long, white nightgown. By the conclusion of the same scene, the nightie is much shorter. Also, Julia Roberts is notoriously against filming nude scenes. The lingerie she wore ended up being quite revealing in the right light. There’s a good chance she didn’t approve the final cut.
Later in the film, Edward Lewis’ lawyer Philip Stuckey attempts to sexually assault Vivian. During the scene, he loses his watch. But in a continuity gaffe, the wristwatch shows up not too long after.
Singin’ in the Rain’s Style Snafu
Singin’ in the Rain was a marvelous flick released during the golden age of Hollywood. It focused on a silent film-production company forced to adapt to the rise of sound and music. While producers focused heavily on the dance numbers and dialogue, they missed the mark when it came to costumes.
The film, set in the 1920s, features Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Seldon. In one scene, she’s shown wearing a beautiful pink dress. The problem is that this style of dress didn’t appear in the 1920s, but it did when the film was made in the 1950s.
A Titanic Birthmark Blooper
Recreating the sinking of the Titanic was a massive undertaking, but overachieving director James Cameron managed to add a new fictional narrative on top of the tragic event. The mix of period costumes, a talented cast and breakthrough graphics made the film one of the most profitable of all time.
Viewers can tell that a lot of planning and execution went into the costumes. One minor mistake, however, had to do with Rose’s mole. In one scene, the birthmark on the right side of her face somehow moves to the left side. Later, the mole is back on the right.
The Ten Commandments’ Color Miscalculation
The Ten Commandments was an incredible filmmaking feat. Cecil B. DeMille had to direct over 14,000 actors throughout the filming process — a lot of talent to monitor! The costume directors had their work cut out for them, especially because most films were being made in color.
In one scene, costume directors adorned Nefretiri in a gorgeous teal dress. The look stands out beautifully on the screen. However, in ancient Egypt, the only dye that was available would have been in natural colors, not bright blue. Also, most ancient Egyptian women wore very conservative clothing.
The Lost Extra in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Fans love following Indiana Jones on archaeological adventures while he fights Nazis and saves the world. The series starring Harrison Ford has entertained generations for over three decades. Lucasfilm introduced “Indy” in Steven Spielberg’s 1981 classic Raiders of the Lost Ark.
While drinking in Cairo, Indiana Jones is playing with a little monkey. Every costume in the film set in 1936 appears to be in order. But eagle-eyed fans noticed a man standing in the background wearing a T-shirt and jeans. Yes, those styles were around back then, but the extra stands out amongst everyone else in traditional garb.
Unforgiven’s Unforgivable Belt Blunder
Clint Eastwood became famous playing characters in various western films, and it wasn’t long before Eastwood took up directing movies while also serving as the star. His film Unforgiven earned him numerous Academy Award nominations.
One of the minor issues with some of the costumes involved the men’s pants — some pairs had belt loops. Unforgiven took place in 1880 and 1881, but belt loops did not appear for another 40 years. Levi Strauss introduced belt loops on its jeans in 1922.
The Headset Misstep in Captain America: The First Avenger
The Marvel Cinematic Universe was still in its infancy when the studio introduced us to Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger. The First Avenger was also the fourth to receive a solo film. The movie takes us back to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s super-soldier program to fight the rogue Nazi group, Hydra.
Although we would imagine Howard Stark creating some high-tech solutions, advanced communication devices in the 1930s and 1940s wouldn’t fit the bill. In a couple of scenes, Jim Morita is wearing a pretty modern-looking headset.
The Missing Slip Slip-up in Pearl Harbor
It’s safe to say that Michael Bay took some creative liberties in his movie Pearl Harbor. Audiences sat through a lengthy made-up love story before the Japanese even attacked. A weak plot outdid the action, and the film received generally negative reviews. In a period movie with fake characters, one would expect filmmakers to ensure accuracy with costumes.
In the case of this Michael Bay flick, though, you’d be wrong with that expectation. Most of the female actors wore dresses with exposed legs. Women during World War II covered their skin with nylons.
Hello, Dolly! That’s a Big Dress Folly!
Hello, Dolly! is a classic musical that earned multiple Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score in 1964. The musical was so successful that the studio tapped Gene Kelly to direct a film adaptation four years later.
But some continuity was sacrificed as filmmakers focused on the dance moves. In one scene, Barbra Streisand is dancing in a dress that’s so long it gets dirty. When the scene cuts, the dress is immaculately clean at the bottom. There was definitely no time for Streisand’s character to change into a clean gown — especially the exact same one she was already wearing.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Spyglass Technology
The legend of Robin Hood and his merry men takes place during the reign of Richard “The Lionheart” and the English Crusades. In 1991, Kevin Reynolds directed the fan-favorite Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman.
After Robin of Locksley returns home with his Moorish friend, he finds his house burnt. Following the death of the king’s soldiers, Robin and his new friend become outlaws. With Guy of Gisbourne approaching Maid Marian’s, Azim hands Robin a spyglass — something that wasn’t invented until 400 years or so after the time period when the movie was set.
The Terminator’s High-definition Miscalculation
The Terminator was an instant hit for science fiction and action fans. And Arnold’s size and stature made him the perfect killing machine. When the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 went back in time to kill Sarah Conner, there was one catch. Anything sent back in time couldn’t wear clothing.
When the T-800 ended up in 1984, he was completely naked. In the original film, the grain was enough to blur the Terminator’s private parts. But when the Blu-ray and high-definition versions were released, fans were treated to a little more of Mr. Schwarzenegger than filmmakers anticipated.
Optical Oversight in Django Unchained
No one expected Quentin Tarantino to keep Django Unchained historically accurate. His Civil War-era adventure begins in 1858 when Django is separated from his wife by slave traders. He is enlisted by German dentist-turned-bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz to help earn revenue. They wind up on the farm of the slave owner Calvin J. Candie.
The costume designers wanted to create clothing reminiscent of spaghetti westerns and modeled Django’s attire off of the television series Bonanza. He wore sunglasses inspired by Charles Bronson in The White Buffalo — a style that wasn’t invented until 1929.
Braveheart’s Severe Scottish Stereotype
Mel Gibson received a lot of deserved attention when Braveheart was released in 1995. The film won five out of the 10 Oscars it was nominated for, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Effects Editing and Best Makeup. The Academy gave the film a nod for Best Costume Design, but some decisions weren’t historically accurate.
Many of the Scottish men in Braveheart fought in kilts, as most people would expect. The story of William Wallace takes place in the late 13th century, but kilts weren’t worn in Scotland until the 16th century. It was just another Hollywood stereotype.
A Slight Slip Under the Gladiator’s Garb
History movies are typically the first films to get honored with Academy Awards. Ridley Scott’s epic Gladiator starring Russel Crowe was no exception. Oscars came pouring in for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design and Best Sound Mixing. The costume designs were unbelievably accurate for the end of the Roman Empire.
The costume did everything but prevent the actor’s undergarments from showing themselves. One of the most memorable scenes is when the main character has to fight some tigers. This hero falls and rolls over, revealing his Lycra shorts in the process.
Pirates of the Costume Flub
Pirates of the Caribbean is a famous original ride at Disneyland. It’s no wonder fans were excited when Disney announced a film based on the swashbuckling adventure. The action follows Will Turner and the aberrant Captain Jack Sparrow in a fight against cursed pirates led by Captain Barbossa and the East India Trading Company.
The film isn’t based on any evidence. Writers admitted that the story takes place around 1720. The film identifies British soldiers by the typical red coats, but that style of uniform wasn’t adopted until 1747.
Caesar Sees Her Bullet Bra
Before the Godfather series, Marlon Brando’s most iconic role was in the 1953 film Julius Caesar. The film is an adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. To enhance the theatrical elements, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz employed actors who already had experience performing the same roles on stage. Brando was an interesting choice but worked out well.
The film received excellent reviews. Variety said that it was “a triumphant achievement in film-making.” But one thing stood out. The female actors wore bullet bras, which no one would have owned in 44 B.C.
The Notebook’s Noteworthy Hair Slight
Did you watch The Notebook in 2004? Many people believe it’s the perfect love story. It’s a tragic tale of love, but a beautiful tale about dedication and loyalty. The female protagonist Allie spends a part of the film with another man, Lon, played by James Marsden.
The handsome black-haired love interest is the only obstacle keeping the real couple from one another. At one point in the film, Lon is waiting for Allie outside of a hospital. But his hair seems to have been dyed a very natural-looking brown.
A Modern Mistake in Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is an epic tale of revenge, love and sacrifice. Martin Scorsese wanted to put his audience in the middle of Five Points in New York City for the battles between the diverse groups that occupied the area in 1862. One of the real-life characters is Boss Tweed, who ran the infamous Tammany Hall.
In one scene, an argument happens between firefighters. Firefighters were known for quarreling over territory; that much is known. But one of the firefighters in this scene is wearing modern firefighter pants.
The Zipper Bungle in Amadeus
When anyone mentions Miloš Forman’s name, people tend to think of his classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or The People vs. Larry Flynt. Challenging characters seem to be this seasoned director’s specialty, even in his oft-forgotten Amadeus.
The period drama based on Peter Shaffer’s play is a fictional narrative based on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The story takes place in Vienna in the late 18th century. In one scene, performers are shown wearing dresses with zippers, but these fasteners didn’t make a widespread appearance until the early 1900s.
Saving Private Ryan’s Boot Bloopers
Many World War II veterans had difficulty watching the opening to Steven Spielberg’s breathtaking war film Saving Private Ryan. The movie opens at Omaha Beach on D-Day when America entered the European Theater. The scene was almost too real. After the bloody invasion, viewers follow Tom Hanks and his men as they search for Private First Class James Francis Ryan.
There are too many soldiers to count, including starring roles and extras. And not too many people are paying attention to their feet. Soldiers are wearing black combat boots, which weren’t used in the Army until 1957.
The Last Samurai Lapse
When The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise was announced, people were confused. Tom Cruise is not Japanese. Once the plot was revealed, audiences found out that Tom Cruise would play an American soldier in Japan. In the film, Cruise sides with a group of samurai fighting against the newly formed Imperial Japanese Army.
In a final battle, Cruise’s character U.S. Army Captain Nathan Algren gets dressed up in traditional samurai gear. The film takes place in the 1870s. Samurai abandoned this style of armor during this time because it didn’t stop bullets.
Almost Famous, but Not Until 1997
The “Tiny Dancer” scene in Almost Famous introduced a new generation to the Elton John classic. The entire film soundtrack was full of old-school tracks that immersed new audiences in an incredible time in rock and roll history. The film takes place in the 1970s, when the main character meets the band Stillwater at a Black Sabbath concert.
As the band continues on tour, Kate Hudson and Patrick Fugit’s characters are walking through a hotel hallway. They pass one fan who’s wearing a Black Sabbath T-shirt. Director Cameron Crowe didn’t realize that that particular shirt design was released in 1997, not the ’70s.
The Shorts Slip in Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing takes place in the summer of 1963. The main character Baby Houseman, played by ’80s movie darling Jennifer Grey, visits a holiday resort with her family. Their lives turn inside out when she befriends and subsequently falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle, played by Patrick Swayze.
As Baby continues to perfect her dance moves, she practices all over the resort on her own. In one scene, she wears jean shorts as she dances across a wooden bridge with an imaginary partner. Denim shorts didn’t become popular until later in the decade.
There Will Be Blood and Flat-bottomed Shoes
Every performance by Daniel Day-Lewis seems unforgettable. Fans of his films shed a collective tear when he announced his last movie would be Phantom Thread, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The two worked with each other before in the phenomenal There Will Be Blood.
The movie starts in 1898 and follows an oil tycoon as he attempts to buy up land to secure the black gold beneath the soil. The only real error in the movie is when detail-oriented viewers noticed the waffle-like pattern on the soles of Day-Lewis’ shoes. All men’s shoes had flat bottoms at that time.
Indiana’s Timeline Trip
Indiana Jones will probably always be one of the greatest cinematic heroes. Spielberg treated fans of the franchise to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. In it, Indy set out on another adventure to rescue his father, Henry Jones Sr., from the clutches of Nazis seeking the Holy Grail.
There are so many scenes with Nazis in this film that it’s hard to keep track. Many of the men are wearing medals earned in battle. However, the film took place in 1938, so Nazis wouldn’t have had any decorations at that point.
The Wrong Ray-Bans
Director Oliver Stone loves to take on complex projects about real people. In 1991 alone, Stone wrote and directed JFK and The Doors. JFK delved into conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But The Doors was reviewed as a reasonably accurate depiction of the life of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison.
After going through the film with a fine-toothed comb, people started discovering some inaccuracies with costumes. In one scene, Morrison is on stage wearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses, which weren’t available until the 1980s — well after Morrison’s death.
The Bra Bungle in Closer
The star-studded film Closer hit the theaters in 2004 and was an adaptation of the play of the same name. The racy story is about four people who do a lot of dirty deeds. Despite this, star Natalie Portman, who played a stripper, stuck to her rule of no nudity.
But in a scene with co-star Clive Owen, Portman gives a lap dance while having a casual conversation. She sits on the backrest of a booth, and as she crosses her legs, her bra slips down accidentally.
A Revealing Climb in I Know What You Did Last Summer
Not much goes right for the characters in I Know What You Did Last Summer. A man believed to be dead at the teenage main characters’ own hands stalks the four of them relentlessly. The horror movie is full of expected jump scares and gore, and it also features a glaring wardrobe malfunction.
Helen Shivers, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, desperately tries to climb a rope to escape her imminent demise. The director made her wear a dress that was not fit for climbing. When she pulls the rope closer, it reveals her unmentionables.
No Straps With Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit is the true story of a champion thoroughbred racehorse that lived during the Great Depression. The film is based on the best-selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. The horse ran for six seasons, winning 33 out of 89 races. His owner earned a total of $437,730, which was a record at the time.
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Can I mix baking soda and vinegar for toenail fungus?
Baking soda can prevent fungus from growing and spreading. Vinegar is a weak acid and will help to kill off the fungus without altering the Ph level. Mix 4-5 tablespoons of baking soda with 1 cup of apple cider vinegar and add enough warm water to fully soak your feet.
How long does it take for vinegar to kill toenail fungus?
Soak your feet for 10 to 15 minutes daily in a vinegar bath until the infection subsides. You can increase the length of time in the soak gradually. It may take two to three weeks or longer to see improvement in symptoms.
What is the fastest home remedy for toenail fungus?
A person can try putting baking soda inside their socks and shoes to soak up moisture. People can also apply a paste of baking soda and water directly to the affected nail and let it sit for at least 10 minutes before rinsing. Repeat this several times a day until the fungus clears.
Can you put apple cider vinegar directly on toenail fungus?
Apple cider vinegar is a popular remedy for toenail fungus due to its antifungal properties. If you want to treat your fungus using ACV, you can soak your feet in a mixture of warm water and the vinegar for about 15 minutes, twice a day.
What kills toenail fungus instantly?
Hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide can kill fungus that grows on toenails. You can directly wipe hydrogen peroxide on your infected toes or toenails with a clean cloth or cotton swab. Hydrogen peroxide can also be used in a foot soak.
Can I soak my feet in vinegar and baking soda?
Adding baking soda to a foot soak can help exfoliate the skin, ease itching, and cleanse the feet. Try adding 3–4 tablespoons of baking soda added to a basin full of warm water. Use 2 parts water and 1 part vinegar for a foot soak. The vinegar helps kill bacteria and also reduces foot odor.
How do I know if my toenail fungus is dying?
Top 5 signs your toenail fungus has gone nuclear
- Nail color changes. If your nail turns white and chalky or yellow, it’s not a good sign. …
- Nail position changes. If your nail starts to curl downward or upward, it’s time to be concerned. …
- Nail texture changes. …
- Nail smell changes. …
- Nail sensation changes.
What is the white hard stuff under my toenails?
Nail psoriasis sometimes causes too much keratin to grow under the nail. This overgrowth is called subungual hyperkeratosis. People with hyperkeratosis may notice a white, chalky substance under the nail. When this occurs in the toenails, the pressure of shoes pushing down on the nails might cause pain.
What happens if you leave toenail fungus untreated?
If you let a nail fungus infection go for too long, several problems emerge. The infected nail can become misshapen and increasingly separated from your nail bed. Itching and pain are unpleasant side effects; if they’re too severe, you can have trouble wearing shoes or walking.
Does anything really cure toenail fungus?
Taking antifungal pills for two months can cure an infection under the fingernails. Usually three months of treatment cures a toenail fungal infection. Antifungal pills, however, can cause side effects. Your dermatologist will watch you closely.
What really works for toenail fungus?
Oral antifungal drugs.
Options include terbinafine (Lamisil) and itraconazole (Sporanox). These drugs help a new nail grow free of infection, slowly replacing the infected part. You typically take this type of drug for six to 12 weeks. But you won’t see the end result of treatment until the nail grows back completely.
Will bleach cure nail fungus?
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Completely vegetated, the High Line symbolises the dynamic and future-oriented face of New York. In ten years, this suspended walkway has given life to a whole new neighbourhood.
In the twenty-first century, the High Line in New York, an elevated park built on an old tramline, which opened in June 2009, has been one of the first projects to capture the ambition of placemaking in urban planning. It is the culmination of the conversion of the Meatpacking District, a former industrial district where warehouses that were home to slaughterhouses have been rehabilitated to become fancy showrooms.
The slaughterhouses were relocated to the Bronx and replaced by art galleries, a slew of trendy bars, posh restaurants, shops, fashionista boutiques and functional and comfortable high-tech hives. Even Samsung has its NYC showcase here. In these warehouses, the old red brick walls, the visible plumbing, and sometimes even the brackets on which the meat was suspended, have all been preserved. And this “retro factory” style pleases. As opposed to the Rockefeller Center and the Donald Trump Towers.
Despite the picturesque hoists and elevators of the beginning of the industrial era, in spite of the port facilities and the Hudson River, the neighbourhood is the new place to be in NYC. But nothing would have happened if the Meatpacking District was not crossed by a green corridor, the famous High Line, built on an old railway line. “Rather than destroying this historic landmark, we have preferred to keep it and to make it one of the most innovative parks in the world”, said Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor, at the inauguration of the first section up to 20th Street, in June 2009. The view over the Hudson River and the Manhattan skyscrapers from this 10-metre high elevated garden, is breath-taking. One you can enjoy lying on one of the wooden loungers fixed into the rails, overlooking a building in Le Corbusier style. That’s a new hotel called The Standard, a true architectural feat playing with retro.
A city within the city
Behind the hotel currently rises the largest private real estate project in the history of the United States since the Rockefeller Center: Hudson Yards, a staggering 1.6 million square metres. Its futuristic towers (some of which are still under construction) will host offices, 4,000 housing units, a hotel, a dozen restaurants, hundreds of shops and even an observatory perched on the 100th floor, announced for 2019. The centrepiece of this new neighbourhood: The Vessel, a metal structure of 154 interconnected stairs, distributed over 16 floors. The monument, almost on the verge of being completed, is announced as the “New York Eiffel Tower”.
A true “city within the city”, Hudson Yards is built on two huge slabs of concrete and steel, whose foundations have been laid between the rails and the tunnels without disrupting rail traffic. A technical feat. No. 30 will host the second tallest office tower in Manhattan – 15m higher than the Empire State Building – including a panoramic observation platform at 335m above the ground. A futuristic cultural centre, named The Shed, will open its doors at no. 15. “The building can be enlarged, reduced or divided thanks to its removable shell,” explains its architect, David Rockwell. But the most innovative is what we do not see – the kilometres of optical fibre, satellites, antennas, and millions of electronic sensors… Hudson Yards wants to be a smart city, “a model for the urban experience in the 21st century”, claims the glossy brochure. The buildings will reduce their energy consumption by 30%. Sensors will analyse the noise, air quality and the flow of the 24 million tourists expected as early as 2019, in real time. | <urn:uuid:558ed2db-117e-4536-9f99-529b920d97d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.divercitymag.be/en/how-the-high-line-has-changed-the-face-of-west-manhattan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948952 | 791 | 2.234375 | 2 |
|Clinical Course of Uveitis in Children in a Tertiary Ophthalmology Center in Northwest Iran|
|Leila Alizadeh Ghavidel1, Farideh Mousavi1, Masood Bagheri1, Saba Asghari1|
|1Department of Ophthalmology, Nikookari Eye Center, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran|
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Objective: In the present research, the clinical course of pediatric uveitis was studied by examining the demographic characteristics of afflicted children, the results of clinical examinations, and uveitis complications. Materials and Methods: The present research was a retrospective study in which the medical records of 243 children who had been visited and diagnosed as uveitis in the uveitis clinic of Nikookari Eye hospital of Tabriz in 2003-2015, were reviewed. The data were statistically analyzed by descriptive statistics and mean comparison tests in IBM-SPSS 23 and the significance level of P<0.05.
Results:According to the results, 73 (30%), 146 (60.1%), 12 (4.9%), and 12 (4.9%) eyes diagnosed with uveitis had anterior, intermediate, posterior, and panuveitis type, respectively. In addition, 73 cases of uveitis (30%) were acute and 170 cases (70%) were chronic. Based on the LogMAR chart, the mean visual acuity before and after treatment was 0.39 and 0.15 for the right eye and 0.4 and 0.09 for the left eye, which suggests a significant difference. The most common complications observed in this study were macular edema (32.5%) and cataract (22.6%).
Conclusion: This study indicates that intermediate uveitis is the most common type of pediatric uveitis, while anterior uveitis is the second. Posterior and panuveitis are less common in our study. The prevalence of chronic uveitis is significantly high in pediatric group which could justify the higher rate of complications in this age group.
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Oceana supports the listing of the two endangered shark species under this international convention
Germany will present proposals for the listing of spurdog and porbeagle sharks on Annex II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). This treaty provides international protection for threatened species.
The spurdog (or spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias) is a small coastal shark that has been fished to the brink of collapse, highly valued in Europe for its meat. The highly migratory, oceanic porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus), a relative of makos and the great white, is equally imperilled and targeted for its meat and fins. The biomass of spurdog has decreased over 95 percent in the Northeast Atlantic for example, and the Northwest Atlantic porbeagle stock has declined over eighty percent.
Ricardo Aguilar, Director of Investigation for Oceana Europe explains: “Fisheries management has obviously failed for these two species – as for many other fish. Even though scientists recommend a zero catch, politicians still haven’t agreed to stop fishing and hence these sharks now have to be protected with trade controls and other biodiversity conservation instruments.”
CITES provides a worldwide legal framework for regulating and controlling trade in species at risk of extinction. In an attempt to protect spurdog and porbeagle sharks, Germany is proposing both species for listing under this convention, which will have to be agreed by the European Commission before going forward to the CITES Conference of the Parties in 2010.
These species will be proposed for Appendix II, which includes those species that may become threatened with extinction if their trade is not strictly regulated. Appendix II listings serve to limit trade to sustainable levels through requirements of export permits, only authorized if the trade will not be detrimental to the survival of the species. Both of these species enter international trade in substantial volumes and are therefore highly relevant for CITES protection. Oceana advocates CITES listing on Annex I for all internationally traded endangered and critically endangered marine species and a listing in Annex II for all other vulnerable marine species.
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Lovingly referred to as the clowns and comedians of the Parrot family, Caique parrots make wonderful additions to the family. More specifically, these birds are described as being highly energetic, intelligent, and playful, so it’s pretty safe to say that, if a caique is in the home, no two days will be the same!
These active and sociable little parrots have plenty of personalities and often like to entertain their owners. They love to sing, chatter, and even dance and are even intelligent enough to learn a trick or two.
Besides entertaining their owners, the loveable, clownish behavior of the caique also means that they’re packed full of curiosity, and many caique owners love to see their little parrot wandering around the home, finding new places to explore.
With all that being said, it really should come as no surprise to hear that many caique owners like their little parrot’s behavior to that of a dog. Not only are they intelligent enough to learn tricks and perform them on command, but they also are well known for forming strong attachments with their owners that last a lifetime.
Plus, similar to a four-legged friend, caiques love to play fetch and tug-of-war with their owners and even enjoy a cuddle when they’re tired.
However, just like with all types of pets, it’s important to be aware of some of the negative traits of a caique. Despite them being generally well mannered and well behaved, they’re known for their cheeky personalities, so don’t be surprised if you find that your caique tries to climb into small places to hide, or even nip at your fingers when they’re in the mood to play and get your attention.
Additionally, if you have any other birds in your home, it’s very important to consider whether or not introducing a caique is a good idea, because these parrots have a tendency to be aggressive towards other types of birds, regardless of species.
In particular, caique parrots are known to be unkind towards any companion birds that share the same cage and can get particularly aggressive if they feel that a bird is getting more attention and food than them.
Though it’s not out of the question to keep a caique alongside other birds, you will need to be on the lookout for any of these behaviors from your caique, as they are prone to getting a little bit feisty and dominant.
Are Caique loud?
Caique parrots are known to be one of the liveliest out of all in the parrot family, so it only makes sense that they should be loud, right? Not exactly.
Generally speaking, even though caiques are full of energy and personality, they tend to vocalize at a moderate level, so you won’t have to worry about them constantly chirping and talking at a very high noise level. In fact, believe it or not, caiques actually operate at a much quieter noise level than all other species of parrot.
However, it is worth noting that they can sometimes emit a very high-pitched scream, and this is often down to either them trying to get the attention of their owners or because they are feeling cranky!
If they are feeling a little bit on the moody side, then you may also notice that your caique tries to nip at your fingers, or is mean towards their companion.
As for speech, some caique may be able to learn to speak a few words, although you’ll likely find that your caique prefers to stick to his usual bird chatter.
Plus, besides playfully mimicking you and other sounds that they hear in their environment, caiques also love to sing, so you’ll no doubt be able to enjoy all of the unique songs your little caique makes up while playing, pruning, and exploring your house!
Are caiques affectionate?
If you’re already the owner of a little caique, then we’re sure you’ll have already noticed how sociable and outgoing your parrot is!
Even though caiques can be prone to moodiness, they are generally very well-mannered and playful little birds that absolutely love their owners.
Lovingly known as “clown” birds, caiques are real characters that love to entertain their owners by singing, mimicking sounds, and even playing games.
Besides loving to play and spend time with their owners, once a bond has been established, caiques are also known to be extremely loving and affectionate towards their owners, as well as other members of the family.
In order to show their owners that they love them, caiques will often want to be around their owners and call to be let out of their cage.
Once they are free to roam around, caiques will often allow their owners to handle and pick them up, or alternatively, caiques will fly onto their owner’s lap, shoulder or hand.
Besides allowing their owners to handle them, caiques also frequently like to rub their heads into their owner’s hands as a form of endearment and are even known to love a cuddle when they’re sleepy or to keep warm.
Are caiques good for beginners?
Though everyone’s situation is different, caiques are generally not recommended for beginner bird owners because they are extremely energetic and needy.
Similar to a toddler or puppy, caiques require constant mental stimulation and if they don’t get it, they can begin to display negative behaviors such as biting and general crankiness. They can also be aggressive by nature towards their companion birds.
Besides needing lots of attention and playtime, caiques will also require a lot of training from their owners in order to help prevent temperamental episodes, as well as to help establish a bond and good level of trust.
This means that a lot of time will need to be invested into the caique bird (especially in the beginning stages) and this may be quite overwhelming for someone who has never owned a bird before.
Do Caiques like to cuddle?
Besides being bundles of energy and always on the go, just like us, caiques like to snuggle down with their favorite people when they’re sleepy or in the mood for a cuddle. However, caiques will only ever cuddle with their owners or people that they already have an attachment to.
These cute parrots will often choose to either sit on your shoulder and burrow their heads into your neck or sometimes they will even choose to sit directly on your lap so that you can pet them with your fingers.
Believe it or not, some caiques will even try to stroke the strands of hair on your head as a form of grooming and affection.
However, it is important to keep in mind that no one caique is the same, so you might find that while one caique absolutely loves to have a snuggle with their owner, another might get very distressed whenever it is handled.
Caiques are known for being quite feisty from time to time, so it’s imperative that you never force your pet to cuddle with you, otherwise he might nip at you and become upset and anxious.
Nevertheless, so long as you have a good relationship with your caique and spent plenty of time with him, then it’s highly likely that your caique is going to want to cuddle with you.
If you want to try and make your parrot more domesticated, you should make sure that you are regularly spending time with him so that a bond can be formed and trust can be established.
Alongside this, you should also be sure to train your caique, to help lower the chances of your caique displaying aggressive behavior when handled.
Not just that, but alongside the occasional cuddle, caiques are known for “surfing” and “wrestling” with their owners – which are two behaviors that are entirely unique to the caique parrot!
Surfing consists of rubbing themselves across soft materials such as blankets and curtains, so you might find that they “surf” against you as a way to show their affection. Additionally, during playtime sessions, caique parrots love to lay on their backs and play fight their owners with their feet.
Do all caiques hop?
Yes, all caiques are able to hop! Caique parrots have a true childlike spirit that makes them happy, joyful, and playful little companions to have around the house.
Once they are let out of their cage and free to roam around, caiques will happily hop, dance and roll around the house as their curiosity leads them to new and unexplored areas. Caiques may also hop around their cages, especially while playing.
If your caique likes to hop around, then this is a very good sign that your caique is happy, thriving, and comfortable in its surroundings! However, if you’re noticing that your caique is not hopping around or being its normal playful self, then this could be a sign that he is not being mentally stimulated enough.
This is more supported by the fact that caiques aren’t overly known for being loud and talkative, so the best way to understand their mental state is by observing their behavior.
If your caique is not being given enough things to stay entertained (especially seeing as he’ll need to stay inside his cage for around eight hours a day) then it could cause your caique to become lethargic, disinterested, and even moody.
Due to this lack of mental stimulation, you may also find that your caique doesn’t want to sing, play or hop around — so it’s very important that you regularly play with your caique and ensure there are plenty of things to do.
This can be through games, exploring the house, and regular playtime sessions throughout the week.
However, if you feel that you will not be able to play with your caique as often as you would like, then you may need to consider buying your caique a companion bird. This is especially true if you have a caique that is especially energetic and you’re struggling to keep up with his demands!
How smart is a Caique?
Though there are a lot of bird species that make great additions to the family as pets, no birds are quite as playful or mischievous as the vibrant caique! These intelligent birds have cheeky personalities that are unlike any other type of pet bird, and they also just so happen to be very clever, too.
If you are planning on purchasing a caique, then it’s important to be aware that these types of birds are highly inquisitive and intelligent, which can make for a recipe for disaster for those who have never owned a bird before!
Caiques have a lot of energy and are true busybodies, so you’ll need to make sure that your caique is mentally stimulated and entertained for almost the entirety of its waking hours, otherwise you may find yourself having a moody and naughty caique on your hands.
Caique parrots love to play games and explore and are well-known for wanting to play games with their owners such as fetch and even tug of war – so you’ll need to make sure you can keep up with your caique’s quick mind and bundles of energy!
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The Crown and what it taught me
They say, art parodies life. The royal feud involving Meghan Markle and the British Monarchy was labelled a ‘drama’ by experts and laymen alike. Perhaps this is the result of watching a steady dose of dramas, not just about British Royals, but about Royalty in general.
Because of such dramas, we become privy to a royal family’s dirty laundry as if granted window access to its palace or castle for free.
The Allure Of Dramas About Royals
In Pakistan, I could clearly recall the frenzy around the Magnificent Century – a Turkish historical series based on the life and times of Sultan Suleyman. The ‘family drama’ on display glued viewers across the eastern world to the series. It was captivating to see the Sultan crying out as his handicapped baby son, Cihangir, goes through a 15th century bone alignment surgery. Behind the facade of a mighty ruler, an ordinary father had emerged.
The British Monarchy And Us
In my mother’s youth, it was Diana vs the evil saas and now the history repeats itself, albeit with modern twists; in that there is now a racial element involved; that the ‘outsider’ girl is not fighting alone – her husband is with her and that the opposing side isn’t just one villain, but an institution, or the firm as Meghan calls it: something that has long lived past its significance.
We too, are careful not to leak our dining table conversations to the world; an outsider bahu, suspiciously remains a stranger; an illness has to be hidden at all costs – especially mental ones. Such families place honor and a taintless image above the wellbeing of humans constituting it. Family – the noun, supersedes family, the adjective.
So Where Does The Crown Fit Into All This?
I’ve long been wary of fictional displays of British Monarchy on screen. What insight have such shows ever given us?, I would argue. It was hard to explain – until recently – how swearing my allegiance to this Netflix show would humanize the very family we love ridiculing, for being too smug for its own good.
The Crown is the story of a family of up-tight monarchs and their cut-throat attempts to preserve an institution that is slowly losing relevance; for up until season 4, the royals are still very much in the political and social arena but we all know that by the last two seasons, that all will change. The very emblems of nepotism and regressive reverence of bloodlines seem out of place even in the 1970s.
I watched The Crown as a sour reminder of the ridiculousness of it all, only to relive it in the 24/7 live news in early 2021. On screen, The Crown made me empathize with the monarchy desperately fighting for its prestige against the tirades of time. It is always wickedly entertaining to see tragedy unfold on screen, at a distance but more so if it involves people trapped in palaces, who – we think without much self awareness – view themselves as soldiers sacrificing their humanity in the line of duty to something that is above all of them: duty to their legacy, duty towards the ‘institution’.
My little family skirmishes appeared nothing compared to these doomed saviors of traditionalism, born into servitude, in a sense, to the archaic idealism that – we assumed – had shrunk to nothing in the modern age. My own miseries felt trivial, less burdensome than of those bound to their crumbling shacks in the middle of a storm.
The Royals And My Family
Watching rich people suffer has its own perverse charm after all. But for me, personally, it reflected the hushed silences of my own household. The times when I wanted my father to say something and was instead greeted with resounding apathy, were masterfully juxtaposed on screen each time Oliva Coleman pursed her lips when a verbal response could have made things much easier.
But the recent headlines around the British Monarchy have made this modernist/traditionalist conflict (that reaches the pinnacle in Season 4) scarily real. What our young mothers saw happening to Diana on their black and white TV sets, we see playing out again on our phones. We have (and will in seasons 5 and 6 ) watched that era. The Crown, by some quirk of fate, came to the rescue of the ‘institution’ and all its – willing and unwilling – upholders when the Megan crises were due to unfold.
The Humanity Of The Monarchy
When one side of the media – on the soundtrack of Oprah Winfrey’s dramatic sighs – berated the archaisms of the institution, and the other side clung to hailing praises on the patriotism of the condemned soldiers of the same, The Crown made me see middle ground.
I saw the royal family members, both insiders and outsiders, coming to terms with the cost of their titles; whose job profile: to be apathetic, is constantly tested; I saw the Queen’s indifferent limbs struggling to hug achingly sensitive Diana; I saw the stoic expression, hardened by years, unyielding and notoriously disarming; I saw each member of this cult, with witheringly bitter faces, so ganged up in their own chains that sympathizing with those struggling to breathe within it, is impossible for them.
The Harry/ Megan fallout then follows the tragic arc of Diana’s doomed future within the monarchy. Her royal love story became a cautionary tale but it also lent her a luminosity post her death. A symbolic, posthumous glow reflecting the fragility and poignancy of rebelling against the institution. Unlike the language that the news media has deployed to discuss the latest royal scandal, in the Crown, an aggressive silence does the heavy lifting in the royal feuds. Unlike the dramatic flourishes of newsreels, the lives of royals are so emotionally stilted that they can’t afford the luxury of speech.
These lives just live, talk, sit, and un-feel.
The royal family members, both reel and real, then become just a bunch of victims, who resent each other as well as a differently raced outsider, for stealing their victimhood; Diana’s and Meghan’s empire dethrones them from self-pity and villainizes their sacrifice – the sacrifice of failing to be a human first, and a servant later. | <urn:uuid:45297538-62ae-4903-8f55-3382409c3fba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fuchsiamagazine.com/2021/05/21/how-the-crown-humanized-the-british-monarchy-the-not-so-ordinary-life-of-the-royals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959868 | 1,358 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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It has now been a month since many churches in California and the rest of the country eliminated in-person meetings and services at the direction of state and local government officials to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Christians were baffled as recommendations by governors and health officials to shelter in place turned into mandates enforced with threats of fines and arrest. Many assumed the Constitution, especially the First Amendment with its protections for assembly and religious practice, restricted government officials from telling people how and where they can worship?
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he is restricting non-essential group gatherings, including church meetings, under the authority of the California Emergency Services Act. This law gives the Governor “complete authority over all agencies of the state government” if he declares “a state of emergency.” A “state of emergency” is defined as “the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by conditions such as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, cyberterrorism, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease…”
This act also gives the Governor the power to “make, amend, and rescind orders and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The orders and regulations shall have the force and effect of law… ” and only after the “state of emergency has been terminated,” shall “the orders and regulations” no longer be in effect.
Alliance Defending Freedom, one of the largest religious liberty, pro-bono law firms in the country, issued specific advice to Christian pastors with concerns about the restrictions on their church services. ADF’s Director of the Center for Christian Ministries Ryan Tucker gave the following advice on a video titled, “COVID-19 and Churches.”
We “encourage you to heed the advice of authorities who recommend social distancing and other means necessary to slow the spread of the virus,” Tucker explained. “But we also understand these measures raise important constitutional issues.” Government officials must “respect and protect Americans’ freedoms to live and worship according to their faith,” and “the freedom to exercise our faith is not a second class right.” If government officials limit meeting sizes or meetings altogether, they “must show a compelling interest” for restricting religious freedom and the right to assembly.
“It is conceivable the current situation involving this global pandemic may qualify as a compelling government interest,” Tucker said. But the interest must be pursued with the “least restrictive means.” The question to be asked, “is the government restriction more burdensome than it needs to be to accomplish its objective? … Temporary and evenly applied restrictions may satisfy that standard.” If the restrictions are “unnecessary prolonged” or if a church or Christian ministry is “being targeted by a government body,” that would be a problem, he concluded.
Such a situation did arise recently at a Baptist church in Mississippi that was forbidden by their city from holding a drive-in service in their own parking lot, even though congregants remained in their cars with the windows rolled up. “In Greenville, you can be in your car with the windows rolled down at a drive-in restaurant, but you can’t be in your car with the windows rolled up at a drive-in church service,” said Tucker. “To target churches that way is both nonsensical and unconstitutional.”
The US Department of Justice lent its support to the ADF case against Greenville by issuing a statement of interest, stating “facts alleged in the complaint strongly suggest that the city’s actions target religious conduct. “Government may not impose special restrictions on religious activity that do not also apply to similar nonreligious activity,” said Attorney General Bill Barr.
Since California Governor Gavin Newsom issued his stay-at-home declaration, the vast majority of churches throughout the state moved their services online out of respect for government authority and out of a conviction that temporarily suspending in-person meetings obeyed God’s command to “love their neighbor.” Yet stories continue to emerge regarding California pastors who have defied stay-at-home orders in part or in whole, out of a conviction that obeying the biblical admonition to not neglect meeting together, trumps their obligation to “be subject to the governing authorities.”
In Lodi, California, Pastor Jon Duncan of the Cross Culture Christian Center decided to follow the social distancing requirements of the Governor, but not the restrictions on church meetings. He believes he had the constitutional right to meet while still protecting his congregation by mandating hand sanitizing, and asking all elderly, ill, and immune-compromised individuals to stay at home.
“We love people and don’t want anyone to become infected,” stated Pastor Duncan. “With the health and safety standards we have put in place we are a much lower risk of coronavirus spread than Walmart with its narrow aisles and everyone touching everything.”
Local police arrived to keep the church from gathering and the landlord changed the locks, even though a preschool for another church is still allowed to operate on the property. A San Joaquin County public health official issued a specific order preventing Duncan from returning to the property even to record online services or to use the parking lot for a drive-in service.
According to the church’s attorney, Dean Broyles with the National Center for Law and Policy, the church plans to file a federal lawsuit against local and state authorities for violating the church’s First Amendment rights. Broyles also wrote a letter to Governor Newsom reminding him that “the U.S. Constitution is not suspended by a virus,” and that he should follow the example of five other states that have designated churches as “essential services,” or given churches exemptions from the stay-at-home orders.
Attorneys with the Center for American Liberty and Dhillon Law Group filed a First Amendment lawsuit in federal court on April 13, 2020, challenging the Governor’s criminalization of the free exercise of religion. In their suit, Gish v. Newsom, among clients represented Rev. James Moffatt, a pastor in Riverside County, who was fined $1,000 for holding a Palm Sunday service.
“Criminalizing individual participation at a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other house of worship clearly violates the First Amendment,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, Chief Executive Officer for the Center for American Liberty. “The state and localities have granted sweeping exceptions to the shutdown orders for favored businesses and professions, while specifically targeting people of faith and decreeing to religious institutions that it is ‘good enough’ that they be allowed to offer streaming video services. The state does not get to dictate the method of worship to the faithful.”
“Where government picks and chooses who gets exemptions and who doesn’t, according to entirely arbitrary and opaque criteria, this offends the Constitution and causes irreparable harm,” Dhillon stated. “If a Californian is able to go to Costco or the local marijuana shop or liquor store and buy goods in a responsible, socially distanced manner, then he or she must be allowed to practice their faith using the same precautions.”
Read similar stories and links related to this topic:
- Pacific Justice Institute: Updated Guidance on Church Responses to COVID-19 Restrictions in California
- Coronavirus: San Bernardino and Riverside counties pivot to allow drive-up religious services through Easter
- Lawyers with Center for American Liberty File Temporary Restraining Order to Halt Arbitrary Restriction Against Churches
- Merced County pastor cited for large gathering on Easter Sunday
- Thousand Oaks councilman, a pastor, resigns, says he’ll defy coronavirus order
- Church Members Fined for Attending Drive-In Service—Despite Following COVID-19 Guidelines
- Do coronavirus social distancing orders violate religious freedom? Local pastors say yes
- Coronavirus begins to usher in new era of drive-in churches in Southern California
Cases in other states:
- DOJ weighs in as ADF seeks order blocking MS city’s ban on drive-in church services
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Hamlet Appearance vs. Reality
Appearance vs. Reality in Hamlet Appearance vs. reality in Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, is a jaded yet common theme. This play is teeming with characters that play their roles behind a veil of duplicity. They often appear to be one way when they really are something entirely different. Things within the play appear to be true and honest but in reality are polluted with evil. Many of the characters within the play hide behind a mask of dishonesty. Four of the main characters that hid behind this mask are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius, and King Claudius.
From behind this mask they give the impression of a person who is sincere and true, in reality they are overwhelmed with lies and evil. One of the most obvious examples of appearance vs. reality in Hamlet is the character of Claudius. Claudius longed to be king, rule the land and crown his queen. He gave no regard to the feelings of the family. He was jealous and ruthless in pursuing his dream…ruthless to the point of murder. He pretends to be concerned and upset with the actions of Hamlet and his well being, when in reality he is frightened that Hamlet is aware of his deadly secret.
It was as if he cast a spell on the whole kingdom for his own self-fulfilling interest. Our “innocent” Claudius even summons spies to investigate the origin of Hamlet’s madness…not for the good of Hamlet but for himself. He is indeed a jaded character, whose kind aura masks the face of a selfish murderer as he says “whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter, as levels as the cannon to his blank transports his poisoned shot, may miss our name and hit the woundless air. Oh come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay! ”- Claudius, act 4 scene 1, lines 42-46.
This quote demonstrates how Claudius seems to be worried about Hamlet and his actions when he is really fearful of him discovering the truth. In addition, the king’s royal associate, Polonius, appears to be a loyal and trustworthy servant to the kingdom throughout the play, willing to take on tasks and burdens requested by their majesties. However, in reality Polonius is an evil, greedy selfish man, who serves not his kingdom but himself. One example of this is how Polonius appears to be happy, concerned and supportive of his son, Laerte’s, journey to France.
He seems to be supportive of his son until he sends Reynaldo as an emissary, in order to detect what sort of mischief he stumbles upon in France. In addition, Polonius, again, displays his devious characteristics when he spies on Hamlet and Ophelia in an attempt to analyze Hamlet’s madness. He soon orders Ophelia to stop seeing Hamlet, as he brainwashes her with lies about Hamlets motives, when in reality Hamlet is truly in love with Ophelia. Once again, Polonius proves his scheming behavior when he listens in on Hamlet and Gertrude’s conversation while in the bedchamber.
Hamlet finally teaches him his lesson when he unexpectedly murders the “rat. ” In reality Polonius is anything but a loving father watching out for his children, he uses everyone to his advantage and for his own purposes; this proves as evidence for his sneaky demeanor. Even two of Hamlet’s childhood friends are victims of the appearance vs. reality theme. They were sent and bribed by the king and queen to try and determine the cause of Hamlet’s insanity. They approach Hamlet as long-lost pals when they are really anything but.
They were there not as friends but hired help for Hamlet’s condition. In act 2 scene 2 line 299, Guildenstern quotes “What should we say my lord? ” Completely denying the fact that they were sent for by the king and queen. Hamlet quickly reveals the truth and says, “Were you not sent for/ And there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft in color. ” (Shakespeare 2:2:278) From these words he is demanding an answer from his schoolmates as to their unexplained arrival. At the end he tells them nothing.
As the play continues his “friends” are asked again by the king to go to Hamlet and try again to find the real reason for Hamlet’s behavior. Hamlet insults them at every chance knowing that they are lying to him about their purpose of the visit, “’Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with you finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth… ” (Shakespeare 3:2:348) The twins show their appearance of being Hamlets friends but in truth they have a hidden reason for visiting with Hamlet. Both show that it will be very difficult for Hamlet to uncover the reliability hidden within the lies.
Throughout the play, characters help to show the theme, which is appearance verses reality. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius, and the king all appear to be good and honest. As Hamlet finds out, all contain lies and have hidden intentions within them. As each character is presented in the play all appear to be good and honest making it a hard for Hamlet to uncover the hidden truth about the nature of each character. Throughout the play everyone puts up a front so to speak, for different reasons.
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Septic system ingredients are sold to house owners throughout the USA, but they lack guideline, standard testing, as well as official qualification. That can make it tough to know if septic system ingredients truly function, and also if you need them in any way septic tank drain into sewer.
To locate solutions, we will split additives right into three categories: inorganic substances, natural solvents, and also biological additives.
Septic tank additives with not natural substances consist of solid acids as well as antacids. They are suggested to unblock septic tank pipes. While these chemical ingredients might function as marketed, we suggest you avoid them due to the fact that they:
injury the germs that are essential to the wastewater therapy procedure
decrease the effectiveness of traditional septic tanks
rust and also create leaks in concrete therapy containers
quit the anaerobic food digestion procedure in septic systems
interfere with the efficiency of second therapy systems (including the Ecoflo biofilter).
Septic system additives with natural solvents are meant to break down fats, oils, as well as greases. Once again, although these products may function, we recommend you prevent them since they:.
- impair the efficiency of second treatment systems.
- pollute groundwater.
- kill the bacteria in septic systems.
- adversely impact the wellness of standard septic tanks.
Organic sewage-disposal tank additives consist of yeasts, natural microorganisms, and also enzymes. They are implied to boost the bacterial plants in septic tanks and drain fields, control biomass, and also reactivate inactive septic tanks.
Do I need to include germs to my sewage-disposal tank?
Person dropping an organic septic system additive with germs as well as enzymes into their commode.
Healthy and balanced septic tanks already have enough bacteria to sustain the biological processes that deal with human waste as well as wastewater.
By including more bacteria in the storage tank, you create problems in which bacterial populaces complete versus each other. This competition can do more injury than good.
Harmful septic tanks are a different tale. Usually, the microbial flora in these systems has been destabilized by big quantities of harmful materials, including:.
- certain soaps.
- cleaning|cleansing} products.
When this occurs, microbial additives may help you re-establish a healthy and balanced equilibrium in your septic system. To learn if this step is right for you, contact your septic system supplier or ask our group of experts.
Do I require to add septic tank enzymes?
Ingredients with enzymes (also known as biography enzymes) are meant to stimulate microbial populaces in sewage-disposal tanks. They do this by changing the structure of organic impurities to ensure that bacteria can prey on them a lot more quickly.
There are 2 important points to learn about septic tank enzymes:.
They are specific.
As an example, take two common enzymes: cellulase and protease. Cellulase breaks down just bathroom tissue as well as various other fibrous materials. Protease breaks down just protein-based pollutants. These enzymes have no result on various other natural impurities.
They are not alive and also can not duplicate.
Unlike germs, enzymes should be routinely bought as well as contributed to your septic system to preserve their designated efficiency.
Some septic system enzymes are marketed to limit the build-up of a residue layer. They function by permitting fats, oils, as well as greases to move downstream into secondary treatment systems and also other septic tank elements.
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Aerobic germs (our germs) need oxygen to make it through which’s why lots of septic system systems have aerators, even though aerators come with a massive cost of over $10,000 for instalment, as well as an annual electrical energy price of over $100.
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In 2009, 8 residences in Swan’s Island, Maine experienced a Liver disease An outbreak. A contaminated family members spread the virus to 8 various other houses.
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Self-esteem, in a nutshell, is your view and love for yourself – no matter the circumstance or predisposition. Your opinion, overall sense of personal value and self worth may be low, high, or somewhere in between.
While everyone has concerns about themselves, low self-esteem can leave you feeling insecure and unmotivated. Fortunately, there are practical things you can do to build it.
The reality of life is that someone will always be smarter, wealthier, more attractive, more successful, etc. than you. If browsing on social media leaves you not feeling good about yourself, make it a goal to decrease the time you spend on social media, go on a social media detox or completely stop using it at all if possible.
Comparisons steal our joy and make us jealous of other people’s accomplishments, triumphs and celebrations.
If you feel inferior because someone else is making more money than you, got married overseas and other reasons that triggered feelings of envy, jealousy, etc., it’s time to break the comparison cycle by avoiding doing things that will make you feel inferior and not good enough.
Also, remind yourself that self growth needs a little more patience and kindness on your part.
You increase your sense of competence as you become professional or good at something. Imagine how you will feel if you are better at something than people around you. You will be admired and respected for your knowledge and skills, which can be a great self-esteem booster.
We all have days when we feel extra insecure and anxious, but that doesn’t make us less of a person. Negative and unwanted emotions like these are part of human nature. During difficult days, it’s hard to be positive; but this is also a time to be gentle to yourself and look for ways to make you feel better, like listing your achievements.
Think about all your accomplishments and all the things you were proud of. Write them down and check your list every time you’re feeling not good enough to remind you that you’re capable and have what it takes to attain your goals.
A perfect way to bring some beats and rhythm back into your life is by doing creative tasks.
The brain is motivated by imagination; the more you do it, the bigger the gains. When you realize how much you can do and your ability to learn, you will become more secure in yourself.
Your mind is your greatest asset, and it should be treasured. Change your mindset and stop yourself anytime you find your mind thinking poorly about yourself. Strive to find the roots of each negative thought that crosses your mind and try methods that rid yourself of thoughts that are holding you back.
Robin Sharma once said, "As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal."
Persuade yourself to go outside your comfort zone and reach your potential. Get uncomfortable and try something new - meet different people, challenge yourself or try approaching a situation in a different manner than you would normally.
Dare to go beyond and leave your comfort zone to see how far you can go. Becoming daring and trying to put yourself out there will benefit you in one way or another.
Support someone in need by lending a helping hand or becoming a shoulder they can cry on whenever you can. Let them know they are not alone. Always remember that you don’t need to do big things to change the world.
The seemingly little things you do could go a long way!
Helping a few people in need might not change the world entirely, but it could change their world. And when they show appreciation for the things you do for them, it has a profound effect on the way you think about yourself and helps you find more meaning into your life.
For anyone who wants your help, your leadership, and your encouragement, be there! Their respect and appreciation will contribute to your self-esteem.
Make a strong commitment to cease worrying about what others might think. Follow the advice of Dr. Seuss and be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
If there are negative people in your life who rain on your parade, you will feel drained and exhausted more often because they can suck the life out of you and make you feel insecure and bad about yourself.
They may have nothing good to say, may be intentionally putting you down, or could be taking advantage of you. Letting go of such people and influence is the right thing to do for your peace of mind and sanity.
You failed at something because you tried and that’s better than not trying at all. Bear in mind that failure still means you are making an effort. If Thomas Alva Edison had given up any one of those 999 times, we would not have had the light bulb on his thousandth attempt!
Remember that it’s a normal reaction to get disheartened by failure. But being harsh on yourself is not the right way to go about it. When you fail, use it as an opportunity to change your thinking, realizing that loss is a chance to improve.
Hang in there and don’t give up because it’s possible to turn pain and heartbreak into passion, strength and wisdom. When you use your mistakes to better yourself, you get new perspectives that will help you eventually regain your momentum.
Also, don’t forget to remind yourself that you are stronger than you are giving yourself credit for.
Always remain a student and have a Shoshin, or "beginner's mind". This is an attitude that helps you to approach anything you do with a student's mindset. Shoshin will prompt you to learn something like a beginner would: open, ready, impartial, unprejudiced.
These 11 ways to better self-esteem are not mere ingredients that make up a formula or course of action; they are each a source of power too. The moment you decide you want to do something that would make you value yourself more, you are on your way to empowerment!
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Instead of relaxing at home for a few extra days, eight Ithaca College students spent the week before classes organizing stacks of books, cleaning a playground and painting walls at the Waldorf School in Ithaca. Their service was a part of Jumpstart, a pre-semester program intended to introduce new students to the Ithaca community.
For over 18 years, the college has hosted Jumpstart as a way to ease the transition into college life for freshmen. Students chose from three different programs based on what type of experience they hoped to have: Community Plunge, Lead-In or the Gardening, Recycling, Eating, Enjoying Nature Tour. Each has its own focus and activities based on a specific theme: Community Plunge focuses on local volunteer activities; Lead-In focuses on team-building and leadership training; and GREEN Tour focuses on participation in the local agricultural community. This year, Experiencing Connections by Heading Outdoors was not offered because there were not enough professional staff members for the program, Theresa Radley, assistant director of student leadership and involvement in the Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs, said.
Sophomore Marieme Foote served as a student leader for Community Plunge this year after enjoying her time as a participant last year. Student leaders are upperclassmen who work with freshmen to help them feel welcome in their first few days at the college. Foote, who led her group at the Waldorf School, said in addition to moving in early, Jumpstart offers many benefits to students.
“Jumpstart is so important because it helps to introduce first–years into the Ithaca College area and encourages them to seek out other opportunities to volunteer in the community long after the program is over,” Foote said. “This program really gives new students a better look at Ithaca and helps them get acquainted to the new experiences they will be receiving at Ithaca College.”
The Waldorf School is a private school offering pre-K–12 in Ithaca. Foote and her group learned about the philosophy of the Waldorf School and about the alternative education it provides. Foote said the Waldorf School staff was friendly, which made the work more enjoyable.
From selecting activities to reserving rooms to choosing student leaders, Jumpstart organizers spend the entire year planning the program, Radley said. Having worked with Jumpstart in some capacity since her second day at the college five years ago, Radley said she is a big supporter of the program and the opportunities it provides.
“From the participants’ perspective, it’s that first opportunity to make [a] real connection with people and the campus,” she said. “No matter what program they are participating in, they are learning something about themselves — learning about the Ithaca area. They get that quick sense of home.”
Students taking part in the Lead-In program participated in team-building and leadership activities, including the Hoffman Challenge Course, a series of low and high ropes activities, through the Cornell Team and Leadership Center. The goal of Lead-In is meant to provide students with the resources and confidence they need to become leaders on campus, and Radley said it also leads to new friendships.
Sophomore Dakota Collina, a student leader for Lead-In, said the Hoffman Challenge Course is a crucial part of the program.
“The challenges work to build trust in oneself and those around you that you may have only known for a few days,” he said. “With the ropes course welcoming many different groups of people throughout the year, Lead-In truly stands out in being a group in which every participant wants to gain something.”
Radley pointed to a group of students who participated in the Lead-In program four years ago who are still friends today as an example of how Jumpstart can be an early, comforting space for freshmen.
“That’s the goal right there — that is what Jumpstart is,” Radley said. “Four people who never knew each other came into Jumpstart, and all are highly involved in the college in their own way.”
GREEN Tour students learn about sustainability by exploring local food traditions such as the Farmers Market. The goal of the program is for students to make connections with one another as well as discuss their connection to the community when it comes to food systems.
Similarly, Community Plunge, the original Jumpstart program, allows students to explore the community through a variety of volunteer-based activities, such as cleaning up the Waldorf School.
Don Austin, assistant director of community service and leadership development, has been involved with Jumpstart for five years and is the organizer for Community Plunge. Austin said he believes Community Plunge benefits the students and community organizations.
“Fifty percent of why it’s important to me is that first-year students are coming back to campus early and learning what resources are available at the college and in the community,” Austin said.
As for the other 50 percent, he said Community Plunge also allows local organizations to complete projects they would have otherwise not have had the volunteers for.
When it comes to what volunteer activities are chosen for Community Plunge, Austin said it’s a combination of his reaching out to community organizations and community organizations hearing about the program and then contacting him. Organizations have to meet certain criteria, provide supervision and host some type of project for eight to 12 students.
Oftentimes, organizations that have partnered with Community Plunge in the past do so again. The Family Reading Partnership, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca Youth Bureau, and a mosaic mural on the wall of the City of Ithaca’s Water and Sewer Division are just a few examples of sites that have hosted Community Plunge volunteers.
Austin also highlighted other forms of service that students can become involved with throughout the year, such as Service Saturday programs, alternative break programs and service immersion programs. He said there are between 40 and 50 service-oriented organizations at the college during the year that students can join.
Senior Sean Themea participated in Community Plunge as a freshman and wanted to return as a leader for his sophomore and junior years but could not because of resident assistant training. He said he was very excited to have the opportunity this year to take part as a leader.
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As mentioned in the “Northeastern Minnesota Nomenclature” post on Perfect Duluth Day last summer, the city of Cloquet gets its name from the Cloquet River. But how did the river get its name?
The subject was also touched on briefly last summer in the WDSE-TV documentary This Town.
“Who named that river is a bit of a mystery,” narrator Kevin Kling said. “Some believe fur traders named it after a pair of French scientists: the brothers Hippolyte Cloquet and Jules Germain Cloquet. Now, Hippolyte was a rhinologist — a nose doctor — and Jules was a surgeon, an artist and an inventor. We can only imagine which of those disciplines most impressed the fur traders.”
In December, Pine Knot News in Cloquet began delving into the topic for its “History Mystery” series. Perhaps we’ll never know, or perhaps we’ll finally find out.
In the meantime, here is what the rest of the internet has to say.
Wikipedia offers this:
The word “Cloquet” first appeared on a map of the area by Joseph N. Nicollet in 1843 which named the Cloquet River, a tributary of the Saint Louis River, and the Cloquet Rapids to the north. “Cloquet” is a French surname but historians researching the name of the river and city have found no definitive answer, and are reduced to speculations. One of these is that the river might have been named after 19th century French scientists, the Cloquet brothers Hipployte and Jules, with the settlement later being named after the river.
The Carlton County Historical Society’s “Short History of Carlton County and the City of Cloquet,” on a somewhat broken page of the Cloquet Area Chamber of Commerce’s website, lays out a little background on the city without delving into where the name came from.
White settlement of the county began after the Ojibwe ceded the land of the area in the Treaty of 1854. Construction was begun on the Military Road which eventually connected Point Douglas, Minnesota (near St. Paul) with Superior, Wisconsin. The road passed through Carlton County and provided for mail delivery and passenger service. The coming of railroads to the county after 1870 allowed for the rapid growth of the timber industries and agriculture which form the base of the economic life of the area. The railroads have been largely replaced by a road system which includes a section of US I-35 which cuts across the county north and south.
The early building of the village that became Cloquet started in the form of several little settlements clustered around three early sawmills. These settlements were referred to locally as “Shaw Town,” “Nelson Town,” and later “Johnson Town.” More properly the whole settlement took its name from the most notable landmark in the region, Knife Falls, where the water flowed over sharp slate rocks that cut the moccasins of the voyagers.
The frontier site was platted in 1883, and in the following year, the three settlements were incorporated into the village of Cloquet. In 1904, Cloquet became a city with a mayor and common council form of government. The first mayor was Stokes Wilson. Many of the workers in the early industries and farming were immigrants from over a dozen European countries and Canada which, when mixed with the strong native culture, provided the rich cultural heritage still enjoyed by succeeding generations.
CLOQUET (retaining the French pronunciation of its last syllable, as in bouquet and sobriquet), incorporated as a city, was named for the Cloquet river, from which, and from other tributaries of the St. Louis river, came the logs of its lumber manufacturing. The map of Long’s expedition, in 1823, shows that stream as Rapid river, and it is unnamed on the map by Thompson in 1826 for the proposed routes of the international boundary; but on Nicollet’s map, published in 1843, it has the present title, Cloquet river. It is not used outside of Minnesota as a geographic name, and here was probably derived from some fur trader. It is applied also to an island of the Mississippi in section 10, Dayton township, Hennepin county.
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Exhaust System Standards
Exhaust systems remove unwanted gases, whether the gasses are toxic welding fumes or airborne grease. What are the industrial standards for exhaust systems?
ASTM Standards for Exhaust Systems
ASTM F1431 gives the standard specification for the water trap used with diesel exhaust systems. ASTM F1431 is ANSI approved.
ASTM D7821 is the standard field test method for determining how much urea is present in diesel exhaust fluid.
ASTM E1265 describes the standard test method for measuring the insertion loss when pneumatic exhaust silencers are used.
ISO Standards for Exhaust Systems
ISO 11042 is the standard for measuring the exhaust of gas turbines. ISO 11042 part 1 is for the measurement and evaluation of the gas emissions. ISO 11042 part 2 is the standard for automated emission monitoring.
ISO 7967 gives the standard for reciprocating internal combustion engines. ISO 7967 part 4 defines the standard vocabulary for the air/exhaust gas ducting systems in these engines. ISO 8178 describes how to measure the exhaust emissions.
ISO 16183 gives the transient test conditions and test methods for determining the emissions of raw exhaust gases using partial flow dilution systems.
ISO 29042 outlines the process for evaluating how well exhaust systems remove airborne hazardous substances.
ISO 16247 describes the helium test method used to detect exhaust system leaks.
ISO 23274 part 2 outlines the methods used to measure the fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of hybrid-electric vehicles.
SAE Exhaust System Standards
SAE J1492 outlines the process of measuring the sound level of light vehicle exhaust systems when stationary.
SAE J2515 lists the requirements for the high temperature materials used in exhaust manifolds.
SAE J1287 is the standard for measuring the sound pressure level for stationary motorcycles designed for use on the highway.
SAE J1711 describes the recommended method of measuring the exhaust from hybrid gas-electric vehicles.
SAE J2567 is the test procedure for measuring the exhaust sound level of a stationary snowmobile.
SAE J2914 gives the standard terminology for exhaust gas recirculation coolers and their uses.
SAE J335 is the standard for small engine exhaust system fire suppression systems. SAE J335 has been adopted by the Department of Defense but not by ANSI.
SAE J1207 is the procedure for measuring the effectiveness of silencers in reducing engine air intake and exhaust system noise. SAE J1207 is ANSI approved.
SAE J1088 describes the test procedure for measuring the gases in the exhaust of small utility engines. SAE J1088 is ANSI approved.
SAE ARP4056 gives the exhaust system design considerations for rotorcraft engines. This documentation is a recommendation and not a formal standard.
SAE ARP1179 is the exhaust smoke measurement method for aircraft gas turbines.
ANSI Standards for Exhaust Systems
ANSI International standards for exhaust systems come from a number of subsidiary organizations.
UL 710 gives the performance specifications for safety exhaust hoods used with commercial cooking equipment. UL 710 is ANSI approved. UL 1046 is the standard for safety grease filters used in exhaust ducts to prevent grease particles from coating the inside of the ducts and creating a fire hazard. UL 1046 is ANSI approved.
NFPA 91 is the standard for exhaust systems designed for moving noncombustible gases and mists. NFPA 91 was published in 2010 and is ANSI approved.
ASHRAE 149 is the ANSI approved standard for testing fans used in smoke management systems to exhaust smoke.
ASSE Z9.7 is the standard for re-circulating air from industrial process exhaust systems. ASSE Z9.7 was published in 2007 and is ANSI approved.
ASME PTC 19.10 lists the performance test codes used when running calculations involving different gaseous exhausts from stationary combustion sources. ASME PTC 19.10 is ANSI approved.
Military Specifications for Exhaust Systems
MIL-F-1754 was the naval standard for ventilation exhaust flame arrestors. First issued in 1962, this military standard is still active. MIL-I-2220 is the standard for gas monitoring instruments used on submarines.
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Federal Standards for Exhaust Systems
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School of Education
In the School of Education, we have a longstanding history of forming the next generation of educators. Across our wide range of programmes, we are privileged to work with students who are committed to the holistic development of their learners. Our graduates bear testament to the high standard of professionalism aspired to by the School and we are very proud to note that they are employed in a wide variety of settings and locations.
The School of Education offers courses at pre-undergraduate, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels. At undergraduate level, the School has responsibility for Education programmes, including the Education components of the Initial Teacher Education programmes; the Bachelor of Arts/Professional Master of Education (BA/PME) Home Economics and the B.Ed. (Home Economics and Biology/Irish/Religious Education) programmes for post-primary teachers. The School also comprises the Irish and Religious Education academic disciplines, which in addition to the second subjects on the BA/PME Home Economics and B.Ed. programmes, provide a range of other programmes.
The School of Education also has a proud tradition in postgraduate/ Masters level studies. For education professionals seeking to develop their current pedagogical skills and knowledge or progress their career, the School currently offers a variety of postgraduate/ Masters programmes, including a wide range of stand-alone education focussed modules as well as the Masters of Arts programme – MA (Contemporary Innovations in Education), using a pathways approach. These academic programmes are designed to offer education professionals flexible options, tailored to their diverse, individual, and professional needs and future career aspirations. Their part-time nature also accommodates for education professionals’ wider schedules.
Also under the remit of the School of Education, the Centre for Special Educational Needs, Inclusion and Diversity (CSENID) at St. Angela’s College provides a range of innovative, market responsive pre-undergraduate, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as shorter professional development courses and standalone on-line blended learning modules in the area of special education and inclusion. Nationally, CSENID is the sole provider of the online Certificate in Special Educational Needs for Special Needs Assistants accredited at Level 7, and the sole provider of the Level 9 Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Special Educational Needs (Autism Spectrum Disorder) in partnership with the National Council for Special Education which is part-funded by the Department of Education (DoE).
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This article is part of a series in which OECD experts and thought leaders — from around the world and all parts of society — address the COVID-19 crisis, discussing and developing solutions now and for the future.
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The outbreak of COVID-19 has resulted in a health crisis and a drop in economic activity that are without precedent in recent history. Containing and mitigating the spread of the virus has rightly been the first priority of public authorities to reduce the incidence of the disease and limit the pressure on healthcare systems.
Most countries have also acted rapidly and forcefully to limit the economic hardship caused by lockdowns and other containment measures. While the size of fiscal packages has varied across countries, most have been significant, and some countries have taken unprecedented action, as highlighted in our latest tax policy analysis (OECD, 2020a). Initial government responses focused on providing income support to households and liquidity to businesses to help them stay afloat. As the crisis has continued, many countries have expanded their initial fiscal packages. Where lockdowns and other containment measures have been eased, a number of expansionary fiscal policy measures have been implemented or announced to support economic recovery.
Uncertainty looms large, however, and continued policy adaptability will be key. There is already evidence that the recovery will not be a smooth process, with localised re-introductions of lockdowns in some countries, continued movement restrictions and risks of second and subsequent waves of infections (OECD, 2020b). While some degree of stability is usually needed to strengthen confidence, given the uncertainty of the current crisis, policy flexibility and agility may be what is needed to help restore confidence.
Governments should continue to use fiscal tools to provide support to affected businesses and households. Support measures should be kept in place as long as needed to avoid scarring effects and fiscal policy should remain supportive to speed up recovery. That said, governments should make sure that policy responses are adapted: measures should be well targeted and slowly withdrawn when the situation improves.
Once recovery is locked in, governments should shift from crisis management to consideration of structural reforms, but they must be careful not to act prematurely as this could jeopardise recovery. Governments should seize the opportunity to build a greener, more inclusive and more resilient economy. Rather than simply returning to business as usual, the goal should be to “build back better” and address some of the structural weaknesses that the crisis has laid bare.
Rather than simply returning to business as usual, the goal should be to “build back better” and address some of the structural weaknesses that the crisis has laid bare.
A central priority should be to accelerate environmental tax reform. Today, taxes on polluting fuels are nowhere near the levels needed to encourage a shift towards clean energy (Figure.2). Seventy percent of energy-related CO2 emissions from advanced and emerging economies are entirely untaxed and some of the most polluting fuels remain among the least taxed (OECD, 2019). Adjusting taxes, along with state subsidies and investment, will be unavoidable to curb carbon emissions.
Fair burden sharing will also be central going forward. The crisis has shed light on and exacerbated existing inequalities. Low-income earners, women and young people have been hit harder, while part-time, temporary and self-employed workers have accounted for up to half of the workforce in the most severely affected sectors (OECD, 2020c). A number of countries have temporarily expanded sick leave or unemployment benefits to non-standard workers, but consideration should be given to strengthening their social protection in the longer run.
Once countries exit the crisis and economies recover, governments will start looking to restore public finances, but they may not be able to resort to traditional revenue-raising recipes. Raising taxes on labour and consumption, as was done in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, may be difficult politically and in many cases not desirable from an equity perspective. Governments will need to find alternative sources of revenues. The taxation of property and personal capital income will have an important role to play, particularly in a context of significant improvements in international tax transparency.
The crisis has highlighted our collective vulnerability, but also the critical importance of multilateral collaboration.
Global co-operation is more important than ever. The crisis has highlighted our collective vulnerability, but also the critical importance of multilateral collaboration. Rising pressure on public finances as well as increased demands for fair burden sharing should provide new impetus for reaching an agreement on digital taxation. International tax co-operation will be even more necessary to prevent tax disputes from turning into trade wars, which would harm recovery at a time when the global economy can least afford it.
Launched 3 September 2020, the annual publication provides comparative information on tax reforms across countries and tracks tax policy developments over time. The report covers the latest tax policy reforms in OECD countries, as well as in Argentina, Indonesia, South Africa, and for the first time – China.
OECD (2020a), Tax Policy Reforms 2020: OECD and Selected Partner Economies, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/7af51916-en.
OECD database on tax policy responses to COVID-19, http://www.oecd.org/tax/covid-19-tax-policy-and-other-measures.xlsm
OECD (2020b), OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2020 Issue 1, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/0d1d1e2e-en.
OECD (2020), OECD Employment Outlook 2020: Worker Security and the COVID-19 Crisis, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/1686c758-en.
OECD (2019), Taxing Energy Use 2019: Using Taxes for Climate Action, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/058ca239-en.
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Editing is one of the critical elements of photography. It adds beauty to your photos and gives it a sense of uniqueness. Mastering the art of photo editing is a whole world on its own, as there are many things to do to learn and master editing truly.
Editing can be easy to learn, primarily if someone who truly knows the tricks guides you. Apple’s Mac is a brand many love and will use nothing other than that for their photo and video editing, however, others feel there are better brands out there. If you are an Apple lover, you’ll need to know the best photo editing software for Mac, to get the best out of it, but that is a topic for another day.
For those who want to chase a career in photography, editing software like Photoshop is someone you must know how to you. Some beginners in photography will always ask why editing is necessary, so here are some top reasons to edit your photos.
It Is Important To Always Process Your Images
When a picture is taken, know that your camera captures your images in the RAW file format. This is irrespective of if your camera image settings are in RAW or JPEG. Although if your setting is in JPEG, what your camera does is to take the raw file, and add some saturation to the colour of the image. It applies noise reduction and contrast, then adds other things like contrast, but the file is still raw. A reason for this is to give you full control when editing, as it is expected of you too.
You Can Correct Your Mistakes
Photo editing gives you a second chance to get it right after making mistakes during shooting. Photography aims to always get it right at first shot, however, just in case you don’t achieve this, editing is still there to save the day.
To Paint Pictures
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CNSNews reports that retired USA open water star and Olympian Kalyn Keller is devastated by news that the International Olympic Committee had picked Rio de Janeiro as host city for the 2016 summer Olympic Games.
Medical experts cannot confirm Kalyn Keller’s belief that her diagnosis of Crohn’s disease is connected to her swimming in the waters off the coast of Brazil in the 2007 Pan American Games. “It was kind of just like everything happening again,” Keller, 24, told CNSNews.com as she fought back tears. “I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”
The bodies of water Olympic athletes like Keller swim in for open water competitions around the globe are not tested according to Lindsay Mintenko, national team managing director for USA Swimming.
Mintenko told CNSNews.com that there are no rules mandating the testing of open water, which would be established by FINA, the organization that regulates Olympic and Olympic-related swimming events.
Mintenko said USA Swimming is lobbying for that to change, although FINA only reviews its regulations every four years and no water-testing regulation for open water competitions were put into place during the latest session.
“It didn’t pass this year,” Mintenko said, adding that efforts to gain passage continue.
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About 15 years ago I wrestled an elderly Italian man at Flower Power for their only blood orange tree in stock. Well, actually I had acquired the tree and it was sitting on the ground next to me.
He walked up, grabbed my tree and started to walk off. I hastily made a pursuit after this tree thief, with 'hellos" and excuse "me's", then promptly grabbed it back from him. I explained that I was actually purchasing the tree, to which he responded that I had no idea what the tree was.
I paused for a moment, looked at him blankly, and replied, "yes I do, it's a blood orange tree". He looked back at me just as blankly and exclaimed "you know what it is!" with a smile on his face. He then happily let me have the tree and explained how he cultivated them back in his homeland.
In retrospect, I should have let him have the tree. I managed to kill it after about 2 years and it never matured enough to bare fruit. It would probably now be a majestic blood orange tree in his back yard, abundant with fruit.
The reason why I bought the tree in the first place, 15 years ago you couldn't readily buy blood oranges, and I loved them. So hooray from me that blood oranges are currently back in season, as well as being readily available at the fruit shop.
It can be very hit and miss on how ruby they are inside. Some oranges look only slightly darker than your general orange, but others, when cut open, look like you are making them bleed as the red juice runs from where you have sliced.
I personally love the colour and use them wherever I can when in season. Anywhere you would use a normal orange they can be substituted. I love cutting them up and adding segments to salads for that extra splash of colour. Sorbets, tarts and cakes are also where I make very good use of them. They also make a stunning marmalade.
This recipe is one that I adapted, it originally used mandarins. With blood oranges on hand and an excess of almond meal in the cupboard, it was the perfect time to try out this flourless cake.
The cake is extremely moist and deliciously orangey. I think next time I make this, I will cook some blood orange in a sugar syrup to accompany the cake.
Do tell dear Belly Rumbles reader, is there a time of year that you look forward to because a product is only available then?
Blood Orange Almond Cake
- 2 blood oranges 375g skin on, whole
- 6 eggs
- 240 grams (2 cups) almond meal
- 240 grams (1 cup) caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon heaped of baking powder
- icing sugar to dust
- thick cream to serve
- Place oranges in a large pot (with lid) and cover oranges with water and place lid on pot. Bring pot to the boil and then reduce to a low simmer for 1.5 hours.
- Drain oranges and set aside until cool enough to handle.
- Cut oranges in to quarters and remove any seeds. Transfer to a blender or food processor (skins as well) and process until well pureed.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- Lightly grease and line a 22cm spring form pan.
- In a medium size mixing bowl, beat eggs and then add sugar. Continue beating until the mixture is pale and creamy. Mix in the almond meal, baking powder and oranges
- Pour mixture in to the prepared pan.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until and inserted skewer comes out clean and the cake starts to pull away from the sides of the pan.
- Allow cake to cool in pan on a wire rack.
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Greece reunited fragments of the Parthenon Marbles exhibited at the Athens Archaeological Museum to the Acropolis Museum on Monday in a highly symbolic gesture, highlighting the Greek demand for the unification of the artifacts.
The handover ceremony at the Acropolis Museum was attended by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis who, once again, called for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum to Greece.
“This sends a strong message for the reunification of all parts of this unique monument to humanity,” he said.
He underscored that “it is a first, but very important, step in the effort to gather here, at the Acropolis Museum, all the smaller and larger parts of the Parthenon that are now scattered in various museums around the world.”
Mitsotakis said that Greece, the scientific community, and UNESCO have been calling for the reunification of the marbles for many decades now.
In late September, UNESCO had made a momentous decision to urge the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum.
“I believe Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally understands this, as I found out at our recent meeting…He has studied classical studies, he adores ancient Greece and I am sure he will not block any possible future agreement,” Mitsotakis said and added:
“If necessary, he could initiate the amendment of the British law on museums in order to facilitate the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures. There are no more substantial arguments to delay this important issue of the times and of Greek-British relations.”
British Museum to decide the fate of Parthenon Marbles
Boris Johnson told Mitsotakis in November that the British Museum alone is responsible for dealing with Greece’s request for the return of the Parthenon Marbles.
“The Prime Minister said that he understood the strength of feeling of the Greek people on this issue, but reiterated the UK’s longstanding position that this matter is one for the trustees of the British Museum,” a Downing Street spokesperson said after the meeting.
“The leaders agreed that this issue in no way affects the strength of the UK-Greece partnership.”
The Parthenon Marbles were taken from Athens by British nobleman Lord Elgin after he claimed to have made a deal with the Ottoman ruler of the country in the 19th century.
Many historians have since found evidence that the deal made by Lord Elgin to take the marble sculptures to England had no legal standing and is therefore void.
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Doggin’ Los Angeles: Where To Hike With Your Dog When In The City Of Angels
By Doug Gelbert
The seeds of one of the world’s great city parks were sown with the arrival of Colonel Griffith Jenkins Griffith from Wales in 1865 to make a fortune in California gold mines. In 1882 Griffith came to Los Angeles and purchased 4,071 acres of an original Spanish land grant, Rancho Los Felix.
In 1896 he gave more than 3,000 acres of California oaks, wild sage and manzanita to the city as a Christmas present – “a place of relaxation and rest for the masses.†Today Griffith Park, west of I-5 between Los Feliz Boulevard and Ventura Freeway, is the largest urban wilderness area in America, including 53 miles of trails, fire roads and bridle paths. Many of the trails feature views of the famous Hollywood sign – the 6-mile Mt. Hollywood Trail climbs to the top. Dog-friendly touches include a dog park adjacent to Ferraro Soccer Field and rides for dogs on the Los Angeles Live Steamers miniature train. | <urn:uuid:1a6ac44d-25d0-4592-8a98-ab7e8e49e160> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://petlvr.com/doggin-los-angeles-where-to-hike-with-your-dog-when-in-the-city-of-angels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.886314 | 232 | 1.65625 | 2 |
HENRY CLAY LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT, ABOUT 1840
Although Clay never won the presidency, he gained lasting national popularity among members of the Whig party. Many homes and businesses displayed printed portraits of political figures. This one purportedly hung in the Burnham Tavern in Mathias, Maine.
New York, New York, John L. MaGee
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The dispatcher calls Bob and gives him a service call at a residence. The house is getting hot because the unit is not cooling even though it has been running. It is a 4-ton system.
The weather is really hot when Bob arrives, 96 degrees F. He pulls his truck to the back of the driveway to prevent blocking the homeowners' cars. Bob is familiar with the system. He goes to the front door and the wife comes to the door. She invites him in to check out the system. It is hot in the house. The thermostat's thermometer registers 84 degrees F. She tells Bob that the system had been working until it got really hot. He could hear the indoor fan running, but the air coming out of the registers is room temperature, not cold.
Bob goes out back to the outdoor unit and finds the problem quickly. The homeowners had added an extension to the wooden deck in the back of the house and the unit is now under the deck. He could hear the condenser fan running, but could not hear the compressor. Bob goes into the house and turns the unit off to let it cool down. He then asks the owner when the deck had been added on. She says that it was finished three days ago.
She responds, "Yes, but they said that it would be OK because there was plenty of room to work on the unit."
Bob then says, "I think the deck is the problem. There is only about two feet of clearance above the unit and the fan discharge is upward. Hot air must be hitting the deck and recirculating back into the unit. This would cause the compressor to overload and shut off (Figure 1). I will go to the unit and see what I can do."
She replies, "We are having a party here tomorrow night and we just have to have cooling. It is a very important business party."
Bob goes down to the unit. Sure enough, the deck is about 18 inches above the fan discharge. This would never work.
Btu Buddy then appears and asks, "What is the problem, Bob?"
Bob explains what is going on. Either the deck or the unit must be moved. There is a party tomorrow night and the company doesn't have time to move the unit. "I have to have another plan."
Bob shuts off the electrical disconnect and locks it, then connects the water hose to cool the compressor (Figure 2).
Btu Buddy then says, "Call the shop and have them send out one of those large prop-type fans and we can set it under here to move air over the condenser until we can work up a plan. Those fans move a lot of air and are not very loud."
Bob makes the call and has the fan coming over. The compressor is cooling down and the fan is expected within a half hour.
Btu Buddy suggests, "Talk to the owner and tell her that the condenser must be moved and you cannot do it until next week, but that you can provide cooling with a temporary rig until then. She may want to have her husband look at what is happening."
Bob talks to her and she calls her husband who will come home in a few minutes.
Btu Buddy says, "Let's look at an alternative location for the condensing unit."
Relocating The Condensing UnitBob and Btu Buddy walk around the back of the house close to the deck looking for a good spot for the condenser. It looks like it should be moved to the end of the house and around the corner. Btu Buddy says, "That looks like a good place, but it is by the master bedroom and there are windows close by. I think you would get noise complaints if we moved it there."
The husband gets home about that time and gets into the conversation. He suggests a particular spot that he likes.
Bob looks up and sees that there is a drain right over that spot and says, "This place is really not suitable for the unit because an excess of water could run into the unit (Figure 3)."
The husband then asks, "Aren't they rainproof?"
Bob says, "Yes, but there are times when there will be large volumes of water coming down between these two roofs and pouring into the unit. It is not made to take that much water."
They keep looking around and decide to move the unit to the far end of the deck, next to the driveway. It is about 25 feet to the new location, but the piping and the electrical can be run under the house. It is actually closer to the electrical panel so the electrical run will be much closer.
The fan arrives and Bob removes the water from the compressor and replaces the compressor compartment cover. He goes into the house and sets the thermostat to cooling. He then turns on the large fan about five feet from the condensing unit. He turns the disconnect to the unit back on. The compressor and fan start. Bob feels the compressor suction line and notices that it is getting cool. The unit seems to have a charge of refrigerant in it. That looks good.
Bob asks the husband to come out to the unit so he can show him what is happening. Bob turns off the fan for a few minutes and the heat under the deck begins to build up. The husband says, "Wow, I would not have believed it could get this hot this quick."
Bob restarts the fan and the heat dissipates. The system will be OK as long as the fan is running.
Bob then tells the homeowners, "I will talk to the foreman and get him to get you a price on moving the unit."
The husband says, "Just come and do it. I have worked with you and your company long enough to know that you will be fair. Thanks for the thoughtful service."
While riding away, Btu Buddy says, "Another satisfied customer. It is much easier to keep a good customer than to go and find another one. You are really improving your people skills as well as your technical skills."
Bob says, "Thanks, it is sometimes hard to be nice to customers, since they are often hot and bothered when we get there. That can make them a little difficult to deal with."
Bill Johnson has been active in the HVACR industry since the 1950s. He graduated in gas fuel technology and refrigeration from the Southern Technical Institute, a branch of Georgia Tech (now known as Southern Polytechnic Institute). He taught HVAC classes at Coosa Valley Vocational & Technical Institute for four years. He moved on to become service manager for Layne Trane, Charlotte, N.C. He taught for 15 years at Central Piedmont Community College, part of this time as program director. He had his own business for five years doing installation and service work. Now retired, he is the author of Practical Heating Technology and Practical Cooling Technology, and continues as a co-author of Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Technology, 5th Edition, all published by Delmar Publishers. For more information, he can be reached at 704-553-0087, 704-643-3928 (fax), or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Analog is an adjective that describes a device or system in which information is represented by continuously variable physical quantities. A record player is a simple example of an analog device; the needle continuously reads the bumps and grooves on a record. A clock with hands is also an example because the hands move continuously around the face and the clock is capable of indicating every possible time of day.
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Analog signals are mostly used to describe electrical signals such as audio recording and reproduction, live amplification devices, radio signals, and older video signal transmission technologies such as VGA. While analog versions have mostly been replaced by their digital counterparts, it still exists in the form of AM/FM radio and home recordings on audio cassettes or VHS tapes.
Analog signals are best suited for audio and video transmissions, have much higher density to present more refined information, use much less bandwidth than digital sounds, and preserve the natural form of a sound. In contrast, digital signals are easy to compress, edit without altering the original copy, transmit the data over networks, and can be encrypted. | <urn:uuid:66678309-5eb0-4cb8-84c4-33d6aae97511> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/analog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940738 | 420 | 3.90625 | 4 |
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PallMeT, the interdisciplinary "Palliative Medicine and Technology" working group of the Palliative Medicine Department of the University Hospital Erlangen, develops and investigates medical technology innovations that benefit palliative patients, their families and those involved in care. Thus PallMeT addresses challenges of our society such as growing palliative medical treatment needs, rising costs in the health sector, an ageing society and the depopulation of rural areas: palliative medical technological innovations should help to treat palliative patients appropriately and better, to support palliative medical professionals in their work, to save resources and to strengthen outpatient structures.
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The school’s history is a twisted one, involving atypical therapy methods and company mergers, good intentions and success stories, but also cases of what some, including the state, call abuse. The story behind the academy’s closure.
An era ended when Mount Bachelor Academy closed Nov. 3, following allegations of child abuse by the state Department of Human Services.
The private school for troubled teens, located 26 miles east of Prineville, was one of the last of its kind — a school whose methods originated in the Synanon self-help group, which was widely considered a cult by the late 1970s.
It’s also a school that counts hundreds, if not thousands, of devoted graduates and parents who swear that Mount Bachelor Academy put their children on the right track, or even saved their lives.
And for years, MBA was a flagship of Aspen Education Group, a company that grew to become one of the biggest providers of therapeutic, emotional-growth and weight-loss facilities in the U.S. In 2006, that company was swallowed by an even bigger fish, CRC Health, an arm of the private investment firm Bain Capital.
According to veteran educational consultants, Mount Bachelor Academy was one of the last schools founded on a therapy for troubled teens that originated at the Southern California school called CEDU.
Three educational consultants, including a former CEDU staff member, said the school’s founder, Mel Wasserman, drew from Synanon’s ideas when he started the school.
Synanon began in the 1950s as a Southern California group designed to help “dope fiends” and drug addicts who didn’t have other options for treatment at the time.
In a 1977 article, Time magazine describes the early Synanon method as a “no-nonsense, self-help program that included the ‘game,’ a rugged encounter session in which participants acted out their inmost hostilities. Learning the truth about themselves supposedly helped them stay off drugs or booze.”
The group, according to Time and other contemporary news accounts, eventually required its female members to shave their heads, men to get vasectomies and married couples to swap partners. In 1980, three members of the group pleaded no contest to charges of attempted murder for putting a rattlesnake in the mailbox of an attorney who had sued the group. No one suggests that any of the most unseemly aspects of Synanon were ever part of the CEDU curriculum.
San Francisco educational consultant Alice Jackson said she was impressed by CEDU the first time she visited the school, in 1974. Wasserman and his wife were caring for dozens of “kids off the street,” many of whom had serious substance abuse problems.
“I was first of all astounded by the magical personality that (Wasserman) had,” Jackson said. “I had great admiration for his dedication for these kids.”
Lon Woodbury was admissions director at CEDU for several years and now is an independent education consultant in Idaho. Woodbury said Wasserman “watered down” the Synanon ideas for the school.
“Mel Wasserman was influenced by Synanon, and so used the confrontation model watered down quite a bit in the founding in CEDU,” Woodbury said. “It continued to be watered down and was much less confrontational than it was in the early years.”
The abuse allegations at Mount Bachelor Academy by the Oregon Department of Human Services hearkened back to the earlier practices at emotional growth schools, Woodbury said.
“Some of the things the state had said surprised me because those were things they were doing years ago when it was more acceptable,” he said.
The Oregon Department of Human Services complaint against MBA found that some of the therapeutic methods at the school were “punitive, humiliating, degrading and traumatizing,” including “sexualized role play in front of staff and peers, requiring students to say derogatory phrases about themselves in front of staff and peers, requiring students to re-enact past physical abuse in front of staff and peers, permitting staff to engage in the usage of derogatory names, phrases and ridicule of students and deprivation of sleep.”
Wasserman died in 2002, according to Woodbury’s newsletter on therapeutic schools, Woodbury Reports.
Starting out in Central Oregon
In 1987, College Health Enterprises, a group of Southern California hospitals, decided to start an emotional-growth boarding school for teenagers, somewhere in Central Oregon.
According to a history of MBA on the school’s Web site, the school tried to start in Powell Butte, but “a few difficulties with permits” led founder Linda Houghton to locate at the former Mark’s Creek Lodge, in the Ochoco National Forest.
Woodbury, Jackson and education consultants Doug Bodin and Tom Croke all agreed that CEDU methods were the basis for early emotional growth methods at Mount Bachelor Academy.
Jackson is listed on the MBA history page as one of the consultants who was an important source of student referrals in the school’s early days. She endorsed the school at the time, Jackson said, but gradually grew to believe the model needed to be updated.
“At that time, the programs were very much about behavior management, and they were rigid in their length of stay,” Jackson said. “Some of those things that happened in that model were not what we would think would be OK for kids (today).”
Croke, a consultant in Pennsylvania who runs the Web site FamilyLight.com, agreed that the methods pioneered at CEDU-style schools, including sleep deprivation and confrontational therapy, are now considered inappropriate. But that was less clear in the early days of the industry, he said.
“One problem I have with the naysayers, while I really do not like in 2009 that kind of work, I also think to go back in hindsight to 30 years ago and damn the people who created this as if they were money-grubbing child abusers. That simply wasn’t true,” Croke said.
Rather, those people were well-intentioned but lacking today’s knowledge, Croke said. Indeed, the methods spread to at least six other schools, because they were seen as effective at helping many children.
“Anecdotally, they were successful with a lot of kids,” Croke said. “What is not as well documented are the casualties that were associated with that.”
The Bulletin contacted Houghton and four other former top MBA officials. Houghton and three others did not return messages. Former MBA Director Dennis Crowell declined to be interviewed.
Aspen Education Group
In 1997 or 1998, College Health Enterprises spun off Mount Bachelor Academy and a handful of other youth facilities into the company that became Aspen Education Group.
Aspen quickly grew to become one of the largest owners of therapeutic schools and wilderness camps in the nation by buying independent facilities and starting new ones of its own.
Woodbury, the Idaho consultant, said part of Aspen’s success was a policy of allowing each facility to retain its own character, rather than imposing a single corporate culture.
“They tried to maintain the uniqueness of each culture so that the differences would remain,” Woodbury said.
It now owns four facilities in Central Oregon, including the academy. Its largest concentration of youth programs is in Utah, where it owns nine facilities.
Utah Licensing Director Ken Stettler said the Aspen programs in his state are generally well-run.
When problems do occur, “our programs have been very good about responding to those things,” Stettler said. “They do the right things by getting it fixed.”
Stettler said none of the Aspen programs had incurred a major violation since he started in his position in 2002.
However, three children have died in Aspen-owned facilities in Utah since 2004. Two deaths were suicides. The other happened in 2007, when 14-year-old Brendan Blum died of a bowel obstruction, after counselors failed to call for medical assistance, despite his complaints of stomach pain, loss of bowel control and vomiting.
The school, Youth Care of Utah, had the proper procedures in place and wasn’t at fault, said Stettler.
“The school itself had trained the staff in the policy and procedure in reporting of illnesses, and those staff had failed to follow the training that was provided,” he said.
A fourth teen, 16-year-old Sergey Blashchishen, collapsed while hiking in Lake County and died on the scene in August. Blashchishen was on a trip with Aspen-owned SageWalk, a wilderness school based in Redmond.
The incident is under investigation by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the state Department of Human Services. DHS ordered SageWalk to temporarily close in September.
Aspen declined to make any of its officials available for an interview with The Bulletin. In a written statement, Aspen Senior Vice President Mark Dorenfeld said the company takes steps to ensure precautions are taken across its facilities.
“To best serve (students’) special needs, we have established best practices and safety protocols within our policies and procedures to enhance the level of care,” Dorenfeld wrote. “These policies and procedures incorporate all critical elements of care, from health and wellness protocols, to staff training, to therapeutic practices.”
Dorenfeld also said some media accounts of what happened on the trip have been inaccurate. When asked to specify what Dorenfeld was referring to, a spokeswoman said the company “could not comment further.”
An old model
Several boosters of Mount Bachelor Academy in its early days said the school didn’t do enough to update its methods over time.
Bend psychologist Michael Conner has worked with facilities for troubled teens in the past and lists Mount Bachelor Academy founder Houghton as an educational adviser for his company that consults with parents of troubled children. Conner said the school was originally designed for teens in need of emotional growth, but not intense mental health services.
“What the program was when it was founded is not the least bit related to what the program became,” Conner said. “(It) became quite overfilled with a high number of clinical and severe patients, which the program was never designed (for).”
Jackson said she stopped referring children to Mount Bachelor Academy nearly 10 years ago.
“I have not used it for a number of years as I saw it deteriorating and hanging on to an old model that was really no longer useful,” Jackson said.
“I can tell you that that didn’t surprise me,” Croke said, of the state’s charges of abuse. “It was irresponsible of (Aspen) to allow that kind of programming to continue to go on in the year 2009.”
Earlier this year, The Bulletin spoke with 10 former students — several of whom had positive experiences at Mount Bachelor — who described one or more of the practices mentioned in the state’s complaint.
Despite the concerns of professionals and some students, a legion of parents and former students say allegations of abuse are overblown and that unorthodox methods, such as using a week or even a month of manual labor as punishment, get results.
Beth McKinnon’s 16-year-old son, Quinn, had been at MBA for six months when the school closed two weeks ago. McKinnon, a licensed family therapist in Santa Cruz, Calif., said she felt entirely comfortable with the program at Mount Bachelor Academy.
McKinnon, like many parents of former students there, grew emotional while talking about the program’s benefits for her child. It’s the only place where Quinn has ever felt comfortable in a group, she said.
“I would hate to see these schools get shut down because a few people felt they were humiliated and embarrassed at what they had to go through,” McKinnon said.
In 2006, Aspen Education Group was purchased by the even larger CRC Health Group, an arm of the Mitt Romney-founded private investment firm Bain Capital Inc. Since the merger, though, CRC’s performance has been lackluster.
The down economy hit CRC hard. After recording a $1.5 million profit in 2007, the company lost $141 million in 2008, according to the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The recession created a double-whammy for the company: Families were less able to afford the steep tuition — Mount Bachelor Academy charged $6,400 each month — and tighter credit markets meant they had difficulty securing loans to make up the difference.
“In 2008, we experienced a significant decrease in demand for services in our youth division as a result of declining economic conditions and the inability of families to access the credit markets to fund tuition,” the company’s annual report said.
In April, Oregon DHS opened an investigation into allegations of abuse and neglect at Mount Bachelor Academy. On Nov. 3, the agency found nine confirmed allegations of abuse and ordered the school’s license temporarily suspended. MBA Executive Director Sharon Bitz initially said the school would appeal the suspension, but last week, CRC Health filed a mass layoff notice with the state, indicating it would not attempt to reopen Mount Bachelor Academy.
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), is a United States law developed to help the healthcare industry by providing data security and privacy to safeguard medical information. However, unlike the simple definition, the application and maintenance of HIPAA compliance can be very arduous, and the burden and cost of non-compliance can be even greater.
According to the HHS (Table 1), the estimated cost of compliance per organization is:
- Notice of Privacy Practices updates: $80
- Breach Notification Requirement updates: $763
- Business Associate Agreement updates: $84
- Security Rule compliance: $113
This estimation was revealed shortly after the HIPAA Final Rule was released in 2013. The total sum is up to $1,040 per organization.
Factors that can affect the cost of compliance
The cost of HIPAA compliance can vary depending on your organization. A few of the variables that can affect your overall cost are:
The type of organization: The amount of protected health information (PHI) and risk levels can vary depending on the type of organization. Different kinds of organizations needing to comply with HIPAA include business associates, hospitals, medical centers, healthcare clearinghouses, health information exchange companies and other types of healthcare providers.
The size of your organization: The HIPAA burden and cost of compliance is directly proportional to the size of an organization. The larger the organization, means more employees, more PHI and PHI containing devices, more activities, more programs and departments that can add to your cost of compliance.
The culture of your organization: the culture of any organization can greatly influence the HIPAA burden and cost of compliance. For example, if one of the top priorities of higher management is data security, then the organization has likely already invested in a cybersecurity program. If the management feels reluctant or fails to dedicate a budget to data security, then the cost of HIPAA compliance can increase as there will be more areas to catch up on.
The environment of your organization: The brand of computers, types of medical devices, model of backend servers, firewall measures, etc. can all add to the HIPAA burden and cost of compliance. For example, if the hospital prioritized minimizing patient mismatch, then the hospital has probably already implemented a biometric patient identification platform. The cost of implementation and maintenance of this platform for compliance with HIPAA will significantly be lower. If minimizing patient mismatch was not considered, then the cost to get in line with HIPAA regulations will be higher. Patient mismatches and misidentification can cause the accidental filing of medical records, which in turn, can lead to consequences as dire as any other violation.
The internal dedicated HIPAA team within your organization: An internal HIPAA dedicated team can help you assess how far your organization is from closing the HIPAA gap. The team will be responsible for ongoing training sessions, making sure everyone is adhering to the policy, and overseeing the safeguarding measures for the protection of PHI and other electronic devices. If your staff members and employees are lacking basic knowledge regarding HIPAA, then the chances of carrying out a non-compliant action also increase. Making up for non-compliance and getting in line with HIPAA, later on, can significantly increase the burden and cost of compliance.
Simplify your HIPAA burden and cost of compliance
Even with internal teams in place, organizations usually require outside assistance for getting in line with HIPAA’s rules and regulations. Such assistance can be provided by HIPAA Ready.
HIPAA Ready is a robust HIPAA compliance software that can help you streamline your activities and HIPAA compliance management processes while significantly reducing the burden and cost of compliance. The application includes a digital checklist of tasks, a center for policies, plan of actions, and effective training management information. With this application, you can customize your workflow while remaining HIPAA compliant.
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