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Serial ATA cable by C2G is designed to handle the differential signals implemented in today's technology. The angled connectors deliver the cable at a more desired angle and are fortified to keep the cable lined up straight. Serial ATA cables minimize clutter, increase airflow and provide maximum transfer rates. The 7-pin, Serial ATA cables permit higher data transmission rates, reduce crosstalk and improve signal integrity.
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Launchpad on Mac is something like a home screen on an iPhone and iPad. It conveniently displays your programs. When
Launchpad is not always displayed on the computer screen, so you still need to open it. Because of this, many simply do not use the panel, although the Launchpad can be very useful.
Below you will find tips on using Launchpad on a Mac. Perhaps they will force you to use the panel more often.
How to open the Launchpad
Launchpad can be opened in several quick ways.
- Click the Launchpad icon in Dock.
- Click the Launchpad icon in the Programs folder.
- Use the F4 key on the keyboard (fn + F4).
- Use the trackpad gesture - put three fingers together on one side and your thumb on the other.
You can understand how many pages with programs you have, by the number of points at the bottom of the screen. To switch between these pages, use the trackpad or the mouse.
Using Active Corners
You can use the Active Corners feature on your Mac for even faster access to the Launchpad. Just move the cursor to one of the corners of the screen, and the panel with the programs will open.
one) On the menu bar, select the icon Apple > System settings.
2) Select section Desktop and Screensaver.
3) At the bottom click Active angles.
four) Using the menu, tie a Launchpad to one of the corners by selecting it from the options.
five) Now hover over the previously selected screen corner and Launchpad will open.
When you download a program from the Mac App Store,it automatically appears on the Launchpad panel. However, the programs downloaded from the network are not affected. To add a third-party program to the panel, simply move it to the folder Programs.
Launchpad Software Management
Like on iPhone and iPad, you can move programs to Launchpad, create folders, etc. This is a great way to organize the panel to your taste.
To move the program, hold it and drag it to a new location, and then release. When you pull the program, others will move away and free up space.
To create a folder, hold the program thatyou want to put in it, and drag it to another, which you also want to add to the folder. The folder will be created automatically, as in iOS. Then you can drag other programs to the folder. Click on the folder name to change it.
To remove the program from the folder, hold it and pull it out of the folder. When there are no programs left in the folder, it will disappear.
You can remove programs on a Mac in several ways, and one of them is via Launchpad.
To remove a program, hold it down until the animation appears. Click icon X in the corner of the program and confirm its removal. To enter the delete mode, you can hold the key Option.
This will not just remove the program from Launchpad, but also remove it completely. If in the corner of the program does not appear X, it can not be removed. Among such programs are Mail, Calendar and Utilities.
If you have many programs installed, you can use Launchpad search to quickly access them.
Enter the program name in the search bar at the top of the screen, and then select it or press the key Enter/Returnto immediately open the program.
When downloading programs from the App Store, you can check the download indicator using the Launchpad icon in Dock.
You can find out which program is loading, how much it weighs, and when the download is complete.
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« Dubuffet sought to create an art as free from intellectual concerns as Art Brut, and his work often appears primitive and childlike. Nonetheless, Dubuffet appeared to be quite erudite when it came to writing about his own work. » (wiki)
« Spinning Round » (1961) [Tate Gallery, London]:
Jardin d'Email, Otterlo, Netherlands:
« In late 1960–1961, Dubuffet began experimenting with music and sound and made several recordings with the Danish painter Asger Jorn, a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA. »
Indeed, he recorded several albums of "Experiences musicales" or "Musique chauve" ("bald music"), using many different instruments (You can listen to his experimental music here)
A picture of 1961, by Jean Weber, and the cover of Dubuffet's musical work:
Jean Weber made also a great picture of Jean Dubuffet playing his nose flute!
At first glance, I thought it was a Humanatone. Jean Dubuffet had an agent in the USA, and travelled to America very soon. So, the flute could have been bought there.
In a book published by the Dubuffet's Foundation, one can see the Weber's photograph, with a caption: « Jean Dubuffet playing a nasal flute (or narinette), Paris, 1961. » :
Was there a nose flute called Narinette? No no no. This name is the result of a double mistake!!
Indeed, there was an instrument called Varinette, with a V. The Varinette was a "double kazoo" (2 vibrating membranes) invented in 1919 by the Abbe Jules-Ernest Varin.
How may I be so sure of the confusion Narinette/Varinette and why a double mistake?
Because I found a footage. In 1961, Terre des Arts, a french TV program dedicated to arts, broadcast a documentary about Jean Dubuffet. A part of it focuses on Dubuffet and music, and the artist presents the intruments used for his recordings with Asger Jorn. Dubuffet shows and plays his nose flute! But you will hear at the very beginning of the 10 seconds footage that he clearly pronounces Varinette and not Narinette.
So, Dubuffet made the first mistake, calling Varinette his nose flute (confusing with the double kazoo), and then, the book author made the second one, transcribing Narinette with a N. Indeed, « narine » means « nostril » in French, and Narinette could have made a funny name for a nose flute...
Short, but wonderful, isn't it?
So, what nose flute is played by Dubuffet? In the footage, one can clearly see the instrument straight heel, and it makes no doubt that Dubuffet's nose flute was the french Ocariflute! The instrument looks already "vintage" and a bit rusty: it is already 35 years old or so.
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Gogarten, Friedrich, 1887–1968, German theologian. He was professor of theology at the Univ. of Jena from 1927 until 1933, when he began to teach at the Univ. of Göttingen. He adopted the anti-idealism of Søren Kierkegaard, and his work is close to that of Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann. Using Barth's dialectical theology, he formulated a fresh interpretation of culture and history but from a Lutheran rather than Calvinist point of view. In his works Politische Ethik (1932) and Der Mensch Zwischen Gott und Welt (1952) he is concerned with the problem of humanity's relation to his religion and to the state. In his chief work, Entmythologisierung und die Kirche (1953; tr. Demythologization and the Church, 1955), he examines and expands on Bultmann's attempt to remove the elements of myth from the New Testament.
See study by L. E. Shiner (1966).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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What are Sebaceous filaments?
Sebaceous filament is a part of skin. These are follicles of skin and help to create sebum. Despite their presence, they are not much visible on skin. Basically, Sebaceous Filaments are present below the surface of skin. These are really small glands which create sebum that provide oil to the skin. Also, due to these filaments the sebum flow to the surface of the skin easily. Other than that, these are only visible on a skin with large pores. These filaments are filled when sebum over produces. This situation would be very annoying. Moreover, if you have large sized pores, sebaceous filament looks very clear. You can even see them from distance. These are almost same to the black heads and pimples. Just as blackheads are annoying, they are also annoying. When oil and dust accumulate in the pores, it causes blackheads and sebaceous filaments.
Many people think that sebaceous filament is a form of acne. If you have a sebaceous filament that is clearly seen, can be a dark dot. In this filament, there is a pin can be seen which can be grey or yellow in color. But this is not true. It is not any type of acne. Because these filaments are form inside the skin. These sebaceous are not visible on skin mostly. By the way, there are so many different treatments that can eliminate them. But no treatment can eliminate sebaceous filaments for always. Also, these are not eliminates completely. The only way to get rid of them is to use good company products. There are many great types of products available that can eliminate them for a long time. As well as, you can also use some foods that specifically eliminate sebaceous filaments. You can also read how to cure Transient Lingual Papillitis.
- Appearance of Sebaceous Filaments
- Causes of Sebaceous Filaments
- How to Prevent Sebaceous Filaments before Occurs?
- How to Get Rid Of Sebaceous Filaments
Appearance of Sebaceous Filaments
When sebum and dead cells of skin come together around a hair follicle, a sebaceous filament comes into being. Furthermore, it looks like a tiny yellow pin into a dark spot. It is very thin and its structure can be hair-like. It placed in the pores. In addition, it helps sebum to flow on the surface of skin easily. Basically, these filaments are very natural. The worst thing about these sebaceous filaments is that they placed on nose. Also, a filament can be very prominent. The people who have oily skin, are the victim of these annoying sebaceous filaments. Other than that, a sebaceous filament may be quite itchy. But one thing to always keep in mind is that they should never be scratched. Because in case if you scratch these filaments, you can get very scary marks on your face. Also, these marks can lasts for lifetime.
Causes of Sebaceous Filaments
1. Oily Skin
Oily skin is one of the biggest reasons of sebaceous filament. People who have oily skin are the ones who suffer the most from these sebaceous filaments. On the other hand, people with dry skin do not have such a problem. Those with oily skin, however, are often plagued by a lot of skin issues. Because oily skin catches so much dirt and pollution. This dust and pollution accumulates in your skin and causes various skin problems. The pores of people with oily skin are always open which is also a different problem.
2. Sun Exposure
As we know, large size pores are very problematic for skin. And, sun exposure is very harmful for skin because it can make the skin pores larger. When the pores will be large in size, your sebaceous filaments seen very clearly. Other than that, sum exposure can also damage skin on a very large scale. It can cause several skin diseases. If your skin is exposed to the sun on a daily basis, your skin will begin to damage. Once your skin is damaged, it will not heal for a long time even after very expensive medicines.
3. Genetic Problem
Another cause of sebaceous filament can be genetic. Some people have this problem by genes. Also, people who have sebaceous filament by birth, they have very difficult to get rid of it. Because, this sebaceous filaments has been coming them for a long time and ends with great difficulty. People who get this problem genetically are very worried about it. But it is not impossible to remove. It can belittle difficult but not impossible completely.
4. Old Age
Old age is a major cause of sebaceous filaments. Because, when people get old, their skin also get old. The skin of elders is not capable to fight against different problems. Other than that, pores of elders are also open ans can cause this problem. Also, elders can also face several skin issues. They are not capable to wash face frequently or keep skin clean all the time. Therefore, all these facts can lead to sebaceous filaments.
How to Prevent Sebaceous Filaments before Occurs?
- Some people use a lot of creams and lotions on their faces. If these creams and lotion will be greasy, can cause sebaceous filament. Therefore, never use these products on your skin will be sebaceous filament free.
- Cleaning is the most important thing to avoid any kind of skin problem. If you are not in the habit of cleaning your face or washing your face frequently, you may suffer from sebaceous filament. So wash your face three times a day to avoid it.
- Always use a good company sun blocker. Because sun exposure can cause skin diseases. When you use any well reputed sun blocker, your skin will be also protected from sebaceous filaments.
- Those whose skin is dry do not suffer from sebaceous filament. But the people who have oily skin, should always use oil free skin products. Because, if they use oily products, their skin release extra oil and cause acne and sebaceous filament.
- Anything that is capable to close skin pores, best for sebaceous filament. Because, if pores remain open, they store dirt and pollution in your skin. When you use things which close pores will protect your skin from acne and other problems.
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How to Get Rid Of Sebaceous Filaments
There are so many ways to get rid of sebaceous filaments. You can use so many medicine for reduce them As well as, you can use so many creams and different products which are especially made for these filaments. Other than that, there are so many foods which can treat a sebaceous filament. If you don’t want to use any harmful medicine, you can use any well reputed product for your skin. There are various good quality face creams and soaps that can help you get rid of these sebaceous filaments for a long time.
1. Benzoyl Peroxide
As we know, sebaceous filament occurs due to excessive oil. When skin releases extra oil, it may lead to this problem. Therefore, if you use benzoyl peroxide to remove these filaments from your face, you will get excellent results. Basically this is a chemical. This chemical is extremely powerful against acne and other skin problem. Furthermore, there are so many skin products which use this chemical to enhance their effectiveness. So if you use it as a treatment of these filaments, you will never regret your decision. This chemical keeps the skin dry by preventing excessive oil intake. When your skin will be oil free, your face will be safe from sebaceous filaments and other acne problems. Furthermore, benzoyl peroxide is not just a cure for sebaceous filament but it can treat different skin diseases and problems. That’s why, it used in several well known beauty products.
This is a chemical which contains vitamin A. Because vitamin A can treat sebaceous filaments, so retinoids are very beneficial for it. This is a medicine that is capable to provide protection against different skin diseases and problems. This medicine removes dead skin cells and give a very fresh look. Other than that, it fills acne breakout very smoothly and provides a very soft and clear skin. There are many types of retinoids available in the market. The strength of every thing can be also different. So if you buy anything which made through it, check once properly. After buying that thing, use it according to its strength. Although, it is a medicine whose effects begin to show after many days. But once the positive effects begin to show, those effects will be very lasting. So you can use it permanently because it has no side effect.
3. Tea Tree Oil
Although, you can find so many different products which can treat sebaceous filaments. But it is not necessary that everything is perfect for skin. Because, out skin is very sensitive in so many ways. If you sue any harmful product on it, it can cause a serious harm. Also, almost every beauty product contain chemicals. But if you want to keep your skin fresh and healthy, you have to use some natural ways. For this purpose, you can use some essential oils. Essential oil can fulfill all needs of the skin of a human being. Furthermore, tea tree oil is extremely good and beneficial for acne and sebaceous filaments. This tea tree oil can makes your skin super soft and beautiful. It is capable to reduce excessive oil release and keeps your skin dry. So when your skin will be dry, the risk of sebaceous filament will also reduce.
4. Any Clarifying Face Mask
If you want to get rid of sebaceous filaments, you should try some clarifying face masks. These masks are made through some properties which can protect skin from dust and pollution. If you have open pores, you have more need to use these masks. These masks pull the dirt from your skin and make it very clear. To treat your skin with a clarifying mask, you don’t need to go any outside. You can use face mask at home. But be sure to buy a clarifying mask that is especially made for prevent sebaceous filament. In market, there are so many masks are made for this purpose. So be sure to check the ingredients properly before buying and then buy it for your face. If you buy a mask that is not capable of removing sebaceous filaments, no matter how many times you apply it, it will not work. | <urn:uuid:1d5bda84-d507-47db-8c8f-92b4dbc88398> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neevow.com/sebaceous-filaments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954692 | 2,216 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Small surf for Rincon, Puerto Rico.
If only that massive, gigantic, insanely big and powerful winter storm was ANYWHERE in the Atlantic other than its current location we would have been surfing perfect overhead waves for a week already and for another week to come. Unfortunately it’s shooting all swell at Europe and Canada is blocking anything from heading our way. Instead we have tiny, little, baby storms to get a little background pulse from and super strong trade winds from high pressure. This is a terrible pattern and I don’t know when it will end. Appreciate any swell we get however we get it because at the end of the day, we’re at the mercy of natural phenomenon until wave parks fill the planet. That being said, some possibilities for smaller surf still exist in the coming days. From tomorrow through the weekend we should see some waist high waves with chest high sets at the right switch of the tides. The winds will continue to howl relentlessly so expect afternoons to be chopfest. The swell won’t be strong enough to reach the protected spots so don’t count on afternoon sessions at tucked away beaches. The pattern isn’t looking to change next week, but it should. This is a long time to go without any real swell at this time of year. We’ll have to wait and see.
Using Automated Forecast Tools:
Remember that no matter what a computer model tells you, what you see on the beach might be completely different. That's why i go take pictures of the beach every day. These tools help give an idea of what to expect, but weather prediction is not always exact especially the further out you try to forecast. Surf forecasting takes into account the general correlation between past weather data and resulting surf conditions. Another thing to keep in mind is the difference between actual swell height and the face height of the rideable wave it creates. For example. When the waves are forecast to have a 6ft swell at 13 seconds or higher with a NW angle we normally get waves that most people would call double over-head on sets. Swell angle is also important, especially for shorter period swell (9-11 seconds). For example 3ft at 11 seconds from the NW will make a bigger wave than 4ft at 9 seconds from the NE. Normally longer period swell (13+ seconds) will be more powerful and keep the surf size a little better even if the angle isn't a direct hit to Rincon. Generally any swell less than 9 seconds is super weak here in Rincon unless it has a lot of west in it. Also, most NE swell under 12 seconds is weak and mushy. 2ft at 8 seconds is generally small to flat. ENE swell will almost never make it into Rincon unless it was something like 10ft at 18 seconds from the ENE. | <urn:uuid:9f2419ba-77bd-4b1b-932c-d2e8179c6139> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rinconsurfreport.com/surf-forecast/rincon-puerto-rico-surf-forecast-dec-27-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940695 | 600 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Review your food and activity records. Reduce your daily calories even further, as long as this doesn't bring you below 1,200 calories. Include more activity in your day. However, there are several strategies that can help you lose weight again.
Here are 14 tips to break a weight loss stagnation. Research has confirmed that low-carb diets are extremely effective for weight loss. In fact, a comprehensive review of 13 studies with follow-up lasting at least one year found that people who consumed 50 grams or less of carbohydrates a day lost more weight than people who followed traditional weight-loss diets (. Resistance training promotes muscle mass retention, which is an important factor influencing the amount of calories you burn during activity and at rest.
In fact, resistance training seems to be the most effective type of exercise for weight loss (10, 1.Other types of physical activity have also been shown to protect against metabolic slowdown, including aerobic exercise and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) (13, 14, 15, 1.If you're already working out, exercising 1 or 2 more days a week or increasing the intensity of your workouts can help increase your metabolic rate. Overall, researchers have reported that people tend to underestimate the amount of food they eat (17, 1). In one study, obese people reported that they consumed around 1,200 calories per day. However, a detailed analysis of their intake over a 14-day period showed that they were actually consuming almost twice that amount, on average (1).
In addition, research suggests that just recording your food intake may improve your weight-loss efforts (19, 20). In one study, healthy young women followed diets that provided 30% or 15% of calories from protein on two separate days. Your metabolic rate doubled after meals on the day with the highest protein content (2). It involves going long periods of time without eating, usually between 16 and 48 hours.
Although an alcoholic beverage (4 ounces of wine, 1.5 ounces of hard liquor, or 12 ounces of beer) contains only about 100 calories, it does not provide any nutritional value. In addition, many people have more than one drink in a session. Based on a study that looked at calorie absorption between diets with varying amounts of fiber, researchers estimated that increasing daily fiber intake from 18 to 36 grams could result in 130 fewer calories being absorbed from mixed meals (3). While sugary drinks lead to weight gain, some drinks can help reverse the weight loss position.
Studies have found that plain water can stimulate metabolism by 24 to 30% for 1.5 hours after drinking a 17-ounce (500 ml) serving (39, 40). In a 12-week study of older adults on a weight-loss diet, the group that consumed a serving of water before meals lost 44% more weight than the group without water (4). These drinks generally contain caffeine, which has been shown to increase fat burning and increase metabolic rate by up to 13%. However, these effects appear to be stronger in thin people (42, 43, 44, 4).
In addition, green tea contains an antioxidant known as EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), which was found to increase fat burning by 17% in one study (4). It's also becoming clear that not getting enough sleep can lead to weight gain, lower metabolic rate, and alter hormone levels to boost appetite and fat storage (50, 51, 52, 5). One study found that healthy adults who slept four hours a night for five nights in a row experienced an average decrease of 2.6% in resting metabolic rate, which returned to baseline levels after sleeping for 12 hours (5.This is a detailed, evidence-based review of the 12 most popular weight loss pills and supplements on the market today. Any way you can get extra movement, do it.
Try 500 to 1000 additional steps per day. Add an extra set to your training. Alcohol slows down our metabolism and is hard on the body. In addition, it's usually a lot of sugary and empty calories.
And sugary drinks, such as energy drinks and soft drinks, are also a waste of calories that cause weight gain. By definition, a plateau occurs when caloric expenditure equals intake over time. In other words, the calories you consume are equal to the calories you burn, and the deficit no longer exists, which negates the body's need to extract calories from its reserves. You may need to try more intense weight training for a while, or switch to circuits instead of superseries.
Take your daily sweat session to the next level with the help of these fun, challenging and stimulating fitness tips from some of the country's top weight loss experts. Thanks to the ketogenic diet, Atkins and South Beach, cutting carbs and lowering carbs has become synonymous with losing weight. While weight tends to drop quite quickly at first, at some point it seems like your weight won't move. That means it can add more weight to you, helping you gain and retain muscle, helping you burn more calories throughout the day and avoid fat.
Avadhanula points out that reaching a plateau in weight loss is perfectly normal, and an important part of healthy weight loss is managing expectations and preparing for a longer journey than you might think. Learn more about Health at Every Size (HAES) principles that seek to reduce the emphasis on weight loss as a health goal and reduce stigma toward people who are overweight or obese. Fortunately, there are several strategies you can take to start losing weight again and achieve your goal weight safely. Failure to adjust your diet and exercise accordingly can lead to the dreaded weight-loss plateau.
Weight loss has a profound impact on NEAT levels that often go unnoticed, and coaches often end up recommending clients to perform more cardio when a plateau occurs. Researchers say you can lose a few kilos by fasting every other day, but you can lose the same amount of weight with other diet methods. First, it's essential to implement best practices to slow down or help compensate for the body's attempt to adapt to a calorie deficit. It's also a good idea to measure yourself monthly to help stay motivated when your weight loss seems to have stagnated.
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What is cloud security?
Preparing your business for future success starts with switching from on-premises hardware to the cloud for your computing needs. The cloud gives you access to more applications, improves data accessibility, helps your team collaborate more effectively, and provides easier content management. Some people may have reservations about switching to the cloud due to security concerns, but a reliable cloud service provider (CSP) can put your mind at ease and keep your data safe with highly secure cloud services.
Find out more about what cloud security is, the main types of cloud environments you'll need security for, the importance of cloud security, and its primary benefits.
Definition of cloud security
Cloud security, also known as cloud computing security, is a collection of security measures designed to protect cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and data. These measures ensure user and device authentication, data and resource access control, and data privacy protection. They also support regulatory data compliance. Cloud security is employed in cloud environments to protect a company's data from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, malware, hackers, and unauthorized user access or use.
Types of cloud environments
When you're looking for cloud-based security, you'll find three main types of cloud environments to choose from. The top options on the market include public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds. Each of these environments has different security concerns and benefits, so it's important to know the difference between them:
1. Public clouds
Public cloud services are hosted by third-party cloud service providers. A company doesn't have to set up anything to use the cloud, since the provider handles it all. Usually, clients can access a provider's web services via web browsers. Security features, such as access control, identity management, and authentication, are crucial to public clouds.
2. Private clouds
Private clouds are typically more secure than public clouds, as they're usually dedicated to a single group or user and rely on that group or user's firewall. The isolated nature of these clouds helps them stay secure from outside attacks since they're only accessible by one organization. However, they still face security challenges from some threats, such as social engineering and breaches. These clouds can also be difficult to scale as your company's needs expand.
3. Hybrid clouds
Hybrid clouds combine the scalability of public clouds with the greater control over resources that private clouds offer. These clouds connect multiple environments, such as a private cloud and a public cloud, that can scale more easily based on demand. Successful hybrid clouds allow users to access all their environments in a single integrated content management platform.
Why is cloud security important?
Cloud security is critical since most organizations are already using cloud computing in one form or another. This high rate of adoption of public cloud services is reflected in Gartner’s recent prediction that the worldwide market for public cloud services will grow 23.1% in 2021.
IT professionals remain concerned about moving more data and applications to the cloud due to security, governance, and compliance issues when their content is stored in the cloud. They worry that highly sensitive business information and intellectual property may be exposed through accidental leaks or due to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
A crucial component of cloud security is focused on protecting data and business content, such as customer orders, secret design documents, and financial records. Preventing leaks and data theft is critical for maintaining your customers’ trust and protecting the assets that contribute to your competitive advantage. Cloud security's ability to guard your data and assets makes it crucial to any company switching to the cloud.
Cloud security benefits
Security in cloud computing is crucial to any company looking to keep its applications and data protected from bad actors. Maintaining a strong cloud security posture helps organizations achieve the now widely recognized benefits of cloud computing. Cloud security comes with its own advantages as well, helping you achieve lower upfront costs, reduced ongoing operational and administrative costs, easier scaling, increased reliability and availability, and improved DDoS protection.
Here are the top security benefits of cloud computing:
1. Lower upfront costs
One of the biggest advantages of using cloud computing is that you don't need to pay for dedicated hardware. Not having to invest in dedicated hardware helps you initially save a significant amount of moneyand can also help you upgrade your security. CSPs will handle your security needs proactively once you've hired them. This helps you save on costs and reduce the risks associated with having to hire an internal security team to safeguard dedicated hardware.
2. Reduced ongoing operational and administrative expenses
Cloud security can also lower your ongoing administrative and operational expenses. A CSP will handle all your security needs for you, removing the need to pay for staff to provide manual security updates and configurations. You can also enjoy greater security, as the CSP will have expert staff able to handle any of your security issues for you.
3. Increased reliability and availability
You need a secure way to immediately access your data. Cloud security ensures your data and applications are readily available to authorized users. You'll always have a reliable method to access your cloud applications and information, helping you quickly take action on any potential security issues.
4. Centralized security
Cloud computing gives you a centralized location for data and applications, with many endpoints and devices requiring security. Security for cloud computing centrally manages all your applications, devices, and data to ensure everything is protected. The centralized location allows cloud security companies to more easily perform tasks, such as implementing disaster recovery plans, streamlining network event monitoring, and enhancing web filtering.
5. Greater ease of scaling
Cloud computing allows you to scale with new demands, providing more applications and data storage whenever you need it. Cloud security easily scales with your cloud computing services. When your needs change, the centralized nature of cloud security allows you to easily integrate new applications and other features without sacrificing your data's safety. Cloud security can also scale during high traffic periods, providing more security when you upgrade your cloud solution and scaling down when traffic decreases.
6. Improved DDoS protection
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are some of the biggest threats to cloud computing. These attacks aim a lot of traffic at servers at once to cause harm. Cloud security protects your servers from these attacks by monitoring and dispersing them.
Is the cloud secure enough for my content?
Companies depend more on cloud storage and processing, but CIOs and CISOs may have reservations about storing their content with a third party. They're typically apprehensive that abandoning the perimeter security model might mean giving up their only way of controlling access. This fear turns out to be unfounded.
CSPs have matured in their security expertise and toolsets over the last decade. They ensure boundaries between tenants are protected as a standard part of their service. An example of these enhanced boundaries: CSPs ensuring a customer cannot view data from another customer. They also implement procedures and technology that prevent their own employees from viewing customer data. This prevention usually takes the form of both encryption and company policy designed to stop workers from looking at data.
CSPs are acutely aware of the impact a single incident may have on their customers' finances and brand reputation, and they go to great lengths to secure data and applications. These providers hire experts, invest in technology, and consult with customers to help them understand cloud security.
Customers have caught on to CSPs' improvements and warmed to the notion that their data is probably safer in the cloud than within the company’s perimeter. According to a study by Oracle and KPMG, 72% of participating organizations now view the cloud as much more, or somewhat more, secure than what they can deliver on-premises themselves. The cloud offers opportunities for centralized platforms, provides architectures that reduce the surface area of vulnerability, and allows for security controls to be embedded in a consistent manner over multiple layers.
Data breaches do still occur. However, most of the breaches result from either a misunderstanding about the role the customers play in protecting their own data or of customer misconfiguration of the security tools provided as part of the cloud service. This fact is evident in the most recent annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, which describes the causes of 5,250 confirmed data breaches and makes virtually no mention of cloud service provider failure. Most of the breaches detailed in the Verizon report resulted from the use of stolen credentials.
Industry analysts and cloud service providers have recently developed the shared responsibility security model (SRSM) to better avoid misunderstandings about the responsibilities between customers and providers regarding cloud security. This model helps clarify where responsibilities lie for security. The SRSM clarifies that CSPs are responsible for maintaining a client's operating environment application, while clients are responsible for what happens within the environment.
So, in summary, the answer is yes — the cloud can be secure for your content if you choose the right vendors to work with and configure your technology stack in a secure way.
6 things to look for when choosing a CSP
Finding the right CSP solution with rigorous security cloud services is essential to your data's protection and your company's overall safety. A good vendor will know the importance of security in cloud computing and have a few main features to lower risk. For example, a vendor with rigorous cloud-based security will have controls designed to prevent data leakage and support data encryption and strong authentication.
Below are six things to look for in a cloud solution and some questions to ask your CSP provider about security:
1. Controls designed to prevent data leakage
Look for providers that have built-in secure cloud computing controls that help prevent issues such as unauthorized access, accidental data leakage, and data theft. They should allow you to apply more precise security controls to your most sensitive and valuable data, such as through native security classifications.
Remember to ask: Are permission settings granular enough, reliable enough, and intuitive enough for internal users to share content with external partners?
2. Strong authentication
Make sure your CSP offers strong authentication measures to ensure proper access through strong password controls and multi-factor authentication (MFA). The CSP should also support MFA for both internal and external users and single sign-on, so users can just log in once and access the tools they need.
Remember to ask: Does the system integrate with your favorite identity and access management solution in a way that enables automated provisioning and de-provisioning of users?
3. Data encryption
Ensure it’s possible to have all data encrypted both at rest and in transit. Data is encrypted at rest using a symmetric key as it is written to storage. Data is encrypted in transit across wireless or wired networks by transporting over a secure channel using Transport Layer Security.
Remember to ask: Is it possible for customers to manage their own encryption keys without diminishing user experience?
4. Visibility and threat detection
CSPs with excellent security allow administrators to have one unified view of all user activity and all internally and externally shared content. A secure provider should also use machine learning to determine unwanted behavior, identify threats, and alert your teams.Security machine learning algorithms analyze usage to learn patterns of typical use, and then they look for cases that fall outside those norms. Data behavior analysis might, for example, notice that somebody from your sales team tried to download confidential product designs in a suspicious manner.
Remember to ask: Is activity logged continuously? Are alerts generated when suspicious activity is detected, and do they use mechanisms that minimize false positives?
5. Continuous compliance
Look for content lifecycle management capabilities, such as document retention and disposition, eDiscovery, and legal holds. Find out if the provider’s service is independently audited and certified to meet the toughest global standards. A provider that focuses on continuous compliance can protect your company from legal troubles and ensure you're using the most updated security practices.
Remember to ask: Do the services help you comply with regional or industry regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, FINRA, HIPAA, PCI, GxP, and FedRAMP? How does the platform enable customers to keep up with ever-changing regulations?
6. Integrated security
Finally, check to see if the provider’s tools easily integrate with your security stack through representational state transfer architectural style APIs. The provider’s tools should promote seamless internal and external collaboration and workflow. These tools should also integrate with all your applications so security controls can extend to whatever application the user may utilize to access your content, without impacting the user experience.
The system needs inline security controls, as well, to deliver frictionless, native protection from the ground up. This approach means there's less need for clunky, perimeter-based controls that were initially designed for on-premises storage.
Remember to ask: Are there APIs to ensure content protection in third-party apps? Do they include custom-built apps?
The importance of balancing security and user experience
One principle of security systems to keep in mind is that your security measures shouldn’t be so rigid that users have to find workarounds to do their jobs. Security controls that make a cloud computing solution difficult to use tend to cause users to figure out ways of working around the controls. These workarounds render the system unsecured, falling in line with experts' observations that users are often the weakest link in any security system.
It’s important to partner with vendors that design security with the enduser in mind to ensure users don't turn to workarounds. A good vendor will consider the human factor, using guardrails to ensure proper behavior rather than relying on handcuffs to block actions. Their goal, in the end, should be to ensure the desired level of security without slowing down the business.
Frictionless security is achieved when security is builtin and natively integrated with the service. A CSP that balances security and user experience will utilize cloud-native security controls that secure the flow of content instead of simply applying traditional, perimeter-based controls— which were designed for on-premises storage — to the cloud.
How Box helps with frictionless security and compliance
At Box, we ensure our Content Cloud includes all six of the key CSP qualities that we mentioned above. This focus on providing the best in secure cloud computing makes us a leader in our industry. Our platform's frictionless security, simplified governance, and full visibility and control deliver the best cloud-based experience possible and keep your data secure.
Don't just take our word for it. Sal Cucchiara, Chief Information Officer for Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley, states, "Box empowers our clients to collaborate with their financial advisers seamlessly while adhering to the highest standards of data privacy, protection, and security. Protecting our clients’ assets and personal information is our top concern, and this is our latest investment in safety and security at scale.”
Such a powerful endorsement from one of the largestand most security-consciousfirms comes as no surprise when you consider the frictionless security and compliance built into the Boxofferings.
Advantages of working with the Content Cloud
Box has powered a safer way to work from anywhere, with anyone, and from any application, for over a decade. Box provides a single platform for secure file access, sharing, and collaborationwith internal teams and with partners, vendors, and customers. You can reduce the surface area of risk while securing access with enterprise-grade security controls by centralizing your content in the Content Cloud.
Some of the top benefits of our secure cloud computing offerings include:
1. Improved security and protection
IT teams can secure access to content with granular permissions, SSO support for all major providers, native password controls, and two-factor authentication for internal and external users. Companies can rely on enterprise-grade infrastructure that’s scalable and resilient — data centers are FIPS 140-2 certified, and every file is encrypted using AES 256-bit encryption in diverse locations. Customers also have the option to manage their own encryption keys for complete control.
2. Simpler compliance and governance
Box provides simplified governance and compliance with in-region storage. Our platform also features easy-to-configure policies that retain, dispose of, and preserve content. These policies help you avoid fines and meet the most demanding global compliance and privacy requirements.
3. Greater threat detection and data leakage prevention
The Content Cloud offers native data leakage prevention and threat detection through Box Shield, enabling you to place precise controls closer to your sensitive data. These controls prevent leaks in real time by automatically classifying information, while maintaining a simple, frictionless experience for end users. Shield also empowers your security team with intelligent detection, providing rich alerts on suspicious behavior and malicious content so your team can act swiftly if needed. In the event malware does enter Box, we contain proliferation by restricting downloads while also allowing you to remain productive by working with the file in preview mode.
4. More secure content migration
Deciding to transfer your data and content to the cloud is a big decision, and you'll want the transition to be as safe as possible. Box Shuttle makes the move to the Content Cloud simple and secure. Migrating your data to the Content Cloud means you'll have all the benefits of our threat detection and security protections, and our team will ensure the data transfer process is as secure as possible.
5. Safer signature collection
Collecting and managing signatures is essential to many businesses. Box Sign features native integration to put all your e-signatures where your content lives, allowing users to have a seamless signing experience. These e-signature capabilities also come with a secure content layer to ensure critical business documents aren't compromised during the signing process. Box is the only cloud-based platform to provide users secure and compliant signatures while still offering the ability to define consistent governance and information security policy through the entire content journey. | <urn:uuid:bebdeac5-afef-481f-8fb1-53a0343a0e91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.box.com/en-ca/resources/what-is-cloud-security | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.938314 | 3,659 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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With more than 800 kilometres (497 miles) of beautiful recreational pathways, Canada’s capital is a cycling enthusiast’s dream destination. Biking within the city and in the nearby countryside allows you to easily access attractions, parks, historic sites, breweries and wineries. Here’s how you can explore Ottawa on two wheels.
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Paramater Passing Mechanisms
Actual parameter is evaluated. It's value is placed in a the locating of the corresponding former parameter of the called procedure.
Address of the actual parameter is passed to the value of the corresponding formal parameters. The expression is evaluated before the call, and its value is stored in a location of its own.
A string of terminals -> Figure out how to derive it from the start symbol of the grammar (reports errors) (most fundamental problem of compilers).
Parse Tree: shows how the start symbol of a grammar derives a string in the language.
Ambiguous grammar: a grammar is said to be ambiguous when there are more than one parse trees for generating a given string of terminals.
Top-down method for syntax analysis. Set of recursive procedures is used to process the input. Predictive parsing relies on the information about the first symbols that can be generated by a production body.
Tokens, Patterns and Lexemes
token name and an optional attribute value.
a description of the form that lexemes of a token may take.
sequence of characters in the source program that matches a pattern for the token and is identified by the lexical analyzer as an instance of that token.
Syntax Directed Translator (SYNTAX)
of a programming language describes the proper form of its programs.
defines what its programs mean.
naturally describes the hierarchical structure of most programming languages.
Associativity of Operators
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Exponentiation, "C" =
Done by attaching rules or program fragments to productions in grammars.
expr1 + term
Sum of two subexpressions
does not require tokenization.
produces tokes from the output of the scanner.
Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
- condensed form of parse trees
- represent the syntax of a program.
- collapse chains of productions into single steps
- separate parsing from semantic checking
- Can manipulate abstract syntax after concrete syntax has been checked
- Can use syntax tree as intermediate representation
-- a node represents program construct e.g. node for an operator
-- children represent components of the construct e.g. nodes for operands
1. A set of terminal symbols (tokens). Elementary symbols of the language defined in its own grammar.
2. A set of nonterminals (syntactic values).
3. A set of productions. Each production consists of: (a) a nonterminal which is the head of left side of the production, (b) an arrow, and (c) a sequence of terminals or non-terminals.
4. A designation of one of the nonterminals as the start symbol.
The top-down construction of a parse tree is done by starting at the door, labelled with the starting nonterminal statement, and repeatedly parsing.
At node N, labelled with a nonterminal A, select one of the productions for A and construct a children at N for the symbols in the production body.
Find the next node at which a subtree is to be constructed, typically the leftmost unexpanded nonterminal of the tree.
Reads characters from input and groups them into "token objects." Along with a terminal symbol that is used for parsing decisions.
Terminal + More Info.
General approach to reading ahead on the input.
Maintain an input buffer from which the lexical analyzer can read and push back characters.
Map from identifiers to meanings. Keep track of
- binding: associating a name with a location
- scope: where in the program a name has meaning
1. Lexical Analyzer: add entries to ST
2. Parser: add type info, discover scope
3. Semantic Analyzer: use type info to find semantic errors
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Few dreams are more worthy of your dedicated pursuit than building your own home where you can establish a comfortable life with your family. While it should be an exciting undertaking, constructing your first home can also be an overwhelming experience. It requires a lot of time and energy for you to make sure you’re ready before you take the plunge. Every aspect of the construction process should be well-thought-out to ensure a favorable outcome.
If you want to build your first home, below are a few things to consider from the get-go:
One of the essential considerations is the location where you want to construct your first home. After all, the location of your home can significantly impact your lifestyle and your property’s value. For example, if you’re building a house near your workplace or your kids’ school, you can avoid getting stuck in traffic jams. On the other hand, if you construct your home next to a highway, you may become irritated due to the loud noises.
For these reasons, it’s crucial to choose a location that’ll work best for you and your family’s needs. That way, you can save some time and effort in the planning and building process.
Another thing to consider when constructing your first home is the budget. When you build a dwelling from scratch, it’s crucial to sit down and tackle the potential costs involved in this project. You need to figure out whether you have enough resources to accommodate all the potential building expenses. You can do this by familiarizing yourself with the following building budget plans:
- Building budget: This usually covers expenses related to the construction of your first home. Depending on how much customization you want, you may need a considerable budget to fund the building costs. Luckily, some loans for home construction are available to help you obtain the budget you need for the construction process.
- Furnishing budget: This covers the costs related to the furnishes you want for your first home, such as the window coverings, sofas, decorations, and many more. You should also set a budget to ensure the furnishing complements your home design and style.
- Finishing budget: This covers expenses related to landscaping, driveway construction, fencing, and many more. You need to set this budget to make your newly-constructed home feels and looks fresh.
3. Government Regulations
It’s also essential to consider the government regulations associated with constructing residential buildings. Generally, every location comes with building codes that should be followed throughout the construction process. These regulations govern the minimum requirements your builders should satisfy to ensure the occupants’ health, welfare, and safety. Failure to follow the required building rules and regulations can result in some legal troubles.
Thus, if you want to avoid paying hefty fines, make sure to get the necessary government approval, abide by the building codes, and follow the right processes, including having enough insurance coverage. By doing so, you can streamline the construction process and enjoy your first home to the fullest.
4. Choice Of A Builder
Unless you’re an expert in home building, you need the services of a professional builder who can help you realize your dream home.
To pick the right one for your needs, it’s vital to base your decision on your prospect’s track record, reputation, financial stability, warranty offered, reviews, and pricing. Once you have the information you need, take time to evaluate your options to ensure you make the right hiring decision. Remember, choosing the best person to build your first home can help make the construction process run smoothly.
5. Building Materials
It’s also essential to choose and use the right building materials, especially if you want your first home to be well-constructed and sturdy. Doing so can help save you from disappointments, frustrations, and overspending while designing your own home. For example, if you’re looking to save some money and home building time, you can opt to use some prefabricated materials throughout the process.
Moreover, if you want an environmentally efficient home, you should pick materials that provide optimal energy efficiency. This way, you can save some time and money because you need less energy to cool and heat your home.
There are various factors you need to consider when building your first home. Without proper planning and preparation, you can get overwhelmed by the process, making it less organized and efficient.
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Paper No. 14
Presentation Time: 11:30 AM
DUAL-CONTINUUM MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN THE DRIFT SHADOW
The current concept for high-level radioactive waste disposal at Yucca Mountain is for waste to be placed in underground tunnels (or drifts) in the middle of a thick unsaturated zone. Flow modeling and field testing have shown that not all flow encountering a drift will seep into the drift. The underlying reason for the diversion of unsaturated flow around a drift is that capillary forces in the fractures and matrix prevent water entry into the drift unless the capillary pressure in the rock decreases sufficiently to allow for gravity forces to overcome the capillary barrier. As a result of the capillary barrier effect, flow tends to be diverted around the drift, affecting the flow pattern beneath the drift. For some distance beneath the drift, water saturation and flux are reduced. This drift shadow zone is much more pronounced in the fractures than in the matrix because of the dominance of gravity over capillary forces in the fractures. Moving downward, away from the drift, the shadow zone asymptotically re-equilibrates to the undisturbed flow conditions because of capillary forces. The behavior of radionuclide transport in this zone of reduced flow is investigated here because this will affect the amount of time required for radionuclides to penetrate the unsaturated zone. The delay of radionuclide movement in the geosphere is one aspect of the potential repository system that could limit public exposure to radioactive waste. The behavior of flow and transport are calculated using a two-dimensional, drift-scale dual-permeability model extending to nine drift diameters below the potential waste emplacement drift. The flow model is first compared with an analytical model for a single continuum. Then the dual-continuum flow model is investigated with respect to drift-scale and mountain-scale property sets. Transport calculations are performed for a wide range of flow conditions and for different aqueous radionuclides and colloids. Findings indicate that transport times for dissolved or colloidal material released from a drift without seepage are several orders of magnitude longer than if the releases occurred in the undisturbed flow field. | <urn:uuid:584ce61a-4699-45f8-876e-62de894c0c3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/webprogram/Paper43683.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.903423 | 461 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Glass plays a significant and also unique role in building design. Selecting the very best replacement window glass for you home may reduce your cooling and also heating costs. When it is moment to place brand new windows on your property, think about the following when selecting style and materials.
Low-E window glass
Low-E coating is the most popular kind of reflective coating. Some great great things about low-e are they decrease the U-Value raise the R-Value. Additionally, it helps reduce harmful UV sun. Windows produced with Low-E coatings commonly cost about 15% far more than standard windows.
Privacy window glass is a standard sight in commercial and also industrial structures across the United States. It’s obtainable in different designs and styles. vacuum sealed windows
A number of manufacturers provide the possibility of tinted window glass. This kind of glass can minimize the total amount of warm heat entering your and can also reduce the number of ultraviolet light that enters as well.
Safety glass is employed where there’s a threat of glass breakage and also risk to people who’re within the product range of glass particles.
There are actually several forms of safety glass available: laminated, wire-reinforced and also tempered. Laminated glass is a variety of several glass sheets with a number of inter layer of plastic material. Laminated glass supplies the solar control features of toned glass. Wire-reinforced glass clings to it is wire mesh if cracked. Tempered glass is usually heat-treated during creation and also crumbles as opposed to shattering if cracked. | <urn:uuid:49798ae6-45d8-46cc-a7ef-917ddbd18c7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://spaceoddity50.com/selecting-the-right-window-glass-on-your-property/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.954309 | 330 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Life is backward. Have you noticed that? Not like Benjamin Button backwards, but so many times we think we know everything there is so know and we discover that we really know nothing at all. We think anger will solve a problem when we really need to be kind. We think our knowledge will solve an issue when we really need to trust someone else. We think we have reason to mourn when really we have reason to rejoice.
Today’s verse is Romans 12:15
Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep.
The fact that Scripture has to tell us to do this is evidence of how screwed up the world is. You’d think this would be common sense, wouldn’t you? When someone is happy, be happy for them. When someone is sad, be sad with them. But so many times, this isn’t what we do.
I’ve seen people who are supposed to love each other fall apart because one of them succeeds and the other fails. I’ve watched friendships deteriorate over this. And I don’t understand. Because if we love each other, we should be happy for each other. We should rejoice when the people we love experience success or see their dreams come true.
But so many times, it doesn’t happen that way. When someone we love succeeds, we get jealous. We feel envious of our friends who we love because they have found something we haven’t yet. Or because they have achieved something we feel they don’t deserve, and we get angry because we feel like we do deserve it. And when friends can’t support each other, the friendship falls apart.
Why is that?
The whole chapter of Romans 12 is about how to live. And for me, the main verse is Romans 12:9.
Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them.
If you really love someone, it doesn’t matter what happens between you, you will always love them. If you love someone with the kind of love that God has for us, it won’t matter if your friend fails or succeeds, you can’t love them more or less.
For me, this is one of the big tests of love. Because it’s easy to love someone when they fail. Maybe that’s just me speaking. But that’s the way it works for me. When someone stumbles or falls and they need help, it’s easy for me to love them. But what happens when they succeed? What happens when they achieve everything you wanted for yourself and you get left behind?
Can I love someone even if they get everything I wanted? Can I love someone when I’m struggling to make it from day-to-day and they get to move on to bigger and better things?
Rejoicing for a friend who has achieved your dreams while you have to stand still is difficult … unless you love them. And then you are so deliriously happy for them that you hardly even realize that the world is telling you to pout.
So how do you get that kind of love?
You choose it.
Love isn’t some flowery ethereal concept floating around in the void. It’s not a feeling that just swells within you. It’s a choice. And choices aren’t easy to make, but once you make them, you have something to stand on.
Sometimes that kind of love doesn’t make sense, but that’s the kind of love we are supposed to have. Not pretend love. Not fair-weather love. Not convenient love. Real love, that loves in spite of failures or successes. | <urn:uuid:5301b8c5-bd74-464f-a593-1ea29612bd11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alwayspeachy.wordpress.com/tag/rejoicing-with-others/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.950026 | 784 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Rivers remained a useful means of transport after Europeans settled in the King Country, particularly in the early years when roads were rudimentary or non-existent. In this photograph the SS Mokau is leaving a sawmill on the banks of the Mōkau River around 1908. Small steamships like the Mokau dropped off supplies to the camps at sawmills and coal mines along the river, and picked up coal and timber for transport to larger centres.
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By now, you may have known what it is used for. If not, this HHO or Brown’s Gas generator is a mini-system that converts water into Brown’s Gas or H-H-O. This gas is meant to mix and burn together with gasoline in the internal combustion engine for better combustion. A better combustion will increase the gas mileage significantly, sometimes as high as 60% or more.
overhaul a care engine But sometimes things happen that can lead a car owner to need a transmission replacement. This is when your existing transmission is replaced with an entirely new one. Most likely, item351084636 the “new” one will be a remanufactured or rebuilt unit.
Many small businesses may not want to pay for Toronto internet marketing to completely overhaul their website but it may be necessary. If you are not sure whether it’s time to redesign your website, here are some things you should ask yourself before you take the big plunge.
The first thing that you need to work on when building your racing mower is the frame. Having a tough and rigid frame is important so that the mower can withstand rough racing conditions. Imagine rally car racing. That is how rough it gets on the track.
rebuild a car engine There will noticeably be a significant saving on money spent at the pumps by as much as 40%. Because the hydrogen gas burns cleaner than gasoline alone, there will be less carbon deposits on the engine, making for a cleaner environment, as there are less harmful exhaust emissions produced.
To ensure your web company does know what they are talking I would go to a freelance SEO expert and ask then what they think about the company, get them to look at the portfolio of sites they have built and take their advice. Really seeking an SEO expert first is a good idea as many people build a website and then look at the search engine side of it. Really that should be clarified first. What keywords you want your site to be found on etc. This should be in your mind before talking to a web company, but again only a web company that knows SEO and implements’ it properly in the build.
And now you too can build a car engine your own fuel savings device to create HHO gas in a couple of days and install it in your car and save a ton on fuel like thousands of others are doing. The device allows for more complete combustion and engine temps run cooler so your hydrogen generator will also increase the life of your engine.
First look for a reliable car shop in your community. Try to observe where most people take their vehicles when they do have car problems. Try to seek opinions from your friends and neighbors on what car shop they would recommend and ask what experiences they have had. By having testimonials from people, who have experienced a certain repair shop, you can conclude from that how reputable the repair shop is. | <urn:uuid:1ee45608-2b91-4ea6-a7b8-12e76694fba9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://localmediahouse.com/water-for-gas-can-you-actually-run-your-vehicle-on-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962222 | 591 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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National immunisation days in Bangladesh: an evaluation of the 1996 rounds
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1996-07)
On April 16 and May 16 .1996, Bangladesh implemented the third and fourth of the six National Immunization Days. On those days oral polio vaccine (OPV) was administered to over 20 million children under 5 years of age. ...
Social demand for immunization: results from the Bhairab study
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An Egyptian military tribunal on Wednesday postponed until 29 November the trial of an activist who allegedly used the social networking website Facebook to publish “classified defense information.”
Ahmed al-Bassiouny created a Facebook group to inform young Egyptian men required to complete military service of the mandatory documents and procedures involved in that process.
Al-Bassiouny is not the only activist to face military trial this year over internet activism.
Ahmed Mostafa, a young blogger, was brought to trial in March before his trial was called off under pressure from rights organizations.
Analysts say the crackdown on bloggers and internet activists is part of the regime's attempts to suppress opposition to Mubarak's regime after the opposition took to the internet to organize protests and other forms of political action.
Egypt’s parliamentary elections are scheduled for Sunday and the ruling National Democratic Party is seeking a majority in parliament to pave the way for the presidential election slated for 2011, in which President Hosni Mubarak is expected to vie for a sixth term. | <urn:uuid:e7bc7164-5a00-4817-8ddf-b8894ea44c2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cloudflare.egyptindependent.com/military-tribunal-postponed-internet-activist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.96103 | 210 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Everything is getting more expensive – but for some people there is at least more money in July: for pensioners, parents, low earners and Hartz IV recipients. There are also important changes to the citizen tests and new rules for the return of old electronic devices.
July also has some changes in store for citizens. Those who work for the minimum wage get more money, and pensioners also get a decent plus. Corona citizen tests normally have to be paid for from July. An overview:
There will be a significant pension increase on July 1st. Retirement benefits will increase by 5.35 percent in western Germany and by 6.12 percent in eastern Germany.
Those who work for the minimum wage will get more money from July. The statutory lower wage limit increases from EUR 9.82 to EUR 10.45 per hour. This corresponds to the decision of the Minimum Wage Commission, which regularly adjusts the amount. At the request of politicians, an unscheduled one-time jump to twelve euros per hour will follow on October 1st. The Bundestag has already decided that.
Hartz IV supplement
For adult Hartz IV recipients there is a one-off payment of 200 euros in July. For recipients of unemployment benefit I, the surcharge is 100 euros.
Because of the increased energy prices, the child benefit is increased once. The child bonus of 100 euros is granted independently of social security benefits. The immediate surcharge of 20 euros per month is aimed specifically at children in low-income families. It should be given to children, adolescents and young adults who are entitled to basic security, payments under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act or additional support for living expenses under the Federal Supply Act – or for whom child supplements are paid.
According to the Federal Building Ministry, the heating cost subsidy for low earners is paid out in July in some federal states. One-person households receiving housing benefit receive a one-time payment of EUR 270, a two-person household EUR 350 and each additional family member EUR 70. Students and trainees who receive state aid such as Bafög also receive the heating subsidy.
EEG surcharge does not apply
From July there will also be no surcharge for the promotion of green electricity. It was last at 3.72 cents per kilowatt hour.
The citizen tests, which have so far been free for everyone, are only available to a limited extent – for example for children up to five years of age, pregnant women in the first three months, visitors to hospitals and nursing homes, members of the household of infected people and residents of integration assistance facilities. All those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons can continue to be tested free of charge.
If you want to be tested, for example because you are attending a major event, a family celebration or if there are warnings on the Corona app, you have to pay a share of three euros yourself.
From July it will be easier to terminate contracts on the Internet – the so-called termination button is coming. This is stipulated by the law on fair consumer contracts. If a company offers to conclude a contract online via a website, it must also be possible to cancel via the website. The button applies, for example, to subscriptions to magazines or streaming services as well as to gym or mobile phone contracts. If a button is missing, although a company is obliged to do so, termination without notice is possible.
Taking back old electronic devices
From July, supermarkets and drugstores will have to take back used electrical appliances. Smaller items such as kettles, cell phones and flashlights can be returned regardless of whether a product has been purchased new. In the case of larger devices such as vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, the old devices can be given in exchange for a new purchase. A prerequisite for the shops to accept electronic waste is a certain sales area and that they themselves regularly offer electronic devices. | <urn:uuid:6674c567-9b0c-4b76-8b10-a7e7bcc1f946> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blogbookworld.com/minimum-wage-citizen-tests-electrical-appliances-that-will-change-for-consumers-in-july | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959217 | 821 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Most teachers in the poll think the role of a state chief or district superintendent is consumed with politics and mired in bureaucracy, with little opportunity to make a difference for kids. In fact, less than half of teachers surveyed said they believe a state or district chief can have a meaningful impact on children’s lives.
Teacher to Chief:
America needs more talented, student-focused leaders overseeing our state and district education systems. With more than 3 million teachers in the United States, it would seem there is a natural pool of excellent educators who could develop into impactful systems leaders. Yet a Change Research poll commissioned by Chiefs for Change shows the overwhelming majority of teachers are not interested in the top job.
Chiefs for Change is a bipartisan network of state and district education leaders from across the nation. In this multimedia report, we present the poll results and share the stories of a number of bold, innovative chiefs as they outline their career journeys, detail the meaningful rewards of their role, and describe how it allows them to make a difference in children’s lives. The report also provides recommendations for how to encourage teachers to consider the highest level of education leadership and explains how systems can create meaningful pathways to help teachers get there.
Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools
Lewis Ferebee says there is nothing like being a classroom teacher day in and day out that prepares a person to lead a school system. Ferebee tells teachers not to be afraid of the politics because the core work is always focused on teaching and learning.
HOW CHIEFS MAKE AN IMPACT
Our members, 91 percent of whom began their careers in the classroom, believe teaching is one of the most important professions. They deeply honor teachers—but have found that serving as a chief is an opportunity to make a profound impact in a different way, at a different scale:
- Chiefs set the vision for the system, engaging with teachers; principals; other staff; parents; students; elected officials; and the community to identify shared priorities and establish a plan for success.
- Chiefs shape the conditions and policies that help educators succeed, raise expectations for all students, and promote well-rounded and enriching learning opportunities across classrooms and schools.
- Chiefs work to combat systemic inequities by removing barriers and directing high-quality supports to students and classrooms throughout their systems.
- Chiefs serve as community leaders, galvanizing broad support and marshaling resources to help students excel.
- Chiefs create a culture of transparency and respect, ensuring educators and families have opportunities to share their perspectives, understand how decisions are made, and receive regular and timely communications from school and system leaders.
- Chiefs serve as role models—and students need more leaders who look like them. Only 6 percent of district leaders and 12 percent of state leaders are people of color. At the district level, 30 percent of those who lead large local systems are women, and just 11 percent are women of color. At the state level, women hold 45 percent of chief roles, and only 8 percent are women of color.
Susana Cordova—Superintendent, Denver Public Schools
Susana Cordova attended Denver Public Schools and has spent her entire career in the district. She remembers how meaningful it was as a teacher to have input on decisions for her school. Now, as superintendent, Susana has a team of teachers advising her on district-level decisions.
Carey Wright—State Superintendent of Education, Mississippi
Every day, Carey Wright is focused on supporting teachers across Mississippi. She says, “We involve teachers in everything that we do” and explains how a state chief helps to shape education policy.
Superintendent, The School District of Palm Beach County
Donald Fennoy says opportunities present themselves to amazing teachers. When it comes to taking on leadership roles, he has heard teachers say, “I can’t do that.” His response: “You can!”
WHAT WE HEARD FROM TEACHERS ABOUT THEIR CAREER INTERESTS
Our poll indicated that teachers think about leadership roles. Systems should, therefore, ensure teachers are familiar with all of the advancement opportunities available to them and the possible career trajectories. This is especially important since some survey respondents said that if they had a better understanding of how a superintendent can help craft policy and improve operations, they would consider the position.
Despite the absence of mentorship and clear pathways—and skepticism about becoming a chief—teachers in our poll are interested in other school-based leadership opportunities.
- Thought about becoming a grade or department-level leader63%
- interested in earning an administrative credential26%
- interested in becoming a principal14%
CEO, Baltimore City Public Schools
Sonja Santelises brought her love of teaching to her post as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools. She is driven by an unyielding desire to ensure that the system is organized around the instructional core and says chiefs have a responsibility to identify outstanding teachers with leadership potential.
A NEW APPROACH
Districts and state education departments should introduce teachers with the potential to become chiefs to the role and establish coherent pathways to leadership with associated compensation structures. Systems should clearly articulate what those pathways and structures are so that teachers understand the possibilities available to them. Pathways may include opportunities for teachers to serve as:
- Mentors, where they train novice teachers on instruction, curriculum, assessment, and classroom management practices.
- Facilitators, where they support teacher collaboration on effective implementation of curricula.
- Department or grade-level chairs, where they oversee budgets, resources, and collaborative processes.
- Members of school or district committees, where they share their perspectives and influence policy.
Excellent teachers with demonstrated leadership skills should be incentivized to obtain necessary certifications and be promoted to principals, central office administrators, and, eventually, superintendents. As individuals advance, they should receive coaching on how to navigate complex issues related to school governance and finance; staffing; communications; working with diverse stakeholders to implement a vision; state and federal laws and regulations; community engagement; strategic planning; and education policy, data, and research. The summer is the ideal time to give teachers exposure to the chief role through job shadowing opportunities at a district’s central office or a state department of education. All pathways should be designed to encourage emerging leaders to reflect on how their expanded roles allow them to make a difference on a broad scale.
Systems and local partners should collaborate to create targeted networking, mentorship, and sponsorship opportunities for teachers of color—and, especially, women teachers of color—who are interested in education leadership roles. As a first step toward building a diverse talent pipeline, systems should create programs for teachers of color to connect with mentors. Systems should also provide forums for teachers to hear from current chiefs and other education leaders from diverse backgrounds about their roles and personal career journeys. Then, as emerging leaders move beyond early-stage development pathways and take on higher levels of responsibility, systems should provide opportunities for teachers of color to work with “sponsors” who champion them and provide intensive support as they pursue significant professional milestones and make important career decisions. People of color, particularly those from low-income backgrounds, often have less exposure to professional networks needed to advance. By creating programs that allow teachers of color to more easily build both the skills and relationships that can help them ascend to the chief role, school systems can diversify education leadership and ensure decisions that impact children and families reflect a variety of perspectives.
Chiefs should establish succession plans to sustain their work over the long term. One way to do this is through “coaching trees,” in which chiefs develop future leaders from their own cabinets who share their vision for educational excellence and equity. This enables promising approaches to take hold and be continuously refined. Effective leaders understand the importance of a deeply invested team and find ways to support those around them, so that talented individuals have opportunities to move up and the system can evolve to produce ever-stronger outcomes for kids.
Currently, there are few organized programs to cultivate “homegrown” educators into systems leaders. While more of these efforts are needed at the local level, we as a network are working at the national level to create initiatives that support early-career teachers who show great potential to become chiefs. This is an extension of our Future Chiefs program and will involve partnerships with teacher organizations and others. Our goal is to spark teachers’ interest in the chief role, introduce them to clear career pathways, and eventually offer placements within our members' systems.
The poll was fielded January 4–20, 2020, by Change Research, which emailed a set of prior survey respondents who identified themselves as current or former teachers, inviting them to participate in the survey. These data include all respondents who identify as a current teacher who completed the survey. While the survey is not a perfectly representative national sample of classroom teachers, the data provide insight and perspective from a broad cross section of teachers across the United States regarding their views on pathways to educational leadership roles. | <urn:uuid:f37ec1a2-8aa6-4c44-9cbf-a835dce3af05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teachertochief.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959334 | 1,874 | 3.21875 | 3 |
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Recall and awareness of gambling advertising and sponsorship in sport in the UK: a study of young people and adults
Harm Reduction Journal volume 16, Article number: 24 (2019)
The impact of gambling advertisements shown during sporting events on young people is an important public health issue. While extensive research has taken place in Australia, there is still only a limited understanding of this issue in the United Kingdom (UK).
A mixed methods study was conducted with 71 family groups comprised of 99 young people (8–16 years) and 71 adults recruited at six sites across South London, England (May–July 2018). Interviewer-assisted surveys investigated recall and awareness of sports betting brands using interviews and a magnet placement board activity developed in Australia. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, with qualitative data interpreted using thematic analysis techniques.
Just under half of young people (n = 46, 46%) and more than two thirds of adults (n = 49, 71%) were able, unprompted, to name at least one gambling brand. Boys had a significantly higher recall of brands than girls, as did young people who watched a lot of football on television. Almost two thirds of young people (n = 63, 63%) correctly placed one or more shirt sponsor magnets next to the corresponding football team, and 30% (n = 30) correctly placed three or more sponsors magnets next to the corresponding football team. Just under two thirds of adults (n = 44, 62%) correctly placed one or more shirt sponsors magnets next to the corresponding football team. Young people recalled seeing gambling advertising on television (n = 78), technology/screens (n = 49), and in association with sports teams (n = 43). Adults recalled seeing advertising on television (n = 56), on technology/screens (n = 37), in sports stadiums (n = 34), and in betting venues (n = 34). Over three quarters of young people (n = 74 out of 95 responses, 78%) and 86% of adults (n = 59 out of 69 responses) thought that betting had become a normal part of sport.
In order to reduce the exposure of young people to gambling advertising, policymakers in the UK should consider comprehensive approaches, similar to those applied in tobacco control, which cover all forms of advertising, including promotion and sponsorship.
Gambling advertising in the UK
The impact of gambling advertisements shown during sporting events is increasingly recognised by the international research community as an important public health issue for young people [1,2,3]. Much of the research investigating the impact of gambling advertising on young people has been conducted in Canada and Australia, while there is still only a limited understanding of this issue in the United Kingdom (UK).
Gambling advertising in the UK has increased rapidly since the Gambling Act 2005 came into force in 2007. The number of ‘spots’ advertising gambling on television increased from 152,000 in 2006 to 1.39 million in 2012 . The amount gambling companies spend on advertising has also increased. In 2015, gambling companies spent £118.5m on television advertising, an increase of 46% since 2012 . In 2018, bookmaker Paddy Power estimated that advertising spend in the sports betting market was rising at a rate of 19% per annum .
Oversight of gambling advertising in the UK is the responsibility of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DDCMS), Ofcom, and the UK Gambling Commission. Gambling operators must also comply with advertising codes of practice (BCAP—The UK Code of Broadcast Advertising, and CAP—the UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising and Direct & Promotional Marketing) which are administered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Operators have also created the Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising (, pg. 25). The ASA codes focus on content restrictions: in particular, that gambling advertisements must not ‘be likely to be of particular appeal to children or young persons, especially by reflecting or being associated with youth culture’ .
While most gambling advertising (with the exception of bingo) is prohibited before the 9 pm watershed in the UK, sports betting may be promoted at any time of the day during live sport . Furthermore, and in common with other jurisdictions such as Australia, advertising restrictions do not apply to sponsorship promotions, such as shirt logos and signage . A recent study of televised football matches on Sky Sports and the BBC found that a majority of advertisements (29 out of 30 gambling brands and 57 unique brands overall) were for online gambling, with the majority of these advertisements appearing on dynamic billboards on the sides of football pitches .
With increasing public concern about the impact of gambling advertising on young people, there have been some shifts in sponsorship relationships between sporting codes and gambling companies. The Football Association (the governing body of association football in England) ended its sponsorship deal with Ladbrokes in 2017, and the English Premier League (EPL) has not sought sponsorship since the 2016–17 season. However, in the 2018–19 season, nine out of the 20 EPL teams and 17 out of 24 Championship sides had gambling firms as shirt sponsors .
The impact of gambling advertising, promotions, and sponsorship on young people
Research has demonstrated that sponsorship promotions have a powerful impact on young people’s awareness, attitudes, and consumption intentions towards unhealthy commodity products such as tobacco, alcohol, and gambling [2, 3, 13,14,15,16,17]. Recent studies in New Zealand and Australia have explored the prevalence of gambling sponsors in sport , young people’s recall of gambling brands [3, 19], the influence and impact of gambling advertisements on young people’s gambling attitudes and decision making , and young people’s recall of gambling advertising at different times of day and on different media channels . These studies have demonstrated that young people, and particularly those who are fans of sport, have a high recall of gambling brand names, see gambling advertising on multiple media channels (including on social media), may have a reduced perception of the risks associated with gambling because of the messages within advertising campaigns, and perceive that gambling is a normal or common part of sport [2, 19, 21]. The studies also suggest that young people and adults want increased action on advertising to protect young people from exposure to advertising for these products [21, 22].
Studies have also investigated young people’s recall of gambling sponsorship, relative to their awareness of junk food and alcohol sponsors. In an Australian study of 85 young people aged 5–12 years, three quarters were able to identify at least one correct shirt sponsor associated with food, alcohol, or gambling companies . In Australia, there have been initiatives to remove gambling sponsorship from professional sport, with Victorian teams in the Australian Football League among those who have signed a charter with the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation which commits them to reject sponsorship from gambling companies . While concerns about the potential impact of gambling advertising on young people have been raised by the media in the UK [5, 25], less research has taken place in this jurisdiction.
The following study aimed to contribute to the international literature on the impact of gambling advertising, by exploring how young people and adults recall gambling brands that are advertised and promoted within sport in the UK. The research was guided by five research questions:
To what extent do young people and adults recall sports betting brands?
Are young people and adults able to implicitly recall sponsorship relationships between gambling brands and teams playing in the EPL?
To what extent do young people and adults perceive gambling as a normal part of sport?
Where, if anywhere, do young people and adults see gambling advertising?
What changes, if any, do young people and adults want to see to the current regulation of gambling advertising?
Adapting the methods created in Australia [3, 17, 23], this study used a mixed methods approach to explore young people’s and adult’s recall of sports betting brands, their implicit recall of sponsorship relationships between gambling brands and teams playing in the EPL, where young people and adults see gambling advertising, the extent to which young people and adults perceive gambling as a normal part of sport, and what changes, if any, young people and adults want to see to the current regulation of gambling advertising.
In order to assess the implicit associations of adults and young people between professional sporting teams and their sponsors, the study drew upon the research of Pettigrew et al. , Bestman et al. , and Thomas et al. , which used projective techniques. The other questions were answered using more traditional survey questions. Higher risk ethical approval was received from the Goldsmiths University Human Research Ethics Committee (Goldsmiths 1365), given that young people were involved and sports betting is illegal for children under 18 in the UK.
Sampling and recruitment
The study recruited a convenience sample of family groups comprised of at least one 8- to 16-year-old and at least one parent or carer. This age range has been used in similar studies and represents the time at which young people become aware of gambling marketing and are able to understand the persuasive intent of marketing . Young people were recruited between May and July 2018 at six sites across South London. This time period was chosen in order to coincide with events which take place outdoors and attract young people and accompanying adults from a range of backgrounds, including those with varying levels of engagement and interest in football. Events included a young people’s football tournament run by a junior football club, three community festivals, a family car boot sale, and a primary school family camping event. While in Australian studies, major sporting events have been used as primary research locations for data collection, we were unable to replicate this as all of the London-based EPL, Championship, and League One teams who we approached either declined or did not respond to our requests for access to stadiums to conduct the study.
Up to 15 undergraduate and postgraduate researchers (trained and supported by GW and ND) attended each event. A senior colleague (ND, GW, RC, or MW) was also present at all times to manage any problems and answer questions. A stand consisting of three sets of two whiteboards was set up underneath a sunshade at each event, with a blackboard displaying information about the study to alert passers-by to our presence and purpose. Adults with children were also approached and provided with written and verbal information about the study and invited to take part. Once they approached the stand, adults and young people were invited to ask questions prior to participation. Written consent was completed by all adults including on behalf of the young person for whom they were responsible. We added an additional verbal consent with young people to ensure that they were informed about the study and agreed to participate. When interviewing, researchers made it clear to both adults and young people that consent could be withdrawn at any time, for any reason. We faced some difficulties recruiting 15- and 16-year-olds in particular, as they tended to attend the events without adults, which made it impossible to secure parental consent thus rendering them ineligible for the study.
Young people received a £5 Amazon voucher, a small bag of sweets, and a packet of football stickers as a token of appreciation for participation. We chose to give stickers from the Panini World Cup 2018 series which has no gambling sponsors so that we could ensure that they did not include gambling logos.
Prior to data collection, all researchers undertook 2-h training sessions (including piloting the questionnaires). This training was supplemented by a briefing at the beginning of each data collection site to ensure that all researchers were absolutely clear about their roles. Responses were checked by ND and GW for quality and consistency during lulls in activity and after each data collection period.
After consenting to the study, young people and adults were asked questions about their socio-demographic characteristics, including their age, gender, and ethnicity. Adults were also asked to provide their postcode so that we could assess the diversity of the sample using IMD criteria. The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) was used as a proxy measure for socio-economic background calculated from postcode data supplied by the participating adult. IMD is an area level measure that synthesises data based on income, employment, health deprivation and disability, education, housing, and crime into relative deprivation levels that range from 1, representing the most deprived 10% of England, to 10, representing the least deprived 10%.
Adults were also asked about their recent participation in gambling as an indicator of gambling behaviour (ethical guidelines prevented this question from being asked to those under 16 years old). To get an indication of young people’s perception of their own proximity and exposure to gambling activity we asked ‘how many adults that you know, gamble on sport?’ All participants were then asked how many gambling brands they could name. Young people and adults were then separated to participate in the implicit recall activity.
There are 20 clubs in the EPL. During the 2017–18 season, nine teams’ shirts were sponsored by gambling brands. Four gambling and four non-gambling shirt sponsored teams were chosen for the magnet board activity. This meant that when picking the non-gambling control brands (10 in total), we had to choose some additional team sponsors from the Championship. To balance our selection, we decided on one gambling and one non-gambling shirt sponsored team relegated from the Premier League in 2016 (Aston Villa and Norwich City), and two further non-gambling sponsored teams Wigan Athletic and Bristol, and a similar-sized gambling sponsored team, Leeds.
Each participant was presented with a whiteboard which showed eight EPL team logos (2017–18 season). These were placed in a random, vertical order from top to bottom. Four of the teams had gambling-sponsored team shirts (Crystal Palace, Everton, Stoke City, West Ham), and four had non-gambling shirt sponsors (Arsenal, Chelsea, Leicester City, Manchester United).
Randomly ordered brand logos were placed at the bottom of the board. These 23 logos included the eight matching team shirt sponsors (ManBetX, SportPesa, BetWay, Bet365, Emirates, Yokohama Tyres, King Power, and Chevrolet respectively) along with 15 other gambling (Fun88, Unibet, 32 Red, OPE, Ladbrokes) and non-gambling brands (AIA, Inter Sport, American Express, Standard Chartered, Lancer Scott, Etihad, Palm, FXPro, Aviva, and Virgin Media) that sponsored other EPL and Championship teams.
A key difficulty when choosing the logos for the magnet board activity was the prevalence of secondary sponsorships—in particular the use of ‘betting partners’, stadium partners, shirt sleeves (new to 2017 season), and companies buying banners in grounds. Although Ladbrokes are not shirt sponsors, for example, they are official betting partners to numerous EPL clubs and listed by clubs as sponsors. As a result, Ladbrokes logos appear at many grounds and official events (for example, the backgrounds used at press conferences). We chose to include the Ladbrokes logo in order to investigate how this type of sponsor relationship was interpreted, if at all.
A ‘projective technique’ was used whereby participants were not asked directly to match teams and sponsors but simply asked to place as many or as few brand magnets as they wished anywhere on the whiteboard (, pg. 2). Each participant was asked why they had positioned the magnets as they had, and this information was recorded. Participants were then given four magnetic gold stars and invited to indicate their most preferred teams and their most preferred brands by placing a star next to each one. Each board was given a unique identifier, and the boards were photographed for later analysis.
Following the magnet board activity, each participant was asked a combination of discrete and open-ended questions including:
Now that you have completed the magnet activity, do you remember seeing any advertisements or brand logos for betting during sports matches?
What do you think about the advertising of betting during sports matches?
Do you think betting has become a normal part of sport?
Would you like to see any changes to the way betting is advertised during sporting events?
These questions were asked after the magnet board activity in order to reduce any impact that they might have otherwise had on that exercise. Participants were then asked where they had seen advertisements for betting companies, first unprompted, and then with the aid of a picture board which showed 12 different options including a television screen, computer screen, betting shop window, and billboard.
Approach to analysis
Gridlines were drawn onto the whiteboards prior to data collection, to help researchers objectively assess the distance between the placed magnets and team logos. In order to produce comparable data, the layout, spacing, and analysis of proximity in relation to boxes followed the specifications from the Australian study . All data were checked and cleaned before being coded. The main adjustments were small changes to the wording of qualitative data.
Quantitative data was analysed using IBM Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) 22.0. Chi-square tests of association were used to determine whether different groups of young people (based on age or gender) differed significantly, or not, in terms of their abilities to implicitly recall relationships and in their answers to survey questions. In order to assess the relationship between watching sport on television and exposure to gambling advertising, recall of gambling brands, and attitudes towards gambling during sporting broadcasts, young people and adults were asked how often they watched various sports on television, choosing from options which ranged from ‘never’ to ‘all of the time/as often as I can’. On the basis of this data, a category of football fan who watched football on television ‘all of the time/as often as I can’ was identified and referred to as ‘Super Fan’.
Qualitative responses were transferred to data management software NVivo and thematically analysed. Data interpretation was led by ND, with all coding checked by a second researcher after several re-readings. Regular meetings took place between all authors in order to discuss emergent themes. In this paper, qualitative responses are used primarily to complement quantitative data.
A total of 99 young people and 71 adults took part in the study. Most of the young people (n = 71, 72%) were aged between 8 and 11 years (mean = 10.42, sd = 2.218), with most adults (n = 28) aged 36–45 (mean = 43.93, sd = 9.625). Two thirds of the young people who took part were boys (n = 66, 67%), and two thirds of the adults who participated were women (n = 47, 66%). The majority of the adults (n = 63, 89%) were parents of the participating young people, the others being grandparents or other carers.
According to their postcodes, about a third of young people (n = 31, 31%) and adults (n = 23, 32%) were from the top 20% of most deprived areas according to the IMD. Under half of young people (n = 44, 44%) and 39% of adults (n = 28) identified as black or minority ethnic (BME).
The majority of young people regularly played football (n = 79, 80%), with just over half (n = 55, 55%) playing multiple times in a week, or as part of a team. A majority of adults (n = 44, 62%) and three quarters of young people (n = 74, 75%) stated that they watched football more than any other sport, with over a quarter of adults (n = 20, 28%) and one third of young people (n = 33, 33%) saying that they watched football ‘all of the time/as often as I can’. The majority of young people (n = 82, 83%) and two thirds of adults (n = 47, 66%) said that they supported a football team.
Seven adults (10%) said that they had bet money on sports within the last week. Almost three quarters of adults (n = 52, 73%) and over half of young people (n = 54, 55%) stated that they knew adults who gambled on sports (Table 1).
Sports betting brand recall
Table 2 presents data on betting brand recall. Just under half of young people (n = 46, 46%) and more than two thirds of adults (n = 49, 71%) were able, unprompted, to name at least one gambling brand. Fourteen young people (n = 14, 14%) and a third of adults (n = 25, 33%) were able to name three or more gambling brands unprompted (child range 0 to 5, mean 0.96; adult range 0-6, mean 1.92).
Boys had a significantly higher recall of gambling brands compared to girls (p 0.02). Young people who were categorised as ‘Super Fans’ were also significantly more likely to be able to name one or more brands compared to other young people (p = 0.01). The brand most commonly recalled by young people was Bet365 (n = 30), followed by Betway (n = 18). The top brands named by adults were Ladbrokes (n = 25) and William Hill (n = 24).
Implicit recall of sponsorship
Almost two thirds of young people (n = 63, 63%) correctly placed one or more shirt sponsor magnets next to the corresponding football team. Just under a third (n = 30, 30%) correctly placed three or more shirt sponsors magnets next to the corresponding football team. Young people categorised as ‘Super Fans’ were significantly more likely to place a sponsor next to the correct team compared to other young people. More than half of ‘Super Fans’ (n = 17, 52%) were able to correctly place three or more shirt sponsor magnets next to the corresponding football team (Table 3). Boys correctly placed an average of 2.11 shirt magnets next to the corresponding football teams while girls averaged 0.73 matches. Just under two thirds of adults (n = 44, 62%) correctly placed one or more shirt sponsor magnets next to the corresponding football team. Women correctly placed fewer pairs on average (0.89) than men (3.17).
Both young people and adults most frequently placed the correct sponsors next to the three teams at the top of the EPL: Arsenal (adults n = 39, young people n = 49), Manchester United (adults n = 23, young people n = 42), and Chelsea (adults n = 18, young people n = 31). One in five young people (n = 20, 20%) correctly placed one or more gambling logos next to the corresponding team (range 0–4, mean 0.32). Among adults, this was 28% (n = 20, range 0–3, mean 0.37).
Rationale for magnet placement
Participants were asked to explain how they chose to place their magnets, and their responses were coded into eight themes. The top two themes for young people were that they identified the brand specifically as shirt sponsor (n = 27, 27%) or that they identified the brand as a team sponsor (n = 24, 24%). Shirt and team sponsorship were also the most common explanations for magnet placement given by Super Fans (n = 12, 36% for each of these two themes). Young people thought explicitly about the association between brands and teams during the task, as one 8-year-old boy explained:
I watch football a lot and I see what the sponsor on the shirt is and I kind of remembered it and I think of it and put it next to the team.
One fifth (n = 20, 20%) of young people used ‘random’ positioning. This rationale was given far more often by the younger age group and by girls than it was by the older age groups, boys, and ‘Super Fans’. Adults most frequently placed brand magnets by identifying them as team sponsors (37%, n = 26) or shirt sponsors (n = 11, 15%). Random positioning was used by one fifth of adults (n = 14, 20%), the same proportion as young people (Table 4).
Most preferred (starred) brands
A quarter of young people (n = 25, 25%) placed a star next to a gambling brand. The gambling brands most starred by young people were Bet365 (n = 10) and Betway (n = 10). Reasons given by young people for their choice of brand to star included the familiarity of the brand. For example, a 15-year-old girl ‘recognised’ Bet365 and chose to star it. A 13-year-old boy also chose Bet365 saying that it was the ‘most common one he had heard of’.
Among adults, 20% starred a gambling brand (n = 14). The most starred gambling brands were Bet365 (n = 5) and Ladbrokes (n = 5). Reasons given by adults for the choice of brand to star included ‘I starred Ladbrokes because I thought it was Everton’s sponsor’ (33-year-old female Everton fan), ‘starred the company I bet with’ (33-year-old male), and ‘I chose the two brands I know best to star: Intersport and Ladbrokes.’ (41-year-old woman).
Recall of gambling advertising in different media environments
Without prompting, young people most frequently recalled seeing gambling advertisements on television (n = 45), followed by betting venues (n = 15), and on technology/screens (n = 14). Young people are not allowed into betting venues in the UK but explained they had seen adverts in ‘shop windows’. After viewing the picture board of potential gambling advertising locations, the most common places young people recalled seeing gambling advertising were overwhelmingly on television (n = 78), followed by technology/screens (n = 49) and sports teams (n = 43).
Adults had unprompted recall of seeing gambling advertising on television (n = 43), technology/screens (n = 16), and sports teams (n = 16). After seeing the location picture board, television was still the most frequently recalled places (n = 56), followed by technology/screens (n = 37), with sports stadiums (n = 34) and betting venues (n = 34) joint third (Table 5).
Perceptions of the normalisation of gambling in sport
More than three quarters of young people (n = 74 out of 95 responses, 78%) considered betting to be a normal part of sport. Seventy-two percent of young people (n = 68, out of 95 responses) thought betting on sport was a normal thing for adults to do, with 13% (n = 12, out of 94 responses) thinking it was normal for young people. When young people were asked how many people under 16 years old they thought gambled on sports, just over half thought none (n = 49) and about half (48%) believed at least some participated in gambling to varying levels (‘one or two’ n = 22, ‘a few’ n = 19, ‘a lot’ n = 4). Almost three quarters of young people (n = 68, out of 93 responses, 73%) thought that 16 and 17 year olds were betting illegally on sports. When asked how many 16 and 17 year olds bet on sports, six answered ‘one or two’, 37 answered ‘a few’, and 25 thought ‘a lot’. In discussing the normality of sports betting, young people commonly mentioned informal betting among friends and betting as a way of supporting their team:
It’s normal for under 18’s to bet with friends. I put £2 on Man U with other young people. (13-year-old male)
‘Because if they love football it (betting) is part of wanting their team to win.’ (8-year-old male)
The majority of adults (n = 59 out of 69 responses, 86%) thought that betting had become a normal part of sport. Almost three quarters thought that betting on sports was a normal thing for adults to do (n = 50, out of 70 responses, 71%), and 20% thought it was a normal thing for young people to do (n = 14, out of 70 responses). Although most adults thought that is was not normal for young people to bet on sports, three quarters of them (75%) thought that 16- and 17-year-olds gambled on sports to some extent (n = 53; ‘one or two’ n = 7, ‘a few’ n = 31, ‘a lot’ n = 15), and 45% thought this was also the case for under 16 year olds (n = 32; ‘one or two’ n = 6, ‘a few’ n = 20, ‘a lot’ n = 6). Many adults specifically noted how widespread and acceptable sports betting had become, particularly in relation to football:
'You associate it with sports, especially football now.' (48-year-old female)
'(Betting) is much more acceptable. Betting shops need to be dark alien- unknown places, non-attractive, not advertising with famous people.' (48-year-old male).
Attitudes towards the advertising of betting during sport
Young peoples’ opinions about the advertising of betting during sport varied: 31% (n = 31) were negative, 27% (n = 23) were positive, 23% (n = 23) were neutral, and 18% (n = 18) were unsure. The reasons given by young people who were negative about betting advertising during sport included:
'It makes people want to use their money and leaves them broke. It’s an addictive habit.' (13-year-old male)
'Some kids watch sport and it influences them to bet and they might want to do it.' (13-year-old-female).
Young people who were positive about betting advertising during sport demonstrated a misperception of betting as a risk-free way to win money. Comments included: ‘you can get money for winning’ (11-year-old boy); ‘I like it. I want to win money’ (8-year-old boy); and ‘it’s good, you get loads of money’. (8-year-old boy). They also made an association between betting and supporting a team: ‘sponsorship supports the club so is a good thing’ (11-year-old boy).
The majority of adults (51% n = 36) had negative opinions about betting advertising during sport. One 48-year-old female commented:
It’s annoying. It doesn’t give a good message and shouldn’t be associated with the things my son loves.
One fifth of adults (n = 15, 21%) were neutral, and almost one fifth (n = 13, 18%) were positive about betting advertising during matches including a 47-year-old female who said:
It is fine, companies advertising- it is just business.
Attitudes towards harm reduction strategies
The majority of adults (n = 57, 80%) and young people (n = 56, 62%) believed that betting advertising during sports matches had an impact on young people’s betting behaviour. Television advertising was identified by both adults (n = 38) and young people (n = 30) as having the most impact, with adults naming ‘social media’ (n = 22) and young people ‘technology/screens’ (n = 24) second:
'Most young people see advertisements on television, more often than other places.' (9-year-old male)
'More young people are on gadgets and on their phone, and adverts keep popping up, and they will think betting is good and spend money a lot then' (13-year-old male)
Adults referred to the intrusiveness of gambling advertising on social media ‘There is no censoring- they pop up everywhere’ (44-year-old female). Others expressed concern about advertisements on television which they felt appealed to children:
Because they capture the young people’s attention with funny dancing or someone famous, or funny music. It catches young people’s attention and they remember it. (29-year-old female)
When asked which form of advertising, if any, should be banned, adults (n = 26) and young people (n = 18) predominantly identified television advertising. When asked what specific changes to advertising they would like to see, the top two options chosen were ‘remove sports betting advertising in social media’ (adults n = 41, young people n = 38) and ‘remove sports betting advertising during television matches shown before 9 pm’ (adults n = 39, young people n = 36).
The study is a first step in the process of addressing the lack of evidence about young people and gambling advertising in the UK using methods developed in Australia. Australian studies have demonstrated that over three quarters of young people can name one or more gambling brands (, pg. 4) compared to just under half of young people in the present study. However, this comparison should be interpreted cautiously as the Australian study deliberately targeted sports fans and participants, whereas this study examined a broader community sample of young people and adults. The more direct comparison might be with the ‘Super Fans’ of whom over two thirds could name one or more gambling brand. Similar to the Australian research, our study indicated that older children were able to name more brands than younger children. However, while Australian studies have demonstrated that there are few differences in gambling brand recall according to gender , in our study, boys had a significantly higher recall compared to girls, with boys as young as eight able to name three brands. These findings, along with a recent report by the Gambling Commission , which found that boys have a higher rate of problem gambling (2.0%) than girls (1.3%), suggest that a gendered approach to harm prevention may be warranted, including a closer examination of the relationship between gender, supporting/playing football, and gambling behaviour/attitudes ( in press).
As with findings for unprompted brand recall, young people who watched a lot of football on television (Super Fans) were significantly more likely to place a sponsor next to the correct team compared to other young people; indeed, over half were able to correctly place three or more shirt sponsors magnets next to the corresponding EPL team. As with unprompted recall of betting brands, boys and men made more correct matches between sponsors and teams than girls and women, again raising questions about the gendering of engagement with football and its impact on implicit awareness and behaviour.
Throughout the study, qualitative responses from young people showed that some of them conflated support for the brand with support for the team. The brands most ‘starred’ by young people were both companies with well-established associations with EPL football—Bet365 owns and has sponsored Stoke City since 2012 and Betway has sponsored West Ham since 2015. Proximity to West Ham does not appear to account for this finding—Crystal Palace was the closest EPL stadium to the research sites and no one recalled their shirt sponsor (gambling brand ManBetX) at the start of the survey. Moreover, only three adults and seven children correctly matched this team with their shirt sponsor. However, in a recent study, Bet365 was the most advertised brand in coverage of EPL football on the BBC, while Betway was the most advertised during coverage of the EPL on Sky television . Clubs and leagues that wish to promote family-friendly products should consider following Luton Town’s example and opting out of sponsorship deals with gambling companies, as has also happened in Australia and Ireland .
Research has shown that normalisation occurs when young people are exposed to the marketing of adult products including tobacco, alcohol, and gambling and that this can affect both their intentions to consume and actual consumption of these products [2, 31, 32]. Our findings are very similar to those of Australian studies which demonstrate that the majority of young people and adults perceive that gambling is becoming a normal part of sport . The similarity of these and other findings suggests that it may be useful for policymakers to use the principle of ‘logic based on parallel evidence’ , utilising the evidence from Australia to guide policy and public health prevention responses while they wait for research to be produced in the UK. It is difficult to predict how the perception of betting as a normal part of sport will affect the future consumption behaviour of young people. However, a growing body of parallel evidence from other jurisdictions suggests that it is likely to influence the uptake of betting. For example, one study in Australia found that young people who watch a lot of sport on television are more likely to say that they would like to try gambling when they grow up .
In our study, the vast majority of young people stated that they had seen gambling advertising on television. This mirrors a survey of 2881 11–16-year-olds in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission, which found that 80% of 11- to 16-year-olds had seen gambling advertisements on television and 39% had seen them more than once a week . These findings raise questions as to the effectiveness of existing regulations, including the 9 pm watershed, and also the appropriateness of the exception which allows sports betting firms to advertise during live broadcasts of sports. While a ban on advertising during live sport has been widely suggested and supported in the UK , including by some bookmakers, our data suggests that this single measure may not be sufficient to significantly reduce young people’s exposure to gambling advertising, which they also reported seeing in a range of media, sporting, and land-based environments. A recent study of broadcasts of EPL football on the BBC and Sky found that the majority of the instances of advertising appeared on dynamic billboards surrounding the pitch .
Despite the fact that gambling advertising has been banned from media designed for young people since 2007, the Gambling Commission survey of 2881 11–16-year-olds found that 70% of young people say they have seen advertisements on social media and 66% on other websites . Figures were lower among our participants, perhaps because our sample included younger children. Even so, half of young people recalled having seen gambling advertisements on screens and technology and over a third had seen them on social media. This suggests that changes to the regulation of gambling advertising during commercial breaks on television alone may not prevent the exposure of young people to gambling advertising. A recent study in Australia examining the efficacy of the new rules which banned gambling advertising during live sport broadcast on television before 8.30 pm found that young people continue to watch live sport on television after 8.30 and were exposed to gambling advertising on other channels, including social media . The study highlighted the need for urgent and comprehensive regulatory responses to address the range of channels and mechanisms that the gambling industry may use to promote their products.
Our study suggests that gambling advertising on television and social media is a matter of concern for some young people and adults. Both groups felt that it had an impact on young people’s behaviour and described the intrusiveness of gambling advertising and its ability to capture attention using a range of techniques including by featuring celebrities and sports people, humour, and catchy music. The content of adverts in the UK and their impact on young people in particular was raised as a concern and requires further investigation, as has already taken place in Australia .
The lower numbers of 14 to 16-year-olds in this study reflects the difficulty of recruiting young people for this age group, as they tended to attend events with their peers rather than with adults. Data was collected during the FIFA World Cup when both football and gambling advertising were particularly prevalent. Young people may have been exposed to more advertising as a result. Further studies at different times in the football season may help us to understand whether or not the volume of advertising that accompanies any important event was a factor in our findings, and if so, how it affected the responses of young people and adults. We anticipated that the magnet board activity could potentially trigger recollection of gambling brands and therefore asked participants to recall as many brands as they could before engaging in the task. However, there is also a chance that the magnet board activity affected the answers given to subsequent questions. If the study was repeated, counterbalancing could be considered for the task/question order.
Young people in the UK are exposed to gambling advertising via a range of media and through sponsorship and promotion as well as advertisements. While a partial ban on televised advertising during live sport has been widely suggested and supported in the UK , our data suggests that this single measure may not be sufficient to significantly reduce young people’s exposure to gambling advertising. Policymakers should consider comprehensive approaches, such as those applied in tobacco control, which take into consideration all forms of advertising, including promotion and sponsorship. Policymakers should also consider how recent changes in Australia have been more or less successful in reducing the exposure of young people to gambling advertising.
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You will have to submit a proposed plan for the probate process once you are appointed as an executor. This plan will have to include a detailed list of all of the property owned by the deceased person at the time of death, their respective values, and a statement of how they will be distributed to beneficiaries.
The plan is an important part of the probate process because it lets the beneficiaries know when they can expect to receive their share of the inheritance. You do not have to prepare it on your own, though – you can, for example, visit the website probateadvance.com and find some professional help.
You can also submit a proposed plan as soon as you have been appointed an executor. The court will then call a meeting to discuss the plan with the beneficiaries who have a right to be present. This meeting is called the “probate hearing,” and it can put pressure on the executor to reach an agreement with other potential heirs.
Reaching a Joint Agreement With Other Potential Heirs
If there are no objections to the proposed plan, it will become legally binding upon all beneficiaries who have no right to contest it. You can use the plan as the basis for a joint agreement with other potential heirs, or you can draft a new one together. Your plan should include details of how the estate will be divided, how much each beneficiary will receive, and when they can expect to receive their share of the inheritance.
Keep in mind that if there is no will in place, there are certain laws that determine how the inheritance should be divided up. For example, if the deceased person passed away without leaving a spouse or children, their estate will automatically pass to their closest relatives according to the law of intestacy. If there are no relatives, then the estate will pass to charity.
Contacting a Probate Attorney
If you cannot agree on the details of the plan, you can ask the judge to appoint a probate attorney to act as an independent third party. The probate attorney will be responsible for supervising the process and monitoring the executor’s performance. This helps to ensure that the estate is distributed fairly and in accordance with the will.
Registering a Notice of Estate Plan
You should register a notice of estate plan in the court office where the deceased lived. This notice must be registered with the court within eight days of submitting your proposed plan with the executor’s affidavit. This notice will serve as proof that there was a valid plan in place. If the beneficiaries are not aware of the plan, they will be able to make an objection to it.
Applying for Probate
After all of the remaining assets have been distributed to the beneficiaries, the executor must apply for probate. This is a process whereby the court grants the executor the authority to administer the deceased person’s estate. The application form can only be filed after all of the assets have been distributed to the beneficiaries.
Registering the Grant of Probate
Once the court has granted you probate, you will have to register the grant with the land titles office. This office is responsible for registering any property that was owned by the deceased person at the time of death. You can register the grant and obtain the title documents if you wish to sell any of the properties or invest in them yourself.
At some point, you will need to apply to terminate probate. This is a formal application in which you will state that all property has been distributed to the appropriate beneficiaries and no debts are outstanding. Once this application has been approved by the courts, probate will be terminated, and your role as an executor will be over. However, you may still be responsible for any outstanding taxes or debts that need to be paid from the estate.
If you require assistance during this process, you should consult with a probate attorney. They can help you draft a suitable plan and make sure that everything goes smoothly throughout the probate process.
If you have lost a loved one and you want to know how you can obtain their share in the inheritance, you should contact a probate attorney. As mentioned above, there are steps that you can take on your own to ensure that the probate process is quicker and smoother.
Nevertheless, an attorney will be able to offer you expert advice and help you deal with any problems that arise during this process. Hopefully, with their help, it will be conducted with no major difficulties.
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Today I watched this documentary about Adolf Hitler on National Geographic. The title was 42 Ways To Kill Hitler and it talked about the different attempts made to kill the Fuhrer. Watching it, I couldn’t help but wonder how 42 different attempts could all have failed. Granted, some of the attempts were crude but the more sophisticated attempts failing to kill Hitler really puzzled me.
Hitler once said that he was immortal. Could it be true that divine intervention was at hand to keep him alive despite underhanded tactics? Watching the documentary, I started believing that there must be some force that kept him from getting killed. If you watched the show, you would have believed too.
The attempts varied from assassination by gunshot to female spies, exploding pens, and plots concocted by entire countries. England planned one attempt and backed out for fear of backlashes, but the Soviet tried to pull off three. One failed attempt that creeped me out was when a man planted a timed bomb at a building where Hitler will talk to important Nazi members. The bomb, set to go off at 9.20 pm, was planted at the back of the podium directly behind Hitler. He was scheduled to speak at 9 so it was expected that the bomb would go off in the middle of the speech. However, Hitler arrived at 8 and began early. This would have been fine if he carried on with his usual three-hour tirades. But no, 13 minutes before the bomb was about to go off, he finished and left the building. 60 men were injured and 4 were killed.
Another attempt was when Hilter was in a meeting discussing tactics. One of Hitler’s own men thought it would be clever to bring a suitcase with a bomb in it. It was never discovered and it did explode, but Hitler only had minor injuries while four were sent to the hospital.
The most shocking of the attempts was when a general decided to plant a bomb on a plane Hitler was on. I thought, this couldn’t fail. Hitler would be a thousand miles up in the sky with nowhere to run. The general put the bomb in a box and presented it as brandy. When the plane took off, they were surprised when the bomb didn’t explode. Later on, they found out it was a dud. It didn’t detonate. See? Hitler even survived inside jobs.
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We’ve all dreamed about buying a house abroad, whether it be a holiday home, retirement patch or a tidy investment. But making this dream a reality can become a nightmare when sifting through all the rules and regulations around foreign property purchase. When townhouses, apartments, condominiums, and bungalows – all available to varying degrees around the world – meet leaseholds, cross-leases and joint tenancies that vary both in title and function, things can get a little confusing.
At OFX we like to keep things simple, so we’ve stripped away all the jargon and condensed they key information into plain English. Once you understand what’s on offer, you can start to build a budget and investigate property tax requirements to build the bigger picture of your entire foreign investment.
Our neighbouring island, New Zealand is naturally popular with Australians. There are some key points worth noting for any foreigners with their sights set on a Kiwi nest.
- Freehold and leasehold: According to Cowdy.co.nz these are the most common forms of ownership. Lamrocks Solicitors say that freehold is sometimes known as ‘Torrens title’ in Australia. Freeholds have three types: fee simple, life estate and stratum estate.
- Cross-lease: Cowdy.co.nz say the cross-lease is similar to a ‘group title’ or ‘strata title’ whereby a property or a piece of land is owned simultaneously by separate parties. The land remains undivided despite separately recognised ownership.
- Unit title: Like a cross-lease for apartments, unit titles permit ownership of the space within, and ownership of the land according to the size of the apartment
Things to know about New Zealand
- According to the New Zealand government website, you must have an IRD Number (equivalent to the Australian TFN) to buy, sell or transfer property.
- You may also need an IRD Number to have a fully-functioning New Zealand bank account.
- With an active bank account and relevant documents, complete an IR742 Form and submit to the Inland Revenue for your IRD Number.
- Australia has a handy Social Security Agreement with New Zealand, giving you tax credit in one country for income tax paid in another. You can find more information on the Australian Department of Human Services website.
- Consider raising the funds in Australia and using a foreign exchange service to send the money direct to the seller. OFX has offices in both countries and our foreign exchange experts are available 24/7 to help you get the most out of your money.
- Unlicensed estate agents. The New Zealand government website advises you to ensure real estate agents are licenced and to check whether they’ve received any major complaints.
United States of America
The USA also has strong ties with Australia. Despite its notorious customs and border control, ManhattanMiami insist America is very liberal regarding foreign property ownership. Zillo.com’s foreign property guide claims almost $70bn was invested by foreign buyers in a single year alone.
What’s available according to Zillo and ManhattanMiami:
- Fee simple (fee simple absolute) & leasehold: Identical to fee simple in New Zealand and leaseholds. “Lessor” and “lessee” are local titles for leaseholder and occupier of the property.
- Tenancy in common: Two or more parties own an un-partitioned piece of land or property, similar to the cross-lease. The members own the entire property jointly, rather than individual sections.
- Joint tenancy (also joint tenancy with right of survivorship): Like tenancy in common, both parties have separate ownership of a single, undivided property. Unlike TiC, death of one party gives the survivor ownership of the entire asset.
- Community property: Common among married couples – property is jointly owned like all assets acquired during the marriage. In the event of a divorce, assets are divided by the courts.
- Foreigners can buy an array of properties; townhouses to condos, bungalows and apartments, but may find it hard to buy cooperatives. Coops are run by corporations with company shares exchanged for long leases.
- According to Zillo, Florida, California, Texas, Arizona and New York are popular places among foreign buyers.
Things to know about the USA
- Buying real estate grants you no right of stay or citizenship.
- Property legislation varies across the 50 states, visit the state website to get familiar with the local laws and customs.
- “Realtors”, as they’re known in the US, are highly fragmented so expect to shop around to find a perfect match. Many charge a fee to show you around and investigate properties on your behalf.
- You’ll need an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to process your tax as a foreign national. A Form W-7 can be found on the IRS website.
- Your “down payment” as a foreign buyer is normally 30-40 percent of the asking price when financing through American banks.
- Alternatively, banks may set a loan limit of $1-2 million as well as requesting proof of required income.
- You’ll need a good credit score to apply for a loan so if you don’t have a credit card, financing could be difficult.
- Another option is to finance from home and send the money with a foreign currency provider. With OFX, AUD to USD transfers can often be completed the next working day.
- FIRPTA: The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 and it’s rulings on the sale of foreign property is relevant documentation for any foreign investor.
As the Head of the Commonwealth the UK has always been attractive for Australians. Whether or not you have a British visa, you won’t be restricted from buying property. The only difficulty you may have is affordability, particularly in London and around the South East.
What’s available according to GlobalPropertyGuide and HomeOwnersAlliance:
- Unlike America, there are no restrictions on the types of property that can be owned by foreign individuals. Freeholds and leaseholds exist in the same capacity as in Australia.
- Joint tenancies and tenant in common arrangements also exist as they do in the United States; joint tenants may contain a right of survivorship clause in which the tenancy is transferred in the event of death, and tenants in common permits unequal investment in the property without right of survivorship.
- Terraced houses are the most common form of housing found in inner-city areas, and are highly sought after.
- Apartments (sometimes called flats) are also common and run by either housing associations, private individuals or government-appointed councils who sell property at a reasonable rate to generate capital for improved housing projects.
Thing to know about the UK
- Stamp Duty is paid in the UK as in Australia. The calculation of Stamp Duty also differs from Australia. Use the UK government’s Stamp Duty calculator to find out what you’re expected to pay, particularly if the property is priced highly.
- Combine the above with legal fees, surveyor fees and Land Registry (the equivalent of Australia’s Land and Property Information) and you should have a pretty clear picture of the budget needed for the transaction.
- Unlike the US, UK property agents are paid a commission by the seller for putting their home on the market.
- Property lawyers in the UK are called ‘conveyance solicitors’ and are highly advised for peace of mind.
- The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) are the most qualified in the country. Find out whether you’ll need a Condition Report or a more thorough Homebuyers Report to avoid wasting time and money.
- It’s normal to make a verbal offer to the seller’s agent which they will then use to inform both solicitors.
- Non-UK citizens should expect to pay a deposit of at least 30% according to Exfin; the Australian Expat website.
- If financing through a UK broker, mortgages can take an average five or six weeks to process.
- The shortage of available housing in South East England has led to a rapid increase in prices, so many believe so there’s great opportunity to be had in the UK.
- Although you can secure a UK mortgage at around 3-5 percent interest, you can also finance from home and transfer the funds to the UK. If you have matured a relationship with your domestic bank you can borrow against existing assets to speed up the process.
- Should you take the above route, be sure to send the money with an established currency specialist to avoid heavy fees laid on by the banks – potentially saving you thousands. OFX has helped over 300,000 customers transfer over $84bn since 1998.
- Making verbal offers in Scotland. They may be legally binding according to GlobalPropertyGuide.
- The impending pop! MoneyWeek believe London is in a “housing bubble”. If it does burst it will have serious consequences for any foreign buyer.
Thailand’s exotic climate, friendly locals and low cost of living make it a hot spot for expats around the world. However, it is the opposite to the UK in its attitudes to foreign buyers: The Thai government forbids ANY land to be wholly owned by foreigners. Buyers after Thai land are left with two options: purchase a 30-year leasehold or obtain a freehold through a limited company.
What’s available according to JustLanded.com and SiamLegal.com
- The New Thailand Condominium Act of 2008 was designed to promote buyers’ protection and strictly forbids foreigners from owning more than 49% of Thai land.
- Apartments and condos can be owned by individuals at 49%. For other types of property, a company can be set up to house it, provided a Thai owns over 50 percent of the company.
- While freeholds are only available to overseas buyers at the above limitation, full leaseholds can be obtained by non-Thai citizens for a maximum of 30 years.
- Whether you buy directly from a developer or an agent, you’re likely to pay the same.
- In Thailand, the seller will often write the contracts for you to sign, but it’s prudent to have a local lawyer comb through it first.
- Property financing for foreigners in Thailand was virtually unheard of until recently. Even as the banks begin lending to non-citizens, there are strict terms and conditions you must abide by.
- Because local lending is both difficult and rare, buyers are known to borrow from their domestic bank and send the money via a currency exchange specialist. OFX transfers over 50 global currencies around the world, including; Thai Baht, Hong Kong Dollar, Philippine Peso and Vietnamese Dong. Check out our full list of available currencies here.
- Property history. The Land Department holds all records of a property’s title deed – examine this closely before entering into talks.
Every year thousands of people trust OFX to help bring their property dreams to life by keeping transfer costs down and sending money securely around the world. With our global reach, 24/7 customer service and dedicated offices across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and the US we can help you find peace of mind in your little piece of heaven. When it matters, OFX it.
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The Fire at Notre-Dame
On Monday, Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, France, caught fire. Parts of the structure—which had survived plague and wars of religion, the French Revolution, and the Nazis—were severely damaged, including the iconic spire and wooden roof.
The history of sacred structures across the globe can be defined by ruin and repair, Sophie Gilbert wrote; Rachel Donadio argued that the devastation in Paris this week laid bare all the paradoxes of France. And Alexis C. Madrigal reported on a source of hope: The late Andrew Tallon, a pioneering architectural historian, scanned every piece of the cathedral, inside and out, and created 3-D images that may be able to help with reconstruction.
I don’t have French blood, nor have I ever been to France, but my heart broke when I found out Notre-Dame was burning.
When I was a little girl, I was fascinated by Paris; it has been a lifelong dream to go there. I grew up in a family of Ethiopian immigrants and learned Chinese from high school onwards, but the idea of going to Paris persisted.
Hearing about the burning makes me contemplate a lot of things—I dream about making something that would last forever, but I wonder not only if it would be remembered, but also if it would be preserved.
To hear that Notre-Dame was burning had a deeply profound effect on me. To watch from abroad the destruction of this Parisian treasure and cultural giant saddened me to a point of despondency. Your article about Andrew Tallon’s legacy in capturing this grand Dame has shored up my faith. Vive la Notre-Dame!
While earning my B.A. in painting and sculpture I was often asked, “What are you going to do with an art degree?,” as if I were setting my young self up for a deprived future. I am retired now, but in the last years of my second career I was using laser scans as the basis for designing revisions to refineries and petrochemical plants. Until then, we had to make detailed drawings of existing facilities since the original plans were no longer accurate. If someone asked me today, “What on Earth can anyone do with an art degree?,” I would give the example of Andrew Tallon. I’d say, “With his creativity, insight, and smarts he posthumously served mankind to a degree the world could not have foreseen nor imagined.”
Robert Dean Hubbard
Notre-Dame has been wrecked before—by the Revolution as a symbol of the hated ancien régime—and rebuilt before, by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc as a testimony to the eternal, Catholic heart of the French nation, the same French nation that exiled Captain Alfred Dreyfus and, in more recent times, has marginalized its Muslim citizens. Today, with a new sort of struggle raging for the meaning of what it is to be French, how Notre-Dame is rebuilt cannot help but carry political meaning. Will the rebuilding use aped medieval materials to conjure an imagined past, or will it be rebuilt in the same spirit, but employing a diversity of modern materials, to bespeak the reality of contemporary France?
It is not the structure itself that gives the Notre-Dame its gravitas and importance (although that is, of course, fundamental), but rather it is the human history that it has borne witness to throughout the centuries. By this measure, Notre-Dame was not only not lost—it can also be restored to its full grandeur. It was heartening to see Emmanuel Macron say so decisively that repairs will be made, and encouraging to see some funding already promised. Notre-Dame’s long and storied history is far from over and will continue long after anyone who witnessed the devastation this week is gone. Such potholes on the road of history are part of the very essence and story of Notre-Dame and other landmarks like it.
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Glucotrust Huntington Beach California
The health sector is booming, with numerous companies creating their very own supplements. There are many products for blood sugar level assistance that boost your blood glucose degrees. Today, we will speak about one such product called GlucoTrust, which is ending up being Glucotrust Huntington Beach California a growing number of preferred.
GlucoTrust is a blood sugar support supplement that has lots of nutritional advantages. It advertises & sustains healthy and balanced blood sugar degrees that offer correct blood circulation, deep sleep, as well as lower food desires.
GlucoTrust has natural ingredients, which will be quickly discussed later in this article. In addition to that, you will likewise recognize exactly how GlucoTrust works, its advantages, and where you can purchase one on your own. The company also uses price cuts which you might also be delighted around.
How Does Glucotrust Work?
GlucoTrust is an all-natural supplement that enhances your wellness by advertising healthy sugar in your blood. Given that blood glucose is the primary source of energy, having a shortage in blood sugar can trigger ailment as well as other health and wellness problems. Similarly, too much blood sugar can likewise create problems like diabetic issues. Glucotrust Huntington Beach California Therefore, we require to figure out the balance in our blood sugar level degree to ensure that we can work our day-to-day regimen with no concerns.
Currently allow us take a look at just how GlucoTrust works. GlucoTrust offers numerous natural substances as its components. These components are Gymnema, biotin, manganese, chromium, cinnamon oil, zinc, and also glycyrrhizic acid. These ingredients can help you maintain your blood sugar level level in your body. It is important to understand the working of GlucoTrust so that you can assess your own wellness with the help of such items.
The very first means GlucoTrust functions is by raising the manufacturing of insulin in your body. By decreasing the insulin resistance, your blood glucose will break down and be changed into energy a lot more efficiently. Blood cells will certainly take in extra blood sugar, and it will certainly not go directly into your bloodstream. Similarly, the 2nd way the GlucoTrust components job is by preventing the break down of carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates failure takes place in the small intestines with the help of enzymes. These enzymes are known as pancreatic amylase, and they break down sugar as well as carbs. Therefore, the development of glucose happens. After that, sugar can be absorbed back into the bloodstream. Nevertheless, GlucoTrust, with its ingredients, stops that from happening.
GlucoTrust allows what insulin does to blood sugar level in blood sugar assistance supplements. Having a healthy blood sugar level level is necessary to preserving a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Furthermore, it affects mostly all facets of our life, and not dealing with what we consume can lead to undesirable levels of blood glucose as well as diabetes. This is why makers of GlucoTrust use all-natural components to provide one of the most improved effects when consuming GlucoTrust.
Biotin is likewise called vitamin B7, as well as it helps in transforming blood sugar level right into power with the help of metabolic responses in the cell. Furthermore, biotin likewise metabolizes fats, healthy proteins, as well as carbs a lot more efficiently.
Not only exists a correct performance of metabolization with biotin, yet there are additionally various other advantages such as healthy and balanced skins, nails, and hair. Most of all, it manages symptoms of diabetes which is its neurological sign. Some researches additionally show that lack of biotin in pregnant females can bring about wellness concerns in their establishing babies.
Manganese existing in GlucoTrust improves the manufacturing of insulin hormones to advertise even more power. To put it simply, manganese stimulates insulin manufacturing to make sure that it can transform blood glucose into energy. With manganese, there won’t be any type of release of fats, which can lead to ketoacidosis. Afterwards, research additionally reveals that manganese is likewise responsible for advertising healthy and balanced cognitive as well as nervous system function.
Gymnema Sylvestre is a traditional Indian ayurvedic medication that is a herbal essence of a leafy creeping plant. This all-natural component has remained in use for over a century for ayurvedic medicinal functions. Glucotrust Huntington Beach California Gymnema Sylvestre has the result of advertising healthy and balanced blood sugar and minimizing the yearnings for fast food. Advertising healthy and balanced blood glucose is the main cure for having a discrepancy in blood sugar degrees.
Because of this, several diabetic people take tablets or blood glucose assistance supplements which contain Gymnema Sylvestre.
Diabetic people have chromium shortage which eliminates their capability to preserve their blood sugar level degree. With low chromium, you can have reduced blood sugar level degrees, which can trigger many health-related issues. You can have issues with your metabolism as well as the ability to refute fat. This is why GlucoTrust consists of chromium to raise your blood sugar level to ideal level as well as improve your metabolism.
Licorice is among the most crucial active ingredients in all blood sugar support supplements. You will certainly see this component in all supplements for dealing with blood sugar level levels. This ingredient is effective as well as has actually been shown many times with clinical researches. Its core values originate from advertising healthy blood glucose in diabetic person patients.
Licorice is not a contemporary medical material. In fact, it has actually offered a traditional medical purpose for hundreds of years. It was promoted as a natural treatment and also used for centuries in Chinese, center eastern countries, and also in Greek medication. Today, it is used in lots of supplements, including GlucoTrust. It subdues your cravings, advertises lean muscle mass, burns fatty acids, keeps blood sugar and overall health.
Juniper Berries are old berries that were located in the tomb of Pharaoh. It is another excellent ingredient that advertises healthy and balanced blood glucose. Athletes first utilized juniper berries to increase their endurance, strength, and also general performance. With innovations in medicine, experts have learnt that juniper berries are antioxidants that assist with swelling and resistance. Therefore, all of it come down to having a healthy blood sugar degree.
According to the GlucoTrust producer, each pill inside the bottle of GlucoTrust has a combination of these active ingredients plus 8 various other natural compounds. In addition, the excellent blend of these natural mixes assists in controling the all-natural hormonal agents in your body and also boosts the biochemicals that boost your general health.
Zinc improves your total health and wellness by reinforcing your immune system. You will certainly be able to handle allergies, acute rhinitis, dripping nose, etc. On top of that, it likewise aids in the manufacturing of hormonal agents. GlucoTrust additionally has zinc with all its benefits, and also people that consume this supplement will get even more insulin hormones that appropriate for blood glucose.
Who Should Consume GlucoTrust?
It is optimal to have a healthy and balanced blood sugar level level to preserve energy, emphasis, better skin, preserve weight, and also various other health advantages. However, not everybody can achieve this, which is why supplements like GlucoTrust have actually emerged. There are many sorts of people who should utilize GlucoTrust, as well as it will significantly enhance their quality of life.
Insulin aids the activity of glucose to your blood cells, as well as it is vital for your body due to the fact that obtaining glucose in the blood cells offers power. People who have a greater level of blood sugar in their bodies have issues with their insulin hormonal agents. This can also lead to diabetic issues, as well as it usually comes to be a serious medical problem otherwise handled on schedule.
If you do not have enough insulin and also face high blood sugar degrees, you require GlucoTrust. GlucoTrust assists keep blood sugar level levels by providing the appropriate amount of insulin.
Like high blood sugar is a concern, low blood sugar level level is additionally bad. You need to have a minimum of 70 mg/dL of sugar degree to perform at an optimal rate. Having anything less than 70 mg/dL of sugar degree is a problem referred to as hypoglycemia. In a similar way, a sugar degree of 200mg/dL 2 hrs after having a meal is additionally hypoglycemia Glucotrust Huntington Beach California. In any case, there is something wrong with your insulin, and you must start taking GlucoTrust to improve your health and wellness.
Hypoglycemia can trigger different illness, consisting of unconsciousness. Not having a proper diet regimen, consuming less, and missing medical pills if you have diabetics issues can likewise create hypoglycemia.
So if you are somebody that fails to remember to take their diabetic tablets or is eating less than usual, you ought to consider utilizing GlucoTrust. Consuming GlucoTrust will certainly advertise healthy and balanced blood flow, lower desires for sugar, and also offer high quality sleep.
Where to Get GlucoTrust?
GlucoTrust is exclusively available just on their main site. So far, there is no other industry online or offline where GlucoTrust is offered. On the web site, there are 3 packages that provide GlucoTrust. There is one container, three bottle, and also six-bottle packages which consumers can straight buy from the internet site.
The costs of GlucoTrust will drop if you acquire a six-bottle package. It is a terrific bundle for individuals that have a favorable experience with GlucoTrust, and also now they want to utilize it for the long-term. On top of that, GlucoTrust supplies complimentary delivery with the exception of one container package, and you can get the product shipped throughout the United States.
Each container of GlucoTrust comes with 30 pills which are enough for a 30-day supply. Taking one pill a day is the suggested dosage that needs to be complied with by consumers.
GlucoTrust has a 180-day money-back warranty policy which has to do with 6 months. Because duration, if you do not see results, after that GlucoTrust will happily reimburse your cash. You can ask for a reimbursement by contacting the customer support personnel of the business. After that, the company will certainly refine your reimbursement demand within a day Glucotrust Huntington Beach California.
GlucoTrust is priced at $69 per container, although the cost goes down considerably when purchasing 3 or six bottles simultaneously.
You can specifically get GlucoTrust via GetGlucoTrust.com, where it’s valued at the adhering to rates:
- 1 Container: $69 + $9 Shipping
- 3 Bottles: $177 + Free US Delivery
- 6 Containers: $294 + Free United States Delivery
Each container has an one month supply of GlucoTrust (30 pills). The producer recommends taking one pill before bed every evening to support blood glucose over night.
GlucoTrust is a blood glucose assistance supplement which contains a blend of 15 components connected to blood sugar as well as cardio health.
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One of the most important things to consider while caring for a person who has dementia is a dementia diet.
For some caregivers, identify the right foods to include in a weak person’s diet may be challenging.
If you are in such a dilemma, you will find the solution below as we highlight foods that are ideal for persons with dementia.
10 Best Dementia Diet Foods
Oily Fish and Omega 3
Essential fatty acids present in omega 3’s are important for maintaining, functioning and health of the brain.
Researchers agree that eating omega 3 or oily fish on a regular basis helps to enhance cognitive functioning as a person grows older.
The human body does not have the capacity to manufacture omega 3-fatty acids from scratch. This means that a person must get this from the foods they consume.
Foods that are rich in omega 3 include nuts, fish, vegetable oils, leafy vegetables, flax seeds and oil.
Leafy Greens and Cruciferous Veggies
Leafy greens should make a huge part of the dementia diet. Veggies like mustard and collard greens, spinach, arugula, kale, and swiss chard are great sources of vitamin B9 or folate.
These are known to better cognition in the elderly.
Folate is also important in that it helps to fight against depression by boosting serotine levels.
Leafy greens also offer Vitamin E which is beneficial to the brain.
Cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, bok choy, and brussel sprouts are great for memory.
They contain folate and carotenoids that lower homocysteine levels an amino acid that nutritionists link to cognitive impairment.
Persons with dementia should take vegetables on a daily basis.
Nuts are an excellent snack for people who have dementia. According to the MIND diet study, nuts are good for the health of the brain. This is because they are rich in fiber and antioxidants.
The MIND diet suggests that people should eat different types of nuts five times a week.
Berries and Cherries
Experts recommend the inclusion of berries in the dementia diet.
Blueberries, cherries, strawberries, and acacia fruit are perfect examples. These are fruits that have been linked to multiple benefits for the brain.
Some studies correlate this with enhanced memory. An example is a study that was published in 2013.
It uncovered that participants who consumed greater berry amounts showed a slower cognitive decline of about two and a half years as they grew older.
Berry varieties also contain a phytochemical known as anthocyanin that protects the brain from the damage that free radicals cause.
Legumes are a great addition to the foods that a person with dementia eats. Beans, in particular, come highly recommended for several reasons.
Among these include the fact that they are low in fat and calories and rich in protein and fiber.
This is a good combination that helps to keep the mind sharp.
Individuals with cognitive decline should try to eat beans at least three times weekly.
Alternatively, the ill person can also eat chickpeas and lentils which are equally great for the brain.
Whole grains are a must-have in a dementia diet. They are a better choice when you compare them to refined grains because they retain more nutrients.
They also come with the entire grain seed or kernel which is made of fibrous bran.
Eating more whole grains also helps to increase fiber intake, lowers blood pressure, they offer a myriad of vitamins, and reduce inflammation amongst other perks.
Impaired individuals should eat at least 2 servings of whole grains daily.
Seeds are another great snack option for persons who have dementia. A variety of seeds are rich in Vitamin E.
This is one of the vitamins that help to lower the rates of cognitive decline as people grow older.
Sunflower seeds are rich in choline a compound that helps to enhance brain function.
Pumpkin seeds contain Zinc that improves cognitive function and memory.
Most of the seeds also have tryptophan that is effective in fighting depression. Flax seeds are rich in omega 3s making them an excellent fish alternative.
It is highly beneficial to include mushrooms in the dementia diet. Don’t eat them on pizza though because this will not do you any good.
Source for fresh or dried mushrooms that you can eat plain or add to a veggie burger, soup, or frittata. These are rich in vitamin B12.
Mushrooms are also known to enhance metabolism, strengthen the immune system, and improve bladder function.
Mushrooms are also great for the body in that they help protect cell health because they are rich in antioxidants.
Sweet potatoes are great for individuals dealing with dementia. These offer minerals and vitamins that may have anti-inflammatory benefits.
Scientists reckon that persons who have higher levels of zeaxanthin and lutein found in sweet potatoes and other vegetables do not need a lot of brain activity to complete tasks.
Sweet potato meals are also known to enhance brain power which also improves cognitive ability.
Poultry should without a doubt be part of the dementia diet. Turkey and chicken are healthy protein choices that offer multiple benefits to people with dementia.
In addition to being rich in protein, poultry products also offer different minerals and vitamins that help to support healthy bodies.
These are a great protein option because affected individuals can consume them in different ways without the meal becoming monotonous.
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Blue Mind Summit
The Blue Mind Summits are the annual meetings and workshops organized by Dr. Wallace J. Nichols that are attended by scientists, advocates, artists. Blue Mind partners and practitioners and open water swimmers present Blue Mind research and Blue Mind media to support innovative and highly collaborative work while partnering with nonprofit organizations, a wide range of international students, and businesses across many sectors to ultimately lead a bigger, wider, stronger blue movement for wild, healthy oceans and waterways.
Locations and Dates
- 2011 Blue Mind 1 was held in San Francisco
- 2012 Blue Mind 2 was held on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
- 2013 Blue Mind 3 was held on 30 May 2013 on Block Island, Rhode Island
- 2014 Blue Mind 4, Open The Blue Door was held on 11 June 2014 at Bedruthan Steps in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- 2015 Blue Mind 5: Urban Blue was held in May 2015 in Washington, D.C.
- 2016 Blue Mind 6: I Wish You Water was held in May 2016 at Asilomar on the Monterey Peninsula of California
- 2017 Blue Mind 7: Go Deeper will be on Lake Superior on 7 June 2017
Blue Mind Summit Speakers
Blue Mind Summits was nominated for the 2016 WOWSA Awards, a recognition of outstanding men, women, performances and offerings around the globe sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association in the category of World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
Its nomination reads, "Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D. created a new field called neuroconservation where he has tied together neuroscience, psychology, nature, art, conservation, poetry, and activities in, around and under the water. With healthful benefits and positive outcomes extending to public health, education, parenting, business, coastal planning, travel, real estate, sports and recreation, the Blue Mind Summits are fascinating, informative meetings attended by scientists, ocean advocates, artists and open water swimmers. Collaborators participate in the Blue Mind Summits to introduce and discuss concrete solutions that help change the way people think, feel and act towards water. For his establishment of a science and practice that restores and rebuilds mankind's personal, ancient and emotional connection with healthy waterways, for his melding of myriad areas in science, art and sport to support the Blue Mind Life, for his organization and inspiration of like-minded people in the field of neuroconservation who understand the profound benefits of interacting with water, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols' Blue Mind Summit is a worthy nominee for the 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year."
Blue Mind Mission
Interdisciplinary professionals work at the intersection of brain science, behavior and conservation. These gatherings focus on the cognitive, emotional, psychological, social, physical and spiritual benefits of healthy waterways and oceans. Participants dive deeply into the exploration of the human brain (and lives) on water while tackling subjects rarely discussed in the world of conservation and exploration.
Dr. Wallace J. Nichols
Dr. Wallace J. Nichols is a scientist, activist, community organizer and author who works to inspire a deeper connection with nature. Dr. Nichols is a Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences and a member and former Regional Vice Chair of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group. He currently advises a group of dedicated and energetic graduate students at universities in both Mexico and the U.S. as part of his commitment to building a stronger, more progressive and connected environmental community.
He is working on BlueMarbles.org and BLUEMiND: The Mind + Ocean Initiative. He blogs at wallacejnichols.org and is at the forefront of the new discipline of Neuro-conservation that explores the intersection of the brain and the ocean. The emerging field unites neuroscience, ocean exploration and marine stewardship in new global dialogue between neuroscientists, ocean scientists, economists, photographers, explorers, writers, and ocean advocates. He hosted BlueMind3 Summit in Block Island on 30 May 2013.
Blue Mind Publication
He is rolling out the book BlueMind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do on the remarkable effects of water on human's health and their well-being.
Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with compelling personal stories from top athletes, leading scientists, military veterans, and gifted artists, he shows how proximity to water can improve performance, increase calm, diminish anxiety, and increase professional success. Blue Mind not only illustrates the crucial importance of our connection to water-it provides a paradigm shifting "blueprint" for a better life on this Blue Marble we call home.
Dr. Nichols spends his time discovering nature. He spent his youth exploring oceans and forests, as well as his own family history. Resulting in a fascination for genetics and animal migration, as well as human culture and conservation—these have been the topics of his undergraduate studies at DePauw University, graduate studies at Duke University and University of Arizona, his academic research as a Fulbright Fellow and as a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences.
Through field research, his work with commercial fishermen, and the time he spends in coastal villages, he encounters among people a common appreciation for the ocean’s beauty, abundance and mysteries. Nichols finds successful conservation efforts often include unexpected alliances and that there is common ground to be found between so-called “enemies” of nature.
Dr. Nichols has undertaken the task of reaching new constituencies with a positive and inclusive conservation message and building a network of like-minded people, from diverse regions, backgrounds and careers who share a commitment to maintaining abundant life in the oceans and on the coasts. In 1998 he founded the Grupo Tortuguero, an international grassroots movement dedicated to restoring Pacific sea turtles and to sustainable management of ocean fisheries. In 1999 he co-founded and for five years directed WiLDCOAST, an international conservation team dedicated to the protection of coastal wilderness where he and a diverse group of partners organized fishermen to protect endangered sea turtles and helped coastal ranchers protect their shores for future generations. In 2003 Nichols and eight others trekked 1,900 km along the coast from Oregon to Mexico to bring attention to coastal and ocean issues. He also spearheads the Ocean Revolution, a program that inspires, involves and mentors the next generation of ocean conservation leaders.
Currently, he works with several universities and organizations to advance ocean protection, including California Academy of Sciences as a Research Associate, Conservation Science Advisor for ProPeninsula, on a global bycatch study with Duke University and Blue Ocean Institute, and has served as an advisor or board member of Turtle Island Restoration Network, Biosphere Foundation, Animal Alliance, Coastwalk, Drylands Institute, Oceana, and Reef Protection International. For two years he served as Senior Research Scientist at the Ocean Conservancy.
J.’s projects and philosophy incorporates participatory science, social networking/community organizing, and creative communication to inspire a healthier relationship with the sea.
J. is author of more than fifty scientific papers, book chapters, popular articles, and reports on sea turtle ecology and ocean conservation. His efforts are featured in National Geographic, Scientific American, Time, Newsweek and other international media. He is the author of the children’s book Chelonia: Return of the sea turtle, which has been translated to Spanish and is distributed throughout Mexico to underprivileged youth. He is also co-author of the screenplay Adelita’s Journey based on the true story of one loggerhead sea turtle’s epic 24,000 km migration from Japan to Mexico and back home again. J. continues to share his research with millions of school children around the world through school and aquarium visits, field trips, the Internet and various publications and writing projects.
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The new miniseries from Apple details the impossible decisions faced by doctors during Hurricane Katrina, Hollywood news Entertainment.
Real Stories is an ongoing column about the true stories behind movies and TV shows. It’s that simple. This installment focuses on the true story behind the upcoming Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial.
Hurricane Katrina remains one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in the history of the United States. The hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico in August of 2005, impacting states around the region. Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans in particular. As chaos ensued, first responders and medical professionals faced every challenge imaginable.
In 2013, journalist Sheri Fink, herself a medical doctor, published a book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. The book, based in part on a long feature she published in the New York Times and ProPublica in 2009, details five days at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. As the storm raged, the hospital went without power for days. Among the events detailed in the book was the controversial decision by doctors to inject patients, many of whom the doctors believed were near death, with fatal drugs.
Fink’s book serves as the inspiration for the upcoming miniseries of the same name, Five Days at Memorial, from Apple TV+. Here is a look at the true story behind the series.
The Storm Hits
The topography of New Orleans makes it particularly prone to hurricanes. A large portion of the city sits below sea level. This was not always the case. As the city expanded in the 19th and 20th centuries, developers began draining swampland to make room for more people. But by pumping water out of the city, it began to shrink and continues to do so to this day. This, plus rising sea levels due to climate change, makes storms and subsequent flooding that hits the region particularly deadly.
Since the 1920s, Memorial Medical Center had served as a shelter during storms. Fink notes:
For generations, the hospital’s sturdy walls served as a shelter when hurricanes threatened: employees would bring their families and pets, as well as coolers packed with muffulettas.
And so, when Katrina hit, many naturally sought refuge in the building. According to Fink, about 2,000 people were inside the hospital when the storm hit, including more than 200 patients and 600 staff. When the storm hit during on the morning of August 29, the city’s power failed. The hospital’s generators took over and many, Fink writes, believe they had “seemed to have weathered one more storm.”
The Flooding Begins
One of the key figures in Fink’s reporting is Anna Pou. Described as a “surgeon whose strong work ethic earned respect from doctors and nurses alike,” Pou is played by Vera Farmiga in the miniseries. Fink reports that on the second day, a nurse called for Pou to look out the window. What they saw: “water gushing from the sewer grates.” The deadly flooding had only just begun.
Knowing the danger that flooding posed to the hospital and their patients, senior staff immediately began making plans for evacuation. The director of nursing, Susan Mulderick (played by Cherry Jones) was in charge of hospital operations during a crisis. She had been a member of the group responsible for writing the hospitals 246-page emergency plan. But no part of the plan detailed what to do in the event of “a complete power failure or for how to evacuate the hospital if the streets were flooded.” They were in uncharted territory.
Doctors began to gather and discuss how the evacuation would work and who would be given priority. Fink writes:
The doctors quickly agreed that babies in the neonatal intensive-care unit, pregnant mothers and critically ill adult I.C.U. patients would be at great risk from the heat and should get first priority. Then [Richard Deichmann, the hospital’s soft-spoken medical-department chairman] broached an idea that was nowhere in the hospital’s disaster plans. He suggested that all patients with Do Not Resuscitate orders should go last.
Other doctors agreed with the decision, one that would come to be one of the defining moments of the evacuation.
Fink also notes that one important group was left out of hospital discussions. LifeCare operated as a kind of “hospital within a hospital” at Memorial. LifeCare treated critical ill or injured patients who needed intensive, around-the-clock care. And, Finks reports:
LifeCare was known for helping to rehabilitate patients on ventilators until they could breathe on their own. LifeCare’s goal was to assist patients until they improved enough to return home or to nursing facilities; it was not a hospice.
There was debate within the hospital about the treatment of some of these patients. Fink writes:
LifeCare deployed the full array of modern technology to keep alive its often elderly and debilitated patients. Horace Baltz, one of the longest-serving doctors at Memorial, told me of spirited debates among doctors over coffee about what some of his colleagues considered to be excessive resources being poured into hopeless cases.
Evacuations at the hospital began in the afternoon on day two. Coast Guard and private medical helicopters landed at the top of the building. Hospital staff carried patients up flights of stairs as part of the evacuation. Diane Robichaux (played by Julia Ann Emery), served as LifeCare’s own “incident commander” during the hurricane. Robichaux, Fink reports, remained in touch with officials throughout the evacuation. As the hours continued, it became clear that the “government’s rescue efforts and communications were in chaos.”
Then, on the morning of the third day, the hospital’s generators failed. Fink describes the scene in the immediate aftermath:
Alarm bells clanged as life-support monitors and ventilators switched to brief battery reserves while continuing to force air into the lungs of seven patients. In about a half-hour, the batteries failed and the regular hiss of mechanical breaths ceased. A Memorial nurse appeared and announced that the Coast Guard could evacuate some critical patients if they were brought to the helipad immediately. Volunteers began carrying the LifeCare patients who relied on ventilators down five flights of stairs in the dark.
Patients who relied on ventilators began to die. As the day went on, the temperature rose to above 90 degrees. Water stopped flowing. The hospital, one administrator said, “was in survival mode, not treating mode.” Doctors then divided patients into three priority categories to speed up evacuation. Pou took the lead.
Outside the Hospital
As staff struggled to treat patients inside the hospital, many other people tried to make their way to the hospital in boats and makeshift rafts. Some wanted to take family members from the hospital. Others were seeking treatment of their own. Dr. Bryant King (played in the series by Cornelius Smith Jr.) was among the hospital staff who witnessed people seeking treatment be turned away, including a couple with small children. Fink reports:
‘‘You can’t do this!’’ King shouted at [René Goux, the hospital’s chief executive]. ‘‘You gotta help people!’’ But the family was turned away.
“The humane thing”
In her reporting, Fink describes the physical challenges of the evacuation: the heat, the stairs, the smoke, and the exhaustion of the staff. As the evacuation continued, tough decisions had to be made. Fink writes:
Help was coming too slowly. There were too many people who needed to leave and weren’t going to make it, [Ewing Cook, one of the hospital’s most senior physicians] said, describing for me his thinking at the time. It was a desperate situation and he saw only two choices: quicken their deaths or abandon them. ‘‘It was actually to the point where you were considering that you couldn’t just leave them; the humane thing would be to put ’em out.’’
Fink describes the back and forth between members of the hospital staff. The thinking brought the doctors into a discussion of “euthanasia,” which was illegal at that time. Many doctors at first rejected the idea.
On September 1, the fourth day, the evacuations took a turn for the better. Boats and helicopters began to arrive. But as the evacuation continued, senior hospital staff continued to face tough choices, including how to evacuate the patients they had placed in category three. Exhausted hospital staff could not carry these patients down several flights of stairs, the doctors reasoned. While evacuations continued, no one arrived to help with that specific task.
Fink reports that Cook believed many of these patients were “chronically deathbound.” The report continues:
Cook said he told Pou how to administer a combination of morphine and a benzodiazepine sedative. The effect, he told me, was that patients would ‘‘go to sleep and die.’’ He explained that it ‘‘cuts down your respiration so you gradually stop breathing and go out.’’ He said he believed that Pou understood that he was telling her how to achieve this. He said that he viewed it as a way to ease the patients out of a terrible situation.
Fink goes on to describe how the policy was implemented within the hospital. How some felt as though LifeCare patients in particular were targeted. How some wrongly assumed that the hospital had been taken over by martial law. And how some “had never seen a physician look as nervous as Pou did.”
According to Fink:
Patients were hot and uncomfortable, and a few might be terminally ill, but [King] didn’t think they were in the kind of pain that calls for sedation, let alone mercy killing. When he saw Pou with the syringes, he assumed she was doing just that and said to anyone within earshot: ‘‘I’m getting out of here. This is crazy!’’ King grabbed his bag and stormed downstairs to get on a boat.
Karen Wynn (played by Adepero Oduye), the I.C.U. nurse manager defended the decision. Fink reports:
Wynn told me that at that point all the staff could offer was ‘‘comfort, peace and dignity.’’ She said: ‘‘We did the best we could do. It was the right thing to do under the circumstances.’’
She added: “But even if it had been euthanasia, it’s not something we don’t really do every day — it just goes under a different name.’’
By 9 p.m. that day, the hospital was evacuated. Then, on September 11, 2005, mortuary workers entered the hospital. There, they discovered 45 bodies. Investigations ensued, centered on “allegations of patient abandonment and euthanasia.” Fink reports that one of the people who called the authorities was a lawyer for LifeCare, who said that a possible nine people had been “given lethal doses of medicines by a Memorial doctor and nurses.”
Autopsies quickly followed. Once they were finished, morphine was found in the bodies of those same nine people named by LifeCare. Investigations continued. And on July 17, 2006, Pou was arrested. Two nurses, Cheri Landry and Lori Budo were also arrested. Carrie Everett, the widow of Emmett Everett, also filed a lawsuit. Fink reports:
“Who gave them the right to play God?” Mrs. Everett demanded. “Who gave them the right?”
The story made its way into national headlines. Medical experts weighed in. The public, Fink notes, supported Pou and the other doctors’ heroic efforts. A grand jury convened in March 2007. Dr. Frank Minyard, who performed autopsies, testified. Fink reports:
Minyard told me that in the end, he decided that four of the nine deaths on the seventh floor were homicides, including Emmett Everett and Rose Savoie. Until now, he has never publicly revealed that conclusion. He also said of Pou, “I strongly do not believe she planned to kill anybody, but it looks like she did.”
Pou faced 10 potential charges, including second-degree murder. The jury had to decide whether Pou, Fisk writes, had a “specific intent to kill” and thus should be indicted. On July 24, 2007, the jury opted not to indict on any of the ten counts.
Fink, through both her book and subsequent reporting, has continued to tell the story of those five days. In the years that have followed, the events of that day have sparked debates among members of the medical community, ethicists, and the public at large.
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Synthetic mast-cell granules as adjuvants to promote and polarize immunity in lymph nodes.
Granules of mast cells (MCs) enhance adaptive immunity when, on activation, they are released as stable particles. Here we show that submicrometre particles modelled after MC granules augment immunity when used as adjuvants in vaccines. The synthetic particles, which consist of a carbohydrate backbone with encapsulated inflammatory mediators such as tumour necrosis factor, replicate attributes of MCs in vivo including the targeting of draining lymph nodes and the timed release of the encapsulated mediators. When used as an adjuvant during vaccination of mice with haemagglutinin from the influenza virus, the particles enhanced adaptive immune responses and increased survival of mice on lethal challenge. Furthermore, differential loading of the particles with the cytokine IL-12 directed the character of the response towards Th1 lymphocytes. The synthetic MC adjuvants replicate and enhance the functions of MCs during vaccination, and can be extended to polarize the resulting immunity.
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Tyrone Power, in full Tyrone Edmund Power, (born May 5, 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died November 15, 1958, Madrid, Spain), American actor who became a matinee idol in the 1930s and ’40s and was best known for his action-adventure film roles.
Power was born into a theatre family. His Irish great-grandfather and namesake, Tyrone (1795–1841), was a popular actor and comedian; his granduncle Maurice (died 1849) a Shakespearean actor; and his father, Frederick Tyrone (1869–1931), an actor onstage and in Hollywood. His mother (1882–1959) also worked as a stage actress under the name Patia Power and as a drama coach. Tyrone’s initial attempts to establish a movie career were unsuccessful, and he moved to New York City to gain experience on the stage. Power made his Broadway debut in 1935 in Flowers of the Forest, and later that year he was cast as Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet. His appearance in Saint Joan in 1936 led to an offer from Hollywood, and he signed with 20th Century Fox later that year.
Power was cast in minor roles before achieving his first motion-picture success with Lloyd’s of London (1936), in which he played the lead. This was followed by starring roles in a series of hits in diversegenres. He appeared in romantic comedies that included Thin Ice (1937), Café Metropole (1937), Second Honeymoon (1937), and Day-Time Wife (1939), as well as the musicals Alexander’s Ragtime Band(1938), Second Fiddle (1939), and Rose of Washington Square (1939). Power’s dramas included Suez (1938), In Old Chicago (1938), The Rains Came (1939), and Blood and Sand (1941). He also starred in the westerns Jesse James (1939) and Brigham Young (1940), the film noirJohnny Apollo (1940), and the war pictures A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) and This Above All (1942). He was especially noted for the swashbucklers The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Black Swan (1942).
After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, Power returned to the screen in such vehicles as The Razor’s Edge (1946), Nightmare Alley (1947), Prince of Foxes (1949), The Black Rose (1950), The Eddie Duchin Story (1956), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). He died while filming Solomon and Sheba on location in Spain.
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The loudest documented sound on Earth was the 1883 eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. It could be heard across 10 percent of Earth’s surface.
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Homeowners within 250 feet of Lake George in Warren, Essex and Washington Counties could be eligible for New York State funds to replace aging or failing septic systems.
The state’s Septic System Replacement Program recently received $15 million in new funds to protect a greater number of rivers, reservoirs and lakes, Lake George among them.
“The Replacement Program is incentivizing New Yorkers living in sensitive watersheds to upgrade failing septic systems,” said Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos. “The new infusion of funds will ramp up a partnership program with participating counties, facilitating the improvement of water quality in hundreds of communities across the state.”
Lake George was included in the expanded list of qualified water bodies only because of the efforts of Supervisor Claudia Braymer, Assistant to County Administrator Tammie Delorenzo and Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky, said Wayne LaMothe, director of Warren County’s Planning Department.
According to LaMothe, qualified homeowners will be reimbursed as much as $10,000 for the cost of replacing their septic systems.
Of the $15 million in new funds for septic system improvements, Warren County has been allocated $340,000 for Lake George residents, LaMothe said.
Owners of second homes are among those eligible for reimbusements, said Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky.
With existing, new or proposed laws requiring on-site septic systems to be inspected and in compliance with state and local standards before a property is sold or otherwise conveyed, the release of new funds is timely, said LaMothe.
Officials will seek to determine if residents with septic systems within 250 feet of Lake George’s major tributaries are also eligible for reimbursements, LaMothe and Navitsky said.
Warren County’s new assistant planner, Ethan Gaddy, will administer the program, LaMothe told the Board of Supervisors’ Economic Growth and Development Committee on April 20.
At that meeting, the Supervisors recommended that Warren County dedicate $10,000 per year for five years to manage the program.
“This represents our county’s investment in our lake and in water quality,” said Warren County Supervisor Michael Wild. “It would be hard to defend any kind of vote in denial of this.”
A direct correlation between leaky septic septic systems and algae growrh was found by Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky in an award-winning study, said Queensbury Supervisor John Strough.
Navitsky said he stood by that study. The connection between water quality and aging and failing systems is clear, he said.
“Nutrients, especially phosphorus, from leaky septic systems play a major role in causing excessive algae growth in lakes and ponds. We know we have antiquated systems too close to surface water, and as a result, we’re seeing increased nutrient loading and increased algal growth,” said Navitsky.
New York State’s Septic System Replacement Program is one of a growing list of similar initiatives also offering incentives to property owners willing to upgrade their on-site wastewater treatment systems.
Queensbury Supervisor John Strough noted that The Fund for Lake George has allocated tens of thousands of dollars to assist homowners in the Dunhams Bay wastewater management district replace their aging systems.
The Fund has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding signed in August, 2019, by the Lake George Town Board and The Fund for Lake George, residents who agree to have their septic systems inspected and maintained will be eligible for grants to have them modernized and improved.
The Fund for Lake George has also launched a partnership with the Glens Falls National Bank and the Adirondack Trust Company two local banks to to provide low and in some cases no interest loans to homeowners looking to replace their on-site wastewater treatment systems.
Michael Wild, who is a member of the Warren and Washington Development Agency, said that group is considering offering tax relief to resorts willing to upgrade their systems.
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Islamic State propagandists are reportedly trying to exploit social media app TikTok as a recruiting tool. The Wall Street Journal says social media monitoring agency Storyful recently identified around two dozen ISIS-related accounts, all of which have since been removed. The accounts posted videos aimed at recruiting followers and bolstering support for the terrorist group — featuring Islamic State anthems and footage of corpses and ISIS fighters.
It’s not clear how big a presence ISIS has on TikTok. Terrorist propaganda is a perennial issue for social media platforms. Companies like Facebook and Google share a database of known terrorist imagery that can be automatically removed when it’s detected online. They’ve also faced (and won) several lawsuits for allowing it even temporarily on their platforms. Facebook said in September that it removed more than 26 million pieces of global terrorist propaganda over the past two years. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about how much terrorist content TikTok finds and takes down.
The accounts that Storyful identified also appear to be relatively small. The Journal identifies one video as earning 68 likes and some accounts as having around 1,000 followers; Storyful didn’t immediately confirm whether that’s typical of the accounts’ popularity, or whether these are the first accounts they’ve found on TikTok.
TikTok videos circulate largely thanks to TikTok’s recommendation algorithm. And in this case, it’s not clear that the algorithm is promoting ISIS content, just that this content exists on the hugely popular platform. However, as the Journal notes, TikTok has a young user base and is known for lighthearted, joke-y content — sometimes to the point of alleged political censorship. So there’s an added incongruity when it’s used by terrorists. | <urn:uuid:118dbc38-50f6-48b1-b98f-5561d9211b25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/21/20925416/tiktok-islamic-state-terrorist-propaganda-recruitment-account-videos?utm_source=gunlukbulten.com&utm_medium=referral | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.936223 | 383 | 1.5 | 2 |
Vendor Spotlight: Mini Stitches
Pantaloons, playsuits and ra ra skirts – these might not be the first words which come to mind when the subject of women’s empowerment arises, but think again.
Innovative children’s clothing brand Mini Stitches are showing how to use business to nurture a diverse community, all while dealing in soft stripes and geometric prints.
The East London social enterprise empowers disadvantaged women in the area by providing employment, training and English classes. Each Mini Stitches item is unisex and produced largely by Bangladeshi women from Tower Hamlets in East London, with up to 75 per cent unemployment in their community.
Responding to a growing demand for ethically-produced clothing in the UK, the charity designs on-trend kids’ clothing and reinvests the profits straight back into the services they offer.
— Mini Stitches London (@MiniStitchesLdn) July 3, 2018
Using only ethically-sourced materials and fabrics in the manufacture of their contemporary collection, Mini Stitches was born out of charity Stitches in Time which has been behind creative projects in the area for 20 years.
With clothes made to last, their quality garments are crafted to be passed from generation to generation – further reducing the waste produced by their small-scale operation.
But while the team behind Mini Stitches is pioneering a fresh vision in the fashion world, their goals extend well beyond industry parameters.
Women’s self-development is the name of the game at Mini Stitches. The social enterprise was carefully designed to tackle the root causes of unemployment among Bangladeshi women in the area such as a lack of work experience and too few qualifications.
As well as receiving industry-standard training, their female workforce are also given access to English classes, I.T. support and mentoring opportunities. The collaborative space also helps women build confidence and set personal goals while fostering relationships in their community.
“As this community-made, children’s clothing brand develops and grows, so does the women’s ambitions, self-belief and sense of achievement,” said director of enterprise and outreach Katie Adkins.
“Seeing how much they are capable of, individually and collectively, has allowed many women to see their dreams as attainable.”
Mini Stitches also flies the flag for transparency and sustainability – explaining each step of their pricing to potential customers and making the move to hand-woven, environmentally-friendly materials.
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NSW farmer Scott Rutledge is a convert when it comes to the benefits using a front-mounted, self-propelled sprayer provides.
Mr Rutledge had spent years hooking up a trailing boomspray and made the decision to upgrade after sitting in a Miller Nitro sprayer owned by his in-laws.
"Everything is out in front and it's comfortable to use,'' he said.
"There's no need for the tractor and you can see it's just made for spraying.''
Mr Rutledge and his wife Jennifer have two daughters, 18-year-old Lizzy and 16-year-old Sammy.
The family decided to move from a Hardi trailing rig and while they also considered John Deere and Goldacres sprayers, they couldn't go past the front-mounted system.
So they invested in a Miller Nitro 6365 sprayer with the manufacturer's Spray-Air technology.
The Rutledges crop 2000 hectares to canola, wheat, barley, lupins and peas and run a self-replacing Merino flock at their Hazeldell property, between Griffith and West Wyalong.
Sitting in a region that traditionally receives 425 millimetres of rainfall annually, the farm recorded one of its better seasons last year, with canola yields rising to 3.5 tonnes/ha, however continuing late rains impacted wheat crops.
A typical crop rotation can include wheat, canola or a pulse crop, followed by wheat, barley and then fallow, while some other areas return to lucerne pasture or stock country.
The farm sprayer is always kept busy with a constantly changing weed spectrum, but more recently focusing on black oats, ryegrass and wireweed, as well as umbrella grass and fleabane.
Awnless barnyard grass and feathertop Rhodes grass are now increasingly becoming an issue too, and heliotrope, melons and black grass also are targeted over summer.
Weed resistance to glyphosate in some areas is prompting careful management strategies, including the use of Clearfield canola and barley, as well as triazine-tolerant canola.
Most disease, including rusts, is prevented through fungicide applications on seed or fertiliser.
Mr Rutledge said he pre-booked Roundup last July, thinking he would have enough for this season and next year, but most of it was used over summer.
The 36-metre Miller Spray-Air system has brought the bonus of lower water application rates and, in turn, greater hectares covered before tank refills.
"We normally use water rates up to 80 litres in summer, but we came back to 60L last year and 50L earlier this year and we had no issues - it nailed everything. It did a really good job,'' he said.
"We only went with 50L of water with fungicide sprays as well.
"We normally do 80ha to a tank and, as a result, we are now doing 120ha.''
He said they maintained high water rates for certain products like gramaxone to achieve good plant coverage, as well as with high product rates of simazine and atrazine to help hold them in solution.
The Miller Spray-Air system uses air-assist and air-atomisation technology, forming one powerful spray nozzle system.
Operators have fingertip control of the droplet size and speed of the air delivery for any spraying application.
They can consistently atomise spray droplets in a range from 200-500 millilitres per minute per nozzle - spaced 25 centimetres apart.
Mr Rutledge said they sprayed at speeds of 25-28 kilometres per hour, although slowed down when necessary, and there was only limited dust carry in wheel tracks, whereas it was significantly broader with the Hardi boomspray.
He also praised the power of the Miller Nitro sprayer, particularly for its capacity to handle the wet conditions last year, when, at times, he said he should not have been spraying - "but it didn't get stuck''.
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has commenced enforcement activities against substandard steel products in different parts of the country in line with its mandate of ensuring fair trade and protecting the public and environment against dangerous and sub-standard products.
The resumed enforcement exercise follows the expiry of the January 31 ultimatum issued by UNBS to all manufacturers of steel products to recall all substandard products on the market.
During a steel sector meeting on standards held on January 19 convened by UNBS, attended by Steel sector manufacturers and hardware dealers, the following resolutions were made:
- All steel products manufacturers liaise with their downstream supply chains to recall all substandard products by January 31
- Any substandard steel products found on the market starting February 1 will be seized by UNBS.
- Manufacturers of the substandard products will be prosecuted in courts of law
- Substandard materials shall be destroyed at the cost of the manufacturer.
Despite the ultimatum issued, UNBS has so far seized approximately 15,500kgs of substandard ribbed steel bars and hollow sections worth over Shs640 Million in the Kampala Metropolitan area.
The UNBS operations that kicked off in Kampala last week are to continue to different regions in the country.
UNBS developed quality standards for steel products available on its website for public knowledge of good quality construction materials. Some of these include:
- US EAS 412-1; Steel for the reinforcement of concrete — Part 1: Plain bars
- US EAS 412-2:2019 Steel for the reinforcement of concrete — Part 2: Ribbed bars
- US EAS 412-3; Steel for the reinforcement of concrete — Part 3: Welded bars
- US 194-1:2016; Nails – Part 1: Steel nails – Specification
- US EAS 914:2019 – Mild steel nails – Specification
- US EAS 11:2019 – Hot-dip galvanized plain and corrugated steel sheets – Specification (3rd Edition)
- US EAS 468:2019 – Pre-painted metal coated steel sheets and coils – Specification (3rd Edition)
- US EAS 410: 2005 – Hot-dip aluminium-zinc coated plain and corrugated steel sheets – Specification
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Jordanian Hizb ut-Tahrir activist Dr. Mohammad Malkawi said that the Jordanian army is capable of liberating Palestine and evicting the people who came to that land from Europe, Russia, Romania, and America. He made his remarks in an interview that aired on Hizb ut-Tahrir's Al-Waqiyah TV (Lebanon) on May 23, 2021. Dr. Malkawi said that his village has a vantage view that covers all of northern Israel, which would be susceptible to "regular cannons" and tank shells, and this would not require long-range missiles like the ones used to target Israel from Gaza. He added that the same is true for the entire border between Jordan and Israel and that cannons could be placed along the border and their shells would be capable of evading Israel's missile defense systems. Dr. Malkawi, who currently lives in Jordan, was a lecturer in universities in both the U.S. and Jordan. He is also the founder of the Chicago Hizb ut-Tahrir chapter, see also MEMRI TV clip Nos 3908 and 4882.
Dr. Mohammad Malkawi: "I want to speak from my heart. I live in a place, where from the top of my house, I see the entire northern Palestine. Five to six kilometers from where I live there are heights, it is like a mountain, that stands literally on top, dominating the entire northern Palestine, which is called part of the State of Israel, today. That does not require long-range missiles or rockets like the ones in Gaza. The distance between my home, my village, the place I live in, and the farthest place in Palestine, in our area, is less than 30 km. It's a distance for regular cannons, regular tank shells.
"You don't even need the big airplanes and the rockets. And these places, along the border of Jordan, now I am talking about my area. Now, if you talk about the entire Jordanian border, it's just like that. The entire so-called State of Israel is [within range] of regular cannons, which are simple to make and simple to use. They can [go] beyond what is called the Steel Dome or the Patriot missiles, because you are shelling directly, this is not something you can intercept.
"What I am saying here is that an army, like in Jordan...I am not talking about Turkey, that has all kinds of F15s and all types of collaboration with the U.S. and Russia. I am not talking about Pakistan with a nuclear weapon. I am not even talking about Egypt, which has a much larger army. I am talking about a small country like Jordan.
"I know, and I am very certain, that an army like the army of Jordan, alone, without the help of Syria, Egypt, or anyone else, can liberate Palestine, and can evict all of those who came from Europe, Russia, Romania, and America to that land. They will run away without any hesitation, once they see that at least one army is willing to launch a war." | <urn:uuid:15bd72b8-cd00-44f7-80c4-d18ec28738a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.memri.org/tv/jordanian-ht-mohammad-malkawi-army-capable-liberating-palestine-evicting-europe-russia-romania-america | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970564 | 642 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Democracy promotion in the countries of the former Soviet Union is now a well-established policy in many Western institutions.
For more than two decades, the European Union (EU), the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and even the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have developed specific tools and policies aimed at supporting and assessing democratization processes in this region.
The outcome of these efforts has been far from homogeneous or clear, and the transition is far from being a linear process. The current context, in 2017, presents these institutions and Western societies with important questions regarding the relevance of old policies and practices. Is democracy promotion worth-while in a contested international setting? Under accusations of false universalism and self-interest by Western states and institutions, is there intrinsic worth in supporting democracy and human rights abroad? Can meaningful partnerships be established with elites and societies in Eurasia to make democracy a local reality?
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10 Ingenious Unexpected Uses for Baking Soda
Try it: Line a pan with aluminum foil and add in your tarnished silver, being sure that the silver is touching the aluminum. In a separate pan or kettle, heat water to a boil. After it's boiling, add one cup baking soda per gallon. Then, pour the water and baking soda mixture over the silver until it is covered. Depending on the level of tarnish, you may need to repeat the process.
Why it works: When silver combines with sulfur, it creates a thin layer of silver sulfide, which we see as "tarnish", says Rodney Schreiner, Senior Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Department. Baking soda assists in a chemical reaction that transfers the sulfur from the silver to the aluminum. | <urn:uuid:9394f5a3-df0f-4120-b3ea-69ba984db484> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oprah.com/home/uses-for-baking-soda-omelets-antacid/7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.886646 | 165 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Points To Note On Trade Schools And Vocational Schools
Nowadays the popularity of trade and vocational schools are rising in popularity as so many students are interested in enrolling in this type of schools. Vocational schools put all the focus on the curriculum so that they can teach students the skills that they require in order to succeed in their careers. It really important for you to know that most of the courses that are sort out vocational schools are usually short courses which take around two years in order for you to earn your diploma or certificate while else in a college you have to study for 4 years so that she can earn your undergraduate certificate.
The benefits of joining a vocational school is that students study the important stuff which help them acquire marketable skills which place prepare them a lot by the time they start working. These courses usually take around two years, and students are usually taught so many things, and they also do go for internships which will help them have a better idea of what is expected of them when they start working. People used to have the mentality that if you join a vocational school, it means that you failed in high school, and this is actually not true. Vocational schools usually do not off-white color job courses, and they mostly focus on high skilled labor courses, and the best thing about these courses is that nowadays they are the ones which are in so much demand thus people never lack jobs.
Nowadays so many people have put all their focus on vocational colleges because the courses that the schools are teaching are in so much demand in the industry and it is very hard for you to lack a job unless you want to be an entrepreneur. There is so much competition in White Collar jobs, and it is quite unfortunate because so many undergraduates nowadays are unemployed. If you have already earned your degree and you have InterCoast stayed at home for a very long time you should think about changing your career, this decision is something that you won’t regret, and if you choose to join a vocational training you definitely benefit a lot from this decision in future. Just like any other school there are a couple of requirements that you have to qualify in order to take a course in the school for example you need a high-school diploma or a GED. Before you join a vocational school make sure that you do a little bit of research about the school so that you can get to know a couple of things, for example, the type of courses they offer and if there is such a school near your town.
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How to Choose the Best Lawyer
You can hire a lawyer for a number of reasons. Some of the reasons why people look for the services of a lawyer include to sign contracts, filing important documents and to settle employee issues. You will also get the help that you will need when you hire the best layer. Before hiring a lawyer you will need to make some important considerations. You should think about the experience of the lawyer as well as the experience of the lawyer will go a long way towards helping you find the best lawyer. Before hiring an employee lawyer you should consider the following crucial things.
Before you hire a lawyer it is very essential to think about the specialty of the lawyer you want to hire. It is worth noting that lawyers practice different niches. Whereas some lawyers specialize in federal criminal law charges, other specializes in different fields such as divorce law, personal injury law as well as business laws. As such, it would only be wise to think about the legal services you need before you hire a lawyer. As a result you will have to find an employee lawyer to settle your employee case amicably.
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Topmost Tips for Selecting the Right Storage Unit for You
When you have the plans of getting a storage unit or facility, you need to put some factors into consideration that will help you in getting the right ones and by reading this article will find some of these.
When you are planning to get a storage unit for your goods or stuff, one of the primary factors that you should consider is the length or period of time you’re going to be keeping your stuff. For highly perishable goods you need a storage facility that has got ventilation in it in order to ensure that your good will not go bad neither will they be tampered with by the conditions in the storage facility. You should make sure that the storage unit to pick can offer you more space which you will be using when trying to get reach to some of your items that you will need to be using frequently.
You should ensure that you understand the size of your belongings or stuff, so that you will get a storage facility that suits your stuff well, this is due to the fact that every storage facility has gone it’s all different price according to its size and if you are not keen you will lose money while paying more for less. Another thing that you should also look at if the security of the facility and so you are supposed to look at things such as CCTV cameras and the guards who are patrolling the area each time in order to confirm that you are staff will be well secure. There are other factors or measures that the storage facility should be employed in order to keep your stuff more secure such as having fire protection systems and also using proper locks in the facilities as this will also confirm to you that your stuff will be protected or secure.
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Importance of Meditation Retreats
Every so often, you find that it is huge for individuals to isolate from their clamoring lives and stress of its demands so they may in all likelihood scan for tranquility within themselves and get the chance to grasp their inner personality. One of the ways in which individuals get an opportunity to achieve this goal is by attending some of the top meditation retreats that are available which can give them a chance to rejuvenate and also redefine themselves. In this dialogue, we are going to take you through a great ride which will exhibit to you how you can extraordinarily profit by the meditation retreats. One of the habits by which individuals get an opportunity to achieve this goal is by setting off to some of the top meditation retreats that are available which can enable them to reestablish and besides reconsider themselves. Meditation retreats likewise furnish people with successful fixation which enables them to have the option to finish errands all the more proficiently and effectively since they get the chance to dodge the various innovative diversions.
A large portion of the general population is commonly shelled with involving timetables and significant work to a degree they scarcely get time to have some concordance and peacefulness which can assist them with associating with their inner personality which furthermore enables them to get others. A good meditation retreat enables you to be able to spend time listening to your body’s needs which gives you an opportunity to widen up your horizons and get to meet with like-minded individuals who you share with similar ideas. Concerning calm reflection, you find the opportunity to experience physical, energetic and mental quality which empowers you to have the choice to meet and outperform your targets.
Other reflection retreats may include the cleansing retreats which engage many people who experience the evil impacts of different addictive conditions to get a chance to make tracks in a positive direction of becoming sober. It is clear that meditation retreats have proven to be very important in the majority of individuals who have had the chance to take them and in the end they have been able to see major differences in their lives and those around them. With the correct meditation retreat, you can likewise get the chance to confront your feelings of fear and get the opportunity to conquer them and this will allow you to have a progressively positive life. In this discussion, we have been able to look at a couple of the most important reasons why individuals need meditation retreats.
5 Lessons Learned: Meditation
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It can be difficult to find decent food for a baby – when they hit the one year mark things suddenly get tricky, as you can’t rely on milk alone. You will want to start your little bairn on some actual solids, but it can be tough to get them on side with this plan of action!
So in all, you want something that is both tasty and healthy. And you will need to strike a good balance between “not lumpy enough” and “too lumpy” – it’s complicated! If you’re looking for a little help and guidance, you’ve come to the right place: here are our two favourite baby-friendly recipes. Any little one will love ‘em!
Baby’s Beef Casserole
Though you might think a beef casserole is far too grown-up for a one year old, this one is perfectly suitable, and is a way of getting some much-needed iron into your baby’s system. It requires a fair few ingredients, but it’s worth it – parents can enjoy it too, so long as you don’t puree it!
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 ½ cups steak, in 2cm cubes
- 1 chopped onion
- 1 chopped carrot
- 1 cup diced mushrooms
- ½ crushed garlic clove
- 1 cup beef stock
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 cup tinned tomatoes
- 1 tsp tomato puree
- 2 cups potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 3 tbsp milk
- ¼ cup grated cheese
- Smidge of butter
Heat half the oil in a frying pan, brown the meat and put to one side. Heat the rest of the oil in a saucepan, add in the onion, mushroom and carrot, fry for two minutes then add the garlic for two more.
Flour the veg then add the tomato, puree, stock and beef. Cover this and bring it to the boil, leaving it to simmer for about 2 hours.
Now boil the potatoes, drain them, then mash in the butter, milk and cheese. Blend the meat and veg together and stir them into the tatties. You should have around 6 portions’ worth, enough to feed your little one for a few days, so take ‘em out of that Koochi pushchair, sit ‘em down in their highchair and start feeding!
Pasta Cheese, Please
This one’s quick and easy, and you can even get organic pasta shapes if you want to go that extra mile!
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 cup chopped tomatoes
- ½ cup grated cheese
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 2 tbsp pasta shapes
Steam the carrots until extra tender then grab a second pan and warm up the butter, before adding the tomatoes and sautéing until really soft. Take everything off the heat and mix the cheese with the tommies.
Boil the pasta until it’s soft (no al dente for babies!), then drain it. Puree the carrots with a few tablespoons of the steam-water using a handheld blender. Blend in the cheese and tomato mix, stir that in with the pasta and you have a lovely meal fit for a (baby) king!
What are your favourite baby-friendly recipes? Leave me a comment below and a link to your blog post, if you have written about the topic!
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Fire Service Visit
Attenborough class have had a Hampshire Fire Service visit in school today. The talk began with a video of how quickly a house fire can spread in one room, from no fire at all to flames billowing out of the windows and doors (less than 3 minutes). We all discussed the importance of smoke alarms and making sure they are tested every week.
The children then had the opportunity to see general house hold items and appliances and discuss the dangers they can pose such as a toaster, kettle and an aerosol can; followed by discussing how to keep safe when using these items.
Finally, the children learnt about road safety. We all watched a video after being asked a question to count the number of passes between the players wearing white t-shirts and due to the concentration only 2 children spotted the dancing bear walk across the screen. Remember we can miss things we aren't looking for! Therefore the message to children was to make sure they all wear bright clothing as the days start to get colder and darker as it is hard for drivers to see them if they are in dark colours.
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Low footprint food choices are not the same as vegan food choices in all cases, the analysis is more complex than this. Generally a low footprint diet is local, seasonal food, and limits consumption of red meat, dairy, and some grains. Low footprint food choices are included in the draft Greenest City Action Plan and will be discussed through community engagement activities.
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Pay It ForwardGratitude Challenge
Everyday we invest in and celebrate people all across the globe – individuals with inspiring ideas and incredible hearts – because we believe in the power of people to build a kinder, more compassionate world.
What about the people who believe in you? When was the last time you celebrated that beautiful someone who offered a kind word or a little encouragement? How often have you thought about how grateful you are for that person and then thought, “I’ll tell them later” and never said it?
Well, we’d love to invite you to share some heartfelt words and celebrate the people in your life for being the phenomenal humans they are right now!
Join us for the Pay It Forward Gratitude Challenge.
Here’s how it works.
When you make a donation to The Pollination Project – we’ll send an eCard with a message personalized by you or a fabulous, little video created by you to the person you want to celebrate telling them just how amazing they are! We’ll even post your video on our YouTube page as we create a garden of gratitude.
With one donation – no matter how big or small – you not only celebrate your wonderful global neighbors who are making this world a better place, you celebrate a magnificent someone who has been a light in your life, someone who is doing good just by being who they are.
Friends, family, co-workers, global neighbors, let’s have fun sharing our gratitude in joyful celebration of everyone we care for, then invite them to pass it on and watch the world bloom in kindness and compassion like the most beautiful garden we’ve ever seen.
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Each of University of California’s nine campuses serving undergraduates have now formally announced plans to offer most classes online this fall, as the four-year university system moves forward amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In general, the campuses will deliver the vast majority of classes virtually, except for classes such as science labs and small discussion seminars that are difficult to provide remotely.
At the same time, the universities have also said they will allow
The announcements come as the coronavirus continues to spread across California and the United States. Hospitalizations are increasing in some parts of California, including in Orange and Ventura counties as well as in the San Joaquin Valley, according to the Los Angeles Times. California is also among nine states that on Tuesday registered either new single-day highs in cases of the virus or a record for seven-day new case averages, the Washington Post reported.
Classes across the UC system first transitioned to being delivered virtually in March, as the coronavirus began to spread rapidly across the state.
The plans being put forward by UC campuses for the fall are in line with the expectations set by system president Janet Napolitano, who said last month that “most of, if not all of, our campuses will operate in some kind of hybrid mode.”
The state’s other four-year public university system, the 23-campus California State University, initially appeared to take a stricter approach than UC in limiting in-person classes for the fall. Tim White, that system’s chancellor, made national headlines last month when he said that most classes across the system will be offered online this fall, with limited exceptions for classes that can’t be delivered virtually.
Napolitano did not take the same top-down approach, instead leaving decisions for the fall to each individual campus across the UC system. But as those campuses have released their plans, they appear to be fairly similar to what can be expected across the CSU system, with the majority of classes being taught remotely and a few courses being delivered face-to-face.
Here is what is known about plans for eight of UC’s campuses:
In-person classes at Berkeley will be offered on a limited basis to students “who wish to come to campus,” the university said Wednesday. “Large courses” will be delivered remotely, the university said, but smaller discussion groups that are part of those classes may be available in person. The university is still in the process of determining specifically which classes will have in-person options for the fall and plans to make that information available by July.
In any case, the university will not require any student to take in-person classes or be present on campus. Even courses that offer in-person instruction will also be available “via a remotely delivered method,” according to the university.
A limited number of students will be able to stay in campus housing. Out of more than 30,000 undergraduate students, the university plans to house up to 6,500 students in residence halls. Those students will need to be tested for Covid-19, the disease the virus causes, before moving into their dorms and will be asked to isolate for between seven and 10 days after arriving. Students who will be given priority for staying in campus housing include low-income students, students who have already signed housing contracts, students with disabilities and athletes.
Most courses will be offered virtually at Davis this fall, but some will also be available in person “depending on health guidelines and instructor preference,” according to the university. The university plans to offer in-person instruction for the “small number of courses that cannot be delivered remotely,” including classes that emphasize hands-on learning.
Classes that are offered in-person will be held in classrooms that are bigger than usual.
If county and state health guidelines allow, the university will also allow students to return to campus housing this fall, but residence halls “will have reduced density,” the university said.
Irvine was the first UC campus to disclose plans for the fall, announcing last week that almost all undergraduate classes would be delivered remotely, with exceptions made for labs, clinical courses and some engineering classes.
However, the university does plan to allow students to return to campus. University officials wrote in a letter to students and their families that the university is “committed to providing as many students as possible with a meaningful campus residential experience” and would allow students to stay in dorms with single and double rooms.
UCLA said this week that it expects between 15% and 20% of classes will be offered either in person or with a mix of in-person and virtual delivery. Those classes will include labs, clinical courses, some performing arts classes and other courses that can’t be delivered remotely. The rest of the university’s classes will be conducted online.
The university said it will also offer on-campus housing but at a “lower population density” and will prioritize housing “based on a variety of factors,” including the financial needs of students and the distance between their primary residence and the campus.
Merced is aiming to offer between 20% and 30% of classes in person this fall as part of a blended approach of remote, in-person and hybrid course offerings, the university said last week.
Priority for on-campus housing will go to incoming freshmen, foster and former foster students, students with disabilities and students who are homeless or otherwise housing insecure. Housing that is still available after those students have been accommodated will be offered to other students on a waiting list.
All classes at UC Riverside will be available virtually during the fall quarter. Instructors who want to offer in-person classes can submit requests to do so, but any classes approved for in-person instruction will also need to accommodate students who can’t attend in person.
The university said it expects that a “relatively small number of classes” will be approved for in-person instruction, and that it will prioritize graduate classes and undergraduate lab and studio courses.
On-campus housing will be available to students, “but the density will be lower than normal and is still being determined,” according to the university.
Most classes will be offered remotely — and definitely all classes with enrollments of more than 50 students. At the same time the university says “we still plan to create a meaningful on-campus experience for as many students as we can, particularly those with special circumstances.”
Campus residence halls will be open, but with no more than double occupancy per room. Before returning to campus, students will be required to show that they have tested negatively to the virus, and once there they will be asked to limit social interactions for the first two weeks, and then to stay on campus for the entire quarter which begins on October 1.
Residence halls will impose a strict “no visitor” policy. The university says it will give special consideration in allocating housing “to students in their first year on campus and those with special circumstances. “The number of housing units for graduate students will not be affected.
Students living off campus in Isla Vista are being encouraged to “will carefully explore all options, and be mindful about the importance of physical distancing and reduced density in living situations.” Even in off campus housing, students are advised not to more than two people per bedroom.
UC San Diego, which was the last campus to announce its fall plans, says it will conduct about 30% of classes in-person this fall, the university announced as it formally released its plans for the fall quarter. The university said it will open campus housing to students but, like other campuses across the UC system, will limit housing to single and double occupancy rooms. UC San Diego’s plans are in line with the plans of UC’s eight other undergraduate campuses, which have each said they will hold a limited number of in-person classes and reopen dorms for some students.
UC San Diego also is planning to conduct regular coronavirus testing of students. By doing widespread testing and using interventions such as isolation and quarantine, the university said it expects the program will “lessen the likelihood of a significant outbreak on campus.”
Most courses will be offered remotely this fall, UC Santa Cruz announced Wednesday, but in-person instruction will be provided for a “small number of classes that cannot be delivered remotely.” That includes some lab classes, studio courses and field study courses.
The on-campus housing offered by the university will be significantly reduced, with priority given to “various continuing student populations and new transfer students, who may have a need to be physically present for courses or labs taught on campus,” the university said.
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Illustrative extracts from the writings of Paul P. Ewald and of Max von Laue are presented. The latter in turn contains extensive text contributions from William Lawrence Bragg. These selections we have chosen so as to indicate the nature of the discovery of X-ray diffraction from crystals (experiments undertaken by Friedrich, Knipping and von Laue) and its early and prompt application in crystal structure analyses (by William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg). The platform for these discoveries was provided by a macroscopic physics problem dealt with by Ewald in his doctoral thesis with Arnold Sommerfeld in the Munich Physics Department, which is also where von Laue was based. W.L. Bragg was a student in Cambridge who used Trinity College Cambridge as his address on his early papers; experimental work was done by him in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and also with his father, W.H. Bragg, in the Leeds University Physics Department. Of further historical interest is the award of an Honorary DSc (Doctor of Science) degree in 1936 to Max von Laue by the University of Manchester, UK, while William Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor of Physics there.
- centennial celebration
- discovery of X-ray diffraction
- honorary DSc for von Laue
- Max von Laue writings
- Paul Ewald writings
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Augmented reality has been one of the major technologies which is currently in trend right now. Furthermore, it has been anticipated to get more popular and demanded as AR ready Smartphone and other devices has become more accessible around the Europe. Also, with advancement in AR technology, it is readily available and is also being used in various ways such as various apps helps people to find their car in a crowded parking lot, and in variety of shopping apps allows to try clothes without even leaving home.
As per the report Analysis, ‘Europe Automotive Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Market by Component, Technology, Application, Vehicle Type, Driving Autonomy, and Country 2020-2026: Trend Forecast and Growth Opportunity’ states that Bosch, Continental, DENSO, Garmin, General Motors (GM), HARMAN International, HTC, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Nippon Seiki, NVIDIA, Panasonic, Unity, Visteon, Volkswagen are some of the key companies which are driving the market and has accounted the maximum share in the organized segment. The report also covers an informative competitive analysis of these players on various key factors such as Overview of the Vendors, New Product Launches, Partnerships, Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions and various others.
Moreover, report has an in-depth study of the market and also covers various key topic for better understanding of the market such as market overview, value chain and supply chain, major growth drivers of the market, restraints of the market, developing trends of the products, Porter’s five forces analysis along with the segmentations has been provided in the report at various levels which includes by Component (Hardware, and Software) which is being further segmented by Hardware (Sensors, Semiconductor Component, Displays and Projectors, Position Trackers, Cameras, and Others), and Software (Software Developer Kits, and Cloud Services), by Technology (Augmented Reality (AR) by Technology, Marker-based Augmented Reality (further segmented into Passive Marker and Active Marker), Marker less Augmented Reality (further segmented into Model based Tracking and Image based Processing), by Augmented Reality (AR) by Device (Head-Mounted Display (HMD), Head-Up Display (HUD), Handheld Device, Virtual Reality (VR) by Technology, No immersive Technology, Semi-Immersive and Fully Immersive Technology), by Virtual Reality (VR) by Device (Head-Mounted Display (HMD), Gesture-Tracking Device, and Projector & Display Wall), by application (Manufacturing & Supply, Research & Development, Marketing & Sales, Aftermarket Service, Support Functions & Training, and Other Applications), by Vehicle Type (Passenger Vehicles, Commercial Vehicles) by Driving Autonomy (Conventional Driving, and Autonomous & Semi-autonomous Driving), and many more.
On the other hand, the report also gives a deep analysis on the various geographies such as Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Russia and the Rest of Europe (Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania).
In the near future, it has been anticipated that the Europe automotive AR and VR market will increase at an increasing double digit compound annual growth rate (CAGR), largely due to the growing need for AR and VR technology in automotive industry in the region.
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The internet has become a powerful tool to grow your business. Online advertising is a natural choice for most modern businesses, but banner and web page ads have began to decline. Instead, businesses are turning towards increasingly popular social media solutions.
Social media advertising is a market that wasn’t available 10 years ago, but by 2017, it’s projected to generate over $11 billion in revenue. In contrast, this is up from just $6 billion in 2013—that’s an incredible growth over such a short period. To give you an idea of how fast the internet is growing, take a look at these numbers from 2016:
- Internet users up 10% (332 million)
- Social media up 10% (219 million)
- Unique mobile users up by 4% (141 million)
- Mobile social media users up 17% (283 million)
Target Specific Audiences
Facebook has the largest online audience of any social media channel at over 1.79 billion users, making it a great choice for both small and large businesses. However, the sheer number of people isn’t the only thing that makes it a great advertising channel. The true power of Facebook advertising lies in the amount of data they collect that can be used to target specific audiences.
Social networks gather a huge amount of user information. By correctly utilising this information, you can target your audience with social media advertising in a wider variety of ways compared to other methods like web-page advertisements. More ad relevancy, more clicks, more customers.
Advertise For Smartphones
Smartphone users are the biggest consumers of social media. Mobile users spend the majority of their social media time on phone apps, and most of that time is taken up by either Twitter or Facebook. This means that many social media advertisements are being viewed on mobile devices, and ads have to be designed to fit onto smaller screens.
Simple and eye-catching digital flyers are key to reaching more potential customers. Mobile users are busy people—they won’t read large blocks of text and they’ll only skim through a dense paragraph. Keep it simple, make it memorable, and you’ll see your customer base grow.
Vary Your Advertisements
Repetition is key in traditional advertisements. The idea is to keep a brand or product in the consumer’s mind and build familiarity. Research has proven that messages are more effective when repeated, but that’s only true for media such as television because they interrupt whatever programme you’re watching.
When it comes to social media advertisement, there’s nothing worse than a user opening their Twitter feed and seeing the exact same advertisement over and over again. If you don’t vary your designs and messages, then social media users will mock your repetitive messages and interaction will drop.
The best course of action is to alternate your ads. Keep your designs fresh and simple, but memorable. Users don’t want to read loads of text when they see an advertisement. They probably won’t read it, so make it catchy and simple. Alternate the colours, change the message, or advertise a different product. | <urn:uuid:db45ca8b-1f48-410e-a4e8-2f2ae004a285> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bizzbeginnings.com/how-to-promote-your-business-with-social-media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.920952 | 648 | 1.578125 | 2 |
by David Hacket Fischer
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 564.
Illus., maps, append, historiography, notes, biblio., index. $19.95 paper. ISBN:0-19518-151-X
Washington?s Crossing part of the series ?Pivotal Moments in American History? from Oxford University Press, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2005.
Fischer opens the book with, ?No single day in history was more decisive for the creation of the United States than Christmas 1776,?and then in doing so explains the importance of the moment and sets the reader for an enthralling account of what happened.
Many are familiar with Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze?s painting ?Washington Crossing the Delaware,? but the true story behind the crossing has been told in many different ways, and not all of them accurately. Fischer sets out to set the record straight on the most the critical battles of 1776.
The book shows the plight of the American army well; defeat after defeat, and running instead of fighting. The odds of winning the war looked grim by Christmastime of 1776. Yet Washington, the biggest player in the turning of the tide of war, didn?t give up on either himself or his men, even with all the frustrations. As described in the book, it?s surprising he even survived all the battles, as he wasn?t shy about getting in the front lines.
By Christmas, following several defeats around New York, and being pushed into and across New Jersey, the Continental Army seemed poised to succumb to the British Army. Still, there was a strange optimism brewing. The Patriots seemed to sense that things would change. For one, the people of New Jersey didn?t look kindly on the brutal British and the looting Hessians. Also, the British Army had spread itself out across the state, seeking winter quarters. All of this gave Washington and the ragged Continentals a chance.
The chances of winning on the open field with an amateur army against a group of seasoned troops gave Washington few options. He decided a surprise attack on the Hessians at Trenton. The Hessians are analyzed in detail in the book; but there is one myth that should be forever done in with the publication of Washington?s Crossing: They were not drunk. Continental soldier John Greenwood wrote in his memoir, ?During the battle I did not see a solitary drunken soldier belonging to the enemy.?
The battles come and Washington, seizing the opportunities, decides to stay on the offensive for the most part. After winning the famous Battle of Trenton, there is a Second Battle of Trenton, usually overlooked, where the regulars of the British army were repulsed by the Continentals. And then came Princeton. Washington made his name in this campaign, for after it there could be no doubt that he would forever be remembered in American history.
By focusing on a few months of the war, when the battles could go either way, Washington?s Crossing is a hallmark of historical writing. Fischer brings hundreds of eyewitness letters into the book, using them as evidence of what really happened. The maps are excellent, brought from various libraries; the notes extensive, consuming almost a hundred pages; and Washington?s Crossing has a vast bibliography as well.
In the end, the battles of Trenton and Princeton showed the critical triumph of the indomitable American spirit. Fischer captures how hard the years of misfortune were, and how glorious the Continentals were after the battle of Princeton. The revolutionary war was years from being over, but the superiority of the British army was in question. | <urn:uuid:cf6ce9ef-9c40-4ba2-b745-82356888930c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/320 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.959165 | 752 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Results from the Osteoarthritis and Therapy for Sleep (OATS) study suggest that telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is an effective treatment for older adults with comorbid insomnia and osteoarthritis (OA), potentially opening treatment access to patients in underserved areas.
Roughly 50% of older adults suffer from OA, and more than half of these patients also experience disturbed sleep, making OA-related insomnia a common complaint in this population, Susan M. McCurry, PhD, of the School of Nursing at the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues explained in JAMA Internal Medicine.
And, while CBT-I is the first line treatment for insomnia, it is not widely available, “especially in medically underserved or health professional shortage areas (MU/HPSAs), and patients are rarely referred for treatment.”
McCurry and colleagues set out to assess the efficacy of CBT-I conducted via telephone for treating insomnia symptoms and important comorbidities — pain, depression, and fatigue — versus education-only controls (EOC) among patients with OA.
“Statewide provision of telephone CBT-I improved insomnia among older persons with chronic insomnia and comorbid OA pain,” McCurry and colleagues found. “Treatment effects for insomnia were large, robust, and sustained at 12-month follow-up, with comparable benefits among persons with more severe insomnia and pain symptoms at baseline. The CBT-I intervention also reduced fatigue, indicating improved daytime function. Less robust CBT-I benefits were observed for pain. Differences between the CBT-I and EOC groups for depression were modest and not consistently statistically significant, perhaps because relatively few patients had elevated baseline depression scores.”
They added that, given that approximately two-thirds of the OATS trial cohort resided in MU/HSPAs with limited access to individualized treatment, these findings have major implications beyond the present study population.
“The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic highlights the importance of being able to deliver effective health care remotely through a modality as widely available as the telephone,” they wrote. “The OATS trial telephone CBT-I protocol is readily scalable and provides a template for accessible, individualized, and effective treatment for chronic insomnia comorbid with OA in older adult populations.”
For their analysis, the study authors recruited patients via Kaiser Permanente Washington (KPW) from September 2016 through December 2018. Recruited patients were 60 years of age or older, continuously enrolled at KPW for at least 1 year, and had a diagnosis of OA in the 3 years prior to screening — at initial telephone screening, eligible patients scored 11 or greater on the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) and scored 9 or greater on a two-question Brief Pain Inventory-short form (BPI-sf). Patients were excluded if they had sleep disorders other than insomnia (e.g., sleep apnea), rheumatoid arthritis, active cancer, congestive heart failure, or a diagnosis of cognitive impairment.
McCurry and colleagues conducted blinded assessments at baseline, after 2 months post-treatment, and at 12-month follow-up, they explained. Participants received six 20- to 30-minute telephone sessions over a period of 8 weeks, and the cohort submitted daily diaries and received group-specific educational materials — those randomized to the CBT-I group (n=163) were given instructions including sleep restriction, stimulus control, sleep hygiene, cognitive restructuring, and homework, while those randomized to EOC (n=164) only received information about sleep and OA. Of the 327 randomized patients, the mean (standard deviation) age was 70.2 (6.8) years, 244 (74.6%) were women. Of these, 136 and 146 completed the 2-month post-treatment assessment in the CBT-I and EOC groups, respectively; 119 and 128 completed 12-month follow-up in the CBT-I and EOC groups, respectively.
The study authors noted that participants in the CBT-I group, compared to the EOC group, were more likely to be White (143 [87.7%] in the CBT-I group; 123 [75%] in the EOC group), and be college graduates (86 [52.8%] in the CBT-I group; 72 [43.9%] in the EOC group).
The primary study outcome was ISI score at 2 months post-treatment and 12-month follow-up; secondary outcomes included BPI-sf scores, depression (scored via an eight-item Patient Health Questionnaire), and fatigue (scored via the Flinders Fatigue Scale).
“In the 282 participants with follow-up ISI data, the total 2-month post-treatment ISI scores decreased 8.1 points in the CBT-I group and 4.8 points in the EOC group, an adjusted mean between-group difference of −3.5 points (95% CI, −4.4 to −2.6 points; P< 0.001),” McCurry and colleagues reported.
“Results were sustained at 12-month follow-up (adjusted mean difference, −3.0 points; 95% CI, −4.1 to −2.0 points; P< 0.001). At 12-month follow-up, 67 of 119 (56.3%) participants receiving CBT-I remained in remission (ISI score, ≤7) compared with 33 of 128 (25.8%) participants receiving EOC. Fatigue was also significantly reduced in the CBT-I group compared with the EOC group at 2 months post-treatment (mean between-group difference, −2.0 points; 95% CI, −3.1 to −0.9 points; P≤0.001) and 12-month follow-up (mean between-group difference, −1.8 points; 95% CI, −3.1 to −0.6 points; P=0.003). Post-treatment significant differences were observed for pain, but these differences were not sustained at 12-month follow-up.”
The study authors noted that prior studies of CBT-I for pain, which had smaller samples and less rigorous control groups, have yielded mixed results. “The current study shows that CBT-I was associated with short-term reductions in pain and suggests the possibility of a small and transient reciprocal sleep-pain relationship,” they noted. “However, improvements were not sustained long-term, and further research is needed.”
McCurry and colleagues noted that limiting their study cohort to patients from KPW, as well as the fact that the majority of their cohort was White and nearly half were college educated, may limit the generalizability of their findings. Other limitations included the exclusion of patients with primary sleep disorders other than insomnia, that interventionists were not blinded to treatment assignment, and that outcomes were based on patient self-reporting.
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) delivered over the telephone bested an education-only approach for improving sleep, reducing fatigue, and alleviating pain among older adults with comorbid osteoarthritis (OA) and insomnia, researchers found.
Study authors noted that the CBT-I protocol is “readily scalable and provides a template for accessible, individualized, and effective treatment for chronic insomnia comorbid with OA in older adult populations,” which may improve access to CBT in medically underserved areas.
John McKenna, Associate Editor, BreakingMED™
McCurry and coauthors Zhu, Von Korff, Wellman, and Yeung reported grants from the National Institute of Aging (NIA) during the conduct of the study. Coauthor Morin reported receiving grants from Idorsia and Canopy Health; personal fees for consulting and serving on advisory boards from Eisai, Merck, Pear Therapeutics, Sunovion, and Weight Watchers outside the submitted work; and royalties from Mapi Research Trust.
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Tactics for Combating Militarism
Thank you for joining War Resisters International and the New Tactics community for an online conversation on tactics for combating the militarisation of education, public spaces, vulnerable communities, entertainment and culture, from June 10 to 14, 2013.
Governments and other military actors around the world target youth and other vulnerable communities for military recruitment and service. Simultaneously, the militarisation of public spheres such as space and culture promote the acceptance of the prioritising of military capability and approaches. In response, human rights organizations and other campaigners have developed innovative ways of combating increasing militarisation.
Practitioners are exploring ways to utilize international mechanisms to support the right to conscientious objection - one of the most visible ways of rejecting militarisation. Other practitioners are working to stop the disproportionate targeting of vulnerable communities for military recruitment, such as youth and people of lower income, by raising the awareness of cultural recruitment and creating “military-free schools”.
This conversation was an opportunity for teachers, students, lawyers, peace activists and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences and challenges in combating the culture of militarism in their communities. This event coincided with the International Day of Action for Military-Free Education and Research on June 14.
Summary of Conversation
Tactic examples shared in the conversation:
- At Alternatives to Violence Program (AVP) in Nepal, a nationwide campaign in the name of ‘youth un/employment’ was organized by an ex-combatant Maoist youth leader and now functions like a non-militant NGO.
- In Nepal, a counter-recruitment four-point-plan was executed to ally with the local community, develop the local economy and explore the interconnectedness between human and nature.
- Vermont Action for Peace is currently working on a comic book to show how militarism is hidden in “plain sight” in the US, the hope is to educate young people about the militarized society.
- The Canada Student Loans Program offers students loans to attend college and trade schools, diminishing the number of recruits and suppressing the glorification of military life.
- Confronting your opponent in adversarial ways to shame them, and ways that are more friendly and subtle to open dialogue.
- In Finland, anti-militarists reinterpreted recruitment slogans through a series of posters of Union of CO’s to raise awareness about their militarised culture.
- Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) uses non violence to break the linkages between gender and military, by hosting the Training of Trainers Cycle.
- In the UK, ForcesWatch works to stimulate public debate on the presence of the military in education; Woodcraft Folk started their own ‘Military out of Schools’ campaign to combat the military in the education system.
- Using images to reclaim military symbols and raise critical awareness of militarisation through the reinterpretation of military symbols, such as: Pink tank, flower in the barrell of a gun, a rifle turned into a saxophone on WRI social media, and the white poppy in the UK.
- Iraq Veterans Against the War suggests utilizing veterans to tell their story of their military experience and what it’s like to be in the military and the risks involved.
How can we stop targeted recruiting of vulnerable communities?
Individual participants discussed the reasons behind recruitment and the tools or steps needed to relieve these vulnerable populations in their communities. To begin, it is important to define who the vulnerable community is. The potential recruitment of criminals was discussed by one participant. Another marginalised or minority group targeted by the military may be other-than-straight people. In Egypt, where military service is compulsory, the most vulnerable group is the illiterate who didn’t finish basic education.
Next, it is important to of these communities to join the military. In several countries, the military is seen as a path for social ascent, placing the military in a privileged position with material temptations to offer. In Kenya, high unemployment rates and lack of basic education create marginalized groups that may render a group of people vulnerable. By making basic education mandatory through legislation or increasing job training, young people will be enabled to make informed decision on whether or not to join the military, another participant suggests. These changes require major lobbying of the lawmakers and mature advocacy.
In counter-recruitment, it is critical to have allies. One potential ally may be political parties or independent local social leaders. Another participant recommends utilizing the media as a mass motivator to divert youth from militant or violent psyche towards a peaceful living. If media houses support the idea of de-militarisation, they could provide a platform on which advocates can stand and these actions can be addressed and potentially stopped. In Egypt, potential allies include liberals who believe in freedom, tolerance and peace.
How can we raise critical awareness about the militarisation of culture?
Participants discussed how the local culture promotes the military, activities that were taken to question this militarisation and how these activities functioned. Participants discussed the current situations in Nepal, the United States, Pakistan (more Pakistan), Finland, Macedonia and Former-Yugoslavia and Canada. Each country’s situation is unique; participants describe cultural aspects ranging from national holidays to political money to children’s toys.
In some cultures, where religion plays an important role, some denominations have sought to demilitarize their faith traditions. The role of gender is another very important conversation topic within militarisation. Additionally, another participant commented that some multinational companies are involved in inappropriate financial relationships including payments and investments. Even if we would sometimes like to see these cultural shifts happen quickly, these cultural paradigm shifts may take longer and require a blend of tactics.
One participant commented that Direct Nonviolent Actions may be the first step to using dialogue to combat this carefully orchestrated and seemingly successful structural violence. A participant included that the best way to raise critical awareness is to focus on the youth, before they are able to enlist. This can be done through counter-recruitment by sharing information and holding community events that embrace peace or help youth see the differences between national ideals and a militaristic consciousness. Another participant commented that “counter-recruitment should be performed by strong tough men as well as lanky nerdy folks”, which sparked additional discussion on recruitment.
How can we challenge the military’s influence in the education system?
Participants shared their experiences of the military in educational institutions, including struggles, resources, and potential allies. Participants included the following successful tactic examples, when working in the education system, including:
- Peace Education Programs, such as the Open Minds project or Youth Organization United Through Hope (Youth Can) in Pakistan, aim to reverse the adverse effects of militarism.
- In Spain, an anti militarist group has published documents to orient teachers on Peace Education. They have a blog and a Facebook group (social media tools) which provide documentation to counteract the army’s offer.
- Promoting peace through sports, such as the program “Sports for Peace,” has equipped youth sports teams with equipment and established a network of teams.
- Open Minds Pakistan, a project run by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, aims to provide training in journalism to young people in Pakistani schools and religious schools, and to give them the opportunity to discuss, debate and publish reports on current affairs.
- A fairly simple tool of translating existing materials or training manuals into native or national languages can help educate human rights practitioners.
- New Profile in Israel aims to fundamentally change the education system by changing educational material. The goal is to generate and stimulate a new public discourse and to encourage critical thinking that questions the effects of militarism on society.
- In Egypt, there are public militaristic schools, where students must succeed in a military upbringing subject in high school to be given their basic school certificate of completion. A few students refused to partake in the militarist requirements, brought attention to their cases, and the schools gave them their schooling certificate regardless.
Participants agree that education is critical in the abolition of hatred and violence. One participant commented that a liberal democratic model of civic education in Pakistani schools is needed to promote democratic values, tolerance, gender equality, and civic participation skills. In Kenya, education and defense have a history, and with high levels of unemployment, young people began to embrace the idea of joining the military on a voluntary basis. In Chicago and Spain, participants commented that an increased enrollment in the military was directly correlated with high rates of unemployment and military presence in schools.
In general, there is a strong support for the Armed Forces in the UK, however, in 2008, the National Union of Teachers voted to support those who oppose military recruitment in schools. When working with teachers, one of the biggest challenges is getting ahold of the teachers to train them. While teachers are potential allies, their busy schedules make it difficult to work closely with them.
An additional challenge in the education system may be transparency and access to information. Peace recruiters in Chicago have used the Equal Access decision, a policy adopted by the Chicago Public Schools, to obtain the same access as military recruiters have. Often, the recruiters talk about the bright positive image of what an army can be and fail to mention war or casualties.
When looking for potential allies in the educational system, one participant commented that it is important to reach out to the “general public” and to make connections and alliances between similar movements. Additionally, many successes can be found if you are able to win over the aggressor.
Tools for combating militarisation (from campaign tactics to information websites, ENGLISH)
Participants shared the tools and resources that they have found useful.
- Advice to Those Considering Enlistment: A publication by the Center on Conscience & War.
- The Broken Rife: Queer and Anti militarism: Newsletter by War Resisters’ International (WRI), to stimulate discussion and debate surrounding queer and anti militarism.
- The Broken Rifle: War Resisters’ International newsletter focusing on the issue of countering the militarisation of youth (multiple articles).
- CODEPINK: US activists who attend events and disrupt or confront the speakers directly.
- Countering the Militarisation of Youth: WRI article by Andreas Speak, why the militarisation of youth in particular is an important theme for anti militarists today.
- Countering the Militarisation of Youth - Conference Reader: WRI, reader produced for the 2012 conference of the militarisation of youth (multiple articles).
- Do you Know Enough to Enlist?: Leaflet for counter recruitment, published by the American Friends Service Committee.
- Education against militarism: Blog countering the militarisation of young people, provides resources for schools, 2012.
- International Day of Action For Military-Free Education and Research: 14 June 2013: War Resisters International, a statement and description of actions taking place.
- : A leaflet by The National Youth & Militarism Program of the American Friends Service Committee.
- Masculinities and Militarism: Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) on the connections between masculinities and militarism.
- Military Recruitment in Schools: Shouldn’t exist: A brief, engaged “talking head” arguing against military recruitment in schools in the USA.
- ... Neither shall they learn war...” Isaiah 2, 4 (slide 3): Example of a possible tool that creates awareness within communities by New Profile.
- Nonviolent video games: a google search list.
- Obama’s War on Queer and Trans Youth: War Resisters’ International article discussing Obama’s decisions to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT).
- Setting Up a Penny Poll: National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, directions and examples of a simple activity to educate the population about government spending priorities.
- Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It: War Resisters’ International documents the seeds of war as they are planted in the minds of young people.
- Ten Points to Consider Before you Sign a Military Enlistment Agreement: The National Youth & Militarism Program of the American Friends Service Committee, counter recruitment materials.
- US military recruiting aggressively in high schools - PressTV 110216: New coverage of protests in the USA against military recruitment in schools.
- Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes FY2013: The War Resisters League’s famous “pie chart” flyer analyzes the Federal Fiscal Year 2013 Budget and the 2014 Budget.
Tools for combating militarisation (from campaign tactics to information websites, SPANISH)
- Batidas: Illegal roundups, a tactic that the army uses to recruit youth. The Accion Colectiva de Objetores y Objetoras de Conciencia (COOC) developed a format through which a person gives information about the place, time, person and other data.
- Escuela en Paz (Facebook).
- Informe - OC: War Resisters’ International , information on the status of conscientious objection in different parts of the world.
- Manual para Campañas Noviolentas: Internacional de Resistentes a la Guerra.
- Noticias de la IRG: War Resisters’ International , various articles and resources in English, Spanish, French and German.
- Objetoras de conciencia. Antologia: Book by War Resisters’ International.
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This session will focus on new trends and developments in flipped learning. Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams cofounders of http://flippedlearning.org will present their thinking.
Date: June 10, 2014
Time: 7 am PT and 5 pm PT
Co-founder, Flipped Learning NetworkTM
Jon Bergmann is considered one of the pioneers in the Flipped Class movement. He co-wrote the book, Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Jon believes educators should ask one guiding question: What is best for the students in my classroom? To the best of his abilities, he has done this in his 26 years as an educator. He received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching in 2002 and was named Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year in 2010. He is a co-founder of the Flipped Learning NetworkTM, a nonprofit organization which provides teachers the resources needed to implement flipped learning (http://flippedlearning.org)
Director of Digital Learning , Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA
Aaron Sams has been an educator since 2000 and is currently the Director of Digital Learning at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA. Prior to this he taught science at Woodland Park High School in Woodland Park, Colorado and at Los Altos High School in Hacienda Heights, CA. He was awarded the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching.
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How POC Became the World Leader in Making Gear That Will Save Your Life
With talking helmets and bike apparel with built-in lights, the Swedish brand has developed a reputation as a forward-thinker when it comes to protecting high-speed athletes. Now it's partnering with Volvo to bring psychology into its hard goods.
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POC’s Stockholm headquarters shares many of the same design elements you’ll find in the brand’s products: sleek lines, lots of glossy white, pops of the signature neon orange. Desks crammed with prototype helmets, goggles, and sunglasses line up beneath 20-foot-tall windows overlooking a quiet, trendy neighborhood in the Swedish capital. Miles of technical, rocky singletrack (“testing grounds,” as one engineer called them) wind around the city less than a ten-minute bike ride away. A silver espresso machine sits on a spare white bar in back, doling out the team’s frequent caffeine hits and the daily fika—a national ritual where everyone sits down together to share coffee and cake. If design reflects the identity of a company, as POC founder and former CEO Stefan Ytterborn likes to say, then POC is classic Scandinavian efficiency.
Over the past decade, POC has established itself as the world leader in outdoor safety gear. The company launched in the winter of 2005–2006 with its first helmet, the Orbic. The lid, versions of which are still in the line today, was built to address what Ytterborn thought of as scary deficiencies in the ski-racing helmets of his kids (ages five and six at the time). With soft earpieces, single-impact foam bodies, and easily dentable shells, most were about as effective as Styrofoam when it came to protecting a brain in a high-speed crash. A former racer himself, Ytterborn had watched as ski technology advancements allowed athletes to go faster and higher and events—like the Winter X Games—became more demanding. Key safety accessories weren’t keeping up. “We needed to get into the most critical, demanding segment of the industry: for us, that was ski racing,” he says.
In 2006, after a young, little-known American ski racer named Julia Mancuso won giant slalom gold at that year’s Olympic Games wearing the slick Jetsons-esque hard-shell Orbic, the distinctive lids started appearing at ski hills and race courses throughout the United States. Four years later, POC would add MIPS—a technology said to reduce rotational impacts in a crash—to that ski helmet, becoming the first company to use the design in active-sport gear.
Since then, POC has branched out of ski racing and entered the road and mountain bike markets while continuing to build a reputation for high-performance, innovative safety gear. In 2013, it released the first helmet with a built-in IceDot emergency communication system that’s programmed to send your coordinates to emergency contacts when you crash. The following year, POC debuted mountain bike kits made with protective VPD foam, a material that hardens upon impact, mimicking solid downhill armor without the stiffness or weight penalty. In 2015, POC launched smart helmets that speak with cars and know when the helmet needs to be replaced, as well as a prototype airbag vest for ski racers. Then, in 2016, POC announced a road bike kit with lights incorporated into the fabric as a way to ward off traffic. Since the end of 2014, POC has won dozens of awards, including six Red Dot ones, five from ISPO, and three Gear of the Show honors from Outside.
Now the Swedish brand is shifting its focus once again—toward psychology. “We wanted to study behavior: how people act in a certain situation and what their intuitions are,” says Ytterborn. In practice, that meant developing hard goods designed to influence how people—both the athletes and the people around them—think and act. POC’s AVIP road bike collection (short for Attention Visibility Interaction Protection) is founded on that philosophy. Characterized by bright, blocky contrasting colors and safety tech like VPD foam and ICE emergency communication sensors, these helmets, jerseys, bibs, and sunglasses are designed with safety in mind. “Studies have shown that a white helmet is seven times more visible than a black one,” says Ytterborn. “We took data like that and incorporated it into our road products.”
The road bike line likely holds the most potential. After all, staying safe as a ski racer or mountain biker usually comes down to an athlete’s choice: she has agency to push her limits or not. Road bikers’ safety, on the other hand, is at the whim of the several-ton missiles and their pilots with whom cyclists share the roads. To that effect, POC’s 2016 AID line was built with riders and drivers in mind. The commuting collection includes a handful of products that use digital technology. There’s the Corpora helmet, with a built-in accelerometer and a row of five LEDs on the back that get brighter when the wearer brakes. And POC partnered with another Swedish company, Light Flex Technology, to create a bike vest with a patch of blue and white lights printed on the back to boost the cyclist’s visibility. The Corpora is slated to go on sale this spring, while the vest will come out mid-July. “The technology is scalable, which enables us to build new functionalities on the same platform,” says Johan Weman, manager of digital business and partnerships at POC.
Of course, if you’re trying to keep riders safe on pavement, it helps to partner with the other side: a car company. So the little outdoor company focused on safety decided to work with a big automaker focused on safety: Volvo, whose Gothenburg headquarters are located about 310 miles to the southwest. The partnership falls under the POC Lab group, composed of five experts who provide input on safety designs. Chief among them on the road bike front is Magdalena Lindman, a technical expert in Volvo’s Traffic Safety Data Analysis branch. At Volvo, Lindman’s job is to analyze crash data, determine what went wrong, and then implement design changes to fix the problem. With POC, she offers insight into that data as well as feedback on how to improve riders’ safety. “The first order of business should be to make the rider more visible,” Lindman says.
To that end, POC and Volvo unveiled a Bluetooth helmet in 2015 that could “talk” to cars, emitting a signal when a driver got too close. That particular product was just a marketing stunt, but Weman said the technology exists to make something like that a reality for consumers. The brands are currently working on what they call the Map of Consequences (MOC)—basically an outline of all the dangers cyclists face on the roads and the most common crash situations. While it’s only a concept, the idea is that a POC helmet would be equipped with a device that would let a rider know when, say, a driver is about to open a door in her face by flashing lights in the front of the lid. “MOC is a way of finding out what’s important to work with and what can be done to fix the problem,” says Lindman.
First, POC will need to develop a sensor system to deliver this accurate, live feedback, and then finish some more basic designs, like a more efficient battery pack for the smart helmet. More functionality will require more energy, and Weman says he’s toying with the idea of adding solar panels to future versions of the Corpora. “It’s great proof that we’re looking at the right, real situations,” he says, before heading back to his desk, lined with prototypes. | <urn:uuid:f7c3813a-80c3-497a-989b-ab3ab4e76592> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/bikes-and-biking/how-poc-became-world-leader-making-gear-will-save-your-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.956903 | 1,718 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca. Act of ritual in Tiwanaku.
On November 6 (on the eve of the official swearing-in of the new government), the Aymara and Quechua communities organized and celebrated, in spite of the limitations in times of pandemic, a ceremony of purification and spiritual legitimization for the elected President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and the Vice President, David Choquehuanca, in the magnificent sacred site of Tiwanaku. The mestizo Arce and Aymara Choquehuanca were symbolically empowered as rulers in Tiwanaku.
In the struggles of the indigenous and peasant movements of Bolivia, the practice of spiritual ceremonies is a constant that constitutes the central element of the mystique of resistance and individual and collective perseverance in the struggles.
During the government of Evo Morales, indigenous spiritual rites (integrated with Christian elements) took on a central role in the protocol of government actions, to the extent that for conservative sectors this was interpreted as the “expulsion of the Bible and the crucifixes” from the Government Palace.
This ritual epiphany in the political spaces, specifically promoted by socio-political subjects of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), is harshly criticized by conservative Catholics and evangelicals, even by the supposed Indianists.
Conservative Christians qualify such practices as paganism, witchcraft, etc. The antimasist indianists disqualify them as pachamamismo, folklorism… One of these, in their social networks, even insulted their Aymara brothers as “ignorant” for performing and celebrating a ritual ceremony with Arce and Choquehuanca in Tiwanaku.
Apparently, anti-Muslim Indianists and fundamentalist Christians, share the condition of being inhabited by blind dogmatism, eagerness for protagonism. “If the Indians do not live or practice the truths that we teach, they are ignorant pagans”, seems to be the consensus between conservatives and Indiananists.
Unlike a religion, spirituality is freedom and creativity without limits. Therefore, cultural essentialism has no place in spiritual practice. There are no pure or impure rites, neither by their origin, nor by their method, nor by their elements. Spirituality, and its rituality, unlike religion, is creativity, transgression, innovation in the face of established doctrines or dogmas.
In spirituality, rituals are constantly created and recreated. Therefore, it is not appropriate to disqualify the indigenous ritual praxis for precisely what it is intended to be: to reinvent itself in order to breathe life into the peoples’ struggles for freedom, in accordance with the times.
In this sense, spirituality is and should be a constitutive element of the actions and aspirations of emancipation of peoples. Spirituality is the core of emancipatory mysticism of subaltern peoples.
There is always the possibility that spirituality, whether indigenous or not, is distorted into spiritualism (ritual practice uprooted from reality and from the emancipatory struggles of peoples, manipulated by those in power). But this is not what can be seen in the case of the plural spirituality of the indigenous and peasant movements in Bolivia.
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“Rising five” by Norman Nicholson Essay.
The theme of the poem, “Rising five” by Norman Nicholson is that humans, adults and children, like nature are impatient and are always looking to the future and, in effect, are dead if they do not spend a moment to appreciate what is around them (the present). This theme is demonstrated by means of subject matter, carefully chosen diction, figures of speech, parallel construction and antithetical parallelism.
To demonstrate the theme of impatience the poet begins the poem by quoting the boy when he says “I’m rising five, not four” which also introduces an irony that one so young should measure his life in terms of numbers and look forward to the future when he should have no need to do so.
The word “alive” in the first stanza is also an ironic diction that suggests that the boy is more dead than alive. To make the idea of impatience more clear to the reader the poet also uses parallel constructed refrain at the end of each stanza: “not four, but rising five.
Not may, but rising June. Not day, but rising night. Not now but rising soon. Not living but rising dead,” showing that with impatience death is coming sooner than expected.
To convey the idea that nature like the boy is impatient, rushing quickly for the finish line, to end the season, the poet uses antithetical parallelism: “we never see the flower, But only the fruit in the flower: never the fruit, But only the rot in the fruit.” What the boy does not realize is that nature (the seasons and their specialty for example (spring is the season for the flowers to bloom)) never dies but only returns the next year and will return again and again, but after the boy dies he will be gone for ever.
The fact that we stop being human if we reduce life to numbers is conveyed in the seventh line of the first stanza when the poem reads “fifty-six months or perhaps a week more.” The poet could have chosen to use the words “four years and eight months,” but chose to use the words “fifty-six” to emphasize more on the numbers. Although these words aren’t spoken by the boy it is an emphasis on the usage of numbers, showing that the boy has reduced his life to numbers and therefore is no longer living fully.
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Tell us about yourself
Arun Prasad Kumar (27) currently pursuing a PhD in Earth Remote Sensing and Geo-Information, Technology from the department of earth and space sciences of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology is the only Indian among the 27 winners from more than 90 countries to bag a ‘Green Talents Award’ at the 7th Green Talents 2015.
Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development, hosted yearly by the German federal ministry of education and research (BMBF), calls for applications from all over the world from young visionaries to come up with innovative concepts to make the planet sustainable.
What did you study?
I am interested in applications of Remote sensing and GIS in vegetation, forestry, mineral exploration and hydrology. As I have studied Geography, with Geology in my graduation (Government College, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) as one of the allied subject, I could utilize that knowledge for geological studies also. I have experience in collection and analysis of field data.
My PhD thesis was about the application of contemporary hyperspectral remote sensing and GIS techniques to identify mangrove species in Indian east coast at species level for active monitoring and conservation studies. I used field spectrometer data and hyperspectral images for the analysis using modern classification algorithms.
What do you do?
Arun holds a Master´s degree in Earth Remote Sensing and Geo-Information Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University. In his research, he focuses on species-level classification and biophysical characterisation of mangroves using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, especially in wetlands.
The developed framework classifies different species of mangroves using their spectral properties in hyperspectral satellite imaging. Furthermore, it improved the accuracy of the final output, which eventually helps in estimating spatial extent of species, stress identification and dynamics of invasive species.
In 2015 Arun received the Green Talents award. The jury honoured the way in which his research is both wide in scope and concrete in its application.
Arun’s impressive academic background in Remote Sensing, Ecosystems and Forestry has included five scholarship awards in India from different award-granting institutions and a position as an academic research student at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Department of Space. Now in the fourth year of his doctoral studies in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Mangroves, Arun’s research involves interdisciplinary interests such as mangrove biology, ecosystem management, image classification, machine learning, and pattern recognition. His research focus also incorporates socio-economic awareness initiatives. These offer greater insight to the local community regarding the benefits of mangroves and implement discussions in the area of study. The final objective of the research is to understand the changing dynamics of different mangrove species in the ecosystem, their nature and the consequences of this change, using temporal hyperspectral images.
As a part of his research, Arun has conducted field surveys and collected spectral information from 34 different mangrove species. According to Arun, this new dataset would be helpful for future researchers to identify species by interpreting the spectral characteristics of hyperspectral satellite data. The professional goal of the research is to develop a model that automatically detects the species from hyperspectral satellite image based on the spectral library using pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms. His research work also relates to sustainable science in Germany. The airborne hyperspectral data has been used to a great extent in agricultural applications in Germany for the estimation of production, stress management and dynamics of invasive species in agriculture. This could be extended to forestry applications particularly in temperate forest mapping, fire damage estimation and the identification of illegal logging.
How does your work benefit the society?
Kumar’s thesis focuses on ‘species-level classification and biophysical characterisation of mangroves using hyperspectral remote sensing’. “Survival of mangroves and coastal ecosystems are important to reduce carbon dioxide in our atmosphere which ultimately leads to greener environment. Mangroves act as natural barriers or buffer zones against natural disasters such as storm surges, tsunamis and strong winds. Mangroves have very strong and complex root system which attaches to the soil very strongly and protects the people living near it. Such root systems also prevent coastal erosion,” says Kumar. The thesis also incorporates socio-economic awareness initiatives to give more insight to the local community regarding the benefits of mangroves and to implement conservation activities in the study area.
As the part of the application process, Kumar was asked to fill in his personal information, details of his scientific background, scholarships/ awards and honours to his credit, research experience, publications list and his motivation for research. “We had to write about the prospects and perspectives of our research work in sustainability and how we relate our work to sustainability research in Germany.”
“As my research is closely related to the environment and sustainable development, I feel it helped me to be successful in the selection process. The proposal regarding our research problem and motivation to apply for Green Talents event that we submitted was really important. We had to relate our work with ongoing research in our field in Germany and had to mention that how our work would contribute to their research,” Kumar added.
Kumar has largely worked in the Bhitarkanika National park located in Kendrapada district in the northeastern part of Odisha. “I had presented a summary of the research work I had done in the last four years in my online application and submitted the online application on June, 2015.”
How was your experience in Germany?
While in Germany Kumar visited several Companies (Henkel, ThyssenKrupp steels etc) and Research Organisations (KompetenzZentrum – Wasser Berlin, Fraunhofer FOKUS, TU Berlin, Ecologic Institute Berlin) that made him realise how serious the companies were about environmental issues and how intensively they pursued research in sustainable development and environmental policy making. “As a part of a scientific tour, they took us on city tours in Berlin and Dusseldorf which was actually a great experience to explore their culture, food and customs.”
Kumar was presented the award signed by the Federal minister for education and research, Government of Germany. As one of the winners, he also attended a full two-week programme during October 17 to October 31 this year and now has an opportunity to go back to Germany for a fully-funded research stay for three months in any German university / institution, company or organisation in the following year. “We have been given time to decide the host and organisation where we can do our research stay next year. We have to inform “Green Talents” organisers about our host and time of our research stay a month prior to that. I have to start my research stay before December 31, 2016.”
Kumar is at present working on his research study which will be finished by February 2016 and it takes another three to four months for its evaluation. So after evaluation once his research work is published he will go to Germany for further research depending on the evaluation results. He would work on which university to go in Germany post February 2016 once free from his research study, he says. | <urn:uuid:5629a97a-87eb-4d39-9500-b139f2c91944> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theinterviewportal.com/2019/08/16/remote-sensing-professional-interview-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.957178 | 1,520 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Resolving identity theft problems in Virginia
We always hear news about identity theft happening in the big states like New York, but identity thefts can occur also in quiet places like Virginia, though they draw very little notice.
While we may not hear much about it, the ordeal for Virginians who become victims of identity theft is just as painful and occurs all too frequently.
The problem of identity theft in Virginia
Virginia may be a nice state filled with polite people, but politeness doesn't keep your identity from getting stolen. In fact, for the Virginia residents whose identities were stolen, such politeness -- at least in providing unprotected personal information -- could be considered a misplaced virtue.
Among the 50 states, Virginia ranks seventeenth highest in identity theft!
Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
As you can see, identity theft is a serious problem in Virginia. Thankfully, the Commonwealth of Virginia does not take the crime of identity theft lightly.
All identity thieves caught in this state will be fined and/or imprisoned. If you want to know more about how these criminals are punished, read this excerpt from the Code of Virginia:
Of course, if you are an identity theft victim from Virginia, that's probably not your main interest. Sure, you want to see justice done. But most likely you want to know how to fix your end of the problem.
ScamBusters.org is here to help you do just that.
Excellent identity theft resources in Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia is committed to protecting its residents from identity theft. They offer a booklet called How to Avoid Identity Theft - A Guide for Victims of Identity Theft that tells you everything you need to know and do to keep yourself protected.
On the back of that booklet you'll find an Identity Theft Affidavit that will make your life much easier. Here's how.
You simply give this affidavit to any of the businesses you think should know about your problem and - presto! -- you're saved from filling out the stacks of paperwork that other states require from their identity theft victims.
You can read a copy of that guide here:
Virginia also helps its resident identity theft victims with an innovative passport program. If you become a victim of identity theft, this passport will help you avoid any legal repercussions from your stolen identity.
If you want to learn more about how Virginia protects its citizens from identity theft, you can also visit the Commonwealth of Virginia website:
Identity theft is a very serious problem, and it's bound to make you mad -- but it doesn't have to ruin your life.
Virginia offers a wide variety of identity theft resources that can make a huge difference in how you handle your problem. If you are a Virginia identity theft victim, just visit the websites we've suggested and you'll have all you need to put your life back in order.
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Despite the audible sounds of crickets filling the silence, there were no uncomfortable moments. Despite slides of duck reproductive organs and fish relations, there were no blushing faces.
Despite it being the night before Valentine’s Day, there were no bashful people.
It was time to Wait, Date, and Mate!
It was another warm February day, when people entered the extraordinarily unique venue of Invisible City in Denver. Attendees scurried their way to the bar to grab a delectable cocktail before turning to see the beautiful space.
Laid out, were dozens of plants interspersed with strange spatial pieces like chests, glass tables, and loveseats (pun intended). Around the corner, attendees meandered from room to room to find a shower with stairs, a balcony with a bedroom, and a basement with a maze of tunnels.
All the while, a jazz band played the sonorous sounds that compel people to move swiftly.
Tables with terrariums of crickets and glass beakers of guppies were presented before attendees where they could observe the sporadic movements of some of life’s simplest of species. Then, before they could drain their second drink, the night’s host, Robin Tinghitella took to the stage.
A behavioral ecologist at the University of Denver, Robin runs an animal behavior lab with her grad students where they study how changing environments affect animal communication and behavior.
Beginning with the five lessons of love from the animal kingdom, Robin described the many ways that animals woo their mates and extend the longevity of their offspring. Methods of the wooing garnered several laughs as the night went on.
From male crickets who use “wing-man” tactics to attract a female and then steal her in the last moment, to bowerbirds who build elaborate, colorful nests to land a mate in the sack, it became evident that animals “do some weird things to get laid.”
It was almost impossible not to see the parallels which humans share with their fellow animal species to attract mates. Although we humans see ourselves as civilized, we are still capable of doing some strange things in order to find the one.
Women who practice selectivity based on male hierarchy arguably happens in every bar in the world. Males who build elaborate nests could be construed as resource accumulation which suggests a higher likelihood of survival for offspring – in the human and animal world (both of which are synonymous).
No matter what the animals do, it was, in some way, attributable to our human tendencies.
Robin ended her compelling presentation with deeper clarity that exists both in the animal kingdom and human civilization.
The night then progressed into a mixture of conversations, observations of crickets mating, and endless laughter. As people began leaving the rambunctious atmosphere, it was clear that each was a little nerdier, a little clearer, and a little more lovable of the human world to which they would return.
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A caption on the print states that it is "From a portrait painted at the age of forty."
April 11, 1721|
Zauchtenthal, Moravia (present day Suchdol nad Odrou, Czech Republic)
November 17, 1808 (aged 87)|
(near Gnadenhutten, Ohio)
|Occupation||Missionary, Clergyman, translator|
David Zeisberger (April 11, 1721 – November 17, 1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans tribes who resided in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts to Christianity in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio; and for a time, near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario.
Zeisberger was born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia (present day Suchdol nad Odrou in the Czech Republic) and moved with his family to the newly established Moravian Christian community of Herrnhut, on the estate of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in the German Electorate of Saxony in 1727. However, when his family migrated to the newly established colony of Georgia, Zeisberger remained in Europe to complete his education. In 1738, he came to Georgia in the Thirteen Colonies, with the assistance of governor of Georgia James Edward Oglethorpe. He later rejoined his family in the Moravian community at Savannah, Georgia. At the time, the United Brethren had begun a settlement, merely for the purpose of preaching the gospel to the Creek Indians. From there he moved to Pennsylvania, and assisted at the commencement of the settlements of Nazareth and Bethlehem.
In 1739, Zeisberger was influential in the development of a Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and was there at its dedication on Christmas Eve 1741. Four years later, at the invitation of Hendrick Theyanoguin, he came to live among the Mohawk. He became fluent in the Onondaga language and assisted Conrad Weiser in negotiating an alliance between the Thirteen Colonies and the Iroquois in Onondaga (near present-day Syracuse, New York). Zeisberger also produced dictionaries and religious works in Iroquoian and Algonquian, making him the father of Lenape writing
Zeisberger began as a missionary to Native American peoples following his ordination as a Moravian minister in 1749. He worked in Kuskusky among the Lenape (Delaware) of Pennsylvania, focusing his efforts on converting as many Indians as possible to Christianity. He was the senior missionary of the United Brethren (as the Moravians sometimes referred to themselves) among the Indians. His relations with the British took a turn for the worse during the American Revolutionary War (as they suspected he was providing aid to the American patriots, and in 1781 he was arrested and detained at Fort Detroit. While he was detained, ninety-six of his Native converts in Gnadenhutten, Ohio were brutally murdered by Pennsylvania militiamen, an event known as the Gnadenhutten Massacre.
After Zeisberger was released, violent conflicts with other Native tribes and the expansion of white settlement forced many Moravian Christian settlements to relocate to present-day Michigan and Ontario. A large group of Munsee moved there in 1782, but Zeisberger later returned to live the rest of his life among the Native converts remaining near the village of Goshen (in present Goshen Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio). Zeisberger spent a period of 62 years, excepting a few short intervals, as a missionary among the Indians. He died on November 17, 1808 at Goshen, Ohio, on the river Tuscarawas, at the age of 87 years. Zeisberger is buried in Goshen.
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- "Official Site of the Delaware Tribe of Indians » Frequently Asked Questions About the Lenape or Delaware Tribe". http://delawaretribe.org/blog/2013/06/26/faqs/#Missionaries.
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- Gail Hamlin-Wilson, Nancy K. Capace, Donald B. Ricky. Encyclopedia of Ohio Indians. ISBN 0-403-09332-5).
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- James H. O'Donnell. Ohio's First Peoples. ISBN 0-8214-1524-7).
- Beverley Waugh Bond. The Foundations of Ohio.
- Daniel P. Barr. The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory. ISBN 0-87338-844-5).
- Samuel Lieberkühn, David Zeisberger, The History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- Edmund De Schweinitz. The Life and Times of David Zeisberger.
- R. Douglas Hurt. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest. ISBN 0-253-21212-X.
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- David Zeisberger Historical Mile Marker in Pennsylvania
- Scenes from the Life of David Zeisberger Free pdf biographical sketch
- "Zeisberger, David" Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography 1889
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This is a first: SpaceX will transport a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station. All this in a degraded geopolitical context between Americans and Russians.
It will be a great first. And perhaps a somewhat strange moment, given the geopolitical situation born of the war in Ukraine. On September 29, 2022, at the earliest, a Falcon 9 rocket operated by SpaceX will launch from the United States. Nothing out of the ordinary so far. On board, a crew. Again, routine. But among the astronauts there will be a Russian.
A Russian cosmonaut on a SpaceX flight
Anna Kikina is actually announced alongside two Americans, Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh A. Cassada, and Japanese Koichi Wakata. Only the latter is a veteran, with already four space missions on the clock. The other three will open theirs on the occasion of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission, which will take them to the International Space Station (ISS).
The presence of a Russian in this flight seems incongruous in view of the tensions which now greatly strain relations between Moscow and Washington, since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. However, the presence of cosmonaut Anna Kikina was already considered on board the American flight, months before the military aggression.
This participation is part of an exchange of best practices between the two parties. The Americans are offering a seat in the Falcon 9 rocket to a member of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. In return, the Russians reserve a seat for a NASA astronaut on board a Soyuz rocket. In both cases, it is a question of having a ticket for the ISS.
Historically, the United States and Russia have intensified their space cooperation in recent decades – the International Space Station is in part the result of this rapprochement. In the past, each has transported personnel from the other on various occasions. The days of direct rivalry during the Cold War seemed to be over.
Today, the time is rather to take distance between the two parties. One sign among others: Russia wants to disengage from the ISS from 2024, which will sooner or later result in a halt to these shared flights. Eventually, Moscow would like to have its own space station again, as in the time of Mir, but for the moment, no module has been built. | <urn:uuid:7667ce82-bbf1-4b19-b859-5b98e1049c3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eatthebabies.com/spacex-is-preparing-to-send-a-russian-to-the-iss-despite-the-war-in-ukraine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.958371 | 472 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Blackberry Frequently Asked Questions
Have blackberry questions you need answered? Here we give answers to to blackberry plants, such as weather, fertilizer, soil, pruning, composting, et cetera.
How far apart should the plants be?
We recommend 8 foot in the row and 6 foot between rows or 3 foot wider than equipment.
When is the best time to plant the blackberries?
We recommend any time from the last freeze in the spring to about two weeks before the first freeze in the fall.
What is the best type of structure to support the plants?
On a mature plant you will get 5 canes that will grow up to 40 foot long each. The support is needed so you can keep the fruit at a height that makes picking easy.
Generally a grape type trellis is best with 12 gage wire at 3, 4, 5 and 6 foot. Tie the primary canes along the bottom wire using binder twine or the new berry clips sell. The plastic clips can easily be reused and last several seasons. With the primary along the bottom, the laterals should grow up towards the sun. Arrange them so they get as much sun as possible tying them the same as the primaries.
When the laterals get to the top cut about 2 inches off the tip. New canes growing for next years crop should be attached the same way but on the opposite side of the wires so it will be easy to remove the dead canes after they have fruited.
If you want a DIY project, check out this article on making a Balcony Garden!
How large are the berries?
Generally the fruit will be one to one and a half inch long. Letting the fruit fully ripen will greatly add to the length.
How sweet is the berry?
If allowed to fully ripen, it is very sweet. According to a winery, the sugar was 11% compared to about 6% for wild blackberries. If it is “picked’ instead of let fall into your hand, it will not be sweet and pucker your mouth like a lemon.
How does the taste compare to other blackberries?
This depends on your taste preferences but generally since it is sweet, the taste is pleasing to most people.
Do I need to protect the plant from our extreme winters?
Our winters in Indiana get down to as low as 10 below Fahrenheit and as high as 105 in summers… its pretty extreme. We have not done anything to protect the plants and they have survived over 35 years.
In colder areas with temperatures below minus 20, it necessary to provide some protection. Snow is first choice, then high tunnel or 6 mil white or clear plastic temporary greenhouse is all that is needed and it will extend the growing season also.
How and when do I prune the plants?
We have never pruned the plants but rather we let the canes grow to full length. Tipping the primaries at any length will cause the laterals to grow longer but total plant and fruit production should be the same. After the plant has fruited, the two year old canes will die and need to be removed back to the ground to get rid of clutter and let more sunshine get to the new canes. This can be done two months or more after fruiting ends but generally there are less errors in cutting in the spring. The plant recovers nitrogen from the dying canes and stores it to use in the spring to get the plant started growing again.
How long does the plant live?
We actually don’t know! We have plants over 30 years old still producing. Generally at about 15 years old the production declines but we don’t know if this was from age or shortage of fertilizer as they had never been fertilized after the year of planting. Two customers have reported their plants are over 40 years old.
What should the soil PH be?
Generally a PH of 5 to 6.5 is best.
What type of soil is best?
Sandy loam is best for all brambles as the loam retains moisture and fertilizers while the sand lets excess water escape. Other soils work find as long as you provide good drainage. In our experience, the better the soil the faster the plant grows and the more it produces.
What fertilizer is best?
An even number fertilizer such as 10-10-10 or 12-12-12 is recommended. We highly recommend fish based fertilizers since they are high in trace minerals and enzymes. For our organic customers, we recommend using either Speedy-Gro 100% Kelp or Neptune’s Harvest Fish and Fish/Seaweed. With either, a weekly application as a foliar spray yielded 2-3 gallons of fruit in the second summer.
We also recommend Doyle’s Organic Blackberry Fertilizer 4-4-4 with nitrogen at planting and three weeks after flowering starts.
Can I use compost or manure?
Yes, you can but the first rule in using compost or manure is that if you can still tell where it came from its not ready. Second, its best to mix with the soil to avoid any hot spots or excesses. Finally, no compost or manure is balanced so its important to get soil tested for each crop so you can balance the fertilizers and minerals.
I have more Blackberry Questions about Blackberry Fertilizing!
Can I plant different varieties or raspberries close to blackberries?
Yes, there are no problems having these in the same or adjoining rows.
How close can I plant to wild brambles?
The further the better especially raspberries. Six hundred feet is the recommended minimum.
The reason is to avoid transmission of virus or disease and raspberries are very susceptible and become incubators. If you can keep the other brambles healthy then there is no real problem. Cross pollination with blackberries is possible but the affects may be good as well as bad.
How much sun do they require?
The plants want all the sun they can get in the spring but 6 hours is minimum. Shade may reduce the production.
During July and August the direct sun dehydrates the berry slightly so we recommend using 40% shade cloth or a rotating shift trellis
If you have more blackberry questions about sunlight, check out our article on sunlight!
How should I plant my blackberries?
Just keep in mind that you will need good drainage, everything else is secondary. If your soil is poor then digging a 12-15 inch deep hole in the loose soil and mixing in compost, manure and/or potting soil and even sand will get good soil for growing brambles. Adding a balanced fertilizer such as 10-10-10 by spreading 3-4 ounces in an area of about 12 inches around the plant at the time of planting and again after harvest. Use of foliar spray on a weekly basis is also recommended.
Do the plants require irrigation?
Any plant will benefit from a steady and regular watering. A drip irrigation system is the best since it will not waste a lot of water and is an easy way to fertilize the roots. The plants need about an inch of water which is a little over one half gallon per week. If you use plastic then you would only need a quart per plant per week. Double this when berries are producing.
Should I put mulch around the blackberries?
Mulching reduces watering frequency and aids in control of weeds. Good mulch include pine straw, wood chips and seed free grain mulches such as wheat or rye. We prefer and recommend using 10 mill plastic on all gardens.
Does plastic help?
Yes, we have 10 mill plastic on all plants. Plastic provides moisture due to condensation on the bottom side, keeps weeds down and raises the heat of the soil. This weight of plastic will last for many years and in the long run is less expensive than thinner plastic that has to be replaced every few years. We recommend covering the entire garden with the plastic and then cutting small holes for the crops to be grown.
This was a process that Thomas E Doyle developed in the late 1950’s and he sold the plastic until his mid 90’s. It is now available from Susan Pletcher, 66786 County Road 17, Goshen, Indiana 46526, 574-831-2329.
Are there other plants that should be kept away from blackberries?
Yes, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and peppers are susceptible to the same root diseases as blackberries. These diseases can remain in the soil for up to three years after the last planting. However if your plants are all healthy and fully producing, then most likely the disease is not present and you can safely plant close by with no problems. Just keep an eye on everything.
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May is Asian/Pacific Heritage Month and I am celebrating with a post about Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese American female pilot in the U.S. military.
Hazel Ying Lee joined the military in 1943, when the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) program was created in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately, I had never heard of these women until I saw an episode of Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates (Season 5, Episode 68). Check it out when you get a moment.
When I saw the episode, I wondered why these brave women and their efforts to help during WWII aren’t more well known, so I was very excited to find Julie Leung’s picture book, The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee. Not only do you get a story about a woman breaking barriers and becoming a pilot, but you also get the story of a Chinese American who persisted, despite the racism and segregation she faced. A woman who loved and served her country even though her country did not always love and serve her.
While I could not find a Lexile level for Fearless Flights, the book is listed with an audience of Preschool-Grade 3 on Amazon. I recommend using it with students in first through third grade.
If you are looking for ways to support an AAPI-owned business this month, please check out Radical Family Farm’s initiative to provide locally-grown, culturally-relevant produce to Asian American seniors in Oakland and San Francisco.
- What does it mean to be fearless?
- What is segregation?
- How is history shaped by people who persisted?
- CCSS SL.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- CCSS SL.2.2 Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- CCSS RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- CCSS RI.2.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
- CCSS RI.2.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
- CCSS RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
- WIDA ELD-1 English language learners communicate for Social and Instructional purposes within the school setting.
- WIDA ELD-2 English language learners communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Language Arts
Here is your FREE worksheet for The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee.
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Toenail Fungus – What is Nail Fungi?
If you have actually been wondering what nail fungus appears like, you're not alone. Having fungal nail infections is a common problem, yet just how do you find the fungi and get it controlled? Thankfully, the bright side is that this infection is treatable, as well as most of the times, you can prevent the requirement for elimination. Actually, treating nail fungi at the earliest indication is vital to minimizing the threat of irreversible damage.
Signs and symptoms
There are a variety of various kinds of nail fungi, and also some are extra common than others. Nail fungi is most usual on the large toe nails, which create at the front and also sides of the nail. Less typically, the fungi begins at the base of the nail, which is generally a lot more widespread in people with a weak immune system and significant ailments. Fungis that infect skin as well as nails are called dermatophytes, though they are in some cases called yeast.
Oral drugs are usually recommended for fungal toe nails. However, these medicines can create liver damage and also can damage your health. Oral therapy is typically not as effective as topical treatments, as well as may take a few months to function. Topical medicines might be a much better option, however they are less efficient. In addition to taking antifungal tablets, you can also look for professional therapy for nail fungus.
There are numerous sorts of treatments for nail fungus. There are dental medications like Sporanox, Lamisil, as well as terbinafine, which have a number of negative effects and can create liver troubles. Dental medications have to be examined in a lab to establish their efficiency. In the last few years, applied treatments have actually taken their place. These therapies usually call for a few months before they see any type of results, so they may be less effective for temporary use.
Fungal infections typically start on the end of a nail, particularly in the foot. Fungi grows inside the nail and can get in fractures or cuts in the skin. The infection can progress into a larger trouble as the follicle comes to be damaged as well as thickened. It can even create the nail to fall apart and blemish. Once this occurs, it is too late for therapy. It is as a result important to get prompt therapy to prevent further damages.
Prevention of nail fungus starts with way of life adjustments. You need to prevent choosing your nails, don't go barefoot in public areas, and stay clear of letting your footwear get wet. Additionally, ensure to wear shoes that fit effectively, and also stay clear of sharing your nail files or various other nail-care tools. Use rubber handwear covers to safeguard your hands when you're working around your home. Also, do not put on other individuals's shoes if you're vulnerable to nail fungus.
Stay clear of tight shoes and socks. These can cultivate fungal development. Limited shoes can additionally promote the development of nail fungus. Always use breathable and moisture-wicking socks while putting on footwear. When possible, put on shoes or flip-flops when you're in public areas. Put on tidy footwear whenever feasible, especially while in the shower. Last but not least, ensure to transform your socks consistently and do not use the exact same set of shoes greater than as soon as a week.
Causes of Smelly Feet
Stinky feet are a common issue for 10% to 15% of the population. The microorganisms in charge of this problem, called Kyetococcus sedentarius, creates volatile sulfur substances that create the feet to smell like rotten eggs. If you think your feet scent like rotten eggs, it's time to look for aid. There are numerous sources of smelly feet. Read on to uncover the most common causes.
If you're constantly on your feet, after that you've most likely knowledgeable foot smell at one factor or another. The human foot contains over 250,000 sweat glands, and these gland are fed by bacteria that create waste as by-products. This waste is what causes foot odor, and feet have an odor more than any other part of the body. To fight foot odor, it is very important to wash as well as dry your feet frequently, clip your toenails, and also file off dead skin.
The symptoms of hypothyroidism may include smelly feet and also chilly hands. Hypothyroidism impacts the thyroid, the gland that regulates the body's temperature. When the hormone is low, the body's metabolism slows down. This creates the body to look to assimilation, which breaks down body tissues for energy. In this phase, muscle toughness decreases, resulting in achy and weak feet.
If you are diabetic person, after that you are probably acquainted with the nuisance of stinky feet. This problem can make walking, standing, or resting uncomfortable. Apart from smell, diabetic issues can cause troubles with your circulation. To minimize the occurrence of these issues, you should utilize a moisturizing cream or soap on your feet. If you have actually cracked heels, you ought to avoid making use of medicated pads or washroom surgical procedure. In addition, you need to wear footwear that fit effectively. If you are unable to locate ideal shoes, you can consider getting diabetic-specific socks. These socks have added cushion as well as do not have elastic tops. They are constructed from fibers that wick away moisture from the skin. Constantly put on socks when you go to sleep. Never ever utilize hot pad on your feet!
The treatment of peripheral neuropathy and foul-smelling feet relies on the underlying cause. Medicines for diabetic issues as well as vitamin deficiency are 2 common options. If no known cause is discovered, treatment may consist of taking non-prescription pain relievers or taking an oral medicine. Anti-seizure medications or topical medicines containing capsaicin as well as lidocaine may be made use of. If neither of these choices are effective, a physician can prescribe a mix of medicine to assist the signs.
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What Is The Coldest Month In San Antonio?
Click through. Tuesday seems warm when matched against five San Antonio days since 1899 where temperatures dropped to the single digits. As sleet and freezing rain fell across the city Tuesday, temperatures dipped to a low of 26 degrees, said Brett Williams, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
January is on average the COOLEST month. Earlier this month, San Antonio broke records on Nov. 14 when the temperature sank to 23 degrees – the coldest ever recorded that early in the year. It shattered the previous record of 28 set in. San Antonio’s future: 60 days over 100 degrees – San Antonio.
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According to him, the 2022 budget has an added layer of significance for the government as it drives forward the great economic mission of our time – Building a sustainable Entrepreneurial Nation.
“The budget seeks to address the triple helix albatross of our time; high unemployment, high debt, and inadequate infrastructure even as we pursue our agenda for increased social mobility and justice for all,” he said on Accra-based Kingdom FM.
He noted that with the approval of the Budget secured on 30th November 2021, we should now move on to the urgent task of working towards the passage of the appropriation bill before parliament rises on December 17, 2021.
“We believe that the concerns raised in Parliament on the 2022 budget should be resolved during the discussions of the budget estimates of MDAs, other government obligations and Bills at the Committee level in Parliament as we have always done, he said adding that on unemployment, the country is faced with an urgent challenge.
“Our population has grown from 6.7 million in 1960 to 30.8 million by 2021 and has gotten increasingly youthful. In 1960, for instance, we had approximately 1.1 million Ghanaians between the ages of 15-24, and this year, that number stands at 6.3 million.
Indeed, when those under 35 are included, the number stands at close to 11 million people. The key question becomes, how do we extend opportunities to our youth in a sustainable way and eliminate the indignity of joblessness, underemployment, and vulnerable jobs?” he asked.
“The budget outlines the policy direction and fiscal framework for 2022 as well as the medium-term vision of His Excellency the President, in consultation with his Cabinet and fellow Ghanaians. How do we reject this President’s Executive Policy? With that approach we may never have had the Free SHS policy,” he said.
Paul Amaning noted that the budget also introduces the ground-breaking multi-year GH¢10 billion YouStart Program, a historic intervention that will involve the collaboration of our Local Financial Institutions, Development Partners, and International Financial Institutions.
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Tennessee Education Department releases guidance for schools navigating around new critical race theory law
Only current Tennessee students or parents could file official complaints if prohibited topics around race, white privilege and systemic racism are being taught in the classroom under a proposed new rule from the Tennessee Department of Education.
Guidance issued by the state education department late last week is meant to help school districts and educators navigate a new state law restricting how schools teach students about racism. The guidance comes in the form of a proposed rule that members of the public have 10 days to weigh in on.
According to the proposed guidance, a complaint must be filed by a current student, parent of a current student, or a current employee of the school district or public charter school "in which the allegation(s) arose" and must be filed within 30 days of the prohibited concept being included or promoted in the classroom.
Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn promised the guidance by Aug. 1 as the debate over critical race theory and whether the concept is being taught in the classroom has intensified in recent months.
Tennessee was one of the first states this year to pass a law banning topics related to critical race theory from being taught in public schools. Though Tennessee law doesn't specify critical race theory, Republican lawmakers have pointed to the theory — which is typically only taught in colleges and law schools — as a reason for the new legislation.
What does the law actually ban?
The new state law, passed during the waning days of this year’s legislative session, prohibits educators from including or promoting certain concepts. Those include teaching that one race or sex is inherently superior to another; ascribing character traits, values, moral or ethical codes to a specific race or sex; that the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist or that a meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist.
What is taught in Tennessee schools?:Critical race theory isn't taught in Tennessee schools. Here's what is being taught about race.
But the department’s proposed guidance clarifies that schools can introduce some of these topics as part of instruction or discussion of controversial aspects of history or the histories of a particular people or ethnic group.
Educators, particularly social studies teachers, have been concerned that the law could limit or even prevent them from teaching the true history of the state or the country.
Wit & Wisdom leads the debate
Schwinn has faced increased pressure in recent weeks to address the topics. A conservative Williamson County parent group, Moms for Liberty, has raised concerns about an elementary-age literacy curriculum, Wit & Wisdom, that is used in more than 30 districts across the state.
Members of the group allege that books included in the curriculum are not age-appropriate and promote concepts based on critical race theory.
In an 11-page grievance filed by Moms for Liberty's Williamson County chapter, the group argues that four specific anchor texts, including the book “Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story,” by Ruby Bridges, “reveal both explicit and implicit anti-American, anti-white and anti-Mexican teaching.”
“Additionally, it implies to second-grade children that people of color continue to be oppressed by an oppressive ‘angry, vicious, scary, mean, loud, violent, [rude], and [hateful]’ white population’ and teaches that the racial injustice of the 1960s exists today,” the grievance stated.
The group filed the complaint, which they claim was the first official one filed under the new law, a day before the law officially went into effect on July 1.
A spokesperson for the Washington, D.C.-based Great Minds, which produces the Wit & Wisdom curriculum, told The Tennessean earlier this year the company is aware of Tennessee's new law and said the materials it produces are in compliance.
It is unclear whether the proposed rule would alter the complaint process, but Williamson County Schools did recently announce that the district is currently reviewing 30 texts included in the Wit & Wisdom curriculum.
Some parents have pushed back against those concerned about the curriculum, sometimes accusing outside actors of coming into communities and starting the debate.
While the debate has raged in Williamson County, with dozens speaking out at school board meetings over the course of the summer, a handful of speakers were laughed down during one of Metro Nashville Board of Education's most recent meetings.
Schools could lose millions
The proposed rule also lays out the consequences for a school district if it is found to have violated the new law.
The department guidance encourages school districts and public charter schools "to work collaboratively with parents, teachers, and other employees to resolve concerns and complaints as quickly as possible."
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If a school district determines that the complaint is not valid or does not violate the law, individuals can appeal to the state Department of Education.
If the department determines that a school "knowingly violated" the new law, it proposes the following formula for withholding state funds:
- First violation during the school year: 2% of annual state funds or $1 million, whichever is less;
- Second violation during the school year: 4% of annual state funds or $2 million, whichever is less;
- Third violation during the school year: 6% of annual state funds or $3 million, whichever is less;
- Fourth violation during the school year: 8% of annual state funds or $4 million, whichever is less;
- Fifth violation during the school year: 10% of annual state funds or $5 million, whichever is less.
J.C. Bowman, executive director of Professional Educators of Tennessee — a nonpartisan teacher association headquartered in Nashville — said Monday that the process looks very deliberative on the surface.
But Bowman thinks enforcement could be challenging.
"The key will be at the local level, and stakeholder groups working to ensure our educators understand this new law. We plan to solicit educator input and give that input to policymakers," Bowman said in a statement. "Ultimately, people on both sides of this debate want students to become good citizens, who are able of safeguarding our democracy and stewarding our nation toward a greater understanding of our shared American values."
But Beth Brown, president of the Tennessee Education Association, remains critical of the law itself.
"The new law implies Tennessee educators teach feelings, not facts. It suggests teachers float theories and agendas as part of teaching practice. These ideas are false. This law was a fix to a problem that does not exist," Brown said in a statement.
"This law will do nothing more than entangle public schools and teachers in red tape and jeopardize critical state funding. It is a disservice to Tennessee students and educators."
The draft of the proposed "Prohibited Concepts in Public Instruction Rule" was posted online for public comment on Monday, Aug. 2. Members of the public can weigh in for 10 days, through Wednesday, Aug. 11.
Gov. Bil Lee said the state "needs to know what the public thinks" about the guidelines, but reiterated his stance on the ban that he signed into law.
"We need to be very, very clear," Lee told reporters Monday. "Our legislature, the people spoke and we will not be teaching critical race theory in Tennessee."
Once any comments have been received and reviewed, the rule will be submitted to the state Attorney General's office to begin the emergency rule promulgation process, according to department spokesperson Brian Blackley.
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Thought for the Week - 4th MarchPastor Gareth Watkins
Romans 1: 20-21
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made,
even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God,
nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts,
and their foolish hearts were darkened.
After writing about Paul last week, I reflected on the other attributes of Paul. One attribute was that he knew how to thank God. His thankfulness to God reveals a key part of his Christian life and his ministry. Still to this day, you can tell a Christian’s walk with God with their thankfulness to God.
Paul gives us lots of insight into his Christian life through how thankful he was to God. Today in church life, people can be very knowledgeable, educated, and powerful – but how thankful they are reveals in them something unto God. It doesn’t matter how much we know or how powerful we are, our relationship with God is key. Paul’s thankfulness reveals his heart to God.
The verses above reveal as much about God as they do about Paul. Paul wrote the letter to the Christians in Roman. He shows something of God’s attributes: God’s invisible attributes are clearly seen by the things that are made; you can’t compromise or apologise for the eternal qualities of God; because creation didn’t glorify or thank God their thoughts became futile and their hearts darkened.
These things are shown to us by Paul, because Paul knew them. He couldn’t write what he did if he didn’t know it. Paul is living that – He knows how to be thankful to God because of all those attributes that God is and has. Underlying Paul’s Christian life, values and teaching, is this invisible and eternal God; this power he can’t compromise or make an excuse for. He glorifies in himself God and he is thankful in himself for God.
Even though from time to time Paul’s life could be viewed as not successful – he was beaten and stoned, he was abandoned and incarcerated, and things at times would have looked like all was lost – he is thankful to God. We start to see these things coming through time and time again, throughout the New Testament and the letters that Paul writes. For example we read:
- Romans 1: 8 – First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
- 1 Corinthians 1:4 – I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus.
- Ephesians 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
- Philippians 1:3 – I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.
- Colossians 1:3-4 – We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints;
Underpinning Paul – his ministry, the energy and vibrancy of his ministry – is knowing this eternal Godhead, and knowing his thankfulness in his place under that Godhead. As much as effective prayer was an important part of Paul’s life, recognising where he is under the life of God, and being thankful for it, is important too.
In Romans above, Paul knows those invisible attributes of God are clearly seen. He is thankful for it. Unfortunately people today want to undermine God. They don’t want the invisible attributes of God. They want to take things that God has done – like creation – and make it into something they can deal with. Paul sees the creation of God – the stars, the order of life, the way things are, what God has put together – and is thankful for it. He sees the power and eternal presence of God. Often people don’t want to see God’s power and the eternal Godhead itself. Paul sees it and is thankful to God in it. Out of that knowledge and that place, he is able to reveal these things to us, because he’s in the place himself to understand it.
What an incredible quality of Paul – to see God and to be thankful in all things. It gets challenging in life. In all of these things, Paul manages to put these things under the Godhead and under the incorruptible life that God has brought for him, and he knows to be thankful in all things. Are we thankful of God in all aspects of who He is? Are we thankful to God and all the things He’s allowed us to go through? Are we thankful to God for all the things He’s given us and situations He’s allowed us to be in?
In Philippians 4:6 we read:
with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God
We read of people like Richard Wurmbrand, who was thankful to God in spite of the most seemingly awful circumstances. How can they be thankful to God when they’ve been tortured, starved and beaten? Similarly, how can someone be thankful to God when their mind is tormented, when they’ve been abandoned and abused? I don’t know. All I know is that it is a place we need to get to because it holds Paul in a very strong place. That place of thankfulness is special to Paul.
People like Paul know God, glorify God and are thankful to God. The opposite is true as well. People who don’t necessarily know God can turn it around. People who backslide can turn it around. In Romans above, Paul shows people do in fact turn those things around. The verses show that although people know God they didn’t glorify Him or were thankful, and so they became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts became darkened. Most of us can admit to a time like that in our lives.
Paul knew that. He was birthed rightly. Jesus met him on the road to Damascus and he was blinded. He had to do as he was told. He had to wait for a Christian man who was frightened of him to come pray with him to take the scales from his eyes. Paul knew God thereafter in the right way. He was saved by Christ going forward in the right way, and he knew his place under this Godhead in the right way. He knew he was without excuse.
However, when a person has a futile or foolish heart, it produces a backslidden or degenerate state. Charles Finney writes of the evidence of a backslidden heart. These include:
1. Formality in religious exercise – going through rotas and rituals without connection to God.
2. Desire religious enjoyment – sole purpose for going to Church to enjoy and have a nice time, not to connect with God.
3. Religious bondage – set in beliefs and actions.
4. Ungovernable temper
5. Censorious spirit – fault-finding, picking holes etc.
6. Loss of interest in spiritual conversation – not excited in what God has done or shown people.
7. Loss of interest in the newly saved
8. Loss of interest in personal sanctification – we do what we want, it’s our life to live and no one will tell his how to live.
9. Absence of prayer meetings for the slightest reason
Paul knows how to be thankful to God. He says that if people aren’t being thankful, “professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22). Being thankful to God is one of the keys to Paul’s successful life under God. What have you got to be thankful to God for? If we haven’t got anything, or aren’t able to say what we’re thankful for, then we haven’t been birthed correctly as Paul was. Paul being birthed correctly knew his place under the Godhead, under the eternal powers and things unseen, and he knew to be thankful in all things.
Being thankful is throughout the Bible. In Ephesians 5:19-20 Paul writes:
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We need to be thankful to God in absolutely everything. For the tough times, for the knowledge of Him, for the blessings He gives us, for the people in our lives, for God in the midst of all the trials, for our salvation, for Jesus Christ, for His continued presence with us. Surely we need to be thankful! And yet all the while we can become futile in our dark minds.
Are we thankful to God? Can we be thankful to God today? If we are thankful to God, what are we thankful for?
Ask God to open something in your heart that was key to Paul’s existence. Ask God to show you something special. Our hearts can become so easily entwined in the things of the world, even though the blessing He gives far outweigh the trivia of life. We go through tough times and times that we can’t work things out, but in it all come back to thankfulness. Since the beginning of the world, the invisible attributes of God are clearly seen. Be thankful that we are under these things, saved by Christ. Put ourselves under the fact that we are underneath the eternal power of the Godhead. Put ourselves under and be thankful for the fact we can glorify God because His presence is with us constantly and sustains us.
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“Thank you so much for helping me through this hard time” - young person
The core focus of ZAP is to teach young people how to be assertive, a proven technique for preventing and tackling bullying.
Other workshop objectives are to raise confidence and self-esteem, achieved through the use of positive reinforcement throughout the workshop, and interaction with the other young people, enabling them to realise that they are not alone and that they are not to blame.
It also equips parents and carers with the skills and confidence to support their child after the workshop.
The success of this approach is shown in the positive outcomes of the ZAP workshop, and the fantastic feedback we receive from the families who attend.
Of the young people who attend:
- 96% of young people feel more confident
- 98% feel more able to be assertive
- 95% feel better about themselves
- 72% experience less bullying
- 96% of young people report improvements in mental health
- 80% have improved self-esteem
- 77% of young people are self-harming less
- 87% of children report improvements to their schooling
- 79% are going to school more often
- 91% of young people feel family relationships have improved
- 91% of young people feel more supported by their parents
"It just felt comforting that there were other parents and young people experiencing the same things as us, to be able to talk openly about what our children are facing each and everyday at school, in a safe, non-judgemental environment, I felt relief in some ways." - ZAP Parent 2020
“It made me realise that I haven't done anything wrong as a parent, we are not on our own with this, there are others out there going through the same situations, and we can get support” - ZAP parent
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Ramblin’ Jack Elliott turns 91 today. Though that is not typically a landmark birthday to celebrate, Ramblin’ Jack is not a typical man. The protégé of Woody Guthrie is known for rambling as much down the road as he is known for rambling through the tales of his travels. Indeed, Jack Elliott is one of the great lesser-sung heroes of American folk music—and one of the few from his generation who are still performing.
So, to honor the great troubadour, we here at Folk Alley thought it worthwhile to consider some of his best songs.
“San Francisco Bay Blues”
Here, Elliott joins fellow folkie Pete Seeger on Seeger’s television show, Rainbow Quest, to deliver a rendition of one of his most classic tunes.
“This Train Is Bound for Glory”
Ramblin’ Jack is one of Woody Guthrie’s most dedicated protégés. He delivered this version of Guthrie’s famous tune at a concert paying tribute to the late Phil Ochs.
Few still-living folksingers can boast of the travels that Ramblin’ Jack has known, so his cover of this Guthrie tune—about the trials and travails of traveling—is well worth a listen.
“If I Were a Carpenter”
From Seeger to Guthrie to Phil Ochs, and now to Johnny Cash—Ramblin’ Jack Elliott has either worked with or inspired generations of folk and roots artists.
“Riding Down Canyon”
This song by Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette captures the pride of the Hollywood cowboy. It’s a fitting tune for Elliott, as there’s always been something cinematic about Ramblin’ Jack’s remarkable life. | <urn:uuid:8bbfaf71-023e-4fdb-a66e-47fac2101c29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://folkalley.com/best-of-ramblin-jack-elliott-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.916936 | 393 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The goal of this study was to define a strategy to assess skeletal tumor burden with 18F-tagged sodium fluoride PET/CT (18F-fluoride PET/CT) and measure the reproducibility of the measurements. scans. Outcomes Mean (SD) regular bone tissue SUVmax was 6.62 1.55 for T12, 6.11 1.73 for L5, Genkwanin 4.59 1.74 for sacrum, 5.39 1.72 for best iliac bone tissue, and 3.90 1.57 for best femur. The mean regular SUVmax for any 543 sites was 5.32 0.99. Based on these beliefs, an SUVmax threshold of 10 was selected to exclude regular bone in the volumetric calculations. Semiautomated measurements of FTV10 and TLF10 exhibited high interobserver reproducibility, within 0.77% and 3.62% from the interinterpreter standard for TLF10 and FTV10, respectively. Bottom line Perseverance of skeletal tumor burden with 18F-fluoride Family pet/CT is normally feasible and extremely reproducible. Using an SUVmax threshold of 10 excludes all normal bone tissue activity from volumetric calculations nearly. = 68), osteosarcoma (= 6), medullary thyroid carcinoma (= 8), as well as other malignancies (= 16). 18F-fluoride Family Genkwanin pet/CT Acquisition 18F-fluoride Family pet/CT was performed based on a standard scientific protocol. Quickly, the patients had been required to end up being properly hydrated before imaging and had been instructed to unfilled their bladder instantly before picture acquisition. 18F-fluoride Family pet/CT was performed after intravenous administration of the average (SD) of 11,729 1,332 MBq (317 36 mCi) of 18F-tagged sodium fluoride. The proper time from Rabbit polyclonal to SQSTM1.The chronic focal skeletal disorder, Pagets disease of bone, affects 2-3% of the population overthe age of 60 years. Pagets disease is characterized by increased bone resorption by osteoclasts,followed by abundant new bone formation that is of poor quality. The disease leads to severalcomplications including bone pain and deformities, as well as fissures and fractures. Mutations inthe ubiquitin-associated (UBA) domain of the Sequestosome 1 protein (SQSTM1), also designatedp62 or ZIP, commonly cause Pagets disease since the UBA is necessary for aggregatesequestration and cell survival injection to imaging was 54.21 8.03 min (range, 40C92 min). Pictures had been obtained 50C60 min after radiotracer shot around, in the vertex from the skull to your feet, on a built-in Family pet/CT scanning device. Whole-body unenhanced CT scans had been useful for attenuation modification. The images were reconstructed and displayed in 2 iteratively.5-mm slices within the transverse, coronal, and sagittal planes. Perseverance of Normal Bone tissue Beliefs on 18F-Fluoride Family pet/CT 18F-fluoride Family pet/CT studies had been displayed and examined on the workstation (MIM Vista). Regular bone was thought as an area of skeleton exhibiting light diffuse uptake, without the focal uptake and without anatomic abnormalities discovered over the CT part of the check. To be able to determine the indicate regular bone SUV, a 1 initially.0-cm spheric level of interest (VOI) was located more than sites of regular bone. The websites had been the T12 vertebral body, L5 vertebral body, middle sacrum, correct posterior iliac bone tissue, and intertrochanteric correct femur. If these sites was discovered to become unusual (metastatic disease, fracture, surgery prior, degenerative adjustments) over the CT part of the scan, an alternative solution measurement was attained on the pursuing sites: T11 vertebral body, L4 vertebral body, lower sacrum, Genkwanin still left posterior iliac bone tissue, or intertrochanteric still left femur. If neither the principal site nor the supplementary site was evaluable, the dimension of that particular unusual site was excluded for that one patient. A mean SUVmax for any evaluable sites was generated for every individual then. Perseverance of Skeletal Tumor Burden on 18F-Fluoride Family pet/CT Skeletal tumor burden was dependant on producing volumetric data utilizing a whole-body segmentation technique. A semiautomatic VOI was attracted over the whole-body picture of each individual with extreme care to encompass all metastatic sites. Following the whole-body VOI was attracted, the low threshold for perseverance of the VOI was established at an SUVmax of 10 (based on the set up threshold of regular bone uptake). Furthermore to excluding any uptake below that threshold, we undertook a careful picture review to Genkwanin find out whether a lesion was malignant or harmless. To exclude sites of raised 18F-fluoride uptake unrelated to metastatic disease, such as for example urine within the renal collecting program, degenerative disease, and curing fractures, we interpreted all pictures by analyzing 18F-fluoride uptake on your pet part and anatomy over the CT part (Fig. 1). Amount 1 18F-fluoride Family pet/CT perseverance of skeletal tumor burden (TLF10 and FTV10). (A) Whole-body 18F-fluoride Family pet/CT picture demonstrates popular osteoblastic metastases. (B) Semiautomatic VOI curves whole-body picture. (C) With SUVmax threshold of 10, all … Afterward, volumetric variables of skeletal fluoride uptake had been extracted from the figures generated with the ultimate volumetric removal. Using an SUVmax threshold of 10, we driven skeletal tumor burden by determining the fluoride tumor quantity inside the VOI (FTV10) and the full total lesion fluoride uptake as something of indicate SUVmax VOI (TLF10). 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Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world and the third is Africa after Nigeria and Ethiopia, and number 14 in the world, Hanan Hosny Yashar, a member of the House of Representatives, said in a briefing request addressed to the Ministers of Planning and Local Development and the Acting Minister of Health.
This was announced in the briefing in an attempt of the state’s efforts to confront overpopulation and its repercussions.
The number of people in the world has reached about 7.3 billion, 82 percent of whom are in developing countries, and 18 percent in developed countries, Yashar said in the briefing request.
The latest statistics showed that 254 children are born per hour, at a rate of four newborns per minute in Egypt.
While the number of births since the beginning of 2022 has been recorded at more than 21,000 children, according to official reports.
The figures show that the number of births is on the rise, which requires societal action: because the population increase has significant repercussions on growth and development rates.
Overpopulation constitutes a great pressure on the state’s resources and the basic needs of citizens, Yashar said: pointing out that the government has made great efforts over the past years to improve the living standards of citizens and increase production through giant national projects and unfortunately overpopulation contradict these developmental efforts.
She called for the concerned authorities in educating citizens about the risks of overpopulation and its repercussions on them.
Also in developing a comprehensive national strategic plan in which all state institutions participate.
Egypt’s population recorded 102 million people on July 5, 2021, which reflects an increase of more than 838,000 people in six months.
No doubt population can be an element of strength for a state, on the condition that the population growth rate does not exceed the state’s ability to provide basic services with appropriate quality.
Also provided that the increase in population does not affect the average per capita share of natural resources, especially water, energy and agricultural land.e
As long as the population growth aligns with the national economy to achieve a high level of human development and a reduction in unemployment rates.
Continued population growth at current levels will lead to a decline in the return on development efforts more specifically: the per capita expenditure on health, education, housing, transportation and share of agricultural land, water and energy of all kinds, Hassan said.
Overpopulation will make it difficult to reduce unemployment rates, illiteracy and food insufficiency, thus constituting a threat to the Egyptian national security, he continued.
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March 7, 2007 — The St. Croix Recycling Association wants to clean up its island in an environmentally friendly way, and May Adams Cornwall, executive director of the V.I. Waste Management Authority, wants to help.
Conrwall spoke to about 50 prospective members of the association and other interested residents Wednesday evening at the Pearl B. Larsen School auditorium. A banner put up on the wall by the schoolchildren says it all: "Help Us Recycle."
Four strategic goals that Cornwall addressed were federal and local compliance, improvement and optimization of present services, projected and new services, and revenue generation.
However, she noted there were no government funds forthcoming to achieve these goals.
She said, under those goals, wastewater and solid waste were the main concern. In the improvement and organization of present services, wastewater pump stations need to be upgraded, and she added that odor control is a challenge.
Cornwall also stated that solid waste disposal is done house to house and at drop-off bin sites and that there needs to be waste diversion for scrap metal, white goods, used oil and batteries.
Noting that the authority's revenue needs to be expanded with environmental fees and wastewater user fees, Cornwall said presently there aren't enough funds available for new and expanded services in odor control, preventive maintenance, energy efficiency, water reclamation and beneficial sludge reuse of wastewater.
In the half-hour presentation she went on to say that major issues for solid waste are street and roadside cleaning.
She explained that the authority's effort to recycle and reuse aluminum, glass, yard waste, cooking oil, and plastics isn't going too well. Cornwall added that tax incentives should be given for waste diversion of scrap tires, electronic waste, household hazardous waste, construction and demolition waste.
She added that WMA's role would be to develop an entire program to educate the public to get them involved, along with the implementation of regulatory and enforcement programs.
Cornwall said that the key areas for the recycling association participation would be advocacy, partnership, entrepreneurship, research, grant writing and regionalization.
Carol Burke, the treasurer for the V.I. Resource Conservation & Development Council, said the council would be the umbrella for the association to organize under.
Burke, who is also executive director of the St. Croix Environmental Association, added that the vision of the council is balancing growth and development with a quality environment.
An independent nonprofit organization incorporated in 1990, the council develops partnerships with governmental, nongovernmental and private organizations.
Dee Osinski, the authority's environmental educator, said " a whole army of volunteers is needed to get chairs and tables set up." The groups that people can help with are organizational structure; policies and laws; research, reuse reduce projects; composting; depots for recycling; help existing business and grant writing.
Madhu Sonde, a concerned citizen who each day drives past the landfill to the airport, said he's "tired of seeing all of the plastic bags flying around all the time."
The next recycling association meeting will be April 3 at 5:30 p.m. at Pearl B. Larsen School. For more information on the association, call 692-9632 ext. 5.
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Effective Use of ISO 55 000 Standard for Transportation Asset Management
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the overarching principles of asset management
- Establish an appropriate asset management governance structure
- Understand asset inventory and registry requirements
- Set levels of service
- Maintain an asset inventory and condition database
- Monitor asset performance
- Understand risks and how to manage them
- Identify key elements to improve asset reslience
- Complete life-cycle planning
- Implement a continuous improvement strategy
- Identify asset management best practices
The need to preserve our roadway pavement infrastructure is paramount to insuring the viability of transportation of people and goods. This requires ever increasing investments because the road infrastructure is typically the most valuable asset owned by public agencies. The consequence of the lack of systematic maintenance and renewal is accelerated deterioration of the asset condition which then requires a more expensive treatment to return the asset to a serviceable condition.
Road infrastructure managers are confronted with the following challenges:
- Budget pressures from other infrastructure and social needs have resulted in a substantial infrastructure deficit.
- The necessity to plan the treatments in such a way that the level of service remains acceptable throughout the entire life-cycle fo the asset.
- Municipal and local governments typically have limited taxation powers and often lack in-house specialized technical expertise.
- Necessary coordination of road construction activities with other asset management activiteis such as road system expansion, underground utilities, lighting, traffic management and safety improvements.
While facing these challenges, the technical issues often play a subordinate role for several reasons. The technical qualifications of the staff in road authorities and road construction contractors, as well as their professional skills, are often at a high level. In December 2017, the Ontario Government passes Ontario Regulation 588/17 Assert Management Planning for Municipal Infrastructure which sets out asset management implementation and reporting requirements. While similar requirements are not currently required in other Canadian provinces, it is likely that they will soon be required.
- Understanding of basic pavement asset management systems, data collection, performance prediction and investment needs
- It provides procedures on how to determine, document and justify funding needs for pavement preservation
- It provides directions on how to prepare prioritized, needs-based budgets
- Promotes the use of best practices and provides a benchmark for pavement preservation decision making
- It will provide objective pavement preservation needs and long-term impact of budget decisions
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I have some confusion while studying the schematic for the project, USB PIC Programmer : PICKit2. What purpose does R13 (2k7) serve? It is connected to GND in parallel with VDD as depicted in the schematic. Does it act as a voltage divider? I will really appreciate if you kindly clear my confusion.
Also the PICKit2 zip package does not contain the Eagle schematic and board. Is it possible for you to kindly send them?
2.7K is the bleeder resistor to discharge capacitors when the programmer is unplugged. It will prevent unintentional “Unrecognized Device” error by ensuring proper Power On Reset when you plug in next time.
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Twenty-five guaranty associations that are responsible for paying claims for a failed Penn Treaty American Corp. unit say 55% of the unit’s long-term care insurance policyholders chose compound inflation protection, and just 1.9% chose simple inflation protection.
The associations also report, in a rate increase application filed on the unit’s behalf in Connecticut, that:
- 56% of the long-term care insurance policyholders with inflation protection have policies with no elimination period, or time when an insured needs and uses long-term care services before benefits payments begin.
- 62% of the policyholders without inflation protection have policies with no elimination periods.
- Only about 19% of the policyholders with inflation protection, and about 27% of the policyholders with no inflation protection, have policy benefit periods with 36 or fewer months.
- About 42% of the policyholders with inflation protection, and about 39% with no inflation protections, have policies that are supposed to provide lifetime benefits.
Penn Treaty was an Allentown, Pennsylvania-based company that helped create the modern U.S. long-term care insurance market. It began to run into problems around 2000, when state insurance regulators argued that the company was reserving too little for the long-term care insurance business it was selling. At the time, regulators believed that long-term care insurance premiums should stay the same for the lifetime of the policyholder, and they resisted letting managers of American Network or Penn Treaty Network America raise prices.
A state court in Pennsylvania put the insurance company subsidiaries in rehabilitation in 2009.
Regulators recently converted efforts to rehabilitate the parent-level holding company’s two life insurance subsidiaries, Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company and American Network Insurance Company, into liquidation proceedings.
The details here come from a rate increase request for American Network.
A group of life and health insurance guaranty associations has filed the request for American Network with the Connecticut Insurance Department, through Long Term Care Group Inc.
Long Term Care Group Inc. filed the rate increase request through the Connecticut Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, on behalf of 25 state guaranty associations that believe they will have to back at least one American Network policy originally issued by American Network in Connecticut. The Connecticut department posted the filing on its website.
The associations say American Network ended 2016 with 66,741 policyholders throughout the country, including 531 policyholders in Connecticut.
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Three-Dimensional Representation of Electrical Circuit Quantities
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This letter proposes a new representation of electrical circuit quantities based on three-phase dimensional space, in contrast to the conventional two-dimensional representation. It contributes to an alternative mathematical approach to display the voltage and current waveforms in three-dimensional frame, in which an unbalance displacement angle becomes evident, and can be used as an unbalance metric. It is outside the scope of this letter to propose a new power theory, or state new definitions for the power terms. In fact, such electric power representation can be applied to different power theories. Finally, this letter exemplifies the three-dimensional representation through numerical and illustrative case studies. | <urn:uuid:a9b3b3ea-c034-4b21-983c-bffc5c4dc71d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/2773979 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.833019 | 211 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Photo Credit: NPS P rovisions in the Corps' on-board larder had dwindled considerably by the time they reached "the forks of the Jefferson." The adult population of genetically unique westslope cutthroat trout in a river in B.C.’s Kootenay region dropped by 93 per cent this past fall compared with 2017 levels, according to a monitoring report from Teck Resources.. Without our help, wild stocks may completely disappear. Our third variety of trout inspired designs, the westslope cutthroat trout! A better understanding of the potentially complex life history requirements of westslope cutthroat trout in headwater basins is critical to managing for the persistence of the subspecies. Identified by the red slash on its lower jaw Grows up to 50 cm Eats aquatic insect larvae Lives in cold streams and lakes Status: Special concern in B.C. Westslope cutthroat trout are a species at risk. Westslope cutthroat trout Westslope cutthroat trout Walleye (giclée print) Williamson Rainbow Trout. Scientific Name: Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi Other/Previous Names: Westslope Cutthroat Trout (Alberta population) Taxonomy Group: Fishes COSEWIC Range: Alberta COSEWIC Assessment Date and Status Change: November 2016 COSEWIC Status: Threatened COSEWIC Status Criteria: B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v)+2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v) Species Common Name Westslope Cutthroat Trout Species Scientific Name Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi; Federal Listing Status Species of Concern State Listing Status Sensitive Ecoregions. This species ranges in colour from silver to yellowish-green. We mimic the gill plate with an extra touch of red on the handle, and dot patterns. The two most difficult trout species to tell apart are going to be our Montana native cutthroats. Westslope Cutthroat Trout are ranked as Threatened under the provincial Wildlife Act, and as Threatened by the national Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). Size Guide Add to cart Share. Cutthroat can be distinguished from other trout mainly by their large red slashes on either side of their lower jaw. To distinguish westslope cutthroat trout from other cutthroat species, you can look for more small spots by the tail and none by the pectoral fin and a more silvery or greenish color. Westslope Cutthroat Trout Recovery Plan 2012-2017” that was completed by a joint Alberta-Canada recovery team. Westslope Cutthroat Trout Saskatchewan - Nelson Rivers populations. On the east side of the divide, they are distributed mostly in Mon Westslope cutthroat trout are one of 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout, Oncorhyncus clarki, found in Western North America. The westslope cutthroat trout is a beautiful fish that displays brilliant spawning colors. The cutthroat is the Montana state fish. The recovery team considered the needs of both Canada and Alberta in the recovery process but completed the process following Alberta’s recovery plan template. The westslope cutthroat trout shares features with other members of the Salmonidae family, such as dark spots on its body, an adipose (fat-storing) fin, small and round smooth-edged scales and a large mouth. Ontdek premium beelden met een hoge resolutie in de bibliotheek van Getty Images. After measuring the fish and taking a quick … The 2017 Alberta Fish Sustainability Index (FSI) assessment (excluding National Parks) reaffirmed these conservation designations, with all populations being classified as high risk. It can be identified as a cutthroat trout by the iconic red to orange slashes under the lower jaw. As the glaciers moved south, they dammed up some of the major rivers in western Montana and created huge reservoirs that sometimes backed up all the way to the Divide, spilling water (and cutthroat trout) into rivers and streams on the East side of the Continental Divide. Westslope Cutthroat Trout is a trout with small, non-rounded spots, with few spots on the anterior body below the lateral line. × Westslope Cutthroat Trout John D. IVIclntyre and Bruce E. Rieman, USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, 316 E. iViyrtle Street, Boise, Idaho 83702 Introduction The westslope cutthroat trout inhabits streams on both sides of the Continental Divide. View … Congratulations to Sam Hix of Bellaire, Texas on setting a new catch-and-release state record Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Scientific Name(s): Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi, Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi, Salar lewisi. They had but little of their salt meat left, and only a few remnants of the corn they had departed Fort Mandan with. Near Fortunate Camp on August 19, three of hunters bagged two deer, while several of the men caught some nice, large westslope cutthroat trout. Blue Mountains. Hix was fishing the Snake River on Aug. 7 when he landed the monster 30.5-inch cutthroat. The cutthroat is the Montana state fish. The WestSlope Chapter of Trout Unlimited promotes habitat conservation for Missoula's watersheds. Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Fish Distribution, Washington, Idaho, Columbia River Basin, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, Montana, StreamNet Project Summary Description Credits Use limitations Extent These data are intended for use in a variety of applications where fish distribution and activity is Once common in North America, the westslope cutthroat is declining across its range. Coloration varies, but generally is silver with yellowish hints, though bright yellow, orange, and especially red colors can be expressed to a much greater extent than on coastal or Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (Behnke 1992). 1.1K likes. Alberta's stocking program plays a significant role in maintaining and providing new fishing opportunities for anglers. Bekijk deze stockfoto van Underwater Westslope Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus Clarki Lewisi. Have teeth under tongue, on roof of mouth, and in front of mouth. WestSlope Chapter Trout Unlimited, Missoula, MT. Westslope cutthroat like any trout vary from one individual to the next, but there are a number of traits that generally set them apart from other cutthroat. Currently the only remaining genetically pure native westslope cutthroat trout are found in about 600 miles of Missouri River tributaries. The westslope cutthroat trout is the official state fish for the state of Montana. Westslope-cutthroat. Photo Credit: Josh McCormick Overview. Habitats Historically Occupied by Westslope and Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout (circa 1800) 80 0 80 160 Miles N. Cutthroat Trout Conservation Agreement July 2007 3 Goals The management goals for cutthroat trout in Montana are to: 1) ensure the long-term, self- Westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout are increasingly at risk, however, from the severe, negative effects of non-native fish, which were introduced to Glacier via fish stocking that began soon after the park was established in 1910 and continued until the 1970s. Westslope Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi) 4 July10,11.They may repeat spawning in successive years depending on local conditions and repeat spawners can be upwards of 70% of the spawning population5. https://www.facebook.com/Cutthroat.Chapter.of.Trout.Unlimited A great addition to any fishing, or outdoor enthusiast. Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri) are the most widespread native trout in the park and were the dominant fish species here prior to Euroamerican settlement.They are an important species in Yellowstone National Park, upon which many other species depend. $90.00. Westslope cutthroat trout can be found in lakes and rivers east of the Cascade mountain range. Sleek with a touch of orange, and a touch more yellow green for the main glaze. Features: Like all cutthroat trout, this species boasts bright red streaks on either side of its “throat.” You can tell it’s a westslope cutthroat by its spot pattern – the majority of the black spots are found on the back end of the fish with rather few ahead of the dorsal fin. The westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi), also known as the blackspotted cutthroat, is a subspecies of the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and is a freshwater fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes. Westslope cutthroat trout. Westslope Cutthroat Trout . Terry Gray Photo (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) Physical Characteristics: Small trout with rosy underside and dark speckled tail, averaging 8 – 12 inches long. The westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi), also known as the black-spotted trout, common cutthroat trout and red-throated trout is a subspecies of the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and is a freshwater fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes. Westslope Vs. Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Date: 10/23/2019. Observed in County(s) Shoshone. Spawning redds (a nest consisting of a hollow in the stream gravel) are constructed by the Quick facts . They prefer pristine headwater streams and alpine lakes. Fish identification can be difficult and take some time to learn. Based on surveys, it is believed that westslope cutthroat trout are present in only 35% of their historically occupied stream reaches (KNRD). In the river environment, westslope cutthroat trout prefer to occupy deep, slow moving, boulder strewn, glides, along the river bank and the tails of … The spots on westslope cutthroat tend to be concentrated on the posterior region of the body, as well as on the dorsal and caudal fins. Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Salmon, Westslope Cutthrout Trout. Hidden Lake Westslope Cutthroat Trout Restoration Project. They now occupy less than 10% of their historic range in Alberta and are listed as Threatened under the federal Species at Risk Act. Westslope cutthroats probably swam over the Divide during the last period of glaciers in Montana, about 10,000 years ago. 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Successive Interference Cancellation for 3G Downlink
- Hasler Foundation
In recent years, a new family of 3G CDMA cellular standards based on time division duplex (TDD), as opposed to the frequency division duplex (FDD) commonly used in 3G systems in Europe, has received increasing attention. A narrow-band version of the UMTS TDD standard, known as low chip rate (LCR) or TD-SCDMA, has been successfully launched in China only few years ago. Unfortunately, in CDMA systems multipath communication channels cause inter-symbol interference (ISI) and consequently destroy the orthogonality of spreading codes, leading to severe multiple access interference (MAI) between the users simultaneously accessing the channel. Hence, digital baseband receiver performance of such systems strongly depends on efficient channel equalization and detection algorithms. Due to the large dimensions of such systems, (optimum) joint maximum-likelihood sequence detection is in general not feasible. Instead, power- and area-efficient linear algorithms, such as linear equalizers, are typically employed.
In this project, the performance and VLSI implementation of successive interference-cancellation (SIC) multiuser detectors (MUD) have been studied, which can outperform linear equalizers in combatting ISI and MAI in CDMA systems. The concept was proven with a corresponding VLSI implementation of a SIC-MUD, which demonstrates that this algorithm is indeed a viable alternative for channel equalization and detection in the TD-SCDMA downlink, producing a noticable gain over traditional linear equalizers at a hardware overhead that is almost negligible when considering the total silicon area of digital baseband tranceiver IC.
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Before loading your moving truck, read “Displacements,by Bruce Holsinger. Yes it is just a novel, but Holsinger built a doomsday plot on safer ground than the foundations of many Miami homes. After all, given the risks of hurricanes and floods induced by climate change, Resources for the futurea nonpartisan economic think tank, called Miami “the most vulnerable major coastal city in the world.”
Of course, we are tragically adept at dismissing scientific projections about storm surges and deaths per 100,000, especially if those surges cause the deaths of people we never meet. But Holsinger brings the cost of climate change home — to McMansions in Coral Gables, Florida. People in this affluent community imagine that tornadoes only hit trailers and if the weather turns bad for a spell, they can always scamper off to their cabins in Michigan.
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In the opening pages of “The Displacements,” set a few years later, a flurry begins to brew off the coast of The Gambia in West Africa. It converges with another storm and then a third. Influenced by random fluctuations in water temperature and convective flow, these storms “merge and collide” and then begin to spin, forming a tropical depression that eventually gathers enough strength to earn a name.
Discover Luna, the first category 6 hurricane in the world, “the one against which climatologists have been warning us for twenty years”. Holsinger describes the approaching hurricane as if the storm were a dragon made of water. Luna flies across the Atlantic, she stops for food, she gives Miami Beach “a laid-back pat.” And then she strikes mercilessly. “It eats away at highways and roads,” he writes, “scratching skyscrapers, gutting offices, boardrooms and lobbies. Tall buildings twist and warp. The bowels of civilization swarm and fly.
As this monster lingers over the South, the Dow plunges 20,000 points, chemical plants spew their toxins into the nation’s water supply, the insurance market implodes, and millions of Americans see their homes carried away.
I gripped the covers of this book as if it might fly out of my hands. Indeed, the disaster wrought by “The Displacements” is not only powerful enough to wipe Miami off the map; it is powerful enough to erase our naive confidence that such a disaster will not come for us.
To break our well-supported denial, Holsinger introduces us to Daphne, the mother of two and stepmother to a disgruntled teenager who recently dropped out of Stanford. Daphne would like to focus more on her work as a ceramist, but her husband, a seasoned surgeon, has a way of downplaying his ambitions.
We meet this wealthy family, with well contained tensions, during the preparations for a gallery exhibition and a birthday. But then the sky darkens and the Governor of Florida issues an evacuation order. As her husband rushes to see what he can do at the hospital, Daphne grabs the children and flees north. “Miami has withstood dozens of hurricanes over the decades,” she thinks. “They are going to check into a hotel, wait out the storm and come back the day after tomorrow.”
She doesn’t know it, but she and her kids are embarking on a wet version of “The Grapes of Wrath,” with the Joads Hudson sedan replaced by a Honda Odyssey. (Holsinger’s novel even comes with its own version of Steinbeck’s intervening chapters.) Anything that can go wrong does. Soon, Daphne will no longer be able to reach her husband! She can’t find her purse!! SHE CANNOT USE HER CREDIT CARDS!!! (If “The Moves” doesn’t encourage you to take climate change more seriously, it will at least encourage you to check your spouse’s bank statements more carefully.)
Running out of gas, cash, cell phone, Daphne and her children are reduced to trudging along with the unwashed masses in “a climate-induced diaspora”. Their destination is one of 18 megashelters in the country – sprawling tent cities that function as rescue centers or concentration camps, according to rumours.
“Twenty-four hours ago, I was the wife of a wealthy surgeon leaving my huge house with three children and a dog in a hybrid SUV,” she thinks. “Now I’m a sweaty, penniless refugee dragging a roller bag down a rural road.”
In case you missed the point here, Daphne’s thoughts go back to a book club meeting when she and her friends were discussing a non-fiction bestseller about climate change. “What stood out at the time were the warnings about the leveling effects of even short-term warming, the author’s sentiment,” Daphne recalls, “in the surprising way soon the crisis would begin to engulf even the privileged, the well-protected, the complacent unconscious.
While Holsinger is as subtle as a Category 6 hurricane, he also twists his novel around an uncanny tension: while mocking the elitism that marks our national response to natural disasters, he also harnesses that elitism to effect. dramatic. It is, after all, a work of suburban horror carefully crafted to take away the anxieties of upper-middle-class white readers. As “The Displacements” slows down and sinks into the frustrations of living in a massive relief camp, the story is reminiscent of Houston’s Astrodome after Katrina – except here we witness what one character sardonically calls of “catastrophe of whiteness”. In such moments of self-awareness, “The Displacements” feels like it deconstructs, challenging not just Daphne’s privilege but her own as well.
What unfolds inside the camp turns into a microcosm of the country’s divisions exacerbated by racial prejudice, illicit drugs and concealed weapons. And Holsinger offers incisive speculation about how such an existential crisis might reshape our political rhetoric and create a new class of “undeserving” refugees to be despised and eliminated.
Yet for all its panoramic vision of our future national hellscape – Hieronymus Bosch, but damp – “The disps” remains focused on the intimate details of Daphne’s family life after the hurricane rips off all possible support. As befits her starring role in this meteorological melodrama, she will discover a strength she never knew she possessed. Others around him will be reduced to rubble.
Time turns. Start preparing now.
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Reputation management has changed significantly over the past few years. Once upon a time, dissatisfied customers had the ability to impact a business insofar as they could tell friends, family, and neighbors about bad service, subpar products, or other transgressions. But these days, people have a global platform for voicing dissatisfaction with brands, in the form of the internet, online reviews, and social media.
As such, reputation management has become more important than ever, and today we’re going to talk about what it is, why it’s important, and how you can incorporate it into your small business marketing campaigns.
The Basics of Reputation Management
When prospective customers Google your business, what’s the first thing they come across? Is it just one review on Google My Business? Is it a raving testimonial on Yelp? A neutral review on Amazon? Or perhaps a glaring complaint with the Better Business Bureau? This is the crux of your online reputation, and it’s all about how trustworthy your business is according to the information that’s available on the internet.
Reputation management, therefore, is about monitoring what people say about you online, actively encouraging positive reviews and comments about your business, and taking steps to address criticisms that could lead to a bad reputation.
Ignoring Reputation Management Could Kill Your Business
The information available about your company online comes from places like reviews, testimonials, media coverage, blogs, articles, social media posts, comments, and more. And if the information that comes up about your business is mostly negative, then it will be very difficult for you to gain the trust of prospects.
For one thing, most consumers these days perform a great deal of online research about products, services, and brands before they commit to a purchase, and if your bad reputation precedes you, then potential customers likely won’t feel comfortable doing business with you. A main contributor to bad reputations is online reviews, which are becoming increasingly important: over 90 percent of people read online reviews, and nearly 70 percent will form an opinion after reading between one and six reviews.
Managing Your Online Reputation
There are a few components to reputation management, and two of the most important are monitoring and active management. Monitoring is about keeping an eye on what people are saying about your business.
The easiest way to track this is with Google Alerts and social media tracking, but you can also do it manually by regularly checking review sites, social media, blogs related to your business, and so forth. The second component, management, is more detailed and time-consuming, but well worth the effort. Here are a few ideas that will help you cultivate a positive online reputation:
- Encourage happy customers to leave positive reviews and testimonials
- Create and stay active on social media channels that your customers use
- Have disingenuous reviews and comments removed
- Work hard to create a loyal customer base
- Create loads of entertaining and engaging content
- Use local SEO best practices and making sure your name, address, phone number, and other information is accurate in online directories and review sites
- Have an engaging and easy-to-navigate website that’s full of data about your brand, your products or services, and information related to your business
- Respond quickly, sincerely, and honestly to negative feedback, bad reviews, and criticism
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Welfare Systems: a Comparison of Historical Experiences / Sistemi di welfare: esperienze storiche a confronto
16:30 - 19:00
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Corso Magenta 63, Milano
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 h. 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.
mercoledì 8 giugno 2016 ore 16:30 - 19:00
Building the welfare state has been a significant part of the building of the national states in the 20th century. The European welfare models were then adopted at the global level, but during their “institutional migration” process, they acquired the typical characteristics of the different Countries or geographical areas of destination. An iconic example of this process is Mexican welfare. Its multifaceted and original history prompts us to extend our analysis to new geographical areas, and to identify the similarities and differences with the European welfare model. In this respect, community welfare, which has been studied in depth by Mexican anthropologists, is particularly interesting, as it capitalizes on, and combines, social ties and responses to needs that the state has either never met or stopped meeting. This workshop aims to promote a debate among experts on welfare systems, based on the e-book “Los Otros Welfare. Esperienze storiche e forme di sicurezza sociale nel Messico contemporaneo (secolo XIX e XX)”, edited by Veronica Ronchi, FEEM Press, 2016. The e-book is freely downloadable here. | <urn:uuid:14f18303-7b6d-4a49-b895-479c4a00acd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.feem.it/en/events/welfare-systems-a-comparison-of-historical-experiences-sistemi-di-welfare-esperienze-storiche-a-confronto/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.904371 | 337 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Giovanni Michelotti was a Prolific, Masterful Designer
Photography by Josh Clason, David Marvier, and Ezekiel Wheeler
Like many sons following in their father’s footsteps, Giovanni Michelotti, born in Torino in 1921, seemed destined to follow in his. At the time of his birth, the elder Michelotti was already a machine shop manager at the Torino-based carmaker Itala’s engine factory, so it seems little coincidence that the younger Michelotti would come to develop a deep love of all things mechanical, especially cars.
Leaving school at just fifteen-years-old, Michelotti garnered his first experience in the automotive industry as an apprentice at the Stabilimenti Farina in Cambiano, just outside his hometown. If that name seems familiar, it is because the nascent design house, and the best car-design “school” existing at the time, was started by the older brother of Battista “Pinin” Farina. Today the firm is called Pininfarina S.p.A, and still in operation. It was there that Michelotti’s talent was nurtured, if not recognized at first. In this golden age of coach building, and just two years into his apprenticeship, Michelotti’s first credited design was a body design for a Lancia Astura, in 1938. The project, however, was not meant to be, and never put into production. Michelotti continued to churn out sketches, though. It would be a little while, but Farina would eventually put Michelotti’s designs for a re-bodied 1947 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 into production, and soon thereafter a series of designs based on the Talbot T-26. The success of having cars derived from his work was the motivation that Michelotti needed to strike out on his own. He would establish his own studio, Studio Technico e Carrozzeria G. Michelotti, Torino in 1949.
Michelotti would continue to work freelance for several Italian Carrozzerias, including Bertone, Ghia, Allemano, and Vignale. His first commission as an independent designer was a body for a variant based on the Ferrari 166, which would become just the first of many Ferraris he penned throughout his career. Throughout the 1950s, he would work on designs for Maserati, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo as well. Bodies for the Ferrari 212 Inter, Ferrari 340 Mexico Coupe, Maserati 3500GT, Lancia Aurelia, and Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce would flow from his hand, and oh, what a hand it was. While Michelotti is now considered the father of freelance car design, it is also said that he would create the first sketches in one day and night only working with his pencils.
Michelotti’s career would take an interesting turn toward the end of the ’50s, as he essentially became the house designer for British carmaker, Standard Triumph. This came about when he penned a proposal to shape the 1956 Standard Vanguard, a sedan design that represented a total break with Standard’s conservatively designed cars. And so, from the late 1950s Michelotti was responsible for all the new models produced by Standard Triumph, starting with the Standard Vanguard and going on through models such as the Herald, Spitfire, GT6, TR4, and TR4A 2000, 1300. Later the Triumph Stag, and Dolomite would be added to the list. Nothing like a bit of Italian panache to spice up a staid British manufacturer, right?
Michelotti also made big contributions at BMW too–the BMW 700, the “New Class” BMW 1600-2, and, later, the now highly-collectable 2002. A pagoda-style roof added to an OSCA study later ended up gracing the Mercedes–Benz SL class. The Japanese manufacturers contracted him to draw up the Hino Contessa and Daihatsu Sport during the 1960s. Other customers for Michelotti’s work included DAF, Fiat, and Ford, but he also found some spare time to produce a few cars under its own name. One of the few was the “Shellette”, a beach car with wicker seats and dashboard, like the Fiat Jolly.
Michelotti is credited with more that 1,200 designs–cars, and even buses and trucks–where at least one model was produced. The quality, quantity, and breadth of his work are just some of the reasons why he was inducted into the European Automotive Hall of Fame in 2009. Over the years, Michelotti declined numerous offers to join other coachbuilders because he was valued his independence as a freelancer, and the varied challenges they allowed. Michelotti passed away too soon in 1980, at the age of just 59. Carrozzeria Michelotti closed its doors in 1993. | <urn:uuid:1de03929-ba53-4499-aa9a-8d48b5913f2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://petrolicious.com/articles/giovanni-michelotti-was-a-prolific-masterful-designer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979017 | 1,029 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Containers are elaborate digital entities that supply verified added benefits to the business but also call for potent security pointers. Understand how to get the most out of container security most effective practices.
Containers, ideal described as an working technique virtualization instance which can run applications, microservices and processes, are a staple in the technological innovation market. Their flexibility and ease of deployment can assist realize more rapidly deliverables and far more sturdy environments.
SEE: Kubernetes: A cheat sheet (free PDF) (TechRepublic)
“Containers have taken us further along the highway of abstraction where builders have to imagine much less about their infrastructure. Virtual devices abstracted absent hardware resources—containers took that even more by hiding the complexities of the working process,” stated Ganesh Pai, CEO, Uptycs, a SQL-run safety analytics platform. “Containers provide sturdy application impression management, runtime isolation, productive scaling, useful resource pooling and they have turn out to be an integral component of modern day microservices architecture.”
Chris Ford, VP of products at cloud stability and compliance company Danger Stack, pointed out how quickly they have turn into normal fare. “Containers have rapidly moved from an rising know-how to an integral aspect of numerous organizations’ cloud techniques. Gartner predicts that by 2022, 75% of companies will be running containerized apps in production, up from considerably less than 30% today. Why run applications in containers? Effectiveness and progress velocity are the objectives. Containers assistance businesses boost the pace of innovation, even as they improve resource utilization.”
As with everything in technological innovation, however, there are security concerns. SCMagazine.com recently documented that 50% of misconfigured containers are hit by botnets in beneath an hour, and SecurityWeek uncovered that attacks against container infrastructures are growing, like offer chain attacks.
Container protection businesses find to address certain issues
“Conventional server workload security technologies was developed for somewhat static on-premises workloads, but is far too heavyweight to do the job well on minimized, ephemeral container workloads,” Pai claimed. “Also, developers working with containers are frequently utilizing open-source software program that may well consist of again doors and malware. For the reason that more recent ongoing integration, constant advancement workflows suggest that software package is current, examined and deployed faster, it truly is useful for detection of malware and other vulnerabilities before in the system.
“Newer forms of cloud workload defense platform applications deal with these problems as they are built to operate both on container hosts or in containers themselves, and they can easily be included into CI/CD pipelines for early detection. On top of that, danger actors are focusing on CI/CD pipelines to inject destructive habits into the offer chain. Observing and actioning telemetry by all stages of agile cloud workload deployments becomes essential for SecDevOps groups.”
SEE: From start to complete: How to deploy an LDAP server (TechRepublic Premium)
Ford reviewed the troubles of container security. “Container safety startups are searching to address for some of the challenges that containers introduce: the progressively automatic character of modern-day software package advancement can exacerbate safety challenges speedily. Automation can cause misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and malware to develop into pervasive really promptly. Incorporating layers of abstraction in cloud infrastructure raises the risk surface area, especially when container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes) is staying utilized.
He stated the issues with options is that they are targeted on a solitary layer of infrastructure and workloads span a vast assortment of infrastructure kinds. This generates “software sprawl.”
“Stability teams can uncover by themselves overcome by distinctive equipment that generate findings for numerous levels of infrastructure: digital machines, containers, container orchestration, serverless,” Ford claimed. “This software sprawl can also hinder visibility to the progressively subtle attacks that span numerous layers of cloud infrastructure.”
The troubles this generates: significant operational charges, complexity, inefficient workflows, a siloed strategy to stability and compliance, confined possibility visibility, fragmented guidelines and controls, inefficient danger prioritization and remediation, and siloed audit and compliance reporting.
SEE: How to use CyberPanel to effortlessly control Docker images and containers (TechRepublic)
Ford advised: “Instead of continuing to bolt on supplemental tools to aid new infrastructure varieties, like containers, security corporations really should look at a singular system-centric detailed strategy to protection and compliance. By escalating total stack observability in just your total cloud infrastructure, businesses have the potential to detect, assess and respond to hazard holistically across disparate environments. Security groups and the alternatives they use can assist accelerate their business’ adoption of modern technologies even though also ensuring they can deal with new pitfalls and support rising polices at scale.”
Best procedures to protected containers and microservices
Pai reported the very best way to secure these programs is to make protection telemetry less complicated to deal with and evaluate.
“We feel it should be straightforward to examine and ask issues about your overall natural environment and get quickly insights by aggregating and analyzing telemetry from cloud workloads functioning in containers, its orchestration and cloud provider suppliers,” he mentioned. “The challenge that we are solving is having all this telemetry in one particular place and in a normalized structure so that you can apply protection analytics for proactive stability (audit and compliance) and reactive safety (detection and reaction).”
SEE: Prisma Cloud can now instantly protect cloud workloads and containers (TechRepublic)
Pai explained to aim on telemetry-powered stability, which normalizes telemetry from container runtime (osquery), orchestration (kubequery) and cloud vendors (cloudquery), and this permits safety practitioners to get responses to queries, like, “‘What containers in my atmosphere are jogging this recognised vulnerable deal?’ or ‘Where else is this file hash showing throughout my Kubernetes Cluster?'”
Ford said that newer corporations have a tendency to concentrate exclusively on containers, but it is essential to search at their security posture more holistically.
“Usually, portray a image of over-all workload threat can be challenging,” he said. “Disparate answers produce disparate conclusions, and though a SIEM can be used to aggregate these findings, the target ought to be to prioritize perform for safety groups, not include far more to keep track of. It is really important to have a solitary location to monitor containers, Fargate workloads, Kubernetes, digital devices, applications and cloud service provider APIs, therefore eliminating the need for numerous equipment. The aim is to supply visibility into these workloads, surfacing dangerous consumer, file, network and course of action exercise.”
But, most critically, deploying containers speedily: “Corporations relocating cloud-indigenous infrastructure to accelerate innovation will not have to sacrifice velocity for stability. Danger Stack sensors, for instance, are deployed at pace and scale using cloud native tooling, ranging from well-liked configuration administration equipment to Kubernetes daemonsets and Helm charts,” Ford stated.
The long term of container security
Container safety can take a few distinct directions, relying on which solution and architectures are adopted, Pai explained. “IT, software program progress and deployment designs will direct the cost, and stability paradigms will abide by. Container runtimes will carry on to evolve from Docker, Cri-o, Containerd, and they will probably be complemented by micro VM systems this sort of as AWS Firecracker and Google gVisor. Furthermore, other serverless technologies these as Purpose-as-a-Provider coupled with SaaS services will likely shape container protection. No make a difference which strategy prevails, there will normally be telemetry for configuration, behavioral/use trail action and movement logs. This telemetry will both be available directly from the runtime (container) or the services company (API).”
SEE: Box CEO Aaron Levie: Apparent skies forward for the cloud this calendar year (TechRepublic)
Container safety capabilities will be significantly baked into the material of broader stability remedies, Pai said. Ford said he believes that protection steps will be ever more automatic.
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The Story of My Life
It was at this time (1888) that I took my first journey into Germany. This was made possible through the invitation to participate in the Weimar edition of Goethe, which was to be prepared by the Goethe Institute under a commission from the Grand-duchess Sophie of Saxony. Some years earlier Goethe's grandson, Walther von Goethe, had died. He had left Goethe’s manuscripts as a legacy to the Grand-duchess. She had thereupon founded the Goethe Institute and, in conjunction with a number of Goethe specialists – chief among whom were Hermann Grimm, Gustav von Loeper, and William Scherer – had determined to prepare an edition of Goethe in which his already known works should be combined with the unpublished remains.
My publications concerning Goethe were the occasion of my being requested to prepare a part of Goethe's writings on natural science for this edition. I was called to Weimar to make a general survey of the natural-scientific part of the works and to take the first steps required by my task.
My sojourn for some weeks in Goethe's city was a festival time in my life. For years I had lived in the thoughts of Goethe; now I was permitted to be in the places where these thoughts had arisen. I passed those weeks in the elevated impression arising from this feeling. I was able from day to day to have before my eyes the papers in which were contained the supplements to that which I had already prepared for the edition of Goethe for the Kürschner National-Literatur.
My work in connection with this edition had given me a mental picture of Goethe's world-view. Now the question to be settled was how this picture would stand in view of the fact that hitherto unpublished material dealing with natural science was to be found in these literary remains. With the greatest intensity I worked at this portion of the Goethe legacy.
I soon thought I could recognize that the previously unpublished material afforded an important contribution toward the very task of more thoroughly understanding Goethe's form of cognition.
In my writings published up to that time I had conceived this form of cognition as consisting in the fact that Goethe perceived in a living way. In the ordinary state of consciousness man is at first a stranger to the being of the world by which he is surrounded. Out of this remoteness arises the impulse first to develop, before knowing the world, powers of knowledge which are not present in ordinary consciousness.
From this point of view it was highly significant for me when I came upon such thoughts as the following among Goethe's papers: –
“In order to get our bearings to some extent in these different sorts [Goethe here refers to the different sorts of knowledge in man and his different relationships to the outer world] we may classify these as: practising, knowing, perceiving, and comprehending.
“1. Practical, benefit-seeking, acquisitive persons are the first who, so to speak, sketch the field of science and lay hold upon practice. Consciousness gives a sort of certitude to these through experience, and necessity gives them a certain breadth.
“2. Knowledge-craving persons require a serene look free from personal ends, a restless curiosity, a clear understanding, and these stand always in a relationship with the previous type. They likewise elaborate what they discover, only they do this in a scientific sense.
“3. The perceptive are in themselves productive; and knowledge, while itself progressing, calls for perception without intending this, and goes over into perception; and, no matter how much the knowers may make the sign of the cross to shield themselves from imagination, yet they must none the less, if they are not to deceive themselves, call in the aid of the imagination.
“4. The comprehending, whom one may call in a proud sense the creative, are in themselves in the highest sense productive; beginning as they do with the idea, they express thereby the unity of the whole, and it is in a certain sense in accord with the facts of nature thus to conform themselves with this idea.”
It becomes clear from such comment that Goethe considered man in his ordinary consciousness as standing outside the being of the external world. He must pass over into another form of consciousness if he desires knowingly to unite with this being. During my stay in Weimar the question arose within me in more and more decisive form: How must a man build further upon the foundations of knowledge laid by Goethe in order to be guided knowingly over from Goethe's sort of perceptions to that sort which can take up into itself actual experience in the spirit, as this has been given to me?
Goethe goes forward from that which is attained on the lower stages of knowledge, by “practical” persons and by those “craving knowledge.” Upon this he causes to shine in his mind whatever can shine in the “perceiving” and the “comprehending” through productive powers of the mind upon the content of the lower stages of knowledge. When he stands thus with the lower knowledge in the mind in the light of the higher perception and comprehension, then he feels that he is in union with the being of things. To live knowingly in the spirit is, to be sure, not yet attained in this way; but the road to this is pointed out from one side, from that side which results from the relation of man to the outer world. It was clear to me that satisfaction could come only with a grasp of other side, which arises from man's relation to himself.
When consciousness becomes productive, and therefore brings forth from within itself something to add to the first pictures of reality, can it then remain within a reality, or does it float out of this to lose itself in the unreal? What stands against consciousness is its own “product” – it is this thing that we must look into. Human consciousness must first effect an understanding of itself; then can man find a confirmation of the experience of pure spirit. Such were the ways taken by my thoughts, repeating in clearer fashion their earlier forms, as I pored over Goethe's papers in Weimar.
It was summer. Little was to be seen of the contemporary art life of Weimar. One could yield oneself in complete serenity to the artistic, which represented a memorial to Goethe's work. One did not live in the present; one was drawn back to the time of Goethe. At the moment it was the age of Liszt in Weimar. But the representatives of this age were not there.
The hours after work I passed with those who were connected with the Institute. In addition there were others sharing in the work who came from elsewhere for longer or shorter visits. I was received with extraordinary kindness by Bernhard Suphan, the director of the Goethe Institute; and in Julius Wahle, a permanent collaborator, I found a dear friend. All this, however, took on a definite form when I went there two years later for a longer period, and it must be narrated at the point where I shall tell about that period of my life.
More than anything else at that time I craved to know personally Eduard von Hartmann, with whom I had corresponded for years in regard to philosophical matters. This was to take place during a brief stay in Berlin which followed that in Weimar.
I had the privilege of a long conversation with the philosopher. He lay upon a sofa, his legs stretched out and his upper body erect. It was in such a posture that he passed by far the greater part of his life from the time when the suffering with his knee began. I saw before me a forehead which was an evident manifestation of a clear and keen understanding, and eyes which in their look revealed that assurance felt in the innermost being of the man as to that which he knew. A mighty beard framed in the face. He spoke with complete confidence, which showed how he had woven certain basic thoughts about the whole world-concept and thus in his way illuminated it. In these thoughts everything which came to him from other points of view was at once overwhelmed with criticism. So I sat facing him while he sharply passed judgment upon me, but in reality never inwardly listened to me. For him the being of things lay in the unconscious, and must ever remain hidden there so far as human consciousness was concerned; for me the unconscious was something which could more and more be elevated into consciousness through the strivings of the soul's life. During the course of the conversation about this, I said that one should not assume beforehand that a concept is something severed from reality and representing only an unreality in consciousness. Such a view could never be the starting-point for a theory of cognition. For by this means one shuts oneself off from access to all reality in that one can then only believe that one is living in concepts and that one can never approach a reality except through hypothetical concepts – that is, in an unreal manner. One should rather seek to prove beforehand whether this view of the concept as an unreality is tenable, or whether it rises out of a preconception. Eduard von Hartmann replied that there could be no argument as to this; in the very definition of the term “concept” lay the evidence that nothing real is to be found there. When I received such an answer I was chilled to the soul. Definitions to be the point of departure for conceptions of life! I realized how far removed I was from contemporary philosophy. While I sat in the train on my return journey, buried in thoughts and recollections of this visit, which was nevertheless so valuable to me, I felt again that chilling of the heart. It was something which affected me for a long time afterward.
Except for the visit to Eduard von Hartmann, the brief visits I made at Berlin and Munich, while passing through Germany after my stay at Weimar, were given over entirely to absorption in the art which these places afforded. The broadening of the scope of my perception in this direction seemed to me at that time especially enriching to my mental life. So this first long journey that I was able to take was of very comprehensive significance in the development of my conceptions as to art. A fullness of vital impressions remained with me when I spent some weeks just after this visit in the Salzkammergut with the family whose sons I had already been teaching for a number of years. I was further advised to find my vocation in private tutoring, and I was inwardly determined upon the same course because I desired to bring forward to a certain point in his life evolution the boy whose education had been entrusted to me some years before, and in whom I had succeeded in awakening the soul from a state of absolute sleep.
After this, when I had returned to Vienna, I had the opportunity to mingle a great deal in a group of persons bound together by a woman whose mystical, theosophical type of mind made a profound impression upon all the members of this group. The hours I spent in the home of this woman, Marie Lang, were in the highest degree useful to me. An earnest type of life-conception and life-experience was present in vital and nobly beautiful form in Marie Lang. Her profound inner experiences came to expression in a sonorous and penetrating voice. A life which struggled hard with itself and the world could find only in a mystical seeking a sort of satisfaction, even though one that was incomplete. So she almost seemed created to be the soul of a group of seeking people. Into this circle had penetrated theosophy initiated by H. P. Blavatsky at the close of the preceding century. Franz Hartmann, who by reason of his numerous theosophical works and his relations with H. P. Blavatsky, had become widely known, also introduced his theosophy into this circle – Marie Lang had accepted much of this theosophy. The thoughts which are there to be found seemed in many respects to harmonize with the characteristics of her mind. Yet what she took from this source had attached itself to her in a merely external way. But within her she had mystical possession which had been lifted into the realm of consciousness in a quite elementary fashion out of a heart tested by life.
The architects, littérateurs, and other persons whom I met in the home of Marie Lang would scarcely have been interested in the theosophy offered by Franz Hartmann had not Marie Lang to some extent participated in this. Least of all would I myself have been interested in it; for the way of relating oneself to the spiritual world which was evidenced in the writings of Franz Hartmann was absolutely opposite to the bent of my own mind. I could not concede that it was possessed of real and inner truth. I was less concerned with its content than with the manner in which it affected people who nevertheless were truly seekers.
Through Marie Lang I became acquainted with Frau Rosa Mayreder, who was a friend of hers. Rosa Mayreder was one of those persons to whom in the course of my life I have given the greatest reverence, and in whose development I have had the greatest interest. I can well imagine that what I have to say here will please her very little; but this is the way that I feel as to what came into my life because of her. Of the writings of Rosa Mayreder which since that time have justly made so great an impression upon so many persons, and which undoubtedly gave her a very conspicuous place in literature, nothing had at that time appeared. But what is revealed in these writings lived in Rosa Mayreder in a spiritual form of expression to which I had to respond with the strongest possible inner sympathy. This woman impressed me as if she possessed each of the gifts of the human mind in such measure that these in their harmonious interaction constituted the right expression of a human being. She united various artistic gifts with a free, penetrating power of observation. Her paintings are just as much marked by individual unfolding of life as by absorption in the depths of the objective world. The stories with which she began her literary career are perfect harmonies made up of personal strivings and objective observations. Her later works show this character more and more. Most clearly of all does this come to light in her later two-volume work, Kritik der Weiblichkeit (Critique of Femininity). I consider it a beautiful treasure of my life to have spent many hours during the time about which I am here writing together with Rosa Mayreder during the years of her seeking and mental strivings.
I must in this connection refer again to one of my human relationships which took its rise and reached a vital intensity above the sphere of thought-content, and, in a sense, quite independently of this. For my world-view, and even more my emotional tendencies, were not those of Rosa Mayreder. The way by which I ascended from that which is in this respect recognized as scientific into an experience of the spiritual cannot possibly be congenial to her. She seeks to use the scientific as the foundation for ideas which have as their goal the complete development of human personality without permitting the knowledge of a world of pure spirit to find access into this personality. What is to me a necessity in this respect to her means almost nothing. She is wholly devoted to the furtherance of the present human individuality and pays no attention to the action of spiritual forces within these individualities. Through this method she has achieved the most significant exposition yet produced of the nature of womanhood and the vital needs of woman.
Neither could I ever satisfy Rosa Mayreder in respect to the view she formed of my attitude toward art. She thought that I denied true art, because I sought to get a grasp upon specific examples of art by means of the view which entered my mind by reason of my experience of the spiritual. Because of this she maintained that I could not sufficiently penetrate into the revelation of the sense-world and thus arrive at the reality of art, whereas I was seeking just this thing – to penetrate within the full truth of the sensible forms. But all this did not detract from the inner friendly interest in this personality which developed in me at the time, during which I owe to her some of the most valuable hours of my life – an interest which in truth remains undiminished even to the present day.
At the home of Rosa Mayreder I was often privileged to share in conversations for which gifted men gathered there. Very quiet, seemingly with his gaze inward upon himself rather than listening to those about him, sat Hugo Wolf, who was an intimate friend of Rosa Mayreder. One listened inwardly to him even though he spoke so little. For whatever entered into his life was communicated in mysterious fashion to those who might be with him. With heartfelt affection was I attached to the husband of Frau Rosa, Karl Mayreder, so fine a person both as man and as artist, and also to his brother, Julius Mayreder, so enthusiastic in regard to art. Marie Lang and her circle and Friedrich Eckstein, who was then wholly given over to the spiritual tendencies and world-conception of theosophy, were often present. This was the time when my Philosophy of Freedom was taking more and more definite form in my mind. Rosa Mayreder is the person with whom I talked most concerning this form at the time when my book was thus coming into existence. She relieved me of a part of the inner loneliness in which I had lived. She was striving for a conception of the actual human personality; I toward a revelation of the world which might seek for this personality at the basis of the soul by means of spiritual eyes thus opened. Between the two there were many bridges. Often in later life there has arisen before my grateful spirit one or another picture from this experience, for example, memory pictures of a walk through the noble Alpine forests, during which Rosa Mayreder and I discussed the true meaning of human freedom.
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Today’s article was originally published by the Student Support Program in July 2015. Read the unabridged version here.
“I wonder if my hair looks alright. Wait, did he just look over at me? I should have worn my other skirt to the seminar today, how could I possibly have forgotten? Did he just glance over at me again!?”
I’m not sure about you all, but I will be the first to admit that in the past I have asked myself these questions during a church function. I glance over to see if I can make eye contact with my friends, when instead I should be paying attention to the sermon during conference. I look down to make sure my new heels are spotless, when instead I should be caring less about my appearance and more about what work needs to be done during this YIA tour.
We are constantly bombarded with distractions that redirect our focus from our true purpose during these spiritual ventures to things we selfishly worry about day in and day out.
Distractions in Our Opportunities
What happens when we stop thinking about the needs of others at the soup kitchen during YIA and keep thinking about that cute boy you just met from another branch? What happens if we shop endlessly the week before for the latest outfit in order to impress at conference instead of preparing ourselves to receive what God may want to communicate to us?
In these cases, we can be dangerously close to hindering the Lord from truly speaking to us or using us, especially when we venture out to serve Him. Other times, we may feel consumed by other problems and distractions that we may be forced to deal with, such as issues with our friends, family, significant others, work, school, and the list goes on and on.
What we need to realize is that God wants us to be FREE.
John 16:33 says, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” We will have distractions and tribulations, but we will rest assured that Christ has already won the victory for us! In other words, we don’t need to worry about how we dress, who we see, or what problems we may have; all we need to do is focus on what we were sent to do on our spiritual adventures.
If you are at a camp seminar, participate! If you are painting a shed during YIA, whistle a hymn while you work! If you are to be a guide to children at VBS, ask God to help you enlighten such beautiful young souls!
It can be difficult to leave all your distractions behind, but we need to confront those things that bind us and deal with them. The Lord may even inspire the teachers during an event or seminar to give you the guidance and knowledge on how to remove those time-consuming distractions, so that we may proclaim that we are truly FREE. The victory has already been won; it is just there for us to seize it and be courageous! Let’s be brave enough to step out of our comfort zones and make the most of our spiritual voyages!
For those of you who may be attending campout, VBSs, YIAs, conferences etc., I suggest we prepare for what the Lord may have in store for us. If there is a theme to the conference or campout, we should research and think on it. If we plan on helping at VBS or YIA, be prepared to work hard that week and receive a blessing! No matter where we are or what amazing opportunity we’re participating in through the church, we must remember that we are free because Jesus has died and resurrected for each one of us.
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Expressive Landscapes in Mixed Media
Chandlers Ford Library
Friday 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th November 2022
10.00am to 1.00pm
An introduction to combining media in an expressive style.
- Apply at least three Watercolour techniques
- Explain how background, middle ground and foreground can be achieved in a landscape painting to create depth/space
- Create a vignette sketch of a landscape
- Create a monochromatic landscape with at least two different media
- Describe how colour choice affects emotions
Who is the course for: Beginners and improvers. Individuals looking to develop their creative skills using various media, over four informal fun sessions.
Previous knowledge/experience required: Some art knowledge either current or previous would be advantageous but not essential. What is required is lots of enthusiasm, willingness to learn and a desire to have fun. This is a very loose style of painting and so very suitable for beginners and for improvers wanting to let loose.
How will I learn: This is a relaxing and friendly course with step by step demonstrations. You will be gently guided through different painting activities to develop painting techniques, starting at the basics. Each week will focus on specific elements used within art and the principles of design to help understand how to build an expressive landscape painting. There will be lots of playing with media and working on small sketches rather than focusing on a final outcome e.g. one large final painting.
How will I be assessed: Through observation, questioning, discussion and peer/self-evaluation.
Some ideas of what you’ll need a variety is good: Range of pencils like HB, 2B, 6B. Rubber. Sketchbook or loose A4 paper. Watercolour paper (Cold Pressed) 140lb in either a A4 or A5 pad or block or loose sheets. Watercolour pan set or palette with tubes with at least Ultramarine blue, Crimson red, Cadmium red, Lemon yellow and a Brown like Burnt umber. Flat and round brushes Small and medium sizes. Water pot x 2. Kitchen roll.. A variety of pens these are some suggestions – Fine liner (few sizes), felt tip, paint, ink/fountain, dip pen. Black biro. Cocktail stick or embossing tool. Charcoal. Sponge. Cling film. Old toothbrush.
Or pay a total of £4 to the tutor on the day and materials will be provided.
Progression routes from this course: Other art and craft workshops or courses
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This project called the FLUX installation, is developed in 6 months by a team of CCA faculty and students. The project explores the possibilities of parametric modeling and digital fabrication through the production of the exhibition armature. The content of the exhibition is organized through a series of thematic categories in digital practices like cellular clusters, material systems, modular assemblages and etc.
FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape by CCA Architecture/MEDIAlab is an exhibition that focuses on the emerging field of advanced digital design. In the last two decades of architectural practice, new digital technologies have evolved from being simply representational tools invested in the depiction of existing models of architectural space to becoming significant performative machines that have transformed the ways in which we both conceive and configure space and material.
These tools for design, simulation, and fabrication, have enabled the emergence of new digital diagrams and parametric landscapes—often emulating genetic and iterative dynamic evolutionary processes—that are not only radically changing the ways in which we integrate disparate types of information into the design process, but are also significantly altering the methodological strategies that we use for design, fabrication and construction. After the early digital explosion of the 1990’s, new forms of rigor and production have entered into the field of architecture, supporting the emergence of parametric and building information modeling and the enhanced use of computational geometry and scripting that together represent the second critical wave of digital design practices.
That our current models of space are far more continuous, variant and complex, is specifically a result of the tools we are using to produce them, an inevitable byproduct of the ever-expanding capacities of digital computation and related fabrication technologies as these intersect with theoretical trajectories that long ago dismantled the social, functional and technological truths of the early part of this century.
Produced using CCA’s new CNC router and advanced parametric modeling techniques, the undulating structure expands and contracts as its volume extends down the center of the long nave space. Through the use of parametric modeling and a series of custom designed scripts, the installation design can be quickly updated to address new design criteria. From the thickness of the ribs to the overall twisting geometry and perforated skins, the spatial form of the armature is controlled through a complex set of relationships defined by its formal, performative, and fabrication constraints.
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Architect: CCA Architecture/MEDIAlab
Location: San Francisco, United States
Date: 2008 – 2009
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has published updated recommendations for car seat safety. Parents often look forward to transitioning their child from rear-facing car seats to front-facing car seats. The previous recommendation was to keep children in rear-facing car seats to age 2. Now it is recommended to remain rear-facing until they weigh 40 pounds or more which means that most children remain rear-facing past their second birthday.
The AAP recommendations are as follow:
Infants and toddlers should ride in rear-facing car seats as long as possible until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by their seat. Most convertible seats have limits that will allow children to ride rear-facing for two years or more.
Once they are facing forward, children should use a forward-facing car safety seat with a harness for as long as possible, until they reach the height and weight limits for their seat. Many seats can accommodate children up to 65 pounds or more.
When children exceed these limits, they should use a belt-positioning booster seat until the vehicles’ lap, and shoulder seat belt fit properly. This is often when they have reached 4 feet 9 inches in height and are 8-12 years old.
When children are old enough and large enough to use the vehicle seat belt alone, they should always use the lap and shoulder belts for optimal protection.
All children younger than 13 years old should be restrained in the rear seats of vehicles for optimal protection.
Cold weather in fall and winter can be tricky for car seat safety.
Bulky clothing, such as winter coats and snowsuits should not be worn underneath the harness of a car seat. Tips on keeping your child warm while riding in their car seat can be found on the American Academy of Pediatrics website.
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The Relationship Between Commercial Website Ratings and Traditional Hospital Performance Measures
Thanks to explosive growth in the popularity of social media, millions of consumers routinely use sites like Yelp.com and Facebook.com to research restaurants, retail stores, and even physicians and hospitals.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, were curious whether there was a correlation between these consumer reviews and more traditional measures of hospital quality, such as patient satisfaction surveys, mortality rates, and readmissions.
With support from CHCF, the authors focused on 270 hospitals across the United States with at least five reviews on Yelp.com. The authors compared the hospitals’ scores on Yelp with those from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, a more familiar industry benchmark, available on the federal government site HospitalCompare.hhs.gov.
Their research, published in the November 2012 issue of BMJ Quality and Safety, found that hospitals that did the best on Yelp — garnering four or five stars — also tended to have high HCAHPS scores and better mortality rates and readmission outcomes. This suggests that the crowd-sourced reviews may tell stories that relate both to the experience of being a patient at the hospital and how well patients do during the hospitalization and after discharge.
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Traders use a variety of strategies in the markets, all based on two forms of analysis: Fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Although institutions and other large traders often use a combination of these two analytical styles, most independent traders rely on strategies based largely on technical analysis.
Let’s take a look at both analytical styles as they apply to trading forex.
In the stock markets, equities traders are sometimes able to value a company (and therefore predict its share price) if they know all the information about that company. That’s because the share price of the company reflects the value of its known assets. By knowing a company, the equity trader knows what its share price should be.
However, in forex markets using fundamental analysis alone is far less effective, because it’s extremely difficult to value an entire country’s economy in order to predict its currency’s value. Most forex traders use exclusively technical analysis.
When full scale fundamental analysis is applied to forex markets, it’s most often used as a way to predict longer-term trends. And, some traders use data such as news releases in the short term to generate trades or confirm signals. So, along with their mainstay technical analysis, some traders incorporate fundamental data.
Here are some of the fundamental indicators commonly used by forex traders:
★ Non-Farm Payroll
★ Consumer Price Index (CPI)
★ Purchasing Managers Index (PMI)
★ Durable Goods Sales
★ Retail Sales
For best results, savvy traders also pay attention to various meetings of government officials and industry conferences, and other venues where market-moving quotes and commentary can be found.
Meetings are scheduled to discuss inflation, interest rates and other issues that directly affect currency prices. These meetings and conferences are often reported in the industry press before they reach mainstream media. The important event for fundamentals-based forex traders is the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) press conference and meeting transcript.
Forex traders can follow meetings and conferences and become highly knowledgeable specialists, and profit by knowing a particular market better than most others.
Technical analysis is by far the most common basis for forex strategies. Using technical analysis in forex is different than in equities, because the forex time frame is 24 hours worldwide whereas many stocks don’t trade overnight, so their price movements are different.
Traders use a huge variety of individualized systems, often built by knowledgeable EA providers, with many different indicators. Here are just a few of the most common indicators and theories used in technical analysis:
★ Elliott Waves
★ Gann Theory
Traders craft many different strategies based on technical analysis, especially by combining multiple indicators. Other developers create trading systems based on finding historical buying and selling patterns that are expected to be repeated.
Developing a personal strategy
Successful forex traders develop and fine-tune their strategies over time. Some traders focus on a particular tool or calculation, while others user a broader approach and experiment with a combination of technical and fundamental analysis.
Many new traders wisely start out by “paper trading” or using a demo account with a forex broker. And, experienced traders almost invariably develop new systems with backtesting before trying them in real time. Lack of experience can cause you to lose your capital, so it’s important to take the time to practice before committing significant money to any new trading system.
Regardless of whether you use technical indicators alone, or incorporate fundamentals as well, if you have the discipline to learn your target markets and trade confidently while carefully managing risks, then your strategy has an excellent chance to succeed.
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"Map of Oregon and Upper California from the surveys of J.C. Fremont and other Authorities", Fremont/Preuss
Subject: Western United States
Period: 1848 (dated)
Publication: House Ex Doc. #17, 31st Congress
Color: Black & White
19.5 x 16.5 inches
49.5 x 41.9 cm
This is the smaller version of Fremont's highly respected map of the west, published by Congress, in 1850, to meet the demand for information concerning the Gold Rush. The map covers a smaller area than his larger map of the same title, eliminating Oregon and covering only the western parts of present day Arizona and Utah. "El Dorado or Gold Regions" are shown on the south fork of the American River and the upper course of the Feather River. Contains Fremont's famous topographical error, showing an east-west mountain range across the unexplored area of the Great Basin. Ref: Wheat (TMW) #613, Wagner Camp #150, Wheat (Gold) #58. Folds as issued and excellent condition. | <urn:uuid:f6d9cb49-cb2f-4fb2-be4e-62cf4f2c1d69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oldworldauctions.com/catalog/lot/88/99 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.889685 | 238 | 2.65625 | 3 |
If you have a pet you will already be accustomed to spotting urine stains from time to time somewhere in your homes, such as the sofa, carpet or even the mattress on which you sleep. It can also happen if the little one in the house is starting to control urine but has not yet fully mastered it.
For different causes, we may find the need to remove urine stains where we sleep. But there are some people who don’t know how to clean pee out of a mattress. Luckily there are some simple homemade tricks to eliminate these disgusting stains and smells and eliminate them permanently.
How To Clean Pee Out Of A Mattress?
It is difficult for some people to clean the urine out, and they might even make things worse. That is because they don’t know how to clean pee out of a baby or kid mattress. And if you don’t want to be that person then you probably can try to learn some quick tricks. The best part about these tips that most of the solutions are at your arm’s length. So, you don’t need to go out looking for them as they can be found at your home. Let’s get started then.
Vinegar is very useful for a lot of things. From acne problems to even killing bacteria and the odor of urine. Just apply a quantity of vinegar on the stained surface and then quickly suck the excess liquid. You can use a towel to absorb it. You can also try this with alcohol. You will have the same results and the entire process is the same. And by the way, alcohol evaporates more easily. So, it might be a better choice if you can spare some to cleaning the pee out.
If you use baking soda or corn starch, you should pour it directly onto the affected area and brush it with a brush. Maintain the mixture for at least 24 hours on the stain so that it absorbs all the urine and neutralizes the odors. If the area that has been affected is very wide, mix either of these two ingredients with water and spread them with a soft sponge and then brush them.
As you have done with baking soda, you can also use talcum to absorb urine and remove bad odors.
For the best results to clean the urine stain, you need to act fast. So, when it is recent, it is much easier to remove the smell and bacteria from the mattress. If you don’t know how to clean pee out of a mattress then you will waste some valuable time. So, don’t waste time thinking and just act on the stained area with a little shampoo and then apply a damp cloth to absorb the excess foam. To finish you have to put the mattress to dry in the sun, or you can use a hair dryer too.
Of all the methods mentioned, I consider that this is the most effective, whenever you can apply it. You will eliminate the stain of urine, its smell and the germs caused due to it. Use a hot steam system combined with a cleaning product to remove urine stains from the mattress. Hot steam mixed with the optimum cleaning product will leave your mattress like new.
Now you know how to clean pee out of a mattress. But the better option is to know how you don’t have to worry about the problem in the future. In the case of such accidents, you now can act. But if you have a small kid or pets the correct option is to be prepared. So, use a protector for the mattress. That way, you don’t have to worry about the mattress soaking the urine. So, no stains to clean. Plus, such protectors don’t absorb the liquid. Hence you can clean them easily. And you don’t need to be on your toes all the time if you use them. You can clean them any time. Much easier to clean than the mattress. So, it saves more time.
Do you know any other tricks to how to clean pee out of a mattress? If you have other solutions that you think work the same or better then share them with our readers.
Let them know they are not alone in the fight against urine stains and odors.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
I don’t think that anyone will ask this question. But there might be some lazy dads or pet owners who might be thinking why I need to clean that. Why not let the mattress soak all the glory ( the urine of your pet or kids, whatever that caused it).
For them, you need to clean for your own sake, and for the sake of your bed. You might be able to cover the stain using a bed sheet but the odor will not let you sleep. On the other hand, the urine isn’t liquid. It is an acid. So, it has bacteria’s which might be harmful to your health.
Plus if you let the crib mattress soak the pee then it will also harm its quality. So, it might not last as long as you would have thought. Therefore, any sensible person would keep things clean even the lazy ones.
Yes, of course. But like many other things, the process may require some patience. So do not be overwhelmed if you have to repeat the same process several times to get the best results possible.
Remember that it is always easier to completely remove unwanted accident with fluid when you act on them immediately. If it is still wet there might very likely be evidence remaining of it on the mattress which still didn’t damage or create a suspicious smell to the mattress. That moment you get to start with the proceedings to keep things under control. But If you do not know how to do it, do not stop reading yet. | <urn:uuid:8784d3fd-2832-4e86-977b-f556b1545998> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sweetbabylane.com/how-to-clean-pee-out-of-a-mattress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.952526 | 1,206 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Abstract: As an imagination, the 'smart city' is rapidly becoming an integral part of our urban futures. Situated in the contemporary moment of 'data revolution' and India’s techno-urban context, this paper is an attempt to reflect upon the socio-technical imaginaries of data-driven urbanism and the incumbent reconfigurations of how we know, experience and govern a city. The author provides ethnographic vignettes of five little traditions of data-driven urbanism in Delhi pertaining to: the new 'image of the city', the changing nature of expertise, civic data activism, data-driven consumer applications and political communication and analytics. Foregrounding the generative potentials of each of these socio-technical sites, the paper argues for a meta-analytics of data.
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Several decades from now cities will have countless autonomous, intelligently functioning IT systems that will have perfect knowledge of users' habits and energy consumption, and provide optimum service … The goal of such a city is to optimally regulate and control resources by means of autonomous IT systems.- 2 -
(Siemens Corporation cited in Greenfield, 2013: 12)
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Do you, as a city, objectify the most sophisticated knowledge in a physical landscape of extraordinary complexity, power and splendour at the same time as you bring together social forces capable of the most amazing socio-technical and political innovation?- 4 -
(Matthew Fuller, 2012)
‘Smarter Solutions for a Better Tomorrow’ was the tagline for the 1st Smart City India Expo organised in Delhi, 20-22 May 2015. Ravish Kumar, a veteran Hindi journalist, covered the expo in his popular television news show. During a ‘City Surveillance Project’ demo, as a techno-manager tried to explain various aspects like CCTV monitoring, vehicle tracking, command and control, data management, etc., Ravish interrupted to ask: 'What is this data management?’ [a rough translation from Hindi]. 'Suppose you’re driving a car,' replied the techno-manager, 'and you’re stuck in traffic, only you know about that traffic and there is no centralised information about it. With a new sensors-based centralised command system integrated with the entire city’s dynamic map', he continued, 'we can collect all the data, process it in real time and send you a message on how to avoid the traffic.' At this point Ravish, who was intrigued by the idea of a smart city throughout the show, asked ‘how… as the number of cars on the road won’t suddenly decrease.' (Kumar, 2015)- 6 -
Beyond the questions of efficacy, this project demo along with several other demos at the expo, demonstrated new levels of enthusiasm and optimism in generating, mobilising and assembling certain forms of technologically empowered – especially 'data-driven' – urban futures. At a time when the Indian government has started to invest heavily in creating one hundred smart cities to solve pertinent problems of infrastructure, migration, employment, quality of life, delivery of services and governance (Ministry of Urban Development, n.d.) , the term and the networks of concepts which interweave its imagination call for scholarly attention and intervention. Much of the debate on smart cities in India has been focused on questions of policy and civic participation. The lack of clarity in the government’s vision and conceptualisation has been severely criticised (Lakshmi, 2015). However, there has not been much attempt to situate the idea of a smart city in India’s techno-urban context, and reflect on its interconnections with the past, existing and imagined forms of data-driven solutions.- 7 -
While smart cities are just the latest entrants into the vibrant, ever-evolving theatre of techno-urban problem solving, the wide-ranging potentialities which this term evokes – despite its conceptual fuzziness – have added new vigour to the discourse on urban infrastructures and techno-cultures both in India and abroad (Khanna, 2012; Townsend, 2014). How do we then begin to unpack the umbrella term 'smart cities'? There cannot be one correct approach to this question, as it involves a panarchic (opposite of hierarchic) analysis of diverse sectors, institutions and actors. Given the current value-loaded and normatively techno-optimistic discourse, perhaps it would be worthwhile to start reflecting upon broadly what constitutes a smart city.- 8 -
One fundamental aspect of smart cities is their 'data-driven' character and the relationship of this with the larger big data discourse. As we embrace the 'data revolution' – which promises to transform knowledge production, business and governance through use of digital tools, techniques and infrastructures for analysing the ever-expanding data from our devices, the Internet, governments, etc. – data or rather data-drivenness is being increasingly viewed as technologically and politically vital for making cities smarter. This data-driven-ness, however, is not just a digital upgrade, enhancement or optimisation of our present infrastructures, practices and planning processes. Rather, like previous technological interventions in general, it reconfigures our epistemic and ontic formulations of a city (Offenhuber and Ratti, 2014; Thrift, 2014). In other words, data-drivenness is reformulating the ways of knowing, experiencing and governing a city. This paper is essentially an exploratory, ethnographic engagement with these potential reformulations.- 9 -
I will begin by introducing the research agenda. In the next section I will discuss the techno-urban context in India. Subsequently I will present some vignettes from my on-going ethnography of data actors or 'data-drivers' in Delhi to highlight possibilities of grounded inquiries into data-driven systems. I will conclude by arguing for meta-analytics of data.
Introduction: Data-driven imaginaries- 10 -
The burgeoning socio-technical research on big data has shown that questions and concerns about data quality, objectivity, epistemology and ethics are also themselves quite big (Boyd and Crawford, 2012; Kitchin, 2014a). The colossal hype around big data and the data revolution, at one level, is part of our recent 'hype-cycles' of technology – in which every new set of technological innovations is greeted by unchecked optimism, and a more balanced view emerges only after cycles of failures in bringing about the expected 'revolutions' (Gartner Inc., n.d.). At a deeper level, the big data debates invite us to reflect upon the history and anthropology of probability and statistics, computing and media, and quantitative social sciences (Desrosières, 2002; Halpern, 2014; Gitelman, 2013; Manovich, 2013; Mattern, 2015). Cities provide a rich socio-technical context for the latter set of inquiries.- 11 -
A well-networked city is the most fertile space for imagining big data or data-driven applications in general, since they require connectedness between various databases, institutions and socio-technical systems of transport, health, weather, water, sanitation, security, education, and governance. It is not a coincidence that the smart cities discourse has emerged in a certain conjunction with the data revolution, that is, the digital affordances of big data analytics, spatial data analytics, machine learning, data visualisation, etc. While there are longer histories of techno-urbanism, and specifically histories of the way that information and commutation technologies (ICTs) have been used to make cities 'wired', 'digital', 'cybernetic', 'networked', and 'intelligent', the data revolution marks an important shift from the earlier approaches and paradigms (Graham and Marvin, 2001; Kitchin, 2014b). In the smart cities cosmology, ICTs – from desktops to remote sensors, and mobile phones to CCTVs – are imagined to be ubiquitous, platform technologies that collect and collate massive amounts of data, which could be analysed to make the city more 'knowable' and 'controllable' (Offenhuber and Ratti, 2014). And even though data analytics per se has been part of the pre-big data analytics paradigms, its primary sources were limited to social and economic datasets. The smart cities movement, on the other hand, is anchored in the proliferation of digital spatial data which is being collected through GIS systems, sensors and user generated, geo-tagged social media content (Shelton et al., 2014).- 12 -
A critical engagement with this emerging shift in the epistemic and material basis of urbanism, I would argue, is only possible through an eclectic mix of conceptual tools and frameworks of science and technology studies (STS), urban studies, new media and anthropology. Cities, as Graham and Marvin and several others have illustrated, are complex 'sociotechnical hybrids' – wherein the technological and the social seamlessly co-evolve and co-construct each other (Graham and Marvin, 2001; Coutard and Guy, 2007; Aibar and Bijker, 1997; Farías and Bender, 2009). Using this as a point of departure, I will reflect upon the emerging urban data assemblages in the Indian context.- 13 -
Given the lack of precedence and overwhelming scope for such an inquiry, I will attempt to ethnographically engage with some common threads which run through the data revolution discourse – socio-technical imaginaries of data-driven systems. Drawing from interviews and participant observations from my fieldwork in Delhi, and extant literature, I will try to touch upon some of the historical and emergent techno-urban conditions and map the key sites for ethnographic inquiry. The choice of ethnography as a method to gauge socio-technical imaginaries of a data-driven city, goes beyond the need for reclaiming the 'urban' from technological determinism. More importantly, it allows for a contextual engagement with generative potentials and affordances of digital technologies and infrastructures (Boellstorff, 2012; Coleman, 2010; Larkin, 2013), which otherwise get encapsulated in social imaginaries.- 14 -
Political and social theory have elaborate conceptions of the intersubjective imaginaries which construct social order and practices. Arjun Appadurai, for instance, wrote in his seminal essay "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" (2002) that 'the world we live in today is characterized by a new role for the imagination in social life'. He argued that to understand this new role we need to revisit the old ideas of images:
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especially mechanically produced images (in the Frankfurt School sense); the idea of the imagined community (in Anderson’s sense); and the French idea of the imaginary (imaginaire) as a constructed landscape of collective aspirations, which is no more and no less real than the collective representations of, Emile Durkheim, now mediated through the complex prism of modern media … the imagination has become an organized field of social practices, a form of work (in the sense of both labor and culturally organized practice), and a form of negotiation between sites of agency (individuals) and globally defined fields of possibility. (Appadurai, 2002: 49)
Appadurai’s argument is critical for understanding the heterogeneity of modernity and the dynamics of globalisation. However, as Sheila Jasanoff points out, he does not 'engage with the seminal role of knowledge and its materialisations in generating and anchoring imaginaries of social order' (2015: 12). Science, technology and media – the material basis of knowledge production and circulation, she argues, are 'inexplicably' missing from the overall social scientific imagination of imaginaries. To bridge this gap, Jasanoff puts forth a concept of socio-technical imaginaries, defined as 'collectively held, institutionally stabilized, and publicly performed visions of desirable futures, animated by shared understandings of forms of social life and social order attainable through, and supportive of, advances in science and technology' (2015: 6). Socio-technical imaginaries, she writes, 'pull together the normativity of the imagination with the materiality of networks' (2015: 28).- 17 -
Conceptually, socio-technical imaginaries are germane for studying data-driven systems. Although data is today popularly conceived of as new oil or new soil, it is not simply available as a natural resource. As Lev Manovich wrote nearly a decade before the invention of the concept of the data revolution, data 'has to be generated. Data creators have to collect data and organize it, or create it from scratch. Texts need to written, photographs need to be taken, video and audio need to be recorded. Or they need to be digitized from already existing media' (1999: 4). Data collection and generation techniques have undoubtedly become more sophisticated in the last fifteen years, but the basic principle still applies. As Lisa Gitelman wrote in the introduction of Raw Data Is An Oxymoron (a phrase coined by Geoffrey Bowker), 'Data need to be imagined as data to exist and function as such, and the imagination of data entails an interpretive base' (2013: 3). Different disciplines, as many STS scholars including Gitelman have demonstrated, contextualise or cook and savour data as per their historically and culturally contingent epistemologies (Gitelman, 2013; Bowker and Star, 2000; Edwards, 2010). With data-driveness expanding its publics into wider socio-technical realms like cities – in hybrids of human perception and cognition, computational logics of algorithms, databases and burgeoning digital infrastructures – the interpretive base(s) are encoding new socio-technical imaginaries and vice versa. The paper is intended to open up questions on these new forms of co-encoding or co-construction.
Indian Techno-Urban Context- 18 -
Postcolonial cities have had numerous interesting encounters with socio-technical imaginaries of 'modernist urbanism', 'modern infrastructural ideal', 'post-industrial city' and so on (Chatterjee, 2004; Graham and Marvin, 2001). Each of these imaginaries has been marked by various technological, infrastructural, spatial and political reconfigurations. For instance, Partha Chatterjee (2004) observed that in the post-liberalisation economy flooded with images of global cities circulating through 'cinema, television, and the Internet as well as through the Indian middle classes' far greater access to international travel' (143-144), government policies were increasingly designed to attract foreign investment. This created a situation whereby the urban middle-class citizens escalated their demands for 'unhindered access to public spaces and thoroughfares and to a clean and healthy urban environment' (Chatterjee, 2004: 143-144). Simultaneously, the government policy quickly moved away from welfare for the urban poor, towards more investments in infrastructure to promote 'imports of high technology and the new service industries'. This had many visible effects including manufacturing industries being moved outside the city limits, eviction of encroachments, revisions in laws favouring the creation of high-value commercial and residential districts.- 19 -
Chatterjee remarks that 'if this is the new global bourgeois vision of twenty-first century urbanity then this time we may have successfully grasped it' (2004: 144). These reconfigurations however, were accompanied by a spate of unexpected implications as well. As Ravi Sundaram in his distinctive account of Delhi’s media urbanism notes:
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The technological sublime of the planner imaginary, so central to post-independence India, began giving way to a splintered urbanist sprawl in the main metropolitan cities. Planning bodies pushed for the privatized decoupling of infrastructures; transportation design privileged the automobile flyovers and private toll highways to facilitate rapid travel to the suburbs, and private builders took over from older, albeit limited concerns with social housing. (Sundaram, 2009: 5).
Later he continues:
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… the end of the state’s technological monopoly opened up a dynamic space where the existing networks of ‘political society’ and expanding informal media production quickly moved from a model of parasitic attachment to a vitalistic transformation of the urban fabric. (Sundaram, 2009: 174)
These political-infrastructural transformations are parts of the genealogy of the contemporary push for ICTs for urban development and data-driven urbanism in India. Drawing longer and thicker connections between the postcolonial city and the smart city will remain a work in progress; however, it is worth noting that the dynamic interactivity between social imaginaries and their materialisations is a part of urban (and not just digital) ontology.- 24 -
It is also important to note that 'splintering' in the Indian context happened without our cities ever achieving the 'modern infrastructure ideal' of universal, uniform grids and networks that covered services like water, electricity, roads, etc. Informal circuits, contested spaces and complex interactivity in co-existing systems of governance and infrastructure have long rendered the built environment in Indian cities some peculiarities which are hard to grasp and account for in urban masterplans and policies (Benjamin, 2008; Sundaram, 2009). The 'archipelago' (Bakker, 2003) condition of infrastructure systems calls for a view beyond the 'modern infrastructure ideal' (Furlong, 2014).- 25 -
For instance, in his ethnography of the water supply system in a suburban settlement in Mumbai, anthropologist Nikhil Anand analysed how the settlers manage to get access to water by mobilising 'pressures of politics, pumps and pipes' (2011: 560). Anand shows that constant negotiations and 'pressure' politics between the settlers, their elected representatives, local dadas (powerful patrons) and social workers, and the engineers and hydraulic infrastructure, constitute what he calls 'hydraulic citizenship': 'a form of belonging to the city enabled by social and material claims made to the city’s water infrastructure' (Anand, 2011: 560). Anand sees this as being produced in a sociotechnical field through 'diverse articulations of technologies of politics (enabled by laws, politicians, and patrons) and the politics of technology (enabled by plumbing, pipes, and pumps)' (2011: 560, my emphasis).- 26 -
Anand’s formulation helps in opening the largely black-boxed Indian cities as sociotechnical fields of interaction where infrastructures and politics materialise each other indeterminately. There are no similar ethnographic accounts of digital infrastructures, which arguably have much more convoluted and exotic issues of scale, multiple layers of abstractions, affordances and representation.- 27 -
Nonetheless, we do know that the much-desired data-driven systems of the smart cities will have to co-exist and interact with the present infrastructure systems. While data-driven imaginaries boast of integrated modes of knowledge production, the infrastructural conditions will possibly only allow new and old systems to co-produce hybrids which are driven by more things than data alone (Bhatia, 2015; Lakshmi, 2015). For example, the Delhi metro – a rare, smoothly functioning infrastructure system in India – smart card data can be analysed to understand the commute patterns in the metro but the rest of the transport data in Delhi is extremely difficult to imagine, collect and collate with the metro data. These ambiguities, as we can gather from postcolonial urbanism and politics of infrastructure, are features (and not bugs) of the Indian techno-urban context, and can perhaps only be grasped through grounded inquiries.
Towards an Ethnography of Some Urban Data-Drivers- 28 -
An ethnographic study of an Indian smart city will have to wait until the government, big consultancies and real estate moguls succeed in building one. Nonetheless, data-driven urbanism is thriving at the level of 'the imagination' in multiple forms. If we take smart cities to be a 'great tradition' to be performed by the government and partner agencies, there are several smaller entities performing diverse 'little traditions' of data-drivenness (Singer, 1972). I will provide ethnographic vignettes of five little traditions or emergences that I have come across in the past six months of my fieldwork in Delhi. These are: a new 'image of the city', the changing nature of expertise, civic data activism, data-driven consumer applications and political communication and analytics. Whether data-driven systems can produce holistic, nuanced knowledge of the social is contestable; nonetheless, they increasingly are producing some form of knowledge of the 'social', and by implication reconfiguring the social. This, I will conclude, begs for ethnographic attention.
Emergence i. A new image of the city- 29 -
Delhi is one of the very few cities in India with completely digitized maps and a Geographic Information System (GIS) in place – a pre-requisite in the selection of smart cities. During a recent visit to the government agency’s office which manages Delhi’s spatial data, one of the analysts gave me a demo on how their data can transform policy-making.- 30 -
Their spatial data has 386 layers of map data, including locations of post boxes, public conveniences, dustbin and garbage dumps, schools, hospitals, transport, markets, water tanks and so on. On his computer, the analyst mashed up different map layers to demonstrate how he can with a mere click of a mouse generate insights about the city’s water bodies, roads, gas pipelines, forest and residential land zones, schools in a particular radius from any point on the map, and the list goes on. He regularly zoomed in and out of the map to explain the granularity and scale of their data. This non-real time data is currently only accessible for select government departments for planning and policy-making.- 31 -
An internal case study of the project gives an account of the data collection process:
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The Department of IT gathered inputs from each participating line department and built every component of the project from scratch. The base map was created through the photogrammetric procedures on a large scale (1:2000), using aerial photography substantiated by various kinds of field surveys, namely topographic survey, property survey of dwelling units, underground utility surveys (including water, sewer and energy utility) and field photography in order to generate textures for the 3D models of the buildings. At the peak of the project execution, close to 1000 field surveyors were deployed. (PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2014: 6)
The project was commissioned in 2008, and in 2011 the Delhi government created an act to set up the agency which currently manages the data. In contrast to the rigor with which the spatial data was collected, until now only a handful of applications have been created for intra-government usage. The smart city project however, has created a new wave of enthusiasm in an office which is accustomed to only mundane processes of digitising updates to maps and seldom shares information with other government departments.- 34 -
The analyst’s elaborate presentation and use of different functionalities of his ArcGIS software (like zoom, projection, overlaps and distance calculations), made me stumble upon how spatial data has, and continues to, rework our perceptual field of the city, or to use Kevin Lynch’s phrase, creates new 'imageability'. In his pioneering book Image of the City, Lynch writes,
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environmental images are the result of a two-way process between the observer and his environment. The environment suggests distinctions and relations, and the observer – with great adaptability and in the light of his own purposes – selects, organizes, and endows with meaning what he sees. The image so developed now limits and emphasizes what is seen, while the image itself is being tested against the filtered perceptual input in a constant interacting process. (Lynch, 1960: 7)
Software now, is an active techno-media layer of what Lynch referred to as 'environment'. The Google maps in our smartphones and the government’s GIS, at different levels, provide the fundamental affordances for a new image of the city. This new heavily mediated image marks a new relationality between the observer and the city and participates in co-construction of a new techno-urban sensorium. For example, consider the two images above. The first one is the aerial map of Delhi in 1962, and the second one is a digital image on which a vector layer is overlaid on top of an 'ortho' base layer to highlight a particular area in the map using software. The latter image, the government analyst suggested, is an example of how spatial data can make the city 'transparent' and 'computable' for him. A critical geography of the augmentation being performed by the analyst might provide a different perspective (Graham, Zook and Boulton, 2013). Nonetheless, this new image and its meta-images are reconfiguring how the analyst or any spatial data user – at different levels of technological affordances – can now visualise, know and experience the city. This reconfiguration is one of the foundational elements of the socio-technical imaginaries of a data-driven city.
Emergence ii. Expertise and data – who is driving whom and where?- 37 -
'Planning now is not related to space. ICTs and sensors do not need space. We just need more tech', said a consultant working with the government on the smart cities project, as a response to my question on how they will manage to re-develop existing cities to smart cities. Beyond the obvious platitude, his response holds deep anthropological significance.- 38 -
Several STS scholars, including Timothy Mitchell, have demonstrated how 'expert knowledge works to format social relations, never simply to report or picture them' (2002: 118). In case of data-driven systems, it is difficult to trace the imaginaries and practices of its key drivers – techno-managerial experts, due to limited ethnographic access in corporate spaces like the consultancy firms at the fore front of smart cities projects. Nonetheless, through my interactions with some techno-managers at these consultancies and with several data scientists (mostly engineers) at data science meetups, I have come across certain aspects of the expertise driving the smart cities and the big data movement in India.- 39 -
Urban planning and policy have always depended on data. However, with the advent of big data, there is now a tremendous urge to collect more and more data. In my conversations with some leading urban researchers based in Delhi and Bangalore, I learned that instead of using the existing data, the current working of government agencies suggests an indiscriminate data collection approach without any sector-specificity or target. Also, I was told that there is a dearth of experts who could actually mine and analyse all the data we currently have.- 40 -
This is also relatable from the fact that there are almost no university courses in India in the fields of engineering and management which teach data sciences per se. For example, an engineer might know how to program in R language or with NoSQL databases but they would most likely lack problem framing, modelling and statistical skills. There is a lot of data floating around on how smart cities and big data technologies in general can transform the economy or at least deliver a boom in jobs related to data science (see Tejaswi, 2012). The latter 'boom', I would argue, is a generative site for re-imagining expertise.- 41 -
'You are a researcher, so you must know some use cases right?' This question is frequently posed to me in data science meetups. By now I have rehearsed a few answers to keep the conversations alive. However, the problem here is not just a lack of use cases for techies to apply their data science skills. The data science communities in Indian cities like Delhi (including Gurgaon), Bangalore and Hyderabad which have major IT industries, are growing steadily. Yet there is little knowledge being produced on how to frame data problems in sectors other than the traditionally data savvy ones like business analytics, online marketing or supply chain management. The India chapter lead of a global data science community, which strives to solve data problems in the social sector on a pro bono basis, recently told me that there is very little interdisciplinary understanding of what data analytics can do in the social sector both among engineers as well as the people running NGOs.- 42 -
This leads us to the question: who essentially is an expert on smart cities? Or rather, who is imagined to be an expert? This will (and should) remain an open question. Nonetheless, the techno-managerial domination of expertise on smart cities is quite apparent. The consultant I interviewed argued – in defence of his perspective on the insignificance of space for ICTs and sensors – that 'water, electricity, health and education are all governance issues which we cannot solve. It’s the government’s job. We are here to provide expert solutions for collecting and analysing data'. While technological determinism and profit-driven approaches are historically characteristic features of such consultancy brand of expertise, this peculiar division and thus reconfiguration of knowledge domains – of data analytics and governance – is a new, contextual occurrence. Finding ethnographic nuances of these imaginaries remains a work in progress, though Delhi’s own history of urban planning provides a crucial stepping stone. As Sundaram observes:
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The Masterplan’s landuse and zoning maps did not simply organize space into rational, manageable units for the new rulers. That had been done since the colonial era. As a specialist instrument of knowledge, the planning map of the 1950s fabricated urban expertise in Delhi. Planners and consultants now claimed privileged access to technical knowledge of the city, and consequently to political power. (Sundaram, 2009: 65)
Later in the book he continues:
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In the planning era, information helped to produce the city as a visible, rational entity within a hierarchy of parts. This was done for the public, but particularly for the postcolonial elites who were able to access the city using the authorized language of planning. All this changed with the simultaneous decline of planning and the emergence of globalization and technological networks in the city. (Sundaram, 2009: 175)
Perhaps what we are witnessing now are remediated attempts to make the city 'visible' or knowable through data analytics. However, this is happening in a new zone of expertise and knowledge production. This emerging zone, wherein data analytics is imagined to be the site and the method of knowledge production, marks an important departure from the episteme of decentralisation that has dominated the discourse on network societies and urbanism in the last two decades (Graham and Marvin, 2001). This departure is further complicated by erratic boundaries of relevance of data analytics in urban governance. Thus, the emerging nature of expertise and knowledge production are key for understanding the socio-technical imaginaries of data-driven urbanism.
Emergence iii. ‘What do we want?’ ‘open data!’ ‘when do we want it?’ ‘now!’ – ‘wait, who is “we”?’- 47 -
A recent meetup of an Open Data advocacy group was organised to discuss the issue of opening water data in Delhi. This meeting was attended by over forty people from diverse backgrounds including software engineers, urban researchers, non-profit workers, activists and politicians including the minister in charge of water in Delhi. The meeting, which lasted for more than four hours, saw lively discussions on several micro and macro issues of water infrastructure in Delhi such as the governance structure of water management bodies, existing data on water and its authenticity, disparate supply in adjacent areas, illegal supplies and so on. Towards the end of the meeting the core members requested everyone address the main objective of the meeting which was: to frame data problems associated with water in Delhi and devise strategies for opening up water data.- 48 -
The conversations between different stakeholders and the confluence of different standpoints and perceptions of both water and Delhi at this meeting made it a rare event. Debates on several ideas, like making the best use of the current data, which does not include much of end user data, as opposed to geo-tagging water data (by collating spatial data sets with existing water data) and installing new sensors and smart meters, kept resurfacing. The narrative went back and forth on issues of access to water for the end users and systemic accountability – and the role of data animated all the proposed solutions. Interestingly, people who were not acquainted with Open Data and analytics also chipped in. For example, an agent who acts as an intermediary between people of his residential area and the governing body for water in Delhi, suggested that we should focus first on data from resettlement and unauthorised colonies as the governing body always gives them the least priority.- 49 -
I observed similar but slightly more formal discussions at a couple of events organised by the central government’s Open Government Data (OGD) initiative, which is one of the leading OGD initiatives in the world, in Delhi. A selectively condensed narrative on Open Data was also evident in a few hackathons – which were meant to crack governance and civic problems by creating web and mobile applications utilising open government datasets.- 50 -
Lilly Irani in her ethnographic study of hackathons in Delhi remarks that, 'hackathons sometimes produce technologies, and they always, however, produce subjects' (2015: 2). Hackathons have a pre-decided agenda and only attract a select set of people, mostly from privileged backgrounds, for whom the event is a rehearsal of what Irani refers to as 'entrepreneurial citizenship'. While hackathons and Open Data meetups have a fairly different structure, the two categories of events, as I have come to observe, have a lot in common.- 51 -
Open Data meetups do not involve programming and product development, and thus the discussions and debates there are much wider. However, the idea of data-driven problem solving for social good animates the agenda of both the events. Also, from what I have observed, the set of people who attend civic hackathons are actually an approximate subset of people who are involved with Open Data meetups and advocacy. This I think sets the stage for a broader reconfiguration of citizenship, which is not limited to entrepreneurial character.- 52 -
At one level, the Open Data, and especially OGD movement can be seen as an evolution of public participation in a democracy. However, this form of participation reconstitutes the public and tacitly opens a register for classifying their civic affinities based on their engagement in the movement. When a group of data savvy citizens transparently partner with the government to open water data to solve water problems for the entire city, or when a group of engineers build an Android application for water grievance redress, they are not just participating in a democratic process in a fixed sense of the term (Kelty, 2017). Rather, they are creating new, technologically mediated and/or affected meanings of democratic citizenship.- 53 -
This may seem to be an obvious point in the Indian context where the Right to Information Act (RTI) and anti-corruption movements are still fresh in memory. However, the Open Data movement’s genealogy lies much more in the open source software and open access movements than the RTI (Kitchin, 2014a). And unlike RTI, Open Data comes with specific technological formats (with machine readability) and licenses. OGD offers distinctly new affordances to citizens to engage with the government and unsettles old ideas of civic liberalism. The imaginaries of Open Data though are not related to smart cities per se. Through the emergence of government data as a civic commodity and select citizens as civic data scientists, Open Data imaginaries have contingently become a part of the emerging urban data ecosystem, which otherwise is dominated by market driven imaginaries.
Emergence iv. Apps – microcosmic smart cities- 54 -
'We are looking at a very specific problem for providing smarter insights to our customers. We are not in a position to take a systems level problem solving approach.' This was a perfectly rational response by the lead data scientist of a popular housing application to my question on how they frame their data problems given the complexities like informal modes of governance, unauthorised colonies and slums. Application of this algorithmic episteme of dividing the problem into smaller chunks to cities – though driven by business models – creates an interesting problematic for systems thinking. One wonders how the access to city’s real estate will change for this application’s users vis-à-vis its non-users. Will emergences of this application in the broader city system be amoebic or rhizomatic? I do not know the answer, but I have a few reflections to share on the world of urban utility apps which exemplify this problematic.- 55 -
With the decline in prices of smartphones there has been a phenomenal rise of apps that offer solutions and services to suit the needs of everyday urban life. The ecosystem in which most of these app-developing companies and start-ups operate is rich with data collected from all user online activities and especially social media. This has also added to the premium placed on data-driven solutions in the start-up ecosystem. To stay within the scope of this paper, I will only discuss some urban utility apps that are at the cutting edge of remediating users' interaction with urban infrastructures and services.- 56 -
In a recent blog post, Housing.com, one of the unicorn startups in India, explained their data model as follows:
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Imagine this – Mr. X wants to move. He visits Housing.com and selects the city and neighbourhood where he’d like to live. Like an efficient personal assistant, we understand his requirements, social network, and community. We use this personalised understanding to recommend houses. He explores his top choices virtually, selecting furnishings that suit his tastes. Maybe someday he can go outside and look around, all in virtual reality. Once he has decided, we instantly connect him to the bank. The bank checks his credit history and approves the loan. The sale is done. He schedules a move-in date and we send movers to shift his belongings from his old house to his new home. This is the experience we want to build in the future. Each of these steps is connected to the next with a huge amount of data about the customer, real estate, credit histories, loan criteria, and much more. Data science will be the key differentiator for all platforms providing real estate services, or really, for any services-based industry. (Housing.com, 2015; my emphasis)
The network of service providers and data sources this app is mobilising to better understand its users, and help them make informed choices, is creating an immense number of unparalleled and largely opaque feedback loops between the users, platforms and databases.- 59 -
There are many similar examples. Zomato, for instance, claims to have created a database of every dish served in restaurants in over 10,000 cities, through which it provides recommendations and user-generated reviews and ratings. Another app, Ridlr, which was launched earlier this year, utilises public transport and spatial data to provide timetables and user location sensitive transport information, recommendations and updates in all metro cities of India. Both these apps, along with several others, claim that their aim is to enable users to make 'informed choices' for better services. Clearly they are quite modest about their effects and affects.- 60 -
The feedback loops on which they operate remediate if not entirely redefine the choices users can make – in varying degrees across different sectors. In fact, unlike urban planning which has a long history with data-driven practices, these apps are emerging in a context in which areas like housing, food or transport have never explicitly been looked at from a computational and/or analytics perspective. The personalised insights mined from deeply mashed-up datasets, which these apps promise, puts them on the same plane of imagination as smart cities. Except of course the difference of scales, which brings us to the key question: from a systems theory perspective, what does the sum of these apps mean for the city? In other words, what will be the nature of interaction between these microcosmic smart city-like parts and the city as a whole? Will these interactions allow us to finally abandon what David Wellbery refers to as the 'intellectual comedy of cultural analyses that find a bit of social determinism here and a bit of individual agency there or link the two in some sort of circular causality' (in Mitchell and Hansen, 2010: 305). Perhaps the non-systemic or systems agnostic imaginaries which these apps embody – too complex to be grasped by political or value judgements – as an emergence would allow us to make an 'informed choice' of thought while studying sociotechnical systems like data-driven cities.
Emergence v. Political analytics- 61 -
The 2014 general election in India will be known for its many firsts. Among other things, it was the first time data analytics became a substantive part of an election campaign in India. Drawing a leaf from Barack Obama’s campaign – which is considered one of the best examples on big data’s capabilities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a data analytics team monitor his party’s social media campaigns and voter engagements. While there is little evidence to believe that data analytics had an impact in terms of votes, it did transform the online political discourse. A news article quotes a source who describes how Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) targeted voters online:
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If you move out of the BJP website and visit a website for bikes followed by a search on jobs, the algorithm will make the inference that you are a young male from a particular constituency, say Delhi, who is currently on a job hunt. What happens next is when you visit a job searching portal like Naukri.com, this system pops up a contextual ad for you like ‘jobs in Delhi’. The BJP banner which is just below the results will tell you 'There are no Jobs in Delhi. India deserves better'. (in Shah, 2015)
Interestingly, this is the exact same process – called programmatic marketing – used for automated digital marketing of brands. By tracking users' online movement through cookies, digital marketers are able to algorithmically re-target users with ads of products they may have viewed or are likely to buy. In case of elections, given the size of the Indian electorate, it is much easier to profile voters as compared to consumers for marketing campaigns of specific brands.- 64 -
Apart from this, data analytics is used in election campaigns and otherwise by political parties to monitor and optimise their party’s and its leader’s social media presence. Here, too, the tools are the same as digital marketing of brands.- 65 -
Similar strategies were adopted by the Aam Admi Party (AAP) for the Delhi assembly elections. Their model was guerrilla-like in comparison to BJP’s organised data analytics teams. Still, AAP managed to take data analytics in election campaigns a step closer to digital marketing of brands. They ran sentiment analysis of Twitter to gauge the public opinion on social media which fed back into their manifesto and campaign (Dadawalal, 2015). - 66 -
In an interview, a core member of the AAP’s social media team told me that during the campaigns they constantly monitored all media sources to stay in touch with the latest news and events. They created the party’s responses to news which concerned them and broadcast it using multiple WhatsApp groups, Twitter and Facebook. Additionally, they created weekly reports of social media analytics by studying their Facebook and Twitter analytics (using a third party software, since Twitter had not launched its own analytics dashboard until then). The reports included suggestions on timings, language and composition of social media posts, topic-wise traction details and even sartorial suggestions for images, video and television appearances. Another AAP member who headed the sentiment analysis team told me that since there are not many good, free sentiment analysis tools available so, they coded one for themselves. They used textual sentiment analysis of tweets related to the Delhi elections to get a sense of public opinion on important issues and relayed it to the party.- 67 -
All three of these data analytics methods – programmatic marketing, social media web analytics and sentiment analysis – which have been imported from digital marketing into political communication, mark an unprecedented convergence in marketing and politics. This blurring of boundaries between citizen, user, consumer and voter is constitutive of the new political. While it is common knowledge that network topologies of social media have engendered new forms of the political, the materiality and poetics of this cultural-infrastructural transformation are yet to be seriously examined (Gillespie, 2012). The data-driven imaginaries of the new political (and vice versa), which seem to materialise through the perpetually multiplying feedback loops between the users' data shadows, platforms and data analysts/scientists, are underpinned by the largely opaque architectures of social media platforms. Given the great Indian rural-urban divide in Internet access, this new political imaginary of data (and data imaginary of politics) is invariably an urban phenomenon. The computational work that creates the infrastructural conditions for blurring the aforementioned boundaries, belongs to the same category as the work which is being undertaken – or is being imagined to be undertaken – for making our cities data-driven or smarter.
Conclusion – a prelude to meta-analytics of data- 68 -
In this paper, I have attempted to reflect upon the sociotechnical imaginaries that are constitutive of smart cities in the Indian context. Expanding upon the data-driven character of smart cities I have tried to highlight their conceptual and material connections with the debates on big data and the data revolution. Given the longer histories of postcolonial urbanism and the non-digital, infrastructural conditions of Indian cities, I have tried to contextualise the contemporary moment so as to have something to hold onto in what seems like a socio-technical vortex called smart cities. Drawing upon my ethnographic experiences in the last six months in Delhi, I have briefly discussed five interconnected, non-exhaustive emergences of data-driven urbanism to highlight the possibilities of grounded inquiries. Given the lack of any precedence for such an inquiry and the formative nature of these emergences, I have avoided any premature criticism or appraisal of data-driven systems. Rather, my attempt has been to open up questions, concerns and ambiguities about the new zone of techno-urban flux we find ourselves in.- 69 -
My central argument (if any) is that emerging modes of data-driven knowledge production are reconfiguring ways of knowing, experiencing and governing a city. The diverse field sites and actors introduced through the ethnographic material, portray some of the on-going reconfigurations which are getting materialised differently in different sites. Given the infancy of these emergences, there has been no explicit attempt to draw connections between the five ethnographic vignettes – namely, the new image of the city, the changing nature of expertise, civic data activism, apps as microcosmic smart cities, and political communication and analytics. However, if one has to look for a pattern, it perhaps lies in the implications and questions that these emergences provoke.- 70 -
When the lines between mostly settled categories like citizen, user, consumer, voter or perhaps data-miner/analyst, and government, consultant, infrastructure regulator, platform or app designer or database administrator, begin to get blurred in multiple registers of socio-technical imaginaries and their materialisations, the pattern of concerns perhaps then should be aligned for a rethinking of the conceptual basis of these categories. To that end, we need a much deeper understanding of the vignettes discussed in this paper through longer ethnographies that can produce thicker descriptions of data-driven urbanism in the Indian context.- 71 -
While being an exploratory ethnography of sorts, this paper can also be read as an experiment on the suitability of the ethnographic method in studying contemporary emergences like big data and smart cities. Though ethnography has been widely appropriated in STS and media studies, it requires another level of reflexive recalibration to allow richer engagements with the generative potentials and materiality of digital technologies and infrastructures. Especially in a postcolonial and global south context like India where technologies and infrastructures materialise very different kinds of sociality and vice versa – than the ones which dominate the technology studies discourse – a conversation on socio-technical imaginaries is highly improbable without substantial emic insights. The methodological recalibration required for engaging with nuances of data-driven systems can perhaps be initiated with a change in epistemological stance. As Nick Seaver perceptively notes:
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Rather than expending our efforts defending thickness, attacking formalism, or regulating the connections between the two, we might investigate these systems of relating themselves. To put an anthropological spin on it, we could study the kinship of method: How are methodological relationships deemed legitimate or illegitimate? What has the rise of ‘big data’ as a discursive and technical phenomenon meant for the ways methods relate? How do various groups of people – data scientists, ethnographers, managers, advertisers, ‘users’ – themselves partially constituted through these relations, imagine them to work? To talk about the kinship of knowledge, we’ll want to draw on our knowledge of kinship. (2015: 6)
It is this two-way traffic between knowledge and kinship systems, and data and its socio-technical relationalities, I will conclude, that calls for us to seek a meta-analytics of data; to help frame the conceptual and material ontologies of data analytics without reducing its known and unknown life-worlds – which now includes cities – to either that of pure objects or culturally constructed networks. To that end, perhaps we should let the data speak for themselves, albeit holistically, and develop techniques to listen and comprehend its material and cultural conditions.
Acknowledgements- 74 -
I am grateful to Prof. Ravi Sundaram, Aakash Solanki and Riley Gold as well as the editors and two anonymous reviewers, for their generous comments and feedback. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 'Life in the Indian City: Aspirations, Expressions and Planning' Conference at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 18 April 2015. I would like to thank the conference participants for their questions and comments.
Biographical Note- 75 -
Sandeep Mertia is a Research Associate at The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He is an ICT engineer by training with research interests in Science & Technology Studies, Software Studies and Anthropology. He is currently conducting an ethnographic study of emerging modes data-driven knowledge production in India. He can be reached via Email: firstname.lastname@example.org and Twitter: @SandeepMertia.
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To know more about the government’s Smart Cities policy, see Rakesh (2015).
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Big data is generally referred to as massive, dynamic, machine readable datasets which cannot be stored or analysed using the relational database technologies (RDBMS). Big data departs from standard ways of data analytics not only by an increase in the size of data, but big data is also characterised by the speed and diverse nature of data. This requires a new set of approaches – architectures, algorithms and tools.
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Almost all the cities selected under the Smart Cities program are 'brownfield' cities, that is, existing cities, which will be elevated to smart cities through redevelopment and retrofitting.
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'Layers are the mechanism used to display geographic datasets in ArcMap, ArcGlobe, and ArcScene. Each layer references a dataset and specifies how that dataset is portrayed using symbols and text labels. When you add a layer to a map, you specify its dataset and set its map symbols and labeling properties.' See ArcGIS Resources: https://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00s500000006000000
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'In software and systems engineering, a use case is a list of action or event steps, typically defining the interactions between a role (known in the Unified Modeling Language as an 'actor') and a system, to achieve a goal.' See httpss://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case
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Recently the government had to withdraw a tender after it was found that one of the bidding companies’ employee was the author of the tender document (Aurora, 2015).
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Broadly the Open Data movement is aimed at making datasets, which are generated using public funds and are not entangled with matters of privacy and security, freely available for everyone to access and use without restrictions of copyright, patents, etc.
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India was one of the first few countries to create an Open Government Data Platform, httpss://data.gov.in/. To know more about the Open Data ecosystem in India please see Sumandro Chattapadhyay’s (2015) research project report on Opening Government Data in India.
As the name suggests, sentiment analysis involves application of computational methods (like machine learning, natural language processing, computational linguistics, etc.) for mining subjective information from texts, images or videos.
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Brazil gets tough on Crackland, and the drug market spreads
By Gabriela Sá Pessoa
Updated August 5, 2022 at 3:55 p.m. EDT|Published August 5, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
SÃO PAULO — Fatima Mendes tightens her grip on her dogs’ leashes as she crosses a street in the hemisphere’s largest city. The narrow sidewalks here are clotted with people draped in blankets, many lying down. Drug users pick through trash bins in search of items they might sell for a few reals — enough to secure the next fix. They carry away a wheezing boombox, worn tennis shoes, busted combs.
Dawn is breaking over Crackland.
It’s been two months since hundreds of drug-addicted people spilled into Mendes’s neighborhood, and her morning walks have been tense ever since. Now, when she goes to the gym, the retired tourism managertakes only her key. She avoids going out at night at all.
“You become a prisoner,” says Mendes, 58. “You cannot bring your cellphone with you when you are out, even if you are going to work. You have to be constantly on alert.”
Brazilians call it Cracolândia: a 30-year-old colony of hundreds of drug users and dealers under the control of the First Capital Command, the city’s most powerful gang, across more than two dozen blocks in downtown São Paulo. It’s one of the world’s oldest and largest open-air drug markets, moving an estimated $37 million of product each year.
Since crack cocaine engulfed São Paulo in the 1990s, nearly every city administration has proclaimed victory over Crackland, only to see it resurge, whack-a-mole style, in a different location, to the horror of the residents and business owners affected. Successive governments have tried approaches ranging from tear gas and rubber bullets to free housing and treatment.
In 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro signed a law to allow police and security to commit addicted people to hospitals by force. Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is challenging Bolsonaro in the October election, says he would consider limiting prison terms for users and redefining definitions of drug trafficking to exclude smaller quantities.
Now Crackland is on the move again. The latest in a decades-long series of police crackdowns this year is pushing the squatters beyond their long-standing boundaries and into adjoining neighborhoods.
“It is an impressive social and economic phenomenon,” says Mauricio Fiore, a researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning. “It is more than a dilemma — it is unsolvable.”
The only way to break up Crackland, he says, is to raise the cost of staying for users and dealers, either by populating the area with other, more desirable people or by making life so difficult they leave.
Elbio Marquez walks three blocks into the heart of Crackland, past people with open wounds and crutches, to open the heavy iron gates of Cristolandia church. His bright yellow uniform is stamped with “Jesus transforms.”
“Coffee? Shower? A change of clothes?” he offers to the people gathered.
Suddenly, people rise to move. Run, run, they whisper. “Run where?” asks one man, confused.
Across the street, a line of police officers, armed and grim-faced, orders the gathering to disperse. As people run, a tear gas bomb goes off.
The chaos jars amid the architecture of downtown São Paulo. Crackland sits next to the Sala São Paulo, the extravagant theater that serves as headquarters for the city’s symphony orchestra, blocks from the Pérola Byington women’s hospital, and close to the Pinacoteca, one of the country’s most important museums of modern art. It’s not only a public health nightmare but also a real estate headache.
Until recent months, traffickers had full control of the region. But since the beginning of the year, police have launched a series of invasions to arrest traffickers and disperse users. Police say the operations have led to the arrests of several prominent traffickers.
“We unrooted the problem. We broke the economic cycle of Crackland,” says Alexis Vargas, head of strategy for São Paulo’s city police force.
The approach has shrunk Crackland from a height of 4,000 people in 2017 to a few hundred today. But as people disperse, residents in neighborhoods that were never affected are locking their doors and shutting down their businesses.
The police are urging neighbors to be patient as Cracklanders move through the city. “There needs to be resilience,” Vargas says. “Organized crime is resilient, so the public also has to be.”
At Cristolandia, 16 men and two women agree to attend a service in exchange for food, a bath, and new clothes.
“The first time you use crack, that’s it. Your life is over,” says Alan Felipe, 32. He says he has not used in five days. Before he quit, he says, he stole electronics and items from the local market to sell for crack. But life in the last few months has grown more difficult: “They send us from one place to another. You are hit with rubber bullets, pepper spray.”
Jittery and anxious, he says he’ll seek help from a government treatment center after the service is over. With a 9-month-old daughter, he’s determined to stay clean. “It is a battle. You have no idea how hard it is.”
Valdomiro Sousa Lima, 54, says he has been using crack for 13 years. He pulls a homemade pipe, crafted from a car antenna, from a bag. “Now there is no place to stay. We have no space to gather. Everyone is spaced out.”
Aldino de Magalhães runs a restaurant that has been in his family for generations. But sales have plunged 50 percent since the day in May when, without warning, addicted people moved into his block. “It was worse than the pandemic,” he says.
The newcomers, he says, have stolen cables and metal from the outside of his store. Customers have stopped coming by — some, scared of the addicted people; others told to work from home until they disperse.
Maria Inês Sene, 61, was leaving her home. Sene has lived near Crackland since it began. Until this year, she says, she was able to walk and bike here without fear.
Now the noise of the drug market keeps her awake at night. Before she walks out her door in the morning, she looks out the window to judge the mood. If the users seem calm, she says, she leaves. If she see fights or chaos, she waits.
In May, she was returning home from the supermarket at dusk when four men blocked her path and demanded her bags. “What am I supposed to do at that point?” she asks. “It is hard to explain what I was feeling, a mixture of panic and fear. Of course, I see the human being in front of me, but I also felt so vulnerable being surrounded by four men.”
Now, she doesn’t leave the house past 5 p.m.
As night falls, Livia Pereira da Silva sits on a park bench, watching her son climb a tree. Unemployed and pregnant, she has been squatting in Crackland with her five children for years.
“I have never had any problems with the users,” she says. “The problem is with the clashes. My problem is with the police.” During police operations, school is canceled, bullets fly and she closes the doors of her apartment to keep out the tear gas.
But the users give her kids cookies and toys, and they don’t smoke in front of them. Once, when her children were playing outside and got lost, a user brought them home. “If people saw them up close, they would have a different view,” she says. “Before they are drug users, they are human beings.” | <urn:uuid:79fd9f43-27cf-4cf3-bf59-1ded4820e8f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/05/brazil-crackland-sao-paulo-drug-market/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.972324 | 1,809 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Starting Electrical Work In Your Home?
What to do before starting electrical work
Before starting any electrical work in your home, you need to know your obligations under the Ontario Electrical Safety Code. It specifies steps you need to take to ensure the work is being done safely. Visit the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) for detailed guidance on starting your project.
Always hire a professional for electrical work. It's dangerous and can be fatal if not done safely.
Extension Cords, Plugs and Outlets
- Keep electrical cords away from water and heat.
- Never use a plug when your hands are wet.
- Always remove a cord from the outlet by grasping the plug, not the cord.
- Always use a three-pronged plug, never break off or bypass the third prong.
- Don't overload outlets by plugging in too many appliances or devices.
- Install Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCIs) to help prevent electric shock. They're ideal for spaces with a water source, such as bathrooms, kitchens and laundry rooms.
- Replace cords that are frayed, cracked or that heat up when in use.
- Use the right extension cord. There are different types for everyday devices, large appliances and outdoor use.
Gardening or Planting a Tree?
Call before you dig by contacting Ontario One Call.
Visit Ontario One Call.
If you plan to do any work that requires digging, have a FREE locate done by Ontario One Call.
Although you can't see them, there are just as many, if not more, electrical cables and gas lines running below ground level, as there are above.
Hitting a cable with a power shovel, excavator or auger can result in serious damage, liability, severe injury, or even death. As the contractor doing the digging, you are responsible for getting a cable and/or gas locate for your job. Make sure workers on the site are trained properly and are aware of these potential hazards.
For more information on how to safely plant trees on your property, please see the Electrical Safety Authority's Planting Near or Around Powerlines & Electrical Equipment resource.
Ladders and Lines Don't Mix
Before you begin roofing, siding or even eavestrough work, be sure to look up and stay clear of overhead powerlines. You can be seriously hurt or killed if the object you are holding or standing on contacts a powerline.
- Before raising or extending any equipment capable of reaching a powerline, check in all directions for powerlines.
- Keep a safe distance from any powerline measuring from the end or tip of your own extended reach and including the end of any object you are holding or carrying.
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(1) The new construction, substantial improvement, and
alteration of residential structures shall meet the following conditions:
(a) Residential structures shall be
constructed on suitable fill with a permanent foundation such that the lowest
floor (including basement) level is 2 or more feet above the base flood elevation.
The suitable fill shall be at a level no lower than the base flood elevation
extending 15 feet at that elevation beyond the structure in all directions.
Where existing streets, utilities, lot dimensions, or additions onto existing
structures, make strict compliance with this provision impossible, the permit
issuing authority may authorize a lesser amount of fill or alternative flood
proofing measures. Alternative flood proofing measures must, at a minimum, meet
the conditions of ARM 36.15.702 and ARM 36.15.901 through 36.15.903.
(i) The new placement of manufactured and
mobile homes must be elevated on fill with a permanent foundation as prescribed
for residential structures.
(ii) Replacement manufactured and mobile
homes in an existing mobile home park or subdivision may, instead of using
suitable fill, be elevated on a concrete or mortared block foundation, or other
suitable permanent foundation, and anchored to prevent flotation or downstream
(2) The new construction, substantial
improvement, and alteration of commercial and industrial structures shall be
elevated on fill as prescribed for residential structures in ARM 36.15.702(1) or flood proofed to a level no lower than 2 feet above the base flood
elevation. Flood proofing shall be accomplished in accordance with ARM
36.15.901 through 36.15.903 and shall further include the following:
(a) If the structure is designed to allow
internal flooding of the lowest floor, use of the floor shall be limited to
such uses as parking, loading areas, and storage of equipment or materials not
appreciably affected by flood water. Further, the floors and walls shall be
designed and constructed of materials resistant to flooding up to an elevation
of 2 or more feet above the elevation of the base flood. Structures designed to
allow internal flooding shall be designed to equalize hydrostatic flood forces
on exterior walls by allowing for the exit and entry of flood waters.
(b) Structures whose lowest floors are used
for purposes other than parking, loading or storage of materials resistant to
flooding shall be flood proofed up to an elevation no lower than 2 feet above
the elevation of the base flood. Flood proofing shall include impermeable
membranes or materials for floors and walls and watertight enclosures for all
windows, doors, and other openings. These structures shall be designed to
withstand the hydrostatic pressures and hydrodynamic forces resulting from the
(c) The new construction, substantial improvement and alteration of commercial or
industrial structures floodproofed according to these requirements must be
designed and flood proofing measures certified as adequate by a registered
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Attractions and Museums around Fort William & Lochaber
Visitor attractions and leisure activities in Fort William include a whisky distillery, a museum, a geological gem centre, Inverlochy Castle Ruin and the Caledonian Canal
The West Highland Museum is located in Fort William town centre and is an excellent resource of our local history and particularly about the Jacobites. Other museums worth visiting are The Clan Cameron Museum at Achnacarry, The Commando Museum, The Glencoe Folk Museum in Glencoe village; Land and Sea Centre at Arisaig, and the West Highland Line Museum at Glenfinnan Station.
Visitor centres in the area include Treasures of the Earth at Corpach, an amazing collection geological specimens, NTS Glencoe and NTS Glenfinnan; Inverlochy Castle Ruin; The Aluminium Story in Kinlochleven, Highland Soap & Coffee Shop, Ardnamurchan Natural History Centre and of course The Ben Nevis Distillery and Visitor Centre in Fort William.
For indoor leisure and exercise, The Lochaber Leisure Centre has a swimming pool, squash courts and fitness room. Take the kids to Three Wise Monkeys climbing wall. The Ben Nevis Hotel has its own swimming pool, sauna, steam-room and gymnasium which is open to guests and visitors. The Nevis Centre offers 10 Pin Bowling and regular activities and events. Lochaber High Schools sports facilities are also available to members of the public after school hours.
Our outdoor attractions are numerous and located all over Lochaber. Nevis Range is Fort William's premier outdoor visitor centre located 5 miles north of our Highland town, below Aonach Mor. Nevis Range began life as a winter ski centre and has developed into an all year round outdoor visitor attraction with mountain bike paths and trails, rope climbing activities, cafes and mountain shop not forgetting the superb mountain gondola ride which leads to scenic walks with fabulous views. We have mentioned a few of these in this section of our website, but there are many others to discover from the Area Guide section. The walk along Caol beach for example is a very scenic walk and introduces the Caledonian Canal as one of the main features in the landscape.
For other great walks around Fort William browse our Ben Nevis Guide section where you'll find information about the Glen Nevis Lower Falls, Steall Falls and Dundeardill, an Iron Age vitrified stone fort which has amazing views. | <urn:uuid:7d11514e-7bf3-4519-a57a-4b81757d1ad3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://visitfortwilliam.co.uk/pages/attractions-and-museums-inlochaber-b3991d01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.93131 | 505 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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