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The valley of dry bones! The Lord to Ezekiel: “Son of man, can these bones live?” (37:3). This story is always such an encouragement to me. These bones represent the dead, dry bones of the nation of Israel. There is no life here. No movement. No hope. But the Lord says he will breathe on them, and they have breath. He will put sinew and flesh on those bones. Though dead, they will live!
And then, the description of what happened! There was a sound, a rattling. And the bones came together. And sinew and flesh came upon them. And the wind blew into them, and they lived, and they stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Here, and at home, we talk to people and give them the good news. They are people like those before Ezekiel. They hear the gospel but they do not really hear it. They are lifeless. They do not see. They do not stir toward Jesus. It’s as if we are talking to a bunch of dead, dry bones. But here’s the thing. The same God who showed Ezekiel these things and brought life can take the seed we sow and cause it to grow. We till, and we sow, and we water, but God gives the increase. “O Lord, let the testimony of your word, which we give to others, find fertile soil and grow and bear fruit in their lives!”
O Spirit of the living God, in all the fullness of your grace, wherever human feet have trod, descend upon our fallen race.
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Hi Everyone!! This article will share Written in March Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by William Wordsworth. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of About Dreamland, Bowling For Nature and Words of Wonder so, you can check these posts as well.
Written in March Questions & Answers
- Twitter – sound of birds
- Glitter – shine
- Crowing – a rooster’s cry
- Whooping – shouting in excitement and joy
- Retreated – withdrew
- Anon – soon
- Prevailing – existing
Question 1: Describe the first three things that the poet witnesses on a spring day?
Answer: The three things the poet witnessed are the crowing cock, the flowing stream and twittering birds. The oldest, the youngest and the strongest are working in the fields.
Question 2: Who are at work?
Answer: The oldest, the youngest are at work with the strongest.
Question 3: Why do the cattle never raise their heads?
Answer: The cattle never raise their heads because they are busy grazing.
Question 4: Explain the phrase ‘forty feeding like one’.
Answer: The phrase ‘forty feeding like one’ means since the cattle are all doing the same, the same thing they seem to be like one and hence unable to be distinguished.
Question 5: What is meant by saying that the green field sleeps?
Answer: The green field sleeps means the cold winter season. The fields are green with fresh grass and they seem to bask or enjoy the bright sunshine of the spring.
Question 6: Why does the ploughboy say ‘anon’?
Answer: ‘Anon’ means soon. The ploughboy is excited that the snow will be over soon.
Question 7: Why does the poet say that the snow ‘doth fare ill’?
Answer: The poet talks about the snow retreating and becoming isolated on the hill top. He says that, now since there is hardly any snow that which is now on the hill top looks very ill.
Question 8: Explain the phrase ‘blue sky prevailing’?
Answer: The phrase’ blue sky prevailing’ means the skies are blue and clear with small clouds moving smoothly.
Question 9: Describe the scene in the first stanza?
Answer: In the first stanza, the day begins with the sound of the cock indicating the rise of a new day. The birds chirp around, the lake glitters as the sun moves over the green fields.
Question 10: What does the poet compare snow with? What does it mean?
Answer: The poet compared snow with defeated army which allow spring to take over.
Question 11: What does life in fountain mean?
Answer: The poet personifies and uses elements to describe how nature changes and come to life when season changes. It means a life of joy.
Question 12: What is the mood of the poem?
Answer: The poem has a mixed mood of sadness and joy.
Question 13: Why the poem is called March?
Answer: The poem describes nature as seen in the month of March, so it is called March. It is spring time.
Question 14: Write True or False:
(a) There is no water in the stream – False
(b) The cattle are grazing – True
(c) There is water in the fountain – True
(d) It is raining in the poem – False
(e) The sun is shining bright in the poem – False
(f) The fields are yellow – False
(g) It is snowing in the poem – False
Question 15: Choose the correct option:
(a) The poet is watching the scene from a place______
i. near a stream
ii. near a field
iii. near a lake
iv. on the top of a hill
(b) In the first five lines of the poem, the poet is speaking to
i. a group of people
iii. two friends
iv. a companion
(c) The ploughboy is making loud cries
i. to call out to other workers
ii. to give signals to the ploughman
iii. just to shout with joy
iv. to talk to the horses
Question 16: Give one example of simile and personification from the poem.
Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated.
The green field sleeps in the sun.
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A clean and well-organised house can bring you more happiness and internal stability throughout the week.
While cleaning and organising will never be considered a reliable solution for mental health issues, the latest research does indicate that having a clean and organised home can bring some serious psychological benefits.
By removing extra clutter, dust, dirt, and debris from your home, you may be able to experience more than just physical health benefits like improved indoor air quality. At Merry Maids, our cleaning experts can ensure that you’ll always enjoy the psychological benefits of a clean home – even with a large household and pets etc.
What Are the Benefits of Organisation?
As human beings, we strongly identify with our environments, and when our interior living spaces are cluttered with unwashed dishes, misplaced items, and garbage, it will have a negative effect on your mood. While we’ve all observed this truth in action, a 2013 study published in Psychological Science has confirmed that order and disorder each have a measurable effect on our preferences, choices, and behaviour.
According to the research, people in clean and well-organised rooms were far more likely to choose healthy snacks, donate money to charity, and select options labelled as “classic” or “traditional.” By contrast, those in disorderly rooms experienced boosts in creativity and unconventional thinking but did not tend to choose more healthy or conscientious options for themselves.
Understanding the Psychology of House Cleaning
Even if you prefer to have a little chaos in your living environment, cleaning the house is still an essential part of homeownership and the daily upkeep.
Why is it so important for our wellbeing to have a clean house? While the explanations vary, some promising new research shows that having a clean house encourages us to seek new experiences, become more adventurous and go out more often, all of which can be helpful in managing negative feelings.
According to research, they’ve found that interior cleanliness was one of the primary predictors for physical activity, even when all other factors were taken into consideration.
Living in a clean environment can also boost your concentration and focus! This is because the brain processes clutter and debris as a distraction in an attempt to force you to correct the situation. Whether you realize it or not, your subconscious is using up mental resources to process the clutter in your home or work environment – and taking up valuable space for other tasks.
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As home cleaning experts with more than 40 years of experience, our team at Merry Maids can give you a well-deserved break from the household chores, while also giving your brain a break from the negative effects of clutter. By creating a customised regular cleaning plan that covers all of your needs, we can ensure that your home remains spotless, allowing you to focus on the more important things and make memories.
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The decision of Hogan J in Kinsella v. Governor of Mountjoy Prison IEHC 235 (hereinafter Kinsella) is an important development in the protection of prisoners’ constitutional rights in Ireland. The decision, which found that a prisoner’s right to have his person protected had been breached by his detention in a padded cell with a cardboard box for use as a toilet in conditions amounting to a form of sensory deprivation, may represent a new direction for prison law jurisprudence. The judgment is also of significance for its analysis of the circumstances in which conditions of detention can give rise to an order for release under Article 40.4 of the Irish Constitution, which allows for the immediate release of a person found to be detained otherwise in accordance with law.
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Dolly Parton adds pandemic hero to list of accomplishments
BOSTON (AP) — Dolly Parton is being celebrated in song — a rewritten version of her own “Jolene” — for her contribution to an experimental coronavirus vaccine.
Northeastern University associate English professor Ryan Cordell posted a video on Twitter of himself performing a tweaked version of Parton’s signature song, renamed “Vaccine,” that has drawn tens of thousands of views.
The lyrics, “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine / I’m begging of you, please go in my arm / Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine / Please just keep me safe from COVID harm,” were written by linguist and author Gretchen McCulloch, who posted them online and invited people to record them.
“I love that song. I love Dolly Parton. And I don’t know — I was inspired,” Cordell told The Boston Globe on Tuesday. “So I went and grabbed my guitar.”
Parton’s $1 million gift to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center helped researchers develop Moderna’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, announced this week.
Cordell grew up with Parton’s music, thanks to his parents and grandparents, and he called Parton’s appearance at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival as one of his “favorite musical memories.”
“So I was just thrilled to see this news that she had contributed to COVID vaccine research — I thought that was amazing,” he said.
The positive reaction to his video from doctors, nurses and other medical professionals is particularly gratifying, he said.
“And that’s really amazing because those folks are under so much pressure and stress, and especially right now as hospitals are getting overwhelmed,” Cordell said. “And so if they watched the video, and it made them happy for a minute, that’s all I need.”
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Fellas! Do you often worry about your headphones and think about “how to straighten headphone wires”? Because you don’t want to give any damage to this expensive accessory.
Twirling starts, When you first buy the headphones and place them on different surfaces, you drag out the cable from the bundle of wires and expect it to work fine, which is an unexpected case.
But don’t worry, it’s 2022.
Don’t spend hours untangling the headphone wire, as it is so easy to handle. We brought you the best possible solution to keep your headphone wire straight because we know how exhausting it is to untangle the wires. In case you are wondering, let us clear your head!
Why does the headphone wire start to twist?
The wires are flexible and are built to move in any direction for the user’s comfort. One can easily put on the headphones and start enjoying a movie or a song, no matter their position. Whether you are lying, sitting, or walking, headphones will provide quality time. So, for this purpose, the wires start to mess around themselves and twirl.
It can damage the wire and lower the quality of the sound. It can also drop down the sound if twisted badly.So don’t buy the new ones; keep your old ones safe!
How to Straighten Headphone Wires?
Once your headphone cable is twisted, straightening it isn’t difficult. You can use alternate and safe methods to get your headphones back as new as you bought them for the first time.
Our experts have concluded a few tips to keep your headphone wire straight. All these ways are simple and affordable.
Take a look below:
Place the headphones on the stand when not in use:
After you see your headset wire starts to curl up, pull the cord with your hands. Make it straight, and then hang it on the lightweight stand. Don’t forget to put the headphones back on the stand after using them. It will keep the wire straight as long as you want.
Place some weight on the wire:
It is quite a simple way which costs you nothing. Grab something which seems a little heavy. Straight the wire and place the heavy object on the straightened wire. Keep the weight overnight. After some time, you will notice your wire is straightening up. Remove the weight, and you will be amazed by the result.
Use of fingers:
The quick and easy perform process to straighten the headphone wire is to wrap the wire around your fist. Start to pull it gently through your hands. Repeat this process 5-10 times. Or hold the wire between your index finger and thumb and start to pull it softly.
Both the ways mentioned above help straighten the headset wire from twisting around.
Use of hairdryer:
You are stressed out about the twisting of your headphone wire cable again and again. Don’t worry. Take out your hairdryer and set it to the lowest speed.
Heat the cable with little heat from the hairdryer, and it is all ready to be molded back in its original position. The soft cables inside the wire can go back to their natural shape using heat.
How to stop the wire from twisting?
To prevent the headset’s wire from curling or getting damaged; Pass the wire through the cord holder and hang it through the space. Stick the cardholder to your PC, laptop table and pass the wire of your headphones through the cord holder hole. It helps to increase the life of your headphones as they are not straight position and not tangling up with the other mess.
Other ways to save the headphone wires include folding the wire when not in use and clipping it before placing it in the drawer or keeping it straight, placing it in a separate drawer.
When not using the headphones, you can place the headphones in a separate carry case; it also stops the wire from twisting around other cables in the same drawer
How To Straighten Headphone Wires FAQs :
How do I straighten my headset wire?
Ans: Simple and efficient method to straighten your headset wire is by using your fingers. It works when you pull the wire through your hand while holding it tight between your fists. Slowly pass the wire through your thumb and index finger. It is also the most economical way to straighten the headphone wire.
How do I stop my headphone wires from curling?
Ans: By putting some weight on the cord of your headset will help in the prevention of curling. The second way is hanging the headphones on the stand when not in use.
You can also store the headphones in the case after using them. It increases life and keeps them safe.
How do you straighten audio cables?
Ans: Audio cables are thin cables that curl up easily. It is a simple procedure to straight them which includes:
- Tie the one end of the cord with some fixed object
- Pull out the cord with little force
- Move your hand on the hand and gently pull it
- Repeat the process 10-15 times
- Then do this process from the other end as well
there are other ways, like putting some weight over it, pulling it gently between the hand and hairdryer technique.
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AMMAN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Jordan and Iraq on Wednesday agreed to establish a joint economic zone on their border to boost economic cooperation between the two countries, state-run Petra news agency reported.
The announcement was made by Jordanian Industry, Trade and Supply Minister Yousef Shamali and visiting Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals Manhal Aziz al-Khabbaz after they chaired an extraordinary meeting of the general assembly of the Iraqi-Jordanian Industrial Company in Amman.
An advisory institution will be chosen to help the development of the border economic zone and attract necessary investments, according to the two ministers.
Shamali said the zone is expected to promote Jordanian-Iraqi economic integration, especially in industry.
Products and enterprises in the economic zone will be offered exemptions and benefit from free trade agreements Jordan has signed with other countries, he added.
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Blackburn with Darwen's transmission of the Delta variant of coronavirus looks to have 'peaked', says the borough's director of public health (DPH).
And for Professor Dominic Harrison, DPH at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, the last eight weeks or so should act as a lesson for what living with Covid variants looks like.
Critically to Prof Harrison, that lesson includes avoiding lockdowns with emphasis on surge testing and vaccinating.
Data shows that the borough's peak likely happened on Monday, June 7 where there was 164 new cases in the district.
Since then, cases have - on the whole - fallen on a day-by-day basis dropping to 134 (June 8), 125 (June 9), 118 (June 10), 116 (June 11), 71 (June 12), and 91 (June 13).
A week on, the most recent verified data shows 38 cases were recorded on Monday this week (June 14).
Infection rates have shown a similar trend with weekly case data falling from a peak of 667.4 in the seven days to June 7 to 577 in the week of testing to Wednesday, June 16.
This has seen the rate fall by 13.5 per cent in the last 10 days.
Caution has been urged as the data is provision, meaning further cases could be identified. But if offers hope for an area that has been one of the worst hit - if not the worst - by Covid during the pandemic.
The key now lies in vaccinating children, Prof Harrison says, who have been in the age group that has predominantly spread the Delta variant during the last few months.
Speaking to LancsLive on the situation, Prof Harrison said: "For Blackburn with Darwen, the first Delta variant case was detected on April 7 and since then we have had, broadly, day to day rises in case numbers until June 7, which we think is probably our peak which saw a rate of 607 per 100,000. Since then we have fallen for a number of days with case rates at 577 yesterday.
"We can't be sure about this for definite but if we look to Bolton, there has been the same pattern of rise and fall that was seen there. We will probably want to see seven consecutive days to get a proper signal of decline. But we know there are things such as surge testing that show we will pick up a lot more cases than other areas, so it's possible there could be a slight rise again."
It comes as the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) will not be recommending the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine be given to children aged 12-plus despite it being signed off as safe.
"The vaccine for children aged 12-plus has been pushed as safe and effective by the MHRA [Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency] and the JCVI are now having to make a decision on the roll out to that cohort," Prof Harrison said.
"It feels they are dithering while the likes of Germany, Canada and the United States have already pushed ahead with it in these young people.
"We need to make the decision as soon as possible and need to get area with high and rising rates to get it. I want it to happen before the end of term. The 12 to 25 age group has a rate of 1,000 per 100,000 so there's no doubt the current surge is through that age group.
"The evidence we have now for the Delta surge for Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton is that if we get more transmissible variants, cases will surge especially in areas with systemic problems. Generally speaking it has taken eight weeks for the steadying of cases to have, hopefully, turned the situation around. And we will see cases slowly decline now."
For Prof Harrison, the Delta variant has been an example of "what coping with variants looks like".
"We need to manage and live with this. There can't be any going back into lockdowns," he said.
The situation remains bleak for Lancashire, with case rates rising in every county borough bar Blackburn.
"What we can say from case rate data in Lancashire is there's very different rates but almost all rates are rising significantly because they have the Delta variant as the dominant strain," Prof Harrison said.
"It's not clear how long they will last until they peak but if it follows the pattern it could be up to eight weeks. But it could be shorter."
On Wednesday, there were 56 inpatients in Royal Blackburn Hospital with coronavirus. Considering the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust looks after 550,000 people, Prof Harrison said this was a "low rate compared to previous peaks".
Prof Harrison said he believes the hospital will be under pressure for "another six weeks or possibly longer". But in contrast to other peaks, it will predominantly be down to admissions and not high mortality rates, with the vast majority of people recovering from the virus compared to more tragic earlier days in the pandemic.
"The average age of these admitted is also very different," he said, with around 50% of patients being under the age of 55.
For the professor, the more positive and differing hospital picture is partly down to the cumulative case rates seen in Lancashire, with four areas - Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn - among the top 10 worst since the beginning of the pandemic.
"As the waves have come through and devastated our communities there has been higher mortality rates. But high cases have given us a superpower of sorts," Prof Harrison said.
"We have a larger percentage who will have natural immunity.
"Of course we want people come forward and get their vaccine as that is the best way to stop this but everyone who has had it will have a significant amount of immunity.
"It's another reason why mortality is less than in other peaks and regions of the country. That becomes important when the biggest percentage of cases are in the 12 to 25 age group [the majority of whom are not vaccinated]."
Ultimately, Prof Harrison said people are staying in hospital for short spells and few are dying due to being "more resilient to the disease", something he says is also down to the clinical systems and experience in place after 15 months of caring for Covid patients.
"We will see more pressure on the hospital but this is probably what living with coronavirus looks like," he said.
"We have to accept that risk and avoid any sort of lockdown. We have to look ahead now on the basis of knowledge and experience."
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Critters attacking your garden? Use them to teach your children about science!
If you have a flower or vegetable garden, you can turn a potential disaster into a teachable moment about science.
Over the Memorial Day weekend, a community garden in a Flint area school had their crop devastated by wildlife. This could be potentially devastating to the kids and community volunteers who put a great deal of hard work into planting the garden, and also frustrating as a result of the loss of plant material that may be difficult or expensive to replace. How can you turn that loss around into a positive experience engaging ingenuity and science? Here are some examples of things to try.
- Try to determine what critters caused the damage: many things in the environment can damage plants. Woodchucks, rabbits, deer, mice, insects, disease and even hail from a thunderstorm can leave your garden shredded. Have the kids investigate and make observations to solve the mystery. Were all the plants eaten or were some untouched? How were the plants damaged? Was it lots of small holes or a few big holes? Was the plant eaten down to the ground? Were the stems clipped at the ends or shredded? Did the animals leave poop behind? Are there trails worn into the grass or dirt that lead to an animal den? Use all this evidence to make some guesses as to who has been visiting your garden.
- Tracks can be the best evidence to determine what has romped through your vegetable patch. If you can find tracks in the soil, it is easy. If there aren’t any discernable tracks, you can set up a “track trap.” A board with some flour dusted on it can work if it isn’t too windy. You can also set an aluminum roasting pan with mud in it to capture some tracks. Using this method, you can then even make a plaster cast of the track for a souvenir.
- After having a good guess of what the creature attacking your garden is, try to investigate where they might be living. It could be underneath a porch, in an abandoned building or in a brush pile. Look for further sign (tracks or droppings) around any potential sites.
- Depending on the individual location of the garden, “camping out” to attempt to “catch them in the act” might be a fun activity. If this is not possible, motion detector trail cameras might work.
Once you have a good idea of what the animal is and where it might be living, engage the students in how best to keep the critters out. You do not want to lose your vegetables again if you choose to re-plant. A few options to consider:
- Exclusion – Can you build a fence around your garden? Have the kids discuss what kind of fence they would need, based on the animals in their garden. If deer are doing the damage, the fence needs to be high. If mice or voles are doing the damage, the fence needs to have small holes. If woodchucks are doing the damage, the fence needs to be buried into the ground.
- Repellents – What would scare the garden pests away from crops? Have the students make guesses as to what might be effective and put them in place. If any of them have pet rabbits at home, they could discuss what their own rabbits don’t like, and maybe try that in the garden. Designing scarecrows or other frightening devices can encourage creativity.
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Can a new central-bank governor drag Japan out of its economic rut?
WITH prices still falling and the economy on the brink of its fourth downturn in a decade, it is hard to summon up much optimism about Japan. Yet change creates opportunities, if nothing else, and a new boss is about to take over a crucial institution: the Bank of Japan. On March 19th Masaru Hayami's five-year term as the central bank's governor will end. In the next few weeks Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, is expected to name his replacement, along with two new deputy governors.
Mr Koizumi has said that he will pick somebody “who will actively work to end deflation”, a task that many accuse the central bank of having taken far too lightly. Weary optimists are hoping that the prime minister means what he says and will appoint a determined deflation-fighter, that Japan's parliament will approve his choice, and that in 2003 Japan will finally start to climb out of its downward spiral.
Naturally this is easier said than done. Sceptics, including many within the Bank of Japan, argue that Japan's problems are structural, so that the bank can do little to combat deflation. They point out that, however lax it may have been in the years after the bubble burst, the Bank of Japan has been furiously pumping money into the economy for nearly two years now. With interest rates already at zero, it has done this through what it calls “quantitative easing”. It has boosted the balances that banks hold at the central bank to nearly ¥20 trillion ($167 billion) and is buying ¥1.2 trillion a month of government bonds, more than 40% of new issues.
These actions have boosted the amount of “base money”—currency plus demand deposits—sloshing around the system by 37% since March 2001 (see chart). Yet this has not translated into faster growth in broader forms of liquidity—such as time deposits and certificates of deposit—that reflect credit creation and higher demand. Companies, already deeply indebted, are reluctant to borrow when prices are falling. Banks, already laden with bad loans, are in no hurry to lend. The only way to change this, say many in the central bank, is to write off bad loans and pursue structural reforms.
The Bank of Japan's detractors argue that the central bank should be doing more. It could pump in still more liquidity, for example by buying an even bigger share of new government-bond issues and then gobbling up part of the much bigger pile of bonds already in circulation: private investors hold roughly ¥300 trillion-worth. Moreover, say the central bank's critics, it could boost import prices, thus raising overall prices, by purchasing foreign bonds, in a determined effort to drive down the yen.
Robert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo, sums up the impasse as a debate over “whether the arteries are clogged, or the heart just isn't pumping hard enough.” Mr Koizumi says that he wants to end the stalemate, by combining bolder monetary policy to get the heart pumping with structural reforms to unclog the arteries. He promised just such a combined effort in a speech this week, saying that his government will work “jointly with the Bank of Japan in order to rein in deflation by all policy means available.” But whereas his proposed structural reforms are a continuing battle, the appointment of a new governor will probably be a one-off chance to overhaul monetary policy. He will face several obstacles if he chooses to take it.
The first is finding candidates, for both the top job and the two deputies' seats, even though a bewildering array of names is being bandied about, from company heads to academics to central bankers past and present. Mr Koizumi likes to pick executives for government jobs and there is much to be said for an outsider; but few bosses have the technical skills needed. A professor might have intellectual clout and an outsider's freshness, but would lack political weight—as Mr Koizumi found after he made Heizo Takenaka his financial-affairs minister last year. The odd exception apart, few central bankers—or officials from its rival, the Ministry of Finance—seem keen on radical measures.
Any attempt to redirect monetary policy may become bogged down in debates over technicalities
A second problem is that any attempt to redirect monetary policy may become bogged down in debates over technicalities or over the precise responsibilities of the central bank. In such a deep crisis, there would seem to be little harm in Mr Koizumi appointing somebody charged, explicitly or implicitly, with generating inflation or driving down the value of the yen. Although the Bank of Japan is independent, the limits on its authority are set by politicians; and independence should be no excuse for bad policy. However, there is sure to be dogged resistance to change. In Japan, no debating point is too trivial if it favours the status quo.
Perhaps the biggest doubts surround Mr Koizumi's determination to do what is needed. Granted, in his nearly two years in office he has tried to reform how the government makes decisions, giving more authority to the prime minister and cabinet so that policies are more co-ordinated. Appointing a Bank of Japan governor who will co-operate with broader economic plans, and being explicit about why he is doing so, would help these efforts.
Yet the prime minister has also shied away from bold steps on several occasions, and many are asking whether he will do so again this time. If he really wants to revive the economy, he can choose central bankers who seem determined to get prices rising again, and make his case to Parliament. If he compromises, he will have nobody to blame but himself—and Japan's overdue revival will be delayed even longer.
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FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT — YEAR C
RCL: Isaiah 43:16-21; Phil 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8
RoCa: Isaiah 43:16-21; Phil 3:8-14; John 8:1-11
Opening Comments: Preaching the Gospel of New Creation
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? — Isaiah 43:19
A potential stumbling block for preaching the Gospel of New Creation is the timeframe. Isaiah began to proclaim God doing a new thing more than 2500 years ago. The New Testament authors, especially Paul and John, pick up on that theme of New Creation as beginning with the first Easter — which is 2000 years ago. Where is this new thing that God has been doing? As we look around at our broken world, with the threat of apocalyptic violence deepening, do we perceive it?
In my 2022 sermon, “Doing a New Thing? Where?: Learning to See the New Thing God Is Doing,” I address this issue as a prelude to a number of subsequent sermons that seek to learn to perceive the new thing that God is doing in the world. The key to answering the question about the timeframe is to accept science’s overall picture of evolution. God has been creating the universe for over 14 billion years, with life first appearing (to our knowledge) about 3.5 billion years ago, and the evolution of Homo sapiens for the past tens of thousands of years. So does God doing a new thing for the past 2500 years make better sense within that timeframe? With an evolutionary perspective, we might see that God takes thousands of years to do new things.
In chapter 24, “Find the Flow,” of his new book Do I Stay Christian? (May 2022), Brian McLaren proposes such an evolutionary timeframe for seeing the new thing God is doing with humanity. He begins by referring to past studies of his which map out human history in terms of “movements.” But what if we occasionally need to see things in terms of “meta-movements”? He proposes three such meta-movements for seeing the big picture on human evolution: (1) the stage of being hunter-gatherers for the first tens of thousands of years of human development; (2) the transition to humans living in landed civilizations over the past 10,000 years, growing toward the imperialistic structures to our societies that operate in terms of extraction, exploitation, and oppression; and (3) the new thing that God is doing in line with the Hebrew prophets that moves humanity slowly into a new way of being human based on reconciliation, love, and mutual care that prioritizes the marginalized.
So we might say that for more than 2500 years God has been doing this new thing. Do we perceive it? How can we learn to do so? (Pre-order McLaren’s new book as a first step!)
1. For a general Girardian approach to Second Isaiah, see James G. Williams, The Bible, Violence, & the Sacred, pp. 146, 157-162.
2. Tony Bartlett, Signs of Change, ch. 4, “The Servant,” especially pp. 66ff. This passage is not mentioned in Bartlett’s exposition of the Servant, but the new thing which God is doing is certainly the evolution of nonviolence — finally seeing the true God as nonviolent and thus living into the nonviolence as a truer way of being human.
3. Andrew Marr, Abbot of St. Gregory’s Abbey (Three Rivers, MI) is a long-time reader and writer on Mimetic Theory and in his blog, “Imaginary Visions of True Peace,” made these reflections on the text in 2019, “A God Who Does the Same Great New Thing.”
Reflections and Questions
1. A theme which might be developed through all these lessons is around our neglected sense of smell. When God through Isaiah calls us to perceive the new thing God is doing, can you smell it? Newness has a smell to it. Fresh. Newly alive. The smell of Spring. The old things also have a smell, the smell of “garbage” or “crap” (Phil 3:8; skybala in Gk) of Paul’s forsaking the old way for a new way in Jesus the Messiah. The Gospel Lesson is the most fragrant of all. Passover time, the crowding of Jerusalem with thousands of pilgrims, was a time of strong smell, not only the crush of people but eventually that of thousands of animal carcasses in various stages of blood sacrifice. Into the midst of that comes Mary’s act of devotion: “Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume” (John 12:3). God is doing a new thing, establishing a new perception of God’s righteousness, through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. Can you smell it? The way of life, a new Exodus (clear imagery in this passage) out of the way of death, is being established in the desert. Can you smell it?
1. This passage also appears in the lectionary at Proper 22A; see notes there.
2. Robert Hamerton-Kelly, sermon from March 28, 2004 (Woodside Village Church), and sermon from March 21, 2010 (Society of St. John at St. Mark’s Chapel, Palo Alto).
3. Three weeks ago we had Phil. 3:17-4:1, a passage important to mimetic theory because it includes Paul’s exhortation to imitate him — presumably imitation relating to what he has outlined about himself in this day’s passage. And this is all anchored in the portion we read each Passion Sunday about having the same mind of Christ, his self-emptying, his kenosis. See the notes for Lent 2C for the former passage and Passion Sunday C for the latter.
4. v. 9 (NRSV): “not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.” This is an example once again of translating the genitive construction dia pisteos christou as “through faith in Christ” rather than its more common rendering of “through the faith of Christ.” This has become a crucial point for me. The translation of “faith in Christ” puts the emphasis on our faith and has become a works righteousness around our believing. I strongly believe that Paul’s primary emphasis is on the faith of Christ which then can be communicated to us through the Holy Spirit. It is Christ’s faith that saves us as a free gift of grace and establishes the new righteousness of God (new to us, not to God) that Paul is talking about here and in Romans 3:21ff. See the more extended remarks on this issue in “My Core Convictions” and the page for Reformation Day (in the latter, reflection #5 refers specifically to this passage as another obvious instance of this point).
1. Gil Bailie, “The Gospel of John” lecture series, tape #9. Here are my notes on this passage:
- vs. 1-2: “Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.” In the gospels, one of the things that distinguishes Jesus’ ministry at dinner parties. He is accused of eating and drinking, of being a glutton and drunkard.
- vs. 3: “Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.” In these last verses of the Book of Signs, we get a picture of how this campaign to get others to identify with him has worked out. In the example of Mary, we get a picture of how it should be. She bestows on Jesus a gesture of lavish, unreserved devotion, throwing aside all caution and practicality. It was an outrageous social act to perform. This gospel presents her as one who got it right.
- Last week [in the very important lecture on John 11] we saw that the raising of Lazarus comes in the same place in the synoptic gospels as the cleansing of the temple, just before the final plot to kill Jesus. This story also has its parallel in the synoptics, which is the point when Jesus’ invitation to identify with himself reaches its culmination: at Caesaria Philippi when Peter correctly identifies Jesus as the disciple and then Jesus makes his first passion prediction. Peter tries to talk him out of it, and Jesus calls him Satan. This anointing is parallel, except where in the synoptics one person, Peter, gets it both right and wrong, this story has two figures: Mary gets it right, and Judas gets it wrong.
- Mary gives everything. John is giving this as a symbol of having no reservations at all, which is precisely what is called for.
- vs. 4-5: “But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, “‘Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?'” At Caesaria Philippi, Jesus tells Peter that he only knows the world’s way, not God’s way. Here, Judas represents the world’s way. He says what everyone was thinking. Jesus had been spending his time with the outcasts of society, the marginalized. He has demonstrated a special empathy for those who are excluded. So it was natural for everyone to see Mary’s act as extravagance. It’s as though we gave a party in honor of Mother Theresa and brought out a $800 bottle of wine. How embarrassing! Judas was just saying what everyone was thinking.
- vs. 6: This evangelist is hard on Judas by stating his motives as thievery. Most scholars see Judas as a political character and are more sympathetic to him.)
- vs. 7-8: “Jesus said, “‘Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.'” This is one of the most misunderstood sayings of Jesus. It has been interpreted as the Adam Smith Jesus, who recognizes the economic realities of life. This is sheer nonsense. Jesus’ point focuses on the “you will not always have me.” He’s telling them that the end is near. In other words, he’s interpreting what Mary’s doing. This is like Caesaria Philippi in warning them about the end.
- Read this story in terms of last week’s theme at the raising of Lazarus. Jesus is concerned — at the death of Lazarus, in this passage, and at the empty tomb story — with the possible results of a wailing ritual. He is trying to avoid the kind of ritualization of death which only results in the regeneration, reenforcing, of conventional religious habits and reflexes, and the whole business of the primitive Sacred. He urges those people who have witnessed the raising of Lazarus to see this as his anointing, so that any other anointing is unnecessary. With regards to his burial anointing, which he knows they’ll want to do, he’s either going to be present for it, as he is in this story, or be totally absent for it, such as when the tomb is empty. In other words, ‘if you going to engage in the cultic commemoration of death, you better do it when I’m here, because when I’m here (Schillebeeckx says it’s existentially impossible to despair in the presence of Jesus) you realize that I’m here to announce the messianic banquet. You feel that joy in my presence, so if you want to mourn my death, mourn it in my presence, where you can’t forget the messianic banquet and convert my life and death into another feature of conventional religion.’ The act of Jesus reinterpreting Mary’s gesture is extremely important.
- This part about “You always have the poor with you.” We should not let this be quoted as resignation, or acquiescence, or shrugging of the shoulders in the presence of poverty. Not at all. What he means is, ‘Yes, indeed, we should minister to the poor, and you will have from now until the end of time to do that. You must do that. Plenty of time for it. Have at it. Except you won’t even be inspired to do that, unless you get what it is that I’m here to reveal to you.’ The empathy for victims as victim is something that is born of the biblical revelation. ‘Your concern for the poor is not something that’s in juxtaposition to your devotion to me. Your devotion to me is the source of your concern for the poor. It is only as you understand me as the one rejected, as the supreme victim, that you will stay in touch with your empathy for victims. You will have plenty of time to do that. But in order to ensure that you will have the desire to do that, attend to me. Watch what is about to happen. Be present to the passion. And then the determination to minister to the poor will be a permanent feature of your awareness.’ It’s not as though Jesus is being cavalier about poverty.
2. Robert Hamerton-Kelly, sermon from April 1, 2001 (Woodside Village Church).
3. Andrew Marr, Abbot of St. Gregory’s Abbey (Three Rivers, MI) is a long-time reader and writer on Mimetic Theory and in his blog, “Imaginary Visions of True Peace,” made these reflections on the text in 2013, “A Scandalous Woman as Extravagant as Jesus.”
4. Mark Anspach, “Global Markets, Anonymous Victims,” Interview by Yannick Blanc and Michel Bessières, in The UNESCO Courier, May, 2001, pages 47-51. This is the best short essay that gives a glimpse of how our economics also descend out of the Scapegoat Mechanism. Jesus’ comment about the poor always being with us is a reflection of this reality. As long as the Scapegoat Mechanism is in play, we will continue to have the poor as the victims of our economic institutions. The importance of Mary anointing him for the cross is that she is signaling God’s anointing of the Messiah as he embarks on the event that begins the defeat of the Scapegoat Mechanism. Someday, we will no longer have the poor with us, but only because Jesus enacted the unveiling of the mechanism that keeps the poor in place.
Reflections and Questions
1. This passage is John’s version of a Passion prediction. Jesus knows something that the others don’t, so things are not what they appear to be. Many scholars of the Historical Jesus discount such predictions as unlikely from Jesus. But Martin Luther King, Jr., had veiled references to his premonitions of an imminent death on the night before he was assassinated.
I use the King speech as an example in a 2001 sermon titled “Things Are Not What They Appear to Be.” Girardians generally have little trouble in believing that Jesus could have had such insight into his own fate. We believe that he had anthropological insight into what we are about and knew his mission to be one of revealing that our cultures aren’t what they appear to be either. But the Good News is that, just as we are learning to see behind the appearances to the dark origins of our cultures, we also come to see the bright light of God’s forgiveness for it in Jesus Christ. (There is also a 2016 version to this sermon.)
2. John’s version of this story, compared to the version in Mark (14:3-9) and Matthew (26:6-13), has been carefully woven into the surrounding context. Mary, beyond being the nameless woman in Mark and Matthew, has been introduced in the previous story as the sister of Lazarus, whom Jesus raises. Such an act of devotion, especially one that prefigures burial, is an understandable response to Jesus’ raising of her brother. It also follows the theme of John 11 of Jesus teaching his disciples how to respond to death. (Gil Bailie has made a brilliant reading of John 11, in the lecture mentioned above and, more generally, around the Gospel theme of “The Empty Tomb.”)
Jesus’ pending death also fits into the context of plots for his death in John 11:45-57, containing the crucial statement of the mimetic theory’s scapegoat mechanism:
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.” (John 11:49-50)
In the aftermath of the raising, there is not only a plot against Jesus but also against Lazarus:
When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well, since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus. (John 12:9-11)
Finally, this well-crafted story by John also looks ahead to what follows in John 13, his version of the Last Supper. Judas plays an anti-figure in both. But instead of Mary anointing, or washing (the Greek allows both), Jesus’ feet, Jesus washes his disciples feet. Just as Jesus provides an “example” for his disciples as the servant Messiah, Mary prophetically provides an example of discipleship to that servant Messiah. | <urn:uuid:f22fa773-6a92-4d45-8d23-c16679335f87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://girardianlectionary.net/reflections/year-c/lent5c/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.965662 | 3,992 | 1.828125 | 2 |
THIS past week witnessed a new twist to the ongoing land dispute in Chiredzi district where at least 1 000 families are reportedly facing displacement to pave way for a lucerne farming project by Dendairy Enterprises. Chiredzi Rural District Council chairperson Edward Matsilele was reportedly chased away by enraged villagers when he visited the area to discuss the issue.
Authorities view the project as a national initiative that will help the country to generate foreign currency and contribute to the development of the national herd and dairy industry through provision of forage and feed.
However, the local community has been voicing objections to the project, which they argue will displace them from their ancestral land and disrupt their livelihoods which are mainly centred on rain-fed farming. For some villagers, this will be the second displacement as they only settled in this area in 2014, after being displaced for the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam construction.
This has bred outrage, resentment and disillusionment within these communities who feel that they are up against an inconsiderate coalition of political, business and central government elites selfishly pursuing profits without regard to the cultural and socio-economic rights and welfare of already marginalised locals. Based on the interactions I have had with these communities, firstly as a native and also through the Community Alliance for Human Settlements in Zimbabwe, their dislike of the project is based mainly on three reasons.
Firstly, the communities feel that the project lacks inclusivity and transparency as it uses a top-down approach whereby political heavyweights and government authorities backing the investor are imposing their will on the communities without consulting them. The community members are unaware of the proceedings with only a handful of leaders, such as councillors, hearing about it in the meetings such as the one attended by Local Government minister July Moyo and chaired by Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira on April 30, 2020.
With the project shrouded in secrecy, the local communities are afraid of being shortchanged as happened to their counterparts in the Tokwe-Mukosi and Chisumbanje projects, both of which are within 200km proximities.
Secondly, the villagers fear loss of their cultural identity. The communities are predominantly members of the minority Shangani tribe, with a unique and rich culture premised on a strong connection to their ancestral land.
They dread that displacements or relocation will alienate them from their ancestors and erode their culture. In the words of one community leader, the project “threatens our very existence as a people”.
Thirdly, contrary to the authorities’ view that the project will bring development, the communities are afraid that it will destroy their livelihoods, render them landless and homeless and plunge them deeper into poverty.
They have not been informed about where they will be relocated to and they also see as unfair and manipulative, the investor’s offer to compensate only for structures that would have been destroyed and to give each affected villager two hectares of land to farm lucerne grass and sell it to the same investor. They fear a repeat of the Tokwe-Mukosi scenario where some of the villagers displaced for a dam construction six years ago have not received any compensation up to today.
The communities are vowing “to do everything legally in our power to oppose this project in order to protect our ancestral lands, our posterity and our communities from further deprivation and impoverishment”.
However, as is the case with the Chisumbanje and Chiadzwa villagers who tried to resist displacements by the ethanol production and diamond mining projects within the past decade, this defiant stance sets Chiredzi villagers on a collision course with the authorities who are determined to see this project proceed. This creates a complex situation with political, economic, human rights, peace and livelihood dynamics and ramifications concurrently playing out at both local and national levels.
This delicate situation requires cautious navigation and proactive interventions to balance economic development with the protection of cultural, socio-economic and human rights of this already marginalised minority community.
The following three measures can help to sustainably address and solve this delicate situation.
First, there is need to build agency among the affected communities and enhance their capacities to utilise existing mechanisms to protect their cultural and socio-economic rights as citizens and as a minority group. These mechanisms include the Constitution of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, constitutionally-mandated to protect citizens’ rights, and other international conventions such as the United Nations Guide for Minorities, which mandate governments to protect minority citizens’ human and cultural rights.
Second, there is need to create multi-stakeholder dialogue between the affected communities, the investor and government. This dialogue should be based on mutual respect and understanding and seek win-win outcomes based on compromise, consensus, engagement and inclusivity. Broad-based participation of the marginalised communities will bring transparency, accountability, clarity and improved understanding of the context, dynamics and social and economic impacts of this project, all of which are critical in coming up with durable solutions to this conflict.
Third, there is need for research to identify, explore and understand best practices and models that have succeeded elsewhere in cushioning communities affected by development-induced displacements such as the ones looming in Chiredzi. This exercise should involve review of current national policies and/or formulation of new ones based on internationally encouraged principles of free prior informed consent, fair and adequate compensation, inclusive socio-economic development and relocation instead of displacement of local communities whenever development projects happen.
This will create benchmarks for amicable resolution of current and future conflicts arising from land-based investments. It will be a crucial step towards implementation of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, popularly known as the Kampala Convention, which Zimbabwe has already signed and ratified, but is yet to domesticate and implement.
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(SBI), the country’s biggest lender, said that the data of its customers are safe and that it is continuing to probe the systems for a potential breach of security after a Techcrunch report on data compromise at the bank.
"Basis our initial probe, we hereby confirm that SBI's data continue to remain secure and all profiles and financial records of our customers are safe,” a bank spokesperson said in a note. “The bank is continuing its investigation into all the components of the ecosystem to ascertain that there is no other impact."
Earlier, the foreign website claimed that the SBI server was located in a Mumbai data centre and was not protected by a password for an unknown period. This allowed anyone access to financial information, such as bank balances and recent transactions, on millions of SBI customers.
According to a senior bank official who ET spoke with, there is cause for concern because of the lengthy chain in a transaction set.
For each transaction, the bank sends an alert by a text message. The bank system creates the SMS and then sends it to a service provider, generally an aggregator. The aggregator has arrangements with some telecom companies, and forwards it to a telecom company, which in turn sends it to the recipient's telecom company that finally delivers it to the handset of the customer.
“Each player in these delivery chains assumes the responsibility for its role,” said the person cited above.
Customers should install applications from trusted sources, such as Google Play Store, after verifying the correct nomenclatures from the bank.
“Even if the claims of the hackers are true, the maximum damage could be a social engineering attack in different forms and modes,” said Rakshit Tandon, a Delhi-based cyber-crime expert. “There can be fake calls, SMS, or emails, which may result in fraudulent activities. Customers should be aware of any such social engineering.” | <urn:uuid:8115a42e-8bb6-4a8f-92cc-f2ae54a3ea66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sbi-denies-data-leak-charges-but-customers-be-on-alert/67783648 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.946162 | 405 | 1.742188 | 2 |
The following is provided from the USDA Food Nutrition Service web page. To find out more about the Commodity Supplemental Food Program please visit http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/programs/csfp/
March 29, 2006
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Budget Request Questions and Answers
Question: What does the Presidentís budget request propose for the CSFP in FY 2007?
The Presidentís FY 2007 budget request proposes to discontinue CSFP operations and transition eligible CSFP participants to other FNS nutrition assistance programs such as the Food Stamp Program (FSP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program). The CSFP is a relatively small program which operates in limited areas of 32 States, two Indian reservations, and the District of Columbia. In an era of fiscal constraint, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) faces a difficult challenge with regard to discretionary budget resources, and must ensure that those limited resources are targeted to those programs that are available to needy individuals and families, regardless of the communities in which they reside. If Congress adopts the budget request, we will work closely with CSFP State agencies to ensure that any negative effects on program participants are minimized and that they are transitioned as rapidly as possible to other nutrition assistance programs for which they are eligible.
Question: How will the transition plan work?
On the Federal level, we will make $2 million available to Food Stamp State agencies in States operating the CSFP, to provide outreach and to assist individuals to enroll in the FSP. Elderly participants who are leaving the CSFP upon the termination of its funding and who are not already receiving Food Stamp Program (FSP) benefits will be eligible to receive a transitional benefit worth $20 per month ending in the first month following enrollment in the FSP under normal program rules, or six months, whichever occurs first. CSFP women, infants, and children participants who are eligible for WIC Program benefits will be referred to that program as appropriate.
Question: What will happen to any remaining CSFP commodity inventory?
Remaining CSFP commodity inventory would be redonated for use in other nutrition assistance programs, such as the Emergency Food Assistance Program.
Question: What will happen to commodities normally obtained under agriculture support programs for use in the CSFP?
The USDA will continue to purchase such commodities in accordance with price and market support authorities. Commodities that would otherwise have been donated to the CSFP will in the future be donated for use in other nutrition assistance programs. | <urn:uuid:eed0fe90-61f1-4205-a189-cf3fe484f55e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oashf.org/FY2007CSFPQuestionsandAnswers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.926202 | 550 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Crowdfunding’s new spin
Crowdfunding has taken off like a hit single. Platforms like Kickstarter allow entrepreneurs to raise funds while letting regular people around the world contribute to ideas they believe in. But if you’re “short on money but long on time,” that doesn’t mean you don’t have anything of value to give to an innovative endeavor.
Put your new shoes on and check out CrowdRaising.com to donate time and skills, instead of funds.
Networking while making friends
The startup bills themselves as “crowdfunding’s younger, cooler cousin,” and they’re dedicated to getting early stage projects off the ground in a new way.
Their website points out that these fledgling innovators often have trouble building a community around their projects, finding reliable beta-testers and user feedback, incentivizing returning users, and finding new talent to bring on board.
Earning relational equity
In response, the platform offers a straightforward solution.
With CrowdRaising.com, you can pick a goal and plan it from beginning to end.
You can also run a campaign and draw from the CrowdRaising community for help, offer creative rewards, cash, or even equity in return, and “build long term relationships with your early adopters.”
Walkin’ the walk
The coolest part?
The company is using their own platform to get themselves off the ground.
They’re looking for contributors to brainstorm a gamification element for their platform, discuss the rules for work-quality, beta-test the (crowdsourced!) project management system, complete surveys, and generally spread the word.
Compensation is still a thing
Remember, this is a donation of time, not money, and CrowdRaising.com has a variety of goodies to compensate you for your effort.
If you contribute one hour of your time to their development, you’ll receive “Emotional Support,” which is better than it sounds, I promise.
The company will connect with you on LinkedIn and follow you on Twitter, promote a project of your choice across their network, and put your name and face on their website. Free internet fame is tough to turn down.
A few tiers
Three hours of your time earns you an “entrepreneurialism treatment.”
That means you pledge ten more hours of your time to your favorite entrepreneur, and they get half off the going rate (currently unlisted) for their CrowdRaising.com campaign.
Six hours will get you a cardboard VR viewer to ‘stimulate your imagination,’ complete with instructions for finding “virtual reality puppies.” Well okay.
Entrepreneurs listen up
If you’re an entrepreneur looking to start a campaign, pledge 40 hours of help to CrowdRaising.com and they’ll help you out for free – and they’ll also play a game of Escape the Room with you and five friends, because why not.
If this platform takes off the way crowdfunding has, it could change the way we think about companies – what does it mean if your product was built and tested by 100 different volunteers, instead of a core group of entrepreneurs?
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I have a simple array (not geo-referenced in any way) in Matlab (which is not a language I know a huge amount about...so I can export it to other languages if needed) which has the dimensions 180 x 360 and contains data for each 1 x 1 degree area of the globe. I need to calculate the area of certain cells in this raster.
Obviously the area will vary based on longitude, but I have no idea how to calculate this area, particularly as my array is not georeferenced. I saw a reference online to the
area function in the R
raster package, but I'm not sure how to get my matlab data into a
Raster object within R.
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Homeopathy clinics in Hyderabad have excellent facilities for proper treatment. Patients can be assured of the best homeopathic treatment in Hyderabad.
Guillain Barre Syndrome happens to be a rare autoimmune disorder in which the body’s immune system tends to attack the nerves of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). It is indeed a serious disorder and the initial symptoms are rather weakness, tingling as well as numbness in the limbs. It can eventually lead to paralysis. Homeopathic Remedies can be made use of along with conventional modes of treatment to manage the symptoms. Homeopathy clinics in Hyderabad can treat well.
Homeopathy has indeed been effective in treating GBS. Homeopathy does work on every system of one’s body: physical, mental, and emotional.
Treatment can be had at homeopathy clinics in Hyderabad.
Role of homeopathy:
It has indeed been clinically observed that homeopathy does indeed help cases of GB Syndrome. It does seem to help by correcting the altered immune system. The medicines are rather very effective in treating the residual symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
1. Conium – Top Grade Medicine
Conium happens to be a leading medicine to manage cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome. The main indicating feature to use this medicine is rather a paralysis of lower limbs followed by that of upper limbs. The next indication for making use of it is weakness in the legs. Along with this, there is also difficulty in walking and also staggering gait. Person who are requiring it may complain of heaviness as well as tiredness, and weakness in all limbs. They may also experience numbness of fingers as well as toes. Hands and also feet may also feel cold. Other than this it is also indeed helpful when there is tearing pain in one’s limbs.
2. Aconite – for Tingling beginning in Feet and Spreading Upwards
This medicine is rather prepared from the plant Aconitum Napellus which is often known as monkshood. In most cases it is required for tingling in limbs is accompanied by shooting pains in the legs, knees, ankles, and toes. There can be coldness as well as sweating of hands as well as feet. Numbness in the legs, as well as feet, can also be present.
3. Causticum – For Weakness and Paralysis
This is indeed very suitable medicine to manage cases of weakness, paralysis, and also loss of bladder control. It is well indicated for weakness or paralysis of the affected person’s limb. It is also made used for weakness or paralysis of one’s facial muscles. It is useful for managing the loss of bladder control.
4. Lathyrus – For Weakness in Lower Limbs
This medicine is rather prepared from the plant Lathyrus sativus is commonly known as chickpea. This plant does belong to the family Leguminosae. It is prominent medicine for cases having weakness in one’s lower limbs. For making use of it the left side is weak than the right. Standing is difficult and also walking with this. It is also used for paralysis of the legs.
5. Picric Acid – For Weakness, Numbness, Pricking in Legs
It is a very beneficial medicine for weakness, numbness as well as pricking in the legs. Along with this heaviness is also felt in lower limbs and there is also difficulty in lifting legs from the floor.
6. Agaricus – For treating prickling sensation in feet, toes, and uncertain gait
This medicine is recommended for prickling, tingling sensation in feet, and toes, and shooting pain as well. It can be used for weakness as well as weariness of lower limbs. The legs do feel heavy. The gait is uncertain. There is also pain in one’s legs and also a sensation of paralytic numbness in the lower legs. People have difficulty going upstairs due to pain and weakness in their legs.
7. Arsenic Album – For Tingling, Prickling in the Fingers
It is a useful medicine for managing tingling sensation in fingers and weakness and exhaustion in limbs also.
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The First Two Years by Dan W. Peery presents a detailed account of the governmental and political issues faced by Oklahoma City and, in fact, by Oklahoma Territory as it then existed during the period from the April 22, 1889, Land Run through the completion of the First Territorial Legislature in December 1890.
Peery was an Oklahoma City “Land Runner” from Missouri. In city affairs, you will see that he was much more comfortable with the “Kickapoos” than with the “Seminoles” which jousted for municipal control during the first two years of Oklahoma City’s life. In his mini-book (I call it that since, depending on formatting, it is 73 to 86 pages in length), the resulting chaos of that time is brilliantly and engagingly detailed. You will also see that some wanted our county to be named “Couch County” instead of the “Oklahoma County” name that we know today.
Click on one of the images below to enter his realm to see the city in its infancy, either the HTML version (86 pages) or the PDF version (73 pages), the latter of which you can save to your computer and read on your next walk around the block or trip to Dallas. A few snippets from the combined article are presented after the links below to pique your fancy.
The May 2, 1890, federal Organic Act was the 1st action by the United States to recognize “Oklahoma” as a territory of the United States, and it was a small area consisting of the Unassigned Lands and the Panhandle, then called, “No Man’s Land.” The “Land Run” legislation did not establish that status at all. “Oklahoma” as an official U.S. territory occurred via the May 1890 Organic Act, and the area is shown in the Historical Atlas of Oklahoma (OU Press 2006) graphics below:
County names and borders did not exist before 1890
The “Oklahoma Territory” recognized by the 1890 Organic Act
Also Included the Panhandle with Beaver as its County Seat
Among other things, the Organic Act at last contained provisions for Oklahoma government, be it city, county, or territory, and it authorized the convening of a territorial legislature to establish order and organization in the new territory. Dan Peery was a key member of the Oklahoma County delegation to that first Territorial Legislature which met in Guthrie from August 27, 1890, through December 24, 1890. In that capacity, his action or inaction was part of the reason (or excuse) that the federally appointed territorial governor vetoed the Legislative Session’s adoption of Oklahoma City as the Territorial Capital. He explains, almost moment by moment, what occurred during that time, and he pulls no punches in stating his opinions. As an example, about a Payne County representative, he says,
The three men elected to the House from Payne County were: I.N. Terrill, Samuel W. Clark and James L. Mathews.
It is hard to understand the reason why seemingly intelligent people would elect such a wild-eyed, vicious, beastly anarchist as Ira N. Terrill to the Legislature. It is true he was rather a cunning talker who always posed as a friend of the people, but a man so crude in his methods that he could never deceive the people the second time. He would have been in his element in one of those anarchist meetings at the notorious “Hay Market” in Chicago.
The following is a snippet of the author’s experience in the 1st Territorial Legislature:
The writer of these lines ran to the depot as fast as he could to send some telegrams to Oklahoma City, telling them that the capital bill [naming Oklahoma City as the state’s capital] has passed both houses.
* * *
Just as I stepped out the front door I saw a great crowd on the street and the sidewalks were crowded clear up to the street corner. I noticed a commotion in the crowd about thirty steps from the front of the Council Chamber, where I had stopped. Daniels was in the center and I was told they had him down on the sidewalk, evidently trying to search him, when he cried out: “Peery has the bill.” Then it seemed the whole city of Guthrie started after me. They gathered around in scores, and were crying for a rope and made all manner of demonstrations, declaring that I had stolen the capital bill.
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In the rush and excitement, the crowd failed to recognize me. I saw a friendly high board fence with a small door in it. I went through that door and shut it and into the back end of a butcher shop. The butcher was out in the chase, I suppose, so I got behind a large refrigerator in the back room of the butcher shop.
* * *
Along about three or four o’clock in the afternoon, I heard the butcher come in. He and another fellow were talking, and I was listening pretty carefully and I heard the fellow say,: “If they get that man Peery they will hang him,” and went on to say that “the last time I saw him he was going across the school section toward Oklahoma City.” The butcher said, “Damn him they ought to hang him; he stole the Capital bill.”
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In a few minutes C.G. Jones came in. He was somewhat surprised to find me there and was much excited. He said: “It won’t do for you to go out on the front street. Come and go with me up to my room.” He took me down by the back way to the old Noble hotel, and we went up the back stairs to Jones’s room. He left me and said he would go down and reconnoiter. Jones came back in a few minutes and brought me a new forty-five Colts six-shooter. I stayed in his room while he went down to learn if there were any new developments. He came back soon and announced, the Oklahoma City crowd is here. When I opened the door, the hall was full of Oklahoma City people. There was Col. J.W. Johnson, Huger Wilkerson, Charley Colcord, Dick Brandon, W.W. Witten, and one Kennedy, whom the boys called “Sam Bass,” and fifteen or twenty more, some of whose names I do not recall.
They told me to come out and we would take in the town, and we did. We all gathered over at the old English Kitchen, almost opposite where the Ione Hotel now stands, and had a big supper prepared. Some of us were pretty hungry as we had had no dinner.
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Sérgio Nascimento, Osamu Masuda; Influence of complexity and memory color on naturalness judgments in color rendering. Journal of Vision 2012;12(9):866. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/12.9.866.
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Naturalness judgments in color rendering of complex scenes indicate that observers require illuminants with correlated color temperatures (CCT) around 7000K. Here we investigated the influence of the complexity and memory color on these judgments. Fifteen images of commercial food counters of fruits, vegetables, meat, and fish were digitalized by a hyperspectral system. The scenes were simulated as if they were rendered by illuminants synthesized from Judd’s daylight spectral basis functions for a grid of chromaticities on and around the Planckian locus with CCT ranging 2,222 – 20,000K and were displayed on an LCD monitor controlled by a ViSaGe system. The task of the observer was always to adjust the color of the illumination to produce the most natural appearance of the test object. In condition A, the test object was a part of an object selected from a scene. In condition B, the test object was the same but 70% the pixels were spatially randomized. To make sure that in A and B the observers recognized the test object the complete scene was shown to the observer beforehand each adjustment trial. Condition C was similar to B except that the observers did not see the full scene and therefore did not recognize the object. The background of the test object was always the average of the complex scene. One group of observers tested conditions A and B and a different group tested condition C. In A and B conditions the average CCT obtained was considerably lower than that obtained for the complex scenes: for A was 6100K and for B was 6500K. For condition C even lower CCT was obtained, about 5000K. These results show that both the complexity and the memory color of the objects have a considerable influence in the judgments of naturalness of the illumination.
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Need inspiration on how to be more creative? Then you should buy this book: What It Is by Lynda Barry.
What kind of book is What It Is? Now that’s a tough question. The short answer is that it’s a non-fiction autobiographical how-to-write comic book.
Confused? Quite frankly, so was I. I found the book after attending a web workshop called Visual Thinking for Writers, produced by VizThink, an organization that promotes visual thinking.
So, I bought it. And, when it arrived, I didn’t know what to make of it, so I left it on the table in my office, occasionally flipping through the pages to browse the funky drawings and comic-strip-looking pages.
Then last week, I decided I would sit with the book until something happened. Somewhat to my surprise, something did. About halfway through, I was completely transfixed. I developed a crush. I fell in love.
- What It Is is a valuable book for writers, especially if you need inspiration, are trying to get out of the corporate-speak trap, or need to overcome a block. Although the advice is geared toward writing fiction, I’m finding that it applies to any kind of writing.
- Artists would also benefit from the book, especially to understand the interplay between memory and visuals and writing.
- If you need help being creative, What It Is offers practical suggestions for how you can “keep the pen moving” to stimulate ideas.
Are there any negatives? Yes, indeed. The title is terrible (What? It Is?). A contents page and some introductory copy would have been helpful; as it is, you have to plunge into the book without knowing how it works. And if you’re very literal, and expect precise recipes, What It Is will probably not work for you.
For me, despite its weaknesses, the book is a revelation. It not only is helping me with my writing, it's also encouraging me to learn to draw.
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Mobile first is a technique that shifts the focus to prioritizing the design and development of the mobile experience before the desktop. Mobile first means that designers and developers should consider what their content will look like on a mobile device, even before deciding how it will appear on the desktop.
The benefits of mobile first are manifold. When redesigning your website, it’s essential to consider these considerations, as it could affect everything from navigation to sizing fonts and images. You should know how to develop a website with a strong focus on mobile-first design.
Importance of Mobile First
There are many benefits to mobile first design that extend beyond simply designing for a smaller screen. Mobile first means your website will be easier to navigate with a mobile device, and you’ll be able to fit more of the content onto one screen. This makes it easier for users who might not have a lot of time on their hands or small screens on their devices.
Mobile first also means you can create a custom experience for your visitors based on the type of device to access your site. For example, desktop users might see larger fonts, while mobile users see smaller fonts to fit more words per line. The bottom line is this: when planning out your website, it’s essential to consider how the design and layout will look across different screens and devices.
Planning your mobile first approach
One of the most important things to do when planning your mobile first approach is to look at your site’s analytics. All of this data will be available through Google Analytics if you have a responsive design. However, if not, it’s still possible to get good information from site visitors’ IP addresses or by using third-party analytics tools, like Google Analytics for Mobile Apps.
The next step is figuring out what content fits best on mobile devices. Think about how people might use your site on the go before deciding where to position buttons, links, and other interactive elements. Finally, consider that different mobile devices have different screen sizes and resolutions. Make sure that images are optimized for all screen sizes, and mobile-friendly fonts are used so that content is readable on any device.
Designing for a Specific Device Context
the Designing for a specific device context is one of the main advantages of mobile first. For example, if you’re planning a carousel, it might work better to use horizontal swipe gestures on mobile and vertical motions on desktop.
Mobile first also considers different contexts in which people access content on the web, such as their location or what they need to accomplish at that moment. This perspective encourages designers and developers to prioritize speed, simplicity, and security while allowing users to efficiently complete tasks with a single tap or click.
What’s in a name? Naming your mobile site
Naming your mobile site is an essential step in developing a website from the ground up, focusing on the mobile first design. Your mobile site may be a completely different name than your desktop-optimized site, even if it’s housed under the same domain. The domain for your mobile site probably won’t look anything like what you’re used to. It will typically include “m.” or something else that indicates it is optimized for mobile.
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Grace Hospital computer simulation model Steiner, Stefan
A simulation model, written in GPSS/H, was created to study utilization of Grace Hospital, a special-purpose maternity hospital. The model assumes that a patient's transfers and length of stay depend only on her present location and classification, and not on any past history. The model includes a sophisticated overflow policy, and allows the factors used to govern a patient's transfers and length of stay to depend on her treatment stage. Also, to more accurately simulate the mid-morning peak load in the hospital, the length of stay in Postpartum depends on a patient's arrival time in Postpartum. The average census, and the number of patient-days spent in inappropriate units or lost due to overcrowding are determined for several future scenarios. It was concluded that Grace is running very close to capacity, and must continue to limit the number of admissions allowed. In addition, an early discharge program was shown to be very effective in alleviating the overcrowding.
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It’s official, the new MSHA workplace exam rule will go into effect May 23rd, 2017. We covered this rule change when it was proposed in July. Safety officials and managers across the country had a negative reaction to the proposal, to say the least (more on that later).
What’s in the “New” MSHA Workplace Exam Rule?
Let’s review what’s happening with the MSHA workplace exam rule. There are 4 main changes that will have a massive impact on how mines across the country conduct their workplace exams.
- The examination be conducted before miners are exposed to adverse conditions.
- Affected miners be notified when a hazardous condition is found.
- A record of the examination include the locations examined, the adverse conditions found and the date of the corrective action.
The final rule also requires that the examination record include: the name of the person conducting the examination, the date of the examination, the location of all areas examined, a description of each condition found that may adversely affect the safety or health of miners, and the date of the corrective action.
But the new rule isn’t new at all. This is from our article in July:
The “New” MSHA Workplace Exam Rule Has Already Been Tried and Is Ineffective
This proposed “new” rule, has been tried before and history has shown it doesn’t accomplish the goals of lowering fatalities and injuries. As anyone on a coal mine knows, a worker must have an MSHA Blue card in order to complete a coal mine workplace exam.
Essentially, MSHA has been individually verifying who is competent to conduct a coal mine workplace exam for years.
How has that worked out?
There have been huge, deadly disasters under MSHA’s watch where MSHA’s own report cited “insufficient workplace exam” as a root cause.
MSHA approved every person conducting those “insufficient” workplace exams.
Joe Mains cited the 122 deaths on M/NM sites from 2010 to 2015 as a reason this new law is necessary. But how will this standard improve safety at M/NM operations when it hasn’t worked in coal mines? Insanity is trying the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
The most insane detail comes from MSHA in the proposal itself:
“MSHA is unable to quantify the benefits from this proposed rulemaking, including the proposed provisions that an examination of the working place be conducted before miners begin work in an area”
The people proposing this rule admit there is no evidence it will improve safety. And there is a reasonable argument this rule will make miners LESS safe which we also went over this summer:
MSHA wants workplace exams conducted with documentation of all “adverse conditions” (the definition which was not clarified by MSHA, mind you) “before work can commence.”
Unfortunately, there’s a gaping hole in this thought process that could affect mines all over the country. What about the rest of the day?
A changing environment is in the nature of mining. Site terrain changes when you remove dirt. That’s a law of nature. That doesn’t even take into account constantly changing stockpiles or wear and tear on machines and tools.
Won’t the New Administration Throw Out the Rule?
Here’s the deal:
No one knows how President Trump is going to handle this. He may choose not to enforce it but there are still a lot of moving parts and Senate confirmations before anyone can make a prediction.
Even if a Trump Administration decides to delay enforcement, he can’t throw out the regulation. There is no legal way for him to take it off the books now that it has gone through the public comment period. That means eventually when a Democrat takes the White House, this rule will be waiting for their Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety.
This new MSHA Workplace Exam rule will be implemented. It’s just a matter of when. And when it is enforced you NEED to have all your ducks in a row.
What’s So Bad About This Update To The MSHA Workplace Exam Rule?
Many mine safety personnel and managers across the country spoke out against this rule during the public comment period. Let’s take a look at what they have to say.
The proposed rule is focused on workplace conditions, but not the behavior of workers.
The proposal targets a false problem. The historically low injury rates achieved by industry demonstrate a collective commitment to safe practices. These rates are not achieved by luck or by fluke: aggregates operators take their safety responsibilities seriously, including the identification of hazards and unsafe conditions. What MSHA is overlooking is that the overwhelming majority of injuries and accidents are functions not of inherently unsafe conditions but of unsafe behavior of either management or workers. MSHA’s proposed workplaces examination rule will laden operators with costly additional administrative burdens while doing nothing about the predominant source of workplace injuries – the carelessness by some in the workplace. We have seen in recent years that safety improvements focused on improving behaviors of workers are more effective at reducing injuries than ones focused on workplace conditions.
Joseph Casper, VP of Safety, NSSGA
Saving miners’ lives is important; we’d just like to see the evidence out there that this particular rule is going to advance that cause.
A real concern, however, for mine operators is that the new rule may have unintended consequences of just being another way to cite mine operators. For this rule to have validity with the workforce, it needs to be seen as protecting workers, not just as a punitive tool.
These concerns are not that far-fetched, as some recent examples of MSHA’s citations might attest to. An operator was cited for a sign that stated “no smoking, matches, or open lights” in this area, because the standard requires the same sign to say “no smoking or open flames.” One word. An operator was cited for using the incorrect font on a site-specific training checklist, and an operator was cited for not including the middle name of an employee on a task training certificate.
Brian Bigley, Safety Manager-Lehigh Southwest Cement Plant Tehachapi, Representing CalCIMA
There are hundreds of quotes like those in the public comments. We’re still grappling with the far-reaching effects of this rule change. Some of the initial issues are:
- Will MSHA workplace examination forms need to completely change?
- How will mine administrators keep up with this additional paperwork?
- Who is going to complete these new workplace exams? Management? Workers? Do workers need to be listed as “Competent People”?
- How will MSHA inspectors interpret “adverse condition”?
- How will management make sure every “adverse condition” noted on a workplace exam form is then followed with when it was fixed?
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Learning about your employer's 401(k) plan these days can mean a lot more than just reading a long memo from the personnel department. You might get to see the movie version instead.
Since September, Kmart Corp. of Troy has used video, posters, newsletters and other printed materials complete with catchy slogans and eye-catching graphics to educate its 11,000 Detroit area employees about basic financial concepts, explain the workings of the company's 401(k) plan and promote the benefits of investing in stocks.
"The company was very happy with the program and the results," said Mary Lorencz, Kmart's director of corporate media relations. The multimedia campaign "gives our managers the opportunity to talk to associates (employees) in many different ways," she said. "The company talks to them in print format as well as video format and that way everyone gets the message in a way they like to get it."
Such campaigns are becoming commonplace as employers seek new ways get the message out, said David Wray, President of the Chicago-based Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America, a 401(k) sponsor support group.
"It's a marketing campaign," he said. "Companies are very sophisticated in their approaches. ... Everybody wins if you get people in the plan and they save more."
Other tools used by employers include computer-generated presentations, banners and, in some cases, baseball hats, Wray said.
Detroit law firm Dykema Gossett P.L.L.C. has been using a consultant since 1993 to provide its 250 local employees with educational seminars about its 401(k) plan and financial planning in general.
The firm also provides educational materials from Fidelity Investments of Boston, the provider of the 401(k) plan's mutual funds. The materials include Fidelity's quarterly magazine Stages.
"We have a very senior staff that stays with us a very long time, and (our plan) might be their only resource for retirement money," said Kim Amodeo, director of Human Resources at Dykema. "I think it's very important that they know the value of this and that we help them. To try to do this internally is very difficult, and it's very good we have these other programs."
Participation in the 401(k) plan, which has assets of about $40 million, has grown to 90 percent to 95 percent of eligible employees up from the 80 percent to 85 percent before the firm began aggressive education, she said.
Kmart Director of Employee Benefits Don Morford said a primary goal of the retailer's program was to increase equity investments and, by that measure, it has helped. Participants in the plan have boosted their equity holdings by 20 percent since the campaign was launched. Between 55 percent and 60 percent of Kmart's employees participate in the plan, he said. The plan has assets of $1.2 billion.
Kmart's video, titled "Needs & Wants," is a fast-paced program using colorful graphics to make the case for retirement planning. Among other things, it explains the rules of the 401(k) plan, the financial plums of its before-tax saving features, the contours of the after-tax option and how the Kmart matching contribution works.
Kmart also provides an information guide on the retirement plan titled "Hey! Why Should Our Customers Be the Only Ones With Great Savings?" and Prudential Investment's quarterly newsletter, Money Tree. The information guide outlines the retirement plan's investment options, defines financial terms and explains concepts such as the difference between stocks and bonds, compounding and mutual funds.
At Dykema Gossett, 401(k) plan workshops explore topics such as the benefits of using the plan; the price of procrastination; calculating how much employees need to save each month for retirement; and matching employees' investment objectives with the components of the plan. Its financial planning seminars include insurance analysis, calculating and evaluating net worth, ways to reduce debt, information about common investment topics and instructions on how to create budgets. Betty Meredith, president of Discover Learning Inc., an Ann Arbor financial consulting company, conducts both.
Companies have good reason to want high participation in their 401(k) plans, said Michael Laing, a compensation and benefits lawyer with the Miami-based law firm Steel Hector & Davis L.L.P.
They can avoid tax penalties by encouraging participation by employees who earn less than $80,000 a year or own less than 5 percent of the company, he said.
The IRS mandates that highly compensated employees' average deferral rate cannot exceed by more than 2 percent the average deferral rate of employees. If companies fail the test, the highly compensated employees must pull out the amount of money that went over the 2 percent gap and submit it to be taxed. When those employees fail to return the money within a year, companies have to pay a 10 percent excise tax on the overrun amount.
But a key benefit, said the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council's Wray, is that a good 401(k) plan can help companies retain employees. And the educational programs, because they raise awareness of an important benefit, can be good for morale.
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How should we construct psychiatric family history scores? A comparison of alternative approaches from the Dunedin Family Health History Study.
There is increased interest in assessing the family history of psychiatric disorders for both genetic research and public health screening. It is unclear how best to combine family history reports into an overall score. We compare the predictive validity of different family history scores.
Probands from the Dunedin Study (n=981, 51% male) had their family history assessed for nine different conditions. We computed four family history scores for each disorder: (1) a simple dichotomous categorization of whether or not probands had any disordered first-degree relatives; (2) the observed number of disordered first-degree relatives; (3) the proportion of first-degree relatives who are disordered; and (4) Reed's score, which expressed the observed number of disordered first-degree relatives in terms of the number expected given the age and sex of each relative. We compared the strength of association between each family history score and probands' disorder outcome.
Each score produced significant family history associations for all disorders. The scores that took account of the number of disordered relatives within families (i.e. the observed, proportion, and Reed's scores) produced significantly stronger associations than the dichotomous score for conduct disorder, alcohol dependence and smoking. Taking account of family size (i.e. using the proportion or Reed's score) produced stronger family history associations depending on the prevalence of the disorder among family members.
Dichotomous family history scores can be improved upon by considering the number of disordered relatives in a family and the population prevalence of the disorder.
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Achieving your best performance on event day will take training, plenty of protein and carbs, a balanced diet with all the vitamins and minerals, rest days, plenty of sleep…and water. Lots and lots of water.
Fatigue hitting during your event can impact enormously not only on your finishing time but on your overall enjoyment. Hydration is and helping you to get to the finish line in good time and in good shape.
Planning your hydration has to start well before race day. You need to build hydration routines into your normal training days as well as your rest days. We need a minimum of 2 litres of water per day for the maintenance of normal physical and cognitive functions and this will increase on days you train as your body uses sweat to cool you down. Typically you need 500mls of water for every hour you exercise and you may need more in the hours after training. One tip is you weigh yourself before and after training. You need to drink double the difference of the weight you lost.
Checking the colour of your urine is also helpful. Your urine should be very pale yellow to clear. If it is darker, it is a sign that you need to drink more water.
On the day of an event, make sure you hydrate in the hours coming up to the event. It is good to get around 500mls of water in the hour before.. A long endurance event needs you to be mentally, as well as physically, strong.
For short events – less than 45 minutes you probably don’t need any water but once you are exercising for more than an hour you will need to top up as you go. It is important for long events to plan your hydration in advance. Having a race plan telling you what to drink and at what point can help you stay on target. Remember to practice your hydration plan at least twice during training so you know what works for you. That way you know you are getting the fluids you need during your race and you then only have to focus on getting to the finish line.
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Scenario: In general a ubuntu machine (called server) runs in a network and gets an IP from it. Due to testing, sometimes a windows machine (client) is physical connected to the ubuntu machine exclusively. (Because the server is mounted on a car trailer and there is sometimes no existing network availible.)
It should run without any regular effort on the server.
Situation now: Because noone runs a DHCP server both will get a zeroconf (169.254.x.x) address. The problem is that Windows don't resolve names via mDNS otherwise I could simply use avahi.
My thoughts for solutions are
- server side
- after DHCP discover timout start an own DHCP server serving an IP for the client
- use static IP (zeroconf subnet) on DHCP discover timeout (thus client knows it)
- windows side
- install mDNS or Bonjour :( respectively
- both sides
- use static IPs (annoys and error-prone at the client side)
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Cartoons are not a media for entertainment but the consequence of one’s effort and enthusiasm to make laughter. Cartoon has meaning with a number of kinds of illustration and art. Due to the similarities between comic strips and early animated films, animations came to refer as cartoon. Animation designates any style of images found to give the impression of motion. They require fantastic software if anyone is attempting to make their own animation based on real life characters. There is some nice software programs to help to do a great deal of things but the most significant attribute is that it does it allow u learn as u work. Software programs that are Very best help to learn the layout that someone can have a great deal since working on life animations of motivation. Calico Monkey discusses the craft of making animations, animation software and cartoon. Toon Boom Studio developed animation app for users. It is an application meant for animators.
Stickman Cartoon Software
Stickman is a creative mature and marvelous software application for adults and for children. The user interface is simple to use for whatever. This Ayewind software is designed for experts it is possible to make. With the support of this program it is easy to work with. It is a child this program and program is very user friendly and simple to operate. This software’s benefit is that the time.
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Swift 3D is one of those 3D animations that are rare. This is not a simple program. They have built a 3D animation to decrease the transition as far and the learning curve as possible. The first thing to understand when working with this program is files compressions and size is the priority concerns. Swift 3D provides a tremendous variety of tools to assist the designers. Swift 3D offers two kinds of tools: Bitmap rendering which minimize the size of the next one and output is. Really Swift 3D is an addition to Flash.Other Major Software applications are Unload Present, Animator SWISH, Plastic Animation, Paper, TV paint, Pro-motion, Motion Studio toon Boom Digital Guru toon Boom Digital Studio Express, Creation, Syncing and Pencil. We are having substantial numbers of versions of cartoon animation softwares available at no cost on the market. By using the trial version, we could understand the true picture about, what there is cartoon animation software. We could go to get a version of it if needed. Lots of the programs are currently coming together with a bundle of Photoshop tools. | <urn:uuid:045c1854-6f0d-4ac8-9068-e25b97c1c982> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://gafanet.com/cartoon-animation-software-advantages-and-uses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.944216 | 509 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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prototype proofing refers to samples obtained through processing according to the guest's original or 3d drawings, generally speaking, it is based on the 3d drawings designed by the designer to make samples of the products, which is used to detect whether the structure of the products is reasonable. Samples can be made according to the drawings designed by the customer for the reference of the guests, that is, the prototype model, which can confirm the quality style, style and color of the product, which is the basis for signing the contract, the flexible and changeable prototype proofing can be suitable for many ways. So what do you need to pay attention to prototype proofing?
3d drawings that need to be designed for prototype proofing, because the prototype is made according to 3d drawings, if your drawing size is too different from the product, even if it is processed in a good prototype factory, the accuracy will still be very different when it is detected.
when the prototype is proofing, the secrecy of the drawings is also very important. Any customer does not want his products to be a step ahead when they have not yet come out, when prototype proofing, find a manufacturer that can independently complete the prototype production on a large scale, so that you don't need to send it to other factories, and the 3d drawings will not be known by more people, thus protecting the property rights of customers. If the prototype manufacturer you are looking for does not have the strength, there will be problems not only in delivery, but also in quality. The extension model can independently complete the whole process of prototype model proofing, with high accuracy, fast speed and double secrecy mechanism, which is the strength manufacturer of the prototype industry.
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Monroe 5th grade student starts kindness club to make people smile
MONROE, Wis. — “Be kind for everyone you met is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
“Be kind to others because you don’t know what they’re going through.”
Those are just a couple of sayings that you can easily find online when it comes to being kind.
My good friend and photojournalist, Kathy King and I were looking forward to shooting this story a few weeks ago. Kids being kind to other kids? Yep, we’re more than happy to share this news and sprinkle it like glitter on a super windy day.
We knew the basic background of this story, but what we didn’t know was how big of a deal this was going to be that day at Northside Elementary in Monroe. Speaking as a parent, I was blown away by these kids, especially the head do-gooder, Jyshon Broitzman. It made me think, “I need to do a better job parenting so my kids are like him.”
Jyshon’s mom, Karen, has made it a habit to lie in bed with him before he goes to sleep to talk, watch videos on her phone — you know, just have that mom and child bonding time. Well, she showed him a video that he insisted on watching over and over and over and over and over again. You get the idea.
It was a group of students in another state who gave a gift to a fellow student who flew under the radar. And the joy of that kind moment was palpable for Jyshon. So much so, he wanted to do something at his school to spread that joy, that kindness, to others.
But in order to that, he would need some help, and not from his mom, but from his peers. It all had to be done quickly, too, because the school year was winding down, and as fifth graders, they’d be moving on to middle school.
With this being a Do Something Good story, you know what to expect. However, spoiler alert, Kathy and I and the other adults who were there that day experienced something we never saw coming. Words fail to fully express what happened, but lucky for all of us, we’ve got video.
Enjoy, be kind and yes, do something good!
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A few months ago NPR did a piece on non-traditional investments. One of the ideas they discussed was buying bulk as a hedge against inflation. It’s an interesting idea. As inflation makes things more expensive, if you already have it, you are saving money.
Of course, unlike traditional investments, it is a one time return. If you buy trash bags and save them for when trash bags are 5% more expensive, then you made a 5% return on the money you spent, but only once. Once the trash bags are used up, you get no more return on the investment. Meanwhile, investing in stocks, bonds, or cash accounts will provide you with a return for as long as you hold them. And if you reinvest, the returns, they get compounded. With the trash bags, you could reinvest your return in more trash bags, but the original investment will never gain any more.
How to invest by buying bulk
To invest your money in a hedge against inflation by buying bulk, you need to pick items that will experience a rise in inflation. A can of corn really hasn’t changed price much in the last 20 years. That would be an investment that lost money compared to inflation!
Trash bags, however, are made from plastic. Plastic is made from oil. As oil gets more expensive, plastic will get more expensive and things made from plastic will get more expensive. Plus, trash bags are pretty compact and store well. And if you can manage to pick them up on sale and with a coupon, you could easily double your money by buying them now and sitting on them for a year.
Obviously, durable goods work better than perishable goods. Food prices probably aren’t going to rise very much over the short-term, despite what the news reports about droughts affecting harvests. (hint, don’t worry about rain affecting the price of your corn flakes. Each box only contains about 10 cents worth of corn)
You will also need somewhere to store the stuff and wait for prices to rise. Buying storage space or storage products adds to the cost of your investment and decreases your return. But simply stacking stuff in the corner of your basement would work.
Some people claim that all storage has a cost, because if you didn’t need it, you could simply downgrade your living space to something smaller. That sounds good on paper, but it rarely works that easily in real life. Home sizes simply don’t scale that evenly. And smaller living spaces tend to have a higher cost per square foot. That is because some expenses are fixed regardless of home size. Things like building permits and utility taps don’t change. Heating and cooling systems vary in cost based on their size, but still have some component of their price that has little to do with their capacity.
What this means is that the difference in price between a 2000 sq ft home without a finished basement and a 2000 sq ft home with a finished basement is not going to be all that much.
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Medellin City Guide
The second largest city in Colombia, Medellin is nestled deep in the Aburra Valley surrounded by a sea of green mountains. The city, home to over 3 million people, runs from north to south of the valley. Dubbed the &l...
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Medellin City Guide
The second largest city in Colombia, Medellin is nestled deep in the Aburra Valley surrounded by a sea of green mountains. The city, home to over 3 million people, runs from north to south of the valley. Dubbed the ‘City of Eternal Spring’, it’s hard to believe that Medellin was ever considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. It has since undergone a remarkable transformation, shaking off its dark and ominous past tainted with drug lords and drug-related crime.
The most notorious drug-lord of them all was Pablo Escobar, who met his fateful demise in the mid-nineties. Following his death, crime and murder rates plummeted, which meant neighbourhoods in Medellin were deemed safer to travel to and live. Medellin is now home to warm and friendly locals and has a vibrant culture to boot. A city reborn, it’s no wonder the Medellin was awarded Wall Street Journal’s title “Innovative City of the Year” in 2015.
Things to Do
Museo de Antioquia
Many have bravely overlooked Medellin’s sinister past and travelled to the city of mountainous emerald green. There’s so much to explore in the valley from its museums and parks to its colourful markets. Art lover or not, head to Plaza Botero where the Colombian artist Fernando Botero has gifted his bronze sculptures to the square. His artwork breathes life to the square where the Museo de Antioquia is conveniently located. Head inside the museum to peruse more of his iconic work alongside art from other modern, international artists.
The Medellin Metrocable
As Medellin reinvented itself from a cocaine-producing gangland to a flourishing city, soon parks, libraries and museums all came into being. Another equally fun and breathtaking addition was a gondola that sweeps over the city and its lush valley. The Medellin Metrocable connects the poorer communities living in the hills with the rest of the city. Although it’s primarily a transportation system, the gondola has become a bit of a tourist attraction offering scenic vistas to the surrounding mountains. While the new ‘J’ line is exclusively for tourists, the gondola can take you off the beaten track into neighbourhoods that aren’t yet safe.
Party at Parque Lleras
You can’t visit Medellin without spending a night or two hanging out at Parque Lleras. The park is lined with restaurants and bars and is the heart and soul of the city. Here locals and tourists come together to drink Colombian Aguardiente, dine and even dance before hitting the bars and clubs for the night. Whether you’re in the mood for a full on maracuya-lulo mojito-fuelled party, or to relax and watch the world go by, then a visit to the park in the Poblado district is an absolute must.
Parque Lleras is conveniently also the place to sample the local South American cuisine. While empanadas are a universal staple in this region, dare yourself to feast on stews made with either chicken or tripe if you think you can stomach it. A culinary tour of Medellin would not be complete without a healthy dose of real Colombian coffee.
Pablo Escobar Tours
While Medellin has turned over a new leaf, there are many tours in operation that will allow you to retrace the steps of the infamous drug-lord, Pablo Escobar. Many tours are running to take you to the house where Escobar was finally caught by the Police and met his fate. This is followed by a visit to his final resting place.
While Medellin has progressed to a safer city, it’s always advised to travel with caution and use common sense. Poorer areas are unsafe so it’s best to avoid travelling to these parts of the city. As with any other South American destination, it’s best not to flash your cash, jewellery or draw attention to yourself. That’s just asking for trouble.
When to Go
Although Medellin is situated at an altitude of 1500m, it’s also not that far from the equator. This is why the mountainous city is blessed with warm weather all year round. Do however expect the odd tropical downpour.
The Metrocable is a handy and scenic way for tourists to get from the city to its neighbouring districts, but on solid ground, there are a few ways of getting around. The metro cable is connected with a metro network, which services the city’s central destinations alongside an overhead train line. The easiest means of transport remains the trusty yellow taxi.
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TESTIMONY OF STEVE GUERTIN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR,
U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES, WILDLIFE, OCEANS, AND INSULAR AFFAIRS REGARDING
H.R. 3109, H.R. 3409, H.R. 5026, and H.R. 5069
July 23, 2014
Chairman Fleming, Ranking Member Sablan, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am Steve Guertin, Deputy Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) within the Department of the Interior (Department). I appreciate the opportunity to appear before the Subcommittee today to testify on a range of bills that affect the Service's mission and responsibilities.
H.R. 5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014
Mr. Chairman, thank you for your leadership in introducing legislation to increase the price of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, commonly known as the Duck Stamp. A price increase is critically needed to restore the Duck Stamp's eroding purchasing power, so that there is sufficient revenue available to provide adequate habitat for migratory waterfowl to find food, rest during migrations, and to raise their young. The Duck Stamp is a critical tool for sportsmen and women, as well as wildlife enthusiasts, who make substantial contributions to the nation's economy in the pursuit of their passions.
The price of the Duck Stamp is set by Congress through the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act. The price of the Duck Stamp has remained at $15 since 1991. Based on the Consumer Price Index, the stamp would need to cost more than $26 today to have the same buying power that $15 had in 1991. However, the increased cost of land, including easements, during this period has risen even more dramatically. Between 1991 and 2013, the Service's average cost per fee acre increased from $450 to $1590, and the Service's average cost per easement acre increased from $112 to $765. In 1991, revenue from the Duck Stamp enabled the Service to protect 91,000 acres of waterfowl habitat for the Refuge System. However, in 2013, the Service was able to protect significantly less habitat, despite allocating nearly 80 percent of the funding to easement acquisition, because land values in important migratory bird areas have increased by up to 600 percent.
An increase in the price of the Duck Stamp is a top priority for the Department and has been included in the President's budget proposals over the past number of years, and during the Administrations of the past two Presidents. We strongly support the increase that would be accomplished through H.R. 5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, and support the legislation. We have some suggestions that would make the bill even more effective, and look forward to discussing these with the Subcommittee as the bill moves through the legislative process.
To understand the importance of restoring the purchasing power of the Duck Stamp, it is helpful to look back to its origins and its role in restoring North America's great migratory waterfowl populations. The restoration of the continent's waterfowl following a grave decline is a grand conservation success story. It is a story that involves sportsmen in partnership with States, Congress, and Federal agencies applying science to habitat protection and restoration efforts. Because of strategic, science-based actions taken by these partners to conserve key habitats along the four major North American flyways, migratory waterfowl populations are improving. This work has maintained our hunting tradition, and has significantly contributed to the economies of many states through the recreational activities of hunters and outdoor enthusiasts.
The Duck Stamp plays a critical role in this conservation partnership and its success story. Created in 1934, the Duck Stamp represents the permit required by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 to hunt waterfowl. Every waterfowl hunter who is more than 15 years old is required to carry a Duck Stamp into the field. Duck Stamp revenue is deposited in the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund (MBCF), through which the Service, with the approval of the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, acquires wetland and associated habitats to support populations of waterfowl. Ninety-eight percent of the receipts from Duck Stamp sales are used to acquire important migratory bird breeding, migration, and wintering habitat, which is added to the National Wildlife Refuge System (Refuge System). Since 1934, sales of the Duck Stamp have helped to add more than 5.6 million acres of waterfowl habitat to the Refuge System. These acquisitions have benefitted individual refuges all across the county, in 45 states. In many cases, acquisitions made through the MBCF account for 100 percent or a substantial percentage of a refuge's total land. These protected lands not only benefit waterfowl, but also countless other wildlife species, as well as increased opportunities for outdoor and wildlife-dependent recreation, such as hunting.
While the Duck Stamp's price has been static since 1991, other factors affecting habitat conservation have significantly changed. Land prices in prime waterfowl nesting habitat have increased; price increases of crops and other factors have expanded conversion of native prairie to farm lands; and a warming climate is evaporating prairie “pothole” wetlands.
The Prairie Pothole Region is vital to waterfowl populations. The U.S. portion of the Prairie Pothole Region includes parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Approximately 118 million acres of land, 21 million acres of grass cover, and 2.63 million wetland basins support more than 300 species of migrating and resident birds. Termed America's “Duck Factory,” this formerly glaciated landscape is the most productive area for nesting waterfowl on the continent. The region also provides stopover habitat for migratory waterfowl, shorebirds, waterbirds, and songbirds.
A Service study and report, Status and Trends of Prairie Wetlands in the United States 1997 to 2009, found that wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region declined by an estimated 74,340 acres between 1997 and 2009 – an average annual net loss of 6,200 acres. In addition to these losses, millions of acres of prairie wetlands are threatened with degradation from extreme weather patterns, rising agricultural commodity prices, and oil and gas development, putting further pressure on the most valuable breeding area for ducks in the Americas. Continued vigilance in monitoring and protecting the Prairie Pothole Region is needed to ensure it remains healthy for waterfowl for generations to come.
Funding provided by the sale of Duck Stamps is a critical component of conservation in the Prairie Pothole Region, and in other important waterfowl areas in the nation. The Administration's proposed budget for FY 2015 includes a legislative proposal to amend the Migratory Bird and Hunting Conservation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718b) to increase the sales price for Duck Stamps from $15 to $25, beginning in 2015. With the additional receipts that would be generated from the proposed price increase, the Service anticipates the additional annual acquisition of approximately 7,000 acres in fee and approximately 10,000 acres in conservation easements. After 2015, the Administration's legislation also proposes that the price of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp can be increased by the Secretary of the Interior, after appropriate consultation with the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. This component of the Administration's proposal is important to helping ensure that the Duck Stamp's purchasing power does not substantially erode in the future.
Mr. Chairman, H.R. 5069 takes a different approach by providing for a one-time increase, and mandating that the increase be used only for the purchase of easements. Currently, the Service, working in cooperation with the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, uses Duck Stamp proceeds for purchases of both fee title lands and conservation easements. We recommend maintaining the current discretion to ensure the most strategic and beneficial acquisitions can be made, without limiting the Service's discretion to purchase lands in fee title when necessary. One consideration is that access to certain lands by hunters is often not possible across easement lands, and we use fee title acquisition to provide such access.
We would greatly appreciate the opportunity to work with the Subcommittee on this legislation moving forward and thank you for your leadership and for introducing H.R. 5069. H.R. 5069 would allow the Service to ensure that the “Duck Factory” and other key habitats are protected into the future and that waterfowl populations continue to thrive for the continuing benefit of the American people.
H.R. 3409, the National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Limitation Act
The Department strongly opposes H.R. 3409, the National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Limitation Act. H.R. 3409 would create an additional, uncertain hurdle to the Service's effective and transparent Land Protection Planning (LPP) process. This process has resulted in the careful expansion of many popular refuges that are vital for wildlife conservation, valued and supported by local communities, provide visitors with opportunities to hunt, fish and observe wildlife, and contribute to numerous sectors of the economy. When priority conservation needs and values, public support, and the presence of willing sellers align to allow for the establishment or expansion of a refuge, the Service must be able to act. Authority to strategically grow the Refuge System, as we have been directed to do by Congress, is important to the conservation of our Nation's fish and wildlife populations.
The Refuge System is the world's premiere network of public lands devoted solely to the conservation of wildlife and habitat. It encompasses over 150 million acres of land and water, preserves a diverse array of land, wetland, and ocean ecosystems. The Refuge System offers about 47 million visitors per year the opportunity to fish, hunt, observe and photograph wildlife, as well as learn about nature through environmental education and interpretation. These visitors make refuges an important economic driver, generating nearly $2.4 billion for local economies each year. Investing in the Refuge System is a sound use of taxpayer dollars as each dollar appropriated for the Refuge System returns nearly $5 in economic benefits. Refuges also provide local communities with other ecosystem services, such as improved water quality, increased property values, and access to quality wildlife-dependent recreation.
However the Refuge System, with all its benefits, is facing ever increasing pressures and difficulties. Populations are growing rapidly, the amount of undeveloped land is declining, the economic environment is challenging, and we are faced with conservation crises on several fronts. The Service must be strategic, flexible, and responsive in protecting declining undeveloped lands to ensure sufficient habitat is maintained to support America's wildlife populations in the future. In the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997, Congress directed the Service to “plan and direct the continued growth of the System in a manner that is best designed to accomplish the mission of the System, to contribute to the conservation of the ecosystems of the United States, to complement efforts of States and other Federal agencies to conserve fish and wildlife and their habitats, and to increase support for the System and participation from conservation partners and the public.” Congress provided the Service with the tools to create and expand refuges and the Service has used this authority in a manner that is transparent, rooted in public engagement and founded on scientific data driven by our mission to conserve habitat and ecosystems.
On January 30, 2014, the Service published a draft strategic growth policy to ensure that we continue to responsibly concentrate our limited resources on land protection efforts that make the greatest contribution to the conservation of species in a strategic, cost-effective, and transparent manner.
The Service uses land protection planning to study opportunities to conserve land, including by adding it to the Refuge System. Conserving wildlife through land protection is an adaptive, public, and voluntary process, founded on the best scientific processes and data available. We use this data to identify gaps in the conservation estate, which we define as lands that are protected at local or landscape scales by private, state, or federal partners.
When a need to conserve land is identified, a preliminary proposal is submitted to the Service's Director for approval to develop a detailed LPP. Development of a LPP is a public process, during which we reach out to state agencies, local communities, Congressional offices, and partners to inform and help shape the plan. The LPP is a planning document, not an acquisition plan. The Service uses the best available scientific information to analyze the effects of the LPP and alternatives on the physical, biological, social, and economic environment.
If a LPP is approved, after a long period of study and public engagement, an acquisition boundary for the refuge is authorized. It is important to be clear about the effect of an authorized acquisition boundary: it authorizes the Service to purchase fee title or conservation easements within that boundary from willing sellers. Such purchases are subject to available funds and overall Service acquisition priorities. In many cases, much of the land within refuge acquisition boundaries remains in private ownership. The approved acquisition boundary gives landowners, within the boundary, another option for how they use their land.
The expansion of an acquisition boundary does not result in new restrictions or regulations on landowners within or adjacent to the boundary. An expanded boundary does not lead to condemnation of private property or any form of coercive purchases. This is a voluntary program and it has been long-standing Service policy to acquire lands from willing sellers only. The expansion of an acquisition boundary does not lead to an aggressive campaign to purchase land or easements covering large swaths within the boundary. Rather, land purchases tend to occur gradually, taking decades to even begin to acquire significant portions of the land within the boundary for the refuge.
As an example of how this process works, the Service considered a proposal to expand the acquisition boundaries for Chickasaw and Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuges, located in Tennessee, to protect and restore this high-quality bottomland hardwood forest habitat as well as places where the public can hunt, fish, and observe wildlife. The preliminary proposal encompassed approximately 120,000 acres in Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Dyer Counties in Tennessee. The public process for this proposal began in December 2012 when the Service launched a public scoping effort to seek input on the proposal. Congressman Fincher, sponsor of H.R. 3409, expressed his constituents' concerns with and opposition to the Service's proposed boundary expansion, and the project was halted. We simply do not create or expand refuges without substantial support from the local citizens. Our refuges want to be good neighbors and a source of pride for the communities where they are located.
Public input also shaped the establishment of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area. When the Service engaged the public during the planning process, the River Ranch Property Owners Association, a group of local landowners, opposed the establishment of the refuge and conservation area, envisioning that the Service would close access to any purchased lands as other Federal agencies had done elsewhere in Florida. We actively engaged with the River Ranch community and established a level of trust and understanding after multiple meetings over the course of a year. The Service listened to their concerns and, as a result, reevaluated our initial proposal. Ultimately, we removed the River Ranch landholdings from the proposal while maintaining the conservation integrity of the project. The overall outcome of the discussions between the Service and the River Ranch community has led to understanding and support for the Everglades Headwaters project.
Without question, providing high-quality stewardship of the nation's wildlife refuges requires resources, and refuge managers must make decisions within a prioritized framework to ensure key assets remain at sustainable levels. The Service sometimes faces questions about how the operational needs and maintenance backlog within the Refuge System relate to its pursuit of acquiring new fee-title land or conservation easements.
The Service has a mandate to conserve fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats. One of the most effective ways to do this is to protect areas that hold the greatest value for wildlife. Another compelling reason to purchase land or acquire easements is that consolidating fragmented lands often reduces operations and maintenance needs, thereby saving taxpayer dollars.
Most new fee title or conservation easements acquired by the Refuge System simply serve to fill in the gaps. Many are private inholdings within or adjacent to an existing refuge parcel. Private inholdings may seem of small consequence, especially if the majority of the surrounding land is already protected and managed for wildlife, but those inholdings can have a disproportionate and often adverse effect on the ability of a refuge to achieve its purpose. Strategic acquisitions of fee title or easements can simplify management and reduce expenses related to signage, fencing, law enforcement patrols, legal permits, rights-of-way conflicts, fire-fighting, road maintenance, habitat management and restoration, and invasive species management. Such strategic acquisitions help the Service meet important conservation objectives.
H.R. 5026, the Fish Hatchery Protection Act
The Department strongly opposes H.R. 5026, the Fish Hatchery Protection Act, which would prohibit the closing, reprogramming, repurposing, decommissioning, significant alteration, or move to caretaker status of any fish and other aquatic species propagation hatchery or propagation program within the National Fish Hatchery System unless it is expressly authorized by an Act of Congress, for a period of more than ten years, retroactive to November 1, 2013.
The Department opposes this legislation because it would jeopardize our ability to fulfill our ongoing legal obligations, respond to new and constantly evolving environmental challenges, fulfill the expectations of our federal, tribal, state and local partners, and cost-effectively manage the National Fish Hatchery System within an already strained federal budget.
The National Fish Hatchery System, comprised of 72 National Fish Hatcheries, one Historic National Fish Hatchery, Fish Technology Centers, Fish Health Centers, and the Aquatic Animal Drug Approval Partnership Program, has played a critical role in conserving America's fisheries for more than 140 years. This national and highly specialized network of facilities and employees not only provides fish and other species for stocking into America's waterways, helping to sustain economically and recreationally important fisheries, it plays a vital role in the recovery of threatened and endangered species, the restoration of imperiled species, and in fulfilling our trust obligations to Native American tribes.
Working with our state partners, the National Fish Hatchery System restores native fish populations that support significant recreational fisheries, and H.R. 5026 would limit our ability to adapt the system to meet those challenges. The National Fish Hatchery System also propagates fish, native mussels, and other aquatic species listed as threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and restores declining species before they are listed. The Service's work to propagate aquatic species also addresses our responsibilities under other federal statutes, such as the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, as well as mitigation requirements established for individual federal water resource development projects.
In addition to the conservation mandates established by federal fish and wildlife statutes, the Department has broad trust responsibilities to Native American Tribes. These include responsibilities required by treaty, statute, or pursuant to a consent decree or court order. By helping to ensure that tribes have continued access to native species important to their way of life, the National Fish Hatchery System also plays an essential role in meeting these trust responsibilities.
The National Fish Hatchery System, however, has struggled with declining funding for a number of years. Significant increases in operational costs for fish food, fuel for distribution vehicles, and energy costs have contributed to these fiscal challenges. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 alone, the National Fish Hatchery System incurred a $2.1 million shortfall in overall funding, and needed to reprogram Deferred Maintenance funding to cover operational shortfalls and continue fish propagation. The Service realized that this approach was not sustainable.
As a result of those fiscal challenges and other financial issues plaguing the National Fish Hatchery System, the Service assembled a team of experts from across the county in 2012 to conduct a comprehensive review of the 70 active propagation hatcheries. The purpose of this review was to position hatcheries to meet national aquatic resource conservation needs, operate hatcheries consistent with available funding and without having to borrow from other accounts, identify the highest priority propagation programs, and make informed management decisions under a range of potential budget scenarios. The National Fish Hatchery System: Strategic Hatchery and Workforce Planning Report (Report) is the product of that comprehensive review. It offers management options and recommendations to put the system on more sound and sustainable financial footing.
One of the findings of the Report is that reimbursable funding is an important resource for our hatcheries. Over the past several years, the Service has successfully negotiated reimbursement or developed agreements with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and others to help cover the costs associated with mitigation fish production. In FY 2014, Congress provided $4.7 million in Corps funding for mitigation reimbursement. In addition, the Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority recently reached a three year funding agreement through 2016 that will provide $900,000 to the Service each year.
As the Service announced in November 2013 when the Report was released, we do not intend to close any hatcheries in FY 2014. Moreover, Congress provided the Service with $46,528,000 to operate the National Fish Hatchery System in the recently enacted FY 2014 Omnibus, which is substantially more than we anticipated had sequestration continued into FY 2014. However, that level of funding is still not sufficient to fully cover our operational costs for all of our propagation programs at current levels.
The Service is using the Report to engage partners and stakeholders, including state fish and wildlife agencies, tribes, and others, in a discussion on its major findings and recommendations. We are seeking their input on how we should operate the National Fish Hatchery System more efficiently and within available resources in the future. Taking into consideration their input, current and anticipated funding levels, the costs to operate our existing propagation programs, and the Report's findings and recommendations, we will consider how we can continue to further streamline our operations to better reflect the Service's priorities and bring expenditures in line with available funding. Our hope is that by engaging in a transparent and open dialogue with this Subcommittee and others in Congress, our partners and stakeholders, we can chart a unified course forward for the National Fish Hatchery System that not only allows us to operate the system on sound financial footing, but positions the system to better meet current and future conservation challenges.
Toward this end, the President has requested $48.617 million for operation of the National Fish Hatchery System in FY 2015, approximately $2 million more than Congress appropriated in FY 2014. But even at these increased funding levels, the Service needs flexibility to operate the system to fulfill our ongoing legal obligations under the ESA and other statutes, address new environmental challenges, meet the expectations of our federal, tribal, state and local partners, and manage the National Fish Hatchery System, cost-effectively and within budget.
By preventing the Service from making even modest changes in current operations of individual hatcheries or species propagation programs, H.R. 5026 would make it difficult for us to utilize the National Fish Hatchery System to respond to the changing and increasing needs of threatened, endangered, and imperiled aquatic species. As a result of a number of factors, including natural disasters, the National Fish Hatchery System serves as a critical refuge for a growing number of these species, which depend on the system for their survival, reintroduction and recovery.
By restricting the Service's ability to shift resources among hatchery facilities or even within a facility, this provision would also force us to produce fish and eggs that may not be needed, or even requested, by our partners and stakeholders, leading to inefficient and potentially wasteful expenditures of taxpayer funds. Funds, for example, that could instead be better spent to help restore local native and recreationally important fisheries.
We allocate these funds each year out to the seven regions that operate and maintain our 70 propagation hatcheries and rely heavily on our Regional Directors and their staff to decide how best to use these funds within their regions and in coordination with the states. In many instances, hatchery production targets are coordinated with the states, and may change from year to year with changing circumstances and resource needs. This unprecedented level of restrictions of species-specific operations across our 70 propagation hatcheries would limit our ability to respond to these and other changing environmental and management challenges, which inevitably arise.
H.R. 3109, a bill to amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to exempt certain Alaska Native articles from prohibitions against sale of items containing nonedible migratory bird parts, and for other purposes.
The Department recognizes the economic and cultural need in Alaska Native communities to improve their quality of life with opportunities to benefit from their unique handicrafts and other traditional items. However, the Department does not support H.R. 3109. This bill would amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) to provide statutory authority for activities that may be in violation of current international migratory bird conservation treaty obligations.
The MBTA implements four international treaties the United States holds with Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Russia. These treaties protect a wide range of avian families and species that migrate through or stopover in the United States and the treaty nations. The MBTA prohibits “take,” possession, sale, barter, purchase, shipment, or transport of birds, feathers, eggs or other such products, and it is in part designed to protect bird populations from vulnerability to the demands of commercial use. For example, in 1886, 5 million birds were estimated to be killed for their feathers. When Congress passed the MBTA in 1918, it sought to put an end to the commercial trade in birds and their feathers that, by the early years of the 20th century, had devastated populations of many native bird species.
H.R. 3109 would allow Alaskan Natives to make and sell any handicraft or clothing made from the nonedible parts of federally protected bird species from birds taken in a manner that is not wasteful, provided these are made without the use of mass copying devices. Our understanding is that migratory bird treaty obligations greatly limit such activities. The Service is working closely with the Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council to more clearly define these limitations, but this review is not complete. We would be pleased to keep your Subcommittee apprised of these efforts and to continue to work with you to address this very important issue.
Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on this range of legislation that addresses multiple responsibilities of the Service for the conservation of our nation's fish and wildlife for the benefit of our citizens. In particular, Mr. Chairman, thank you for your leadership on H.R. 5069, the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014. I am happy to answer any questions the Subcommittee may have and we look forward to working with the Subcommittee members as you consider these bills. | <urn:uuid:534b2672-a317-4c52-95af-d8adda3434b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doi.gov/ocl/hearings/113/wildlifebills_072314 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.94074 | 5,611 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Violence and crime rates have increased significantly in the last few years. It's very important to find ways to improve the safety features at home. You should look for ways and facilities that will improve your home security so that your loved ones are safe when you are not there.
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Tweetakt believes everyone should be able to experience art in their own way. Regardless of how young you are or how familiar you are with art and culture.
Over the past seventeen years, Festival Tweetakt in Utrecht has grown into one of Europe’s biggest art festivals for young audiences. Aside from a jam-packed programme featuring theatre, dance, music and interactive art, Tweetakt offers a wide range of educational activities.
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Each show or work of art deserves its own framework of activities. Our lessons and workshops are carefully composed by our Education Department and taught by certified drama teachers. To us, art education is not a means to explain shows or works of art. Tweetakt teaches participants to see for themselves and trust their own reflection. We invite them to take their own thoughts and creative imagination seriously when experiencing art. This approach ensures each workshop, introduction and after talk leads to the best possible artistic experience for all ages!
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Is it illegal to have a underglow?
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Is it legal to have underglow on a motorcycle in Michigan?
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In terms of nighttime visibility and safety, the most important spot to place your LED light strips is at the rear tail section of the bike. This can help amplify the visibility of your tail lights or brake lights. Ordinarily, we recommend to place two strips in this area, one on each side.
Why is underglow illegal?
United States. In the United States of America, certain underglow lights are illegal. Particularly the colors blue and red, as well as any kind of flashing light effects, are banned from public streets in some states as they can distract drivers or be confused with police cars.
Is purple underglow illegal?
California law allows additional aftermarket vehicle lighting which includes neon underglow. In California neon underglow is legal, as long as you follow these restrictions: … Underglow must not emit more than 0.05 candela per square inch.
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It was Saniaro Barjo’s turn to cook dinner. After a 10-hour work day at Cocoon Apparels Pvt Ltd, the 22-year-old hurried home, almost running down the winding road, clutching her little blue handbag to her chest.
Her stark hostel in a Bengaluru suburb is the grey full stop to a residential street, overlooking a large drain. It towers, bare and impersonal, above smaller, bright, garden-rich neighbours. Barjo ran through the open gate, past a stream of more than 60 young women, all of whom work at Cocoon. It is almost 7.30pm. In a balcony above, one girl stuck her hand out to check if it was drizzling. “Pull the clothes in!” she yelled to someone in Odia.
Barjo bounded up the stairs to her quarters on the first floor, where she lives with six flatmates, all from Jharkhand. In the kitchen, 20-year-old Sushita Kumar was already cutting onions, tears streaming down her face. “Come, make dal – I’ve soaked the rice already,” she said in Sadri, an Adivasi lingua franca in Jharkhand. Barjo changed out of her salwar kameez into a skirt and blouse, scrubbed her feet and hands, and started to cook.
Finally, at 9 pm, she flopped to the floor with her plate of rice-dal-lauki. From 8 am, when she left for work, she had not had a chance to sit down all day. Barjo works as a helper in Cocoon Apparels, handing tailors like her friend Kumar, fabric, buttons, and thread. “I usually have a 30-minute lunch break, but there was no time today,” said Barjo in halting Hindi. She is exhausted but upbeat. “In two months, I’ll have enough to send money home.”
Barjo, who belongs to the Oraon tribe, is the youngest in a family of six in Sarudah village, Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. She had quit school in Class 11, and was running the house when a friend’s brother enrolled her for sewing classes at a centre in the capital Ranchi, about 150 km away. “That’s the first time I saw continuous electricity!” Barjo said, describing the paralysing fear of putting her hand on a running sewing machine for the first time.
After a month, when the training centre offered her a factory job in Bengaluru, her family was torn. “We really needed the money, but my father was scared to send a girl so far away,” said Barjo. “He finally agreed when I told him I’ll try it out for six months.” She has now been here four years.
All the young women in the hostel have journeys similar to Barjo’s – they share a rural, poverty-ridden past and an unflinching hope for prosperity through hard work. Today in Bengaluru, they are sought by garment factories that are increasingly recruiting women from far-flung districts through agencies.
“Back home now, Bengaluru means garment factory,” said Sushita Kumar, who estimated that she might be the 15th Munda girl from her village to leave for the city in the last three years. “At home, even a degree holder has to pay a lakh to get a peon’s job. We get employment and better wages here, and even companies seem to prefer us over the Kannada aunties.”
About 80% of garment workers in Bengaluru have always been from rural areas, but now there are more interstate migrations. In the past five years, the fashion industry’s requirements for cheaper and faster labour have prompted garment companies to focus on rural India – by recruiting migrant workers from distant villages in eastern and central India, and relocating Bengaluru factories to villages in South India.
“Global brands hunt for poorer countries with cheapest labour and most flexible conditions,” said MC Dinesh, president of the Federation for Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry. “Within India, manufacturers copy the same hunt – among states offering cheapest labour or easiest conditions.”
Workers from less developed states
In Bengaluru, farmers and landless labourers continue to arrive from rural Karnataka in search of garment sector jobs. But manufacturers are today actively seeking workers from central and eastern India – “the low GDP, largely tribal, non-industrialised states,” as Dinesh put it.
The managing director of a major readymade exports company, who did not want to be identified, said: “The earlier workforce from rural Karnataka is now settled in Bengaluru, demanding more pay and benefits because living in the city with a family is expensive. They are justified in asking for more, but I need to crunch my labour cost.”
Manufacturers also cite another reason why they prefer migrants: a perennial labour shortage. The average annual attrition rate in the industry is 20% to 30%. “Our attrition rate is under 10%, but it is still hard on production,” said Chitra Ramdas, deputy general manager of organisational development at Shahi Exports Pvt Ltd.
Garment workers are quitting jobs, not the industry. A tailor for 14 years, 39-year-old Keerthana G, for instance, has moved eight companies since she came to Bengaluru in 2001. She said it was easier for non-unionised workers to leave than to raise workplace issues with the management. “Most companies have permanent vacancy notices and you can walk in and get a job – same minimum pay, and you hope for a better work environment,” she said.
Migrant workers are less able to move companies – without local networks in an unfamiliar city, they are bound to their employers for security and accommodation.
“Locals have become too aware of their rights – there are questions, disruptions, unions,” said a human resources manager for a major exporter. “Non-local Odia, Assamese speaking migrants can’t do this.”
Younger, healthier, and without families to go back to every evening, migrants are willing to work longer, quieter hours for lower pay.
Since the garment workforce is largely female, the migration is not as organic as it is for young men in the construction sector. Therefore, to fill vacancies, employers tie up with skills development agencies like the government-run Apparel Training and Design Centre, or private players like IL&FS Skills Development Corporation and Gram Tarang Employability Training Services. Over one to three months, they primarily teach youth to operate sewing machines.
“India is not an even labour market, so the idea is to dig deeper into the backward areas of the country,” said Orlanda Ruthven, a former consultant with Gram Tarang, who is now helping set up a mobile social network for migrant workers. “The wage and opportunity gap is what the garment industry is tapping into consciously. The women also get a shot at financial independence and their first taste of freedom.”
Big exporters also run their own induction centres.
Shahi Exports’ Ramdas said the company used agencies earlier, but in the past three years, has been running 47 in-house training and recruitment outfits. “Five of these are in Odisha, thanks to enthusiastic state departments,” she said. Training centres can avail of subsidies, equity and easy loans on offer from the National Skills Development Corporation and the ministries of tribal affairs or rural development that help the trainee to attend the training free of cost. For rural youth, factory work assures not only higher income, but also regular work. “Unlike crop seasons, whatever the season in fashion, there’s always production,” said Geetanjali Kumar, a 30-year-old Odia migrant in Shahi.
Like manufacturers and global brands, unions, trainers and workers too believe that migrants are inevitable in a sector that depends on cheap labour, and trust registered agencies to be fairer and more organised than informal contractors. But recent surveys and research on migrant workers have shown that a poorer, younger, locally unmoored workforce, especially in an industry not known for its transparency, is immensely vulnerable to exploitation. Abuses range from being misled about wages, Provident Fund deductions and hostel payments, to forced overtime, years of confinement and sexual harassment.
Fast fashion, hard life
The young women in the Bengaluru hostel were recruited in 2013 through different agencies for one employer: Unitex Apparels Pvt Ltd, a readymade garments manufacturer and exporter for brands including Levi’s. From Jharkhand, an agency – Barjo and Kumar simply call it the “Ranchi centre” – brought more than a dozen girls to Bengaluru on a three-day-long train journey, and took them straight to a hostel run by Unitex.
The prevalent practise is for the employer to arrange for the hostel, and pay for the warden and security guard. Consultant Ruthven admitted that in her experience, “In typical Indian style overprotectiveness, companies tend to be more concerned with safety than overall wellness and freedom.” Rigid curfews, closed circuit television cameras, and bans on outsiders are “automatically introduced”. These isolate the young workers, leaving them largely incapable of navigating the new city.
Sushita Kumar, who is from Gumla village in Jharkhand, recalled being shocked at Unitex’s hostel. “It was a long dusty hall, with just a few windows,” she said. “For weeks, we thought they would take us to the real house soon!”
Over 150 girls from Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam and Bihar lived on the hostel’s seven floors. “It had poor water supply, no kitchen, one toilet per 20 girls, a strict 6 pm curfew, a van to pick up and drop us, and we were allowed only three hours to leave the hostel on Sundays,” said Kumar. “We thought work would be freedom but it was a prison.”
The women say they signed contracts written in English and Kannada – neither of which any of them understood. A minimum wage of about Rs 6,000 was guaranteed – more than most could ever earn in their villages. But they received only about Rs 4,000, after the company deducted charges for rent, electricity and water.
“By the time we got used to all this, things got worse,” said Kumar.
By 2015, employees said that Unitex delayed salaries and intermittently stopped paying them. Unitex did not respond to this reporter’s calls.
“We wanted to quit, but what would we do after that?” asked Madhuri Nayak, from the Odia girls’ flat next to Barjo’s. “We lived in company accommodation. Where would we go? We didn’t know Kannada. Forget getting a new job, we didn’t even know the roads outside our locality.”
Nayak was 17 then. None of the girls was over 21.
When local workers from Unitex – the hostel girls call them “Kannada aunties” – sought help from the Garment Labour Union to resign with due settlements, they mentioned the 150 migrant women.
“Our first challenge was how to meet the migrants – no outsiders could enter the hostels without company permission, and unions are hated,” said Yashoda, a senior member of the Garment Labour Union. “The second was language. They don’t speak Kannada, and none of us know Odia or Assamese. Thankfully, one of our members spoke a little Hindi and the girls smuggled her inside.”
The Garment Labour Union approached the Karnataka Labour Department and helped most of the migrant women leave Unitex, and battle for their dues. Over the next few months, the union also used its network to find them new jobs. Sixty girls, including Barjo and Kumar, joined Cocoon Apparels, and moved to another hostel.
Barjo said she nearly returned home during the fracas. Ruthven estimates that at least seven of 10 migrant workers drop out within a year of joining companies, largely due to stressful working conditions, thwarted expectations of pay or accommodation, illness or homesickness. To address this, companies like Shahi have appointed older migrant employees to receive newer recruits, and orient them about everything from reading pay slips, to finding markets and bus routes. A spirited, smiling Geetanjali Kumar, who came to Shahi six years ago, is one such Odia worker. She said that she tries to interact with at least two migrants a day. “I want them to go from scared and clueless to loving their job, like me,” she said.
But intense work pressure, curfews, and low pay persist. Overtime is practically mandatory for migrants, even though it is legally voluntary. When asked if they are being paid properly – overtime attracts double the hourly minimum wage – the workers at Cocoon hostel looked confused. Their pay slips sometimes did not even mention overtime.
Asking this reporter to quiz them, three hostel residents demonstrated their fluency in Kannada, acquired recently. “It’s a survival skill!” said Babita. She narrated an elaborate anecdote from the sewing floor.
“I realised that our Odia word for ‘no’ is the Kannada word for dog – naayi, which we get called quite a lot at work!” she said, as her flatmates laughed and imitated a supervisor. “Our isolation was our main weakness, and the company’s main leverage. We know companies value us for being outsiders, but our safety is in integrating locally. Until then, we are dhobi ka ‘naayi’ [literally, the washerman’s dog] – neither here, nor there.”
Taking the factory rural
Even as garment companies bring rural residents to their city units, more recently, factories have also been moving to villages.
“We have moved 21 of our 54 factories out to rural areas like Mysore, Shimoga, Kolar, Krishnagiri [in Tamil Nadu] and Kuppam [in Andhra Pradesh],” said Ramdas of Shahi Exports. About half of these were shifted out of Bengaluru’s garment clusters – Peenya, Yeshwanthpur, Mysore Road, and Magadi Road – in the last five years. Some of the largest apparel exporters like Texport Industries, Gokaldas Exports, and Sai Exports have been reportedly relocating too.
In emails to this reporter, representatives from fashion retailers C&A Europe and Stockholm-based H&M confirmed that production units of their suppliers in India are indeed moving to rural areas near Bengaluru. H&M’s media relations officer added that the phenomenon “is common in many countries”.
The advantages are lower real estate costs, but more importantly, availability of labour that is cheaper and less likely to move jobs. “Our strategy now is to go where the workers are coming from,” said Shahi’s Ramdas. “The minimum wage for these zones, compared to Bengaluru, is at least 20% lower. Today, agriculture is seeing a low period, and people are also looking for employment.”
Ankit Agarwal, Chief Operating Officer of Sonal Apparels Pvt Ltd, said that the company’s five units in Bengaluru’s suburbs “are now compelled to run transport vehicles to bring workers” from nearby villages. “This cost will be minimised if we go closer to the worker,” said Agarwal. The company is looking to expand its production capacity to Hindupur in Andhra Pradesh, an hour’s drive north of Bengaluru and today a popular rural destination for garment units moving out of the city. Another emerging rural garment hub east of Bengaluru, is Chittoor district, also in Andhra Pradesh.
“Land and rent is cheaper, and the Andhra Pradesh government is offering incentives Karnataka is not,” said Agarwal, explaining this trend. For instance, Andhra Pradesh offers a project capital subsidy, which means that companies can get a certain amount of cash back based on their investment (for a Rs 25 crore to Rs 30 crore investment slab, the government reimburses Rs 4 crore).
The current spike in recruiting and training migrant workers seems closely tied to the skills development subsidies that states offer, and manufacturers say it could dissipate when the aid stops. But Agarwal said that units moving out of cities “is a solution that could sustain for at least a decade”.
The owner of a major apparel exporter revealed another bonus of going rural. “Our rural factories have been free from the influence of unions, all based in Bengaluru,” he said. Indeed, union members from the Garment Labour Union, Karnataka Garment Workers Union, and Garment and Textile Workers Union do suspect the rural shift to partly be an attempt to shake off labour rights advocates, and avoid surprise inspections from brand compliance officers. “If migrant workers are taken to these rural factories now, we worry about the state of hostels and pay,” said Swamy, a member of the Karnataka Garment Workers Union.
All stakeholders admit that labour intensive industries can improve rural economies – but as a senior labour official said, “only as long as labour standards and environmental norms are respected and enforced”.
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Theory-to-Practice Grant, ‘Transatlantic Food Practices’
Learn how OWU’s Course Connections, Travel-Learning Courses, Theory-to-Practice Grants, and other programs prepare students for global citizenship and leadership and help them…Make the Connection.
Name: Sarah Jilbert ’14
Majors: Economics Management and Environmental Studies
Hometown: Valley City, Ohio
“I did a lot of initial research through an independent study with Dr. [David] Walker in Spring 2013. Then we traveled to Barcelona to learn and see research first-hand.
“We were able to compare this knowledge to the culture of Columbus. … We experienced [many] differences. For example, people in Barcelona eat at completely different times than the U.S. Their largest meal of the day is lunch, and it’s at 3 p.m. They usually don’t eat dinner until 9 p.m. Their care of the natural environment is more advanced than ours. The city’s sustainability efforts including recycling, composting, public transportation, and care of local foods is more advanced than in Columbus. Also, the health implications of food are different. The U.S. [is more] centered on fast food than Spain.”
Name: Hayden Barns ’14
Self-Designed Major: Psychological, Political, and Social Perspectives on Healthcare
Hometown: Charlottesville, Virginia
“I’m interested in public health, so I approached the project from that perspective – focusing on nutrition and how the typical diet in Barcelona contributes to the relative health of its citizens compared to Columbus (especially in regard to obesity.)
“Our trip to Barcelona was an adventure. We faced a steep language barrier we had to get over in order to do our research and get around the city. I’ve traveled out of the country before where I didn’t know the language, but this trip was a bit different because much of it was spent in the less touristy areas where English wasn’t spoken. In this respect, we learned how to be resourceful and work as a team to figure out what to do.”
Name: David M. Walker, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant professor of geology and geography
“Our project furthered the aims of the University and the Theory-to-Practice Grant Program by allowing applying what we’ve learned in and out of the classroom to a place and culture completely different from that of Ohio Wesleyan. The students expanded their knowledge of food by experiencing food in many ways – observing its culture, environmental impact, and health on society. Finally, we effectively learned how to communicate the outcomes of our work to faculty, staff, and students at Ohio Wesleyan as well as off-campus venues.” | <urn:uuid:2414e2f6-69ff-4c3f-91e9-8988058045d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.owu.edu/news-media/details/theory-to-practice-grant-transatlantic-food-practices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949057 | 592 | 1.65625 | 2 |
What are the fundamental principles of the psychodynamic approach suggested by Freud?
This approach explains that people are influenced by drives and instincts (a certain tendency that influences their behavior) many of these instincts and drives are buried deep in our unconscious mind. It also looks at how our childhood experiences have a huge effect on our behavior and feelings as adults.
DRIVES – We are all born with drives and instincts to satisfy biological urges (sex and aggression) also called Eros and Thanatos these lie behind every motivation we experience and how we are not aware of how these drives influence our behavior
CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE – Freud argued that mental disorders originated from unresolved, unconscious traumas from early childhood of which most of us have no memory off. These childhood experiences have a great influence on our personality and the way we think, feel and act like an adult. The childhood experience is relevant to my individual because Freud suggested that mental disorders come from unresolved traumas of early childhood I think this could relate to Jackie being abused as a child (due to her living environment using outside toilets). I think Jackie has repressed this childhood trauma because of feelings of shame and guilt this would help me to better understand the cause of her behavior, anxiety and chaotic lifestyle.
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AN ITEM THAT should be at the top of every legislative agenda, especially in Washington, is whether or not the United States can retain its leadership position in the world. Political analyst Kevin Phillips explores that question in his latest book, Staying On Top: The Business Case for a National Industrial Strategy.
Phillips said in a recent conversation in Dallas that the answer is yes, we can stay on top-but only if we move immediately to counter the business-government partnership of Japan with a business-government collaboration of our own. The old laissez-faire framework that conservatives favor won’t cut it anymore. Neither will the federal interventionism so loved by liberals. In fact, both positions need to be synthesized, according to Phillips, into a new policy for meeting foreign competition.
Anyone who doubts the near-desperation of our circumstances should note this report made just over a year ago by Alfred Eckes, former chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission: “Last year, our five leading exports to Japan were corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and coal. Our five leading imports from Japan were automobiles, trucks, oil-well casing and motorcycles.” We send them raw natural resources; they send us sophisticated manufactured products in return. It’s the economy of Colonial America brought back to life.
According to Phillips, the odds against us are these:
“Capital costs: A Japanese company raises money by getting bank loans with interest currently pegged by the government near 7 percent; an American company typically has to pay 12 or 13 percent.
“Tax breaks: An American company pays essentially the same federal taxes for domestically manufacturing goods for sale in Calcutta as it would for sale in Connecticut. A Korean company avoids taxes in the manner described by [an executive of] Daewoo Heavy Industries: ’When we export, we don’t pay any income tax, we don’t pay the defense tax, and we don’t pay tariffs on the imported raw materials that go into the exports. That adds up to almost 40 percent of the production cost.’
“Antitrust: Two steel-manufacturing concerns in nations belonging to the European Community get together. . .to exchange plants and specialties so each can survive by targeting only one or two segments of the deteriorating steel market; two similar concerns in the United States would violate U.S. antitrust laws if they practiced the kind of collusion found in Europe.”
Freedom from high interest rates, export taxes and antitrust laws that prohibit cost-saving collaboration within an industry- that’s what’s permitting Japan and other foreign competitors to build their commercial empires at our expense. In addition, the governments of Japan, France and West Germany are targeting certain industries for special help. Our fear of government intervention prevents this kind of aid to American industry, so our companies are left with the freedom to fell farther behind their competitors abroad.
Not that Phillips is advocating this kind of targeted government assistance to selected sectors of the U.S. economy; on the contrary, he says that we should insist that our partners stop these unfair practices.
Nor does Phillips wish for a government superagency that would choose winners and losers among American companies. He refutes the fashionable notion that we should subsidize high-tech industries and allow steel, automobiles and textiles to ride off together into the sunset. Euthanasia for our basic industries is practically undesirable, Phillips argues, and politically impossible. The old-line lobbies will be essential to getting a new industrial policy approved in Congress, and national defense requires that we maintain a capacity for manufacturing steel.
Phillips’ proposed program starts slowly: Create a federal Department of International Trade and Development (DITD); pass trade-reciprocity legislation (we’ll give access to our markets to those who give us access to theirs); amend antitrust laws to permit high-tech collaboration on research and development; expand credit assistance and tax incentives for exporters; restructure labor-management relations; consider a value-added tax (VAT).
These and other measures would comprise a strategy built upon existing constituencies. It would embrace the old world while reaching out to the new. It would restructure basic industries, then adapt to high-tech as quickly as this emerging lobby can muster sufficient clout. In Staying On Top, Phillips has shaped a proposal that is sound, sane, plausible and imperative.
On February 12, this city will vote yea or nay on the Dallas Independent School District and the administration of Superintendent Linus Wright (see Phil Seib’s story on page 38). The bond election scheduled for that date is perhaps the most critical in the history of our public schools. If needed repairs and construction can be financed, we will have a chance to return education to the neighborhoods where it belongs.
This will be the first bond election in a long time that hasn’t benefited from the formidable efforts of political consultant Judy Bonner Amps, who died in December. Since then, an amazing number of people have called her office to say that they wouldn’t be where they are today if it hadn’t been for Judy. The elections of state Sen. Oscar Mauzy, U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, former County Judge Garry Weber, County Commissioner Chris Semos and Mayors Jack Evans and Starke Taylor are only a few of the instances where Judy’s masterful campaign management made an important difference.
Her impact on the life of this city was far greater than most people (including Judy) knew when they were pulling the lever for her candidates and causes. And she went right on working until the last moment. Only days before her death, she wrote the speech that Mayor Taylor gave at his fundraiser for the coming city campaign season. That speech was an agenda of social programs that Judy had believed in most of her life. Dallas won’t be nearly the same without Judy Bonner Amps. | <urn:uuid:6d147d49-7d97-4ff8-945d-e2e7155c67d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1985/february/editors-page/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948915 | 1,230 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Hosted by Jonn Elledge and Barbara Speed, each fortnightly episode of Skylines discusses the topic of cities, from urbanisation to politics.
In an episode titled ‘You Are Here’, Tim and Jonn talk about how Applied works to create maps for complex environments and the challenges that arise when attempting to build wayfinding systems completely from scratch. To illustrate this, Tim describes Applied’s approach to devising the critically acclaimed Legible London wayfinding system.
Tim explained that Legible London stemmed from the realisation that whilst walking accounted for 55% of journeys for Londoners, yet there was no wayfinding tools readily available. Instead, just under half of people were using the tube map to navigate, which was not built to effectively guide pedestrians.
Applied’s first step was to try and understand London’s legibility. This is defined by how easy, or difficult a place is to understand. A difficult city is one that is difficult to navigate, to remember and is hard to position yourself in. New York is an interesting example of legibility. In most of Manhattan, the grid pattern and numbered streets are easy to understand once you have familiarised yourself. However other areas of the city have an older, ‘London’ style street pattern, with lots of little roads that confuse people. Another legibility issue discovered in New York occurs when travellers exit subway stations. The block structure of the streets can make it hard for people to position themselves and know which way is north.
Tim explained how one of the biggest challenges of Legible London was inconsistencies in naming. London is a city that has evolved over the centuries and has a diverse population. As a result it can be difficult to get an agreement on what to call a particular area or building.
To resolve this, Applied undertook vast amounts of user research, to try and gain a consensus on nomenclature. From this, Applied came up with a three tier system of ‘districts’, ‘villages’ and ‘neighbourhoods’ as a way of effectively cataloging the vast urban sprawl. This strategy has provided London with a definitive list of 767 villages and 3,345 neighbourhoods, and is used to inform Legible London maps. By clearly defining spaces in this way, the city becomes more legible and users have a greater sense of place, enabling them to feel more confident to explore their surroundings.
Looking forward, the Legible London system is continuing to evolve. Applied is working to create a digital, zoomable version of the map that allows users to get an up-to-the-minute picture of the city. This has been prototyped as Living Soho and Living Regent Street, both of which are for iPad, iPhone and online. Applied is also involved in some exciting projects, devising wayfinding systems for the new cities being built in the Gulf.
Guests featured alongside Tim included Stewart Mader, the founder of the Subway NYNJ campaign, which aims to get the commuter PATH train line from New Jersey to Manhattan clearly illustrated on the map of the New York subway. For Stewart, this omission goes beyond wayfinding problems. With the New York transit system receiving over 58 million visitors annually, the map has become a cultural asset that frames how people perceive the city.
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Life in Hampton Roads: Quality of Life
Despite the pandemic and stay-at-home restrictions, more than two-thirds of respondents rated the quality of life in the region as excellent or good (67.4%). About one in four rated Hampton Roads’ quality of life as fair (25.8%) and 4.1% rated it as poor.
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Refugees in Clark County learn about pleasures, challenges of American life
There’s been precious little time for Maryam Azizpour and her family to slow down and take a breath since the U.S. military evacuated them from Afghanistan last year.
“You can never just take it easy,” the resettled refugee said of her new life here. “American life keeps you very busy and everything is very expensive.”
Rental assistance from resettlement agency Lutheran Community Services Northwest dried up after just a few months. The family’s short-term lease on an affordable rental in the Hazel Dell area north of Vancouver expired, forcing them to move to a unit with much higher rent. To cover their costs, all adults in the family have gone to work — even Maryam’s parents, who are just beginning to learn English and who, in other circumstances, would be nearing retirement.
Maryam Azizpour, 30, is raising two young daughters in the absence of her husband. Their daughters appear to have thrived this spring in the welcoming atmosphere of Hazel Dell Elementary School, but school is over now and the older girl, Marwa, must face another dramatic transition: moving up to middle school.
Most of all, Maryam is worried about the family’s ability to stay in the United States and reunite with her husband, Jamal Nasser Azizpour. Jamal left Afghanistan for Germany three years ago, intending to pave the way for his family to join him under something like normal circumstances. But when Afghanistan fell to the repressive Taliban regime last summer, the rest of the family was blocked from going to Germany and wound up fleeing to the U.S. instead.
The Azizpour family has done remarkably well remaking their lives in a few short months, but their future legal status here remains murky. They definitely don’t want to relocate yet again to Germany, Maryam said.
“We are loving this country more, day by day,” Maryam said. “Because we are happy here. We don’t have to be scared here.”
Maryam is multilingual and used to work in accounting and human resources for the Afghan ministry of foreign affairs. Within weeks of arriving here, she started working as a translator for Lutheran Community Services, the nonprofit agency that works with the government to resettle refugees in this region.
Then she moved to a job as employment specialist with Partners in Careers, where she helps recent refugees like herself — some from Afghanistan but many more lately from war-torn Ukraine — get settled in the Vancouver area.
Her brother Sajad Ibrahimi, 24, was a university student in Afghanistan, studying civil engineering and aspiring to design buildings, he said. Now he works at Vancouver’s Frito-Lay plant and scoops up as many overtime shifts as he can, sometimes arriving for a 12-hour stretch at 3 a.m.
“The house rent is very high here. The health insurance payment is very high,” said Sajad, adding that health care is usually free or inexpensive in Afghanistan.
The Frito-Lay job, he added, “is OK. The people are really good, really friendly. They are cool people.”
But Sajad has pretty much foregone his civil engineering dream, he said.
“It’s too much to start again,” he said. “I need something easier that takes less time. We are dealing with payments.”
Rent on the family’s Hazel Dell townhome is $2,500 a month, plus utilities. Sajad said he would like to buy a home of his own someday, but there’s no telling when that might be.
Maryam and Sajad’s parents are also contributing to the family’s bottom line after landing restaurant kitchen jobs in downtown Vancouver.
All that hard work crowds out much time for the family to relax, Maryam said.
“I have no time to take them anywhere,” she said of her two young daughters.
“I don’t think (leisure) is a priority for them right now. What they need is to feel financially secure,” said family friend Wendy Ovall, who has lived overseas and hosted international visitors before. “For anybody who’s moved from another country, it takes at least a year before you can take a breath.”
Maryam and her girls did find time to attend Easter services and their first Easter egg hunt with the Ovalls, who have also taken them on occasional field trips to local attractions they’ve never seen, like Multnomah Falls and the Oregon Coast.
“We waited for sunshine for so long,” Maryam said.
Silly and serious
In the family’s transition to American life, the girls are adapting well.
There was nothing but glee on the face of Maryam’s youngest, 6-year-old Murwarid, as she played goofy games and tested silly skills — like hopping across the playground with a paper plate squeezed between her knees — during Hazel Dell Elementary School’s field day in June.
On that same day, 10-year-old Marwa won a school award for leadership skills, bravery and what teacher Joleen Brick described as a wicked sense of humor.
“She’s a hoot but she takes her education very seriously,” Brick said. “She knows how to ask for help. She also knows how to make it fun.”
The Taliban promised to allow women and girls in Afghanistan to pursue education, but reneged on the very day in March 2022 when schools were expected to reopen to all. Marwa hates talking about the Taliban and her family’s experience fleeing Afghanistan, when they endured violence and threats by armed soldiers in chaotic streets. Yet Marwa made surprisingly fluent English-language presentations about life in Afghanistan for her fifth-grade class, Brick said.
Marwa is “so kind,” Brick added. During her first week at school, Marwa spotted a peer who was alone and crying on the playground, and — despite her newness and limited English — immediately sought help from a teacher, Brick said.
Children who have moved from other countries naturally build empathy and compassion, Brick added.
“That’s something everyone needs these days,” she said.
Many students at Hazel Dell Elementary grew up speaking another language, English language specialist Kasey Maloney said.
“Imagine what it’s like to be plopped in some classroom where the teacher is talking at grade level and you have no knowledge of what the teacher is even talking about,” she said.
To reach those kids, Maloney team-teaches in regular classrooms and also hosts a newcomers group, which emphasizes visual learning and call-and-response repetition of colors, numbers and other useful words like “backpack” and “classroom.”
“When (the Azizpour sisters) joined in January, it sparked a lot of excitement,” Maloney said. “I think everybody was fascinated.”
Their arrival inspired school staff to emphasize Hazel Dell Elementary’s unusually diverse student population, Maloney said.
“We found out we have students from 21 different countries,” she said. “Now we have 21 different flags up in the cafeteria.”
The Azizpour children aren’t the only ones pursuing an education in American life. Maryam’s father and mother, Mohammad Ismail Rezayee and Sediqa Rustami, have been livestreaming Clark College English as a Second Language classes at home. A local volunteer also hosts an in-person gathering of Afghan women to converse once or twice a week, Maryam said.
In the Afghanistan the family fled last year, Sediqa Rustami was a police officer, an unusual position of responsibility for a woman. Her husband provided housekeeping and security for Americans working with the Afghan government.
How would life have been for Sediqa Rustami under the Taliban regime? She demonstrated a little English for The Columbian: “Taliban. In house. No job.”
“I wish I could have come to this country earlier so I could have lived this kind of life and had opportunities,” Mohammad recently told family friend Wendy Ovall, she said.
While Mohammad tends to be soft spoken, his mastery of streetwise English emerges when he’s in the passenger seat of the used car Maryam bought soon after settling in, she said with a grin. Maryam said she often follows spoken directions from Google Maps and if she makes a mistake or takes a different turn, her father’s English-language corrections are quick and confident.
Men in the passenger seat while women do the driving is something all Afghans in America are still getting used to, Maryam said. Car ownership is much more universal here, she added. In Afghanistan, she said, only rich people own cars, and most others are accustomed to walking the streets.
But Hazel Dell neighborhood streets stay mostly quiet and empty, especially at night, Maryam observed. That’s very different than always-bustling Kabul.
“When we got here, it was very strange. No one is walking outside,” she said. “No one is in the streets. You don’t see people.” | <urn:uuid:cf2d83f2-b39e-4fcf-a269-1d07906824f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://projects.columbian.com/2022/07/03/afghan-refugee-family-we-are-happy-here-in-hazel-dell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970156 | 2,002 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Thank you for contacting me about the hedgehog.
The hedgehog is an extraordinary creature with a long and celebrated history in this country. I am pleased that these creatures are currently protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 from being killed using prohibited methods such as crossbows, traps and snares.
I am pleased that the Environment Bill contains measures that will help improve the status of threatened species. This includes a requirement to set at least one long-term, legally binding target in relation to biodiversity, as well as strengthening the duty on public authorities to take action to conserve and enhance biodiversity. Ministers are also acting, through net gain provisions in the Bill, to support the role of new development in helping protect and create the habitat that our native species, including hedgehogs, need to thrive. Further, Ministers will be amending the Bill in the House of Lords to require a historic, new legally binding target on species abundance for 2030 with the aim of halting the decline of nature in England.
I also very much welcome the measured approach to environmental reform that the Secretary of State will take. Ministers will consult with the new Office for Environmental Protection, and work with conservation groups on any proposals they develop before any regulatory changes are made. In addition, later this year, a Green Paper will be brought forward setting out plans to deliver a regulatory framework that is fit for purpose, including the objective of protecting 30 percent of terrestrial land by 2030. I know that we need a revised approach to deliver this new species abundance target and better support iconic and much-loved native species like the hedgehog.
Further, the Government is working to determine the specific actions that will reward farmers and land managers under the new environmental land management schemes. These could include creating, managing and restoring habitats such as woodland, heathland and species-rich grassland, which could all benefit species such as hedgehog.
The Wildlife and Countryside Act sets out a legal duty for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee to undertake a review every five years to determine whether any further species warrant inclusion as a protected species under the legislation. The data-gathering phase of this year’s review will run until 7th July 2021 and through this process Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are able to propose additional endangered species for inclusion on the schedules, propose species for removal from the schedules, and/or propose a change in protection status of a species on the schedules. It is worth noting that any proposal submitted must include evidence that an endangered species would actually benefit from the additional protection and increase its chances of survival. This could include evidence that the endangered species is currently subject to intentional or reckless harm.
Once the data-gathering phase of the review has taken place, interested organisations and individuals will then be invited to comment on amendments to the list through a formal consultation phase in the autumn. Following this phase, recommendations will be provided to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the devolved administrations in Great Britain for changes to the schedules. I understand that the Secretary of State will consider these recommendations and lay this advice before Parliament, which I look forward to being able to review. | <urn:uuid:36656ca9-7974-41fc-a72e-37d11e18904b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.annemariemorris.co.uk/hedgehog-protection | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.943052 | 639 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Parallel in space and time
or Partial equations are commonly solved in time domain by integration methods like the backward Euler scheme. Those methods subdivide the time axis into small time steps, replace for each step sequentially the derivatives by difference quotients and solve in each time step for all unknowns a nonlinear equation system. This may become very time-consuming or impossible for long time intervals and large systems of equations, in particular if the system stems from a coupled problem that consists of subproblems with different properties. Often each subproblem describes a different physical effect (multiphysics), for example electromagnetic fields and heat distribution. The subproblems are mutually connected by coupling conditions (connecting ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’). Often, the various phenomena evolve on different time and spatial scales (multiscale). This given decomposition in subproblems can be exploited to parallelize the simulation (in space and time) and thus reduce the time to solution considerably. differential-algebraic
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After the initial euphoria from a landslide victory on promises of a building binge, more jobs, cheaper food and tax breaks, Philippines’ new President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is finding that his populist pledges are running into reality.
The government simply lacks the fiscal space to allow tax concessions, or spend big on building bridges, roads and ports after racking up debt to help cushion the impact of the pandemic. That’s forcing Marcos Jr., the only son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, to take a different path.
The first signals from his new administration are that populism can wait. He’s vetoed a proposal to create a special economic zone and a freeport covering San Miguel Corp.’s New Manila International Airport because it came at a cost to the government: tax revenue. It’s not just corporates for which Marcos Jr. is reassessing benefits. The 64-year-old leader recently tempered his campaign pledge to reduce the price of rice to P20 (36 cents) a kilogram as an aspiration and walked back on his support for suspending oil excise tax.
“The most important area will have to be the economy,” Marcos Jr. said in his first Cabinet meeting on July 5. His comments at a press conference days before assuming the presidency provided more insight into how he plans to manage the economy. Social programs will be “very focused” because the government is “not so well funded,” he said.
Philippines’ budget deficit at an estimated 7.7% of gross domestic product this year is the highest in the Asia-Pacific, not counting crisis-ridden Sri Lanka, according to forecasts compiled by Bloomberg. Its debt-to-GDP ratio currently at 63.5% is a tad above the internationally prescribed 60% threshold. While that isn’t a concern as long as the economy can grow at a faster clip, a World Bank study warned that elevated debt levels for an extended period can be costly for countries as it can hurt growth.
Marcos’s economic team, led by former central bank governor Benjamin Diokno, needs to find ways to overcome the funding shortfall as well as return growth to its pre-pandemic path of at least 6% annually — key to winning higher grades from sovereign ratings companies to keep investor faith. Also at stake is the reputation of the Marcos name that was used in the election to evoke a time of economic prosperity, while glossing over hardships and human rights violations under his father’s dictatorship.
Marcos’s performance on economic issues will make or break his family’s legacy after he successfully rehabilitated their name, said Ronald Holmes, a professor of political science and development studies at De La Salle University in Manila. “If he fails to address the problems, including inflation and employment, that will definitely hurt his presidency, and in the longer term, lessen whatever is the appreciation of the family’s legacy.”
For all his focus on fiscal prudence, Marcos Jr. isn’t free of missteps. His comments Tuesday that inflation was “not that high” despite June data showing prices rising 6.1% are prone to being interpreted as insensitive. That prompted his economic managers to clarify that the president was referring only to the year-to-date number that averaged 4.4%. Concurrently, the new administration has said it prefers targeted support programs over wide-scale subsidies and excise tax suspensions to help ease the pain of rising prices.
The Philippines isn’t alone in facing budget constraints. Many Asian economies are also dealing with finances battered by the pandemic, and are trying to work around by cutting spending, including weaning all but the most-needy households away from subsidies to shield them from inflation. Interest-rate hikes by monetary authorities worldwide in an effort to stem price gains and protect currencies — including by the Philippine central bank — are also making borrowings costlier for everyone, including the government.
Among those feeling the pinch in the Philippines is lottery bet collector Luzviminda Veruen, who is one of the more than 31 million who voted for Marcos Jr. She’s holding on to his promise to slash rice prices.
“There aren’t enough jobs. How can everyone pay for growing bills?” said Veruen, as she fell in line in front of Marcos’s campaign headquarters waiting for free lunch. “I hope the Philippines, as Bongbong promised, will soon rise again, soon thrive again,” she added, using the president’s nickname.
Despite the challenges, a Bloomberg survey showed that the Philippine economy will grow annually by at least 6% through 2024. That’s a pace officials say would pare government debt back to below the 60% of output typically viewed as sustainable and bring the poverty rate down to single digits.
Expanding by that clip over the medium term would also help secure a sovereign credit ratings upgrade, and bring investor confidence back, according to Christian de Guzman, senior vice president at Moody’s Investors Service in Singapore.
Ensuring the Philippines will meet its debt obligations is the first priority, Finance Secretary Diokno has said. Principal payments for pandemic-related borrowings are due from 2023, according to former finance officials.
Tax management will be improved in the early years to fund projects without adding tariffs nor bloating debt, said Diokno, who’s also a former budget minister. The government will also revive a public-private partnership program to bankroll infrastructure.
“We have to be creative here. We have to engage the private sector,” Marcos’s Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said at a July 4 briefing.
For de Guzman at Moody’s, the current debt level isn’t the main concern, as interest costs form less than 10% of revenue. “The uncertainty comes in terms of the path, the trajectory of institutions and government strength,” he said.
The Philippines, like many emerging economies, is no stranger to political flux. Previous presidents were embroiled in corruption scandals and faced coups that hurt efforts to liberalize and grow the economy. In 1986, a popular uprising against the dictatorship led the Marcoses to flee the nation.
Social-media narratives helped to paint his father’s dictatorship as a “golden age” when the economy was flourishing, prices were low and infrastructure was booming, eventually winning Marcos Jr. the presidency. However, these online narratives will have to contend with real-world economic pain, given inflation has typically been one of the public’s top concerns in the Philippines.
“It’s really a question of how difficult life would be for many Filipinos,” De La Salle Professor Holmes said. “Being elected is one thing, fulfilling your promises is another.” — Bloomberg | <urn:uuid:a76a14fa-2de1-4542-b87c-b5bceef17465> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://respectinvestment.com/news/marcos-jr-s-big-promises-to-philippines-face-economic-reality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.964847 | 1,446 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Task – Descriptive Writing
Read A Monster Surprise. Using the words provided, write two sentences describing the monster from the story.
You can either print off the sheet and write your sentences in the box provided or, if you do not have access to a printer, you can display a picture of the monster on your device and write your sentences on a piece of paper.
What I’m Looking For:
- Capital letters at the start of each sentence
- Full stops at the end of each sentence
- Adjectives – An adjective is a describing word. E.g. I found a tiny ladybird on a big leaf. | <urn:uuid:556d11d3-ead7-4892-8f28-a637b57c069d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.harlowgreen.org/2020/05/11/year-1-weekly-writing-task-11-05-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.83076 | 143 | 4.03125 | 4 |
In our MAELDrops, we have mentioned that most of the marine litter is plastic. But what exactly is plastic?
Plastics are a set of polymeric materials, made up of many equal and repeated units. There are diverse types of plastics and each one has distinct characteristics according to the type of polymer from which it is made. Even in a simple bottle of water we can find two types of plastics: the bottle itself is usually made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is light and resistant, whereas the cap is often made of polypropylene (PP), which is slightly harder and more heat resistant.
Plastics play an important role for human activities. Just think, for example, of how many medical devices, from disposable gloves to catheters, are made of plastic. However, if not responsibly managed and disposed, plastics can become a severe problem for ecosystems, with impacts on our own health. One of the strategies to mitigate the problem, in addition to limiting production whenever possible, is to recycle and re-use plastic materials within in a circular economy perspective. To do so, it is necessary to consider the distinct types of plastics and choose appropriate recycling treatments accordingly.
What about MAELSTROM? From the marine litter collected by our technologies, plastics will be separated thanks to a robot based on an artificial intelligence system. In accordance with the European circular economy action plan, plastics will then be recycled through 3 innovative processes: additive and compounding, hot pressing, and low temperature pyrolysis, which will allow to recycle most of the plastic waste. Materials which will not be directed to recycling will be used for primary energy generation and second-generation fuel, and will power MAELSTROM’s underwater cable-robot for marine waste collection… creating a self-sustaining cycle! | <urn:uuid:3b6045f1-b26d-4ca6-916a-7923d9d10a96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maelstrom-h2020.eu/maeldrop-4-many-types-of-plastics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949793 | 373 | 3.5 | 4 |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has told visiting UN special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia Vitit Muntarbhorn that the Kingdom “adheres” to the principle of multi-party democracy, in response to concerns he expressed to the UN Human Rights Council about the “regression” of the country’s civic space.
The ministry issued a press statement on March 29 about the meeting four days earlier between its secretary of state Luy David and Vitit. The meeting coincided with the special rapporteur informing the UN Human Rights Council that civic and political space in Cambodia has “receded and regressed”.
In his address to the council, Vitit said the outlook for human rights and democracy in Cambodia remains “disconcerting on many fronts”, especially in the lead-up to the commune elections scheduled for June 5.
He acknowledged that the country has seen improvements in several areas, notably in terms of new draft laws to protect vulnerable people, a reduction in the backlog of court cases and progress towards the establishment of a National Human Rights Institution. But Vitit expressed concern about the Kingdom’s “shrinking of civic and political space, mass trials and imprisonment of political opposition members and unjust decisions” made with regard to the upcoming elections.
“I call on all authorities in Cambodia to respect fundamental human rights and international human rights laws to which the country is a party, including the basic freedoms of expression and assembly,” he said.
In response, David told Vitit that judgment on Cambodia’s civic space, political rights and democracy should be made with “consideration of all aspects”. He brought up Cambodia’s successes in several areas, noting that the Kingdom had emerged from the wreckage of civil war to become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, averaging seven per cent annually before the pandemic.
“Cambodia adheres to multi-party democracy, with a political field that currently contains 47 parties. Among them, 17 had registered candidates in the commune council elections in June.
“In the spirit to unify the nation, the National Assembly had amended the Law on Political Parties in 2019 to pave the way for the return to politics of people who have been banned per the court order [pertaining to the previous iteration of the law] and who have requested for rehabilitation,” he said, adding that 32 senior members of the Supreme Court-dissolvaed Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) had been rehabilitated.
Last week, Vitit also met virtually with Ministry of Justice officials, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng and Cambodian Human Rights Committee president Keo Remy to discuss the human rights situation in Cambodia.
In September last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen told the special rapporteur that Cambodia wanted to work with him to “build mutual trust” in a “constructive environment” with regards to human rights issues. | <urn:uuid:b16159d6-117f-4c99-96b9-8d384f005c4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/civic-space-open-un-told | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.947118 | 616 | 1.710938 | 2 |
In a fascinating ruling, a Florida jury has just awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer 18 years ago more than $23 billion against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. These are punitive damages and represent the largest award given in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a single plaintiff.
Cynthia Robinson sued RJ Reynolds in 2008 saying that the company conspired to conceal the health dangers of their product. Her husband died of lung cancer in 1996 at the age of 36, having smoked one to three packs a day for more than 20 years.
The jury awarded $7.3 million to the widow and the couple’s child and $9.6 million to another son of Johnson’s. They then awarded $23.6 billion in punitive damages.
Of course, J. Jeffery Raborn, vp and assistant general counsel for RJ Reynolds, said that they plan to challenge “this runaway verdict.” | <urn:uuid:d151ad1b-2e91-4889-b8c8-62b795424370> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.economycommentator.com/massive-settlement-awarded-to-widow-of-chain-smoker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.962712 | 191 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Russian reformers of the 1990s:
a biographical study
Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Chef Researcher, Center for European Studies, MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia email@example.com
Senior Research, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy Sciences, Moscow, Russia firstname.lastname@example.org
Well-known is philosophical law: in the development of public relations, role of the subjective factor increases. This law is becoming more tangible, especially in transforming countries. This fully applies to Russia, where the subjective factor proved decisive in the choice of methods of reform, and, above all, their core – privatization. As a result, privatization in Russia created new ownership relations. These relations are fundamental; they determine all relations – social, political, legal, moral and psychological. They impact the whole social environment of the state. Today’s political-economy model was created in the first half of the 1990s, and over the past twenty years has not changed. If modern reformers Den Siaopin, Havel, Mechiar, Balcerowicz have extensive bibliography, the identity of Gaidar remains on the periphery of attention of researchers. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of reform this is difficult to understand. | <urn:uuid:a5097ee5-9433-446e-bb7d-4292f156f0be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socis.isras.ru/en/index.php?page_id=453&id=6194&jid=&jj= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.903979 | 258 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Farm Families Film—DEAR LAND DOCUMENTARY
Stage Three of development
Filming continues for the “Dear Land” documentary of the lives and culture of families who farm on Norwegian Ridge. B roll still needs to be shot for it, and research continues as well.
More than 150 years ago, people left their homes and extended families to sail to a foreign land. Many chose to settle in an inviting area of Minnesota that became known as Norwegian Ridge. They felt an emotional tie to a place that was urging them to put down roots for their family. These courageous people brought their name, their gift of love for the land, their need to produce food for their family, their reverence for the soil itself, the challenge to persevere in their new surroundings to be successful against the odds, and to build a new community.
Dr. Gray, beginning in 1965, visited farm families on their land, nearly every day for the next 50 years. He had the unique experience of witnessing multiple generations grow up on the land, learning values from their forbears, and practicing new ways of farming that upheld the importance of former ways that were appropriate in their time. He saw their reverence for the soil, how they loved their animals, how important keeping up with the times was for the ability to provide for their families, how much fun they had together in the success or challenges a day brought. Dr. Gray wanted to capture for posterity a documentation of this way of living, and Giants Board members agreed that it is important work that we need to do.
During 2016 plans were envisioned. Giants self-funded Stage One of a multi-year plan that hired Erin Dorbin in 2017 to film farm families telling the stories of farming on their land. Then a grant proposal, written to continue filming, was successful.
The Minnesota Historical Society awarded $10,000 through the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the state constitution’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to Giants for Stage Two.
Giants hired Vicki Albu, noted Oral historian, and Mike Kramer, professional filmmaker, to continue during Stage Two to interview and film farm families of Norwegian Ridge during 2018. Then, COVID happened, and work ceased.
Now we are preparing for Stage Three which will be the concluding phase to create a broadcast quality film. In preparing a grant application that proposes a project which will cost in the neighborhood of $100K, one of the requirements is that experts write a letter of critical review of the project. Giants is grateful for the thoughts shared by Darrell Henning and David Kjome as presented to the funders in critical evaluation of what we are proposing. | <urn:uuid:1aed9d9d-db0a-4900-af48-c1361f8dc19d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://giantsoftheearth.org/whats-happening/dear-land/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.977687 | 542 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Since we spend a major part of our daily lives working on our desks, it has become all the more essential to ensure that our workspaces are comfortable. You need to pay an immense amount of attention to the setting up of your workstation and needless to say, all desks have a computer these days.
Using dual monitor and multi-monitor desk setups is becoming more and more popular by the day. However, a lot of people don’t feel confident enough to get dual monitor setups despite needing it badly because of lack of space. Dual monitor setup is quite beneficial for all types of computer users but mostly for any high-end gamer, video editing professionals, etc. All the desk workers can attest that no amount of space will ever be sufficient. What we need to do is organize and set the equipment we use on our workstations in a way that the space available is optimally utilized without hampering our productivity.
But how to optimally set up dual monitors on a tiny workspace? Don’t worry! Keep reading to find out how to perform a proper dual monitor desk setup.
Dual Monitor Setup
Correct monitor placement is extremely important because an incorrect one can contribute to several issues like shoulder pain, incorrect body posture, eye strain, neck and back pain, etc. Now, setting up your dual monitors properly on your computer desk requires you to factor in three major points:
- Usage of each monitor
- Type of work
- Dominant eye of the user
First and foremost try figuring out how much you use each of the monitors and estimate a percentage of the same. Also, jot down the type of work executed on each of these screens. Ask yourself the following questions:
Do you use one of these monitors more than you use the other? Is one of the monitors primarily used for data storage? and so on.
Case 1: When Both Monitors are Used Equally
In such a situation, it is implied you’ll have to frequently move from one monitor to another. So, our advice would be to reduce the discomfort involved in such movements and in shifting from one screen to another. The following tips will help you achieve the same:
- Place both your screens in a way that their inner edges touch each other. Also, the screens should be placed in front of you, if possible, exactly in front of your nose.
- To relieve your eyes, you should angle the screens a little bit so that they take up a concave formation. This will create a semi-circle and ensure that your eyes maintain a consistent focal distance from the screens.
- When you work on the monitors, make sure that you are around 18 to 28 inches away from them.
- The height of the screens should be at level with your eye so that you don’t have to place your neck at an angle while working. Always maintain a straight head posture.
- Also, it would be much more comfortable if you could use a swivel chair for turning from one monitor to another. This wouldn’t require you to twist your neck.
- Reorient your keyboard and mouse so that they are placed exactly in front of the monitor you are working on at the moment.
These tips and recommendations will help you build an ideal monitor set-up even with dual monitors. Furthermore, these will also reduce the strain caused on your neck, back, and shoulders while you switch between the monitors.
Case 2: One Monitor is Used More
If you find yourself using one of the monitors for more than 80 percent of the time, then, you need to place the primary monitor properly. Pretend that it is a single-monitor workstation and place your primary monitor screen accordingly. Then, place the secondary monitor beside the primary one on the side of your dominant eye at the ideal height and distance in a concave fashion.
Make sure you place the primary monitor exactly in front of you and at your eye’s length when your neck and head are held in a straight posture. Also, ensure that it is at arm’s length from your seating area. If you wear bifocals or other progressive glasses, then, place the screen below your eye level.
These tips will help you maintain a neutral neck posture, diminish eye stress and maintain visual acuity throughout your working time. And as already mentioned, the second monitor needs to be placed on the side of your dominant eye.
How To Fit Dual Monitor on Limited Desk Space?
A tiny desk might make you feel a bit restricted while setting up dual monitors. But, trust us, you can easily fit two monitors on your desk even if it is small and here’s how:
1.Via A Monitor Arm
All you need to do is hook the monitor arm to your desk and a sturdy, flexible hook is created for your monitor. If your monitor has clamps, then that will be an added plus for you to keep the setup solid. This arm holds the two monitors side by side on top of your desk and so, no extra space will be occupied on the desk. The monitors will be suspended in the air, hanging from the monitor arm.
Besides the monitor arm, using a monitor stand is yet another amazing option you have at hand for setting up two monitors on your desk. Not only does it solve the space issues but also helps in organizing your computer desk properly. Other than that, it proves to be aesthetic and creates an overall comfortable space for you to work in.
If your desk is really tiny but you still need dual monitor screens, then another solution is to buy small monitors so that they fit the area. There are several such space-saving aesthetic monitors available in the market that will suit your small workstation and save you plenty of space.
The problem of space restriction can be done away with if you set your monitors in a V-shaped manner. Not only does it look pretty cool but also frees up a lot of space to place your other accessories. You’ll be impressed and quite surprised to check out how the two monitors fit perfectly on your table.
5.Add Extra Space
If you have tried out the aforementioned techniques but nothing is working, then what you could do is add an extra wood piece beside your desk. Attach it to your desk with screws and this way, it won’t get loose howsoever. The wood should be sturdy enough to handle your monitor’s weight. Think of this method as a makeshift way to accommodate your dual monitor setup until your bigger desk for dual monitors arrives.
Points To Remember
- We do not recommend placing your second monitor above the first one. This might cause spinal problems and neck pain because you’ll have to angle your neck upwards while working.
- Moreover, placing the second monitor below the first one is also not recommended either. This means that you’ll need to tilt your neck which again, can cause musculoskeletal problems.
- Keeping both the monitors in front of you with edges touching one another is the best position to go for.
- Don’t use many personal decorations on the desk since the space available is less and you don’t want to overcrowd it.
- Reduce the clutter on the desk by making use of drawers attached to the desk. Only place the absolutely essential items on the desk like notebooks, pens, and other essentials.
- The way your deskspace is lit up matters a lot! It can directly affect your mood and your productivity too. So, try setting up your workspace somewhere with a lot of natural lighting coming in from the windows.
- Keyboard and mouse placement is also a pretty important aspect to consider. If you are not comfortable while using your keyboard and mouse, then it might end up hindering your productivity and giving you wrist pain and shoulder strain.
- The keyboard should be placed 2 inches above your thighs. If this is not possible with the desk setup you are using, then consider installing a keyboard tray. Else, you can lower the desk a bit if its height can be adjusted.
- The distance between the mouse and keyboard should be around the same distance that your shoulder edges have in between. Also, these two accessories should be at the same level.
- If you don’t want to keep your monitor setup horizontal all the time, then don’t worry because now you can place them vertically as well. There are several monitors available in the market that allow you to position your monitor screens vertically. The best option would be to keep one vertical and another horizontal.
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Because this site is so filled with information, I decided to make it as easy as possible for you by dividing it into catergories. They are; Parkinson's , Multi-Infarct Dementia, Huntington's, Picks, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, MS, Hydrocephlus, AIDS Dementia, Alcohol Dementia, Down Syndrome, Lewy Body Dementia, basic Dementia informationand Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Oh, there's also an article pertaining to the symptoms, diagnosing etc. of Schizophrenia.
Also, beside each directory I have included what you will find in that area...plus a little bit about each topic.
* Give or take a few, there are approximately 200 documents in the following Directories and it's still growing.*
Just click on the button to go to that directory.
Parkinson's Disease: What Is Parkinson's Disease, Stages of Parkinson's Disease, Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale, What Are the Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, Early Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, Evaluating Disease Severity, Primary and Secondary Symptoms, Risk Factors for Parkinson's and a lot more...
Multi-Infarct Dementia: Alzheimer's and Vascular Dementia, Multi-Infarct Dementia, New Findings On Risk Factors, MID and Alzheimer's, Vascular Dementia, Fact Sheet, Severity of Decline, Severity of Decline in Other Cognitive Abilities, Severity Decline in Memory...plus numerous fact sheets!
Pick's Disease: Picks Fact Sheet, What Are The Symptoms Of Pick's Disease, Frontal Lobe Dementia, About Pick's Disease (a personal letter) and Sex, Sex & No Sex. (NEW! Just added a link to the on-line Picks support group)
Huntington's Disease: Caring For People With HD, Suggestions On Behavioral Management, Communications Strategies, Home Safety, 10 Caregiver Facts, Action Plan For Caregivers, Eating and Swallowing and many more.
Multiple Sclerosis: MS Diagnosis; What Does That Mean?, Fatigue, Vision Loss, What Is MS?, Walking and Exercise, What About Help Aids and Devices?, Questions and Answers, 'I Just Told You That', Preparing For An MRI.
Down Syndrome: Numerous articles discussing dementia and DS, plus several drug study findings as well as links to other resources such as additional websites, chatrooms, message boards, newsgroups, and DS newsletters.
Law Enforcement: This is a manual I wrote that is designed to help Police have a better understanding of Alz. Disease/dementia. It was orginally developed for the military but it's also useful for anyone who is in Law Enforcement. It's approximately 40 pages long so I've broken it down into topics for easier downloading or copy/printing.
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By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi pledged indefinite stimulus on Thursday to revive an ailing eurozone economy, tying the hands of his successor for years to come and sparking an immediate conflict with US President Donald Trump.
As Draghi's eight-year mandate nears its close, the ECB cut rates deeper into negative territory and promised bond purchases with no end-date to push borrowing costs even lower, hoping to kick-start activity nearly a decade after the bloc's debt crisis.
The bigger-than-expected stimulus will increase pressure on the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan to ease policy next week to support a world economy increasingly characterised by low growth and protectionist threats to free trade.
"You remember me saying that all instruments were on the table, ready to be used. Well, today we did it," Draghi told a news conference.
Yet there were doubts, even within the ECB itself, as to whether the latest measures - most of the few remaining tools in its monetary policy arsenal - would be enough to stoke a eurozone recovery in the face of a US-China trade war and possible disruption from Brexit.
Draghi faced pushback from the representatives of Germany and France as well as at least one of his own board members when he pushed for resuming the ECB's bond-buying program, three sources told Reuters.
Thursday's moves also infuriated Trump, who just this week called on the US Fed to adopt a negative-rate policy.
"They are trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the Euro against the VERY strong Dollar, hurting US exports.... And the Fed sits, and sits, and sits. They get paid to borrow money, while we are paying interest!" Trump tweeted.
A 10 basis point cut in the ECB's deposit rate to -0.5per cent was fully expected but the revived bond purchases exceeded many expectations because they are set to run until "shortly before" the ECB raises interest rates.
Given that markets do not expect rates to rise for nearly a decade, such a formulation suggests that purchases could go on for years, possibly through most of Christine Lagarde's term leading the bank.
"Today's decisions have anchored and enshrined the Draghi legacy in future ECB decisions," ING economist Carsten Brzeski said.
"Whatever it takes has just been extended by as long as it takes," Brzeski said, referring to the 2012 speech in which Draghi promised to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro, a bold move credited with holding the crisis-hit bloc together.
While conservative ECB policymakers had spoken out against more bond purchases in recent weeks, the decision suggests some of them eventually agreed, giving Draghi a majority for what is probably his last major policy move.
Underlining the need for action, the ECB cut its growth projections for this year and next, predicting growth at just above 1per cent, below what is considered its natural potential.
The ECB's decision triggered a rally in eurozone bonds that will cut the cost of borrowing across the 19 countries that use the euro. The single currency itself firmed a touch after wild price swings during Draghi's news conference.
A simple rate cut would have increased the cost to commercial banks of parking their more than 1 trillion euros worth of excess reserves safely at the ECB, a dangerous move since banks transmit the bulk of its policy to the real economy.
To offset that burden, the ECB promised even cheaper long-term funding and said it would introduce a multi-tier deposit rate to shield them from some of the charge. That could leave lenders about 2 billions of euros a year better off than previously, according to some estimates.
Yet the size and design of the scheme underwhelmed bankers whose own loans are being offered at rock-bottom rates.
"Even if the tiered interest rate introduced today provides some relief, European banks will continue to have to pay billions to the ECB every year as some sort of penalty charge tax," Hans-Walter Peters, president of the German banking association, said.
eurozone stocks were little changed on Thursday, however, highlighting investors' doubts about the effectiveness of ECB policy, which can only prop up domestic confidence, not deliver a US-China trade deal or seal a Brexit agreement.
Indeed, Draghi stepped up his rhetoric in calling for governments to spend their way out of a slowdown, singling out Germany, which is obsessed with running a balanced budget.
"Now it is high time for the fiscal policy to take charge," Draghi said. "There was unanimity, namely that fiscal policy should become the main instrument."
Draghi has called for years for governments to do more to stimulate growth.
With the ECB's balance sheet already bloated and rates at record lows, analysts also questioned the effectiveness of more stimulus and suggested it could even work against the ECB.
"The key risk is that rate cuts could even backfire. Deeply negative interest rates could push up saving rates -- see the surge in German savings, for instance," Shweta Singh, a managing director at TS Lombard, said.
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The first major innovation in the tennis industry in recent years, the O3 racquet helps players improve their game. By transforming the ordinary pin-sized string holes into large O-ports, the sweet spot expands by up to 54 percent, helping players to hit consistent shots more often from more places on the racquet more often. The aerodynamic, futuristic O-ports also enable a faster, more explosive swing speed without having to enlarge the racquet head, increase its length or add weight.
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Biologicals have been used for decades in biopharmaceutical topical preparations. Because cellular therapies are routinely used in the clinic they have gained significant attention. Different derivatives are possible from different cell and tissue sources, making the selection of cell types and establishment of consistent cell banks crucial steps in the initial whole-cell bioprocessing. Various cell and tissue types have been used in treatment of skin wounds including autologous and allogenic skin cells, platelets, placenta and amniotic extracts from either human or animal sources. Experience with progenitor cells show that they may provide an interesting cell choice due to facility of out-scaling and known properties for wound healing without scar. Using defined animal cell lines to develop cell-free derivatives may provide initial starting material for pharmaceutical formulations that help in overall stability. Cell lines derived from ovine tissue (skin, muscle, connective tissue) can be developed in short periods of time and consistency of these cell lines was monitored by cellular life-span, protein concentrations, stability and activity. Each cell line had long culture periods up to 37 - 41 passages and protein measures for each cell line at passages 2 - 15 had only 1.4-fold maximal difference. Growth stimulation activity towards two target skin cell lines (GM01717 and CRL-1221; 40 year old human males) at concentrations ranging up to 6mg/ml showed 2-3-fold (single extracts) and 3-7-fold (co-cultured extracts) increase. Proteins from co-culture remained stable up to 1 year in pharmaceutical preparations shown by separation on SDS-PAGE gels. Pharmaceutical cell-free preparations were used for veterinary and human wounds and burns. Cell lines and cell-free extracts can show remarkable consistency and stability for preparation of biopharmaceutical creams, moreover when cells are co-cultured, and have positive effects for tissue repair.
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Photonics? Enlighten me!
Do you want to learn about the 21st century key enabling technology 'Photonics' and its applications? Light from the focused and coherent lasers has now become an important part of our daily lives: from scanning packages at supermarkets, to eye surgery, and to IT communications across oceans. The science and technology of light are essential for the future development of humankind, and in the search of solutions to solve global problems in sustainability and healthcare.
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- In this course you will learn about the 21st century key enabling technology 'Photonics' and its applications. Topics such as optics (ray optics, scalar optics and wave optics), optical fibers (classification, dispersion phenomena's, losses analyzes), lasers (classification, basic round-trip equations, tunable lasers, pulsed mode lasers), sensors, biophotonics, displays (birefringence and liquid crystals), solar cells will be included. These are used in medical applications, information technology, measurement, visualisation and energy applications. The lectures will be given by the B-PHOT team (Faculty of Engineering), currently among the world-leaders in optical modelling, optical characterization, micro-photonic systems and more. http://www.b-phot.org/
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Jan17FriWhen a Salvation Army thrift store was threatened with closure, the community rallied to save it. January 17, 2020 by Ken Ramstead
The Salvation Army's thrift store in Hamilton, Ont., has been an integral part of the downtown core for almost two decades. More than a retail establishment, it had become a force for good in the community.
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Through The Salvation Army’s voucher program, more than $70,000 was given to those in need to shop free of cost. Countless items were shared with those needing immediate assistance. And additional funds were raised to support the fight against poverty, as well as other worthy causes.
“We’ve been in the downtown for so long that we can see our transformative effect,” says Craig Withers, the Hamilton downtown thrift store manager. “The Salvation Army shield means something down here.”
But in late 2017, the store received some devastating news that might have spelled the end of the Army’s beneficial presence in the area.
Craig was approached by the co-owners of the building and informed that they were planning to renovate and restore the heritage structure to its former glory.
That meant the thrift store would have to vacate the premises. But with a shortlist of viable retail locations in the area, available options were slim.
“The Salvation Army faced an uncertain future in the downtown,” says Craig.
It was at this point that The Salvation Army received unexpected help from an unlikely quarter—the landlords themselves.
“When we realized that The Salvation Army would have to move because of the renovations, we wanted to do the right thing and find a solution,” says Steve Kulakowsky of Core Urban Inc. developers.
“My partners and I are from Hamilton, and our business is in Hamilton,” Steve continues. “We care about the community; it’s more than just business for us.”
Steve approached The Salvation Army and assured them that there was no rush to move.
“They told us that they recognized how important the Army’s work in the downtown area was,” Craig says, “and that they were willing to accommodate us until suitable premises could be found.
“That was an amazing, unanticipated offer.”
Hammering Out a Plan
Even with these assurances, however, weeks turned into months, and more than a year went by without a suitable location being found, despite the best efforts of The Salvation Army’s National Recycling Operations (NRO).
And when the ideal spot was identified, the owners turned NRO down flat.
Once again, help arrived unexpectedly.
“When we explained our predicament to our landlords, Steve replied, ‘Just leave it to me,’ ” Craig smiles. “When we realized how perfect the location was for the Army, we approached the owners of the building ourselves with the sole intent of providing them with a new home,” says Steve. Between NRO, The Salvation Army’s territorial headquarters and Core Urban, a plan was hammered out with the owners.
Just two blocks from the old location, the new thrift store was ideally located between two central bus routes and accessible.
“We are still serving our core clientele, which is very important to us,” says Craig. “That’s why we put so much effort into keeping a location in the downtown.”
Over and above the fact that the new location is twice the size of the old store, the move came with other advantages.
“We now have a parking lot!” Craig says proudly. “Before, cars could not stop in front of the old store, which limited our donation base, and our NRO trucks had difficulty loading and unloading.” A large storeroom coupled with a bright and attractive décor make this an inviting and attractive shopping destination for the discerning bargain hunter.
More Than a Deal
Even before the doors opened last September, there was a long queue of people waiting to get in. Car horns honked joyfully as they passed the waiting throng.
Julie Alvey was one of those waiting patiently in line. A customer for more than a decade, she’d arranged a sitter to look after her children so she could be there for the 9 a.m. official opening.
Why is Julie a thrift-store shopper?
“It’s the thrill of the hunt,” she replies. “Finding that one item that’s just right. I love saving money and being frugal. But equally important, this store’s a way of keeping stuff out of the landfill.”
After the ceremonial ribbon-cutting, the doors officially opened to admit customers old and new. A celebratory cake was cut, and a Salvation Army band played joyful tunes. People thronged the aisles looking for great finds.
Jennifer Willis had been waiting for this day almost as soon as the old store had closed its doors this past summer to prepare for the move.
“I’ve always made it a point to stop at the thrift store,” she says. “I love the staff—they are so friendly and helpful—and I never walk out empty-handed.”
But it’s more than just the deals.
“This store has supported some wonderful causes that serve the Hamilton community, and they do a lot of beautiful work that I am proud to support,” Jennifer says. “On a personal level, I’ve witnessed numerous occasions where Craig has encountered people who are hungry or in want, and he has made sure that their needs were met. He exemplifies the good work that The Salvation Army does in Hamilton.” | <urn:uuid:d0da0861-37e2-495a-8b52-94f8e4a6ddb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://salvationist.ca/articles/hamilton-salvation-army-thrift-store/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.968155 | 1,358 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The “Western States Pact” and a Phased/Staged Approach to Reopening States in Response to COVID-19
California, Oregon, and Washington, recently joined by Colorado and Nevada, have agreed on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling the spread of COVID-19 called the Western States Pact, recognizing the regional impact and interdependencies of the pandemic. As part of the Western States Pact, the Governors indicated their commitment, in rolling out reopening orders, to four common goals: (i) protecting vulnerable populations at risk for severe disease if infected; (ii) ensuring an ability to care for those who may become sick, including adequate access to resources; (iii) mitigating the non-direct COVID-19 health impacts, particularly on disadvantaged communities; and (iv) protecting the general public by ensuring that business reopenings are coupled with the development of a system for testing, tracking and isolating.
Before reopening efforts began, only essential businesses and minimum basic operations were open, with teleworking requirements for non-essential office work and restrictions on travel for only essential reasons, including to and from businesses permitted to remain open. Of the five states joined in the Pact, as reflected in our state closures/reopening site, stateclosures.com, and discussed below, California, Washington, Colorado and Nevada have issued orders and begun the reopening process. All five states are implementing, or planning to implement, some form of a phased/staged approach to reopening the states. As we move through the various phases of reopening, we see a focus on getting public facing businesses and venues back up, and eventually loosening up travel and gathering restrictions.
In California, the process of reopening will take place in four stages. Beginning May 8, California will be transitioning from Stage 1, to Stage 2. In Stage 1, only essential businesses and workplaces were open. Stage 2 allows for gradual reopening of lower-risk workplaces such as bookstores, clothing stores, florists and sporting goods stores, with modifications. Offices and dine-in restaurants will be part of a later Stage 2 opening. Counties can choose to continue more restrictive measures in place based on their local conditions, but can also move more quickly through Stage 2 if they attest that they meet the state’s readiness criteria.
Stage 3 will allow for higher-risk businesses to reopen, with modifications that allow for social distancing. This includes nail and hair salons, gyms, movie theaters, sports without live audiences, and in-person religious services. Stage 4 will be the end of the state’s stay-at-home order and will allow for concerts, conventions, and sports with a live crowd to resume.
“Safe Start Washington,” Washington’s reopening approach, will occur in four phases. Governor Inslee recently extended the stay at home order through May 31, but amended some components of the original order to allow for Phase 1 of the reopen plan to begin. Some low-risk businesses may reopen once participants are able to fully comply with industry-specific requirements, which at a minimum will require compliance with social distancing and hygiene requirements indicated by the Washington State Department of Health. Phase 1 allows for landscaping and lawn care, vehicle and vessel sales, pet walking, curb-side pick-up retail, and car washes to reopen, with some restrictions.
Phase 2 will allow Washington residents to gather with no more than 5 people outside the household per week, will allow in-store purchases at retail stores with limitations, and will allow restaurants to open with limitations, among other things. Phase 3 will allow the resumption of non-essential travel, gatherings with no more than 50 people, and opening of bars, gyms, and movie theaters, with limitations. Phase 4 will essentially end the stay at home order, allowing high risk populations to resume public interactions, with physical distancing, and allowing nightclubs, concert venues, and large sporting events to reopen.
Each phase of the plan will be at least three weeks – data and metrics will determine when the state can move from one phase to another. Counties that meet specific criteria may request an exemption from certain prohibitions.
Nevada’s Roadmap to Recovery is a four phase plan for reopening the state. Nevada has not yet entered Phase 1 of the plan. Governor Sisolak recently extended the previous stay at home order, allowing a slight modification for non-essential businesses to resume retail sales, on a curbside or home delivery basis only.
Phase 1 will allow the opening of outdoor spaces, small businesses, and select retail businesses, under strict social distancing measures and controls. Phase 1 is anticipated to last for two to three weeks. Phase 2 will be a broader opening of commerce/retail services, and public life under extremely strict social distancing measures and controls. Phase 2 will be in place for a minimum of two to three weeks, dependent upon progress toward goals and sustained ability to meet criteria.
Phase 3 will ease measures on some public and mass gatherings and non-essential travel with highly modified operations. There is no estimated duration for Phase 3. Rather, the state can transition into the final phase once “a robust surveillance sentinel system is in place, coupled with widespread point-of-care testing and a robust ability to implement tracing, isolation, and quarantines—and this is supported by the availability of therapeutics that can help mitigate the risk of spread or reduce serious outcomes in those with infections—or alternatively a vaccine has been developed and tested for safety and efficacy.”
Phase 4 will be a return to normalcy in daily lives, with most/all businesses operating with enhanced hygiene and vigilance. Phase 4 is potentially of perpetual duration, unless a second spike in the disease occurs.
Colorado has transitioned from a “Stay at Home” state to a “Safer at Home” state. Although Governor Polis has not issued a phase/staged reopen plan similar to others in the Pact, this transition marks the first phase of Colorado’s approach to reopening the state. Under the “Safer at Home” phase, retail business can reopen with curbside pickup. People are also permitted to return to non-essential office work and businesses such as personal training and dog grooming can reopen with social distancing measures.
Governor Kate Brown extended the state of emergency in Oregon for an additional 60 days, through July 6, 2020. However, similar to the other states in the Pact, Governor Brown has addressed a plan to reopen Oregon called “Reopening Oregon.” The key elements of the framework are to slow the growth of new cases, obtain adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), and establish a robust public health framework to support the reopening effort.
The Reopening Oregon plan aims to reopen the state in three phases. Rural counties with very few cases of COVID-19 who meet the prerequisites can enter Phase 1 starting May 15. After 21 days in Phase I, counties continuing to meet the prerequisites may be able to enter Phase II. The goal of Phase II is to further expand gathering sizes, allow some office work, and begin to allow visitation to congregate care. Phase III will allow concerts, conventions, and live audience sports to resume. However, it is unclear when Phase III will commence.
The Western States Pact demonstrates how the growing patchwork of States’ business closure, and partial or full re-opening, orders and requirements will continue to evolve in unique ways. The different and changing requirements create challenges for business, particularly multi-state businesses, in understanding when, how, and under what conditions they may conduct operations. In the absence of an overarching national strategy, it seems likely that more States may elect to cooperate on a regional basis to partially re-open and attempt to implement consistent policies. | <urn:uuid:be4c73fd-46e0-48f3-abfe-b62a83c1dd8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.natlawreview.com/article/western-states-pact-and-phasedstaged-approach-to-reopening-states-response-to-covid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.948876 | 1,627 | 1.671875 | 2 |
History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
Henry Clifford painting at National Maritime Museum (1)
The steamship 'Great Eastern' off Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, July 1866
The third of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s shipbuilding masterpieces. At a time when the largest ships afloat were under 5,000 tons, Great Eastern had a designed tonnage of 18,914. Like the Great Western and Great Britain before her, the Great Eastern was a one-off. There was nothing else like her in the world. Yet she was considered a commercial failure, ending her career as a floating billboard before being scrapped in 1888.
The artist was a second engineer on the Great Eastern and painted numerous oils of the ship.
Here is another version of the same painting. While it appears identical at first look, there are differences in the details.
Atlantic Cable Expedition, 1866
Bright (1898 p 98) describes the scene of the painting above as:
The two-volume biography of Sir Charles Bright includes black and white reproductions of three
of Clifford's paintings. Below is one of the illustrations from that book, a third variation of the same scene.
|Henry Clifford painting at National Maritime Museum (2)
The steamship Great Eastern laying the first successful Atlantic cable
Artist: Henry Clifford (fl. 185794)
Below is a smaller version of the same scene, about one quarter of the size of the painting and perhaps a study or a rough for the oil shown above. Move mouse over the image to compare with the NMM painting; click on the caption for a larger image.
A Cable Laying Ship
Another small painting of the Great Eastern, similar in size and execution to the one above, has descended in the Clifford family to Henry's great-granddaughter, Jacy Wall.
|Henry Clifford painting reproduced in Bright (1898)
Recovery of 1865 Atlantic Cable by S.S. “Great Eastern,”
Although the present location of the original of the painting shown above is unknown, this watercolour in the Clifford collection at the National Maritime Museum is clearly the source for it:
The Great Eastern at night
And this oil on canvas at the National Maritime Museum, although untitled, is also of the same scene:
Bow view of the steamship Great Eastern
Henry Clifford's fourth painting at the National Maritime Museum also appears to show this operation:
A buoy caught in the paddle of the steamship Great Eastern
Robert Dudley: Henry Clifford's Paying Out Machinery
Designed by Henry Clifford, the paying-out machinery used on the Great Eastern incorporated an automatic release mechanism and jockey wheels. The machinery had been designed to keep the cable taut as it paid out over the Great Eastern’s stern.
Image courtesy of IET Archives
See this article on the paying-out machinery on Great Eastern for a detailed description of Clifford's machinery, including period photographs.
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The rose is cultivated as ornament by the beauty and fragrance of its flower; But also for the extraction of essential oil, used in perfumery and cosmetics, medicinal and gastronomic uses. The rose garden is one of the most popular plants in the gardens. There are even specific gardens called rosaledas or rosedales, where only the members of the genus are exhibited, whose variety is so extensive that it comprises from miniature roses of 10 or 15 cm in height, up to Large shrubs, climbers reaching several meters high or crawlers used as covers floors.
The cultivation of the rose is very ancient, the first hybrids were made between European species, which were gradually incorporated the genomes of the Asian species. The first image of a species of Rose is found on the Island of Knossos, Greece, and corresponds to the 16th century BC. C. The island of Rhodas, also in Greece, received that name by the cultivation of the roses; There are coins from that island, from 4000 BC. C, with images of them.
The rose was considered as a symbol of beauty by Babylonians, Syrians, Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. In Egypt and Greece had a special relevance, and much more in Rome. The Romans cultivated the rose intensely, being used its petals for ornament, as well as the plant in the gardens in an area denominated Rosetum.
The modern era of roses began in 1867 with the creation of the first hybrid of tea by the French producer Guillot, who called it "La France." 12 The invention came about by chance, when Guillot was trying to improve a rose orange. The result was a flower very fragrant and with a long flowering, different in size and characteristics to the roses that had until then. The original tea rose, before the creation of the hybrids that happened to the invention of Guillot of France, was smaller, almost without odor and was produced in a little chromatic palette: white, pink and red. | <urn:uuid:99ae89c7-5e8c-4d78-8c33-c24d3ba23951> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://virily.com/home-gardening/remote-history-oscarps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.979446 | 410 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Whilst an unfavorable reality, construction contract disputes and construction dispute broadly are not an uncommon occurrence and can arise for a number of reasons. Namely, these disputes often concern disagreements regarding payment or the meaning of contractual clauses. These disagreement can be incredibly time consuming, costly and impose significant levels of pressure/stress on both the businesses and/or the individuals involved. RCR has had vital experience in both residential building disputes (between home owners and builders) and commercial disputes (between principals, contractors or subcontractors). We are masters in protecting your interest and providing you with cost effective options, helping you achieve a desirable outcome. So how can dispute be ended?
How do you resolve conflict in construction?
Conflicts when they arise are generally resolved using dispute resolution practices. So what is dispute resolution in construction? Although for many litigation may pop up in their minds as being the only form of dispute resolution available, many other forms are available to resolve conflicts. Some contracts may specifically require a specific dispute resolution process to be engaged in when conflict arises. Dispute resolution processes are also be prescribed by legislation, as is the case for the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017 (BIFA), which stipulates and provides a method for adjudication to be engaged in when disputes arise regarding progress payments.
Construction law and dispute resolution
There are many different kinds of dispute resolution processes. The spectrum of these processes begins with informal/consensual processes in which the parties remain in control and decide the outcome, to formal/adjudicative processes where the parties lose control and a neutral third party decides the outcome. These different options exist to put less strain on the judicial system, while providing quicker and more cost effective options to those in a dispute.
These dispute resolution processes include:
- Walking away or avoiding the dispute
Walking away or avoiding the dispute
Sometimes the best option when faced with a potential dispute is to simply walkway and choose not to pursue any action. This decision may be due to a number of reasons such as not having the capacity (both financially and regarding time), interest or willingness to engage with a dispute.
Negotiations are discussions between two or more people with the aim to meet a mutually acceptable agreement. Parties may use representatives (such as lawyers or agents) in negotiations and it may also involve a facilitator who does not advise on or determine the dispute, but instead assists communication between the parties.
Mediation is a process in which the parties, with the assistance of the mediator, identify the disputed issues, develop options, consider alternatives and endeavor to reach an agreement. Mediation may be undertaken voluntarily, under a court order, or subject to an existing contractual agreement’.
Conciliation is a process in which the parties to a dispute, with the assistance of the conciliator, identify the issues in dispute, develop options, consider alternatives and endeavour to reach an agreement. The conciliator may act as an adviser but they may not determine the outcome of the dispute.
Adjudication is the legal process by which an adjudicator reviews the respective parties’ evidence, including legal reasoning provided by the claimant and respondent, and makes a decision on the basis of that evidence.
Under BIFA, where there is a dispute over payment, a claimant may lodge an application for adjudication. An adjudicator’s determination about the payment dispute, is usually an interim decision. While a right of review of an interim decision is limited, parties retain the right to have the dispute dealt with on a full and final basis through litigation or arbitration at a later time.
Arbitration is the process in which the parties to the dispute present arguments and evidence to the arbitrator who makes a determination’. An arbitrator in construction disputes are dispute resolution practitioners, who are generally senior lawyers or construction professionals.
Litigation is the use of court action to resolve a dispute. This is the final step of the resolution process and proceedings should generally only begin when the use of dispute resolution process is exhausted or it would be unfruitful to engage in such processes.
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In Rubble Of Middle East Peace Talks, Kerry Seeks Way Forward
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
This is a challenging time for Secretary of State John Kerry. His Middle East peace process has collapsed. He's also taking a lot of heat for suggesting that Israel could become an apartheid state if it doesn't negotiate with the Palestinians on two states for two peoples. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on how Kerry is trying to dig out.
MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Kerry doesn't call this a failure and his spokesperson says he has no regrets about the time he put into peace talks. The secretary told reporters on his trip to Africa today the talks made progress before they collapsed.
JOHN KERRY: What has not been laid out publically and what I will do at some appropriate moment of time is make clear to everybody the progress that was made. These eight months plus were not without significant progress in certain areas and I don't think anybody wants to lose that progress.
KELEMEN: Now, he says, it's time for Israelis and Palestinians to reflect. Kerry himself has some reflecting to do. He put out a statement of regret this week after he was quoted as saying there was a danger of Israel becoming an apartheid state, and in this conflict, words are critically important, says Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator who's now vice president of the Wilson Center.
AARON DAVID MILLER: Nothing was gained by that comment. It was inappropriate. It was unwise and it was ill-timed.
KELEMEN: Miller says this has been a problem with Kerry all along. He says the secretary made it seem like this was the last chance for peace, warning of the potential for renewed violence and a budding boycott movement against Israel, so the collapse of the peace process is a personal blow to Kerry's credibility.
MILLER: Is it fatal? No, because the reality is, like rock 'n' roll, the peace process is never really going to die and it's not going to die and Kerry will be back to it because Israelis and Palestinians have a proximity problem. They're literally living on top of one another and there's no status quo.
KELEMEN: Now, Miller says the U.S. will have to wait to see what the Israelis do and whether Palestinians move ahead with their plans to form a unity government with the militant group Hamas. He says U.S. options aren't great.
MILLER: They may well decided in 2015 to make another push at this or just to lay out what the United States believes are the best and most realistic parameters for resolving the conflict.
KELEMEN: Others have doubts that putting a plan on the table will do much. Brian Katulis is with the Center for American Progress.
BRIAN KATULIS: I mean, it's become cliche, but it's true. We can't want it more than they do.
KELEMEN: And he says Kerry has a lot of other issues on his plate from Syria to Ukraine.
KATULIS: Kerry's going to redeploy and shift his efforts to other areas without dropping this completely from the agenda. But to me, the most interesting question now is not what the secretary of state does, it's what the parties do in the region.
KELEMEN: The odds were always long for Kerry's peace efforts, says Tamara Wittes who runs the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
TAMARA WITTES: The challenge for this peace process from the beginning has been extremely constrained domestic politics, both in Israeli society and in Palestinian society.
KELEMEN: Just look at the reaction to the apartheid statement this week. Israel's deputy defense minister wrote an op-ed saying it was one of many erroneous statements by Kerry and a sign that the U.S. was putting a gun to Israel's head. Israel's ambassador here says those comments about Kerry do not reflect the views of the Israeli government. Wittes says this all misses the point.
WITTES: It's unfortunate that that set of comments became a distraction for so many people from reckoning with the really difficult challenge of what Israel's future path will be if it doesn't have a two state agreement with the Palestinians.
KELEMEN: Secretary Kerry will have a bit of a break this week as he turns his attention to conflicts in Africa.
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Nagpur based Orange City Hospital & Research Institute; owned by Ravi Nair Hospitals Private Limited is always at the forefront of extending healthcare services to the local communities in and around its area as a part of its community development initiatives. As part of OCHRI’s 25th Anniversary;AADHAR Physiotherapy Clinic is conducting a subsidized camp for patients in need of physiotherapy. Physiotherapy can be helpful for people of all ages with a wide range of health conditions, including problems affecting the bones, joints, soft tissue, nervous system and lungs.
This is an initiative towards awareness and its advance treatments modalities for patients suffering from various muculo- skeletal problems.Dr. Atul Dekate-OCHRI Physiotherapist informed that, “Physiotherapy helps to restore movement and function when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability. It can also help to reduce risk of injury or illness in the future.”
During this two-day camp; assessment, treatment and physiotherapy counselling will be provided by TEAM of Physiotherapists led by Dr. Atul Dekate for patients suffering from various types of joint pains, arthritis,spondylitis, radiculopathy, mechanical back & neck pain, muscular and neurological issues like paralysis, facial palsy, cerebral palsy etc.Patients suffering from muscular/ structural problems, fractures, paralysis,COPD, sports injury and Senior Citizens should take advantage of this camp.
The camp is scheduled on 20th & 21st November, 2021 between 11am to 5pm in
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Lengthy Distance Romance Statistics
A recent examine mexican brides of 162 university students found that seventy-five percent had knowledgeable a long relationship during their college years. The outcomes of this research showed that women are much better at these kinds of relationships than men. The average duration of a long-distance relationship is 2 years, and the typical change is almost of up to three years. This finding displays the importance of knowing the stats of long-distance relationships before you start one yourself.
According to the Middle for Analysis of Prolonged Distance Relationships (CALL), about 3 percent individuals citizens are in a long relationship and one-fourth of the US citizenry is in a military relationship. According to CALL, LDRs are becoming more popular, accounting for the purpose of 8% of most marriages in the United States. Unlike classic marriages, LDRs are often intensely committed and last for further than three months.
Based on the National Marriage Registry, 2% of all lovers worldwide are in long-distance relationships. A large proportion of these associations involve government couples, which makes up a large percentage. In addition to military lovers, long-distance human relationships also include 3. five million public. The long statistics are required to rise after some time, especially with the coronavirus outbreak and deficiency of travel. On the whole, however , long relationships are easy to maintain, whenever couples speak regularly and work to help make the relationship function.
One of the most significant long-distance relationship statistics is the fact more than half of couples exactly who experience a long-distance romance experience feelings of isolation. The other half reported feelings of drifting away from each other, which was caused by the lack of closeness between them. Irrespective of these figures, many lovers have been able to maintain a solid marriage, in spite of the distance. So , what can you perform to keep your romantic relationship alive?
Ladies are better at controlling long-distance associations than males. It’s no surprise that women will be better by handling separations and distance. This is because females are more apt to adjust to alter than males do. Physical separation is very challenging for guys, which is why many relationships end before that they even reunite. In fact , 33% of reunited couples break up within 3 months of their physical reunion. These kinds of statistics should serve as determination for lovers to continue to nurture the relationship irrespective of their location.
One other long-distance relationship statistic shows that a few long-distance romantic relationships are actually best than other folks. In a study of three-hundred undergraduates, 180 began to push closer to their partners geographically. Of those, nearly a third broke up within 90 days, and the causes varied. New research found that the third these couples acquired developed new negative info on their partners. So , there are very long distance relationship statistics that support this fact.
You will need to remember that many people within a LDR imagine about a excellent relationship. When they may be overlooking the disadvantages of the person in person, long distance romances are largely based on individual personas and interaction skills. You’ll want to remember that a good distance marriage is no not the same as a regular romance, so it’s vital that you keep this in mind preparing and investing in long distance romance.
While long-distance relationships are much less stable than patients between persons who have live near by, they can be incredibly rewarding. Couples who all are sure that their marriage will be long-distance often have even more satisfaction and confidence, producing the time a part bearable. However , many of these human relationships end up shattered once the few returns house. While the statistics of long relationships are definitely not encouraging, couples that are able to last for at least four weeks are still cheerful and confident within their love existence.
Despite the large number of couples who wrap up splitting up, there are some long-distance relationships that end up being more steady than close connections. With respect to a research by Katheryn Maguire, couples who had long relationships reported more charming love, idealism, and better communication. Of course , it’s important to remember that a third of long-distance couples break-up within 3 months of moving closer at the same time. In many cases, long-distance couples could make their romantic relationship last designed for seasons if they’re determined for making it do the job.
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The economic cost of the COVID-19 crisis may pale in comparison to the human cost.
But both will be substantial. Measures to contain the virus have upended supply chains and financial markets and weighed on commodity prices, creating a perfect storm for the Canadian economy. Given the hit to both the services and goods-producing sectors, we expect real GDP to contract at a greater than 30% annualized pace in the current quarter.
Underpinning our forecast is the assumption that the economy will be severely disrupted for about 12 weeks, with activity gradually returning to normal after that. Confidence bands around this assumption are extraordinarily wide. Claims for employment insurance have reportedly skyrocketed, consistent with the unemployment rate reaching close to 20%. If these conditions persist for longer than we assume, the impact on the economy will be amplified.
Policies to address the crisis have been broad-based. The Bank of Canada lowered interest rates and announced other measures to ensure borrowers have access to capital. Canada’s government unveiled aggressive packages aimed at preventing large-scale business bankruptcies while keeping workers on payrolls. The ultimate success of these measures depend on the breadth and duration of the crisis.
Easing social distancing measures will alleviate some of the stress in the economy although persistently low oil prices will continue to weigh on growth. Oil prices are down $35 since the start of the year and are projected to average US$31 in 2020, just over half of 2019’s average price. This lower price environment will cut investment and result in permanent job losses. The impact will be felt disproportionately in the oil-producing provinces but will have spill-over effects across the country.
The drop in oil prices has already had a marked impact on Canada’s dollar which lost 10% against the US dollar before recovering some ground to stand at about 7% below its year-end level. Canada’s currency is likely to remain around 70 US cents in the near term as uncertainty about the depth and duration of the crisis sees investors gravitate to the safety of US dollars.
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Getting back to normal will be a gradual process
Some industries like education and public sector services should recover relatively rapidly with students returning to classrooms in September and demand for public services ramping up quickly once the worst of the coronavirus has passed. Other industries, like retail and food and accommodation services, will continue to face challenges. Canadians will initially be cautious about going out, and are likely to focus first on paying deferred bills and rebuilding their nest eggs. How quickly construction activity gets back online will be determined by the ability of homeowners to navigate through a period of heavy job losses.
Home resales are expected to fall 20% this year. Job losses, reduced work hours and income as well as equity-market declines will keep many buyers out of the market. Governments and banks have policies in place to help owners through this tough patch which should limit forced-selling and a glut of properties coming onto the market. But that doesn’t mean prices won’t come under downward pressure. As in many other industries, we expect the recovery in housing will be gradual. Low interest rates will be a stabilizing force, though it will take a rebound in the labour market as well as a pickup in immigration before sales really accelerate. Our view is that most of the recovery will occur in 2021.
2020 will be a year for the record books
Canada is likely headed for the deepest economic downturn on record (going back to 1961). The hit to the economy was quick and powerful, and even with the recovery expected to start in the third quarter, real GDP is forecast to fall by almost 5% this year. Canada will just barely outperform the US where policies to limit the virus’ spread were slower to materialize and the economy is projected to contract by 5.5%. Even with government policies aimed at supporting workers, unemployment rates are headed higher. Reports that claims for employment insurance are surging points to unemployment running in double-digits in the near term. In Canada, the government’s wage subsidy program (government will pay 75% of wages of workers at companies where revenues have fallen at least 30%) may limit how high the unemployment rate stays once the program is rolled out. Still, Canada’s unemployment rate will likely average 14½% in the second quarter and ease toward 8% by year-end.
While the headline numbers will look ugly, they will mask a serious increase in underemployment as workers are paid to stay home either by their companies or the government’s wage subsidy program.
Policymakers are all in
The Bank of Canada cut the overnight rate by 150 bps in March to 0.25%. It’s also purchasing a myriad of securities from government of Canada bonds to commercial paper and provincial securities, all to ensure financial markets provide stable, affordable credit to borrowers. While the traditional role of monetary policy supporting the economy through low interest rates may be taking a back seat to newer measures, low rates will become much more important once the economy is on the path of recovery. Early indications suggest the central bank’s interventions are having success at preventing real-economy disruptions from turning into a broader credit-market meltdown.
The federal government also announced an avalanche of income and wage supports aimed at supporting businesses and households during the peak of the crisis. Like the central bank, the government’s actions were aggressive, totaling $105 billion in direct support, largely to workers, combined with lending programs and tax deferrals for business. All told, the government support measures add up to 11.5% of GDP making the entire package one of the largest of the developed countries.
Biding our time
With the pandemic still unfolding, we don’t know how long tough economic conditions will persist. But it appears likely that measures to contain the coronavirus will be unwound gradually, pointing to a similarly gradual return of economic activity. This points to the recovery looking U-shaped rather than V-shaped. And some sectors of the economy, like oil and gas, are headed for an even slower recovery.
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Lakey Lane Primary School have adopted the ‘Language Angels’ scheme of Modern Foreign Language teaching to cover the key elements of language learning; speaking, listening, reading & writing. This education begins in Year 3 with Early language units, progressing into Intermediate units for Years 4 & 5, moving into Progressive Units in Year 6. Due to Covid-19 and the education children have missed this year, the French leaning curriculum has been tailored to support teachers and children in closing their foreign language gaps, whilst continuing to strengthen their French skill. We have worked to ensure that these subject areas and adjustments still fulfil the DfE PoS Attainment Targets (see tables below).
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With the hope of turning around a good economy in the midst of an economic downturn, President Obama began providing incentives and tax slashes in an attempt to bolster the work pressure. Many of these jobs created fell into within the industrial sector — manufacturing, distribution and logistics. While new jobs do open up in the manufacturing sector, those positions held by simply women went down by 16, 000 jobs over the last 36 months.
Steps have been put into destination to help change these stats and to help women get more of a foothold in the making industry. A group of concerned girls in Cleveland, Ohio, Girls in Manufacturing, holds an annual convention in hopes to provide women who will work in the field and those enthusiastic about the field support, professional growth, leadership and brainstorming inventive outlets within the industry.
Figures such as these beg typically the question of why there may be such a division between guy and female manufacturing jobs. Many of the divisions may be due to bygone stereotypes. Many decades involving indoctrination have led girls to believe that they will not or maybe cannot succeed in manufacturing work opportunities. Furthermore, women tend to believe all manufacturing jobs are generally noisy and dirty-two some other situations that they associate with points women do not like. Manufacturing function is also associated (incorrectly) to be repetitive, low skilled as well as dull.
Another possible cause is due to the industry historically becoming male-dominated. The manufacturing business being male-dominated can lead to emotions of hostility in the workplace as well as an overall lack of community. Both these contribute to deterring females through attempting to make manufacturing their profession of choice.
Discrimination (men compared to women) in the workplace also deters women from entering production fields. Although unjustified, a lot of women may steer away from the past male-dominated careers (such because those in the manufacturing industry) over fears that males will not take them seriously or even worse, discriminate against all of them. These unsubstantiated and nontypical fears only help to travel women out of the manufacturing discipline.
Pay and automation in addition have contributed to the decline of women in manufacturing roles. Until recently, men have always made more cash than women have. This kind of stands true in the making world. Even more crippling could be the catch-22 of automation on its own. Typically, the jobs given to girls (such as working on an assembly line) are those in which computers take over; thus, having those positions away from girls. While becoming automated the actual jobs are easier to do for ladies, chances are that computers will be quicker and more time and cost-efficient.
Whether or not provisions are in place to assist women to gain a footing, access to women who want to be within the field needs to rise so that it will tip the scales. Apart from women who are already in the production field losing their work, there is a substantial divide between the numbers of men and women enrolled in production degree programs-estimates show that just about 15% of those looking for manufacturing degrees are females.
In many ways, women are the ideal applicants for manufacturing work these days. This is because manufacturing work has become incredible in high-tech, precise function. Women tend to be very detail-oriented and this lends well to the precision needed in many contemporary manufacturing jobs. Aside from equipment work, jobs like travelling forklifts can be well suited to some woman who wants to work in the manufacturing field. While particular training must go into understanding how to operate heavy machinery as well as properly, women are just as capable of grasping the knowledge being a male counterpart. | <urn:uuid:daf09463-aa6a-494a-8c1a-427a736301f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chloebagjapanonline.com/elegance-still-keeping-women-through-increase-in-manufacturing-jobs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.967699 | 728 | 3.015625 | 3 |
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subtle interventions - administrative fragmentation of the metropolis - real crime - Vandalism and Economics - urban deser- tification – riots and dualization
Roughness, violence, brutality, seediness, ghettoization– all these are words that we associate much more readily with the city than with a suburb or the bucolic countryside. It seems even drug related crime develops a different charac- ter depending on whether it is in the city or the suburb. As the NYTimes reported in early July, identity theft is the crime of choice for meth addicts and both are flourishing in suburban regions of the US. In contrast crack cocaine or heroin dealers, are supported by heavily armed gangs usually set up in higher density urban zones. These high density areas are suited to ‘urban’ crimes like, prostitution, carjacking and robbery. So the suburban habitat seems perfectly suited for the sleepless meth- addict roaming through the internet, garbage cans and outdoor mailboxes in a quest to gather identities, while the density and proximity of a city is more fertile soil for the impulsiveness and raw brutally that is typical for crack and cocaine criminality.
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With Roughly 700 Miles Of Coastline On The Great Lakes, Schumer And Gillibrand Call For $475 Million For Great Lakes Restoration In Final Appropriations Bill
Federal Dollars Would Fight Invasive Species, Pollution And Contamination
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined with their Great Lakes colleagues this week to call for $475 million for the Great Lakes in the combined Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. The Senate version of the legislation only included $400 million, whereas the house version has $475 million. Schumer and Gillibrand are urging the conference committee tasked with combining the bills to approve the higher number. New York shares roughly 700 miles of coastline with the Great Lakes.
“The Great Lakes are natural treasures and an economic and recreational engine for the state, not to mention the source of drinking water for many New Yorkers” said Schumer. “We must do everything we can to protect them from pollution, invasive species and other contamination so that future generations can enjoy their beauty and abundance. That is why I am fighting for this restoration funding to protect these natural resources now and in the future.”
“The Great Lakes are an indispensable natural, economic, and recreational resource for New York,” said Senator Gillibrand. “Restoration of the Great Lakes is critical to preserving our environment and revitalizing our economy. I will continue to work with Senator Schumer to ensure our Lakes have the best chance for improvement and protection.”
The Great Lakes account for 90 percent of the United States fresh water and 20 percent of the world’s fresh water supply. More than 40 million people currently rely on the Great Lakes for drinking water.
A study by the Brookings Institute detailed the economic impact on restoring the Lakes and estimated that restoration of the Lakes would have a $50 billion economic impact, through new construction, job creation, rising property values and environmental restoration of local fish habitats.
In their letter to the House-Senate Conference Committee, Senators Schumer and Gillibrand wrote, “The health of the Great Lakes is threatened by aquatic invasive species, contaminated sediment, nonpoint source pollution, and habitat loss. According to some scientific views, the Great Lakes are at a tipping point. Failure to protect and restore the lakes now will result in more serious consequences.”
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Homemade air rockets soaring through the room, milk cartons turned into cars and boats, the buzz of students exploring and trying new designs with their peers: that’s just a snapshot of what a classroom engaging with Multiple Literacies Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL) might look like. Six years ago, we were asked to pilot a new science curriculum in our classrooms, and we never could have imagined the transformation that would follow.
This blog is the culmination of two voices and minds: Chiara Kirkland and Moira Thomas. We both began this journey as elementary teachers at a charter school in the heart of Detroit, MI, and are now both a part of Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD). This year, Chiara stepped into the role of Training and Support Coordinator with the Office of Science after 8 years in the classroom, primarily as an elementary science teacher. Moira is a 4th-grade science and English Language Arts teacher at the Academy of the Americas, a bilingual Spanish-immersion school in Southwest Detroit. Currently, we continue to collaborate with CREATE for STEM through co-facilitating professional learning opportunities for science teachers within DPSCD.
As we piloted this curriculum, we had many opportunities to build our capacity as educators. Through the support of the CREATE for STEM researchers and developers, we received additional training on Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) performance expectations, the features of Project-Based Learning (PBL), and the shift to phenomena-driven science instruction. We were also observed weekly and engaged in debrief sessions during which we were not only provided feedback about our instruction but given a seat at the table to discuss lessons and suggest changes based on our teaching experiences.
Perhaps one of the most valuable takeaways was the relationships we were able to form with other educators. In professional learning sessions, we engaged in meaningful conversations, sharing our “glows and grows” from the previous unit. Just as we encourage our students to collaborate and learn from one another in ML-PBL, we were able to collectively build our capacity through brainstorming, reflection, and shared learning.
During these professional learning sessions, our conversations were student-centered. We shared anecdotes about how we used the momentum of our students’ curiosity and provided scaffolding to ensure all students were engaged in conversation and exploration. Ultimately, our goal was to leverage what our students brought to the table and use that to cultivate their thirst for science education. We learned how to use students’ observations of phenomena to formulate questions, plan investigations, and drive student discourse.
As we plan for future blogs, we’ll take you through an array of topics that have impacted our experiences as educators implementing Project-Based Learning in the science classroom. We will take a look at the switch to virtual learning, tools we love for accessibility for all learners, and how the CREATE for STEM curriculum has begun to address the need for equitable learning opportunities for all students. We hope you join us! | <urn:uuid:da2153aa-a990-4570-bb4c-94c9b7aad694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://create4stem.msu.edu/news/articles_opinion/detroit_teachers_embrace_projectbased_learning_classroom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.966193 | 610 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been speculated about in different ways since it first emerged. One of the most widespread theories reported in the media suggested zoonotic transmission had occurred in a ‘wet market’ in Wuhan, China, where different, sometimes wild, live animals are kept in close proximity. Although there is disagreement over different theories, the general consensus is that humans were not the initial hosts of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Study: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and mortality of zoonotic diseases in China. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock.com
The most deadly diseases are often zoonotic because neither the disease nor the host has adapted to each other. Recently, there have been suggestions that the Omicron variant is the beginning of these adaptions, as it appears to cause significantly less severe disease.
Most governments worldwide introduced restrictions to reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, including mandatory face masks, social distancing policies, and even total lockdowns/stay-at-home orders. However, people’s lifestyles, economics, and environmental vectors are all impacted by these difficult circumstances, as are the epidemic characteristics of other diseases.
According to some studies, this has a significant impact on respiratory conditions, particularly seasonal influenza. By controlling the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19 cases decreased, and potential transmission of other infectious diseases was reduced. As a result, the incidence of influenza has decreased around the world. Furthermore, some studies on low- and middle-income countries have reported that strict movement restrictions may also contribute to a delay in diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by parasites, fungi, bacteria, and viruses (such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria).
In new research, scientists from the Beijing University of Technology, Renmin University, Zhejiang University School of Medicine and Nanjing Jiliang Information Technology have been investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and mortality of zoonotic diseases in China. Their work is published in the journal BMJ Global Health.
The researchers obtained data from the National Health Commission used by China on monthly cases and deaths from 10 different zoonotic diseases between January 2015 and April 2021. They removed H5N1 and Plague, as the sample sizes were too small to analyze appropriately. The eight remaining infectious diseases consisted of Asian Lineage Avian Influenza A(H7N9), hemorrhagic fever, rabies, anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, hydatid disease, and schistosomiasis. Most of these are class B, with hydatid disease as class C. The National Bureau of Statistics provided population data.
The scientists had to consider the response strategies China used to minimize the spread of COVID-19. Hubei province launched a second-level public health emergency response on the 22 of January 2020, while Wuhan was on lockdown on the 23rd. All 31 provinces launched the first-level response. While different areas applied different containment and suppression strategies, the most important measures taken in the most severely affected areas included lockdowns, restricted travel, cancellations of mass gatherings, and mandatory face masks.
The researchers calculated averages for annual incidence, number of cases, mortality, number of deaths, monthly incidence and monthly mortality. They compared different groups using proportional tests and ratio Z tests. The growth rate was computed to examine the growth of incidence and mortality. The Cox-Stuart test assessed increasing/decreasing long-term trends for monthly incidence and mortality, and monthly predictive incidence was generated using Farrington surveillance algorithms to avoid the interference of the long-term trend of the disease itself.
The researchers found the three most common zoonotic diseases were brucellosis, which hovered between ~80% and ~85%, hemorrhagic fever (~7.5%-~14%), and schistosomiasis (15%). Schistosomiasis did show significantly lower incidence in 2020 and 2021. A total of 25,016 cases were detected in 2021, 63,226 in 2020, and 77,448 per year between 2015 and 2019. The fewest deaths were seen in 2021 at 77, with 244 in 2020 and 673 per year between 2015 and 2019. Rabies caused the most deaths in all years, followed by H7N9 and hemorrhagic fever.
Zoonotic diseases tend to follow long-term seasonal trends. 2015 showed the highest incidence of these diseases between 2014 and 2020. Following the routine stage in 2020, incidence rose toward the average monthly incidence between 2015 and 2019. The researchers found that the average monthly incidence between January and April 2021 was significantly higher than in both 2020 and 2015-2019. Brucellosis and hydatid disease showed substantially higher monthly incidence. They also discovered significant long-term downward trends of zoonotic diseases, although it is acknowledged that natural long-term trends of the diseases could affect this feature.
Comparing monthly incidence and monthly mortality in 2020 and 2015-2019, the researchers discovered that as the emergency routines to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 began to take effect, zoonotic diseases declined significantly. Monthly incidence reduced by 25.79% and mortality by 72.39%. These figures were also considerably lower than predicted.
The authors highlight that they have reported the most recent trends of these diseases successfully and with a considerable sample size. A significant decline was found in incidence rates of all the investigated diseases in 2020 compared to the previous five years. Still, this decline did not continue into 2021, with incidence rates climbing once again. This information could help inform future strategies to help reduce the transmission of these diseases.
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(W)rite skinned 2022: Terra Incognita is an expression that refers to ‘unknown southern land.’ It is an installation composed of 228 painted canvases for the Luciano Benetton Collection to create a landscape that might reflect more of the recent art histories of Australian Aboriginal artists. A collective of additional artworks by influential artists, historically important both locally and internationally, have been identified and reproduced in print, like paper evocations of absent works.
The celebration of Aboriginal painting and figurative expression that is at the centre of our intentions is motivation to fill knowledge gaps and to acknowledge apparent terra incognita.
Perhaps this terra incognita might be engaged to celebrate and expand upon the social territories; the political terrains; and the cultural landscapes that are experienced by Aboriginal communities across the Australian continent.
Text by D Harding
(W)rite skinned 2022
Portrait of artist in white kangaroo skin coat
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It is hard to believe it is August already. That means that school starts in less than a month, at least in Minnesota, where, by state law, most schools aren’t allowed to start before Labor Day.
Summer seems like a good time to relax and not have to deal with the hustle and bustle of the school year if you have children. But with the start of school, many of the old problems crop up again. Maybe your child is anxious about school, maybe there is some ADD/ADHD you are dealing with, or asthma during Gym class. (Just thinking about Middle School Gym class takes my breath away—and not from the exertion.)
Maybe it is time to not have to deal with those problems anymore. Homeopathy can help. Here are just a few ways:
Shots: Those back to school shots are “required” at certain grades. The reason “required” is in quotation marks is because that is what the Minnesota Department of Health would like you to believe. Fortunately, in Minnesota, we have Conscientious Objector status available to parents and their children. If you don’t wish to vaccinate your child, you can complete a form, have it notarized and turn it in. The form is readily available on line or in the school district office. There are really only a couple of states where there are no exemptions possible.
But what if you are concerned about the childhood diseases? It is true that as children get older, some of the diseases are less of a concern, but others can show up worse in a teenager. That is actually the rationale behind the order of the vaccine schedule. If you are concerned about this, Homeopathy has an answer in Homeoprophylaxis (HP). Homeopathy has been helping to prevent disease since the early 1800’s when Samuel Hahnemann used homeopathic remedies to ward off scarlet fever, typhoid, and other diseases that were going around in epidemic proportions at the time.
Instead of going through the diseases, you can have the energetic disease without the symptoms of the disease, and still receive protection from those diseases. It takes about 3 years to complete the basic HP program.
Anxiety: Some students just simply don’t function well in school. Perhaps there is a subject which they don’t understand, maybe some performance anxiety or the dreaded social issues, which often seem impossible to tackle.
There are homeopathic remedies for the kid who gets picked on, or sweaty hands and shaky knees during public speaking class. Even Learning Difficulties can be helped with homeopathy. Remember, homeopathy isn’t just about physical symptoms, but mental and emotional ones as well.
ADD/ADHD: I’m very excited to put into practice the new training I received in May. I wrote a blog about CEASE therapy for Autistic kids. It turns out that it can also help some ADD/ADHD symptoms as well. Not every child would need the CEASE protocol, but many can be helped with it, and if not, then good old fashioned Classical Homeopathy can also help.
There is still time to make the school year better with Homeopathy. Call if you need help.
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This course teaches how to manage illness and injuries during the first minutes until professional help arrives. The course is designed for those who have family members or neighbors that may be “at risk”; are frequently in environments such as daycare, nursery, or eldercare; or those who simply want to learn techniques and information for their own benefit.
Topics include preventing injuries, recognizing and treating basic first aid emergencies, and relief of choking. Course covers child and adult content; however, it will emphasize one or the other based on participant needs.
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Poems from Cane (1923)Edit
- And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds,
His belly close to ground. I see the blade,
Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade
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Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,
Beauty so sudden for that time of year.
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An everlasting song, a singing tree,
Caroling softly souls of slavery,
What they were, and what they are to me,
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Hemoglobin as a probe for estimation of nitric oxide emission from plant tissues
Plant Methods volume 15, Article number: 39 (2019)
Plant roots contribute significant amount of nitric oxide (NO) in the rhizosphere as a component of NO in the ecosystem. Various pharmacological investigations on NO research in plants seek to quench endogenous NO by using externally applied NO quenchers, mainly 2-phenyl-4,4,5,5,-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl 3-oxide (PTIO) and its more soluble form-carboxy-PTIO (cPTIO). Owing to serious limitations in its application cPTIO is no more a desired compound for such applications.
Present work highlights the significance of using hemoglobin in the bathing solution to not only release endogenous NO from plant tissue but also to quench it in a concentration-dependent manner.
The protocol further demonstrates the diffusibility of NO from intracellular locations in presence of externally provided hemoglobin. The proposed method can have widespread applications as a substitute to debatable and currently used cPTIO as a NO scavenger.
Plants constitute an important source of biological NO emission in the terrestrial ecosystem [1, 2]. Following the first observation of NO emission from herbicide-treated soybean leaves into the atmosphere , several studies have focused on NO emissions from detached plant tissues, cell suspensions and mitochondria [2, 4,5,6,7].
NO is a gaseous, lipophilic biomolecule which acts as a free radical with ability to diffuse across cell membranes, through the cytoplasm and migrate intracellularly as well as from cell to cell across the apoplast. It diffuses at a rate of 50 μm s−1. Its solubility is 1.9 mM in aqueous solutions at 1 atm pressure. Half-life of NO in biological systems is reasonably short, less that 10 s. The rapid movement and removal of cellular NO, makes it an ideal signaling molecule for cell to cell communication in plant tissues both in normal growth conditions and under stress [3, 8,9,10,11,12]. It is a versatile molecule that can migrate and act concurrently in different cellular compartments and in opposite directions. NO is biosynthesized in plants via multiple routes which are broadly classified as reductive and oxidative pathways. It is produced through both enzymatically in plastids, mitochondria, chloroplasts, and non-enzymatically in the apoplast [6, 13,14,15,16,17,18,19].
Pharmacological investigations on the modulation of plant growth and development by NO routinely employ PTIO and its more soluble form-cPTIO as a means to quench tissue NO. Of late, it has been reported that cPTIO usage as a NO scavenger exhibits duality in its action . Depending on concentration, cPTIO can, at times, even contribute to further NO production, rather than serving as a NO quencher. cPTIO oxidizes NO by forming ·NO2 radical (NO + cPTIO → ·NO2 + cPTI), which in turn can react with NO to form N2O3 (·NO2 + NO → N2O3). Thus, a reliable substitute NO quencher is required for various applications. Our recently published observations provided some evidence for the probable role of hemoglobin added in the growth medium on its ability to quench endogenous NO in sunflower seedlings [21, 22].
Ubiquitous occurrence of non-symbiotic hemoglobin (Hb) suggests that it serves important functions in the regulation of plant metabolism [23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31]. Endogenous hemoglobin primarily transports oxygen to various regions. Hbs reversibly bind with oxygen and their rates of binding and dissociation differ depending on the type of Hb. It also binds and scavenges NO and regulates its bioavailability in the tissues. In Arabidopsis thaliana, non-symbiotic class 1 and 2 Hbs reduce nitrite to NO, and this reaction rate increase linearly with [H+] increasing . NO thus produced exhibits a strong affinity for the ferrous heme, leading to the formation of iron-nitrosyl-heme complex (Fe(II)-NO) as the final reaction product . Hemoglobin scavenges NO through dioxygenation reaction where NO reacts with oxygenated hemoglobin (OxyHb; HbO2) to produce methemoglobin (MetHb; in which heme iron is in ferric state) and nitrate. This reaction occurs at the rate of 6–8 × 107 M−1 s−1 .
These observations form the basis of current investigations to demonstrate the application of hemoglobin in the bathing medium as an effective scavenger of NO released from live plant tissue. The evidence from the present work demonstrates the ability of hemoglobin to scavenge NO from all cellular and apoplastic components of the tissue system. The methodology thus proposed offers an alternative approach to scavenge endogenous NO in various pharmacological studies in plants.
Materials and methods
Plant growth conditions
Sunflower seeds (Helianthus annuus L., var. KBSH 54) were washed with a liquid detergent (teepol) under running tap water, disinfected using 0.005% mercuric chloride and again washed under running tap water for 1 h. Seeds were then imbibed in distilled water for 2 h and placed on moist germination sheets irrigated with half-strength Hoagland nutrient solution. Seedlings were grown up to 2 days in dark at 25 °C. Sunflower seedlings showing uniform growth pattern were selected for various analyses.
Analysis of relative NO quenching ability of hemoglobin
Concentrated stock solution of hemoglobin (Sigma-aldrich, USA) was prepared fresh in distilled water for immediate use. To estimate the NO quenching ability of exogenously applied hemoglobin, 2 d old seedling roots were incubated for 30 min in dark in the absence or presence of variable concentrations of hemoglobin ranging from 250 μM to 3 mM. Each tube contained three seedlings. NO released from seedling root in the bathing solution was analyzed using MnIP-Cu (a copper derivative of 4-methoxy-2-(1H-naphtho (2,3-d) imidazol-2-yl) phenol; MNIP-Cu . Seedling roots dipped only in distilled water were served as control. Following incubation, the bathing solution from each tube was taken for estimation of NO released in solution by treating with 2.5 µM of MnIP-Cu. NO released was monitored spectrofluorometrically (ex. 385 nm, em. 492 nm) and relative change in fluorescence was plotted to evaluate relative extent of NO released from tissue and quenched by variable concentrations of hemoglobin in solution.
Estimation of methemoglobin formation
Methemoglobin formation as a result of reaction between NO released from seedling roots and hemoglobin present in the solution was monitored spectrophotometrically at 406 nM. Oxygenated hemoglobin absorbs at a wavelength of 415 nM and its reaction with NO lead to the formation of methemoglobin which shifts the absorbance of the product (metHb) to 406 nM.
Visualization of NO in seedling roots in the absence or presence of hemoglobin
To further validate the scavenging ability of exogenously provided hemoglobin, seedling roots were dipped in distilled water containing variable concentrations of hemoglobin (2–3 mM) for 30 min in dark. Seedling roots dipped in distilled water served as control. After incubation, seedling roots were then incubated in 50 µM of MnIP-Cu for 45 min (ex. 385 nm, em. 492 nm). Using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM; Leica, Germany), root tips were visualized for NO localization both in the absence or presence of hemoglobin.
Detection of nuclei in seedling roots using CLSM
Seedling roots were incubated with 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI; 2 µg ml−1 in distilled water) for 2 min to localize nuclei using CLSM (ex. 360 nm and em. 460 nm).
Co-localization of NO and mitochondria in the seedling roots
Seedling roots were incubated in 50 µM of MnIP-Cu solution for 45 min and then dipped in 300 nM of MitoTracker (Molecular Probes, USA) for 45 min. NO and mitochondria signals were co-localized in the root-tip tissues by CLSM at ex. 385 nm; em. 492 nm for NO and at ex. 554 nm; em. 576 nm for mitochondria. Co-localization rate and mean intensity of co-localization of NO and mitochondrial signal were calculated using software LAS-AF, version 2.7-9723.3.
All experiments were performed at least thrice and statistically analyzed by SPSS 22.0 statistical program (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.) using One-Way ANOVA.
A novel fluorescence probe (a copper derivative of 4-methoxy-2-(1H-naphtho (2,3-d) imidazol-2-yl) phenol; MNIP-Cu; Fig. 1a) developed in the author’s laboratory in recent past for spectrofluorometric quantification and visualization of NO in live cells , has been used in the present work to examine the NO quenching ability of hemoglobin provided in the bathing medium. NO released from 2 d old, dark-grown sunflower seedling roots were monitored in the absence or presence of variable concentrations of hemoglobin (250 µM–3 mM) in the bathing solution. Since hemoglobin in solution binds with NO released from roots, resulting in methemoglobin (Hb-FeIII) formation and conversion of NO to NO3−, a Hb concentration-dependent decrease in the availability of free NO in solution is evident (Fig. 1b, c). Three millimoles of Hb leads to quenching of as much as 40% of NO released from roots as compared to control, thereby demonstrating the ability of externally available Hb to serve as a quencher of NO released from the tissue.
Exogenous Hb (λmax 415 nM) per se does not cross cell membranes (being a high molecular mass molecule of 64.5 kDa) but it can easily bind diffusible endogenous NO in a concentration (250 µM to 3 mM)-dependent manner and make it inaccessible as a free molecule in the bathing medium (forming methemoglobin; λmax 406 nM) (Fig. 1d, e). This observation on Hb as a NO quencher carries significance for pharmacological investigations in plant cells where, so far, cPTIO have been extensively used as NO quenchers. Figures 2 and 3 provide detailed evidence for quenching of endogenous NO from sunflower seedlings root cells in response to externally provide Hb (2–3 mM). In addition to cytoplasm and apoplast, NO has also been localized in nuclei and mitochondria. The ability of exogenous Hb to trigger migration of NO from all these intracellular locations thus proves its (Hbs) scavenging ability (for NO) from all intracellular locations of the plant cells/tissues exposed to various pharmacological investigations.
Hemoglobin is one of the hemoproteins, and NO is considered as a major regulatory component of the function of hemoproteins. NO can either activate or inhibit the activities of various hemoproteins by binding at the metallic center of heme. Furthermore, it is the oxidation state and the coordination environment of the iron center in the hemoproteins which determines the kinetics of NO binding with them . Hexacoordination of heme molecule in non-symbiotic hemoglobin in plants enables it to bind with NO and scavenge it during hypoxic stress conditions . Non-symbiotic hemoglobins possess ligand-binding characteristics different from that of symbiotic hemoglobins. Non-symbiotic Hbs exhibit high rate of oxygen binding than its rate of dissociation compared to symbiotic Hb, which possess high rate of oxygen binding as well as its dissociation. This difference in ligand-binding efficiency of the two proteins is due to differences in heme-coordination state. Thus, in non-symbiotic Hb, heme molecule is hexacoordianted compared to symbiotic Hb where it is pentacoordinated. Hemoglobin binds with both NO and O2 depending on the coordination state of heme molecule and performs the functions of either transportation of O2 or turnover/scavenging of NO. Symbiotic and erythrocyte hemoglobin is pentacoordinated which allows reversible binding of O2. Thus, they are capable of O2 transport and storage. However, non-symbiotic Hbs are hexacoordinated and exhibit very high avidity for O2. It exist as oxyhemoglobin under most physiological conditions and can efficiently scavenge NO via NO-dioxygenase activity [39,40,41,42,43]. Non-symbiotic hemoglobin expression is affected by a variety of stress conditions, such as hypoxia, cold stress and levels of cellular ATP [26, 27, 31]. In Arabidopsis, non-symbiotic Hb (AHb1) exhibits NOD activity in the presence of oxygen (Fig. 4). It removes NO using NADPH as electron donor leading to generation of nitrate and ferric hemoglobin, known as methemoglobin (metHb) . High expression of nsHb in plants exhibits lot of significance as it enables plants to regulate high levels of NO, formed as a result of stress conditions, either by converting NO to nitrate via dioxygenation reaction or by forming nitrosylhemoglobin. Furthermore, it has been suggested that plant lines expressing high levels hemoglobin can prove to be better adapted to both normal and stress conditions .
Oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO2) is considered as a good choice, and can effectively scavenge NO within concentration range from 125 to 500 µM from both sunflower seedling roots and cotyledons tissue homogenates . The reaction between NO and HbO2 is rapid, stoichiometric and leads to formation of methemoglobin and nitrate (NO3−) . Due to its size (64.5 kDa), HbO2 does not cross cell membranes but can facilitate free diffusion of endogenous NO and its subsequent scavenging in the bathing medium (present work). Furthermore, HbO2 works well with the externally applied NO donor which generate NO even in the extracellular compartments, such as NONOates than those which needs intracellular bioactivation to release NO, like organic nitrates. Also, HbO2 does not inhibit transnitrosation reactions.
In view of the above-stated features of hemoglobin and current observations, it is a more reliable alternative to cPTIO as a NO scavenger of tissue NO in pharmacological investigations in plant systems. It (Hb) works efficiently in a concentration-dependent manner in efficiently quenching NO from plant tissues unlike cPTIO, which behaves differently (as NO quencher or as a source of NO) depending on its concentration in the medium. Thus, hemoglobin can be used as an efficient probe for estimation of NO emission from living tissues.
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There it goes again, in a new sign seemingly every day, sometimes full and effulgent, or new and barren; eclipsing, reflecting, and leading Cher to Nicholas Cage all over again. “The moon brings the woman to the man, capisce?!” If the sun is the protagonist of your chart, then the moon may be the memoirist: bearing, reflecting and passing down the story of who we are and where we came from. But what does your moon’s placement say about you, and how do its interactions with your other planets elucidate your path? If you aren’t pouring a salt bath on a full moon, have you failed? And how well does Sailor Moon represent her title planet? For insight into Luna, look no further than our guide below.
Astrology works on a geocentric basis, assuming that the planets revolve around Earth, though we know that the sun is the center of our solar system. But the moon, unlike the other nine players, really does orbit us, exponentially speeding up its revolution. Where other planets may take at least a year to cover all twelve signs, the moon cruises through the zodiac at a clip of 27.3 days. A silent, hollow rock, the moon can only reflect the light of the sun in its perpetual chase around our orbit. The moon, therefore, receives and carries, making it a traditionally feminine (though not strictly female) archetype. In his Complete Astrology, Alan Oken describes the moon as “all that is receptive in human nature: the subconscious, the emotions, and the behavioral instincts. The moon is the Soul while the sun is the Spirit.”
Indeed, if the sun takes the stage, it’s the moon who writes the script, and reveals what you need to make it through the show. Naturally, the moon rules Cancer and the first four years of life, that Freudian freakshow when maternal dependence is at its most literal. Cancer is the sign of the mother, the mammary glands, and what we pass down to one another — be it heritage, trauma, talents, or tribal belonging. In many charts, the moon may be your mother or matriarchal figure, its placement exposing the thematic challenges and gifts your relationship brings.
The moon’s locale in your chart informs us of what feeds you, heals you, and gives you a sense of belonging. Born with a Taurus moon in the 7th house of intimate partnerships? Your lover better foot the bill for oysters, champagne, and a romp in the penthouse. To make sense of a Pisces moon in the 12th house of processing and closure, you’ll need a studio, a darkroom or sarcophagus, and a lot of alone time. Regardless of sign or house, the moon’s power and prominence in your chart demands a look inward — at your history and pain — and a devoted effort to meet your needs without judgment.
THE MOON AND OTHER PLANETS
At such a fast clip of revolution, the moon is more often than not interacting with other planets in the cosmos; indeed, ancient astrologers believed that it reflected all the lights in the stars, not just our sun. How the moon interfaces with other planets in your chart will reveal boons, constructive challenges and confrontations connected to your intuition, empathic reality and needs for sustenance. For Cancer risings, these placements are critical, as the moon rules your chart.
Here’s how connections to other planets play out for the moon: through conjunctions (immediate and intense alignment); trines (60 degree, collaborative angle); squares (90 degree challenge from a “backseat driver”) and oppositions (180 degree confrontation, or faceoff). Remember that harsher aspects, like squares and oppositions, often lead to growth, change and metamorphosis; rarely is there such a thing as a “cursed” placement. And, as Oken warns, “a ‘fine’ aspect does not necessarily make a fine person.”
MOON & SUN
How do your inner and outer lives align? Those with sun/moon conjunctions were born on a new moon, and will powerfully personify their home sign, while struggling to see the world outside of their myopic self-definition. Children of the full moon must reckon with sun/moon oppositions and a divide between where they emerge in the world and what they’re really feeling. Squares force a similar reckoning of social presentation and intimate reality, while trines indicate a peaceful partnership between will and intuition.
MOON & MERCURY
What are you saying in the world, and what does it mean to you? When the speaker, fixer and doer of the gods squares or opposes the moon, challenges in saying what you mean, and finding your voice will (hopefully) inspire a practice of authentic self-expression. In conjunction, the moon and Mercury blast open a portal, making you an intuitive voice who may struggle to edit their blunt — if, albeit, true — observations. Trines harmonize desires and actions to work for you.
MOON & VENUS
In your chart, the moon may be Sleeping Beauty, dancing and dreaming from the safety of the woods. Venus, meanwhile, is Cinderella, showing up to the ball, ready to be seen and adored for her beauty and artistry. Any connection between the two high femmes will speak to the ease of visibility when it comes to sharing your gifts with the world. Conjunctions and trines offer social grace and creative clarity. Squares inspire questions of who you’re attracting and what ancient relationship dynamics you’re reenacting. Oppositions, meanwhile, force the abandonment of shallow social scenes in search for deeper artistic and spiritual belonging.
MOON & MARS
Showdown. How does the most internal, feminine archetype interact with a battling god, hell-bent on asserting ambition, drive, and sexual fire? Oppositions and squares will reveal the ways that a hyperbolic ego may overcompensate for a vulnerable underbelly. It’s the disappointing realization, in therapy, that all your bedroom battles are really about your mother. Trines seek a constructive, active expression of one’s needs and desires, while conjunctions set off eruptions of feeling fast and often, cultivating a healthy awareness of moods and tempers.
MOON & JUPITER
Jupiter collects wisdom through experience, streamlining your life history into lessons to share. Any aspect with the moon will further the synthesis of your experiences into something of value to the world. That said, Jupiter expands everything it touches, so conjunctions with the moon can lead to self-aggrandizement or difficulties with limits. Those with oppositions battle with codependency, as they overcome their insecurities by giving too much too soon. Squares question delusions regarding your inner largess, while trines offer a direct path from inspiration to manifestation.
MOON & SATURN
Saturn wants efficiency and results, while the moon craves love and support, consider this a face-off between stern daddy and loving mother — this should end well. One of the harder configurations, which can yield, through laborious reflection, surrender and respect for one’s inner needs. In conjunction, the planets force a reckoning between control and submission. Oppositions reveal the ways that your parents or conditions of hardship have eclipsed your emotions. Squares help the moon thaw out Saturn’s rugged survivalism, and trines help you shape and structure abstract emotional truths.
MOON & URANUS
Peace and stability are blasted to bits when the archetype of change, upheaval and awakening blows through town. Any connection between these two planets will likely reveal a chaotic upbringing, intimacy, or immune system. How has being uprooted forced you to adapt, or expand your worldview? After being ejected from your own suburban fantasy, how do you serve others with little footing in the capitalist mainframe? Uranus-moon aspects will launch you out into the wider world, but can lead to a life of constant running, “pulling a geographic” and never quite belonging.
MOON & NEPTUNE
Are you a visionary of the times, or just stoned out of your mind? Neptune rockets the moon’s intuition to a global scale of interconnected, spiritual unity: Welcome to Brahma unlimited. Any aspect between the planets will light up intuitive gifts, creative channeling and a personal gate to God. But once substances are involved, the scene can swiftly shift from Tree of Life to Trainspotting. Erect emotional levees now, lest you end up like Cate Blanchett at the end of Blue Jasmine.
MOON & PLUTO
Oken indicates that when the archetype of the mother descends into the karmic underworld, we’re called to resolve matters of “biological karma.” You may be called to heal your ancestral line or break family traditions, curses or dependencies. It all starts with your feelings, especially those which rise up from the depths to sabotage you. To heal and purify those base emotions, you’ll embark on a journey going back eons, and finally setting you and your bloodline free.
WORKING WITH THE MOON
For tribal priestesses and magicians through the ages, the moon’s monthly cycle has provided the ideal system for marking ritual and intention. Alex Kazemi offers a primer to magic practice in Pop Magick; Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance lays out the tools for connecting with goddess worship; Dmetra George explores the shadow side in Mysteries of the Dark Moon; and Christopher Warnock reveals ancient timing practices in The Secrets of Planetary Magic.
But, for the basics: A new moon aligns Luna with the sun, and kicks off a new cycle. Energy is low, but intention, and possibility, is high. The waxing half moon brims with optimism and constructive power. The full moon lights up Luna with the sun’s exposure, and brings carnal pleasures and creativity to manic release. The waning half moon helps with the comedown. To know which signs this month’s moons are in, remember that new moons always go down in the sign of the season, and full moons light up its opposite. For example, a Cancer season new moon will hit the house of the crab, while the corresponding full moon exposes its inverse sign, Capricorn.
Eclipses bring the sun and moon into perfect alignment on the nodal axis. Eclipses fall on new and full moons, twice a year. With the nodes on the Taurus-Scorpio axis in 2022, eclipse seasons occur in April-May (Taurus season) and October-November (Scorpio season). These are not necessarily the most productive time for manifesting; they’re more like doors into the abyss, hellmouths, or karmic openings. See what comes through; avoid getting sucked in.
The moon rules Monday (moon day), and calls for your own interpretation of Gym, Tan, Laundry: be it rest, household cleaning, or just a general break from emails. Any work involving water, matriarchal and spiritual connection, or simple pleasures goes a long way when connecting to the moon. Tap into ancient femme archetypes who can be as giving as the mother and as wrathful as the oceans: Hecate, Isis, Chandra-Devi, Artemis, Ceres, Persephone, Rhea, Vesta and even the mother Mary. Of course, Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Princess Yue is as literal of an embodiment as any; and Sailor Moon’s Usagi perfectly captures the profound inner power — and constant emotional uncertainty — of her namesake.
When it comes to the so-called “big three,” the moon is indispensable. The sun lights you up for the world, and the ascendant sets your direction. But the moon is who you are, where you come from, and what you need. Submit to her now, one way or another. She rarely stays in the dark for long. | <urn:uuid:45223e1f-6017-43d4-9ad8-a47c5cbbf9ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nylon.com/life/moon-astrology-explained | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.916458 | 2,584 | 1.679688 | 2 |
researchers have installed a 5% scale model of a blended wing body in the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel at NASA's
During tests in the tunnel's huge 30X60 foot test section, pilots "flew" the 12-foot wingspan, 80-pound model. It stayed aloft in the tunnel's wind stream constrained only by a tether cable.
The flying wing is the biggest model ever to be free flight tested in the Full-Scale Tunnel.
"We want to understand the edge of the envelope flight characteristics of the blended wing body," said Dan Vicroy, blended wing body flight dynamics principal investigator. "We're comfortable with the flight characteristics of conventional tube with wings airplanes, but we don't have much experience with flying wings."
NASA is working with Boeing Phantom Works,
But much testing needs to be done before the blended wing body could be safely introduced as a transport aircraft. For instance the blended wing body doesn't have a conventional airplane tail, used to control pitch (up and down) and yaw (side to side) motions.
Instead it uses a combination of control surfaces on the trailing edge of the wing to control and manoeuvre the airplane. The free flight tests will help assess the best combination of control surfaces and control limits.
Other questions also need to be answered about the blended wing body configuration.
"One is – how do you build a lightweight structure that can be pressurized," said Vicroy. "It's easy to pressurize a tube, but not as easy to pressurize a non-cylindrical shape."
Even building the blended wing body model was a challenge. For the test, the model had to be dynamically scaled, which means it had to have the same scaled shape as the real plane as well as the scaled weight and inertia characteristics of roll, pitch and yaw. This required the model to be very lightweight for its size. It was built out of graphite composite material similar to that used to build Formula 1 racecars. | <urn:uuid:02d67400-8938-4fac-874a-dfd33feae36f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/flying-wing-road-test | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.95856 | 413 | 3.28125 | 3 |
The Featured Creatures collection provides in-depth profiles of insects, nematodes, arachnids and other organisms relevant to Florida. These profiles are intended for the use of interested laypersons with some knowledge of biology as well as academic audiences.
The family Phengodidae are uncommonly encountered beetles that have bioluminescent females that appear to be larvaiform (or larger versions of the immature stage.) These adult females are able to produce light from paired photic organs located on each body segment (one glowing spot on each side) and sometimes also from luminous bands that extend across the dorsal surface of the body between each body segment. Females appear to be more commonly encountered than larvae. Because these glowing spots along the females body resemble the windows of train cars internally illuminated in the night, they are often referred to as "railroad-worms."
Males of these species are not larviform, but instead resemble other beetles, though their first pair of wings (elytra) are less then half as long as their hind wings and the males of most species have very elaborate, feather-like antennae. These fancy antennae are used to detect and follow pheromones produced by the female.
This beetle family (as defined by Lawrence et al. 1999) is restricted to the New World (from the northern US to Chile) with its highest diversity in the neotropics. It is represented by approximately 25 genera. Some 181 described species are currently known to science, with perhaps 100 more already in collections that remain to be named.
The phengodid genera found in the US include: Cenophengus LeConte 1881; Distremocephalus Wittmer 1975; Paraptorthodius Schaeffer 1904; Phengodes Illiger 1807; Stenophrixothrix Wittmer 1963; and Zarhipis LeConte 1881. The number of species in this family that are currently known to occur in the US is 23, with most occurring in the southwestern US.
Phengodid species that are known from Florida are restricted to the genus Phengodes: P. fuscipes floridensis Blatchley (which is endemic to FL, generally restricted to the south-central region of the state), P. f. intermedia Wittmer, P. laticollis meridiana Wittmer, P. nigromaculata Wittmer, and P. plumosa Olivier (though this last species appears to be a questionable Florida record.)
Eggs: The eggs are oval and white. While eggs are known to be luminescent, they can take up to one month after being laid before they become luminous. The eggs of Z. integripennis are approximately 2.75 mm in diameter though the eggs of most species are smaller. As far as is known, eggs are laid on the ground in groups and are encircled by the female for a period of time (perhaps till they hatch). Barber (1906) reported 53 eggs being laid by a single Phengodes female.
Larvae: The last larval instar range in size from15 to 65mm in length. They are vermiform (cylindrical with short legs) and have a prognathous (pointing forward) head. Antennae are three segmented with one pair of stemmata (single lens, simple eyes) on each side of the head. Larval mandibles possess an internal channel, running from the base of the mandible to its tip. Body is smooth, moderately sclerotized and shiny. Coloration is variable.
Photic organs in Zarhipis, are present as bands (at the base of the meso and metathroax and on all but the last abdominal tergites,) or spots (on upper lateral surfaces of abdominal segments one through nine); the photic emissions generally are greenish-yellow (Tiemann 1967).
The photic organs in Phrixothrix are composed of two medial organs on the head (producing red photic emissions) and 11 pairs of photic organs (producing yellowish-green emissions) located from second thoracic segment through the ninth abdominal segment (Costa et al. 1999). The larvae are predacious and feed on millipedes.
Pupa: Pupation in Zarhipis integripennis takes 12 to 13 days for females and 20 to 35 days for males (Tiemann 1967).
Males: Adult males of various species range from approximately 6 to 35 mm in length. Males are often brownish to brown and black. Antennae are large, 12-segmented and bipectinate (with rami pointing forward). Mandibles are large, slender and very curved. Elytra (the forewings) are greatly shortened, narrowed toward the distal tip and somewhat leathery. Eyes are large and bulge outward from the sides of head.
Females: Females are brownish tan to light tan with black surrounding areas of red on their dorsal surface in some taxa. Others appear a creamy-tan. Females are larviform: with a larval-like antenna bearing three segments, larval-like legs (with a single claw per leg) and a single stemmata rather than bearing a compound eye. Through rearing studies in the lab with Phrixothrix hirtus, Costa et al. (1999) were able to distinguish larviform adult females from larvae "by the presence of an ooporus (the opening for the discharge of eggs) in sternite IX, which is absent in larvae; and by the annular (ring-shaped) spiracles, which are biforous (having two openings) in larvae."
The larviform females appear to be identical to the larvae in this species otherwise. Rearing studies to determine such differences in other genera have yet to be done and needs much attention. The pattern of photic organ arrangement in Zarhipis females are as found in Zarhipis larvae, plus one to three luminous spots on ventrite of abdominal segments two through nine. The arrangement in female Phrixothrix is as found in their larvae (reviewed in Branham and Wenzel 2001).
Biology and Behavior
Larvae can be found glowing both in wet soil and while on the bark or leaves of trees (though these arboreal larvae are mainly found in tropical regions where moisture levels above the ground is high.)
Even though species in this family are not well studied, the males and females appear to be the most active at night. When males are collected, they are generally collected at lights and light traps in the evening. Even though females appear to hide in their burrows during the day, females can often be detected on the surface of the ground by their glowing, immediately following a summer rain. Even though the females are bioluminescent, the females light emission does not appear to be the cue that the males use to locate their mates. Females are located by males following the females pheromone. Current evidence suggests that females are advertising their unpalatability by using their glowing as a warning signal to nocturnal predators (Viviani and Bechara 1997). Females also often glow continuously while they curl themselves around their eggs.
Phengodid males in the tribe Mastinocerini (Brasilocerus, Euryopa, Mastinocerus, Mastinomorphus, Phrixothrix, Stenophrixothrix and Taxinomastinocerus) glow from larval photic organs and are luminous throughout their adult life. Like the female photic emissions, these emissions appear to serve a defensive rather than a courtship function (Viviani and Bechara 1997). A male Cenophengus ciceroi was observed glowing from "two faint green spots, each lateral to the midline in the last abdominal segments. These spots glowed continuously and uncontrollably" (Wittmer 1981).
Males from the South American genus Pseudophengodes, have a large photic organ similar in size and shape to those found in some fireflies. These photic organs are not of larval origin and appear to be used in pair formation in these few species.
Through a modern phylogenetic analysis of the cantharoid taxa (those including Phengodidae and their closest relatives) Branham and Wenzel (2001) not only hypothesize that phengodids and fireflies are not each others closest relatives, but that bioluminescence arose twice and was lost once in this lineage of beetles. Phengodids and fireflies (family Lampyridae) have traditionally been thought to be each others closest relative, mainly due to the fact both families are bioluminescent.
Rearing phengodid larvae is a difficult task that requires patience, skill and luck. Success is more likely if late instar larvae are field collected and reared in the lab to the adult stage. Tiemann (1967) had success rearing Z. integripennis (an arid species) by keeping early instars in 10x10x6 cm covered plastic refrigerator containers with about 3 cm of moist, fine sand in the bottom. Holes were made in the cover to allow gas exchange, but some larvae apparently escaped through these holes.
For larger larvae, Tiemann found the best method for rearing this species involved "a 40x35 cm plastic wastebucket fitted with a screened drain (1 cm dia.) at the bottom. This bucket was then filled to about 8 cm from the top with sand and moistened. The larvae that were added in April were not watered again until fall (October 11). Five days after this second watering the larvae were removed (they were found at depths ranging from 22 to 32 cm) and added to smaller containers with moist sand and several millipedes for food. Soon after being added to the smaller containers with the millipedes, the larvae began to feed." Tiemann pointed out that millipedes could also be kept for a period of time in this manner, as they burrow into the sand as it dries out. No additional notes or suggestions on rearing Z. integripennis were mentioned in Tiemann (1967).
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The Benefits of RF Testing for Mission-Critical IoT Design
IoT brings a diverse array of technologies, multiple standards and minimal compatibility, as well as a new set of challenges for design and manufacturing, particularly in mission-critical IoT applications like health care, factory automation and transportation. With the stakes high it’s crucial that designers have confidence in their chipsets, modules, end devices and networks, especially in the RF domain, where environments significantly change once they reach the end users. Anritsu’s white paper identifies several mission-critical IoT applications, common RF test methods and their respective challenges, and how next-generation test solutions can help to lower test costs, and shorten time-to-market.
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Introduction: Ironman Arc Reactor Easy and Simple
I was sitting around doing nothing then I was thinking how can I make arc reactor so I went to get the stuff.
Step 1: What You Need
Here are the things .thin bit of craft wood .LED bed light .a metal circle .plastic toy glue .plastic .black paint
Step 2: What You Do
You cut out the triangle out of the wood and a circle of plastic and another circle of wood then glue it When you have done it you put it in the metal cutter and glue it. Next you glue the metal cutter to the LED light and if you want you can paint it. | <urn:uuid:101ddbca-c80d-4964-a27b-77fb37322655> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.instructables.com/Ironman-Arc-Reactor-Easy-And-Simple/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929751 | 137 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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